The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be with you. Hope you had a great weekend. A lot happening. A lot Happening a lot of dots to connect a lot of i’s to dot, t’s to cross, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And we got a couple of great Guests. In a few moments we will have Daniel Schmidt. Daniel Schmidt is a young fella who is at college at the University of Chicago, and he’s just got how to say chutzpah. Chutzpah. That’s the family way to say. He’s got stones. And so he is a very cool kid. He has asked a lot of questions on camera. You know, the technology is so good he can jump up at the University of Chicago. Last fall, he put Liz Cheney on the spot. He Showed how hypocritical she was, how how she was saying one thing about one set of people of the January 6th defendants. And another about a guy like Ray Epps. And he put her on the spot and he just says he does it with a happy warrior mentality. Daniel Schmidt, you’re gonna want to check him out. He’s a very cool kid and really interesting interview coming up in a few moments.
We also will talk with an author. His book is called How Far Do You Want to Go? How far do you wanna go? He is well, he is, Lessons from a common sense billionaire and he is not famous as an author, although he’ll be well known. He’s famous as a businessman, John Catsimatidis, Catsimatidis, Catsimatidis. He taught me how to say this in preparation for his interview. He’s gonna be with us. His book is very cool. Do you want? Excuse me? How Far Do You Want to Go? about his exploits, his successes, and how to keep going And make things better and get things done. So that’ll be cool. All right.
What do you need to know? Today’s WYNK. Today’s WYNK. What do you need to know? If you wanna sign up, by the way, for the daily WYNK, What you need to know, what you need to know, you can go to proamericareport.com. Sign up there for the daily e-mail, gets in your inbox at 8:00 AM East Coast. Time 5:00 AM Pacific Time, 10s of thousands of people have signed up to get an e-mail every morning, Monday through Friday from me. It gives you a couple of key links, a couple key stories and one nugget called What you need to. Excuse me. What you need to know the WYNK and you get that in your inbox so and I’ll tell you now though on this segment, the opening segment of the program, the Pro America Report, I’ll tell you what you need to know and I’ll put together, I’ll pull together some pieces that you haven’t heard of from the mainstream media from the lamestream media.
And here’s one. It is I I this is so important. Because it will condition how you live the rest of your lives. The rest of your life. And that is this.
Everywhere you go. God is watching and so is a video camera.
Now you say to. Yourself. Oh oh. But don’t we have privacy? Don’t we have privacy somewhere? Don’t we have – you don’t anymore.
It’s too bad. I wish it were different, but it is simply true that anywhere you go, someone will be able to watch you. Now, let me be clear. You might be able to walk down the block. In I don’t know Midtown Manhattan or Up on Capitol Hill or in Saint Louis, South Saint Louis, where I’m from. There may be a block where there’s not a ring camera aimed out from the front door, or where there’s not a a security camera on a parking lot. There may be a 100 yards, 200 yards, 500 yards. But in order to get from point A to point B. In order to get from your home to the corner store or the corner pub to your parked car, wherever, there’s going to be a camera that you’re going to have to cross in front of. And therefore, if you have the will, you can be, you can be, you can be found, I said that terribly unevenly. Here’s the WYNK.
What you need to know is if someone has the will to find you. They will find you out based on cameras and the use of cameras. OK. That’s just a fact. In places like Washington, DC, there’s cameras that are watching you from above all over the place. It’s a security thing. I mean a national security thing, but it’s also a it’s also a deep state watch you security thing. But here’s my point. And here’s what you need to know. This is so important for you to understand.
We are being regularly lied to about how things work. Here’s an example. Remember how the Supreme Court had a leak? Someone leaked. The documents that the the draft opinion of the famous Dobbs decision, the abortion decision, and we’ve never gotten to The bottom of That, because the corollary to everything you do can be watched is that. We do know everything. We may not admit it. The powers that Be may not admit it. But the corollary to the video someone is always watching.
