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I want to talk to you.
I don't know.
I've got so many things on my plate today that I don't know if we can finish everything.
I have, and I just need a real quick call from Ricky and Jason.
And Jason, you've been talking to the insiders all day at Glennbeck.com with the torch.
Can you tell me I've got some stuff on Sharia law that's happening here in America and how important that is.
Barter System in Iran00:12:07
And I also have the story of Ming and Mo and how it's a chalkboard on what's really happening in Iran and the responsibility the banks play a little bit.
Well, as a producer, I like flow.
And so this segment on the chalkboard of flows nicely out of the Seamus segment.
Okay.
Jason, what are the insiders saying today?
Well, I told the insiders at the very beginning, if I had to put a theme on this broadcast, I was saying it was making complicated subjects easy to understand.
And that screams the tale of Ming and Mo to me.
Okay.
All right.
So I was thinking of Iran yesterday and where are they in the cycle of collapse?
Is it going to happen?
How likely is it going to happen?
And a friend of mine, a dear friend of mine, sent me something that is kind of a white paper on oil in Iran and what's really going on in Iran.
And I'm reading this last night and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is fabulous.
But it took me a while to get through it and understand it.
So I'm going to do my best to break this down into a way that you can understand.
And I'll give you an important part of it.
Because something happened in China with oil and it revolves around the teapot refineries.
You can look that up.
The teapot refineries.
So let me tell you a story.
We're going to tell you the story of Mo, definitely not Mohammed, and Ming, Mo and Ming.
Mo is an apple farmer, and he starts out small.
He has a few trees, a few crates.
He works hard and everything.
And he reinvests all the time.
He plants more trees.
He buys more land.
He takes out loans for trucks and storage and refrigeration.
And he's not reckless.
He's doing what everybody tells him to do.
Grow.
Just keep growing your business.
And he becomes bigger and bigger, and it becomes like the thing.
You got to have the apples selling to be able to keep his community stable.
Well, one day something incredible happens.
A massive single grocery chain picks up Mo's apples.
Not a few apples, all of the apples, which is good because what I didn't tell you about Mo is he thinks he's a good guy, but he's pissed every other apple store off in the world.
Nobody wants Mo's apples.
So he's got like this big farm and he's got all these apples and nobody wants to buy his apples.
And Ming shows up and he's like, you know what?
We love that.
Of course, we take your apples.
We're going to make them into apple cider and apple juice.
So we're going to refine them a little bit, but we love your apples.
Well, suddenly he's not selling at the roadside anymore.
He's scaling.
He's expanding.
He's borrowing more because the demand is guaranteed.
Demand is guaranteed.
He's got somebody who wants to buy it forever.
The trucks are finance.
The warehouses are leased.
The future looks locked in and it's great.
As long as Ming needs apple juice, he's got the apples for Ming.
As long as apples are leaving his farm, as long as the trucks keep rolling in, as long as the store keeps accepting deliveries, that's fine.
The bank is calm.
The lenders are satisfied.
The workers get paid.
Everything is great.
But then one day, without any warning, look up teapot refineries.
The store calls.
Ming calls and says, ah, yeah.
He's not angry.
He's not being political.
It's not a moral thing.
It's just business.
Ming says, yeah, we can't take any more apples.
We're at capacity.
And Mo's like, what do you mean you're at capacity?
Don't you need apples?
Yeah, we need lots of apples, but we have to make them into apple cider and apple juice.
And we're just at capacity right now.
So we can't take them because we have a very bureaucratic system.
And, you know, global warming.
And Mo's like, global warming?
Yeah, yeah.
So we can't take any more of your apples.
Well, Mo is like, what the hell am I going to do?
You need apples.
Yep, yep, but we can't take the volume anymore.
Suddenly, the problem is not demand, it's capacity.
There's nobody that will take his apples except them and they're out of space.
They can't take them anymore.
No alternative.
There's nobody else that wants to buy.
Nobody big enough to absorb the volume and no other store can take them.
Nobody's buying.
The apples are still coming off the tree, but they have nowhere to go.
In fact, they are in the trucks let's say they're their shadow fleet of trucks and he's got them all over the world and now he's shipping them, but nobody can take the oil.
He can't transport oil, he's got nothing.
So he's got these, these trucks that were on their way to ming's, and now they're just parked on the sides of the road and they're just sitting there.
And now the police are like, why are all these trucks on the sides of the roads?
Well, I mean, check that truck out.
