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Aug. 26, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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Democrat States Ignore English Language Mandate For Truckers, DoT Vows Crackdown Amid Trucker Mayhem

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tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I am your host, Tate Brown, here, holding it down for Tim Poole.
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		He's, trust me, he's very anxious to get back here in the lab.
		But in the meantime, we'll be holding it down.
		Like I said, I'm your host, Tate Brown, here, holding it down.
		It is a lovely, it's a cool day here, a crisp, cool day here outside of our nation's capital.
		It's a lovely day.
		We have a lot of big stories to get into today.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		First, we have the Department of Transportation's cracking down.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The whole trucker thing, we saw it.
unidentified		It was madness, just insanity that this is even happening on our streets or highways in this case.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The Department of Transportation is cracking down, as you probably saw in the title.
unidentified		And shocker, the blue states aren't too thrilled about it.
		We also have Trump canning.
		He canned the Fed governor.
		Lisa Cook was her name.
		You'll never guess what it was.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Mortgage fraud.
unidentified		Yeah, this is happening a lot.
		A lot of mortgage fraud going on.
		You'd think, you know, HGTV was so popular in these last decade or so.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You'd think people would have their ducks in a row, but guess not.
unidentified		We also have John Bolton in the news.
		Believe it or not, he's still in the news.
		He got raided and he's not happy about it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And he wrote, he basically crashed out.
unidentified		He wrote an op-ed crash out in the Washington Examiner.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Really funny.
unidentified		We'll touch on that.
		And we also have RFK and Pete Hegseth.
		The mainstream media is so upset that they're trying to get Americans healthy.
		We'll get into that.
		And at the half-hour mark, we will have an interview with Congressman Burchett, Tim Burchett out of Tennessee.
		It's going to be fantastic.
		We're going to touch it's the four-year anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal during the Biden years.
		So he has some thoughts on that.
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unidentified		But with that, let's get into the first story from the post-millennial.
		The Department of Transportation, Department of Transit, cracks down on California, New Mexico, and Washington for failure to ensure truckers speak English.
		I mean, these sky-high standards from the Department of Transportation.
		How could anyone ever reach such the echelon, the sky-high?
		I mean, how do they expect to hire anybody?
		Well, yeah, there's standards.
		You got to speak English.
		It's not rocket science.
		So, unfortunately, for the non-English speaking truckers out there, Sean Duffy's had enough.
		Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced on Tuesday that the administration would be cracking down on states that refused to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order requiring truck drivers operating in the United States to be proficient in English.
		Again, it's very unfortunate that we even have to deliberate this.
		You know, I would expect that to be a no-brainer.
		This follows a deadly crash in Florida in which an Indian illegal immigrant was charged with the death of three people after his illegal turn caused them to careen to his jackknife tractor trailer.
		This point, if you've been unfortunate to see the video, it's very grim stuff.
		And if you've seen the reaction, there's a lot of people, a lot of Indian people that are also saying, well, you know, maybe it's their fault.
		It's insanity.
		We'll have to get into that another time, but that's, I've been seeing this on Twitter.
		It's crazy stuff.
		I don't even think these guys, these illegals, I don't even think they realize what they did.
		Because in India, this is very standard.
		This is how you, this is how you get around.
		That's how you get around there is you just, you know, go every which way and ignore the lines and signs, et cetera, et cetera.
		Anyway, it's unfortunate that I have to pronounce it.
		Once Harjinder Singh was arrested and tested for English language proficiency, it turned out that he was unable to speak or read English and had little comprehension of highway traffic signs, signs that, had they been followed, would have saved three lives.
		I mean, that's heavy stuff.
		I mean, like, you know, we make jokes about this and whatever, and, you know, it is what it is.
		But I mean, that's three people, three people that should be here right now.
		And just the foolishness and ridiculousness because the left just feels bad for non-Americans and they have lower standards for non-Americans is resulting in people dying.
		This is happening a lot in various ways, not just trucking.
		So, yeah, the guy couldn't even read the highway signs.
		I mean, what are we doing here?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I, you know, children and American children read the highway signs and read them off to their parents.
unidentified		So at this point, five-year-olds are more qualified to drive these tractor trailers than these guys, these Hargenders.
		Anyway, he had received commercial, his commercial trucking license in both California and Washington State.
		Sean Duffy has spoken up on this.
		Let's see what he has to say.
		We are not going to tolerate states that don't comply with the rules that come from this department.
		And so we are going to, first of all, we've identified several states that have not been in compliance.
		That would be Washington, California, and New Mexico.
		Those are the three states that have not complied with this rule.
		Which, by the way, this driver in Florida had received a CDL in Washington, California, and was pulled over in July for speeding and no doubt couldn't speak the English language.
		And law enforcement in New Mexico did not take his rig out of service.
		So this one driver touched all three states.
		Based on our review, they are not complying with our rule.
		And so phase one for us, which I'm announcing today, is we are going to give these states 30 days to come into compliance with truck drivers speaking proficiently the English language, or we're going to look at federal funding that they receive under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program.
		So Duffy is going to war here with these states.
		Really, not real war, but metaphorically speaking.
		Again, it's just like, it's sad that this stuff is news.
		It just shows the state of our country that we're having to crack down on these states for like giving out these trucker licenses like their library cards.
		Well, I mean, we have producer Serge here.
		I mean, I can ask him, I mean, in Singapore, would they tolerate some sort of?
		Tolerate in Singapore, yeah.
		Yeah, they tolerate a lot, but not that.
		Right.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, it's just like, we're a first world country.
unidentified		I think being able to read highway signs should be a very basic standard.
		Yeah.
		You can't just get in there.
		Right.
		Yeah.
		So, like Duffy said, we are not going to tolerate states that don't comply with the rules that come from this department.
		Fair enough, Duffy said.
		And so we are going to, first of all, we've identified several states that have not been in compliance.
		That would be Washington, California, New Mexico.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So he's calling them out.
unidentified		Just ridiculous.
		And then this is what I was hitting on earlier where you have, and this is obviously not all Indian people, probably not even the majority of Indian people, but there are some that are very nationalistic and they view a fellow countryman can do no wrong.
		And you're seeing it here.
		Over 1.7 million people, 1.7 million people signed a petition demanding leniency for the trucker who has been charged with vehicular homicide in the crash.
		The petition called him a, quote, Punjabi youth.
		I mean, yeah, that's pretty much what he is.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Singh was driving an 18-wheeler when he made an illegal U-turn on Florida's turnpike, causing a minivan that was behind him to careen to the trailer and become wedged beneath it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Marco Rubio paused all visas for commercial truck drivers seeking to work in the U.S.
unidentified		We covered that on IRL a few days ago.
