Jesse Ventura | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #364

today's guest um Jeepers uh. I you know I've never had an interview. where it was not a conversation really. so I think you know and I'm saying this. now because I it was hard to get a word. in um I am grateful for this man's time. but I was happy when it ended uh this. man is a former governor of. Minnesota um he is a unique man and he.

will tell you all about it uh I am very. grateful for his time and I mean that. and I learned a lot that I can do a. better job as an interviewer I think for. sure I did learn that um but he makes. some really interesting points and he. does talk about some things that I'm. really excited to uh that that I was. grateful to get to speak for to hear him. speak on um I'm not trying to rinse the. dude.

uh but I didn't get a chance to say. anything so I felt like at the very. least I deserve that uh I'm very happy. to have today's guest Mr Jesse. Ventura let myself. on shine that on. me I'll sit and tell you my. stories sh.

know. me and I will find a song i. [Applause]. s know you ever see these ads on TV now. where where uh they got the big lawsuit. against 3M because the hearing devices. for the military in combat apparently. were defective I haven't seen them well. they got ads on TV all the time and. these a class action lawsuit you see.

lawsuit that if you're deaf and you. served in the military blah blah blah. blah blah blah blah blah and you had 3M. made these things you stick in your ears. I guess that are supposed to save your. hearing and what happened well no and. they didn't work function right so now. there's a lawsuit on it which is all. fine and dandy but I sit back and go. well gee what about us Vietnam guys that. nobody gave us nothing for our ears. we're all deaf today and and and in our. and in my and what it tells me is this.

how different the combat was in the. Middle East than Vietnam because in. Vietnam you couldn't wear earplugs you. relied on your ears wow you're in the. jungle you got to listen you got to hear. you you hear a twig snap it could be. your life yes yeah and you have to hear. it right you know but in this Urban. fighting apparently you can put in. earplugs and blast each other cuz you're. in the city right for or the de desert.

so it's just interesting how like. through b as time but I mean where's our. compensation I'm deaf to cuz I sat. and shot Storer machine guns and all. this and blew things up yeah you. can't even listen to Pearl Jam enjoyably. you know where yeah oh no but there's. better than Pearl Jam now I found a new. Young rock band that has given me my. youth again who's this what is that it's. a group I don't know if you guys know. I'm Greta Van Fleet oh yeah oh my God.

yeah I I I was a huge Leed Zeppelin fan. M and bonam died and the rift between. plant and paage they're never going to. get together they're never going to play. again and my heart achd because I. thought I'm going to go to my grave and. never hear any more Led Zeppelin yeah. they're gone yeah my son comes over the. other day he says Hey Dad he said you. like zap didn't you I said hell yeah. pmon 72 in.

75 and he said listen to this and he put. on a song and I sat listening to it and. I looked at him I said what a Jimmy. pagee release from the archives. I've never heard this Zeppelin song. before wow that much he goes they're not. that isn't Led Zeppelin I go what and he. said that's a dog a band called Greta. Van Fleet out of Michigan wow then he. pulls up um on the on the his phone an.

interview with Robert. Plant and Robert Plant talks about him. talks about the GRE vanav van Fleet and. Robert Plant laughingly goes somewhere. I've heard that voice before and he goes. I'm jealous wow cuz he said they're. young and I'm not yeah well youth. becomes that great I think this guy he's. not quite totally Robert Plant cuz he's.

a little rough on the edges with the. little Getty Lee throw in from Rush yeah. yeah I can see he's got a little not a. feminite side but a little bit more of. that but plant had that yeah plant very. much had a feminine side to his voice. he'd sing those slow bluesy songs drive. my wife crazy. yeah and to me I don't care what anybody. says the best Zeppelin album's the first. yeah.

is that when you went and saw him was. around that time oh no I saw him in 72. uh third fourth had already been out cu. they did stair away that night where'd. you go see him San Diego who'd you go. with do you remember guys in the Navy. yeah I was in the Navy I was back from. my first tour to Vietnam wow and we went. and saw Zeppelin and uh fact are we. running yes sir oh we're on can you hear. us okay yeah we're rolling not any of. this out though oh no that's fine then. we're on and rolling then let's talk we. talk to rock and roll a little yeah talk. about it no I'm just curious no where.

where where I was that weekend uh that. was the toughest rock and roll weekend. of my life was Led Zeppelin I was uh it. was 72 so I was about 21 I guess 21. years old maybe 20 and Zeppelin was. Friday night and Leed zeep played with. no warm-up band they would come out at. 8:00 and they would finish at 1115 3. hours and 15 minutes of lead Zeppelin. and the only break they overtook was.

during Moby Dick when John bonam would. do about a 15minute drum solo man then. the other three would walk off drink. their water whatever they were going to. do have a cigarette you know whatever. they were going to do and then uh come. back out and at the end of Bonham's drum. solo and then they'd finish up well I. saw Zeppelin on Friday night which was. rugged and we had to come back Saturday. and then Jeth rall wow cuz that was the.

weekend Zeppelin Friday Jeth rall. Saturday and were you guys partying. before like were people partying pretty. hard in those well no no in those days. open. seating people standing wherever oh no. oh geez I used to Bodyguard the bands. when there were still open seating. craziness that open seating ended in. Cleveland I think or somewhere at a Who. concert where the people trampled the.

death three or four people died wow and. that's when the authorities came in like. they always will as soon as people are. dying they're going to come in and say. wait a minute you're having fun but. people are dying yeah and so no and then. they then they put on you that you had. to have tickets just to be on the main. floor and they started having security. to where but in the early days oh you. just packed in when I did the stones. here yeah right they got the boards the.

hockey boards we would line up in the. pit before the stone and you know the. stones come out we of security down in. the pit down there and they would tell. us over the walkie-talkies okay we're. opening the. doors you would literally feel the. ground start shaking wow like running of. the bulls and and a slow Roar would. start and then you'd look up and you the. doors would open and these guys would be. running and literally diving.

down the stairs to get to the floor to. be first in the front row and did you. feel like you're playing defense at that. point I you got the barricades up they. can only come up to the barricade the. hockey boards wow you know but they're. they pack in there so tight this is. before they had when they had open. seating so tight that you'd see during a. concert people raising their arms up. down front waving them just to breathe. probably oh no no no no they can't bre. bring them down wow they raise them up.

to get space and air and then the wedge. wedges them in so much they can't bring. their arms down so they have to stand. the rest of the show with their arms in. the air or setting them on somebody. else's shoulders or whatever I had a I. had a little girl and I was in Peak. Wrestling because IID had some knee. surgery and I was at the prime of my. wrestling when I was doing this uhuh and. uh uh so I I I I had a I was 265 lbs you.

know I was it could deadlift well in the. 600 you know I mean I was I was a. Bruiser a skin family 265 lbs and had a. little girl down front that wanted to. get out she couldn't take it no more and. what we do to people like that we'd pull. them out and then shuttle them down line. they didn't get kicked out we just let. them in the back okay now the people. that cause trouble different story yeah.

but like this young girl she was just. she was crying claustrophobic couldn't. take it no more I had to stand on the. boards get under her armpits now I can. deadlift over 600 lb it was like pulling. a cork out of a bottle because of the. compression I had everything I could do. I broke into a sweat wow get and finally. I got her out and we got her down and. she thanked me and we sent her down the. line then on the flip side I had some. boo start punching somebody and his back.

was to me and he had long hair I got up. on the boards got a hold of his hair. wound it into my hands and removed him. by the hair oh damn you can imagine what. that felt like well he hits the deck. jumps up going to fight me and I just. looked at him and I said think. again and he opened his hands up and. backed up and I said get the F out of. here and we shut and he went out the. door yeah you know he didn't get let.

back in he went out the back door do you. miss I got to I got to introduce the. stones did you really yeah because one. night during this it was 78 or 81 I. think 81 you're a bouncer you're. basically security security but you're. also wrestling at this point oh yeah but. you wrestling professionally you. wrestling like okay was so people know. who you are too sometimes oh yeah gave. me stuff to brag about on TV yeah you. know gave me stuff for interviews man. bet you know I I they came out got was. the promoter and he comes up to me I.

think it was 81 and he says to me we got. no one to introduce the stones he goes. you want to do it I said hell yeah I'll. do it so but but here's what's good they. tell you exactly what you're to say and. you can't vary from it you walk out. under the spotlight the whole 19,000. people or whatever at St Paul Civic. Center and you simply walk up to the mic. and you go ladies and gentlemen the. world's greatest rock and roll band The.

Rolling Stones and you walk off damn. does it feel pretty honorable I did get. a good payback because that night at the. end of the show as they left the stage. Ronnie Wood looked at me and said hey. Jesse how'd we do yeah I said good Woody. good as you um I got tell you all sorts. of rock and roll stories like that. really oh yeah from I one time I got a. signed Jagger where I just followed Mick. around so you're just doing security for. yeah no no at I did security the bands.

that would come to Minnesota okay I. didn't travel with them okay we would. get them here okay and then we would. provide security and ensure they got. once they were in the building we had. them and we ensured they gotten their. limos right then they're on their own so. now are other wrestler other per just. this just you a friend of mine I knew. I'd had some knee surgery and you said. hey you want to make 25 bucks a night. and hear the best rock and roll and and. I loved rock and roll and you got the.

best seat in the house and they pay you. 25 bucks or 50 bucks I forget what it. was you got paid for doing it I said. sure I'll do it so I just go over there. and you just sit down in the pit and I. did Springsteen Foreigner Marshall. Tucker Grateful Dead Dam did all of them. all the greats from that The Grateful. Dead's easiest is it really oh they're. so good man the dead heads yeah they all. know each other they travel all there's. a group of fans that travel to every. dead concer oh yeah they're all doing.

grilled cheeses Deads yeah and they they. talk to each other Bob we missed you in. Omaha well couldn't make Omaha but I'll. see anise Lancing okay they all know. each other they don't even Rush the. stage yeah the dead heads just dance. around in the aisles they're like. hippies you know and the dead goes off. on their tangents cuz no dead song's. ever the same you know they they take in. any direction they get real Whimsical oh. yeah and and so that was the Grateful. Dead they the easiest really oh we left.

the front yeah should nothing these guys. a they all know the grateful Dad they're. like friends yeah it's like playing a. concert in front of your friends you. know and so uh yeah bet if you're one of. the if you're one of them you're just. seeing the same people every night yeah. I mean well they change a little bit. like Bob couldn't make Omaha you know. but I think I was on LSD just because I. would see the same people in the crowd. every night I'd be like damn maybe they. thought that too I don't know ground the. bands back then and and uh uh it was a.

great experience was there a point that. you quit where did work just get too. busy oh no no I went back wrestling you. went back wrestling oh yeah no no no. that's right but you can't he ain't. going to survive doing what I was doing. right you not in the lifestyle I. preferred to live yeah that was just. busy work and fun you know and and uh. and it paid off later because here's the. story later uh 1998 I became the. governor of Minnesota yeah I took office. in.

1999 and uh 1999 was the Rolling Stones. no security. tour what it was called yeah they came. to Minnesota in February of 99 I'm the. governor now and so as governor and. here's what I did I had never did a. Governor's Proclamation you know where. the governor proclaimed something yeah. so being the outlaw I am and the. governor of belonging to neither. political party which gave me great.

freedom in many ways uh my first thing. as Governor I declared it the day that. the Stones played here in the no. security tour in 99 I declared it. Rolling Stones day in Minnesota. yeah now it went to the Secretary of. State because they have to sign off on. it too right and I won't say names but. we had this kind of tight ass Republican. woman from you know do I need to say. more no we could easily find out you can.

figure it out right she wasn't going to. sign. it I picked up my phone in the. governor's office I called her office I. said whatever her name was I I first. name I said sign the. proclamation don't make me come down. there yeah and I set the phone down the. Proclamation was back in about five. minutes dude that's awesome she signed. off I said give me a break yeah what are.

we doing and well the great payoff came. that night cuz that night I was there. to when the stones were and they had. been greeted at the airport by the press. and they asked MC Jagger how do you feel. the governor declared it Rolling Stones. day in Minnesota and Mick said we were. very honored they said no one's ever did. that for us before wow you know we've. never come to a state and had the state. declare it our day yeah so they were. very honored did they remember you that. do you did security well that's coming.

up so uh we come there that night and I. get my picture taken with them and up. comes my favorite Stone Keith Richards. yeah and so Keith comes up to me that. night and his hair is all typical Keith. Richards a headband on he's got this. hanging off here of the hair and that. hanging off there of the hair and he. looks up at me in typical Keith Richards. style and he goes uh. so you used to bodyguard us back in 78.

and 81 huh you know somebody told him. that I'm sure and I go yep and he goes. and now you're the governor and I go yep. and in the great Keith Richard's cocky. accent I'll remember it the rest of my. life he looks at me and goes. great I'll never forget it great. you know and just smiled at me and I. thought well well if you get a effing.

great from Keith Richards you've done. something right is how I view it do you. feel do oh I I agree I mean do you feel. that uh so stuff like that that's kind. of feels like Co do you feel like that's. coincidence do you feel like there's a I. find it interesting when you're you were. able to live life long enough how things. intertwine a lot and how amazingly. something comes back like a helicopter. you launched 20 years ago comes and. lands on your palm like a butterfly now. like a boomerang yes A Perfect Analogy.

do you think that there's any God in. that or you just think that that's just. nature that's the way I believe I. believe like like uh uh uh Neil degrass. Tyson says it's chaos yeah he said there. there's no one in control of space yeah. Neil said everything is flying around. out there there ain't nothing in control. of nothing it's chaos and I my belief in. life is this having I didn't plan to be. governor. I didn't sit back when I was 18 20 years.

old and say you know I'm going to take. political science someday I'm going to. run for governor be mayor first I'm. going to be a mayor first then I'm going. to be Governor I didn't plan nothing. like that I didn't even plan to wrestle. yeah things just fell into place and I I. lived by a premise that I think I've. I've mentioned it a quote from the great. Yogi Bara the baseball player I don't. know how familiar we are with yogi but. Yogi used to say some great oneliner and. Yogi's one great oneliner was if you.

come to a y in the road take. it keep going no think you come to a y. in the road take it well that means you. got to pick one way or the other that's. what he's telling you right so I've come. to wise in the road and I've taken them. and once I've picked out which of the. why I'm going on I don't look back right. and I and I conquer whatever that why is. taken me to then when I achieve that I.

look for the next why in the road wow. and then I do that because I've had so. many jobs now oh yeah it's baffing I I I. sit back and look at it go how you know. I. guess when you look I get bored after. about four years really mhm and then I. need the why in the road yeah I need to. go out and cuz I mean I where do you. think that comes from just not to. interrupt you I just you know I'm.

curious like it's a certain wander lust. that I think you're born with is it you. think you inherit I've read two books on. Chay guava right and one book was. written by a South American so you got a. real good view of Chay it wasn't written. by a United States person with great. bias right you know you got it from a. South American which is Argentina's. where Chay was from and Chay had it Chay. couldn't stay somewhere I mean he had he. had it made in Cuba right he was like.

