Ryan Zink on What It’s Like to Disappear Into the American Gulag for Political Crimes

28:07I just got the three that testified against me when I had multiple additional witnesses that I could have called that wore a badge that would have said like, no, they were helping us. but at this point is when we see the first remnants of the battle that's going on either inside of the Capitol because I don't necessarily know where this officer came from I haven't been able to identify him because they won't give us the cameras of the porch and so he comes out he's injured he's holding his shoulder he's got mace all over his face and dad works in sports medicine and he looks and he just takes one look at him and he's like, that guy needs medical help.

28:47So dad tries to help him. He declines help, but he has mace all over his eyes. And so I'm reaching through my bag, trying to get out water to, um, let him rinse his eyes out. And then at that point, this is like the last interaction that we have with pretty much anyone for the day is because at that point, that's when Mario Bowser declares that there's going to be a curfew that comes in. So we can hear it on the radio of the guy, the police officer, Capitol police officer that's standing there. And so he says, you know, hey, we appreciate all of your help. Things are getting really crazy on the other side.

29:21It'd probably be a good idea for y 'all to leave. We say, okay. That guy refuses treatment one more time. He's rinsing his eyes out. I asked my dad, I was like, hey, I want to put the big lens on. I want to stand on this pillar over here and I want to take pictures inside and see what's going on. And that's the first time that day that you can actually see people like, like pushing and shoving with like a Capitol police officer, at least from our perspective. Now, if you have the big high camera and you can look over, like you can see that there was some in front of us that we couldn't see. I'm, I'm five, eight, you know, 200 pounds.

29:55And like, I was like, I'm not, I'm not the tallest guy in the, in the world. So I, you know, I can't see over a lot of people. So then we leave, you know, we go back around. I take some pictures by the bike racks where what I think is blood is on the ground, but I'm not sure. It could have been a spilled drink. Like it could have been like anything where the bike racks were. And we start making our way around. And then I see Jacob Chansley, which we all came to know is the, you know, the QAnon shaman. I saw him on the steps of the Senate side and we make our way around to the West. And this is when it hits and it's like, this is going to be talked about forever because the sea of people that were out there, just thousands and thousands of people that are on that side.

30:42We have no, like we're on the east side sheltered in a tiny little corner. We have no idea the scale of what is happening at the Capitol. and people always talk about the west side footage and things, they always show the tunnel videos where you see people attacking. Well, the reason that they were attacking that day is because a Metro police officer, Lila Morris, had just beaten a woman to death by the name of Roseanne Boyland. And that's what they were reacting to. And so as we're making our way around to go get onto the Metro, the closest Metro was directly across the west back towards the other side.

31:21So we made a beeline through the crowd. Are you allowed to beat people to death in this country? Well, apparently if you wear a badge in D.C., which if you don't know, like across the standard, the Capitol Police and Metro Police, with their combined, particularly on the Metro side, is the ninth most violent police force in America. Yeah, of course. You think about that. Think about all the sheriff's offices, the police offices around the country. They're the ninth most violent police force. They always had the highest accidental discharge rate for their handguns too. Yeah, which is amazing that it didn't happen that day.

31:57So that was my J6 day. Outside of saying things like, we're storming the Capitol. Do you hear us? Words outside of a building. I never went inside the building. I never assaulted anybody. I never broke anything. I was assisting police officers on the porch, yelling at protesters. You never went inside the building? I never did. it's been a lot of noise in the news recently but none of it matters if you can't hear it there's no shame in this millions of people get deafer every year some we know well but your friends are friends at audion can help for years the experts made hearing aids cost thousands of dollars they forced you to get a prescription see a doctor jump through all these hoops just to hear your grandkids talk or have a conversation in a restaurant why because they made money that's why Over 460 million people worldwide have hearing loss, yet 80 % do not have hearing aids because who'd want to deal with that?

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33:33Okay, so did you have any worry that you would be arrested for what you didn't do? No, because what I thought was going to happen was that we were going to turn over the videos of Hunter Emke that we had that we would probably fill out an affidavit. And I was kind of expecting like a call from like maybe Secret Service, FBI, somebody, you know, over that time. But what actually happened was later, February 4th, 2021, at just after 4 a.m., the FBI drives through the front of my house with a 12-foot battering ram. Actually? Yes. They're monsters. I just want to say that. That's disgusting. I agree.

34:13To treat you like that. I agree. You know, a phone call. There's been no reform of them at all. And on other channels, we're just being screamed at for asking questions. There's been no accountability across the board from it. And that's not to say that I don't support law enforcement in this country. I don't support that. I don't care what you call that. I don't support that. That's the oppression of the population that employs you and pays for this. And you have no right to treat citizens like that. I mean, that is, sorry, pardon my lecture. So you're in bed, you're back in Texas. Yes. Do you live in an apartment, house?

34:47I lived in a rent house at the time. And you're asleep. Sound asleep. And what happened? What was your experience? So I actually don't hear anything. So I did kind of live in a rough neighborhood, those around Lubbock, you know, it's getting close to Avenue Q. It's a bit on the rough side. So I think my house is - Because you're a rich guy. You're a person of privilege. Is that what you're saying? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm just super loaded. That's why I'm in this position. So you live in the hood. Yes. Very, very much so. But it's, I mean, it's a great part of the district though, too. Oh, I'm not criticizing it.

35:22It's just funny. It's like. It just has some higher crime rates and, you know, LPD's done a great job actually in recent months, like getting that area cleaned up. So it's getting better. and uh but the people there are still like like even my friends and neighbors you know that were around there they're still they're just appalled at the way that I was treated so you're asleep and what do you experience um my front door flying all the way across the living room and damaging both of my couches and it will kind of lay sideways where the door is blocked and I just think that my house is being broken into I have no idea what's going on and so I I'm a 2A, will always be 2A.

36:04The Second Amendment is to defend your home, your property, and your country from both enemies, foreign and domestic. And so I'm leaned across the railing with an AR, not knowing that there are federal agents outside until - Oh, come on. Why didn't they just call you? See, and this is the thing, because at this point, this is when they've made the first announcement over the bullhorn. Ryan Zink, this is the FBI. Come out with your hands up. But why didn't they just call you and say, report, you know, come downtown? Because they, so they used a Facebook post that I said, I'm not coming quietly on some stuff.

36:41I'd seen some of the other arrests, but I'm talking about my voice. I'm a journalist. Like I'm not some, you know, redneck, you know. Who are these Americans doing this? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I do, I still believe to this day that there's foreign interference in 2020 as well, all through the Biden election. Or term administration. But these, the thugs who ripped your door off the hinges, they're Americans. Yes. So sad. So, but there were multiple agencies that worked it. I mean, we're talking about 60 people in a helicopter. Actually? Yes. And you never went inside the building? They shut down the blocks around my house for fear that I was going to run.

