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Then to another edition of the Chicks on the Right podcast. 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,280 We're doing a deep dive today with Matt Lohmeyer, who was an Air Force 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:35,359 Academy grad from two thousand and six, a former T thirty eight and F 9 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:40,679 fifteen pilot, former lieutenant colonel commander in the Space Force, and also the 10 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:44,079 author of a book whose title I need to read because I could not memorize 11 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:50,840 it, the twenty twenty book called Irresistible Revolution, Marxism, Goal of Conquest 12 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,200 and Unmaking of the American Military. Thank you so much, first of all 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,799 for being with us. We appreciate it. 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And I don't do a good job with self promotion, 48 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:24,759 which is probably why a lot of people in the country wouldn't have heard of 49 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,680 me. I'm not offended in the least about that, but let me try 50 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,879 and hit some highlights. Feel free to interrupt me if it's useful. As 51 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:37,199 you mentioned, after I left the Air Force Academy, I was flying jets 52 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:40,719 for the Air Force, and then later went into the Space Force, and 53 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:47,199 on the whole, there was no overt politicization of the military workplace during the 54 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,599 entire time I served in the military. It didn't matter what your political worldview 55 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:54,120 was. That was kind of private. You went and voted if you wanted 56 00:03:54,120 --> 00:04:00,840 to or not. Whatever your religious worldview was might have been known to your 57 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,719 friends, that wasn't discussed in the workplace. Didn't matter what your race was, 58 00:04:03,919 --> 00:04:10,080 your socioeconomic makeup background, because they gave everyone the same ugly haircut in 59 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:13,800 the same beautiful uniform, and you all saluted the same flag, and you 60 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,959 swore the same oaths to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, period, 61 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,240 and so whatever your mission was in whatever branch of the military, you 62 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:28,879 happen to be serving in that's what you focused on, and that changed dramatically 63 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,920 come You can trace a line in the sand in number of different places. 64 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:41,399 I understand that. But when George Floyd died and we saw riots and activism 65 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,959 seizing upon the country in the spring and summer months of twenty twenty, the 66 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:55,759 same cultural revolutionary, spiritual impulse that we saw in the media that was taking 67 00:04:55,759 --> 00:05:00,560 place across country was also happening in our military. And we had had a 68 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:08,240 small minority of left wing activists who were in senior leadership positions in the military, 69 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,040 and also the youngest of the people in the military, seizing the moment 70 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,199 to push certain very very hyper political talking points that were anti American, that 71 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,920 were demonizing our founders, that were demonizing the Constitution of all things Totally. 72 00:05:21,959 --> 00:05:28,639 That's not acceptable in my view anywhere in this country. But we allow people 73 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:31,680 the freedom to do that. But it's illegal in the military workplace, and 74 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:36,360 at the time Donald Trump was president, and it's illegal for a service member. 75 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:41,639 It's against the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It's illegal for them to 76 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,439 publicly criticize their commander in chief, and that was happening in uniform and so 77 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:49,360 I tried to and here's where we get to the heart of the story, 78 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:55,319 and then I'll take a pause. I tried to explain what I was seeing 79 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:00,240 by overt politicization to my chain of command, to my immediate supervisor, as 80 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,560 well as all the way up the chain to the four star general who was 81 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,439 in charge of the Space Force, because I knew him well. I got 82 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,639 on the phone with him and talked with him, but he's he was a 83 00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:13,079 member of the Joint Chiefs. Every service chief is a member of the Joint 84 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,560 Chiefs. The response I received was that they agreed with me that there was 85 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:23,079 a big problem, and they seemed rather powerless to do anything about it. 86 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:28,639 So I filed a formal written complaint. And there's reasons why they felt powerless 87 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,720 to do something about it, but that's besides the point for net for now. 88 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,720 I filed a formal written complaint with the Space Force Inspector General's Office, 89 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,120 detailing Marxist critical race theory that was being taught, how it was dividing the 90 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,839 troops, it was leading people to want to leave the service, as hurting 91 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,600 our recruiting efforts, so on and so forth. That was dismissed after Joe 92 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,439 Biden. They sat on that for three months, but Joe Biden came to 93 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:57,439 