What are you doing there?
Then they realize, wait a minute, you don't have a license to ship apples.
In fact, you don't have a license on this truck.
This truck isn't.
What are you doing?
They impound the, the trucks.
They lose the trucks.
The trucks begin to stack up.
Everything's gone.
Because now he's also losing the trucks.
Okay, he didn't fail because he was bad at farming.
His entire operation was built around one buyer and that buyer hit a ceiling and it happened all at once.
Okay, now what we don't think about is that he never actually owned any of the trucks.
He never owned anything.
Okay, he didn't own the tractors or the warehouses.
The banks did, and the banks never trusted the farmer.
The banks trusted his business partner, and so his business partner had the insurance policy, every truck, every warehouse, everything.
The business partner was the one.
Oh, and I forgot to tell you this is the part that'll piss you off if you know that we're talking about oil and Ming is actually the refinery in China and mo is the oil in Iran.
But I didn't say that, i'm talking about apples.
Once you understand this and I say, wait a minute, what do you mean?
The bank didn't trust Iran.
I mean Mo, what do you mean?
They trusted MING and they were the ones writing the loans, they were the ones covering the insurance.
They were doing everything, they covered everything so Mo could exist.
Yeah, they covered all the transit insurance everything, because Mo wasn't actually selling the apples to MING, he was doing a barter system.
This is, this is where this is why i'm on a jihad for the banks.
He did a barter system.
Wait a minute, hang on just a second.
What do you mean?
He didn't pay for the China, didn't pay for that oil, the apples no no, because that would be illegal.
There's, there's an embargo on that oil.
You can't buy that oil.
Banks knew that.
The insurance companies knew that you can't put that tanker out there because it's you're going to buy this oil.
No no no, says the bankers.
You know what?
If you don't pay cash, if there's no money exchanging hands?
Well, you can take that oil.
Yeah, but how do I pay Mo?
Well, you could pay Mo by giving him more trucks.
You could pay him by, you know, setting him up in business and helping him buy other things that he needs.
You could give those to him.
You could barter, you could do those things.
You can send people in to help him build his infrastructure.
You can do that, and instead he just gives you that oil.
So there's no money changing hands.
That way, we haven't violated any international law, says the banker, And we're fine.
We have no exposure here.
The banks are fine.
The insurance companies in Switzerland, they're fine because there's no exposure.
They're not breaking the law.
Oh my gosh, this is enough to give me a brain aneurysm.
Wait, what?
So here's where the story turns a little darker than that.
The farmer, Mo, he has sons, and each one ran a different part of his farm.
One handled security, one handled distribution, one handled the relationship with the big store.
One was just skimming off the top and built himself a nice little house at the edge of the property.
Every single, and he had a lot of relatives, every single relative had something to do with that farm.
And for years, they all got along because they loved each other.
No, they actually just were selling apples and everybody could get along.
They'd kill each other at night if they could.
But now the apples aren't selling.
So the arguments have begun.
One son says, sell them land while it's worth something.
Another says, no, hold on, the store might come back.
Another one says, no, you know what?
I'm not with either of you and starts moving equipment out of the barn in the middle of the night.
And he's just going to get onto a plane and disappear at some point.
Everybody's still wearing the Mo's Apple Farm uniform, but nobody believes in the farm anymore.
This is when things fracture.
This is when countries go down because each son stops asking, how do we save the farm?
And they start asking, how do I get out before it collapses?
The farm doesn't change hands in a ceremony.
It just empties out.
And it empties out of the sons first, the ones who were kind of owning, had a big role in the farm.
Because the farm workers, the other ones, they never liked Mo.
And they're on strike because now they're not making any money.
Everything is seemingly collapsing and they're stuck there.
They can't get on a plane in the middle of the night.
They haven't been paid.
They're angry.
They're tired of promises.
They're tired of Mo.
The farmer now can't even walk the orchard at night because his security won't even keep him safe.
There's still pockets that will do it.
He can't inspect the trees.
He can't fix what's broken if he ever could.
And he's distracted instead of paying attention to the next person.
He is having to pay attention to the protests that are out in front of his gate and everything begins to rot.
This is what's happening in Iran.
The banks kept them alive.
The banks found a way with China to get around the international law and keep that oil flowing.
And there is a kill switch.
I'll get into that some other point.
There is a kill switch that if they flip that switch, then those sanctions actually get serious and then it's over.
And it'll be over in a month.
