Viva & Barnes - Live with Shawn Farash! Trump Impersonator and Conservative Activist! Viva Frei Interviews!

Oct. 16, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Live with Shawn Farash! Trump Impersonator and Conservative Activist! Viva Frei Interviews!

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	Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs.
	There's an old expression that the dead, the crazy, and the stupid all have one thing in common.
	They don't know that they are.
	Introducing today's intro video.
	Behold.
	The party that promised to defeat the deep state very quickly became the deep state.
	Am Bondi says, I have the list on my desk right here.
	They're rather silent for a few months.
	Then Elon Musk says Trump is in the Epstein list.
	Then within weeks, apparently the list is gone.
	I mean, I'm looking at this photo of Jack Basobiac holding up the Epstein files.
	It says the Epstein files, phase one.
	But where's phase two?
	There's no phase two.
	He actually helped Epstein be prosecuted.
	He was the only person who was involved, kicked him out of the Epstein.
	You know all this.
	Like it's just a very good thing.
	Have you heard of Alexander Acosta?
	You were duped to cover sexual abuse children.
	You were doomed out of this.
	Alexander Acosta was a Florida district attorney.
	You could look this up.
	He knew both Trump and Epstein.
	He was appointed as a secretary of labor under Trump and had to resign in 2017 because people found out that he mishandled the Epstein case in 2007 and let Epstein get an illegal plea deal.
	Epstein was then able to go re-offend, and Trump appointed him in 2017.
	So I don't want to hear the dude that was brought to the White House to cover up sexual abuse, saying that there was like what do you try to say here?
	Yeah.
	You gotta wipe your face.
	What are you trying to say here?
	I I need to flesh this out for people because they don't seem to understand the abject stupidity of the theory they're putting forward.
	This man right here, his name is um Adam Mockler.
	It's a very fitting name.
	Noman Est Omen.
	There's a there's an indication in the name.
	It's very easy to mock Mockler.
	The theory is that um the DOJ is protecting Trump because Elon Musk revealed that Trump's name was in the Epstein files.
	So Trump, in the debacle that is the rollout or absence thereof of the Epstein files, um, is being protected by his DOJ because they've found out that Trump is in the files, man, and so they can't release them anymore.
	To which I would say, if Trump is in the files and the Biden DOJ, which had the DOJ, FBI, CIA, all the uh the intelligence apparatus and the media did not reveal the fact that Trump was in the Epstein files, then the Biden DOJ is covering up for sexual abuse.
	That is operating on the theory of the individual, Adam Mock, that if I accept your idiotic theory that Trump is in the files in an incriminating way, and that the DOJ now is protecting Trump by not releasing the files, then Biden and the entire Biden DOJ similarly protected Trump by not releasing the files.
	Now, some people on the internet say, Viva, that's totally stupid.
	You don't know the you're you're you're omitting the totally obvious argument.
	They're all protecting themselves.
	They can't release the files and incriminate Trump without incriminating themselves, so they can't release any of it.
	To which I would say, you think that they wouldn't selectively leak incriminating information on Trump?
	As if they would need to release everything to just release a photograph, a flight log of Trump going to the island of Trump with whomever.
	They couldn't selectively leak any element that would incriminate Trump.
	You know, like a certain body letter that they just released, which they thought implicated Trump and Epstein files.
	No.
	It's impossible.
	They could not reveal that Trump was in the files without revealing all of them.
	So they have to protect Trump.
	They have to protect Trump while simultaneously trying to jail Trump, bankrupt Trump, and kill Trump.
	It's idiotic.
	And so you operate on the premise of their own theory.
	Okay, there's incriminating information on Trump in the files.
	That's why they're uh not releasing it.
	They're protecting uh and all those influencers who got railroaded by Pam Bondi and Bindergate are protecting uh sexual abuse.
	Well, then so was the entire Biden DOJ.
	Although we we do know that.
	I just have to start with that.
	It was either that or I have to start with something on topic for today's show, uh, which is going to be uh an evening with Sean Farage.
	Just an evening, you might say.
	Okay, that's an old Simpsons reference.
	Um if you don't know who Sean Farage is, I mean, you do know he is because this actually happened because of the community.
	Uh he's hilarious, but he's a lot more than just an amazing Trump impersonation.
	We're gonna get there in a second.
	But if you didn't know who Sean Farage was, and like some of you say, go Google it.
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	Without further ado, because I don't like keeping guests waiting.
	Sean Farage.
	I mean, I I was going down the rabbit hole.
	Actually, I'll do something in a bit when he's up here.
	Uh, if you don't know who he is, he's more than just a Trump impersonation.
	In fact, the funny thing is many of you might only know him because of his viral content.
	Uh, dude's uh accomplished at a very young age.
	Sean, first of all, I might call you Nigel a few times today because Nigel Farage and Sean Farage.
	Okay, I'm joking.
	I've just no, that was my that was my this is why I don't just stand up, sir.
	For those who may not know who you are, give him a 30,000 foot overview.
	Um I like to make a lot of noise.
	Uh I've done a bunch of of conservative activism back when I lived in um in in New York on Long Island.
	And uh I I'm also uh on LFA TV Monday through Friday.
	We do our show here on Rumble.
	Actually, LFA TV is one of the first networks to ever stream on Rumble, long time ago.
	Um it's been amazing to be a part of a project like that and to to be able to to hang with so many, you know, folks who who got away from censorship and left YouTube, left the garbage platforms and came to Rumble.
	We do it every morning.
	So uh it's always fun.
	And that's that's kind of where I'm at, 30,000 foot view.
	I make a lot of noise on some social media platforms, and uh, we try to have some fun along the way.
	This is it right here, LFA TV.
	It's live from America, not let's fuck around television.
	I throw that's right.
	Is there intended to be a double entente with that?
	I don't know.
	Uh I don't have to ask around about that, but yeah, that's what it is.
	All right.
	How, if I may ask, because you look uh strikingly young for someone who's as um accomplished in activism as you are.
	How old are you?
	I'm 34.
	So um you're older than you look, which is a good thing.
	Uh so born and raised in New York City.
	On Long Island, Long Island, New York, yeah.
	What's the difference between Long Island and New York?
	Uh Long Island is not imposed upon it but city taxes from New York City.
	So Long Island is a part of the state of New York, but it is the suburbs.
	It is its own place that is kind of less than um less woke or so, or now it's a lot less woke after what we did in the uh, you know, the season 2020 election season from then up until now.
	I mean, there's a there's a huge movement on Long Island that's just killing it right now.
	And and it is the reason why Nassau County, which is the western county of Long Island, has a Republican county executive, right?
	So Long Island is uh it's a cool place, but it's a little overcrowded.
	And it's still New York, but it's just not the city.
	Uh first of all, I I know it's an island, everybody, and I suspect it's long as well.
	Uh, the only I was just joking in terms of whether or not there's like an identity uh distinction between Long Island as there is for Brooklyn, Jersey Shore.
	Um, so now if I may ask, uh I'm I'm delving into childhood.
	How many siblings do you have?
	What do your parents do?
	How many generations American are you?
	So uh I am I believe third generation American.
	So my no, actually, I want to say, no, no, no, I'm not.
	Yeah, yeah, third generation American.
	I'm barely certain.
	Um my mom used to work in school.
	She's retired.
	My dad used to do a lot of uh payroll and whatnot for companies in the city.
	He's retired.
	Um, I've got one sister, one sibling, and uh, and she's got a really cool boyfriend, and um, and and good things are happening over there.
	So uh yeah, it's it it was it was a fun, it was a fun time on Long Island, you know, for 31 years, and then my then girlfriend, now wife, we fled.
	We got out, it was too much.
	Kathy Hokel had just won re-election.
	That's enough.
	We're here in Tennessee.
	Uh, we moved here in 2023, and we just bought a house here uh because again, you know, a state that doesn't take your money, you know, allows you to spend it on things you want to spend it on and and make those investments into your life into your future.
	So uh we just bought a house in Murphy'sboro, Tennessee, where we were swatted earlier this year.
	Yeah, we were swatted about two months after we moved in, the whole road gets shut down.
	I'm passed out on the couch, man.
	I'll tell you, we were ripping out a chain link fence in the backyard that we didn't want.
	My wife comes running in, and I heard about other people on X like Gunther Eagle, McNick's order, you know, cat turd, Joe Pags, getting SWAT uh earlier in the week.
	And uh my wife comes running in and she goes, Sean, there's there's cops in our yard but guns, and she was terrified.
	Um it was a wild experience.
	But yeah, two months after we move in, um, we're we're getting swatted in all the neighborhood now.
	Is like, who are these people?
	Okay, well, we're gonna I'm gonna we're gonna get detoured for a second on this because I've got a I gotta ask a few more questions, but it sometimes I think people not use the word swatted loosely, but you know, a knock on the door from police is not what people typically uh envision when they envision getting swatted.
	Are these cops coming with guns drawn into your backyard?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I woke up to my wife scared, obviously.
	Um, and people in the yard uh with their guns kind of peeking around the the the shed, and they had them drawn, and then in the front yard as well.
	Uh they were outside in the front yard and they had them drawn.