office, that was dismissed. And so I wrote a book, the book 94 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,040 that you've mentioned, Irresistible Revolution, that came out in May of twenty twenty 95 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,560 one, and I was fired from command in the Space Force for writing it. 96 00:07:04,639 --> 00:07:09,879 Not because of the content of the book per se, but because senior 97 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,199 leaders were so afraid that someone they knew well, who had a good record 98 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,920 that was that people would listen to, had written a book about you know, 99 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:24,279 about Marxism and about the left politics. And it wasn't meant to be 100 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:29,639 overtly partisan. It was meant to call out our need for greater accountability in 101 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,800 the military workplace by eliminating partisanship and to allow young men and women to enjoy 102 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,199 the military workplace and do their mission. So I was fired. I've been 103 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,439 speaking around the country for the past couple of years ever since, and that's 104 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,720 why, ultimately, finally I was asked to come and testify in Congress about 105 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,000 you know, what impact have I seen in the last couple of years since 106 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,839 writing this book, and it's not gotten any better. So you said you 107 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:57,360 were fired, Like I mean like fired from the military, like no benefits? 108 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,519 Is that what happened to you? Like just because you had a glowing 109 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,079 record in the military, and they and then they just said you got to 110 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,279 go now because you wrote this book, Like I just it's astounding good. 111 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:11,439 Don't understand the process. How did they just writ How do they do that? 112 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:16,920 Well, A couple of different things to understand. I guess I did 113 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:22,160 have a good record, And in fact, in lead up to my congressional 114 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:26,319 testimony, I shared a number of things with the subcommittee that had invited me 115 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:31,279 to join them for the testimony, and one of those things was the summary 116 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,240 of my military record, and they posted that online. I didn't know that 117 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,360 was going to happen. I wasn't trying to get my military record in the 118 00:08:39,399 --> 00:08:43,120 public, but they the night before the hearing, they posted not only my 119 00:08:43,639 --> 00:08:50,080 submission of a written opening statement and hundreds of over one hundred pages of substantiating 120 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,879 attachments, but they posted my military record and people were retweeting that, I 121 00:08:54,919 --> 00:08:58,759 don't know how you say it these days, re exing that they were sending 122 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:03,159 it up on next and so it was a little uncomfortable. I didn't intend 123 00:09:03,159 --> 00:09:05,120 for that to be public, but it's good. I was the number one 124 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:09,279 officer in the Space Force of my peer group, promoted two years early to 125 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,159 lieutenant colonel. And so, to answer your question, Daisy, I was 126 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,919 in command as a lieutenant colonel. I was fired from my command, and 127 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,600 so I was no longer in a commander position after I was fired, but 128 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,559 I was still a lieutenant colonel in the military and in the Space Force. 129 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:33,279 But that lasted for about three months. There was an ongoing investigation to determine 130 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,960 if I had acted in some way that was unauthorized, illegal, unethical, 131 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,960 immoral, and I hadn't. I hadn't at all, and I wasn't found 132 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:45,399 guilty of anything. But at the time, you know, they'd wrecked my 133 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:50,200 reputation as a leader. They were the ones, meaning Space Force leaders, 134 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:56,240 that coordinated a story on military dot Com the very next morning after I'd been 135 00:09:56,279 --> 00:10:00,039 fired, saying that they had lost their trust and confidence in my min my 136 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,039 ability to lead. That's the same thing they say about child predators, that's 137 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:05,279 the same thing they say about drug users. And it's like, well, 138 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:09,320 how do you if they're not going to specify the reasons for your firing. 139 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:13,080 The only thing that the American people know, and that now everyone in that 140 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,440 branch of in all branches of the military know about you, is that you 141 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,320 are no longer trusted to lead people. Wow. So I requested something that 142 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,679 is occasionally approved by Congress. It's called TERRA. It's the early Retirement Authority. 