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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think it is that the geeks shall inherit the earth,
not the meek. This is a glorious time, you know,
the old kind of jab learned to code that the
left would throw at people when they would lose their
jobs as a coal miner, Well, learn to code. My
late brother's son, Braden is a computer programmer, and I
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don't know where that came from, because we are a
family full of cops and plant workers, with one talk
show host, nobody in our family. We can barely turn
a computer on, much less code and program. But he does,
and I love it. Well, this is such a glorious time.
The mindset of America is accountability and transparency. We know
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that there is behind the curtain this wizard, and we
don't know what that wizard is, and we know we're
pouring all our money in and nuns coming back. But
how on earth do we solve this problem? It's intransigent,
it's too complex to ever solve. We've heard that, right,
And yet here comes along Elon, who's somewhere on the
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autism scale, pure genius in a way that I can
hardly comprehend. His reasoning skills, his ability to process things
on a multiplanetary level, and he brings within these young,
really smart guys and they start tearing apart the details
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and going, here's your waste, and here's your waste, and
here's your waste. Well, one of the names that has
come to my attention because of Elon is on Twitter
and the handle is data Republican and she says republican
with a small R, as in a person who believes
in the republic, the style of government representative government. And
so I started reading everything that was said. I noticed
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how many people were quoting this very influential woman, and
so I reached out by direct message to her and
she said, I'd be glad to do it, but I
need you to talk to my guy, and that's Sean Hendricks,
because I need a translator when we do the interview.
So Sean came on and I said, well, can we
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talk to you first? And why do we need a translator?
Does she not speak? And he said, oh, she's deaf
and mute, And I thought, wow, it's you know, you
hear these stories ramon people that don't have sight, so
they have extra you know, they can hear better. It's
like you have a heightened sense. But anyway, I think
it's an inspirational story in addition to everything else. Sean
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Hendricks is our guest, and I appreciate you making yourself
available to us.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Good sir, No, absolutely, thanks for having us on. It's
always great to get outside the X space and talk
about this on a broader platform so people are aware.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, I told you before we started. I don't normally
prep guests, but I did Sean because I knew he
probably didn't know much about us. Is that a lot
of national talk shows do their show as if everybody
is on Twitter all day long and knows what the
top story is. I do our show so that the
guy that gets out of the plant on his drive
home can understand what we're talking about. So if there's
an acronym, I explain it. And I want to first
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talk about who Data Republican is, and then we're going
to get to you and what Data Republican is doing.
That came to the attention of Elon that's been so
important to these numbers we're bandying about about government corruption.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, she's she was just well, she was one of
my early followers when I was doing Western North Carolina
disaster relief and that's how we connected. And she was basically,
you know, you said learn to code, it goes beyond that.
You have to learn to build. Like there's a you know,
AI can code, but it's like really knowing what you're
building is what matters. And that's what she did. She's
a tool builder, and so she's an old colonel database engineer,
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but she's taken to building tools that parse all this
data and present it in a way that the regular
person can look and see how the money flows. And
I guess, you know, we just didn't realize how much
we needed and wanted that, And now that it's out there,
people are just blown away at how much money is
moving into these mysterious areas that no one has representation
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of or transparency through.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So let's talk about those tools and explain those tools
to those of us who are not computer programmers and
not real tech savvy. Why are those tools important.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, she's taken like one point eight terabytes of publicly
available data and put it into the front end. It's
on a website called datarepublican dot com, so you can
go in and type in an officer search. You got
some guy who's ranting and raving about Trump shutting down USAID. Well,
funny enough, you type his name into the search and
you see the seven charities that are receiving money from
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USAID that he's a part of. Well, now you can
filter his bias through where he's getting money from and
help understand why this guy's so upset. They used to
hide in the shadows of this stuff, you know, Now
we can go and look, go, well, he's actually tied
to these charities. Where are those charities getting their money from?
So you put their chair already number into the system
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and it shows all the grants coming in and you
can basically do your research to find out these powerful
people where their money's coming from. And then you start
to understand their reasons they make the decisions they're making,
the reasons they're fighting so hard to keep this stuff
quiet because this has been a huge flush fund there.
And it's not Republican and Democrat, it's both right, it's
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not one side of the other. Everyone's had their hand
in this cookie jar. And that's what we're looking to do,
is give people transparency through data, through facts, and that's
something that we've had pulled over our eyes for many,
many years, and with AI and you amazing toolbuilders like data.
We can see this stuff now.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm going to ask some dumb questions because I'm not
afraid to ask dumb questions. The only way I learned anything.
How do you get access to this data? Is this
data now being made available because somebody has to hand
the data set to you to make sense of it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, right, So a lot of this because of how
charities work is transparent. Form nine nineties are kind of
like where you come out in detail, you know what
your charity's doing. I mean, you get a tax exemption,
so there is some transparency that comes along with that.
I can't just set up a nonprofit until the government like, hey,
you can't look inside, right, you know. So there's a
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lot of uh, there's a lot more regulation over a
five o'h one C three, And then we have like
there's donor advised fun I mean, there's just so many
layers to this charity. It's funny. Even before this data
republican thing broke, when I was up in western North Carolina,
I saw so much fraud with the whole charity system.