		Again, sorry.
		I mean, you could, some of you were like, oh, that's corporal punishment.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I'm like, I don't think so because we love truckers.
unidentified		We love our American truckers.
		They're fantastic.
		I know a few.
		I have some in the family.
		They're great.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We love them.
unidentified		But the state of the roads has gotten ridiculous recently.
		The actions and maneuvers of truck drivers has become increasingly dangerous, increasingly hostile.
		Defensive driving has turned into offensive driving.
		And it's just, it's absolutely absurd.
		I mean, just take a road trip, try I-40 on for size and you'll see the insanity.
		So again, like this, you know, people are saying, if you're a trucker, you're probably feeling like you're kind of under attack right now.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		But I think I can speak on behalf of the majority of people when we're saying, no, the American truckers are who we're trying to prioritize here.
unidentified		We need we need more of them because there's obviously there's a pinch in the trucking industry.
		It's the foreign ones.
		The foreign ones are causing problems.
		And to a large degree, it's not even their fault because in their country, that's just how they drive.
		And if we're not going to enforce, you know, if we're not going to enforce very basic standards, then, I mean, this is what you're going to get.
		So it's really a lose-lose for everyone involved.
		Duffy was talking here about the states because the driver is in Florida.
		So, I mean, yeah, you can get a CDL in California, go to Florida and kill three people over there.
		This one driver touched all three states based on a review.
		They are not complying with our rule.
		So, phase one, giving the states 30 days to come into compliance with speaking English proficiently, which is a no-brainer.
		And if they do not come into compliance, he's going to look at their federal funding as he should.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Money talks, money talks.
unidentified		Duffy noted that California receives 30 million under the program.
		Washington receives 10 million, New Mexico 7 million.
		Those amounts will be cut as part of phase one if the states refuse to make sure their licensees can speak and read English.
		Duffy says here, what's that?
		He says here, there's other actions that we can take to make sure states comply.
		And hopefully, in the next 30 days, we won't have to withhold any money from them.
		I mean, the fact that we're even having to hold money over these states to make their drivers speak English, I can't reiterate it enough.
		This is crazy.
		Don't let you hear these headlines a lot.
		You read these stories a lot.
		Don't let it escape you how insane this is that we're just allowing, we're allowing people to just get behind the wheel effectively with nothing backing it.
		With that, we have another big story here.
		This dropped last night.
		This is also from the post-millennial breaking.
		Trump fires Fed governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations.
		You know, we saw some talks of this happening, some rumors over the last few days.
		And yeah, this just kind of came out of nowhere.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It feels like it came out of nowhere.
unidentified		But, you know, if you do go back and read, there's obviously, I mean, obviously, there's been a bit of a riff between the Federal Reserve and the Trump Trump admin.
unidentified		And it looks like it's boiled over here.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Lisa Cook is gone.
unidentified		She's packing her bag.
		She's been canned.
		She's adding open to work on her LinkedIn profile picture.
		See ya and indeed, Lisa Cook.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Let's read the article here.
unidentified		President Donald Trump has removed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her role amid allegations of mortgage fraud against her.
		Trump wrote in a letter posted Monday evening that the removal was effective immediately.
		I've determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position, provided that you may be removed at my discretion for cause.
		And then here's his letter that explains this as set forth in the criminal referral.
		There is sufficient reason to believe that you have made false statements on one or more mortgage agreements.
		And then he explains here the case.
		She's playing it fast and loose with where she has her residencies listed.
		This has been happening a lot.
		I mean, we saw the same thing happen with Schiff.
		We saw the same thing happen with Letitia James.
		I don't know what's going on with these elected officials.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		They have a lot of houses.
unidentified		I mean, that's kind of a worrying thing that all these people have houses and they can't even keep track of where their residency is.
		It's probably a bad sign for public servants, but it's neither here nor there.
		Trump later added, the American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve.
		In light of your deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter, they cannot and I do not have such confidence in your integrity.
		You know, obviously, like I said earlier, the Trump admin has been leaning on the Fed.
		You can see here, Trump called for Cook to resign earlier in the month, writing at the time, Cook must resign now.
		Trump linked to report on mortgage fraud allegations raised against Cook by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Polt.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Polte?
unidentified		Polt.
		You know, see here, this is where they break down what's going on here.
		Obviously, there's suggestions here.
		She falsified bank documents, property records to acquire more favorable loan terms.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Look, I mean, whether this is just a just cause to get her out, because obviously there is this rift.
unidentified		I mean, she probably is guilty.
		Like I said, I imagine a lot of these guys and gals in D.C. are committing mortgage fraud on a very regular basis because, like I said, they have a lot of properties that they have to keep track of.
		It happens.
		And yeah, it's just a bad sign in general.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Even if there's nothing partisan whatsoever, it's a bad sign if the governor of the Federal Reserve doesn't have the competency to keep her ducks in a row when it comes to her residency.
unidentified		It's very worrying.
		So, yeah, big shake up, obviously.
		The drop last night.
		And Trump is, you know, imposing his will in the government.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's a beautiful thing to see.
unidentified		And yeah, Lisa Cook, you know, good luck.
		I think I saw Oracle maybe hiring.
		I don't know.
		I saw that this morning.
		Check Indeed.
		That's what I'd recommend.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You check Indeed.
unidentified		You could also, you know, McDonald's, obviously, you could do, or we need more American truckers.
		You could be a trucker, potentially.
		That could be nice.
		I don't know if she's qualified, judging by her mortgage fraud situations.
		I imagine a lot of elected officials probably wouldn't meet the standards that even, what was his name?
		Heserinder met.
		Hargender.
		Yeah, Harshinder.
		Anyway, it's neither here nor there.
		Let's get to the next story from the Independent.
		Collapsing in confusion and haste.
		John Bolton slams Trump in first comments since FBI raid.
		I mean, can you believe this?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Oh my gosh.
unidentified		Someone has been bold enough to speak out against Donald Trump.
		And it's the guy that has war crimes left, John Bolton.
		Yeah, John Bolton, the stash.
		He got his house raided last week.
		We'll read here what the Independent has to say.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We'll see if there's any editorializing going on here.
unidentified		President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, spoke out after the FBI raided his home last week, taking aim at the president's stance on the war and Russia and Ukraine.
		Okay.
		The FBI raided the Trump Advisor Turn Critics home in Bethesda, Maryland.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Many such cases, by the way, many such cases.
unidentified		This second term has been a whole new look.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So there's a lot of disgruntled first-termers who have turned into critics.
unidentified		And they were probably critics before.
