Democrats’ Hasan Piker Problem

Summary

Ruthless Podcast – “Democrats’ Hasan Piker Problem”

Date: April 24, 2026
Hosts: Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook
Special Guest: Adam Schwarzy (Minnesota Senate Candidate)

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Ruthless Podcast shines a spotlight on the growing influence of leftist commentator Hasan Piker within the Democratic Party, lampooning the party’s scramble for a "liberal Joe Rogan" and critiquing the radical ideological shift they attribute to his association. Through audio clips and commentary, the hosts examine Piker's controversial ideas and the mainstream media's platforming of such figures, particularly in the wake of the 2024 election. The episode also skewers Democratic politicians, explores current issues like voter demographics, government response to fraud, and features an extended interview with Minnesota Senate candidate Adam Schwarzy.

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Main Segment: The Hasan Piker Problem

Theme: The Rise of Radical Commentary in the Democratic Ecosystem

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The 'Liberal Joe Rogan' Obsession

• Media & Democrats' Quest: Post-2024, mainstream Democrats and the media are “looking for their Joe Rogan,” settling on Hasan Piker.
• Josh Holmes: "It's not just because we found the most objectionable Democrat you could possibly find… He's sort of the engine behind the modern Democratic Party in a lot of ways…" [03:58]

2. Platforming Controversy: Clips & Reaction

• America Deserved 9/11: Multiple hosts highlight Piker’s infamous comment and his radical left positioning.
  • “He just happens to believe America deserved 9/11.” – Michael Duncan [05:10]
• New York Times Segment: Critiques NYT for giggling along as Piker publicly condones crimes “like robbing the Louvre.”
  • Memorable Quote:
    “The New York Times is now platforming a guy who said America deserves 9/11. Who… livestreams… with an actual Houthi talking about terror attacks.” – Smugglesworth [07:21]
• Crime & Socialism: Laughter and disbelief as hosts witness NYT hosts giggling about bank heists and theft, with Piker drawing distinctions between stealing from private vs. government stores.
• Morality of Crime: Discussion about Piker and NYT hosts rationalizing theft and violence as ideological.
  • “This is an ideology based on theft and murder. That’s what communism is.” – Michael Duncan [11:00]
• “Social Murder” Justification:
  • Clip: Piker references Engels and "social murder,” with NYT hosts nodding along.
  • Panel Reaction: The hosts are horrified by the normalization of calling for violence against ideological foes.
  • “Everything communism is built upon is theft and murder. None of it is actually built on a system of laws and a system of justice…” – Smugglesworth [11:41]
• Media Bubble Critique: The hosts riff on legacy media’s disconnect, “luxury beliefs,” and the performative, insulated nature of rich urban progressives.

3. Hasan Piker's Dog Controversy

• Shock Collar Incident:
  • Clips Played: Hasan is seen using a shock collar on his dog during livestreams.
  • Panel Response: Universal disgust; hosts lampoon Piker for animal cruelty and hypocrisy, noting he cares more for a dog-as-prop than people.
  • Quote:
    “There’s never a good reason to shock a damn dog, which is what Hasan Piker did.” – Smugglesworth [17:11]
• Comic Relief: Extended riffing on whose dog is best-behaved, but unified in finding Piker’s treatment “too much” [19:44].

4. Should Hasan Piker Be Deported?

• Provocative Question: Smug proposes Piker should be deported for platforming a member of a designated terrorist group (the Houthis) [21:14].
  • “Secretary Rubio… feel free to put him on a plane. We can keep the dog. The dog will be thrilled.” – Smugglesworth [21:51]

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Additional Highlights: Democratic Figures & Media Mockery

5. Kamala Harris’ Pandering and 2028 Positioning [23:16]

• Clip & Context: Kamala’s latest speech—hosts criticize her inauthentic “code-switching” and transactional approach to black voters, foreseeing her targeting black women for the 2028 primary.
  • “Democrats have said forever that they [black women] are the backbone of the Democratic Party...but what have they done for them?” – Josh Holmes [25:43]

6. Media and Left-Wing “Crack” Analysis

• Sunny Hostin Gaffe:
  • Claim that a war cost "$50 billion, which is more money than this country has spent since World War II."
  • “Did you read that on the back of a Fruit Loops box?” – Josh Holmes [28:32]
• Keith Ellison Phone Incident:
  • Segment mocking MN Attorney General for ignoring a constituent crying:
    “He’s like, is she still crying? On the phone. Incredible, dude. It’s incredible.” – Smugglesworth [30:25]

7. Other Democratic Clownery

• Texas Dem Senate Candidate: Discussion of his “God is non-binary” claim, with skepticism and derision from hosts [32:12].
• Xavier Becerra English Testing Quote: Skewering the idea that requiring truck drivers to read road signs is “reckless” and “profiling.”
  • “It would be reckless to… make truck drivers be able to read signs. It’s reckless to allow people to drive 20-to-30 ton trucks and kill Americans.” – Smugglesworth [37:45]

8. Comic Variety Segment

• Matador’s ‘Rectal Goring’: Play-by-play of a Spanish matador’s injury.
  • “He caught it. So this guy was horrifically gored in a rectum during…” – Josh Holmes [41:24]
  • Extended, irreverent riffing on bullfighting hazards and bodily injury [40:47–44:45].

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Feature Interview: Adam Schwarzy, MN Senate Candidate

[47:04–73:01]

Introduction

• Background: Marine, Navy SEAL, Minnesota native, running for open U.S. Senate seat.
• Objective: “I know I can win the seat. And it’s my duty… America’s an amazing country, but it’s not guaranteed if we don’t have leaders willing to step up and fight for it.” [51:43]

Key Points

• Minnesota’s Political Landscape:
  • Not a blue state by default: “I need to move 33,000 votes in a 3.5 million voter block. It is right on the cusp.” [52:23]
• Fraud as a Campaign Issue:
  • Emphasizes billions lost in state fraud, pins responsibility on Dem-controlled “trifecta.”
  • “The other side… they are two things: socialism and anti-Trump. That’s their whole agenda.” – Schwarzy [56:01]
• Policy and Approach:
  • Focus on “values-based team,” America First, strong defense, support for families, and community roots.
  • Noted grassroots fundraising; appeal to moderate and crossover voters.
  • “They would trust their families with [me] more than the other side, which has stolen from them, raised their costs… and could transition their children without them knowing.” [63:52]
• Motivation: Driven by fear of letting down his team—prefers “agony of defeat” as motivation [70:41].
• Personal: On last meal—ribeye, Pittsburgh-chared; might have been an architect if not a SEAL; Minnesota heritage.

Memorable Quote

“I think I have more time forward downrange than anybody serving in Congress or Senate right now.” – Adam Schwarzy [50:38]

Notable Moments

• Brings IR-reflective special operations hats and emergency car tools as gifts for the hosts [71:34].
• Witty camaraderie with hosts, maintaining the irreverent, jocular tone of the show.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• “This is an ideology based on theft and murder. That's. That's what communism is.” – Michael Duncan [11:00]
• “Everything communism is built upon is theft and murder.” – Smugglesworth [11:41]
• “He just happens to believe America deserved 9/11.” – Michael Duncan [05:10]
• “We have seen how a lot of these Somali scammers were in touch with him…” – Smugglesworth on Keith Ellison [30:36]
• “If you live a Bad life, ladies and gentlemen, you’re gonna be reincarnated as Hasan Piker’s dog.” – Josh Holmes [20:39]
• “Why haven't we just gotten there [in MN]? Well, we don’t have exciting candidates that can build and harness that base…” – Adam Schwarzy [52:46]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening & Hasan Piker Setup: 00:00–05:36
• Discussing NYT/Piker Podcast Clips: 05:36–13:44
• Dog Shock Collar Segment: 15:40–20:47
• Should Hasan Piker Be Deported?: 21:14–21:57
• Kamala Harris Pandering/2028 Analysis: 23:16–26:36
• Sunny Hostin/Media Gaffe: 28:08–29:04
• Keith Ellison Phone Incident: 29:28–30:58
• Matador Rectal Goring Variety Segment: 40:47–45:17
• Adam Schwarzy Interview: 47:04–73:01

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Conclusion

True to its “variety progrum” mission, the Ruthless Podcast packs this episode with rapid-fire conservative comedic analysis, derision of far-left ideologies, and sharp critiques of prominent Democrats and their media enablers. The highlight is the sustained takedown of the Democratic love affair with “edgy” internet personalities like Hasan Piker, and their mainstreaming in major media. The Adam Schwarzy interview showcases the hosts’ interest in giving exposure to up-and-coming conservative candidates, adding depth and relatability to the otherwise lightning-paced show.

Final Words:
“Keep the faith, hold the line, and own the libs. We’ll see you on Tuesday. Stay ruthless.” – Smugglesworth [75:33]

Transcript

[Josh Holmes]

Heard us talk about Hasan piker.

[Michael Duncan]

Since the 2024 election, journalists and mainstream media and the Democrat party has said, where's our liberal Joe Rogan?

[John Ashbrook]

Yep.

[Michael Duncan]

And they found him.

[Josh Holmes]

Yes, they did.

[Michael Duncan]

He just happens to believe America deserved 9 11.

[Smugglesworth]

Oh, you know, defund the police because everything's going to work out. And then we have these like, you know, taxpayer funded grocery stores and everything's going to work out and we'll just giggle along with this guy who says America deserves 9 11.

[Michael Duncan]

This is an ideology based on theft and murder.

[Smugglesworth]

That's.

[Michael Duncan]

That's what communism.

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[Josh Holmes]

Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please.

[Adam Schwarzy]

This program has become one of the

[Josh Holmes]

most influential podcasts in America.

[Adam Schwarzy]

I love the personality. You guys are killing it.

[Michael Duncan]

I just saw your number one.

[Smugglesworth]

Congratulations.

[John Ashbrook]

Thank you.

[Josh Holmes]

It's an honor and a pleasure to welcome the great Sean Hannity. Guys, I love you.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Congratulations on all your success. This is why you listen to the Ruthless Podcast, because nobody else would ask that question.