	And when we came out, we had to have our hands up and they patted us down.
	Oh, yeah.
	And what I've got some cool video of that.
	I mean, it's it's not a great moment to kind of have to relive because it was scary.
	Um, but when we found out, and I said, I said to my wife, I said, look, we just gotta we didn't do anything wrong.
	I promise you we didn't do anything wrong.
	They are gonna find out we didn't do anything wrong, but we gotta stay, you know, we gotta stay calm and you know, because this is a tense situation.
	And that's it.
	We walked outside, you know, we basically shut everything off emotionally, shut everything off.
	There you go.
	There's the pat down.
	And uh, and then we spoke to the cops and you know, proved that there was no threat.
	But yeah.
	What um what were they told the threat was?
	Oh man, unbelievable.
	So uh this actually here is um a copy of the 911 call that I I got and I listened to it.
	Um quite a uh the person sold it real well.
	Um the the guy who called in, called in a uh fake double homicide in my house.
	Uh said that I killed both of my parents, and uh that they're that they're bled out all over, and that I was planning to take my own life via suicide by cop, right?
	So the cops came to the house real tense.
	That was the goal of that whole thing.
	Luckily, um the call disconnected.
	Okay, and so they looked up the house, the homeowner, um, and I guess got my phone number.
	Either that or the person on the phone is giving the phone number, I can't really tell.
	Um, but they called me and told me this is the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department, this is what we got, you know.
	And I said, Look, I I can tell you all, you know, I swear to you, a hundred thousand percent that's not what's happening in the house, but I can demonstrate that as well.
	You just tell me what to do.
	And that's what we wound up doing.
	It was wild, just wild.
	Did they I just I don't know if you know these details?
	Did they find the the guy who who called in the SWAT?
	We're led to believe that somebody somewhere did because all of the activity uh is is is done.
	I mean, They were sending us pizzas too at the end of that, like for weeks.
	And then they sent my mom pizza in New York.
	My mother-in-law, you know, they sent uh they sent pizza to where my grandfather used to live.
	He passed away a year and a half ago.
	I mean, these people went in and just found everything and just it was wild.
	The level of and then it just stopped.
	So I'm led to believe by that.
	It's a couple conversations that I've had that I think they they they found out who it was and are working on you know fixing it and all that.
	And obviously, I'm like, I was gonna make the joke.
	You don't eat the pizza, you're not eating anything that is being um I mean I I'm worried about like you know getting poisoned just randomly.
	Well, that's what we said.
	We said we don't know if these are dominoes.
	This could be, you know, some sick member of Antifa dressing us up as dominoes with you know, heaven knows what on the pizza.
	So to self-don't eat the pizza.
	So hold on.
	So okay.
	So the call comes in.
	Do you know if they have a number on the call?
	Or did or do they say uh yeah?
	So they have a number on the call.
	I how do they not trace the number to determine the legitimacy of the call before deploying forget resources?
	I mean, the resources are one consideration, but before deploying what could turn into lethal force, if you as an innocent homeowner don't know this is coming, and you see people coming into your backyard, you might think they're intruders.
	You pull out a gun, you're dead, and and this is the way SWATs go down.
	Uh how do what what did you ask what verification they do on their end before deploying SWAT force?
	I actually never asked that question.
	I never even thought of that question until you just asked it.
	Um the call was traced to some sort of Google voice number out of California.
	Um, obviously, you know, it doesn't matter what area code it's coming from or anything like that in the in real time, they're hearing something like this, their first thing is respond.
	Um, which honestly it kind of makes sense to me.
	I mean, if I were the police department and I heard a call like that, I can't say it might not be real because what if it is, right?
	Like, what if that is happening?
	But you also don't want to you also don't want to waste resources on that while there could be a real problem, you know, elsewhere down the road.
	So I never asked though if they verify the authenticity of the number or anything like that before they deploy those things.
	I'm not sure if if there even is a protocol for that.
	It may just be go straight to it's better to be safe than sorry and deploy, which you know leaves them kind of vulnerable.
	Yeah, you know, I mean leaves them vulnerable.
	And I I was told as you know, a just a precautionary measure to make friends with your local uh police office, whoever's gonna be the one to deploy, so that A, if they know that you might be uh prone or the the object of these types of SWATs, you had only been there for a couple of months, I presume you know, local law enforcement didn't even well, why would like I'm just trying to think of like why you'd be a political target for a swatting in the first place, but knowing your activism, it makes a little more sense.
	You're not just I say not just uh uh an impersonator or comedian, you're you you actually affect political change, which makes you um a target, I guess, for that.
	Okay, wild back it up all the way back to childhood now, though, because I gotta know this.
	Uh, were you a problem child?
	Were you you know public school uh rebellious child?
	What was childhood like?
	I definitely wouldn't say I was a problem child.
	Uh I'll definitely say that I might have been a problem for some of my school teachers, not in a bad way, but just because I'm a wise ass, you know.
	And so like I I that's just who I am.
	So I was a class clown, hard to imagine, right?
	Um, I was uh, but good grades, though.
	I mean, got through high school, got through college.
	It was just like I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm passing, so just leave me alone kind of deal, right?
	Um, a little, I would say a little rebellious, but not too crazy.
	Uh not too crazy, you know.
	Nothing, nothing certainly that would.
	I mean, there are people who would put me to shame on that on that one, which I'm glad you guys have your fun with the law.
	You know, I I generally tried to stay out of trouble, but uh, but definitely a lot of energy.
	And if you could imagine, I mean, again, hard to imagine.
	I'm doing these these these memes and whatnot on the internet.
	I was a bit of a class clown and um I loved every second of it.
	Somebody says ask him about his boat days, and I don't know if that's an inside joke or someone who knows boat days, my boat days.
	I'm trying to think about okay now.
	I know who that is, I know who that is, and I he's a friend.
	Okay.
	Uh, I just I'm trying to, I'm trying to remember what he's doing.
	It'll come back.
	What did you uh what did you study in university?
	I went to school for radio.
	Uh I wanted to do sports talk, and then I realized that, you know, because I'm a Jets fan, unfortunately.
	Um, you know, then I realized every time the Jets lose, my taxes don't go up.
	But every time Democrats win, they do.
	So I was like politics a little more important.
	Jets jets are football, correct?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, yeah.
	Allegedly, they allegedly play football if that's what you call it.
	So you know they allegedly.
	This is very cool.
	You got what does school for radio look uh look sound like?
	I mean, you study, I guess, basic journalism, journalistic skills.
	Do you have like a voice training class?
	Because you not really radio voice.
	No, not really.
	So the so the program was at Hopster University.
	And honestly, um, I wish the program was a little more geared to radio because it just like every you know university, you got to take these classes that just don't matter, right?
	You know, it was there was just some things that I I mean, literally to satisfy my math requirement.
	It was a class that half of the half the semester we we drew, if you remember like fourth grade, like fraction bars where you divide the rectangle, we drew pictures.
	So I was like, why do I even have to do this?
	It was ridiculous.
	But you know, I hated math, so I was wanted to do something that I wasn't gonna need math for anyway, hence radio.
	But um, the the subject related classes were great, right?
	It was a lot of production.
	Um, there were they mixed in a little bit of film, which at the time I was like, this is silly, but thankfully, now you know, seeing where content has gone on the internet, there's not a lot of people doing only audio these days, right?
	So it's nice to have a little bit of film mixed in, although that is like my weak point, I would say.
	But um, other radio classes were like, you know, feature production, um, you know, storytelling, things like that.
	One of my favorites was we had to recreate um one of our favorite movie trailers, and it was syncing audio to video.
	And that was where I really had the most fun, probably in any of my radio classes was because we had to record voiceovers for each other, right?
	So I chose the movie Zero Dark 30.
	I was grabbing some people and they were recording things for me.
	And then they were like, hey, can you help me on mine?
	I need some guy with you know a southern accent or something.
	So I was doing everybody's different voices and sounds and all this.
	They nicknamed me in the class Robin Williams before he took his life, which was a tragedy.
	And I loved him because he was so spontaneously funny, he was smart, he was he was real sharp, right?
	So I was you know, rolling around classes doing everyone's voiceovers, and then we play our projects, and people were like, hey, who did that voice?
	And it's my hand every time.
	It was so much fun uh to do that.
	I used to always love doing that, so now here we are, right?
	Kind of doing the same thing.
	It's a little different being how it's not really for radio anymore, it's online content, but it's it's a long lines the same thing.
	Zero Dark 30.
	I feel like a bum because I've never seen it.
	You're you're young enough that the movies that you were into were after I lost uh any hope in movies.
	Is it a good movie?
	Yeah, it was about the uh Manhunt for Osama bin Laden, which is pretty good.
	I'll watch it.
	Uh so you say so you get a degree.
	Now you get a degree in this.
	Uh, did did you get did you finish it?
	Yep, yeah, finish it.
	What is the aspiration like when you get out of now you've got a degree in in radio broadcasting, whatever the title for the degree is, what do you get by way of a job?
	Um, it's tough, right?
	The industry's tough.
	So there were no jobs open in radio.
	I kind of felt like that would be the case.
	Um, I I was looking at sports talk, right?