143 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:31,519 As long as you've had fifteen years at least in service, you can 144 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:35,600 technically, under certain circumstances, qualify for an early retirement. It's a certain 145 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:41,080 percentage of your full pension. And I requested that I had senators, you 146 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,240 know, Senator Tom Cotton and others writing letters to the Secretary of the Air 147 00:10:45,279 --> 00:10:48,200 Force urging that they approved my early retirement since they had wrecked my reputation, 148 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:54,960 and they denied it. And so I voluntarily separated without my pension. Because 149 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:58,080 it was either stay in and keep your mouth shut about what's going on, 150 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:03,919 or get out and keep using your voice to try and inform people about the 151 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,639 woke revolution that's taking over the military. And so I chose to get out 152 00:11:07,639 --> 00:11:11,440 and do that. And I just maybe someday, if Trump's back in office, 153 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:16,440 you know, or someone who cares about restoring the military, that you 154 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,320 start to see a restitution for some of these wrongs that have been done over 155 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,080 the past. They just wanted you to go away. They just wanted you, 156 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,480 in the truth, to go away, which is so gross. What's 157 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:31,759 too bad is that I had had a really good relationship with the senior leaders 158 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:37,399 in some of the senior leaders in the Air Force, and especially with some 159 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,039 of the senior leaders in the Space Force. We respected each other, We 160 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:48,279 didn't necessarily see things differently, but out of fear, they wanted to make 161 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,840 sure they stayed good with the regime. And that was all happened during the 162 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:58,799 whole COVID nightmare also part of it. So because I haven't had the opportunity 163 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,679 to to read your book yet, but I'm wondering if that, I know, 164 00:12:01,759 --> 00:12:05,360 your focus was obviously Marxism and DEI and that that kind of thing. 165 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,960 Did did that come up in your writing at all? Do you feel Because 166 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:15,200 I remember Daisy and I talking a lot about all these forced separations from the 167 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,080 military from people who didn't want to take the vaccine, and now it's just 168 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,360 I look at you and I and I think about all of those service folks 169 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:26,799 who were forced essentially to get out because they wanted to stick by their convictions. 170 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,960 And I think those are exactly the kinds of people that we need in 171 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,240 the military right and now, like and I'm just looking what a waste of 172 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:39,600 you. I mean, not that you're what you're doing now is not important. 173 00:12:39,759 --> 00:12:43,759 But when I wait about it, you know, but you know what 174 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:46,720 she means, like we know what right, you know what she means. 175 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:52,000 It's because I can't believe that you are not You're not able, that they 176 00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:56,519 prevented you from being able to serve, and you're exactly who we want. 177 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:01,639 You're the poster boy for who we want. You want strong people. Think 178 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:07,200 about this. If you care about military strength, if you care about lethality, 179 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,360 if you care about readiness, if you care about winning or deterring wars, 180 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:15,720 you want strong men first and foremost. Right, exam words about this. 181 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:22,720 You want you want strong men, and ideally and common sensically, they 182 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,039 will love their country and be willing to die for it. Everything that the 183 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:31,399 DEI industry is seeking to do is demonize men. It's criticism of Western civilization, 184 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,240 demonization of our founders in this country. And you have you have people 185 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,639 on both sides. This is the interesting part. There are people on both 186 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:45,000 sides of the political aisle who hate what they're hearing, and so it disincentivizes 187 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,159 their service to the country. If they're let's say they're conservative, and they 188 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:50,120 don't buy into it, they know better and they think it's all propaganda, 189 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:56,399 they don't want to serve in a military that's pushing that narrative. First off, 190 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,200 if they're Christian and conservative, let's say, and they refuse to because 191 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,559 it's against their conscience to take the COVID shot, they push them out because 192 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:09,480 they're not politically compliant. But on the other hand, if you're leftist and 193 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:15,440 roughly speaking, let's say even and you like what you're being taught about the 194 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,799 evils of the country, and you like that you're being taught that it's not 195 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:24,639 redeemable, it's it's systemically racist. It's anymore. It is evil, frankly, 196 00:14:24,879 --> 00:14:26,279 and we need to return to something that was far more lovely. But 197 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:31,080 if you're buying into all of that, that also disincentivizes the service. Why 198 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,480 would you be willing to lay your leftist neck on the line for an irredeemably 199 00:14:35,559 --> 00:14:39,080 racist country when you can join the revolution right against Yeah? Right, yeah? 200 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:43,080 Do you still have, like I say, peers, I don't know 201 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,960 how that works in the military. Do you still have people who are kind 202 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,519 of on your I guess on your level. I don't. I don't know 203 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:52,120 how to say it, but that are still in the military that you have 204 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,919 contact with, and do they do you have a pulse basically on what I'd 205 00:14:56,159 --> 00:15:00,559 like to be in the military right now. It's a good It's good that 206 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,360 you bring this up, because the people I talk to most often are the 207 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:09,399 ones feeding me information about what's going on currently. They send me emails or 208 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:16,720 text messages with policy memorandums that are coming out that are that are ugly things. 