Welcome to another edition of The Warning, and I'm thrilled today to be joined by Paul Rikoff, who is

president of the Independent Veterans of America. Paul is a well-known and outspoken leader of this

generation of veterans who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan war, somebody that I deeply admire, and I'm

thrilled to have him here today. And I guess to start out, there's a good chance we could be in the

same cell block in political prison together, right? If they keep the R's and the S's together

alphabetically. So we may be seeing more of each other soon.

Yeah, wild times, man. Wild times. I mean, I hope not. But it's definitely a time where critics are

going to be under fire and facing all kinds of headwinds we've never seen before. Just one correction.

I hadn't served in Afghanistan,

just Iraq, but a lot of the last couple of months has felt like all those things and then some,

right? I mean, we're in a new normal, and your show is called The Warning. I think that's the appropriate title for the times we're living in. And what's happening right now, and a lot of

folks are ready to, you know, focus on the

holidays and take a break or lick their wounds or just go to ground. I mean, this is a time where

we need to be especially vigilant and stick together wherever we can. So yeah, I hope we're not

in Gitmo together. But who knows what the next couple of months is going to look like for anybody

who's a critic of the president-elect?

I was joking around with a friend of mine.

I said the difference between political prison and regular prison is generally speaking, insofar as I can tell, right?

It's not experiential.

But if you go to regular prison, right, your worst day

is your first day, right? And then it starts to get better, right? So the Menendez brothers,

for example, right? They are involved in prison government. And one of them is a meditation teacher.

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