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Well, guys, the Matrix is breaking.
It appears that from the Senate to the Congress to the People's House, nobody knows what is going on.
We have a great show for you guys today that's starting right now.
It is approximately 10:20 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States.
I am Elijah Schaefer, your top 17 host.
Let's get down.
All right.
I just cut it short there for a second.
I don't know what's going on.
There's like some like noises.
It sounds like robots in the background.
Can you speak for a second for me, Brandon?
Yeah, can you hear me?
Yeah, can you just disconnect real quickly and connect back again real quickly?
You just modulated your voice.
Yeah, give me one second.
All right, we should be back.
Are you there?
Oh, all right.
All right.
I'll just get into this for today.
We'll start here and say this.
My guest today is Brandon Stracha, the founder of the walk away movement.
We got to ask ourselves the question.
What are we walking away to?
Brandon, are you there?
I'm here.
All right.
You sound great now.
This is the founder of the walkaway movement, but also like I just brought up.
The question of the matter is, when we're walking away at this point with the state of the Republican Party, what are we walking away to?
Right?
Yeah, that's the question.
Well, you know, I actually just, so I just recently launched Walkaway Social because we used to have the walkaway campaign group on Facebook, and that's where people were coming and making their videos and their testimonials.
And we grew to like 511,000 plus people in the group.
And then Facebook banned the group in January of 2021.
So I just launched Walkaway Social.
And this is like an app people can come on to, again, like rebuild the community and tell their stories.
It's a social app.
It's amazing.
You should get on it.
Anyway, people have been asking me, like, now that we're doing like Walkaway 2.0, can we also walk away from the Republican Party?
People ask me this all the time.
And I'm like, look, it's really up to you guys.
I mean, this is supposed to be a movement about people telling their stories and talking about how they feel and, you know, where kind of the pulse of public sentiment is.
So if people are, I think at this point, people are just walking, they want to walk toward an actual representative government, which I think they feel does not exist.
The Democrats are corrupt and the Republicans are weak.
And I think in both of those two groups, no one is being represented by anybody.
And I think that it's causing colossal frustration with the American people.
Yeah, because, okay, obviously we know that we like, I don't even like partisanship at this point because we know the Democrat Party is corrupt.
I mean, I don't know if people saw this, but to speak about the Matrix being broken, John Fetterman, who hilariously is a senator, I don't know if you think it's funny, but it's like the black pill clown pill, Brandon, where it's like, it isn't funny, but it's so sad that you can't help but laugh when you see John Fetterman, who's a victim of a stroke, by the way.
I'm not making fun of a medical complication.
He's a victim of an establishment like Joe Biden.
He's a medical abuse victim.
Would you agree with that?
Like he's being forced to perform like a monkey when he really should just be on bed rest.
Yeah, that would be a good place for him to be.
I mean, you know, but he beat Dr. Oz.
He still beat Dr. Oz.
The people still decided he was a better choice than Dr. Oz.
Well, listen to this, guys.
Listen to this.
This is him trying to answer a question.
This is like, this is so good.
He's asking a question at a Senate hearing, and I can't help but enjoy this.
Is it staggering?
Is it a staggering responsibility that the head of a bank could literally crash our economy?
It's astonishing.
That's like if you have, I mean, like, and they also realize is that now they have, it's in a guaranteed, a guaranteed way to be saved by no, again, by no matter how, you know, so it's, it's, you know, isn't it appropriate that those kinds of this kind of control should be or stricter to prevent this kind of thing from going?
Or should we just go on and start bailing and sailing whoever bank, regardless of how their conduct is?
I'll give you an example.
The Republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP.
You know, for a hungry family has to have these kind of penalties.
Are these some kinds of word working required?
Shouldn't you have a working requirement after we sail your bank with billions of your bank?
Because they seem to be more preoccupied than SNAP and requirements for works for hungry people, but not about protecting the taxpayers that will bail no matter what does about a bank to crash it.
And everybody's just forced to sit there and listen and pretend like it's not happening.
Yeah, yeah, no, 150%.
It's like we're supposed to enjoy and figure out that like we're not living in a banana republic.
I mean, this is one of the most insane things I've ever seen in my entire life.
This is, we have Biden in the presidency who can't speak a single audible sentence and string a thought through.
And then we have in the Senate, we have this individual, John Fetterman, who, by the way, was in the Goonies.
He's a very, very, very famous actor.
He's been around for several decades, but he can't even ask a question.
The mainstream media says, well, he left the people speechless.
I don't think they were speechless.
I just think you don't know what to respond.
Yeah, it's like, I'm just confused.
Yeah, well, I mean, they didn't say why they were speechless.
They just said they were speechless.
Like, I think everyone was just like, I don't know where to go from here.
Yeah, I mean, and we also have AOC in the house.
So they've got one of these in each branch.
Yeah, yeah.
And we're going to jump into this right away with The Matrix.
And I'm sorry, Brandon, real fast.
Can you try to reconnect to your call one more time while I go to this?
We'll just have to kind of work with this as we go.
I'm in the down on this.
We're having tech problems.
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Let's talk about what's going on in the Matrix.
The Matrix is breaking and nobody knows about this more and has been a victim of it.
Then Brandon Strzoka, I even hate calling people victims, but we've all been victims of Big Daddy government.
But these are the stories that are happening today.
Let's find out what's going on in the world.
Seems we've sold our soul to the devil.
There was an interview that went on from CNBC with Elon Musk.
Well, I'm not trying to praise him as being the sole arbiter of free speech.
There's nothing that I could see more than this interview that shows how out of touch people are.
I don't know.
Did you see this interview with CNBC, Brandon?
I'm sorry.
I was so distracted by my microphone that I missed the introduction to the piece.
No, no, no, no.
Did you see this interview?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And if it happens, I'll just give you a thumbs up and we'll just reconnect and I'll just go to stuff.
We'll make it look like it's not even happening.
And in the future, when we have you back on, we'll just figure it out.
Yeah, and it's literally, it's a brand new microphone that I plugged in right before we went live.
So what I can do too is just disconnect and go through my computer because what I think probably is going on is that I connected a very old cable to a very brand new microphone and the cable is probably bad.
Yeah, but dude, this is the best worst show on the internet and people don't care.
It's the content that matters.
And literally, it's at this point, the fact that, as we'll talk about later on Rumble, the fact that you and I are both walking around freely today is also a miracle in itself with how corrupt the system is.
It's a miracle.
It is a miracle.
And we will talk about that on Rumble.
So if you guys want to know, there was good, there was bad, there was ugly, and Brandon and I are going to talk it out live on air.
So I'm kind of excited for that.
You know, and so this interview, though, right here, kind of we break into this and we go down a down a pathway where CNBC interviews Elon Musk and is absolutely blown away that there are people out there that value things more than money.
Let's watch this interview all the way through and let's discuss this because this was like one of the funniest moments that I feel like I've seen in a long time.
Check this out.
But how do you make a choice?
You don't see, I mean, in terms of when you're going to engage.
I mean, for example, even today, Elon, you tweeted this thing about George Soros.
Well, I'm looking for it because I want to make sure I quote it properly.
But I mean, you know what you wrote, but you basically.
This kind of reminds me of my Nito's.
It's like, you know, calm down, people.
This is not like made a pitch case out of me.
He said he wants to erode the very fabric of civilization and Soros hates humanity.
Like, when you do something like that, I think that's true.
That's my opinion.
Okay.
But why share it?
Why share it?
Especially, I mean, why share it when people who buy Teslas may not agree with you?
Advertisers on Twitter may not agree with you.
Why not just say, hey, I think this?
You can tell me.
We can talk about it over there.
You can tell your friends, but why share it widely?
I mean, this is freedom of speech.
allowed to say what you absolutely are but i'm trying to understand why you do because you have to know it's got a there it puts you in a in the middle of up the partisan divide in the country It makes you a lightning rod for criticism.
I mean, do you like that?
You know, people today saying he's an anti-Semite.
I don't think you are.
No, I'm definitely not.
I'm like a pro-Semite, if anything.
I believe that probably is the case.
But why would you even introduce the idea then that that would be the case?
I mean, we don't want to make this a George Soros interview.
No, God, no.
I don't know why.
But what I'm trying, even came up, though, in the annual meeting.
I mean, you know, do your tweets hurt the company?
Are there Tesla owners who say, I don't agree with his political position?
Because, and I know it because he shares so much of it.
Or are there advertisers on Twitter that Linda Yakarina will come and say, you got to stop, man?
We're, you know, I can't get these ads because of some of the things you tweet.
Look at that face.
He's like.
You know, I'm reminded of the scene in The Princess Bride.
Great movie.
Great movie.
Where he confronts the person who killed his father.
And he says, offer me money.
Offer me power.
I don't care.
See, you just don't care.
You want to share what you have to say.
I'll say what I want to say.
And if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.
Brandon.
Yeah.
Elijah?
Yeah, no, I was just saying your thoughts on that.
I mean, because when you look at this and you go and you're, people probably thought he even froze when he was just there for a second.
We should have fooled them, but like Brandon Ben pretended like I froze too.
He sat there.
Yeah, that's what I was kind of doing.
Yeah, he sat there for a second and he goes, he stops.
And the guy goes, dude, do you know, like, when you share the truth, when you're out there on the internet and you're sharing even your opinion that's not a part of the mob and you're going against the grain.
And I'm not a big Elon Simp myself.
I don't think he's the arbiter of freedom.
I don't know what his ulterior motives are.
I think the whole Neurolink is weird.
I think the space travel thing, I don't get it.
I don't know why we're trying to go to Mars.
I'm not here to defend him.
But what I do think is interesting is how rare it is for somebody with that kind of money, that kind of influence, to honestly share how they feel rather than just sponsoring the next trans race or, you know, like Miller Light, the next woman's event or the next thing.
Like he actually is sharing that.
And the guy goes, well, obviously there is pushback.
Why would you continue?
And he's just like, maybe because power and money is not worth losing my own freedom to be who I am.
And it's like, this guy, this guy broke, man.
I mean, he was just, he was lost.
Isn't that fun?
It's funny, but it's sad.
Yeah.
Well, freedom is always more valuable than money.
That was very intense.
I mean, that was really, I mean, honestly, I did, that was like kind of gripping.
I was, you know, really leaning in because I had no idea what was going to happen next.
And I couldn't tell if he was like pissed and he was going to walk out or if he was going to just tell the guy how stupid he thought he was.
Or I mean, that was like a very edgy, intense moment.
But yeah, it's weird that these people don't seem to, well, Elon gets what's going on, or at least if you are to believe what he tells us when he tweets and puts his opinions out on Twitter, he seems to understand what's at stake and what's going on, what's happening.
And for anybody whose eyes are open, who's paying attention, who's awake, who sees what's going on, anything is more valuable than making money just to continue to tow the line and the agenda that's being pushed right now by the woke left and everything that we stand to lose because of that.
And he gets that.
And I think that most heads of most corporations don't, which is why they're making all the stupid decisions that they're making right now.
People like Bud Light and Miller Light and all these other corporations.
But yeah, that was kind of crazy.
Yeah.
