Phillip Parrish Exposing the 30-Year Heist & Saving Minnesota

Are you tired of typical lying politicians who offer nothing but empty campaign promises? Meet Phillip Parrish—a farmer, successful businessman, former U.S. Navy Intelligence officer, and devoted Christian who is running for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota alongside Mike Lindell. This is an unfiltered, deeply honest look at the man who intends to help clean up the state's infrastructure and restore integrity to the Midwest. 

In the first half of this special interview, Phillip shares his encouraging personal journey of faith, processing life tragedies through writing, and surviving intense moral and ethical pressure while serving under the Obama administration. In the second half, the conversation transitions completely into the operational future of Minnesota. Phillip pulls back the curtain on "The 30-Year Heist," exposing the systemic grifting networks and massive institutional fraud occurring under Tim Walz, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, and Ilhan Omar. 

Listen to this vital message of hope to discover how you can step up, secure your family’s future, and actively participate in saving Minnesota. 

Key Timestamps & Moments of Gold

Who is Phillip Parrish?

00:00:00 - Introduction to special guest Phillip Parrish 00:00:54 - Growing up on a Minnesota farm and early teaching career 00:01:20 - Joining the U.S. Navy Reserve and sudden post-9/11 deployment 00:02:44 - Baling old-school square hay in the middle of a campaign trail 00:03:35 - The Slogan of the Pod: Listen, Do, Repeat for Life 00:04:09 - Taking on the Spirit of Adoption: Finding a foundation in Romans 8 00:05:51 - Growing up poor and the daily grind of unusual persistence 00:09:29 - Overcoming personal abuse and the vital realization of codependency 00:10:09 - The critical importance of establishing rigid, healthy boundaries 00:13:01 - Countering unbiblical church teachings on blind forgiveness 00:14:58 - Reclaiming personal value and emotional independence 00:18:29 - Navigating free will: The ultimate difference in true biblical faith 00:21:14 - Defying the odds: From a reading-challenged student to an Intelligence Officer 00:23:34 - Standing firm on American exceptionalism and our Christian foundations 00:24:19 - Surviving the intense moral and ethical shifts of the Obama administration 00:26:59 - The watch floor reality: Witnessing the truth of Benghazi and Crimea 00:29:58 - Uncovering gain-of-function semantics and illegal bioweapons funneling 00:35:19 - Behavior Substitution: How writing, journaling, and repetitive prayer keeps you centered 

What does Phillip Parrish plan to do as Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota?

00:40:23 - The Lindell-Parrish parallel mission: Merging election integrity with anti-fraud infrastructure 00:42:43 - Exposing The 30-Year Heist: How legislators built a multi-trillion dollar grifting pipeline 00:43:58 - The hidden truth about Minnesota’s 400 weaponized NGOs 00:45:03 - Pulling apart the systemic autism, daycare, housing, and Medicaid fraud networks under Tim Walz 00:46:01 - The calculated destruction of Midwestern culture and weaponized immigration 00:48:22 - Exposing human trafficking agendas cloaked in false humanitarian narratives 00:50:17 - Dismantling administrative corruption: Tearing down fake companies and clawing back taxpayer cash 00:51:35 - Restoring the Minnesota state flag and the pushback against cultural erasure 00:52:30 - The ultimate administrative policy: Standing firm that two plus two equals four 00:54:02 - The economic fallout: Why liberal corporations like Target are fleeing the state 00:55:54 - How to get involved: The County Ambassador program and the crucial August 11th Primary 

For the full interview, and all links and content please visit: https://davidpasqualone.com/content-type-media/podcasts/the-remarkable-people-podcast/phillip-parrish/

Transcript

David Pasqualone: 0:01

Hello friend. Welcome to this special edition of the Remarkable People Podcast. Today we have Phillip Parrish. Phillip, welcome to the show.

Phillip Parrish: 0:11

Thank you very much. I'm glad to be here.

