Our bud light moment right Hiring a drag queen to advocate for military it's the
wrong thing. We want to attract the alpha males and alpha females, and
they're catching on wrong demographic here. It's never been about money for me or
else I would have gotten under military long time ago. Rights. It's about
service and we have to fight for this country because there's nowhere else to go.
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fight everybody should be watching. Thank you so much, hung for being with
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a couple of weeks now, and I have been giggling so much because of
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imagine that I am going to set off any feelings of offense because I find
your name so amusing. No, it's fine again, It's not just the
name is more of a title kind of kidding. You've got you've got I'm
sure you've got that. Listen, my last my maiden name is my main
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know, because we're supposed to be looking for I. D. S.
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people in your primary, so talk about your competition, not just in the
primary, but then you know, Tim Kaine has been sort of an unfortunate
fixture in the Virginia Senate for a long time. So what's your strategy to
beat all the people that you're in the primary with and then ultimately to tackle
the big beast. So last year when I retired, I retired in twenty
twenty one. I had just come back off khanstand and you know, it
was pretty I mean, I don't want to say like it was safe.
It's not like walking downtown Indiana or something like that, you know, but
it was it was manageable. And then six months later, Joe Biden caused
Afghanistan fall and it's very similar to what happened to Vietnam, watching mother's hand
babies to Marines. And so that's why I ran for the US Congress in
this very blue, very very suburban district. It's Loudon County, and I'm
sure you've heard of it, because they that's attacking the parents, right,
I mean, they were trying to label them as the bestic terrorists. They
were actually hiring a hacker to go into the website of the search engines for
parents who questioned CRT and redirect them. And so this is where I was
running. And we you know, we in that primary. We had eleven
people, and I came in late, and people were saying, Hey,
you're gonna be you know, radioactive. No one's gonna touch you. You're
going against these people that are established in the Republican You need to pay your
dues. I'm like, pay my dues. I'm like, you don't think
you know, twenty five years of fighting in the front lines is enough.
And so we won that primary with overwhelming majority. Like with eleven people,
I got fifty three percent of the votes, and then thirty three The next
person behind me had thirty three percent, and then so on and so forth.
And so I tell people I'm not running against them, We're running in
the same direction. And I just happened to cross the finish line or faster.
And likewise, in this race, there's a lot of candidates out there,
absolutely, I mean a lot of I want to say perennial candidates,
as you know, you know, people that just will run for everything under
the SU but none of them have the name brand I had, And so
this is where God comes in there. Like I was, I was really
disappointed obviously not winning last time. But if I had one, I would
be fighting those angry leftists every day in Loudon County. But if I hadn't
run, I wouldn't have the name brand to run now. I mean,
people know me all over the state already, and we've only been in this
race for two months. Uh, and so that's that's our our goal is
just go go forward for this primary. We're going to go forward and and
and conquer. And I mean I've already raised more money than all of them
combined, you know, if you add all the money that they've they've you
know, raised, I mean that's you know, money is not the only
thing. That's the only metric that we have right now. I love your
story and the whole your family escaping communism in nineteen seventy five mock and Miriam
has her family has a similar story because her parents and she wrote about it
in our book about her parents escaping you know, communist poll and so there's
like a lot of similarities there, which I think is really interesting. But
I imagine that you look at the world differently than a lot of people do
nowadays, that you don't take it for granted. You don't look at you
don't look at our country the way that a lot of people do. You
don't take it for granted. Just you know. I actually I do a
segment on our show. It's called Daisy Sackle Wags, Like it's not really
a segment, but just a little part of our show. And the other
day I talked about how Americans were asked like what their favorite country was,
and America isn't people's It isn't americans favorite country. Americans don't love America anymore.
In fact, it wasn't even second. America is their third favorite country,
which is completely whacked to me. And I think a lot of that
is being taught in our schools. It's just like ingrained in people's brains that
America sucks. Like people just don't love America anymore, which is so disheartening
me because thirty years ago, twenty years ago, when I was growing up,
I would have absolutely thought that America is the best place on earth.
I still do. It's the best place on earth and so and that's how
you know my kids believe too. So I look at you and you know
and your family escaping communism? Can you speak to that a little bit?
Like how if you are put into office, what would how how do we
get back on track as Americans? How do we get back on track as
a country to make people love this country again and to feel that patriotism and
to feel love for America again. The first thing they need to do is
to travel. That's agree they travel and they see how how it is in
these other countries. And I'm not talking about I'm not talking about France or
England and stuff like that. I mean it's still even when you go over
there, you'll realize that you can't buy gas at lunch time, right because
everybody takes a nap during lunch, that you can't really buy anything from noon
to three, So that you to begin with. But look, I we
came over nothing like you know in nineteen seven five. My mom was in
April seventy five, my mom was sewing little notes into our clothes saying,
this is my son, Please take care of him because in case we get
separated. Because they don't know, they didn't know what was going to happen.
