Denver Riggleman
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of the public debt is now of gdp is actually owned by us it's on us a hundred percent amy where do we go that's not counting intra-governmental spending that's just the public spending side so there's two parts to debt too and amy that's why i love this conversation with you is that is this sustainable Where do we go? But then how does it keep getting so high?
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And that's where I want to go next after you're talking about, is it sustainable? Because I want to talk about why it's so pathetic and ridiculous.
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Well, here's the thing. Ich glaube, das, was ich mit dem Wiederentdecken des Vergangenen von dem Bundeskanzlergerichtshof wollte sagen, das ist ein majority written document, richtig, Amy? Ja. Sie haben die Kommitee.
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Das, was ich den Leuten sage, ist, dass man muss schauen, wo man seine Zahlen bekommt, weil die Argumente werden in einer partisanen Weise kommen, so wie die GOP-Line jetzt versucht, die Spenden zu schützen. Es ist absolut wahr, dass die Infrastrukturbillen Dinge erhielten. Es ist fantastisch, richtig?
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But we also have to look at the inflationary measures, which are part of the deficit and debt additions, right? But we also have to, what people don't understand too, is that there is spending that's frivolous and there's spending that actually equals something as a long-term payoff.
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So, what we're seeing right now, though, is we're seeing a tax cuts. Listen, I hate taxes. God dang. I love tax cuts. I love them. I run companies if I went to the taxes on my company.
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Yeah, you can, yeah. Amy, I'm sure you're up there in the debaters like, Amy, what do you think? Mitch McConnell wants tax cuts. What do you want, Amy? Amy goes, well, I really want tax increases across the board to balance the budget.
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Interest on the debt. You know, it's amazing, you know, you talk, I hope people understand, mandatory spending is something that's, it's very difficult to run on that. When you see people, why people are up in arms, right?
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The Republicans were going after some of the mandatory spending lines, and this was the whole fantasy of Doge, right, on how to cut the discretionary portion of civilian agencies or DOD agencies, but also the mandatory portion of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Und das war das, was mich überrascht hat. Doge hatte nicht nur einen diskretionären oder mandatorischen Spenden-Mandat.
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Sie hatten einen Mandat, nur damit zu gehen und keine Expertise zu haben, wie das Budget funktionieren würde oder was diese Flöten oder Kaskaden-Effekte aussehen würden. Das andere, was die Leute in der Budget-Prozesse verstehen müssen, ist, dass es von der White House entsteht. And it has to go through multiple processes, right?
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The Senate and the House both have their own take on what their budget resolutions are going to be. And they actually have to come to some sort of, sometimes some sort of agreement. The Budget and the House actually do their own separate sort of budget lines. And I know people are like, what? But yeah, that's how our government works, right? In that way.
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But what's interesting... It's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing. By April 15th, there has to be a budget vote. And by the way, the budget vote, I think, happened April 10th this year. Do you know what the vote was, Amy? 216 bis 214. Wow. Um die Budgetregeln zu ermöglichen. Das ist, wie nah es war. Ja. Das ist ziemlich interessant, richtig? Du siehst diese große Budgetlinie.
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Das, was die Leute müssen verstehen, ist, dass, wenn das Budget geht, richtig, und sie haben bereits gewählt, wird es bereits eine Beurteilung geben, richtig? Also, jetzt, dass sie zu einem Meeting zwischen dem Senate und dem Budget gekommen sind, gibt es eine Menge Regeln und jeder muss schauen, dass die, ähm, äh, die, ähm, CBA, der, ähm, Kongressional Budget Act of 1974, richtig?
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right go and look at that and you can see how reconciling works it's technical it's ridiculous that would be a whole nother deep dive with me and amy if i went through the reconciliation process because i've been there and it sucks here's what's weird here's where people go what do you know that their earmarks are back did you know this amy you know when i was on the hill as a congressional fellow earmarks were like a no-no so i'm not surprised they're back it's here's what they're called though
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Well, I'm going to pop it for the first time right here. Took off the label, right? So I'm going to pop it, the cork. Oh, that's a pop. That means it's bottled perfectly. And I'm going to pour it.
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In the Senate, it's called congressionally directed spending. Lovely. In the House, it's called community project funding.
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Okay. So let me tell you what's happening here. So you have the appropriations process. So once the budget outline is actually done, it goes to the appropriations committee. At that point, do you know who actually puts the bill on the floor? Amy knows this. I'm just asking our listeners. It is appropriations. They're the ones who actually submit the bill. Now, what is appropriations?
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Well, you have your budget outline bill, but appropriations is all 535 offices getting lobbied, getting lobbied, Für Dinge wie die Verteidigungsbillen. Weißt du, dass Leute für die Verteidigungsbillen lobbyieren?
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Die Dinge, die in deinem Distrikt passieren. Absolut, die machen sie. Aber schau, was sie lobbyieren für. Gemeinsames Projektfunding und kongressionell direktes Spenden. Und du denkst dir, dann, wenn das E-Marks sind, warum sagen sie nicht einfach E-Marks? Weißt du, warum? Die GOP hat die Namen verändert. Weil sie diejenigen sind, die gegen E-Marks rannten.
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Schau, welche Distrikte am meisten von E-Marks profitieren. Wer möchte einen guess? Sie. Hallo. Their districts. Red districts. So, now in the approach process, you have different times to submit your appropriations. So for our office, we had a date with our own way of doing it, right? So lobbyists, the descent of the lobbyists, the lobbyist locusts descend on Congress.
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And they go to every single office for their pet projects. Denver, how do they get in there? They go through your staff. That's great, but how do they get in there? Usually the staff is having dinners with people who want to actually get into your office. So the staff has pre-ordered relationships that they've had because they're professional staff and they've lived in the swamp for so long.
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They already know who you need to go to to manipulate and get the right lobbyists in front of their boss. So the staff is also lobbying you. But they're lobbying you based on sort of a loose vision. But here's what's really weird, folks. Every single office has a different time to actually input their appropriations requests in different formats.
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So why are you paying so much money to lobbyists from people and companies and everybody like that? Because they have to go into each office, wine and dine, go in with their specific format, the way that they ask for it, and their briefing schedules. This is what's happening during the approves process.
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So I guess what I'm trying to tell people is that White House, the Senate and the House, reconciliation, right? Budget voted on, says here's the limits on mandatory and discretionary. Here's the left-right boundaries. Some of those left-right boundaries can actually be bounced one way or the other. Then you go into the approves process.
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Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Yes, that's right. That's right. So, hey, so this is a, oh my God, the nose. Remember, you know, we've had this a while back, but I'm just smelling it. It's 93 proof. Just to let people know. So that's 46.5% ABV. Um,
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The approves committee or budget committee is sort of done a little bit. Approves takes over. They're very powerful.
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And all the other committees have their own lanes in the road, like Ways and Means, Financial Services Committee, Science and Technology, the HASS, heck yeah, the House Armed Services Committee, and the subcommittees that actually feed up, like the HIPC, like the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence, or you have the Senate Intelligence Committees, or the subcommittees on each specific committee.
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And there's lots of committees. Every subcommittee then has their own hearings for approves, and that actually rack and stacks.
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Man, the nose, you know, a lot of people come up with the nose like, the nose is cherry with a hint of butterscotch, a little bit of leather and spaceship metal. Unbelievable. But this really just has a nose of beauty. So here's to old Forrester Whiskey in the 1910 Whiskey Rose Series. Beautiful. Cheers.
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Yeah, I mean... You know what? Nobody has the answer.
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Her story. Amy, have you ever been on Medicaid?
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I have. So, my daughter was born with Medicaid in 1997 when I was an ROTC at University of Virginia. Think about how I got through life, you know? Yeah. Military. ROTC, GI-Bill, Medicaid. Das sind literally alle Regierungsprogramme, die regierungspflichtig sind. Das bringt mich in einen seltsamen Ort. Als Republikaner, wie sage ich das? Es ist sehr schwierig.
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Und Teil der Sache ist, ich war einer der acht und ich frage nicht, weil ich viele schlechte Vote hatte. But I was one of the eight to vote to keep pre-existing conditions. Why? You said something about senior citizens having medical care because my district had the most federally funded health centers in the whole Commonwealth of Virginia. Think about that, Amy. There's 11 districts.
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I think we had 7 of the 17. Everybody voting Republican were actually leaning on the ACA to get healthcare. And the laws codifying pre-existing conditions. Happens all the time. I hope listeners are listening to this. The thing though is, do we have an inordinate amount of mandatory spending? Yes. How do we fix it?
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So, as somebody who is burdened by about four layers of different taxes, which is absolutely debilitating, you know the taxes that hurt me the worst in the liquor business, not even the AI business. I mean, we'll have that talk another day on tech and stuff like that. In manufacturing, the worst taxes do not come from the federal government. They come from the state. State, okay. So...
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I am a hawk when it comes to cutting taxes on specific types of industries in manufacturing. Which tariffs are not, by the way. Tariffs are awful.
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But on the federal side, I don't think people realize how low the overall tax burden is federally compared to state taxes like in Virginia with property tax, receipts taxes, business personal property tax, personal property tax, profit transfer tax, state excise tax. I can keep going. That's the issue. Do payroll taxes suck on the federal side? Absolutely payroll taxes suck.
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The thing is though, we have this sort of tax regime from top to bottom that doesn't understand the interlocking effects of stacked taxation. But that is different from the issues that we have on mandatory and discretionary spending when it comes to government specifically. And I don't think politicians actually understand enough
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um diesen Unterschied zu machen, wenn sie zu ihren Angehörigen sprechen. Am föderalen Niveau ist mein Job, nicht nur zu beachten, was meine Angehörigen wollen, weil Sie für mich gewählt haben.
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Mein Job ist es, zu beachten, dass dieses Umfeld nicht nur für das Bilden von Businessen verbindlich ist, sondern auch für das Schutz derjenigen, die sich nicht schützen können, und um in irgendeiner Art und Weise für die meisten derjenigen zu helfen, die sich nicht schützen können. Es ist ein verdammter Balance, um zu wählen. Und es ist ein verdammter Balance, um zu machen.
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The thing is, there's no nuance. And I think at some point there has to be a restructuring of our mandatory programs. The thing is, I'm pretty good at this. And I am not, I don't have the big enough head.
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Oh, that is sweet. Butterscotch love right there.
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Also hier wäre die erste Sache, die ich machen würde. Es scheint fast so zu sein, dass wir Spenden reduzieren und Revenue erhöhen müssen. Wow, okay, das ist Mathematik, richtig? Also, okay, wie machen wir das? Würde es nicht etwas sein, wenn es etwas gäbe, dieses Ding, das Mathematik 2 gäbe?
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Where you get together and say, hey, what does it look like on the discretionary side and the mandatory side? Well, we have to cut percentage-wise from each side or restructure for longer-term payouts or pay-ins, like you said, with the age. And Amy, can you imagine running on, hey, we're going to increase the social security age.
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People will be like, ah, boom, boom, boom, you know, get out of here, you're done. But it has to happen now. And like you said, though, you're going to need adults in the room. You can't have, you saw what the DOD budget submission is. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, where are they going to get their revenues when they cut the IRS staff? I don't know. Right? And they're thinking, before the tariffs... And before, right, all this churn in the stock market, do you know what the projection was for revenues next year? Or this year? I think it was 5.2 trillion. I don't know if it was this year, 4.9 trillion. It's a lot.
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The thing was, the CBO put that report out in January of 2025. It was. They put it out in January of 2025. I wonder what a revised CBO...
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So, Amy, are you saying we need serious people in office to address serious problems? I mean, that's insane.
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you know things like that can be done you know what the hell with your common sense amy i swear jesus christ what are we doing here you know i here's the thing too you know as as again wrapping up an incredible show i wish you were in office amy um and and you know i would almost rather set myself on fire than run again
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But it's almost as if, when you're looking at how unserious and how irresponsible this administration is specifically today, and the fact that a center-right and center-left person can come to an agreement that cutting spending and increasing revenue have to happen with some kind of restructuring of mandatory programs for long-term outcomes based on smart decisions in a common sense way.
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And restructuring of tax revenue. And restructuring of tax revenue. Absolutely. It can be done. We're America, for God's sakes. But it has to be smart people in the room and not people who believe aliens are in the Bible. And that's where I'm at with it. And I think as we're rolling into this year, here's what I would like our listeners to do. Go look at all the projections.
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And here's what I really wanted to do. Look at the spending. from the beginning of the Obama years, even with the actual bailout in 2008, right, Amy? To today. Hell, go back further. Amy was right. You can go back and look at the percentage of deficit to debt for each president, which is absolutely mind-boggling, because it's there for listeners to look at and voters.
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Und schau, was passiert und was die Projekte für die nächsten zwei Jahre sind. Und schau dir einfach den Mund an, was wir jetzt mit einer Administration, die gesagt hat, dass sie es kontrollieren werden, an den Defizitspenden schauen. Es ist eine Lüge. But we don't have smart people in government.