David Pasqualone: 0:13

Oh, it's an honor to have you. And for those of you ladies and gentlemen who don't know who Phillip Parrish is, he is running for lieutenant governor of Minnesota with Mike Lindell as governor in 2026. So in this episode, you're going to be able to learn and understand who the man is and what happened in his life to make him the man he is today. And then in the second half of the episode, we're going to transition to when he becomes lieutenant governor of Minnesota, what you the voter can expect and count on is going to happen in that great state, or soon to be great again state. Does that sound good, Phillip?

Phillip Parrish: 0:52

That sounds perfect. I like it.

David Pasqualone: 0:54

All right. So let's do this. Good, bad, ugly pretty ugly. What's your origin story, my friend?

Phillip Parrish: 1:00

Good. Born and raised here in Minnesota. My dad was a teacher. We ended up in and living out most of my life in West Concord, Minnesota, and I went to college in Mankato. I became a teacher, and after teaching for 13 years, I became a principal. As I was finishing my principal's license, I had joined the US Navy Reserve slightly before 9/11. And I was deployed fairly quickly after 9/11, and that led to a list of experiences that I never could have planned out. And as an intelligence specialist for just under 10 years, I was deployed several times. I accepted a direct commission, and then finished or continued my career. Supposed to be a reservist, but I ended up overseas for 11 years on active duty and retired a lieutenant commander in the US Navy. That's the big overview. Grew up as a farmer. Had a few tragedies in my life, in my earlier life with marriage and families. Ended up in a tragic romantic story with my current wife, Victoria. We have six children between the two of us, and grandchildren, and we still now to this day live in Minnesota. We have a small farm. We raise enough beef for ourselves and a few customers. We raise chickens and laying hens and meat chickens. And I am currently the executive administrator of Divine Mercy Catholic Church and School here in Faribault, Minnesota.

David Pasqualone: 2:41

Oh, very nice. Very nice. So you stay busy.

Phillip Parrish: 2:44

Yeah. Yeah, we in fact, we just, we had an interesting day yesterday with Mike and I, and the, we had the team all get together on a Zoom call, and they had to put up with me and farm life because when kinda everything works in our favor to make sure you're baling hay and make sure you have hay in the hay mow dry and ready to roll, n- nothing waits. You, everything stops and you take care of doing business. And we put up 300 s- small square bales. We still do some old school small square bales , and we put 300 bales

of hay in the hay mow from about 2: 3:16

00 to 7:00 yesterday, and just crazy day. Plus, did a Zoom call in the middle of it.

David Pasqualone: 3:24

Yeah. Hey, that's hard work, and focus, and dedication. Yeah. So our podcast, the slogan is Listen. Do. Repeat. For Life! So- Yeah … our audience listens to your story, does what they know they need to do, they learn from it. They repeat those actions each day so they form good, healthy habits, so they can have- Yeah … a great life in this world and eternity to come. Yeah. So with your upbringing of farms, military, and just general life, what are some of the core lessons that you found yourself learning that today you're like,"Man this I might not have appreciated as a kid, or a teen, or as a young adult, but this really makes a huge difference in life, and we all need to model this"?