They didn't know if the Americans were going to take all their kids or
some of their kids, or you know, who would you leave behind.
And that was the fear that that went not into my parents' minds, you
know. But by the grace of God, we all came over here,
and we came over here. And then I my dad could not find work
over here. So his friends said, hey, if you go to the
third world country and help develop it, because he was the deputy administer of
agriculture in Vietnam, you know, you could make a good living for your
own self. So I grew up in West Africa, in Niger, you
know, in the sub Saharan desert. And if you want to see poverty,
you've never seen poverty like you've seen in Africa, where you know,
there they live in mud huts where they have to walk miles just to get
water, and you know, it's it's hard, it's difficult. And so
until you've lived in those places and actually seen them, you won't appreciate this
country. And I think we shouldn't encourage young young Americans to do missions trips
or you know, and you don't know what you want to do, join
the Peace Corps. Join the military, see the world, and then you'll
appreciate what America is in all its gifts, because again, I don't want
my kids to wake up one day without a country to call their own or
flag to stand under, and without America, there's nowhere else to run to.
Everybody runs here because it is amazing. You're right, yeah, well,
and we have, like Daisy said, we have a similar background.
In fact, both of our dads went to Cornell for their PhDs. So
it's that was fascinating for me to read that about you, because I was
wondering, well, I wonder how old his dad is and if they were
like around at the same time and that so it's I think as a as
a first generation American, I feel this so much that that we have more
of an appreciation for America and we feel more patriotic for it then so many
kids who were born here that just don't have that experience with their parents coming
from really awful circumstances as an escape to this country and doing it the legal
way, right, And so it's infuriating to see so many people just busting
through our borders right now, hating the country that they're coming to and demanding
all of this free stuff. It's just remarkable. And I wonder if you
feel that too, that it's that that first generation Americans and immigrants tend to
have more love of country than people who are born here. Yes, I
see that. So Northern Virginia, of all places, which is the most
you know, when you look at the the voting thing, you know,
it's read everywhere except for for DC and Richmond. Well the DC area,
and so the Northern Virginia is really called it, we call it DC area.
But there's a lot of immigrants here, a lot of them, and
they all shared the same values. We all came here for opportunities, and
we're seeing that opportunity being being wasted away or everybody just wants things handed to
them. And as for the border, that is a national security issue.
We're not talking about you know, people from Mexico coming in. We last
week or yesterday they reported hundreds of Senegalese people from Senegal. Right, there's
there's people from Syria, from Somalia, from China, military age males from
China. I mean, it's like finding a little turtle on the fence,
folks. Right, he didn't get there by himself. So how did they
get there because none of those countries are in the southern border. And when
they come across the southern board like that, what else did they bring in
with them? Fetball and everything else? In two thousand five January two thousand
and five, I was on at the border in El Centro, California with
the FBI searching for a nuclear weapon that we believe was being smuggled across the
border by three Chinese scientists this two five, and so what else is coming
across our border that's there to harm us? And so we need to be
you know, we need to secure our country. The purpose of federal gunman
is to provide for the common defense right and promote the absolutely and they're not
doing that. And Joe Biden is derelict than that. And that's why we
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you served in the military, obviously, how do you feel about the state
of the military right now? Because you know, we do a lot of
stories on our show every single morning, and well, you know, we'll
talk about all this d I stuff in the military and lgbtq I x y
Z, element of P stuff in the military, all this stuff in the
military, and we're like, but are we safe? You know, how
are we doing safety? Wys? Do we really feel like we're okay?
I mean, are we okay? Military? How do you feel about the
military right now? Now that you're looking at it kind of objectively from the
outside in, We do need to focus back on the basics, and I
think the service that does out the best is the Marine Corps. The one
service that's not hurting and recruiting is the United States Marine Corps. And the
prospective again he's not been confirmed, so like, I don't want to screw
him up. But now Eric Smith is the Assistant common on Marine Corps.
He's been nominated to be the common on Marine Corps and he's he's been doing
fantastic things and he said, look, the nature of warfare has changed,
but the nature of the warrior has not. And so the Marine Corps continues
to attract people that are patriotic and want to serve this country and put their
life on the line for it. The other service is unfortunately, like my
Navy, they they're contracting on the wrong thing. I mean, we had
a drag queen, you know, that's our core, our bud light moment,
right, hiring a drag queen to advocate for military it's the wrong thing.