37:22Like, where am I going to go? Where, federal agents in the back. This is what happens when you murder Americans and there's no, and Lindsey Graham applauds and bipartisan applause for killing Americans. I'm just going to say it. I thought that about the ICE killings. I'm totally opposed to mass migration. They should deport every illegal. I really believe that. They're destroying this country. However, it's not a small thing to shoot an American in the throat. It's just not. And you can't just blow past it because they treat some liberal lesbian chick that way. They're going to treat you that way at some point.

37:52That's what I think. Yeah. And we have to look at those individually across the scale. It's individual actions. Don't show brutality to Americans. that's how i feel like why wouldn't i feel that way yeah sorry i don't know why i'm out of control okay so you put you've got an ar god bless you and then what happens uh they make the announcement and i dropped it quick because if any one if any one of those guys had come around the corner i wouldn't be here no oh you'd be like riddled swiss cheese you know you'd be like the guy who predicted 9-11 yeah or you'd be like the the guy who showed up at comet pizza at the wrong time Yeah, and he was just shot to death in a traffic stop two weeks ago, as you may have seen.

38:34Resisting arrest. Yeah, no, I'm sure they couldn't wait to kill you. So, wow, so you drop the AR, and then you find that it really is federal agents. Yes, and so I'm trying to peek around the corner to see what's going on, because, again, I live in a bad neighborhood. Like, this is a tactic that's used by people to infiltrate homes. Well, they'll be like, please come out with your hands up, and it's actually four dudes that are coming after to rob you. Exactly, exactly. So I can't really tell, but then that's when the red dots hit all over me. And that's when the flashlights. Actually, the red dots were on your body?

39:03Yes. They were actively going to shoot me. Like if I had come around the corner with that, what would have happened? If I had decided not to post up at the back mantle, what would have happened? It would have been quick anyway. Yeah, no. Or would it? I mean, like slow bleed out. So I'm taken into custody. I walk out. It's like, I don't know, like 12 degrees outside this day. and they will not let me have shoes. I'm standing outside barefoot in jogger pants and like a t-shirt for a good 38 minutes. So as they're inside of the house, they are flash banging my dogs repetitively. A six pound Papillon, not even at that time, he's like three pounds and a 70 pound chocolate lab, who's my bird dog, who now has PTSD and he's damaged.

39:48He can't hunt anymore. He's completely retired. Do any of these guys go to prison? No. Every one of them should go to prison for doing this. I believe that there are people that infiltrated this from Washington, D.C. Like Michael D. Brown, the lead over my case, I believe that he should be behind bars, no questions asked. Anybody who flashbangs your chocolate lab should be in prison. It's really simple. Yeah. Well, and not just that, but they need to pay for the damages that it's caused, just like to our family. And I'll get into that some. later very briefly. But it's not just that. It's the way that they perpetrated this whole thing.

40:28Like, they broke every door in my house. Unlocked doors. The bathroom door, broken. Bedroom door, broken. Smashed open for no reason. You know, they stole things from my coin collection. I'm still missing Roman coins. All of my gold coins are gone. These are federal agents. Federal agents stealing from it. Like, there's money, there's like a couple hundred dollars missing from my wallet. You know, there are federal agents doing this. How does that? You know, I wouldn't judge, I'm not leaving the United States, period. I'm going to die here. But I wouldn't judge you if you said I'm out. I'm going El Salvador.

41:04I'm going to a civilized country. I'm not. Clearly you're not. And I respect that. But I also wouldn't judge you if you said, I can't live in a place like this. This is too scary. I'm not. I'm here for the long run. I'm texting by birth. We're going to fight. I promise. And, you know, so all that happens. I wind up, I go to Lubbock County Jail as I'm leaving, so they try to unlock my phone, they didn't have a warrant for my phone at first they're trying to unlock it with my face Michael Brown is Michael D. Brown, there's a difference in those characters, not much in morality causes though, but you know, they tell me you know, like, do you know why we're here?

41:40And I'm like I'm guessing this has something to do with the Capitol I'm not saying anything else, you're not my friends blah blah blah so the Lubbock police officer from LPD pulls over after I'm taken into custody, shuts off all of his cameras, body camera, video camera, everything, and says, we wanted to do this a different way. What happened to you today? We were threatened that if we interfered in any way, that they would strip our badge and take us right down to the jail with you because you had multiple people from this department that know you that told them all you have to do is make a phone call.

42:12Yeah. And so that happens. And the feds forced this. Yeah. So that happens. So the next couple of weeks, I'm at Lubbock County Jail. Everyone was very nice there except for this one super lesbian chick that was there that was always in a bad mood. And I still talk to some of these corrections officers that I see them and I pass them on the street now that my case has been dismissed and I have my pardon. They're always like, it was really crazy for us to see you there because it was obvious that you didn't belong. And so this is where the diesel therapy starts. So this is a common tactic. All J6ers went through this in some form or another.

42:52So first I went to Eden, Texas, had an impromptu interrogation as a terrorist, like where I was physically removed from the rest of the population, taken into a separate building, placed into a room with one man who I later found out was like the intake coordinator of that facility. I cannot remember his name right now. He's in the lawsuit. So we'll be seeing more about that to come. But he brings me in, does an impromptu interrogation, says that he knows that I'm a terrorist, that I'm working with other people and stuff. Who is this guy? He just works for the facility. It's a core civic facility.

43:28It's a private institution that he just felt like he was going to be like Captain Save America or something. Obvious super Democrat. Yeah, private prisons. Good idea. Yeah. Thank you, Nick Gingrich, who ever thought that up. Yeah. Good plan. Not to mention that I do believe in strong punishments for criminals. For sure. I think that there's gross negligence on a lot of judges for the sentences that they put on people. But when you look at the prison system, it's a monopoly. It's all the same people that are making all the money, keeping Americans behind bars. And then the grievance processes and things like that, there's a lot that needs to be done for prison reform.

44:09you know just for just for conditions and and you'll you'll see that in the next part of this this segment like by the time that i get to washington dc i've already seen like not not at lubbett county like nothing happened there but at some of the other facilities like federal like transfer like core civic you know you see dudes in there that are being forced to like put lipstick on with m &ms like green m &ms they have to dunk them in water and hold somebody's pocket and this is all in you know plain view of staff why are they doing that what does that mean because they're owned by somebody in there they're being raped how long were you behind bars um so from i so 84 days is about what i did for the whole thing i'm one of the lucky j6ers for for all that doesn't seem lucky to me for never going inside the building never breaking but when you look at you know some of the other people enrique tario ryan samsel you know some of some of the conditions I had it bad when I got to D.C., but I got to be out.

