0:00
We're divided on race, religion, politics, social ideologies, political ideologies.
0:05
There's so much division and we have an active politicians and active media
0:10
continuing to divide Americans on those. And I don't think that back in those days
0:14
they had the media so national and so global as we do now, which is why I say
0:19
I think we're in a more dangerous place now. People will always say, do you think we'll have
0:23
a civil war and I said, we're already in it. Yeah, I guess when people ask they mean like
0:26
literally a civil war with guns. Well, I think if you continue to go down this road,
0:29
there are people that are passionate about their belief system. And clearly
0:33
somebody didn't like what Charlie said and Bill Charlie. Yeah.
0:36
Somebody got a present from, but it's not forget that the Democrats say and the media tried to
0:40
just forget about that. Yeah. They got it in his ear and then just short time later
0:44
somebody else tried it. Yeah. So like, these are really dangerous places to be in this country.
0:54
Okay, guys, in Phoenix, Amfest Day 3, final hour, we got Sheriff Mark Lam
0:59
in the building. Good to finally. Thanks for man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, first share
1:04
you're making a lot of noise. So I'm trying. Yeah, we got it right. Yeah, you're worth it.
1:08
You're doing a great job out of man. Thank you. What's the big fight these days for you? Look,
1:12
I still think the border is an issue. The reason why is I don't want people to forget about
1:17
what a problem that was under the previous administration. They've come in and fixed about
1:21
the fixes are executive orders. Right. And so if we don't codify these things in the law,
1:28
so that Congress becomes very important, Senate becomes very important to make sure that these
1:32
changes that President Trump has implemented are long-term change. Yeah. So I do worry about that.
1:37
If we lose the midterms and then say that the left winds president 28 will the board
1:41
go back to how it used to be? Absolutely. You think so? Because it worked for them.
1:44
You know, look at now they're defending a lot of people that are even criminals in this country.
1:49
They're defending them. I never thought I'd see them defend the indefensible way they have.
1:54
And then not only that, they're encouraging people to fight against ICE. And ICE is just doing
1:58
the job that Congress and Senate set forth when they establish the laws for immigration. So
2:04
I would hate to see it go back, but my guess is that's kind of the plan is put as many people
2:09
in use you can. Look at California. They count them as far as for the census on the congressional
2:15
districts. So yeah, I think they would go back to it. How bad was they when Biden was in
2:19
in order for you? It was awful. Yeah, look, I was on the news and I was trying to say it as much
2:24
as I could. And a lot of people think, oh, immigration, especially if you're from the west,
2:28
do you think maybe it's people from Mexico or from Guatemala or somewhere central South America?
2:34
The reality was they were coming from everywhere. Yeah. I mean, the majority of what we were
2:38
getting with a lot of Africans coming in, I went over to the San Diego area and there's a guy
2:43
there named Corey Go Tro who does a lot of stuff. And he said, in my time, I only had a couple people
2:49
from Mexico. Almost everybody was from China or Africa. Wow. And so like I tell people,
2:54
this was not a Hispanic thing. This was a global illegal migration into this country. And so,
3:05
yeah, it was it was not great. And look, now we're dealing with the unvetted people in this country.
3:10
We saw an Afghan guy who shot. Granted, he went through a little bit different process. Yep.
3:15
We have Minnesota where they've they've frotted billions of dollars, you know, in the Somali
3:23
communities. We've got a ton of people out there right now that came into this country unvetted.
3:29
And they don't love America. And that poses a danger. And we're starting to see some of that
3:36
kind of rear attendant. Yeah. And I know some of the jail specifically in Cali are overcrowded.
3:40
Yeah. So there's no solution. And even if like I have 12, I had 1500 beds, but I had about
3:46
8900 usable beds. Yeah. I couldn't even have illegal. I couldn't have iced detainees there unless
3:53
they've committed a state crime. Wow. So I couldn't have ice because I had a tax issue because my
3:57
jail was built on non-taxable bonds. Well, too much information for the crowd. But in the end,
4:03
I couldn't even help out ice. But even if I could, let's say I could, that was still I didn't
4:08
have enough. I didn't have enough bed space to really take on what a couple hundred people.
4:13
That's how much jails are. And so you've seen President Trump has gone out and built
4:18
Aligator Alcatraz, the Indy Speedway or whatever. He's come up with some very creative names for
4:25
him. But they've been good. Yeah. I haven't been to Alcatraz yet. Have you been there?
