Car Chronicles EP 18: What If Selfishness Is A Survival Signal

Pressure doesn’t always make people better, sometimes it makes them desperate. We’re recording on the road in the rain while juggling a high-profile wedding weekend, and a morning conversation about a new mom spirals into a raw talk about postpartum stress, smoking while breastfeeding, and what people really mean when they say “I had to do something for me.” We don’t treat selfishness like a label. We treat it like a signal that something in the environment is off.

From there, we go straight into the parenting and relationship reality that a lot of couples avoid: if one parent is drowning, the whole house pays for it. We talk shared responsibility for dads, the damage that builds when “help” turns into an argument, and how emotional burnout can show up later as withdrawal, resentment, and a relationship that feels like roommates. We also dig into the way language shapes identity, why “it’s my job” can warp your mindset, and how small patterns over time reveal what’s actually happening.

Then we get practical: cleaning up your physical environment, building self-respect through routines, and using nervous system regulation tools like somatic breathing. We talk affirmations too, but only in the real sense: words don’t matter without action, and the fastest path is mastering one practice instead of collecting a hundred.

The back half takes an unexpected turn into California politics and election integrity, breaking down the fight over seized ballots in Riverside County, the Chad Bianco controversy, and why transparency debates get weaponized so fast. If you got value here, subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a five-star review. What part hit closest to home for you?