		They were just good at hiding the ball.
		Anyway, his office in Washington, D.C. on Friday morning as part of an investigation related to classified documents.
		In his first comment since the raid, Bolton wrote an op-ed Monday in the Washington Examiner slamming Trump's Russia-Ukraine policies following his meeting with the country's respective leaders.
		Here's what Bolton had to say: Donald Trump's Ukraine policy today is no more coherent than when it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office.
		Collapsing in confusion and haste.
		Trump's negotiations may be in their last throes.
		Oh no, the walls are closing in on Trump.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The walls are closing in.
unidentified		This could be the beginning of the end for the Trump administration.
		I mean, he did the meme.
		He did the meme.
		I mean, even the, you even see like leftists, streamers are very cautious to say the walls are closing in now out of fear of being included in a compilation, a walls are closing in compilation.
		Obviously, John Bolton hasn't received the memo.
		Fortunately, he's a little behind the times in more ways than one.
		And obviously, he's critiquing his Nobel Peace Prize campaign, which I think actually has a decent shot of it.
		Bolton's obviously never been in consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign.
		You know, when you think peace, you don't really think John Bolton, unfortunately, for the world.
		Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15th in Alaska.
		Here's what Bolton had to say about that.
		Trump's furious pace trying to move an extraordinarily complex conflict to resolution over the past two weeks was one of several significant mistakes.
		Obviously, Bolton is historically speaking.
		You can take a look at his record.
		He is not a fan of resolving conflicts quickly.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He prefers it to be long and drawn out with lots of money and personnel involved.
unidentified		This is not surprising.
		Yeah, but John Bolton, as Trump allegedly said, he's never seen a war that he didn't like.
		That was in, I think it was in Woodward's book with something.
		That was actually bleeding.
		You know, a lot of the stuff in Woodward's book, you were like, I don't know.
		That was a quote that you could definitely see Trump saying to Bolton.
		Yeah, that's real.
		Checks out.
		Yeah, I mean, look, this is more.
		Trump, days later, Trump met with Zelensky and a group of European leaders, and he announced he planned to arrange a trilateral meeting with Putin, Zelensky, and himself.
		Bolton blasted.
		None of this was realistic.
		No meeting appears likely anytime soon.
		Keep in mind, this is the president, Donald Trump, who stepped into North Korean territory.
		So I wouldn't be so quick to rule out anything, really.
		Trump is kind of a magician when it comes to these sorts of things.
		He's the master of negotiation, the art of the deal, et cetera, et cetera.
		So really funny that Bolton, and this was the examiner piece that he wrote.
		Like I said, it's just a page worth of just crashing out.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He got his house rated.
unidentified		He's not very happy about it.
		And he just came up with something to complain about.
		Again, former admin, you know, first termer complaining about Trump.
		Nothing surprising there.
		And yeah, really, really, he's just mad because he got his house raided.
		And he had it coming.
		I mean, if there's classified documents in his house, you know, the standard has been that you get your house rated.
		That's what they did to Trump.
		So sorry, we're going to do it to you.
		So that's it.
		John Bolton, again, I don't know.
		I don't know what his deal is.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He's writing pieces.
unidentified		He's mad.
unidentified		He's upset.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He's really, he's really just, I think he's just really upset to see a war closing down, a war winding down.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That just absolutely infuriates him.
unidentified		It probably keeps him up at night seeing a war winding down.
		Heaven forbid.
		So with that, we got one more story here, another big story.
		This one's just a little more funny.
		This just shows the state of the media.
		100 push-ups.
		This is from the New York Times, the paper of record.
		100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in under 10 minutes.
		What could go wrong?
		So you probably, you may have seen this.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		This was going everywhere on social media.
unidentified		It was RFK and Pete Hegseth.
		They put out a fitness challenge in which 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in under 10 minutes.
		You know, a really admirable goal.
		I think this would be fantastic.
		And of course, right away, all these media outlets just came out and critiqued it.
		And they found these random fitness experts who were disturbed by the fact that they would even endorse such a thing as getting healthy.
		We'll read here what the paper of record has to say.
		Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenged Pete Hegseth to a test of fitness in which each of them would do 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in 10 minutes or less.
		Quote, try to get under five minutes, Mr. Kennedy, the health secretary said of each section of the challenge while wearing his standard gym attire of a tucked-in t-shirt and jeans.
		Side note, I think that's like sick that he like hikes and stuff in jeans because it really shows that for him, fitness is about functionality.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Like he wants to make sure that he can do it in jeans because that's going to be your wear outside of the gym outside of your physical activities.
unidentified		You're going to be wearing jeans.
		You're going to be wearing clothes that would otherwise be somewhat uncomfortable to work out and he wants to be ready for anything.
		It's called stress testing.
		It's dynamic.
		So I think that's great.
		They're kind of saying that as like a little rib, a little jab here, Adam, but I think it's brilliant.
		I might have to start doing that.
		So, anyway, we'll keep reading here.
		One sec.
		The Pete and Bobby Challenge, as Mr. Heg Seth, the Secretary of Defense, called it, circulated widely in videos posted to social media by both men, as well as the official YouTube account of the Department of Health and Human Services.
		The challenge might have seemed novel to some, but the high-volume calisthenic couplets like this are nothing new.
		And fitness experts caution that they may not be for everyone.
		Actually, this is not healthy.
		This is really bad.
		This is problematic.
		This is very problematic.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's what these weirdos, these health, whatever, these nobodies, a bunch of bums.
unidentified		They're really upset about it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So, I mean, here they go.
unidentified		These guys are probably otherwise, you know, really nice people.
		But the New York Times comes to them and puts a mic in their face and says, You're the authority on this.
		Give us some thoughts.
		And of course, they got to give something interesting to make the article.
		For the average person, I would definitely recommend building volume in these movements over three to four weeks before giving it a go.
		This is not how you do a qualified, correct pull-up in the military.
		Most people can't even perform five strict push-ups without proper form or a single pull-up without compensating.
		Pushing for such high numbers without the necessary strength foundation can quickly lead to poor form, overcompensation, and a high risk of injury.
		I mean, like, have you seen what Americans look like these days?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We're not exactly the healthiest people on planet Earth, you know.
unidentified		And this kind of stuff fires people up.
		I really think we should be like, we're finally getting an administration that is prioritizing health, that is prioritizing getting in shape, prioritizing, testing the limits of the human body.
		And then these health experts come out and they're like furious about it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		Do we want to go back to the Biden administration when the health secretary was like trans or whatever?
