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3 Sep 2025
Off the Rails with Alex Stein and Monty Bennett

Alex Stein has built a reputation as a social media firebrand—whether it’s freestyle rapping at city council meetings or stirring up headlines in Austin, he knows how to grab attention and spark conversation. Monty Bennett, meanwhile, co-founded The Dallas Express with Sarah to cover the stories others weren’t telling, while also leading efforts to make Dallas stronger and better.

In this episode, Alex and Monty join forces for a wide-ranging conversation that spans everything from the cultural impact of the Dallas Cowboys to faith, community, and the future of our city. This is one you won’t want to miss.

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Sarah Zubiate Bennett
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Monty Bennett
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Alex Stein
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02:06
How do Alex and Monty have no shame when it comes to their outspokenness?
08:21
What would change the trajectory of the homeless landscape?
11:27
How does Alex start with a “bit” for a cause?
23:17
What are some of the things that Monty and Alex are working on changing and preventing in the future?
34:18
Monty gets emotional talking about his spiritual beliefs
38:24
Sarah and Monty talk about their network of people who can see into the supernatural
51:19
How do Monty and Alex plan to expand their causes and efforts?
58:50
The Dallas Cowboys are also a major problem in our city…
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00:00
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Hi. I'm Sarah Zubiate Bennett and today's episode of Let's Talk Local is one you won't want to miss. You've heard my husband Monty Bennett on here before but never like this. This time he's joined by none other than social media star Alex Stein. And when you put these two together, the conversation is pure magic. We cover everything from Alex's viral, Doctor Fauci give me that Ouchie video to the supernatural, and even whether the Dallas Cowboys finally winning another Super Bowl could fix half of the world's problems. This episode truly has it all. Stick around for the full ride and don't forget to like and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Thanks for tuning in. Okay. So this is new territory for me. I'm sitting here with two provocateurs essentially.
00:57
Alex Stein
Well, Monty's not as mean, he's provocative.
01:00
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Oh, you have no idea.
01:01
Alex Stein
I know. Trust me. I know. Monty Bennett is a legend. I'm just saying he doesn't wear the tug friendly bathing suit to a city council meeting.
01:07
Alex Stein
Is I think Monty he is a provocateur behind the scenes. He's not public provocateur as I am. I don't think.
01:14
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yes. But
01:15
Monty Bennett
I'm happy to agree with that.
01:16
Alex Stein
Yeah. Trust me. You should. You don't wanna be like me, Monty. I'm I tell I say this all the time, Sarah.
01:21
Alex Stein
I am not a role model like I I'm not somebody to maybe maybe you might wanna be bold like me or unapologetic like me, but really, I'm like Charles Barkley. I'm not I'm not a role model. I do a lot of weird stuff that put myself in danger
01:34
Monty Bennett
What's wrong with Charles Barkley?
01:35
Alex Stein
No. I'm saying he would always say I love Charles Barkley. I'm a huge Charles Barkley fan, but he would always say that. He would say, I'm not a role model, like, he'd get thrown out of a he got arrested for throwing a guy through a plate glass window and got a bunch of kickback for it. He said, listen, I'm Charles Barkley. I'm not a role model. I'm a gambler. I'm an, you know, hall of fame basketball player. So that's kind of like me. I'm not a hall of fame basketball player, but you don't want to emulate me because my path to where I'm at right right now is a bumpy road. And I hope people have a smoother path to success than my path.
02:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Quick question for both of you. What in your lives has given you the fortitude and perhaps just not even the fortitude in conjunction with flat out guts to not care. No shame in many in many of these deliveries?
02:26
Alex Stein
Well, I don't know what Monty is gonna say, but the reason why I am act the way that I act or and I was acting this way a little bit before, but I was, you know, obviously very anti lockdowns. And I don't know if you know this, Monty, but I mean a lot of people do, you know, my mom got COVID, went to the hospital, she's breathing, she's fine. They say, oh, we want to intubate her. And my mom's like, we don't want be intubated. We don't want to be intubated. So then the next day, they make a sign a do not resuscitate DNR. My mom and I are like, This is a second day in there. Then the third day she gets like progressively worse. I find out and I we said this in the beginning, do not give her remdesivir. Do not give her remdesivir. Gave her remdesivir. She died seven days later in my arm.
03:04
Monty Bennett
And and I'm so sorry.
03:06
Alex Stein
And it was so bad. But what I think about every time when I go to a meeting or I go somewhere where I don't, know, there's a lot of things that I do that I don't wanna do, you know, if I really I would like to just vacation all day long, you know, travel if I really could just do what I want. But I do a lot of stuff that I don't wanna do. And I go back and I think about how hard it was to walk in there and, you know, just be in that, you know, the hospital room and everything else seems easy. So
03:29
Alex Stein
For me, it was a really bad thing that motivated me and it realized how finite life is. My mom was 59 and so
03:37
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
She was young.
03:39
Alex Stein
I just it motivated me to like, hey, look, the time, you know, the clock is ticking. I don't have that much time left so I need to go out there and be more bold and it's made me a lot less fearless. So a bad thing, you know, Of you gotta turn into a course.
03:52
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Of course.
03:52
Alex Stein
Terrible thing.
03:54
Monty Bennett
You know, as far as me, I think you just give me too much credit. I did it's not something that, you know, I wake up and say, oh, I have these guts or not guts. It's just, waking up and seeing some things that need to be done, some people that need to be helped, some matters that need some attention, then moving forward. And along the way, there's always persons that don't like it for one reason or the other. What's so interesting is it's so funny when I come across people that hadn't been my fan and some of the things I've tried to do in the city. Every fact they've got is wrong about things I've said or done or whatever. And that tells you a couple of things. One, just how easily all of us can be manipulated by something we hear or said. We take something that someone says as true all the time, even though many times it's not true. And many times, they don't even know it's not true.
04:46
Monty Bennett
They're just repeating something. And the fact that there's probably just some people in there that, for their own reasons, don't want things to change. And you've got to be careful about that. I mean, you look at our homelessness problem, and it's a problem. But sometimes you look at what's going on and you scratch your head and you say, is everyone that's involved in helping this problem trying to solve the problem? Or are some people, some, hopefully a very small minority, making sure the problem's not solved so that they can still get grants and still stay employed and still doing what they're doing? Because in some cases, the ability, inability to solve the problem is so high that you've got to think something else is going on.
05:41
Alex Stein
Well, I have to call you out, Monty. You know you're being naive. You know that you know how bad this homeless industrial complex is and how they benefit from being freaking homeless. And they do these studies where they give them a free home, and and they don't even wanna live in the apartment. So you know there's a whole business behind this that people don't talk about. So I appreciate you bringing it up, but this is like the homeless problem we could fix, but it's a mental health issue because you can even give them all the resources. They give them a free apartment in Seattle. Have or they give them a free tiny home, and they don't even wanna sleep in the tiny home. They wanna sleep on the street. So it's like, we can pour billions of dollars into homelessness. They're not gonna it's not gonna fix the problem. It's just we're gonna make the people that work in the, what I call, the homeless industrial complex. And it sounds crazy, but it's not as crazy as it, you know, just like Monty just said, like, there are people that benefit from people being homeless through, you know, government organizations, through, you know, city funding. So there's a business behind people being homeless and keeping people homeless.
06:33
Monty Bennett
There's that and there's an ideology. It's kind of like when you see, the mayor of Chicago say, you know what? These grocery prices are too high. We're going go open a city owned grocery store. Well, look, everybody in this room, we know that's a disaster before it happens. We know what happens, and it's simple. It's because of how human beings are, and because how they operate, that will never ever be a success ever. Yet, there's a lot of people that think that that could somehow work and therefore pursue it. And will pursue it and will fail over and over and over and over and over again and never learn and keep wanting to take other people's money at the working end of a gun and take it from them and then go pursue these strategies that have never worked, but somehow think that they're going to work. And that is a problem when people are so locked into a way of believing things and aren't willing to say, Okay, this didn't work. Let's try something else.
07:36
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Back to the homelessness bit. I don't think that everyone in the industrial homeless
07:42
Alex Stein
Complex. a
07:44
Alex Stein
There's a lot of industrial complex. Pharmaceutical industrial, anything can have an industrial complex. But yeah.
07:48
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I've interacted with so many of the people in that industry. Some people are genuine
07:53
Alex Stein
Of course.
07:54
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
In their care. Don't know. I can't speak to people's intent. But back to your point
07:59
Monty Bennett
We should run a poll. Aren't we just talking genuine? Yeah.
08:02
Alex Stein
Aren't we genuine?
