Episode 120 — The Future Of America With Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Casey Putsch

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[0:01:52] Well, a big car guy. [0:01:54] Live with my wife, my three-year-old daughter, and a little bun in the oven here in Perrysburg, Ohio. [0:01:59] Grew up in Tiffin, Ohio, so northwest Ohio forever in that regard. [0:02:03] The family business growing up was a little rural golf course. [0:02:06] We worked seven days a week, sun up to sun down. [0:02:09] Learned all the personal responsibility and work ethic growing up in that environment, of course. [0:02:13] And then family going back generations and generations. [0:02:16] A lot of military men and people taking responsibility for themselves and caring about their community and family. [0:02:22] And then, of course, with regard to the run, in the last, I would say, six years, I've become more and more disgusted by what I've seen in culture and politics, the dividing of America, and looking at, frankly, what's behind that that's in no one's best interest. [0:02:38] And a few years back, I started taking a more serious thought about potentially running for office, maybe even Congress, things like this. [0:02:46] But, you know, you always try to better your life as well as everybody else's. [0:02:52] I do a nonprofit called Genius Garage where I mentor college engineering students and technical kind of students, giving them the skills they simply can't get in school and helping them get amazing jobs done after the last 11 years. [0:03:05] Built the high efficiency diesel recyclable car concept called the Omega Car. [0:03:10] You might have seen that. [0:03:11] I did Tucker Carlson show about a year ago with that and spoke out in support of Donald Trump when he was running for president last time. [0:03:21] The car got over 100 miles to go on diesel, calculated out to have a lower carbon footprint per mile than an EV. [0:03:28] And actually it accelerates my Dodge Viper zero to 60. [0:03:32] Beyond that, I build watches from Swiss parts and such, and that's a little business there. [0:03:35] but more recently with regard to me actually running for the governor of [0:03:39] Ohio as a Republican candidate, [0:03:41] I simply did not like what I saw for both of the candidates for the course, [0:03:47] the Democrats, [0:03:48] that's a terrible choice and Vivek Ramaswamy who looks to only be a [0:03:54] globalist Trojan horse and in no way representing anybody's best interests. [0:03:58] So here we are. [0:04:00] Yeah, [0:04:00] that's, [0:04:00] that's, [0:04:01] that's incredible, [0:04:01] man. [0:04:02] Swiss, [0:04:03] you build watches. [0:04:05] I have not yet heard that. [0:04:06] That's crazy. [0:04:08] Yeah. [0:04:09] Wow. [0:04:10] Just a tiny little machine and thought it would be a good business that I could do since I have a daughter. [0:04:17] And a little one on the way. [0:04:20] Wanted to be able to spend more time at home rather than long hours in the shop building cars. [0:04:24] So that's something I got into doing and got a nice construct to launch a business. [0:04:29] Actually, I would have launched the business already had I not decided to run for office. [0:04:34] Yeah. No. Hey, tell me about it. I know I know how difficult it can be. I ran for governor of Idaho back in 2022. [0:04:43] So I'm very aware of, you know, what it all takes. And we're going to get we're definitely going to get into that a little bit. [0:04:48] I want to hear some updates on your campaign, how much money you've raised, what kind of volunteers you've got. [0:04:52] But first up, Vivek Ramaswamy. So, you know, he kind of came onto the scene a few years ago. He said a lot of the right things. But then, you know, something just wasn't sitting right. And things started to come out eventually about how he was involved. [0:05:09] It was some sort of like Alzheimer's scam that he was involved with, some sort of pharmaceutical company that really had no viable path forward. [0:05:21] He bought the thing out, pumped it in the public markets, made a boatload of money. [0:05:27] And it seems like he's been doing some of this stuff, too, with Bitcoin, I guess. [0:05:32] There was some sort of like Bitcoin sovereign wealth fund that he was launching a year ago. [0:05:37] I remember meeting with somebody in Vegas that was telling me about it. And I was just like, [0:05:41] wait, what? What's going on here? But you've taken a very strong stance against Vivek. [0:05:49] Vivek, Vivek, however you say his name. He's an anchor baby. He's not an American. [0:05:54] And now he's out here writing these articles like, what is an American? You know, trying to define [0:06:01] who we are as a people. [0:06:04] What are some of your thoughts? [0:06:06] How did your journey on Vivek kind of build up [0:06:10] and to where you got to now? [0:06:14] Sure. [0:06:15] Well, we all saw him when he was running for president. [0:06:18] And I frankly didn't pay much attention to him [0:06:20] because that's not somebody who's going to win. [0:06:23] Beyond just a superficial look at like, [0:06:25] oh, he says kind of the right thing. [0:06:27] Seems like all Donald Trump's talking points. [0:06:29] And, um, Hey, he's, uh, Brown. [0:06:32] So maybe the libs will leave us alone. [0:06:34] And frankly, that was my point blank thought. [0:06:36] Yeah. [0:06:37] But I didn't pay that much attention. [0:06:38] You know, he pulls worse than Chris crispy. [0:06:40] I can't even say Chris crispy, Christy anymore. [0:06:43] Cause I always say Chris, crispy cream, Christy. [0:06:47] It's stuck with me, but he pulls worse than Chris. [0:06:50] And, uh, and so then he just kind of goes on the tour, still buying his way on every [0:06:55] podcast, um, saying the right things. [0:06:57] because it seems like he's trying to suck up and ride the coattails of donald trump you know he's [0:07:01] obviously very connected to jd vance so that whole ecosphere is about the same but he gets appointed [0:07:07] to doge um and the way i like to say it tongue in cheek i'm it's like but then we get to the uh [0:07:13] time for him to uh start doing something when trump gets in and then he punches out and he [0:07:19] didn't do no doging uh but he's been out there talking and in the spotlight meanwhile just [0:07:24] raising his net worth doing nothing in public office helping nobody for anything uh and now [0:07:30] he's going to run for governor of ohio with the most astrotur i've ever seen in my life [0:07:36] endorsed by everybody so early on it makes no sense clearing the field the whole way [0:07:41] and uh every fiber of my being was just telling me that is wrong that's not organic um there's [0:07:48] something something foul afoot um you know obviously and if you pay enough attention [0:07:52] uh and frankly to his detriment and i think the positive of the united states and people at large [0:07:59] he's been out there so long that despite the master of astroturfing and being on every single [0:08:04] podcast tv media thing possible he's been out long enough that the cracks in his polished facade are [0:08:10] showing uh the emperor has no clothes uh and when you look more carefully at all his business doings [0:08:16] over his entire life, you look at it and you kind of ask the question, what's Vivek Abra [0:08:21] actually created that helps anybody or is tangible despite his massive wealth? Because I still don't [0:08:28] know. But I do know that he bought the rights to a failed pharmaceutical drug. Yes, there's his, [0:08:35] there's his, looks like, I imagine he can afford a pedicure, but I don't think he should be showing [0:08:40] it off anywho he uh you know he buys the rights to a failed pharmaceutical drug that allegedly had [0:08:48] some small effect on memory loss and creates a company with a small number of people including [0:08:54] his mother who writes uh medical papers and things touting that this could be a potential [0:09:01] direction for the cure for alzheimer's uh and then as the story goes uh creates a publicly [0:09:06] traded company with a market cap over a billion dollars and he cashes out with tens of millions [0:09:12] of dollars before the company tanks because the drug did what it always did fail its trials and [0:09:20] when people look back at that it's hard not to say that was a scam it's hard not to look at it [0:09:31] and think that because what did they do? [0:09:36] What value did they create? [0:09:37] What did they do to make it better? [0:09:38] It just looks like a shell game [0:09:40] is what it seems like to everybody. [0:09:42] And