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The speaker was born in New Orleans in 1939, lived in Texas and New York during childhood, and attended Beauregard Junior High School and Warren Eastern High School. In 1956, he joined the United States Marine Corps, served for three years, and was honorably discharged as a buck sergeant. He then returned to work in Texas before moving back to New Orleans with his family. He became aware of Cuba around 1960, concurrent with the Cuban revolution. He believes American policy pushed Cuba into the Soviet Bloc and that a different approach could have prevented the current issues with Cuba. He contends that the actions of covert agencies like the CIA and its now-deceased leadership, such as Allen Dulles, contributed to the problem. He feels that a more humanitarian approach would have fostered friendlier relations with Cuba.

The president of Haiti told the speaker he thought he was going to be killed or taken away, but the speaker dismissed it. The president, Aristide, was then deposed and flown to the Central African Republic on an unmarked CIA plane. The U.S. ambassador walked him to the plane in broad daylight. The speaker, an economic advisor and friend, called the New York Times reporter on the beat to cover the coup. The reporter said her editor was not interested.

Regular medical students, wearing white coats, spoke about being the reason that America’s calling you terrorists: 'we're the reason that America's calling you terrorists.' They added, 'if we're terrorists, we're proud to be terrorists because we're sending doctors around the world. And if that's our terror, then so be it.' Right? But here's this little island, a couple of miles away from America, you know, 90 miles away from America, and they have an a president who talks like us. They have a president who understands the need for a liberated Palestine. And I think that was, that definitely altered my world.

After a 2012 raid on his property where his dog was shot and property was destroyed over a bogus charge, the speaker donated laptops preloaded with viral spyware to government secretaries. Within a week, he claims to have gained control of the entire government computer system, monitoring their activity. He was looking for information related to the raid. Instead, he says he discovered that the Minister of National Defense was the largest drug trafficker in Central America and the Minister of Immigration was the largest human trafficker.

Speaker 0 describes having friends in the US embassy in Belize and knowing what was coming. He says he arranged with the head of security to enter the embassy, but the head of security told him, “we have it from the highest authority. We are not to allow you entry into the US embassy. Understand me.” He asserts, “Who was the highest authority in the state department? Hillary Clinton.” He emphasizes that he is an American citizen with “a fucking American passport,” stating, “I'm sorry. I'm not wanted in America. I've got no crimes in America. Is it not reason to say, I don't think I'm gonna vote for you?” Speaker 1 notes, “And yet you're here now.” Speaker 0 explains that for a month and a half he was on the run. He claims the government wanted to collect him because, after they raided his property in 2012 in the jungle, they shot his dog, abused him, and destroyed “a half million dollars worth of my property over a bogus charge.” He says he was pissed off and then “donated too many secretaries within the government laptop computers, really nice ones that were preloaded with viral spyware.” He contends that within a week, “the entire government computer system was in under my control. I was watching, monitoring, listening.” He continues that he was looking for information that they had set him up for that raid, and he didn’t find that. Instead, he discovered that “the minister of national defense was the largest drug trafficker in all of Central America, and the minister of immigration, the largest human trafficker.” Speaker 1 responds, “We don't wanna get killed by them either, so we're probably not—” and Speaker 0 agrees, “You're not gonna,” adding, “That's fine.”

Fighting. He's fighting. They're trying to put him in jail on top of everything else. He's Nuts. He's a war hero because we work together. He's a war hero. I guess I am too. Yep.

They drafted everyone. They gathered us up and took us to the military commissariat. I didn't pass the medical commission, but I was in the field three days later. If you want to go, go; if you don't, why force it? I had to retrieve a pill. I got out of the car, walked about fifty meters, and came back out to the people. I told them to move straight ahead, past the dugout. I walked about one hundred fifty meters around a landing, and then another fifty meters, without a weapon. I saw your position, said hello, and told the guys I had no choice but to surrender.

The speaker is removing their military uniform with the hope of continuing the legacy of warriors, from the Chichimeca people of Mexico to Hamas, fighting for Palestinian liberation. They state they will never wear the uniform again and are thankful for the lessons learned. The speaker does not encourage anyone to join the military, stating that the only way to stop war is to stop enlisting. They believe young people are used as cannon fodder against innocent people to steal natural resources, enslave them to the petrodollar, and continue campaigns of terror that destabilize the world.

- His bag showed up. Mine didn't. I called American Airlines. “I don’t know where your bags are.” “Why are you going to El Salvador?” - Because I worked. I’m friendly with the government down there. I work in … I’ll just say I liaison from the interests of America are in El Salvador, and I help represent some of those interests. - And so, basically, I go down there. I have safe haven down there. I have a safe house. I have people. - I’m getting threats on my life. I get my family.