08:08
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
To your point, it's not working. There's some self serving nature to all humanity unfortunately. But I don't know. I don't know if people are willing to get really honest about it. But is there anything in particular that you both believe would be able to critically change the trajectory of the homelessness landscape?
08:29
Monty Bennett
Well, yes. First I think there's got to be a recognition. And the recognition is what Alex said a couple minutes ago is, many people want to be on the streets. They want to be on the streets. And most of the thoughts don't revolve around it. Like everyone wants to be off the street, that's just not true. If you've ever been to a college dorm where boys live, you can see how we all can live like animals. Yeah. Men can live.
08:57
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Isn't that true?
08:57
Monty Bennett
How many women do you see on the streets? You hardly see any women? No, no, why? Is there is there more discrimination against men in housing than there is against women? I mean, this this whole this whole construct of the reason around homelessness is false. The reason is because women have reasons not to be on the street. First, they're just not as disgusting as men. Men can be animals, but also women can be harmed on streets. They have reasons not to be on the streets. Right? They can have things stolen from them. They can be abused. Men, much less so. So there's a lot more men on the streets. When you see the people on the streets, you see mainly white men and black men. Well, where are the Hispanics? Where are the Indians?
09:40
Alex Stein
You don't really see a lot of Indian homeless guys. Don't see lot of them. That's true. You really don't. And there are lot of them are vets.
09:46
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah, it's true.
09:47
Monty Bennett
There's cultural reasons. There's cultural reasons as part of it. So you have to look at each one of these reasons and say, Okay, why is it culturally Okay, acceptable in this people group and not in this people group? And then start to address that. Why are there men and not women?
10:04
Monty Bennett
And start to address that. And so you have to kind of break it down in kind of this just big general blanket of, well, everyone's a victim, and these people are all victims, and that's it. I can tell you a guy that's doing a lot here in town, and he probably didn't want me to mention his name so that he's associated with me, he's a great guy. His name is Rob Walters. I think you're going to try to get him
10:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah.
10:25
Monty Bennett
Works for one of the preeminent law firms in the world here in town. And he is working hard to bring players together. They've launched a program here over the past couple of months that has really improved homelessness downtown at least. It still has a good bit to go, but it has made some great progress. And the question is, well, why wasn't the city doing this on their own? Right? Why does someone outside have to get involved and do all this? And praise God in heaven that he is. And I hope that his efforts continue to make more and more inroads into the problem. But these are not like Elon Musk trying to fly to Mars. This is not trying to split the atom. These problems are very addressable. But people won't spend the political capital to go solve them for a variety of reasons. And that's that's the shame. That's that's unfortunate because people suffer in the meantime.
11:22
Monty Bennett
But I have a question for our guest. May I ask one question? When you sit and you decide to be really funny about something, if that makes sense, right? I don't have the gift of humor that you've got. And you're gonna go down and you're gonna testify at this hearing right down in Austin. And you take out your pen. Mhmm. And you're about to write down what you're gonna do. How does it start? Where does it come from?
11:51
Alex Stein
That's a great because because I I wanna tell you. So you're bringing up how I recently went to a Texas state hearing and I talked and I made some jokes about how transgenders would be great in the military because, you know, since they have a high suicide rate, we could use them as suicide bombers. It was a joke, but it it it went viral because obviously conservatives were laughing about it. But then the transgender community got in like, this is what they think of us. They want us to suicide bomb them. Obviously, don't want anybody to commit suicide, but that's why that video blew up because it, you know, it hit a nerve. But to your question of the process, so that video went super viral and then a marijuana lobbyist called me and I actually disagree. I I do want them to ban this synthetic marijuana. I think it's really dangerous. I hope Abbott bans it because I think that's worse than the regular marijuana. The synthetic stuff is even worse, believe it or not.
12:35
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I am a huge lover of the hemp drinks.
12:37
Alex Stein
Well see I don't like that. That I've tried the Delta eight and stuff. It makes Well,
12:41
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
it's not Delta eight.
12:42
Alex Stein
Oh, it's not Delta eight.
12:43
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Ones that I have now.
12:44
Monty Bennett
Okay. Well,
12:44
Alex Stein
The regular the ones you get at a dispensary, that I I I have no doubt that is actually safer than a lot of the synthetic stuff that you get like at a gas station. Yeah, but so this this lobbyist firm hit me up and they're like, Alex, give us some ideas. We wanna pay you and I'm like, well, how much do you guys pay? They're like, well, we pay our lobbyists 10 to $50,000. I was like, well, maybe I'm interested. Okay? I'm kind of interested now. So then I start, you know, brainstorming my ideas. So with the marijuana state hearing, it just got passed in the house and now they're gonna have a senate hearing for that potentially this week. And they're like, I always want you to come up with an idea. So my idea for the for this one is I'm going to I have a Hispanic comedian friend because I can't do this. I don't think it'll I might say something, but I'm really more interested in his speech. I have a Hispanic guy. He's a comedian, local guy in Dallas, and he's tatted up. He's from El Salvador. He's a young kid. He's like 21. Nice guy. But I'm gonna have him go to the meeting and I'm gonna have him say that I work for the cartel and then I'm so grateful that you guys are banning this hemp because now my business is gonna go through the roof. Yeah. The more you guys ban stuff, the more money I make. And I I can already tell you that video is gonna blow up. Especially from him. Know, I try to do a dress in a Mexican sombrero or something, know, they would just laugh me. You know, it wouldn't work. But a real Hispanic guy.
13:56
Monty Bennett
I don't know. That'd be funny too.
13:57
Alex Stein
It would be funny. Would I I want See, but but money, I've done this enough where the the the way it hits the best when you go to a public meeting or a government meeting, whatever it is, people have to believe it. If they automatically you're in a banana costume or something like, well, this guy's joking. Yeah. You know, already people might laugh, but if they believe it, it it the joke works a lot better if they actually So at first, while they're like, wait a minute, is this happening? Is Is this real? That's the way you hook her in. You gotta make them think it's real.
14:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's why it went viral. Yes. I mean, that entire comment because
14:28
Monty Bennett
They said, look, Alex Stein, he's a serious person.
14:29
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah. He's sick. He's demented. Trans people said they're serious. They're calling for our assassination. I said, They took that threat serious. It blew up. And obviously, I wasn't being serious. Don't want anybody to commit suicide, but they took that as gospel, and you know, it it blew up.
14:45
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
What is your kind of your legacy that you're wanting to leave? Because I I see I see so much truth in what you're doing behind the humor.
14:56
Monty Bennett
Mhmm.
14:56
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I mean, there a lot of power behind what you're doing.
14:59
Alex Stein
But the simple thing I want the simple thing I want is I can't no amount of information can convince an idiot and and and I learned that kind of through COVID and stuff. So I don't even really wanna convince people of my opinion. I I and I'm not just saying this you know to to overgeneralize. I just want people to start asking questions like people aren't asking questions and that's when I started asking. So it's my motivation is I want more people to start asking these questions of why isn't this working?
15:26
Alex Stein
Why is this happening? And I think that that is kind of how we would fully evolve as a society is if we can actually get people interested in finding the truth of what's really going on because there's just so many lies. There's so much government corruption and maybe our government's not as corrupt as some other ones, there's still corruption in our government. And I want people to just ask why is this happening because that's once they get that interest and they want to do their own research and I kind of want to look into making society better, that that's my goal at the end of the day. Just ask what and why everything is going the way it is.
15:57
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I wanna play this. And it's from the Jewish Journal. And it was a it's AI that is reading your kind of whenever you were in scrubs at the
16:11
Alex Stein
That was the first one that I blew up and one thing I want to say earlier. So, Marnie, when you're talking about my my, you know, process, when I first spoke at these meetings, it was during COVID. I spoke serious. Like I said some sarcastic stuff but I was dead serious. They shut down the bathrooms.
16:24
Alex Stein
They shut I I live by Yeah. Was like they shut down the bathroom of Bachman Lake. This is an open air bathroom like how is this you know?
16:32
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
The colostomy
16:33
Alex Stein
The colostomy That's what I'm saying. There's an 80 year old guy Rudy would walk all the time and I'd see him I became Facebook friends with him and like he was 80 and he walks I was like man this guy has so much energy for an 80 year old but you know he had a colostomy bag and I stopped seeing him I messaged him on Facebook I'm like Rudy I never see a balkman leg never see in the morning anymore you okay because it's kind of where he died trying to be you know you know sad or I was like are you okay he's yeah but you know I have the colostomy bag I can't use the bathroom there so I don't walk a block when I just walk in the treadmill in my house and I'm like you gotta be kidding me like this is the
17:05
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Is the treadmill in his house?