God in Cuba yeah and he was handsomer. than Fidel well and they put him up. because he's there I've been to Cuba yes. he's on he's on that building oh their. libraries their libraries start with. books on Chay and F there's no history. before them they had stay did he they. were Heroes Shay didn't stay did he kind. of Heroes no no he needed something else. it's almost like that he couldn't stay. it's like BR in that movie stay and. that's me there's a times come on.

certain jobs I do where I can't stay no. more yeah that I gota I gotta go on I. gotta move I gotta get go keep going. maybe maybe I'm given up the day that I. say okay this is it right I'm not this. is I'm on the final why in the road but. I ain't there yet I don't think I'm 70. now wow but uh that's why I moved to. Mexico 50 years ago oh I didn't even. know that oh yeah I've been living in.

Mexico for 15 years every winter I live. an hour from pavement and an hour from. electricity and does that been do you. feel like it's been benal I live off the. grid wow I who do you take with you down. there I take my pickup truck my wife and. my. dog and was there a reason you guys. chose down that area was there no yeah. just kind of because uh like my life a. why came in the road I took it no what. happened on that deal was I had just.

come out of office and I needed a break. of being governor and I had just Inked a. huge contract with. MSNBC right you notice I was never on I. was going to say I've never seen any. clips of this yeah no CU I was never on. the reason we'll get back but I I'll. cover this because I've covered it. before and I like people to know by the. way I'm going to do a Shameless plug. here on your thing please do I'm I'm now. on clubhouse okay. it's called the governor's office okay.

so anybody that wants to tune me in can. go to clubhouse in the governor's office. okay and I'm on Sunday night at 7. Central and Wednesday night at 7 Central. okay I go on an hour each those nights. so anybody out there that does this and. wants to hear more from me that's where. they can go they can do it there yeah is. there something interfering with your. happiness do you have you ever had. happiness that's a question I've als. often asked myself do I have have ever. had.

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end of your governorship were you. exhausted no yeah I I and I just well I. had signed with. MSNBC well I got paid for three years. and did nothing and I got paid a lot of. money why because I opposed the invasion. of Iraq they wouldn't put me on. television really nobody was allowed on. TV who opposed the invasion of Iraq I'll. give you the example MSNBC at that when. I got out of office. Fox MSNBC and CNN got in a bidding war.

for me I was the voice of the. independent oh 100% voice of the. independent don't belong to either party. yeah MSNBC W I signed a three-year. contract with them and I'll just State. this it was a contract that a. professional sports athlete would get. wow not not 100 million yeah but it was. healthy it was very nice I'll say that. and so I signed a three-year contract.

with them and we insisted that they were. going to do my show in Minnesota because. I number one I didn't want to leave here. course not make it easy on yourself so. you were living and I had the power at. that time so I said no I want to do the. show in Minnesota and here's what I sold. him on because all you people do is. cover the coasts yeah nobody gets a. Midwestern perspective of nothing and. we're the heart of America amen we're. the heart of America America amen you. know so uh they agreed so go over to.

Channel 2 here in the Twin Cities I. provided 30 jobs or something because. they had to hire all these people to. work on the show so I provide all these. jobs after I get out right and one of. the jobs was to my head of communication. when I was governor he now stayed with. me and was working on the show with me. so did you go to one day a work at all. no way now so so so so we're you're easy. I don't to ask you they send a a. producer out okay from the Bas MSNBC so.

he's producing the show we're getting. all set to go on the air live audience. now we're GNA have a live audience. because I play better yeah in front of. live you know and it's everything's. ready to go and all of a sudden we get a. phone call here's the phone call oh let. me add MSNBC had just hired Phil Donahue. oh the king of daytime he was now on at. night he was their highest rated show.

Phil likewise opposed the invasion of. Iraq yeah and said it publicly so had I. we get a phone call John my subordinate. that the call I didn't get the he got. the call here's the call um this is so. is it true Governor Ventura doesn't. support the invasion of. Iraq John oh no he's vehemently opposed. to it he's a Vietnam veteran and he said. this is Vietnam all over again this is.

crap this is nation building this they. didn't attack US Iraq didn't attack us. on 911 yeah why are we invading Iraq. yeah a lot of people and and so then the. next question does Connecticut know. about this well here's the tie-in MSNBC. stood for Microsoft. NBC at that time okay it was a. partnership between Microsoft and NBC. who owned NBC at that time ESPN General.

Electric oh really General Electric is. one of the biggest war profiteers in the. world damn they are they are the. military industrial complex and part of. it cuz they have all those contracts. with them wow everything is built by GE. to go to war yeah a lot of it right oh I. probably have a so do they want one of. their announcers on TV opposing a war. not a chance damn exactly so that was. the does Connecticut know about this was.

the second question we respond or John. responded I don't. know. pause here's the big question is there. any chance he change his mind wow John. said I don't think so he said I've seen. the governor change his mind where. because he wasn't educated on something. well enough and when he got educated he. took a different viewpoint but he said. This is war he's a veteran he's opposed. to it he's a Vietnam veteran you ain't.

going to change his mind guess what I. didn't go on the air and guess what Phil. Donahue got pulled damn they pulled both. of us have you ever heard of a network. pulling their highest rated show no. never but they did because they wanted. no negative to invading Iraq on the. mainstream media so that's how powerful. those tie-ins are between like these. companies and the corporations and the. mainstream media and the government and. the government so do you feel sometimes. it used to feel like one thing that's.

tougher as I've learned more as I as I. get older and just learn more sometimes. it almost you're going to find out. you're going to learn even. more I don't want to how old are you I'm. 40 years old man oh you got a lot of. learn and left you younger anymore. you're just beginning to learn I don't. want to man you're just beginning but I. feel like all you've done cracked the. door open a little but do you ever think. sometimes that it's there's almost a a. more Blissful value and not like they.

say knowledge is power and sometimes it. just almost hurts me sometimes the more. I learn stuff sometimes it feels makes. me feel debilitated sometimes but you. have to know you can't live a life in my. opinion you can't live a life without. truth I finish every show I do I always. say and always remember people when the. government lies the truth becomes a. traitor now think of that quote that's. an original from me I'm thinking about. it right now government lies the truth. becomes a traitor in other words they'll.

take the truth and put the truth in jail. and make it the enemy wow and they'll. make the truth the enemy you see it all. the time right now well I feel like. we're that's never seemed more prevalent. than right now right yep do you feel. like um and yet I will back there is. good government don't think for a moment. that I'm I'm not a. trumpy I want you to know that right now. you know I don't even want to get in. into my feelings on him yeah and as an.

ex-military man right there's a lot. unpack there with that and to me January. 6th was an attempted coup d' really. absolutely look at what they're learning. now yeah they had the format all laid. out oh yeah it almost seem like one of. his Shady. contractors Hillary Clinton Locker up. yeah there's the guy that belongs in. jail right Donald Trump he tried to. overthrow our country he defied the. Constitution. do you think now I live by the.

Constitution right that's the document I. live by if you don't like it change it. but you got to have a set of rules yeah. those are the rules he broke them yeah. he broke the rules yeah he should never. be allowed to run again yeah and in far. as I'm concerned he belongs in jail. because people died that day right on an. Insurrection to overturn our government. right it's that simple and I don't care. how these Republic an want to butter the. bread you're talking to the independent.

here and you know what part angered me. the most what is it when I saw a. Confederate flag carried through my. Capital. yeah what does that make you feel I call. you know what I called the Republicans. now the Taliban really they're the. American Taliban baby and that's coming. from Jesse The Body the American Taliban. well look what they're doing in Texas. yeah what oh there's women's rights yeah. the Taliban have got them down there you.

know they're taking away people's right. to vote did you know it's easier to buy. a gun in Texas than vote yeah that's. insane that's insan you want the. definition of insanity there's a good. one right there and now this latest. thing what was the latest thing that. crazy governor oh he's now over the. governor is now. overruling mask mandates yeah in other. words no one in Texas can make you wear. a.

mask okay what about this then this let. me ask you this do you feel like and by. the way I love the mask right you know. why I wrote an oped piece it gave me. Freedom yeah I can go in the store now. nobody bothers me and if I keep my mouth. shut nobody does and I don't have to. talk to people that I probably didn't. want to talk to anyway yeah yeah you see. little Jesse the bodies coming out oh. yeah it's good man old villain I'm. ready to get body slammed you know you. know why the villain's coming out I got.

people criticizing me now saying I've. sold out cuz I got vaccinated MH what a. cck of crap I sold out cuz I want to. live and I look at the statistics and. when 99% of the vaccine people live and. only 1% die I'm going on the 99 side. people but do you under but Jesse why do. you think do you is it able are you able. to like have an idea of why some people. think I feel like the news made things. very confusing the news started becoming. like not information and a lot of people.

got extremely scared and didn't know who. to believe anymore well here you go you. want the answer to the news yeah Jesse. has it yeah I'd like you know I wouldn't. mind a dose of it man because that's. where I feel like a lot of bad. information started the downfall of the. news came with the show 60. minutes now you guys are all going to. sit and go no I how could you 60 minutes. that's an award-winning investigative. reporting show which it is and it's a. great show it was a great show still is.

probably a great show but 60 Minutes was. the downfall of the American Media why. is that when they started editorializing. it uh-uh. uhuh prior to 60 Minutes all the news. lost. money and the they made up for it in the. entertainment Division and that was a. standard rule the news is to educate the. news is to do this the news don't make.

money it's to. inform Along Came the show 60 Minutes it. shot to number one in the ratings The. Bean counter's eyes got big and they. went you mean we can make money off the. news yeah that's what 60 Minutes caused. making profit off the news then it. became about ratings rather than inform. ing now the news is nothing but.

entertainment right so and it's there to. get ratings points it's there to make. money for advertisers where in the days. of Walter kronite back when I was. younger than you the news lost money you. want the show that was so ahead of its. time the movie that it's scary today for. me to watch it watch the show Network. yeah with Fay dunway uh. William Holden I've seen that it's good.

and Peter Finch won the Academy Award. for playing Howard Beal because he just. got so real and that's and it changed. everything no that's where it became. entertainment remember they brought F. dunway in from entertainment to get the. ra new produc and this was done before. it ever happened to the news yeah they. call up to her desk and she's like they. knew 60 Minutes it changed it yeah so. that movie whoever wrote the script or. whatever can you ask them to shut that. off was was looking into the future and.

had their thumb right on the button wow. because that's what our media or our. news has turned into the movie network. so then but it's all about ratings. points now guys it ain't about making. you smarter or giving you information. it's about tidl look at right now what's. the big news out there right now another. missing white girl yeah now if that girl. was black you think they'd be all that. front page stories every night if it was.

a black people don't go hiking really. though but may probably not maybe not. you know maybe not black girls disappear. every day yeah and you don't see no. where they isol every all people. disappear every day probably but why is. it that they pick out the cute cute. looking little white distress yeah the. cute little and and don't get me wrong. it's a tragedy it's horrifying whatever. happened to her don't get me wrong on. that totally Med the media's coverage of.