		Is that what we need to do?
unidentified		Is that the new, you know, we need to remedy that with that?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I think it's a beautiful thing that, you know, these guys are coming out and they're really challenging the men of America because the men of America are kind of falling apart.
unidentified		I mean, I don't know if you've been to a Costco recently, but it's not looking too good.
		And I've said it before, said it a million times: the birth rate's dropping and, you know, getting in good shape.
		That certainly helps, makes you more attractive, et cetera, et cetera.
		I have, you know, probably 20, 30 pounds to lose.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So I'm going to be implementing the, what was it called?
unidentified		What did they call it?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The there is a name.
unidentified		The Pete and Bobby Challenge.
		I will be taking the Pete and Bobby Challenge.
		I want to do this desperately.
		And I will be pushing myself to the extreme.
		And I will not be listening to these nerds, these health nerds.
		Listen, you're going to listen to the health nerds from the New York Times, or are you going to listen to two guys that look like this, right?
		Two guys look like, hey, these guys know what they're talking about.
		Clearly, it's working for them.
		Just go with your gut.
		These guys look, these look fit.
		They look like, and they're, you know, especially RFK.
		I mean, he's getting up there and he's still yoked.
		Go with that guy's advice.
		Don't go with what the New York Times is saying.
		Actually, if you push too hard, it could.
		Enough.
		Enough, lab coat.
		We've had enough.
		You guys have had your turn with health and whatever, and it's resulted in pretty grim things.
		Let's give Bobby Kennedy a try.
		Look at him.
		Look what he looks like at this age.
		And he's working out in jeans.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Could you imagine what his physique would look like if he was wearing gym shorts?
unidentified		I mean, it'd be like crazy.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		No, jokes, jokes, RFKs.
unidentified		The goat.
		I love RFK.
		So hold your raw milk up high.
		Hold your methylene blue up high.
		And salute the Pete and Bobby challenge.
		Get in the gym.
		Let's get after it.
		We're all that, you know, you've seen on Instagram, there's the speculation that we're going to have the great lock-in of September to December 2025.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		These next three months, four months, are going to be generational.
unidentified		And we're all going to come out of this year in the best shape of our lives.
		Knock on wood.
		It's going to be due to the Pete and Bobby challenge.
		It's fantastic stuff.
		So, yeah, ignore the haters.
		This is what Trump's demonstrated very well.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Ignore the haters.
unidentified		They don't even know what they're talking about.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		True.
unidentified		Go with the yoked 70-year-old.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's what you go with.
unidentified		Just trust them.
unidentified		Just trust them.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, one more thing I want to touch on before we get to our interview.
unidentified		We have an update on the Cracker Barrel situation.
unidentified		Look, a lot of you guys are tired of hearing about it, but I think it's of paramount importance, and I think this needs to be continued.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The President of the United States has weighed in.
unidentified		So if you thought this story was irrelevant, I don't know what to tell you because the president has spoken out, spoken up.
		This was distributed early this morning, not early, it was just like two hours ago on Truth Social.
		So this is the truth.
		It is from Truth Social.
		This is from the President of the United States.
		Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo.
		Admit a mistake based on customer response.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Parentheses, the ultimate poll.
unidentified		So true.
		And manage the company better than ever before.
		They got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right.
		Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity.
		Have a major news conference today.
		Make Cracker Barrel a winner again.
		Remember, in just a short period of time, I made the United States of America the quote hottest country anywhere in the world.
		One year ago, it was quote dead.
		Good luck.
		So true.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		This is, you know, this is a different kind of approach to the Cracker Barrel situation because, you know, most of us, most of us Patriots, we kind of, you know, we kind of went at it with Cracker Barrel.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We started going after, you know, the upper management.
unidentified		You know, we said some really critical things.
unidentified		Trump's taking a different approach here.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He's kind of killing them with kindness.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He's encouraging him.
unidentified		He's saying they're capable of so much more.
		He's saying, make Cracker Barrel a winner again.
		And honestly, that's so true.
		And he's made America the hottest country anywhere.
		I mean, like, everyone's talking about it.
		America, America, America.
		You can't hear enough about it.
		And so I think maybe this is a different approach.
		Maybe we should change, us patriots, this is a challenge.
		Maybe we should change our approach.
		Maybe we should smother Cracker Barrel with love and we should encourage them to make Cracker Barrel a winner again.
		So Donald Trump, excellent, excellent, excellent.
		With that, I'll close that here as we get into our interview portion, which will be up for those watching after at 4 p.m. on one sec, Surge.
		I got to open up the thing here.
		But yeah, we'll close that out here.
		4 p.m., the interview with Rhett Burchett will be up.
		So go check that out there.
		Thank you for watching.
		We'll be back for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m. tonight.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Be there or be square.
unidentified		And yeah, with that, I got one more article I want to set up here.
		This was today.
		This was issued by the Department of Defense.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The Department of Defense honors fallen heroes on the fourth anniversary of Abbey Gate attack.
unidentified		This was obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal, which was disastrous.
unidentified		I mean, we all remember it well.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It was a national humiliation.
unidentified		So I wanted to bring in Congressman Tim Burchett to discuss this, discuss what's changed since that fateful week in Afghanistan, which was obviously cost to 13 members of our armed forces.
		Let's see here.
		Congressman, can you hear me?
		I can hear you, brother.
		How are we doing?
		Well, I want to say, first of all, happy belated birthday.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		I feel I'm 61.
		I feel like I'm 161 sometimes.
		Well, I got to say, first of all, I'm also a fellow Tennessee native.
		I see the Vols colors.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I think that's a beautiful thing.
unidentified		I wanted to get into this story.
		So this is obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal.
		We had the DOD honoring the fallen soldiers from the Abbey Gate Memorial.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		Well, I knew one of the families that was involved, their son, Ryan Canaus, Staff Sergeant Ryan Canaus, they named the highway that my farm and home are on after him.
		I know his mama and daddy very well.
		You know, it was just an unnecessary tragedy.
		I asked this question during the hearing, and it all goes back to this.
		The bomber was suicide bomber was spotted.
		You know, the Marine sniper in his testimony said they called back and they said, no, you cannot take him out, not once, but twice.
		And they identified the guy, you know, by his clothing and what he was carrying and all this other stuff.
		You know, and that should have been a national story.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		That should have been the story.
unidentified		I always say military intelligence is a whole lot like congressional ethics.
		It really just doesn't exist.
		And they, hence the insider trading that we're doing now.
		But, you know, it just, it was totally unnecessary.
		It was botched.
		We were cut and running, and that's just not what Americans should be doing.
		And it was a pitiful situation.
		It's right at the feet of Biden's administration.
		And the media, of course, in their attempt to cover for him, you know, really didn't cover it like they should have as 13 brave Americans and countless others lost their lives.