17:06
Alex Stein
Yeah I mean I just remember he just said he walked to his house.
17:08
Monty Bennett
Maybe he got one right?
17:09
Alex Stein
Yeah I think he might have got one he said he got a treadmill. And I'm like, that really kind of made me mad because I'm like, 80 year old guy don't even wanna walk. How is this better for our health telling us not to exercise? And so I spoke serious and they they didn't even listen. They could care less, you know.
17:25
Alex Stein
They were obviously gonna shut everything down because they were worried and it didn't have any effect. It just didn't it just didn't hit. And then before the one you're about to play the the transcript from, I had a video where I was when the heartbeat bill passed and and I'm really anti abortion. I understand why somebody might wanna have one. They don't have the money, but I'm really I I do believe that, you know, you're murdering a baby.
17:45
Alex Stein
You know, I I don't know how else to describe it. But they had the heartbeat bill. It just got passed and I went up there and I said because everybody was mad about this heartbeat bill and I and I said, I I'm so mad I was talking to the Dallas City Council that you guys are you know making it abortion so hard I love abortion it's the safest form of
18:03
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah I heard you
18:04
Alex Stein
And I was like you know I'm about to go on a trip to Cancun I got multiple baby mamas, know, I said all this you say, you know, inflammatory things, all this this crazy stuff. And Charlie Kirk shared it and that was one of the first videos I got a million views. I was like, oh, this is what I need to do. This is what I need to do is I need to kind of put a mirror up to the most egregious and craziest things of our society and that is how we bring attention to it. So it shows the absurdity of it. So that motivated me and then I kind of started that process and then that I think it was like of less than a month later I went there in scrubs and that's when like the height of COVID and they're doing all of the vaccine, know, get vaccinated in Fair Park, get vaccinated here. So I went up there and I sing
18:43
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
How did you come up with this?
18:44
Alex Stein
I mean, I just kind of freestyle that I was in.
18:46
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
This was a freestyle?
18:47
Alex Stein
A lot of it was. Yes.
18:49
Monty Bennett
How did you come up with my favorite famous line is, you know, doctor Fauci, give me that Ouchie.
18:53
Alex Stein
I thought of that before. I had that before.
18:57
Monty Bennett
I still remember that.
18:58
Alex Stein
I'm like, doctor Fauci that ouchie.
19:00
Monty Bennett
Everything I'm trying to get something to rhyme with Fauci.
19:02
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That was the one thing that I wanted to have played. Oh my god. It's fine.
19:06
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's fine.
19:06
Alex Stein
It's fine.
19:07
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's fine. It's okay. It's okay. But it was it was hilarious because it was so effective.
19:12
Monty Bennett
Then you had your head back because I remember you dropping something on your face.
19:14
Alex Stein
Yeah. Had to have sanitizer. Hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizer. My god.
19:19
Monty Bennett
But you know what? You're touching on a phenomenon here that is so amazing. How fast so many people in our country went into a maniacal crazed mode regarding these vaccines and these kinds of things. And look, I think we can all understand people are saying, hey, look, these vaccines were even believing that they work. To go to the point where they were willing to commit atrocities on people that didn't believe with them on that.
19:48
Alex Stein
That's right.
19:49
Monty Bennett
How fast that happened. You know what I always wondered, how on earth could Nazi Germany ever happen, right? How could people believe
19:56
Alex Stein
Yeah.
19:56
Monty Bennett
These things that are so terrible
19:58
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Disgusting.
19:59
Monty Bennett
Yeah. And outrageous and just and then commit these atrocities because of these absurdities that they believed. And then I saw COVID and you see how fast people can be told something and believe something. And it's just a huge network of media, many of which I believe are paid by elements of our government in order to push all kinds of profit. Well, it's come out now, right? That's happened a lot, and I'm sure it's still even happening. And you guys heard of this Project Mockingbird, I'm sure, where the CIA
20:30
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah. I think everyone has.
20:32
Alex Stein
Every media wing, yeah.
20:34
Monty Bennett
Yeah. Now I see some articles, Project Mockingbird may not have gone away. Oh, well, no kidding? Duh. You mean they got caught and they said, you know what? We just better stop this. Of course, they don't stop this action.
20:47
Alex Stein
Well, they even have a government liaison for movies. Like, if, you know, they wanna use a a real tank, a military tank that they'll there's a it's like office of governmental military Proprietorship.
20:58
Monty Bennett
Ministry of truth.
20:59
Alex Stein
But there's a liaison where you can get you can actually use real military equipment. And in the movie True Lies, there's a I forget it wasn't James maybe it was James Cameron. I forget the director. But the director said, I wanted to make he wanted to make the terrorists Asian for some reason or Chinese. And he wanted to use real military tanks so that he gives them the script. And they said, oh, well, let's use the tanks. We wanna make one change. We'd like the terrorists to be Muslim fundamentalist terrorists. He said, okay. No problem.
21:25
Alex Stein
If you're gonna let me do this. So the government, that's just a clear example that's out in the open of how they can change stuff. And then this is True Lies and then shortly thereafter, you know, the kind of the war on terror. So I'm just saying that
21:36
Monty Bennett
It makes you think.
21:37
Alex Stein
It makes you think. It it makes you think. It's like It
21:40
Monty Bennett
you think.
21:40
Alex Stein
It kinda they wanna paint a picture of something before it happens whether
21:44
Monty Bennett
What would people do if they had unlimited amount of money and absolute power? What might they do? Well, of course, that's what they have. And human beings are not the best under those circumstances. No.
21:55
Monty Bennett
And and
21:55
Alex Stein
the pandemic how you're saying about the pandemic, I thought that was so weird. How many people didn't want the pandemic to end? That that just liked it because I I was watching this this Instagram video, and it was it was about like financial literacy literacy and they did like a sociological study where they give 200 people $10,000 and and over one year they tracked it and it was like 86% of the people spend it all. It was like I think it was
22:18
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's a high percentage.
22:19
Alex Stein
It was 10% had that or a little bit more, you know, like within $500 either way. And then 4% turned it from anything from 10,000 to a million dollars. So the it's there's a very few people that 4% of the people that kind of remind me the people that are speaking out against COVID. You know what I It it there's only a few people that are willing to kind of be bold and take chances. And during COVID, we learned that a lot of people just wanna follow whatever the government tells them. I hate to describe you guys like this, but they wanted to be sheep. And I just feel like that was a good litmus test for people to see if they really kind of knew what was going on.
22:55
Monty Bennett
A lot of people give their agency. They'll give their their authority to someone else and essentially say, you government in this case. And it's not always just the government, but you government, you get to decide Yeah. Whether I walk outside, or stay inside, or do this, or do that.
23:10
Alex Stein
Whether I travel. I mean, it's so ridiculous.
23:12
Monty Bennett
Yeah, crazy. It was a crazy, crazy time.
23:16
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And now looking forward, because we have a lot of different, I think, politically divisive elements that are very, very active today, what are some of the aspects that you're working in preventing or changing both of you?
23:33
Alex Stein
Well, for me, you know, I I noticed I'm kind of worried after Trump. I'm a little worried about the kind of future of the country. I mean, you know, everybody's like JD Vance and you know, I see Bannon says he's gonna run. Now Gavin Newsom's gonna run. So, yep I don't know I I think Gavin Newsom would be better than Kamala Harris like I think we'll get more votes than her but for me I I think that we go they say the horseshoe theory is like if you're too far right or too far left you kind of end up meeting And I guess I I would just kind of encourage people to be a little more moderate. Not that we shouldn't be more conservative, but I guess just sometimes conservatives we can be a little, you know, we can be a lack of a better word. We can be a to people on the left and vice versa. And I think that we need
24:14
Monty Bennett
It's always a truth. It's always a danger.
24:15
Alex Stein
Yeah. I think we need to kinda just
24:18
Monty Bennett
People dunk, right? They wanna, you know, spike the ball.
24:19
Alex Stein
And both sides do it. So I guess just kind of for me, it's just let's just what is it? Why can't we all be friends and it sounds so cliche.
24:28
Monty Bennett
It's why can't we all get along?
24:29
Alex Stein
Yeah. Why can't we all get along?
24:31
Monty Bennett
You're too young to hear I'm
24:33
Alex Stein
just saying why is it so hard? We really don't hate each other like, you know, they say racism is a real problem but I don't think it's as bad a problem. When you go to the grocery store nobody checking No. Your But I'm saying it exists. Like, it's just how do we how do we cohesively come together as a society?