	I was in New York looking at WFAN.
	Um, but they had a pretty solid schedule.
	So, you know, rather than than do nothing, I go right into sales and I started, you know, it was a lot of fun.
	I always liked talking to people anyway.
	So I sold direct TV, um, the the satellite television product here, and uh, and that's where I really started to figure out that I could sound like Donald Trump.
	It was it was doing those pitches to people who were afraid to lose Fox News, and I would start pitching them in Trump's voice, and they would laugh and they would buy.
	And I was like, this is pretty cool.
	Um, so I mean, and this is not uh not in any elitist way at all.
	There's no but you get a degree, and then you you go into sales for direct TV, and it's what is it?
	It's like a a base salary plus commission.
	Yep, yep.
	And you gotta sell direct TV, which is an easy, it's an easy sell because it's a good product.
	I mean, that's I say it's good in that people use it, it's not like uh pills or or vitamins or you know, but that people don't necessarily need or you have to sell them on people watch TV.
	Uh and so you start using Trump's voice as a as a shtick when doing it, and you you outperform everybody?
	Well, it was yeah, it was it was a lot of fun.
	I'd have people watch me and and uh you know, or if I was training somebody and they would see me do that, and I would tell them, I would be like, Look, you don't have to do Trump in the middle of the pitch.
	The point that I'm showing you is have fun.
	So for instance, if I had somebody uh with me, A customer with me, and I was, you know, talking to them about the service.
	You know, obviously their question when they switch services, am I going to keep and then whatever my favorite channel is, right?
	So, or he was either that or I asked them, what is your favorite channel?
	So we could start, you know, I had a display in front.
	I was able to put it on and things.
	Um, but my favorite question to get was if I switch, am I gonna lose Fox News?
	Right now I know who I'm dealing with.
	And I would just look at them and I would say, Do I look like or sad like somebody who would ever take that away from you?
	We're not gonna let it happen.
	And they start laughing, laughing in the middle of the pitch.
	And I'm like, it was that was good, huh?
	But no, you won't lose Fox News.
	And they're like, that was so funny.
	And then, you know, it helps you build the relationship.
	And now they want to buy because they had a good time, you know, listening.
	I mean, it wasn't 100% success rate.
	And there were more things that I would do selling the product, but besides Trump, but that's where I really started to use it and in front of people, right?
	In front of people, it was a lot of fun.
	Um, I got how tall are you?
	I'm only asking this because if you're like a small person like me, when you do a Trump voice, people might get lost in the small stature.
	If you're American, you're six feet tall.
	Um, yeah, 5'11.
	Oh my goodness.
	Okay.
	So it okay, and now we're gonna get into the technique of the voice because I you have to bend your your your vocal cords to make it happen.
	And I presume if you can do Trump's voice, you can do uh other people who have a similar type of constraining voice box.
	It's funny is I haven't uh I haven't tried necessarily doing other people um other than maybe a little bit of Bernie, it's not that good only if I yell and scream and a little bit of Biden, same deal.
	Uh, but I I haven't even tried to do other people besides Trump because Trump's the most well-known person in the world.
	Like why why even I mean, I would love to have a deeper repertoire, right?
	For for example, uh, if I was able to um, you know, to my liking, do a Biden, I could debate with myself and then probably drive myself a little crazy.
	But it would be funny.
	But, you know, I I'm looking at it going, well, you know, you're impersonating the most well-known person in the world.
	When you do it, everyone knows what you're doing.
	It's not like who are you trying to sound like everyone knows, you know, so you don't have to explain yourself.
	Um, so I don't really, I haven't really tried doing uh folks with with similar voices.
	I I think I'm tainted only because Tyler Fisher, you I presume you know him.
	You could you kind of visually remind me of him, but he does I would imagine you could do a Jordan Peterson, you could do a um I hear a little bit of Bill Burr in you, but that is just the accent, not necessarily the voice.
	Okay, so let's see this.
	You you working in in selling uh direct TV for this is what year to what year now, like 2016 to 2019?
	I'd say probably 15 to 17 or 15 to 18 or 16 to 18, something like that.
	But it was before it was during Trump's 2016 run.
	So it was a ton of fun.
	I actually, election night, I was working.
	And with my direct TV display, it was just election coverage.
	And Florida was coming in, and I was I was chewing my fingernails off.
	They were gone by the time I got home, Florida was Florida had been called for Trump, but I had no fingernails left.
	Amazing.
	And when do you when do you get out of that?
	And when do you get into the activism?
	Because now I I if I understand right, like your political activism changing Long Island begins in 2020 or slightly before.
	2020.
	So I left direct TV, started working for Sherwin Williams, um, the paint company.
	And again, a lot of fun.
	It's selling paint.
	I'm in the store, I'm dealing with blue-collar people all day long, you know, red-blooded conservatives, these guys coming in running painting crews, the greatest guys, right?
	I mean, these people take a beating.
	You hear about the trades all the time.
	No one talks about the painters.
	These guys take a beating.
	They were coming in.
	I mean, just I would not want to do that job, but they all did it and they made a ton of money doing it, but it's a hard job.
	So working with those guys, uh, Sherwin Williams in the store, but serving them and selling to them.
	Uh, and of course, homeowners too.
	And COVID hit our corporation, you know, the company was able to stay open.
	They apparently were able to find a loophole where Sherwin Williams, believe it or not, qualified as an as an essential business in New York.
	So we were able to work, so that really didn't hurt me.
	They gave us a little bit extra, like pandemic increase bonus, whatever during the thing, and uh and and cut our hours a little bit, but still paid us the same.
	So the company actually really took care of the employees during that time, which was amazing to be a part of.
	Um, but it was because of Cuomo's over-aggressive, Overaggressive, you know, policies and his really tyranny during COVID.
	I mean, some of these rules that he put in place were just ridiculous.
	That come September, after all the George Floyd stuff, I decided it was time to get some people out.
	We were going to flag up our cars.
	We were just going to drive in a in a you know a caravan from one point to one point.
	And I figured, you know, it'll be something.
	It'll be fun.
	Ha ha, a little gag.
	Um I thought 50 vehicles would show up, wound up being about 300 that first go around.
	And then um, by by the second version of that event, about 14 days after, uh, there were about 3,000 vehicles on the road.
	So it started to become a thing, and that turned into uh a pretty great group of people who made some really special things happen between 2020 and 2022.
	So initially, what was it?
	The intended purpose was just uh an uh a proud convoy of American parts and then driving up and down the street.
	Yep, that was it.
	And it was all it was supposed to be.
	And what did it morph into?
	It morphed into a massive political movement that flipped, I would say close to 50 to 60 school board seats over the course of two seasons, um, you know, so two election seasons, uh, that beat up the New York State Teachers Union in those races where they started spending lots and lots of money on Long Island.
	Uh a county executive was elected in Nassau County, a district attorney was elected in Nassau County.
	That's the western county of Long Island, that's the more Democratic county of Long Island.
	Um, you had a Republican district attorney that played a huge role with uh with Donald Trump in his first administration cleaning up MS-13 on Long Island, which is a problem in Brentwood.
	Uh that was district attorney Ray Tierney.
	He got elected in that in that wave.
	Library seats change hand, as I said, school board seats change hand, uh county legislators seats changed hands.
	And and then you go into election season in 2022, our group, uh, it's still going.
	My friend Kevin Smith runs it.
	It was called the loud majority.
	Um he he's still keeping it going, but into 2022, we took a uh a pretty big um not role, but we played, we tried to help as much as we could with the Zeldon campaign, and obviously five five uh points or so short.
	But um it was it turned into something special, it was crazy.
	Well, it sounds it sounds like what you're describing is what I think more people might be familiar with, like the Scott Pressler of Pennsylvania in terms of boots on the ground, knocks on the doors.
	Um and people always, you know, they ask me as if I could possibly know I'm Canadian Schnook.
	I I ran for office, but it was a uh a race to lose, just so uh, you know, I could start finally speaking my mind.
	But people say, like, where do you start?
	And the answer I'm always told is uh from the grassroots up, you don't go after the presidency, you go for local politics.
	How what goes into and how do you influence those those lower level, uh not lower level in the hierarchy, but just you know, more local positions?
	How do you go about uh impacting change and getting the candidate that you want in?
	Well, I mean, it's it's tough, dude.
	You gotta you really get burned out doing it because you have to be paying attention to literally every little thing.
	And so when we were, and and I'm not saying like I'm talking about issue by issue when I say every little thing, right?
	Um when we had gotten after 2020, and you know, January 6th was in the rearview mirror, and uh, you know, we're we're like, should we organize?
	What are we gonna do?
	Is there gonna be a crackdown?
	Kind of figuring out next steps.
	We we pivoted hard to state governor, and at that point it was gonna be uh Cuomo versus somebody on the Republican side.
	There were rumors about Zeldon, and then he announces a few months after that.
	Um, but and we were very excited because he's from Long Island, right?
	And we knew him.
	He's in a really, really good guy.
	Um, but uh we said in the meantime, you know, there are local races.
	It's 2021, it's an off year.
	So the county stuff is up and the school boards are up every year.