I used to tell people the only thing I trust
less than the government is charities and then all of
a sudden two three months later. That's why I think
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I've connected so much with her. As she was showing
me why I felt that way. I could feel it.
I just didn't have the data to prove it. But yeah,
this data, these these the IRIS website has a lot
of these data sets available. But unless you can cross
connect all the data, it doesn't really mean anything. If
I look at the you know, Kaiser Foundation health Plan Incorporated,
and I see that it received eighty two million or
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eighty two billion, sorry, eighty two billion dollars, right, what
does that mean? Then we go through and we parse
it out and see that actually only eleven million of
that was taxpayer funds, But it was eleven million of
taxpayer funds? Why did taxpayer money go there? So you
can start to dig in and and again, data does
not mean a conviction, right, doesn't mean to have eleven
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millions are bad? Right? It could have been a very
good reason we sent that money there. And we've had
people use this and say, look at Kayser, they're stealing
money from the taxpayer. No, no, you've got to dig
deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But Sean, what we were doing before you guys, is
We were sitting back and going, wait a second, how
do they drive a rolls Royce when they're a nonprofit
And he says he only makes any time. We had
no tools. You talk about a tool. We had not
tools to do these things with.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Hold with me.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
His name, if you're on Twitter, is sewn at Sean
Hendricks and that's the Rix Shaw Hendrick. She is Data
Republican and you can find them at datarepublican dot com.
You can sign up to subscribe for three bucks a
month and you get all their stuff. I did Data
Republican dot com. He's Sean Hendrix. More with him.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He just shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I have never met someone so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I call him Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
John Hendrich is our guests. He's with Data Republican dot
com and they are taking data of your money, your
taxpayer dollars, and where it's going. And they are contributing
to this whole overall transparency that Elon Musk has ushered
in through Doge and Elon and many others have been
very complementary of the work these folks are doing at
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Data Republican dot com. These are number cruncher, computer genius
kind of people genius for me. They may not like
that title, but for me, it is sean when you
talk about this data from which you're pulling all the
you know, you're making sense of it and analyzing it
for us. Was that data available before or has something
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happened with Trump that this was now the doors were
open and they go come in here and take a look.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, I'm not quite sure how long Form nine
nineties have been public. You know, I just know that
as a taxes empt organization, your Form nine ninety is
public disclosure and it's available. I mean, as far as
I know, it's always been that way. And so yeah,
the data is there, just there was no tool, right,
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No one had sat down and built this tool. And
you know, with I think what happens is like, until
there's a problem, you don't need you don't know, you
don't know that you need a tool, right, And so
we see there's a problem, we see that there's mass
spending that with no direction and no transparency, and so
she's like, well, we need a tool for this, and
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when she started building it, it just you know, I
when you invent something, you know there's there's two ways
it can go. Nobody wants that invention or everybody wants it, it
seems like right and just people wanted to know where
their money's going. And I think we're all so tired
of paying a premium on groceries, a premium on fuel,
property taxes, income taxes, you know, death tap. I mean,
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it just goes on and on and on. All our
money goes out and we don't get much for it,
feels like. And so now there's a tool to go
see where is our money going, especially in this nine
to ninety world. And I think the biggest thing was
that if the charity system hadn't been used to move
so much cash around, there had been no need for
a tool. But that's the fact that it hadn't been
us ad. We're talking just an unimaginable amount of cash
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that's being moved around and there's no way to sort
it out with some kind of very very elegant tool.
And that's what she but what she created, that's why
she's become so popular.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, because you know, if you can't if you've got
this amazing uranium but you can't refine it, or you've
got oil reserves, but you can't pull it out of
the earth. It's worth nothing to anyone. But now it's
worth things because we can We can write stories about it,
I can do shows about it. But I could have
never We couldn't make sense of any of this. We
wouldn't have even really known it that it existed. Sean
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Hendricks is our guest data Republican dot com. Sewan, you
use the term that these supposed nonprofits, these NGOs are
moving cash around so much that makes it harder to understand.
Do you get the sense that the moving of cash
in this way is an attempt to launder or obscure
or what? Do you think the reasoning for that is
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to the extent you can tell.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I want to be I want to be careful to
allege right. What I can say is how they do
it gives the outcome of obscuring and confusing the data. Right,
This stuff goes overseas and we lose track of it.
It goes from company to company. It's harder to track. Now.
I can't speak to intention because I don't have you know,
I can't prove somebody's intention. What I can say is,
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are actions one to one hundred percent make it very
hard to track where the money goes. Now, whether that's
intentional or not, I can't speak to that, and that
will come in time. We will start to find out
the intentionality behind it as we start finding people, and
it's real easy for us. They make it very easy.
Those who are screaming the loudest, we just go look
into them and it's like almost every time, you know,
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you know, the senators are screaming the loudest. I went
and looked. Every one of them had voted from the
OMNIUMUS Spending Bill of twenty twenty four that funded this
US eight right, So when you find the person squeaking,
it's they had a piece of it going, you know.
Now again, it's kind.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Of funny because we always said in the country the
hit dogs squeels first. It's kind of funny because they're
drawing attention to themselves by the fact that they're screaming
about it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh yeah, every time they get into a beef with
Elon or jd. Vance. As soon as I see it,
I'm like straight into the engine. I start pumping names in.