Phillip Parrish: 4:09

Yeah. Wow. There are so many. I'm 60 now, and I guess I'll start with a story that I got a chance to share earlier today actually, but I've had a chance to share on the campaign trail. I'm a born again Christian. I, my mom and dad had us go to Sunday school and classes and stuff, and so baptized and everything. But one of my confirmation assignments was readings, doing some readings, and it was Romans Chapter 8. And in ch- Romans Chapter 8, there's a portion of it that talks about the spirit of adoption. And I had a b- broken family. My brother and I are from a broken family, and we're not unusual. It's not a sob story. There's lots of families in the world that have a broken history. And for reasons unknown and other than the Holy Spirit, when I read Romans Chapter 8, I was about 16 years old, I took on that spirit of adoption wholeheartedly. And no disrespect to my mom and dad, but I took on God as my father, Jesus as my brother, Mary as my mother, and that core foundation of knowing that I belonged, knowing that I was loved, knowing that my family was always there. People who aren't believers, my invitation to them is- You know, give it some thought, give it some prayer. Be open to the fact that we need a foundation of care and concern and love and knowing that we're valued. And it isn't that my mom and dad didn't value us, but it gave me a foundation that, fast-forward I have several incidents in my life where I shouldn't be here anymore. Somehow God has blessed me and taken care of me. There's things in my life that I can't explain. I attribute all of that to God and the Holy Spirit. And so that, that's one of my life lessons, is knowing that we're not alone. We belong, we're loved, and we're cared for, and nothing can change that. Nothing on this earth, no person, no agenda, no human being can change what God ordained. That's one of the key foundations. The other is just this unusual prayer and persistence that I d- I don't know how to explain. I've lived a life of… We grew up very poor, and it's interesting I often I've often felt like I wish my children to never go through the things that I've gone through. But the two youngest ones, in a way I wish they had to go through some of the pain that I went through, Because they would have a better appreciation for the blessings that they have. But that's life, and so persistence, just this unusual willing to get up every day and just keep grinding. Y- people can use sports analogies, people can use different aspects of their experience in life to relate to that. But just that persistence, just even when you think things are going wrong, just keep getting up. Just don't give up. Don't let down. You'll have setbacks, but get up every day and keep grinding.

David Pasqualone: 7:27

Yeah, no. And I remember, I'm about your age, a little bit younger. I'm about 49 now, and when we grew up, there was just, here is the work to be done. Yeah. It doesn't matter if you feel good. It doesn't matter if you feel bad. Yeah. You grew up on a farm. Yeah. You have animals that rely on you Yeah and they can't, put a taco in the microwave, right? A burrito in the microwave.

Phillip Parrish: 7:48

Yeah.

David Pasqualone: 7:48

So we just grew up, it doesn't matter how you feel, you do what you have to do. And- Yep … it's great to feel good or to be in the flow state, but that persistence and that character, how has that served you in life?

Phillip Parrish: 8:01

Yeah, so early in life growing up real poor and just going to school every day, not the kid from the right side of town, so to speak I just had a sense of keep trying and keep digging, and in sports, I was fairly… I was blessed with being talented in football and basketball and in music, and I just kept getting up every day and putting myself out there. And of course, I was subject to, embarrassment and, and I was this tall, skinny kid with, who am I to, try and be the, the starter on the football team or the, the music contest, try to win a music contest. Who was I to do that? But something inside me just kept driving away at sure, you might feel self-conscious or embarrassed, but you just get up every day and just keep trying. And so that, that persistence served me well. And then later in life, I had some… I'm not going to bore you with too many tragedies story, but,

David Pasqualone: 9:00

No. Hey, just… No, Phillip, you share whatever God lays in your heart because our listeners, whether they have trusted Christ as their savior or whether they're unsaved, they don't believe- Yeah they're here to know who you are, what makes you tick, and all of us are here to be inspired because we've probably gone through the same tragedy. Yeah. But you might have learned to overcome it. So feel free to share anything, because how you recovered from it or be healed through it, that may help listeners all over the world.