then as we look deeper, [0:09:44] this is a guy who took a $50,000 scholarship [0:09:47] from George Soros family money when he was in college, [0:09:50] despite already making well over half a million dollars a year, [0:09:53] I saw reported. [0:09:55] And this is a guy who was born to Indian foreign nationals. [0:09:58] And if I'm hearing this correctly, [0:09:59] his mother came here while she was pregnant i don't think his father ever became a [0:10:04] never became a citizen his mother did years later and so this man despite his massive wealth has no [0:10:13] businesses in ohio he's done no real philanthropic work in ohio he didn't go to school in ohio [0:10:20] higher education you know he was raised hindu and then he goes to a paid uh catholic high school but [0:10:28] then his Hindu later. There's nothing about this story, about this guy's story that adds up in any [0:10:32] way. There's nothing organic about it. There's nothing about him that represents Americans or [0:10:39] Ohioans across the board, and certainly not that in conservative land. And what I've come to find, [0:10:47] and especially now in actually running and seeing more things behind the scenes, [0:10:51] is that the GOP is 100% for sale. [0:10:54] And the vast majority of them [0:10:56] only care how much money you have. [0:10:58] It has nothing to do with [0:11:00] if you represent the majority of the people. [0:11:02] And so what's so fascinating [0:11:04] about the race that I'm in right now, [0:11:06] and in no way am I taking credit [0:11:09] or trying to think this is such a special note, [0:11:12] but it's a unique circumstance [0:11:15] because the VAC is 100% manufactured, [0:11:20] managerial elite that represents no one of Ohio, nothing conservative. And by all means, [0:11:27] he appears to only be a globalist Trojan horse. And then there's me, an Ohioan that goes back [0:11:34] generations and has been working really hard to try to help people out with actual nonprofits [0:11:38] and teaching, building high efficiency cars, trying to build manufacturing companies, [0:11:43] trying to build a watch company, maybe bring more manufacturing back to America, [0:11:47] and living a life that reflects that of average Ohioans just trying to make the future better. [0:11:55] But we all feel like we're living in that scene from the first Star Wars where they try to escape [0:12:00] down the garbage chute and then the walls are closing in. And that's how we all feel. [0:12:04] So looking at somebody like Vivek, which is the choice that's been shoved down our throats by the [0:12:10] GOP, which reflects nothing of what the Republican Party is supposed to be. [0:12:15] We can't take it anymore. [0:12:17] And I couldn't take it anymore. [0:12:18] And that's why I decided to, frankly, take this leap of faith and run. [0:12:22] Nice. [0:12:22] Yeah, it's it's and thank you for doing that. [0:12:25] There's been a few good candidates that have been seen coming out. [0:12:28] We have James Fishback down in Florida. [0:12:30] We interviewed him a month ago, a month and a half ago. [0:12:34] I don't know. [0:12:34] And then one just announced here in Idaho, actually, Mark Fitzpatrick. [0:12:37] Uh, so there is like a nice crop of, you know, good people that are actually stepping up, [0:12:43] uh, trying to win. [0:12:45] Uh, it's incredible. [0:12:46] Now I'm actually from Ohio. [0:12:48] Uh, I don't know if people, people know that about me. [0:12:51] I was born in Cincinnati. [0:12:52] Um, I grew up in Columbus in like upper Arlington. [0:12:56] Uh, then I lived in Cleveland for a bit, Bay village. [0:12:59] Uh, Oh my gosh. [0:13:00] My, my dad was originally from Bay and I lived the first couple of years of my life in Rocky [0:13:04] River. [0:13:04] Oh yeah. [0:13:05] No kidding. [0:13:05] Yeah. [0:13:05] Rocky river is just down the road. [0:13:06] uh that's crazy now um there is some funny i guess some some lore about id or ohio geez they're way [0:13:14] too close together um but that is did you listen to rush limbaugh uh back in the day in the early [0:13:20] in the 90s yeah you couldn't escape him if you're around conservative family and friends i i remember [0:13:25] rush on the radio many a days what what station did you listen to him on oh i couldn't remember [0:13:31] uh to be honest that was back in the day and when i was in my 20s i was more interested in building [0:13:36] fast cars and motorcycles and chasing pretty girls. And so I remember Rush. I remember his [0:13:41] voice. That sound will always take me back, but I don't remember what station. [0:13:45] That's so funny. So anyway, I guess the reason I was going there is because my dad, [0:13:49] he was the program director of 610 WTVN down in Columbus. And they were the first radio station [0:13:58] to sign Rush Limbaugh in Ohio. So if you listen to Rush in Ohio, or Mike Trevisano, [0:14:02] my dad my dad is the one that actually he kind of he found Mike Trevisano God rest his soul [0:14:08] so anyway it's just kind of funny how there's there's certain voices that will always be [0:14:16] Ohio and it was like the old the old radio guy who would announce all the Ohio State football [0:14:23] games back in the day especially like 80s 90s I don't know the name but that that that voice will [0:14:28] always forever be Ohio as well as Rush Limbaugh. And for Cleveland lore, do you remember it's like [0:14:34] big Mike and little rich, they hosted a, you know, daytime movie thing on Cleveland TV. [0:14:42] They had this really funny laugh. That's funny. And I don't remember them. No. [0:14:46] I think it was an eighties thing. Okay. Yeah. A little bit before my time, [0:14:50] a little bit before my time. Uh, but you know, one of the funny things though, [0:14:53] like growing up in Ohio, you know, I never really knew about like the political corruption, [0:14:59] obviously. I mean, you know, you know, even being a kid, I mean, I was, I was like only [0:15:03] like 10 years old, I think when we, when we left Ohio, but you know, over the past six, [0:15:09] seven years now in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein disclosures, we've come to find out [0:15:14] that Ohio is actually right at the middle, right at the heart of some of the worst corruption [0:15:19] that we have in the country. For example, Leslie Wexner, the owner of the limited Victoria's [0:15:28] Secret. He, I believe he held a stake in Southern Air Transport, which was a CIA funded like airline [0:15:36] that was used to run guns and drugs during the Iran-Contra situation. So Les Wexner, you know, [0:15:44] So, geez, where was I just saw he's got like a whole thing at Ohio State University, the Les Wexner football complex. [0:15:52] Yeah, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the football complex and the medical center as well. [0:15:57] And it's funny because if you go into the art complex, it's all modern art and it's largely devoid of any art or classic beauty of any kind. [0:16:04] Very typical. I will keep my thoughts to myself on that one. [0:16:08] but you've got you know les wexner here with uh um jeffrey epstein it's revolting and something [0:16:17] that's come out uh recently actually thanks to uh to nick fuentes's show the connections between [0:16:23] leslie wexner and jd vance uh it turns out yes i believe there was a big fundraiser [0:16:30] for J.D. Vance running as senator at Wexner's house. [0:16:35] Yes. And so we've got money going from Les Wexner to J.D. Vance. Of course, J.D. and Vivek [0:16:45] were in, I think, was it Yale together? You know, they're pretty interchangeable. And J.D. Vance, [0:16:50] of course, his wife is, in fact, Indian and his son is named Vivek. Yes. These are not coincidences. [0:16:57] No, no, they're not. And so as a part of this tapestry of corruption and craziness that's been unfolding in this country is, of course, at the center of it is a guy named Peter Thiel. [0:17:09] Peter Thiel. [0:17:11] Yeah, Mr. Antichrist himself. [0:17:13] Right. And so they are, from what I understand, along with, is it Palmer Luckey? [0:17:19] They are trying to put... [0:17:21] Palmer Luckey, the self-described radical Zionist, right? That's what he called himself on, Sean Ryan? [0:17:27] Yes, I wasn't going to bring that up, but maybe I will now. I'll see if I can get the clip. [0:17:33] He's an unusual character, isn't he? [0:17:35] Yeah, he is. You know, I texted him Merry Christmas, and I don't think he had any idea who I am or how I have his phone number. [0:17:42] But anyway, so you've got... [0:17:45] I'm sure he has the ability to find that. [0:17:47] I'm