[Smugglesworth]

The only political podcast worth listening to is the Ruthless Podcast. Time for our main event, the Ruthless

[John Ashbrook]

Podcast

[Josh Holmes]

Fun Time Friday. Hello and welcome back to the Ruthless Friday program. I'm Josh Holmes, along with comfortably smug Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook. Left to right, across your radio dial as always. Fellas, I just have to start. It's White House correspondence weekend. It's coming up. There's a couple of you that are going, I think.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, Ashbrook and I are attending.

[Josh Holmes]

You guys are going. Nice.

[Michael Duncan]

We got to raise the flag for the team and put these journals in their place.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, well. And Ash Brook, he fits in like a glove.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, yeah. He's like behind an enemy lines. Or are they enemies?

[Smugglesworth]

That's the thing.

[Adam Schwarzy]

He's like, you'll never know.

[Smugglesworth]

I mean, how's it different from any other dinner he attends? It's just like table after table of journals.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, there's. There's a system that we use. I don't know if you're familiar with what they did in World War II, where somebody clicked and then the other person clicked twice, and that's how you knew that you were on the same side and it wasn't a German in American uniform.

[Josh Holmes]

Like a Morris Code of sorts.

[John Ashbrook]

Exactly.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Sometimes you say thunder and they say flash. You know, it's just little ways to be able to know that this is a journo who you can talk to.

[Michael Duncan]

Do we have a secret word for Saturday?

[John Ashbrook]

I'll let you know.

[Josh Holmes]

Fidelio.

[Michael Duncan]

Fidelio.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, gee. Like, if you get that, you're sick.

[Michael Duncan]

That's sick.

[Josh Holmes]

If you get that, you're s. I mean, I went through, like, I don't know, probably 10 straight years of that, and this is the first one I can't go because of children's school obligation. But this is the first one in a long time that I would. I would go, yeah, if I could. Trump's going to be there. Seems like it could be a lot of fun. I can't wait for the reports.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, I think it's going to be a good one. Also, Oz, the mentalist, you know, that guy that does the tricks. I love to see what he's going to do.

[Josh Holmes]

I can't wait. Ah, it's going to be good. Okay. All right, so listen, there's an awful lot of what we aim to do here on the Ruthless Variety Program is provide you just a little bit of insight under the hood about what's driving politics one way or another. And you've heard us talk about Hassan Piker, and it's not just because we found the most objectionable Democrat you could possibly find, although we did. It's that this guy is sort of an engineer, and mainstream press is now reporting this out, like Politico, New York Times, everything. He's sort of the engine behind the modern Democratic Party in a lot of ways, if not just by his association with candidates who are scrambling to try to, you know, sort of feed off of the audience that he has built ideologically. There's an alignment there, and we've said, like, there's a Hamas caucus.

[Michael Duncan]

Right.

[Josh Holmes]

And, you know, for at least a year of us saying that, everybody was like, that seems like a lot. It was like, now you look back, you're like, does it.

[Michael Duncan]

We were right.

[Josh Holmes]

I feel like we're right about it.

[Michael Duncan]

And also, there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat, because since the 2024 election journalists and mainstream media and the Democrat Party has said, where's our liberal Joe Rogan?

[John Ashbrook]

Yep.

[Michael Duncan]

And they found him.

[Josh Holmes]

Yes, they did.

[Michael Duncan]

He just happens to believe America deserved 9 11.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah. And that's actually, like, a quote from him. This is not like, oh, we're being

[Michael Duncan]

no bit over the top.

[Smugglesworth]

No, that's. That's a quote that he's known for.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, he's added a few things to the footnotes here this week that we thought you ought to be aware of, because there's an awful lot of Democrats who are, like, trying to associate themselves with this guy. Let's just start with clip one, and we'll react.

[Smugglesworth]

Would you steal from the Louvre?

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Yes.

[Smugglesworth]

I would not be logistically capable of executing such a fact.

[Josh Holmes]

But would I cheer on every news

[Smugglesworth]

story of people that I see doing it?

[Josh Holmes]

Absolutely.

[Smugglesworth]

Absolutely.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Yeah, I. I think it's cool. We gotta. We gotta get back to cool crimes like that. Like, you know, bank robberies.

[John Ashbrook]

Right.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Stealing. Stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature. I feel like that's way cooler than the 7000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in.

[Smugglesworth]

So. So here's the thing. It's like, okay, yeah, it's. It's pathetic that he's like, yeah, crime is good. Sure. Whatever. The important context to this is. This is New York Times podcast. This is a New York Times segment. Those people.

[Josh Holmes]

Wait, shut up. That's a New York Times thing.

[Smugglesworth]

That's.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Why.

[Josh Holmes]

Can you put just a screenshot of that back up? I just want to see. When did the New York Times all of a sudden go call her daddy on the setup?

[Smugglesworth]

Well, that's the thing is, when did that happen? Media figured out that no one was listening to them, and they're like, well, people are listening to podcasts. You saw CNN essentially just, like, turn their studios into a podcast set.

[Josh Holmes]

They're like, I want whitewashed walls, couches.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Some books on the shelves, but minimalist.

[Smugglesworth]

And that's the crazy thing is, like, the New York Times is now platforming this, and you're just seeing those, like, idiot gals just, like, giggling along, like, hold on. Tell us to commit felonies. Who?

[Josh Holmes]

Like, I don't. I mean, we probably don't know exactly who those people are the most.

[Smugglesworth]

This thing. Gia Tolentino was the idiot on the far right, and then her. I always forget her name. She got hired in 2024. Ashbrook. You should know these things. These are your journal friends.

[John Ashbrook]

I'm not going to tell you.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

He doesn't want to out his friends. That's amazing. So, okay, so the New York Times

[Smugglesworth]

is now platforming a guy who said America deserves 9 11. Who on his show, on Hasan's show he had, he livestreams, he had an actual Houthi on talking about how he does these terror attacks, does terrorism. And then Hasan told his audience that like that guy's really cool because there's a lot of young kids who also or on the stream he's like, that guy's cool. I wouldn't emulate an actual Houthi.

[John Ashbrook]

I mean cool. You know, he's talking about thing, he's talking about robbing the Louvre. Maybe he just doesn't think the French are capable of stopping him. I mean if you look at what's happened to that country, it's not like everybody just goes in and takes what they want. So he's kind of just saying what's happening.

[Josh Holmes]

You know, he goes on and apparently in the same thing, he's got another take here that's worth listening to.

[Smugglesworth]

Clip 2 But what about the argument that if everyone is stealing wantonly from these self checkout machines, Whole Foods will eventually raise the prices?

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Yeah, they Chaos, full chaos. Let's go.

[Smugglesworth]

I mean look, do you see them just giggle like I'm in favor of

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

fast and free buses and also government owned storefronts and you know, two of those policies the mayor of this beautiful city is currently working on.

[Smugglesworth]

Would you encourage ceiling in the same way from a mumdani run city owned grocery store with lower prices?

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

And why I would not because I feel like that's taxpayer funded and the prices are this union labor and the prices are also adjusted regardless.

[Smugglesworth]

So he's clearly an idiot because he's, he's, he's living in this fantasy world of where he gets his viewers of his stream to donate him money. So he gets a Porsche and he gets a mansion out in Los Angeles and, and he tries to be edgy. So he campaigned with Zormadani. And the funny thing about all these socialists is they think that like oh yeah, you know, when the communist revolution happens, I'll get to be an artist and then all my groceries are free. We've seen throughout history, whenever there's a communist revolution, they put everyone who wasn't sent to work on the fields against a wall and they shoot them in the head. But like this time it'll be different, it'll actually work out. So like they don't need to make sense. When he's like, well yeah, you see the Mandani grocery store, it'll be union labor and the prices will just adjust themselves. And then the two idiots from the New York Times 0faul and I'm like, well, here's the thing is like anytime there's been like a government controlled grocery store, it always fucking fails.

[Josh Holmes]

Is anybody else having a hard time with the concept? Like, I'm having a hard time.

[Smugglesworth]

Okay, this is the actual state of journalism now. That's the New York Times.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, that.

[Smugglesworth]

I mean, I'm having a.

[Josh Holmes]

Like, there's four things that are so confusing to me. One is that New York Times has got this cat in what appears to be a call her daddy suite, just having a thoughtful conversation about robbing people. And it's laughs and yucks. But then the second point is like, yes to robbing mom and pop shops that work their asses off to try to provide for their communities in the hopes that they can make a living to do things like help the kids softball team, throw a sponsor on the back of the little league jersey, and maybe have a modest living for their own rob them a taxpayer fund. The largest organization other than the United States federal government, the New York City government in. I think it's the case still that it's at least 4/5 of the world. Like, I think it's that large that is not worth robbing because it's sort of sacrosanct.

[Michael Duncan]

Well, I mean, in Hasan Piker's worldview, capitalism is economic violence. That mom and pop storefront is the pet bourgeoisie that needs to be destroyed. This is an ideology based on theft and murder. That's. That's what communism is.

[Smugglesworth]

And that's the thing is Duncan is completely correct. And I think that leads exactly into clip three perfectly.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Engels wrote about the concept of social murder, and Brian Thompson as the United Healthcare CEO was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence.

[Smugglesworth]

That's New York Times Journal's nodding along as he says, the murder of a guy shot in the back was justified because he was committing, quote, social murders. And that's the thing that Duncan just said is like, everything communism is built upon is theft and murder. None of it is actually built upon a system of laws and a system of justice like the one we have in this country. It's being able to target, rob and kill your enemies. That's why they have these like, oh, it's social murder. That's what he's guilty of. Describe what it is. Oh, you know, the social Murder. Because they have to keep it nebulous so they can be like, well, that guy's an enemy of the state. He deserves to be killed and murdered.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Do you guys get the further. Johnny, this is a question for you. The further you get removed from government, the more radically right wing you become. Because that's. That's where I'm at. I mean, when we were in government and times have changed, no question, it didn't used to be like this. Like, we didn't have to entertain questions like that. But it was all a chess game. And it was basically, you are up against somebody who doesn't view the world the same way. But it's like, what moves do you make that put you in the most advantageous position to accomplish your goal, or at least most of your goal versus the other person? Or do you just fuck it up and they run the board on you? Like, that's the way I kind of saw the world for as long as I was in government. The longer that I'm out of it, the more you realize there are crazy people amongst us that are now the mainstream of an opposition. And, like, to the extent that there's any Democrat, there's no moderate Democrat, but there's any Democrat who's not, like, you know, murder and steal or whatever they are downstream from that representation that is now the vast majority of a Democratic primary electorate.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, I think that's right. But I also think, like, when we were working there, there was nobody like this leading the Democrats so hard to the left. I mean, Tom Harkin.