24:46
Alex Stein
So I would encourage people to be, you know, a little less judgmental. You know, everybody's so judgy in this society.
24:52
Monty Bennett
Yeah. Need to take a deep breath, you know, and relax a little bit. Is what we need to do.
24:56
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Do you think we need to be less judgy, Monty?
24:59
Monty Bennett
I think that's always helpful. I don't hear of any situation where things got better because one party got more judgmental than the others. An interesting dynamic happened that I did not anticipate, and that is that as Trump has done things that are farther right, right? And a lot of things, a lot of people on the right have wanted, right? Bring order to Washington DC. It's an embarrassment to go there and to try to do anything. How is the city of the greatest country on Earth? Can't even walk down the street. And here he rolls us out. He's been doing things like that since he became president here in the second term, especially. But what it has done is it has taken one segment of the Democratic party to such levels of crazy. They cannot stand it. They're just so the the smokes coming out of their ears. They're just so hostile that while it has the effect many times of the the boomerang, you also have a situation where I believe what's happened in Democratic Party is, some splits happening where a good segment of the Democratic Party is saying, look, I'm more for butter than guns. And conservatives are typically more about guns than butter.
26:19
Monty Bennett
And that's a fair debate to have. But wait a minute, we're going to have lawlessness in our streets where people are killed all the time, even though it affects blacks, 10 to one more than whites. We're going to pretend that that's not important. But then if a white person kills a black, then that's the worst thing that happens on planet. But blacks can kill blacks. I mean, it's just all this absurdity that happens. And so the negative reaction to it by this core part of the Democratic Party, I say Democratic Party, those on the far left, they may be part of the Democratic Party or not, is such a reaction and such an overreaction that I think it's pushing away. You even look at the approval in the Democratic Party now of the party leaders. And those big negatives are coming from the people on the far, far, far left because they're furious that their leaders aren't creating counter revolutions, right? Mean, can't.
27:15
Monty Bennett
The president's the president, he's got certain powers, and he exercises those powers. And some of the left are so upset with it, and they want their leaders to lead a physical violent revolution. And of course, that's not going to happen, or if it does, it won't happen for very long. And so it's it's creating a dynamic where you're kinda having a reverse, effect on the reverse effect almost. So I'm interested to see how that all plays out.
27:40
Alex Stein
Well, and to your point though, you know, I love Donald Trump. I love what he's doing. January 6 really helped out. But, you know, this Epstein stuff was up was a very bad, you know, public relations nightmare. And to your point though, now you see the left. Now all of a sudden, they care about Jeffrey Epstein even though Joe Biden was in office for four years. They don't even mention Jeffrey Epstein. They don't mention it. So it just shows you how they can, you know, latch on to one thing and, you know, attack it. And so, obviously, want more transparency. It's probably classified where even the president can't declassify something and, you know, I know that's not gonna make people happy. It doesn't make me happy, but I just to your point that you see that with now all of sudden, the people on the left calling for Epstein transparency, when they were in power for the last four years, they didn't say a peep about it.
28:19
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
What if this is supposed to happen? What if this divisiveness and this
28:23
Alex Stein
Oh, it is.
28:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Pull like full of people
28:25
Alex Stein
Social engineers, this isn't
28:27
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
supposed to happen. Like, literally, like
28:30
Monty Bennett
According to God's plan?
28:31
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
According to yeah. According
28:33
Alex Stein
to But God's but I know
28:35
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But like
28:35
Alex Stein
the social engineers, they want us fighting. They want, you know, blacks versus white, women versus men. Want it.
28:40
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
They want it. They want it.
28:42
Alex Stein
Once work Once we have conflict, then we can actually solve the problems.
28:45
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's exactly right.
28:46
Alex Stein
So that that is all done very strategically to make us fight one another. So that's kind of to my point. It's like we need to stop fighting so much. If we don't get anywhere by fighting, we need to all get along.
28:57
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And it's interesting because I know that you especially use words that are provocative.
29:06
Alex Stein
Inflammatory is inflammatory. Well, I grew up and and this is my thing. It's so sad because this is this is this is you'll kinda learn a lot about my personality. But I used to when I was a kid, I used to love Howard Stern. I used to love the show.
29:19
Alex Stein
Now I hate Howard Stern, but I I was the It's biggest funny. I was the biggest Howard Stern What do you
29:24
Monty Bennett
make of that though that, you know, Howard Stern's gone, and all these others on the left especially seem to be gone. Look, it's not like overnight everyone became a conservative, right? And political change. What do you make of that of and then we see some of these late night TV shows. I love Howard.
29:42
Monty Bennett
Yeah.
29:42
Alex Stein
Well, I'm a diehard Howard Stern. He was on the
29:45
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah, he's funny.
29:46
Alex Stein
But but right when 2016, when Trump started to run for president, this is what made me so mad because I was a big Howard Stern fan. Howard would have Donald Trump on all the time. He would. And and and he would call Thank you. He would call Donald so nice. He said, mister Trump that he would kiss his I mean, mean, more than I'm kissing money, more than I'm kissing my head. He had knee pads on and then all of sudden he runs for president and then he's the worst guy in the world and I saw with my own eyes, I saw those interviews and they were they were legendary interviews. One of them went viral back in the day because Donald Trump said that the Miss America had gained weight and ate her way out of title and that was a huge thing. And he was just stating a fact that she won the thing and then gained 40 pounds. But they were laughing about it. It was a very funny thing. Donald was very self deprecating even in those interviews. He was very open and honest, and they were you could tell that they had, like, a, you know, rapport.
30:35
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Uh-huh.
30:36
Alex Stein
And then all of sudden, he's interviewed in 2016. He's having Hillary Clinton on. He's not asking Hillary Clinton about anything with FC, not asking her any hardball questions about her husband, about Monica. He for for twenty years, he's been talking about Monica Lewinsky. Then he finally gets, you know, Hillary Clinton in there and doesn't even bring up Monica Lewinsky. So that's when I was like, Howard has changed. So I don't know what made him make that change to where he used to be very inflammatory and and that worked for him. And so I've kinda, you know, modeled myself a little bit after that. A little shock jockey. I know that's a little cringe, but I I do think it's effective. It's effective for him. But once he lost that edge, he lost his popularity.
31:11
Monty Bennett
So you think that was it? Do you think it was because he caught TDS and
31:16
Alex Stein
Yeah. He definitely caught TDS, but like I said, these interviews, I can send you the clips. Everybody can go watch them. They're all on YouTube. Mean, they sounded like they were best freaking friends.
31:25
Monty Bennett
I'm sure they were, at least as much as
31:28
Alex Stein
they could be.
31:29
Monty Bennett
They could be friends, right? I don't know if they ran the same circles and everything. And they certainly helped each other and gain popularity and on and on.
31:36
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I think there's something to be said for the fact that he probably was inauthentic. At one point he was probably authentic in that rapport with Trump. And then once the political divide wall kind of came down perhaps that brainwashing of Trump derangement syndrome or whatever happened and allowed his business to kind of fail. I I I don't know.
32:01
Alex Stein
But, Monty, how could a guy with $500,000,000 vote for more taxes? You know? Mean, how could a guy I just don't understand how a guy successful as Howard Stern. And and you know how Richard Stern does every kind of, you know, gimmick to try to pay like I'm just, you know, he moved his house is based in Florida, know, he does every kind of gimmick. So it's funny he he is now a left wing champion for all these causes for your basically socialism when he's the most capitalistic radio You host
32:27
Monty Bennett
grew up there. See that a lot in other places, right? It's the virtue signaling, right? Yes. People love to virtue signal.
32:31
Alex Stein
That's what everybody does.
32:32
Monty Bennett
And you know, say that they're trying to do all this help and get the collapse and then nothing happens.
32:37
Alex Stein
But nobody wants to see a guy virtue signal that you should throw a baloney on stripper's butts. You know I mean? It's true. That's not his job to virtue signal. Somebody else let somebody let the politicians virtue signal.
32:46
Alex Stein
You be Howard Stern and and be a libertarian. Because that's what he used say. Used to say he
32:50
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
was libertarian.
32:52
Alex Stein
That changed.
32:53
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Not libertarian. He said he was a libertarian, I think, in order for me to marry him.
32:57
Alex Stein
Well, I think Monty has a lot of libertarian viewpoints. I do too.
33:00
Monty Bennett
Libertarian libertarian parts of conservatism. Yeah. I've got certain
33:04
Alex Stein
For sure. I just want less government. The federal government gets involved, the local government, it just screws everything up. It screws business, more Even, you know, I was in the car business before, you know, I worked as a producer and
33:13
Monty Bennett
we Oh my gosh. Were you a used car
33:15
Alex Stein
salesman? The biggest
33:18
Monty Bennett
I bet you were good.