We want to attract the alpha males and alpha females, and they're they're
contracting on the wrong demographic here. And that's where the recruitment has gone down
because of the woke ideology. Now is the essence of the military person is
still the same absolutely, they're still patriots. They want to serve. My
son is at the Naval a cabinet right now. He wants to serve,
and so we need to encourage that in our youth. And look, there's
no better military than the United States military, and we are We will survive,
you know, we just need to get rid of some of these people
like Mark Milly. He just needs to go away. You don't quite bad,
just go away because he's hurting our military. And Senator Sullaville is getting
a lot of flak because he's holding up about two hundred and fifty flag officer
and General Loscer promotions. But it's because they're breaking the law. Right,
it's the law, says the High Memory says, you can't use federal funding
for abortions. And what they're people like Mark Milly, who likes to wear
more makeup than you ladies do. Milly is saying that, hey, we
can take the TDY funds, the temporary duty funds to send them to states
to do abortions. Well that's illegal. And what that does also a weeks
in the military weakens the military. As a commander, I won't have so
much money for for for travel, for my soldier sailors Aaron the Marines,
and I use that money to send them to schools so they can better themselves
and get promoted. But now we're using that money to send somebody to get
get an abortion, and that's wrong, and that's that breaks the law and
that's against the law. And so they can stop all this this hold up
by just saying, sir, you know we won't do that, because you
know, the military is here to defend democracy, not to practice it.
So you mentioned your son. I know you've got five kids. What are
their ages? And how is your entire family reacting to your run and your
campaign and what this could mean if you win. Oh gosh, So my
son is Uh is twenty, he's he's our oldest. And we we adopted
a beautiful girl from Thailand. She's she's almost eighteen, so you know,
she knows everything, and so well, twin twin girls are returning twelve this
week. And then uh, and then I don't know this, this kid
from this five year old kid popped out of nowhere. I don't know how
all I did was and then you know, next you know, he popped
up. And so we have five children who are who are very excited.
You know, again, they know they know sacrifice, right, They've they've
endured deployments, and this is like a long extended deployment. My my oldest
son, My wife was pregnant with my oldest she was nine months pregnant with
him when I deployed to Vada, Iraq. And it was hard. It's
hard on our family, I mean because we were expecting forty percent casualties.
So I had to write him a letter of saying, this is my son,
not my son, this is you know, son, you're turning your
ten years old. You're double digits. Now son, you're you're you're thirteen,
you're a teenager. Now son, you're sixteen, you're about to drive
a car, you're eighteen, you're a man. I had to write these
letters to him in case I didn't come back. And that's what sacrifice it
is, right, we we we sacrifice, and our our family unfortunately pays
the hardest price for this. And but it's they know what why I did
it, and likewise now they know why why I'm doing this. Also,
I'm doing this for them and not for myself or anything like that. You
mentioned that I have a very good job right now, And why would I
want to leave, you know, a job like that for for something that
pays significantly less. But it's not about money. It's I've never been It's
never been about money for me or else I would have gotten on the military
long time ago. Right, It's it's about service and we have to fight
for this country because there's nowhere else to go. Amen. Yeah, well
you're the ad. I should let everybody listening know that you have just a
phenomenal campaign ad that's at the top of your Twitter account that I posted in
our in some of our social media groups yesterday asking people to watch it and
then let us know what they wanted us to ask you today. And interestingly,
there were no questions but a billion comments of people saying, I want
to move to Virginia just so I can vote for him. So I wanted
to I wanted to congratulate you on what was clearly a very effective ad and
it's it's make it's definitely getting a lot of attention, as it should because
it's you're making a very strong case for why you're running and why the country
is so important to you and the things that are going wrong. So one
criticism I saw of that ad and not from any of our audience. But
like the I think on Twitter, was it somebody said, Okay, you
spent three minutes talking about what's wrong, What specifically are you going to do
to make things better? So how would you answer that? Oh, that's
great, that's again a lot of our issues and paper. You know,
people say say, oh, you didn't say this. You say, if
they go on to hung forba dot com, they'll see all the issues pages
at the bottom right. But really we need to constantly on defense. Right.
Starts with we need to defend our streets. We need to support the
law enforcement. We need to defend this country by by strengthening the border.
And then we need a strong military to to thwart off this uh, you
know, the impending threats from China, Russia. I ran in North Korea
and because they're all they're all swarming at us right now from all directions.