And I bring this about the matrix breaking is it is so crazy how the universal power structure of individuals beholden to corporations, beholden to this, this, this ball, right?
This idol of money, money, money, profit.
We can't get in the way of this cycle.
We will start wars for profit, right?
The military industrial complex.
We will turn a blind eye for a profit, Epstein's Island.
We will allow people to suffer.
I mean, even with cartels and human trafficking, like it's chasing this power, money, power, money.
And the reality is, is that it is such an empty pursuit that I think that it's, that's kind of like when you read, you know, the Song of Solomon or whatever back in the Bible of this, you know, this historical book that he wrote of this, this idea of, and you have Ecclesiastes, you have all this stuff, right?
And so when you go into Ecclesiastes and you go back and you see his thoughts, this is supposed to be the richest and the wisest guy in the whole world, apparently at the time, is that he has a famous quote that all religions use, even modern era says, you know, all is vanity like chasing after the wind, you know, no matter what pursuit you have, there's an emptiness to it.
And so Elon Musk, he's the richest guy on the known world, right?
He's actually not the richest guy.
We know that the Saudi Arabian royal family is richer.
There's a lot of blood money things going on behind the scenes, but the richest guy that pays taxes, he's out there and he's saying, like, dude, you've given me everything.
I'm literally going to the moon.
I'm literally creating electric cars.
And this isn't it, man.
This isn't it.
Trust me, this isn't it.
And for somebody that even makes millions or that amount of money to look at it and be confused, like there's more to life than just money and being accepted.
And he even used the phrase, like, why do you do it?
You're like a lightning rod for criticism shows you just how weak people are in that they're so afraid of being criticized.
They're so afraid of pushback.
It's like try being a Republican or a right-winger for like 18 minutes on the internet.
I don't, I get why they don't do it.
It's because they're weak.
They're weak and they're insecure.
Yeah.
Well, you just gave me the perfect segue because that's what I was going to say.
I mean, it doesn't even have to just be about money or power.
I mean, anybody I think who has an ambition or a dream or some sort of desire in their life who sacrifices in the pursuit of just being honest and telling the truth, I mean, I put myself in that category.
And, you know, and I make no qualms about saying that that's what I did.
I mean, before I started walk away, before I put out my six-minute video five years ago, my dream in life was I always wanted to be, I thought I was going to be an actor and a performer.
And to this day, it's what I love more than anything.
I love, I love performing.
I love singing.
I love acting.
I love.
I mean, that's what I wanted to do.
But I knew that when I put out that six-minute video and talked about all the reasons I was walking away from the Democratic Party and started telling the truth and speaking out, I knew all of that was over.
I mean, I had no idea how bad it was going to get.
I didn't think that, you know, the FBI was going to kick my door down and round me up and put me in jail and that I was going to continue to go through everything that I've gone through.
But even to that point, I mean, my life would be a lot better if I just went away and shut up.
I mean, it would be, they would probably start leaving me alone.
They'd probably start backing off a lot of this stuff.
But it's, I see where we are.
And that's the same thing I was just saying about Elon Musk.
I mean, it's like we are at the precipice and the brink of some very, very, very dark times and literally at the end of a crossroads where we're going to have to do everything we can possibly do to salvage this and turn it around.
And if we don't, like literally by the end of next year, I don't think that we're ever going to be able to write that ship.
I think he gets that.
I get that.
A handful of people get that.
I'm willing to sacrifice everything to try to tell that truth and to wake up as many people as I can.
But most people don't want to make that sacrifice.
And most people are afraid to put themselves on the front lines like that.
And I understand why.
I get it.
Me too.
What has happened to me is really unpleasant.
Well, yeah.
And if people don't know, I mean, you're on house arrest, everything that, you know, kind of went on.
And I do, we are going to get into that.
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I bring this up, Brandon, which I think is quite, quite interesting.
We talked about the matrix breaking and people like not knowing what's going on.
And I want to bring up something kind of funny.
I found it to be kind of ironic.
So I saw this really poorly photoshopped picture of these DNC paid influencers.
If you don't know who either of these people are, good.
Congratulations.
You probably have a better life than both Brandon and myself because I would be better off if I didn't know who they are.
Brandon, you know who both these people are, right?
I most certainly do.
Who are we looking at here?
Who's the white guy?
White shirt guy and blue tie guy.
Right.
So blue tie guy is, of course, Pete Budajage and white shirt guy.
Can you still hear me?
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
And the white shirt guy is Harry Sisson.
I think his last name is pronounced Sisson.
Sisson.
I don't know how to say his last name.
Sisson.
Yeah.
And he's basically kind of like a new up-and-coming TikToker who does, he's very pro-Biden, and a lot of people speculate he's being paid by the DNC to make be basically be a conservative or a liberal influencer for the Democratic Party.
And I believe he's 20 years old.
Yeah, except for the fact that the key thing is, is that their accounts were made in like 2013, which would mean if they're 20 years old and their accounts were made, I think one of them was in 2000 before that even.
I won't give the exact number, but their accounts are like 10 and 12 years old, which means that they made their accounts when they were like 11 or 10 years old.
Clearly, they've been handed accounts.
They say like, oh, I made it.
I made it.
If you did, then you were breaking the rules.
I don't believe it.
Now, I just thought this picture was funny because I've been finding that the Republican Party has been buying up lies.
So I went ahead and I put what I thought was clearly a joke, right?
I said, photo just leaked.
100% verified by FBI.
Like, not even the FBI, by FBI.
Like, when does FBI verify photos?
That doesn't even make sense.
Found on Hunter Biden's BlackBerry because I just thought that was like funny because who uses Blackberries?
And that's such like a PSYOP phone.
You know what I mean?
Like, oh, you found their BlackBerry.
Nobody talks about the other devices that were with the laptop.
Retweet if you want to expose these pizza eaters.
And I'm, you know, this is clearly not legit.
But I got, I was surprised because I actually got, if I can bring this up here, I actually got community noted.
I got fact-checked on it, which is great because this is my new thing now is to purposely get fact checks.
I got fact-checked.
They said this image of transportation secretary Pete Budigej and influencer Harry Sisson is badly manipulated.
Here is the original picture posted to Harry Sisson's timeline.
Additionally, there are artifacts from the original image on the right top side of Harry Sisson's head.
Do you find this helpful?
Now, if you didn't think it was a joke, it's a good thing that I have provided additional resources.
Like the Matrix will stop at nothing to discredit these drops.
Don't be fooled by the demon rats.
MSNDC.
And most importantly, and most importantly, like, I don't know where people didn't know this was fake.
Like, look at these, look at these follow-ups to it.
Like, to the haters, I retweeted someone.
I've done graphic design and photo editing professionally for years.
And as a hobby for over a decade, this is not Photoshop.
I looked up pixel by pixel, and there's no way this is fake.
I like this one too.
I retweeted this guy.
I said, I have the inventor of Photoshop here next to me, and he just verified this is 100% real.
And the last one, which is great, that I can confirm that I work at digital media verification systems.
This guy's great.
This guy should be on the show.
And I have run this image through our state-of-the-art Brutus T1000 image mysticulator.
It creates four-dimensional holographic renderings of the photo and verified the light spectrums of each picture on the quantum level.
And to bring this up, I mean, when you really look at the comments, there are hundreds of comments of people really, really like trying to clarify to me that this is clearly Photoshopped, you know, and people going through.
And it became a real big issue.
I have so many DMs and emails of people trying to alert me both on the right that I'm sharing fake news and on the left that I'm a fraud and I'm an idiot and I'm stupid.
And I want to open up the condo there about like the Matrix breaking.
Like the fact that nobody can tell a meme anymore or a joke, like they're on Epstein's Island and I said this was from 2007, which would make the kid effectively four years old, right?
Who's believing this?
And is it IQ, Brandon?
Is it partisan politics that they just want to be like, oh, they assume that we're this stupid that we're sharing fake images and they need to clarify who's wrong?
Who's right?
Like the fact that I'm going to continue, by the way, I'm going to continue doing fake Blackberry drops from Hunter Biden.
I think it's the greatest thing ever.
Like Blackberry drops.
I said the exclusive hard drive, right?
No, it's great.
You know, I actually was scrolling through and I saw that before you and I had this conversation.
And I have to admit, I thought you were being serious.
But I think that there's a bigger problem here that we're not even acknowledging.
And obviously I'm a part of the problem.
Like we have such bad ADD now.
Like I think because of social media and everything becoming more and more like video, like if a video now is longer than seven seconds, people can't watch it.
And people went crazy when Elon made tweets longer.
They're like, oh my God.
Like people can't read anymore, like at all.
Half the people who were going crazy probably didn't even read your tweet.
I think I read the first line that was like, this is absolutely verified to be real by the FBI.
I don't think I read beyond that.
And I was just like, dude, come on, Elijah.
Come on.
And I mean, I wonder how many people just didn't read beyond the first line.
I mean, right here, guilty.
I think my favorite part, though, I got to find some of the really good comments on it, though, where like people were really trying to be nice to me and like clarify from our side of like sort of what the truth is about the image.
And people were like zooming in on the image, clarifying that it wasn't real.
I'm going to see if I can bring this up here because I and the reason why I did this, and I bring this up for an important part, I'm not trying to waste people's times.
You know, I mean, more on sharing doctored photos.
And I love the phrase doctored too, that we are doctoring the photos, not photoshopping, which is fantastic.
But where is this?
Where is this?
I guess, oh yeah, look, like people are like dishonest and sharing the original photo, right?
But I say this about the Matrix breaking.
That's something that I've brought up on the show, five, six, seven million times is that it's so difficult sometimes to know if something's a joke today because so much of life is already not like like you know what I'm saying so it's it's like I will see stuff and I just go like I'll see a story right and it'll be like Takashi yesterday it was like Takashi6ix9ine's gay sex tape drops.
And for some reason, I feel ashamed knowing that Takashi6ix9ine, who that is, but on the other side, I go, I don't know if that's a real headline or not.
And as much as that might seem stupid, it's like that's to the point to where you cannot tell, and I want to go a step further.
Even if Tekashi69's gay sex tape is real, or you see it, or a clip is posted, is it AI?
Is it a deep fake?
Right.
Yeah.
So, so you don't even know if when you're watching somebody say something and you're watching the evidence, is the evidence real?
And it's kind of scary, man.
It's for people that have to disseminate info, it's really hard.
It's really hard.
It's really scary.
I mean, especially for those of us who have seen how absolutely dishonest and corrupt the government is capable of being, I'm like, actually terrified of the ways in which like AI could be used for like artificial, like evidence, like, you know, to try to like frame people for stuff.
But I also like I at this point, I fall for parody accounts all the time because the line between parody and reality is like indecipherable anymore.
I can't even tell.
Like when there's an account where somebody's like, you know, you know, these MAGA Republicans, you know, and what they're doing to my two and a half year old trans daughter, you know, whatever.
It's like, and I just want to like, and then you go and you look in their bio and it's got, you know, the LGBT flag and the Ukraine flag and a jab needle and all this stuff.
And I'm like, I can't, I don't know if this is parody or real.
I have no idea.
There was one the other day that I saw this person, their entire account was about masking.