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And I think as people look at the budget process, I absolutely want you to go to videos, look at how the budget process works, breaks it down, especially from the time it drops all the way to the appropriations portion of our budget timeline and the mandatory and deficit spending. Aber versuche, deine Ressourcen zu schauen und wo du deine Informationen bekommst.
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Und verstehe, dass es Leute gibt, die sich um dich kümmern, wie Amy und ich. Wir sprechen nicht über seltsame Dinge wie Donald Trump und seinen goldenen Dome. Und wir können später über all das diskretionäre Spenden sprechen. Wir haben eine ernsthafte Diskussion. Aber wir werden darüber sprechen in der Zukunft.
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So all that, because I'd love to talk Golden Dome approach. Next week, in fact. Next week, let's go, because I'm ready. As you know, I got a picture of me and my wife here with the Iron Dome in Israel, which we can put up if Doug would love to do that. So anyway, for us, Amy, I'm going to leave you the last words, and then we can roll and rock instead of rock and roll.
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We don't want to turn fantasy into fact, do we? We don't want to be literally eating cats when nobody can afford anything anymore. And with that, I want to thank all of you for being here with Truth in a Barrel with me and Amy McGrath, the wonderful Amy McGrath. Remember too, if you're not downloading us on your favorite pod, you're a bit of a loser.
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And you better go subscribe on YouTube because we look so good on camera and spend a lot of money on these studios. Thank you, Amy McGrath. Cheers. Cheers to everyone.
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Excellent. I'm ready, as you know. Right. You know what's going to be interesting about this, Amy? Your vast knowledge of the budget. It's going to be interesting with your knowledge of the budget and what I know now after being in Congress and going through the budget and the approach process.
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This should be a fascinating conversation because I think you can give strokes where people are going to really understand it. And if I may, I want to scare the hell out of people if you let me do that during the show, Amy, just on really how it works.
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We do. I have a shocking number here. And I know that as people are listening to us, Amy, they better be listening to us on our podcasts. And on our YouTube, right? You know, as we're going forward on this, because I want to remind people, while Amy is talking these incredible numbers, you better be going on our podcast or our YouTube channel and downloading our socials.
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And you better be knowing this. We're on true social too, because we're that brave. Anyway, it's not brave to be on social media, but people think so. I think true socialists. But it's funny, you talk about the deficit. You know, I was reading a bipartisan report today. Und ich weiß, dass Leute sagen, oh mein Gott, Denver Reads. Ich mache das, Amy, ich mache das.
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Okay, als ich gesagt habe, dass ich Leute erschrecken werde, lass mich die Leute wirklich schnell erschrecken. Der initiale, nonpartisanen Blick, was sie dachten, dass der Defizit gleich da sein wird, Amy war fast direkt dran. Das ist das Wahnsinnige. Hörer, etwa 1,9 Trillionen. Also es geht auf. Also es geht auf. But what's amazing is that they are not counting.
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They had, when the budget resolution, and I don't know if we want to go over the whole hierarchy of this beforehand, but when they submitted the budget, you know, and the budget is actually generated from the White House, and then it goes to, it's actually a budget process that starts with that actually specific asks based on mandatory funding and discretionary funding and all that.
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But what Amy was talking about is that what's the Gazintas and the Gazaltas, right? And for a long time, our Gazintas ain't matching our Gazaltas. So right now though, with the new rules from budget, which is pretty interesting, they didn't count the tax cut, Amy. So based on maneuvering through the rules, do you know what the real deficit could be this year? Do you want to take a guess?
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I would say over 2 trillion. 5.7 trillion. Oh my God, that's insane. So it's going to be, based on accounting or magic numbers, it's going to be between probably 1.9 and 5.7 trillion.
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I wasn't there when that happened, Amy.
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Ja, wenn, du weißt, ich habe die Zahlen geschaut. Offensichtlich hat Biden mit dem Infrastrukturgesetz und so etwas, da gab es Kostenspenden, richtig? Wir haben definitiv den Kostenspenden und den Kostenspenden erhöht. In einer Rente, die etwas niedriger war als in den Trump-Jahren, wo ich weiß, dass Leute sagen würden, was meinst du?
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Ein Demokrat hatte einen niedrigeren Defizit und eine erhöhte Spende als die Republikaner. Das ist so die Art und Weise, wie es geht. Und es ist so lustig, dass die Republikaner darüber sprechen. Ich war da, ich habe es gesagt. Wir sind diejenigen, die sich um Taxen kümmern und um das Spenden, um den Budget zu balancieren.
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Aber wenn man sich die Zahlen dieses Jahr aus den nonpartisanen Berichten anschaut, ist es ziemlich interessant. Also, du weißt, ich habe einige der Budgetberichte von der CBO geschaut. Und sie haben viel von ihrem Ding im Januar 2025 gemacht, wo sie einen etwas niedrigeren Defizit vorgesehen haben.
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Ich glaube, es war etwa 1,3 Trillionen, Amy, bevor all das Riggumaroll und verrückt war mit der Terrorstuffe und den schrecklichen Policien. Aber hier ist das Problem. Und das ist das Problem, das wir jetzt haben. Also, hier ist, was passieren wird. Ich werde es dir sagen. I think we're going to have one of the single biggest deficit spending years this year and maybe even into next year.
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Whiskey. Truth always comes out of the barrel. Right, Amy? So again, I know it's been back-to-back days and a whole week for me of being sick. So as we go through all this, I apologize to Amy and to our listeners for my husky voice. So, 1910. Love it. From 1910. Pretty sweet, huh? Look at this. Beautiful.
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I'm going to make a guess. And Amy, I know you're going to be like, Denver, you've got to be shitting me. I'm going to think we're going to hit the 3 to 3.5 trillion mark in deficit spending this year. That's what I'm thinking. Now, it's going to depend on math. The Republicans are going to say... dass sie nicht verkaufen.
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Sie werden das Spenden rationalisieren, um zu sagen, dass Biden schlechter war, weil sie nie für Biden-Inflation verkauft haben, was sie es nennen. Das sind irgendwelche arbitrarischen Zahlen, wo sie versuchen, das Spendenjahr von Trump zu dem Spendenjahr von Biden zu rationalisieren. Also, hier ist, was passieren wird.
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Sie werden Republikaner sagen, dass das Spenden-Defizit ungefähr gleich ist wie von Biden. Sie denken, das sei ein Wettbewerb, Amy. Ich will es nur noch einmal sagen. Sie werden sagen, dass es ungefähr gleich ist wie von Biden. I'm going to guess the CBO and nonpartisan groups are going to say it's higher than Biden by 30 to 40 percent.
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I'm going to say the far left partisan reports are going to say it's higher from 60 to 70 percent. That's the first thing the American people are going to have to actually get their arms around. What we're really seeing, though, is this sort of irresponsible way of looking at the ledger. Amy, you just put it so perfectly right. It's the deficit every year.
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is how much more or less we spend based on revenues. And now there's other things there too. And by the way, what's really interesting right now with the debt, and I just want to make sure everybody knows this, Amy, and we can go into how the budget process works. Right now, 100% us, taxpayers, own 100%
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I would humbly submit that our isolationist policies, this nativism that somehow has infected the United States with the 77 million people that voted for Trump, and I'm going to be straight up, as somebody who served as a Republican in Congress, isolationist policies in this global, I would say, environment that we're in, sind absolut die Amerikaner in Risiko.
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Und wenn du über andere Länder sprichst, die unser Verhalten sehen, wie Polen und Südkorea, und sie klammern für ihren eigenen Nuklear-Arsenal oder Deterrence-Fähigkeit, basierend auf dem, wie sie China und Russland sehen, denke ich, wir sind für eine wirklich lange Zeit über den nächsten Dezember.
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Und ich weiß einfach nicht, wie wir diese Vertrauen mit unseren Allies auf dieser Stelle wiederentwickeln.
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Well, you know, Poland, we know why Poland has a pucker factor of 10 right now, looking at, you know, the American administration is playing naked twister with Putin right now. I mean, that's really what it comes down to. You know, we really look like we're friends of Putin. And I think that Poland's going, wait a second, we're NATO, for God's sake. And if we capitulate...
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Even if we finalize, you know, what's going on in the Crimea, and I know we can talk about Ukraine in another show, but there's a reason Poland has a pucker factor. How about South Korea? They're always going to have a pucker factor because of North Korea. And when you look at Donald Trump saying that Kim Jong-un, the guy with the bowl haircut, is one of his good friends, right? A murderous
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Honestly, piece of ass, right? Piece of shit, right? That's over North Korea. No wonder South Korea, Poland, South Korea is like, for the love of God, give us Dukes. We don't need to rely on those buffoons over there. I don't want J.D. Vance coming over here, right? Or Stephen Miller.
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I mean, Amy, how could other countries not take us serious when we want to build Golden Dome? It actually sounds like a bad bathroom song. This is really what we're going to do, right? Protect our country with Golden Dome. Or it sounds like a bad Austin Powers movie. And I think that's what people are looking at. We're just completely unserious. And I think that unserious equals dangerous.
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It is dangerous. I mean, is South Korea gonna be the first one that says, okay, we've had it. We're going nuclear. You know, is it somebody? Is it the ball pits?
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Ich meine, du und ich, als vorherer Militär, denke ich, dass wir viel über Kaskadeneffekte denken. Ja. Ja, das stimmt.
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Du weißt, wenn du einen Bullen hast, der immer alle Milchmoney nimmt und einen Bazooka benutzt, um das zu tun. Ich fühle mich, als wäre ich der Herausforderungste, der in der Schule einen Bazooka benutzt, um die Leute Milchmoney zu nehmen. Ein Idiot, der nur rumklammert, um Kinder zu suchen. Aber ich denke, wir sind das. Und ich denke, wenn du an einem Punkt verurteilt wirst,
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Oder du siehst einen Bullen, der dich verteidigen sollte, der jetzt das Bazooka auf dich schießt. Du wirst dich schießen. Du wirst kämpfen. Und ich blöde diese Länder nicht dafür, dass sie das tun. Und ich denke, das ist der Weg, den wir gehen.
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Und ich wundere, Amy, ich wundere, und ich hoffe, dass die Leute das anschauen, was das erste Land ist, außer der neun, das eine nukleare Waffe weppen wird.
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Ich habe gesagt, wir sind beide militärisch, Amy. Das ist eine Blue Falcon-Administration. Und ich denke, das ist, was wir jetzt haben. Sie werden auf jeden, wenn sie glauben, dass es ihre eigenen Selbstinteressen verbessert, in dieser Art von MAG-Administration, die Leute, die kommen. Wie du gesagt hast, es ist nicht nur Trump. Wenn J.D.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Vance gewinnt, oder die nächste Sekteff ist Vivek Ramaswamy. Oh, mein Gott. Ich brauche einen Kaffee für das. Du brauchst ihn. Und dann mit der nächsten Administration. Steven Miller läuft für den Vizepräsidenten unter J.D. Vance. Oder ein Tulsi Gabbert. Oder RFK Junior bekommt eigentlich einen Vizepräsidenten-Nod. Denk daran. Es gibt nichts, das so verrückt stoppt.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Denn wenn du auf jede einzelne Person in der Administration schaust, wir sprechen von D&I. Du sprichst von dem FBI-Direktor, du sprichst von der Nationalen Sicherheitsanwaltschaft, du sprichst von der SekDef. Keiner dieser Menschen ist möglich, ältere Entscheidungen zu machen. Und ich denke, das ist, was der Rest der Welt sagt.