It'll be over in a month.
If this scenario is right, because there's something wrong with the teapot refineries, I don't know what it is yet, but I'm just trying to make sense of this white paper that I read about the teapot refineries.
And I don't know exactly, because they're saying it's partly global warming.
No, it's not.
That's bullcrap.
Relief Factor: Killing Pain00:03:07
And you and I both know it.
China doesn't care about global warming.
So what is happening?
All I can tell you is what I got out of this whole story was you were sitting here watching again another story about global banks keeping really bad people in position because they get a cut and they'll walk away in the end and they'll have their cut.
They'll have made their money.
Screw Mo and Ming.
Screw the workers.
They don't even come up on anybody's radar.
That's why we need to pray for the workers.
We need to be supporting the workers because Mo and Ming have never been honest.
And the bankers certainly have never been honest.
It's seemingly every day I find another reason to look at these banks and say, we got to clean these places out.
From Epstein to China to Venezuela, the drug cartels, all over to Riot Inc.
I think the problem is really starting to be very apparent.
The problem is at the bank.
They're enabling everybody.
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Let me do a little bit of a jihad here because I was thinking last night about what's happening in Somalia.
I'm thinking about ICE.
I'm thinking about, you know, the president now being sued.
I love this one.
Minnesota, guess, guess who?
A name from the past that, you know, I just always feel warm and fuzzy inside when I hear Keith Ellison's name.
Keith Ellison, I think personally, kind of a bad guy.
By the way, if you're looking at the chalkboard, guys, I'm seeing in the control room, chalkboard, that's Mo and Ming's Apple Farm.
That's for China a little later.
You don't want to miss that.
How Bad Guys Get Away With It00:15:10
But let me talk to you about Minnesota.
Keith Ellison, he is, he's suing the Trump administration because he said, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota is happening now and it has to stop.
DHS agents have sewn chaos and terror across the metropolitan area and in cities all across the state of Minnesota.
No, they haven't.
They've shown up to do their job.
And what is their job?
Their job is, well, ICE is there to make sure that people who have criminal records are no longer there.
And you have, I'll give you a list in a little while of all the people that they're arresting, trying to arrest.
They're really, really bad guys.
But it's really not even about the Somalis.
Even the Somalis that were laundering money or, you know, stealing money from the Minnesota people.
It's not even about that.
I'll tell you who it's really about here in just a second.
But let me take you through the story.
Because last night I heard about the lawsuit and then I'm thinking, you know, that damn airport.
How did they miss this at the airport?
A million dollars a day in cash in a suitcase for up to two years.
700 million dollars went through that airport and i'm thinking, you know, if I have a suitcase and it's got five thousand dollars in cash and i'm just taking it through the x-ray machine, i'm I have a feeling we should do this, let's let's go see if we can get ten thousand dollars and let's just try to go through and let's just see what DHS says.
I'm gonna take a suitcase, we'll put ten thousand dollars cash in it and i'll just go through.
Let's just see if they say anything besides, whoa wow, that's a lot of cash there.
And then let me go on.
I doubt they do.
Are you claiming this?
What's happening with this money?
Where's this money going for?
It's the law.
So how did they put a million dollars through that airport?
Well, it didn't start with the airport, didn't start with a suitcase.
It started with a check, a check, a check written by the state of Minnesota.
That, if you're listening to us in Minnesota, I'd like to remind you, is your money, money that you could have used to put your kids through school, put your kids in new clothes, put your kids in a better school, take a vacation, pay down the credit card, whatever it is.
That's your money meant to feed children and support daycare centers that are supposed to be, and I know this is a very high bar, supposed to be real places with real kids, real meals, real receipts.
but before the check was ever written, you have to understand this whole system of welfare, of this whole thing.
It was designed to ask basic questions because we expect humans to be humans, we expect fraud to happen, okay.
So they ask questions like this is a tough one.
Is this a real center?
Is this?
Are there actually?
Forgive me for asking this, this is really tough.
You'll have to do the math on that.
Are there any real children in this real center?
Here's one.
Do the numbers actually make sense?
Those questions are not really philosophical.
They're program controls and they're put in again because we know people when, when nobody's looking, people sometimes steal and do bad things, and they exist specifically to stop exactly what happened in Minnesota.
And yet the first payment went through, okay mistake.
Then the second, then the third, and the third is bigger than the first and the second, and each time they get bigger and bigger and more absurd until the numbers stop being suspicious and just become impossible.