45:10I got to be with my family. I got to meet with my attorneys. I didn't have to spend two, three, four years in solitary confinement being driven crazy. My extent was just the D.C. and then I had to go to a federal prison in Arizona, which that's a whole other thing in itself right there. you know my my worst part of my journey was um well it will always be the two miscarriages but um excuse me i'm sorry it's hard i wasn't gonna get emotional today america no it's all right but um you know when when i got to the facility i was a j6er like this is in c2b this is the original pods this whole facility in Washington, D.C.

45:57is covered in mold. This place was condemned and then reopened for use due to compiling crime that was going on. And I'd like to remind everybody that the Trump administration at the end arrested 67 or 62, I think, people. And then by the six-month mark, Joe Biden's administration had arrested well over 600 people at that point. So I'm one of the first people to get arrested for all of this. And what is given to all of these different agencies across the region, everyone, and what they actually told people in person, they were still talking about Brian Sicknick and his death and how J6ers beat him to death or something like that, which he died from natural causes.

46:36We saw that. We've seen the autopsy report. They told cops at the scene that I had murdered a police officer. Of course, these guys are coming slamming. None of that's in the official paperwork, though. This is just what I know from doing my own research and coming back and talking to people. So by the time that I get to DC, well, DC is obviously a democratic district. All of the people that work at this jail are not, at least on the intake side, a majority of them, they're not from this country. They're all foreigners. So when we get there, the abuse starts. I can show you scars on my wrist from where they dug handcuffs into me until I bled.

47:13I show these everywhere I go. They're foreigners? Yes. I believe most of them are from Somalia. At least the intake crew, the people that are actually - Yes. At that facility, when I was there, I would say probably 70 % of that staff was foreigners. Somalis. Yep. Or a region close by, just according to the dialect that I looked into. Whites are in serious trouble in this country. They're not going to be treated well. Sorry. Well, I think anybody who goes - You don't have to agree with that, but I - Anybody who goes against the status quo is not going to get treated well. I don't think it matters what color you are.

47:49Well, there's just so much hatred toward people on the basis of their skin color that it's not good. Well, and that's a problem in my district too. Like, you know, we have, you know, candidates that only work with one particular style of people, but they'll take money from everybody. You know, and there's a track record of that, but I'll get into that later. So when I get to DC, I'm segregated from the rest of the people that are there that, you know, are just like being transferred. I think there was like one guy was there for murder and there's another guy for like burglary of habilitation, something like that.

48:19And I'm handed a bag of water and a moldy ham sandwich. That's my welcome to D.C. So I haven't eaten. Like I've been getting diesel therapy. I was in Oklahoma City. What's diesel therapy? That's where they just like my family had no idea where I was. They wouldn't like they wouldn't let attorneys know that you were being transferred. They would just move you from place to place to place. So I went from Lubbock County to Eden, Texas to the Core Civic facility. Then I was taken to Midland, Texas, but we did a big round road trip all the way up to like Antin, Texas, then back down. Then I went over to Midland.

48:56I got on Conair. I actually flew on the big Conair plane, and I flew from Midland to Oklahoma City. Then I went to the Federal Sorting Center just outside of Oklahoma City. and then I was also putting on to a smaller plane I was flown to either somewhere in Pennsylvania or New Jersey and then we did a road trip where they didn't allow us to stop like period until we got to the jail like they stopped on the side of the road to relieve themselves but they wouldn't let us out to do it and then were you handcuffed during this travel? the entire time shackles handcuffs and a box over the top are you serious?

49:37yeah in the vehicle you're shackled in the van yeah from for this entire like however many hours that we drove and mind you i don't know where i am i still don't know what airport we landed at to be able to get an accurate time description what were the other guys like who were traveling with you uh one of them was a j6er um i mean they were some you know a little rowdy i mean it's you know it's prison jail like they've you know talking talking crap like everything else but you know pretty relaxed I'd say for the most part. Um, at least from what I like up until that point, like then I was like, you know, still like new to the whole, you know, being arrested scene.

50:18So I didn't really know like what rowdy meant then, but then, um, you know, so we, uh, we're, we're in there. We finally get there and get my moldy ham sandwich. Um, and then it takes hours to get processed. So they come man, they take a picture of your iris, of your eye, sorry, and get your fingerprints, get everything done. If you said anything to them, they're either going to push you, shove your head into something. They're very, very aggressive. And then, so the reason that I have the scars on my wrist from the handcuffs is because I asked this particular gentleman where he wanted me to put my clothes.

51:01And he told me to shut the F up, do what he says. And then as soon as that happened, I was like, okay, here or there, basically. And he just was like, just turn around. And so he put cuffs on me, taking me all the way through. I still like, there's still a lot of trauma from this that I sort through. So I just get - This is such a nightmare. I can't even, I'm listening to you thinking like, how would I handle this? I don't know. Well, I mean, the only way that I handled this was my faith in Jesus. I mean, I'll just be completely upfront honest about it. Were you a Christian when it started? Absolutely.

51:33I was a Christian. I wasn't living my life the way I was supposed to, but I can definitely tell you that this woke me up to where, you know, it's, it's, and I'll get, I'll get into that. You'll see the exact moment here in just a minute too. But, you know, I, I make it to the first cell and, um, the first cell that I'm introduced to at this facility has a quarter inch of urine and feces on the ground and there's no running water in this cell. Like eventually they turn the water on to where it was there, but we're talking two days later, you know? So I'm in here. I'm in this cell that's covered in mold, urine and feces.

52:05Another person's urine and feces, not mine, by the way. This is in Washington, D.C. This is in Washington, D.C., in C2B. The first pod that I was put in, I think it was six to the right if you go to the far left when you walk into there. What are we doing? I don't understand. What is this country doing? I don't either. And it gets worse. It gets a lot worse from there. And so at this point in time, this is when I'm starting to complain. I'm saying, you know, like, hey, can you get me a plunger? Like, can I have a mop? Can I have anything? Denied, denied, denied, denied, denied. They're not letting me out.