Phillip Parrish: 9:29

Yeah. So with that being said I was a victim of abuse in my first relationship and four years of dating and 13 years of marriage. I didn't know any better. I grew up in a family that, had some alcoholism on the with not my parents, but my parents' parents. And so some perfect examples of enablers. So I was a perfect example of an enabler for many years, and I was always looking at myself as to what have I done wrong to cause this problem. But in the end, after years of struggling and learning through it I own my part in primarily my part in it was not setting healthy boundaries. And so as a victim of abuse, verbal and physical, it took me… I'm not ashamed to admit to you, it, it took me till well into my Oh, I want to say probably in my 30s before I really got it through my head where my part was in it and where I needed to set healthier boundaries, which led to the end of relationships. Because at some point, although my Christian values tell me to be forgiving and merciful and and understand my part in my sin, ultimately I was missing the piece of our faith where we do have a responsibility to say, "No, this is not appropriate and this should not be happening." That might… When you get to that point where you start walking up to someone and saying, "I love you, I care for you, but this behavior has got to stop," and that causes the relationships to escalate or come unwound sure, you're the one that said, "No, stop. This is not happening anymore," but it's okay because the relationship breakdown is more to do with the person that's unhealthy and them not recognizing it and continuing to destroy people around you. That became a switching point or a light bulb in my head where I realized I had responsibilities as God's child to set healthy boundaries and to be a good example. If the other person was going to reject it or be violent or disrespectful or inappropriate, that really was on their shoulders. Quite frankly, I learned that, yeah, who am I to try and control that? That's their choice to behave in the way that they behave, and there's nothing I could do to change it. So my story of overcoming is a lot to do with my personal mindset. Why was my mindset off track? What piece of God's teaching, of Christ's teaching, of what piece of the Holy Spirit- kind of did I, was I missing that I needed to latch onto? And for me, and maybe that's the way it's supposed to be, but for me, that took many years for my head and my heart to catch up and get together on understanding all those concepts. And, we pray for our children that they learn it quickly, but now my w- my wife Victoria and I, six children between the two of us. We've obviously had to witness a lot of this in our children's lives. And now, soon I'm sure, our grandchildren's lives are, believe it or not, are tr- starting to get into that age where we're going to have to witness them going through these struggles as well.

David Pasqualone: 13:00

Yeah, absolutely. We have so many listeners around the world that know exactly what you're talking about. And healthy boundaries are crucial. And no matter who you are, but even within churches today, there is a false truth being preached that no matter what anybody does, you forgive them, forget it ever happened, and just go on with life, sweep it under the rug, and that's un-biblical, right? Jesus tells us to hold each other accountable as Christians. He tells us we're brothers in Christ, and then he, he- Yep … talks to people who are out in the city, and he's "Get behind me, snakes and vipers." So Jesus's example, if we're supposed to be Christ-like Christians, we're supposed to act like Christ. And that- Yep … sweep under the rug, no boundaries, is not in the Bible, but it's preached from a lot of pulpits. So let's do this, real practical, hands-on. Like you said, it's a process. You grew up, good, bad, ugly, not blaming your parents or anybody in your family, but you were programmed and conditioned for a certain perspective and environment, and that's what you fell into. Is that correct?

Phillip Parrish: 14:06

Yeah. Yeah. And you try to glean from what you've been taught or example you've witnessed. If you are open to it and willing to listen to God's teaching or listen to the good examples around you, you eventually start to latch onto the things that are healthier for the individual to grow and to learn and to be at peace. If we find ourselves in situations where we're clearly not at peace, whether it's at our own hand or someone else's hand, i- if we're not willing to question why, w- why am I in this mindset? Why am I in this position economically, emotionally, morally? If we aren't willing to question that and look at all the pieces of the puzzle- We're going to miss out on God's g- gift, God's willingness to help us. He doesn't want us to be in a spirit of bondage or a spirit of fear or a spirit of anger or hostility. God wants us to be at peace and He wants us to be able to be for others what we needed, if that makes sense.

David Pasqualone: 15:13

Yeah, 100%. So let's get to the practical rubber meets the road within boundaries. I don't want to go too far or get too personal, but share as openly as you feel comfortable. What are some boundaries that you had to set so you could have a healthy relationship with your wife today?

Phillip Parrish: 15:33

Victoria and I, at this time, I'll start with that because that's where we're at is the healthy example. We c- we can laugh with each other, we can cry with each other. We can look at each other and say, "What the heck was that about?" And possibly even get a little angry with each other and get to the real perspective or the paradigm of whatever the situation was. Maybe it was a misunderstanding, maybe it wasn't a shared agreement on any particular decision about whether it was money or careers or… We were able to, we are able to discern properly what's going on instead of getting hooked by fear and chaos or someone trying to… as opposed to the relationship early in life was primarily centered around keeping one person happy no matter what happened. And it took me too long to realize that this is nothing about keeping th- that person was never going to be happy. That was the tactic of that person's willingness or desire to control outcomes. And so it's setting that healthy boundary of understanding that I'm a person, and it's back to my experience as a born-again Christian. I'm of value. I am valued. God loves me. And you don't have to have, especially an unhealthy person, you don't need their approval or acceptance to understand that you are a good person and you're valued and valuable. In fact, that's how unhealthy people keep you trapped. They keep you trapped in a mindset that you're not deserving or you're not actually loved unless they love you, or you're not actually cared for unless they are providing the care. And so that, I hope that helps explain the emotional, moral part of it.