it it's okay when I was going to do the. show for MSNBC everything comes down. from on high they tell you what they. like Hannity and these guys they get. told what to talk about oh totally yeah. you know I fought them you know what. they sent me every day Lacy Peterson. what and I said that's a tragedy but. there's 10,000 murders a year why is. this one exceptional and why should. people in Minnesota in the east coast. care about a murder that took place out.

in California yeah yes we feel sad Lacy. was murdered like I feel sad that. anybody else gets murdered but why would. I on a national TV show give five. minutes of the show's time covering a. murder that affects that when you have. 10,000 of them a year yeah so what but. so okay with that said that's why I feel. like where do people go to get good. information and that becomes the scary. part that's how things a lot of things. become.

fragmented remember when Larry King died. oh yeah now Larry King was an icon I got. to go on his show one time man pretty. cool oh yeah Larry King an icon I did. his show a number of times I feel. fortunate Larry King talked to everyone. yeah well they did all these tributes to. Larry right which they should welld. deserved but they left out the Last 5. Years of Larry's life they stopped the. tributes when he left. CNN do you know where he went to O right.

to his no he went to where I work. Russian television America oh really RT. America Larry King was there for years. Ora was it a branch of no Ora was a. podcast owned by Larry I worked for him. oh interesting I did a podcast called. off the grid on Aura where I did it from. Mexico oh wow I come into town once a. week and they'd put me up at the hotel. I'd play two rounds of golf and I'd do. Aura and go back to my house it was. great so they supporting him whenever he.

went and did his own thing Larry worked. for RT Russian television my aura thing. I had a problem with them in. negotiations Russian TV came in and said. we'll take you so I went with rt America. where Larry was for five years Larry. King worked at RT America that is. Russian television America and you know. what he said he said this is the most. honest news people are going to get and. this came from the icon Larry King who. are mainstream media didn't want that.

quote out there so they didn't cover the. last five years of Larry's life they. made Larry retire after CNN Larry wasn't. retired Larry was on every week like I. am on RT America yeah and before I. signed with rt they flew me and my wife. to Moscow really I went yes I went to. their 10th anniversary of RT uh I met. gorbachov that night and uh Putin was. the keynote speaker wow and at the end.

of the night Vladimir Putin the. president of Russia walked over to me I. didn't walk over to him he walked over. to me did you stand up or absolutely. he's the president I stood up he offered. his hand I shook his hand Putin looked. at me and said thank you governor and I. said you're welcome Mr President and. then he said I want you to know I I I. will never interfere your television. show you have complete control and.

complete artistic freedom and I said. Thank you Mr President I appreciate that. and guess what I've been there four. years now and he's been a man of his. word have he has never interfered in my. show nobody tells me what I can say or. can't say they don't tell me what I can. or can't talk about now isn't it strange. I'm banned from TV in America wow I'm. banned and that's because of my court. case they all came in into my court case. to have it overturned oh when you um the.

Chris Kyle mess oh yeah the lie about me. yeah the Chris Kyle lie yeah remember. yeah well what people don't know at the. at the two judges at the court of. appeals broke two of their own rules and. sided with the media and overturned my. case breaking their rules to do it so. how do we defeat and and and and and in. doing so where can I go to work yeah. these people interfere I was you know. they interfered in my court case so I. have I and so I work for RT now and it's.

they're the best do you know what they. did for. me I start and they were sending me to a. studio right M and Misha my boss he goes. uh you know that's expensive and it's. really out of the way for you he's a. Russian MH he said do you have room in. your. house I said sure I said I got a a. bedroom down in my basement I kind of. call it my trophy room I keep all my. trophy paraphernalia down there in the.

corner of the house nobody can see it. unless I take them down there he said. could we put a studio in there wow I. said sure all of a sudden Amazon boxes. start arriving at my house Technics come. they took out all the permits they wire. me up boom boom the cameras the lights I. now do my show for my basement that's. awesome I'm in Minneapolis they're in DC. and my part in LA and they have the. capability now that we can do a complete.

show and never even be in the same city. with each other that's something. technology well it's amazing I mean do. and so that's how I do my show I walk. downstairs and uh and I'm happy to say. my son is home now he worked for RT for. still working for them and he came home. and uh he now uses my studio to stay. working with rt and he's back home which. makes his mom and me very happy. you're always happy when the the son. comes back even when he's 41 or 42 now.

is that your only child no I have a. daughter oh yeah she lives here oh she. does yeah she's married and lives here. but my son's more of the the he's more. of his dad really traveling Oh yeah he. he hasn't lived here for 20 years he. graduated from high school and left wow. he he was sea Penn's assistant oh really. he had that wander thing in him huh oh. yeah and he went Shawn Penn I remember. the time he called me he says Hey Dad I. said yeah he says guess where I'm going. tonight I said where he says uh he's.

over at I'm at the con Film Festival. we're having a party with the Victoria. Secret models damn and I said to him. over the phone I said well you ought to. enjoy. yourself oh I used to masturbate to. their magazines man remember when that. magazine came in the mail those are the. good old yeah well he calls me said oh. yeah we're going to a party tonight with. the Victoria Secret models well that. ought to be fun yeah that no he he my. son left at. yeah you know and he took he was Shawn. Penn's assistant for a while and then he.

lived and worked in La for 10 years and. then an opportunity opened up for him at. RT America and he was on the ground. floor he got into RT when they were a. few rooms on a floor now they're two. complete floors of a building wow on DC. does it feel is it strange that that. it's a Russian company and that they're. making like well they're technically not. they're an American company right I'm. just wondering is there any like but you. know what I they I have to do I have to. because because I work for them well you. hear this because I work for.

them I they I'm I have to file as a. foreign. agent oh really yeah huh now they don't. make people on El jazer do that they. don't make people on uh any of these the. BBC don't have to do that so the IRS is. making you do that no the government oh. the oh the government's making not the. IRS IRS has nothing to do with it it's. the government we have to file with the. Department of Justice forign agents now. I take offense to that yeah I'm born and.

raised here I'm a United States citizen. I've been a mayor I've been a governor. I'm an honorably discharged Vietnam. veteran and I have paid taxes to this. country my entire adult life unlike. Donald Trump yeah I pay my taxes yeah I. participate I don't cheat so having said. that I'm now considered a foreign agent. right. damn does that kind of stuff oh at the. start of the show it says how our show. has to be it's cleared by the Department.

of Justice it has to go to them does it. really yeah yeah well they ain't done. nothing I mean I say what I want to say. but I'm sure I'm on some list and I'm. sure I'm under. observation you know from these. bozos and yet I stand up for them. against the Insurrection does it make. you feel like I used to feel like when I. was younger and stuff when I was a kid. how long have we gone we're having fun. near how long about 45 minutes oh so you. got 15 to go then wow that's about the.

time I'll run out of voice man okay no. worries um I used to feel like as a kid. like there was this American Dream there. was this red white and blue thing and we. were all part of this group like and. sometimes I feel like I don't feel that. way anymore sometimes and it's not like. I don't know if it's a choice I'm making. not to feel that way you know what made. me change way back when I when during. Vietnam when I saw the draft. it was the draft because the rich kids.

didn't have to go yeah Donald Trump got. bought his way out of it yeah he he was. going to get drafted and his dad went. and paid off and he got bone spurs. really he's never missed around to golf. he probably got him in his penis I bet. no no bone spurs in his feet yeah and. yet i' I've never seen him Miss around. the golf could you imagine him though. with a weap those bone spurs would be. painful how the hell could he play golf. he'd bring a sandwi guty guy what a. gutsy withstand that pain and swing that. Golf Club I mean there's a true tough.

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64- paint your life celebrate the. moments that matter most and support the. podcast you know do you feel like the. leadership that we have in now is no. they're all is bad the Dems and repubs I. side with Ralph nater yeah who called it. correctly when he said we're under the. rule of a two-party dictatorship yeah. and the reason I say that is because you. notice there's no problem passing the. defense bill right boy they all jump on. board for that don't they cuz they're.

all making money on it no argument about. that how about the latest did you hear. the latest were 31 of them they passed a. law in 2012 they are not allowed to. trade stocks on the stock barket and. invest right 31 of them just got caught. for insider trading wow you know what. the biggest penalty they're going to. face a $200 fine yeah after they. probably made hundreds of thousands on. the stock market they'll pay a $200 fine.

now it seems to me Charlie Sheen went to. jail in Wall Street for that yeah. remember Oliver's movie Oliver Stone's. movie Wall Street oh yes I remember it. Charlie Sheen went to jail for insider. trading for you know and then he got a. lighter sentence because he turned gecko. over to him yeah you know Gordon gecko. so he cooperated but that is against the. law and the point is all 37 of these. people should be made to resign right. now yeah and I'll tell you why because. it is so basic that when you get elected.

you do not make decisions and do not to. profit yourself right and when you're. doing insider trading trading that. nobody else knows about but you is. cheating that's cheating and that's. illegal and people go to prison for it. and 37 of our illustrious elected. officials you notice how these guys go. in there they're not millionaires many. of them but they all come out. millionaires yeah well those jobs don't. pay that much I'll tell you this that's.

the reason I didn't one of the major. reasons I didn't seek a second term as. Governor you know how much money I was. making probably 2,000 a. week how much 25 no I'll tell you. exactly okay the governor got paid. 120,000 a year okay so about 2,000 a. week now they're going to take taxes out. right okay well I also get deducted. mileage for the official Governor's.

car unless during the work day so to and. from the capital I have to pay for it. till I get to the. capital so wait so I went to them and. said well okay I'll drive my private car. to the capital and then I'll get in the. governor's car and I won't get docked. money Public Safety comes in so Catch 22. you can't do that why why well that's. the car with all the protection and the. radios and all this so they make you.

ride in the car and then charge you for. it oh damn and it don't end there the. governor's. residence every meal that me and my. family ate there was deducted from my. paycheck I had to turn in weekly things. on how many meals were served to me and. my family at the governor's residence. unless it was. official state business so that would. get. deducted it ended up you're okay get.

ready now I'm in charge of a $16 billion. budget. right I CLE I was clearing at best 60. Grand a year wow now Jesse Ventura has a. lifestyle that if I'm making 60 Grand a. year I'm sinking yeah I'm not even. Treading Water right I'm sinking yeah. you know and that was one of the major. and I wouldn't corrupt I suppose I could.

have been corrupt and who knows what I. might have made and what kind of job I. would have gotten after I got out. because you know they always seem to. land on their feet with some real great. paying job oh yeah nobody can't you know. the the greatest thing I got getting out. of office the thing I hold in the. highest. esteem I got to be a fellowship. professor at. Harvard 2004 and how did that work how. did that come to they sent me a letter. oh yeah and they said how would you like.

to teach in the John F Kennedy School of. government at Harvard University that a. sweet and I turned to my wife I said is. this for freaking. real I said I only went to high school I. went in the Navy on high school they're. asking me to come and teach at Harvard. they need teachers I think everywhere no. no no no this is. 2003 they a no teachers this is Harvard. they don't need teachers at Harvard no. shortage there you know and and so I I.

took it for the whole year they they. paid me a stien I got paid every month. they moved me into an apartment on the. business school right on campus cool and. I would walk across the Charles River. every morning to an office I had I. learned how to do the computer there and. I actually sent an email and then as. soon as I left Harvard I forgot the. computer and haven't sent an email since. you know Harvard taught me that and I. quickly forgot it do you know I've never.

owned a cell phone really and I've made. it my life's Mission now I do I will not. own one I will do everything in my power. not to get one wow I want to be able to. put on my gravestone he never owned a. cell phone and I figure if I last 10. more years you got it I may be the only. person on the planet that can write that. damn although I am running into some. people that say they're grandparents. are holding out yeah they're holding out. so I got to outlive them you start.

that's my key now I got to outlive the. the elderly that but no i' people have. said to me well how could you be. Governor simple and it was even better I. had two bodyguards 247 they had them. yeah so they screen calls anybody wants. to talk to me they call. them they cover Governor so and so was. calling oh tell them I'll call him back. at 5: that I'm busy right now but I will.

get back to him I'm sorry the governor. is not available right now but he he is. aware of your situation and said he'll. get back to you at 5:00 today okay very. good thank you that way you got a. buil-in call screener if you got your. own cell phone oh it's the worst you. ain't got a call screener you don't have. a life anymore either I got to ask you. this well you know what's interesting. I've gone I've said that to people and. people have looked at me and they've. actually looked at me sincerely and. replied you're lucky wow oh yeah and I.

often think to myself why are they. saying that to me why are they telling. me I'm lucky not to have a cell phone. and I think it's because it's it's. beginning to dominate people's lives oh. yeah to where they have nothing else but. the cell phone yeah boy I'd hate that. existence I went out to serus radio once. and you know they put you in the Green. Room oh yeah I've been hated the Green. in New York do you like The Green Room I. hate it you know why I like it that much.

no you know why I hate The Green Room. why cuz that's what they call the room. at San Quenton where they put you to. death oh really it's called The Green. Room oh damn it's where they go before. they pump you full of electricity the. old days well anyway I'm at The Green. Room at Sirius right there's probably a. dozen people there every one of them is. staring at their cell phone but me and. I'm looking around the room and I. finally thought screw this. ah so I did what I needed to do. to command the room yeah and I looked at.

him and said have any of you noticed in. this room that I'm the only person here. not looking at a cell. phone and they all look around at each. other sheepishly yeah and I just kind of. shake my head I just wanted to bring it. to their attention it's a freedom that I. was the only person in this room of a. dozen people who wasn't staring yeah or. doing manipulating something. on you know oh thank God we sent Captain. Kirk up to space now cuz now it's timely.

everybody's got the communicators right. that they had on Star Trek yeah yeah. yeah the only thing you can't do now is. send yourself places but I'm sure that's. coming that's going to be scary. that's going to be real scary you know I. interviewed him Captain Kirk oh yeah and. he passed away didn't he no he just went. to space oh thank God no no no he just. went up William Shatner just went into. space Oh yeah yeah William shner dud I. forg about that I always think of uh I. knew him from Rescue 911 he's Captain.