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Und ich denke, nukleare Proliferation ist eigentlich ein Blumen aus dieser Blume. Und wir können nicht das Genie zurück in die Flasche bringen. Wir können es nicht. Das Two-Face ist gespeichert.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Amy, every time we talk, I learn. And I think I like to impart some of what I know, too. But even I learned something today on your knowledge on security assurances, on nuclear assurances, but on the countries that have nukes and who could get nukes.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
You know, I was thinking about, you know, I was B1s, right? I was an intelligence officer on F-15s and F-16s, but B1s. And Amy, you know, even with scramjets, things like that, we look at something that can be launched, you know, from the belly of a bomber, right? It just absolutely, it overshadows what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a level that's hard to comprehend.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
And just pure numbers, right, Amy? I mean, when you're looking at nuclear proliferation, and you probably know these numbers, I mean, you're talking about thousands of warheads, right? Weaponized warheads. Das kann an jedem Moment veröffentlicht werden.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Und ich denke, das ist das, was so interessant ist an dieser Administration, Amy, und warum du dachtest, ich denke, warum du dachtest, dass dies einer der wichtigsten Themen ist, die wir diskutieren, ist, dass diese Administration als eine Art von Fantasie-basierter oder eine Administration, die sogar letztlich wie Buffons aussieht, richtig, sie verabschieden sich tatsächlich.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Our influence from Europe, from Asia, right? And when we specifically talk about China and Russia, those are very big influential countries that we're withdrawing from and withdrawing from the world stage with many countries having these nuclear warheads.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Wir sprechen über den Nuklear-Triad, wir sprechen darüber, wie Waffen erzeugt werden. Als ich in der Intelligenzschule trainiert wurde, und ich weiß, ich bin ein bisschen älter als du, aber unsere ganze Sache waren russische Threatsysteme.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Und ich bin mir sicher, in deiner Training als Marine in den F-18s, sprichst du von Luft-zu-Luft-Taktiken gegen einen russischen Krieger, egal ob es ein MIG oder ein SU ist oder was auch immer du gegen sie gehst. Es ist also ziemlich interessant für mich, als ich in den Ende der 90er-Jahre in der Technik-Schule ging, hatten wir immer noch diesen Cold War Stink.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Ich meine, ich weiß, dass wir darüber sprechen, dass Gorbatschow diesen Wall zerstört hat. Wir schauen in die frühen 80er-Jahre bis in die frühen 90er-Jahre. Ich bin 1992 eingeladen worden und dann war ich 98er-Jahre-Kommissionier. Aber es gab immer noch diesen Cold War Stink. Es war Russland und die USA. Und du hattest immer noch dieses Nuklearproblem. Welche Person würde es tun?
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Wer würde den Knopf drücken? All das. Nun, in diesem neuen asymmetrischen Welt, du hast neun Länder mit Nuken, jetzt haben wir es, weißt du, ein bisschen stabil gemacht. Was passiert, wenn die Vereinigten Staaten entscheiden, dass sie von Star-Treaties zurückgehen wollen? Sie wollen keine brüdernden Länder mit Nuken behandeln. Wir werden Nativist und Isolationist.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Wir zurückgehen von unseren NATO-Alliierten. Und ich weiß, dass das etwas ist, über das du wirklich sprechen willst, richtig? And we withdraw from our secondary allies, right? Because we have NATO, but there's allies all over the world. Because you were talking about what, nine countries have nukes? How many countries are in the world?
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Between 193 to 196, whoever identifies, self-identifies as a country. So what happens, Amy? And what are your thoughts? Because, I mean, you teach this. And for me, I obviously have my thoughts based on being in Congress and things like that. What happens? If we withdraw our support from NATO and the EU thinks that we're not there for them, what does that look like?
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
That whiskey looks really good. I tell you what, I wish I was drinking that with you right now. But Amy, you know, we're going to have some time to do that.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
I mean, if I'm looking at a Pete Hegseth or a Mike Waltz or a Tulsi Gabbard on a chat channel that adds in Jeff Goldberg, and then you have the conspiracy theories coming out now by Waltz and them that somehow Jeff Goldberg, the Atlantic journalist, hacked Signal, which is ludicrous, because they actually have the Signal screenshot of Mike Waltz inviting Jeff Goldberg onto the chat, right?
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
I know this is, it seems maybe small. Maybe to some people it's like, ah, It's a signal chat. It's one phone number. Accidental ad. It's just sloppy. Well, it's really tough to be sloppy in a nuclear world. Because one number off is catastrophic.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Es geht um Vertrauen. Und wenn es keine Vertrauen von unseren Alliierten gibt, dass diese Regierung sogar fähige oder kompetente Individuen hat, dann macht es es sehr, sehr schwierig, für jedes Land zu denken, dass wir unsere Verträge vertreten werden. Und das ist, weshalb ich es liebe, das den Teufelskreis zu nennen.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Denn was Sie reden, was die Zuhörer gerade tun sollten, ist, dass sie die nukleare und Sicherheitsversicherungen anschauen sollten, die neun Länder anschauen, die nukleare Waffen haben. They should be looking up any of the treaties that have happened over the last, let's be honest, over the last, what, 60 years, 70 years, right, when it comes to nuclear treaties. But you said something, Amy.
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You said something about what the U.S. had for decades that I think we've completely lost as trust with our allies. And how do we gain that back? Quickly, story about just numbers being off. Amy, you probably pickle GPS weapons, right? You know how GPS works probably better than anybody. Well, I got the mission plan for GPS weapons. And I remember we were working with Ford Air Controllers in 2001.
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And we got a set of coordinates to drop. And by the way, and Amy knows a lot of this, B1s hold 24 2,000-pound JDAMs, GPS-guided, on rotary launchers. So we're going over, and guess what we noticed? We're in Trigger Ops, we're doing close air support with B1s. I know that's nuts, but that's really, really where it started. It was 9-11. That is nuts, by the way. Es ist.
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Also schauen wir uns diesen Ziel an und schau, was wir gefunden haben. Seine Koordinaten waren weg. Schau, was sie gemacht haben. Sie haben ihre Kontrollkoordinaten und ihre Targeting-Koordinaten transposiert, wo sie direkt auf sie droppen.
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That's a sloppy number input. So when you're talking about Mike Waltz just being sloppy, adding somebody, we're not 10-year-olds. We're not just adding somebody for a chat on accident or on Discord or on Slack. We're actually supposed to be the adults in the room.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
And I think what you're talking about with trust is I think this cascading effect on what we call this devil's cut episode is what people need to be looking into right now.
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Devil's Cut | Nuclear Proliferation Under Donald Trump
Die ganze EU-Block. Total. Skandinavien, gib mir, du weißt, STEM ist so stark, du weißt, Bildung in diesen Bereichen auch. Und wiederum, ich glaube, ich bin überrascht, als wir durch das durchgehen, dass wir keine Administration haben, die sich außerhalb ihrer Isolationspolicy sehen kann. Und hier ist, wo ich heimlich anbieten werde, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Is Jay cleared? You know, the other thing, too, is it's better that he was also doing official business over Gmail, the very classified and secure Gmail account.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Not a government account with a .gov, and you know what I'm talking about, or a .ic.gov, right? Or any of our stuff, right? Our SIPR accounts or our GWIX accounts or our NSAnet accounts or any of our specialty accounts. You know, when we were doing liaison work with SOCOM and things like that,
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
It's amazing to me that not only is he setting up a random signal chat, but he's doing official business over Gmail. I wonder if there's a training issue for security in the NSC, right?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, it's contradictory to the Federal Records Act, right? And even if me and you had an accidental disclosure and we were using the wrong comms path, We're also subject to the Espionage Act. So now you have two things going on here, right? You have the Federal Records Act and the Espionage Act that both can co-mingle, right? They can cross.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Those streams can cross based on if you're using a wrong comms channel or unauthorized channel. And then you're, oh, it was an accident. I didn't mean to leak time over target. I'm sorry. Oh, okay, bullshit. You're using an unauthorized channel. You already have issues with the Espionage Act and the Federal Records Act.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
The Federal Records Act is that you can't store any of this data, as you're talking about, right, Amy? And that's the thing that gets me, is that there's no way to look at even doing, as we know, a post-mission debrief. Right. You can't even look at the mistakes that you might have made based on the data.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Not to mention that the taxpayers are paying for this, and there should be records that are kept based on official government business. The other thing, too... when you're looking at this is there's so much arrogance and there's arrogance through ignorance. And we, and that's the thing that gets me too, is that people are trying to defend this. It is under, there is no defense.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
There's, there's no legal defense. There's no moral defense. There's no ethical defense. The only defense is just deal with it because that's who we are. And that's the thing. Again, I know this all wraps back into rule of law, constitutionality and what we think as public servants, but how in the hell, How in the hell do you rationalize this? You can't rationalize it.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
More damaging information from a higher echelon in government. There's layers of awfulness. But you know what we can do, Amy? We can deport Pete Hegseth because of his tattoo, his white nationalist tattoo. Because we can say he's a domestic terrorist and we don't need any due process. So I think we need to start to deport Pete Hegseth. Frigging chance, you know, based on his tattoos, you know.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, you know, yesterday was just tragic, right? When you have Laura Loomer, who's a 9-11 truther, a racist, just an awful human being, right?
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And I think, you know, when she goes in and talks about loyalty tests with Trump, God, we're all the way back to people rationalize behavior for deportations and due process and Signalgate and misuse of government resources and the Espionage Act and everybody making excuses for that because we have the most ignorant people
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I would say, executive branch level appointees, directors and secretaries in the history of the United States. And now Laura Loomer is going to Trump, actually presenting the litmus test where he's firing NSA individuals. And then last night, a person I have met, I was introduced to long ago by a former general buddy of mine, Tim Hawke.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
who's Dern's director of the National Security Agency, was fired late last night. I got calls from inside NSA, and my guess is I wonder, Amy, if there's a cascading effect from her applying that loyalty test and directing who should be fired. I mean, if people look up Laura Loomer, it's like the Joker determining who should be fired in Gotham. Right.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
The head of NSA has to be a military individual. That's Derns. That's a four-star general. People that initially had been Derns, you're talking about people like Mike Hayden, correct, who I briefed in the early 2000s over and over, actually on the eighth floor at NSA. The D-Der, the deputy director, is a civilian, right? And a civilian was also released on fire.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think she was redirected maybe to the Undersecretary of Defense, USDI. I'm trying to remember. So you have, you know, these two individuals, the two top performers, right, the leaders in NSA that run everything. They run the whole SIGINT Confederation. That's the best way to put it. So what is SIGINT?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Yes, signals intelligence. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. That's broken into two major subdivisions of comment, which is communications intelligence, and ELINT, which is electronics intelligence. Underneath that umbrella, you have people who are comment or ELINT or joint, who can collect signals, make sense of those signals, which helps in targeting situational awareness.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Looking at what everybody has in their environment electronically, not only for targeting, but for deconfliction of signals in that battle space for people who might be flying an F-18 into combat on 89 combat missions or on that aircraft, executing that mission. You want to know what that environment looks like, what you can target, what you can hit. So NSA has all of that.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
NSA is a combat service element under the DoD. A lot of people don't know that. It's under the DoD funding lines. But what it does is so crucial to our defense, right, that if you have people who don't know what they're doing directing the mission, it can get very confusing because of SIGINT authorities. SIGINT authorities are very, very defined by the U.S.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
government and by the intelligence community. So if you have two yahoos, that are going in there to replace these types of professionals. Again, we have loyalists in charge where we should have competent professionals, and that could create real issues in the National Security Agency.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, Tim Hawk would never sign a loyalty pledge, number one. He wouldn't do that as a military member or public servant. Number two, my guess is he has some of the same attributes as General Milley, where he's very honest and blunt about what's happening.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And also, I would say, what if NSA—and, you know, the thing about conjecture and theoreticals and hypotheticals is you don't want it to go out there, but if NSA was aware of Signalgate without it being released by Jeff Goldberg, was that actually identified? Ooh. That causes issues.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
The other thing, too, what if he refused to do a specific mission criteria that didn't match his signals intelligence directors? There's that, too, right? So you have this effect, like, why? Or was it simply this? Was it simply that there was somebody who was in Trump's ear saying, you need to go with this guy because he's just simply not that guy?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
because he's not a Trump guy, Biden put him in there. So he's got, and listen, you're talking about conspiracy theorists. You're talking about fantasists. You're talking about people who probably believe that Lord of the Rings is a documentary, right? These are the people that are making decisions in the United States government complex, Amy. And I think all of those things could be possible