David Pasqualone: 17:32

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And when you're in a relationship, it's always two people, 100%, 100%. But again, when you're conditioned, as our listeners, as you're conditioned a certain way, and what's that saying? The enemy you know is better than the enemy you don't. That's why men and women go from painful, abusive relationship to painful, abusive relationship- Because they're not stopping and drawing that clear boundary. And like you said, for you and I, there is clear boundaries in the Bible. And, but sometimes people mis- skew them and manipulate them so it gets hard. But I think… I was just talking to my son about this last week. Life isn't about being happy, and that's what so many people push. It's about being holy, one with God- Yep … at peace with yourself, and then everybody else is icing on the cake. Would you agree or disagree with that, Phillip?

Phillip Parrish: 18:29

Absolutely. I can say that I wish I had achieved the mindset in my heart, in my spiritual life the way I, could have done it maybe 20, 20 years ago. It would've been nice. But yeah, to be in this place of peace and discernment that I'm in now it's not always easy. It's not always happy, but it's a place that I can go to a quiet place and be okay, and be good, and be complete and whole. Whereas 20, 30 years ago I was constantly not at peace. I was constantly not… And it wasn't about being happy or unhappy, it was about always struggling, always an- anxious, always looking at things from a w- a wrong point of view. And to get to where I am now, I, y- I w- again, back to being a parent, like r- for you and your son, it's, I wish I could… All that I've internalized and all that God has helped me sort out, I wish I could just help our children all be at that point right now and not have to go through it, but that's not part of what G- God designed. They… That's part of our Christian faith that's really, quite frankly, very powerful as compared to other alleged religions. God offers us a free invitation, and there… That free invitation is for us to learn and grow at and at a pace that God allows us free will and choice.

David Pasqualone: 20:07

Yeah, and that's, again, I just had this conversation with my son in the Bahamas, right? We were talking about free will and how if anybody loves you, especially your child, Because they have to, it actually hurts. Yeah. But when they love you because of choice, that free will that only God gives. Yeah. I know of no other religion in the world other than true Christianity, the Bible- Yep. That's great … where there's free will, right? Yep. Absolutely. And a true Christian… there was times where people were persecuted even by, the church, and there was so- supposedly crusades, but that was obviously not right. And when you kill anybody because they don't believe your way, that's wrong, right? Sure. Yeah. So when what Phillip's talking about is that loving balance and free will that God gives us. But again, we have listeners around the world who don't believe in Christ. We have listeners that do. Let's take a look at maybe something, not everybody's going to join the military. Not everybody can join the military. Sure. Only a small percent of the United States population will ever serve, and around the globe, most people likewise, they will not serve. But what are some things that you learned serving in the military that you brought through to today?