[Josh Holmes]

No, they had to fake it.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah. Tom Harkin and Barbara Mikulski, as much as you might have disagreed with them, were never talking about, oh, you know, social murder. Therefore it's justified to shoot some guy in the back. Wild. Oh, you should be able to rob the grocery store. Like, this is insane.

[Smugglesworth]

Technical team, do we have the capability of running clip 2 muted so I can talk over it? Is that a doable thing? All right, let's run that real quick. So here's the thing. When you talk about, like, these are New York Times, I love you reporters. Back to these. And here's the thing is, so much of the modern left is essentially like chubby women, ssri. Why are we attacking here? Look, they're giggling along to this guy being like, well, look, murder and theft are great. And they're like, ah, that's so. Part of the reason the left has become so radicalized is you have these kind of people who have these, like, luxury beliefs. They're like, well, our families have money and we're set. And we work for the New York Times, so we think it's funny to have like theft and crime and they can have these beliefs of like, oh, you know, defund the police because everything's gonna work out. And then we have these like, you know, taxpayer funded grocery stores and everything's gonna work out and we'll just giggle along with this guy who says, America deserves 9 11. They all have deep, deep, like they're deeply unwell, they're mentally unwell. They have nothing going for them. Like, they're not gonna have to worry about, do I want the world for my kids to be better? No, they want to giggle along with Hasan Piker while he's like, well, we should shoot and maim people. And there's the guy who got shot in the back midtown with kids. Yeah, he deserves that shit too.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, I think you're exactly right. Smug. I mean, for these people, communism is like a fantasy that they get to engage in as a thought experiment or because if it ever actually came, they would think of themselves as slightly removed from that. They don't worry about defunding the police because they live in a gated community.

[Smugglesworth]

Right. Like stuff like that. Exactly right.

[Michael Duncan]

So they really enjoy, they relish the opportunity to talk about this utopia they would build because they wouldn't actually be held to account for who they are and what they do.

[Josh Holmes]

Right.

[Smugglesworth]

And the last context I wanted to give in this segment about Hasan Piker is most folks probably don't know this, have. Hopefully you've never had to see his stream. But a few months ago he kind of got a lot of attention and went viral because during his live stream he has a pet dog and like, he'll stream for like six, seven hours and the dog's having to like sit in one place and people like that can't be like, great for a dog. And they're like, how does the dog just stay there? Clip 4 is going to explain how he keeps the dog there.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Of all of America's much more consequential

[Smugglesworth]

dog tries moving violence.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Okay? It's the same reason as to why America. Kaya, please just fucking go. Stop.

[Smugglesworth]

He hits the button and electrocutes the dog with a shock collar. It's a shock collar place. And so all these people like went and they went and combed through all these videos of his, of the dog. They matched the model number, exact model of the collar that he uses to shock his dog if it tries to move.

[John Ashbrook]

So the dog Is a proposal.

[Smugglesworth]

The dog's a prop because he gets people to, like, donate. Donate for puppy immediately.

[Josh Holmes]

Ashbrooke is like, where do I subscribe to that? Yeah, where do I.

[John Ashbrook]

You know, I think there's always a line, and I feel like that guy crossed it.

[Smugglesworth]

So Ashbrook has a really lovely dog, and it's a good dog because, like, when I go over, we're having ribs, and the dog's not a menace about it, you know, it's a very well behaved dog. It'll come up, it'll let you pet you, and then it goes over to its pillow. Very well behaved.

[Josh Holmes]

I never would have guessed it would have made it this long.

[Smugglesworth]

It's not like Duncan's dog, who's just like a. I mean, that's just. Oh, no attention.

[Michael Duncan]

That's just a lie.

[Smugglesworth]

Like, there's Scout. He needs the attention. But there's never a good reason to shock a damn dog, which is what Hasan Piker did.

[Josh Holmes]

His dog is a Met.

[Michael Duncan]

My dog's not a menace. Ranger is a great dog.

[Smugglesworth]

Ranger. That's the one. Scout. Yeah. Scouting for attention. That one never gets enough, you know,

[Josh Holmes]

I can't believe this guy electrocutes his dog. I don't understand, but I don't understand why it's important for him to have this dog in the back.

[Smugglesworth]

Well, because like his. His supporters, he can be like, oh, no, you gotta donate. Look at doggo. Donate for doggo.

[Josh Holmes]

And that's a thing for socialists.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

They're like, yeah, we are all.

[Smugglesworth]

Clearly, they care more about animals and people because they're like, well, you gotta execute people.

[Michael Duncan]

I mean, it works for the homeless, you know? You ever see a dog chained up with a homeless person who's on drugs? Oh, yeah, it's horrific to see.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, it's awful.

[Michael Duncan]

But then you really feel bad.

[Josh Holmes]

You do. You do. So maybe that is part of the deal.

[Smugglesworth]

And that's the other thing is, like, it's. It's wild how there was more. How would he know?

[Josh Holmes]

By the way he's talking into a live stream. The dog's walking around behind him.

[Michael Duncan]

He can see himself.

[Smugglesworth]

Did you hear. Can you run that back?

[John Ashbrook]

So he's.

[Smugglesworth]

Watch his hand move to the button to hit it.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Of all of America's much more consequential.

[Smugglesworth]

He can see himself reason as the wise America.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Kaya, please just fucking go. Stop.

[Smugglesworth]

Did you see? He was like, get in your spot. Did you see him reach for the button?

[Josh Holmes]

Is this guy a monster?

[Smugglesworth]

Well, no, he just advocates for the murder of people. But not the dog. He was like, I was on board when he said America deserved 911. That's okay.

[Josh Holmes]

Hold on.

[Smugglesworth]

I was on board when you had

[Josh Holmes]

a mute the thing. But put it back. I have never. I've never seen the. I hate to say I've never seen the live stream. He's got his name in neon. A dog on what appears to be like a miniature treadmill. But it doesn't move.

[Smugglesworth]

It has to stay in place or

[Josh Holmes]

then it gets bolted.

[Smugglesworth]

Did you see how he was like, it's moving around. He's like, get in your spot. He's saying, get in your spot. He's like, kai, I want you to get in your spot. And then he hits the button. Run it again with sound. I think people should see what this guy is really about.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Of all of America's much more consequential violence. Ok? It's the same.

[Smugglesworth]

He sees the dog moving, the.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Why America? Kaya, please, just fucking go.

[Smugglesworth]

Did you see him reach for the button and hit it?

[John Ashbrook]

The dog wasn't doing anything.

[Smugglesworth]

It wasn't sitting in the soft footing.

[Josh Holmes]

Not off the treadmill thing.

[Smugglesworth]

It's like, I want to see you develop sores from having to lay in the same spot. And if you move, I will.

[Michael Duncan]

When it's too mean for Ashbrook, it's pretty mean.

[John Ashbrook]

It's too much.

[Josh Holmes]

I don't know if. Is it too mean for you?

[John Ashbrook]

It's too much.

[Josh Holmes]

Too much.

[John Ashbrook]

You know what? You're. If you have a dog, you're in charge of the dog. People are more important than animals.

[Josh Holmes]

But.

[John Ashbrook]

But I mean, what this guy just did, it's like, come on.

[Josh Holmes]

He was racing it though. Maybe, but here's.

[John Ashbrook]

Well, racing the dog. Dogs like to run, okay? His dog probably just wanted to move around. He didn't want to sit in that studio and listen to him deliver a stem winder about how everybody should live in communism. He's like, I've watched you look at yourself on this computer screen for long enough, asshole.

[Josh Holmes]

I want to move to a different place. It's so true. That dog has the worst life in the world.

[John Ashbrook]

Horrible.

[NetChoice Representative]

Horrible.

[Josh Holmes]

It has to sit there and listen to communism all day and then if it moves, it gets shocked.

[John Ashbrook]

Not a single animal for it to chase in New York. It walks outside. No, he's in poop on the street.

[Smugglesworth]

He lives in la. He's got a mansion.

[John Ashbrook]

He lives in la.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Even worse.

[Smugglesworth]

So it sees people on the street constantly there too, so. But that's Hasan Piker.

[Josh Holmes]

If you live a Bad life, ladies and gentlemen, you're going to be reincarnated as son biker's dog.

[Adam Schwarzy]

That's.

[Smugglesworth]

It's unbelievable how bad it is.

[Josh Holmes]

That is you imagine.

[Smugglesworth]

Horrific.

[Michael Duncan]

Horrific.

[Smugglesworth]

But, but I think that's what led to today's great seat.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, so you've come up with today's when you like and subscribe to the ruthless Friday program and we hope you do, and thanks for everybody who's been doing that lately. Keep on doing it and tell your friends to do it because it's the only way anybody sees anything with the algorithmic that everybody has on a day to day basis. We ask you a question, you respond. We read all of them, we get back to the next episode. Smugglesworth has come up with his own question for the day.

[Smugglesworth]

Should Hasan Piker be deported? And I don't know if I got into this, but he had had a previous stream where I did mention it where he had an actual Houthi on which is providing a platform to a group designated as a terror group by the State Department and Marco Rubio fighting them. By the way, Secretary Rubio has not only said, but he's actually acted on deporting people who are helping out terrorists from America. And in my opinion, Hasan Piker seems like a great candidate for that. Secretary Rubio, if you've, if you're listening, feel free to put him on a plane. We can keep the dog. The dog will be thrilled. Yeah, he's like, throw his ass on the plane and get him out.

[Josh Holmes]

I know.