sure he does. So he's building this company, Anduril, which is like a... [0:17:52] they want to make missiles, drones, all kinds of like optical things for military people to be able to like see behind corners using all of this different technology. [0:18:05] But they're trying to put their manufacturing in Ohio. [0:18:10] Oh, they're doing more than trying. [0:18:12] Yeah. Well, so I guess, you know, first question would be James Fishback in Florida has pledged to ban Palantir from Florida, from operating in Florida. What does the Casey Putsch campaign for governor in Ohio? [0:18:30] Are you are you thinking about making any of those similar steps, banning Palantir, perhaps doing something against Anduril or are we just are they just going to be allowed to operate with impunity? [0:18:47] So I'm going to choose all my words very, very carefully here, and I am going to ask all of your followers to let's step out of political reactionary. [0:18:58] and judge what I'm not saying by my body language. [0:19:04] Yes. [0:19:07] I like Fishback. [0:19:08] I like what he's saying. [0:19:10] Fishback is also very good, [0:19:13] and I don't mean this as a negative thing, [0:19:14] but with the theatrics of his statements to get attention. [0:19:18] And that's fine. [0:19:19] And that's something you need to do. [0:19:23] The names, Peter Thiel, [0:19:26] Les Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein, Sam Altman, Vivek Ramaswamy, the list goes on, are people that I trust not even as far as I can throw them. [0:19:43] The Wexner is always known and legendary for his vast wealth in Ohio. [0:19:50] um he effectively built the town new albany uh with jeff rey epstein and they used strong-arm [0:20:00] tactics of buying real estate uh and doing things in such a manner that it destroys the value of [0:20:05] real estate which would put people in bad positions to sell their home um so they built that town [0:20:11] um now i'm going to say a couple of things here because i've heard them and i am only repeating [0:20:17] what is commonly said on the street. The term, the Jewish mafia exists and is well known in [0:20:26] Columbus. And that's what they say. That's what people commonly refer to something as. [0:20:30] And I've also heard it commonly said that they wanted to create a little Israel in Columbus. [0:20:37] Now, I don't know what any of that means. Okay. But I know how people feel when they say it. [0:20:43] I do know that Jeffrey Epstein had a big foundation, and to the extent and details of this, I don't know, but it was to help Jewish leaders and cultivate people within the Jewish community. [0:20:58] Now, that is a statement of fact and in no way critiqued. [0:21:01] I'm just pointing that out. [0:21:02] But it is both surprising and a bit frightening when we look at just how closely tied to Jeffrey Epstein he was for how long. [0:21:15] Jeffrey Epstein is known to have had full power of attorney over the entirety of Les Wexner's estate. [0:21:22] That's full power over his entirety of his life. [0:21:25] and he had the second most expensive house in Ohio with Jeff or Les Wexner having the first [0:21:33] you know all of those things I said it's just what come people commonly know and that is um [0:21:43] interesting isn't it yeah no it certainly is there's um you know like I said like when you're [0:21:52] Growing up, you don't really know about all this stuff. And then eventually your eyes kind of open to it, at least for me in the last six years, coming to find out about like how the Jewish mafia functioned and how they call it. [0:22:08] That's what they call it. Right. The kosher Nostra. And a lot of it had to do with Cleveland. [0:22:13] A lot of it had to do with rum running between the Bronfman family up in Canada. [0:22:17] Of course, they own Seagram's Seagram's seven, which is like whiskey or something like that. [0:22:24] But you had people like Meyer Lansky, Moe Dallitz, all of these gangster types that eventually went on to to found Las Vegas. [0:22:33] It seems like there is a direct connection between all of that and Jeffrey Epstein and what was going on there. [0:22:39] It's it's really unbelievable. And so. [0:22:42] have you have you be honest there's there's all throughout history there's different families [0:22:50] and groups and countries and religions that all have their own organized power um networks [0:22:58] then people can refer to any of those things as a so-called mafia yeah um so when i say that [0:23:05] I am pointing out that this Les Wexner thing is of great concern. [0:23:11] But it's just something that is worth looking at carefully and not forgetting. [0:23:18] I will say this. [0:23:18] There's already absurd amounts of fraud going in Ohio that we have to attack first and foremost. [0:23:23] The entirety of the Somali population is so large. [0:23:27] If we think for a second the same scams that are happening in Minnesota aren't happening down here in Columbus, Ohio, and Ohio, we're crazy. [0:23:34] The same thing, the Haitians in Springfield that Governor DeWine is defending to an insane amount, [0:23:42] this radicalized judge that stopped the Trump administration from being able to re-immigrate the Haitians in Springfield. [0:23:48] Excuse me. [0:23:49] While DeWine says that it'll hurt, oh, we have to have those workers because it'll hurt the manufacturers in Springfield. [0:23:56] Why? [0:23:57] You're telling me these third worlders are better, workers are more intelligent than Ohioans, the jobs they're displacing? [0:24:04] I don't think so. If it does anything to hurt the manufacturing, it's just because the manufacturing had a much higher profit margin by having cheaper labor. [0:24:12] And so then what happens is all of our garbage political leaders are shoving the third world down all of our throats. [0:24:19] So corporations and these political leaders can profit hundreds of millions of dollars while displacing native Ohioans jobs and while lowering the salaries for everybody. [0:24:30] Meanwhile, such garbage leadership across the board with fraud and waste and abuse that exists in general is making everybody's cost of life be higher. [0:24:38] We don't even believe in fair law anymore. Radicalized judges, lawfare, public defenders that have too much caseload. [0:24:47] You know, when you start realizing that the government can just keep screwing your life up so badly, everything costs more, people don't trust in law, people don't trust in tomorrow. [0:24:55] and we're going to just sell out an entire state to data centers that Vivek is here to try to make [0:25:01] us believe are going to be a prestige project and help us when they're only a leech to the [0:25:07] entirety of the state and its people, making us subsidize the cost of electricity because they're [0:25:12] doing nothing for power generation. They have massive tax abatements. They create almost no [0:25:16] jobs and it's just for maintenance. And so we're subsidizing the cost of the things to control us. [0:25:21] You know, all of these things tie in together. But the fact of the matter is this. In Ohio, yeah, I get that the Republicans are largely in control. But are they even Republicans? Is Mike DeWine any different than a Democrat at this point? And I mean a bureaucrat Democrat, not a classic Democrat. Classic Democrats, OK. Classic Republicans, OK. But all we have now is a disgusting uniparty. [0:25:45] And the Republican Party in Ohio is 100 percent sold out to outside interests, to money, to globalists. [0:25:53] Les Wexner influence. My God, he's basically the amount of influence that Les Wexner and all his connections to whether that be foreign nations or groups of people that support foreign nations is tremendous. [0:26:05] And look at the people he supports and look at what they bring in. [0:26:08] The tech bros. What is happening in Ohio that makes anybody's lives here better? [0:26:14] where where is the leadership that's removing the roadblocks to let manufacturing actually [0:26:20] come back to places like palito cleveland dayton that creates real jobs where we create something [0:26:27] tangible an actual product for the world not just data centers so some evil tech bros that are [0:26:33] too disconnected with the entirety of the world that like to lecture us on who the antichrist is [0:26:38] because they know they probably are the Antichrist. [0:26:41] That's what we're doing. [0:26:43] Not to mention the fact that Ohio is what brought us over 100 years ago [0:26:47] to bicycle mechanics that built a functioning wind tunnel [0:26:51] to test airfoils before anybody did that [0:26:54] to