		And it was just, and it was 100% avoidable.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You know, you've got these snipers, this Marine sniper who he was blown to hell.
unidentified		He'd had multiple surgeries since then and all that.
unidentified		But it was just, I just can't believe it.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And then, of course, the media, again, rushed to cover this thing up because they had so much invested in an old man who was mentally not there.
unidentified		And so that's what we get.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And we've moved on to another bright, shiny object.
unidentified		And those families are left to mourn the loss of their loved ones.
		I mean, the wives, the father, I mean, the kids of these brave service members.
		It's just totally unnecessary.
		And it just makes me very frustrated about what we allowed to run our country for so long.
		Yeah.
		I mean, well, you saw, I mean, really what defines that era was just this general culture of incompetency.
		I mean, above all else, it was just incompetency.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you've spoken probably, I mean, obviously, you've spoken to a lot of servicemen and servicemen in Afghanistan and then servicemen that were close to the situation.
unidentified		I mean, what is their feeling?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It has to be a lot of anger, I would imagine.
unidentified		Yeah, a lot of frustration.
		And what the heck do we go over there for if we were just going to cut and run?
		We didn't put anybody in charge that could have run the thing.
		And we just, you know, I don't know.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It goes back to our original mission of I think we need to look in the future at what we are.
unidentified		Are we going to be an occupying force?
		And if not, we ought not be involved in any of these wars because that's all it ends up being.
		And let's just be honest, brother.
		These wars are about oil.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They're about oil.
unidentified		If you dig down deep enough, it's always oil.
		It's energy.
		And, you know, Trump's a threat to the status quo.
		We're going to get it all in this country.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They can eat their sand and their dadgum oil over there.
unidentified		We're not going to fool with it.
		And, you know, these people have been fighting and killing each other since before the time of Christ.
		And in our arrogance in our State Department over there is going to put a Sesame Street show on or a drag show and think we're going to convert them or something.
		And that's with our billions of dollars.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And that's their arrogance.
		They have no clue.
		And, you know, they just think they're super intelligent.
unidentified		The Bible talks about professing yourself to be wise.
		You became a fool.
		And I think we're very foolish across this great globe.
		It just shows us we need to start managing our own business.
		Maybe I'm not an isolationist by Any stretch of the imagination, but we need to seriously consider our world and this, our role in this world and where we're headed as a nation.
		Absolutely.
		I mean, I mean, that's kind of the big thing is, you know, a lot of people, specifically in our, in our side, they were saying, well, the problem wasn't necessarily withdrawing from Afghanistan.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The problem was withdrawing from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength.
unidentified		Like, we basically gave our cards to them and then withdrew.
		And then you get that result.
		And then, I mean, obviously, you saw the cascading effects across the globe where a lot of conflicts kicked back off.
		And I think the general feeling was, well, the Biden admins, A, incompetent, and B, asleep at the wheel.
		And so it kind of just gave them impunity to operate.
		I mean, what difference have you seen in how the world is behaving, broadly speaking, under Biden versus Trump?
		Well, one other thing I want to reiterate, we just armed our enemies with billions of dollars in assets we left on the ground there.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But yeah, I think you're not seeing the aggressive nature towards this country because Trump basically, because he's not going to put up with any crap.
unidentified		He's not going to, you know, when he took out, I can't remember the guy's name now, Solomani.
		I remember, you know, it was leaked pretty quick, some classified pictures of how they identified Solimani is basically by his ring finger because that was about all that was left.
		He had this ugly big old ring on his finger, and there's pictures of him with that ring, you know.
		And so they could identify him through that.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And Trump did it like you're supposed to do.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		He didn't take him out in a crowded airport.
unidentified		He didn't risk the lives of innocent civilians.
		They got him out on some isolated road somewhere.
		And I suspect one of our operatives put a laser pointer on his vehicle and then a missile came in, probably launched stateside even, possibly, and it took that dirt bag out.
		And that's, and he didn't ask Pelosi's permission.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		He didn't ask the United Nations.
unidentified		I remember they all pitched a fit back then.
		That was in the first administration.
		They had this big hearing.
		Why aren't we consulted?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You know, I'll tell you why you weren't consulted because your dumbass big ass mouth would have ran to the media and exposed it and we wouldn't have gotten that dirtbag.
unidentified		That's why you weren't told.
		And it just drives me crazy that what goes on in this world.
		But yeah, it's Trump.
		It's 100% Donald J. Trump is in the White House.
		Look, I don't want him teaching my daughter's dadgum Sunday school class now at the Baptist church, but I sure as heck love him at Pennsylvania Avenue, brother, because America is we're feared once again.
		And our enemies, our enemies fear us, and our friends love us.
		And that's the way it should be.
		And there's very little in between.
		And they're seeing that all over the world.
		You know, they want to gripe and moan about everything going on that we're doing, but we're bringing them to the table and Trump gets it.
		We're going to have a little bit of pain with these tariffs.
		Sure.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And it's going to cost some people some, it's going to cost some people some money.
unidentified		But overall, we're going to, I think we're going to regain our spot because Trump also realizes that Congress is gutless.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We're not going to do anything.
unidentified		And he has to do it through executive orders.
unidentified		Then hopefully we backfill it by passing laws to make it to make it permanent.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We get the guts to do that.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But it remains to be seen if we're going to do that.
unidentified		Absolutely.
		Well, I mean, the general theme I've seen from the Trump admin at large, which is just such a breath of fresh air, is just prioritizing Americans.
		I mean, it's such a radical thought.
		But I mean, you see just all these, it's just the little stuff too.
		It's all just slowly moving in the direction of reprioritizing the American people versus what we saw with Biden.
		Even going back further, what we saw with the Obama administration is, you know, where they just, it seems like they're always apologizing on the behalf of the American people.
		And it's not even, because we're not apologizing.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's just like apologizing for who we are.
unidentified		And it's just embarrassing.
unidentified		So, I mean, I imagine you've probably seen this same theme from the Trump admin.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
unidentified		Absolutely.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They're not apologizing for anything and they shouldn't.
unidentified		We're putting America back where it should be, America first.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And these, oh, that's so arrogant saying America first.
unidentified		With that government, we're Americans.
		Why not?
		Why are we not protecting our border?
		Why are we not going to get our energy here?
		Why are we not looking out for our economic well-being?
		And, you know, why should we be spending millions of dollars for drag shows in Peru or Sesame Street to some Middle Eastern country that hates our guts?
		You know, our State Department should get back in the business of promoting two things, capitalism and democracy.
		And instead of all this other nonsense, drag shows and what have you.
