My generation broke almost every institution they were supposed to believe in. The government. The media. Science. Our schools. We didn't do a good job, and I think we owe them the truth about it.

So that's what this show is. No agenda. Nobody telling you who to vote for. Just what I know after 53 years in law enforcement and a lot of years traveling and listening to people smarter than me.

Today I get into guns, and I say some things you probably haven't heard. I get into immigration and the numbers nobody reports. And I get into the cameras and the technology that are watching all of us right now.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why banning guns misses the actual problem, and what we screen for instead
• The immigration number that's bigger than the border, and why nobody says it out loud
• What happens when police get a tool with no controls on it... and 24 officers found out

If you want more conversations like this one, follow the show.

Chapters:

00:00 The truth, with no agenda
 00:23 Who I am and why I'm back
 00:45 An apology to our children
 09:35 What we let in and couldn't check
 11:08 If you're alive in five years
 15:25 We handed our kids a screen and called it parenting
 16:32 Guns, and what I actually believe
 18:08 Nobody knows how many guns we have
 21:18 The only thing a background check tells you
 25:35 I asked gun owners to give something up
 27:36 The border number nobody reports
 30:19 Was this the vision?
 31:28 Take my fingerprints. Take my DNA.
 33:21 The cameras, and the 24 who abused them
 37:03 Overpopulated and undercounted
 38:48 Love your children more than your politics

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