[Smugglesworth]

The dog's like, he's like, for the

[Josh Holmes]

love of God, I'm good. Here, just take this. Put this monster collar off my neck.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Good God.

[Josh Holmes]

Okay. All right. Well, when we come back, it's a bunch of lunacy from Democrats. Kamala, one of our favorites. When we don't have a Joe Biden thing around, she always provides and she's doing it again. All that next.

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[Josh Holmes]

Okay, so Kamala Harris, you know, one of the things that she does very well, Democrats in general are just this way in that they just invent an accent or a affectation for whatever crowd they're in front of. And it's the most unauthentic, inauthentic thing that you could ever come up with.

[Michael Duncan]

Shameless pandering.

[Josh Holmes]

Shameless. Like, Hillary was super famous for it. Kamala does her own version. Well, she's back again. She's got a new one in clip five.

[Smugglesworth]

I think it's okay for us to be a bit transactional too, and to

[Josh Holmes]

say, I'm gonna get mine also.

[Smugglesworth]

And so don't count on me to

[Josh Holmes]

be a voter and be the backbone of the Democratic Party because it is my value system and my ethics and my sense of civic duty and responsibility.

[Smugglesworth]

So that you look at me and

[Josh Holmes]

say, oh, they're going to vote.

[Smugglesworth]

Can I be honest? I think Hillary's accent was better. It was. Hillary's accent was more authentic. What? Than that shit.

[John Ashbrook]

What was she talking about?

[Michael Duncan]

The context of that is she's talking about, you know, female black voters.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. Black women are make up. They're not. They're the only demographic in America that is a 91 plus support for a single political party. And as such, Democrats have said forever that they are the backbone of the Democratic Party. Like black women. If you ever had any sort of drawdown in any significant way, they wouldn't be able to compete anywhere else. And that particularly became the case when Donald Trump began making massive inroads with black men, which doubled the support for the Republican Party that it did four years and eight years prior to him running. And so this is like a concentrated electorate where now what you do in an off year when you're not running for president, when you are running for president, it's like, everybody, shut the fuck up and vote how you're supposed to. You saw Barack Obama do that. He literally, he went in the room,

[Smugglesworth]

he's like, so some of your brothers aren't gonna vote for Kamala?

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, yeah.

[Smugglesworth]

And they're like, hell, no. We're only voting for Trump.

[Adam Schwarzy]

What the fuck are you doing here?

[Smugglesworth]

Why is Eric Holder trying to get money from me?

[Josh Holmes]

But it's always the Democrat posture towards black women in a general election of a presidential Election year is everyone shut up and do what you're told.

[Smugglesworth]

Bingo.

[Josh Holmes]

But in the off year, particularly when you lose, there are huge swaths of the Democratic Party and black women in particular who are like, what have you done for us? Why is it that I'm just pledging allegiance to this thing over and over again? So she finds that wedge and now she's trying to say, because she's carving out her own lane for a 28 run.

[John Ashbrook]

That makes more sense. She's trying to lock him down for 2028.

[Smugglesworth]

And people are always shocked when we bring this up. The fact of the matter is, you see Newsom out there every day. He's trying to get as much attention, trying to start fights with Trump, trying to get any attention whatsoever. But Kamala consistently is leading because she

[Josh Holmes]

knows, yeah, she gets it, dude.

[Smugglesworth]

She's gotta go after that one crowd.

[Michael Duncan]

She's looking around, she's like, democratic Party, I've seen what you've done for the Hamas caucus and I want that for black women.

[Josh Holmes]

Totally, dude.

[John Ashbrook]

You know what?

[Josh Holmes]

We laugh, but that's it. It's not wrong in terms of noise making capability. And black women have not made the noise within the Democratic Party that justifies the kind of support that because they've given none, they've literally provided zero. There is nothing that you could actually hang your hat on and say, like, the Democratic Party has done this, that black women are concerned about Nothing. Literally nothing. It's just like the other people are racist and the other people don't like you. Like that's their policy agenda, essentially. And so, yes, I mean, that's it. It's like, you watch what Hamas has done within the Democratic Party and they're like making all this noise. And all of a sudden Kamala has to become a Hezbollah leader in order to get any attention for her, her candidacy. And they're like, well, or maybe if we just make a lot of noise. Yeah, dude, it's funny.

[John Ashbrook]

It is. And it makes sense.

[Smugglesworth]

It does.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, and it goes back to this is on piker thing that we did a little week ago when he was like, I want you to treat me like a triple Trump voter. Because a Democratic voter, like the Democrat Party, seems interested in turning the Trump voter more than it is me. So I'm going to be, I'm going to be hell on wheels until you satisfy me. I mean, I think this is where they're at. Sunny Hostin. I'm convinced, guys, that she's the dumbest. And that's taken me a lot

[Smugglesworth]

you

[Josh Holmes]

know how high a bar that is?

[Smugglesworth]

That is. And like this clip, man, I think this convinced me.

[Josh Holmes]

It's so good. Clip 6. You know, I just read that this war is estimated to have already cost us $50 billion. $50 billion. Which is more money than this country has spent since World War II.

[Smugglesworth]

What?

[Josh Holmes]

It's just so dumb.

[Smugglesworth]

It's so source crack, like.

[Josh Holmes]

And she, she's like, I just read. Where did you read that? On the back of a Fruit Loops box.

[Smugglesworth]

Like, I mean, since World War II, it's just stunning.

[Josh Holmes]

We just got done with a 20 year war that caused, I don't know, trillions, 10 trillion.

[Smugglesworth]

And. And forget that. I think like Nick Shirley uncovered that much being spent by like one hospice in Californ.

[Josh Holmes]

No, for real, for real. I think we were up in the combination of two states, Minnesota and California. I think we hit 50 bill.

[Smugglesworth]

Like, it's insane.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Oh my gosh.

[Josh Holmes]

This lady. I mean, just.

[Smugglesworth]

That's network television and that's ABC News.

[Josh Holmes]

ABC network television. You can say that with this. I just read it. So that's how you know it's right.

[Michael Duncan]

I read it national television every day.

[Josh Holmes]

Start checking the sources on that. Clip seven is where Keith Ellison. This is the Attorney General of Minnesota. This is the guy who basically turned a blind eye. Or worse. Or worse.

[Smugglesworth]

We'll find out.

[Josh Holmes]

When it comes to the fraud in Minnesota, he's one of the worst of the worst because he has. There's not an empathetic bone in his body. There's nothing that cares about anybody other than himself and protecting his political power. You see that in technicolor in clip 7. And thank God I made it to that street. There were many of our community members

[Smugglesworth]

just leaving work from the state hospital.

[Josh Holmes]

This woman's crying. They were able to be there. Is he tweeting his phone happening?

[Smugglesworth]

He's.

[Josh Holmes]

He's checked now. This lady's like, please put your phone down. Have been operating with.

[Smugglesworth]

This lady is crying. Nobody is like, you're listening to her.

[Josh Holmes]

They're doing.

[Smugglesworth]

He's like, oh, is it obvious? I don't give a. And I'm on my phone. And he puts his phone down.

[Josh Holmes]

But now he's looking around in the collar.

[Smugglesworth]

Maneuvered around me and slammed out. Is she still talking?

[Josh Holmes]

Back with the phone, dude.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Wow.

[Josh Holmes]

Back with the phone.

[Smugglesworth]

He's like, is she still crying?

[John Ashbrook]

What an.

[Smugglesworth]

On the phone. Incredible, dude. It's incredible.

[Josh Holmes]

Why are you in public life? You know what I mean?

[Smugglesworth]

It's because the money, my opinion. I mean, we have seen how, like, a lot of these Somali scammers were in touch with him. We have audio of him being like, yeah, I can help you out. They're getting donations. He's in public life because it's a for profit business for him.

[Josh Holmes]

He's like, I love the woman's cries.

[Smugglesworth]

Like, he's like, get to the part where you cut me a check, lady.

[Josh Holmes]

That's great. That's Ellison for AG.com. unbelievable. All right, so tell Rico he's our guy. Smug's got a particular heart on for this cat.

[Smugglesworth]

Well, he, he. I feel like he's in like a closet of lies.

[Josh Holmes]

Is the Texas Democratic Senate candidate. We've covered him a lot, but if you're relatively new or miss those programs, we've had a lot to say about him. But he's now the general election candidate in Texas. And he had this comment not long ago where he talked about how God is non binary.

[Smugglesworth]

He actually said this and it went

[Josh Holmes]

relatively uncovered, except for here on the Ruthless Variety program. Until now it's starting to pop up a little bit. You saw him asked about this and he just doubles down. Clipping.

[Adam Schwarzy]

National Republican Senate committee is already highlighting

[Josh Holmes]

comments that you've made as a state representative.

[Adam Schwarzy]

For example, they're highlighting this.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non binary.

[Josh Holmes]

What is your response to them using

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

that and explain what you were talking about? Well, I understand that that comment is a little provocative. I said it on the House floor when the extremists in the Republican legislature were picking on school kids who were different. But I don't think it's controversial theologically. Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender. In fact, the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatians said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul.

[Smugglesworth]

So first off, it's. I think it finally registered on him. Like, I should probably not say crazy, blasphemous insano stuff like God is non binary. But first off, kudos for Jake Tapper.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, to.

[Smugglesworth]

To ask him that. But this is going to be such a problem for him. And when he tries to cover it up and he's like, so the thing is, is that these Republicans in Texas, they were. They're bullying kids. No, they were. They were saying that you cannot do gender surgery on children.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, that's what.

[Smugglesworth]

That's not bullying children. That's Protecting.

[John Ashbrook]

Do we think that he is going to lead a movement to go back through the entire Bible and any reference of God the father. He's going to erase father and write being of father and mother and by person. You're like, is he them?

[Josh Holmes]

I'll tell you what the problem is.

[John Ashbrook]

He's going to go back through every instance.

[Josh Holmes]

The problem I have with it is like, yes, all of that, but also the idea that you have taken something that is a sacrosanct to so many people about just their religion, the core of their God, and turned it into a current.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Yep.