		You know, it's just to me, it's beyond belief that we've allowed that.
		And frankly, as a conservative, what we've done, we've turned over our colleges and our universities to the radical left.
		There's no question.
		Public universities, you know, it's, I don't want to say it's a lost cause, but we've let them become so infiltrated.
		Anytime they say something off, you know, they get blasted for it.
		The presidents and all the apologists come out and say, oh, that was just a person.
		That was their individual viewpoint.
		You know, it's sort of like when I was NPR.
		You remember NPR's deal where they, you know, we cut their funding?
		Let me tell you how some of that went down.
		Marjorie Taylor Green put me on that Doge committee and she and I talk pretty regular.
		I was pulling at my daughter's dually, I was pulling into our farm and I heard on the radio, I had it on NPR.
		I'm not sure.
		Sometimes I just, I think I do opposition research and I was listening.
		Intel.
		Yeah, or somebody's pointing a gun to my head.
		I'm not sure which.
		But anyway, so I'm watching NPR or listen to NPR, excuse me.
		And I'll never forget this.
		They said, they asked one of the hosts, what is your definition of propaganda?
		And they said, Lee Greenwood singing, God bless the USA.
		I nearly ran through the fence.
		I was like, what in the world?
		I thought, is somebody setting me up?
		Is this a joke?
		And I remember I called Marjorie right then.
		I said, Marjorie.
		And she said, you said, you're way ahead of me.
		We're going to have a hearing.
		I'm all over.
		I'm on this like a cheap suit.
		We're going to hit this thing in a couple of weeks.
		And we did.
		And man, Marjorie, she let us unleash and we did.
		And I asked that very question, you know, and I talked about how they, the ugly things the head lady said about President Trump.
		And she had no, she had no answer to that.
		She, you know, they kept saying, well, these are employees.
		And that's what these colleges and universities say.
		But they keep hiring these people, brother.
		And it's the indoctrination that you see.
		You know, I don't want to know your stupid pronoun.
		I'm tired of that stuff.
		Teach kids how to read, write, do arithmetic to get jobs and quit turning them into little socialist monsters that hate everything about this country.
		So sorry I went to preaching.
		I've had two cups of coffee today, so I'm a little wired.
		That's what it's all about.
		No, we love it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, with your fellow congressmen and women, I mean, there has to be a bit of frustration because they've been prioritizing foreign interests and other interests and non-American interests for so long to see this reorientation.
unidentified		And now there's obviously a large cohort within Congress that is in agreement with the MAGA agenda.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what's it like dealing with these cats on a day-to-day basis?
unidentified		Well, a lot of them are voting with their portfolios.
		Let's just be honest.
		That's why they pitch a fit when we talk about blocking stock trades of individual.
		Here's what happened when Biden gave Ukraine our missile defense system, which I didn't vote for.
		I haven't voted for a dime for Ukraine.
		But that's regardless, regardless of the situation.
		We had to replenish or immediately replenish our missile defense system, which we should have.
		It was a multi, multi-billion dollar contract, no bid contract.
		And guess who owns stock in that?
		Members of the committee that had governing jurisdiction of that, both parties, brother.
		I mean, you know, listen, we're not voting for what's right.
		We're voting for our portfolios.
		And I guarantee you, most members of Congress, some of them couldn't even find Ukraine on a dad young map.
		And you know what?
		I got an 18-year-old daughter, and I'm thinking, am I going to send her off to some war that most of these jugheads couldn't find on a map?
		They're all puffed up.
		Oh, we're going to go over there and stomp them.
		You know what?
		It ain't our business to be stomping anybody.
		We need to be protecting right here in America.
		And I mean, this isn't just some toothless redneck talking to you about this.
		This is the reality of what we're doing in Congress and the crooked nature of both parties.
		And please quit calling Washington, D.C. a swamp.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You know, a swamp is something pretty cool God created.
unidentified		It's a, you know, it filters water, the cattails take out the heavy metals and frogs.
unidentified		And it's an ecosystem.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Washington, D.C. is created by man.
unidentified		It is a sewer and it is wide open.
		So, yeah, we got some real problems.
		And the problems, a lot of it has to do with greed, but a lot of it's public record.
		And I hope America pays attention to what's going on with it.
		Absolutely.
		I mean, you hit on it there as the stock trading thing blows my mind, but this is not like this is still an issue.
		I mean, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
		Yeah, you'd think that.
		But here's what happens.
		We'll pass a tough bill in the House and we'll say, yeah, yeah, look what we did.
		And the Senate will pass a tough bill and they won't quite align.
		And then, let me see if I can get that right.
		Yeah, they won't quite align.
		And so, and everybody will go and the Senate will say, oh, the House, they're not tough enough.
		And the House will say, those old people over in the Senate.
		And then next, and then we'll find another bright, shiny object somewhere and we'll chase it.
		And America loses its interest.
		And that's what happens.
		And it's unfortunate.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But we got to hold their feet to the fire.
unidentified		I'd hope in the future we would pay attention.
		I have a bill to do just that.
		And I hope it, I hope in the next few weeks we see some movement on that.
		We need to, you know, these post offices, as I like to say, they're not going to name themselves.
		That's what we do a lot of.
		And we spend in our two-hour workdays and we they throw their Brooks brothers jacket over their shoulder and they're walking around.
		Look how hard we're working for the working people.
		And America's not buying that crap anymore.
		We're not working.
		Either party, let's just get out there and do something for the public and let's do what's right occasionally.
		Yeah, absolutely.
		Or at the very least, give us some stock tips.
		You know, I mean, they're doing it.
		You know what?
		Somebody, I tweeted about one the other day.
		One of our members had, I think, got three or four, maybe 600% return on their investment.
		And I said, you know, they're just rubbing it in your face.
		And somebody said, they need to be arrested.
		I said, for what?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's legal.
		Oh, that's legal.
		That's the thing.
unidentified		That's what we got to change.
unidentified		You shouldn't be doing individual stock trades.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It is an honor to be in the United States Congress.
unidentified		More people have been, have played professional baseball, brother, than have ever, than they've ever worn that little congressional pen they give us.
		So, yeah, I'm ticked off about it.
		It's just, but it just, and I'm never going to quit being ticked off about it because we are crooked as a dog's leg and America needs to wake up about what's going on.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
unidentified		I mean, there's so many, there's so many issues that Congress seems to just be comfortable stiff arming.
		I mean, one that strikes me, and it's a big difference.
		Obviously, the Trump admins, you know, in full court press about it, that the Biden administration was totally asleep at the wheel is like CCP influence.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you're seeing all these different, all these different attack vectors from the CCP.
unidentified		And Congress is just more preoccupied with, you know, talking about, you know, Lesotho, you know, condoms of Lesotho or whatever.