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But it's usually Occam's razor. I think the probable and the reason they pushed him out of there, he's a Biden appointee and he refused to profess loyalty to Trump. I think it's probably that simple. And I know Tim and he's probably like, I'm just not doing that. And probably the writing has been on the wall for a week. We just didn't know about it.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And they pulled the trigger last night and got him on a plane and sent him back to D.C.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
You've got to be referring. Is it Victoria Sparks?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Oh, Indianapolis. So Indiana – I think it's Indiana's fifth. I'm trying to remember the district. I bet I'm close. My guess is – and I'm going to do this as a Republican, right, as a former Republican, Amy – I bet people cheered. I didn't see that, right? But I bet people cheered. I did see some of the, I saw that it was her that had did that, you know, the statement. I read about it.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Yeah. He's talking about Nina Jankowicz's digital government's board, if you remember that, right, which – The DGB probably isn't the best frickin' name for a, I would say, an entity that goes after disinformation. I actually, when it happened, I'm like, that's not going to last. However, that's not what it was at all.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And, you know, when you're talking about self, right, we're talking about the congressman's self, you know, not the brightest bull, but the Home Depot, Amy. Yeah. And somebody who's using Goebbels as a quote to go after the Biden administration is actually a Goebbels technique. And that technique is to accuse that which you're guilty to create confusion.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Good day, good night, every day is a new adventure. And today, as we get started, Amy, I'd like to say, I know that this show is called Truth in the Barrel. Last week was the single barrel silverback. Today is the Christine Riggleman Reserve, which just got gold. Single barrel at the New Orleans Bourbon Festival. So I'm going to take a little bit of sip of that.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
So now you have a guy using a Goebbels quote, trying to apply that to the Democrats, when we know, right, that this sort of, this tamping down of free speech in our government space is based on the firings, hirings, all based on loyalty, based on what people are going, and the attack that we're having on the First Amendment right now from the right,
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And that you're allowed to be fantastical and go into disinformation and spread conspiracy theories. That's the First Amendment. That's great. But you have a guy actually quoting Goebbels against the Democrats when they're doing the very thing he's accusing them of, and he's using a Goebbels technique to quote Goebbels to go after that.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
It seems like the whole party is the pointing Spider-Man meme, right? So it's like projection?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
So there's multiple stupids here. First of all, you're exactly right about the State Department. The other thing people forget, I know it's just incredible memory of mine. You know, it's that Air Force IQ I have. But I think that people forget the Global Engagement Center was shut down by the Trump administration. The GEC was the one who's supposed to identify and suppress foreign disinformation.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
They could go after our elections and things like that. They also cut people out of CISA, if you remember that, right? The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency. So underneath of DHS. So what they're doing, what he's talking about is multiple layers of stupids. First of all, yes, the State Department doesn't do that.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But the State Department was closed down for doing that by the Trump administration, right? And when you look at when the Biden administration was severely underfunded, this was actually started by Obama, I believe, back in his 2008 administration.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But I think it's pretty amazing that you would pick up on that because, you know, the Republicans always said they were the party of, you know, the Constitution. You know, the guy here in the 6th District, Ben Klein, one of my former colleagues in the 116th, he carries a pocket Constitution and waves it during committee meetings.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, that's what he thinks he might be talking about, but he's confused. When I said there's multiple stupids, he's talking about the Hunter Biden laptop and the 51 signers also. That's what he's referring to. And the suppression of election disinformation in the January 2019. 21, January 6th, 2021, or the November 2020 election, he's also referring to that.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And the other thing that he's talking to his constituents, because that's what he's hoping for as a clip, is COVID, that obviously COVID was faked, or there was an overreaction, or that Dr. Fauci is evil. So this is the whole bag of crap that Congressman Self dumps into a speech so he can replay it for fundraising to his constituency. This is what's happened.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
When I say multiple levels of stupid, stupid translates to money for congressional Republicans right now. And I think that's why he mixes everything. He doesn't even know how the government works. Um, that's really, really the bottom line, I guess.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I wonder what memorabilia he has hanging on his wall.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Oh, yeah. I mean, how do you cheer that on? You know, people don't deserve due process. It's sort of the bedrock of what makes us Americans is our justice system and the fact that we give people due process. And I can see I can see where people will be horrified, right, that that would be said unless you're a Republican in a town hall with somebody cheering that stuff on.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
We might actually touch on this throughout the show, but I think that cult behavior seems to dominate when it comes to constitutional discussions through a certain constituency. That's a lot of Cs. That's alarming alliteration right there. But I do think that that's what we have right now, right, is that cult behavior – overcomes any constitutional qualms based on the constituency that you have.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Drink responsibly, but also value truth over idiots. Cheers.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think that's what we're seeing right now is that you have people just screaming for blood, right? Or going against what they say they're voting for or how they believe based on their belief in a certain individual or human being. It's just unbelievable what they bought into right now. And it's hard for me to even get my arms around when people are cheering for stuff like that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I know we're going to need that later, right? We will. I cannot wait to talk to you about the things that have happened over the last week or so.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, yeah, I mean, there's going to be it almost feels like they don't care that they throw the baby out with the bathwater. There could be innocent individuals or legal immigrants or people who are misidentified that are rounded up. Right. And that's something that we've always sort of said, oh, gosh, that's that's like some of these awful dictators and authoritarians.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But isn't it sort of easy where you can wrap nativism, xenophobia and racism into a neat wrapper thing? of illegal immigration and throw them out without due process. And there should be a rationalization or validation for me as a God-fearing American living in Indiana that we should be throwing these people out. You know what? And if we wrap up a few questions
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
you know, that are innocent or just have families, you know, or maybe are misidentified. You know what? That's just the way it is. And I think that's the thing that absolutely blows my mind. If you claim to be a conservative, if you claim to be somebody who's a constitutionally minded individual, that would be, yes, we hate criminals. okay, especially violent criminals. You're right, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I want them to go back. Get out of here. You don't belong here. You're a criminal. However, it can be that justice is where we should be going, right? Without automatically saying, let's just throw everybody out based on the color of their skin. That's really what we're... I don't want it to come to that. That scares the hell out of me. And I do believe that...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Deportations and justice don't have to be mutually exclusive. I mean, that's just a belief that I have.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well – Amy, I haven't seen any crime statistics where there's a gay makeup artist crime wave happening. I don't know if you've seen this. I've looked everywhere. I can't see a gay makeup artist with tattoo crime wave happening across the United States. I don't know even what to tell. I mean, the story is so outlandish, what you just told me.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I'm sort of, I know this is your thing, but if I remember correctly, I think even Joe Rogan weighed in on this story. saying it was horrific. I mean, when Joe Rogan weighs in on something against the Trump administration, you know it's got to be bad because that guy's a homer.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Yeah, it is. And again, I think, I don't want to put words in the mouth of the esteemed Amy McGrath, but I think, and what you're trying to say is due process and securing the border don't have to be mutually exclusive. And the story you just told me also is that just because the color of your skin or you have a crown tattoo doesn't necessarily mean you're a gang member.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
True Social, YouTube. Gosh, we're everywhere. We're like a conglomerate of awesomeness that is spreading over the entire globe. That's why I love this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And that's the importance of due process and the constitutional protections that we have. And Amy, you are an instructor on the constitution for these individuals. And I think that's probably why it hits so close to home for you. And I'm, you know, and I think that's why this show today
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And like every day, we're looking at this unserious government that can't seem to do anything that seems to follow what Americans think Americans should be unless you're sort of this bizarre cult follower of the whole Trump administration.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I guess over the last 10 years, I think there's a permission structure for people on the right to allow these type of awful feelings to come out and then try to rationalize it or validate it through arguments that don't make sense in a lawful or constitutional way. And that's why, I mean, the party sort of left me, Amy. That's why, you know, me and you talking about this, right? How do you...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
If you say you're a conservative, constitution-loving, due process, law and order constituent, and you let a tattoo, right, that's sort of a cultural signifier, automatically tell you that you're part of a gang, and you're not even looking at the big picture, you don't even have the nuance or the critical thinking to think that maybe that's just a tattoo.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
What I'm worried about, Amy, is that my wife has tattoos, right? I mean, she could be part of the white distiller gang that's going around, you know, knocking over liquor stores, right? Because she has a copper tattoo because she likes to do copper distillation. It's just so ludicrous that it's hard to wrap your arms around the ignorance of this type of targeting.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think, I don't want to get too far because then I get angry and I start being directed, targeted attacks at people that are stupid, right? Because stupid is a terminal disease, as you know, you've heard me say, Amy. So, I'm worried that that stupidity will be terminal for us. But you said something pretty interesting. You talked about this administration.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I don't think we have adults in the room. I mean, if you look at how they're acting on everything that they've been doing lately, from passing classified information on to this lack of due process, it seems to me that it's very difficult for us to have any faith that they're making any good decisions right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
You know what's amazing, Amy, is you talked about the one signal chat. It's now 20 times worse, right? He had 20 signal chats. Can you imagine, first of all, you're running ops through creating signal checks manually? Hey, let's add Bob. Who else might be cleared?
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Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Well, I think they need to give medals to the women for sleeping with anybody that belongs to MAGA. I think they're getting confused, you know, because... I think that's first of all, like, who does that? Like, okay, Amy, I have to ask you a question, all right? Now, I'm not a woman, so I have to ask you this.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I mean, would metals incentivize you for a more robust posture in creating younglings for the nation? Like...
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Well, the other thing, too, is cutting public education, right? That's sort of nuts. I was thinking after every six kids, though, Amy, I think you should get something like on the seventh kid, like a Klondike bar. And then I think on the eighth kid, I think you should get like a year supply of Crest toothpaste.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And then I think like if you go to nine kids, I think you should get like the smallest version of like a Toyota, like the Versa. And then, fuck, I don't understand it. With the 10th kid, I think you should get a year's supply of rock candy. I think that is incentivization.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I don't want to go here, but I'm going to go there, Amy. And I know that sometimes me and you might say some things that are controversial, but you have to... Okay, I'm being incredibly serious here to say this. This is a Christian nationalist evangelical push, right?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And if I remember correctly, and I could be wrong, I think medals were given by Russia, right, for childbirth, for how many kids you had. So now we're back almost into the Russia side. But there is a longer-term effect here. When you're talking about, you know, my brother has ten children. So one of my brothers has ten, the other one I think has seven.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
One has three, I think the other one has five. But they, my brother with ten kids, I love them, but they homeschool. And so what I think you're seeing is the dissolution of public education and sort of this push towards evangelical teaching in a homeschool way. where you do teach some weird things, like dinosaur bones were actually just put here from other planets to mold the Earth, right?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
They were part of the packing material to make the Earth 6,000 years ago. That's something that I've actually had to have arguments with on people that have been homeschooled, is this creationist push. So I think what you're looking at, Amy, and what makes me really angry, is that we're basing policy, which is my biggest thing, on fantasy. And if you have Russia...