create a powered flight machine [0:26:56] with engines that are supremely heavy by what power output they have [0:27:00] and be able to fly it as bicycle mechanics. [0:27:03] Oh, please. [0:27:03] Not only would they be regulated into oblivion today, [0:27:06] something such as that would never happen. [0:27:08] I built a hundred mile a gallon plus car on diesel. [0:27:11] That's a recyclable car concept. [0:27:13] Have an entire pro forma for a startup material science company that can build automotive parts, home goods, motor vehicles. [0:27:21] There's no support for anything like that. [0:27:23] And private equity companies will only put money into easy, stupid things like data centers, AI, cannabis, because easy. [0:27:30] Anything that's addictive and will control people, but nothing actually good for society. [0:27:34] We have tariffs that is supposed to bring manufacturing back to America and not just totally be a tax that ends up hurting all of us normies so they can pat themselves on the back. [0:27:46] And I've been building a watch company and I can build watches that we could bring watch manufacturing here, back maybe to Toledo in the greater area that I live in. [0:27:55] But where's the support, even though we have tariffs, to do anything like that for normies? [0:27:59] We've got the Artemis missions going to the moon over the next few years. [0:28:03] And I recently prototyped a watch that meets all the requirements for NASA for an astronaut. [0:28:09] So not only could I build a company here in Ohio, I could supply all the astronauts American-made watches instead of Swiss-made watches. [0:28:18] But where's the support? [0:28:20] Where is it? [0:28:21] So, you know, the Jeffrey Epstein thing makes me insanely mad beyond belief. [0:28:29] That's more proof in the pudding that we have no government. [0:28:32] because if we did, people would be being hung en masse right now. [0:28:36] Well, here's a question. [0:28:38] So I know Idaho's- [0:28:40] I'll come back. [0:28:41] Did you like my rant? [0:28:42] No, very good, very good. [0:28:43] No, so I'm not as aware of like the Ohio, [0:28:48] the constitution as far as like what the governor is allowed to do. [0:28:53] One of the things that I was thinking about back in 2022, [0:28:57] running for Idaho governor is the creation of a state bureau of investigation, something [0:29:03] that would be answerable to the governor, uh, where, you know, you can kind of cut the FBI [0:29:09] and the corrupt agencies out of it and just have, uh, investigations, um, that are done under the [0:29:16] purview of the office of governor. Have you, have you given any consideration to, to something like [0:29:20] that? Absolutely. And that's one of the reasons why governors are perhaps the most important [0:29:26] figures in america today uh because they represent the entirety of the state and um that that statement [0:29:33] alone is the topic for a much larger conversation but more specifically to your point one thing that [0:29:39] i want to appoint immediately is a task force of ex-special ops guys um and their job is specifically [0:29:47] to track target and hunt down human and child traffickers ohio's a hot spot for that we have [0:29:55] 80 90 going north south from toledo or excuse me from detroit all the way down to florida [0:30:00] excuse me i-75 north and south and then 80 90 going from coast to coast uh we have rail we have [0:30:07] air we we have access to sea through the great lakes there's a lot of trafficking here but no [0:30:12] one talks about it yeah so why on earth are we not having guys uh that are retired and still young [0:30:17] why aren't we hunting them down because i say this dear washington dc it's just that easy [0:30:24] so more of that can be done but it's not and the fact that it's not is what should make everybody [0:30:31] stop right now pull their head out of the uh the dream that is plato's allegory of the cave of our [0:30:39] uniparty that's feeding us garbage choices and decide we need to take our state back yeah no i [0:30:46] think that the future is definitely this country anyway is definitely going to be uh strong i mean [0:30:51] we've even seen it with Tim Walsh. I mean, like he's a he's a doofus. But, you know, he's at least [0:30:57] nice. He's standing up for his state in the you know, in the face of the federal government. [0:31:02] You know, that was something that I never thought I'd see like a liberal do. That's for sure. [0:31:07] But, you know, here we are. You've made some overtures or some some videos about the data [0:31:14] center stuff. What what are you planning on doing if you were to if you were able to win? [0:31:18] how would you regulate data centers and prevent prevent these things from like taking over [0:31:24] well simple thing is a study on exactly what's happening where they came from why what the [0:31:32] strategy was for them to come in under the cover of night so the whole world can see what the what [0:31:37] the nefarious push of the chess game was but the fact of the matter is they're already here they're [0:31:42] being built they're coming so you simply have to have leadership that understands this and can [0:31:48] push back because if they can't be a net gain to the state they're only a leech and if they're only [0:31:55] a leech they're an enemy of the state period and they're being pushed by larger powers that care [0:32:02] nothing for the state or the people they're here as a stopgap measure because we're in a new time [0:32:08] of what i call it uh like a nuclear arms race but with data centers and ai and ohio has good [0:32:16] infrastructure, relatively peak power generation. And they targeted us to take advantage of us, [0:32:23] period. They're taking advantage of our electricity. They're taking advantage of our [0:32:27] people. They're taking advantage of our land and most especially our water and aquifers. And the [0:32:34] impact will be great. So understanding that we live in this time, which I argue is not a good [0:32:44] time for humanity, but it is here and it's coming. The entities and companies that are doing this [0:32:51] have got to be doing things that's in a net gain. So one thing is looking at where can these data [0:32:56] centers, where can this sort of industry be built in Ohio physically that has the least impact to [0:33:03] the land and the people and our price of life, as well as being more efficient for that to happen. [0:33:10] Uh, so it's simply understanding that this is the time in human history we live in. Um, but just because that's, it doesn't mean that I can't be a defender of, uh, the people and the state, uh, and make sure this is being in a happen in a way that doesn't hurt us all. And that that's at the, at the core of it. That's really what, what needs to happen. [0:33:31] Yeah. One of the other things I wanted to ask you about was the opioid epidemic that hit Ohio pretty hard. I was curious if you have any updates on that. Like, where is Ohio these days? I remember back in 2010, 2011, it was it was pretty brutal. People were dropping dead from my generation all over the place due to opiates. [0:33:53] uh, have, has there been enough attention given, given to the opiate crisis in Ohio? [0:33:59] Are you on the other side of that or is it still a problem? [0:34:03] It's definitely a problem. [0:34:04] And I don't think enough attention has been brought to it. [0:34:08] There had been more attention for it in the past, but I hate to say it. [0:34:13] We've got such big problems that it's overshadowing, uh, drug, drug problems, [0:34:19] which is really horrific when you think about it. [0:34:22] um so we can't forget that you know at the core of it it's attacking the root you know why [0:34:29] where where specifically is this happening from what is the economics of that's making this [0:34:36] possible that has to be that has to be attacked viciously because if you attack that and you make [0:34:43] it um it's like anything in life if you make something not profitable or not feasible or too [0:34:51] much effort for somebody, they're not going to want to do it anymore. So understanding things [0:34:57] like what are the roadblocks that's stopping industry from coming back to Ohio? Well, we need [0:35:02] to get rid of those. So big investors will actually want to bring it back. But what are the things [0:35:06] that are facilitating, allowing the negative things, whether that's opioids, drugs, human [0:35:12] trafficking, child trafficking happening here, and attack it viciously, openly, and unabashedly? [0:35:19] Hmm. Now, what about what what's your