[Josh Holmes]

LGBTQ +LRC XYZ vernacular non binary. Which that didn't exist five years ago. Non binary. Like that didn't. If it did, it wasn't public and mainstream. But now you've turned it into non bi. What does it. Non binary does not mean that you're all being that you are God. That's not what that means. They mean it is somebody who doesn't have a sex that is assigned to them at birth. That's what they. That is not God.

[Michael Duncan]

Well, and using God as a justification for mutilating children I think is the really offensive part of this. It's not some esoteric argument about the nature of God. You know, I mean, it's just disgusting to use God as your justification for this sort of horrific behavior you want on children.

[Josh Holmes]

I totally agree.

[Smugglesworth]

Love the moral clarity. I'm just, you know, I'm just stuck

[Josh Holmes]

on stuff like that. Like I can't just.

[Michael Duncan]

Dude, it's sick because it's something we would never think to even do, but that's how sick these people are.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, God. I mean, what supposed to be a fun time Friday. I'm going to the deeps with this. Oh, yikes. Well, we're not done yet. Xavier Becerra. Remember this guy was like Obama administration guy.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

At one point running for governor. He's about to get his doors blown off by the potato thrower. And then Steyer, the guy who's gonna throw $200 million into the fucking dirt and like hope that he's the only one that doesn't have some kind of a sex scandal. Cause nobody would fuck him.

[John Ashbrook]

By the way, somebody asked Tom Steyer last week. You know, thinking back on Gavin Newsom, what's your take on him as governor? Good things, bad things. He. I wasn't really paying much attention.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Oh, come on.

[Smugglesworth]

Amazing. He's running for governor.

[Josh Holmes]

Two term governor, guys running for president. He's like showing up to the Super Bowl.

[Michael Duncan]

And you're like, who are we playing?

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, is this American football? Oh, it's interesting. Anyway, he's got a clip.

[Smugglesworth]

Clip 9.

[Josh Holmes]

Should the CHP be giving English proficiency tests to truck drivers? And if not, would US Governor push back against the Trump administration on this policy? You have 60 seconds. I would definitely push back on the Trump administration on, again, a reckless policy. I would make sure that that officer understands that he cannot discriminate against any driver without having a basis to do so. I understood a little bit of what that individual was trying to say. I don't, I couldn't see the signs, but it certainly sounded like he was trying to describe what that particular sign was trying to represent. And so we have to be very careful. Careful that we're not profiling consumers in California. Drivers in California. I just want to, I just want to make sure that everybody got that. So the question is about language proficiency tests for people who are driving 20,000 pound trucks down the road that you too, and your children travel on. And his take is that somebody who is just sort of sounding out what it is that the signs mean is, fine, he knows what they're getting at when they're trying to describe, but that the proficiency tests meaning that you actually know what the sign says are racist. Oh, so.

[Michael Duncan]

And what happens when there's a temporary sign because there's an accident.

[Smugglesworth]

Bingo.

[Michael Duncan]

And it says, slow down, accident ahead. And they can't read that sign and they're 20 tons barreling down a highway and kill people. Yeah, because that's what we've seen in places like New York and California. These CDLs are given to foreigners who have no business having a license for a 20 ton truck.

[Josh Holmes]

Totally.

[Smugglesworth]

And we've seen Americans killed as a result of illegals and people who can't read these signs driving like maniacs, getting Americans killed. And then they do the typical damn thing of where they're like, anything they oppose is, is dangerous, is unsafe. So he's like, it would be reckless to, to make truck drivers be able to read signs. It's reckless to allow people to drive 2030 ton trucks and kill Americans like they have. And California is just in such a horrible state. I mean, unbelievable. To be like, no, I don't want people who are driving semis to be

[Josh Holmes]

able to read between Becerra, Sunny, Hostin, Hassan, Piker, Kamala Boy, it's enough to make you want to drink, but if you do, if you do, you need zebiotics, which is what the fellas rely on. I gotta tell you about this game changing new pre alcohol drink called Zbiotics. The fellas rely on it because it works, right?

[Smugglesworth]

That's the thing is I always love when we're on the road. I keep a bunch of these with me and I hand them out to folks and I say, listen, if you're gonna have some drinks tonight, try this. Try it right before you start drinking. Because the next day when you feel kind of awful after a big night out, it's not because you're dehydrated, going home, drinking a bunch of Gatorade, chugging a bunch of water, that doesn't work. What happens is when you drink alcohol, your stomach breaks it down into this, like toxic byproduct. But if you have Zebiotics first, it knocks it out, you don't have to deal with it.

[Michael Duncan]

And there's nothing that ruins a vacation or a work trip like that bad feeling after a big night out where you've got a lot of other stuff you gotta be doing and you don't feel good. And Zebiotics fixes that.

[John Ashbrook]

That's why we always say there is no tomorrow without Zbiotics today.

[Josh Holmes]

That's right. That's exactly right, smash. So if you go to ZBiotics.com ruthless you can learn more and get 15% off your first order. When you use Ruthless at the checkout, Zebionics is back with 100% money back guarantee. So if you're unsatisfied for any reason at all, the refund your money, no questions asked. Gotta head to zbiotics.com ruthless and use the code ruthless at the checkout for 15% off. All right. I was shocked and appalled by the variety we're about to get into. And I feel like Smuggles, who likes to play puritanical here on this program. He does. I mean, he like anything that comes up that's a little risque, a little blue. He, you know, he acts shocked and appalled that it's come up. Well, I wander into the office today and he's got something for us. I was shocked and appalled that it is in fact the worst blue I've seen in a long time. It's about a legendary matador. And this is from the New York Post. Before we put the graphic up, let me just give you a little overview. This is from the New York Post. Legendary Spanish matador, can't eat, sleep and suffered immense pain from a gruesome rectal goring injury.

[Smugglesworth]

Think about how awful.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, all right. Toss the pickup. Graphic one. Okay, so there it is.

[Smugglesworth]

I mean, that Is worst nightmare.

[Josh Holmes]

Worst possible nightmare.

[Michael Duncan]

I mean, second worst. The worst is the front.

[Smugglesworth]

Oh, I mean like, look at that, dude. Holy.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Duncan just took it to 11.

[Josh Holmes]

I, I, if you can't.

[Michael Duncan]

Which would be worse.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, I, I honestly think this does both.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh, no.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh yeah. Like I don't, I mean, you think the horn just sort of stayed in the.

[Smugglesworth]

They always say you don't want to catch a bull by the horns, but like this is, this is what they're talking about.

[Josh Holmes]

That guy caught it.

[Michael Duncan]

You know what I mean?

[Josh Holmes]

He caught it. So this guy was horrifically gored in a rectum during.

[Smugglesworth]

Damn near killed him

[John Ashbrook]

in this case. It's true.

[Josh Holmes]

In a bullfighting match in Spain. He's been speaking out about it. He wants people to know. Morante de Bel Puebla, known as the king of the bullfighters, underwent maybe the

[Smugglesworth]

queen now at this point. Huh?

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, geez. Could be. Underwent hours of surgery after his rear end was completely severed. Mike, I don't know what that means either. Doesn't feel like the right word for that. What do we sever? I don't know. During Monday's ill fated performance before a packed crowd at Seville Mastranza arena and what he called the most painful goring ever.

[John Ashbrook]

He was in Seville and I'm guessing he wished he had become a barber.

[Josh Holmes]

Deep cut, 46 year old, had already cleared three bulls when the fourth suddenly charged him, forcing him to drop his cape he used to lure the animal. And as he turned around and took off with his back exposed, El Bundo reported, the bovine drove the tip of its curved horn into Pueblo's rectum in a humiliating. This is the post. In a humiliating defeat. It's a defeat.

[Michael Duncan]

It's a defeat.

[Smugglesworth]

He took the king of the elves.

[Josh Holmes]

It caused a four inch tear that left him clenching himself before he was carried off the pitch by four other matadors. The battered bullfighter underwent extensive surgery to repair his rectal wall and sphincter. He's barely slept, no appetite whatsoever. And he begins the long road to recover. The truth is I'm in a lot of pain. Puebla said in the video.

[John Ashbrook]

To put it mildly.

[Michael Duncan]

Well, you hate to see a legend of the game go out like that in his final game.

[Josh Holmes]

Particularly humiliating.

[Michael Duncan]

Well, because that's the thing here is 46 years old and still a bullfighter.

[John Ashbrook]

He must be good.

[Michael Duncan]

And not only that, it says again, he had already cleared three bulls when the fourth suddenly charged. Yeah, do we need four bulls? You're 46 years old, dude.

[Josh Holmes]

And he took that one up the ass.

[Smugglesworth]

Oh, this might also be like, you

[Michael Duncan]

got to know when to hang it up.

[Smugglesworth]

Okay. But also, like, you know, I can understand, like, not having helmets, but, like, you got to have some kind of equipment for this kind.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, you want, you know, some kind of a Kevlar ass protector and, like, a cup, too.

[Smugglesworth]

You know what I mean? Like.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh, like.

[Smugglesworth]

Like Duncan brought up, like, imagine how bad it'd be in the front. Like, they might.

[Josh Holmes]

But this is a. This is a good. A big animal. Like, they can probably work their way through these things.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah. I mean, you get, like, a piece of steel. Dude, I'm talking about, like, you know what I mean?

[John Ashbrook]

Like, that would be a good idea.

[Josh Holmes]

You gotta guard your ass when you're around.

[Smugglesworth]

Seriously, things.

[John Ashbrook]

Seriously, they will now.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, I gotta tell you this. You think about, you know, hitting a keyhole from 50 yards.

[Smugglesworth]

This guy. Honestly, like, when you're in that situation, is there the temptation where he's like, you don't have to sew it up. Just like, hit me with the, like, ultra fent and let me doze, bro.

[Josh Holmes]

I'd want. I'd want. You know how they end the bowl with the.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, you know. You know, the knife. Knife in the brain.

[Josh Holmes]

I'd take the knife to the brain. I think if you got the colorectal horn, you got the full horn in there.

[Smugglesworth]

That's a tough situation, dude.