Phillip Parrish: 21:18

I think this is going to sound a little unusual maybe, but there… It requires some context. My English teacher in high school I showed up for a college prep class, and she won't mind that I said this because it's, w- we are on good terms with each other be- before she passed away. But she looked at me, she said,"Why are you in my class, Parrish? You're not even going to graduate from high school, let alone go to college. What are you even doing here?" So the context is I was horrible at spelling, I was horrible at reading, and what do I end up doing? I end up becoming this intelligence officer that's researching and writing and advising really high-profile leadership through the chain of command. And for me to grow up becoming this pl- the prolific writer that I am today and speaking engagements, and my- Mrs. Olsen, she, sh- I'm sure she's looking down from heaven going, "Oh, boy. Here he goes again." But I think she would be proud of me because yeah I had a hard time reading and writing and spelling. But becoming a military member, just that pride of America was in me from the very beginning. I know that there are some people amongst us that want to disparage America or look at just some shortcomings of our history, and that's easy to do, to always focus on the negative. But when you focus on the negative constantly, you overlook so much positive. The things that America accomplished as a basic Christian foundation. And our 250th anniversary is tying together… I don't know if anybody's interested in looking it up, but look up a message from Bishop Barron actually from originally from Rochester, Minnesota. Bishop Barron's message about the 250th s- celebrations that are coming up, and his message about how our faith in the public forum has been squashed away with this false idea that our faith doesn't belong in the public arena, and that we're starting to have a revival and bringing our faith back to the public arena and back to… We're not trying to create a theocracy. We're trying to recognize… So in my military career, I recognized- That my basic faith foundation was far more prevalent throughout our governance in America than what people really want to attribute to. And that's sad because they want to focus on some misfortune or they want to focus on things that went wrong. And there were people of ill intent, especially over the last 20 years. I am fully ready to dig into however deep you want to go into it, the evil I witnessed under… How I survived the Obama administration is some kind of miracle from God because I'm lucky I'm… They tried to send me to captain's mast twice. They, tried to get rid of me. But somehow myself and thousands like me survived the Obama administration. And now in Minnesota people surviving the Walz administration is pure miracle. These people are truly evil people and and maybe that's something we'll get into as well. But my military career brought so many things out of me that I never… I- it's totally the Holy Spirit because I never would have guessed, never would have been able to plan it, never would have been able to draw it out on a map, this is what I want to do or… I just woke up every day trying to do the best I could with what God gave me in front of me and try to do the best I could.

David Pasqualone: 25:12

Yeah, absolutely.. So go in as much as you can, that story the pressure, being someone that we'd consider a stable, balanced, God-fearing, American-loving human, what was that like under Obama?