position on affirmative action? Maybe this is controversial, maybe not. I don't know. In Idaho, it's illegal. We made affirmative action up here illegal. And I think that there there was definitely a linkage between, you know, young white American men being unable to find work, getting passed over for less qualified people. [0:35:44] Well, of course, we're seeing that with H-1B visas that are going on, too. [0:35:47] So what would you do as governor to kind of combat that and to, if you will, rehabilitate white American workers that have largely been neglected over the past, I don't know, 20, 30 years? [0:36:03] Well, affirmative action is just racism, isn't it? [0:36:06] Yeah, true. [0:36:08] That's all it is. [0:36:09] Yeah. [0:36:10] DEI, et cetera. [0:36:10] Now, I met a nice man the other day down in Southern Ohio, and he was kind to me, but he said how he didn't like me speaking negatively about DEI because it helped him. [0:36:22] That's fine. [0:36:23] But all of these things are inorganically trying to manipulate humanity. [0:36:34] You know, what are we doing? [0:36:37] Everybody knows. [0:36:38] the memes exist everywhere that straight white men are the most discriminated against people in [0:36:44] america it's true but if you say that you're a nazi you know uh we're done with that if you [0:36:52] point out any fact of the matter in life you're a racist but it's like back in my day they just [0:36:58] called that pattern recognition so i think the biggest thing is the the beauty of now is people [0:37:04] people are over it and if you can just talk about it directly and go okay guys what are we actually [0:37:11] doing here but if you want to be racist and you just want whitey to go away well then just say [0:37:16] that okay you know if you want to be feminist and you hate all men that's cool just say that [0:37:22] um but can everybody else including me who's cool with other people regardless of who you are what [0:37:28] you've done just be cool and go on with their lives can we go back to they say meritocracy it's [0:37:34] like, hey, if somebody's actually the best person for a job, hire them. Why would you hire anybody [0:37:40] else? And the other thing is, look at the H-1B visa things. 72% of those people come from India. [0:37:47] Now, that's more of a federal thing, H-1B visas, but that's something that Vivek Ramaswamy wants [0:37:52] to push. And the reason people want H-1Bs is because if you're a corporation or a billionaire, [0:37:59] you can save tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a year by hiring h1bs cheaper [0:38:04] than americans uh and then you displace jobs so there's a lot more competition for young americans [0:38:11] that have done everything right and went to expensive schooling and tried really hard and [0:38:15] gone to internships and gone in debt and so now we're just letting corporations and billionaires [0:38:20] make more money by literally destroying the future of america and americans diluting it with people [0:38:25] who aren't even citizens and then lowering the job market? [0:38:29] Oh, I'm sorry, but if I point any of that out, [0:38:31] I'm just racist. [0:38:33] No, we're done with all that crap in a time in America [0:38:36] because the fact of the matter is, [0:38:37] we simply have to look out for our citizens first and foremost, [0:38:41] our native people first and foremost. [0:38:44] Now, notice that I use the word citizens and people. [0:38:47] I didn't say a darn thing about color or age [0:38:51] or ethnicity or anything. [0:38:54] Why can't we just take care of our citizens? [0:38:55] of our own why can't we get over it and the answer is simple because the the political [0:39:03] industrial complex keeps its power by keeping everybody divided and fighting that's why we're [0:39:09] in a never-ending evolution of changing of verbiage and words it's like oh my gosh well we're mega now [0:39:16] and and it's like okay if people like america first great that's something we can get behind [0:39:20] it's like whoa whoa whoa america first is not good enough now it's america only it's like [0:39:24] Oh, God, can we just take care of America and Ohio and do the things that are working in the best interests of all the people and our future? [0:39:34] I'll give you another example. [0:39:37] So the Genius Graduate Educational Programs I created, I've been doing it for 11 years, the 501c3 public educational charity. [0:39:43] And the point was a skills bridge from the academic world to the so-called real world. [0:39:48] Because in college, you can graduate a four-year degree in engineering and never turn a screwdriver. [0:39:53] And that's ridiculous. [0:39:54] And I figured if I was going to be involved with cars and airplanes and building stuff anyway, it's a hobby. I should do it in a way that matters. Use my so-called Rolodex full of amazing people to help mentor and do a common goal project. So we build professional level race cars and airplanes and mentor young people in automotive design, etc. Get some great jobs. [0:40:14] now i as a white guy to my own time effort money life have helped out young people of every [0:40:22] ethnic background you could think of different sexualities but that's not my business so i don't [0:40:27] ask and i only ever pick people based on what's in their head and their hearts and look at their [0:40:32] resume and say hey you seem like a good person i'm going to give a shot you're an american let's [0:40:36] rock and roll and that's what i did but the left doesn't help do anything like that because the [0:40:42] left, they just want to get power by dividing everybody, yet not doing anything about anything. [0:40:48] And then the right helps a little bit because it seems like conservative Americans actually [0:40:53] care about America and can look past silly superficial things. But where I was going with [0:40:59] it is in Ohio, we have something called Ohio means jobs. And typically in Genius Garage, [0:41:05] I help young people ages 18 to say mid-20s. Well, that's the exact age demographic Ohio [0:41:10] means jobs and ohio means jobs will pay a minimum of seven thousand dollars a year if i'm getting [0:41:15] this correct for up to two years for the schooling and curriculum of young people to give them [0:41:20] skills and trade jobs that sort of thing and then they'll even pay for the employer ohio will fund [0:41:28] the six first six month salary to that young person when they get a job in their job and like [0:41:34] this is amazing this is exactly the connection genus garage needs so our most driven young people [0:41:40] can actually get somewhere and get a job. And I can, this organization can stand on its own two [0:41:44] feet and grow and be a thing around Ohio until you read the fine print. And Ohio means jobs only [0:41:50] exist for people that are, uh, current or ex felons, um, drug addicts, alcoholics born into [0:41:58] extreme poverty. So Ohio and the government will help the people who either can't or don't want to [0:42:04] work, but will do nothing for people that have the best chance to actually forward the future. [0:42:10] Again, there's no support for innovation, like something I do like the 100-mile-an-o-mega car. [0:42:15] There's no help for startup companies. There's no one bringing manufacturing back. There's no [0:42:20] help for somebody who can build a company like the watch company despite tariffs. [0:42:24] So the point of it is, I'm done with this DEI stuff. I'm done with this affirmative action [0:42:29] crap. I'm done with this only ever like helping people that aren't even helping themselves of the [0:42:36] future. I think we need time. I think we need somebody that can lead with a little bit of [0:42:40] stoicism and realize that we should help the people who want to help themselves and forget [0:42:47] about all this political superfluous gamesmanship and circus that's dragging us all down. [0:42:53] Yeah. What are your thoughts on AI regulation? Because, you know, there's been a lot of [0:42:59] talk about how AI is going to negatively impact the jobs market, which I think that bomb is yet [0:43:06] to blow up entirely. But certainly we're seeing entire sectors, video, photography, graphic design, [0:43:15] even news, news people, writing people, really relying on AI. Have you given thought to any kind [0:43:23] of legislation, like higher human legislation that would force anybody coming into the state [0:43:29] of Ohio. [0:43:31] You know, they say they're going to build jobs. [0:43:33] They say they're going to build a factory or something. [0:43:35] Well, is there a way to tie