The speaker is asked to explain a discrepancy between their claim of being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989 and reports that they didn't travel to Asia until August of that year. The speaker says they grew up in rural Nebraska, joined the National Guard at 17, and used the GI Bill to become a teacher. In the summer of 1989, they traveled to China and started a program taking basketball teams, baseball teams, and dancers back and forth to China to learn. They say their community knows who they are and that they have poured their heart into the community, while acknowledging they are not perfect. They claim to have been a bipartisan member of Congress and were elected governor twice. They admit to sometimes getting caught up in rhetoric. They say the experience in China made a difference in their life and that Donald Trump should have come on one of those trips. When asked again about the discrepancy, the speaker says they misspoke and were in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest.

I fought not for my country, but for politicians' agendas. I remember killing a man in his bedroom while his wife watched. He reached for a gun because I was in his room at 2 AM. I was there because of a political decision tied to George Bush's vendetta against Saddam Hussein, based on false claims of weapons of mass destruction. I wonder about the man I killed—what if we had met under different circumstances, like sharing coffee in Paris? Would we have liked each other?

Speaker 0 and his roommate went to Nicaragua the summer after freshman year to get involved in the war and support the side opposing the Sandinistas. They spent the summer trying to understand the war, and "all kinds of hilarity ensued."

At 21 years old, I walked into the Senate chamber and got arrested. Later, I tried to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa and got arrested again. I even met him once. The campaign says I wasn't arrested, but I couldn't move and was stopped by the cops. I didn't experience the struggles of historical figures like Douglass, Tubman, King, Lewis, Goodman, Chaney, and Swerner, but I walked my own path.

Anyone can come to the US, like going to New York and seeing the Statue of Liberty. The speaker picked up three guys from Honduras who were at Home Depot and had nowhere to go. One of them, Hector, needs medication twice a day and they all need to use the bathroom. The speaker called to ask if they can stay, but the person on the other end said no because they don't know them. The speaker calls them a hypocrite and tells the guys to leave.

The speaker asks, why are we doing this and why are we so opposed to Nicolas Maduro. On the street, most people would say they don’t know who Nicolas Maduro is. But in places like South Florida, where people recognize Maduro and can identify Venezuela on a map, the typical answer shifts: because he’s a communist or a socialist. The speaker asserts that this is true: Nicolas Maduro and his government are very left wing on economics. The speaker notes an interesting distinction: this left-wing stance is economic, not social. In Venezuela, gay marriage is banned, abortion is banned, and sex changes for transgender individuals are banned. The speaker describes Venezuela as one of the very few countries in the entire hemisphere with those social policies, emphasizing that these policies are conservative socially. The speaker adds that Venezuela is one of the very few nations in the region with those social policies, specifying that it is on social policy, not defending the regime. The speaker mentions that only El Salvador comes close in conservatism, though El Salvador is much smaller. Additionally, the speaker brings up a political point: the US-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro’s place, if Maduro were removed, is described as eager to implement gay marriage in Venezuela. This is presented as a counterpoint to the idea that the opposition is globally liberal or that the regime is uniquely opposed to liberal social policies. The speaker references the notion of a “global homo” project and implies that the reality is different from that belief, labeling the project as not crazy after all. The overall argument ties Maduro’s economic leftism to social policy conservatism, and contrasts Venezuelan social policy with potential shifts under the opposition, while noting public recognition differences about Maduro.

We visited the land of unconfirmed witnesses. Afterward, he died. I'm sure our visit had something to do with it.

"while students at Elam who came from Gaza were there to study medicine, but simultaneously, they, just by virtue of being there, studied revolution." "I think that that school really probably forms consciousness for a lot of people when they're there to just study how to help people." "The change was not a change to them at all. It's the same culture to them through and through." "It was the communist international." "we also had the chance to interact with, organizers from around the world, specifically some people from Germany love to sing the international." "From South Africa, from Ghana, from other Latin American countries, from Australia, from Germany." "And essentially, this was an international brigade where they wanted brigadistas with a revolutionary orientation, with revolutionary politics to come and learn about the Cuban revolution and essentially how to fight against this blockade that our country, as American representatives on the Strip, was fully responsible for."

Speaker 0 recalls a story about his first time with grandpa Joe in Israel before the 6 day war. Speaker 1 questions why he was in Israel in 1967. Speaker 0 mentions being outside their office and having a photograph taken. Speaker 1 asks about being called a senator, to which Speaker 0 confirms and mentions the 33rd weapon in their fight. Speaker 1 points out that the 6 day war was in the 1960s and tells Joe to stop talking.

These students who were regular medical students, they came and spoke and basically what they were saying was they were wearing their white coats, know, they looked like medical students. They were like, we're the reason that America's calling you terrorists. And they were saying, well, if we're terrorists, we're proud to be terrorists because we're sending doctors around the world. And if that's our terror, then so be it. Yep. Right? But here's this little island, a couple of miles away from America, you know, 90 miles away from America, and they have an a president who talks like us. They have a president who understands the need for a liberated Palestine. And I think that was, that definitely altered my world.