52:38I haven't showered. It's been three days, been there, no shower. At this point, it's really been like five days because I haven't showered since I left the sorting center in Oklahoma. Okay, so, you know, I had to do a whole flight plus a drive, you know, to get there at this point. I haven't really eaten anything. I'm getting food at this for these couple of first days that I'm there. and um i finally i get an attorney call and i had some other attorneys that um they're democrats they decided not to uh continue with my case because i refused the plea deal i wouldn't take it i sent you a copy of that as well so um so you can see like the verbiage and what like the government wanted me to admit to in order to receive probation um versus a 20-year felony and so I complained to my attorney and she calls the facility and says you know we want to do a conditions check so they moved me all the way to the end I'm at the very end cell of the block and this made them very mad very very mad as a matter of fact I only got to come out to shower like twice during this point and one of them is super critical so I'm here for however many weeks that I'm at this facility and this is when they started putting bleach in my food or Windex, any type of chemical that was in there.

53:57I never had another meal that if I got to eat, didn't have some kind of chemical in it because I had complained about the facility. And obviously, I got somebody in trouble. But I still don't know who that is to this day because they won't open records for J6ers. So I asked for a Bible every single day that I was there, which is why I carry mine with me everywhere I go, brought here to the studio today. that I was allowed to have a book. So this is the only thing that I had in solitary confinement the entire time that I was there. It was an eighth grade level reading book about a slave owner who falls in love with a slave, cheats on his wife and runs away to the North with her.

54:34Perfect reading for an eighth grade school, I guess, in Washington, D.C. And so I'm sitting in my cell. I'm losing lots of weight. Like I don't have a cup to drink out of. I'm drinking out of the bag that my soap came in. I'm getting, I'm very sick. I'm rinsing out like rice and trying to rinse off like they would give us boiled eggs. And then when they would deliver my food, they would, you know, bring in like the little styrofoam things too. And sometimes there would just not be anything in there. So I would go for days on end without eating. Or I would have, you know, rice and a piece of ham that's completely soaked in bleach that I have to stick inside of my socks and start wringing it out, you know, just to be able to have some sustenance.

55:18And it, like, I'm having all kinds of stomach issues. I'm losing weight very, very, very rapidly at this point. And I'm getting very sick. Well, then one day they finally, they let me out for a shower. And of course, somebody goes in my cell and I'm thinking, you know, oh, they're probably just doing an inspection or something like that. Well, what had actually happened was, is they tried to kill me. they went in and they placed raw pieces of chicken inside of my water line to where it would I would turn on the faucet and the water would come out and it would go past the raw pieces of chicken and I didn't figure this out for I I don't really know when like how how many days it was because I didn't like no sense of time because I didn't have a tablet I didn't have anything that other prisoners were allowed to be afforded because I was all the way at the end and um the only way that I knew this was because I was drinking out of that bag that my soap came in and a little piece fell out and I was able to stick my toothbrush my little government issued two inch toothbrush up inside of there and knock all of that chicken out and there were three pieces about this big inside of there and mind you I went in it like I'm like I'm since I got out of prison like obviously I've been I've been eating a little bit you know but I went in at like 180 I came out at like 130 pounds.

56:34Like I would get out. You lost 50 pounds? 50 pounds in custody in Washington, D.C. When you consider like stress, not eating, you know, just the overwhelming amount of stress, like having nosebleeds all the time from the chemicals that are in my food, throwing up all the time because my stomach hurts and I don't have anything to keep it down, being denied medical at all, never allowed to have a medical form, never allowed to have a grievance form, nothing. like we were isolated alone left there to die I thought I was going to die as I say before you now I thought there was a point in time where I was going to die I was looking out the window of the cemetery there's a cemetery that goes around this building on the back side and I would watch people it was the only thing I had because I only had that one book about a slave that I you know slid back out under the door so somebody else could have something to do and I would watch people walk their dogs through the cemetery.

57:30And I looked out there and I was like, I'm going to die in here. And like, this is probably where I'm going to go. And my family's not going to know, you know, like what happened to me. And by the grace of God, he came into the cell with me, you know, while I'm praying like, God, what did I do to deserve this? Like, I thought I stood for something that day. I didn't hurt anybody. I didn't damage anything. Like I didn't do anything that would really make me deserve this? Like, why am I here? And God said very clearly, I know the path that I have for you. You'll be fine. You're going to get out of this.

58:14I'll be right there with you. Stay where I put you. Stay where I put you. did you believe him it was hard to at the time but seeing the progression of where everything has gone oh Tucker he was there he was there the whole time and he never left me period and he'll never leave anybody that believes in him no matter where you're at I promise he'll be in the fire with you I promise he'll be there man like I would get out like four days later. The video of me protecting police officers on the east porch would get to Judge Boasberg, and he would release me. And I was one of the first ones to get out, like out of all of this.

59:07And that's when the fight began. You know, we started going. I was looking at decades in prison. Decades? Decades in prison. I just want to say again that no one who did this has ever been punished that I know of. No, they haven't. I don't understand how if Republicans have all three branches of government, have the Congress, both chambers and the executive branch, I don't understand how no one's been punished. Well, I can tell you it's because there's a division that's up there. A third of the people want J6ers to go to prison forever. A third of the people just want J6 to disappear and the other third don't care.

59:44they're too focused on everything else, which, you know. We're all going to have to answer for what we do. That's true. That's true. Very much so. So that's basically the worst part besides the miscarriages. You know, we... What did you mean when you said the miscarriages? So my wife and I, we've had two miscarriages during this entire process of me being arrested. and then the conviction was up to that point. And now we have one daughter, another one on the way. Oh, bless you. So, you know, it's just crazy to me that I would have a four-year-old, a three-year-old, an 18-month-old, and then one more on the way right now with our other daughter that's expected in April.

1:00:32And I just, they're the reason that I fight because I have to leave something behind. Yes. for them. And then so, you know, we would go through this whole process of going back and forth to trial with the imminent peace that just reigned over me, you know, from that point. It's one of the things that, you know, like, yeah, it was difficult getting convicted in DC, but, you know, 14 Democrats, two Democrat, you know, prosecutors, I have, you know, three federal witnesses that I can now prove perjured themselves in their testimony. I had 300 Brady violations. They refused to turn over 300 points of evidence from my camera, cell phone, and SD cards that I took for pictures on the day.

1:01:14All the way up to the trial, they were still saying that I had assaulted police officers, gone into the building, and was just running like ruckus that day. So we got those dismissed. I was September 23rd. I was convicted of the obstruction felony, 1512C2, that was overturned at the Supreme Court. I was put on stay and a motion of stay until the Supreme Court ruled on that. And then when we got to sentencing, I was only convicted of the two misdemeanors. And there's a very critical aspect. I sent you all the picture last night of what it was supposed to be posted outside. Well, John Nassif, another J6er, just got his, you know, the Supreme Court didn't actually hear the case.