		Yeah, can I share with you one example of that real quick?
		I have a bill, you know, these ancestry.coms or whatever.
		You send a swab in and, you know, you're related to the King Engel.
		Nobody's ever related to a horse thief or anything.
		It's always something glamorous.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But anyway, so what happens with all that data?
unidentified		It goes, they end up selling it to China and I have a bill to make that illegal and I can't get any traction whatsoever.
		And here's what the Chinese are doing.
		This is released.
		This was classified a while back, but apparently it's been released.
		I didn't go to the unclassified briefings on it because that's a trap too.
		You go to a classified briefing, even if you know what they're going to say and you know what they said, you're not allowed to talk about it.
		So I just don't go to them anymore because that's primarily what they do.
		They tell me something I already knew or I could catch it on CNN where some Democrats leaked it in about 30 seconds after the meeting.
		So they do this.
		They buy all our genetic material.
		And now we find out they're creating a genome, which is basically a genetic history of where we are as a people.
		So they're trying to isolate American women of childbearing ages to give them a virus.
		Now, if they can stop population growth in this country completely, you talk about a chilling effect.
		That would be an incredible bit of engineering right there, maybe against pit one group against the other.
		And you could see how quick that could deteriorate.
		And we know that.
		And yet we can't.
		And you know why we can't pass it?
		Because we're gutless, because you've got staffers that are in bed with these K-Street lobbyists who are being paid by some shadow group that's attached to the Chinese Communist Party.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		That's the problem.
unidentified		And we don't have the chairman with the guts.
		They'll say, oh, I can't pass that because my staff's against it.
		Well, who the hell elected their dadgum staff?
		You know, it's beyond belief.
		I mean, we have committees, literally Republican, limited growth, limited government with 50 staff members.
		And then the Democrats have 50 staff members.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There is no way on God's green earth you can control all that.
unidentified		So what you do is you come in there, you're bright-eyed, you're idealistic.
		Oh, I've got this great bill to do this.
		And then the staffer says, oh, I don't know.
		I'm not sure if we can do this or not.
		No, really, why not?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And he said, well, you know, we need to get the data on this thing.
unidentified		And so you get the data.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Oh, okay.
unidentified		Well, what do we do?
		Well, we keep your name or your bill, but we're going to make it a reporting bill.
		We're going to do the report.
		We're going to do the research.
		And then next year, we'll come back with your bill with all these facts.
		And then obviously by next year, you moved on to something else because it's, you know, because of the slow-paced traction of Washington, D.C.
		And then, you know, nothing happens.
		And these reporting bills, brother, did you ever see that last scene in Raiders or they lost art where they're in that warehouse?
		You know, that is where the reporting bills go.
		I've been in Congress and I've never seen a reporting bill reported back to me.
		And I quit voting for those things because they spend two or three million dollars, which is nothing in Washington terms.
		And it pays for some group to do some study or whatever.
		And then the money just goes down some black hole.
		And there you have it.
		And then you get to go home and say, I passed my bill.
		And then, you know, your local newspaper, Tim Burchett passed, you know, the whatever anti-communist bill of the decade, you know, and that's the title of the bill or whatever.
		And they give it all these crazy names.
		And it's very frustrating, but it's very, I'm going to write it.
		When I write my book, Compromise, Congress is Compromised or something like that.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There'll be a chapter on that because that is clearly what's going on.
unidentified		And it's, and it's sickening, but nobody's got the guts to do anything.
		And these chairmen, I call them out in our conference meetings and, you know, I'll have staffers come up to me and say, you're exactly right.
		But then here's the kicker.
		I'm sitting there on the house floor and somebody comes over that's in leadership or in the line of leadership, you know, usually a friend will come up to me and say, hey, British, man, we need to talk.
		Yeah, he said, I've been sent over here to talk to you, man.
		There's some people unhappy.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I said, really, about what?
unidentified		Well, about what you just said on the Timcast or whatever.
		And I'll say, oh, really?
		And he said, what about it don't they like?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And then they'll tell you.
unidentified		And I say, and then I said, last time I said, but it's the truth, right?
		And he said, oh, yeah, it's the truth.
		We just don't want you saying it anymore.
		Right.
		You know, and so that's what we're up against, brother.
		We have got to start calling this stuff out.
		And every time I hear a chairman say, I can't pass this bill because my staff wouldn't allow it, I realize the tail is completely wagging the dog.
		Absolutely.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, with what you're saying, specifically with the CCP and the DNA and that sort of thing.
unidentified		I mean, I haven't heard anything about this.
		It seemed, I mean, you can find out about it, obviously, especially through X now that especially that free speech is in vogue again, which is very refreshing.
		But the press, it's like they just almost refuse to report on these sorts of things.
		Absolutely.
		They do.
		And it's because they're in bed too.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I mean, let's just get it.
unidentified		Let's be honest.
		They're advertisers and things.
		We need to learn a lesson from the civil rights movement where they use the economic power and the dollar casting the dollar vote.
		We need to go to these people and say, hey, you know, whoever's at, you know, whatever car company or truck company, I saw y'all were advertising on this thing.
		He said, I was going to buy a truck from y'all, but I'm going to get somebody else's truck.
		I mean, that's what you've got to literally do, but we don't have the guts.
		We don't have the organization.
		We don't have the follow through because it's not sexy.
		It's not making anybody a big bunch of money.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And frankly, I've always said this, and I'm guilty of this too.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		America wants their pizzas in 30 minutes or less.
unidentified		And that's about our dadgum attention span.
		Yeah, that's absolutely true.
		Well, I mean, one thing I want to ask you about, I guess this is more broadly about the party and the atmosphere in the party, is I feel like with the admin, what we're seeing is very decisive, foot on the gas, flooding the zone.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You hear all these types of terms used.
unidentified		But then with the congressional GOP, sitting on the hands, fear, cowardice, I would say, would be an adjective to describe that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Why is there such a disconnect between the admin and the congressional GOP when it comes to, I mean, making moves?
unidentified		I must be the only guy who doesn't do this mainly because I've been doing this most of my life and I'm 61.
		I think everybody, when they get to Congress, they're looking at a path, a circuitous route to get to be the speaker.
		And that's what, and everybody's figuring that out.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And everybody in leadership realizes they're one or two heartbeats away.
unidentified		Well, if this goes down and I get this and we get this, you know, I could be speaker.
		I must be the only guy in Washington who doesn't want to be speaker.
		And I love my wife and daughter too much.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I don't want to be on the road out begging people for money.
unidentified		And, you know, and that's, and that's what these once, I think once valued jobs have devolved into and you're stuck that way.