You can't feed that many kids in the.
How big is this daycare?
No daycare feeds that many children.
No profit, no nonprofit grows that fast, okay.
No honest program explodes overnight into tens and then hundreds of millions without tripping every single wire the system has, because it just doesn't happen.
So last night I was thinking about the odds, because this is the only honest way to deal with.
How could nobody know what are the odds that nobody knew?
Well, let's start with the state level program.
The odds that people noticed and chose not to stop it are incredibly high.
And that's not because I'm cynical, it's because what the scale does okay, this is something at this scale everybody noticed.
When a program starts paying amounts that dwarf normal baselines, it's not hidden in the noise.
It becomes the noise.
You know, if you're doing, if, if you're doing banking and you're somebody and you're bringing in, you know, a million dollars every month to the bank, do you think if you're just going up to the counter and you're just waddling up to the counter and you're like, I got another million dollars to deposit this month, do you think none of the tellers just say, what does that guy do?
Of course they do.
Of course they do.
So it's not hidden in the noise.
It is the noise.
And that means that memos, escalations, exceptions, and approvals all had to happen.
This means humans were involved making decisions.
And the Justice Department has just described this as the largest COVID fraud scheme in the state.
Now they've charged dozens of people.
Dozens.
Dozens of people.
Somalis, because you hate Somalis, remember?
So by the time you're witnessing nine figures, we're not debating a miss.
How did you miss this?
We're debating whether the failure was cowardice, incompetence, or complicity.
Okay, that's just at the writing of the checks.
Now let's stop at the bank for a second because the money eventually has to hit the bank because it's a check.
So somebody has to take that check and put it in the bank, get the cash back out.
Now this is where the American public still believes that, you know, this comforting fairy tale that the bank is just a neutral pipe.
You know, the money goes in, the money comes out, nobody knows anything.
That's not how modern banking.
Were you alive during 9-11?
Do you remember banking before 9-11?
Do you remember what they did to the banks after 9-11?
Do you know what they did to the banks after 2008?
You practically can't move a dime without people knowing exactly what you're doing, at least in the banks.
Because the bank runs on compliance, pattern detection, liability management.
You know, this one I love.
You know, what's a liability management?
That's a group of lawyers in a room that goes, okay, hang on just a second.
If we don't report this, are we going to be liable?
If we do continue them with a customer, are we in trouble?
Okay, they don't care about you, the state, nothing.
Their only job is to make sure the bank isn't liable for anything you might be doing.
They also track velocity.
How fast is that money coming in and going out?
They track any anomalies.
They track behavior that doesn't match the account story.
I'm a daycare center.
Really?
This is the entire point of what is called the Bank Secrecy Act, which gave us SARS, the yellow tickets, CTRs, all the surveillance architecture that we have all came out of 9-11 and then.
And that's the entire point is to be able to find and track everything.
Okay.
This is the, do you remember, what was it, a couple years ago under Biden, the Financial Crimes Center, they wanted to make sure that every single business was registered with them to make it easier for them to understand exactly that you're not money laundering.
So they care about this.
They care about this.
The own numbers show the system is massive.
4.7 million yellow tickets just in 2024.
Now that means that Fred's not just sitting in the back going, well, let me just run the numbers here.
That is a complex system.
Now here's the brutal truth.
These yellow tickets, you do something wrong.
Let's say the bank thinks that you're depositing money offshore.
It produces a yellow ticket.
And then that yellow ticket goes to the bank.
It goes to that group of lawyers I told you about a minute ago going, geez, if we keep taking money from Epstein, are we going to be liable for anything?
The yellow ticket then goes from the bank to the Treasury Department and it runs through the system.
Now, I love this part of it.
Only the banks could do this.
It's an alarm bell.
It's not a break.
It doesn't freeze things.
Every time there's a problem, every time it says, oh, this doesn't look right, an alarm bell goes off.
It doesn't guarantee an investigation.
It guarantees that it's going to go to the higher ups in the bank.
And they're like, okay, do we want to look into this?
Or do we just move on?
Send it to the treasury.
We're just going to move on.
Okay.
That way the bank can keep servicing their customer.
Because if you don't take my $4.7 million from my daycare, I'll take my money elsewhere.
And they want that money.
So this is how banks, this is, this is how bad guys get away with bad things for a long time.
And I'm on this jihad because they know about China.
Wait until I tell you about Mo and Ming's apple farm and how, you know, I've wondered, how is China getting this oil?