I mean, just like every day, this person just posts about how upset they are living in a world where people don't mask anymore.
But that one was real.
That was a real account.
So I'm like, I lost, totally lost.
Yeah, me too.
And that's where I want to jump in.
This is like kind of keeping on the topic here.
Let's look at some, these are kind of darkly funny aspects of this of why it's hard to know what to believe.
Let's get into the next segment here of things that make me laugh.
Hold on your horses.
If you don't know what the Durham report is, just to let you guys know, there was a soft coup against the president of the United States that the FBI admitted to.
But as Jack Pasovic pointed out, they definitely had nothing to do with anything on any dates in 2020 and November, 2021 and January.
They're completely exempt.
I thought it was ironic, Brandon, that the government just casually leaked out that the spy agencies or the information agencies, right?
The data agencies, I don't know what to call them today.
They call them three-letter, but with the Patriot Act and stuff, I mean, you know, the only, they're two-letter agencies, which is just like FU, right?
That's just all they do to me.
They bend you over.
They ruin your day.
But these three-letter agencies got proven that they were trying to disrupt the American voters' choice with Donald Trump.
And we're still supposed to just ignore that, accept 2020, not question events in January of 2021, which we'll talk about later, and pretend like everything's okay.
And I like, hey, can we stop talking about news for a second and laugh that the government admitted that it tried to bring the hidden deep state into the open eye and take over the government completely, but failed?
And then they tell you, don't worry about that because it didn't work.
Like, don't worry about it.
We tried.
didn't work really well they're so brazen at this point it's really weird to me and i think again this kind of comes back to conversation you and i were having earlier about how weak uh conservatives are and republicans are because there's like no ever there's never any sort of like pushback from the right any in any significant way that that causes them any concern whatsoever but um you know they People were starting to get upset after the Tucker footage came out about January 6th.
And finally, it was like turning the light on for a lot of people about changing the narrative.
And then I thought that it was actually going to make the FBI and the DOJ sort of back off a little bit about how hard they were gunning with January 6th.
But no, they like they jumped right back on Twitter when like when people were getting really upset and they're like, oh, you know, we've secured all this funding.
We're about to go, you know, make like 1,200 more arrests.
Like January 6th is our top priority.
They're totally, they don't give.
Are we allowed to swear on your show?
Yeah, that's totally fine.
No, you're good.
You're good.
No, there's no children watching this.
Hopefully not.
No, but I mean, they don't give a fuck about what any of us think about anything that they're doing.
And they also don't give a fuck if we think that they're corrupt or if they're shown to be corrupt.
It's weird.
It's like they're shameless.
They're totally brazen.
not embarrassed i guess somebody sent a super chat and it triggered an audio I hope that doesn't happen again.
I apologize.
I think I forgot to turn that audio off.
Okay, keep going.
No, I think that was it.
I think I wanted to end it with a dance party so that everything worked out perfectly.
That was actually how I wanted to end my thing.
Yeah, but this is so good, though.
Look at this.
So the FBI releases a statement exonerating itself from any wrongdoing.
They just like up, try to upend for three years, create a disheveled society.
Like, sure, let's just go ahead and accept YouTube's notion that 2020 was the most fair and free year in Democratic history.
Fine.
Let's go ahead and accept that.
Let's say there was no interference.
There was no irregularities.
Okay.
But that doesn't bring into an account three years of the deep state upending the entire United States to make and change public opinion against this person.
It's his followers and, of course, nationalists, which is a very sensitive topic that we will talk about later that there's a thread and it might make you mad, but I just wanted to open up the conversation on it from Keith Woods of why they censor us, why they hate us and their energy to try to end fascism, right?
But it says here, official release from the FBI, the conduct in 2016 and 2017 that special counsel Durham examined was the reason that the current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time.
Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.
This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, oh my gosh, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.
Professionalism and objectivism from the FBI.
So they got caught.
They admitted that they cooed the government, didn't successfully take over.
The support for Trump was too strong.
If you want to get more of that topic, just Google it.
Or DuckDuckGo it or research it or bing it, wherever you're going to go.
It hasn't been censored yet, from my understanding, because the FBI is the one who admitted it.
They admitted it.
They're saying, yes, we've proven that for three years we worked and we were at war with you, but we're sorry.
And that doesn't mean we're bad people.
So give us another chance.
Are you ready to give them another chance, Brandon?
I am not ready to give them another chance, but to be fair, what they said was they were going to continue with the same professionalism and objectivity that the American people deserve and have come to expect.
And I think that they mean it when they say that.
I think this is what they think we deserve.
And it is, in fact, what we have come to expect from them.
So the statement is actually factually true.
But it is.
ridiculous that they had to put measures in place.
This is the FBI, like supposedly like the greatest intelligence agency in the world, but they had to put measures in place to be like, you know what, going forward, we're actually not going to investigate things that we were a part of making up and that we never had any evidence for in the first place.
So we're going to tighten up our policy on not pursuing fake investigations that we were a part of creating.
We're going to tweak the rules on that a little bit to ensure that that doesn't happen again.
Hilarious.
It is hilarious.
I love this meme that somebody sent me on this about the FBI taking the ultimate clown pill, which I believe is super accurate, which let me bring this up.
Is that they released this and it's like the FBI, you know, this is the clown face.
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And then it's unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency after they were literally caught in emails just asking to censor Americans and coming against Americans.
I would say that we're going so as far is that I would now consider January 6th to be a three-letter agency special operation.
That's where I'm at.
I think that's a correct word.
I'm not going to say the FBI did January 6th or that other people weren't responsible for falling into some of the traps or that they didn't bait a lot of us into their plan.
But a special operation, the reason why I'm using that is because I'm using Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a special operation, right?
Some might call it a war, U.S. and Iraq, special operation.
It's all how you call it.
Because if you say they did it, then they get fact-checked and saying, no, There were people who were not associated with the agencies that committed crimes.
Okay.
But the operation, the carrying out and the plan from allowing it to happen to the prosecution, to me, was there's nothing.
There's an undeniable evidence that it was premeditated or at the very least, they had an idea what would happen, let the dogs loose.
And it's like, hey, you rub peanut butter on your balls and you let a pit bull go unleashed.
I'm just going to say, I hope you know what's going to happen.
And they did.
And they allowed it.
They only had what?
All of 2020 to find out what happens when you have mobs of angry people and you don't put up proper policing and you don't contain the crowds.
Bad stuff happens.
And they knew it and they let it happen.
I don't know if you've come to a different conclusion than me, but that's where I'm at with everything I've dealt with these people.
No, and they had a dry run in Michigan in 2020.
I mean, a lot of people don't understand this.
So in 2020, people were doing Reopen America rallies when they shut down the government.
And I actually attended several of these rallies where I either spoke or I was in attendance.
One of them was in Michigan.
Can't remember the month, but it was somewhere, you know, it's summertime, I think, 2020.
And some of the same FBI agents that ended up being assigned, transferred to DC and assigned to January 6th cases were field agents in Michigan who were there on the ground that day in Michigan.
And basically, you had a lot of conservatives at the Capitol building in Michigan, and they figured out that day how to get people to go inside the building.
Because a lot of the crowd outside of the Michigan rally ended up inside because their legislators were making decisions inside that had to do with the government shutdowns and things like that.
And a lot of people speculate that that was a dry run in which they were able to put together a plan, which could be implemented later about how to lure people inside a building when you want them to be inside.
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Okay, so I want to get into this.
I want to get into a couple of what you were saying, kind of like the WTF on what's going on and what's happening and if we maybe are breaking the matrix.
And that question comes mainly what was going on with, you know, even like Miller Light, all these corporations promoting trans stuff.
This next segment is just WTF.
These are things that blow my mind, make me feel a little crazy.
And we got to get into this.
Hey, guys.
I'd love to tempt you a little bit today.
What do you think about this hottie, right?
Kim Petrus.
What a beauty.
Meet the new cover girl.
What do you think about her?
I mean, I know you're not into chicks, but she hot or what?
Yeah, you're right.
I'm not into chicks, so this works out perfectly.
Yeah, so I have a lot of issues with this, but they go beyond just, okay, I mean, are we dropping?
Are we going to let the cat out of the bag about what's going on?
Yeah, go ahead.
What's special about her other than her winning a Grammy?
I think her penis is very special.
So she's very special because she has male genitalia and she's not a biological woman that they have chosen to put on the cover of Sports Illustrated because this went so well for Bud Light and other organizations.
But my issue beyond the trans thing, and like I'm sure I don't care.
So many people hate me at this point.
It doesn't even matter.
That's the very freeing thing about going through J6 and everything.
I have so many people hate me now that I actually don't even have to self-censor anymore because I'm already viewed as like a domestic terrorist.
Anyway, my biggest issue is that she's short and fat.
And I'm like, why are you putting, okay, fine, the trans thing is its own thing.
Like, why are you putting biological men on the new on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?
But also, why are you putting short, fat people on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?
Like, I miss the good old days when it was like people that you could either never aspire to be or never aspire to have.
You know, like if I were a straight man, a woman that I could look at and be like, I could never have a woman like that.
Or if I was a woman, I could look at and be like, I'll never be that beautiful or tall or thin or beautiful, you know, just in my entire life.
And I'm so tired of the bar getting lowered and lowered and lowered and lowered and the standards of what we're calling beautiful or sexy or whatever.
This person looks to be about four foot six, probably about 150 pounds, and has a penis.
And these are all reasons why I don't think that this person should be on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Also, the size 12 feet is the dead giveaway, right?
And the hands, those are some colossal hands for a very lovely lady.
There's a lot of similarity between the T people, you know, the Transformers and the AI versions of women.
Have you ever noticed?
They can't get the hands right.
The AI always has hands.
And people made fun of Trump for having little hands.
I say Trump should run as the first trans president of the United States.
I'm actually really for that.
I think he should.
I think he should come out and just say, I'm a woman, and everyone who doesn't vote for me, like, wouldn't that be so good if he was that base?
Like, actually, I identify as a female and just made people, like, corrected them and made people respect his pronouns.
I know that might be like boomer and cringe to some people, but I find that to be funny.
Like, if it's like Trump just goes by like, like trumpet or something like that, and you're like, nope, nope.
I'm sorry.
Call me ma'am.
You know, and just because it's like, it's gotten ridiculous to where you see this, though.
And that's why I got to tell you guys, let's get smart here.
It used to be the Adam's apple.
Now you got to look at the feet.
Look at the size of the feet.
Paris Hilton, I'm talking about you.
And the size of the hands.
If there's six fingers, you are either looking at a cast member from Game of Thrones or you are looking at an altered image of AI.
And if the hands look like they, you know, let's just say, let's look, you look at the hands look like they could grip a basketball with one hand.
You're not looking at a lady.
And if you're into that, good on you.
Good, go do you.
But most of us, we don't like being deceived like that.
It's not, I feel like this is where straights and gays can unite, right?
And just the fact that this kind of like is getting a bit of a, of the, this is crossing the line.
This is neither straight nor gay.
What do we call this?
It's trans, right?
Or queer.
Queer, trans?
I've never had anyone explain to me successfully what the word queer means.
And I've asked many people who identify as queer what queer means.