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Transcript

Rainy Road And Wedding Prep

Postpartum Stress And Smoking Relapse

Selfishness As An Environment Response

Fathers Sharing The Parenting Load

How Resentment Quietly Wrecks Intimacy

SPEAKER_09 0:04

Yes, sir. You know what that means? Means it's raining. Also means that we're back on the road again. I hope y'all gonna be able to hear this episode. I know it's raining. I'm hoping that the uh the magic mastering on the podcast platform can take away this noise rain. And we'll find out. But we're gonna talk as if it ain't here. Day number four. Today is the big day. We got about seven guards tonight. We got the dream team, so everybody that's been working the past couple days, we all together. We got some new people joining up with us, and we are ready. Like I said yesterday, I'm excited to see how this all unfolds. Good, bad, or ugly. I'm glad for the opportunity to have been selected for such a high profile wedding. We had a meeting last night with the management team, and she told us that we came highly recommended. So that's why they chose our company to be part of the wedding. So hey, tonight's at night, we cannot let them down. And then as soon as I get home, I'm gonna sleep. I'm probably gonna sleep till like 10, 9 or 10, and we gotta wake up and then drive to Austin for a food he land. Because originally we were supposed to go to Dave. Thank goodness that we don't we're not going today. It doesn't rain it. We were gonna go at one. And yeah, wouldn't have been good for us. So yeah, that all worked out perfectly. But with all that out of the way, you know, stay tuned for my late night drive tonight. Be on the mic after the wedding to give any updates and conclude the last uh three days of everything, wrap it all up, put a nice little bow on top. And yeah. Let's hop into this episode. Uh this is actually just sparked by a conversation that I had with Stephanie this morning. We were taking a shower and she was telling me about one of the people she knows that just had a baby, and she was saying that the mother is just so stressed out, she started smoking again. And you know, she's breastfeeding her child, and so obviously, if you're breastfeeding, you know, you want to try to make sure that you're not putting crazy stuff into your body because your kid is gonna end up getting it too. Right? So, you know, all the toxins and stuff inside the cigarettes is gonna be going into your child, and just because of how much stress she's under, she felt like she needed to smoke again. And then Stephanie was talking to her and was like, you know, you can't do that if you're breastfeeding your child. Like, that's gonna have adverse reactions on them, and it's it's gonna make them sick. And oh, I know, believe me, I know, because my mom smoked while she was pregnant with me and my brother, and I didn't really get affected, so I don't know if I just lucked out or what, but he had asthma. So I know all about it. But yeah, so she was telling her, and she's like, Oh, yeah, you know, you're right, I gotta get rid of all these cigarettes. So she got rid of all the cigarettes and stuff, you know, clean, clean, clean things back up. And I brought I brought all this up to tell you that selfishness is really a byproduct of your environment. People uh you you'll rarely meet a person who is just inherently selfish. Okay, it's just it's usually shaped by how they are brought up and their experience as they walk through life. That is what tends to make people selfish. So when you know she says things like, Oh, I'm just so stressed from post-birth, uh post-birth post-birth responsibilities, and anything that comes with it, it's just overwhelming, and she started smoking again. That's what triggered the selfishness because it's something that she thought she needed in order to help assist with all the distress. Now, inherently, there's nothing bad about being selfish and doing things for yourself, but we also got to make sure that these things are actually benefiting you, and you're not just doing them because you believe you need them to overcome something else. That's when the issues start to happen. So, a lot of times you'll hear people say, you know, it's okay to be selfish, and that's what they're referring to. They're referring to being selfish when it comes to things like setting boundaries, when it comes to like saying no, when it comes to that okay to be selfish, because not everybody has your best interest in mind, and if you say yes to everything, then you're basically being taken advantage of, and that's doing more harm than good. So that's why it's important to learn how to say no, because you say no, and then people are like, oh man, you're just being selfish, and it's like, well, yeah, I am, but I'm also protecting my energy. So in that type of concept, it's okay. But in regards to how she was doing it, that is the type of selfishness that is brought upon, like I said earlier, a byproduct of your environment. And a lot of the times, people aren't in very good environments. Because you would have to wonder outside of the responsibilities of being a new mother, why does a new mother feel so stressed out? She believes that she has to literally sacrifice the health of her children to help calm and ease her own nerves and mind, anxieties, or and whatever else by smoking. You know, she has a husband. And this is and this is what I'm getting at. There's always a trigger, there's always a reason that things like this transpire. Okay. No, there's no mother out there, okay. Well, there is, but for the sake of this argument, there's no mother out there looking to actively harm their children. Okay, they're just not. But when the walls feel like they're closing in, they are going to prioritize themselves. Why? Because they're the ones that are stressed out, they're the ones that are going through all this. They say things like, Oh, I have to do this, I have to do that for them, I have to make sure I get this done for them, I have to make sure I take care of them this way. So they are going to do what benefits them in their time of need, regardless of if it's at the expense of their child's health, because they feel like the walls are closing in on them. And why do they feel like the walls are closing in on them? Well, because of their environment. If I had to ask a couple questions to get to the root cause of the issue, I would say, okay, well, what is your husband doing to help you? Because what I don't like is how everybody says, okay, the responsibility of taking care of the child falls on the mother. In most cases, this is true. And if you're a stay-at-home mom, then that's kind of your responsibility. But at the end of the day, that doesn't give the husband or the father a pass. Why? Because it's still your child. And to think for some odd reason that you shouldn't share responsibilities is kind of asinine. Regardless of, I understand, you know, if the husband, like I said, if you're a stay-at-home mom, the husband comes home from work, or the father, I keep saying the husband, like there, the father comes home from work, he's you know, he's worked a 12-hour day, he's exhausted from working all day, and then she's exhausted from dealing with the baby all day. She's just looking for some type of relief, but he doesn't want to do it because he's tired and doesn't think he has to do it because one, you're a stay-at-home mom, and two, he just got off work. So he doesn't think that he should be responsible for anything when that's your job, because you know, a lot unfortunately a lot of women have gone around and kind of ruined being a stay-at-home mom because they all want to add a title to it, or add a well, a stay-at-home mom. If they were actually getting paid, they would make this much. And they turn it into some type of career instead of it just being what it was, just a mom staying at home, raising her kids, so the kids are always with their mother, or at least with somebody in the immediate family, to take care of them. And it's not that anymore. It's a whole big old shtick of it's a oh, now it's a full-time job. Well, when you see taking care of your kids as a full-time job, of course, that's gonna warp your mentality around taking care of your kids. And they treat it like it's literally a job. You know, I I need my brakes, I gotta take my breaks, I gotta make sure I get my brakes in. It's like, bro, your brakes from what? You're raising your child. Like, you don't you need you need you need to take a 30, Martha? Like, it's your freaking kid. Stop treating it like it's a freaking job. People don't understand that this is why affirmations are so powerful. And why people harp on affirmations because the way you talk about yourself, it eventually becomes what your mind believes. So if you're sitting here constantly saying that, oh, it's my job, it's my job, it's my job, or I gotta take a break, I need a break, I need a break. I mean, I'm so tired of working