that to to some sort of higher human policy to prevent all [0:43:42] of these manufacturing jobs from going to robots and A.I.? [0:43:47] Well, the topic is much bigger than a couple of soundbites, and I'm going to do the best [0:43:52] job I can right now to throw a lot of stuff at you. Ready? Go ahead. Hit me. We have no regulation. [0:43:58] AI is the most insidious device ever created in the history of man to steal your likeness, [0:44:04] your voice, your information, your data, and to make it their own. The billionaire tech bro class [0:44:12] and the world elite class, these are people with no roots and no home. And their so-called home [0:44:17] is anywhere they make it. They are beyond us. They don't care about us. And they're going to [0:44:23] get what they want no matter what. We do need AI regulation. We as Americans and as Ohioans need [0:44:30] our likenesses, our IP, our voice, everything protected. Frankly, America needs to be protected [0:44:36] from its own damn propaganda. It's legal to propagandize Americans as America. And we're [0:44:43] quickly reaching a point in human history where nobody's going to be able to believe anything [0:44:47] at all anymore and the entire trust in everything is going to break down which is a very dangerous [0:44:53] part of human history that's coming up really quickly um which all these powers already know [0:44:59] that because they're going to be set up in a way to take advantage of it so the other thing is if [0:45:06] ai kills let's say 40 50 of white collar jobs that's going to create an instantaneous great [0:45:11] depression period white collar people don't immediately already have the skills or the [0:45:16] facilities or anything to just start creating a product so we're going to be in a depression [0:45:21] so like this past weekend when my wife and i were driving around the greater toledo area [0:45:25] there's a lot of bad neighborhoods in toledo because toledo lost all its manufacturing and [0:45:30] its jobs and when you lose your manufacturing and jobs and a town gets depressed guess what [0:45:34] all the neighborhoods get depressed all the people get depressed crime comes everything [0:45:39] else bad comes drug trafficking human trafficking etc but there was a time when toledo was prosperous [0:45:46] and all the worst neighborhoods around downtown were by the gilded age mansions [0:45:51] that time's gone but a new bad time like that is coming because of ai but the difference is it's [0:45:58] going to be every neighborhood around america in the world so all this is is an arms race [0:46:05] that's bigger than governments the fact one of the things that i was most harshly critical of [0:46:12] our president, whom I worked to help get elect, was unregulated AI for 10 years in the big, [0:46:17] beautiful bill, and then later his executive order to do so. Because it won't take 10 years [0:46:22] before AI and the people who control it are more powerful than any semblance of the United States [0:46:29] government. The United States government has already, orders of magnitude, been more influenced. [0:46:35] By the way, that was rage bait. We'll talk about it in a minute. Don't take that as a totally [0:46:39] genuine post no it's okay no we should talk about it because that was a really cool off i ran yeah [0:46:44] anyway um the tech bros are going to have more powerful power than what the government is [0:46:51] and why would donald trump allow unregulated ai for 10 years one of two reasons um one he's an [0:47:01] idiot and does anything people tell him and doesn't care or two he's not an idiot uh let's say he's not [0:47:07] an idiot well then he knows let's put it this way let's say a democrat gets in office in a few years [0:47:15] wouldn't you think he might not want a democrat to have all that power [0:47:18] um but then again is it more because they already know that the united states government really [0:47:25] doesn't matter anymore and that once that kicks in and probably basically already where it is the [0:47:31] entirety of our government is basically just plato's allegory of the cave and the real last [0:47:36] stand is at the state level and governors. You know where I'm going with that? Yep. [0:47:43] It's, uh, it's bad. Um, and anybody who's talking about unregulated AI and immediate goes into, [0:47:49] it'll cure cancer. You know, those people are your enemy. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think. [0:47:54] It's a whining to you and misdirecting. No, I think you're right. Uh, but yeah, no, [0:47:57] let's talk a little bit about this. Uh, let's talk a little bit about this, uh, [0:48:00] this rage bait post. Boy, I made people mad. Yeah, you did. I saw it, uh, hit the timeline. [0:48:05] you got botted too. I could, I could tell that, uh, there was a lot of like very inauthentic [0:48:09] activity, you know, like, Oh, his campaign is totally done, et cetera. Um, well, let me ask [0:48:14] you something. Um, before I say anything about it, would you elaborate on what your impression [0:48:20] of that was and what you saw in the comments that you just hinted upon? Uh, well, I mean, [0:48:24] I agree with the sentiment here, uh, in, in the tweet, right? Like why should I obey the speed [0:48:30] limit if Trump can't hold accountable to the Epstein people? I think that a lot of people [0:48:33] in America are feeling that way. You know, it is a fair statement. I think it's a fair statement. [0:48:38] You know, like I campaigned for Trump in 2016. I was one of the first radio hosts in Pennsylvania [0:48:44] to endorse the guy and faced some pretty steep opposition because of that. But here it is. It's [0:48:52] now a decade later. It's 2026. And we have not had the swamp drained. It seems like we have an [0:48:59] Epstein occupied government, people like Howard Lutnick and all of these types that he's [0:49:03] you know, appointed to all of these positions, I'm pretty pissed. And I don't think I have like [0:49:09] Trump derangement syndrome about this. No, they always make up words to discredit your feelings. [0:49:14] Right. Right. And so to me, I saw this and I'm like, hey, look, here's a guy who's like finally [0:49:19] like willing to like literally give the finger to power and do something for the people. Very [0:49:26] populist type of vibe. So that was my impression of it. And then, of course, just seeing, you know, [0:49:31] all of the bots, I mean, like being on X, uh, you know, and seeing what's going on with fish [0:49:36] back, seeing what's going on with you, you can tell that there are these bot campaigns that are, [0:49:40] they're out there to try and influence the way that we feel about, you know, these, uh, [0:49:44] campaigns before they're, they're over. Um, and so I'm, I'm pretty adept at like seeing that kind [0:49:51] of stuff. I think most people are too. Uh, but yeah, not everybody, not everybody. Um, well, [0:49:57] let me, let me, let's, let's analyze that for a second, if you will. And if you want to bring it [0:50:00] up go for it because uh i did actually think that through so what we have here is an anecdote um [0:50:08] that is based in absolute reality why should we as normies obey laws if our government can't even [0:50:15] hold the worst atrocities accountable it seems that we all know that there is no law at the [0:50:20] federal level these people do whatever they want period okay so we're already living in a two-tiered [0:50:26] society where every bit about what the United States is supposed to be at about doesn't exist [0:50:32] or isn't working. So that's what that is. Now we got some F-bombs in here. Capitalize right there [0:50:38] after at real Donald Trump, take care of this. I'm putting the pressure on Donald. And then [0:50:43] sincerely, this is a reminder, we, the people with the F-bomb in it. Now the thing about it is, [0:50:49] and then of course the picture, uh, flipping the bird from an exotic orange car. Both of those [0:50:53] things will elicit responses emotionally in people. So the sentiment of this post is absolutely [0:51:00] accurate and absolutely true. And really, you can't fault it. The only thing you could fault [0:51:03] if you take it as a 100% genuine thing is that, oh my gosh, have some tact, Casey. You can't do [0:51:10] that. But the fact of the matter is, no one can actually fault this sentiment and what's behind [0:51:17] that post. The only thing you could really fault is me going too far and being, what's the word, [0:51:23] just maybe a little crash, shall we say, overtly. But the beauty about that is, and X is, and I have [0:51:32] to tell you