I thought we banned all oil exports.
Are they just bringing in?
No, wait until I tell you that story.
They know about the financial crimes that are happening in Venezuela.
They know who's taking the gold and where the gold is.
The banks know.
The banks know who the drug lords are.
They know where the money is.
They knew about Epstein.
They knew about all of these things.
Okay.
All of them.
And that's how bad guys keep getting away with it.
So the common thread in all of this stuff is how the banks have optimized, the system is optimized to document suspicion, to manage the bank's exposure, but not actually stop any criminal activity.
Unless you're unpopular, unless the federal government is like, no, this has to be stopped.
Okay.
Now layer in 2008 with what I just told you.
Epstein made off all of this stuff.
The banks didn't miss the risk.
The banks created the risk.
The banks created CDOs and derivatives and instruments designed to slice, rate, sell, and then resell risk while everyone in the banking community in Wall Street collected fees.
And then when it blew up, who paid?
You did.
You did, the taxpayer.
You paid it.
When this all blew up in Minnesota, who's left holding the bag?
Who actually paid for all of this?
You did.
The banks got their fees.
People got away with terrorists got their fees.
Everybody seemed to get their money.
You lost money.
Let me now take you to the airport on my jihad.
This is where this story becomes physically insulting.
Because I've watched grandma get searched at the airport.
I've watched toddlers be patted down.
I've watched milk from a baby taken from a baby as they're drinking it and thrown away.
Okay, it's ridiculous.
And yet, I'm asked to believe that suitcases full of $700 million in cash, a million dollars every day, went through that airport in a suitcase and nobody noticed.
Here's the thing.
I'm not asking you to believe in a script for a Hollywood movie.
I'm asking you to accept something more mundane, more damning.
Patterns that are visible, patterns that are discussable, patterns that generate paperwork.
So again, let me ask you the odds question again.
What are the odds that the people on the front line standing there by the scanners and the screens noticed these anomalies at least some of the time?
If they didn't notice it every time, again, I'm pissed off and want another jihad on DHS and Department of Homeland Security, TSA.
Why?
Why aren't they, why weren't they aware of it every time?
And if they were and they noticed this pattern and it's repeated every single day, what are the odds the supervisors weren't aware of this pattern?
The odds that no one in the chain ever connected the dots?
Wow.
That's got to be never, right?
It's got to be never.
And if it's not, you should be pissed off for security reasons because they're ripping you off on security and patting down your toddler and grandmother while they're letting this happen.
So you're left in the same fork in the road, negligence, paralysis, or protection.
Then right when the citizen should be demanding clarity and consequences, you get a second fight layered over the first.
Minnesota's leadership are framing the federal presence as harmful, and they're trying to start something.
The governor ordered the National Guard staged and emphasized keeping the peace during the demonstrations.
The Attorney General has just filed suit.
Picking Sides in a Cover-Up00:14:12
Why?
Why?
Because they're responsible?
No.
It's cover-up.
It's cover-up.
It's to get your attention to stop looking at who enabled this theft?
Who did this?
Instead, they're asking you to pick a side in a street fight.
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So let me take you back to Somali and my jihad.
My jihad is on several things, and I believe these are the right things that we should be worried about.
Look how many Somalis were involved in this.
Okay, and everybody's concentrating on Somalis.
I'm going to give you a list of just who I believe should be dragged in front of a court of law and answer questions.
And I'm not even concentrating on the Somalis because the Somalis involved in this is a smaller number than everybody else that had to be involved in this.
My jihad is on banks, but that will kind of be a theme throughout the entire show today.
Banks are really, really pretty.
They're great.
They do a lot of great things.
And there's a lot of great people at a lot of great banks.
But the system itself protects itself.
And they seem to always get rich while everybody else has to pay the price.
They got their fees.
And they knew, they had to have known.
You don't run $700 million through an airport in cash.
I tried to get $10,000 out of my bank at one point because I wanted to bury it in my backyard next to my dog's bones.
And, oh, crap, now I got to read.
I'm going to shovel it up now.
Anyway, try to get it.
It took me two weeks.
Took me two weeks.
Now it can go faster than that, but they were like, we have to let the treasury know the treasury, the bank doesn't have that much cash.
And I'm like, you don't have $10,000?
What kind of crappy bank?
They're like, the Federal Reserve, it goes to the Federal Reserve every night.