[Josh Holmes]

And also, like, God bless him. I hope he recovers. But when he does, you know, I

[Smugglesworth]

mean, when they have to read that

[Josh Holmes]

shit, dude, like, all your friends know about that. Yeah. Talk about that in public. That's tough.

[Smugglesworth]

It's a bad situation.

[Josh Holmes]

So you took a full horn in the ass, huh?

[John Ashbrook]

It's one of those things that for the first few days, probably nobody. Everybody kind of, like, delicately dances around the topic.

[Josh Holmes]

His buddies are gonna bust.

[Smugglesworth]

That's the problem is, like, all your buddies are dropping jokes.

[John Ashbrook]

Then one of his buddies throws in the joke,

[Josh Holmes]

and then somebody's like, oh,

[Michael Duncan]

you can't do that.

[Josh Holmes]

I want you guys to know that if you ever get a bullhorn up your ass, I'll give you at least three weeks before I start banging on

[Smugglesworth]

you about, okay, I'm going immediately.

[Josh Holmes]

Same day. It hasn't gone well for this cat anyway. Okay, that's our variety for today. To cap off the week, we have told you over and over again, we are going to give you all of the candidates in the races that matter. When you go to Ruthless Podcast.com map, you can click on your state and you can See, all of the candidates that matter that you're ultimately going to have to choose from, that starts in the primary, ultimately will end up in the general, but we're going to get absolutely all of them. You heard from Michelle Tafoya here last week in a great interview. Well, Adam Schwarzy is another candidate. He's a Navy SEAL. We love Navy SEALs here on the program. And he came in to give us his pitch on the Minnesota Senate race, which is an open seat, very winnable if somebody gets their shit together. But Minnesota Republicans have not proven very adept at that over the years, which is sort of what we get into, Adam. Well, we promised you some time ago that we were gonna provide for you all of the candidates in all of the races that matter. So you yourself can hear from a ruthless side who you would like to vote for. Ultimately, these are primaries and generals, incredibly important election, obviously. And now we have a Minnesota Senate candidate named Adam Schwarzy. How are you, sir?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Where'd Ruthless come from, by the way? That's. We had a little kind of a bro session before the session, but I apologize, I've heard a couple of your podcasts, but I didn't get the. The etymology of ruthless. Yeah. By the way, as a Marine. Navy seal, I love it.

[Josh Holmes]

So

[John Ashbrook]

thank you.

[Josh Holmes]

I appreciate it. Well, we'll have to go off air with all that. It's a long story, one of which is. Yeah. Has bored our listeners for quite some time.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Well, I can't wait.

[Josh Holmes]

But listen, you've gotten yourself into a race here in a state that matters a lot, an open seat, that it's going to make a big difference. I mean, whether or not Minnesota is ultimately competitive here in the fall is pretty indicative as to whether or not Republicans spread the map. Pick up cc. You know, Democrats have long just thought they should own and perhaps keep a majority. So how are we doing over here?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Well, doing great. I'm in a. So Minnesota is kind of a wonky state for how we do we have to do an endorsement, which in 64 years, with only one exception, have you gone on to win a primary without that endorsement. We're truly like the most grassroots of grassroots states. Obviously, as somebody who. Who's from Minnesota, originally played hockey, loves. Jesus Christ Marine, Navy seal, loves guns. That's going very well.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. What did you. What did you. Where'd you play hockey?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Bloomington, Kennedy for two years. And before that? I was almost a cake eater at whole Angels for a couple years.

[Josh Holmes]

Okay. All right.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Shot myself back to the suburbs where I belong. Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

But a Navy SEAL and a Marine. So you just. One wasn't enough. You had to go two on this double.

[Adam Schwarzy]

That's crazy. Well, thank you. So I was always. Being a Navy Seal was my childhood dream. I grew up watching the History Channel when they actually filmed and showed history, which I don't think they do right now. It's probably like rap videos or something. But grew up, always wanted to be a SEAL. 911 happened during my senior of high school. So I watched the Twin Towers fall live from my senior year English class impacted me greatly. I was actually sleeping out on the Valley west shopping mall center.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Waiting for the Navy recruiters to open up because I was in the process of trying to listen to the Navy until all of a sudden, one day, this giant horse of a man in a band costume walked by and he's like, what are you sleeping on the ground for, son? I'm like, I want to go in the Navy. He's like, for what? I want to be a Navy seal. He's like, have you ever thought about the Marine Corps? No idea what the Marines were? I literally had no. I thought this guy was in the band because he had this, like, costume on. Turns out he's a dress blues.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

But the Marine Corps was one of the best things that ever happened to me is getting the, you know, harnessing my Midwest values and work ethic into high performance teams and serving our country. And so true to his word, the Marines are first to fight in a conventional sense. At least three weeks later, on my 18th birthday, enlisted in the Marine Corps. Did all five phases of operation Iraqi Freedom. As an enlisted Marine, did a couple of stints doing foreign policy at embassies around the world, and then got accepted into a meritorious commissioning program to become a Marine Corps officer and then went back to the University of Minnesota is where I got my undergrad. And then I transitioned not my sex, but my service over to the Navy and started my time in the. In the SEAL teams,

[Josh Holmes]

but my service.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So I did. I did transition, but from. From Marines to Navy. And it was. It was. It was awesome.

[Josh Holmes]

In a traditional sense.

[Adam Schwarzy]

In a traditional sense, yes, exactly. But really blessed to serve for 21 years. In total, nine deployments. 75 countries. I think I have more time.

[Josh Holmes]

75 countries.

[Adam Schwarzy]

70. Yeah. Or 75. I think it's 77 or 78. I think. I think I have more time forward downrange than anybody serving in Congress or Senate right now.

[Josh Holmes]

Wow.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And I loved it. And, you know, people always ask all. When I running around the state for this. For this race. Like, why haven't you done enough? You served enough? And I say, well, no. And, you know, the D.C. establishment, they say, well, tell them it's your. It's your calling. And that's just a lie. To be honest, I'm truly blessed. You know, hopefully get back into my bio a little bit more. But I was actually started off being adopted. I'm only on this planet because my mom sacrificed so I could have life. And then I was raised by two loving, amazing parents in the east side of Bloomington, Minnesota. And then I had just phenomenal leaders in the Marine Corps and the Navy seals, which have prepared me for this mission. So truly, like, what's my. Why is. I know I can win the seat. And it's my duty. After everything, our country. I've been to 77 countries. I've seen the rest of the world. America's. It's effing beautiful. It's an amazing country, but it's not guaranteed if we don't have leaders who are willing to step up and fight for.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, totally. I mean, Minnesota is a state that has bedeviled Republicans for quite some time. I was actually on the last senate race, which one? 2002.

[NetChoice Representative]

Okay.

[Josh Holmes]

That won in Minnesota. And it's been one of those states that should look a lot more like Wisconsin and Iowa. From a result.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Absolutely.

[Josh Holmes]

From who the people are and the transition of the electorate over the years, but it just hasn't been. Democrats have always had a stronghold on that. As you look at the state now and you're traveling around, what gives you optimism about this going red for the first time in, what, 24 years?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah, well, you bring up a great point. But first off, people think that Minnesota is a blue state. It's a lost cause. You know this because you're from there as well. It's not. It's. We have four Democrat congressmen, four Republican congressmen. We have 101 Democrat legislators in the state. We have 100 Republican. I need to move 33,000 votes in a 3.5 million voter block. It is right on the cusp.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

To your point, though, why haven't we just gotten there? Well, we don't have exciting candidates that can build and harness that base, you know, come strong out of that endorsement, building the team, and then do better in the suburbs. I mean, that's. That's truly the. So what? You're right. But we. But we. Since we had a Republican, we did have a Navy SEAL, one statewide. Jesse Ventura. I mean, Navy SEALs are seven for seven.

[Josh Holmes]

Not our finest motors.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Hey, hey. I'm not going to say I, I'm not going to say I own all of his policies. But there is something to be said that we have in federal races. Seven Navy SEALs of seven have won federal general elections. We're seven for seven. I mean most recently we have another Minnesota Navy Seal, Tim Sheehy just kicked out a three term incumbent in John Tester Montana who every thought would die in the U.S. senate. He was such a Houdini.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And he, he did the same thing I'm doing. Start early, do the work and build a high performing team. And so I've been on the camp trail longer than anybody running for any office in Minnesot. We've got the largest grassroots team to embrace that, that endorsement process. Not shy away from it, Embrace it. Because veterans, I know you got a couple of veterans on your team, which is awesome by the way. Veterans. Get this more than anybody that you, you have to come together and fight as a team if you're gonna win in these battles.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So we're embracing that, that endorsement process and we have the values and the work ethic to get us over the line.

[American Petroleum Institute Announcer]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Adam, you've got an incredible background and it sounds like you've been all over the state. I'm really curious what you're hearing most from people. Is it the fraud? Is it economy? What, what is it that people are telling you?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah, two things. So we've already done a lot of polling on this, but I don't need the polling because I've been in every single bpo, every single county in the state already.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, bpo.

[Adam Schwarzy]

You know, a brother. These wonky terms, man. Yeah. But the. So what? You get it in here in D.C. in the center of the swamp, as much as the Minnesotans do. It's the fraud. You know this. I'm an honest broker and my word is my bond. It's going to be tough to retain the House when we have a Republican House, a Republican Senate and the President. Everybody who just don't understand everything that's going on, the nuances right now. It's difficult to retain all that in a midterm in Minnesota. Not only are we going to retain, we're going to expand because Minnesotans, you can't travel in the United States, let alone the entire world right now. When Minnesotans go and travel abroad, they're like, holy crap, you're from Minnesota. You're the land of the fraud. Thousand lakes, bro.

[Josh Holmes]

Like they're going to touch humiliating on the program.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Lately, I'll be honest with you. But it's, it's. But Minnesotans are a proud people and they're really embarrassed that we are known because of all of this fraud from a, a largely singular voting block in the cities. Minnesotans. A Verizon map. If you look at Minnesota on the map, Google it please. If you're one of like the ruthless listeners. It's truly a Verizon map of red with the Twin Cities as a blo of blue and then duth with a much smaller blue dot of blue that, that red area is pissed. They are flamed up. And we're going to show up in numbers. I think we're gonna show up in presidential numbers. And then what's the other side have right now? You know, I have an agenda. It's very common sense. It's America first. It's peace through strength. It's supporting policies that help every day, whether you're a CD3 soccer mom from Edina or you're somebody in the inner cities leaning on President Trump's grants to expand businesses into CD5. But what's the other side repping right now?