1:01:55But they made a ruling on it that said that the First Amendment application ends the second a person crosses the threshold of the United States Capitol. So if that's the case, and they made the ruling on his that the First Amendment ends, I never crossed the threshold. So we'll see what the future holds for my lawsuits against the federal government. So when were you convicted? September of 23. So, I mean, this is basically just like consumed your life for years. Years, hundreds of thousands of dollars. I mean, do you have a job during this? Like, what are you doing with your life when you're just - So, I'm still active in safety.

1:02:38Like, I can get a - I work in safety right now. What does that mean, safety? So, I am a safety coordinator. so I look at like what people are doing when they work and decide um which I mean I have a boss you know so it's like yeah no I just I didn't mean specifically who do you work for but like what so you like go into a work site and assess yeah and I do I do audits and I watch like behavioral mechanisms to see like if ergonomically there's something that we could change to stop somebody from getting hurt is there a process that we can change are there administrative controls are there Like, can we put a guard to prevent somebody from sticking their hand inside of here?

1:03:17And then I was also at some of the harshest times. So, I was actually working. I have no problem trashing them. I was working for Bear Crop Science as their safety director for the research and development department. And working with cotton, you know, all these different just stuff that's relevant to my area, you know, where I live. And they terminated me when I got convicted. I told them, you know, I'm going on appeal. and uh why'd they fire you for getting convicted bear's very liberal so bear being the german pharma company yeah oh yeah so they you know it just um you know that was one of the things i i was working how liberal are they very like that isn't how liberal that sounds like authoritarian kind of well when you see like all the rest of the stuff that they do around the globe it's very easy to see like which side they lean to like um the red tape bureaucratic control of like what they're spraying the secrecy behind it i mean you look they're spraying yes like agents that are harming you know farmers like we have you know all like the chemicals that they spray are causing health issues amongst you know farmers it's not just here this is like a global aspect but bear is doing that.

1:04:32And yeah, so I mean, what does the general public actually know about what's being sprayed? Zero. Zero. And then all of that paperwork and everything is bound up and there's only a select group of people that can know what's being sprayed up on an airplane, you know, 500 yards from your house on land that they're leasing. You know, there's some real issues and some transparency issues that need to be handled. And that's one of the things that I hope to go forward with in Congress, you know, if elected, So you're saying chemtrails are not just a conspiracy theory? I would. Well, I mean, when you look at that, I would believe that chemtrails.

1:05:08It's totally real. They've admitted it's real, but it's just funny after. And so is cloud seeding. I mean, we literally have companies that are stating that they've been successful at putting manufactured rain in our area. Of course. No, of course. That's true around the world. But if it's successful, I think that's great. Well, they also said for four years that J6 was totally organic. It was not a false flag. and now we know it was a false flag. Yeah, and there's documents that came out this week that even Christopher Wray, who by the way, I forgot a part. So when I was arrested, he flew to Lubbock and gave the police chief of Lubbock an award.

1:05:41And then he became - For smashing all your doors and terrorizing your dog. Well, I mean, the feds did that. So what was the effect on your family, on your wife, for example? We had a lot of problems. I think it was very scary, the fact that, so my wife and I, we've never had a wedding because we couldn't. I didn't want them to label her as a domestic terrorist. If you go in and look at the Quiet Skies program and also the way that the Patriot Act is allowed to move throughout communities, the Patriot Act, I believe, is one of the most unconstitutional acts that was ever passed after 9-11. They're literally able to quantify you.

1:06:19So I was labeled as a white Christian nationalist and then a domestic terrorist. So this is the first flight. You were labeled as white and Christian, huh? Yes. Yes. So, this is the first flight that I've had that doesn't have the four S's at the bottom of it since February 4th, 2021. This flight, this flight here, to where I didn't get stopped at every single gate that I went through for never even going into the building. so you know and like and you know going back to the whole work thing i do have to say that i did travel all across the state of texas and speak i would do speaking engagements too where i would talk about j6 i had the trump trailer that was gifted to me by um one of the gop chairs in amarillo and i was selling trump merchandise all across the the state of texas at events fourth of july's you know any any place that i could find that i could post up all while running for Congress in the last term, you know, as well while I'm, you know, going through this because no representation.

1:07:22There were only two people that actually stood up for me out of all the offices that I called, including Jody Arrington, the current, you know, budget committee chairman and congressman for my district that's retiring. He refused to help. The two people. Why? Well, again, a third of them want us to go to prison forever. A third of them wanted us to disappear, and the other third don't care. Did you ever speak to Judy Arrington? Face-to-face. Matt, face-to-face. Showed him everything that I've given you. What did he say? Nothing. Said that he wasn't getting involved. Nothing. We're all going to have to answer for how we live.

1:08:02We are. But I do have to give a shout-out to the two people that did. I disagree with some of the stuff that's happened. policies are indifferent but i have to give uh credibility where credibility is due dustin burroughs the speaker of the house for the state of texas wrote a letter to the judge and um good for him george santos of course former congressman george santos uh wrote it in and i love i love uh i love george i i talk to him you know pretty regularly i disagree with the the way that some of the stuff with him was handled um you know it just i never understood why they, George Santos, who's got a rank at the very bottom of the ranking of like threats to national security.

1:08:44Yeah. Why George Santos went to prison. He did real, he did time in prison also, as you know. Why do they hate George Santos so much? Who, by the way, anyone who knows George Santos, impossible to hate the guy. Yeah, he's very nice. Oh yeah, he's amazing. But just, and I don't agree with him on everything either, but I don't need to. He's a decent man, you know, he's a nice man. But I think it's stuff like that that got him. Yeah, well, and he, I mean, he brought me into his office. His staff was very, very nice to me. Of course. And he looked through everything. Of course he did. And, you know, and did anything that I thought was in his power to help.

1:09:18And, you know, it wasn't enough. Like the GOP chairs in a couple of different counties wrote some letters. But actual elected officials, that's it. And I called every office in the state of Texas. What about your governor? Abbott doesn't care. What about Senator Ted Cruz? Cruz's office wouldn't respond? They wouldn't respond. I couldn't even get a call back. Nothing. You should have told him you're Israeli. He'd show up at your house. Of course, he does for money. We got multiple phone calls from unavailable numbers that said, if your dad drops out of the race, we'll drop the charges. We'll give you$200 ,000 to drop and take the plea deal.