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You know, if Hitler and Stalin both gave out medals for childbirth, you still have Hungary doing it. Now you're going back to Orban. Now you're going back to these things where we're actually sort of worshipping these dictator figures and this bizarre sort of mix of Christian nationalism. I've never seen this.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
It's like a it's like new wave autocratic Christian Evangelicalism with this homeschool twist. based on the fact that nobody's having enough kids in a traditional way as based on biblical principles. And I think that's really the baseline of all these policy issues.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And what you pointed out, Amy, which is the technical flow down of bad policy and the lack of realization on what this would actually do. And I think when you combine that, I think we do have a fantasy-based policy right now.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
My mom was 17. She had just turned 17. My sister passed away three or four years ago. And you know, I'm the oldest of eight. We have a huge family, right? The oldest of eight that I know of, Amy. But I think there's another reason for the decline in women having children. And I think that there's a huge population that are incels and voted for Donald Trump.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
tell you because i'm not a super connoisseur of you know the smell and the taste but i i this is absolutely the best i have ever tasted so so that's what i'm drinking today i can i can i talk about our bicky a little bit for you amy why it's so unique so i'll drink you talk well okay that's oh by the way i i wish there was some whiskey in here there might be i'm not quite sure it's just a water bottle but who knows what's in this water bottle amy
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And I think there's not a lot of women who are out there scoping bars for people who look like Charlie Kirk. oder Matt Walsh oder J.D. Vance. Ich meine, J.D. sieht aus, als hätte er seine Haare zu seinem Babygewebe gefiltert, um ihn älter zu machen. Und wenn man sich diese neuen Evangelikanten anschaut, wie Walsh und Vance, haben sie alle Haare, die sie schwarzfarben haben.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Und es ist fast so, als würden sie sich wie alte Propheten aussehen. Es ist dieses neue, wir haben eine Haare, die wie Jeremiah aussehen. And I think I'm not even kidding right now, guys. I'm I'm so freaking angry. And because you're getting to a point now that you're demeaning a whole part of our population. That is everything to me. Right. With my wife, my daughters, my granddaughters, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I'm going to make this guess and I'm not trying to stereotype at all. But I think you're probably the glue that holds your family together. You take care of the kids. Right. Your husband. Awesome. Has to go to work. But you're there. Right. And you're a professional. And you're doing this podcast and you're raising money for people and you're trying to help people.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You know, my wife the other day yelled at me because I'm such a loser. Right. She's like, you know what? I work, I do the dishes, I come home, I feed the dogs, I do this, I do that. And honey, I know you're on the phone and you're working all the time, but I'm also a CEO. And you know what? She was right. And I told her, honey, it's because you're a woman.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You've got to work harder than me because I'm a white male and I'm privileged. And you don't have, I don't have to do anything. You need to understand that's the way. I'm kidding. I'd never said that, Amy. I would have been killed in my house. But I think that that's where we're at right now. And here's the last thing. We're cheap.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
We're the richest country in the world and we're offering only $5,000 for six kids. Where's the graduated payment scale? Russia does it. Russia, what, $16,000 to women with 10 kids? How about 15 kids, baby? We should be giving freaking coupons. The thing is, Denver, it's not about the money.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Why do you think that is? I'm going to say it's because of legal immigration.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So, Arviki, so as you know, most traditional Scottish and Irish whiskeys are malt, right? A combination like, for instance, Scottish whiskeys really like to stay 100% malt, whether even if they're blends or they're single malt. When you're looking at Irish whiskeys, right, it's a combination of malted and unmalted rye when you talk about their Irish whiskey.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Weißt du, es gibt etwas, wenn Menschen darüber sprechen, wie erfreulich Amerika ist. And we talk about immigration in the past. And we come from the awful, from awful, you know, slavery all the way through to how other immigrants were treated, whether you're talking to Irish, the Italians, right? We're all immigrants to this country, all of us. There's just no way around it.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But the thing about when I talk to first and second generation immigrants is their pride in being Americans. I believe that immigration, new blood into what America used to stand for,
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
is the only thing that keeps us going amy it's it listen america is is is not about a specific ethnicity or race it's not about a shared heritage all the way back thousands of years it's values it's values it's shared values and a shared idea that we're all equal based on how we work what we do and the freedom to do what we want to do and that's the country i love amy and you know i just think that
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
We're just shooting ourselves in the foot so many different ways and destroying the real bedrock of what makes our country great.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
It would be exactly the same as holding hearings on alien abductions, Bigfoot breeding populations in the Northwest. interdimensional energy beings as part of the voting population. It's about the exact same thing. The other thing, too, what really bothers me, you know, what was Ben and Jennifer Lopez? They were Bennifer, right? When you put them together, right?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So this is Ron Johnson and Laura Loomer. It's rumor, right? Same exact belief systems. And Laura Loomer is firing people in the NSC, but now we're starting to see that we have a sitting senator who believes in the same absolute horseshit. Das ist das, was Laura Loomer macht. Hier ist die andere Sache über die 9-11-Konspiratoren. Ich habe die 9-11-Konspiratoren geflüchtet. Das macht mich verrückt.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So what's really special about your whiskey, Amy? ist, dass es eine grüne schottische Whisky ist, oder es ist eine Rye Whisky, die nicht so unangenehm ist. Ich meine, es ist sehr unangenehm und nicht so üblich wie die anderen Whiskys, die in Skotland und Irland sein werden. Das ist der Grund, warum wir, wenn Christine und ich in Irland und in Skotland waren, wir haben ihre Rye Whiskys probiert.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Das erregt mich tatsächlich. Dass wir belitteln würden oder dass wir die Todesfälle all dieser Leute verringern würden, basierend nur auf ludikalen, gemachten Fantasien. Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um. I think we're to a point that we can't trust anybody in the GOP to make solid decisions if something like this were to happen. But I don't even have the words.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Amy, I'm not actually, I'm not presenting to you my rage. I don't know if I have the vocabulary for that kind of batshittery and nuttery.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I have a question for you though, Amy, and I know that this is near and dear to your heart, right? Okay. Signalgate 1, pretty bad. But I want to ask you, do you believe or why would you believe that Signalgate 2 would be worse than Signalgate 1?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Und ich erinnere mich auf einige Rye-Tastings. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich die Arbicci hatte. Aber Amy, der Grund, warum das Whisky so speziell ist, ist, dass mein Wunsch ist, dass es ein bisschen Toast auf dem Rye gibt. Sie toasten wahrscheinlich den Rye, wie sie den Malz machen. Und das gibt dir wahrscheinlich ein wenig, nicht nicht gepeatet,
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
It is. Right? It's worse, though. You're right. It's awful. You're right. You nailed it. But also we have a nepotism issue. Didn't Hegseth put his brother, his name is Phil Hegseth, right, into a high government position? We don't know if he was vetted for the clearance for that high government position. His wife has no government position. I almost said something very inappropriate about medals.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But I think we have nepotism mixed with the passing of classified information, mixed with using the exact same methods Das sollte absolut nicht genutzt werden. Und Amy, ich denke, ich bin mit dir, dass Signalgate 2 schlimmer ist als Signalgate 1. Ich bin mit dir.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So, great question. Tim Pool was actually... Although he denied he knew, though it was proven, is a far right wing propagandist who was proven to be taking funds funneled through Russia, a specific individual. There was a hub and spoke of Russian directed funds that were going to far right propagandists and media types. He's also a person who wears a stocking cap sometimes to cover his bald head.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Not peated, but probably a toasted rye or bicky, which gives you a little spice. And it's probably a little bit sweeter on the end than a lot of American whiskeys. I bet you it is.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But he's specifically a propagandist. And he's somebody sort of in the lane. And I'm not trying to... He's sort of this... You know, in science, I learned this term called asexual budding, right? Where things can actually sort of bud off of things without any type of mating, right? It could actually reproduce singularly.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Tim Poole ist wie ein asexuelles Arschloch von Jordan Peterson, vielleicht von Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson ist ein Art dieser weitrechte Philosoph, der sehr bizarr geworden ist. Aber ich kann sogar besser als das. Er ist, was fast in Ordnung ist mit den J.D. Vance. Er könnte ein asexuelles Arschloch von J.D. Vance sein. off Matt Walsh, who's another far-right commentator.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
He was part of that whole hub and spoke of Russian payment systems that were actually going to all these influencers, these far-right influencers. So that's why, Amy, this question gets to me, is that we're not allowing the Associated Press, but we're allowing some slimeball Russian Schill, who monetizes lies and conspiracies, to be in the White House briefing room.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I don't even know where to go from there. I'm just to a point.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
No pun intended, Amy, of money. Es ist traurig. Es ist sehr traurig. Okay. Now, Amy, you know, we've had a lot of talk about women's issues today. Right. And it's been profound. But I have to ask you this question. And I'm always laughing before I ask it, because I love I can't wait to hear your answer. What do you think about the Pentagon's new powder room?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
There's no wrong way to drink whiskey, Amy. And, you know, there isn't. And people are like, I put Coke in my whiskey. You drink whiskey any way you want it. I don't do that. Amy McGrath doesn't do that mostly, but... You know, there's no wrong way to drink whiskey. Awesome. I can't wait to try the.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Amy, can I footstomp something you said real quick? What you said about using green energy to clean up the supply and logistics lines is so profound. And I think it goes beyond just climate change. We're talking about saving lives.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And by the way, with the advent of technology, if you're looking at battery-operated vehicles, you're looking at self-driving vehicles, but you're looking at solar, you're looking at wind power, you're looking at water power, you're looking at much more efficient ways of powering equipment, especially if it's like auxiliary power, right, Amy, when you're talking about water treatment, stuff like that.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Yeah. Why not use green energy so that we do have less logistics issues and and less people in harm's way based on resupply. I mean, it's a brilliant... For me, it's brilliant. It's not just about climate change. It's about saving lives. It's about military readiness and operational readiness. So I wanted to footstop that for the listeners. That's a really brilliant point. Second thing.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
When you talk about powder rooms... Shit. More Republican men carry makeup kits than the Democratic women. Und ich möchte dir sagen, warum. Also, wirklich schnell. Es gab einen Kongressmann aus Tennis, der noch da ist. Und er kam rein und er wurde wunderschön entdeckt und in riesigen Mengen von Kekton-Make-up. Und ich komme hoch, du weißt, die Eile, und ich gucke auf ihn und ich bin so, Alter.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Ich bin so, hast du das nur aus einem Hits gekommen? Ich meine, das ist viel Make-up. Du weißt, Matt Gates hat seine eigene Make-up-Tasche überall. I mean, listen, if this guy got medals for the number of cameras that he had costed, he'd have so many medals, right? Yeah. That's Matt Gaetz, right? So, Mark Green. Oh, I'm sorry, I just said his name. So sorry, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But he said, well, you know, we have to wear makeup because if I get hit with cameras or interviews, why? So when you leave the house floor and you go towards the Rotunda, the statutory hall, you have camera banks on each side. So that's where you can actually peel off and get interviewed. Me, I'm like, eh, you know, every now and then.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But a lot of those, they would just go straight for the interviews, right, as quickly as they could. And that's because, you know, they wanted to get those medals for how many cameras they were on top of. So I think that's, so I want to tell people this, that This is not a big, Hegseth certainly needs a makeup studio, because that's how these guys think.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
They got as much makeup as the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'm telling you, when they're behind closed doors... That's what's happening.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Rest in peace. Cheers to Pope Francis. That is beautiful. Yeah, I don't know how to beat that, Amy. There's no way. So here's what I want to say. If everybody wants to join us,
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
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Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Amy, I don't even know what to say to this. I mean, we went from, you know, Ronald Reagan and his look at the Soviet Union to So where we have Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. They're like the magic duo rolling over and showing their belly to Putin.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And I think I was listening to Zelensky, you know, being in Ukraine, going back, you know, Zelensky was talking about the Constitution of Ukraine and they actually can't sign it. There's no way they're going to sign a 20 percent give of territory taken by force and say they're never going to join NATO. And I'm wondering if there's some secret, you know, sort of monetary damages in there.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But also it's lifting off sanctions. I'm absolutely convinced at this point that if Trump isn't a Russian stooge, he's so idiotic that he doesn't even realize what he's doing. But I think it goes to the incompetence and this authoritarian bent in the administration right now, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
No, Amy, as you can see with my shades, I am now in San Diego and I have to look completely California for you today. So I wanted people to see how cool I am while we're doing Truth in the Barrel when I'm in San Diego. So I know I have the Tom Cruise look. I know it's hard. I'm not going to take away from the whole show though, Amy. Yeah, please don't. We have a lot to get through. I know.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You know, past performance is indicative of future performance, right? It's not like we thought that Trump would be any different with Putin. I think another thing, too, when you're talking about Witkoff, you know, I literally call him Witless Koff. I mean, the guy is absolutely witless. But you said something about Marco Rubio, and I want people to look something up. Do you know, Amy?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
dass Marco Rubio als Untersekretär einen Jungen namens Darren Beatty verabschiedet hat. Habt ihr jemals diesen Namen gehört? Darren Beatty? Nein. Er war ein Far-Right-Writer, der für einen Revolver arbeitete. Darren Beatty ist derjenige, der die FED-Surrection begonnen hat, oder tatsächlich die FED-Surrection-Konspirationstheorien am 6. Januar geblieben hat, dass Ray Epps und die FBI am 6.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Januar hinter sich waren. Das ist derjenige, der sein Untersekretär ist. Also, ja, 2019, der gleiche Darren Beatty wurde aus der Trump-Administration ausgewählt. Amy, weißt du, warum? Beziehungen zu weißen Nationalisten. Nun, wenn du dich an Putin anschaust, richtig, die weißen Nationalisten, christliche Nationalisten lieben Putin.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Sie denken, er ist ein Art Avatar für die neue, starke westliche Christentum, und er ist im Osten. But that's what's happening right now. You know, you are the people you surround yourself with. As you know, me and you, Amy, personnel is policy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And if you're surrounding yourself with such awful human beings, what other type of judgment are you making downstream on huge policy decisions like Russia? So I think where we're at right now is we have an administration that's pro-Putin. And I think that I'm hoping that that people like me and you can bring that to light. We're doing that.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But I do think the midterms, I think that's something that people need to really look at as we're going into 2026.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I'm gonna be pretty hawkish here. And Amy, I mean, this is where I love having our conversations. So here's what it is to me. If I'm president, Amy, the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually increase spending Right. For specific types of airframes and armaments to go directly against Russia.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I think the only thing that actually works against Putin, because I've always said sociopaths only feel pain, I think is to drive him out of the entire territory. We cannot capitulate on NATO inclusion. Like that's not something that we should probably do. Right. So here's here's what I would do right now. If it was me.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