this hard. It's like your your your mind's gonna start to believe that it's actually a job. And that that's not the type of mentality you want to have when you're raising your kids. You should just see it as part of the process of nurturing a child and helping develop a young child into an adult and getting him ready for life. That's what it is, that's what it's about. That's the whole point of this. It's not just like something that you should feel like you have to do in order to get paid. But so that has been ruined. So now there's a lot of fathers that are like, well, nope, you wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, you don't want to go out and work. So this is your job. I'm not taking a kid when I get home, I'm gonna do what I want to do and go to bed. Now, is that fair? Technically, yes. Because of what I just explained about the stay-at-home mom saying that's her job, and then the father doing his job at work. You know, he worked his 12 hours, she did her time, and she's responsible for everything that goes on at the house with the child. Now the issue comes into play when the mother experiences, you know, over experiences things like overwhelm because she's not getting any help. And this is why I see this is why I say I see both sides of the story here. And I'm on the side of the responsibility should be shared regardless of the father, if he's working and the mom is a stay-at-home mom. Like it doesn't matter, it's your child. If your freaking wife or your mother, if the mother needs a break because she's been with the kid all day, and you gotta understand being with kids, being with a kid or kids is a different type of mental exhaustion. One that can be far more taxing and overwhelming than like working at a regular nine to five or whatever job. Because there's more to lose when it's your own kid, and you have to make sure that they're okay, you know, and you're that it's a different. What I'm what I'm trying to get at is it's a different type of stress. Because it's like it's like a constant, you're constantly monitoring them, you're constantly exerting yourself around them, this energy to make sure that they're they're okay, making sure they're doing things right, making sure they're not getting into anything, making sure they're not freaking running around with scissors or something like that. And that is literally gonna, that literally burns you out faster than if you're just sitting at work and doing your regular nine to five because it's not a constant threat. You know, if you're like I talked about in the one episode when women are constantly in fight or flight mode and they get burnt out and they start to have hormonal issues. This is one of the reasons why a lot of women who gain weight have a very hard time postpartum losing that weight because they did so much hormonal damage from all the stress that they endured after that pregnancy. So I believe 100% that if you're the father and your wife has been with that kid all day, and you come home and she needs a break, what you what you should do is literally come home, you know, get out of your work clothes, take a quick 15-minute uh window or de stress, and just take over for the kid for a little bit. Just so she can get a break and recollect herself. It really shouldn't be something that it should even be up for debate because you're the father. Like, regardless of if you think it's fair or not, it doesn't matter. You're still a father. You do have responsibility in raising the kid. If if if the mother was responsible for everything, then the father shouldn't have a say in anything the kid does. Because if you're not gonna help raise it, then why should you have a say in what the kid does or how the kid acts or what the kid wears or who the kid talks to? That makes sense. So you you can't have the responsibility, or you can't have that your cake and eat it too, by accepting no responsibility in nurturing the kid and taking care of the kid, but then have a say in what the kid does. That's not how it works. At least in my eyes. So yeah. So the main point that I was talking about earlier was being selfish, and that that is actually an example of the father being selfish because of the environment and believing that he has no responsibility because the wife, it's supposed to be the wife's or the mom's job to take care of the kid. And in that exact instance, is selfishness in the wrong way because it doesn't it does it doesn't benefit you. You might believe that it is a benefit to you because you are temporarily negating pain that you would endure from taking over the responsibilities of dealing with the kid, but in the long run, think about the mental effects that it's gonna have on your wife's or your mother's psyche, knowing that her father and her husband doesn't want to take care of the kid. So when when when things start going sideways and the mother starts to you know get depressed and no longer wants to be intimate, no longer shows affection, you know, she she she starts to shut down, recede into her her shell, doesn't want to come out of her room. You have to be aware that this started way, way, way back. Like this is not something that just happens overnight, and it's a product of being in an environment that's not an environment that is one of nurture. And that's why I say that your environment is the reason why people become selfish, and like I talked about a whole episode on your environment. When situations like this happen, you know, the mother is like, Okay, well, I guess you know, this relationship's not gonna work anymore, or more more likely, what's gonna happen is the father or the husband is gonna be like, Man, my wife, my wife is doing this, she's not doing this, she's not doing this. She's not doing this, and guess what he's gonna do? He's gonna go seek it outside the relationship when in reality this all started because of him. But he thinks it's her fault because she's the one who's not doing anything anymore. But she's been crying out for help this whole time. But because you decided to be selfish and you accept your freaking responsibilities as a father because it's the woman's job to raise the kid. Now your whole entire marriage or relationship is going down a drain, and you don't even and you you're under the impression it's because your wife, it's your wife's fault. Like, why would you expect somebody to be intimate with you, to be affectionate with you, to want to even be around you or spend time with you when you don't even want to help them raise your child. But what the the issue that comes up comes along that nobody wants to talk about, it's the women who turned it into something that it is not. Because they go around and say things like, oh, well, we gotta carry them for nine months. Who do you think gives life? And it's stupid stuff like that, where you guys want to try to give one up on the man, and I'm telling you, that's the dumbest thing you can do, bro. Because being a man myself and knowing a lot of men, there is a switch inside of men. And they have the capacity, if they flip that switch, to stop caring. And if you make them flip that switch, because you think you're gonna be big, bad top dog because you carried the kid for nine months, and you make it seem like it's the hard thing in the entire world, and that nobody else can ever have the capacity, like no man could ever have the capacity to carry a kid for nine months, or no man could freaking survive a period, and y'all doing this stupid period cramp simulator with the electrodes and be like, oh, let's see if you can survive a period. Well, first of all, your periods aren't supposed to be painful, but because you have a freaking crappy lifestyle, you don't want to take care of yourself, and your hormones are in unbalanced, and that's why your periods are irregular and painful. That's your fault. Okay. So stop trying to make it a comparison game and making it seem like, oh, women have to endure this so they're better. That's that's y'all's issue. Y'all turning into a freaking competition. And when you say stupid stuff like that, men stop caring about how you feel about that situation. They become less sensitive because you always are trying to get one up on us. But that's why at the end of the day, when we flip it around and you guys don't want to talk about what you know, what men are going through, like how we have a higher suicide rate, and how we have to do 99% of the dangerous jobs on this planet, and we risk our lives. Y'all don't want to hear that. But I'm coming at it as not as a gain, but as an understanding, and I understand that women do have to carry a kid for nine months, and it does destroy the mind because it destroys the body, which leads to image issues, which can lead to body dysmorphia, you know, anxiety, it can lead to trauma, and it does, it does, and sometimes, you know, postpartum depression, it does sometimes cause a lot of damage to the psyche.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