4:28
I know. Aligator. But I was down in that area. And I thought, man, I should go over an
4:32
alligator. I feel like that's a spot I want to see with my own eyes. It is out there in the middle
4:37
of the swamps though. So I drove through there. I went from Miami to Naples and all through that
4:42
area is where the alligator Alcatraz is shaping that one. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good luck. There's
4:46
the Gators everywhere. Now you're running for Congress, right? Yes, sir. I just like I didn't want
4:51
to. I for those who don't know, I was the sheriff for two terms in Penal County. So that was between
4:56
Phoenix and Tucson. I was there for eight years. And Senate came up and the border was the
5:03
number one issue. And I there's an old Danish saying that says he who has the ability has the
5:08
responsibility. I like that. And I felt that responsibility. I could I could protect my county from
5:15
let's always use the term. I could protect my herd from the wolves. Yeah. But if somebody
5:19
doesn't go hunt those wolves, they're going to multiply replenish and they're going to end up
5:23
taking over that they're going to end up taking it over. Yeah. And so I knew that we needed to do
5:29
something about it. And I had the ability to do it. And so I ran for the US Senate. I was unfortunate.
5:36
I didn't win. And sadly, you know, I look back now and it was a blessing. It was a blessing
5:43
from God that I didn't win. Everything happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason.
5:46
Yeah. Look at Trump. He didn't win. And uh, but now we need a more than ever. I think you know what I'm
5:50
in. And I wanted to ride off into the sunset. You were ready to retire. I had to retire because I
5:56
couldn't run for both. So when I ran for Senate, I couldn't run for sheriff. I had to pick one. Got
6:01
it. And so I knew that on December 31st of 2024, I had to retire. So this year I've been
6:06
retired and I've been in the private sector and life's good. Yeah. And I'm spending time with my
6:11
family. And you know, honestly, I didn't have the media nipping at my heels. I didn't have
6:17
people who hate me just because, um, because I believe that we should secure a border. And it was
6:24
it was a nice change. Yeah. Well, you were sheriff during some of the toughest years. I know.
6:27
10 years end of BLM riots and all that. It was not easy. Not easy. And I just in the end,
6:34
I wanted to walk away from it, but I couldn't walk away from the arena. So the answer question
6:38
I never really answered. Yes, I'm running for the US Congress because I just couldn't run away from
6:43
it. I still think the border needs fixing. I think the economy obviously is hurting American families.
6:49
And I think we're trending in the right direction. I would like to be part of getting that economy
6:55
to where it's good. It's working for Americans again. And so I want to be part of it.
7:00
The solution and not just complain about it on the outside. Yeah. I still remember vividly,
7:05
like maybe two, three years ago, Tom Homan was giving a speech. I was at the Heritage Foundation
7:10
with some influencers. And I was moved to tears when he was talking about the border.
7:15
He tells the story about that. It tells us so well. Yeah, the kids. And it was just such a sad story.
7:20
But what was it like working with him? Oh, Tom's great. Because I think Americans are hungry. I know
7:25
you have a lot of people on your shows. And I love it because
7:29
Americans are hungry for authentic people. Real people. People that aren't afraid,
7:34
they're unapologetic about what they believe in. And Tom is one of those guys. Yeah, people hate
7:39
him for it. But a lot of people love him for it. And what I've found is even when people disagree
7:45
with me, if you're consistent and you stand up for what you believe, at least they respect.
7:50
Right. Right. You know, they may not agree with you, but they respect. Yeah.
7:53
When people are flip-flops, they respect it. No, then nobody respects that. And so
7:57
I found that Tom is one of those rare. He's not. He's one of those guys that Americans
8:02
are really attracted to because he's authentic. And he's unapologetic. And he says things the way
8:08
they are. And he loves this country. Yeah. And I think President Trump's the same way.
8:13
And maybe you don't agree with everything he does. But I will tell you, his heart is in the right
8:18
place and he's doing it because he wants to be a better country. I mean, he said he's going to
8:21
shut down the border. He did. He did. Yeah. I guess shut down. They did. And it didn't take
8:28
new legislation. No, it took a day or two. Like you got a new leadership. Yeah, literally
8:32
took a day. That's it. But it can take a day to reverse it back. Right. So this is why it's important.
8:37
Now it didn't take new legislation to fix it immediately, but it will take new
8:43
meant legislation to ensure that it doesn't get flip-flopped again. And so that's why I think
8:48
getting the right people into Congress to send is important. Absolutely. How did Charlie's
8:52
passing affect you? You know, my son went and worked for Charlie and worked from for over a year.