First of all, I would increase spending to a point where Russia knows we're incredibly serious. Not only that. I would involve all the NATO. I would actually be going to NATO, actually asking for increased funding across the board to arm Ukraine completely. I would do this, however. I think what I would do is say, listen, you have a choice, Vladimir, right? We already know you're depleted, right?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I want to make sure it's content-driven and not looks-driven with my sunglasses. So, yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
We already know that one of our tanks are going to take out 10 of yours. And, you know, I had to study 1090s, T90s and all that stuff. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to destroy your army in Russia and Ich glaube, wenn Sie das tun, wenn Sie das Captured Territory zurückgeben, werden wir 5-7 Jahre Zeit geben, Right.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
To negotiate what a NATO type of relationship would look like with Ukraine. But we are going to include them. We're going to continue in PFP, Partnership for Peace. We're going to make them a PFP country in perpetuity. Right. We want them to be an ally. I think that's the only thing that would actually stop this right now. Again, Putin is only going to react if he feels massive pain.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
That's the only way you win this. That's how I would actually approach it. Peace with a sociopath and a dictator, especially a Russian one, who believes that his historical drive is to take back lost Soviet lands. That's the only way you've got to deal with him, is absolutely overwhelming force and a destruction of everything he holds dear in Ukraine.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I think it's a 50-50 chance we withdraw completely as an American delegation. I think there's a chance that the EU takes over all funding of Ukraine and I think we lose our global partnerships and trust for decades, whether it's NATO or our EU allies, Amy, at this point. I just don't see any way around it. Even what we're talking about with J.D.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Vance or what they're actually releasing as far as what's happening right now, I think we've already lost the trust of our allies. I think that bridge has been burned. I really don't know how to gain it back unless we have decades of bridge building, right, with us actually going back in and saying, hey, we have a responsible administration, responsible foreign policy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And we don't have a coward like Donald Trump, who just wants to be with authoritarians. We do have the Neville Chamberlain of presidents when it comes to Putin, but it's the Neville Chamberlain that probably sniffed too much glue as a child. And I think that's what we have right now in America.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
So now we have the court saying that he's here legally. I could hate MSF 13, Amy, and I'd love to hear your opinion on this. I could hate criminals. I could say that illegal aliens that don't have any disposition here Based on where they're at or who they are, right? Maybe should be deported back. Yeah, I'm a big proponent of a strong border. I think that's part of us having a country.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
But being in a rural district like the same, you're in Kentucky, I'm a big proponent of legal immigration based on the fact that we have such a lack of a labor force. for actual seasonal work and also farm work. It's absolutely brutal here in the 5th District. There's a farm here, a beach farm, Amy. Over 100 employees, 100% are H2As or H2Bs, are actual immigrants. So here's the thing.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
If we allow somebody to be deported after a court has ruled he's here legally, without due process, It's not about the fact if he was or was not MS-13, which the evidence is incredibly shaky, or the fact that he might have been accused of domestic violence, which is awful. I hate domestic violence people. I hate them. I despise them. Right? Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, I think this was a bit of a drug deal, too, as we would say in our parlance, you know, whether it's government contracting or a real drug deal or somebody wired for sound or a quid pro quo. Because if you think about it, El Salvador, this guy, I think, is Naib Bukele, I believe, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
The president, first of all, you know, don't go to the White House dressed like an extra narcos. You know what I mean? Unless you're at war with Vladimir Putin. Yeah, yeah, unless, that's right. No, but what's interesting, you know, I'm like, oh, come on, man, what are you, a motto? Are you the number one trafficker for Mexican cocaine from the Colombians?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Dress like you respect the president since you're not at war But you are at war with your people. I mean, some of the allegations on this guy and some of the stuff sort of proven based on the fact, you know, building fake social media accounts to to go after his opponents. Right. A guy who's built the Supermax prison. Right. We're somehow in the last five years.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Oh, yeah. That's what he's been accused of. But do you know what happened right before he came to the White House? El Salvador wurde von der Staatsbibliothek verbessert. Ich glaube, es ist wie ein Tier-1-Staat, jetzt einer der sichersten Länder, um zu reisen. Weil in fünf Jahren die Mordrate von 107 pro 100.000 zu 1,9 gegangen ist. Aber die Menschenrechte-Mitglieder sagten, das sei unmöglich.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Right? What is this? Mayberry? Yeah. We got Don Knotts walking around. Right? So it's ludicrous. So you have a guy who's been accused of actually making deals with gangs, payoffs, all that kind of stuff. A guy who has this authoritarian bent, who builds this huge prison to intimidate the population of El Salvador. Right. All of a sudden. Oh, of course he loves any strong man. Trump loves.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
I mean, he wants to spoon with the guy. Right. So, I mean, that's what's going on here. And so there's a quid pro quo going on here with money and favor changing hands. And then we have an El Salvadoran president again dressed like he just came out of a movie, you know, like Narcos saying he wouldn't return a person, a judge to be here legally. Ja, genau.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
It's so out of bounds. It's hard to get your arms around it. You know, our constitution and due process is what separates us from the animals and the autocrats. And if we let that go, we're screwed. You know, I keep saying, it's not a slippery slope anymore. We're not going there.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
They let in the mouth-breathing MAGA representatives, but they wouldn't let in the Maryland senator. And right then, the president, if we had a real president, Und nicht ein Typ... Weißt du, was ich mir fast denke, Amy? Oh Gott, das ist altartig. Und ich weiß nicht... Ich weiß nicht, ob das... Erinnerst du dich an The Naked Gun? Die Filme The Naked Gun?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ich denke fast... Erinnerst du dich an die Montagen, die so verrückt waren? Ja. You know, with Leslie Nielsen running along the shore with Priscilla Presley and all the stupid stuff they were doing together. I almost feel like we need a montage with Trump with all the dictators in the world and how much fun he has with them.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, I feel like we need a naked gun montage of Trump, you know, skipping through the tulips with all these fricking dictators and autocrats, because that's where we're at.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
It's shameful because, Amy, people might listen to this. Here's what we're going to be accused of, Amy, if there was GOP messaging against you right now, right, Amy or me?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We support terrorists and wife beaters. We support gang members. We support everybody here illegally. Because we don't support the President of the United States. Right? And it shows this evil strain within us, this globalist strain to destroy America within. From destroying our American values by allowing these murderers and killers into our countries. And by protecting them.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Lake and Riley didn't have any due process. All these people who have been killed by illegal immigrants didn't have due process. Well, hey, hey motherfuckers, here's the other people who don't have due process. It's everybody killed. It doesn't have due process whether they're American citizens or not.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And by the way, you have to have due process and constitutional rights for people who are judged to be here legally. But Amy, the messaging doesn't work. There's not that nuance. And I think that's why we're in such troubles, because we don't own the media, which is why you called me to start this show. This was your idea.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I'm going back to truth in the barrel, that you wanted another media stream independently, where we could get sort of this common sense, facts-based stuff out there. So there you go.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We should still have an official whiskey for the NIH. We should. We were just at the New Orleans Bourbon Festival and Green River was there. What great folks, right? Yeah, cheers to Green River. What did you say before we got on air here, Amy? The frog in my throat?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, you know, I think he is like Trump's new Jared Kushner, right? I think he's, you know, tasked with everything, qualified for nothing. And that's why I want to call him Witless Koff. I think that's his new name from us, Amy. So JCPOA. So when I came in.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Here's the thing. When we were in Congress and I was part of trying to dismantle the JCPOA. There were some things there that we got. We had the partisan talking points. We had nonpartisan talking points. We had my staff. We had to strip it all back. We were looking at what the JCPOA actually meant. I remember the Brennan Center coming. I talked to everybody, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Like, what is this really about? It came down to the fact why we were actually dealing with the JCPOA between 2019 and 2021. You remember that's when Soleimani was killed, right, Amy? Yes. I was there when that happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Das ist so, wie viele der großen Distillerien durch die Prohibition gingen. Sie haben sich als medizinisches Whisky identifiziert. So haben sie es gemacht. Und das ist das, was so cool ist mit Green River. Es ist eine unglaubliche Tagline auf deiner Romance, Whisky ohne Regret zu sagen. Aber wir alle wissen, dass zu viel Whisky meistens Regret bedeutet, egal was.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ja, und jemand, der, wenn er getötet wurde, und übrigens, der Person, die mit ihm getötet wurde, war eigentlich genauso mächtig. Wir können das in einem anderen Show machen, wenn wir über iranische Führung und die RGC sprechen. Sie haben Terrorismus im Irak von Iran und das Schiassuni-Issue sponsoriert. Ich liebe es, darüber zu sprechen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Das ist mein Bailiwick, einer meiner Bailiwicks, wie es deiner ist. So when we were looking at it, we were looking at these massive money flows for state-sponsored terrorism, but also looking at the long-term effects of the JCPOA, which a lot of us thought we needed something. Some of the more moderate Republicans, we needed an agreement. But enriched uranium was still allowed long-term.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Plus, you know, with the sanctions that were being lifted and a lot of the money that was flowing into Iran, we were seeing increases in state-sponsored terrorism as the JCPOA was actually being executed. And We had to give them notice before we actually went in and did actual inspections. So there was things that were good and things that were really bad.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And me as being somewhat versed on counterterrorism, I'm like, this sucks. We would need a whole new structure. Therefore, the JCPOA is no longer in existence. So me and you can have a long talk about that. I think, yeah. And, you know, when we started the show, we're going to disagree on some things. However, the issue is we do need some kind of agreement that is enforceable.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Und das ist das, was das Leben spannend macht. Genau.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, the White House has consulted experts on this, Amy, like Bill Maher. How could they not know what they're doing, number one? Number two, here's the other thing. What I would want people to go see. This is almost a 50-50 thing. When you're looking at the JCPOA and now you're looking at the evolution of where Iran is today.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We couldn't really say they didn't already have those agreements still happening with Russia and China, even after the JCPOA. We also knew that enriched uranium was going to be allowed long term based on the treaty, which was where that's where, you know, sometimes when people look at like even the titles of bills, it really is going into the nuance and where you're at.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And it's just like people like, well, Timber, why did you vote for that when you agreed with these parts and disagreed? Wasn't it 51-49 that you should have voted this way? I'm like, actually it was 51-49 the other way. I only have a yes or no vote. And I'm not going to be a coward and vote present. Right? Yeah. Like Massey and Justin Amash like to do all the time.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
So, you know, I'm going to vote because that's my job for my constituents to make the best decision possible. Based on where I am and where my constituents are to vote for down the line and my expertise, which maybe they voted me in or not. The flip to that is, as you said, there has to be expert negotiations. If we're going to scrap the JCPOA,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Bill Maher und Witkoff sollten nicht die intellektuellen Giants sein, auf die wir für diese Art von Negotiativen leiten. Und ich würde sagen, dass die Leute sollten rausgehen und die langfristigen Effekte des JCPOA anschauen und sich ein paar Entscheidungen selbst machen. Reden Sie einen demokratischen Blick auf den JCPOA.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Die Republikaner schauen sich die JCPOA an, aber sie schauen sich auch andere Orte an, wie das Brennan Center oder andere Bereiche, Universitätsstudien, die die absoluten Sprachen unterbrechen und sagen, wo waren Sie? Das Wichtigste an diesem Show ist, dass wir nicht, und warum ich es liebte und warum ich es akzeptiere, ist, weil ich glaube, dass Sie es nicht erlauben.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Wir werden nicht hyperbolic sein, eine Art oder andere, worauf wir gehen sollten, worauf wir wütend sein werden. ist, dass wenn wir mit etwas wie nuklearer Proliferation und ihren Linken zum iranischen staatlich gesponserten Terrorismus handeln, vielleicht sollten wir echten Professionellen haben,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Maybe consecutive miracles with a penetrating jade dam with a 40 millimeter fuse, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Yeah, that's probably a bad thing. I meant to say 40 millisecond fuse, by the way. I don't know what a 40 millimeter fuse, but I've had the flu. Yeah, I don't know if immediately going to the bombing as an effect of not coming to the negotiating table is really smart. And again, you're right. I mean, just the mission planning alone. But you know what, Amy? It's all okay. You know why?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Absolutely. If we must. If we must, Amy, we will sacrifice to try everybody's bourbon.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Fair. And you know what? I think a lot of people say, oh gosh, Jen, she was there to help her constituents. Yeah, it's fine. That's great. But if you're such a smart politician, why are you trusting whatever Trump is going to say in a press conference? Why are you walking in there, number one?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Number two, if he starts with that bullshit, instead of hiding in the corner and cowering, you're the governor of Michigan, you walk out the door and you try to mouth something like bullshit. Listen, here's the thing about Gretchen Whitmer while it's warranted. You know why she went to the White House? She wanted to look like she was crossing lanes.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