We start doing research and lo and behold, you're tied
to six or seven different things. No wonder you're screaming
because you're you're gravy train's about to get cut off,
you know. And so yeah, I mean it's almost too
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much to process and just give an idea. In the
charity funding tab we have one hundred and fifty six
thousand different funds totaling seven hundred and twenty three billion dollars,
with three hundred and fourteen billion being government grants. Right,
so we're talking three hundred and twenty two billion dollars
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of total taxpayer money that's being moved around. It's wild.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I mean, this is an amount of money that exceeds that.
This is more than double what we sent to Ukraine.
You could fight an entire world, an entire war with
a major military superpower for the kind of money we're
talking about here.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh yeah, I mean this is this is unimaginable amount
of dollars. And we wonder why everything's so expensive. I mean,
gold right now surging to three thousand dollars an ounce.
You're we're printing money and just pumping it into the globe.
Of course, everything's expensive. What do you expect when you
do that stuff? But this is just a small piece
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of it. I think the next four years. I think
we're going to be awestruck at what we find what
our budget really looks like. And I hear people say
all the time, Oh well, I mean, even if you
took the stuff that we have to pay for, it
wouldn't put us in a deficit. And it's like somehow
that that's good enough reason just to stay in debt forever.
Imagine I told my wife, well, I can't make enough
money to payunt the credit cards, so please keep spending
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as much as you want on the credit cards. They
don't live in the real world like we do. And
now we can use this data to hold our politicians accountable.
We should fire our politicians for not balancing our budget.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's it's staggering. You know what's amazing is we're a
month into the Trump presidency and we've already discovered all
of these amazing things. And you guys are just getting
better by the day. You're just now getting your feed
wet to figure out how to dive into these data sets,
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and you're going to notice the things at their coding.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I saw the other day that Elon was talking about
the fact that they had the Social Security Administration had
some some millions of people who had as their death
date false so they can never die. So you've got
millions of people who could who are supposedly one hundred
and fifty years old getting a Social Security check and
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of course that doesn't exist. That means it's a check
going to some conspiracy ring, some fraud ring. Once these
things become clear, we're going to understand that we shouldn't
even be running a deficit as a country. It is
absurd that we would even be running a deficit as
a country when you consider the work you guys are
doing and all the dollars that are exposed. In just
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a moment, we will continue with Sean Hendrix. The website
is data Republican dot com. It's three bucks a month
to subscribe. I encourage you to do it only because
I did, and I like to support the work of
folks like this. Sean Hendricks is not the Data Republican.
That is a woman with whom we will also be
speaking in the near future through a translator. Sean Hendrix
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is part of her group and was willing to speak
to us today. And I am so excited about what
they're doing because I think this is how you bring
real change. I think this is how you make things
in a bite sized manner, in a way that it's
accessible to the general public, to people that don't turn
on computers. Oh that's where all my money's going. Okay,
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now I can be enraged. This is how you message
a campaign strategically to win, and that I find to
be very excited. And when I don't mean elections, I
mean fixing our daddumb country. I have kids. John Hendrix
is our guest Data Republican dot com. More coming up,
we're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The Gulf of michael Berry, which as a beautiful way.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
John Hendrix is our guest Data Republican dot com. This
this is a small group that Elon Musk has been
talking a lot about the great work that they're doing
and exposing the governmental fraud and waste. Sean, I don't
know if you have a list in front of you
or if there are a few that come to mind,
But when you look at the waste and fraud allegedly
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that you guys have exposed, were there some things that
jumped out at you that really seemed more egregious than
the rest.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know, I'm going to turn the Social Security thing
on its head a little bit. And also, real quick,
the data Republican site is free, you can. We're subscription
paid for, so if you donate, that's great. We don't
want to pay all this data. We want everyone to
have access to it, but we are donation driven, So
I do appreciate you putting that out there. The thing
on the social Security side, the thing that struck me
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this morning when I was looking through it is, yeah,
we talk about the money, but social Security numbers vote right?
What if? And this is I'm just theorizing here, but like,
that's a lot of people still on a voter record.
If they're alive in the social security system, are they
still alive in the voter roles? I mean that's managed
state by state, And so I want to dig deeper
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and go buy the voter registration information from a state
and then go compare it to whatever we can find
on this this you know, death false flag on the
social Security numbers. Maybe it's bigger than just money. You know,
we always you know, the old joke is my dad,
my granddad voted Republican up until the day he died,
and he voted a democratic over sense, you know. So,
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but I want to dig into that because like sometimes
we're focused on the money, and it's like, well, what
is the bigger what's the bigger purpose behind the money?
What are they doing with the money? And that's the
thing we really find out that it has a lot
to do with uniparty and this idea of democracy. Right,
these people on both sides, this uniparty believes without them
sitting in the ivory tower guiding our lives and making
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our decisions, that the Western world would collapse without the
genius of these these government workers, right. I mean, they've
put themselves in a ruling class of truly, ruly elite,
and that money is to prop up that ideology. And
so it's yeah, sure it's a waste of money, but
even worse, it's paying for bad ideologies across the globe.