You need to care for nine months to understand that.

Spotting Relationship Patterns Early

SPEAKER_09 26:22

And I don't need to make it some type of game to understand that women do go through a hard time when they're pregnant, and even a harder time when the father is not around or the father leaves. Why doesn't the father want to help you? Why isn't he helping you? There's always a reason why someone is not doing something. And if you've been in this relationship for however long you've been in this relationship, and you haven't been able to identify the actual issue or the cause of why he's so standoffish and doesn't want to help you, then you weren't really in a relationship. You guys were pretty much just roommates. So at the end of the day, it all comes back on the individual. And I'm not placing blame on either side, I'm saying both people are at fault here. You're at fault because you got into a relationship and you've been in a relationship with this guy for however long, decided to have a kid with him, but don't actually really know anything about him. They always say it. It's never that. It is a build up over time. You it happens, if you watch it, the environment, the environment, excuse me, the environment around you slowly changes. And if you miss the signs, then this is your own fault. You can't get complacent and just think that the current status of your relationship is always gonna be good enough. Because, like I said in my one of my episodes, I was like, when people first start dating, they're all trying to make their best impressions so they put on their best face and they put on their best behavior and they make sure that everything goes as good as possible, and they make sure that they that their mask that they're wearing is nice and snug. And then eventually, over time, as they get more comfortable, they start to reveal who they really are. And you you'll notice it in their behavior, and you'll know if you've already lost them, just by watching their behavior, dude. Maybe they're texting a little bit more frequently. You know, maybe they're placing their phone face down. Maybe they turn the phone, their sound off on their phone. Well, I'll keep my my sound off. But you know, maybe maybe they don't have the sound on on their phone. Maybe they're a little bit more defensive when you ask them, you know, what are they doing? Maybe they say a little bit later. And you you might see it the first time, like, oh, maybe that's whatever. But then it becomes a pattern. And then if you ignore the pattern, bro, this is your own fault. I can't I can't help you if you ain't watching for the signs. People aren't who they say they are initially. You'll be hard-pressed to find somebody who's actually done the healing necessary to be who they are on their initial impressions.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

I'm telling you right now, you'll be hard-pressed.

SPEAKER_09 30:31

Because initially meeting somebody, they're gonna have ulterior motives. This might be the cynic and me talking, or just what I've learned from experience.

SPEAKER_10 30:45

Literally, ulterior motives, but those ulterior motives can easily be, you know, washed away after you start to get to know them.