I've, I've, to this day, never gotten an answer.
But yes, here's where we can come together on this.
I, you know, a lot of people, you know, for a long time were trying to say that, you know, gay people can be converted.
They can change their sexual orientation.
We can either pray it away or electric shock it away, or just, you know, through browbeating people, uh, break their spirit and turn them straight.
Uh, but that's essentially what now, like, the trans lobby and the LGBTQIA 2 mafia is trying to do.
I mean, this is why it makes me so angry.
Like, you know, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, there was nothing there for me, and that's fine.
I, you know, I can go look at whatever I get excited about, I can do my own thing.
But that's like an American institution, that's a thing for men, like heterosexual men.
That's a, that's, that's something, right?
Stop trying to make heterosexual men be attracted to trans people.
Stop trying to force people to have a sexual desire that they don't innately have and don't want to have.
I thought that was the whole thing.
I thought we all got to like authentically have our own sexual orientations and that we were supposed to celebrate that and that was supposed to be okay.
But it's like now with this trans thing, it's just like everywhere you look, it's this messaging that like if you're a straight man, you're supposed to be into this.
Get into this.
Be a trained, like, if you don't have a heart on right now for this biological man on the cover of Sports Illustrated, then there's you're a bigot and there's something wrong with you.
That's where I think we can come together because it's infuriating.
Yeah, I feel like this is 2023 is the year where like Muslims and Christians started finding things in common, which I thought was very weird.
But unironically, like straight Republican men and gay liberals started to come together.
And then the weirdest thing I'm seeing now is like Muslims and gay liberals uniting on like one issue, which is like this transhumanism thing is just like too much.
And I find it very ironic.
One of the most interesting things I posted about this is in a neoliberal world, which I want to talk about here, which was Keith Woods made a thread.
You should check it out on Twitter.
It's fantastic.
This is not an anti-Semitic statement.
He's not related to that.
This was a statement of how all modern perspective and politics is based on our response to the Holocaust.
Okay.
So if you're that kind of person and you're, you know, want to go rant about the Jews, this is not the place for you.
This is a intellectual argument about, you know, the Frankfurt School and Western liberalism about how the most important factor became about preventing fascism and preventing another Holocaust.
That became the sort of shaping of the world.
And with that came this neoliberal, modern liberalism that we experienced in the 90s and the 2000s, right?
The sexual revolution from the 60s on was this idea that the best way that they wanted to secure a world where another dictator like Mussolini, like Hitler, were not going to arise was going to be to create more open societies.
This is why we have the Immigration Acts of the 60s coming in the countries, this idea of multiculturalism, multi-ethnicity, and paired with that, sexual openness.
This idea that we were suppressed human beings, and a lot of our anger and our frustration came from our lack of sexual expression.
And whether there's truth to that or not, the point is, is that we did see a cultural shift and it was intentional.
And it was a response of the world trying to prevent another Holocaust, trying to prevent another fascist global nationalist takeover.
I'm not going to get into the details of the whole threat, as I'll probably have Keith Woods on the show, but fast forward every decade, the thought process of the elites in charge is this.
What is fascism of that decade?
Then that's bad.
And how do we stop that fascism?
That's good.
And part of that was then that's with the, you know, with the idea of free love, free sex, and pushing LGBT rights.
You know, it used to be LGBT, I think it used to be LGB rights and just LG rights.
It used to, it kept growing.
The point was that it was seen that this was part of creating an open society.
And so people get really confused on how we got where we're at.
Well, if you every year, they justified World War II, right?
This is where it gets dark because they were able to justify World War II.
I don't think anyone's good in a war necessarily.
I think a lot of sides commit massive atrocities and it's horrible and we should avoid war at all costs.
But by labeling World War II a just war, because it stopped the Holocaust, because it's because it ended fascism, they got this mentality that anything that we do, even if we violate the basic reality of biology, anything we do to create a more open society and to defeat fascism, nationalism, binary, this will create a more peaceful society.
So I don't really care where you fall and you watch a show on your political spectrum.
I don't care if you are gay.
I don't care if you are straight and you hate gay people.
You're welcome to watch this show.
But the point of the matter is, is that through the decades and what's going on is that it's kind of like it's taken on its own momentum and its own reality that fascism is no longer fascism.
Fascism is now anything that this controlling group disagrees with.
And an open society is not about preventing fascism.
It's just about heading towards creating a new society where they're gods.
So now, rather than like just trying to like quell, you know, extremism and prevent, you know, hyper-nationalism and extreme fascistic mentalities.
I shouldn't do that while I explain that.
They've gotten to a point now to where they are going against like everything's on the table and it's backfiring.
Suicide rate is at an all-time high.
Depression is at an all-time high.
Mental instability, we have mass shootings.
I mean, it's like it didn't work.
And so the question, Brandon, that's why I kind of want to, because like, you know, like you're a part of a growing group of people who at one point even were, you know, representing, hey, you know, LGBT rights, we want to be accepted to where no longer LGBT wants to be accepted.
They want to be supported.
They want to be sanctioned.
They want special treatment.
And we're finding this across the board, right?
With trans people now, they're the exclusive group.
And the reason why they are, if everyone wants to know, is because they're the next thing in the next decade of our reality that this group of anti-fascists has designated that this is the way that we keep our societies open.
That's why you'll get demonetized on YouTube.
That's why you'll get censored if you criticize them because they are the gateway to keeping the society free.
And gays don't matter anymore.
Gays, fine.
It doesn't matter.
I don't know if you feel strongly on this.
That was a long rant, but a lot of people have been emailing me questioning me.
Go to Keith Woods, see his long dissertation.
It is one of the most clear and succinct explanations, very long of how we ended from World War II to now and why it worked out the way it did.
But maybe I'm going crazy.
I just feel like we've lost our damn minds.
No, I don't think you're going crazy.
And I think it's a very interesting theory about the basis of why they're doing what they're doing.
I mean, I would actually like to believe it's for reasons so altruistic that they actually are trying to prevent another genocide or Holocaust or something like that happening.
I think that's generous.
I think that's a very generous assumption about what their motivations are.
And yeah, you're absolutely right.
I mean, what they need always is to take a group of people that they can present as a marginalized class and then use this marginalized class of people to control everybody else.
And the whole trans thing is like the most brilliant thing that they've ever come up with because it's so illogical and it's so off-putting to so many people.
And I'm not even talking about like, you know, people who were born male and identify as female or born female and identify as male.
I'm talking about like teenagers.
I'm talking about like 12 and 13 and 14 year old kids who maybe are socially awkward or have issues or self-esteem issues, identity issues, autism, you name it, depression, various mental health issues.
And they're preying upon these people and telling them that the answer to their problems is to either identify as a spectrum of genders or no gender whatsoever.
And they're using these people as a Trojan horse to control other people and control the environment around them.
And also to label, I think, the greater majority as bigoted and hateful.
And well, again, it all comes back to control.
But no, I don't think you're losing your mind at all.
It's it's it's a it's I mean, for me as a gay man, it's a very unbelievable, bizarre thing to know that like I, you know, I grew up at a time when people weren't even positive about gay people.
You know, I mean, I grew up when I was young, you know, to be gay was a dangerous thing.
I mean, it was, you were, you were in danger to, to say out loud that you were a gay person.
And to know that we've gone from that to like now suddenly 25% of people like under the age of 20, whatever, 21 or something are identifying as LGBTQIA 2 plus is insanity.
Not to mention the fact that oftentimes when I'm getting railed on for being critical of the LGBTQIA 2 plus community, it's now heterosexual men who are getting in my face and screaming at me.
You know, it's like, I mean, it's like bizarre world when I have heterosexual guys like screaming, trans rights are human rights, you fash.
You know, and I'm like, I'm gay.
Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Like, who are you?
And like, I really, like, it used to be like straight guys chasing me down an alley for being gay.
Now I have straight guys chasing me down an alley because I'm not trans positive enough.
Like, how did we get here?
Yeah, it is confusing.
And that's why people make memes like this on the show.
That rant is why we're the number one kid show on the internet.
Because you asked, these are live memes they sent in about that.
You can get assaulted now by straight men for literally standing against trans people, which is just defending women.
And it is also confusing to me because people think the show is anti-woman and it's not by any means.
I just consider the show to be like not pro-feminist.
But then I find myself defending sometimes these feminists when men are entering their sports and they're actually, you know, taking away their prizes.
And I don't like the doomer pill.
Like let them have what they want.
I don't want a society like that.
And I don't want to think that if, you know, if I have a daughter and my daughter somehow wants to join a sport, I don't want to teach my daughter to work or to get ahead with sports.
I want to teach her how to be a housewife and to get married.
And I'll support her until she does get married.
I believe in that.
Everyone to each his own.
But the most important part about that is I don't want that to be an option.
I don't want to live in a society where we don't accept the truth.
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But if you want to watch the rest of the show, we're going to keep this discussion going.
And Brandon and I are going to talk a little bit about the reality of what happened.
Because Brandon and I, you know, we're talking about the FBI.
We're talking about the craziness.
And we both have been at the center of some public scandals with the three-letter agencies.
And I would say it's been a crazy ride.
And I want to catch up with him.
I think we've had some misunderstandings.
I think there's been some issues.
But the reality is that his story is absolutely mind-boggling.
It really is.
And not in a negative way.
It's really sad what the government did to him.
And so, if you guys want to continue on and you want to continue to listen, remember the second half of this show is on Rumble.
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All right, we are back.
I'm Elijah Schaefer.
If you're just joining the live stream, we have Brandon Strzoka.
Brandon Strzok, Brandon Strzoka.
How do you actually pronounce your last name, Brandon?
Well, I say Brandon Strzok.
Brandon Strzoka.
But a lot of people, yeah, but a lot of people say Brandon Strzoka because that's how it's spelled.
And I'm cool with either one.
We are cool.
Can I ask you a question?
Yes, sir.
What is your, how do I find you on Rumble?
Go to, let me just send you the link on Twitter right now.
I can just send this over to you via, does that work to send to you on Twitter?
Yeah.
Oh, what the hell?
I just, I searched you and there were so many.
I didn't know if you were Elijah Streams or Elijah this.
No, go slightly offensive.
Type in slightly offensive.
You'll find it right there.
You should be able to find it very easy.
They're working on cleaning that up.
But we are live on Rumbles.
We found that YouTube is pretty intolerable with discussions on most topics.
And we want to be able to have unfiltered conversations about topics that are sensitive with being able to really say the truth, right?
I mean, this is the reality that when we talk about what's going on with January 6th, people think it's all over, but they just did a fresh investigation and fresh arrests just the other day.
They're still arresting people after all of the evidence is surmounted, after everything's been proven about the way people were let in the building, and Jacob Chancely and people are shown to not be these evil insurrectionists.
As we've known on the inside, we've known, but the public didn't.
And the footage keeps coming out.
And remember, that's part of the reason why Tucker was let go from Fox because he was really crushing government narratives.
And institutional media is not meant to crush narratives.
It's meant to support them in the modern era, which is why independent media is so important.
It's so important you support this show and you support Brandon with the links in the description.
And of course, is there anywhere else they could be supporting you as well, Brandon, that's important?