209 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,039 But it's important to point out also that I've got peers and others that 210 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,840 are not my peers that are having a good experience in the military. By 211 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:28,840 and large, they're not burdened by the stuff that we're talking about. I 212 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:31,320 meet parents sometimes when I go out and speak. They say, my son's 213 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,799 in the Navy. He's been in for four years, and I told him 214 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,919 I was coming to listen to you speak, and he says, I don't 215 00:15:35,919 --> 00:15:39,840 know what he's talking about. And my response to those people, you know, 216 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,399 my initial impulse is like, well, he needs to wake the hell 217 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:48,759 up. But my other response is it's what I give them, is I 218 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:52,399 say, I'm glad he's having a good experience, because I genuinely think, 219 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,879 you know what, like maybe his unit is largely unimpacted so far by the 220 00:15:56,919 --> 00:16:03,399 activism, and maybe the job that that person and does has has allowed for 221 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:10,720 an environment that this isn't like, this isn't a common weekly or monthly talking 222 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,360 point or training session. Maybe they do a one annual DEI training that they 223 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:15,799 check the box on and they move on. But it's kind of like you 224 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,120 in a decent school, like my daughter is in public school, and it's 225 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,360 like being in a decent school like here in Texas, but like the Department 226 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:26,960 of Education as a whole is a huge freaking mess. It's a big poble. 227 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,799 So and so yeah, I mean, you can be lucky in a 228 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:37,080 pocket, but perhaps the whole thing holistically is like a giant disaster right now. 229 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:38,120 So that's why I was wondering, if you talk to those people that 230 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:41,960 are still in there and they're like, we're in trouble, you know, 231 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,799 yeah, I still talk to those people. I could you know, I 232 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,679 have examples that start to just filter to the forefront of my mind because it's 233 00:16:52,759 --> 00:16:56,440 a constant thing. And I've to be quite honest with you, what decent 234 00:16:56,519 --> 00:17:00,000 person doesn't want to escape the ugliness of the present mond and to focus on 235 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:06,079 that which is lovely and beautiful and decent and good about the country and about 236 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,920 whatever your faith is, and and your family and all of that stuff. 237 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:14,160 And I've wanted so much to just escape to a private I mean, I 238 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,920 just I'm reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. 239 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,240 I've watched the movies. I'm a big reader, but I've never read 240 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:21,599 much fiction, and so I'm reading The Lord of the Rings. I'm reading 241 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,519 about the Shire and the Hobbit and and these Hobbits, and I just can, 242 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:26,799 like hear the music from the movies playing, and I think, like, 243 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,640 I want, I want to go live in the Shire, and I 244 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,039 want to have nice people around me who don't want government involvement in their life. 245 00:17:34,279 --> 00:17:37,759 And they're strong and they do they pursue what they're passionate about, and 246 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:41,440 the pursuit of happiness. That's what the like. In one very real, 247 00:17:41,519 --> 00:17:49,000 tangible sense, the greatness of the American ideal was that through a virtuous limited 248 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,759 government, which virtue the virtue part can't last for very long. I should 249 00:17:53,799 --> 00:18:03,839 say, limited government that you're filling by elections and for purposes of representation with 250 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:11,079 a decent and religious and moral people allows for the citizen their life and their 251 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:14,079 liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which is like, figure out what God's 252 00:18:14,079 --> 00:18:15,640 will is for you and go pursue it, you know, and do that, 253 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,119 and tend to your garden, and tend to your family relationships, and 254 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,920 get involved in political office in the local school system if you'd like. But 255 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:29,880 we are constantly burdened by the impositions of an unjust government at the state in 256 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,680 the federal level. Now yea, So how do you do anything else but 257 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,559 continue to get roped into the dialogue? 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Go 276 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:48,039 to Omaha Steaks dot com slash chicks and customize your subscription to check out. 277 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,799 Do it Omaha Steaks dot com slash Chicks. So would you do it again? 