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#55 - Kash Patel FBI Nomination & The Transparency Movement! · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Kash Patel, FBI director, nomination moving forward.
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  Political corruption. We always knew about it, but it's being exposed.
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  All right, let's just dive into it. What's up, everyone? This is Evolution.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel, and we got a lot to talk about today.
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  So let's just dive into it. Let's go. Let's roll. So Kash Patel,
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  I have followed him for a while.
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  He's amazing. He goes on, he's been on a lot of podcasts that I've seen.
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  He was very into it in the Trump administration, the last term that Trump was rolling.
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  And he was a very loyal person. He was a bulldog, got out there and just fought fearless.
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  If you wanted to have a person you want to describe as fearless,
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  Kash Patel is the guy. So I'm so pumped about that.
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  Him moving forward, we know Trump definitely shook things up by the nominations he has put forward.
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  But Kash Patel getting in the door is amazing.
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  So it's happening. A lot of Trump's nominations have been pushed through.
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  This is definitely shaking up Washington, which also leads into the expose,
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  whatever you want to call it, that is happening with Doge and the political
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  corruption that is just being just put out there.
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  And you see over and over the people that want to argue about.
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  Transparency, usually those are the people that you would want to go after the
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  most and kind of look into,
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  you know, if you get all defensive and I've, I could speak personally,
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  you know, if I, if I feel like I'm being challenged, if I'm getting defensive
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  about something and I want to just cover something up, there might be something there.
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  There might be something there. And that goes, I think that goes for everyone.
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  You know, we are all humans.
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  So this is never to say any person's actually better than someone else.
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  I wouldn't say we're all going on a timeline, the
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  timeline of our life and some some
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  of us are going in the wrong direction and some of us are going in
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  a better direction and i think we can all be improving so this that applies
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  to politicians as well i mean i think in what arena you're in environment you're
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  in you are you're i mean you are under the spotlight and it's easy to sell your
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  soul when you just want to go go along to get along.
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  So the FBI director, Kash Patel, stepping in, this could also be another way
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  of showing just the writing is on the wall that a lot of things are going to come out.
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  A lot of reform is going to happen, major reform.
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  I mean, for me, it is actually a very good time to be alive.
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  I think seeing what is happening, it almost seems like we are in a dream state
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  that a lot of these things are taking place that we, I thought,
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  I didn't think I'd ever see the day.
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  I didn't, I definitely didn't think I'd ever see the day that Trump would be president again.
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  And that he, a fire has been lit under Donald Trump.
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  The four years that he was out of office and now that he's back in office,
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  a major fire has been lit.
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  He was, he had time to reflect. He had time to think about the bad choices.
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  He would never say bad choices that he made. I mean, and I don't think anything
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  that we go through, we either, you either win or you learn. And you can have
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  a lot of learning moments.
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  You can have a lot of learning moments in your life. And it's all how you take
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  away from if it a defeat can only be it can be a way just to learn and improve.
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  And how do I adjust course and take the most out of any situation?
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  And I think Donald Trump has done that hugely, bigly.
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  Is it bigly or big league? I've never understood that. I've never I've never
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  I've always heard heard him say that.
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  And I never knew which one which one he is saying, bigly or big league.
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  Either way, they're all good. He's taken a lot from his time in office,
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  his time to sit back, and he is definitely putting the pedal to the metal and rolling.
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  And this is a better sign than this, than Kash Patel coming into the government,
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  which is awesome. It's actually happening.
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  It's actually happening. And I think a lot of bureaucrats are not sitting easy.
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  And a lot of bureaucrats that have had a very sweet gravy train are seeing that
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  things are about to be upturned and they are already lawyering up.
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  They're already getting ready.
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  Because they know that things are coming out them. If you've done things in
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  your past, if you've done things wrong, there's always that fear that it could
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  all come up to light. It could be exposed.
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  And I think we should live in an era, a world where transparency happens.
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  And that's why it's, for me, I switch this to crypto and the blockchain and
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  all of that, the ledger that's out there that people see, everything just being
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  completely transparent out there.
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  You can't argue with it. I think that in that sense, it's wonderful.
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  It's absolutely wonderful. Why would you, I wish we were all like just open books.
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  I wish if you, if you encountered me, you saw my whole everything,
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  nothing, you know, nothing was hidden.
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  And the same for everyone else. Why do we have to live in nooks and crannies
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  and hide, hide our dealings under the table?
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  Why can't we have our hands exposed and have everything to the light of light
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  of day? I think it is this present age that we are in.
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  That's just the way it is. That's the way the cookie crumbles, you know?
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  Offenses must come and then, but Jesus said, woe to them through whom they come.
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  But we always have time to fix our lives.
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  And I think a lot of these politicians, that if they've been doing something
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  wrong, if they've been doing some back dealings, some side dealings,
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  you know, getting rich as a.
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  If you have, if you're a business person going in and your business is running
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  off to the side and you're making, and it's making money, hands off,
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  you're not doing anything and it's doing this thing and you're just making money that way.
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  That is what it is. But if you go into Washington and you, then you accumulate
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  millions and millions, at least let's see how you made those millions and millions.
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  Let's have it out, out front, open and honest, all full transparency.
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  Do you all agree with that? You disagree with that. So for me,
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  this is an incredible time.
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  Kash Patel actually rolling into Washington.
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  And I've seen a lot of things, you know, RFK Jr. also.
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  And I've just seen videos like what it's going to be like when RFK Jr.
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  Strolls into Washington or to the FDA, you know, what he's like taking over, his responsibility.
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  I mean, he is going to be a man on a mission.
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  It's going to be, you know, fireworks, what he puts in place.
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  You know, I mean, we're not going to 100% agree with everything,
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  but I think if we live in a world where transparency reigns and that everything
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  is open out and out there, you know, you can question what people are doing.
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  You can see what they're doing and you can question it, you know,
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  but if things are behind closed doors and they're not doing press briefings,
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  if Donald Trump suddenly decides I'm not going to talk to the press anymore,
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  which I don't think we would ever see that.
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  I think that's unimaginable, but we've already seen that Elon Musk and Donald
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  Trump, you know, they're already doing just white house news conferences, just like right there.
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  Elon Musk has his son up there with him. Like, it's just like,
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  that's vulnerability folks.
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  That's vulnerability that you just have like your, your son out there,
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  which is, I think is good, you know, show our humanity, you know,
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  and we are Americans. We don't need to be, you're on that side.
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  I'm on side we are all in this together we are
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  all in this together you know we are i i
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  i firmly believe that we are all america like you know there doesn't have to
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  be sides there doesn't have to be red versus blue you know let's all have let's
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  have purple you know blend it together you know all that you know that's for
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  another day but what do you think about this what do you think about cash Patel,
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  strolling in and taking the spot as FBI director. Are you excited about it?
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  And don't forget to go out there and get a huge bouquet of 12 dozen roses for
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  your wife, for your girlfriend, and just show her that you love her,
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  you know? So we'll leave it at that.
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  Have a wonderful day, everyone. Have a wonderful weekend. And,
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  you know, I was about to say go Chiefs, but that hurt, man, that hurt.