James T Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. Mr Spock is dead yeah you know but. Captain Kirk of the we grew up to that. in the 60s that was the coolest show on. TV was Star Trek James T Kirk my wife. had a crush on him when she was a young. girl she told me she said I was in love. with and I you know and Captain Kirk. yeah James T Kirk of the and no I. thought and and and it was kind of. interesting because I saw a a huge. scientist interviewed and they asked him.

how he felt about William Shatner being. going into space like that he looked and. smiled and he he said something really. cool he goes William Shatner didn't go. into space he said James T Kirk went. into space oh that's cool a certain part. of. him no I just thought that was so cool. that this scientist said William Shatner. didn't go into space James T Kirk went. into space yeah I like that a little bit. of the Mystique keeping it alive yeah he.

went into space it's hard to keep now. when you watch Star Trek you know that. man's been to space. yeah and he came do you hear his message. uh-uh take care of our planet wow he. came back so he said e and you know what. I've heard everybody that goes up there. comes back a total. greeny stop the destruction of our. planet because they're seeing out there. nothing but drab dead and they look back.

on this blue thing that shines with life. when you're out there there ain't no. life or at least we ain't found it yet. yeah you know there is but we ain't. found it yet yeah you know but they said. when you look of course read Neil's book. lat read Neil I'm just saying from just. a the universe is so large yeah oh do. you know what Els is B you know what.

else is here's what ticks me off now you. got this whole thing in schools where. they don't want to teach the truth yeah. they don't want to teach the truth now. they want to gloss it over so the white. people can feel good yeah right it's. ridiculous do you know what I learn now. too we here okay for years we celebrate. Columbus Day he discovered America and I. ding my s in the head and go it took me. how long to realize how can you discover.

something if there's already somebody. there right you didn't discover nothing. there was already people there but why. did we used to have it that way then it. was just an easy way to explain it it's. all we knew no cuz there was they didn't. have a flag oh you got to have a flag. man you got to Ed Eddie isard will tell. you that you know Eddie isard watch. Eddie Eddie will explain it got FL got. to have a flag man you got to have a. flag but no you getting back to it again. you you know where were we going now I'm. getting old now uh um well we're talking.

about uh we're talking about a lot. of different things I want the the last. thing I wanted to make the point uh the. the space is there people out there oh. yeah yeah. okay you you look at the situation now. and I read the are there people out. there oh I know Columbus so not only did. Columbus not discover America you know. what else was total BS we got taught. what was it that he W that he went there. believing the Earth was flat oh that's a.

lie that's a complete lie Neil shows. where they knew centuries before. Columbus that the world wasn't flat damn. bro but yet in all our school books. that's what we read oh Columbus. discovered America and they sent him to. find out because they were terrified he. was going to fall off the end of the. Earth it was flat oh I remember our. teacher even made a thing where he went. up the side then turned onto the corner. get Neil's book he lays it right out.

when we knew the world wasn't flat and. it happened literally probably 800 years. before Columbus even sailed they knew. that that Scholars knew the Earth was. not flat yeah I think sometimes so why. were we taught that okay that's. a good question that's what I want to. know why you know what angered me here's. what's got me in a roar about this and. why I'm saying you teach it it took me. 69 years to learn that we massacred.

black people in Tulsa. yeah well guess I learned that last year. I was 69 years old when I learned that. right that is the first I have known of. that in 69 years on this planet yeah I. got angry why wasn't I taught about that. in school. right why is that not written in a well. here's one for you did you know there.

was a coupa attempt on President. Roosevelt by Wall Street I believe it. because it's been eradicated raced set. aside Major General Smedley Butler saved. our country damn the two-time. Congressional Medal of Honor winner he. was handpick chosen to be the president. damn young goat but you know what. Smedley did Smedley went in front of. Congress and ratted him he whistle blew. him Smedley said FDR is my president I'm.

a republican he's a Democrat he's a. two-time Congressional Medal of Honor. Marine General Smedley goes he's still. my president even though I'm in a. different party this is treason right. and he turned these guys over all the. Roth shy all these names these big names. on Wall Street they had handpicked. Smedley Butler why because FDR was. bringing in these socialist programs. what does Wall Street fear anything. that's socialist and we here in the US. fear everything socialist don't we yet.

here's one for you guys time to learn. from Jesse our biggest part of our. budget that you and I pay taxes on is. for total. socialism like how you know what that is. uhuh the Department of Defense yeah they. that's total socialism at its. finest so you have socialism part. protecting the. capitalism damn dark and yet people are.

telling I'm scared they're turning the. country socialist right. well what you need if you have all. capitalism you're going to fail we saw. that on Wall Street I think we're still. going to cheat you have to have a. balance yeah you have to achieve a. balance between capitalism and socialism. that raises the most people up right. that's when you have a great Society so. all these people that fear socialism. you're very military I was a Navy SEAL.

guess what other than combat pay and. special pay for things I did my base pay. for being a Navy SEAL was the same as. the base pay of a cook wow I don't get. paid no more if he's the same rank as me. doesn't matter that I'm on Seal Team and. he's over frying hamburgers now I did. make extra money cuz they give us. hazardous duty pay for jump but get this. you only get two of the three I was.

qualified for all three hazardous duties. you only get two a three they only let. you have two and guess what officers get. paid twice as much now tell me that. ain't. socialism why does an officer get paid. twice as much as me jumps out of the. same plane yeah you know but he does no. I I would get $55 extra a month for. jumping and I'd get $55 extra a month. for demolition pay I got paid nothing. for diving wow and Diving is supposed to. be an extra 85 a month but they only.

allow us to get two of the three that's. crazy why I don't know they make us do. all three you know but one of them I. have to do for Good Old Uncle Sam that's. on the. house that's a charity one I get the all. the diving I do under the water that was. for. charity I. got I got a couple questions that these. are things that I think people need to. hear and hear Le from you I think are. very important um you talk a lot about. how like the two-party system how it's.

one of the things that's definitely. failing us and you've been an example of. being an independent right yeah what. don't people understand about even just. voting for an independent whether you. even almost believe in them or not what. can that do to change the current system. that we have like well well really truly. truthfully it's Simplicity I think in. voting and if everyone would just stick. to the simplicity of it vote your. conscience don't pick a winner your job.

when you vote isn't to go there to vote. for The Who you think's going to win. your job in voting is to go there and. pick out the candidate whom you think. would best represent your point of view. yeah and vote for that person if that. person gets beat you did still did your. civic duty you voted now if you vote for. someone else you're selling out yeah if. you vote the two part like if you find. some third person who thinks way more. like you and has better ideas that you. go with but yet you still vote but well.

he can't win well one thing I proved is. yeah if you get the most votes you can. win yeah and it just takes getting the. most votes right well it's like when I. ran they told me this is back in 98 they. told me forget the young people they. don't vote huh I told them book me at. every College in the state of min Ina. yeah and they said you're wasting your. time the the guys with the I said no I.

ain't and I'll tell you why they said. why I said because the college kids have. never had Jesse The Body to vote for are. you kidding me so they booked me in all. the colleges I'd go there packed to the. hilt kids hanging off the rafters you. know when I knew I was going to win and. they were your age cuz you're talking 20. years ago so this is your. generation uh here's when I knew I was. going to win that day we got there the. morning of the election and at the. University of Minnesota they said the.

lines to register were longer than the. lines to vote because in Minnesota we. have same day registration nice and the. lines to register were longer than the. lines to vote wow that's when I knew. we're going to win cuz they ain't coming. out to vote for a Democrat or Republican. they're they're already registered these. are new people and it ended up I won by. I was polling. 10% it was not a presidential so they.

predicted a 50% voter turnout. non-presidential which is pathetic but. it still leads the nation Minnesota does. every year really oh yeah Us in Maine we. battle it out for the most percentage to. vote well so people come people here. come out and vote yeah yep and uh and. what happened was they predicted a 50%. voter turnout because it wasn't. presidential so a lot of people home it. ended up 60 I was polling 27% the day.

before I ended up winning with 37 cuz. remember there's three people now so the. percentages changed I had 37 the. Republican had 34 the Dem ended up with. 28 yeah but my 27 to 37 that was the 10%. they didn't expect to show up yeah cuz. they predicted a 50% voter turn it. turned out it was 60 and no and those 10. came voting for me well I'll never. forget the headline in the Minneapolis. paper Ventura wins sub headline.

underneath remember I told you about the. colleges throngs of young voters turn. out throngs that was the term they used. it's like you sliding in the ring with a. chair dude end well it was like I went. out and see as a getting back to your. original question third party that's. what the AL that's what you've got to T. into to beat them right you're not going. to beat their bases right you've got to.

get and but most people are independent. we're be you know what angers me right. now the most of anything our country is. being governed and stopped from doing. anything by those 50 people in the. Senate the 50 Republicans right I don't. know well then they got to do that. they call where you need 60 votes or. whatever what do you mean you don't know. you better start knowing I'm trying to. that's there's okay 50 Republicans block. everything right here's what pisses me. off because there's an equal amount of.

senators two in each state yeah do you. know those 50 Republicans how much of. the population they actually represent. and they're stopping the rest of the. country they represent 21% of the. population wow because you have States. like North and South Dakota that have. the same Senate two people as California. ah as New York. so they have equal to them they can stop. them that's insane now it was initially.

I know why it was done so it was. equality amongst the 13 original states. right but when California has a huge. population and New York has a huge. population how can they be equal to. South. Dakota but then do you worry that and by. the way I see more South Dakota license. plates in Mexico than I see in South. Dakota wow you know why that is uhuh cuz. South Dakota don't give a if you. live there or not you can just license. your car there so all these people from.

California that are supposed to bring. them back for emission tests cuz they. still have them there you'd have to. drive the whole Baja to do that every. year well they leave them down there and. they just register them in South Dakota. wow so you see South Dakota plates all. over the Baja like I said there's more. south dakotans in the Baja than there is. in South. Dakota what um you also you talk a lot. about South Dakota just wants the money. they don't give a cra where you live. they'll license you and that's great. fine no problem for me yeah a lot of.

places have different little loopholes. like that sure just a way to make money. um what about um you talk a you I've. heard you speak about uh about tax at. the point of purchase you know which. I've long been a prop yes that that's. the way we should do it it would keep. all these loopholes and all this. people spend money would pay. their tax and you'd live within your. means right how because can you explain. that to people who don't understand what. it is I really got into it it was I. think representative Army from Texas. dick Army was his name he brought I.

learned it he brought it I learned it. when he brought it up a national sales. tax is like a state sales tax what it. would. do you could throw away all the records. you have to keep for seven years of. income you wouldn't have to keep them. you would never be audited again all of. that would be. gone the tax at that time would have. been. 12% well that would then keep our.

government on budget with the economy. they'd have to ensure the economy stays. good otherwise they don't get their. money do they right but when they have. an income tax they get their money. whether the econom is good or not ah see. this way they would be directly. correlated with the. economy now it would be then maybe it'd. be a little more now but 12% is a lot. less than I'm paying now yeah so you. would pay that at the point of purchase. now businesses are already doing that so.

you as an individual would never have to. keep a tax return again you'd never have. to file one everything you do would be. done at the point of purchase buying now. your car would C and it would make you. more conscious of living in your means. because you'd you'd see a price on the. car that you go holy it it's up 12%. cuz I have to pay a 12% sales tax to the. federal government yeah well guess who. else would pay that tourists.

everybody right now tourists don't pay. federal tax here right they would if you. had a national sales. tax and bought something and there' be a. federal sales tax on everything and get. this you wouldn't have to put it on food. right and you wouldn't have to put it on. clothing say under a hundred. bucks now if you buy a mink stole or by. dripping with diamonds yeah you're going. to pay but you could buy your underwear.

your blue jeans and your t-shirts you. ain't going to walk around naked and you. wouldn't have to pay tax and I notice. all of us are dressed that way today so. we wouldn't have to pay no tax on none. of the clothes any of us are wearing I. love that man how far is that ever a. possibility they'll never do it yeah. they'll never do it because the rich. people don't pay anyway they pay lawyers. instead so they don't have to pay and. and uh okay then here's the other thing. people said to me okay what would you do. with IRS then they'd be gone right no.

you turn their job around instead of the. IRS watching us the people you make them. watch the businesses and the government. to ensure they're collecting and using. our taxes correctly yeah they be the IRS. then becomes our Watchdog yeah of the. government and business God we need that. yes why do you think it won't pass. because there many special interest it's. common sense it makes sense and if I can.