278 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:55,559 I mean, because it sounds like, at least from what I've read, 279 00:19:55,599 --> 00:19:59,960 that you. It wasn't like you were writing this book covertly like stealth 280 00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:03,640 and all being sneaky about it. You you were very open about your concerns. 281 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,480 You tried to go through the proper channels. You did all the things, 282 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,119 So did you when you started the book? Then? Did you think 283 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,039 to yourself, there's a risk that I'm taking here, and you did it 284 00:20:15,079 --> 00:20:22,440 willingly and knowingly, or were you as were you surprised by the consequences of 285 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,839 writing that book. I would do it again. I don't regret anything I've 286 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,599 done. I'm I'm not interested in doing some big thing unless I feel compelled 287 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,319 that I'm obligated to do something like that. I was happy to be a 288 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:45,640 commander in the military. I would do it again. I was distracted by 289 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,880 the word that's on the black mug over your shoulder. I was gonna say, 290 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,039 what's that? What's that? What's on your mug back there? Oh? 291 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,799 That the yellow writing. It just is my nickname, Mocka. It's 292 00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:00,839 not it's not that far. I think you thought, why do you find 293 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:07,519 this distracting? What on earth about this shelf would you find distracting? Dogs? 294 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,720 There's nothing distracting about It's on the monkey's chest. I thought, sorry, 295 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,880 says it, says mock on it. He's probably like, is there 296 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,799 a naughty word on there? Yeah, no, no, no, no, 297 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,759 I promise it's all on the up and up. But were you surprised 298 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,039 by what happened? Which, yeah, you were, so. I know. 299 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:32,319 I considered every possible outcome. I discussed that with my wife. We 300 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,400 went into that with our eyes fully open. However, I was still surprised 301 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,920 at how things played out. For example, my book was published in a 302 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,799 week later, I'm being fired on the phone by a three star general and 303 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:49,200 my chain of command for alleged political partisanship while acting in an official capacity, 304 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:53,480 which is totally false, and for publicly criticizing my chain of command. Those 305 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,000 are the exact words that were used. That was totally false. I didn't 306 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,400 do either of those things in my book. Yeah, I had never either 307 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,720 of those things in any public or official capacity. And I was always very 308 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,559 careful to make sure I was complimentary of my chain of command, my senior 309 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:17,240 leaders, although and frankly at that time, they were deserving of my trust, 310 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:29,160 respect, and even though they were unfortunately incapable of deciding quickly and for 311 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,720 themselves that we needed to take a stand against what we now so easily refer 312 00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:37,279 to as wokeism. I thought, these are good people. They've served the 313 00:22:37,319 --> 00:22:40,000 country for a very long time, and I get that they don't want to 314 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,720 get mixed up in the political fray. They want to go comfortably back to 315 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:45,599 the shire and retirement, as we're talking about they want, you know, 316 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:49,599 they're at thirty years something years of service and they're hoping this is a passing 317 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:55,119 phase in American political life. It's going to go away. And I didn't 318 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,519 view it that way one bit. I saw the writing on the wall. 319 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:03,880 I studied how Marxist revolutions take place, and everything was mounting, and I 320 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,440 see that this isn't going to change, and in fact, if we don't 321 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:11,880 change course immediately, the consequences of our current decisions will be difficult to unmake 322 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,359 and undo over the next five and ten years. So it has to be 323 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,079 talked about, right And so yeah, I was surprised that they fired me 324 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,279 quickly for false reasons, by the way, but it was out of fear. 325 00:23:22,079 --> 00:23:27,160 And I was surprised that they refused to approve my retirement, given the 326 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:33,519 fact that they knew that they had under false pretenses, fired me, and 327 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,680 I don't regret any of that. Could you sue him? How do it 328 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:40,559 even work? And I think I could have. I don't know what the 329 00:23:40,559 --> 00:23:45,440 statute statute of limitations is. I've even considered it. Since then, it's 330 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,559 been two and a half years. You totally should. This may will be 331 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:56,319 three years since I was fired. But the time in which I was separating, 332 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,319 the fall of twenty twenty one, in which it was like the most 333 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:06,720 it was the most sweet time to sue. Yeah, I remember thinking I 334 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,880 don't have a litigious soul, and this is a hard time for my family, 335 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,039 and I want to make our transition to civilian life as easy as possible. 