I'm going to show man. I really appreciate it. I think it's like what I call a hot start.

We're just going to start this thing and roll right into it. Man, I've been falling you

guys for a long time. So the way that I've kind of turned on to your show was not through

Rogan actually, which when you guys were on the show, I was super excited to see you guys

specifically on Rogan because I can't remember. I think anybody that kind of dabbles that likes

to kind of watch will say less partisan media is probably run across you guys in one and

I'm referring to Crystal and soccer obviously. But then you, you being the conservative side

of the voice or the majority of the time, what I like to call the logical center actually

now. I love the way that you frame up information that I think last week or two weeks ago whenever

I reached out, I can really say I can appreciate it when people take the military industrial

complex and when they hold them to task, I really appreciate that. So welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for joining me on free range American. We got a few things that I absolutely

want to talk about. But my first question out of the gate is you said something on a show

while back and you said the reason I got into this was because of the Iraq war. And is

that just journalism in general? Is that is that what you're referring to? It's actually

more politics, man. And thank you for the kind of words like all of that being said. Yeah.

So I grew up in this place in college station, Texas, which is really interesting, like unique

place because it's literally where the library is for George H. W. Bush. So like if they're

here and W was our governor and so it's like if you were going to find a place where it

was basically heresy to say like no, this is wrong. Like this would be it. Always been

like naturally rebellious and all of that. And so around 2003, you know, the war drum

was starting to beat and look, I was young. I'm talking about like I was like 12 or 13 years

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