They know who the leaker was at the Supreme Court. They’re they’re just not saying. And if they’re not saying or, they’re not getting to the bottom of it, that’s a choice. That’s a choice. Another example, the cocaine that was found in the White House. There’s a way to decide if you have a will. There is a way to decide to find out whose drugs that was. Guaranteed! The point is. There’s no will. Now let me tie it together. Today’s WYNK.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s true. In modern times God is watching. That’s why you Should be good. But also Big Brother’s watching and if they want to, if there is a will, there is a way. The danger is that there is far too much will coming from the powers that be, whether institutional, formally, government, or non institutional, not formally government, but otherwise. And.
Let’s go. January 6th. I’ve spent hours and hours and hours looking at the video of January 6th and stuff’s missing. This is at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon on January 6th from 2:00 to 4:00 or I think it maybe. Maybe it’s four to six on about 10 different cameras, it’s missing, it’s missing, shut off. Couple of cameras just missing.
This is not normal.
And when you hear that we have seen all the video, we haven’t seen all the video, there’s body Cam that hasn’t been released by the Metro police. There’s private cameras. If there was a will, there’s a way to get to the bottom of all the stuff that’s going on. And let me be clear, I’m not actually saying we should always have the will to get to the bottom of everything. I don’t want the intrusiveness of government and the intrusiveness of of Big Brother, the intrusiveness of, you know, big business, big industry, that could do this. I don’t want that.
What I’m saying to you is we’re being lied to. When someone says Ohh yeah we can’t figure out whose cocaine it was, how it got there. That’s a lie. That’s a lie.
It’s either a lie by by a commission. They know who it was, and they’re not telling you, or it’s a lie by omission. Meaning, they’re gonna admit it. Excuse me, omit looking for it. They’re gonna not have the will to go. Use the ways that they know to get to the bottom of it. That’s the facts. That’s the facts.
In some ways, it’s scary times. In some ways it’s very scary times because your own foibles and failures will be used against you, and they’ll be used against you like they’ve never been done before. You won’t be able to act like a jerk in front of somebody and not have somebody record it. Now, hopefully you modify behavior that way.
But here’s where it gets interesting and a little bit scary, is if it’s true That you can’t get away with it anymore. That’s a lot of power.
That’s a lot of power, and the power is in the hands of people that may or may not be virtuous. That’s what the reality of this that’s going on is that. But don’t be fooled about the scope and the and the and the the breadth. Of the power, it is profound. It is real. It is significant, and it’s likely to be abused. Now when I say it’s likely to be abused, my point is only that we’ve got to figure out, not put our head in the sands, but we got to figure out how and when we’re being lied to. And what we can do about it?
It’s a little bit like what I think was the very best description of the election questions. When I was the chairman of the Board of Elections in Saint Louis. I used to tell my team, my staff I was the I was the, it wasn’t my full time job. I was the appointed chairman. There were two Democrats and two Republicans on the board of election commissioners. We were in charge of running the elections. We were the check and balance, but we were the managers, we were the, the the Board of Directors. So it wasn’t our full time job. We had full time staff. But what I used to tell the Full time staff was. You’ve gotta make sure two things happen.
A really good election, Well done, competent all the systems working and two, people gotta believe you. They have to believe that the system is working. If you don’t have both, the system collapses.
And the problem with too many of our systems in this country right now is we have leaders who are unwilling to make the system more transparent, more functional, more auditable, therefore more accountable, so people can have confidence. Don’t tell me trust you, trust you, trust you. After COVID. And after the election messes and after my taxes, etcetera, etcetera. I’m not buying it. But back to my point.
What you need to know is. Where there’s a will, there’s a way for almost everything. And we have to learn to, to. We have to see when they’re lying to us, and we have to fight through it and make things work. That’s always been the role of we, the people, and that’s what you need to know.
We’ll take a break. We’ll be right back, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report, back in a moment.