336 00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:15,920 And I end up in the news cycle all over again. Yeah. 337 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,440 But the fact that like I'm paying for Bauci's pension and like all these benefits 338 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,759 and like you don't get anything. I like, I that makes me crazy, 339 00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:26,920 Like you shouldn't. It's mad, It makes me crazy mad. Yeah, 340 00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:30,480 it's not right. Speaking of maddening, can we talk about that congressional 341 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:37,519 hearing, Because you were you were faced with some serious stupid and I there 342 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:41,799 was that moment where where you rightly lost your temper and you were like, 343 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,440 you guys don't know what you're talking about, and this is all bullshit, 344 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,240 and I was like, yeah, you go, and that's the clip that 345 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:52,240 we ended up playing for our audience. So how first of all, I 346 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,759 think was what two and a half hours? I think that you were probably 347 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,880 I think it was around that and and you had your your few moments. 348 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,640 And then of course, the way that those hearings work, you know, 349 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,200 I'm reclaiming my time or whatever it is that they do to interrupt your thought 350 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,240 process. My god. So but after all that, because you know, 351 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,880 so often we see these hearings where there's amazing people like you giving testimony that's 352 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,279 so important for the country, for the world to hear, and then it's 353 00:25:19,279 --> 00:25:23,759 like we get all excited about what was said and the impact of those words 354 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:27,720 we know that they had on us, but doesn't do anything? Was there 355 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:33,079 an outcome? Is there ever any follow up? Like what was the Did 356 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:34,799 that help anything? You know what I mean? Or do you just feel 357 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:38,759 super frustrated like we always do when we watch those hearings. I felt frustrated 358 00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:44,359 going into the hearing because I wrestled with that question. I thought, is 359 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,079 this just political drama? You know, is this a play? You know, 360 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,599 and everyone's up there playing politics, and so I thought, use my 361 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,279 time, well, prayerfully, sincerely, consider what it is that you need 362 00:25:57,319 --> 00:26:02,160 to convey, you know, as a spokesperson for what you understand. Convey 363 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,240 that, be honest in how you answer questions, but try not to get 364 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,359 overly emotional. And I told my wife one of the greatest challenges I'm going 365 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,279 to have in that room is not getting emotional in my response, because I 366 00:26:12,319 --> 00:26:15,720 knew i'd have like my body temperature go through the roof as I listened to 367 00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:19,640 the same way. And so I'm sitting there listening to these guys, and 368 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,599 I can see the hate like coming off of some of the Democrats forces in 369 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:29,680 that room. They totally unwilling. It's like they want to preach to us 370 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:33,880 about diversity right right, And they've called another white male to sit right next 371 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,880 to me who absolutely loathes my view. And it's like, here's the perfect 372 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:44,839 proof right here at this table that just because we look the same doesn't mean 373 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,720 we think the same exactly. Oh my gosh, right, you could have 374 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,039 put up and in fact, what's funny about that? Yeah, General General 375 00:26:52,079 --> 00:26:55,240 Tie Sigeley is his name. They couldn't pronounce his name the whole time. 376 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,440 He's got a funny name, but Ti Siguly. He sat right next to 377 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,319 me. We had a friendly in exchange, he and I before the hearing. 378 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,759 We had a friendly exchange after. We were enemies during the hearing because 379 00:27:06,759 --> 00:27:10,240 we had a very different viewpoint to talk about, and we look exactly the 380 00:27:10,279 --> 00:27:14,160 same, I mean kind of. But after it's all over, there's a 381 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,960 young black man who is sitting behind me in the peanut gallery who worked for 382 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,519 a certain organization. He came up and introduced himself, I mean totally to 383 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:26,599 the disproof of what they were saying up there on the stand. He comes 384 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,119 up and says, I agree with everything you said. You're sought on. 385 00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:33,160 Here's my card. Let's talk. And I think see that this is the 386 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,960 whole point, Like the look doesn't matter. We need people that love their 387 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,279 country, who understand their mission, and who are interested in being lethal on 388 00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:44,039 behalf of the American people. That's the whole point of a military right. 