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And you know, now we're seeing the damage of it,
we are.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And and you know, I think part of why these
things are allowed to happen is because this information is obfuscated,
This information is withheld, It stays behind the curtain. The
public doesn't know, and so what we don't see in
front of us, we can't concentrate on so we tend
to focus instead on congressional sex scandals on you know,
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who said a nasty thing to the other, and it
keeps us spatting with each other when what really matters
is the dollars and cents that we're wasting and the
problems that aren't being solved. Sean, when you look at
where Data Republican is going and this in this very
brief period of time, is this burst of popularity and
celebrity to some extent on Twitter? For sure? What do
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you see as being the future for her and you
and all of this, because there is a lot to
a lot of work to be done here. Do you
see yourself joining dose? Do you see yourself becoming an
official organization or have you even thought about that?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, we did talk about that, and I think staying
independent makes the most sense. There's a lot of politics
with DOOSE, and you know it's ran by people who
are in the Trump administration, and you know, for us,
we want to look at this holistically. I want to
be able to look and not have to worry about
if there's a D and R next to the person
that we're finding data on. And so we definitely, we
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definitely had that conversation about staying independent. Now are we
here to help? Absolutely, But the independent part I think
gives us more flexibility to focus. I mean I literally
messaged her two days ago, was like, hey, look, I
need a tool where I can do a bulk INNGO
officer search. And like the next morning she's like, it's done.
You know, there's no approvals, there's no you know, board
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of directors. It's it's like, we find it valuable, we
jump on it, and we get it done amazingly, just
amazing speed. And so I love that flexibility and I
love not being tied to a certain political party or another.
The goal is for all Americans to have access to
where their money is going, and we'll just keep building
tools as problems arise. That's the future and that's the goal,
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is just to keep serving the American people by giving
them transparency through data.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
What kind of feedback have you received? I mean, obviously
I sent a nice message to Data Republican herself that
this is fantastic, and Elon has said you're great, and
Charlie Kirkis said you're great, and a lot of a
lot of Twitter fhows. What kind of feedback are you
getting in terms of hate or pushback or criticism, and
what is that criticism.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, the biggest criticism is that we're causing people to
lose jobs. Right. You know a lot of these a
lot of this money was propping up, you know, these
businesses that you know, even like popping up media companies,
you know, political was taking. That's going to get blows
my mind the most. How much money political not political,
but media companies were getting like political, like why are
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they getting these huge subscription numbers? And so one of
the one of the criticisms, oh you're costing jobs. Well
I'm sorry, but when the government decided to shut the
country down for COVID, I lost my job, you know
what I mean, Like nobody cried about it. Then it's
just part of how it works. If it's if it's
not an effective part of government, it's got to go.
And I know that sucks for the family, and I
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know that sucks with the person that's that's there and working.
But this isn't a charity. Our government is not a charity,
and we got to get away from that mindset. It
needs to be efficient, and it needs to servetive people,
and it needs to steward our money well, or will
stop trusting him with it. You know that the government
needs to fear the people again, and they don't. They
just they just pillage and pillage and pillage with no
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end in sight. And you know, I hope we can
keep moving that ball forward.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Sean, I am. I'm so impressed with you, guys. There's
so much talent in this country. There's so much incredible
talent on the sidelines in this country that if we
call it to bear. You know, you see these nations
that rise up and fight off an imperialist country or
fight off their enemy, and everyone pitches in, you know,
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the World War two, Rosie the Riveter. I see this
mindset of people like you. You know, you got your background,
mister beast. Who would have guessed, I mean, and I
don't know data Republicans background, but obviously she's brilliant. I
see these people, everybody kind of pitching in in a
sort of altruistic way that says, hey, let's fix our country, guys.
And I got it. I mean it's a little corny
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and a little hokey maybe that I feel this way,
but it really inspires me. It does. And by that
I mean to say thank you for the great work
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Absolutely, I think, like a lot of people, I just
wanted to be left alone. And we realized after the
Hurricane Helene storm that we had to step back in
the people who want to be left low and have
to enter the chat. And you know, even I knew
that being political is a risk, and I even told
my family, Look, I'd rather lose my job than lose
my country. And so you know, about four months ago
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I became political in the sense of getting active and
making sure that our government's doing what it's supposed to
be doing. And that shouldn't be that shouldn't be controversial.
We should all be active. We should be going under
our local city council meetings, see what these people are doing,
hold them accountable. And that's the big thing with Data
Republican is we're giving people a tool to see that.
But you need to go on your local level, hold
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your local politicians accountable, hold your state accountable. They're all
wasting your money without a doubt, you know. Go look
at the things or spending. Go to the budget meetings,
ask for a copy of the budget and throw it
into AI, take it, cut, paste it into gross and
have it, break down what they're spending your city budget
on and make sure it makes sense. And if it doesn't,
make it known it. It takes everyone being involved. The
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reason we got to where we're at is because we
all turned our head and just focused on us and said,
I'm sure they've got it. And we turned around decades
later and went, oh, my god, they don't got it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
They've been self dealing. John Hendricks, you are awesome. Will
be in touch. Keep up the great work, my man.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Thank you so much. We's been little man.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Elsne left for Bill, Thank you, and good night
I think it is that the geeks shall inherit the earth,
not the meek. This is a glorious time, you know,
the old kind of jab learned to code that the
left would throw at people when they would lose their
jobs as a coal miner, Well, learn to code. My
late brother's son, Braden is a computer programmer, and I
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don't know where that came from, because we are a
family full of cops and plant workers, with one talk
show host, nobody in our family. We can barely turn
a computer on, much less code and program. But he does,
and I love it. Well, this is such a glorious time.