She was crossing over to do what's best for her constituents. You know why? Because she wants to run for president in 2028. Great. I love that. You care about your constituents, but you're always at the White House because you want to run for president. So let's not be an idiot here. You're a politician. I know you pretty well. Also, wenn sie etwas Blödes sagen, steh nicht da und versteck dich.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Das ist nicht ein guter Blick. Geh raus. Great. You're going to help your constituents. You're trying to set up your political future. Sweet. We all get it. However, if you're going to do that and you're going to go all the way, then go all the way. Because now you're done. You're done.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, maybe. Maybe so. But there you go. That's my opinion of the day.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Our boy, CIA Director. He deleted his Signalgate messages. Does this even matter?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, I think, I don't know, Amy, it sounds like, I don't know, with you being a former military officer and decorated combat veteran, I almost feel like you're saying that there should be accountability and rule of law in a constitutional democracy and republic?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know what? To me it is. And I know it was like, you know, Dan, I have some perverse, I think, some really perverse thoughts on this. Not like weird perverse, by the way. I think what it shows that when you hire incompetence, incompetence follows. I know that's a that's incredibly profound.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Aber ich denke, das andere ist auch, dass du siehst, dass diese Menschen von den Individuen selbst ausgewählt wurden. Wenn du über Hegseth sprichst, erinnere dich daran, dass Waltz' Leute auch auf der Straße waren, Mike Waltz, der nationalen Sicherheitsanwalt. Es ist also interessant für mich. Ich denke, das Gute ist, dass wir anfangen, die ersten echten, echten Kinks im Prozess zu sehen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Really the bricks being taken out of the wall of crazy, right? When you have so much incompetence, when you have everybody wanting to be famous, everybody wanting to be the journalist's best friends, instead of worrying about the country, they worry about themselves. Plus you have this unadulterated incompetence, right? It's almost pure in the beauty of its insanity and bad shittery, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And now you have three people walked out that were really close to Hegseth, handpicked. I think it's positive because it's showing. And I hope And I could be wrong, because there still could be 77 million people who will never watch us, Amy, but I hope they do. You have to have competent people to do competent things. You have to have professional people to do professional things.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I think when you see people being walked out like that, I think you're starting to see that maybe there's a realization that stupid is not the best thing to have at the highest levels of government.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
But that's okay, Amy. I understand what's your problem. I mean, what's the hypocrisy? Well, I got a question for you. Really quick. Why in the hell did the United States tell our G7 allies that it won't back a statement condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine there in Sumy?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
I can't argue. I don't understand, you know, how we are supporting Russia right now, especially, you said something about service, right, earlier. How in the hell in our past, in our service, are we here right now as military veterans looking at the insanity that's going on with this ridiculousness? Obviously we should condemn an attack of innocents. Es ist verrückt. Es ist verrückt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Cheers. Cheers. Amy, that rocks. I think everybody should be out there cheering old Jimmy B. Right? Judge Jimmy B. is what I call him, Amy. True American. True American is old Jimmy B. Well, holy hell. What a show. I have to say, I enjoyed this one. I don't know why I enjoyed it so much. I think I just enjoy being with you, Amy. Especially when my voice sounds like this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
But again, people need to tune in. Right. I know, you know, in military briefings, what do we say? I mean, we always said, tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them and then tell them what you told them. Remember that? All that stuff. So I'm going to tell you. Be bold and be gone. And that is us. We were brief. We were bold and now we're gone.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
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Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And one more time, cheers to our listeners and cheers to you, Amy, for another great show.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, you know, it's funny. In Congress and the military, we had some of the same sayings, right? We always, sometimes we're a solution looking for a problem or, you know, real solutions for phantom problems. This is it. But I know Chip pretty well. And here's part of the political portion of this, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, he has to burnish his conservative credentials a little bit more because he actually voted for um die Wahl im Jahr 2021 zu zertifizieren. Und Chip wird als dieser feierliche, konstitutionelle Kerl herauskommen. Aber das hat ihn wirklich verletzt. Und als er weiterging, muss er immer noch darauf achten, dass er die richtige Anzahl an, ich würde sagen, Knie-Behörden zu Donald Trump zeigt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Und ich denke, das ist, was du gerade mit dem SAVE-Akt siehst. Wenn du über Phantom-Probleme sprichst, was ist das eine große Phantom-Probleme? Das Phantom Problem war, dass die November 2020-Elektion verloren wurde, die Trump gedrückt hat, die wir alle kennen. Ich war am 6. Januar-Komitee. Wir müssen nicht mehr all das relitigieren, weil ich es sehr gut bin.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Aber ich denke, was wir gerade sehen, ist Legislation, basierend auf Fantasie und Konspirationstheorien. Das wird in den amerikanischen Publikum gepusht. Das ist etwas, das uns von etwas, das nicht passiert, rettet. Und ich denke, das ist, wo Menschen in unserem Regierungsteil die komplette Glauben verlieren. Wenn wir über Legislationen sprechen, die eigentlich nichts anbelangt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Hier ist das andere Ding. I will say, though, that 77 million voters who voted for Trump would probably think that this is great legislation, Amy. And that's the thing that really bothers me. And I think, again, why we're doing this show, Truth in the Barrel, is to show people that Chip Roy is not putting in this to save America.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Chip Roy is not putting in this bill for some kind of constitutional, you know, brass shining for him. He's putting in this bill to show that he's still part of Team Trump. And he's putting in this bill to support conspiratorial notions of a stolen election.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
That's a good question. This is stupid. Is it a polling place? Is it your local election input area where you actually go in to actually sign up? That's the thing. Are we in the show me your papers? United States right now? Show me your papers. What are you doing on the street? Why does your birth certificate not match your passport? Well, I was married for 37 years. That is no excuse.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
In 15 Jahren bin ich 13-mal gewechselt worden. Starten wir mit Basic, bis hin zu ROTC. Ich war aktiv 9 Jahre, 11 Jahre, dann inaktiv bei NSA. Wenn ich nur die 11 Jahre anschaue, dann wahrscheinlich 9-mal, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Also, international man of the flu that I'm getting over. So, I apologize for my voice. I sound like Clint Eastwood after a long night, you know, on the desert or something. But also, don't forget everybody. We're on about every social media platform, including True Social, which I know people think is nuts. But X, Blue Sky, you can go to YouTube and also on all our pods, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ich sehe es nicht, die notwendigen Votes in den Senate zu bekommen. Hoffentlich. Ich denke, was wir sagen, ist, dass die GOP wirklich ernsthaft ist, dass sie so viele Voter wie möglich verhindern. Die einzige Möglichkeit, dass die GOP gewinnen kann, jetzt hatte ich diese interessante Gesprächsparty.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, I lost in a convention with only 2,500 voters because they had to narrow the voting pool to just evangelicals for me to be beat in the convention and obviously because of the gay wedding and stuff. The GOP believes you have to win by subtraction. And the very thing they accuse people of, of stealing elections, is they're trying to throttle elections.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I've tried to talk to people about this, like, oh, Denver, you can't say January 6th was stolen if you're worried about your convention when you say that that was taken from you. Well, of course it was. They didn't even have a primary because they were afraid. They were absolutely terrified.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
dass jemand wie ich, der mehr sozial-liberal ist, auf dem Republikanischen Partei brechen könnte, besonders mit dem Nativismus und dem christlichen Nationalismus, den wir gerade sehen in der GOP, Amy. Und ich denke, das ist wirklich etwas, dass jede Verurteilung eine Verurteilung ist. Und du siehst das besonders mit Verschwörungstheorien.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Es gibt auch diese andere verrückte Sache, dass die Unkonsistenz in diesen Arten von Policien eine Fähigkeit ist, nicht ein Bug, wenn es um Verschwörungstheorien geht, aber besonders für die MAGAs, dass sie nicht interessieren, dass das nicht Sinn macht. Amy, was du mir gerade gesagt hast, ist nonsensisch. Es ist... It's as if nine-year-olds, right, reading Mein Kampf, wrote this thing.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
I bet Jared Golden was one of them. And you know, I'm thinking this. Do I think American citizens should be the only ones voting in elections? Yes. Amy, sure. Of course. But when you're talking about real service to people, legislation should be serious. And it should be addressing a problem that is real. Das ist ziemlich lustig.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ich muss es sagen, weil manchmal unser Produzent Amy und Dinge da oben stellt, er sagt, es ist wie der echte He-Man-Women-Haters-Club. Das ist ziemlich wahr. Und was ich auch sagen wollte, ist, dass dieses unseriöse Gesetz, das ich gesagt habe, kam von Konspiratoren, Fantasisten, ist eine Weiterentwicklung.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Wir gehen zurück zu Chip Roy, der wollte, dass er in dem Trump-Club ist, der, ich glaube, der He-Man-Club ist. My biggest worry is that as our legislation gets more and more unserious, how does that affect real people? And if there's people serious, Amy, we're serious people.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We like to have fun and joke around, but when it comes to service, there has to be a serious element to this in some place when we're talking about this legislation. And Amy, when you're talking about women, There seems to be this massive misogynistic vein of crazy that's sort of buttressing all of this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Any of your favorite podcasts, you need to look at us because... We love having these discussions. And also, you know, we still have bourbon as part of this, right, Amy? I mean, not only talking truth, right? We got bourbon as part of this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And it's almost like it's the misogyny ridden, I color my beard group, you know, like at times Ben Shapiro or Matt Walsh or J.D. Vance, right? Or some of these other crazies out there. If you go look at some of these Christian white nationalists who think that women shouldn't vote or they're against suffrage, they all color their beards with really black coloring stuff.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I'm not quite sure of maybe that that's infecting their brains, because I'm to the point that when you see this type of unserious legislation, you have to wonder where we go from here. And so for anybody to listen to this and say, oh, Denver and Amy, you guys don't understand. You don't understand that only Americans should vote.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Okay, guys, if you want to show your papers and your passport, you know who this hurts? This is my whole rant. You know who this really hurts? Rural voters who vote for Trump.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Let's be honest. Well, and married women, obviously. And I apologize, I should put that first. But married women, but then the rural voters out there. So are their wives not voting? Where are they going? Bob's Farm? Where are you actually turning your passport in? Stupid.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Yes, ma'am. So, you know, I want to talk about somebody that we've heard a lot about in the news, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. And about his deportation to El Salvador with what was, you know, presumably a bunch of MS-13 gang members and sent away. And this whole argument about whether he should have been sent away or not based on his alleged affiliation with MS-13.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, you talk about lack of nuance and speaking to the most stupid of our population. You know, individuals going, hey, Den, we don't want criminals here. He was already a criminal. He was an illegal alien. He should have gone anyway. Well, okay, here's the issue. In 2019, a court ruled that he could stay here based on real physical danger to himself.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
No, I mean, I thought the Biden plan was doing what he could do coming out of COVID. It was very difficult, right, to find the stimulus, right, based on the COVID policies, really, to start with Trump. You know, so Biden was doing, is it perfect? Absolutely not. There's nothing perfect in an administration, but there's still the rule of law.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And here's what I would suggest to people, Amy, that are listening. You might have really hated some of the things that Biden did or the administration did, or you thought that the CHIPS Act was too far, the Infrastructure Act was inflationary. There are things that you can say in stats, statistics, and numbers that might look that way. Okay. Yeah, we can have policy differences.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
But if you're looking at an administration that's enriching themselves, destroying the rule of law, making autocratic decisions, ruling by fiat and going after enemies, I think we're looking at something that is so dire that even if you didn't appreciate some of Biden's policies, at least you could appreciate we were still America.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And I think when we see the difference in wealth when Trump goes into the presidency and when he leaves or whenever that happens, I think you're going to see a massive increase in his wealth based on the fact that he's mining the American people, right? At this point, he's mining the wealthy United States to line his own pockets. And I think we need to consider that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Well, I think me and you are. You know, Amy, we are saying crazy. If we can get personal here, when you have over 77 million people vote for this guy, they're not paying attention to the fact that his failed policies are creating massive debt and deficit loads on the American public as he's bailing out whole sections of our economy based on awful policy. It's incredible to me.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And you look at Republicans who say they're fiscally responsible.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
right we just you know we've had everybody talk about what is our debt and deficit going to look like heading into 2026 after this crazy year we're going through the approach now and i know that because you know amy i get phone calls like and i have a company and i'm looking at the approach lines and where that money's going for ai and where that's money going for all the dod and government stuff and what's happening in the insurance markets and all the things that i got to pay attention to correct and i think that when you're looking at farmers
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
and the cascading effect of what's happening to them, they're getting hit insies and outies. They're getting hit with stuff coming in, and they're getting tagged on stuff going out because of the reciprocal tariffs or the tariff retaliation that's coming from the countries that buy their goods.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And, right, you have a cascading effect where when your equipment goes up, and Amy, you know this, right? Listen, I am such a small-time player when it comes to equipment, but one tractor of mine, okay, Amy, one tractor that I bought, right, an Avant 755, right, the tractor with all the implements we had to have, right, from barrel tippers, right, to forks as a forklift, right, to grapples.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's a cascading effect of brutal, you know, when you're talking about tariffs, taxes, supply chain issues, because all that actually sort of is bundled up in one bad thing that happened to Buffalo Trace. So let's go through everything they're going through. You know, floodwaters. They're losing whiskey. They have insurance, obviously, millions and millions of dollars of insurance.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
All the stuff that we had to have was over $100,000 for that one tractor.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
A hundred thousand bucks. Now think about a farmer that's buying a million dollar. A lot of that equipment is much more expensive than that. Oh, it's hugely more expensive in the millions, right? And we're like, oh crap, we got to pay a payment on that and our forklifts and our roofers. You know, when you're looking at them, their payment systems, then if you get hit hard, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Now you're paying more for equipment. Your monthly outlays go up. You're getting hit on your exports and your imports based on retaliatory tariffs. What do you do? You have to start scaling back labor, scaling back production, or you're dumping crops into the system, losing money. It was funny. You sent me an article, Amy, and it was brilliant.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
At the end, the farmer's like, well, maybe we'll have lower taxes because we're not making any money.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It is. And if you up the prices on my elote, we're fighting. You know, I love a piece of corn cheese. I know. Don't take away my elote.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It is. Just because there's a manufacturing plant in North America, like for a John Deere or any of the other tractor factories or automobile factories, doesn't mean that all your parts are coming from the U.S. It's ludicrous to think that. And you think about a Ford product, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Let me just give you an idea. For me, on my distillery, my barrel house, we have about probably $5 million in insurance just in our barrel house. Now, not counting our distillery and all that kind of stuff. Their insurance has to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, right? And if you look at me, my insurance costs are $24,000 per year just on my barrel house.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