And then the second thing is economy. We need to strengthen our economy.
This is the only way to lift our country out of you know, out
of the problems we have right now. We need we need to be energy
to independent, right and just a diversity and energy. Also we need to
look at, uh, you know, besides opening up the Keystone pipeline and
and unlocking what Biden just did with the Alaska pipeline, but also look at
the other means of energy. I mean, everybody pushes solar and wind,
but what happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't come out right?
And then also we need to look at nuclear power. Nuclear power is
really one of those things that is safe. It's clean. I mean,
people just get freaked out, but we've been using it safely in the United
States need for for seventy five years. To power our nuclear aircraft carrier,
six thousand Americans are on board every day and we're safe on board, and
it generates so much energy that you can power the entire city with just the
reactors on board a carrier. So imagine small modular reactors where we can actually
export energy. And know this part is kind of like far fetched for people
to understand, but imagine a small modular reactor in I don't know, say
Texas, and we export that energy. We export the energy to, say
Mexico, and we say, look, if you don't secure this border,
we're going to shut off the power, you know, and A, we
can make money from them. Uh, you know, but b what do
you think they're gonna want. They're gonna want energy, you know, cheap,
cheaper energy. And that's the way to control a border without without really
doing a lot of other unnecessary things. That is super interesting. I don't
think it's far fetched at all. I think it's awesome. Imagine that we
put energy into Mexico. Now, people don't have to flood across here.
They're gonna stay because they can. They can have businesses, they can have
industry also. But really, we have to shore American energy first before we
do that. I mean, that's that's ten fifteen years from now. But
what better way to secure the border than to to really hold hold the keys
to their their kingdom in terms of energy. Yeah, I love it.
Yeah. And economy also depends on lifting all this regulations that that are binding
American businesses. Why are we taxing the American business? And not only that,
why is it being done by unelected officials. I would love to propose
a bill that any new regulation put out by say, Department Energy, Department
of Labor, Department of the EPA, all this stuff only has a three
year shelf life. With two possible extensions, and that's it, because then
it will last to an entire eight year presidency. But after that it must
go to Congress as a law, because we can't hold the American people hostage
by unelected officials. And so if it's important to be enough to be a
law, then it needs to go to Congress to become a law. And
the last part is innovation. Right, we need to innovate our country and
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an educated country and not just one size fits all. We need to look
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shipyards in America, which is in Norfolk. We also have the largest naval
base. We also have Norfolk Southern, which is one the key railroads.
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railroads. So and then not only that, the coal mining down in southwestern
Virginia. I mean you need coal to make steal. People want to build
all these structures, Well, you need steal, and to get steal,
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I mean, this is how we make America better because we you know,
the richest people I know are electricians, plumbers, you know, technical skills
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best of success and like huge wishes that if you win, you stay out
of the swamp, that you are able to to to serve with integrity and
stay out of the swamp, because we know far too many people with great
intentions who go in and get sucked into that dirty, dirty place. It's
just an awful hot time. I took Teata radioactivity right. So so there's
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safe when you're dealing with nuclear power, is time, distance and shielding right.
So time on target. You don't want to stay there too long.
And good thing. I live in Virginia, I'm an hour away. I'll
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all time times. Yeah, I think that that's great. Yeah. I
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We've we've been and listen. I mean, the ad that you put
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our site for months now, and so we've been following you and we're really
excited and man, we wish you the best, we really do. I
we're very excited about this one. It's just nice to see a fighter,
which we need more fighters like you, good hearted fighters, and so we're
just excited to see you out there, and I just I hope you win.
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right, I mean, Tim Kane. I didn't answer your very first
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He's never won a race on his own. He's always had to be pulled
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Warner, then as again as governors by Mark Warner when Mark Warner left because
of you know, term limits, and then he was supposed to be Barack
Obama's running me in two thous but he was so terrible as a governor that
who he was passed over for Joe Biden, Like, imagine that how bad
you have to be that you're now right exactly remembers him. The only people
thing people remember about him in Virginia is he was stuck on ninety five during
a snowstorm with a bottle of doctor pepper. That's all that's all that remember
about Tim k He's just I mean, he is a goofy dude. So
I mean, I just we wish you all the best, and we're going
to try our best to get the word out about you everybody that we know
that lives in that area, which is everybody we can about you, and
we just we hope you win. We really, we really do. Yeah
for VA dot com and you'll you'll find all. But I know, for
all the people. Oh, how's he gonna do that? I can't fit
that in the commercial. I can't. I can't read my whole bile as
the commercial. And so go to home for Via dot com and you'll see
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