	And uh we got a call, Kevin and I one one evening from a parent in Smithtown, Long Island, and uh, and that parent was like critical race theory, DEI, it's in our schools.
	I got the receipts, and we stayed on the phone with her for a few hours.
	And um, and that phone call led us to the horrors of what was happening in public education and the school board uh school board summer, right?
	And and the you know, the the the parents, the anti-mask parents, not anti-mask, anti-mandate parents who were going to bat for their kids night after night school board meeting after school board meeting.
	It earned us a place on the SPLC's hate hate list and uh and some pretty nasty media, but we won a lot.
	We did, we won a lot.
	So uh just take a concrete example, like um uh uh i in that type of school board issue.
	How many votes?
	How many people vote to decide who gets the seat?
	Are we talking hundreds of thousands at most?
	About tens of thousands of it.
	Okay.
	You know, it's it's it's it's like 10 to 15 in in big districts and smaller districts, it's a little less.
	I mean, turnout's abysmal.
	So we were trying to get, you know, some folks are like, I don't have kids in the district.
	I said, No, but this is an America first issue, right?
	Because the your future leaders are gonna be indoctrinated in that school or that school or that school.
	You see, do you you pay property taxes?
	You fund it.
	Would you like to fund good education or bad education?
	Do you want to fund, you know, kids uh fund education that's gonna teach kids that America is not not a place worth hating and teach them how to critically think instead of what to critically think about and things like that.
	And they oh, that makes sense.
	And we get them out and we have these conversations, and I mean it was hundreds of conversations, thousands of conversations like this, but it got people out.
	And the best part is a lot of people met new friends this way.
	And to this day, I mean, there was a couple who I went to their wedding last November, uh, that found each other through this movement, and their first date was in Washington, DC on January 6th.
	You can't make this stuff up, man.
	This is it is it's a great American story.
	That's fantastic.
	Now, 15,000 is a big number.
	What percentage of the um what's the word?
	The voting pool is that.
	Are you does it like five percent that show up or 10%?
	Oh, I don't know that number off the top of my head.
	No, and that's a a big turnout, so you knew if you could, yeah, you gotta find a way to get half plus one or a plurality, right?
	And multi-candidate races, and it was you know, tough, but we just wanted to be visible.
	We would promote our uh oh, there's Anna Kaplan.
	This is yeah, ridiculous.
	She compared me to a terrorist, by the way.
	Two Long Island groups.
	I mean here Nassau County based Long Island Mutual Assistance Group and suffered where it's here.
	Long Island loud majority were among 488 extreme anti-government groups active in who's Anna M. Kaplan.
	Um, well, you see if it says you see what it says up on the top.
	This is grab so I am so happy you found this former New York State Senator.
	So there's a good role, there's a good um story attached to the former.
	She uh she didn't like us, as you could tell.
	Um, she co-sponsored hate speech laws in New York that wound up passing because she didn't like what we said on our podcast.
	And um she compared us to uh Timothy McVeigh, um, because of a comment that I made on our podcast, keeping everybody informed.
	Uh I said that you know, it's to me it's not the L's or the G's or the Bs, but the T's are getting a little dangerous, right?
	Talking about they're going after middle schoolers and everything.
	And she called that, you know, comments that were akin to Timothy McVay or Ruby Ridge causing anti-government extremism and basically called me a terrorist.
	So uh obviously it became personal at that point, and uh we saw to it through our influence and through motivation that she did in fact become a former state senator during the 2022 election, and she has not held elected office since.
	So I'm very happy to report that.
	What is she doing now?
	Do you know?
	I have no idea, but she's not calling me a terrorist anymore because the last time she did it, she lost she lost something that was near and dear to her, was which was her office.
	No, but I can you imagine anybody thinking that being anti-government is a bad thing.
	Like I I think the only people who could say that are liberals and democrats who want more.
	And I mean to cut you off, but the funny part about anti-government is actually we were helping people get elected into local government roles, and we started in 2020 in favor of Trump.
	So are we a pro-government extremist group at that point?
	Well, you're you're a pro-antic.
	Because they're still going.
	Are they a pro-government group right now?
	Extremists.
	I mean, someone should ask the SPLC.
	That is wild.
	Um, okay, so hold on.
	So that's amazing.
	So you do that, and then when do you decide to up and leave to Tennessee?
	It was after the uh 2022 midterms after the Zeldon election.
	I had dealt with Kathy Hokel too much.
	We had been targeted in a little bit of a way, we think, uh, with this phantom.
	Flesh that out.
	Yeah, Phantom is a speeding ticket I got in the mail that was citing me driving without insurance.
	Um, I don't ever recall being pulled over for driving without insurance, nor would I ever had no insurance.
	Uh the crazy part about it was I had learned about this ticket through the mail saying that my license was going to be suspended.
	Um and I said, What for?
	And I went down to the clerk and they said, Oh, well, we can give you a restricted license.
	And you know, I was no, I didn't do anything wrong.
	What do you mean restrict?
	They said I missed a court date, this whole thing.
	Now, I don't ever remember getting pulled over for driving without insurance, nor would I be cited for it because I always had insurance.
	So I knew something was odd.
	Um, the license plate that was on this ticket that they wrote me for, this is the craziest thing was a license plate that was of my former vehicle.
	Okay.
	So the ticket was written for July of 2020 or no, of uh February of 2020, I believe was when the ticket was written for.
	I was driving um a black Chevy Cruise at that point, a compact car.
	Okay.
	Um they wrote me for a license plate that was on the vehicle that I had before that.
	And even better, I had proof that that license plate that they wrote on the ticket was my plate, was destroyed 13 months prior to the ticket being written.
	I had the the I had the destruction uh form from 13 months ago.
	So those plates didn't exist.
	Why is it on that ticket, right?
	So there were a lot of strange things about it.
	Obviously, that got dropped, and I said, I don't know what that was.
	I don't want to know what that was.
	We're out and we're going to Tennessee.
	And this is uh, well, I mean, we're gonna get into some contemporary stuff now.
	So this is before uh it looks like you're gonna have a full-fledged commie uh Zoran Mamdani.
	That's New York City, so not a mayor, but uh it's only gotten worse.
	I mean, and and okay, that so you leave, you go to Tennessee.
	How'd you pick Tennessee?
	Um, we came here on the midterm night, election night, uh, for a Clay and Buck um election night party.
	Clay Craig Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton.
	We were invited to that, and we came and then uh we got the results.
	And uh my wife, my then girlfriend, now wife was saying, What do you think about Tennessee?
	I said, Don't you want to do Florida?
	She's yeah, but Tennessee.
	Let's try Tennessee.
	I said, they don't have an income tax either.
	Let's go look.
	And we looked at apartments.
	We found an apartment in the Nashville area in 2023, early 2023.
	And um, we saw that area start to degrade.
	So we moved out to uh Spring Hill, Spring Hill, Tennessee, last year.
	And now we are in uh Murphysboro with our home, and thankfully we'll not be moving again.
	Uh, we're done moving for a while.
	All right.
	Now, someone asked me to say I don't and I don't know if it was a troll, but they wanted me to ask you when you're gonna fire Bondy.
	And I don't know if they wanted it in Trump's voice, but I'm gonna take a serious element out of that and not uh treat you like an object and ask you to perform because first of all, does that get annoying at any point?
	Like when people know you for that, and then it's like you become the dance monkey where like everybody wants you to do the thing, and then do you have a no?
	It's not that it's not annoying.
	It's fun in most cases, it's a lot of fun.
	You see, I grew up watching Whose Line Is It Anyway, so I actually prefer being put on the spot, you know, versus having something prepared.
	Every Tuesday night, I'm on X in a in a bunch of spaces, and we do these like phantom press conferences, and they're funny.
	I don't know what they're gonna ask me.
	It's usually a ridiculous question or something.
	It's you know, all conservative friends of mine online, but it's I I love when I get put on the spot and I the wheels have to turn or nothing comes out.
	It's like it's my most, you know, my one of my most favorite things to do.
	Well, uh it what is it?
	I mean, I don't want to put you on the spot with a political question.
	Uh, how are you loving the Trump administration now?
	For well, let's back it up.
	Where were you on July 13?
	Where was I on July 13?
	Yes.
	So I was in uh Spring Hill in our apartment.
	We just dropped my friend off at the airport.
	He was uh my friend from New York, long time friend of mine.
	Um, and we dropped him off the airport, came home, and here we go again.
	The trend of when I fall asleep on the couch, bad things happen.
	My wife wakes me up and she goes, Sean, there's been a shooting at the Trump rally.
	You might want to be awake for this.
	And I was like, What do you mean a shooting?
	She said, Yeah, they're calling it an assassination attempt.
	I said, That's impossible.
	It was the Secret Service.
	That can't be.
	And I turned in, you know, I turned on YouTube TV, I forget what channel, probably Fox News or News Max.
	And uh there it was.
	You know, there it was, you know, the blood off his ear.
	And then my phone started going, what's going on?
	Who's doing this?
	Who's doing that?
	Um it was unbelievable.
	Just wild.
	Uh, but that's where I was.
	I was asleep until I wasn't asleep.
	And then I didn't sleep for a while.