33:19
Alex Stein
Oh, I could sell car. I could sell, you know, ice But to an but I was really in the wholesale business, I'd like to buy people's cars. I would fix them up, you know, sell them at the auction or, you know, I'd retail them. But even in the car business, they made it so hard. Of course, illegal immigrants could buy cars. You know, they made it easy for them, but they just the the paperwork and stuff that I had to do as a dealer, they made it just so difficult. And again, I saw it progressive. In the eight years I was selling cars, it got progressively worse. I'm like, gosh.
33:45
Monty Bennett
You know, this is It becomes more difficult to operate a business Yes. Every day and to live your life. Every day. More regulations. Governments is bigger, bigger than it ever is.
33:54
Monty Bennett
It always grows bigger. And we are going to go the direction of just about every empire ever, where we are going to collapse into our own weight
34:02
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Why do you say these things?
34:03
Alex Stein
Well, because every I empire know.
34:05
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But maybe we won't.
34:06
Monty Bennett
I don't know.
34:08
Alex Stein
I don't think saying it makes it more likely to happen. And maybe it encourages people to not. But it it's almost inevitable because every society, you know you know, the the Roman Empire
34:15
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Oh, we know. We we all know history, I think,
34:17
Alex Stein
pretty well.
34:17
Monty Bennett
That's because people get on their knees and pray to God to be better people, to worship God for who he is, and to humble themselves and to try to do right for other people in a selfless way, myself included, not enough. And as a society, we won't do it as enough and we become more entitled. Boy, I mean the entitlement we have. We live in the richest country in the richest times in the history of the world, right? And we are owed this, we deserve that, it's not on.
34:51
Monty Bennett
And then we also build our own government bigger, bigger and give them more and more power for one reason or another. And it's just a formula for disaster. It's been a terrible formula for thousands of years, and it's the same terrible formula. So it's possible that it's not. I mean, there's this whole effort of convention of states you've probably heard about where the states can call the convention.
35:13
Monty Bennett
Mhmm. And in that convention can strip power away from the federal government. I think that may be our only hope all through divine intervention of course. And people recommitting their lives to God and to worshiping God because it's very bad if we don't. And you see that over and over and over again.
35:33
Monty Bennett
I mean, you never see a country where they say, what happened? Well, they really devoted themselves to God. So everything fell apart. Right? You never hear that story.
35:42
Monty Bennett
That never happens. So that's what we need to do. We get these crazy ideas. We get the secularism. We come up with these absurdities, right?
35:51
Monty Bennett
I mean, the whole Soviet Union and these absurdities that they came up with that's for the people and to help everybody, whether they really believed or not, were horrible, right? Every evil deed in the history of the world has come on the backs of, quote, the greater good. Oh, well, this is gonna be for the greater good. Let's go kill all these people. It's just horrible.
36:13
Monty Bennett
Respect people. Love people. Sacrifice yourself for other people. That is what makes a society great. And that's what God asks us to do.
36:23
Monty Bennett
So let's do that. So it won't happen if we do that. So let's hold on.
36:29
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Are you emotional?
36:30
Alex Stein
Yeah. We're getting emotional. Getting emotional about these things.
36:37
Monty Bennett
I mean, it's it's it's a straightforward formula, but boy, do we resist.
36:40
Alex Stein
And and and to everything you said, you know, very eloquently, America is still the greatest country on Earth, and it's still the only country that, you know, a Mexican guy can come over here and and, know, paint houses and become a roofer and become, you know, successful. And the the one thing and the reason why I don't think people are successful here in America is because they're not trying. Because if you actually put in the effort, if you actually, you know, go out there and grind in America, it's almost impossible to not be successful if you put in the work. And that's why our country's is our greatest country on earth.
37:09
Monty Bennett
And we've got lots of problems. But you're right. We can choose to look at the positive or look at the negative. And in many regards, there's some things about this country that are the best of any country in the history of the world. And that should be celebrated, not denigrated, right?
37:25
Monty Bennett
Not pushed against. No, it's not perfect in this. No, it's not perfect in racism or immigration, these kinds of things. But boy, do people have a chance here more so than any other place, any
37:36
Alex Stein
other country, history. That's why they all want to be here.
37:39
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
My gosh that's right. It's my life story. Mean my family comes from nothing, nothing. And the only reason we made successes of ourselves independently is because of our grit and work ethic. And literally it's that.
38:01
Monty Bennett
The countries that won't get you anywhere.
38:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Right. Here at you.
38:05
Alex Stein
That's why an Asian immigrant could come here and be incredibly successful. And that's why they're incredibly successful.
38:10
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Of course.
38:10
Alex Stein
You know, and that's that's why because they have a good culture around it and they're self starter. So anybody can come to this country and be successful if you're willing to work hard.
38:19
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And one last thing that I kind of want to leave with because I saw Mani getting emotional over there. Mani and I are part of a kind of a network of people of believers who I mean are very faith abiding and I want to think that we both are at this point in our lives. But these people can see into the supernatural, one in particular. Like, can see angels, demons, like we see each other here. This person is really profound.
38:54
Alex Stein
You know, there's frequencies that we can't hear with
38:55
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
our ears, that
38:56
Alex Stein
a dog can hear. There's stuff we can't with see our eyes that animals can see. So that means there's stuff around us right now that we can't see anymore.
39:02
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And this person can.
39:04
Alex Stein
Yeah.
39:05
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And they have spoken about the the dark darkness of force of of spirits, demons.
39:13
Alex Stein
The devil's real.
39:14
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Mean, hovering over the city of Dallas. And I mean, it's just insane not to believe the way we do now because we have these people in our lives that are like and the healing that we've both experienced from all of this kind of
39:33
Monty Bennett
Revelation.
39:34
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah, revelation and deliverance. I mean, it is nothing short of a miracle how our lives have been transformed. And the radical aspects of life that people aren't willing to accept when it's right among us at all times.
39:50
Monty Bennett
No. You hit it right. Evil is real. It's real. It's real.
39:54
Monty Bennett
And and a a big problem is that many people won't think that it exists. Yeah. And that's
40:00
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's real.
40:00
Alex Stein
That's even even this sounds even crazy. We can go with that crazy like, there's people in Louisiana went to LSU. I I didn't practice it, like people practicing black magic and some Oh, yes. It's real. People think people think we're joking.
40:12
Alex Stein
And then, you know, there's a guy, you know, Jimmy Seville. He was the he was knighted by the queen. He was, you know, Prince Charles's alleged best friend and he was the host of a show called Top of the Pops. He was a big show in the sixties. And after his death, you know, he he was kind of like a Jeffrey Epstein situation.
40:27
Alex Stein
They found out what he was doing. And listen what he would do. He would go he was a porter at the World Children's Hospital. And they would take bodies out of the morgue. And they would take these bodies on boats.
40:36
Alex Stein
And they would do SRA, satanic ritualistic abuse, where they would do occult practices Of course. To give them power. And these are the most powerful people in the world. That's I'm just saying there is something to that. If you sell your soul to the devil, you might be successful, but that's a real contract you signed to the devil.
40:50
Alex Stein
I know people like to think that that's cliche or that's a joke. It's not a joke. I would not mess with the there's Yeah. There's God is real and the devil is real and and I would not mess around. Like, people might think, oh, you an atheist is gonna listen to this and think we're Looney Tunes, but you're the Looney Tunes because there is a lot of real, metaphysical stuff that we can't see and and that we can't see around us, but it is around us.
41:12
Monty Bennett
Oh,
41:12
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
yeah. Absolutely. I I was in treatment for workaholism and all this stuff for forty days. And I saw a woman's face distorting. No one else could see it.
41:23
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
She was there for suicidal ideations.
41:25
Alex Stein
And
41:26
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I saw her face distorting like the dementors from Harry Potter sucking her face. I called Monty that night and I was like, you need to pray for me. You need to send like absolute protection. Know what I saw. This is happening.
41:41
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's real. Fast forward the next day, I felt put upon me after I slept with my freaking bible over my chest that night. And in this low of my life, I know what I saw. I had just a desire to tell this woman, listen, I know that you're suffering from wanting to kill yourself. It's evil within you.
42:03
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I mean, don't know if you've opened yourself up spiritually to forces that that you are not aware of. And then she tells me, I'm a member of the satanic temple. No. Swear. Wow.
42:18
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's You cannot make this up.
42:20
Alex Stein
That's weird.
42:20
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
First satanist I ever met.
42:22
Monty Bennett
And you didn't even know that.