The mindset of America is accountability and transparency. We know
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that there is behind the curtain this wizard, and we
don't know what that wizard is, and we know we're
pouring all our money in and nuns coming back. But
how on earth do we solve this problem? It's intransigent,
it's too complex to ever solve. We've heard that, right,
And yet here comes along Elon, who's somewhere on the
(01:08):
autism scale, pure genius in a way that I can
hardly comprehend. His reasoning skills, his ability to process things
on a multiplanetary level, and he brings within these young,
really smart guys and they start tearing apart the details
(01:29):
and going, here's your waste, and here's your waste, and
here's your waste. Well, one of the names that has
come to my attention because of Elon is on Twitter
and the handle is data Republican and she says republican
with a small R, as in a person who believes
in the republic, the style of government representative government. And
so I started reading everything that was said. I noticed
(01:51):
how many people were quoting this very influential woman, and
so I reached out by direct message to her and
she said, I'd be glad to do it, but I
need you to talk to my guy, and that's Sean Hendricks,
because I need a translator when we do the interview.
So Sean came on and I said, well, can we
(02:11):
talk to you first? And why do we need a translator?
Does she not speak? And he said, oh, she's deaf
and mute, And I thought, wow, it's you know, you
hear these stories ramon people that don't have sight, so
they have extra you know, they can hear better. It's
like you have a heightened sense. But anyway, I think
it's an inspirational story in addition to everything else. Sean
(02:32):
Hendricks is our guest, and I appreciate you making yourself
available to us.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Good sir, No, absolutely, thanks for having us on. It's
always great to get outside the X space and talk
about this on a broader platform so people are aware.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, I told you before we started. I don't normally
prep guests, but I did Sean because I knew he
probably didn't know much about us. Is that a lot
of national talk shows do their show as if everybody
is on Twitter all day long and knows what the
top story is. I do our show so that the
guy that gets out of the plant on his drive
home can understand what we're talking about. So if there's
an acronym, I explain it. And I want to first
(03:06):
talk about who Data Republican is, and then we're going
to get to you and what Data Republican is doing.
That came to the attention of Elon that's been so
important to these numbers we're bandying about about government corruption.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, she's she was just well, she was one of
my early followers when I was doing Western North Carolina
disaster relief and that's how we connected. And she was basically,
you know, you said learn to code, it goes beyond that.
You have to learn to build. Like there's a you know,
AI can code, but it's like really knowing what you're
building is what matters. And that's what she did. She's
a tool builder, and so she's an old colonel database engineer,
(03:43):
but she's taken to building tools that parse all this
data and present it in a way that the regular
person can look and see how the money flows. And
I guess, you know, we just didn't realize how much
we needed and wanted that, And now that it's out there,
people are just blown away at how much money is
moving into these mysterious areas that no one has representation
(04:04):
of or transparency through.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So let's talk about those tools and explain those tools
to those of us who are not computer programmers and
not real tech savvy. Why are those tools important.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, she's taken like one point eight terabytes of publicly
available data and put it into the front end. It's
on a website called datarepublican dot com, so you can
go in and type in an officer search. You got
some guy who's ranting and raving about Trump shutting down USAID. Well,
funny enough, you type his name into the search and
you see the seven charities that are receiving money from
(04:41):
USAID that he's a part of. Well, now you can
filter his bias through where he's getting money from and
help understand why this guy's so upset. They used to
hide in the shadows of this stuff, you know, Now
we can go and look, go, well, he's actually tied
to these charities. Where are those charities getting their money from?
So you put their chair already number into the system
(05:01):
and it shows all the grants coming in and you
can basically do your research to find out these powerful
people where their money's coming from. And then you start
to understand their reasons they make the decisions they're making,
the reasons they're fighting so hard to keep this stuff
quiet because this has been a huge flush fund there.
And it's not Republican and Democrat, it's both right, it's
(05:23):
not one side of the other. Everyone's had their hand
in this cookie jar. And that's what we're looking to do,
is give people transparency through data, through facts, and that's
something that we've had pulled over our eyes for many,
many years, and with AI and you amazing toolbuilders like data.
We can see this stuff now.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm going to ask some dumb questions because I'm not
afraid to ask dumb questions. The only way I learned anything.
How do you get access to this data? Is this
data now being made available because somebody has to hand
the data set to you to make sense of it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, right, So a lot of this because of how
charities work is transparent. Form nine nineties are kind of
like where you come out in detail, you know what
your charity's doing. I mean, you get a tax exemption,
so there is some transparency that comes along with that.
I can't just set up a nonprofit until the government like, hey,
you can't look inside, right, you know. So there's a
(06:16):
lot of uh, there's a lot more regulation over a
five o'h one C three, And then we have like
there's donor advised fun I mean, there's just so many
layers to this charity. It's funny. Even before this data
republican thing broke, when I was up in western North Carolina,
I saw so much fraud with the whole charity system.
I used to tell people the only thing I trust
less than the government is charities and then all of
a sudden two three months later. That's why I think
(06:39):
I've connected so much with her. As she was showing
me why I felt that way. I could feel it.