8:58
And he was the guy that stood right next to Charlie filming. Wow. He would either film the crowd
9:03
or he would film Charlie. And I brought him on to work with me. We'd do some YouTube stuff.
9:09
By the way, at Real American Sheriff, you want to check it out. But my son helps me out on the
9:14
YouTube. And he's really good at the digital stuff. And so he was very close to Charlie,
9:20
very close to the guys who worked with next to Charlie. I consider Charlie a friend. I mean,
9:24
we didn't hang out at his house. But Charlie was a very, played a very big role, not just in America,
9:31
but in Arizona. Like this was his backyard. And I think it hit us all pretty hard. For me,
9:38
as an American, it hit because I thought, and where are we getting as a country to where this is
9:44
now, we're going to kill people because you definitely don't like what they say. Yeah. And I
9:50
think that's a dangerous place to be for anybody who's a historian. If you want to go read a great
9:55
speech by Lincoln, it was in 1827. And he went to some place called the the the boys Lyceum,
10:04
which was in Springfield, Illinois. And he gave what's called the Lyceum address,
10:09
L-Y-C-E-U-M. For anybody who wants to go read, it's a phenomenal. But it talks about just what
10:15
the country was like then and how divided it was. And one of the things he said is he said,
10:21
look, I don't think the country will fail. I do not think the union will be dissolved. However,
10:26
it cannot continue divided. Either it will go all the way one way or all the way the other.
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And I think we're kind of in that same place again. We can't continue divided. We're going to have
11:45
to fix this and I don't want to see Charlie was trying to do that. Charlie was the guy. He was
11:51
the nice guy. He was the guy at the table having the conversation. Trust me, there's a lot of
11:55
Americans out there who would like to fix it a different one. And look, I'm one of those
12:02
guys that will protect freedom to the very end. And I don't want to fight anybody for it,
12:08
but you better believe I will if you try to take away my freedom. Yeah, he was going to campuses
12:13
and just having conversations. He was and not took him out. He was a he was a he was missed. He
12:20
was a one of a kind one of one. You know, look, we see a lot of these one of the kinds come along. He
12:24
was one of one. And what Charlie understood is I I may be one, but I am one. You know, I always say,
12:31
how many people stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square? One guy went stood in front of
12:37
the tanks in Tiananmen Square and he changed a dynasty for many years. That's crazy.
12:42
And so you please anybody listening, don't discount what one person can do because we've seen
12:48
throughout history, Charlie Kirk, the guy who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square,
12:53
George Washington, so many people that were like, they were those ones. Yeah, especially in a
12:58
digital era like now, where everyone has a voice, right? You could stand up. Do you feel like we're
13:03
the most divided we've ever been like in your lifetime? In my lifetime, time certainly. Maybe,
13:09
I think I personally think we're probably more divided than what they were during the Civil War.
13:14
Wow. What a story. You know, the Civil Wars issue was really a slavery. It was part of it,
13:18
but the real, the bigger issue that the schools don't teach anymore, it was about states rights.
13:23
And the southern states were saying, you can't, we don't want the federal government to tell us
13:28
what it is. And so there became a clash. That was a difference of very narrow philosophies.
13:34
We're divided on race, religion, politics, social ideologies, political ideologies.
13:40
Yeah. There's so much division and we have an active politicians and active media continuing
13:46
to divide Americans on those. And I don't think that back in those days, they had the media so
13:52
national and so global as we do now, which is why I say, I think we're in a more dangerous place now.
13:59
People will always say, do you think we'll have a Civil War? And I said, we're already in it.
14:02
Wow. It's just civil right now. And the last thing you want is for it to not be civil.
14:08
Yeah. Yeah. I guess when people ask, they mean like literally a Civil War with guns,
14:12
but well, I think if you continue to go down this road, there are people that are passionate about
14:17
their belief system. And clearly somebody didn't like what Charlie said and killed Charlie.
14:23
Somebody shot at President Trump. Let's not forget that. The Democrats and the media tried to
14:27
just forget about that. They shot him in his ear. And then just short time later,
14:32
somebody else tried to kill. Yeah. So like, these are really dangerous places to be in this
14:37
country area. And I think that we have got to, and I think you need voices that are,
14:42
we talked about it, that are consistent, whether you agree with them or not, but you also need
14:46
voices that are, I'm still a God-fearing man. I believe we're all children of God. And I think that
14:55
everybody has a place on this earth. And I think that we've got to find some more of connection
15:00
as Americans and as children of God. And I think I hope to maybe bring some of that. But at the same
15:05
time, common sense and, and approaches that, that really built this country. There's so much
15:11
distrust right now. Like you said, a lot of division, I think people don't trust the police as much.