42:23
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Didn't know.
42:24
Alex Stein
Can feel
42:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
the energy. I believe it. Saw it.
42:26
Alex Stein
Well, we're all energetic beings and and they they say this is woo woo, but it's like, with your high vibrational, you're more positive. For sure. You're gonna be attracted to more, you know, high vibrational people. When you're low vibrational and constantly depressed, you're gonna be attracted to more low Yes. Vibrational people.
42:38
Alex Stein
So you can feel people's energies. That's spooky.
42:41
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's spooky and it's real because I'm not someone who can see everything so clearly, but
42:45
Monty Bennett
And and and there's Oh, it
42:47
Alex Stein
is real.
42:47
Monty Bennett
To Sarah's point It's real. I don't see into the spiritual realm. But there's a number of people, not just this one people she's
42:55
Alex Stein
But, Monty, you don't feel God?
42:56
Monty Bennett
Number of people.
42:57
Alex Stein
You don't you don't
42:57
Monty Bennett
feel God? Oh, I I can feel. I can feel sometimes.
42:59
Alex Stein
I don't see anything, but I can I can like feel God?
43:01
Monty Bennett
But I know some people can see, and they see, and they will describe the same thing that someone else will see that I can't see. And so this whole realm is real, and it exists. And it's not a small number of people Mhmm. That can see into this realm. But Mhmm.
43:20
Monty Bennett
Boy, will our society push that off to the side and try to pretend that that didn't exist.
43:26
Alex Stein
But that's
43:27
Monty Bennett
the number
43:27
Alex Stein
one thing. They wanna push it aside. God. That's I'm just saying that's like the that's where that's kind of the root of all this evil.
43:33
Monty Bennett
That's right.
43:33
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I did not expect this to take this turn.
43:35
Alex Stein
I think I kinda took it I this hear crazy and blue eyeing different, but I But here we go. I I like talking about it, you know. I I do believe in the Bible, like, you know, let's Let's end it on a real conspiracy. I love reading all the conspiracies about Nephilim, the giant
43:48
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Oh my gosh. That's not a conspiracy.
43:50
Alex Stein
That's not a conspiracy.
43:51
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
The Nephilim are real.
43:52
Alex Stein
I know crap. I'm saying, duh, we had giants on earth and why don't we see these bones? So there's a lot they're not telling us about
43:59
Monty Bennett
our origins. Genesis chapter six talks all about the Netflix.
44:02
Alex Stein
David and Goliath. I mean, who's Goliath?
44:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Of course. You
44:04
Alex Stein
know? Of course. Come on. So
44:05
Monty Bennett
And we we've been talking in our family. There's a a a book that didn't make the cut to make the Bible. Mhmm. And it's the
44:12
Alex Stein
book of Enoch.
44:14
Monty Bennett
Yeah. Goes big time into the watchers of the Nephilim and and all these kinds of things. So, yeah.
44:19
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
You're
44:19
Alex Stein
I'm dialed into it. Everybody needs to. I know some of you atheists watching right now are gonna say, at these three, but you guys look into it. I mean, I I really encourage you to do your own research on this. And I know we sound a little weird, but everything we're saying is
44:31
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Maybe we invite Alex to our this weekend. Yeah. Why don't you come to our ranch this weekend?
44:36
Monty Bennett
Yeah. It's getting more weird than than him talking about, you know, people with peacups, you know.
44:41
Alex Stein
Oh, yeah.
44:42
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Thought it was hilarious,
44:43
Monty Bennett
but it's so weird. Right? I mean,
44:45
Alex Stein
it's true. The point I was trying to make It's true. Funny is this asymmetrical problem because really if a trans woman, you know, a woman transitioning to a male walking to the men's bathroom, I wouldn't care.
44:54
Monty Bennett
Yeah. Most guys like whatever.
44:55
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Of course.
44:56
Alex Stein
But it's women having men in dresses Absolutely. That's the problem.
44:59
Monty Bennett
Absolutely. It's big problem. Yeah. And it's it's a danger for women and for girls. Yeah.
45:03
Monty Bennett
And and and just pretend that it's not is absurd. And we need to protect those that are in our society that need protection. Women to a certain extent, and especially children.
45:14
Alex Stein
Yeah.
45:15
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
This and I'm just going to end this one really quick story. There was this woman or man who followed my son into the bathroom at Sebby's. And this man, it was something, I guess vibrational energy, an angel whatever God said get up. I went over to my son because I saw this man following him into the bathroom. And this odd couple, I had watched a series of their exchanges all day, and this one person that we were with who has this ability to see.
45:46
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Anyway, I chased my son over to the bathroom. It was a man in there with him, right? Of course. Yeah. And I said, Lewis, Lewis, are you okay?
45:56
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And the man answered. And he said, he's right here. He's just fine. Lewis told me this man had him in the corner, and he's like, mommy, I don't know what he was gonna do to me. He stopped.
46:09
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
He stopped the second he heard your voice. So Lewis went in there to use the restroom. I guess they were at the urinal urinal. This man kind of corners him. Here's the thing, men are categorically, statistically the people who cause harm.
46:28
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah, woman can't rape her. Exactly.
46:31
Alex Stein
If you
46:31
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
have this happening, of course. And so my son just ran out and he was like, that was a God thing that you came because I don't know what he was going to do. He was terrified.
46:41
Alex Stein
That's weird.
46:42
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And I was like, I will kill him. I carry everywhere I go. I had to get the family out of there, get my friend out of there. And my friend or the person that was with us who has these gifts said, an evil like a dark blob, it doesn't even matter. The evil is out there, yes.
47:02
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But children, women cannot defend themselves against fully grown men on average. Yeah. Are the few that can.
47:12
Monty Bennett
I ask a few women out there, you know, if they carry or so. Why would a woman ever walk around if if I walked around in public and there were people that twice my size that constantly wanted to do harm to me or have sexual relations with me against my will, I'd carry every single day. I wouldn't trust these. Maybe you guys got to get in the head of a man and understand how depraved men are because I would never be out there as a woman without carrying a gun
47:45
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Same.
47:45
Monty Bennett
All the time. Same. Because It's evil. Men are imbued with this aggression that brings about great harm. Right?
47:55
Monty Bennett
And you can see it in the jails. Men aren't discriminated against when it comes to arrests. They commit more crimes.
48:01
Alex Stein
Well, and money somebody Google this real quick. In June, was 200 people were arrested for with child sex trafficking here in Dallas, and it was not even a national story. Was 200 people. They they called it operation It's gonna bug me.
48:15
Monty Bennett
You must have read it on the Dallas Express.
48:16
Alex Stein
Oh, yeah. It was yours. Yeah. Yeah. I think I did.
48:18
Alex Stein
Yo. And what I'm saying is, so we have hundreds of kids, and hundreds of sex traffickers getting caught in Dallas. Like, it is a more prevalent problem than the media than anybody will tell you. They think, oh, it's only a couple people. You know, it's called some operation.
48:32
Alex Stein
What is it called? What is it?
48:34
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Ceteria Shield.
48:35
Alex Stein
Yeah. The Ceteria Shield. So this so this happened in Dallas where the Ceteria Shield, they they arrested 250, sex traffickers and a 109 children in just Dallas.
48:48
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's right.
48:49
Alex Stein
So this is a very serious
48:51
Monty Bennett
You talk about emotional.
48:52
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Texas Senator Crimes Against Yep. Child Task Force. Uh-huh. Yeah. More than 70 Texas law enforcement agencies.
48:58
Alex Stein
So And that wasn't a huge story. That was, you know, Dallas Express. I'm saying, know, you you didn't see that on NBC News. You didn't see that
49:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
NBC about the media.
49:06
Monty Bennett
Well, the the left won't make a lot of hay over this. The left, the media outlets that aren't left won't make a lot of hay typically over sex trafficking stuff. That's And it's very concerning to me. It's weird. And it's weird.
49:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah, it's not on the Dallas Morning News.
49:26
Alex Stein
The coyotes taking the kids across the border. Exactly.
49:30
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And they won't tell these stories. So Monty and I both started the Dallas Express because there were stories not being told.
49:39
Alex Stein
Yeah a lot.
49:40
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And a lot was misinterpreted and just distorted about And even my own at that point during COVID it was a necessity to start an outlet that would actually be truthful. And then just the other day you were who did you say? MSNBC or NBC?
50:00
Alex Stein
MSNBC. Well, you see they changed? Now they're going to MS N and they're changing now to MS now. They just announced today. Are you seeing that?
50:08
Alex Stein
I did not see Yeah. That this They're rebranding actually. And I don't know if that video had anything to with it but isn't that a weird timing?