quote Charles. Manson no sense makes sense yeah that's. a quote from Charles Manson is it really. yeah yeah dude he said that one time no. sense misunderstood a little bit no. sense think about it no sense makes. sense that's how they operate yeah no. sense makes sense yeah you know but no a. national sales tax you couldn't cheat on. it yeah cuz you'd have everything you.

bought and sold would have to. require. right roughly let's just say 15% let's. go high 15% well I'm paying way more. than 15% right now right so at least. yeah I love I don't pay nothing 15% yeah. now and then they said oh it'll hurt. poor people worse cuz it's regressive. yes but you know you can do with it what. you want. you could find out. say what a person's at in poverty right.

so a person in poverty say if their. income they don't make that much money. you could give them their first $20,000. of purchases no tax you could give them. a credit card right that but anything. beyond that if they start living beyond. their means then they get taxed yeah but. you you could see the thing you can make. it anything you want it and you can give. breaks where you feel you need it to. help poor people right you know you. could give them their first 12,000 in. purchase no tax yeah you know if you're.

under 25,000 in income yeah you know. we'll give you your first half if you. spend half of your money you don't have. to pay tax on nothing oh yeah you know. you can you can survive but then the big. people that buy yachts and buy Mercedes. and buy all that hit them up thick boy. shoes or whatever they're buying you're. buying all that fancy crap well you pay. for it yeah dude you know if that's your. life lifestyle well then live your. lifestyle enjoy it yeah and and it would. force people to live within their.

budgets force them to they couldn't buy. something they'd have to say Jesus I'm. going to have to make more money to go. if I want this yeah you know I can't. afford this I love that man I feel like. called national sales tax and you. abolish the income tax do any countries. do it I don't know yeah I don't know but. you think how nice I I carry I've got. I've got I was clean out I've got. crap that goes back 25 years in my attic.

papers shredding it and I have to sit. and spend entire afternoon shredding. documents I feel like I'm in Watergate. oh yeah it's like you know the thing. with Nixon Shing documents Fargo kind of. yeah it was just ridiculous on that so. yeah the national sales teex I've. advocated for that since 1990 no people. need to know I just I think a lot of. people don't even know that it's a. possibility oh well it ain't a. possibility cuz they're not going to do. it you know you would have to vote all. them creeps out of office and get a.

whole bunch of new people in there but. the new generation could do that do it. it's up to you guys come to us for the. advice but it's going to be up to you. guys to do it cu the practicality you. guys carry the ball we're too old to. carry the ball now we can be the coaches. we can be up in the Press Box we can map. the game out for you but it's you 40 and. unders 50s and unders that got to pick. that ball up and run with it you got to. play the game now do you believe that. things can change I believe that they.

can but I don't I I I tell you because. you're very optimistic for even somebody. in your in your age well I shouldn't say. that I am uh it's the first time in my. life that I don't see the United States. with a better future in the future that. I don't see as much light as I used to I. always would see light at the tunnel. yeah but right now because. because there's so much lying and. there's so much deceit and people don't.

know what to believe and what not to. believe yeah that's the scariest part. and and our government causes it yeah. and they cause it by things that like. how come John F Kennedy they still have. documents on that right it's 60 years. ago and and and and that and I'll even. say. 911 because I have question on both of. those events and nobody seems to be able. to answer them adequately for me and.

what troubles me about those and maybe. we'll finish with this to make people. think on it is if the stories they told. us are. true right in the case of Kennedy and in. the case of 9911 if those are the truth. what we were. told then why would anything have to be. withheld because of National Security. yeah the truth should be just the truth. what what national if if okay if Lee. Oswald was a lone nut and did what they.

said he did why would any documents have. to be held for National Security he was. a he was a little private and the. Marines yeah he wasn't a general who had. sensitive goofball well he was at a base. where they U2 flights and all that sters. too I remember but but then you look to. 911 and you go okay here's what they. told us to accept right now listen to. this this is what they told us that 19.

Islamic radicals armed armed with box. cutters defeated our multibillion dooll. air defense system all while conspiring. with a bearded guy in a cave in. Afghanistan yeah and we accepted that. Hook Line and Sinker now. I have a hard time accepting that for a. couple reasons first of all we've then.

been screwed because if we've paid. billions of dollars. for. security and you can defeat it with box. cutters. yeah we got screwed out of our money. second of all when I was governor of. Minnesota if we would have had a. disaster at a state level that would. have been equivalent to that M and it. could have been. prevented don't you think somebody.

should get. fired and yet on 911 not one person lost. their job wow not one person was even. demoted over this gross deric of Duty. protecting us and the whole thing and in. fact nobody was demoted the opposite. occurred people got. promoted how does that. work when I was in the Navy.

Seals we had a simple thing that failure. was not an option yeah and I would think. air defense failure is not an option. whoever was in charge of our air defense. and allowed 18 Islamic radicals with box. cutters to defeat it should have lost. their job shouldn't they yeah well you. know why they don't lose their jobs. that's how people start talking that's. how whistleblowers start that's how. information starts being developed if.

you lost your job and nobody else did. you're going to be pissed you're going. to say wait a minute I did this I did. that but so and so told me to do this. right and all of a sudden you've got. people turning over other people and. pretty soon it leads to higher places. well if you don't want that to happen. don't fire no one right and and buiness. the day goes on as normal the next day. day everyone's back to work everybody. thinks they did everything fine yeah not. even knowing they might have been aing. something and they didn't get fired.

nobody got don't you don't you guys. think somebody should have got fired. yeah oh yeah catastrophe like that that. we invest billions of dollars in yeah. and we got be defense and they can go. with box cutters and take three planes. and smash them they crazy now well I. I'll I'll leave you I'll leave you with. this. one you all familiar with conspiracies. Siri yeah my TV show or did I get in. trouble doing oh I know Eddie Bravo the. guy yeah you know well I spoke to a.

woman Sergeant April. Gallop uh top secret crypto security. clearance M she was in the room that the. alleged plane hit the. Pentagon right M she looked me right in. the eye and told me there was no. plane. what well did you ever see one no no all. you saw was a hole and then they covered. it up with a tarp there was no wings.

there was no debris on the lawn outside. there was no place where the wings hit. the building to sever them je if all you. saw was this big hole Yeah that they. covered up she looked at me she said. there was no plane she said there was no. luggage there was no seats there were no. bodies she staggered out the hole and. was recovered on the lawn and the. government immediately put her into 72. hour solitary confinement where she. couldn't talk to nobody uh yeah and she.

told me there was no plane she said she. thought she did it because she said I. was at work I went in that day she said. I was working on my computer and she. said right when I'd hit this particular. button the whole room blew up damn and. her initial thought was her computer was. wired to a bomb wow but she doesn't. believe that now you know that it was. right but that's what happened and she. said through all there was no plane what. does she believe now she don't she won't.

she will just tell you there was no. plane right huh which is all she knows. she doesn't know what did it she doesn't. know how it was done she just is clear. that there was not a plane and when you. look at the thing if they superimposed. the plane with the hole mhm it would the. engines would have dug big trenches. through the dirt. before it struck cuz the engines are. lower than the hole right and they would.

have been down in the dirt digging a. trench there were no trenches out there. plus those planes have components out of. carbon titanium steel which is the. hardest substance known to man when it. hits cement the cement breaks the carbon. titanium steel don't where's the debris. yeah yeah you never even heard about. that well who can we TR the only wait. here's another one for you these are the. only planes that have ever gone down. where they never tried to put them with.

the pieces back resurrect them back. together again even though they should. have had plenty of pieces yeah never was. an attempt even done to put that where. they always do that in a plane crash oh. it's the big thing they do that's the. huge thing they do lo and behold in this. day 911 that wasn't. done and I'll finish wa the final one. that I need an answer to Here's the. final. one prior to.

911 base. commanders had the ability to scramble. jets in other words if they got a call. from the FAA that something was wrong up. in the air a base commander could order. and scramble Jets happened all the time. and what does that mean when they. scramble a jet up go Jets to find out. what's going on okay Fighters okay so. they could send in. that'll put you in okay they're sending. fighter jets up Tom Cruz oh yeah going. airborne Goose Daddy just so you'll.

understand. got. anyway anyway uh base commanders had the. ability to do that okay correct yes till. June of. 2001 in June of 2001 there was an. executive order that. the only person that could scramble. planes was Donald rumfelt the Secretary. of.

Defense had to come from. Donnie that happened in. June 911. happens interesting they couldn't find. Ry for. hours Ry was. unavailable unbelievable so no planes. could go into the. air 9/11 happens one mon later guess. what the polic put back to the old of. June. 1st now the base commanders can scramble.

planes again but for that three Monon. period in there they weren't allowed. to I'd like an answer to that question. and why an executive order went out to. did that yeah and that why was it. reinstated after 911 took. place and who who who can we trust then. who can we trust I don't know no you got. to trust yourself yeah you got to do. your own work yeah you know you got to.

and and and let me add this everything I. did on conspiracy theory I didn't. necessarily believe it in all of it got. to remember this entertainment this a TV. show right you know like I everyone's. getting on me now cuz my show predicted. the pandemic right really yeah this. woman from South America I had her on. she was with that General that with the. all that crazy stuff what the hell is. his name no the people that talk to. goats oh uh. General I forget his name.

now it's not the Vietnamese guy no no no. no he's got this real long name he's. like a he's like a a Mystique person. within the US military oh dang I don't. even know well he came up here with his. wife who's a doctor I had interviewed. them in a hanger on I forget what. subject it was and she told me there's. going to be a pandemic damn within the. next six years and sure enough there was. and that's why everyone's yelling at me. that I'm a turn coat now because I got. vaccinated yeah how does that make me a.

turncoat yeah you know I I look at it. from I look at it from the odds and when. it's 10 to one you're going to die. unless you get a. vaccination I'm going with the good odds. I'm not going to test the bad ones I'm. 70 years old now I want stay here as. long as I can yeah we need you here and. and you know I'm not going to I'm going. to get my booster coming up here no. problem and people said and that. bothered me you know the only thing that.

bothered me getting the. shots my deltoid got sore yeah well. guess what when they stick a piece of. metal in Rock Solid ripped muscle you. know it gets sore by the way you know. it's been good for me in the pandemic. working out yeah I'm 220 I'm in the I. got I got six-pack 70 years old I got a. sixpack. how many people can say at 70 they got a. sixpack baby not a lot of people why cuz.

all there's nothing else to do yeah now. you know I've been banned from the. prices right have you no really oh yeah. cuz I watch it while I work out every. day I know the price of every car on. there baby I want to see you get through. I watch Drew Cary he's one of my. favorites I I train to the prices right. that that is on every morning that I. train whether I'm on the elliptic or. doing my weights you carrying the prices. right and then Andy a Mayberry oh yeah. he's good you know I went to the home. buy my wife a t-shirt cuz oh she hates.

Barney F oh really yeah she hates him so. I'm getting her a t-shirt I hate Barney. F there you go he's from North Carolina. did you did South Carolina he's from. South Carolina yeah that's Mayberry. South Carolina they North Carolina. there's a St no the the guy is actually. from whoever played Andy Griffith oh. maybe he is but Mayberry itself was. supposedly in South Carolina oh yeah. there's a statue of South Carolina by. the way you heard that uh they took down. Robert El's uh statue right in Virginia.

oh yeah finally yeah yeah did you hear. what Trump said uhuh Donald with his. vast military knowledge and experience. you know I I give him a lot of credit. and credibility it was a trump come out. you hear what he said uhuh oh he come. out and said that Lee was a great. General and had we had him we'd have won. in. Afghanistan he said this you guys are. like laughing he said this but he could. now my first question was could have. been true we must really be getting bad. history because if I recollect right.

didn't Lee lose yeah in the Civil War so. shouldn't we have sent ulyses Grant over. to. Afghanistan he's the guy that won you. know Robert E Lee lost yeah sometimes we. don't even think about that why would. Trump want to send a guy who lost. yeah I don't think that man thought a. lot before I I don't think Trump was a. big thinker why do you think so many. people gravitated towards Trump because. I know a lot of people that love Trump. and they're not all dummies they're not.

all idiots a lot of them are good I. don't know I'm trying to figure out if. it's fluoride in the. water because I've never had fluoride in. my water do you think he just sounded. like you know what that. iside nuh I think we had it when put. fluoride in all water uh-uh sure they do. for your teeth so you don't get cavities. fluoride goes into all drinking water oh. I got cavities well do you know what. fluoride major ingredient of. uh-uh I've never had cuz all the homes. and it wasn't by Design but every house.