1:09:58I got phone calls all through this. Was your dad arrested? No. interesting well and i mean that's one of the things that it's like why did they target me was because i wasn't a republican congressional candidate i was just there you know and um poor dad he must have felt such guilt yeah yeah no he he he did but at the end of the day it's not his fault no of course it's not his fault but you know and like he he does and he like he gets real emotional about it um sometimes but the thing is is that we never stopped to fight we never stopped. All this did was make me mad. The things that I've been through.

1:10:37All this did was prove that our government has too much power. All this does is prove that the people of the United States of America have had their constitutional rights whittled away from them one vote at a time in a room of like 435 people that then goes up to the Senate, gets signed off on. That's where we're at because we, I believe that we're, I fully believe that we are not in a battle against flesh and blood, but spiritual battle for the United States of America and not just for that, for our world. And that's one of the biggest parts of my message of why I want to run for Congress is not just what I've been through, which was a nightmare, but it was who stood with me while I was in the fire, and that's Jesus Christ.

1:11:24That's my faith. There are three books that built this nation, the Bible, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and they all three play off of each other. And that is my platform because the United States was designed to be run underneath the men who have the respect for the Bible. And if you don't have that, then your oath means nothing. That's right. Any oath that somebody takes to this country, and some of the oaths in Washington, D.C., I don't think they're valid either. Like when you look at Jeb Bosberg, a Skull and Bones member, you know, there's lots of things with him that are just ridiculous.

1:12:02That's my judge. And if you don't, like for the viewers, if you don't know who that judge is, that's the one that's trying to make President Trump bring back the 127 Venezuelans who were put on a plane and he tried to make the plane turn back around. This is an unelected official trying to dictate out of a district of the United States of America, trying to dictate exactly what a president can do, what the Supreme Court can do, what you can do. And then he's destroying lives. He's the chief judge in D.C. And I believe that he's responsible because even at trial, he denied me a defense of the First Amendment, allowed 300 Brady violations, witnesses to lie.

1:12:38He says – I'll give you an example of one of the jurors that I had. So one of the people that was approved for jury for my trial was a Democrat leader for, I think it was the Netherlands, who he literally stated when he came, he was like, I don't think that I can sit for this case because I believe that everyone that was at the Capitol that day is a terrorist. and James Bosberg was like well what we're talking about specifically is this defendant have you seen anybody or anything about him that would lead you to believe that you couldn't be fair and partisan and he said well I guess not and they said great we'll see you at four o 'clock for selection this is in my transcripts like that's the kind of fairness that we had 14 Democrats one of them cared so little about my life he fell asleep and then never showed back up after the third day it's not a jury if you're pierce i think it's no say the other thing i noticed is that people believe whatever they're told by the media well absolutely and you know i really do think that mainstream um leftist leaning media is the true enemy of the people of the united states because the you you can still tell a lie while telling a portion of the truth like if you if you leave out you know any part that's absolutely relevantly critical you can completely spin a story while it's true.

1:14:00Like what they're saying for as far as libel, slander goes, you know, those probably don't apply. Defamation, because one portion of it is true, like they'll be fine in a courtroom, but we don't have judges that are going after them, you know, for the way that they portray things. And I think that there should be accountability in media, you know, but how do we do that? Did anyone cover, did any media organization cover J6 fairly, do you think, or was it all? Jen Phillips from Lubbock gave me a fair shot. I think that Manny from Abilene gave me a fair shot. That's it. You know, I mean, as far as like the, you know, the leftist leading like NBC, ABC affiliates.

1:14:43Now, like the Epoch Times, like all the people that I talked to along the way, you know, Diamond and Silk, like all the shows that I've been on, they've been very fair, you know, ask some hard questions, you know, and things that people wanted to know. And I think that's fine. I think that's great banter. But then you look back at what was done to me this last week. I was at a forum. KCBD comes in. They do an interview with me. And instead of actually showing, so like I've already filed an appeal and my case has been dismissed. So not only did I go through all of this, but my case is now dismissed and I'm pardoned by the precedent.

1:15:20So instead of stating all of the facts, they just said, you know, put up a video of me talking about the district and then said, Jink was convicted of crimes in September of 23, even despite the fact that none of those are relevant anymore, that I've gone through this all of this. Have your gun rights been restored? Yes. Yes, they have. So, and I use them and I encourage everybody to have them. And everywhere that I go, I carry, and I think every American should too. I think you should be given two things at birth, a Bible and a gun. And learn to use them both accordingly because they will be the biggest weapons that you need to fight everything in this world, particularly more so on the Bible.

1:16:01But now I'm running again. So why are you? Okay. So first of all, thank you for recounting that. Appreciate it. Yeah, man. It was an emotional. It is. I try not to, but man, it's so hard. Oh, it made me emotional. Okay, why are you running for Congress? I want to make sure that West Texas stays away from Washington, D.C. politics and Austin, Texas politics. We have a great thing in our district, and we have lots of issues that need to be looked at sincerely. clearly and we cannot have somebody who is not willing to speak up in the fight for our country.

1:16:48Representation in our area has always been very lax on what they'll say. And I think that we need a strong front. I think that I've been vetted out. I refuse to take a plea deal. I refuse to bend the knee. So I feel like I've already been vetted. You can tell a lot about a person who has faced the giants and came out on the other side and kept moving. And I believe that I would do a lot of good for the district because we're in a spiritual battle. And I've become so close in my faith. I have a lot of support for my community. I've never actually met a person that has condemned me for what happened once they've seen everything that I was able to show them.

1:17:33I don't know what they would condemn you for. I don't. Well, you'd be surprised. I mean, there are some people you're just never going to reach. I mean, it's like you can see it on like Facebook posts, Twitter posts, which I don't even have a congressional Facebook page right now because they seized it again. Who did? Facebook. Why? They took it down because I am not real. Disingenuous behavior. I'm totally confused. When did Facebook take this down? Like five days ago. So they seized my - They took down your congressional Facebook page? Yes. Yes. On what? Okay. For disingenuous behavior. Disingenuous?

1:18:10Like false? Yeah, they're basically saying that I'm not who I say that I am, even though I am a congressional candidate. They keep seizing it. And I'll scroll through my phone. I got like 50 different examples. I'm actually filing charges with the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office over this. I'm not really sure what's going to be able to be done about this because, you know, we saw like Kara Castronova fight her case against Facebook. and I think she spent a couple million dollars and lost. But this is one of those things where a left-leaning liberal ally, he's donated like$500 million to Democrats, speaking specifically about Mark Zuckerberg.