That's outside stuff?
Totally.
Yeah, I'm on Twitter.
Brandon Strat.
I'm on everything.
So I'm on Twitter.
I'm on Facebook.
If you guys are watching on Rumble, I just opened my first Rumble account.
I have hardly any videos on there.
Please give me a sub.
I would love that because I'm going to start using Rumble more often.
I should have told your YouTube audience to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
But here's the really big thing.
Like, and this is, thank you for giving me a chance to say this.
I just created my own app that I put out and I really, really, really could use people's support.
It's called Walkaway Social.
It's available on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
It's basically to kind of rebuild and regrow the walkway community.
Doesn't matter if you're a lifelong conservative, you can still join the app and kind of be a part of what we're doing.
But it's really awesome.
I mean, once again, people are coming together, sharing their stories.
And we want to hear from both people.
We want to, honestly, I want to hear from anyone, whether you walked away or whether you've always been a conservative or maybe you were a Republican, but you're getting fed up with the Republicans.
When you go on the app, we have a testimonial group and you can go in there and upload your video and share your story.
So I want to encourage like everybody watching to go to their app store and load Walkaway Social and then get on it and use it and upload your video and tell other people to get on it and use it.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And then I'll add your Rumble in your YouTube description as well.
I had your Instagram for it and your Twitter, but we'll go ahead and we'll add it at the end of the show because most of the people that watch the show watch it within the next 24 to 48 hours anyways.
But we love our live viewers and we love the people that are checking in.
Brandon, let's talk about this.
Okay, so if people don't know this, you were a victim.
And I really am careful to use the word victim in 2023 because people that call themselves victims are usually the opposite.
And anybody who goes on the internet and tries to create a big sob story for themselves are usually not telling the truth.
But yours is backed by information, backed by truth.
You and I have worked together several times over the last four, you know, several years.
We've seen each other from cities in LA to Washington, D.C., maybe even in New York.
I have no idea.
I've just seen you all over the country.
And we happened to unfortunately meet again, theoretically, I don't even know if we did meet, on January 6th of 2021, which makes me sad even saying the date because they've tried to get us to remember the date so that they could correlate it to 9-11.
That was the whole date.
J6 came from the 9-11 playbook.
It was that there would be a date in history where democracy almost died, just like the war on terror started on September 11th.
We all know it.
January 6th was meant to be the next great global psyop.
First of all, we know that what happened.
Tell me just briefly because we've been updated on this for a while, but briefly what happened to you on that day and later on, just to kind of update to people that aren't familiar with your story.
Yeah.
So on January 6th of 2021, I went to DC because I was supposed to be a scheduled speaker at a permitted event on lot eight of the Capitol grounds.
It was always my understanding that we'd be walking from the ellipse to the Capitol and then we would be speaking.
And I was one of dozens, maybe even like a hundred people that were scheduled to speak.
There were a ton.
And so I was on my way to the Capitol to go to my speaking engagement and I started getting messages that people were seeing and hearing on TV that people were going inside the building.
And that sounded really unusual to me.
So I got out of, I was in the DC Metro underground.
I got up, went, got out, started walking toward the building, and then I started shooting a video when I was on like the outer Capitol grounds.
And I shot one long continuous video for about 10 minutes or so.
And so the first couple of minutes are just me walking up the sidewalk on the east side of the building.
And the east side of the building is the opposite side of where all the violence had occurred.
So where I was on the east side, nobody was fighting with police officers.
In fact, there were zero police officers on the east side grounds, zero, not one.
And I'm walking up the sidewalk.
And when I get to the end of the sidewalk, there are thousands of people standing on outside the Capitol, like on the Capitol steps.
And there was a bike rack on either side of the sidewalk, but it wasn't closed.
It was fully open.
So the sidewalk was, there was no barricade.
It was completely open.
And on the other side of the open barricade were thousands of people.
And so I walked up into the crowd of thousands of people.
And when I got there on my video, you see a man toward the top of the steps and he's shouting down, They've opened the doors.
They're letting us in.
We're going inside.
We're going inside.
And so I repeated what he said.
I said, We're going inside.
We're going inside.
I said, They're saying they're going in.
The people are going in.
And then I walked up to the top of the stairs.
And when I got there, the two large Columbus doors on the east side of the Capitol were both wide open.
And there was a crowd of hundreds of people at the top of the stairs.
Some of them were trying to make their way in, and some of them were just standing there filming, like I was doing.
And after about eight minutes, a man comes outside of the building, gets on a bullhorn, and he shouts, They've cleared Congress.
Everyone left the building.
They've all cleared out.
Move out, move out.
And at that point, I immediately turned around and I left and I went down the stairs and I went out to the outer grounds.
So I never went into the building on January 6th.
I didn't commit any violence, any vandalism.
I didn't break anything.
I didn't destroy anything.
I stood there shooting a video.
And I uploaded my video to Twitter later that day and was basically like, This is what I saw today at the Capitol.
And then when I got back to my hotel room in DC, I turned on my TV and that's when I started seeing on TV what had happened on the west side of the building earlier in the day.
And I was totally confused.
Like I didn't, I didn't know if what I was watching was like live footage of something that broke out after I left or what the hell was going on.
But I thought, okay, this doesn't look good.
So I made a decision to just take my video down and basically take down all my tweets and stuff from that day, you know, because I had all these tweets like, oh, let's go to the Capitol and let's all get, you know, whatever.
And I'm like, I don't know what the hell is going on right now.
So I just took it all down.
And then I didn't think anything of it again until two and a half weeks.
In fact, I think you and I talked on the phone, maybe like a week after that or something, because we were all losing our accounts.
And I think like I got like my group got banned on Facebook and I think you might have gotten taken down on Instagram.
I know some stuff happened.
And so I think we were, you and I had a conversation about like accounts being taken down or something.
And at that time, I think that I told you that I had like gone up on the steps and things like that.
And I can't remember if you asked me if I was worried, but I was like, no, I'm not worried.
You know, for anyone who's asking me, I said, you know, I didn't do anything.
So I don't really have anything to worry about.
And that's really how I felt.
I mean, I did think that it was possible that I would hear from the FBI.
Like, I thought that, and the only reason I thought that is because my video that I had put on Twitter, even though I had taken it down, it had been up for like two hours.
And that was enough time for these like sedition hunters and capital hunters and Twitter trolls.
They had copied my video and they were then reposting it constantly and tagging the FBI and telling the FBI to come and arrest me.
And that was happening like every day, multiple times a day, over and over and over again.
So I thought there was a chance I would hear from the FBI, but I never thought I would be in trouble.
And then on January 25th, two and a half weeks after January 6th, I woke up to at dawn, pounding on my door.
And I knew instantly, I mean, nobody knocks like that.
And I was like, oh my God, I was like, they really did come.
Like, this really is happening.
And I shot up out of bed and I went running toward the door because I could tell they were going to break it down if I didn't open it quickly.
And when I got close to the door, I said, who's there?
And they said, FBI, open up.
And I was just like, I can't.
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
Like, I can't believe this.
And so I opened the door and on the other side of the door was a team of agents in tactical gear, like eight, nine agents.
And they came in the apartment and the lead agent turned me around and put my hands behind my back and cuffed me.
And they presented me with a search warrant and told me that they were going to begin taking my things.
And so a team of agents came in and started stripping my apartment of my phone.
I have multiple of everything.
So phones, computers, iPads, hard drives, thumb drives, camera equipment, clothing, taking my things, putting them in bags.
While the lead agent told me that I'm facing multiple felonies for what I did on January 6th.
And I said, felonies?
I said, I didn't even commit any crimes.
And he said, oh, I saw your video.
I saw what you did.
And he said something about like attacking a police officer or assaulting a police officer, something like that.
And I sat there and I was like, but I didn't even see any police officers.
Like, what is he talking about?
But they took me through my apartment building in handcuffs, took me downstairs, put me in a black car, took me to jail.
I sat in 23-hour lockdown in a jail cell for two and a half days.
And then I got a hearing before a judge.
I mean, it was like the whole took me into a processing room, took my clothes.
I had to, you know, literally was standing there naked.
They came back, brought me a pair of brown underwear and orange jumpsuit, put me through the entire processing, took me up to my cell.
So I'm like in 23-hour lockdown in an orange prison uniform.
And then finally, after two and a half days, I got to see a judge who ordered my release.
The government never fought for me to be detained.
They said, you know, we know that Mr. Strzok didn't engage in any violence or vandalism or theft or destruction.
So we know we're comfortable not seeking his detainment.
And I just thought to myself, well, if you know all of this, why did you have a team of agents in tactical gear come into my apartment?
Like, why didn't you just come knock on my door and like tell me I was under arrest or ask me questions or whatever?
And so when I got out of jail, that's then I finally got to see an attorney.
And that's when I started to understand what I was being accused of.
So they charged me with two felonies and a misdemeanor.
Felony number one was occupying restricted grounds.
You know, most people who went inside the Capitol were getting misdemeanor charges of occupying a restricted building.
I got a felony for occupying restricted grounds outside of the Capitol.
And then they charged me with a misdemeanor of disorderly conduct with an intent to disrupt a hearing before Congress, even though I turned around and left of my own volition and didn't go inside the building.
But then they charged me with another felony, which was impeding an officer in the line of duty.
And I said to my attorney, what the hell are they talking about?
And he said, well, in your video, which by the way, I'm shooting 35 feet away from the open doors like this.
I have my camera fully above my head because there were people in front of me and I could like, you know, people, taller people, people with flags on poles.
So I held my camera fully above my head and pointed it down so that my camera could capture what my eyes could not see.
And my attorney said to me, in your video, there's this moment where one officer comes outside of the Capitol for like 30 seconds.
And when he comes outside, somebody grabs his plastic shield out of his hand and they start passing it back through the crowd.
Now, mind you, they give it back to him after like 30 seconds.
They took it from him and then they gave it back to him.
But while they're passing it around, several people in the crowd are shouting, you know, take the shield, take the shield, take it, take it, take the shield.
And the FBI says, that's you.
You're one of those people who's shouting to take the shield.
And so, first of all, they're accusing you of doing that.
But second of all, they're charging you with a felony for allegedly shouting encouragement to take the shield.
And he said, and my attorney at this point had already spoken with the prosecutor.
And he said, the prosecutor said they have that, she said, we've chosen, so far, we have not charged him with felony obstruction of Congress.
She said, that's a charge that carries 20 years in prison.
And we're giving it to some people.
So far, we haven't given it to him.
And so to me, the writing was on the wall that I was being told you better take a plea deal.
Like, that's my only option was to take a plea deal.
And so that's what I did.
What's wild to me, though, about the plea deal is like, this is kind of what they did with January 6th, and no one understands this.
Is they went, look, we're going to convict you of harsher crimes.
So either accept that you're guilty of something, like Jacob Chancely, like meaning, or you could be like him.
We'll put you in jail for four to five years.
You're going to, we're going to make you out to be a terrorist.
We have the public opinion on our side.
We've, we've convinced the world it was a global threat against democracy.
And they were able to take you.
