When Navy SEALs Run for Office and Nail Salons Disappear Overnight

A late-night town hall for Alabama Senate candidate Jared Hudson sparked reflection on the complexities of modern politics. Hudson, a Navy SEAL who founded an organization rescuing trafficked children, left me with mixed emotions about his candidacy. While his service background is impressive, his answers during Q&A revealed the familiar political dance of "yes, but..." particularly on immigration enforcement—supporting deportation in principle while suggesting leniency for established immigrant families.

This political examination sits alongside a personal mystery: the sudden, overnight disappearance of a nail salon I'd frequented for six years. The owners—a married couple with young children—sent a quick text about rent increases and vanished completely by the next day. Their hasty departure raises questions about potential immigration concerns that mirror our national conversation about enforcement and human impact.

Breaking news from New York City further complicated the evening, as details emerged about a tragic shooting at a Park Avenue skyscraper. The shooter left writings blaming the NFL for neurological issues, requesting posthumous brain examination. What caught my attention, however, was Mayor Eric Adams' specific identification of the fallen officer as "an immigrant from Bangladesh"—language that prompts questions about how we define American identity and citizenship, especially against the backdrop of nationwide police staffing challenges.

These seemingly disconnected events—a Senate campaign, a vanished business, and a tragic shooting—weave together the complex tapestry of American life in 2023. They remind us that politics is never just abstract policy but involves real people with families, livelihoods, and lives at stake. What TV theme song best captures the complicated emotions of these times? Perhaps that's a question worth pondering as we navigate our increasingly complex world.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Late Night at Alabama Town Hall
• 1:56 Jared Hudson on Mass Deportation
• 4:36 Mysterious Closing of Nail Salon
• 7:46 NYC Shooting Investigation Details
• 10:50 Question of the Day: TV Theme Songs
• 12:15 Episode Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Oh y'all, I stayed out late last night. I went to an Alabama town hall for a young man named Jared Hudson who is running for US Senate to go to DC and represent Alabama. Because Tommy Tuberville is not going to run again. He's going to run for governor of Alabama because Mama K Ivy is not getting any younger, she's getting up there in age and I think she's going to step down and retire. So Tommy's going to run for governor, which, oh, I have mixed emotions about that. We really need him up there, but we also need a good governor. So I'm kind of happy more leaning towards happy about him running for governor here of Alabama.

Speaker 1: 1:02

So this young man, jared Hudson, is running. He's a Navy SEAL. He founded a group called Covenant Rescue Group which is an organization that goes around and helps track down sex traffickers, human traffickers of children. Mainly he rescues children from these sex traffickers, human traffickers of children mainly he rescues children from these sex traffickers. And so I went to listen to him. It was a very small crowd and it was 40 minutes away from where I live and you know me, y'all know I go to bed super early. I didn't get home to like eight o'clock and then, you know, by then I was wound up a little bit and then then I saw all the news happening. I had to stay and watch the news about this shooter in New York City, my goodness gracious. But anyway, back to Jared.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Real quick, there were, you know, they had a Q&A with them and stuff, and there were a couple of questions that I was iffy with his answers. I don't know Two of them. One of them, one of the questions, was how did he support, did he support, mass deportation? And of course he answered it like a politician, even though this guy is young I think the only thing he ever ran for before was for sheriff and he lost by like a half a point at one and a half point, something like that and, um, so he's not run for office before. He's very young, he's, he seems young and and ambitious, which is nothing wrong with that. Um, so his answer to this yes, he said he does support mass deportation. However, there was, there was always a but with it. Isn't there always a but with a politician?

Speaker 1: 2:43

Even though he says, he claims he doesn't want to do this, he claims that he doesn't want to run, he does not want to run, he does not want to be a politician, does not want to run for Senate, but here he is running for Senate. He said the reason he wants to do it is because there's just the thought of serving, the thought of service, which, okay, I get. He spent time in the military, I get it, I get, I get the desire to want to serve the people, I get it. So the his answer to the mass deportation he said yes, he does support it. However, but he says maybe let's not focus right now on the people that have been here for years and years and years already, who have born children here. He said let's go after the criminals that recently came over, you know, during the Biden administration. Let's go find them and round them up first. And I'm like, okay, I could get with that. But he seemed to have a little bleeding heart for the migrant, the illegals that are here, that have been here forever and ever and ever, um, that have children here. So he's cause he may mention. He said how many times have you had people work on your house or how many times you know people clean your house? I'm like that's kind of condescending, but okay, he said you know. So he said the, the people that are here that are not bothering anybody. They're not. They're providing a living for their family. They're not partaking in criminal activity. He said let's not go after them right now. So yeah, but you still, they still need to go through a legal process, which reminds me of you know, I used to go get my nails done at this place called Revive Nails, and it was here in, obviously, where I live.

Speaker 1: 4:32

But I started going there. Gosh, it's been a good five, six years I've been going to them and I've been going there since I've started work, since I've been working here and I've been working here for five years, so at least six years I've been going to them. And it was a married couple who owned this nail salon. She was Asian and he was hispanic. They had children. We, we saw we, they have children. We got to see their children grow up a little bit when I went to them. We started going to them, they only had uh, do they have? Yeah, they didn't have any kids at the time, so or they had the twins, they had twins, and then then she got pregnant again. So we got, then they, she had another baby, so we've got to see their kids.