this, this is probably going to make me more of a target. But having done automotive [0:51:38] YouTube for a number of years, which I will remind people, the only reason I ever became a YouTuber [0:51:42] is because I couldn't get any media exposure for the nonprofit I was doing. We were doing incredible [0:51:47] things for young people and no magazine would write on it. Nobody would cover it. And that's [0:51:51] what drove me to end up being on youtube and just using my personality so by virtue of doing that [0:51:56] it allowed me to bring support to genius garage um but in doing that for six years it's funny [0:52:02] because now that i'm in the political world i'm like politics and their attacks you guys are kind [0:52:10] of soft and easy compared to the automotive world on youtube because car guys are mean and they're [0:52:17] smart, like mean and smart. And so I, um, politics is kind of easier. It's like, don't, don't mess [0:52:24] with the car guy in politics, man. Uh, but you're right. It does appear there was a lot of bot [0:52:29] traffic in there. Uh, and there was a coordinated effort. So after I made that post, and if you [0:52:35] bring up the post after it, and frankly, I since deleted that post. And the reason being is I left [0:52:41] the full trace of it and me also putting screenshots of that post up, but I didn't want [0:52:46] it to stay up and do organic damage after the op has run its course right so i'm not trying to hide [0:52:52] that i did it i just i don't want it to have negative impact on shall we say the innocent [0:52:57] beyond the exercise so a number of hours later i put a post up there it said with one post i outed [0:53:03] the the paid for pro vivette camp because this is god's honest truth um in the last week i got a tip [0:53:10] that they were going to try to label my campaign as uh clownish and unserious and i remember those [0:53:16] words and people tell me things all the time tips information i'm just drinking from a fire hose man [0:53:21] but i remembered that and it stuck with me with what i was seeing there you go so i realized that [0:53:29] i could use that imagery uh and then going directly with the president and saying something [0:53:35] that's true about not holding it accountable that would enrage people but also be bait it's kind of [0:53:41] like if if you've ever been in martial arts i like fencing you know sword fighting um or even [0:53:47] fishing you you create bait you leave an open invitation so there will be an attack uh and i [0:53:55] noticed what you noticed there are a lot of bots and all of a sudden people were using the word [0:53:59] clownish and unserious which are not really normal words people use a clown emoji once in a while but [0:54:05] not normally like that right and the way it got even more fun was milo yanapolis uh whom i barely [0:54:13] know the existence of but he's an interesting character he he commented on it and then he took [0:54:19] a screenshot of it and commented on his his post and made a big grandiose thing about how i am both [0:54:24] clownish and unserious and have zero political acumen and he didn't want it to be that way [0:54:29] because he hates Vivek, but all his friends were right about me. [0:54:33] And I'm like, manipulative, interesting, overt. [0:54:37] This is a person who has never posted about my existence ever since being out. [0:54:42] I don't know. [0:54:42] I've had no interactions with. [0:54:44] And now suddenly you come out? [0:54:46] Hmm. [0:54:48] So when I made that post about saying it was bait, that was after he did it. [0:54:53] So he put a big grandiose post comment on it and said, [0:54:56] it wasn't bait. [0:54:57] You didn't. [0:54:57] we were disappointed in you because you're clownish and unserious. [0:55:00] And so he of course got lit up in the comments. [0:55:04] And, and so I did a whole deep dive video where some of the things I'd done on my YouTube [0:55:10] channel before I ran is if you use, um, logical questioning, uh, and you can pay attention [0:55:17] carefully to AI, you can see where AI is keeping you on guardrails and trying to misdirect [0:55:22] you and won't answer questions and it's propagandizing and shying away from things. [0:55:26] But you can use games to jailbreak AI, and I've done that a lot. And so I simply used AI to analyze the post simply for words like clownish and unserious and rate how normal that is. [0:55:41] and then say, do you see anything within this post [0:55:44] compared to other ones that would indicate [0:55:46] a coordinated effort of attack? [0:55:49] And it was giving an 80 to 90% chance [0:55:52] of coordinated effort and attack [0:55:53] because those words were not normal conservative [0:55:56] or mega influencer words. [0:55:57] And then we, of course, analyzed Milo's as well. [0:56:00] And a friend of mine mentioned it, [0:56:02] and I didn't even pay attention to it. [0:56:03] It's the small details. [0:56:04] He goes, my friends were right about you, [0:56:07] which you could take as just being [0:56:09] just more of the theatrics. [0:56:11] or a tell well who are his friends so i had ai analyzed that as well that would be talking about [0:56:18] in a high level way and he of course was leaked in a group chat a single chat i believe with pete [0:56:23] pete hegseth and jd vance jd vance of course being from ohio and old buddy buddy pals with [0:56:28] vavec enough that he's married to an indian woman and jd vance's kid is named vavec and if i if we [0:56:34] don't recall it wasn't that long ago that there was a public article that came out that said jd [0:56:38] Vance is giving the usage of his campaign team to help elect Vivek. Isn't that a coincidence? [0:56:46] Yeah, no, it makes total sense. I think I saw that you did an interview with Benny and Basil [0:56:52] a couple of weeks ago, actually. Yeah, those guys were cool. [0:56:55] Yeah, and they're kind of on the tip of the spear, at least, of deconstructing this network, [0:57:00] the Bronze Age Barry Weiss network, all of these types of people. [0:57:05] I've not heard that said that way. [0:57:06] Yeah, well, and it's true, but there is, there's a patronage network, uh, you know, coming from [0:57:11] Peter Thiel and, uh, supporting all of the content creators that are pushing the JD Vance thing. [0:57:16] Um, and so, yeah, definitely. Well, and you know, Basil got banned this week too, so he's not, [0:57:20] uh, he's not on X. Yep. Uh, it's very unfortunate. Now, speaking of getting banned on X, uh, you [0:57:26] know, I want to be, uh, careful of your time here. Uh, so we're getting close to the end. [0:57:30] Uh, by the way, my time is yours. I, uh, I just have to leave in like 10 minutes. [0:57:34] All right. If anybody has any super chats or questions for Mr. Putsch, please get them sent in on either Rumble Rants or YouTube. [0:57:42] And, you know, we will ask your questions to Casey. But it is interesting. [0:57:47] It seems as though Vivek Ramaswamy has been bullied off of social media. [0:57:53] How has this affected your campaign? Has it made things easier, harder, more difficult? [0:58:01] Well, when that happened, it was a lot of fun. [0:58:04] because, you know, the truth of the matter is me coming out with my campaign in December [0:58:11] was what people were hoping for, a real person actually running, because people were disgusted [0:58:18] by being astroturfed and built-in Vivek, and all that latent frustration with people [0:58:24] manifested when they saw the contrast of me being there. So when that happened, [0:58:29] And the whole internet was abuzz because it was a win for all the people that trolled him off. [0:58:37] And it also showed people that the people do have an effect upon politicians and what they perceive as corruption and nefarious characters that you can push back. [0:58:48] But after that happens, the nature of the game changes. [0:58:51] uh and frankly right now it looks like the GOP is keeping Vivek locked in the basement not letting [0:58:57] him talk because any any speaking he does burns his own ship and the GOP down uh so it uh it was [0:59:06] an interesting moment uh in this journey for all of us to see that yeah uh we do have a uh a question [0:59:12] for you from our friend book track grooves have you ridden a horse yes I can ride horses I uh [0:59:18] I would tell you this. [0:59:21] Every time I've ridden a horse [0:59:23] on my own accord, I have a [0:59:25] great time. [0:59:27] Even in sports and anything else like that. [0:59:29] Every time I've ridden a horse [0:59:31] that wasn't mine and belonged to [0:59:33] a woman whom I was on a