Welcome to the secured podcast. I'm your host, Mike Matranga, coming to you from the ASAP Security Studio here in Houston, Texas with, our cohost. Mike Monson. Today, we're gonna talk to you, about an incident that happened at the United States Capitol over the weekend. As, a ridiculous incident, that, that happened over the weekend. You know, we talk about, you know, this this podcast is called the secured podcast. A lot of the times we focus on k twelve, but, we will be having a shift here in the near future to talking about all things encompassing primarily K twelve, but different verticals. Security and life safety. Security, life safety. Yeah. How politics affect that and whatnot. And so one of the things that I wanted to talk to our viewers today about was a ridiculous incident, and what's even more ridiculous is the explanation of the a visual, following his, outlandish and completely inappropriate behavior. But I'm sure you guys all know about The, Democratic, congressman from, New York, Jamal Bowman pulling the fire alarm just prior to a very important vote to decide whether the United States government would shut down or not. This happened on Saturday. And, so I'm gonna start us off with just a quick, reading, from Well, before you jump into that, okay? I think it's important to know that, like, we didn't start this to talk about politics. No. Like, not even a little bit. No. Like, we were talking about security in K-twelve security and corporate, you know, security products and and and the industry norms and problems and and bringing awareness. And and time and time again, we find ourselves where there are incidents where representatives in the Senate or the House at the federal and state local levels are acting like embrasols. I mean, I mean, truly children. And and and it's it's these people who are making decisions that are affecting policy and funding for our nation and for our schools. And so it's not meant to ever be political and specific in this case, you know, we've had two really powerful political segments. Yeah. And and one was about, you know, a representative you know, doing something ridiculous with a grieving parent from Yovaldi. Which was a Republican Right. Representative. Right. So we're not discriminating. Yeah. Not at all. And so it's not a political thing. It's calling people out for their actions. Mhmm. And whether it's a politician, a school board member, a CEO of a company, manufacturer. They're all fair game here in my opinion. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I think we need to really change the dynamic of the podcast in general and that it's it's really gonna be a no one is untouchable at this point. You know, we're gonna have conversations that need to be had. That other people are gonna shy away from and be afraid. It is too afraid too scary standing. If you if you If you don't want to listen to what we want to talk about regards to, you know, the facts and, if you, I guess, are leaning along the lines of, you know, this podcast being you know, leaning left or leaning right, this is not the place for you. You know, quite frankly, my own politics have, you know, my own personal politics, I've gotten to the point where I don't even really consider myself one or the other. You know? I don't even really associate. I mean, I'm I'm our elected Republican Party chairman for my district, but the fact of the matter is is that I don't even necessarily understand what my party looks like or even the democratic party. Who wants to identify with either party when you have people behaving The way to be faced. Like it it used to be a a prominent, a something to be proud of. Hey, I have made it. I am I am a senator. I am a representative. There was a power stage and authority and respect and everything that went along with that. And and respect is not something that you get with a job. It is something that is earned. It is something is your actions. It's not your words. Yeah. And and we're seeing time and time again where we've had politicians that are crossing over our radar and specifically around school safety, and then now life safety. Yeah. Well, I think, you know, here here's my take, you know, for anybody listening or watching and saying, oh, you know, Mike's crossed the line. You know, he's the elected Republican Party chairman of his district, and you got a problem with it, contest it, remove me. I don't care. You think I care? I don't care. Because here's the thing is whether it be the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, that I'm ever elected to. It doesn't matter to me. The independent party, my goal in life is to serve Americans. And if you have a problem with that because I'm not following in line or following in following in line with one party or the next? Okay. So what? I'm an American before I'm anything. And so let's jump right into this real quick. So this just posted an hour ago. So, you guys will probably be about a week late after editing and everything, but It just says this is a local Washington DC news channel. It says New York Democratic representative Jamal Bowman is under investigation after he pulled the alarm ahead of a consequential vote to fund the government. Three days later, house Republicans say they have no intention of sweeping matters under the rug. Now let me stop right there. Three days later, house Republicans say they have no intention of sweeping matters under the rug. Where I have a problem with that is that should say house leadership every looking and democrat. Everyone in the house. Should say they have no intentions of sweeping this under the rug. So if this was anyone else, right? And let's say you were a a guest at the house. Right? And you were there. And as a citizen, and you pulled a fire alarm. Guess what? You're going you're getting bracelets. I'm going to jail. You're going to jail. Going to jail. Right. You're at a minimum. You're gonna be processed. Why did you do this? Who are you? What are you going through? And then the next thing is going to be there are gonna be at least two charges. Alright. One's disorderly conduct. And then the other one is disturbing the peace. Right? You're you're at a minimum. There's two charges that you're gonna you're gonna replace. And and to the fact that none of that has happened yet. Well, that the the fact is in in what Americans should be paying attention to is the distinct difference in treatment between them and a representative. How and when did these people become untouchable? They didn't. They didn't. Oh, but they have. But but they there's no there's the only person stopping enforcement is themselves. And when did they become the policing body? Right? I think it happened whenever they started making rules for themselves, retirement pay, whatever the case may be. Not following the rules as it relates to investments or anything else. And it, and it's just a slippery slope and they have fallen all the way off. And so, there we're seeing example after example where representatives and senators stepping out of line and nobody's holding him accountable. We can get into a whole another conversation about senators. One in particular comes to mind that that has completely gone against any of all of his campaign promises. And we can get into that later.