There's certain vehicles, 30% to 40% of the actual products might come from Mexico and other countries that are in that vehicle. So again, it goes back. You have to have people. that have nuance in their thinking when it comes to the economy, but they also have to realize, right, like Republicans of the past is that the more free the trade, right, the better the offsets.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And, you know, all these libertarians talk about Milton Friedman and, you know, and Republicans and he is the economist everybody should follow. Do you know what Milton Friedman said? He goes, it's ridiculous for a large country with the economic might that we have to do tit for tat on tariffs because we're so much more powerful and it's demeaning.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And we have to be the ones that lead in free trade. Obviously, there's countries that do bad things. We can target those tariffs and go after them specifically for unfair practices in the global space. That's fine. It's cool.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
But if you're not smart enough to realize who your target is, you're just hurting and shooting at everybody with this ready, fire, aim policy that doesn't make any sense to anybody that has half a brain. And I think when you have morons in charge, you have moron outcomes. And I think that's where we're at right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
As somebody that's literally in the agricultural business, Christine, my wife, she has to go through the prices on white corn and pumpernickel rye and soft red winter wheat and malt. We have to look at all this. And the fact is, is that
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Looking at what farmers have to go through, looking at me at this micro level of what we had to do with supply chain disruptions and tariffs and COVID surcharges and everything that matters right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
farmers need to rise up and step up and look at what's actually happening because what we're seeing is that right now the gop isn't about people who work for a living the gop is about people who leverage for a living and that is absolutely destructive to farmers and people that are actually producers yeah well Well, that's what you get with autocratic decision making.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And, you know, there's something that happened, Amy, and I want to just transition to this because we've been talking about this sort of unilateral decision making is what happened to a couple of friends of mine yesterday and people that, you know, and Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor. Right. And I'd love to get your take on this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
You know, I fortunately I have a preemptive pardon based on January 6th. Now he wants to nullify that pardon. And my wife's like, you know, honey, do you need to go back? But but the thing is, is that I know Miles and Chris and I think an executive order asking for an investigation because they came out against this stolen election buffoonery and QAnon conspiratorial thinking.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
is we got a nutbag demanding the FBI investigate two people because he's mad that his fantasy was busted, and it looks like some retaliatory measure on how he thought he was treated. I think we got to look at this. I don't have the words, Amy. I don't know if you have the words to encapsulate what happened yesterday, but I'd love to get your take on that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Now, I want you to think about that, people out there. That's just a small craft distillery. So first, Buffalo Trace gets hit with a flood. Um, they've lost, probably lost product. Uh, the insurance is going to be, you know, going through the insurance claim stack. But there's another thing that happened to FEMA, right? As FEMA gets defunded, what happens with any help there?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Yeah, it's it should be one of the most chilling things that has happened since this all began, since he was, you know, actually sworn in. So let's talk about why he's really mad at Chris Krebs.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
So in the cybersecurity infrastructure, what is it, the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency in CISA, Chris Krebs set up an area or a way to debunk conspiracy theories that were coming out about the stolen election, right? So when you're debunking that, who are you debunking? Well, you're debunking Rudy Giuliani. You're debunking Peter Navarro.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Some of the, it's always the same names, isn't it, Amy? Yeah. You're debunking some of the people that people don't know about, like Colonel Phil Waldron, who's the one who sent the briefings to Giuliani and Trump about the stolen election in the swing states, or Seth Ketchell, or the cyber ninjas, right? Or Andy Biggs, all the congressional representatives from Arizona.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Jenny Thomas, Clarence Thomas, Rick Perry, you know, and everyone around Trump. Right. But there are no sane people around Trump anymore. You know, now you have just a bunch of crazy. But back then you had a few sane people that were pushing back like Chris Krebs. But he also is a data expert. And when you look at Miles Taylor, Miles Taylor wrote the anonymous letter in the book. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And then there's that other whammy you talked about, Amy, which are tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on everything, right? That you're actually utilizing if it's coming from other countries. So let me just give you an idea of this, Amy, and I think you'll really love this. When we were looking for glass,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
So about what was happening inside the agency and with the insanity of the Trump presidency. So this is literally just a retaliatory autocratic measure to go after people that did their job and are truth tellers. And I think when we have a madman in charge, it's almost like Amy Lake Joffrey from Game of Thrones is the president now. That's really what it's like. Right. That's that's where we're at.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
wrong and outraged is the way to put it but at what point what is the boa point and that's what that's what frightens me about other folks not not me and you here but there is going to be a boa point where people like the the government's coming after us for real right the very thing the very conspiracy theories that the gop has pushed in maga that there's a deep state globalist weaponization of the federal government is exactly what they're doing
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's a, it's, it's a Goebbels rift. It is, they accuse people of exactly what they're going to do. And the accusations are so wild and so insane, but they're doing exactly what's so wild and so insane about their accusations.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And that's the incredible thing about information warfare and information operations is that you have these individuals affecting this by accusing other people that which they're doing in real time. Right. And I think that's what's, and there's people like me and you that are sane. And by the way, I want to say, I don't think this is a fricking war between the left and the right anymore.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I think the right is in a hold my beer moment. We can't hardly identify it. You know, the left, there's some crazy people on the left as, as we both know. However, it seems like most of the left is like, maybe there should be a rule of law, right? That would be cool. We're not willing to throw that away yet. Right. Yeah. Right. Cool. But there's a sane against insane thing. on this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
when we first started our distillery, there was only one real glass company called OI that was an American-owned company. All the other companies, right, were actually sourcing glass from China, Mexico. I think we looked at one, I think, in Portugal. So we're looking everywhere for glass. I think we even looked for glass in France.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's insane what Trump did. Everybody in the GOP, every human being should say that's nuts. He should be impeached. Or the 25th Amendment should be invoked because he's sniffing glue or he's non-compostmentous. Something's happening, right? And it's so insane. It's so nuts. It's hard for me and you to have the language to encapsulate right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
The mental bat shittery that this guy is going through to go after Chris and Miles. But that's that autocratic decision-making on tariffs. It's all the EOs. It's going after the law firms. Who's going to actually defend these guys? Who's going to be brave enough to do this, Amy? Because there are a bunch of Lima Deltas. Right. The law firm's bent over right there. Lima Delta's out there. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
They don't know what's going on. And, you know, they just want to just protect us. You frickin cowards, you pieces of shit. And that's where we're at right now. And that's how I'm feeling is that I can tell when and start a bar fight. Right. I'm ready. Right. I know there's seven of them and one of me, but maybe I'll get one in. You know, but that's where I'm at, because this is insane.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Cheers. You know what? You're so right. here's to good people. There's to people who are patriots, people who are willing to stand up against tyranny Right. And this is like it's like we're having our own whiskey rebellion here, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
so amy now that we've done our toast to the patriots of the united states um last topic and i want to ask you about this we had a general come out talking about his disagreement with the trump team that the united states should be pulling troops out of europe right now you know we're talking germany we're talking some of our allies that we've had for decades Thank you
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I mean, this is, you know, even cheaper than OI glass here in America. So what we found was, is that American glass was so much more expensive. So we actually got our glass out of Shanghai initially. Well, when COVID hit, they put on COVID surcharges, which were sort of applicable to tariffs, which actually upped our supply chain costs to a point that were ridiculous.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
The problem you have with tariffs, which is sort of shooting yourself in the face for maybe one of the biggest, right? When you're looking at bourbon, you're looking at whiskeys, it's so beautiful. You're shooting yourself in the face by adding cost to every single part of your supply chain. And you're like, well, Denver, what would that be? Stupid things like corks. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
You're like, what if it's only 8 cents more per cork? If you're selling, right, say 500,000 cases a year, and say one of your cases are six bottles, right? So you're looking at what, 3 million bottles. I'm just doing this, right? Do 3 million times 8 cents. And what if your glass also goes up 10%? What if your shipping cartons go up 10%? What happens then?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Well, you have to pass the cost on too. So now you have sort of an artificial inflationary measure based on tariffs that sometimes are unilateral. So I guess, Amy, what I'm trying to say, and I didn't want to make this too long, is that when you talked about the double whammy, right, that's going on with Buffalo Trace in Kentucky specifically, where you're sitting right now,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's also the defunding of FEMA, the lack of monies for real support for infrastructure rebuild. When you're talking about roads and everything else that happens with Buffalo Trace, you're talking about their insurance loads. And now you're talking about tariff loads on top of that. This is how you destroy businesses through bad policy and the cascading effect of stupid decisions.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Now that's a hell of a question, Amy. First of all, we're on truth in the barrel. I do think Liberation Day created inebriation day for a lot of traders. I think that's the first thing, right? I think the other thing too, when you're looking at shooting yourself in the face, which is something this administration seems to be really good at, I find it amazing, right, Amy, that the day before
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Well, truth in the barrel, right, Amy? Truth in the barrel. That's right. That's what this is all about.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I think it was the day before, they said there was no way there was gonna be a 90-day pause. It was fake news that people were talking about a 90-day pause, then he does it. Also, how many people got rich by buying the dip? And if people knew about the, there's that. But the other thing is this, and this is what is incredible to me. So we lose $10 trillion in market cap, right? Gone, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Then the press – once he lifts these tariffs, the press reports yesterday. I mean they report, oh my gosh, it's the biggest single-day gain in history, which still needs to make up 2,000 more points to make up for the declines and losses over the past five days. It's insane. Amy, I don't know if we're to a point that the press is stupid. or they're culpable, or they're only looking for access.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
But what they're doing is they're not reporting fairly on what's happening. It wasn't everybody around Trump that got yippy, whatever that means, right? I think it was Trump himself who saw there was a bad policy, or there was so much insider bullshit going on
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And there were so many things where people knew what was happening that people were able to buy the dip, people were able to short stocks, and then people were able to write cash in on the back end because he was bragging in the White House how two billionaires made a lot of money in the stock market that day.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And I got to tell you, I just wish there was another alternative media that told the truth and fact. Oh, wait a minute. It's called Truth in the Barrel. Oh, I forgot. It's us, right? We're the ones doing this, Amy, but it's insane what happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I mean, that's what this really is. I love it when you curse and I think you need to drink more.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I don't think a lot of people know this about you, Amy. I hope that I know that. And I thank you for the amazing introduction. But that means I get to say something about you that I don't think people know is you're an amazing college athlete. Right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Division I athlete, right? Yeah. Four years. Four years. And you played what sport? Soccer, of course. Okay. Played soccer. So let me ask you a question. If your team was 0-10, based on really bad decisions from the coaches, and you're already out of the play, you're out of any kind of postseason, any type of tournament play, but you win a game, now you're 1-10. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Do you say, oh my God, what a success we were this year. We're great. We're great. Look at us. Look at us. All those coaching decisions paid off. We're now one in 10. That's what happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
No, because, I mean, listen, they're maniacally insane. I mean, I don't think Laura Loomer is going to have any, you know, insightful ideas about trade practices or Peter Navarro, right, who was in jail. But if you look at Besant, and I know that you love talking about this stuff, you look at somebody who changes the story every day and just keeps saying Trump's a genius. right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And it's just ludicrous, right? That we have something that failed. You said something, Amy, that was, you know, pretty insightful where, you know, you're talking about, Hey, He said that he was going to force other countries to come to the table. The reason he had to change his policy is because he didn't, because the EU was about to blast us. Everybody was about to blast us.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And he knew that because we're not as big as we used to be. He doesn't understand the globalization effects that happen within our economy and the fact that that downstream could be absolutely devastating, which was proven. And so he had to reverse course because he made really bad policy based on the crazies around him and his inability to think critically.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
and or for him to enrich himself and his family and the people around him by ensuring that people knew when those tariff calls were going to happen. And all of that, whether it's stupid or on purpose, hurt the American people and shows that we don't have a stable policy going forward.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
rewarding companies for being loyal to him i mean this is authoritarian type of activities it's a bit fashy right we're starting to start to hit that little bit of that fascist button um and the thing is you know now we have companies that are being exempted that treat him right i mean it gets to the point other companies are gonna have to sue we're gonna have massive legal issues going on and it's also gonna again it's gonna actually it's going to i think diminish
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
America in the eyes of the global world that we're actually, we're a country where rule of law actually matters, especially in our economic institutions and policies. And if that happens, you know, I think a lot of people are going to be investing in Australia.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I actually got a message this morning, Amy, like Denver, we see that you're going hard against, you know, it looks like the corruption in the markets and the fact that people were buying the dips and what's going on there. Invest in Australia. We still have the rule of law. You know, I think before you know it, Djibouti is going to have more rule of law in their markets than we are. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And I think that's really where we're going right now is we're just looking at this bizarre winners and losers authoritarian way of doing business. And I think I think people need to react to that and we need to fight back.