	Someone said Viva has bags under his eyes.
	I I noticed it too.
	I think it's the lighting.
	I of the the oh gosh.
	And now you may be very self-conscious.
	Whoever said that in chat, thank you for getting me off track.
	So you the we've all we all witnessed that.
	I say the witness the miracle, but there was tremendous tragedy behind it.
	But to see Trump get elected is is um it was a miracle.
	Um how are you enjoying the presidency thus far?
	Uh I think it's been you know mostly positive.
	I'd say there are there were a couple of hiccups.
	I think the way the Department of Justice handled the Epstein situation was a complete disaster.
	Uh, and I think that starts and ends with Pam Bondi and how she characterized everything before the binders and then the binders and then after that.
	That's my biggest probably PR criticism of the Trump administration right now.
	Um, but other than that, uh, I think just you know, with everything that's been thrown at him with the the district court judges and trying to slow down progress with mass deportations, you know, the one thing I didn't love, they were flirting with a little bit, but they reverse course within five days of of a lot of people on X,
	you know, millions of views and comments about it, where the uh hotel leisure and farm exemptions for illegal aliens, you know, people were saying no, just hold the companies accountable and get rid of these people, not to start there by all means go worst first, but then you gotta go after the rest next.
	Um, but they kind of backtracked on that and they're back to just hey, if you're here illegally and we find out you gotta go.
	Did I I like that?
	Did I hear Marjorie Taylor Green reiterate the same idea that for the construction industry, you you can't just to preserve the fluidity of business, you can't just come in and you did hear that.
	Okay, when did I when did I hear that?
	That was a couple of days ago on a on a podcast that she was on, and she even was like, Well, I owned a construction company.
	This is you know, kind of gonna hurt labor, implying that maybe her company uh employed illegals or folks that came in a little cheaper than some other people, right?
	You know, and I'm not saying that, hey, illegal aliens hired, you know, uh, Marjorie Taylor Green did this or that.
	It sounds like she makes she makes it implicit, like, hey, this is how it's done in the business, you're gonna ruin it.
	That's not cool.
	And she uses herself as like a personal experience, kind of well.
	That was what I was surprised.
	And it's like it's so bad now.
	Like I saw it and I was like, oh, this must be AI, given the way that she was breaking ranks with the Trump administration on specifically the Epstein files.
	Like she it she did come out and basically say, you know, in our construction company, this is how things work, and you're going to not not like deny us of our uh profits, uh which might be the next thing that she was getting at, but it'll interrupt business if you come in and deport all these illegals, which was the most antithetical argument to everything she's ever said before.
	And I thought it was fake, but um it seems that she got the the pushback that she um I'd say deserved for that singular position.
	Um I mean that but um am I wrong?
	I I don't know uh as much about this as everybody else, but when we talk about the the uni party, and I do think that people tend to think Trump is not part of the uni party, although some people are skeptical, whatever.
	Uh that that slave labor, which is what effectively illegal modern illegal immigration is, is good for both parties.
	And when they brought all those Haitians to uh Springfield, Ohio, uh, it was for the benefit of big companies, which are both R and D. Is that actually you have more direct um experience in the industry?
	Is that that is the way it works?
	Um I mean, I I would say so.
	I don't know for I've never worked construction, but I have seen uh let's just say some of the painters, uh some of the guys who came in on behalf of some of some of my contractors, and I never you know once thought this is definitely the case, but when you encounter a really almost uh unsolvable language barrier, you you can't help but think, right?
	Uh is is this you know?
	So I've seen that, and I also heard from other contractors who did it the right way that a lot of competitors, right?
	A lot of other painters, because they would talk smack about each other, you know, when they would come into the store, and they'd be like, Yeah, well, so and so undercut me on a job the other day by like thousands of dollars.
	He's he's gotta have illegals in there.
	And I was like, Oh, don't get me involved because now I want to call ice on him.
	You know what I mean?
	So uh, but that was that was yeah, it happens in a lot of these industries, and it's wrong.
	It's wrong.
	But these people, you mentioned the slave labor, they're a commodity now.
	It it is it is essentially trafficking in a in a way.
	It's crazy.
	That's why they're coming in here.
	They're being used as very cheap labor.
	What's amazing is I'm I'm originally from Canada, and God willing, uh, I shall be American one day.
	But we we have, I mean, we've got a same problem up in Canada, and it's even it's even more insidious where you have these like Tim Hortons, you know what Tim Hortons is.
	Yeah, yeah, it's like Dunkin' Donuts.
	The shittiest coffee on earth.
	And so they offer these jobs to like to foreigners, temporary foreign workers, 35 bucks an hour, but it's subsidized to the company, and they don't pay the foreign workers 35 bucks an hour.
	So the it's basically uh it's a corporate money grab.
	And I'm presume it's the same in the states, it's the same on forums in Canada, where I was shocked to learn like they're bussing up South Americans for the summer and then bussing them back.
	And it's cheaper than finding local because up in Quebec, everybody works under the table anyhow, so they don't pay tax because tax is over 50%.
	Um, but it it's modern day slave labor.
	And I I was I was sort of flabbergasted to hear uh Marjorie Taylor Green say that, but knowing her ties to the construction industry, it makes a little more sense.
	Did you see do you listen to Joe Rogan?
	Uh, not regularly.
	They all actually I've only listened to him once, and that was the Trump interview, to be clear.
	Oh, really?
	Okay.
	No, I was I was listening to him today talking with Duncan Trussell, who's another he's another comic.
	I kind of like the I like both of them.
	I like Duncan Trussell's perspective, but they Rogan was talking about the deportation and saying, you know, nobody who's kind with the heart would support the mass deportations, which is what Rogan argues it's turned into.
	And I was sitting there saying, like, he says if you're kind and you have a heart, you wouldn't do this.
	Deport people who have been here for years.
	And then he goes on to talk about the homeless crisis in California.
	And I'm like, you don't appreciate you not kindness in government is a is um it's it's a it's a resource question, not a not an intention question.
	And so saying, oh, yeah, the uh the system can't handle all these illegals, but be kind and don't deport them while you have Americans, veterans living on the street.
	Um that was just a rant to say that I uh it's irritating.
	What's it like in Tennessee?
	I mean, it is so there's no in there's no income tax, state income tax.
	Right, right.
	Right.
	There's no state income tax.
	Socially, I mean, are it homeless problem?
	Is it is it uh drugs?
	Are these are these issues in in the smaller towns or or Nashville itself?
	Nashville has a homeless problem.
	Nashville has a drug problem.
	Nashville, Nashville has a blue city problem.
	They've got all of the blue city problems, okay?
	Illegals, um, uh obstructing ice from finding the illegals, drugs, homeless crime.
	Uh, they have those problems.
	They have every problem that a big blue city has.
	That being said, there are some very nice parts of Nashville, just like there are nice parts of New York City.
	Okay.
	Um, but there's a huge problem in Nashville.
	There's a huge problem, obviously in Memphis, Trump with the National Guard, uh, and obviously in full cooperation with Bill Lee, the governor of this state, who is not perfect, but is far better than it could be.
	And I'll just say that coming from New York.
	Hey, I know Bill Lee.
	There's some pro I don't know him.
	I know who he is.
	I I know there are some things he was a little too jumpy with red flag laws, and that got shot down uh with the special session.
	I get it.
	He's not perfect, but he's a lot better than the alternative.
	Trust me, I've seen it, right?
	Um, but you have Memphis is a problem, Antioch here, there's a problem in Tennessee, uh, Chattanooga, there's a little bit of a problem.
	So in the bigger cities, there's some crime, there's some drugs.
	Um, but overall, okay, this is a beautiful state with amazing people, uh, extremely extremely friendly policies.
	If you want to run your own business, um, the cost of living is significantly lower than it was for me.
	It's probably on the rise here because a lot of people are moving here.
	No state income tax, and that is enshrined in the state constitution now.
	So if they ever wanted to impose one, it's gonna really be tough, right?
	So we're really protected there.
	And um there's a lot of good things.
	And school choice is one of the priorities of this state, which obviously coming from where, you know, where I came from on Long Island and all the people that I met in the education activism portion of everything.
	Uh, that means a lot to me too, school choice.
	Uh, I'm being challenged in my in the our locals community.
	Uh let me bring up a t a tipped question here.
	It says, Come on, now's your chance, Viva.
	See how Sean will critique your Scooby-Doo Bernie Sanders impersonation.
	I can't do I can't do them on command.
	I got a Bernie Sanders where I can only when when he yells and I go, but uh, it's more like Howard Stern's parents when Howard Stern makes fun of the way his parents are like, you're borrowed, you're more on.
	Um how are you working on your Bernie Sanders uh impersonation?
	Oh, I just I just scream and watch videos of Bernie.
	So, you know, like yes, sir.
	Well, he got into a fight with uh Bobby Kennedy, right?
	And he was no, no, no, no.
	I am not corrupt, you know, like things like that.
	We will fight the oligarchy 30,000 feet in the air on a private jet, you know, kind of thing like that.
	Uh it's not it's not where I want it to be.
	But when I do it live in the morning, some people get a kick out of it.
	So we continue to do that.