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, nothing.

[Adam Schwarzy]

No, they are. They're two things. Socialism and anti Trump.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

That's their whole agenda. And it's not going to work right now. When Peggy Flanagan, who's going to for sure win their endorsement and likely win their general, all she can rep is her record, her actual record, and somebody who's. I'm happy to lean on my record of service.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

I mean, it's laughable. But that's how far I was talking to your team before the interview. It's. This is going to be historic for Minnesota because it's not going to be Schwarzene% flips the top of the ticket and then it's kind of, we kind of go back and forth down bout. We're going to get a historic win. I truly think that we are going to take back our entire state the cycle.

[Michael Duncan]

I mean, how do you lay all of that fraud at the feet of these Democratic candidates in the state? Because, you know, in Tim Walls is hiding or, you know, no, he's going

[Adam Schwarzy]

to Spain talking about awesome socialism.

[Michael Duncan]

You know, you got Keith Elliot and I've listened to those tapes about all the pressure they were putting on these state workers who were trying to raise the flags on this. How do we put this around the neck of every Democrat who wants to run away from the fraud issue in November?

[Adam Schwarzy]

I trust in the American people. I trust in Minnesotans. They're very smart. People, our schools aren't very great right now, unfortunately, because of the Democrat trifecta, but they can't run away from the record. That 9 to 19 billion dollars of largely federal tax dollars, by the way, was under their watch. They had a trifecta. They can't run away from it when they've had control for the last decade.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So they have a voting record. They have their policies. They can't run away from them. And I just. But it's not enough. And this is where Republicans screwed up. We say, well, I'm for better economy, and I'm not them. Well, no, that's not going to work either. I have to be for a bunch of things that helps everyday American families across their state. But I do. I have that agenda. And they can't run from the record. And as a military guy, I know you laugh, brother. It's. It is insane to even Minnesotans that Peggy Flanagan, who was Wall's lieutenant governor, was ground zero for all of this. Nine to $19 billion of fraud is now looking for a promotion. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, it's absurd, mind blowing.

[Josh Holmes]

But it's one of those things where you. You start to get skeptical from a national perspective when you see, you know, blue cities and blue states have just such obvious mismanagement to the point where, I mean, like, it's $8 billion or maybe even more in Minnesota, but you've seen localities deal with this across the country, and they're like, yeah, double down on that. But there is enough common sense in Minnesota that I think you get to a point where you can turn the table on it. The question is whether you can overcome this machine that the Democrats have put in place over a period of years where they have. I mean, what's the name of the senator right now? Now, what's the Kloppajar?

[Adam Schwarzy]

No.

[John Ashbrook]

Tina Smith.

[Michael Duncan]

No. Tina Smith.

[Josh Holmes]

Tina Smith. Tina Smith. If you look at Tina, she's like a thumb. I mean, this is one of the least impressive individuals I've ever laid eyes on. And I mean that sincerely. Like, if that person was trying to sell you a phone at the Verizon store, you'd be like, can I get different help? But she's a United States senator representing the entire state of Minnesota. And the mere fact that she's in the conversation as someone who's retiring shows you what you're up against. Nobody would ever choose that.

[Adam Schwarzy]

But they have got me, too. Out of the Senate. Yeah, yeah, but. But she's not running. Yeah, I mean, that's a good indicator. Right as she knew that because of all of her insider trading, she's not on the belt. We do have a vacancy, which is a historic opportunity for a pickup. I'm not running against the Senate machine. And even if. Let's pretend I was. So 93 of the incumbents always win. Navy Seals again are seven for seven boys. We, we've sculpted a winning roadmap here. Yeah. We have the values of, of Americans and it's, we have the, the, you know, the next generation, the turning point people that are coming out. Half of my delegates are, you know, the youngest delegates in every single county because they're future lions and lions want to be lit.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

So.

[Michael Duncan]

So you talked earlier about, you know, when you got into the Marine Corps, you had great leaders helping sort of mold you.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

In your career. And I'm wondering, you know, what, what did you take away from that service that you want to apply here? Either from a character perspective, a leadership perspective, or a policy perspective.

[Adam Schwarzy]

That's a great question. I guess the first thing that came to mind is just because I'm going for this endorsement process and we've got this really high performing team, it took a long time to get it online because my biggest shortfall as a candidate is obviously name id. Right. Everything I did, I wasn't, you know, walking the sidelines on News for 61 years. I was in the trench trenches. But how do I, how do I adapt to what I did, learn in those trenches in two way that I can expand as civilians who haven't served. And what's really taken shape is building this team that's based off of our values, A values based team. And I'm so proud of that, that people in Minnesota, we recognize across the state that this is every time, every two years is a candidate like, this is the most important election of your lifetime. And people are like, okay, nerd, like whatever. But no, truly, this is the most important election of our lifetimes in Minnesota. And my message has been nobody rises to the occasion. As I grew up playing hockey in lacrosse in the Marines, and then as the Navy SEALs and a Navy SEAL mission commander, there's this fallacy that you rise the occasion when it's these epic stakes. And you know, you look to this, this last historic, you know, men's gold and women's gold team all the way back to 1980. Miracle on ice. They didn't happen because of, of, of truly a miracle. You know, that that happened because of preparation met opportunity. And that's what this race Is for me, it's. I've done, I've been preparing for this for years now. Building the team, doing the grassroots work. And you don't rise the occasion, you fall back to your training, you fall back to your principles and for. That's why it's so great to see all these young males and, and young females in, in, at these collegiate universities come out to join a Republican candidate because they're not scared to. That I talk about my faith. They're not scared to support second amendment rights and want a strong America. They're sick of being told that they're, they're racist, they're xenophobic, they're homophobic. They just want to be left alone and they want their chance for the future of American opportunity. And so I, I thought that was going to be. I thought I was gonna have to run as like this caricature where I'm like moderate and don't embrace like the party values and don't embrace like my love of country. But the harder I lean into my faith, my love of country, the values that made our country great, that we're straying away from, the more people are actually jumping on the team, which is kind of beautiful. It's really exciting to see. Very rewarding.

[John Ashbrook]

Adam, are you hearing from any Democrats in the state who are like, you know what, I'm not gonna be super public, but the reality is we have to change. Walz isn't doing the job. This fraud is a problem that gives you the idea that there are Democrats who are gettable in this general election.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Absolutely. The best metric for that is when people donate. You know, they're really on your team.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

I've gotten over a million dollars of all grassroots fundraising, by the way, which is kind of historic for this early. A lot of fundraising. All my fundraising, by the way, I want to put this out there. It's all come from you real people. Not a dollar from the DC swamp or PACs or military industrial complex or anything like that. It's like, you know, one point, whatever million dollars now.

[Josh Holmes]

Now.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And I've got a ton of donors who. I'm not transactional. I'm friends with a lot of them. A lot of these people have never voted or donated Republican before. It's just they're so sick of the values less other side of the party that they, they want something different. And we don't. Certainly don't agree on all the messaging that's coming out of the party necessarily all the policies. But at the end of the day, this is what it's going to be. And this is my goal for the inner city republic or any city Democrat. The CD3 soccer moms. Why is that a Minnetonka where you're from? Cake. E, like, at the end.

[Josh Holmes]

Going to turn dark here.

[Adam Schwarzy]

At the end of the day, these. These soccer moms, which have, you know, a large part, haven't really gotten on board with the Republican party messaging yet. They're going to vote for Adam Schwarzy because while they maybe don't like Republican Party politics, at the end of the day, I'm a common sense person who they trust their family with versus Peggy Flanagan, who they could come home and that she transitioned their children without them knowing. I mean, that's how insane the other side side is. Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

No, you're right. I mean, that's not even being hyperbolic about it.

[Adam Schwarzy]

No, that's the truth is, like, I'm somebody that, like, is common sense. They would trust their families with more than the other side, which has stolen from them, has raised their cost of everything in Minnesota, from housing costs to education to taxes. I mean, any Dinah. I have people on Democrats on my team. Any Dinah. Like, it was 17 and then 10 this year. It's like they can't take anymore.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So they're. Who would you have a beer with?

[Smugglesworth]

With.

[Josh Holmes]

And who would you let coach your kids? Team.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, that's right.

[Josh Holmes]

If you can figure out the combination of those two things in Minnesota, you're a pretty good place.

[Adam Schwarzy]

That's right. And then. Yeah. And then who would you leave your fa. Who would you trust your family with if you couldn't be around? You're a mom or a dad. Yeah, I'm going to be that. That guy.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. Listen, it's a good message. I got three questions for you. Yeah, first one, Grew up in Minnesota. We always ask everybody that comes on the program, if you could plan your last meal on earth, what would it be?

[Adam Schwarzy]

So unoriginal. But I'm a huge steak guy. I'm sorry. Ribeye. That's where I'm at with a good, like, Pittsburgh char. Medium, medium rare inside.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, you know, there you go.

[Michael Duncan]

That's a tough thing to pull off.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yes. You know, that is like the good marbleization across the hole.

[Michael Duncan]

If you're doing a Pittsburgh, you got to get that thing real hot, like

[Adam Schwarzy]

900 degrees cast iron. Both sides pressed.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. The man's done his research. Exactly how.

[Michael Duncan]

You know.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, that's exactly how you do it. Okay. Are we doing any. Are we deciding it or we, like,

[Adam Schwarzy]

some Truffle smash, You know, Truffle smash, you know?

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. A big goblet of red wine.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yes. Yeah. Like a California cab.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

I mean, California and Israel wines. Nothing as good as those two wine spots. The entire world.

[Josh Holmes]

California, Interesting. Okay.

[Smugglesworth]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Israel, they're sneaky. They don't even export their good stuff. Seriously, sneaky, good wines in Israel.