15:15
You probably experienced that. Well, it's why I ran for sheriff. Oh, yeah. I saw that under Obama.
15:19
I thought Obama was very destructive to this country's relationships between the police and law
15:26
and the citizens. Well, every time they had mental little things, they would, this is about,
15:31
because right during Obama's time is when body cameras started coming out. So then what he started
15:35
doing is weighing in on body cam videos, which I do too. I'm on my YouTube. He was weighing in on
15:42
a very dangerous way. Shed, you know, dividing people, making them angry with police. And they really
15:51
started to have, we started to see a lot of legal movements against our profession. And I think
15:58
that was where we started to really see a lot of damage be done. Interesting. So do you think
16:02
body cam videos were a net positive to society overall? Tough question. I think they were a net
16:07
positive for law enforcement. And I think they thought it was going to be the opposite. I think
16:11
the ACLU probably rules the fact that they got body camera. Because now what it shows is how
16:16
difficult people are to deal with, how respectful they are to law enforcement. And now,
16:22
if you go in and say, this guy did something and then they pull up the body cam and they realized,
16:26
no, you were the one that was your fault. Right. And so I think the body cameras have been
16:31
bed good for our profession. But it is shown that people have really lost a lot of respect for our
16:37
law. Oh, yes. Now people just record you guys instantly. What did they get pulled over?
16:41
And they're instantly angry. Yeah. And they're instantly, I don't have to give you your idea,
16:45
or I don't have to do this or that. And frankly, all they have to do is say, here's my ID. And
16:50
you know, picture it. Here's your my ID. And give me your ticket or whatever. And I'll go on my way.
16:57
That's what I do. Now, like, what's the worst thing I can give you? Give you a ticket.
17:00
If I, if they catch me speeding, I'm like, yeah, please, let's just make this quick. Like,
17:04
you got me, you got me on the gun. I'm here. I mean, that's how most people are.
17:08
But then you got these people that are that immediately just want to fight with the police and
17:13
disrespectful. No, it's a whole, like, there's a whole section of the internet just for that.
17:18
Yeah. It's like, uh, forget the name of the chat audit the audit or something. Yeah. Yeah.
17:21
And we have those auditors come out. And the nice thing about being the sheriff is the auditors
17:25
typically have some level of, of, they respect that you are an elected official. So they, they view
17:31
your authority as being legit authority. Right. And so that's kind of nice. But also they came
17:37
out to the office and we're, yeah, they were always following our guys around. Oh, they were
17:40
following. Yeah, they tried, they show up on traffic stops. And, and frankly, I think they get far
17:45
too close. Yeah. And you know, it's a tough, it's a tough profession to be in. It's still an
17:51
honorable profession. Yeah. And I would encourage anybody that wants to, to, to really feel like you're
17:55
doing something. Go be a cop. Yeah. It is a great profession. And you will push yourself beyond
18:01
places you thought. And you're going to see things and you're going to be able to, I'm a big
18:05
person on stelicism. Yeah. I, I think that man, you know, controlling your emotions and,
18:10
and all of those things are extremely important. And I think that being a police officer,
18:15
you have to learn how to do a lot of that for sure. You see some crazy stuff. Oh, yeah. I've had
18:20
officer Tatum on. He's seen the headings. He's seen killings. Um, yeah, traumatizing things.
18:25
And the worst are what you see to children. Yeah. And this is one of the issues I had with the
18:29
border issues because all these unaccompanied minors were coming in and women were being traffic,
18:34
but children were being trapped. Wow. And they were putting being put into the hard labor
18:38
and sex straight here in this country. And I'm sorry. I'm not going to be for that. And I think
18:43
anybody who didn't understand that was happening with the border. You know, you share some of the
18:49
blame if that, if you were okay with the fact that women and children were being abused. And it
18:54
wasn't by, did, it wasn't by police. We treat, we treat these folks with care when we would run
19:01
into them. Yeah. It's the people that, uh, it's, it's the cartels who are abusing them in the
19:08
government who turned a blind eye. In many cases, the government turned them right back over to the
19:11
cartels. Wow. I was just going to bring up the cartels. It must have been very dangerous dealing
19:15
with our men. The cartels are dangerous. I mean, then they're, they're huge organizations. They
19:19
were, they make billions dollars a year. They're, they have way better weapons than we do in law
19:24
enforcement, which is why I think they should need to be declared terrorists organizations that
19:28
they are because then you can actually use the tools, the military as to actually stop them.