Speaker 1: 5:17

So the last time we went was a couple of months ago and you know, we, we would go every two weeks, like clockwork, to get our my nails done and pedicures every two weeks. So we got to know them through the years. Well, I thought we did anyway. So one day we go, we get our, I get my nails done, we get our pedicures, and then we leave and then, like later that night, lily is her name, well, her fake name, we know what their real names are, I just can't pronounce them, but they go by Lewis and Lily. Um, so she texts me and she texts a lot of people, I guess, but she. I get the text said you know, we've enjoyed your business, but our landlord's rent has gone up unexpectedly and we just can't afford that. We need to. So we're just going to close. We're not going to, we're going to close our business and move on.

Speaker 1: 6:12

I thought, oh and so the next day the gent and I were out and about doing things and we went over to look at their store and it was cleaned out the next day gone, everything gone. I was shocked. I was shocked and I got to thinking about that. I thought I wonder if they he may have been here illegally. I don't know, I don't know. And then but they all have he had his whole family here.

Speaker 1: 6:43

His mom and dad were here. They lived in Albertville, I think it was, and I don't know. What do you? I don't know what happened. You know if they're going to move somewhere else. You think they would have told us that. I think they were. I think maybe something. You know what I'm saying. Maybe they were. He was here illegally, I don't know. But if he was married to her, I don't think she was here illegally for some reason. I don't know, I don't know. Maybe they weren't here illegally at all. I'm not, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they weren't here illegally at all. I'm not, I don't know. I have no idea. But it's just kind of strange that they just picked up and left overnight. Is that not weird? That's pretty weird. All right, we need to move on. Let's see. Oh the shooter, oh my gosh. So either hold on a minute, oh wait. Real quick. Though, back to jared hudson.

Speaker 1: 7:31

Before there was another question that somebody asked him about are you concerned about the muslim population and what they're doing here in america? And there was more to the question. I forget and the way he answered it. I really didn't like it either. I did not like his answer to that either. He he paused for a long time before he started answering it and then all he said was he said look at Michigan. And I wanted to say look at some other areas too, look at Texas. But he kind of pushed it back on the local government to do something, which is true, which is true. I guess the Us federal government really can't do anything about what's happening. It has to be the local thing. But then he started talking about just all you have to do is just show him jesus. I'm like no, sir, that is not. I mean, you could do that, but that's not what they want. You need to educate yourself. What's happening here in america, with what's happening here in America, with what's popping up all over the place with Sharia law. Look at Canada and look at, look at Europe, my God. And then it's coming here. It's coming here. We need to.

Speaker 1: 8:42

All right, moving on to the shooter, because in the New York Post there is this story about. Let's see NYC gunman Shane Tamura, found with note hinting at possible motive for Park Avenue skyscraper shooting. I have to admit the press conference I watched yesterday. They have kept us very informed about everything that was going on, I think, anyway. And now the New York Post is reporting this, the gunman who killed an NYPD officer which I have questions about, by the way, we'll get to that in a minute, maybe, if I have time and three other people in a Midtown office came. We know that he was 27 years old. He cited the NFL in the writings which were found after he turned the gun on himself on the 33rd floor of Park Avenue, a swanky skyscraper, and they have pictures, y'all. They have pictures of this. The course is blurred out In the note, which was several pages long. Tamara blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic, traumatic, and so I can't pronounce the name. Law enforcement sources said Now I know a lot of people out there are probably conspiracy theorists, they probably don't believe any of this stuff. Which, okay, I get uh tomorrow. Who fatally shot himself in the chest also asked that his brain be studied in the note, according to the sources. So you can go find that out and all that stuff.

Speaker 1: 10:10

So this, but the officer that was shot and killed, bless I. I hate it. I'm sorry that it happened, but why did mayor eric adams have to say he's an immigrant from bangladesh? What does that mean exactly? Was he here illegally and he was hired as a cop. Do you remember a few years ago, when all this started happening, with the woke nonsense and the defund, the police, a lot of officers, quit and retired and they said they were not going to put up with this. So therefore, the police department had to hire other people, and that's happening all across the country where their police departments are hiring illegals. There's one up in Maine that just got tagged for trying to buy a gun. Who's a cop in Maine? Who's illegally? And so I'm like, why? So if he? Here's the thing, if he was an immigrant and came here legally and became an American citizen, then he's an American citizen. Why not just call him an American citizen, so that I'm, you know and I? But I know he's a victim, I know he's no longer with us. He was shot and killed by this crazy person and I'm sorry for that, but I just don't know why Eric Adams had to say that. So and the guy, poor guy, oh my gosh, he has two children and his wife is pregnant. Bless the guy who was shot, killed, who died, the officer. Oh, that's awful and terrible.

Speaker 1: 11:41

All right, I'm sorry, we need to go on to the question of the day. All right, here's a. Here's a question for you, totally off topic. What is the best theme song of a sitcom or TV show out there that you growing up listening to? I know the MASH theme song is pretty good. Cheers is pretty good. Wkrp in Cincinnati, I think, is my favorite. What are some of the best theme songs out there? All right, got to go. Thanks for listening. Bye.