389 00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:48,640 And the American people understand that. Yes, But for some reason in that 390 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,079 room, democrats did not want to understand that they wanted to talk. There's 391 00:27:53,079 --> 00:27:56,759 no such thing we don't do racial quotas. There's no racial quotas. And 392 00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:00,359 that's not true. It's just not just it's not true in the university, 393 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,160 it's not true in the military. It's not true at our military universities. 394 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:08,400 And so and I don't know if you heard the ranking member Garcia, after 395 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:12,839 he's from California, after all the witnesses got done and the whole hearing is 396 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:19,759 over, he's summed up for the room the views of me and the other 397 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:25,960 gentlemen who were called by Republicans to be the witnesses to be witnesses, and 398 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,079 ranking members summed up our comments, and it was totally a misstatement, totally 399 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,960 false representation of what we had said. He said we were advocating for what 400 00:28:33,039 --> 00:28:37,920 he say. He said, you advocate for militias to overturn the regime. 401 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:41,920 And I just thought, what a liar. It's just crazy. And so 402 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:48,519 anyone in uniform that watches that charade is rightly angered by what they're seeing come 403 00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:53,279 out of our Congress. But one more point, one more point, what 404 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:59,319 good does it do? I got an email a couple of days ago from 405 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:04,000 that committed and they wanted to follow up on my testimony. With a certain 406 00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:08,240 list of questions that they wanted greater clarity on, and I said, oh, 407 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,759 good, like you want more information. I don't know. Good that'll 408 00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:15,319 do, But let me see what you're asking. I open up the document. 409 00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:18,000 I've not responded. I don't think I will respond. 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Yeah, 435 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:59,119 and you know I shared at the very end of that testimony summation of what 436 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,599 I really wanted to and it's that we will continue to wreck our readiness and 437 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:06,200 our recruitment if we pursue this agenda, which is totally true and it's happening, 438 00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:08,599 and that we'll destroy ourselves as a country if we continue to do this. 439 00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:12,680 And it was really important to me to be able to convey that witness 440 00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:17,240 or that testimony and that hearing, and so I did that. Whether or 441 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,720 not there's any positive, observable, tangible outcome from the hearing, yeah, 442 00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:23,440 well, I mean we heard it. Yeah, we heard it, and 443 00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:26,880 a lot of other people heard it, and I think that was that's the 444 00:31:26,559 --> 00:31:30,559 best outcome, right, And we're hopefully more and more people will start hearing 445 00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:34,319 that and maybe we can turn the ship around. Right, that's the need 446 00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:37,920 to do that. You have to try always, even when things look dark. 447 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,319 I mean, you try your best. The voice is powerful. There's 448 00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:45,960 a reason free speech matters a great deal. Yes, it is. The 449 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:53,680 It is a preventative of sorts for violence when people lose their ability to articulate 450 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:59,039 their views or even scream and shout them hatefully. Let's say one extreme like 451 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,759 you need to allow people to say hateful things because that's better than killing one 452 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:07,799 another. Right, And you start to label things hate speech, and then 453 00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:13,000 there's certain things that are now off limits to say hatefully, you start to 454 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,519 walk a path back from free speech and towards the use of violence in order 455 00:32:17,559 --> 00:32:21,839 to solve your problems. Yeah, that's a really interesting way to look at 456 00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:27,480 it, because you constantly hear from Democrats, particularly that there's speech that incites 457 00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:31,920 violence. And your point is well taken that sometimes the silencing is what incites 458 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:37,559 violence. So that's an interesting way to words can incite violence, and rhetoric 459 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:43,440 is often used to pave the way for wars. A great example of this 460 00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:46,359 just my input for the day because I was thinking about it. You know, 461 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:52,039 we call this the Russia Ukraine War. It's rhetoric. I'm going to 462 00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:55,640 start calling it something different. It's the NATO Russia War in Ukraine. Yeah, 463 00:32:57,079 --> 00:33:00,079 yeah, yeah, it is. And the fact is a bunch of 464 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,880 Ukrainian people are suffering the most, but it is It's clear from the words 465 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,960 of our regime, from Biden and from Lloyd Austin, from members of Congress, 466 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,319 and from our NATO alliance that we view ourselves as at war with Russia, 467 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:15,880 and we're happy to do it in a land far far away from home 468 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:21,000 in order to destroy and bankrupt Russia. We're doing it to ourselves in the 469 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,839 