50:15
Monty Bennett
I think it may means they're gonna lose even more money.
50:17
Alex Stein
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That that Rachel Maddow is our only host, and I know her shows can't, you know, be that profitable, and she's their number one host. And I'm friends with Tucker. I'm wearing the Tucker hat, and he actually talks, you know, nicely about Rachel Maddow.
50:27
Alex Stein
So she is a talented broadcaster, but nobody Jordan Reed's not. Jordan Reed
50:31
Monty Bennett
polite to come on my wife's show wearing someone in the suit.
50:33
Alex Stein
Think it's fine. Think it is. I gotta plug them. Think it's fine. Well, know, know.
50:37
Alex Stein
I did go to Cotillion at Dallas Country Club, but I I'm not I don't think you graduated. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Didn't graduate. I don't think it's bad.
50:46
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I I like Tucker. And
50:48
Alex Stein
just like
50:49
Monty Bennett
it's like coming out here and just like slapping you across the face.
50:51
Alex Stein
No. No. It's not. Maybe Tucker will share it and then the podcast will blow up. It's just a joke.
50:56
Alex Stein
No. I'm just kidding.
50:57
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
We are in the top 1% of
50:58
Alex Stein
Texas. Funny you say that.
51:00
Monty Bennett
Money though, you do
51:01
Alex Stein
have a good point because I wear this hat on my show sometimes and the CEO of Blaze is like, why do you wear a Tucker Carlson hat? I shouldn't have
51:07
Monty Bennett
a Blaze hat on.
51:08
Alex Stein
Yeah. Know. And and he said that I go, well, I don't wanna wear my you know, like a band wouldn't wear their own band shirt. You know, Van Halen wouldn't wear a Van Halen shirt. So I'm like, I can't wear my own shirt.
51:18
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
So quickly, what are your plans for expanding your cause and your efforts? Because as I sit with you here, you are a really good person.
51:27
Alex Stein
Well, I appreciate that.
51:28
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But it's interesting because I was like, I can't wait to sit with him because I I know how edgy he is. And I love edgy people. I am drawn to edgy people. So what are your plans?
51:38
Alex Stein
Well, for me, in this upcoming semester, I work for the Blaze, but I also work for Turning Point USA. Uh-huh. And they're great, you know, conservative organization. And I have a tour. I'm going to 10 colleges this semester.
51:50
Alex Stein
So I'm going to, where I'm going to Rutgers. I'm going to, UC San Diego. I'm going to Oklahoma. I'm going to University of Florida. Where else am I?
52:01
Alex Stein
I I don't know. I gotta look at my calendar. But on these campuses, I do a lot of debates. Mhmm. And I just started doing those debates.
52:06
Alex Stein
Turning Point just started letting me do the debates last semester. And that stuff is everybody has a podcast. I have a podcast. You have a podcast. People like podcasts.
52:15
Alex Stein
But really, sadly, we've kind of devolved as a society where we just wanna see people argue. I hate to admit it. I hate to admit it. That's like the what gets the most clicks and that because I'm very aware of what's popular on the Internet. And so those videos started to blow up for me last semester.
52:29
Alex Stein
So I'm gonna go to these campuses, talk to these college kids because that's actually like for me, I feel like I'm actually doing some good in society because I'm making kids ask questions and a lot and now when I was in college, most kids weren't very political, but I noticed on college campuses, there are a lot more there are a lot more political than they were when I was there. So these kids are more involved. They're more willing to debate. They're more willing to have these conversations, and I think debate, debating these issues, no matter the issue, is the best thing we can do for society. So my goal is to, in the next six months, create a lot of good debate content and hopefully, know, kind of stir up some drama and bring some attention to, you know, social issues that I think need attention.
53:07
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Great. Great. And Monty, what about you? You have so much happening right now with
53:11
Monty Bennett
I've got enough I'm doing. I don't need to go do anything else. I'm the hotel industry, which still hasn't recovered from COVID. It's just a challenge.
53:20
Alex Stein
What do you think about Vegas? Sorry to cut you off. They say it's 6% down, but then they say it's up. What do you think about that?
53:26
Monty Bennett
It's interesting, isn't it? Well, you definitely have a downturn of international.
53:31
Alex Stein
Right? Yeah. Huge. 20 18% down from Canada. But this is the thing.
53:35
Alex Stein
As they say there's a 6% hotel occupancy, it's usually 2%. Is that that that's that huge of a difference when it goes from 2%? Oh, yes. I'm saying I know.
53:44
Monty Bennett
Relatively small changes. Hotels have a high degree of operating leverage. So a 5% change in revenues can mean everything on the bottom line. Wow. And Vegas is getting crushed.
53:55
Monty Bennett
And I think it has a lot to do with a lot of things. But a lot of people aren't traveling to The United States because they have this anti Trumpism, and they're not going to come. And we see it with the Canadians and all these other kinds of things. So it's it's tough. And the whole industry has still not recovered from
54:11
Alex Stein
COVID.
54:11
Monty Bennett
COVID. It bounced back somewhat. But I think just last year, the revenues of the industry hit the revenues from 2019. But the problem is is that the costs are up 50% higher.
54:26
Alex Stein
See that?
54:26
Monty Bennett
Yeah. And your and interest rates are up much, much higher. So it is the squeeze. It's been the squeeze in the industry for some time.
54:34
Alex Stein
Yeah. I'm just surprised because, you know, they even say the gambling numbers are about the same, but that that 4% drop and they say that 18% less Canadians is killing the the industry in in Vegas right now. Sad.
54:44
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I mean It is. It's really sad.
54:45
Alex Stein
I love a city like Vegas. You know, know it's in city or whatever, but it is still it's like New York classic City. It's American It's
54:51
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
shows, everything.
54:53
Alex Stein
And like the that's what makes you mad the international travelers don't wanna come there. That is like the the theme park city, you know, and it's you get to, you know, you get to experience, You have the fine dining to McDonald's and everything in between. So it's just, you know, I think we need Vegas and New York to come back, hopefully. But I don't know if they will.
55:10
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Or just make Dallas the next
55:11
Alex Stein
Make Dallas. Slash New York. What do you think about that? Now they're trying to do the gambling. I don't I don't know.
55:15
Alex Stein
What do you think, Monty? The the legal gambling. That's that's not a you know,
55:20
Monty Bennett
you're hijacking this podcast, aren't you?
55:22
Alex Stein
Yeah. A little bit. Well, I just
55:23
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Both of them. I Both of them are
55:25
Alex Stein
trying to conduct the podcast. It's fine. They turned off the cameras a half an
55:31
Monty Bennett
hour ago, so don't worry about that. There you go. I do have the libertarianism side and want to just let things be, but you've to look at when gambling comes into a city, how has that helped things? How has things turned out to be so much better because it's there when it wasn't there to begin with. And there's always these promises of, oh, we're going to take all this money, we're going go use it for the schools, for the children.
56:00
Monty Bennett
We're going use it for the children. Everything's for the children. We're going do these terrible things, but it's for the children. And gambling, they're going to help. But no one says, you know, I'm going Vegas, move there, because the schools are fantastic around.
56:13
Alex Stein
That's true.
56:14
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It is true.
56:15
Alex Stein
Yeah, I'm going to Vegas for the school.
56:16
Monty Bennett
Yeah, right. And so when I look at it, I think, good is going to happen? Yes, people will be more entertained, as if we need more of that. But Okay, they're going be more entertained. But how is it going to solve and help address some of our problems?
56:29
Monty Bennett
And I just don't see it, right? I just don't see it. So everything around here seems fine. And don't walk outside my house saying, gosh, I wish I could go play the slots. Can't.
56:40
Monty Bennett
Mean, so
56:40
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
people can drive up to the
56:41
Alex Stein
Yeah, Oklahoma or I think that is better to keep it like that.
56:44
Monty Bennett
It's there. And again, some people want it and like it, that's fine. And talk about the economic activity that it brings. But it's not like Dallas Fort Worth can handle the people moving here already. We're having crazy growth.
56:59
Monty Bennett
If we were Detroit, okay. Well, okay. Let's talk about it. But so I just don't see the overall need for it. What how is our society better because of it?
57:10
Monty Bennett
And and I just don't see it. So And it's kinda where
57:13
Alex Stein
I am. And this is coming from a guy. I like to play poker. I like to gamble a little bit. My my one of my best friends is a guy, Tim Pool.
57:18
Alex Stein
We love to sit and we'll play poker all night. You know? I'm not a huge huge gamer. I just it's kinda more of a social thing. But it just to what Manny said, it's like, it's he's out in outside of DC, so we'll go play poker in Charlestown, West Virginia.