I've lived in I've had my own well yeah. and I you can send it to University of. Minnesota and the kids in chemistry will. test your water free wow or at minimal. price you CU they got to have things to. do they're in chemistry class children. so they'll you know they'll break down. your water you can do it at the. University send it over there and. they'll give you a whole breakdown of. what's in your well water W well uh uh. the thing is I've had well water my. whole life I've never been hooked up to. city water in none of the houses and. city water like the city of Brainard.

where Fargo was filmed they got a big. fight years ago they didn't want to. fluoridate their water the feds came in. and made them wow didn't even get the. option well here's the deal you know. what fluoride's the major ingredient of. Prozac oh damn so if you're drinking. fluorinated water on a daily basis. you're getting a daily supply of. prosac d that's the major ingredient in. proac what's Prozac for to calm you down. right yeah take away anxiety I guess I.

never use take away your ideas I think. maybe that to point dumb you down oh it. really sedates your brain after a while. yeah and if you're drinking fluoridated. water every day fluoride's the major. ingredient in proac. J maybe it ain't what does. prac do you I don't know that I'm not a. chemist yeah all I can tell you is it's. the major ingredient of proac is. fluoride I'm not shocked everything's. scary now well it was scary then too was.

it always scary sure we had the draft in. you think it's just new scaries now well. we had the draft I grew up in South. Minneapolis right if you grew up in. South Minneapolis and you had to go to. work for a living cuz your parents. weren't Rich guess what you were going. to Vietnam right if you grew up out in. Idina minona with the fat cats where Al. Franken grew up oh yeah that. well then you went then you went to. Harvard you went to Blake no you went to. Blake School here in Minneapolis that's.

an elite money school you know well. those kids didn't worry about Vietnam. they went to college and got deferment. and got out of it remember Dick Cheney. got like six deferments out of Vietnam. and they asked him and Dick's response. was well I had other priorities I heard. that and said well so did every other. kid that got drafted why do you think. they got drafted for Christ's sake yeah. they had other priorities yeah you know. me I was a dummy I went and enlisted do. you know the Navy's never drafted Oh.

really nope so only the Army's drafted. Army and the Marines and all them wow a. lot of people when there was the draft a. lot of people would join the Navy cuz. with the Navy you're at least guaranteed. three Hots in a cot oh yeah you know. you're going to get a bed and you're. going to get three hot meals a day. you're not going to be laying in the. dirt yeah but then you can do what I did. and go into volunteer for what they call. the brown waterer Navy and then you. probably well we had it better than the. Army though in the because all of our. operations were one nighters we don't go.

out but the Marines are those Hitmen the. Marines come in and they're the Hitmen. no we. are I mean the mar you got to understand. something I don't there's a there's a. the Marines claim their first asore. right they're not want me to sing you. I'll end you with a song okay that'll. piss off all the Marines cuz we used to. piss them off anyway let's keep it they. never liked us you frog men seals to. begin with let's keep it going here's. here's a here's a song we used to sing.

in train in UDT SEAL training okay and. it's entitled Marines drowning in the. waves MH okay now you know that UDT. stands for underwater demolition team. team okay okay and we're and buds is. called basic underwater demolition SL. seal okay you know cuz the seals came. about in 62 when Kennedy took the Frog. men out of the water and put them on. land wow and so they needed a name and.

they came up with Sea Air land cuz we'll. come from the sea we'll come from the. air we'll come from the land let's get. Sea Air land that's what seal stands for. and this is a song we would sing in. training called marines drowning in the. waves it goes Marines drowning in the. waves it's UDT who who always saves and. when a job they cannot do it's UD who.

pulls it through although they claim. they're first. assure. UD been there before Oh leather necks On. Bended Knees can kiss the ass of. UD there you go now here's the. ition we came about because in World War. II you know those Landing boats with the.

Marines that flop the front down and the. mar charge off on the beach well they. did one of them and there was a. sandbar and when the boats went down. they hit the SandBar when they dropped. their front I forget hundreds of Marines. ran off and drowned because they ran. into deep water nobody knew The Sandbar. was there ah so they need needed to form. the underwater demolition teams now the. blowing up came from obstacles the enemy.

would put in the water to stop those we. would blow them up but we also would. Recon the beach to show where the boats. could go in I see so they wouldn't hit a. sandb bar and potentially kill these. Brave marines that are charging the. beach and don't get me wrong they I. wouldn't do it they're Brave as hell. yeah I'll go in before them any day I. don't want to be charging with them yeah. you know I'll go in in the dark like we. prep we go in in the dark but what.

became a. tradition especially in the Pacific was. that when the Marines were going to land. the UDT watch the Frog Men the movie. with Richard whitmark when the UDT would. do the reconnaissance at some point. during the reconnaissance one one or two. frog men with a pre-made sign They. Carried with them would would skin up. onto the beach to the high water mark. they'd pound the sign in before they. left in the dark in the morning when the.

Marines had hit there would be a sign on. the beach welcome US Marine Corps UDT. whatever team it was wow so we would. welcome the Marines to the beach we got. there first that was where they knew we. were welcoming them so when the Marines. claim their first toore eh we've been. there before. now granted we don't stay we get in get. out but we make sure it's okay for them. to charge the next day I see so and I.

have all the respect in the world for. the oh 100% it sounds like in fact I'll. tell you this some things I would do. we'd get either helicopters we did a lot. of things with hilos yeah and we'd. either get Navy Pilots or Marine pilots. I would always inquire who's flying us. and when they'd say Marines I'd always. go good yeah because I knew that if. anything went out of whack and you. called that Marine he's coming wow he's.

a Marine he going to come there's. something special he's not going to. think he's not going to have second. thoughts he's going to charge the beach. he's a Marine so I always felt better. when I knew Marine pilots were flying us. yeah we got a couple of jarheads up. there flying us today that's okay that's. good. stuff but uh no it's a natural rival we. were no I love it we were at camp. Pendleton once and what I used to hate. about it was they used to send us up. there when the Marines had practice. their Landings so we'd have to sit up.

all day in these boats if any of them. fell in the water to pull them out yeah. you know we're lifeguards right and we. think what the hell where's Marine Recon. how come they don't do this what do. we got to come up here and do this all. day out in the sun bobbing around while. they're landing on the beach you know. and uh well the one time we went up to. Pendleton we had Master Chief Cory came. up with us E9 our Command Master Chief. okay that's the highest you can get E9. yeah listed he's head listed right well.

Marines don't always know uniforms very. good you know charging the beach don't. require you to know a lot of other stuff. right and so an E9 in the Navy on his. lapel carries an anchor with two stars. on the anchor the anchor signifies a. chief okay and the two little stars. indicate a Senior Chief or a master. chief okay D9 okay well Cory's walking. on the beach with his master chief two. stars and all of a sudden these marines.

are running on the beach and. they're stopping boy and they're popping. salutes to Corey every going by right. well Cory's enlisted man he's. E9 well then it hit us they think Cory's. a two-star Admiral all they're doing is. seeing the two stars up on the lapel and. the Marines don't know Navy insignias. they think Cory's a and word spread dude. means oh boy the Frog men got a two star. admiral with them holy crap right on the. beach with them they got some twar Navy.

Admiral with them you know so we got. anything we wanted hey we need some. stuff oh yeah let's get this over I need. a crab leg up here at the front yeah. well I'll say this and I'll you know I I. I was in the Naval Amphibious based. Coronado and that one best chow hall. it's beautiful over there in the Western. Pacific for like 9 or 10 years years in. a row you know we you know that shows. you the superiority between the Navy and. the rest of the. services every Friday at the naval M FIB.

base Coronado do you know what we had. for lunch every Friday without fail frog. steak and lobster baby damn they'd cover. you a beautiful piece of steak with a. lobster tail God Y and you know what it. used to cost me for that cuz I I our job. takes us away from the base so we have. to pay to eat on the base we get what's. called comrats in case we got to eat in. town or somewhere yeah where you know so. we get paid so I got to pay on the base.

you know what the steak and lobster. would cost me like 85 cents damn that's. a deal bro yeah breakfast was like 35. cents anything you wanted to eat damn. went to Army jump school oh my God if. they didn't have the pizza trucks that. ran around at night I'd have starved to. death really oh the army. horrifying Army jump school they measure. out and you get one scoop of everything. you look at and you go we got out there.

the seals and we're complaining to the. Army going how are you supposed to fight. if you're not being fed kpe Almighty we. need food we work out we we burn energy. feed us so they made us do KP one time. and boy we said what is this we. said if the Green Berets came to our. base we wouldn't make them do KP and to. do it well we're in Army Airborne School. part of the school you know which is a. joke I just completed 26 weeks of SEAL.

training and I go out for three weeks of. jump school yeah we used to get up at 5: in the morning and do pt before they'd. even get up on purpose to wake them all. up damn we'd be out there doing PT the. seals are out at 500 a.m. doing PT cuz. they don't get enough from us damn oh. yeah that's all part of the Mystique. baby the Mystique back then it was F. they didn't know us at all wow in fact. we sent Tremors through the rest of the. Navy it was all secretive huh well final.

story I went to boot camp and that's. where you go to boot. camp when you go to Navy boot camp it's. not difficult right there nothing hard. there in fact I used to work out and do. push-ups at night because I was getting. out of shape damn so I'm at boot camp. damn one day every day at boot camp you. get taught a different facet of the Navy. Electronics technician storekeeper. Batson's mate sonar Tech whatever all. these different jobs in the Navy well.

the one day you get the UDT SEAL. presentation yeah they march three. companies into a room so it's. probably close to 100 guys in there mhm. yeah close to 100 guys in there and. you're giving the presentation you're. getting no we're getting it okay they. March in your in boot camp they March. you into a room and all of a sudden. these guys come walking out wearing. Marine green spit sh Cochran jump boots. they don't look Navy and they're all. built damn and the guy walks up Chief.

rash check and goes today gentlemen. you're going to hear about the. brownwyk to be one of us so then they. showed you showed us a film called the. men with green face. and you watch this film right it tells. you all about the seals right and then. when you're done with that he comes back.

out and he says okay anybody that wants. to volunteer for the UDT SEAL program. stay seated he goes the rest of you get. the out of here damn there were. guys running over each other getting to. the doors yeah cuz I mean half of them. joined the Navy they didn't want to be. doing this you know what they. watched on a film yeah going Behind. Enemy Lines six guys all this stuff they. didn't want that SM there no there's no.

friendly anywhere wow that type of work. n I'd rather be on the ship but you. wanted it oh you have to you volunteer. yeah okay. probably I would say let me think. back 30 guys maybe stayed 25 to take. this what they call the screen test M I. would say a dozen of us were serious the. other 12 or whatever were just doing it.

to break the monotony of boot camp yeah. and so they they March you over to the. swimming pool and you got to line up. across the pool and you got to do a 300. meter swim long course 50 M Pool using. only an underwater recovery stroke you. can't swim crawl you can't swim. butterfly or backstroke you have to swim. either breast stroke or side stroke. something that doesn't bring your arms. out of the water cuz you're going to be. doing candescent swimming so you can't. breathe out of the water no you can.

breathe you can't bring your arms up you. don't want to be splashing you want to. underwater breast stroke is an. underwater recovery stroke C and go seek. or something all they see is your head. if you're swimming the butterfly you're. splashing and you look like a butterfly. coming in on the beach yeah that brings. intention yeah so you can only do this. swim using an underwater recovery stroke. through 300 M well I was a competitive. swimmer so this was a piece of cake for. me and like a dummy I do it like I'm in.

the Olympic trials and I win by like a. pool length I'm going to show these seal. instructors boom I hit the I'm doing. breast stroke like I'm in the turn the. pull underwater the K it all dude you. know and I'm down back the six I'm done. the next guy still got 50 yard 50 me to. go right but I was stupid I wore out I. could have cruised cuz when I later. learned cuz I used to give screen tests. later when I learned the time you had to. beat I could have cruised I didn't need.

to go that fast then I would say half of. them were gone at the end of the swim it. eliminated half we're now down to I. think eight guys wow they paired us up. and you had to do as many push-ups as. you could in two minutes only resting in. the up position then the other guy went. and you counted for each other then as. many sit-ups as you could do in 2. minutes and then as many four count. burpees as you could do in 2 minutes.

damn then they took you over to the to. the track and you then had to run a mile. and again they don't tell you what's. passing they just say four times around. the track run the mile you remember how. quick you went I don't know yeah they. didn't have a CL I don't know they. didn't tell you I C I I won the swim I. did great on everything else I came in. third on the Run and berer I even know. the two guys bringer and berer beat me. yeah on the run so we finished the Run. they then line the eight or 10 guys.

whoever was left up and they walked down. the line with a clipboard and all he. says to you is either pass or fail damn. four you know how many passed four oh so. you had 100 guys and only four guys. passed that was just a get to training. damn then when you get to training each. class starts with about a hundred guys. roughly MH you will probably graduate 25. wow it's got a 75 to 80% attrition rate. that's all for UDT seals both oh that's.

for seals for both it's all you're all. one there ain't no difference oh okay. there's no difference between there's no. difference it's same training same train. in my day you then went to a UDT team or. a Seal Team wow and they generally sent. the better swimmers went to a UDT team. damn cuz you were going to do more water. work than a seal would wow so I got sent. to a UDT team CU I was a good swimmer. yeah and I think back and all the guys. from my class that went with they were. all the best swimmers in the class damn.

and the instructor told me later yeah I. said oh yeah the best swimmers went to. the. UDT the the others went to the seals the. stronger swimmers always went to UDT and. but you still carried weapons you still. did in fact lots of times we were the. demolition element with the seals they'd. come and get one of us to go with to set. up the explosives for them you know. that's cool and all that no it ain't. cool none of it's cool oh it isn't nope. none of it today my view today is I'm so. anti-war really yep but at the time you.

had a different perception though had to. yeah had to but today it's all tell me. one war we've been in since World War. II wait that accomplished something yeah. tell me one ain't. any tell me one that accomplished. something yeah none yeah why were they. fought I don't. know I'll finish with this my father had. my mother and father are both World War.