Clean Environment As Self Respect

Nervous System Safety And Somatic Work

Affirmations Need Matching Action

Closing Thanks And Five Star Ask

SPEAKER_09 31:02

They might be like, oh well, this person is actually not bad. Maybe I don't need to stab him in the back. Maybe I actually like him and won't use him. Because when you are a genuine person, just like I said, how a good woman has the capacity to push a man past his limits. A genuine person, you have the capacity to change people's minds about you, and you have the capacity to, it's almost like putting them in a genjutsu that kind of like makes them feel guilty if they were to do something bad to you just because, man, you know, that Leo guy, he's a genuine person. He helps me out all the time, he does this for me, that for me, and they almost feel guilty of their, well, that sometimes they do feel guilty of their initial judgment of you, of oh yeah, I'm gonna use him. But then they get to know you, they start talking to you, start hanging out with you, and all of a sudden they're like, man, this dude's a stand-up guy. I would hate for anything back. I can't believe I was almost gonna do this to him. But you can only do that when you've gotten to know yourself. Oh, weird how we ended up back here again. I love I just went from talking about being selfish and just, you know, wound up back here talking about getting to know yourself. It's crazy how it keeps coming back full circle. But this is exactly what I'm talking about. Okay, and I need y'all to understand that I need y'all to actually start focusing on setting up your environment so there's one that you thrive in, one where you're watering your grass, mowing your grass, digging out the weeds, pruning the roses, trimming the trees, blowing the leaves. Take care of your environment. Because, dude, there's a lot of people that we know, and they'll be like, Yeah, I shower once every three days. I'm like, bro, what do you mean? I hate bro. I'll be the first one to tell you if I never had to shower again, I would never shower again. But you know why I shower? Because I don't even need to, I when I take a shower, and then about 30 minutes after, bro, my balls stink. Okay. And best believe, I trim my ball, my ball hair, I trim my freaking booty hole hair, I make sure that I'm pressing in there, and I still stink. And part of that is because my testosterone is high, and when your testosterone is high, you have a different sweat smell than somebody who doesn't have high testosterone. And so and I also sweat a lot. So I make sure I shower because I don't want to I don't want anybody else smelling my freaking stinky balls because that's just nasty, man. Nobody wanna be at the gym next to me taking a trying to breathe and they get a freaking whiff of my freaking my taint. That's nasty, bro. And it's just to be respectful of those around me, bro. This is one of the reasons why we don't want to go to Comic Con. Because we don't want to smell all the body odor. It's like, bro, take a shower. But yeah, so we know people like that. And it's like, and then they'll they'll grab a bottle tree and just leave it on the bed for days and not put it away, or leave it on the floor for days and not put it away. They don't clean up after themselves. And it's like their environment is in in disarray. And it's like, bro, clean up your environment. And I understand this because I'm a man. I used to live like that. And when she goes on trips, oh my god, bro. If she came home to the house because I do things differently, like we clean differently. I'll put all the dishes, like the dishes I use the day of or the day, I'll put them all in the sink. And then when I wake up in the morning, I'll clean I'll clean all the dishes and then reuse them and then put them back in the sink. I don't know why. That's just what I do. But real, so what I'm getting at is I still do the dishes. They still get done. They don't just sit there for days and not get done. And some people just sit there and sit them there for days. You know, when I when the laundry's done, I set them all, I set it all out on the bed. And like right around, because we I do laundry when she's gone, I do laundry on Thursdays. And then right around, you know, right before I'm about to go to bed, I'll come in there. And see, I I set myself up to make sure it gets done. I come in there and I'm like, dang, I gotta fold the laundry because it's still on the bed. And so I don't just put it on the floor, I fold it and I pull it away. So I set myself up to make sure that it gets done. There's another reason why I do the thing with the dishes because I'm gonna need the pot and the pan in the morning, and I don't do it. I know I put a scene and I'll like go play a game and just completely forget to do it. And I wake up in the morning and I'm like, oh, I'll make my pancakes, and I'm like, dang it, I need a pot. And I see the pot dirty. Like, all right, well, and I just wash everything. So that's what works for me. And it's like, you know, you gotta find the things that work for you. Okay. Everybody, you know, take care of the garden differently. But the the whole the underlying point here is you need to take care of your garden. That's the underlying point here. So at the end of the day, you know, it does come down to knowing who you are, but you also need to be in a situation to where that person that you're looking for can actually poke his head out and feel safe. Because if you don't feel safe, if your body doesn't feel safe, it's gonna be so much harder to do the work, it's gonna it's gonna be so much harder to lose weight, it's gonna be so much harder to get your hormones under control. It's it's so much harder when your body is fighting against you. That's why there's so much somatic work going on nowadays, and there's just so much, you know, deep breathing nervous system work. And they just found that the heart has like 40,000 neurons in it, so your heart can feel. So when they say trauma is actually trapped in the body, or why your heart hurts when you know heartbreaking things like this, it's because it's actually feeling it's a real thing, which is just crazy to think. So all of this stuff you might you might hear it and it sounds like woo-woo hippie, like affirmations and things like that. And you know, affirmations without actions are useless. But the affirmations of positive positively talking to yourself as a practice and whole is good, but you still have to put in the action to back up the actual affirmation if you want to see the change. But saying that you're, you know, a hard worker and you're gonna do good, it's better than saying I'm a piece of crap and I'm fat. If that makes sense. So there's there's so many different things out there that you can add to your environment, but you what you want to do is be overwhelmed by all of the practices and all the information, all the things that you can do. What you want to do is find one that works for you. And then, like I talked about yesterday with Zenetsu and his first breathing form, how he mastered it, that's the only one he mastered out of six. Find one that works for you and just master it. And become really good at, you know, say, for example, somatic breathing, and just use that one, and then once you use that one, and if it starts to not work as good, then you can add another one. But there's no reason to make any changes unless you absolutely have to. But yeah, I think that's enough for today. Fucking for hot minute, man. I'm trying to tell you guys, I could literally talk. I could have talked for the whole two hours. I can talk and talk and talk. One, because I'm not going off a script and everything's off the dome, and two, just because I have so much experience and I've just witnessed so much, and it's like, man, I just really want to see if what I'm saying is actually practical enough to where it's actually helped to people. Because I think it would be so cool if that people actually have listened to me, applied it to their life, and it actually changed their life. And now, for example, say a man is he's got more confidence and he's been doing the things I've been saying, cleaning up his environment. And then, like, one of the nights he's gone out to one of his favorite restaurants, and he knows that a waitress there works there on this day, and he knows what row she sits in, and he gets in, you know, he asks, you know, you mind if I sit in so-and-so's row and he sits there and he's kicking it up with her, boom, gets her number, and then let's say you know they're married. That would be freaking sick, bro. That would be mother freaking sick. And then I just, you know, I just like I just like being able to express myself and just talk about how I truly feel about these things. Because a lot of times in the day, you know, if if Stephanie is busy with work or something, and then you know, I just have these conversations with myself in my head, or sometimes out loud. And it's just nice to know that you know there's other people that are listening to what I'm saying. Man, I'm sorry if I'm wish I wasn't a preek and still having this cough. But yeah, man, it's just overall, I don't know, I just think it's cool as hell. But outside of that, I ain't got nothing else for you guys. Uh, like I said, I appreciate you guys. And if you if you're getting any value out of this, please just don't forget to like, comment, and share, and leave that five-star review. And until next time, everybody hear me?