1:18:44And then they have the right to deny my voters my opinion just because they can say that I'm disingenuous. But did you do something to trigger this? There's only two posts on there. One was about abortion. I tried to post something about abortion because I believe that life begins at conception. Well, obviously it does. Yeah, I will never vote for anything that would promote abortion in America. Abortion is murder. Of course it is. Everyone knows that, by the way. Yeah, and that was one of the things that they just absolutely would not let me post, and then the day after that, they seized it. Oh, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want anything to get in the way of human sacrifice.

1:19:20I don't know if that's his stance, but from the people he hangs out with, I think that that could be a real possibility, yeah. I think that's real. I think most of what they're - So you're running for Congress. I don't think I've heard a story of someone mistreated by the government like the one you just told in a long time. That's an unbelievable story. And then you want to participate. You don't become a revolutionary. You're not stockpiling C4. You're like, I'm going to go to Washington and change the system within the structures that our forefathers created. Like you're doing the right thing.

1:19:51And Zuckerberg's like, yeah, I don't like your position on abortion. You can't talk in public anymore. what do you do about that like who do you appeal to x that's the that's where i go to you know it's uh you know ryan z for congress is it's my page on there i've never once been taken down i've never had anything and i've posted some real doozies you know like you just you have to go where the where the freedom is in in this country and uh so x you know independent uh shows to get the truth out. But there's no one you can call if Facebook takes you down, right? Nope, there's not. There's not a phone number.

1:20:30There's nothing. You have to go through the appeals process. And actually, they haven't even given me an appeal process to get it back. They just seized it, took it from me. I sat across from Mark Zuckerberg at the presidential inauguration. Were you there? Were you invited? No, I was not. Okay. He was. So, just for the record. Interesting. Well, I can tell you why. I can tell you why, I think. It's because a majority of the J6 Facebook profiles were surrendered voluntarily. They didn't even have to get a warrant on a majority of them. Now, there were warrants that were issued. Some of them actually came later.

1:21:02But the things that people post that are now public information, three-letter agencies can take that and they can do compression files on it. And that's how they were labeling people and rounding people up.

1:21:18People have no idea what they're agreeing to when they click that box. They just want the Facebook account. They want to be able to connect to Chad from Billings, Montana, they went to high school with. But they don't see the danger that's behind what they're actually agreeing to that is perfectly legal because it's a private company. And that's part of the issue. That's some of the things that I want to change when I get there. Not just like there's a lot of stuff about my district that I like to cover. But there's a lot of protections that Americans voluntarily give up that they should be made aware of.

1:21:50Like it should literally be a checkbox that says, do you, are you aware that any photo that you post on here is compiled into an AI drive to help identify you? That's something that should be talked about. It's very clearly in a long, you know, summation of wording, you're agreeing to that. And it's there and it's real. And this is a very clear and present danger. You know, like AI is a big concern of mine because one, we have to stay out ahead of China. I think this, so in our, in my district, this is a big issue because we're getting AI centers, we're getting data centers. We're very concerned about how we're going to keep water in our district.

1:22:28I was going to say, do you have the water for that? So we have the water, but for how long? You know, when they come in, are we looking at 20 years? Are we looking at 30 years? You know, I have proposals that I would like to see that are, you know, we have flare gas in West Texas. It's a waste, burn off gas. Yep. atmospheric water generators would be perfect to put on there. We could offset and let them use it. Closed loop systems, I think, are going to be mostly beneficial. But they cost, they take a lot of energy. And how are we supposed to keep, you know, the, we have to stay ahead of China.

1:23:01We have to stay ahead of Russia. So are these set, not to get in the weeds, but are these centers going to be running in flare gas? Is that the idea? That's what I would like to see. Well, yeah. I would like to, so I would like to get on several committees, like the ag board, energy sector. And because I believe that we can do this, but at what cost? I mean, we're already$40 trillion in debt. We just spent like, what, another$800 million like yesterday or the day before. So is the district being asked to pay for some of this stuff? I think that just like anything else, they say this is not going to hurt you.

1:23:33This is not going to affect your electric bill. And then what do we see three years down the road when the funding runs out? It comes from us and tax rates go up and we see - Why would citizens fund private businesses, whether it's a sports stadium or a data center. I don't understand. Like what? Yeah. And, you know, but you see this all the time where we get promised something. Let's say like wind turbines. They said that it was going to be like one of the greatest things. I built them. I built hundreds of these things. They're not ever going to pay for themselves. You know, and... Have you told Ben Shapiro?

1:24:07Because this doesn't sound like the free market to me at all. Man, maybe I should. You think he'd listen? No, I don't think he's on your side, Ryan, but you just hear these people, the free market, capitalism, I'm in favor of it. When do we get that? Because it seems like the opposite. It seems like crushing the middle class to help a tiny percentage of the population get richer than anyone's ever been. And then blame it on the rich. Doesn't seem like capitalism to me, but who are you running against? So I'm running against eight. So there's eight people total in the race. In the primary. Yes.

1:24:51Well, there's seven in the Republican and then one in the Democrat seat. I'm assuming West Texas is still decided in the primary, correct? Yes. So it's whoever gets this seat, you're in. Right. The Republican winner of the Republican primary will be the next member of Congress. Yeah, I think we're 20 plus 25 plus 27. That's my point. Okay, so of the seven, the six you're running against, who are they? Do you have a shot? I do believe that I have a shot. I think that I have the experience. I think that once people see the full story of J6 plus, I think so. So one of the people that we have is Tom Sell.

1:25:36He is a lobbyist. He's worked in ag for a long time, but for both sides. And not all of the things that he's worked on do I feel really had the relevancy to quantify experience. I think that he was there with Larry Combust whenever he was a congressman for our district, the first Republican congressman when we flipped and have been a Republican ever since. but I'm not really keen on 76 % of the farm bill going to snap benefits. I think it's a waste of money. You know, there's a lot of things about the farm bill that need to be changed. I mean, the farmers in our area, well, not just here, but all across the United States, but this is the district that I love that I call home, is we have some of the highest input costs that we've ever seen, ever.

1:26:27And we need a farm bill that stops putting a Band-Aid on funding. I mean, we have a slew of things. I think one of the most important issues that's been neglected, not only in the first farm bill that he helped write, is insurance. We're at a giant insurance war and also in funding. Like, it is very, very hard to get ag lending with the interest rates, with the amount of money that goes down, not to mention if you're trying to buy a new tractor. I don't know if you've looked at the price of some of those lately. It's astonishing how much it's costing us. And then at the same time, we have grifters that are coming in across the district that make these raucous claims about they've generated millions of votes for Donald Trump with an organization for Abraham Enriquez.