19:34
Right. But the average police officers are not going to be equipped enough to be able to fight
19:38
against. Yeah. Because they probably got ARs and really. Yeah. There's this new technology floating
19:43
around that people cannot stop talking about. It's called the light system. Before you roll your eyes,
19:48
it's not some gadget you strap on or supplement that promises the world. Every once in a while,
19:52
I come across something that actually stops me in my tracks and the light system is one of those
19:57
things. This isn't a supplement. It's not a biohack. It's a full on energy environment built to
20:02
help your mind and body synchronize, recharge and operate at a higher level. It uses light patterns,
20:06
color frequencies, and coherent energy fields. All the stuff that your body naturally responds to
20:11
to create a coherent, energetic field around you. People are saying they feel more clear, more
20:15
centered, more alive in their environment. And honestly, the science behind it is fascinating. I've
20:20
seen a lot of wellness tech, but the numbers coming out on this new study of the light system
20:24
are actually insane. Researchers measured human chic cells before and after sitting in front of
20:30
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20:37
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20:42
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20:47
now if you go to the lightsystems.com and use discount code Sean. Drones by now wouldn't surprise
20:52
me if they had those too. Man, I'll tell you, drones. We're years behind the eight ball on drones.
20:59
Really? You know, in one month, I think in back in April or something, there was
21:03
60,000 drone incursions across the southern border. So they're using a lot of... Oh yeah,
21:08
but they'd use it a lot to attack each other. But then right after the President Trump took office,
21:14
the cartels put out a green light saying that the cartels could use weaponized drones against
21:20
border patrol. Why? That was from the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, had that intel.
21:25
Why? And so we got to... I mean, look at what's happened in Ukraine where they're flying drones
21:30
into people and blowing people inside of buildings inside of vents. They're so advanced now. It's crazy.
21:35
Like, man, I'm not afraid of hardly anything snakes. I don't like snakes. But drones,
21:39
man, drones concern me in warfare because they could launch 200 drones at you and what are you going
21:45
to do? Yeah. And they're so small now. You won't need to see it. Small, huh? And you can... It doesn't
21:50
take much of a charge to hurt somebody. Or you can drop fentanyl. You can drop a bag of fentanyl
21:56
in a building. It'll fentanyl, right? I mean, so I'm concerned. How bad was the fentanyl issue to
22:02
underbite in the... Horrible. I look, Biden shares a lot of the blame. Fentanyl was going to be on
22:09
the rise no matter what. Yeah. I saw it back in 2018 to 2019. I saw it. And then nobody really
22:16
knew about it. I would go all over the country. I'd go to Wisconsin. I would talk to all these
22:20
people about fentanyl. And they wouldn't really... They didn't even hear of it. And then by 2020,
22:26
more and more people. And I was speaking in front of large crowds, 2021. By 2021, 22, which was right
22:33
in the height of Biden's administration, it was full force. And I think every family has been
22:38
affected. My family was affected by fentanyl. I had a son who got into drugs and was affected by
22:44
fentanyl. And so I think everybody's families have been affected by fentanyl. And or you know
22:49
somebody or you have a friend or something. And I think that I can't attribute all of that to
22:56
Biden. I'm not going to be the guy that says, yeah, let's just fall. He let a lot of it come in.
23:01
Yeah. And that allowed 70,000 plus Americans. Since 2020, 2020, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so 5 years,
23:11
over 320,000 Americans died from fentanyl. Wow. Last year went down to 48,000. The numbers aren't
23:19
even finalized. But they had 80,000 drug deaths in America. Like what do we determine as a threat
23:26
to this country? If we don't, that, if that isn't one. Yeah. I've been saying for a long time,
23:31
we were conditioned as Americans to view terroristic threats as bombs going off or somebody walking
23:38
in and shooting a gun. Well, I'll tell you the weapon that they chose over the last several years
23:42
to kill Americans went totally under the radar. And that was fentanyl. Yeah. More covert,
23:49
but more effective in terms of that far more effective. That's part of the boats. You know,
23:52
like people don't like them bombing the boats. I'm totally okay with that. Yeah. Let me tell you
23:57
why because if somebody had a bomb on a boat and I lined up 100 Americans and I said, regardless
24:04
of their party. And I said, that bomb has a boat on it. Do you want the president to bomb it?
24:09
They'd be like, yeah, stop it. And that bomb may only hurt or kill thousands of Americans.