SPEAKER_10 43:58

Where are you at right now?

SPEAKER_09 44:36

Oh, I didn't read before you I get it. Okay, yeah, I thought yeah, I thought that is another key thing as an action must do it, so just guessing my own.

SPEAKER_06 45:03

Yesterday on the way home?

SPEAKER_10 45:04

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 45:05

Yeah, I was right behind Christopher when we were leaving the ranch.

SPEAKER_10 45:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:09

Bro. I was like in his ass and we were going 7580 all the way into San Antonio, bro. And I ended up putting up beside him at a light.

SPEAKER_11 46:40

Insane news out of California, where a top Republican candidate for governor, MAGA Sheriff Chad Bianco from Riverside, has seized over 650,000 ballots from a previous election, claiming there were irregularities in the voting of previous elections. But folks, this is exactly what MAGA does and MAGA wants from their candidates. Now it's not enough for MAGA Trump politicians to claim that elections are stolen. They have to actually try to sow doubt in future elections by creating these false and fake investigations, seizing ballots to come up with random evidence. And I say evidence because what they'll do is say they found something, but in reality, they're the ones creating malpractice here. And so you've got California's Attorney General Bonta trying to stop this from happening because this is absolute insanity taking place. And again, this is a top candidate for governor in California. And this is the difference between MAGA and progressives at this point. Progressives, all we are asking is for our candidates not to support genocide or apartheid, not to support the billionaire class. And these MAGA candidates, in order to be supported by Trump and the rest of the far right, they have to try and overturn elections. They have to try and rig the game, the system because they're that unpopular.

SPEAKER_05 48:03

So we gotta talk about a story out of California that has Democrats in a full-blown freak out. They are begging MAGA sheriff Chad Bianco to stop, stop holding them accountable for election integrity after he seized over a thousand boxes of ballots, 650,000 total from the 2025 special elections where California voted for the redistricting measure, Prop 50. Okay, and this sheriff is investigating uh the election uh to address a major discrepancy that was identified by the Riverside election integrity team. Now, Chad Bianco is also running for governor of California as a Republican, and he is currently neck and neck with Steve Hilton as the top two candidates for California governor at this point. It looks as if it may, may uh be a situation where you have two Republicans uh winning uh that uh initial election, and then they will go on to have a runoff, and that would essentially guarantee uh California will have a Republican governor, which would be hilarious in 2026. But it is something that California needs badly, okay? I think everybody understands that Democrat leadership, Democrats running that state, uh has been an absolute disaster.