	Uh now let me bring up a couple of these.
	These are the tipped questions over in Rumble.
	It says progress, we should be reopening our store at our new premises in Sunset, Texas, next week.
	Freedom Imported Groceries and Biltong, Builtong USA.
	They were having problems in a blue uh city called Roanoke in Texas.
	Uh administrative uh bureaucratic overload.
	Um, and this is a business that does um uh South African beef jerkies.
	They they've moved to a better place.
	Code, well, it's code sticks or code Viva code Barnes, 10% off.
	And then we got giant bags of fluid.
	We had a trick in the army.
	Put some hemorrhoid cream on those bags, tighten them up.
	It's not the it's the lighting.
	Okay, the bags are never, and I might be a little tired today.
	Now, okay, so you're in Tennessee.
	You've got uh LFA three times a week.
	Uh I'm always curious.
	Like oh, Monday through Friday, I'm on five days a week.
	It's a lot of fun.
	Yeah.
	How many hours a day?
	Just an hour.
	We go from uh 10 to 11 Eastern time, and it's the it's the fastest hour of my day, I'll be honest.
	Amazing.
	And um what else do you do?
	Are you doing uh I was gonna say touring stand-up?
	You know, for the impersonation stuff, your content on on YouTube is f phenomenal.
	Uh you are still monetized on YouTube.
	Yep, somehow.
	I mean, I don't I don't really I'm at the point where if I lose my YouTube channel, I don't care because what I get from it, I don't even know what I get from it.
	If I if I don't even know if my the right settings are turned on, I have no idea.
	Uh I just post there because it's it's your discoverable more there.
	Yeah, there's a lot more users there.
	So, but I always throw my watermark now with my X handle in all my videos, so everyone knows where they where they should go because that's the platform.
	I have I've had Twitter since 2009.
	Um, and it's always been my favorite social media platform, even when it was awful.
	I I loved it.
	Um, I was frustrated with it, but I loved the platform.
	So that's that's where I spend most of my time on social media.
	It's amazing.
	Uh the YouTube, it's um it's good for redirecting to where you want people to go.
	Uh, and especially if you have a locals' community, or I find it's good for Rumble uh specifically because YouTube is still the same commie hellhole that it's always been.
	Uh one video that I did that I did watch that I found um amazing was um it was a short one.
	Your your reaction, you know, your reaction, your pontification after Charlie Kirk was murdered.
	Um did you uh did you know Charlie personally?
	I don't know if in in the sphere you had come across him in the uh activism uh realm.
	I have uh I never met Charlie Kirk.
	Uh I always admired Charlie Kirk.
	I thought he was doing amazing work on college campuses, and um, I thought that somebody of his caliber who was reaching young people again, that was something that was really really motivating back on Long Island.
	And I'm still very interested in uh the whole education uh you know crisis in this country right now.
	I think handing education back to the states is a good thing to do, decentralize it, get it back to the states.
	Um, but I admired his work with these college kids, and it actually started to get down into our high schools on Long Island where parents that I had you know brought out.
	We brought him out through these rallies.
	Their kids were starting turning point chapters in their high school.
	So um I never met him, but he had an impact on everybody who I know.
	Uh terrible day.
	Man, that was just a terrible thing.
	But unfortunately, this is what happens when you have the everybody who disagrees with me is a fascist group spewing that.
	And I mean, yeah, you got free speech.
	You have the right to say that, but I mean, we also have the right to ask people to maybe suggest not to do that because it's causing violence.
	It is um we'll get into the uh the the recent political expose scandal, which is nothing but a distraction from the Jay Jones text.
	Exactly.
	Um I I do struggle with it because like I I call uh you know government officials fascist when I think they're behaving like fascists.
	And and I certainly call them Nazi lovers when they in Canada.
	I don't know if you heard about this, but our Canadian government actually invited an actual Nazi to parliament, not realizing he was an actual Nazi because they didn't realize the Ukraine thing, right?
	They clapped for him and stood.
	I saw that.
	Yeah, like they didn't realize that the people fighting the the Russians in World War II were the Nazis.
	So you know, I I say like, when I say it, it's fine.
	I don't object to it in general as a qualification.
	It is when it comes from political leaders over the course of 10 years.
	It was, it's not just that word.
	It was that word in conjunction with um slanderous media coverage, uh lit litigation lawfare in the wake of assassinations to continue doing it.
	And so I I say it's materially different, but I don't know if that's only because I want to continue calling the people who I think are fascists fascists.
	Um, but I don't even mind being called a fascist.
	It's when it's coupled with actual acts of violence that it becomes more of an issue.
	Exactly.
	The the question is this, however, like, well, first of all, the scandal of uh of the political thing.
	Have you been following that?
	With the text you're talking about, the yeah.
	Like I feel like a bit of an asshole.
	I I don't say those things privately only because I will not say not only.
	I can appreciate the jokes that people make and like anybody saying they love Hitler, they're not actually saying it because they love Hitler.
	It's the stupid edge you think to say.
	But uh that is a type of humor among young people, and I do consider 20 to 30 to be young, and I do consider it to be materially different.
	To me, you know, in in the wake of this Homan bribery scandal as well, which I think is another fake one, it's a pure distraction.
	I mean, what do you draw a distinction?
	And do you think it's fair to draw a distinction between this group chat and the private text messages of Jay Jones, uh ostensibly relishing in murdering his political rivals and the murder of their children?
	Well, there's absolutely a distinction, right?
	So there's a bunch of 20 and 30 year olds joking and saying off-color things.
	I'm not gonna say that I agree with the things said in the text.
	I'm also not gonna say I haven't made a few off-color jokes myself in conversations, right?
	So my biggest rule of thumb always is with these things that we hold in our hands every day, and we're in endless amounts of group chats.
	I always look at the things that I send in my group chats and I go, okay, can I defend that one day?
	Like, you know, um, you know, and but that's it, because unfortunately, we live in this world where it takes two seconds to screenshot it, and then you know, who knows what you're gonna do.
	But I think in the grand scheme of the young Republicans texts, I really don't care, right?
	Because A, they're not running to be the top law enforcement official of any state right now, and B, they're joking amongst themselves.
	Never did I see a text in there joking about killing a political opponent of theirs and hoping that their children died in their arms.
	I mean, the comments in the group chat were off-color, distasteful, fine.
	That's all they are.
	This guy is running to be the top law enforcement official in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is like, yeah, Todd Gilbert, two bullets in his head, their family's raising fascists and their kids should die in their arms.
	And then in 2020, Viva, he said that police officers should be killed so that they stop killing people.
	Okay.
	This guy's a loon.
	There is nothing worse than that.
	And the young Republican texts pale in comparison, which is why I am so proud of JD Vance for basically going, hey, you want to talk about texts?
	Let's talk about texts, okay?
	And let the American people decide which one matters and which one is like, all right, stupid kids doing stupid things.
	Oh, that guy wants to be attorney general and he wants these Republicans slaughtered.
	Yeah, that's a problem in the state of Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia.
	What's amazing is I uh I don't use the word pearl clutching very often, and I actually didn't even know what it meant until relatively recently.
	I when JD Vance comes out with his take on it, and I say, like, there in the face of their pearl clutching, I I say like I have not, I no one will find a private text message with me using those words, but I don't care.
	And I don't want to pull out the whole even, you know, I I'm a Jewish guy.
	I don't care that they made those jokes.
	I've known people who make them in front of my face.
	I don't care.
	Um, but when JD Vance is saying what he's saying, everybody out there, I would suggest like the majority of people have made those types of texts and are watching this and saying, who do I who do I, you know, want to look up to or who do I want as a potential leader in the future?
	And I like JD's tact because basically everybody out there has done something similar, if not identical, and they're gonna say, do I want my life ruined over something like this versus a deflection from the actual issue?
	Uh his response was was perfect.
	And I think it is the proper use of the term pearl clutching.
	The question is this I mean, how the hell do you make this a bigger issue for Jay Jones in his reelection?
	Spamberger, in her debate with uh Winsome, she says, you know, like it's up to the voters now.
	If the voters vote, I mean, oh fine, it is.
	So if the voters vote for Jay Jones, I will conclude that they they tacitly endorse and specifically endorse his call for violence.
	Like, how do you um how do you mobilize to get the activist machine to raise awareness and make it very hard for Jay Jones to get elected?
	Well, I think you do it what Scott Pressler does.
	I think you do what uh my friend Chris Rose in the state of West Virginia did in his unlikely win as a state senator.
	Guy was came right out of the coal mine, wanted to run for Senate, and had hundreds of thousands of dollars spent against him.
	He had 54,000 or 84,000 in his campaign and won because he knocked on doors day after day after day.
	Same thing you had to do at in Virginia, right?
	You know, you could bomb TV stations with ads and radio stations with ads, and but you gotta be out in front of the people and just say, Look, you're a Democrat, I'm a Republican.
	Fine, right?
	Do you do you believe I should get shot, though?
	Like, do you think that we're like really bad people?
	Because this guy running for attorney general thinks I'm a bad guy, and he's never even met me, right?
	We've never met us.
	Uh we could agree to disagree on the border, right?