		I mean, Mike Johnson has to raise the money and he has to get out on the road every single day away from his family.
		We're, you know, we're one flu season away from not being in the majority, literally, one flu season.
		You know, three or four people get the flu, but we're out.
		And so, so it's just, you know, we've created a monster.
		And to get there, you have to, you have to, to stay there, you have to do a lot of things.
		And And I'm afraid, you know, I remember the former leadership, I was complaining about, and this is one of the reasons I helped depose the former leadership.
		I was complaining about bills not getting to the floor.
		And they said, well, I don't set the agenda.
		I don't set the bills.
		I don't do this.
		I don't do that.
		I don't set the calendar.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I remember it was the word they used.
unidentified		And I said, Nancy Pelosi decided if you had single ply or two ply toilet paper on the house floor.
		If you're dadgum running the show, you need to run the dadgum show because Pelosi sure as heck did.
		She ran the table every day.
		And, but, you know, it's just so big and it's so compartmentalized right now.
		It's just very difficult.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We need a total reorganization of the way we do things.
unidentified		And I, and without the money, though, you can't stay in power.
		And that's part of the problem.
		You got to go out and raise the dad gum money.
		And if you don't, the dark money fills in the gaps and you don't want that because that's what we've had in the past too with our leadership running against Republicans, conservative Republicans, good Republicans, God-fearing people running dirtbags against them using dark money to attack good people.
		Yeah.
		I mean, yeah, you summed it up, the dark money.
		I mean, we're all seeing it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I think us as the base, we see it.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		That's why you're such a threat, dude.
		You're such a threat.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Because people like, I can't tell you how many people are coming to me and said they heard something on your podcast or something.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Hey, did you see this?
unidentified		And honestly, I hate to tell you this.
		I just don't have time to watch everybody's dad gum podcast.
		Right.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You know, it's like millions now.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		I'm trying.
		I'm, I'm trying to, I'm trying to build a skateboard empire.
		And, you know, people are asking me, which is another thing.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		This is pretty funny.
unidentified		Yeah.
		You can do insider stock trading in Congress, but here I am trying to sell some stock.
		I make skateboards.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's cheaper than a psychiatrist.
unidentified		And I've currently got about, I got them in my barn because I can't sell them because legally I've got to do all this, jump through all these hoops.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've got to get an attorney to sell skateboards.
unidentified		And I made, and I just give them away.
		I'm giving one to Tulsi Gabbard for her birthday, which was a few months ago.
		She outed me at the State of the Union address.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		She said, Birchett, she said, my birthday's coming up.
unidentified		Where's my dad gum skateboard?
unidentified		So I had to make her one.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		So there's a video of me riding the skateboard on the Capitol grounds, and that's our skateboard.
unidentified		But anyway, you know, that just tells you the frustration and just the completely crooked nature of Congress.
		It's designed to keep honest people out and people that are just trying to do, you know, I'm not trying to set the world on fire selling skateboards.
		It's just, for me, it's cheaper than a psychiatrist and that could help me pay for my daughter's school a little bit.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But anyway.
unidentified		I love that.
		No, yeah.
		I mean, we have our skateboard brand here at the Boonies.
		So we know all about the skateboard salesman business.
		Well, I appreciate you coming on the chat.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We are, you know, we're running kind of to the end of our time here.
unidentified		Where can people find more of you?
		Oh, at Tim Burchett or Birchett for Congress.
		I've got all kinds of cool swag.
		I say dad gum it a lot because it's cheaper.
		It's cheaper for me than a cuss word.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've got an IOU jar, a cuss word IOU jar.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I got a cuss word jar full of IOUs and I sell my caps on there and stuff for the campaign, but nothing personal.
unidentified		But yeah, you can get me on X at Tim Burchett.
		That's the cool one where I do all the fun stuff.
		But yeah, and I'm in all the social media.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've got Instagram.
unidentified		I don't have a, what's the one that we banned?
		Then we brought it back up.
		TikTok.
		Yeah, I don't have a TikTok.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There's one on there.
unidentified		Somebody was me.
		And I was like, hey, I saw you on TikTok.
		I go, really?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And that guy said, I don't have a TikTok.
unidentified		My guy said, yeah, but I said, yeah, boss, it's a bootleg when somebody's copying you or something.
unidentified		Anyway, you can find me on Facebook and everything.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But hey, look, y'all, we pray for your country and please get involved.
unidentified		Don't let the other side shout you down.
unidentified		It's a great country.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We just got to take it back.
unidentified		Yes, sir.
		Absolutely.
		Well, I love it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, sir.
unidentified		You make me proud to be a Tennessean.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's great.
unidentified		It's great stuff.
		Thanks, brother.
		Appreciate it.
		What part of Tennessee are you from?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I'm from Memphis, suburbs of Memphis.
unidentified		Yeah.
		West Tennessee.
		I'm East Tennessee.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We're on the other end.
unidentified		Y'all make good barbecue over there.
unidentified		True.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We got the barbecue.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You guys got the views.
unidentified		So you got the pretty side over there.
		Yeah, we do.
		Mountains.
		It's awesome.
		Thanks, brother.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Congressman.
unidentified		Until next time.
		It's Tim.
		See you, brother.
		Bye.
		Bye.
		All righty.
		Well, that was Congressman Burchett.
		He said to call him Tim.
		All righty.
		Might have to do that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, that was fantastic.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The CCP DNA stuff is crazy.
unidentified		I mean, the fact that the press isn't all over that is pretty mind-blowing to me because that's very disturbing.
		I think I did Ancestry Dance.
		They probably have my DNA.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		There's probably a clone of me in China right now.
unidentified		There's probably a tate cast over there, and it's all in Mandarin.
unidentified		Who knows?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		But anyway, that was fantastic.
unidentified		That was a great interview.
unidentified		I'm really happy with that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That was a lot of fun.
unidentified		We're going to close out here.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We're running down the clock here in Victory Formation.
unidentified		So take the knee here.
		You can find me on X and Instagram at RealTate Brown.
		We will be back tonight for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m.
		I also put a few segments up today on Timcast News just to give you guys something.
		I mean, it's not, I know I'm though, Tim.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You know, Tim is the master with that kind of stuff, but I figure we can get something up for you while he's still recovering.
unidentified		But hopefully we'll have him back soon.
		And tonight's Timcast IRL will be another post cast.
		So be there for that.
		That's going to be a lot of fun.
		We still got to work out the rest of the panel.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I may be on the panel.
unidentified		I'm not sure yet.
		But posto cast, be there.
		It's going to be fantastic.
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