1:27:17And I've seen no relevant information outside of what his campaign puts out that he's raised millions of votes for Donald Trump. I haven't seen it. You know, I hear it from him. So these are, you're talking about a candidate in the primary. Yes. So I don't know how you've been treated, but having watched other people make similar statements about the way our system works, I think you're going to get attacked. That's just my guess. Oh, I've been attacked for five years now, but my... On the grounds. I've had death threats. We've had somebody come out to my house and place three targets, three shooting targets on my vehicles.

1:27:59One for me, one for my wife, and one for my daughter. I turned those over to the Hockley County Sheriff's Office. And they took a report. There were no fingerprints. Nothing came out of it. I get attacked for being at J6. I get attacked for my faith on a regular basis. There's a little nefarious group of... Now, I'm not just going to say Democrats. I'm just going to say people that don't believe, the spiritual warfare aspect of it. There's always that attack. But the threats on my life and my family are the ones that it's something that I hope nobody has to experience. But I'm there already. You know, we have guys in our race that are parading around, you know, after getting the government's endorsement with security in Jones County.

1:28:49Like, nobody wants to shoot anybody in Jones County. You know, this is a very, very small district that, you know, has lost, you know, two hospitals, which is another huge, you know, huge issue. And then we have, you know, just continuing, like, with who I'm running against, Jason Corley, Precinct 2 Commissioner for Lubbock, Texas. I like Jason. I think he's a great guy, honestly. I think he's got some experience and some knowledge that I think would benefit across the district. Not to say that I don't have the same experience. I've been entirely focused on how Congress works for five years, trying to overcome laws that would not just benefit me, but 1 ,600 people.

1:29:30I think there's some things that he wants to do that are great for the district that I would love to be a part of, too. too but there's there's just some there's something uh missing and it's not you know like a like a smash at him because i i think there's guys that have run for the right reason and then uh you have dalme uh who's 80 years old he's a uh i believe he's a neurosurgeon if i if i remember correctly has a you know decorated veteran uh you know he's a he's a wonderful man do we really want to put up, you know, look at Mitch McConnell this week. Like where are we at? Cross the line of where, how old is too old?

1:30:14Like he seems pretty chipper, but some of the things that he says, I think it's more of a fantasy than a reality of what you're actually going to get to committing. Well, a dying country has dying leaders. So it's a bad, it's just a bad trend. And I think there's some dissonance to that because what can you actually get accomplished right now? I mean, we have everything that we need to restore this country right now. We still aren't getting the votes. Yeah, not getting anything done at all. And it's getting worse, of course, and it's just a complete betrayal. I think that's fair to say. But the question is why?

1:30:47And the answer from what I can tell, maybe you disagree, is that the machine is so strong that it takes an extraordinary person to stand in its way. It does. But I think that we could do that, though. Yeah, just take some extraordinary people. I mean, look at what the squad did to Congress. Look at how they were able to manipulate Nancy Pelosi into a corner. They're in their own way, extraordinary people. I mean, it's just a fact. I disagree with them, of course. Absolutely, me too. But I think they're, A, talented and B, pretty good at, pretty brave, really. They stood against a lot of things that their leadership wanted.

1:31:27And I don't know. I don't want them in charge of anything. I know they put me in prison immediately if they ever took power. However, I think their success within their own conference is a model to Republicans. Like, don't go along with what Mitch McConnell wants and Mike Johnson. Which is weak, ineffective. That's the biggest. Sinister, too. I mean, let's be honest. They're sinister. What is this? The biggest thing that I see that is like holding Americans back is that we have to get control of our spending. Our budget is designed to protect America, benefit the American citizens, and then we get into foreign policy about where typically our money has gone.

1:32:14It leaves our country. And I have a huge issue with that. And some of the other candidates, they don't. They don't have an issue with that. I'm America first. I believe if it doesn't benefit Americans, then we shouldn't be doing it. And I don't care what country it is. There's no reason for us to be sending billions and billions of dollars, one, to research transgender frogs in South America, any of these other crazy things that have come out with Doge. And we should not only be allowing Doge to continue, but we should be way more actively involved in where our spending goes. I think that Americans have the right to say know.

1:32:54Of course. Of course they do. No. And yeah. And I do think at this point when you find out that like everyone at DOJ has been sitting on the Epstein files for 15 years and they knew, they're complicit in it. And so at this point, the government has very little legitimacy left, I would say. I don't feel that they're legitimate. And I just think that there's no transparency at all. Right. I just think that we're being completely lied to. Well, right. And you have to navigate that. You have to have the experience of going through something like I did to see the wording, to see the writing on the wall and not donate money to the other side for this cause or stand firm in the gap for where you are because we're never going to get anywhere if we don't fix it.

1:33:39I really feel we're coming up on 250 years here. It's life worth. What are we going to leave behind for our children. I agree. It takes bravery. That's what it takes. And you've displayed it. So last question is, since you're not on Facebook. Well, I have one. I just don't have a congressional page. How do people learn about your campaign? How do they send you money? I just want to say that if every viewer that watched this sent me$5, we could keep the district in its entirety in Republican control. I think that that would be more than enough. But I only take money from people that believe in me.

1:34:20I don't want to take money from PACs. You know, everybody says, you know, yeah, well, they'll give you all this. I want business owners. I want true patriots, Americans who are sick of the system that we live in to get behind me. I don't want to see. If you think that I'm going to bow down to a cause, like with Major Farm or something like that, that would get me to vote a certain way that dishonors the people of my district or dishonors the way that I would live my Christian life, I don't want your money. But if you want to be one of the people that believes in me, that stands up for American values, that stands up for a country that was founded on biblical principles, you can go and you can find everything about my campaign and about me at RyanZink.Vote.

1:35:13That's R-Y-A-N-Z-I-N-K.Vote. I'm on X at RyanZ for Congress. That's the tag handle. And then RyanZink is my Facebook. And then also I have a TikTok, but I use that more of a platform for Bible studies. If I feel led to move something to get a message out on there, I put that on TikTok. And that's just Ryan Zing for Congress on there. I appreciate you taking all this time and coming out here for this. Man, I appreciate you putting some interest in District 19. I mean, it's very hard to be in our area and get recognition, get exposure to like the needs of our community. Oh, I bet. Just for where we are.

1:36:02I feel like sometimes as big as we are, like it's a large district. It's over 30 ,000 square miles. You know, we've got, you know, 750 ,000 people-ish somewhere around there. It's a big district. and you know it's food, it's fuel, it's fiber but more importantly it's faith, it's family and it's freedom is what grows in our district and that's where I call home and I love it and I really appreciate the opportunity to come in and tell my story Amen. Ryan Sink, thank you very much Thank you