57:30
Alex Stein
In that city, they don't have anything else going on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
57:32
Alex Stein
Yeah. You know what mean? But Dallas, I just I see the MGM that we go sometimes the one in DC, and you just see it's right there by DC a lot of broken dreams, and that's in a major metropolitan city. So I can see if you're in a small town, maybe they can have a casino. They don't have anything going on.
57:46
Alex Stein
But in Dallas, DC, think it's only gonna it's gonna be a nightmare for most people to walk in there and lose everything they got.
57:52
Monty Bennett
It sure sure seems that way. Yeah. We don't need more bad habits to develop. I certainly don't need anymore.
57:58
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
No, no. Neither of us do. But I mean, at this point, it doesn't seem like it's gonna happen. Right?
58:03
Alex Stein
No, I don't think so.
58:04
Monty Bennett
No. But they're not gonna
58:05
Alex Stein
stop. Neither.
58:07
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah, there's a lot of money
58:08
Monty Bennett
behind it. Very wealthy. Yeah. And they're very determined. Yep.
58:10
Monty Bennett
And I don't know if they'll they're not gonna give up anytime soon, don't think. So we'll see. We'll see.
58:16
Alex Stein
And what blew my mind, I remember it's 2012 or 2010. I forget the exact year, but that's when, know, the stadium was built. I forget what year it opened, the the Cowboys Stadium. Maybe it was 2010, but, you know, shortly after they built that Texas Live because they wanted that to be a DraftKings back when Jerry Jones was really involved with DraftKings. And Jerry couldn't get it done, then I don't know if anybody can get it
58:34
Monty Bennett
Are we on a first name basis now?
58:36
Alex Stein
What? Jerry Jones.
58:37
Monty Bennett
Oh. What? I thought you'd call him, like, mister Jones or something.
58:40
Alex Stein
No. No. Oh, no.
58:41
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Who calls Jerry Jones?
58:42
Alex Stein
Jerry. Mister Jones.
58:44
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Say Jerry.
58:45
Monty Bennett
I'm just hanging out with Jerry.
58:46
Alex Stein
Well, you know what I mean. I mean, I'm such a diehard Cowboys fan. That's my other complaint. This is the other problem in our city, Manny. And I'm not even kidding.
58:53
Alex Stein
Sorry to point you. This would solve so many of our problems, and you think I'm kidding if the Dallas Cowboys could win a Super Bowl because you were here in Dallas when you remember you remember the energy? Absolutely. Whether you like football or not, you go to the gas station, people are in a better mood. At the
59:07
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's true.
59:08
Alex Stein
Seriously, people are like, oh the Cowboys, you read the newspaper even though a story's around it. If the damn Dallas Cowboys win, it's been thirty years.
59:16
Monty Bennett
We need another we need like a counseling session here.
59:19
Alex Stein
Mean There
59:19
Monty Bennett
was so much anger residual anger.
59:21
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
How he opened the the entire thing at the state ledge? He was like, some people will say that I'm anti And then like, but I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan and I was like, yes. Because they're just not
59:33
Alex Stein
They're worst run team and Jerry. And this is the other thing is, you know, my complaint, I don't hope money's not good friends with Jerry, I I listen. The Jones family, they're great, but they're not good at running a football team. You know, I
59:43
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
assume I think everyone would agree
59:44
Alex Stein
with that. Soon as Jimmy Johnson left, it's like, Jerry, you were a SpinGali of your first, ten years or five years, then all of sudden we haven't won a Super Bowl in thirty years. They need to maybe hire somebody to run the team.
59:56
Monty Bennett
You'd think.
59:57
Alex Stein
You'd think. You'd think. Right.
60:01
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Well you guys, this has been very entertaining. I was expecting a little more shock value, but this has been good.
60:08
Alex Stein
Are you kidding? I'm gonna come in here on your podcast and we want me to break this up.
60:10
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
No, no. This is good. I was glad that we even kind of took that little deviation towards over the supernatural and faith space because I was not expecting that.
60:19
Alex Stein
That's the most interesting stuff to me too is, you know Yeah. Like you talked about the Nephilim, Book of Enoch. There's a lot of stuff information out there that Oh, yeah. It sounds a little, like I say, woo woo and weird, but just look into it. There's people that have been practicing stuff a lot longer than us and, you
60:33
Monty Bennett
know Well, does until they say, oh, yeah. Beneath the pyramids, by the way, there's a two kilometer structure underneath there that's been there two thousand years. Like, what? How is this even possible?
60:46
Alex Stein
And then
60:46
Monty Bennett
you just flip the news and you just keep on going. Right? So everything's strange until it's not.
60:51
Alex Stein
And there's been so much stuff too. In Turkey, there's this thing Gobekli Tepe, and there's this new thing. And they say maybe that was where Noah's Ark landed because there's, you know, it's the oldest I read that. You look into it. It's very interesting.
61:03
Alex Stein
The guy, Jimmy Corsetti, does a lot of good work on it and he does he's a pyramid expert. He goes to Egypt and the oldest church, Gobekli Tepe and and there's a there's a shrine to the animals, to these animals that they would sacrifice. And they say that maybe those are the animals from Noah's Ark. And this sounds crazy too. There was definitely a big flood at some point on
61:20
Monty Bennett
the Oh, I so much evidence of
61:22
Alex Stein
that. So
61:23
Monty Bennett
And Gobekli Tepe. They Tepe. Yeah. Tepe. It's like 22,000 years old.
61:28
Alex Stein
Yeah, that makes sense. It changes the whole narrative.
61:30
Monty Bennett
Yeah, they say wait a minute, people weren't supposed to be able to build temples back then. And this is what science is, right? They're so so sure of something, so so sure of something. Then when they say, oh, did we say that forever? Sorry, we didn't mean that.
61:42
Monty Bennett
This is the real story. But then if you try to challenge it, in the meantime, you're a heretic, you're so stupid, you don't know anything.
61:49
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
The Shroud of Turin, just on the Tucker show recently.
61:52
Alex Stein
Yeah, that's right.
61:52
Monty Bennett
The Shroud of Turin, came from the 1200s, 1300s, if it's not real. And now the guy comes out and he's got this whole thing he did on Tucker. I'm sure you saw it.
62:00
Alex Stein
No, was great.
62:01
Monty Bennett
Yeah. I know. They took a patch of the corner. That's why it's twelve, thirteen hundred.
62:06
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's right.
62:06
Monty Bennett
Here's all the evidence why
62:07
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Did you watch it?
62:08
Alex Stein
Yeah. But this is my favorite thing, though. Oh, of course, that was a great interview. But this my favorite thing though. Or not favorite thing, this is what makes me so mad.
62:15
Alex Stein
Is that they say that we evolved from monkeys, but we have no transitional species.
62:19
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's right.
62:20
Alex Stein
I think there'd be millions of fossils of our transitional species. I just God created us. Just I have no doubt in my mind about that.
62:28
Monty Bennett
What was that guy's name? Jeremiah Johnson or Jedediah? I think it was Jedediah. Jedediah.
62:32
Alex Stein
Think that was on the show.
62:33
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah. Jedediah. Jedediah? Jedediah. Jedediah.
62:35
Monty Bennett
Jedediah Johnson.
62:36
Alex Stein
That's kind
62:36
Monty Bennett
of a cool name, isn't it? Yeah. Sounds like a sounds like hung out with Davy Crockett, right?
62:41
Alex Stein
Yeah. And he
62:41
Monty Bennett
was on the Wild Frontier. Jedidiah Johnson.
62:43
Alex Stein
Jedidiah with a straw. Yeah.
62:44
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I mean it was interesting. And I've known for years that I had the same blood type as Jesus. Because it was the same as what was on the Shroud. But I just appreciate you all coming on. There's lots that I didn't get to but I think we have some good stuff.
62:58
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Thank you.
62:59
Alex Stein
Well have me back anytime. We can get into it. I really appreciate you having me on.
63:02
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Thank you.
63:03
Monty Bennett
Great having you on the show. Great being on the show. It's been a while.
63:08
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It has been a while.
63:08
Monty Bennett
Did an outstanding job on the show, love. People
63:11
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I was quite a lot because I think I have two additional interviewers with me here today.
63:15
Alex Stein
You do. I do.
63:16
Monty Bennett
People people tell me all the time how much they love your show, love. And I love it. Thank you. It's fantastic.
63:20
Alex Stein
And I'm telling you, I appreciate you. I mean that. I appreciate you guys having on.
63:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Thank you. Thank you.
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