But so they got you to do a plea deal to what to get what was the, what was the ultimate verdict in terms of what was going to be your consequence for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Well, okay.
Before I answer that question, I want to address what you just said too.
During that two and a half days that I was sitting in jail, my story became international headlines.
I mean, in like dozens and dozens of publications.
And all of them said Strzz's video shows him standing outside of the Capitol shouting for the crowd to take a shield from an officer.
So it wasn't even, the stories weren't even like, this is the allegation or this is what he's accused of, or Strzz has not yet commented on this.
Nothing.
It was already like the damage was so done.
And there's nothing I, I mean, I was sitting in a jail cell, unable to even go like open the door.
And this was for two and a half days.
This is what was being spread around the globe.
So there's nothing I could have done.
Even if I had gotten out of jail and started shouting from the rooftops, this isn't true.
This isn't true.
It would like they never would have printed it.
The story was out there.
It was done.
This is what they wanted.
They completely created this whole thing.
They got their narrative.
And at that point, and I was, I'll admit, I mean, I was very demoralized because when I saw what I was up against, I mean, literally on January 24th, if you had Googled my name, you would have found like 20, 30 pages of stories about this guy who walked away from the Democratic Party and started a movement.
And this movement grew into this huge thing.
And they're doing events and they're doing, like, that's what you would have found.
When I got out of jail and Googled my name, all of it, it was just 25 pages of MAGA insurrectionist, MAGA terrorist.
Brandon Strzok was calling for a civil war.
Brandon Strzok went to the Capitol to encourage the crowd to attack police officers.
I mean, like literally like 20 pages of that.
And I was like, where do you even begin to try to fix this?
Like, and there was like no conservative media coming, none.
When I got out of jail, I didn't have a single email from any, from Fox News, from any, like, and I had gone on Fox News like 75 times between 2018, 2019, 2020.
Not one like email saying, can you come?
Do you want to talk about this?
Do you want to set the record straight?
What's your size?
Nothing.
And when I was reaching out to people, they were like, oh, we're not, we're not talking about January 6th.
We're not.
And I'm like, so how do I combat this?
Like, what the hell do I do?
And so all of these things factored into the decision that I made.
But ultimately, and this didn't happen quickly.
I mean, it was 10 months later before they offered me a misdemeanor plea deal.
I pled guilty to a Class B misdemeanor.
But during that 10 months, my name was completely destroyed.
My reputation was destroyed.
I was accused of all this stuff that I didn't do.
And because of that, I got permanently banned by PayPal, Venmo, Stripe, Patreon, email services, constant contact, MailChimp, Mailer Light, Send Lane.
My group got banned from Facebook.
I got banned from Instagram.
I was banned by my donor portals for the Walkaway Foundation and the Walkaway Campaign Pack.
We were banned from.
And then we switched to a new company and they banned us.
I lost my ability to process all of my donors.
Like we have, you know, grassroots, monthly recurring donors.
I lost the ability to process their payments and I lost the ability to email them and tell them that had happened.
I mean, we literally didn't take a donation, a single donation in 2021, basically.
I mean, we went like an entire year without like any being able to process any donations.
And I have employees.
I employ half a dozen people and subcontractors and, you know, you name it.
And all of this, because I went up on the steps of the Capitol for eight minutes filming a video, turned around and walked down the stairs.
So I ended up pleading guilty to a Class B misdemeanor 10 months later.
Oh, they put me on a terrorism watch list.
So I, for two and a half years, I had a designation of quad S, which means you're still allowed to fly, but it's the highest level terrorism list you can be on and still be allowed to board an airplane.
So when you go to the airport, you have to go through like two hours of screening and they shut down an entire security lane just for you.
And they bring a team of about nine agents over and they take pictures of your boarding passes and pictures of your ID.
They take every item out of your bag and swab it for explosive materials.
They give you a full body pat down front and back, stick their hand down your pants, up your pants, up the front and the back.
They make you go through the metal detector twice.
They make you go through the body scanner twice.
And then when you go through all that, you leave and you go to your gate to go to your flight.
They have a team of agents follow you to the gate and they station all around you, front, back, all on the sides.
Sometimes they bring dogs, like literally have dogs stationed around you.
And then when it's time to board the airplane, they bring a special piece of equipment to the gate and they do it all again.
They take every item out of your bag right there in front of all the other passengers, swab it for explosives.
They give you a pat down front and back again while all the passengers are going, what the hell is going on?
So they're terrified of you by the time you get on the airplane.
And then if you have a connection, they do it again at the connecting gate.
Bring that piece of equipment to the connecting gate, go through all your stuff again, pat you down again before you get on the connecting flight, even though you haven't left security or the security section of the airport.
I lost my TSA pre-check status, which obviously if I was going through all of that, I did.
But it's like somebody took a grenade and threw it into my life.
And my whole life just exploded into a thousand pieces.
And honestly, Elijah, no one even really cared.
I mean, have you seen a single conservative influencer say my name?
Like, have you ever heard Charlie Kirk or any of these like people who are making millions of dollars fighting the left and fighting corruption and big government?
Have you seen anybody with a blue check mark stand up for me through any of this?
Like this is.
They were raising awareness for Bud Light.
Telling me not to buy Bud Light, right?
That was what they were concerned about.
Well, you know, and realistically, this is what I want to say.
You know, people, I've told people it was a very fine line between myself not facing arrest.
Like I did have the feds at my door multiple times.
I was under survey.
They were following me.
I want to remind people that I didn't have that.
They were following me in a car for like weeks.
It was very, very weird.
They would show up at my neighbors' doors.
They showed up at my old churches.
They would harass neighbors.
They harassed the, they would ask for surveillance from my apartment complex to track and to monitor my moves inside the unit.
As I got DOJ FOIF Freedom of Information Act released, right?
They tapped my phones starting in July of 2021.
My Apple ID lifted all my emails.
They got all my bank records from Bank of America, took all my messages from social media.
Yes, I got banned on Instagram and Facebook for a while.
That's how this channel lost demonetization.
We got demonetized on January 7th.
The next day, they just couldn't suspend us, but they took away all the money from this channel, from our YouTube channel.
We haven't made money since 2021.
That was, you know, that was six figures a year in terms of financing from the show.
You know, and it's different levels of it.
But I will tell you that, you know, a lot of the shows I went on to, the host asked me not to reference it.
So if you're asking that, I brought that up because they'd be like, hey, we just don't really want to talk about it.
Now, down the road, I'm just like said, hey, let's talk about it on Rumble because I want to have the real conversation and I don't want them to delete it because they're getting really trigger happy on YouTube and they're deleting it.
But the issue is, is that all these organizations and a lot of these people from working in the industry, I actually posted this last night on Twitter about the majority of online internet personalities being actually very depressed, borderline suicidal and actually not enjoying their life.
That they're so caught up in telling you what a movement is about and how to live and who to be that they themselves are very empty and void internally, right?
There's a difficulty in that.
And so, you know, like, I'll just say this, and I want to point this out from someone like Alex Jones.
You know, I hate to use him as the example, but he's the best example of somebody who you just have to accept.
This is a very, very crappy time in American history.
This is a very crappy industry to work in.
And nobody will have sympathy for you when you're persecuted and targeted.
And Alex Jones is a good example of somebody that a lot of people wrote his coattails.
And now Trump, right, with all these DeSantis simps out there that are, you know, suddenly acting like Trump is evil or whatever.
They rode him for four years.
I brought this up two shows ago.
I mean, we saw this, right?
They said he couldn't make it.
And then they suddenly, then he was popular.
So they all made, you know, MAGA movements.
And then they abandoned him now.
And they're like, oh, he can't make it again because he lost.
And then they're like, you know, they call us all idiots for questioning the 2020 election.
It's really, it's really sad.
It's really difficult.
And I'm sorry you went through that, man, because this is why I want to bring this up.
Okay, because maybe I was victim or prey to misinformation.
So when you got convicted, your files got out, right?
Plea deal, not convicted, just plea deal.
I hate to use, I got to use correct legal terms here.
Plea deal to just get out of going to prison because they were going to let you rot in prison.
Believe me, they were.
They were going to let you rot in prison.
There's a, we know a few people that are in jail right now that they're letting rotten prison.
With these shitty people inside this industry from interpreting documents, and then somebody already commented this, and I'm going to give you a full opportunity to explain this.
It got out that, oh, Brandon Strzok got a plea deal because my name was mentioned, some other people were mentioned, essentially, and these are not my words, but Brandon threw these people under the bus or divulged information or whatever.
You're saying that that's not true.
That's not what happened.
You and I have talked off camera.
I understand that.
But to the people that are like, they've heard that, and I don't like to bring, I don't bring up gossip or drama, personal gossip or drama, but this is a public legal case, right?
That's different.
I don't care about people's personal lives.
I don't bring this stuff up on the show.
We don't do that.
But that accusation from people on the right wing of like, you know, like you already have the Charlie Kirks abandoning you, the establishment, but then the real based side that actually would get behind you is people saying, no, he sold people out.
Tell me what happened there and why that is an incorrect narrative and what the correct narrative, not narrative, but what the correct facts are.
Because I think a lot of this audience is concerned and does want to know that.
Sure.
Yeah.
And I appreciate the opportunity to talk about it.
It's certainly not something I'm, you know, don't want to talk about or avoiding talk about or uncomfortable talking about.
It's just there never seems to be a platform.
And it's always a good thing, too, to talk about it with somebody who was actually listed on that document.
So here's how I'll walk you through it.
So one of the conditions of the plea, the January 6th plea deals, and this applies to everybody.
This was not just my case.
So this is the first thing I want to clear up for people.
I am probably, I mean, I think definitely, but I am probably the most high-profile person who was arrested in conjunction with January 6th.
Owen Schroyer was also arrested.
And I think there are a couple other people, but I'm probably the biggest name that they got.
And because of that, and because of what I do, which is walk away, and my whole mission is to get people to leave the Democratic Party, I'm probably one of the defendants that they hated the most.
I would argue they maybe they hate the Proud Boys more than me.
I don't know.
But like in terms of like activism and effectiveness and getting people to leave their party, I'm definitely, I think, one of the people they hated the most.
And so they had a very vested interest in trying to destroy my name, my reputation, and everything that I built.
And which is why I believe that later they ended up accidentally unsealing my documents to the public, which we'll get to that in just a moment.
But so the first thing is that a condition for a January 6th plea deal is that you have to sit down and interview with the government.
That's everybody.
So think about this for a second.
At this point, over a thousand people have been charged for January 6th.
I don't know the exact numbers, but the vast majority of people are taking plea deals.
I would guess probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 90%.
But just to be fair, let's say 80%.
Let's say 85%.
It's at least that much.
That means hundreds and hundreds of people, probably at least 800 people, are going to do exactly the same thing I did.
They're going to sit down and interview with the FBI and the DOJ because that's a condition of them getting a plea deal.
So if you know anybody who pled guilty on January 6th, if you know anybody who took a plea deal, they did the exact same thing that I did.
They sat down and they interviewed with the FBI and the DOJ.
Number one.
Number two, when I sat down and interviewed with them, now I interviewed with them three different times.
The first time was entirely about me.
It was, why did you go to DC?
What did you do?