[Josh Holmes]

I'm going to have to take your word on that. That's something worth looking into. All right, so look, our view is that anybody who rises to the level that you have and all the accomplishments that you've had, you look back on your life and you just didn't have time to do and pursue things that you were interested at, you were really good at. And with the benefit of retrospect, if you could choose another direction in life that you think you could have have, it would have been interesting and fun and you would have been good at, what would it be?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Man, you guys are deep. I don't expect philosophical questions here.

[John Ashbrook]

Ted Cruz said he would have played in the NBA. So it's just like World of Joy, you know?

[Josh Holmes]

So, you know, it can be. You can. You can dream.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So this is. I'm gonna sound like, really wimpy Marine, Navy seal. I used to like to draw when I was a kid.

[Josh Holmes]

There you go.

[Adam Schwarzy]

But now that I'm. I'm. I'm very much process person nowadays.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So I think that a good combination.

[Josh Holmes]

The seals knock that out of you?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Well, the Marines did. Marines did.

[Josh Holmes]

Marines didn't meet artists. It's like, I used to be super

[Adam Schwarzy]

artistic, but I want to draw.

[John Ashbrook]

Shut up.

[Adam Schwarzy]

You get the water. Now that I'm. Now that I'm a Marine, they'd be like, you mean you're autistic? You mean you're autistic. Which is also true. No, I think I would have loved to have been an architect. I'm a big fan of Frank. Frank Lloyd Wright. I'm a huge. It's kind of like, soothing. I learned, like, his process and the. The utilitarian vibes of his. Some of his stuff. So I'll kick my coverage in the lady department as well. I build great teams. And on the home front, I'm engaged now, and she. For my birthday, she took me to some, like, Frank Lloyd Wright buildings that I didn't even know about, were on the map, and it was really cool.

[Josh Holmes]

Is she a Minnesota gal?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah, she is. She's from War Road, so that this is the hockey capital.

[Josh Holmes]

Holy smokes. You picked her right out of the hockey USA Yeah, yeah. That's crazy.

[John Ashbrook]

Is that Dave Spihar?

[Josh Holmes]

No, well, no, he was Duluth east, but Ocean.

[Smugglesworth]

Oshi.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah, she was Spanish partners with Oshi. Her, her. Actually her cousins. Like a two time Olympian, Gigi Marvin. Okay, that's like awesome.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

They produce athletes.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah, they're. They're specimens, no question. Good breeding style.

[Josh Holmes]

You gotta be pretty tough to be from that neck of the woods.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah. I mean Minnesotans actually in SEAL training were. I think it's like an 80, 85 attrition rate. I know a couple who didn't make it through the entire process. I don't know one. One Minnesotan who quit.

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

Is it the tolerance for hypothermia?

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah. It's like you got to be able to work when you're cold.

[Josh Holmes]

What?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Tired? It's like think of a Minnesota. You don't get hugged. There's no hugs in Minnesota. Like, oh, you're tired, go shovel the driveway. Like, nobody gives a.

[Michael Duncan]

Like, is the no hugs like a Scandinavian thing?

[Guest Clips (Hasan Piker and others)]

German.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Scandinavian. Germans. We don't. I mean, as a German kid, if you get smiled, you get slapped.

[Josh Holmes]

So yeah, you got a lot of emotion.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

You know, I respect that. So, yeah, we were made to go to war. Like you, like I get to fire back. This is awesome. The seniors take it.

[Josh Holmes]

All right, last question. So our view is almost every successful person on earth is motivated by one of two things. Thrill of victory or the agony of defeat. And it's not that anybody likes to lose or that anybody doesn't like to win. It's what motivates you to take the next step in your life or your career, whatever. And the prototypical agony of defeat person is Michael Jordan.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Jordan, right.

[Josh Holmes]

He invented slights upon himself in order to, I mean, just created them out of thin air. We've always said to keep the sports analogy going that like Phil Mickelson is a perfect thrill of victory guy where you could easily lay up part of the whole.

[Adam Schwarzy]

I already have a great answer for this. Okay, let's go. Awesome.

[Josh Holmes]

What do you got?

[Adam Schwarzy]

So as a Marine, fighting isis, the Taliban, all these threats, for my whole career, yeah, I was more scared of, of my non commissioned officers behind me than I was of the actual enemy.

[Josh Holmes]

Okay.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Take that even further to the SEAL regimes and, and those high performing teams. So my last seven years I was a no fail mission commander. So everything I did for my last seven years was uniquely Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, strategically very important mission sets. You know, if you screw up a mission against one of those could be Nuclear holocaust.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

World War Three.

[Michael Duncan]

That's right. It's called no fail.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So very, very high strategy, strategic importance. And so I always get, you know, family members, like, because I don't talk about, like, what I did on the X. And really, the marines or the seals just try to be a quiet, humble professional. But this is like, how crazy we are. They're like, what's. What's your biggest fear? Like, would you. The gunfire, the unknowns, the combat. No. Screwing up. Screwing up. Like knowing that the weight of the United States of America is on my shoulders.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And mine alone. And if you look at it, that's how I view this race. We have a truly a historic opportunity to flip a United States Senate seat to a. Either a constitutional conservative or if I this up, it's going to a socialist.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And that we talked about the 93 incumbents. Like, we don't get it back.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

So I have the weight of a United States Senate race. So screwing up.

[Josh Holmes]

It's an agony guy. Fellas. It's an agony. Yeah, I like it. It's a good answer. It's a really good answer. Listen, if people want to help you out, what are do to they going

[Adam Schwarzy]

go schwarzy for Senate? We're on all the platforms. Schwarzyforate.com all the good things. If you reach out, we'll get back to you.

[Josh Holmes]

All right, Adam, thank you so much for joining.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Boys.

[Josh Holmes]

This is really appreciate it.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Thank you for having me here, guys.

[Josh Holmes]

You bet.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Take care of all your veterans on your team, too.

[Michael Duncan]

It's cool.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. These guys, even if you play the

[Adam Schwarzy]

band in the marine, you're still a Marine.

[John Ashbrook]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Before Adam goes, I know you brought something with you.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Schwarzy]

We pay the team guy gods to get through the. The crucible here.

[Josh Holmes]

What do we. Yeah, what do we got?

[Adam Schwarzy]

I wanted to provide something that would hopefully have some value in your life. So hopefully one of these things. So those hats. So. So those are like the special operations command IR flags, dude. So if you ever get taken hostage, rip that flag off, pocket that, put in your butt, whatever you got to do. When the guys with green eyes come to save you, pull that out. Because under ir, that flag will shine like the sun.

[Josh Holmes]

Really?

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah. So, yeah, if you shine an IR light on that, that flag will show. So if there's ever a helo low overhead or a plane, if you ever get compromised.

[Michael Duncan]

Dude, grab that.

[Josh Holmes]

Dude, I love this.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And then the other thing, because I know you're a Minnesota guy here, there's at least one Minnesota guy here. For the other guys. Beat it, nerds. If you ever. If you're ever going ice fishing, your car goes into a lake. Oh, yeah, you got a seat belt cutter, and this is the cutter. That's a cutter and a windshield pop.

[Josh Holmes]

So.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Or you guys could be heroes too. If you're on the freeway and somebody's like burning in their car, you can do this. You can get them out of their seat belt and pop their windshield, no problem. Problem with the smashing and the belt cutter.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh, yeah. This is the window.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Y Y. The window.

[Josh Holmes]

Essential stuff in this.

[Adam Schwarzy]

Yeah. So we actually have one on our shifter in all of our cars. So it's right there. You know, if you guys are heroes now, I want to shout out like, hey, I got it from the US Senator SA lady.

[Josh Holmes]

You know, like, so Adam helped me be a hero today.

[Adam Schwarzy]

There we go.

[John Ashbrook]

C, H, W A R Z.

[Smugglesworth]

Perfect.

[Adam Schwarzy]

We could be heroes. God bless. Thank you so much.

[Josh Holmes]

Good luck out there.

[John Ashbrook]

I mean, this guy has a very

[Josh Holmes]

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[John Ashbrook]

background I loved hearing everything he was saying. And I just hope to God that voters in Minnesota will look at what's happened with the fraud and be like, ah, we're gonna vote for the other guy this time. Yeah, you know, we're gonna. We're gonna choose somebody on the other side and maybe write the shot.

[Josh Holmes]

I've also, you know, one of the things that this process has done for me is encourage me. When you see the kind of people who are stepping up to do it, like, not all people are going to win. Like, we got a lot of people, you know, a third or two thirds that we've interviewed are not going to be what they're going to be because

[Smugglesworth]

just nature of a primary, there can only be one.

[Josh Holmes]

There can only be one.

[Adam Schwarzy]

And.

[Josh Holmes]

But you see the quality of the character. You know, this guy. I mean, what an incredible resume. This guy's a hero, an American hero. But he's taken it upon himself to put his hat in the ring and try to win this race because he thinks he can do it. I think that's a super healthy sign for the Republican Party, definitely. I really do, because I remember back in the day, 2008 was a perfect example. There was a guy named Mark Pryor, was a Democrat that represented Arkansas. And things were so bad after the 2006 election, going into 2008, where you had either Hillary or Obama and we were going to have John McCain or whatever, we couldn't recruit a candidate to run against a Democrat in Arkansas. Couldn't get one, couldn't get a serious candidate. And like you fast forward now, Minnesota, they haven't won since 2002. They haven't won a single Senate race since 2002. And they've got, you know, a couple of really good options there, smart people that want to do it. And you saw the same Louisiana. I saw the same in Texas. I mean, we're, we're running the map. There's a lot of competition. I think that's a healthy, good sign. All right. It's been a hell of a week. I appreciate everybody tuning into us. We had some yucks. We're going to have a lot more next week. Well, that. Fellas, I think we did it.

[Smugglesworth]

I think so. Absolute banger of an episode. Gentlemen, thank you so much to our guest, Adam Schwarzy, and thank you to listeners. We remember, if you have not yet, go to the YouTube and hit that subscribe because it's more fun in video. So until next time, minions, keep the faith, hold the line, and own the libs. We'll see you on Tuesday. Stay ruthless, Sam.