I just didn't have the data to prove it. But yeah,
this data, these these the IRIS website has a lot
of these data sets available. But unless you can cross
connect all the data, it doesn't really mean anything. If
I look at the you know, Kaiser Foundation health Plan Incorporated,
and I see that it received eighty two million or
(07:00):
eighty two billion, sorry, eighty two billion dollars, right, what
does that mean? Then we go through and we parse
it out and see that actually only eleven million of
that was taxpayer funds, But it was eleven million of
taxpayer funds? Why did taxpayer money go there? So you
can start to dig in and and again, data does
not mean a conviction, right, doesn't mean to have eleven
(07:21):
millions are bad? Right? It could have been a very
good reason we sent that money there. And we've had
people use this and say, look at Kayser, they're stealing
money from the taxpayer. No, no, you've got to dig
deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But Sean, what we were doing before you guys, is
We were sitting back and going, wait a second, how
do they drive a rolls Royce when they're a nonprofit
And he says he only makes any time. We had
no tools. You talk about a tool. We had not
tools to do these things with.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Hold with me.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
His name, if you're on Twitter, is sewn at Sean
Hendricks and that's the Rix Shaw Hendrick. She is Data
Republican and you can find them at datarepublican dot com.
You can sign up to subscribe for three bucks a
month and you get all their stuff. I did Data
Republican dot com. He's Sean Hendrix. More with him.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He just shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I have never met someone so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I call him Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
John Hendrich is our guests. He's with Data Republican dot
com and they are taking data of your money, your
taxpayer dollars, and where it's going. And they are contributing
to this whole overall transparency that Elon Musk has ushered
in through Doge and Elon and many others have been
very complementary of the work these folks are doing at
(08:36):
Data Republican dot com. These are number cruncher, computer genius
kind of people genius for me. They may not like
that title, but for me, it is sean when you
talk about this data from which you're pulling all the
you know, you're making sense of it and analyzing it
for us. Was that data available before or has something
(08:57):
happened with Trump that this was now the doors were
open and they go come in here and take a look.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, I'm not quite sure how long Form nine
nineties have been public. You know, I just know that
as a taxes empt organization, your Form nine ninety is
public disclosure and it's available. I mean, as far as
I know, it's always been that way. And so yeah,
the data is there, just there was no tool, right,
(09:24):
No one had sat down and built this tool. And
you know, with I think what happens is like, until
there's a problem, you don't need you don't know, you
don't know that you need a tool, right, And so
we see there's a problem, we see that there's mass
spending that with no direction and no transparency, and so
she's like, well, we need a tool for this, and
(09:44):
when she started building it, it just you know, I
when you invent something, you know there's there's two ways
it can go. Nobody wants that invention or everybody wants it, it
seems like right and just people wanted to know where
their money's going. And I think we're all so tired
of paying a premium on groceries, a premium on fuel,
property taxes, income taxes, you know, death tap. I mean,
(10:06):
it just goes on and on and on. All our
money goes out and we don't get much for it,
feels like. And so now there's a tool to go
see where is our money going, especially in this nine
to ninety world. And I think the biggest thing was
that if the charity system hadn't been used to move
so much cash around, there had been no need for
a tool. But that's the fact that it hadn't been
us ad. We're talking just an unimaginable amount of cash
(10:31):
that's being moved around and there's no way to sort
it out with some kind of very very elegant tool.
And that's what she but what she created, that's why
she's become so popular.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, because you know, if you can't if you've got
this amazing uranium but you can't refine it, or you've
got oil reserves, but you can't pull it out of
the earth. It's worth nothing to anyone. But now it's
worth things because we can We can write stories about it,
I can do shows about it. But I could have
never We couldn't make sense of any of this. We
wouldn't have even really known it that it existed. Sean
(11:04):
Hendricks is our guest data Republican dot com. Sewan, you
use the term that these supposed nonprofits, these NGOs are
moving cash around so much that makes it harder to understand.
Do you get the sense that the moving of cash
in this way is an attempt to launder or obscure
or what? Do you think the reasoning for that is
(11:25):
to the extent you can tell.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I want to be I want to be careful to
allege right. What I can say is how they do
it gives the outcome of obscuring and confusing the data. Right,
This stuff goes overseas and we lose track of it.
It goes from company to company. It's harder to track. Now.
I can't speak to intention because I don't have you know,
I can't prove somebody's intention. What I can say is,
(11:47):
are actions one to one hundred percent make it very
hard to track where the money goes. Now, whether that's
intentional or not, I can't speak to that, and that
will come in time. We will start to find out
the intentionality behind it as we start finding people, and
it's real easy for us. They make it very easy.
Those who are screaming the loudest, we just go look
into them and it's like almost every time, you know,
(12:09):
you know, the senators are screaming the loudest. I went
and looked. Every one of them had voted from the
OMNIUMUS Spending Bill of twenty twenty four that funded this
US eight right, So when you find the person squeaking,
it's they had a piece of it going, you know.
Now again, it's kind.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Of funny because we always said in the country the
hit dogs squeels first. It's kind of funny because they're
drawing attention to themselves by the fact that they're screaming
about it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh yeah, every time they get into a beef with
Elon or jd. Vance. As soon as I see it,
I'm like straight into the engine. I start pumping names in.