	Um there are sensible people who will see that and go, nah, you know, because it's it's been years of this.
	It's been years of how much further left is this party really gonna go, right?
	And and and now we're here.
	We're like political violence, yeah, that's cool.
	Like the Ugov survey that came out a couple weeks ago, found 25% of self-identifying liberal or very liberal people answered yes when asked uh if they believe political violence is acceptable to achieve their goals.
	That's a quarter of young, very liberal people.
	This is a problem.
	6% of conservatives said it.
	And by the way, those 6% of conservatives are wrong too.
	Four times as many liberals as conservatives believe that violence is acceptable to achieve their political goals.
	This is a problem.
	It is uh I wanted to bring up the the I saw a funny joke here.
	Yes, Jews are so tight they can only use toilet, the toilet with a pair of tongs.
	Okay, I don't get that, but I have you ever heard the old joke, how was copper wire invented?
	No.
	A Jew and a Scotsman fighting over a penny.
	And I that's a day, it's a good joke because it's visual.
	And I didn't know that Scotsman had the historical reputation of being stingy, but I think every culture on the Yeah, apparently it's a it's a thing.
	Uh Blanche Knott's uh dirty joke book.
	I was talking about yesterday.
	You got all of them in there.
	Um, yeah, no, so it is it is it is wild uh that uh 20.
	I mean, I I thought it was more, but I don't remember what there was another stat that said, you know, sometimes political violence can be acceptable.
	It's a uh it's a it's a wild level of indoctrination.
	How much of it do you think is actually what I would call like, you know, foreign influence or Chinese bots that are manipulating the political discourse in America to brainwash young and vulnerable people into thinking political violence is acceptable.
	Yeah, a lot of that's happening on TikTok.
	Um, that is why this sale, this new version of TikTok that's gonna be in a new algorithm is going to be controlled in the United States, it's important.
	Um, I think honestly, you could point directly to the schools, right?
	You go do 13 years.
	You go through 13 years of critical race theory adjacent material.
	Cops are bad.
	I mean, I could read for you verbatim from New York State's DEI.
	This is what my that my friend called about um in in April of 2021.
	It's uh from April 12th, 2020, uh, 2021, New York's uh guidelines on diversity, equity, and inclusion and their you know, essential mandate that this is what must be taught in all public schools.
	A confluence of events has brought us to this point of reckoning, including the senseless brutal killing of black and brown men at the hands of law enforcement and the ensuing demands for real and enduring racial justice in the face of this inhumanity.
	That was in a New York state de facto mandate, okay?
	They are being taught in the schools for 13 years that this country is not a country worth loving.
	It's a country worth hating.
	If you're white, you have to feel bad that maybe your ancestors owned slaves.
	Probably they didn't.
	Like my ancestors didn't, they came from Italy, right?
	I mean, they were they were not slave owners here.
	They weren't even here when slavery was a thing.
	But 13 years, think of it.
	If I show you this shape, right?
	This is a square.
	But Viva, for 13 years in education, you had to repeat that this was a circle.
	What would you come out 13 years believing?
	You'd come about believing it.
	That's a circle.
	It's the essence of brainwashing.
	And that is what they're doing in these public schools.
	They are telling you, you must admit that climate change is a thing.
	You must admit that there are 92 genders.
	You might boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	You have to answer in the affirmative of those tests.
	Even when I was in high school, 20, 20, 2006, we had to watch the inconvenient truth by Al Gore in our biology class and answer questions on a test that this was going to be the end of Long Island and Miami as we knew it because of global warming, right?
	And here we are in 2023.
	And Long Island is fine.
	A Miami is bustling, right?
	So it's the essence of brainwashing, feeding out the information, forcing students to regurgitate it, forcing them then to believe it.
	That's why we are where we are with this violence.
	That social media, you want to ask about foreign influence.
	There's a lot of foreign money in our education system right now, also on social media.
	They're shaking each other's hands.
	It ain't good.
	It starts in the school, so we gotta, we have to, we have to be more involved at the school level.
	Do um may I ask the invasive question?
	Do you have kids yet?
	No, I don't have children yet.
	You're going for kids?
	We do not know.
	We are uh we're we're not sure, but uh at this point we're not.
	Okay, that's a the the old joke is practice makes perfect, but I'm still okay.
	Never mind still there.
	Um, no, because I like I got three kids.
	Uh we're homeschooling one of them.
	Uh, not because of the indoctrination, it's the youngest who I he's he's built like me and was not built for school.
	And if I were a kid today that I was then, I I'd probably be in jail, but certainly not not in school.
	And with the other two who are smart, you know, they're smart kids and we have open discussions, we have these discussions, and particularly about you know the gender ideology where the the innocence and then you see how you see how they they work it because it starts off with an innocent question.
	What's the big deal gendering me the way I want to be gendered and not the way I am?
	And I uh uh a young person's reflex or at least a well brought up one is to be polite and be polite and say, I'll do what you're asking me because it's you know, skin off my back.
	And then it's you know it's an inch-inch boiling of the frog type thing where uh you do it, and then when you don't do it, they don't ask you so nicely anymore.
	Uh and then when you don't do it, it's no longer an act of not cooperating, it's an act of overt um violence through silence or whatever, and then they they've got you in there.
	Um let me see what else.
	I mean, what are you uh well the the the bottom line question that I have with all of this is uh how do you how do you fight back?
	They're gonna get TikTok and they're gonna have an American algorithm, but I I don't find Instagram to be much better in terms of the brainwashing.
	I don't find fate I find Facebook to be I I'm not on TikTok, so I I know what goes on there, but I find Facebook to be the worst thing on earth, and it's not because of foreign Chinese bot accounts.
	I see like friends and family up in Canada, and it's scary.
	It's scary what they believe, but it's the end result of their own brainwashing.
	What's uh where do we go from here?
	No, I think you you, you know, you you get you get involved on TikTok, right?
	And you let them ban you.
	Let them ban you, right?
	I mean, that's how my my Trump administration, uh, my Trump administration, my Trump impersonation started going viral because I went on TikTok as a friend of mine when we were door knocking said I should do it.
	And I said, We don't want to do China.
	We don't want to do China.
	And he said to me, No, you got to do China.
	And I went on and did some fun stuff.
	And that's how it went viral.
	Some people found it, right?
	So, you know, we say, Thank you, China.
	That's why I wipe I met my wife on TikTok.
	Total story, total total aside, but true story.
	She commented before I knew who she was on one of my videos, and uh and I thought she was cute.
	So I followed her on Instagram, slid in the DMs, and we're married, right?
	This is how it works.
	Okay.
	Like, I mean, so thank you, China, right?
	And we have to make sure, because I way out of my league, right?
	Like out kick the coverage.
	I have to make sure that uh, you know, that this isn't some sort of foreign influence operation too every now and again.
	I'd be like, are you like a Russian spy?
	Like, what's the deal?
	Um, but um uh that that's where you go because that's where the people are, right?
	You can't expect the young people to come to us and the future generations to come to us when eight hours a day they're away from people like us anyway, if they're in if they're in public school, right?
	So you got to go where they are.
	And that's why I I like the fact that the Trump White House is on TikTok and a lot of conservatives are starting to join TikTok.
	And um, and and it's a terrible place in terms of censorship, but you know, many hands make light work, you know, for years it was just a few people kind of swinging a real heavy sledgehammer at a at a at a massive brick wall.
	But there they could suffer a you know, death rhetorical by a thousand cuts on TikTok uh if everybody gets on there and everybody gets active.
	You're making me want to get on TikTok.
	But I I know I would just end up, I have it a TikTok account, I just don't use it, uh, but I would end up in the pimple popping section of TikTok.
	I know it's there because um, see the key to TikTok for me is I'll go on, I'll post, I'll watch a few videos, and then I shut it off because that is it is maliciously addictive.
	And so is Instagram and Facebook, but TikTok, there's something about TikTok that's just it's malicious.
	Like, even to the point where I'll notice if I post a certain amount of videos at once, one of them will pop off.
	But if I just post one every couple of weeks, they punish me for not using the app, right?
	It's like, yeah, I have almost 400,000 followers on there.
	Sometimes a video will get 40, you know, 45 views in like you know, 10 hours, and I'll be like, all right, all right, you're so you're slapping me on the wrist and calling me a bad boy because I don't use your app.
	You know what I mean?
	So it's it I have again, I have a love hate relationship with TikTok.
	I love what it did for me early, but um, you know, X is my main, my main place.
	I love I love it there.
	There's plenty of issues there too, trust me, but uh that's my favorite one of all those platforms.
	I'm sending all of the links to the chat right now.
	I'll put them up in the comment when we get it with the pinned comment when it's uh the video is fully published.
	LFA daily.
	Uh you're on uh Twitter or X as we now call it, Sean underscore Farage.
	Let me see if I didn't miss it.
	I want to make sure I didn't miss any questions that anybody had for you.
	I'm gonna give 30 seconds through this.
	We're gonna go raid.
	I think it's Morse TV, and I will not ask you to come to the locals after party.
	I want to be uh respectful with your time.
	I want to make sure I didn't forget anything.
	Sean, it's um it's fantastic meeting you.