Coming from Cuba, I understand the value of freedom after losing it there. In 1975, hearing Jimmy Carter campaign for president reminded me of Fidel Castro, leading me to believe he was a communist. This realization sparked my interest in politics.

The speaker informs that the CIA accidentally overthrew the government of Costa Rica while overthrowing other governments in Central America. Due to a miscommunication, agents organized an anti-government militia and toppled the Costa Rican government. The deposed leader's body was found in the San Juan River, and the Prime Minister of El Salvador condemned the overthrow. However, no disciplinary actions will be taken against the agents as they are skilled at overthrowing and brought back interesting pictures. The speaker also mentions a time when a chimpanzee was installed as President of Honduras for fun.

Speaker 0: We've set out to overthrow functioning constitutional democracies in over 20 countries. We manipulated elections in dozens of countries. We created standing armies and directed them to fight. We went after to organize ethnic minorities to encourage them to revolt. The first thing we did in Nicaragua was to go to the Mosquito Indians who had never gotten along with the other people in Nicaragua very well and give them more money than they had seen in the entirety of history and arms and training and rationales and sanctuaries in Honduras and sent them into Nicaragua to attack, kill, fight, rape, burn, pillage. And this has been a technique the CI has used in Nicaragua, in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Laos, in The Congo, in in Iran Iraq with the Kurds in different parts of the world. We created, trained, and funded death squads like the treasury police in El Salvador, and we've assassinated world leaders, including The United States president in 1963, and I'll get to that in more detail in just a moment. You can never be sure how many people are killed in the jungles of of Laos or the hills of Nicaragua, but adding them up as best we can, we come up with a figure of 6,000,000 people killed, minimum figure. It has to be more than that. These things are all done in countries of the third world where the governments don't have the power to force The United States to stop destabilizing the country and brutalizing their people.

Speaker 0 argues that conspiracy theories have been made to look like lunacy, noting that the Kennedy assassination popularized the term “conspiracy theorist.” He says it wasn’t widely used before Kennedy, but afterward it became a label for “kooks,” and he’s repeatedly been called that. Speaker 1 acknowledges this dynamic. He and Speaker 0 discuss what a conspiracy is—“more people working together to do something nefarious?”—and Speaker 0 asserts that conspiracies have always happened. He disputes the view that most conspiracies are due to ineptitude, insisting that when there is profit, power, control, and resources involved, most conspiracies, in fact, turn out to be true. He adds that the deeper you dig, the more you realize there’s a concerted effort to make conspiracies seem ridiculous so people won’t be seen as fools. Speaker 1 remarks on the ridicule as well, and Speaker 0 reiterates his own self-description: “I am a conspiracy theorist,” a “foolish person,” and “a professional clown.” He mocks the idea that being labeled foolish is a barrier, and reflects on how others perceive him. Speaker 0 then provides specific, provocative examples of conspiracies he believes are real: Gulf of Tonkin was faked to justify U.S. entry into Vietnam; production of heroin ramped up to 94% of the world’s supply once the U.S. occupied Afghanistan; and the CIA, in the United States, allegedly sold heroin or cocaine in Los Angeles ghettos to fund the Contras versus the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. He states clearly that these claims are real and asserts that there are conspiracy theorists who are “fucking real.” Speaker 1 pushes back on reputation and judgment, and Speaker 0 reaffirms his self-identification as a conspiracy theorist who faces mockery. Speaker 1 suggests that this stance might give him a “superpower.”

About ten days after 9/11, the speaker describes going through the Pentagon and seeing Secretary Rumsfeld. A general then pulls him aside and says they must talk briefly. The general says, “we’ve made the decision. We’re going to war with Iraq.” When the speaker asks, “Why?” the general replies, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” The speaker asks if they found information connecting Saddam to Al Qaeda. The response is, “No. There’s nothing new that way.” The general explains they had “made the decision to go to war with Iraq,” and that it seems, as the speaker reflects, “we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we got a good military and we can take down governments.” A few weeks later, the speaker returns to see the general amid bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and inquires again, “We still going to war with Iraq?” The answer is presented as worse than prior: the speaker says the general tells him, “I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the secretary of defense office today.” He describes a memo that outlines “how we're gonna take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.” The speaker asks if the memo is classified, and the general confirms, “yes, sir.” He adds, “Don’t show it to” (the transcript ends there). Key elements include the asserted decision to invade Iraq without evidence of a direct link to Al Qaeda, the perception that the administration chose military action because other options were unclear, and the claim of a broader plan to “take out seven countries in five years” beginning with Iraq and extending through Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran, with the memo described as classified. The account ties the Iraq invasion decision to a larger strategic agenda and emphasizes a chain of communication from the secretary of defense’s office to field-level comprehension, all within the context of ongoing Afghanistan bombing.

The speaker dropped out of Harvard to serve their country, resulting in lost friendships and widespread dislike on campus. They hope people will realize reform is genuinely needed. The speaker believes that the people they are addressing have a real shot at success, noting their dedication and work ethic, working until 2 AM every day of the week.