SPEAKER_07 49:33

I am the anti-thesis to California state government because I am going to take a nuclear bomb into that building and absolutely destroy everything that they do to us behind closed doors. President Trump, in one year from 2025 when he took over till now, did absolutely nothing to harm California. What's harming California is 30 years of Democrat one-party rule that curved an environment here that no one can live in anymore. And they've they've only been successful here in California because we vote no matter what. I mean, that's that's Charles Manson. Elected in California if he was the only Democrat on the California. Excessive regulation. Every single regulation can be fine with the governor's governor. It is a drug and alcohol addiction problem. And a mental health problem. Every single bit of money that is going to these nonprofits that say homeless, zero money. You're getting absolutely nothing. I can't tell you that we would end what we see in the homeless situation within a year, but I guarantee you we would never see it again after two years. We have been conditioned to believe that buildings take five years to build. It takes 90 days or less to build a house. But in California, it takes three to five years because the government won't allow it. The regulations that are destroying this state are going to be removed with me as the governor.

SPEAKER_05 51:19

How would you handle illegal immigration here in California?

SPEAKER_07 51:22

This is what we have to realize. The governor can't handle anything for illegal immigration. That's a federal government's responsibility. And we are allowing these arguments and these and these one-offs and these these emotions to completely cloud our judgment. Sanctuary state absolutely has to be removed. It is harming California. It is harming everyone except for criminals. So the love affair of California legislature has given us SB 54, which is sanctuary state, it has to go. I'm suing the state to get rid of it. It is unconstitutional. We're either going to win our case or I'm going to be elected as your governor and we're removing it. But the people who are in our jail, I have to turn them over to immigration because instead, state law forces me to release them back out into public to victimize you. And that absolutely has to end. We've been lied to about sanctuary state policy because it's emotional. And you get nothing but the truth for me as your governor, and we're going to finally start working for Californians instead of special interests.

SPEAKER_05 52:16

Yeah. So you think that you heard that. Okay. Um, there should be no surprise that Democrats are freaking out about this sheriff, who got a warrant to do so, by the way, right? From a judge, uh, seizing ballot and trying to provide some transparency on election integrity in uh Riverside County. Okay, they are losing their minds trying to stop this guy from exposing potential fraud that they claim doesn't exist, right? It doesn't exist, but yet they have an issue with a recap. A recap.

SPEAKER_14 52:59

Now at 5 30, Republican candidate for governor Riverside County Sheriff Chap Bianco seizes more voter ballots from last November's election. Good evening. This is the KTLA Five News at 5 30. I'm Sheriff Calvin.

SPEAKER_01 53:11

And I'm Micah Ullman. Bianco says he has investigated claims of voter fraud.

SPEAKER_14 53:15

His actions have alarmed state law enforcement officials who have already told Sheriff Bianco to halt the investigation. KTLA Shelby Nelson is live from Riverside with the controversy. Shelby.

SPEAKER_13 53:27

Sure, Micah, this is really heating up. Last Friday, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco had talked about what he was doing, what he was looking into. Well, it wasn't until this week, A. G. Ralph Bonsa tells us that they learned that Bianco in his office had already started seizing an additional 426 more boxes of voter material. That's in addition to a thousand boxes they had already received. Law enforcement should not be involved opening elections or counting ballots. That is not their rule. In the latest pushback to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco's claims of potential election fraud, claims that are so far unsubstantiated, local leaders of the Inland Empire are calling on his department to return more than 650,000 ballots they seized last month. The move coming one day after UCLA's voting rights project filed a petition with the California Supreme Court to have Bianco return the ballots.

SPEAKER_08 54:24

This is a campaign style. This is political theater. He needs to save this for his time off and actually work in his capacity as sheriff.

SPEAKER_13 54:34

Bianco, a leading Republican candidate in the governor's race, saying last Friday during a news conference that he was tipped off to a large voter discrepancy in last November's special election involving Prop 50. According to court documents, the local election watchdog group, Riverside Integrity Election Team, conducted an audit which says it found more than 45,000 votes tallied versus the amount of ballots cast.

SPEAKER_07 54:59

As a result of this investigation, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office served the registrar of voters with a warrant approved and signed by a judge for election materials related to the 2025 special election. Our investigation will determine the validity of that alleged discrepancy, and if found true, we will determine the cause.