date with, [0:59:35] I got thrown off. [0:59:37] My advice for young men is ride [0:59:39] horses. Horse girls are cool, [0:59:41] but don't ride the horses [0:59:43] of a woman you want [0:59:45] to date. The horses know and they will [0:59:47] mess with you on behalf of the woman. That's so funny. Um, it's true, man. Dang. Hold on a second. [0:59:55] I just, uh, why was the question of you ridden a horse? It sounds like a setup, right? It's just [1:00:00] one of the, uh, we've got a book track grooves. Uh, he watches the show and he just, he always [1:00:04] asks that of, of all of our guests. I like horses a lot. They're wonderful animals. Yeah, no. Uh, [1:00:09] so I, I guess in closing, uh, how has your campaign been doing? Um, first of all, and I'll [1:00:16] I'll get this in the show notes below. I didn't get a chance to do it before the show. Your website is PutschForOhio.com. [1:00:23] Of course, you can get involved, donate and volunteer. But how are you doing? How much money have you raised so far? [1:00:30] If you don't mind me asking, you don't have to answer that question. But how much money have you raised so far in your campaign? [1:00:35] And what date is the primary in Ohio? [1:00:39] Well, the primary is May 5th. I believe early voting can start in early April. As being on the ballot will be certified on the 24th. And what is this? Is this the 23rd today? So tomorrow, I think. [1:00:54] Yes. So we did get all the signatures validated. There were no protests. So I assume we'll be certified tomorrow. The campaign is doing very well. If you judge it by the metrics of Vivek, Ramaswamy, you might think it's not doing well because, no, we don't have $20 million. [1:01:14] dollars and if you look at what it takes to raise 20 million dollars you would start going [1:01:19] hey these people are being coronated these are not actual candidates of the people [1:01:23] um but to be perfectly honest i can't remember exactly i'd have to ask you know our uh finance [1:01:30] manager at the campaign and whatnot but i don't know i think we probably in the last couple months [1:01:34] raised about 100 grand and that's all from the people uh in donations and that's incredible [1:01:41] Now, the one thing that people need to understand with a campaign is there's an entire team of people. [1:01:46] It is not just me. [1:01:48] I don't get paid anything at all. [1:01:51] I stay the F away from the money. [1:01:53] And we are wildly careful with accounting and all. [1:01:56] But it does take funds to make a campaign happen. [1:02:00] So we're having a profound effect. [1:02:03] It is ramping up. [1:02:04] Um, and of course when I say that with the campaign that doesn't account to anything relating to outside interests that might want to support of their own accord like packs and such keep that in mind [1:02:13] Um, because you know truthfully campaigns and finance and how this whole world works is not something that the average person really ever thinks about much [1:02:22] So the short answer is the campaign's doing very well [1:02:25] Uh, and the gop, uh, the the very sold-out rhino gop that it is in ohio [1:02:30] and old Vivek Ramaswamy, they're genuinely very worried and they should be. [1:02:36] Yeah. Well, I'd love to see more people get involved, go door knocking, you know, [1:02:40] because it's one thing to run a campaign on the Internet. But I think you've really got to you got to get out and get people in the streets. [1:02:46] One last question. And I completely I can't believe I forgot it on my own. [1:02:50] Thank you to BookTrack Groups. What has been going on in East Palestine, Ohio? [1:02:55] Because that blew up in the media. Everybody talked about it for about two weeks. [1:03:00] It became a major campaign thing for, I remember J.D. Vance showing up there with like a stick in the water and all this. [1:03:07] Where are we actually at with East Palestine? [1:03:10] How are their lives? [1:03:11] Has anything been done as far as decontamination? [1:03:14] Is it a ghost town now? [1:03:16] What's going on over there? [1:03:18] Well, their lives are terrible. [1:03:20] What happened in East Palestine has larger ramifications than, frankly, if a nuclear reactor melded down there. [1:03:29] I'm not talking about like Chernobyl, but the implications are horrific. They're not being looked after. The government, by everything I can see, really doesn't care. Efforts being made where politicians pat themselves on the back are not helping these poor people's lives. [1:03:45] it was a disaster from day one and frankly i think it's insultive when people like jd vance [1:03:51] shows up for a minute rolls up his stupid shirt sleeves and pokes a creek with the stick show [1:03:55] the amount of chemicals and stuff that are latent under the surface of the water [1:03:59] they don't care um i don't want to say too much here right now uh but um let me think i want to [1:04:09] say this there's some unconventional things with my campaign that i have planned [1:04:14] uh and that relates to the thought i had that's like this why should i just wait around and talk [1:04:22] to everybody and just shake hands and try to make everybody think i'm really cool to vote for me and [1:04:27] maybe when i'm office i'll start doing something why don't i just start doing something about all [1:04:32] this waste fraud abuse corruption uh and things that are hurting people now yeah and then just [1:04:38] show it along the way in the campaign so that disaster i will never forget i will never forget [1:04:44] what it's done to the people, to the land, [1:04:46] how they've been completely screwed, [1:04:48] and how idiot politicians are using it at face value [1:04:51] to try to pat themselves on their back [1:04:53] when they're doing nothing. [1:04:54] So East Palestine, guys, [1:04:56] to the best of my ability, I got you. [1:04:58] Nice. [1:04:59] All right. [1:04:59] Well, very good. [1:05:00] Well, thank you so much for taking the time [1:05:02] to join us today to talk a little bit more [1:05:03] about your campaign. [1:05:05] Please tell people how they can get a hold of you. [1:05:09] Well, pushforohio.com, [1:05:11] you can of course send an email there. [1:05:12] We are Barrage, so it's a nice problem to have [1:05:14] because the people are very much behind it. [1:05:15] Obviously, I am on social media. [1:05:18] So you can try there. [1:05:19] I do the best I can, but my time is small [1:05:21] just for the sheer magnitude of everything going on. [1:05:24] Naturally, this campaign exists [1:05:26] because of all of the people. [1:05:27] So donations do matter. [1:05:29] It is imperative. [1:05:30] That's how we do this. [1:05:31] That money does not go to me. [1:05:33] That money goes so that we together can do something. [1:05:35] I'm not getting paid. [1:05:36] I still have to make a living building watches [1:05:38] and stuff doing this. [1:05:39] So remember that all of this effort together, [1:05:42] the money you donate does create an ROI. [1:05:45] Because if you believe in the things [1:05:46] that this campaign is and represents [1:05:49] and that I represent and will speak about, [1:05:51] by virtue of being able to campaign, [1:05:53] we're bringing it front and center. [1:05:55] We're putting the pressure on the sellout, [1:05:57] disgusting politicians across the board, [1:05:59] on the establishment, on the lies and propaganda. [1:06:03] So yeah, let's keep it going, guys. [1:06:05] But reach out, please donate. [1:06:07] I only care about the people of Ohio [1:06:09] and I want us all to have a future. [1:06:10] based amazing well thank you so much for joining us today uh looking forward to to seeing how you [1:06:16] do in the primary and if there's any you know of course uh if any of our listeners or viewers uh [1:06:21] want to get in touch uh with the campaign you can always send us an email and we'll try to link you [1:06:25] guys up but thank you so much god bless best of luck um let's see how this goes fuck vivac [1:06:32] Tom Swami. America first. [1:06:34] I'm rolling, baby. [1:06:35] All right. Well, God bless. Cheers. [1:06:38] Bye now. Thank you so much for coming on. [1:06:40] All right. Very good. [1:06:41] Well, look at that. [1:06:43] We've now had two of the best [1:06:45] people running for [1:06:47] governor in the [1:06:49] United States on this program. Very, very [1:06:51] cool. Looking forward to having a third one on [1:06:53] maybe in the future. [1:06:55] We'll see how that goes. All right. [1:06:57] Well, thank you so much for joining us today. 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