Now we're in Dallas, but every night it goes to the Federal Reserve and we have to ask for the amounts of cash.
So the money came from the Federal Reserve.
That wasn't an easy, that wasn't like Mildred going into the back and just pulling out 10 grand.
There were all kinds of paperwork that that, so you're telling me $700 million in cash came out of a bank over a two-year period and nobody noticed it?
Hmm.
Then nobody noticed it at the TSA.
Nobody noticed that.
Nobody noticed that these daycare centers are remarkable, serving more children than even exist in that community.
Nobody said anything.
Nobody noticed.
And now the last part.
I am so sickened by the leadership of Minnesota.
I mean, I would move from Minnesota.
I mean, I know Minnesotas are now cheering.
And they were like, wait, he was living here the whole time.
We didn't know it.
They're cheering that I wouldn't live in Minnesota.
And I understand that.
But I wouldn't live in Minnesota.
You couldn't pay me to live there, not because of the politics, but because the society is accepting this corruption.
And now your governor and the whole apparatus that stole money from you are now trying to get you riled up for a civil war.
At least civil, the worst case scenario is civil war.
Those are your governor's words, not mine.
The best case scenario is civil unrest.
They already let one of your cities burn to the ground.
Why not burn the whole state down to the ground?
Why?
So they aren't called into question so they don't have to go to court.
So possibly they can get away with stealing your money?
Is it Stockholm syndrome?
Honestly.
Now, I know that involves hostages, but it's almost the same thing.
And I was thinking about it, and it's not Stockholm Syndrome.
But how do you get good people to do what people are doing up there?
Well, you have to condition them for a very long time.
And this happens on both sides.
I want you to know.
You have to be careful on our side.
You're conditioned to go, Orange Man, bad.
Tim Walt, bad.
Okay.
You're conditioned.
And so when something happens, you're immediately conditioned to go, no, you're bad side, me, good side.
Okay.
So that plays a role in it.
But the other part that plays a role is if you have been this wrong and you have defended somebody like this for so long and you've turned a blind eye to local reports and everything else and you went, ah, that can't be true.
And you're so deeply into it, it is almost impossible for you to admit that you were that wrong for that long.
Especially if the other side says, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong.
Instead of saying, you're looking at this, I think, the wrong way.
Can I give you another way to look at this?
Instead of welcoming people and saying, no, no, no, I understand how you're feeling.
I get it.
If we are on our side saying, You're wrong.
You're part of the problem.
You never.
They'll never change their mind.
They only harden their positions and you will have civil unrest or civil war.
In the meantime, we have to pursue this.
The federal agents cannot be turned around.
You have to change this because if you don't, if you can't break the spell and there is no accountability ever, then the predators will just do it again.
They'll do it bigger.
They'll do it in the daylight.
You know, guardrails are real until somebody decides they're not.
Okay?
So I started making a list last night until I had no more lead in the universe to put into a pencil and write it down.
So I'm making a list.
I'm a little like Santa if he were on a jihad.
And because I made a list and it's a long list and I've checked it twice.
Now, this is just the list of the system.
Okay.
Everybody is freaking about Somalis.
I suggest we start looking at the system because this far outnumbers the Somalis that were involved, I think.
So who should be called in for questioning?
Who should be worried tonight?
This is another reason why they can set the state on fire and nobody in government's going to say a word.
So who needs to be questioned?
Who most likely at least knew and failed to say anything?
I'm not saying they're complicit, but they at least knew and failed to say anything.
You got to question the program directors, the division directors who oversee child nutrition, daycare reimbursement, grant or the grant administration, the payment approval managers and supervisors.
These are the people who can override a hold and approve exceptions.
If something's hinky, you got to talk to the people who went, now don't worry about it.
Okay.
The contract grant officers and their supervising chain, because there's exceptions.
Something was hinky and all somebody said, hey, this doesn't look right.
And somebody else had to say, don't worry about it.
Okay.
The internal audit leadership that is assigned to all of those agencies.
These are people who possibly will face jail time if the universe worked the way it should.
The compliance and integrity units inside the agencies.
Anybody who is involved in integrity and the integrity office.
The agency general counsel.
All of the people in the agencies who are like, are we doing anything illegal here?
Can we get by with all of this stuff?
Any legal review staff involved in the escalations.
The state finance people, the budget oversight personnel, anybody who would see abnormal burn rates of that money and the concentrations of that money and go, something's not right here.
Because the system, remember, the system is designed to look for things outside of the pattern.