We start doing research and lo and behold, you're tied
to six or seven different things. No wonder you're screaming
because you're you're gravy train's about to get cut off,
you know. And so yeah, I mean it's almost too
(12:58):
much to process and just give an idea. In the
charity funding tab we have one hundred and fifty six
thousand different funds totaling seven hundred and twenty three billion dollars,
with three hundred and fourteen billion being government grants. Right,
so we're talking three hundred and twenty two billion dollars
(13:18):
of total taxpayer money that's being moved around. It's wild.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I mean, this is an amount of money that exceeds that.
This is more than double what we sent to Ukraine.
You could fight an entire world, an entire war with
a major military superpower for the kind of money we're
talking about here.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh yeah, I mean this is this is unimaginable amount
of dollars. And we wonder why everything's so expensive. I mean,
gold right now surging to three thousand dollars an ounce.
You're we're printing money and just pumping it into the globe.
Of course, everything's expensive. What do you expect when you
do that stuff? But this is just a small piece
(13:59):
of it. I think the next four years. I think
we're going to be awestruck at what we find what
our budget really looks like. And I hear people say
all the time, Oh well, I mean, even if you
took the stuff that we have to pay for, it
wouldn't put us in a deficit. And it's like somehow
that that's good enough reason just to stay in debt forever.
Imagine I told my wife, well, I can't make enough
money to payunt the credit cards, so please keep spending
(14:21):
as much as you want on the credit cards. They
don't live in the real world like we do. And
now we can use this data to hold our politicians accountable.
We should fire our politicians for not balancing our budget.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's it's staggering. You know what's amazing is we're a
month into the Trump presidency and we've already discovered all
of these amazing things. And you guys are just getting
better by the day. You're just now getting your feed
wet to figure out how to dive into these data sets,
(14:58):
and you're going to notice the things at their coding.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I saw the other day that Elon was talking about
the fact that they had the Social Security Administration had
some some millions of people who had as their death
date false so they can never die. So you've got
millions of people who could who are supposedly one hundred
and fifty years old getting a Social Security check and
(15:21):
of course that doesn't exist. That means it's a check
going to some conspiracy ring, some fraud ring. Once these
things become clear, we're going to understand that we shouldn't
even be running a deficit as a country. It is
absurd that we would even be running a deficit as
a country when you consider the work you guys are
doing and all the dollars that are exposed. In just
(15:44):
a moment, we will continue with Sean Hendrix. The website
is data Republican dot com. It's three bucks a month
to subscribe. I encourage you to do it only because
I did, and I like to support the work of
folks like this. Sean Hendricks is not the Data Republican.
That is a woman with whom we will also be
speaking in the near future through a translator. Sean Hendrix
(16:06):
is part of her group and was willing to speak
to us today. And I am so excited about what
they're doing because I think this is how you bring
real change. I think this is how you make things
in a bite sized manner, in a way that it's
accessible to the general public, to people that don't turn
on computers. Oh that's where all my money's going. Okay,
(16:27):
now I can be enraged. This is how you message
a campaign strategically to win, and that I find to
be very excited. And when I don't mean elections, I
mean fixing our daddumb country. I have kids. John Hendrix
is our guest Data Republican dot com. More coming up,
we're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The Gulf of michael Berry, which as a beautiful way.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
John Hendrix is our guest Data Republican dot com. This
this is a small group that Elon Musk has been
talking a lot about the great work that they're doing
and exposing the governmental fraud and waste. Sean, I don't
know if you have a list in front of you
or if there are a few that come to mind,
But when you look at the waste and fraud allegedly
(17:15):
that you guys have exposed, were there some things that
jumped out at you that really seemed more egregious than
the rest.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know, I'm going to turn the Social Security thing
on its head a little bit. And also, real quick,
the data Republican site is free, you can. We're subscription
paid for, so if you donate, that's great. We don't
want to pay all this data. We want everyone to
have access to it, but we are donation driven, So
I do appreciate you putting that out there. The thing
on the social Security side, the thing that struck me
(17:44):
this morning when I was looking through it is, yeah,
we talk about the money, but social Security numbers vote right?
What if? And this is I'm just theorizing here, but like,
that's a lot of people still on a voter record.
If they're alive in the social security system, are they
still alive in the voter roles? I mean that's managed
state by state, And so I want to dig deeper
(18:05):
and go buy the voter registration information from a state
and then go compare it to whatever we can find
on this this you know, death false flag on the
social Security numbers. Maybe it's bigger than just money. You know,
we always you know, the old joke is my dad,
my granddad voted Republican up until the day he died,
and he voted a democratic over sense, you know. So,
(18:30):
but I want to dig into that because like sometimes
we're focused on the money, and it's like, well, what
is the bigger what's the bigger purpose behind the money?
What are they doing with the money? And that's the
thing we really find out that it has a lot
to do with uniparty and this idea of democracy. Right,
these people on both sides, this uniparty believes without them
sitting in the ivory tower guiding our lives and making
(18:51):
our decisions, that the Western world would collapse without the
genius of these these government workers, right. I mean, they've
put themselves in a ruling class of truly, ruly elite,
and that money is to prop up that ideology. And
so it's yeah, sure it's a waste of money, but
even worse, it's paying for bad ideologies across the globe.