II veterans yeah my mom was a nurse in. North Africa that predated Normandy wow. not many can say their mom and my mom. was actually injured and sent back home. deers in North Africa as a nurse and my. dad was under Patton had six bronze. Battle Stars North Africa Normandy. Battle of the B Ragan bridge anzio and. Berlin and lived Jers Jesus right those. are my parents now you kind of.

understand but they weren't warmongers. there were nothing like that but now you. kind of understand why I went in the. service yeah everyone in my family went. in the service it was kind of just what. you did and my parents never pushed Us. in fact my dad I came home from high. school and my dad was home World War II. vets six Bron Battle Stars and I come. home and told my dad Dad we got a fight. in. Vietnam my dad goes why why do you think.

that I said we have to stop the domino. effect of Communism if we don't stop. them there the communism's going to go. all over the world this what I and yeah. that's what they thought everywhere you. know my dad did he looked at me and he. said is that what they're teaching you. in school I said yeah my dad looked at. me and said that's the biggest bunch of. I've ever heard wow now imagine. what I went through right there my. father's telling me my teachers are.

bullshitting me I respected my teachers. they they and here's my dad telling me. they're giving me a line of. my dad looked at me and said. we're not there to stop communism he. said we're there because somebody's. making big. money well when I I was fortunate to. come home and I was fortunate that my. second deployment they had pulled us out. you know I was at the very tail end fe.

uh February 71 till November. 71 and uh I was able to come home to my. dad and said guess what Dad you were. right and my dad looked at me and said I. always knew I was right I said it's. sometimes you just have to learn things. the hard way said I tried to I did what. I felt I had to do to tell you the truth. the rest was up to you wow but I mean my. dad was against the Vietnam War before. the hippies. damn and here's a six so you'll find.

that many veterans like myself are the. most anti-war people wow because they. know it doesn't accomplish nothing and. my dad fought in the popular war Jesus. the one that was the Great War yeah you. know the one that stopped. Hitler yeah I might add too anyone that. studies Hitler 30s Germany take a look. at Donald. Trump yeah same. Playbook same Playbook as Hitler's.

Germany and he's doing it right now yeah. and this country is so stupid they're. falling for it the guy's a con. man and a good one because he's got a. lot of smart people that have bought. drank the Kool-Aid for lack of better. he's Jim. Jones you know there all do you feel. like all the so many politicians are. conmen though huh he's not a politician. right that's a good point that's a good. point and also too you know how The Rock. has said he might run and all.

this what these what people need to. understand is this yes Jesse Ventura won. but they need to understand Jesse. Ventura has done 14 years of public. service right Donald Trump had done none. yeah the rock to my knowledge I love the. rock but he's done none right I was in. the military 6 years so I understand. that part mhm right that's public. service right you were a mayor I was a.

mayor of the sixth largest city for four. years and I was a governor for four. years so I've every branch of government. so I have experience in the public. sector yeah these guys don't and here's. the big difference and I'll end with. this the difference is. this the private sector is for. profit the public sector is to provide. services there's a big.

difference these guys that come from the. private sector bring only expertise at. making profit they don't bring the. expertise at providing Public Service. yeah government is public service it's. to provide for the masses yeah the good. of the many not the good of a few you. and not the good of the elite or the. rich it's to the masses these guys have. no Donald Trump had no.

experience especially not I don't think. helping anyone but himself I would agree. with that you know and that's how come. he came in and governed the same way. yeah and why people think he's the. Messiah I've had PE you know I'm. agnostic atheist right I've had people. tell me Donald Trump is a good. Christian you know what I responded with. well if he's a good Christian I'm glad. I'm. not you know if that's what a good.

Christian. is you don't want any part of I don't. want no part of it you don't want no. part of it cuz he'd sell his soul to. rock and roll baby he'll sell out the. he'll sell out look what look at what. he's done to all the people around him. if you don't count out to him he sells. you out on the river man yeah yeah I. think it's so many of those guys it's. the dark arts man I just wonder how do. we get out of the system how do we break. this this don't vote for Democrats and. Republicans yeah agree it's it's as.

simple as the nose on your face but it's. as difficult as climbing Mount Everest. yeah yeah you know and especially let me. throw this out especially here's one. that goes beyond my belief when you have. a state like like I said the talibans in. Texas now I call Texas the home of the. Talib the United States Taliban mhm. because do you know right now it's. easier to buy a gun in Texas than. vote man now isn't there something.

inherently wrong with that yeah you can. buy a gun in Texas easier than you can. vote. Jeepers nobody's going to ID you for the. gun you can walk in anywhere in Texas. and buy a gun but if you got to vote oh. you got to register jump through hoops. they've closed voting places you maybe. have to drive 30 miles can't mail. nothing in anymore you know none of that.

we will have and do you know there's no. voter fraud I can tell you I knew that. when I got into office in Minnesota we. did a huge study and it came. back nothing significant yeah and all. the things they've caught now the only. votes they've caught have been votes for. Trump that were illegal yeah you know. it's a lot they they who here's the part. that makes me laugh who do they think is. out organizing voter fraud and for what.

purpose you got local people that. volunteer their good time to be. independent and count these votes like. Great American citizens and then you got. the trumpies telling them they're all a. bunch of crooks yeah how dare these. trumpies say that well I think they have. proof I think there is none I think. there's no way to to determine if those. people counting the votes what their. allegiances are both are there right.

both are represented not done behind. closed doors yeah then that's totally. that makes and they had that phony Rec. count in Arizona yeah Biden won yeah. even when they hired their Hired Guns to. come in and hopefully switch it over so. they'd have an argument yeah none of. that amounted to anything well 60 court. cases all thrown out yeah Rudy Giuliani. getting disbarred in some states now. because he brought these lawsuit or. brought things to court with no evidence.

which they do have rules you know as a. lawyer you can't just bring frivolous. things forward you got to have evidence. they had no evidence of nothing yeah and. yet people have bought into it and said. it. happened get a lot of that is. interesting I don't know it's funny to. know how how involved people are where. people what people are trusting have any. of you ever met any one that committed. voter fraud you know all your years on. the planet ever talked to anyone about. doing it I don't know I never had no.

it's only crime we got four people in. the room and it's only come to light in. the last year or. two voter fraud that's a good point. nobody cared you know there no nobody. any other election and and Trump gave us. a preview cuz remember all leading up to. the election he was he was setting. himself up if he lost oh if I it's cuz. it's rigged yeah remember he started. that early on out I'll tell you the. person that knows him forward and. backwards is that niece of his have you.

seen her oh is she a real dime vka no oh. no his niece fine as hell she's a trump. she she's a psychologist legit oh she. went to college she gets on TV and. dissects his brain everything she said. about him is exactly what happens. interesting she said he will never admit. losing the election no matter what yeah. that's a lot of his thing is no. admission of never will admit it of a.

defeat and then he's got all these. people out there that are buying the. Kool-Aid like this guy's a. hero I don't know I think different. people like him for different reason. this guy ran from the draft yeah he. bought his way now I look up to Muhammad. Ali and Muhammad Ali ran from the draft. you know what the difference is though. you know what the difference is Ali was. willing to go to jail for his beliefs. Trump wasn't Trump bought his way out.

Trump faed no charges yeah Trump Buck. you know that's rich rigged the system. that's rich people but see see Ali and. Ali had it made they already told him. you're going to do nothing but what Joe. Lewis did you'll go down you'll do. exhibitions Ali wasn't going to get he. knew they were going to use him to get. black kids to volunteer to send to. Vietnam and he was going to have none of. it Muhammad was not going to be the. Catalyst that sent his black kids you.

know people have asked me if I've ever. used the nword yeah and I have to admit. I have I used no I used it when I quote. Ali oh wow I quote Muhammad Ali and he. used it so if he can use it I can quote. him yeah and not and he said it about. the Viet Kong remember he said no Viet. Kong never called me the nword oh. wow no no I remember when Muhammad said. that to the Press ain't no Viet Kong. what do I want to fight these people for. ain't no Viet Kong ever called me the N.

word the n word you know and so Muhammad. wouldn't get sucked in to bring in all. the other blacks so they could kill them. in Vietnam and send them cuz blacks were. very much disp. disportionately represented in Vietnam. really they didn't have a lot of them. they what was our black population then. maybe 10 11% was it even that high and. what percent were in Vietnam way more. really. sure cuz the people that serve like that.

are the poor people oh yeah well it's a. lot of Latina it's a lot of Mexican and. black it's a lot of poor white um in my. neighborhood in South Minneapolis I grew. up in South Minneapolis by the Lake. Street bridge where what's name died is. my old neighborhood is all through there. yeah George Floyd yeah well if you grew. up there you maybe had to go to work. right well then you went to Vietnam I. have all sorts of friends that got. drafted but again if you lived out at. Lake motanka or Edina you didn't see.

Vietnam you went to college you got. deferments yeah see it was so unfair. it's always been like that though it's. always the poorest people are always the. ones you know what they're going to have. to do if they bring it back going to. have to draft women wow they they'll. have to some of these need to go. out no they'll have to yeah how can they. not look it's time I want to see I want. I don't want to see no draft at all I. worked against the draft I came back and. used to used to March against the draft. absolutely wow why should us why should.

the rich get out of it oh I don't think. the rich should get out of it but I. think you got to find a way to get. everybody to be draft to make it fair. that's why a lot of these things it's. like if it started happening to the rich. people things why do you need if we. weren't involved in all these wars we. wouldn't need all these people yeah and. besides you kill people with pushing a. button more than you do with boots on. the ground these days the actual people. aren't having a chance in their own life. even almost in their own safety out. there the the whole War thing is is sad. because uh we spend all our money in.

preparation for War I mean everyone's. bitching about Biden's 3.5 trillion. dollar being too much it's too much to. spend that on us they have no problem. spending that in Afghanistan right had. no problem spending it in Iraq but yet. here they're going to spend it on people. in the United States and there's an. outrage it's too much too much money for. us yeah it's our money but it's too much. for us oh God don't give it to us don't. help out Americans certainly we could.

ship it off to a war and build a nation. somewhere you know we could spend. trillions like we did in Afghanistan and. Iraq and what do we have to show for it. zilch not a ton you know but oh God no. don't that's way big two price tag us. Republicans aren't going to stand for. that that's a good point Point man you. know you spending the money on us yeah. on people of America jobs programs and. and and and you know uh uh leave so.

women can work and thing you know for. kids and babies and all oh God we don't. want to spend money on that when we can. spend money on a new aircraft carrier. yeah that's crazy huh you know Jesus. come on it's yeah that is I hope. everyone's getting my sarcasm I hope I'm. being over the top with it's a lot of a. dirty funnel man good good good because. you never know today somebody's oh you. should have heard what Jesse said well. them man people look I think you. speak loud and clear and I think it's. obvious what you say and uh Jesse you.

have quite a body of work and I just. appreciate you being here and spending. time today there were some things tell. me you're a comedian I am man I am uh. finish me with a freaking joke sometimes. I'm going to put you on the hot spot. give me a freaking joke comedian uh let. me think of something good man all right. let's you let's happen that years ago. okay I was playing with the and a guy. from Wisconsin told it to me uhhuh did. you hear about when Jeffrey dmer had his.

mom over for dinner you know who Jeffrey. dmer is right oh yeah yeah the dangerous. man yeah you heard about when he had his. mom over for dinner uhuh yeah well his. he had his mom over for dinner and his. mom said Jeffrey you know I just don't. care for these friends of yours and. Jeffrey said that's okay Mom try the. [Laughter]. vegetables now to to remind you dmer is. the guy that was the cannibal oh yeah no. I know I almost ate a freaking. Vietnamese guy one time at a damn Best. Buy I thought I heard that joke playing.

golf I thought it was kind of funny look. I think it's good man you got to. remember the cheese heads over there. they birth a lot of the you know about. Ed Gan right oh yeah yeah oh yeah he's a. cheese head right across the river he. was a Packers fan sure he is wow I don't. know if he was a Packers fan but he's a. cheese head oh yeah yeah he was that's. somebody from wiscons he from Illinois. he was from. yes oh I thought he's from Illinois hell. no he's Wisconsin about 800 miles over. the Border over there lot of creeps out. there man that's who they did psycho.

dude you know Lee Lee Harvey Oswald went. to school in my hometown did he yeah in. Louisiana pretty cool man oh yeah um you. know who you would love to talk to man. is Robert Kennedy uh Bob Jr I've talked. to him you have yeah he's a really smart. guy man both you guys just have so much. information uh I've taken his son diving. wow that's cool oh his son are awesome. aren't they good kids his son was down. in Cabo and uh we have a mutual friend. dick Russell who I've done books with. and uh and so uh Robert's son wanted to.