24:15
They estimate that every one of those bombs have enough fentanyl drugs on it to kill 25,000 Americans.
24:20
Holy crap. So this is far worse than what a bomb would be if they had a bomb on the boat. Yeah.
24:27
These truly are like President Trump recently declared them weapons of mass destruction.
24:32
Nothing has killed more Americans. No war, no nothing has killed more Americans, especially
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civilians than fentanyl. Yeah. And those are deaths. There's a lot of people that are addicted to,
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which you could say is destroying their lives as well. Yeah. And a lot of them, a lot of people are
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have had drug issues. All right. And then they die from fentanyl. But there's a lot of kids
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that took one pill, never used drugs before. Yeah. Thought they took a riddle and maybe
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a Xanax friend gives it to him. And then it's laced with fentanyl. And it kills him. So these
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are Poisonies. Like these are Poisonies from China from the cartels. There's a problem. Yeah.
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Was Venezuelan issue when you were sheriff or is that a newer thing?
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And I don't know how this would be. I've gotten to the point where I question all motives. So
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I get the Venezuelan as a communist country and their shipping drugs here. Yeah. But I also,
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there's always two sides to everything. So I don't know. What is what is it that's driving
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the politics in the in this country to go after Venezuela? Right. Is it purely drugs?
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Is it purely communism? It's not like they're on our doorstep, you know, with soldiers. Yeah.
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So I don't know. Like I I support thwarting any threats to this country. But I just I don't know
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all the facts of that. You know, I what I learned as a police officer and as a sheriff and as a deputy
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is, there's always more to the story than you know. Yeah. And another thing I've always learned is
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I may not know the truth, but I know what the government's telling you. Well said. Well said.
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I mean, you got to be a little skeptical these days, man. You have to be a lot skeptical. Yeah.
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Look, the people in power have the most gain from from global issues. You know, look at healthcare
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right now. You know, that's a big topic right now. Obamacare and healthcare. But the problem is is
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that the real path of fixing this is deregulation and allowing the free market to work and allowing
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because once you allow that to happen, cost will have inevitably go down cost for pharmaceuticals
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because people can't buy it. They're not going to sell it. Yeah. The reason they're selling it
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for so much money is because the government subsidizing it. We got to get away from the government
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solving our problems because they create problems. And then they come in and go, Hey, we got a
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solution to that. Yeah. But they're the ones that create it. Usually their solutions create more
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problems than they may. Then they solve. So I think the true answer. And this is kind of the guy
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that this is what I hope to bring to DC is the true answer is let's get government out of our
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lives. Hey, man. I don't think government should set our moral compass. I don't think government
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should be doing all this. I think government is far too encroached far too much in the
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into the marketplace. And I think that when you live in a free capitalist society,
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the market has a way of fixing it and writing itself. But when government gets involved,
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they jack it all up. And that's what we have now. And so what I would like to see is less government.
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I think that this country and the American people want to see less government.
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And I think you will see far and it takes the power away from them and it gives the power back
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to we the people. Hey, you say that. You're going to win easily in my mind. Yeah. I mean,
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like I and I don't even do it for the political reason. I do it because I am an American who wants
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we the people to have the power back. Yeah. You're retired, man. You don't have to be doing this.
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Oh, I could go. I'm making way more money. This is this is on no level. Does this make any sense when
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you pencil it out other than patriotism? And if I don't, who will? What kind of man am I if I walk
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away from the arena and let somebody else go in and fight to fight for me knowing that I was
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very capable of going in and fighting the fight myself? As a man, I couldn't do it. I couldn't
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walk away as an American. I couldn't walk away. And I think that we've got to have people in there
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that are going to have the Americans best. American people's best interest in mind. You are my
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support sheriff. Where people find you. You can come to marklam.us for the website. That's marklam.us.
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You can donate. If you live in my district, you sign my petition. Doesn't matter. You can live
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all over the country and donate. And trust me, I could use the donations. It's it's not cheap,
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but we're running a strong, a lean, strong campaign. And then if you want to follow me on YouTube,
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it's at real at American sheriff, at real American sheriff. And then Instagram, American sheriff,
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true social American sheriff, Twitter or X, sherifflam one. But yeah, come on support. Is that an
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AP? Yes, sir. I saw that really like signing here. I know. I got the tutor. I got the tutor.
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It's a good one. Black Bay, sir. My son got me into the watches. So it's just real. Yeah, I like
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that idea. All right, guys. Thank you. I hope you guys are enjoying the show. Please don't forget
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