That's how you spot fraud.
So everything has been designed to spot this.
This isn't something like, well, we never saw airplanes flying into buildings.
Nobody ever thought of that.
We thought of fraud.
So there are tripwires everywhere.
You need to question the inspector general, anybody who had oversight functions, okay?
Federal funding and oversight interfaces.
So now this is the next level.
This goes from the state to the federal.
The USDA program oversight and compliance liaisons tied to the program streams.
The federal and state coordination points responsible for responding to audit findings or corrective action plans.
So now the auditors who are like, hey, there's something hinky here.
Then you go to the banks, the bank managers at the branches, the regional operations manager where high volume cash activity was occurring.
The Bank Secrecy Act, the AML investigators assigned to the accounts, anybody where there was a yellow ticket that went up, who was advised, who was assigned to look into that and why didn't you act on that?
The yellow ticket committees, the governance groups, the senior compliance leadership, that's regional and the local and the state bank.
The risk officers, the compliance officers, anybody who was looking at legal and risk, you know, should we keep this customer?
Because there is a risk here.
Are we going to be held responsible?
The correspondent banking, the wire risk teams, when you send a wire, I want to look at everybody who was involved in sending that wire.
I want to look at all of the risk teams and what they said, what they did.
Anybody who was moving money internationally or through high-risk corridors, how did you do that?
How did you move money just to Somalia?
That alone sends up red flags.
Then you get to the TSA and the airport.
I want to question everybody in the TSA, the supervisory chain, anybody who was responsible for noticing patterns.
The airport security operations management.
The people who are responsible for reporting and receiving the reports on anything out of line.
Any joint task force liaison roles that interfaced with repeated cash moot.
You know they're getting calls.
And if they didn't, I want to know why.
Who made that call to say don't make the calls anymore?
The currency reporting enforcement from our border patrol, from our customs, why weren't they involved?
Or were they?
Any kind of outbound international cash?
That should have shown up with our customs.
Why did no one in customs say anything?
Then you have the prosecutors, the agency investigators who documented early red flags.
Why weren't they listened to?
Who said, shut up about this?
Supervisors who decided whether to refer, escalate, or pause payments.
Was there anybody in line that said, hey, we need to check this out before we send any more money here?
Any task force leadership coordinating multi-agency response timelines?
Okay.
That's me at home last night just ranting.
You know who else?
What happened to this people?
Why in customs doing it?
Why did the person on the front line, who did they report to?
Who did they report to?
Who stopped them from $700 million?
Who in Washington was saying, uh-uh-uh-uh, don't look into, did it make it to Washington?
If it didn't make it to Washington, how come it didn't make it to Washington?
This shows the banking, the state, and the feds were completely every at best, every tripwire failed.
And there are hundreds of them.
I don't believe they failed.
People intentionally were either involved or they intentionally chose not to get involved.
You couple that with a state full of people that don't want to look into it now that it's been exposed and are willing to look at the people who did this to them and say, yeah, I want to march in the streets.
I want to put my body in front of the feds who are doing investigations, who are trying to do this.
I want to put my body in front of them to protect Tim Walz and his cronies or the people at the airport or the people at the banks.
There's something deeply wrong.
And you do not heal this society until you heal the people who were not involved, but who are willing to look the other way at this point.
There's no hope for Minnesota unless you can turn the people and have them go, wow, I'm sorry, I was just blind for a minute.
I don't know what happened to me.
You'll never solve this, and it will only get worse.
Do not accept the lies that Tim Walz and Keith Ellison are now trying to get you to believe that this is all the feds and their hatred for Muslims or their hatred of Somalis.
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It's not.
I haven't even mentioned the Somalis.
They're the least of my worries.
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Today is January 13th, and we pause for a minute.
Not for a punchline, and not for a cartoon square with a tie-wearing everyman and a coffee mug.
We pause for a man who quietly became something far more important than most people ever realized.
scott adams for most of his life was just a cartoonist as if just a cartoonist is a small thing he was a cartoonist that connected with us because he had there was so much wisdom in that little man that every man
We saw, especially in the days when there was a water cooler in our office, when we would stand around in the kitchen or we would work in big offices where we all knew somebody that looked like that cartoon figure.
We related to him.
We understood him.
We saw him in ourselves at times.
But not often did I think at the time of the cartoonist that was behind it.
He wasn't just a cartoonist.
Scott Adams was a translator.