go diving with an authentic frog band. wow so I went over there and joined him. and and I took Robert's son diving yeah. so he could dive with an authentic real. Frogman was pretty excited over that and. there was I enjoyed it you know kind of. granting a kid's wish you know yeah you. now would tell his friends yeah I've. dove with the real frog man yeah you. know so uh no he's he's a special guy. I've ever been 212 ft damn under the. water what was down there nothing it's.

blacker than hell can't see a thing yeah. can't see your hand front of your face. did you get scared or no yeah there's a. bounce dive where you go down we did off. point LMA it's a great story uh bounce. dive probably 10 or 12 pairs of guys and. what you do is you're going down 212 ft. you're staying there for a minimum time. so you don't have to decompress so your. Bottom's about 30 seconds then you got. to start coming up but you come up only. where's your slowest bubbles are you on. a rope yeah okay the thing down you get.

down there and you you'll see how deep. you they dropped it down 212 ft dang so. we went down 212 ft and the good part. was off point. LMA we all got done about 10 swim pairs. we were pulling the rubber raft boat. into the pl boat and one of my teammates. go is on the fan tail the back he goes. hey guys check it out and he points over. here. here come a freaking great white yeah. swimming right on the surface dorsal fin. about a foot and a half out of the water. cruised right by us as big as jaws and.

we're all sitting in the pl Boat. watching this big boy go by we had. detracted his attention oh apparently us. going up and down the paars he came over. to see what what's this damn and we had. just all happened to getting out of the. water when he went cruising by see I was. happy that I was in the seals and was a. frog man Jaws didn't come out till 75 oh. I was discharged and out of the Navy by. then cuz if they' had Jaws I'm sure they.

would have showed it to us one night in. training yeah we would have had to sat. and watch jaws and then go on a swim oh. that would have been no I mean the. instructors would do that just to get. guys equipped yeah okay you just watched. jaws now we're going on a two mile ocean. swim I'd have quit I'd have quit man uh. far swim I had to do five miles really. yep straight or is it yeah they just. take you five miles from the beach in. San Diego and they dump you off they're. out there with the pl they got an M16 in.

case anything comes around you know. there's always a guy with an M16 and. they you're you're out so far with in. the swells you can't even see the. skyscrapers of San Diego wow at water. level and they just point and say that. way and you start swimming and five. miles takes you good part of the day. damn you know you spend I was a good. swimmer so I got in early it is. enjoyable do you kick your legs when you. swim or you just use your arms you got. fins on damn right you do crepe you.

don't want to not use your fins yeah I'm. mess up that you do it with f you got to. qualify for them though you got to swim. a swim under a certain time then you get. your fins oh damn and then from that. point on you can do all your swims with. fins and you hell you're in the ocean. you want fins oh yeah you're not in the. pool you know I did my share of swimming. on the line yeah you know competitive. swimming my claim to fame I actually. swam in the same poo with Mark Spitz. once oh damn you know didn't compete.

against him I just was in the same pool. could you have been a competitive. swimmer you think not I was just not at. his level yeah he's the seven Olympic. gold medals he was even when Phelps. broke his record it was remarkable I. didn't think anyone ever would but. spitz's record was still better than. phelps's eight you know why. spitz's seven is better than phelps's 8. in my opinion because it was in more. [Music]. categories one reason um spitz's seven.

gold medals were also seven World. Records oh wow phelps's eight gold. medals were eight gold medals but not. every swim was a world record damn mark. spitz's seven Golds were also seven. World Records I take I like that you. know seven gold medals seven World. Records I can barely swim and oh. I could I swam I I spent more time in a. pool than I did on land I ride on your. back I bet I would probably ride on your.

back no I I that's why I don't swim. today yeah I don't even I have a place. on the ocean I don't even go out in it. damn there's what's out there you've. seen it all you've been through SE it. all what do I want to go out there for. you got a big body of work Jessy Ventura. you got a big body of work you haven't. given me a joke yet I can't leave I gave. you a joke now all I I gave you the dmer. joke come on you're a comedian find me a. freaking joke all right I got this joke. then this is one. uh what do you call a fish with no.

eyes a fish with no what do you call a. fish with no. eyes and it's got to be so okay what. what's in the water that's. blind I don't know what a. f a what a f. my niece told me that one thank God it. was your niece I I'll give it a pass now. because your niece told you that one I.

wanted something from your comedy. routine oh here's one I got from you not. your little niece who comes up with a. funny okay I'll tell her credit that's. how old was she uh I think she's nine. yeah well that's that that fits about a. nine that's a good one here for the. 9-year-old very good okay here's one. give me one from your routine okay my. cousin just got busted for uh pot. sucking really small. dicks that's just a joke so so either.

way you lose here I mean they're all bad. ones where you playing they're all bad. ones so I know where I'm not. going Jessie V you better get something. to make me laugh how am I going to come. see you you know what I got a special. coming up now you do stand up yeah you. know I've been told that I could do that. really yeah because I can hold I can oh. I could see you holding a room yeah I. could see you doing tours like ja o. willing does he does a lot of speaking. and tours well and what I do I don't. really do standup comedy but I do a lot. of make people laugh while I with the.

stupidity of things I tell them I'd like. to you oh I think the points you would. make and bring in insight into people I. think would be a lot of people would be. laughing at themselves CU because like I. said earlier the thrill for me was being. able to go to Harvard and I I'll tell. you this too maybe they've been broken. now but I had the largest classes in. Harvard history damn they had to move me. into the comons cuz my classes were open.

to everybody and so oh yeah they had to. move me in the Commons because there was. the place would just fill up oh dude. you're like you you remind me of like. Christopher Lloyd if he had big. balls you know yeah well and it was fun. just it was fun for me to be able to go. there and influence kids who I know are. going to end up probably being important. right you know because of where they go. to school and and and everything like. that and it's like when Muhammad Ali.

went and spoke at a Harvard graduation. wow you know and I need to go back and. listen to some of that stuff and you. know Muhammad when he spoke at the. Harvard graduation he set the world's. record for the shortest poem damn he did. what it was you remember yeah he uh he. was speaking at the graduates of Harvard. I heard the to story told and somebody. in the crowd yelled out give us a. poem and Ali looked at the crowd and it. was the short that it should be the.

shortest in history he went me. we it's not that's all right and that's. the shortest poem in history me me. we and Ali did that off his top of his. head oh that's interesting the guy who. talked about it was uh Plimpton I think. it was I heard George plon yeah oh Dam. he was talking it was either him or. another one of them famous writers and.

they said they looked it up and they. said that would qualify as because the. one before had three syllables damn Ali. had two and then the one that was listed. as the record had three syllables he was. a real master you know I was lucky I got. to spend a day with him really oh yeah. what' y'all do do y'all go to dinner no. sat in his house Baron Springs I didn't. want to go to no freaking dinner yeah I. wanted to I was in his house all day. with just his people and me and my.

people and uh he well because the story. is when I won the. governor um I got up and I talked that. night about that I was a young kid when. Muhammad Ali then Cashes Clay beat Sunny. Lon for the world title I said nobody. believed that cashes would win now Ali. and I said that night he said he shocked. the world well I said tonight we Shock. the World dang don't end.

there I'm the governor-elect I'm in the. bowels of the capital haven't taken over. yet and a business friend of mine Harvey. McCay shows up on my schedule for 10. minutes M and Harvey walks in said. Harvey what are you doing here he said I. brought you something and you had a big. box. better open it I opened the box. up on the inside was a pair of Everlast. boxing gloves.

wow I hate this. part what makes you sad well he's my. hero oh. yeah the boxing. gloves said to Governor Ventura you. shock the World Muhammad Ali he was. watching ah that. night sorry he was watching that night.

and he took the. time and that's what set up for me to. come visit him wow and when I went to. visit him he was of course stricken with. the. Parkinson's but his wife Lonnie said to. me she said you know Muhammad wouldn't. take his medicine last night and I said. why she said because it it slows him. down down and he didn't want to be slow. he was so excited you were coming today. a and I thought Muhammad Ali is excited. that I'm coming to see him give me a.

break you know what what what what made. you so happy that he was proud of you. cuz he's my hero. yeah he's he's a guy who if you read his. biography he developed his whole style. from pro wrestling oh wow yeah and uh he. uh battled the. system he was a man who stood up for. what he believed in and was willing to. pay the price for it and I don't think.

there's a better hero you can have in. the world and so he's my hero he always. was he always will be and I think it. kind of shocked Mohammad because uh do. you want to hear what I did for him that. day yeah I would like to hear that and. this will be the ending I don't know if. your tape's still running we might be. out of tape that's okay here here's what. I I I looked at him and I. said I am the greatest by Cash's clay.

this is the legend of Cash's clay the. most beautiful fighter in the world. today he talks a great deal and brags. indeedy of a muscular punch that's. incredibly Speedy the fistic world was. dull and weary with a champ like Liston. things had to be dreary then someone. with color someone with Dash brought. fight fans are running with cash this. brass young boxer is something to see. and the heavyweight championship is his. Destiny this kid fights great he's got. speed and endurance but if you sign to.

fight him increase your insurance this. kid's got a left this kid's got a right. if he hits you once you're asleep for. the night and as you lie on the floor. while the ref counts 10 you pray that. you won't have to fight me again for I. am the man this story's about I'll be. champ of the world there isn't a doubt. here I predict Mr liston's dismemberment. I'll hit him so hard he'll wonder where. October and November went here I predict. and I know the score I'll be champ of.

the world in. 64 no that's off memory yeah that's your. hero tell me he would he he didn't and. when I did that for. him he had tears in his eyes cuz I think. he thought what the hell would a little. white boy in South. Minneapolis and you know where that's. from he did an album way back called I. am the. greatest disc where he's standing there.

with his foot up and holding a fist I am. the greatest by Cash's clay I used to. listen to that album day in and day out. wow as a young 10 11 year old. kid who wanted to be a fighter and ended. up a wrestler yeah he ended up up pretty. close though well Muhammad learned from. uh G wrest no it's interesting yeah no. he said he went to an interview once and. it was him and gorgous George and he sat.

and listen and he was early in his. career and he heard Gorgeous George. bragging away and doing what wrestlers. do well Muhammad said that night I was. boxing in front of 20 people he said. Gorgeous George was wrestling in front. of 5,000 wow light went off Mohammad. said you got to sell yourself here you. got to do what these wrestlers do start. and that's why he started naming the. round yeah they all must fall in the. round I call they all must lose in the. round I. Choose You know and he started. predicting his Knockouts and then he did.

it speaking things into existence too. it's kind of wild that's what really got. him going he then did it yeah you know. but no Ali Ali was bigger than life. really for what he stood for and you. know this kid from Louisville Who Rose. up and learned and wouldn't be. manipulated ated and uh and he he he. stood for what he believed and he. wouldn't. compromise and I'd like to believe that.

everything I do is very much in that. aspect for me too and that if whatever I. do I'd make him proud you know and uh we. ran into each other later out in La I. saw Lonnie at the hotel in Beverly Hills. I looked over said Lonnie what are you. doing here Jesse I said it's mad here. she goes oh yeah he's up she told me. theot she said she said go up he'd love. to see you wow so I ran to the other. it's that hotel that's on both sides of. the street I ran to the other one got in.

the elevator went up there she told me. the door rang the doorbell up there and. I'll never forget this young black kid. opened the door he saw it was me and his. jaw dropped and he was. frozen and I looked at the black kid and. I thought and he could I thought you're. Frozen looking at me and you're in a. room with Muhammad. Ali something wrong with this. picture are you kidding me well this kid.

was all Jessie Ventura you so I came in. and Mohamad and I hugged and talked and. had a good little thing there and he was. the car was coming for him he was doing. something or other and you know and I. was out there doing business or whatever. and and then later you know of course he. died and all of that but he'll live. forever yeah you know I think is he'll. live as long as I'm around cuz he's. alive in the story I mean he lives. through stories he lives through lore. even my dad and my dad knew a lot about. boxing he fought a little himself and.

all that the World War II vet my dad. gave in to me in the end you know what. he said he said that clay kid he said. he's the best ever wow and I said why is. that Dad why'd you say that my dad died. in uh 91 and I said Dad how come now you. say that Muhammad's the best ever he. said I'll tell tell you why he said. speed he said no heavyweight has ever. had the Speed that guy had with his legs. in his hands he said he'd to beat them. all and my dad grew up with Dempsey grew.

up with all the but he said Al e to beat. them all he said there was no way they. could have contended with his speed and. he proved it well he proved the opposite. to George Foreman yeah he got George. with rope it open yeah yeah oh he's. remarkable to watch man you know changed. his whole Style got George to punch. himself out he's one of a kind and Pig. George did and George ended up being a. hell of a guy after that George. Foreman's you know he went into.

depression I heard for two years but. when he came out of it George Foreman's. one of the most likable guys in the. world now amen you know and and and. today he just says I just thank goodness. I fought Ali wow he made me took me to. elements i' have never got to well you. doing that for us Jesse we thank you so. much for your time Jesse The Body of V. thank you so much for being here today. man thank you my pleasure have a good. day.