Who paid for you to go?
Where did you stay?
Where did you eat?
Why did you speak on the fifth?
Why were you going to speak on the sixth?
Why did you not speak and instead go on the Capitol steps?
It was that kind of stuff, right?
It had nothing to do with anybody else.
And for the record, I paid my own way.
I wasn't there with other people or with a group or whatever.
I went completely on my own.
So the questions were entirely about me.
That was the first time I met with them.
Then my lawyer called me.
I don't remember that we're talking about stuff that happened over two years ago, but I think it was probably like a month later or something.
My lawyer called me and said they have more questions for you.
They want to talk to you again.
And I'm like, okay, do we have to?
And he was like, well, he was like, I think you should because he was like, you don't know anything.
And he was like, it can only be beneficial to you to not cause a problem with them.
And that was another thing I said to him too.
I was like, am I going to get, is it going to hurt me to agree to sit down and talk with them and for them to find out that I don't have any information?
Like, is that actually going to do me more harm than good?
And my attorney was like, no, he was like, it's always good to be cooperative, you know, and to have a willingness, like a willingness to cooperate.
And he said, the fact that you don't know anything is great.
That's a good thing.
He's like, it means you won't be called as a witness later, which I never have been.
And that, you know, you're, you're not going to be able to provide evidence in other people's cases and stuff like this.
So I went and I sat down with them on the second time, and they had a list of names.
I mean, I didn't see the list, but they, you know, they had a list of names of people they were asking me about.
And the list of names, I mean, it was really, really ridiculous, Elijah.
Now, the first thing I guess I want to say is that I know that there are people out there who their attitude is, you know, you never sit down with the DOJ.
You never sit down with the FBI.
You never, and that's fine.
Look, if that's how you feel, I respect your opinion.
All I ask is that in return, even if you don't agree or if you have a problem with me, just respect the fact that I disagree.
I disagree.
I think that if you can demonstrably prove that neither you nor anyone else you were associated with committed any crimes or did anything wrong, why would you not share that information?
I think it's stupid.
I think when, you know, they've, and by the way, they were all leasing these lists.
I don't know if you remember, but like, I think it was Nancy Pelosi's account or something had published this list on Twitter, and it was this huge list of like 80 some, and it was like every conservative influencer you can think of.
And none of us knew what it meant.
We were all like, why is our name on this list?
What is this list?
What is this?
Well, I'm looking at this list and I'm going, you know, some of these people I know, some of these people I don't know, but all the people I know didn't do anything wrong.
They didn't break the, like, it's not a crime to go to a protest or a rally.
It's not a crime to be at the Capitol.
Like, that's, these aren't crimes.
And so anyway, so I sat down for a second time and they were asking, they had like, I don't know, 20 names or something.
And they were asking me about all of these different people.
And they were asking questions like, who is this person?
What do they do?
How do you know them?
Are you friends with them?
Are you just acquaintances with them?
And I mean, literally, they asked me about like three to five questions per person.
And it was stuff like that.
They weren't even asking me like, were they at the Capitol?
Do you, did they go in the Capitol?
Did they, whatever?
I mean, they were asking me, who is Scott Pressler?
Who is CJ Pearson?
Who is, you know, all these different people, Megan Barth, Courtney Holland, all these different people.
Some of them I didn't know.
Some of them I had never heard of in my life.
And then they had asked me, were they your friends?
Were they, what did they do?
And I said, you know, they're an activist.
What type of activist?
Well, they register voters or I don't really know what kind of activism they do.
I mean, it was just stupid stuff like that.
And then at a certain point, I think I got asked if I was aware of people who had gone inside the Capitol.
And I had said, the only awareness I have, because it was the truth, absolute truth.
I said, the only awareness I have of people going into the Capitol is what I've read in the news.
So I was like, I can't help you.
You know, I said, and they were, and I think the question was asked, like, well, what about people that you know?
And I said, yeah, I know people like Elijah Schaefer, you know, because he, it's all over the news.
It's like, it's not a secret.
He went inside the Capitol.
I know Simone Gold.
Not a secret.
She went inside the Capitol.
And they had my phone.
See, that was a big thing too.
So Simone Gold, when she went into the Capitol that day, she went in, she gave a speech and then she left.
She got arrested before I got arrested.
She got arrested.
And it was like six weeks before I ever talked to these guys.
She had already been arrested, charged.
They knew she went inside.
It was on video.
But when she went inside the building, she called me.
And this is something that people don't know.
She called me and she left me a voice message.
They had my phone.
So they were already going through my emails, my voice messages, my social media accounts, all this stuff.
They were already going through that.
So when I was asked the question about knowing people went inside, you were one of the people I knew had gone inside.
There was another person I knew who went inside because it was in the news.
And I know him in real life.
And I know Simone Gold.
And I said, yeah.
And I was like, you guys have my phone.
You know, you know, she went inside.
You arrested her.
You know, like, so these are the, these are the questions that I was asked.
I, I can say, I had no information and I still don't, by the way, I had no information about anybody going inside the building that they didn't already know about and was already in the news.
I was not able to provide the name of one single person that they didn't know that went inside the Capitol, which, you know, you might, I guess, will call that a crime if you consider that a crime.
I had no information about anybody else committing any other crimes of any kind, not on January 6th, not before January 6th, not after January 6th.
I wasn't asked about other crimes.
Like, I wasn't asked about, you know, anything else that had nothing to do with January 6th.
I had no information to provide about anybody committing any crimes of any kind.
Not a single person that I was asked about was ever arrested or charged or visited because I had no information to provide about any crimes at all.
The third time I sat and talked with them is because I was contacted by two different people who identified somebody who was standing next to me on the steps at the Capitol.
He's in my video.
When I was contacted, the first person who contacted me said, I know who this person is.
I think that he's either Antifa or an FBI operative.
And he said, the reason why I think that is because I witnessed with my own eyes him dressed entirely in black from head to toe when he was at the Capitol.
And then he went and he changed his clothes and he changed into like a MAGA hat or like MAGA gear and came back.
And in my video, this guy's being like, he's like pushing into people.
He's trying to encourage people to go in.
And quite honestly, he probably did and said a lot of things that I was accused of saying and doing.
And my first thought was, I'm sure it's hell not going down for some Antifa person or an FBI operative.
And so when the person shared this guy's name with me, I looked him up.
And the first thing that I saw is that he's convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl.
He's convicted.
He went to trial.
He was found guilty.
He had confessed to it.
He raped this little 10-year-old girl and went through a long process of courting her.
This is not a good person.
When I found this out, I contacted my attorney and I said, I don't know what to do with this information because the guy standing next to me has been identified.
His information provided to me.
They're saying that he's either with the FBI or he's Antifa and he has this horrible criminal record.
And my attorney said, well, we have to turn this over to the DOJ.
And I said to my attorney, I don't want any part of it.
If you want to turn it over to the DOJ, you do whatever you want to do.
I'm out.
I don't want to do this.
So my attorney calls me back and he says, they don't, they want to talk to you about this person.
And they told me that they'll consider dropping your remaining misdemeanor charge if you sit down and you talk to them.
And so I said, fine.
So I sat down and I talked with them a third time.
And I said, this is all I know.
I don't know this person.
I was given his name.
This is his criminal record.
This is what I was told that there's somebody witnessed him changing his clothes and that he came back.
You can see he's standing in the same restricted area that you gave me a felony charge for.
He's being just as disorderly, if not more so, than I am.
And you're charging me with a misdemeanor, disorderly conduct.
That's my plea deal.
You know, it is what it is.
For the record, after me providing that information, the FBI and DOJ has never talked to this guy.
They have never arrested him.
They've never charged him.
They've never had a conversation with him, even though they charged me with a felony for standing on the grounds right beside him, charged me with disorderly conduct, charged me with impeding law enforcement.
He was standing right there while people were shouting, take it, take it, take the shield, whatever.
They have expressed no interest in talking to this person.
So that's what happened.
Those were my three encounters with the FBI.
So during all of these three encounters, the FBI takes meticulous notes in the DOJ.
And they say things like, Strzok was asked questions about Elijah Schaefer.
He was asked questions about Simone Gold.
He was asked questions about Scott Pressler and C.J. Pearson and Ali Alexander and all of these different people, which is true.
I was asked questions about all of those people.
They were stupid questions.
And when I answered all of them, I made very clear that I have no awareness of anybody doing anything wrong, which is why nobody was visited or arrested or charged based off of these conversations.
But what I believe happened, I can't prove it, but after dealing with these people for two years and seeing how they operate and what they do, what I believe is that I was being set up.
That they thought to themselves: if the charges we've leveled against him and the media stories that we've put out about him, if all of these different things don't ruin his career, don't ruin his reputation, don't ruin his movement and his organization and take down the walkaway movement and everything he's building, we've always got this as backup.
And so sure enough, once I got through my sentencing and I started doing media again and I went out and I went on Tucker and I went on Dinesh D'Souza and I went on Lara Trump's show and I went on Newsmax.
I went on Greg Kelly.
I was sharing my story everywhere.
And by the way, I was the very first and for a long time, the only J6 defendant who was sharing my story.
The only one the world heard about January 6th through the eyes of a defendant for the first time because of me and because of all of the media interviews I was doing.
And I just want to put out there, I don't need anyone to pat me on the back or give me an award, but that was scary as shit.
It was really, really scary to be the only J6 defendant out there.
I didn't even know other J6 defendants at that time.
I didn't know anyone else.
So I was in my own little world going out trying to share my story, trying to get people to understand what had happened to me.
And then suddenly the public perception was beginning to change.
And people were going, oh my God, like he didn't go inside the building.
And like they're accusing people of stuff they didn't do and they're overcharging people and they're forcing people to take plea deals by putting them in a position where they have no choice but to take a plea deal.
And now people are, and lo and behold, about four or five or six months after I'm telling my story, the DC courts accidentally unsealed all of my sealed documents for 28 minutes.
And all of these documents ended up in the hands of the New York Times, NBC, MSNBC, the Huffington Post.
And all these documents say Strzzok sat down with the FBI on three different occasions.
Strzz provided significant information about Elijah Schaefer and about Simone Gold and about all of these different people.
People so significant that none of these people were ever charged, never arrested.
Nothing ever happened to them, but the entire thing was a setup.
That was, in my opinion, can't prove it, but I believe they kept that on deck so they could go.
If this dude, if this dude tries to come back and he starts opening his mouth and people start feeling sympathetic about his story and they start supporting him again and his organization starts picking up again and he's and he tries to rebuild.
All you know whatever, we've always got this and that's exactly what they did.
And, honest to god Elijah, it was the worst part about january 6th for me because when they did that for about two, two and a half weeks, it was I have never in my life received hatred.
I I mean I, I didn't, I didn't think I would survive it.
I mean it was literally.
I was getting like thousands of messages every day just being like rat rat snitch, snitch.
You turned people, people are in the Dc prison because of.
I mean it got so out of control.
People were saying that like the Proud BOYS and the oath keepers and all these people are are in prison because of me, because I I, I turned state witness.
Then suddenly it wasn't just that.
I said I turned state witness.
I'm like, do you understand?