SPEAKER_05 55:42

Yeah, so you see that you hear that. Once again, the same old song and dance we see from Democrats. Anytime somebody demands transparency on our elections, right? Every single time, oh you're a right-wing conspiracy theorist. The election was 100% free and fair. There's nothing to see here, right? It was 100% accurate. Okay, well, if that's the case, if that's the case, then what's the problem, right? What's the problem? There should be no problem with an investigation if everything is 100% legit. Seriously, I mean it's really that simple, right? Because he can investigate all he wants. If it's 100% legit, then it doesn't mean anything, right? If everything was done correctly, it doesn't mean anything because everything was done correctly, right? By definition. But if everything wasn't done correctly, if this group of individuals who initially uh came up with these findings, if they were correct, then that brings up a different situation, right? That brings up a situation that possibly needs to be corrected. People need to be held accountable, right? But Democrats don't want accountability, especially when it comes to our elections. So this is why now they're begging the California Supreme Court to step in and to stop this guy from doing his job.

SPEAKER_15 57:15

State Attorney General says the sheriff's investigation is illegal. Our investigative reporter Eric Leonard joins us from the newsroom with an update. Eric.

SPEAKER_12 57:23

Hi, Colleen and Kathy. Well, the California Attorney General's office says in some new court filings the state's highest court is urgently needed to stop the Riverside Sheriff from even examining or looking at these ballots. Rob Bond's office says in these new court filings.

SPEAKER_05 57:37

Yeah, and don't even look at it, right? Can't look at it, don't examine, don't look at it, nothing. Not a zip. Amazing, absolutely amazing. Can't even look at it.

SPEAKER_12 57:45

Sheriff has already violated state law. The Attorney General's office says the law forbids the removal of election officials, even if there is some kind of an investigation, that the still-sealed allegation used by Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies to get search warrants have been debunked and are based on an amateur audit and don't amount to lawful probable cause, and that the California Attorney General, as the highest ranking law enforcement entity in the state, has supervision over county sheriffs. And in this case, says the Riverside Sheriff has defied official orders. Sheriff Chad Bianco, who's running for governor, announced last month that deputies exceed more than 650,000 ballots from the Registrar of Voters. Bianco says a private group called the Riverside Election Integrity Team claimed there was a mismatch between the number of ballots logged at polling places and the number of ballots counted to produce the result of the Prop 50 election, which you'll remember, allowed California to temporarily redraw voting districts. Riverside elections officials and the state attorney general say it's just not true. They say the polling place logs were rough estimates, and the registrar has always had an accurate count and an audit trail. The attorney general there says the filing at the state Supreme Court says that without any evidence of a crime, the sheriff used search warrants that should not have been issued, and they should be quashed or thrown out and the ballots returned.

SPEAKER_05 59:10

So we should listen to the judge, right? So ignore the judge. Right? Amazing how a judge is on the warrant, and all of a sudden, oh, don't listen to that judge. The warrant should have been issued. Let's let's just let's let's disobey the court, right? Amazing how that works. Democrats are totally fine with ignoring judges that they don't agree with, right? When they don't agree with a judge's decision, which in this case was to give this sheriff a warrant, right? Because according to the judge, his proper cause, right? His probable cause to look into it, right? Right.

SPEAKER_11 59:54

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SPEAKER_05 1:00:04

So it's just funny how that works. Look how these people operate when dates don't go their way, right? All the stuff they uh claim they believe in goes out the window.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:13

Riverside Sheriff has characterized his inquiry as a fact-finding mission, what the Attorney General says amounts to a fishing expedition rather than a criminal investigation. Well, what's wrong with fishing? What's wrong with it?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:23

If if everything is great, if it was all 100% accurate, free and fair, right? 100% like they say, what's wrong with investigating? What's wrong with recounting, right? I don't get it. I don't understand. We're talking about elections here.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:43

No indication yet of how soon that may happen. Back to you in the studio.

SPEAKER_15 1:00:47

All right, Eric. Thank you. And of course, what's the thing?

Stunt Or Audit And Final Take

SPEAKER_05 1:00:49

Yeah, so what's so funny about this, right? A lot of people are saying, oh, this is a political stud, right? They're saying he's doing this because you know he's running for government, right? As a way to get attention, which could be possible, right? I mean, you can't put anything past these politicians. But that is the reason why he's doing it. Democrats are playing into his hand. Why is it? Because if the Supreme Court steps in, the state Supreme Court steps in, then he can say, Look, Democrats got stuff to hide, right? I just simply wanted a recount. And they were so desperate to stop me that they went to the state supreme court who had to step in and to stop me from doing my job, right? I went and got a warrant from a judge, and Democrats said, screw that warrant. We don't want you investigating in the election so bad. We don't want any recount, we don't want any questions asked so badly that we will go to the Supreme Court, right? It looks kind of sketchy, right? Looks real sketchy, looks like he might be on the song. So even if this is a political stunt, which is what I mean, Democrats are playing into it. Right. Because if they just let him count the ballot and he says, okay, well, everything was free and fair because we counted the balance and we didn't find a discrepancy, then it goes away, right?

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