(19:13):
And you know, now we're seeing the damage of it,
we are.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And and you know, I think part of why these
things are allowed to happen is because this information is obfuscated,
This information is withheld, It stays behind the curtain. The
public doesn't know, and so what we don't see in
front of us, we can't concentrate on so we tend
to focus instead on congressional sex scandals on you know,
(19:39):
who said a nasty thing to the other, and it
keeps us spatting with each other when what really matters
is the dollars and cents that we're wasting and the
problems that aren't being solved. Sean, when you look at
where Data Republican is going and this in this very
brief period of time, is this burst of popularity and
celebrity to some extent on Twitter? For sure? What do
(20:00):
you see as being the future for her and you
and all of this, because there is a lot to
a lot of work to be done here. Do you
see yourself joining dose? Do you see yourself becoming an
official organization or have you even thought about that?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, we did talk about that, and I think staying
independent makes the most sense. There's a lot of politics
with DOOSE, and you know it's ran by people who
are in the Trump administration, and you know, for us,
we want to look at this holistically. I want to
be able to look and not have to worry about
if there's a D and R next to the person
that we're finding data on. And so we definitely, we
(20:38):
definitely had that conversation about staying independent. Now are we
here to help? Absolutely, But the independent part I think
gives us more flexibility to focus. I mean I literally
messaged her two days ago, was like, hey, look, I
need a tool where I can do a bulk INNGO
officer search. And like the next morning she's like, it's done.
You know, there's no approvals, there's no you know, board
(20:59):
of directors. It's it's like, we find it valuable, we
jump on it, and we get it done amazingly, just
amazing speed. And so I love that flexibility and I
love not being tied to a certain political party or another.
The goal is for all Americans to have access to
where their money is going, and we'll just keep building
tools as problems arise. That's the future and that's the goal,
(21:22):
is just to keep serving the American people by giving
them transparency through data.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
What kind of feedback have you received? I mean, obviously
I sent a nice message to Data Republican herself that
this is fantastic, and Elon has said you're great, and
Charlie Kirkis said you're great, and a lot of a
lot of Twitter fhows. What kind of feedback are you
getting in terms of hate or pushback or criticism, and
what is that criticism.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, the biggest criticism is that we're causing people to
lose jobs. Right. You know a lot of these a
lot of this money was propping up, you know, these
businesses that you know, even like popping up media companies,
you know, political was taking. That's going to get blows
my mind the most. How much money political not political,
but media companies were getting like political, like why are
(22:08):
they getting these huge subscription numbers? And so one of
the one of the criticisms, oh you're costing jobs. Well
I'm sorry, but when the government decided to shut the
country down for COVID, I lost my job, you know
what I mean, Like nobody cried about it. Then it's
just part of how it works. If it's if it's
not an effective part of government, it's got to go.
And I know that sucks for the family, and I
(22:28):
know that sucks with the person that's that's there and working.
But this isn't a charity. Our government is not a charity,
and we got to get away from that mindset. It
needs to be efficient, and it needs to servetive people,
and it needs to steward our money well, or will
stop trusting him with it. You know that the government
needs to fear the people again, and they don't. They
just they just pillage and pillage and pillage with no
(22:52):
end in sight. And you know, I hope we can
keep moving that ball forward.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Sean, I am. I'm so impressed with you, guys. There's
so much talent in this country. There's so much incredible
talent on the sidelines in this country that if we
call it to bear. You know, you see these nations
that rise up and fight off an imperialist country or
fight off their enemy, and everyone pitches in, you know,
(23:18):
the World War two, Rosie the Riveter. I see this
mindset of people like you. You know, you got your background,
mister beast. Who would have guessed, I mean, and I
don't know data Republicans background, but obviously she's brilliant. I
see these people, everybody kind of pitching in in a
sort of altruistic way that says, hey, let's fix our country, guys.
And I got it. I mean it's a little corny
(23:39):
and a little hokey maybe that I feel this way,
but it really inspires me. It does. And by that
I mean to say thank you for the great work
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Absolutely, I think, like a lot of people, I just
wanted to be left alone. And we realized after the
Hurricane Helene storm that we had to step back in
the people who want to be left low and have
to enter the chat. And you know, even I knew
that being political is a risk, and I even told
my family, Look, I'd rather lose my job than lose
my country. And so you know, about four months ago
(24:11):
I became political in the sense of getting active and
making sure that our government's doing what it's supposed to
be doing. And that shouldn't be that shouldn't be controversial.
We should all be active. We should be going under
our local city council meetings, see what these people are doing,
hold them accountable. And that's the big thing with Data
Republican is we're giving people a tool to see that.
But you need to go on your local level, hold
(24:32):
your local politicians accountable, hold your state accountable. They're all
wasting your money without a doubt, you know. Go look
at the things or spending. Go to the budget meetings,
ask for a copy of the budget and throw it
into AI, take it, cut, paste it into gross and
have it, break down what they're spending your city budget
on and make sure it makes sense. And if it doesn't,
make it known it. It takes everyone being involved. The
(24:55):
reason we got to where we're at is because we
all turned our head and just focused on us and said,
I'm sure they've got it. And we turned around decades
later and went, oh, my god, they don't got it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
They've been self dealing. John Hendricks, you are awesome. Will
be in touch. Keep up the great work, my man.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Thank you so much. We's been little man.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Elsne left for Bill, Thank you, and good night
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