He was a translator of human weakness, of power, of persuasion.
He's a translator of self-deception.
He took the chaos of our modern day life and reduced it in a small little square in the old days in a newspaper or in a calendar.
He took all of that and reduced it into something that we could see.
And then he did something amazing.
When he could have stayed safely inside that little box, Scott stepped out.
I think the first time I had Scott on the show was during COVID.
He lived in California.
He was a guy we all loved.
After you heard his political views, I'm sure half of the country did not love him.
But he became a guiding light for so many, for so many people who are just willing to think honestly.
You didn't have to agree with him.
He just asked you to think.
He became a mentor, in a way, to so many people just trying to understand how influence really works.
He was a guy who was changing his life.
And he would mentor us through our lives by watching how he was dealing with things.
He really was a philosopher who was disguised as a stick figure artist.
He was just quietly asking questions most people were too afraid or too tired to ask.
Let me play a couple of interview pieces from Scott here recently.
Let's play first his Christianity, his transformation, his conversion to Christianity.
Listen.
Whenever I talk about this simulation, and especially when I talk about my own impending death, many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, Scott, you still have time.
You should convert to Christianity.
And I usually just let that sit because that's not an argument I want to have.
I've not been a believer.
But I also have respect for any Christian who goes out of their way to try to convert me.
Because how would I believe you believe your own religion if you're not trying to convert me?
So I have great respect for people who care enough that they want me to convert and then go out of their way to try to convince me.
So you're going to hear for the first time today that it is my plan to convert.
So I still have time, but my understanding is you're never too late.
And on top of that, any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up in heaven.
I do believe that the dominant Christian theory is that I would wake up in heaven if I have a good life.
I don't necessarily have to state something in advance.
And so, to my Christian friends, yes, it's coming.
So you don't need to talk me into it.
I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely smart.
If it turns out that there's nothing there, I've lost nothing.
But I've respected your wishes, and I like doing that.
If it turns out there is something there, and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win.
So with your permission, I promise you that I will convert.
I have to tell you, there are going to be Christians that are going to argue about that all day long.
I love that.
The Truth That Costs Something00:05:06
Because even there, he's being honest.
I've always wondered.
I've joked with Pendillette about that.
I mean, you know, you're an atheist.
You don't believe, you don't believe.
Just hedge the bat in a joke.
But while Scott said that lightly, I doubt he took that lightly.
He was a deep thinker.
Here he is just a few weeks ago talking about the end.
So this is going to be a tough week because I'm doing some goodbyes in person.
And for the most part, there's people I know I'll never see again.
And that's very tough.
Very tough.
All right.
I think I slurred my way across this enough.
I think I said what I need to say for now.
Thank you for listening and watching.
I'll try to keep things off my chin.
All right.
Bye for now.
I hope to see you later, but it might not be.
That's how he ended things.
And I can say with full confidence that, Scott, we will see you later.
Scott was a friend to this program because Scott was a friend to truth.
Not the fashionable kind.
Not the crowd-pleasing, crowd-approved kind.
But the kind of truth that actually costs you something.
We reached out to him recently.
I asked if he would just sit down with me for one last conversation, probably a couple months ago.
He said something that none of us will ever forget.
I would love to.
But there's justn't any more gas left in this tank.
No drama.
No self-pity.
Just honesty.
Truth.
He didn't save anything.
He gave everything that he had.
He didn't save it.
He didn't ration it.
He burned through all of it for all of us.
And when the tank finally ran dry, as you just heard, he was still giving, still teaching, and only running on vapors.
To me, the remarkable thing about Scott is even his vapors were more than most of us give in a lifetime.
Let his life challenge you to think clearer, to question everything, question the narratives, to be peaceful, to be kind, to be giving.
to understand persuasion so you're not enslaved by it, to laugh.
Not because things are trivial, but because humor sometimes is the only way to survive reality without surrendering to it.
He knew something that I think most people never learn.
Clarity is compassion.
Truth can be delivered with wit and can reach places anger never will.
And courage doesn't always roar sometimes.
It just keeps showing up day after day until there's nothing left to give.
Today, celebrate.
Mourn, but celebrate.
A man.
A man whose life was spent emptying itself out over and over every day for others.
Scott Adams finished his race.
He didn't quit early.
He didn't coast at the end.
He crossed the line on fumes, and for that, and for the light he left behind, for the questions he taught all of us to ask, for the honesty he modeled when it mattered most.