process. But it's a it's a proxy war. Yeah, yep. One 470 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,519 final question before we let you go, and that is is it true that 471 00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:34,759 you speak fluent Mandarin? It was true that I spoke fluent Mandarin. You 472 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:39,880 know, like any first off Mandarin, Chinese, if you're somewhat musical, 473 00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:45,519 isn't as hard to learn as English. Really believe that. It's like you 474 00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:52,200 can mimic sounds and you're up and burrow and it's a beautiful language. And 475 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:58,359 my first China exposure was in two thousand and five and the Department of the 476 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,160 Air Force had an exchange progret and with the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 477 00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:07,679 chang Chu in China. And my annunciation and my pronunciation is still somewhat correct, 478 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,840 although my vocabulary is greatly diminished. But I went and slept in the 479 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,840 dorms with these young PLA cadets in their Air Force Academy north of North Korea 480 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,480 up in northeastern China. And recently, as a part of a movie that 481 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,400 I'm filming, which we can talk about another time. It'll be out the 482 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,800 summer, I was in Washington, d C. Actually it was the same 483 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,719 trip I think that I testified in Congress, but I did a walk and 484 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:37,800 talk on camera with my good friend Shei van Fleet Laden County mom, survivor 485 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,159 of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China, and she's a very outspoken anti Marxist, 486 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,440 anti communist, a commentator now and just came out with a new book. 487 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,920 But she's a wonderful lady. And we spoke in Chinese for like two second 488 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,119 sound bites at the time, because that was all the affluency I can muster 489 00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:00,039 anymore these days. So you can't. Could you say, like, the 490 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:02,480 chicks are awesome? In Mandarin? How to say chicks? It might sound 491 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,159 like chickens. So the ladies, can you say ladies? The ladies are 492 00:35:06,159 --> 00:35:08,920 awesome? Oh jeez, you put you got You got to give me a 493 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,880 warning about the stuffs. Ladies are great, the ladies run sure. How 494 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:22,880 boy, that sounds good? Sounds good. I don't know a Chinese person 495 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,239 would translate that is like, these females are are really awesome. I guess 496 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,719 these shoes are cooked. Yeah. Well, you know, I saw something 497 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,599 about this documentary about you coming out, and that would be a really fantastic 498 00:35:36,639 --> 00:35:38,039 time to have you back. When that is is it going to be the 499 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:42,119 summer or fall, you know when it's coming. This is this summer, 500 00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:45,000 it will come out awesome. Yeah, we would love to have you back 501 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,119 in preview that or totally give us the rundown. That'd be wrapping up filming. 502 00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:52,800 Are you guys in Texas? I'm and she's going to be in South 503 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,679 Carolina pretty soon. She's in Indiana right now, but I'm filming in Texas 504 00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,199 here in a couple of wear down to San Antonio, New Bronfels area. 505 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,480 I love that area. I love the New Brothels. I love New Brothels 506 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:06,440 especially. But we're about two hours. We're out right outside of Waco, 507 00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:08,800 so we're pretty close to there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 508 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,960 Waco. That's exciting that you're getting out a documentary. Everybody, Yeah, 509 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,800 Waco. But yeah, this summer is when it will come out. There's 510 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,280 a working title that was released by the Heritage Foundation that we said, hey, 511 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:22,960 take that away. We're not sure if that's the final title, but 512 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:30,039 we we expect to be finishing filming here in the next few weeks and then 513 00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:37,039 hopefully maximum distribution throughout the country. Awesome, this summer, fantastic, Yeah, 514 00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:39,920 thank you so much. For giving us the inside scoop on your story. 515 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,280 It's a fascinating one that everybody should be listening to and thinking of as 516 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,559 a warning. I mean, because it's not just about what happened to you, 517 00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:52,159 it's about how important what you've done since is. I mean the fact 518 00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:54,760 that you continue to speak out and make people aware of the dangers of what's 519 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,760 happening in our military. Everyone needs to be concerned about this, and we 520 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,559 appreciate you taking the time. Also, you're a model for speaking out. 521 00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:06,199 People should never be afraid to exercise free speech and speak out and be strong 522 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:07,519 in doing so. So thank you for being one of those people who does 523 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,639 that. Yeah, thank you, Yeah, appreciate it.