	And you you give me a little bit of inspiration, but uh I've I I I have not been blackpilled at all.
	Uh there's a few things.
	The the the Epstein debacle, which is still ongoing, drives me nuts because it's it's not something you can ignore.
	And um they've had so many good uh W's in this administration that that big L for the time being.
	Uh overall, what's uh did I ask what your impression was of Bondy?
	Do you think she's getting a hard uh time or is she deserving of the hard time she's getting?
	Oh, listen, I I I said right at the July 6th when that memo came out that she should be fired.
	Uh because it's not just what she did on July 6th, it's the binders, which was a debacle.
	It's making these comments about what you have and characterizing these files of what you have as something huge and then not delivering, right?
	I mean, if I get mad at people who post clickbait on social media, you know, freaking out and posting pictures of you know the moon and asking if it's a mysterious drone over an airport, uh, you know, I should be getting mad at my attorney general for making these big private uh these these big uh uh proclamations about evidence, and then and then on July 4th weekend throwing out a uh, you know, look what looked like rushed memo to say, actually, there's nothing left, right?
	Like, no, I I thought somebody who opens the administration up to that much amount of bad PR, whether you want to argue if it's warranted or unwarranted, somebody who just opens the administration up to something like that should not be in the administration.
	So if I was Donald Trump on July 6th and I saw that on July 7th, Pam pack your bags.
	Now I get why he didn't do it because now you got to go through the confirmation process again, and they're gonna slow walk it and it's gonna stop maybe other progress that she was making on other fronts.
	I don't like Pam Bondy.
	I I I don't like her one bit.
	I think there's there's a lot of uh paper tiger, you know, she talks tough, but then what's actually happening behind the scenes now?
	I don't know everything that's happening behind the scenes.
	I don't, right?
	But from what I have seen from her public-facing side, I don't like what I see.
	I don't like the results that we've been given.
	I hope I'm wrong.
	I hope she proves all of us wrong.
	Um, and I guess the the rest remains to be written.
	All right, and now since we're all the gossipy side of things, last one, Susie Wiles.
	Impression of Susie Wiles, what she's been doing.
	You know, I see a lot of people who love her, a lot of people who hate her.
	Um I I don't really have I don't really have a position on Susie Wiles.
	I don't really think about it too much.
	Um I I know there are our personnel picks that people want to blame on Susie or did she do do something big or bad, or is she is she the president?
	You know, is it does she have too much influence?
	I know people who know Susie personally.
	I've only heard good things from those people, so I don't really have a position on Susie to be respectful because I I don't consider myself someone who knows enough about it to have a position.
	Uh last one.
	So you meet you you met Trump and Mar-a-Lago.
	Uh Bedminster.
	How How um he knew, I mean, okay, first of all, he knew who you were when he when he met you, obviously.
	No, not really.
	Uh, when we met, it was August of 2023.
	I was at a uh at a um a function for Patriot Freedom Project, the J6 organization.
	Um, they were hosting it in Bedminster, and uh I went up there to be a part of of their program, right?
	To do a little, you know, a little bit in the middle of the event.
	Um, had no idea.
	Nobody knew if Trump was gonna come or not.
	Uh and he came, he showed up, and uh he was you know giving some remarks to the crowd and spending some time with the children of some J6ers behind him, and he was getting off the stage, and the founder and president of Patriot Freedom Project stopped him and said, Sir, that guy has something to say to you.
	Now here I am on the spot, like I said.
	Yeah, and sweating bullets, and you know, I've got the knot.
	It's still in my back.
	I still haven't gotten rid of that knot.
	But I I uh I did I did my my thing too.
	Now he'd heard me before, but I don't know if he was putting two and two together at that point.
	But I did my thing, and uh um he enjoyed it.
	You know, I said, We're gonna help you win in a landslide worse than Chris Christie after Taco Bill.
	The whole room laughed.
	He laughed, he gave me a smile, handshake, you know.
	Um, and then a couple days after that, he got uh mug shot taken in Georgia.
	So, which I which I I famously called the Mona Lisa of mugshots.
	Nobody's ever seen a better mugshot.
	Uh so uh that that's how it was.
	It was great meeting him, and uh even better.
	You know, a couple of days ago, weeks ago, he reposted my meme of me and my sombrero.
	So that was just it was my face was all over his feed for a while, which was surreal.
	Just thinking about like somebody shows it to him and he goes, uh, this guy again.
	And that's pretty funny.
	I like that.
	Let's post that.
	And then you know, I'm just trying to think of what what's going through his head to post that video, but it's uh surreal, but cool.
	It's fun to approach a lot of these things with some humor too.
	Amazing.
	Sean, I'm gonna head over to locals for our after party after we go raid Morse TV.
	Uh, everybody knows where to find you.
	It'll be in the pinned comment.
	Let's do this again.
	Yeah, sure.
	Thanks.
	Thank you guys.
	Now I I gotta, yeah, you you disable your camera.
	I'm gonna kick you and then just go raid the other guy and carry on with my locals.
	So, Sean, amazing.
	Thank you very much.
	Thanks so much, man.
	All right, godspeed.
	Uh that was amazing.
	I'm still fixating all my bags under my eyes, people.
	It's the lighting.
	I'm gonna show you what happens when I turn my floodlighting just a little bit more to the left.
	Okay, first raid, you are all gonna get booted from here when I go confirm raid to Matt Morse TV.
	Uh opt out if you don't want to get yeeted because I'm gonna go change my lighting and show you what I can do to my face.
	Boom.
	Let me just go uh indicate that we've raided.
	Uh yeah, he's it's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	Fantastic, wonderful, reasonable human.
	It's amazing.
	Viva Raid Booyo.
	Hold on, check this out.
	Turn the light there.
	Turn the light there.
	All right, hold on.
	Let me see here.
	Oh, yeah, I gotta go.
	Oh, no, they're still there.
	What's up?
	Oh, okay.
	Kid wants to show here.
	Homeschooling.
	Come here, hold on.
	Well, we're live with everybody.
	So get over here.
	Okay.
	Okay, check this out.
	Uh, and don't give him flack about Mark Rober, everybody.
	It's wonderful.
	Okay, it's so come show with the devices.
	How the heck did I get this rocket popsicle?
	Uh, it is a device that it comes from the Rocket Lab thing that Mark Rover has.
	Uh I we we were all a little disappointed when Mark Rober was on with Bill Gates and I think Albert Burla.
	But we got past that because Mark Robo still does good work.
	Um, but this thing is um it's an elastic.
	Here, hold this one second.
	It's an elastic get get out of here with this.
	It's an elastic.
	He's falling on the dog.
	And it makes oh ow.
	Get this out of here.
	Ow.
	Because no, I was just trying to stretch my training up.
	All right, get out of here.
	I'm not done yet.
	Uh, let's go to locals, everybody.
	Thank you.
	All right, go.
	Uh what's it called?
	It's called a bomb pop.
	Um, great show.
	Good.
	Oh, kiss it.
	Oh, hold on.
	Kiss a McGroin is in the house.
	I gotta wait for the kid to read some of these names.
	Kiss a McGrown.
	Kiss McGroin says great show.
	I can't stand the climate hoax gore.
	I didn't realize that I have never seen an inconvenient truth either.
	I didn't realize it was a movie made out of a PowerPoint presentation.
	Um do we do?
	We're gonna go over to locals.
	I'm just gonna see what's going on in the chat here.
	Yeah.
	Bags, it's not bags.
	That was a way in the lower level stuff.
	Yeah, well, at least it'll add some color to my face.
	Preparation age for Viva.
	Look, I'll use the preparation age for my hemorrhoids.
	Uh, too much information, everybody.
	Let's go on over to Viva Barnes Law.
	Locals dot com.
	What other Louis the Lobster is on Amazon?
	It's a child.
	Oh, it's right here.
	Louis the Lobster, written by David Fry, illustrated by Abigail Martin.
	Let's just take one.
	Oh, that's the end of it.
	All right.
	So uh you can get that on Amazon, Viva Fry dot com for some merchandise.
	And um the PO box.
	That's right.
	The P.O. box if you want to send stuff over to Viva Fry.
	Is uh I had to get a new PO box because my other one uh closed down.
	And uh this is the address for my new PO box.
	And someone said it's not I I wrote the P.O. box address exactly the way the guy at the US PS store told me to write it.
	This is how he told me to write it, so that it doesn't get uh lost.
	If you want to send uh, you know, mail baseball cards on open packs.
	I'll show I'm gonna show something over on locals when we when we're done on this uh good another good card.
	Okay, go enjoy the day.
	Raid Matt Morris TV, Godspeed Rumble.
	And now let's go to locals, and I've got to do it this way.
	This way.
	Oh, so hold on.
	It's Thursday today.
	Tomorrow we've got a show.
	Next week's gonna be a different schedule because I'm going to Switzerland with the Rumble team uh for um uh uh a plan B conference.
	So we'll have to see what happens there.
	Uh but um is it is it Thursday?
	Yeah, so tomorrow's Friday.
	And that was fantastic.
	I like Sean.
	All right, let's go to locals, have an after hour discussion and talk about some other stuff.
	Rumble, peace out, locals.

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