State witness means that you're testifying against people.
I'm not testifying against people.
I have nothing to testify about.
To this day, i'll say i'm not aware of anybody committing a crime, because no one I was associated with committed any crimes none, none.
And I pled guilty to a misdemeanor.
But i'll say it's pretty fucking debatable to a lot of people if I committed a crime, but I I guess i'll.
I've been talking for a long time, so i'll wrap it up there and let you ask questions, but that's what I can tell you from my perspective.
That is what happened, yeah and well, and I I appreciate you clarifying that because dude, if there's anybody, thank you for letting me go on that long.
Oh totally, thank you for letting me go.
Well, I wanted to give you a chance to speak and share the story because, you know, I I always find it interesting, like in the Telegram, you know, because there's a lot of different sides of political spectrum, like you mentioned.
You got, you know, you got pushback from a specific, from oath keepers, of these people or people saying oh, you cause problems.
Like there's a very good portion who I love, by the way, of the right wing, a bunch of young radical guys that love god and are really trying to fight against degeneracy, and you know, they point out, you know why are you bringing a gay guy on the show.
You know this or that and I wrote very kindly, you know, because I try to treat my audience is that you know somebody here was targeted by the FBI and was a victim of corruption, and if you cannot discuss with Americans and understand the importance of that topic and you're just hell-bent on someone, who someone's having sex with, you really are very similar to the left in that all you are just focusing on is who people have sex with, and I think that's a very interesting perspective to be hyper focused right there there are.
So I don't mind if you like I said, I don't mind if you hate gay people.
I don't mind hateful people, I don't mind people who don't like things, I don't.
I don't care I, I support you, I support your own.
You know beliefs and what you want to believe about life, but if you're missing out on an opportunity to listen to the fact that you know there are are narratives that need to be cleared up.
And if you're just stuck arguing about Bud Light and gay stuff and don't realize that there is a entire cooperative conspiracy by the three-letter organizations and nobody is safe and they don't care whether you drink Bud Light or not.
This is why I'm bringing this up.
They don't, FBI doesn't care if you drink what beer you drink.
They don't care who you're having sex with.
They, quite frankly, do not even care how rich you are and they do not care about how much clout you have.
What they care about is who you support politically and how effective that support is wagered.
That's what all the tech companies care about.
And that's why Republicans and right-wingers get all confused.
Like, wait, I'm being targeted, but I'm gay, or I'm being targeted, but I'm black.
I'm being targeted.
Well, because the minority, you know, elevation has nothing to do with your minority status.
It has the mighty, no, there's no such thing as a minority in the U.S. even.
Nobody cares about that.
What matters is whether you're useful to them or you're a threat to them.
And I found it to be interesting in your case and perspective because in perpetuity to the past, it wasn't just that the government cracked down on you as it did on me and a lot of other people.
And I won't even mention names of people that I know that are under investigation right now that are very freaked out.
But it's that, yeah, I at one point, you know, was, I was just freaked out.
And I saw that, you know, people, people, reliable people who I now know will stab you in the back in a second, you know, were quick to say, oh, you know, Brandon threw you under the bus.
Brandon threw you under the bus.
But unlike some people who will just go, oh, I don't care.
I don't care.
Like, I'm just going to judge.
I did want to talk to you and hear your side of the story and genuinely have a conversation because I, through my own experiences and through life, understand that people can write anything about you they want on the internet without evidence.
And sometimes they can write things with evidence.
One of the best examples I have is this.
You know, somebody could call.
I'm not going to say I've ever said the N-word, but what if I did?
No, but if let's say a friend called and you just called him the N-word and you're like, yo, what's up?
You know, and you're just joking around.
Well, let's say you're fine for three years, five years.
That employee could come out and be like, be like, hey, I recorded this call and like, you know, Elijah used to call me and, or, you know, whatever.
And he used to use, you know, derogatory, racially charged words that were racist and discriminatory.
And then an article comes out, Elijah Schaefer targeting employees, calling them the N-word or something.
When really, you're just like drunk and you say something stupid and you're just like joking around or something, which I don't, I don't believe that anyone cares about the N-word.
I think that's a whole made-up thing that everyone pretends they're offended by because they have no morality and they're not offended by anything real.
So they pretend to care about a word while they chop kids' dicks off.
They pretend to care.
Is you can really twist anything in the media and you can genuinely create headlines from anything.
Remember this.
Rudy Giuliani's in the same place.
I'm not going to get into this, but some girl accepted money from him for five years and now she's complaining about it for whatever reason.
You just don't trust headlines.
And I've never, this show has never been to trust headlines.
And I also realize I've had a blind spot.
I'm willing to, I'm willing to admit my fault is that I didn't realize how many people in the right wing lie and manipulate and even privately lie and manipulate because they don't actually care.
And they'll throw people under the bus.
And this show's always been about listening and processing and trying to get the full picture while laughing along the way so we don't lose.
So I appreciate, I mean, I don't really have any questions.
I appreciate it because if people don't know, you know, it was very public information.
I think you said you're the most high-profile person arrested.
I think for at least a few weeks there, I was one of their top people they wanted arrested, right?
It was from CNN the next day to everything.
I mean, it was just, it was non-stop.
I mean, I actually had to go into hiding for over 30 days.
I had to get rid of phones and devices.
And I'm not going to admit to anything else beyond that on air, but I had to do a lot of things.
And there's a lot of measures that were taken that will never be public.
And a lot happened, which due to the fact that I'm not in jail and didn't have a conviction or plea, things that I will not express.
That didn't include anything like ratting people out or anything to that nature.
But, you know, I played things really smart.
And thanks to Blaze TV, who spent, you know, money, dumb money that I don't even want to explain to help keep me out of prison.
I'm internally grateful to that network for keeping me out and for wagering, you know, one of the greatest legal battles.
Thanks to Tyler Cardin, the CEO, for successfully keeping me out of jail, which is why I'll never have bad blood with Blaze, even if I don't work there anymore.
I really love the CEO and I love what that network stands for and appreciate what they did for me.
And I'm not one to leave on bad blood in general.
But I kind of end with this as we wrap this up, which is so important and so vital.
Is that's where I kind of end this conversation and we can pick this up, Brandon.
I'll get your last final thought.
Is what worries me when these conversations, like I said, with people being like, why do you have a gay guy on?
And, you know, that's, you know, there's a, you know, that part of the right wing too.
And I get their concerns and I get their like, hey, we want base, we want red pill.
We want to be, you know, moving towards this morality, Christian dumb and stuff.
I get it.
But if you get caught up in the culture war, you know, and please stand to your convictions.
To the people that say that, please, please be, you know, I encourage all the audience to hold true to your convictions.
I really do.
And I really appreciate it.
But if you really think that the fight is Bud Light, and if you really think that this fight about trans people and stuff is really how we're going to win the culture war, I got bad news for you, buddy.
I got bad news for you.
While we do talk about it on the show, and it is interesting because we have to appeal to a wide variety of people, the reality is that you don't have a country anymore.
So that's all I want to say.
You don't have a country.
You don't have a nation.
And there's no guarantee that there will ever be an election that is winnable again.
And they're not going to ask you if you're red-pilled or you shared your Christian nationalist memes.
And they're definitely not going to ask you who you're sleeping with.
At the right time, when you are no longer beneficial to them, when they do not care about you, you think it's bad now, white man, and I say this to you in genuine.
You think it's bad now.
Just you wait.
And you're starting to see this.
You think the war on white Christian males, which is a very real, true battle, and I know you feel it, and it's very sickening.
That group of who's demonized is going to start growing exponentially over the next several decades.
It will not just be a war.
Once they successfully minoritize whites and Christians and men and they get the suicide rate up and change it, like they say with all communist revolutions, all color revolutions, eventually everyone who's useless, everybody gets thrown against the wall.
Okay?
That's all I want to end with and say that.
So please stick to your convictions, but also don't be a dumbass and start being realistic about the real fight.
And let's actually learn what we need to do to fight because I want to win and I don't like losing.
And I don't care how much, you know, they say, are you getting sick or tired of winning yet?
No, I'm getting sick and tired of losing, to be completely honest.
We need a giant AA meeting for everyone in the Republican Party to sit in a circle and say, hey, my name's Elijah Schaefer and I'm a Republican.
And that needs to start being a little bit of a shameful thing in terms of.
We need to change from that Republicanism into actual nationalism into populism into growth, into grassroots fighting against the Frankfurt School and these ideological extremists and realize that if you can't get over your personal views on morality, which you should stick to to understand that the government will target Brandon and even the media will misrepresent him.
If you don't care about the truth and ultimately you're just blinded by your own echo chamber, then that's okay, but you're not going to win.
And so thanks, Brandon, for coming on and for being willing to come on because I know being willing to talk about that with somebody is challenging, is difficult, especially with what you've gone through and what's happened to you.
It cannot be fun.
And I don't wish it upon anybody.
And we all want to forget after the pandemic and everything, everyone wants to just have a good time, drink a couple beers and go to church and bang your wife.
And that's really what everyone wants.
Unfortunately, things are going to get really bad over the next decade.
And I promise you that.
Not trying to blackpill people, but it will get really bad.
I don't know when it's going to get better.
We have several more years.
2024 will be a good litmus test and an indicator.
But, Brandon, your final thought and go ahead and one last time, plug your content and where people can find you and follow you.
Yeah, thanks.
First of all, thank you so much for having me on.
I really sincerely appreciate it.
And I think this is a great platform.
I don't think I've ever publicly said everything that I just said.
And I'm probably going to clip that part and put it out because people need to see it.
But I just want to say thank you for having me on and having the conversation.
It was great.
And I would love it if people gave, go to their, if you're an Android user, go to the Google Play Store.
If you're an Apple user, go to the Apple App Store and load my new app.
It's called Walkaway Social, hashtag walkaway, just like this.
And this way, Walkaway Social.
And what it is, is basically it's an autonomous platform for Walkaway to regrow and rebuild.
It's a testimonial campaign.
Encourage all people to get on there, make a video, tell your story, talk about how you're feeling about government and today's climate, what's happening to our country.
As you mentioned, there's sort of this Marxist communist takeover that's happening.
It's a great place for people to come together and also to kind of activate, to plan, to figure out how we're going to strike back against everything that's happening to us.
So please go to your Apple or Google Play Store app store and load Walkaway Social, create a profile, get on it and share your story.
And you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Getter, Truth Social, YouTube, and Rumble at Brandon Strzok, S-TR-A-K-A.
Follow him.
Thanks, guys, for watching another nightly offensive to my guest, Brandon Strzok.
Appreciate you coming on, having the conversation.
And as someone in the comments recently just said, you might think being gay is wrong, but have you ever heard of being gullible?
And that's kind of the theme of today about the matrix breaking.
People are, you know, we're really stuck fighting a lot of battles, which are important, but also are intentionally Operation Mockingbird battles to get us fighting about things that are important, but may or not fix the issue.
And we should keep battling and stay true to your convictions, guys.
I never want to, I totally support you in that.
And stay true to what you believe and keep fighting the culture war and having a good time.
But remember, the culture war was meant for you to keep fighting it and to never win it.
I'll leave it on that.
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