Phillip Parrish: 25:29

So for context, I'm very blessed with the fact that I had some very good like-minded leaders in my chain of command or in my parallel chain of command. So those good, decent people who remain to this day, some of them known to me, some of them unknown to me, quite frankly, because there's, I know that there was a hand. God had a hand in righting some wrongs that I know he worked through people in the military that I didn't necessarily perceive at the time. But when I look back, I can see that they probably had a positive impact on why I survived nearly 22 years, not just physically and, not killed and stuff, but also emotionally and morally and ethically survived. So yeah, so 9/11, early in my intelligence career, that was under Bush. I didn't have a lot of perspective on what I'm about to say. The whole concept of nation building, the whole concept of spreading democracy, quote, unquote, that all sounded like a cool narrative to many of us. But there was something under the surface that had bothered me all along. Fast-forward, we get into Obama administration and I start to see and hear things and have to witness agendas and/or attitudes or paradigms that are just not… Something's just wrong here. This is not… It's off. There, there's a lie built into this that I can't accept. And me being the inquisitive person I am and I'm supposed to be an intelligence officer. I'm supposed to ask the hard questions. I'm supposed to be investigating and helping people make the truth out of things. And with the context of 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission and where did it go wrong, who's telling the truth, who didn't tell the truth, you automatically create a lot of people like me who is really taught then to dig into what's the whole truth here. So you get to, just random examples, no particular chronological timeline. 9/11 Benghazi, my colleagues and I, real time, I was on the watch floor, real time witnessed how Americans, how the dastardly lies people were told about 9/11 Benghazi. I'm hoping the audience can s- mostly audience can put the context in their minds as far as timeline. But When the American people were told the lies that they were told about Benghazi, the background to that was the fact that the Hillary Clinton State Department and Barack Obama, they destabilized North Africa on purpose. They, and I speak about this freely and openly and all the time ever since, especially since I retired because they de- they intentionally destabilized North Africa to include shipping in illegal weapons. They intentionally created a narrative called the Arab Spring that was nonexistent. It's literally from a State Department narrative. When people like me witness these kinds of things happen on purpose, not to present the truth to the American people, but to advocate a narrative and an agenda that was other than what they were telling the American people. And at times you're like what is the real agenda here?" Which we could probably spend weeks now talking about what I just brought up. But the bottom line is when you're a smart enough person to try and look at just facts and remove the emotions and remove people's politics and remove left versus right, red versus blue, and all this garbage, and just get down to facts it became quite disturbing emotionally, morally, ethically for me. And so that plus the Ukraine, I was on the watch floor during the annex of Crimea and the lies that the American people were told about that. I personally witnessed the election was stolen in 2020. It was literally stolen and I know for a fact that the intelligence community and what they did to President Trump is everything and more than what's finally coming to the public. Those kinds of things led me to be in pretty, some pretty contentious situations and somehow by the grace of God, again, I survived. Those are just a few examples of the more relevant or timely examples that I could give the public to relate to because you're seeing a lot of that evidence. COVID my team and I, this is interesting side segue maybe, but it's c- to the core of your question. Early in my intelligence career, I was witness to some intelligence information that if you hang with me here it'll come clear as to the context. A UN committee was being briefed on the… Why we had access to the information was nothing to do with this, but it was a sidebar benefit. This UN committee was being briefed on the ben- the progress they had made on overcoming AIDS, the AIDS ep- epidemic, and so on and so forth. And during the committee meeting, one of the… This is an audio thing I'm listening to. One of the persons said we can't have that." Shocked the people in the room."What do you mean we can't have that?" And no kidding, this high-level United Nations official said, quote, unquote, "How are we going to control the population?" What? What the… What do you mean? And I'm just a young analyst at that time, not necessarily in age, but in experience. I'm a young analyst going, "What the heck was that about?" That stuck in my head for decades. And I'm in this intelligence experience where we're being briefed on a United Nations meeting, and this person says we can't have this progress in AIDS. How are we going to control the population?" It stuck with me all through my career then because now fast-forward, I'm involved with, after being on several different task forces and having to prepare what we call preparing the battle space, we have situations where we as intelligence officials are trying to make sure our soldier- sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines are safe. So you're studying the threats of the environment, biological warfare, nuclear warfare, chemical, biological weapons, so on and so forth. Hang with me. You get to COVID, and a light bulb goes on in my head. I've seen this before. We're talking about- What's now Tulsi Gabbard just put out more information just a few days ago. The chemical and biological weapons research that was being done for decades, but under Obama, the Obama administration got caught funding chemical and biological weapons research that was against the Geneva Convention. It was against international law. During that process, it got exposed, and then the Barack Obama, the Obama administration took a victory lap saying, "Oh, we've stopped the funding of chemical and biological weapons research." And so they stopped the funding through the Pentagon and took a victory lap. But in the end, what they did was they funneled all the money through USAID into hundreds of NGOs and LLCs doing the same research under a different auspice. And us in the intelligence community witnessed the phrase gain of function be introduced instead of chemical and biological weapons research. They introduced the phrase gain of function research to skirt or omit or deceive the public from, "Okay, we took this victory lap. We're not funding this illegal activity anymore." But in the end, they, that's exactly what they were doing. They was, they were continuing it just through a different funding stream. So that connects to your earlier question and to the upcoming conversation of how, many of us in this position of having to ethically and morally deal with what's going on here, and how applicable it is to what all of us are discovering, how a portion, a small percentage… Most Americans and most service members, most bureaucrats, although bureaucrat has become a dirty name most people are trying to do the right thing. But one of the challenges that I've seen or that I summarize now in my life at this point is I'm trying to help people get on an off-ramp- And ha- have a way to provide an off-ramp to some thinking and some paradigms that is hard for people to let go of. We love our country, we love our people, we love our leaders. But how do you take someone who has been 15, 20, 25, 30 years believing one way of thinking and that everything's cool and we're the best, to realize that there's a small percentage of people that really do intend harm? We couldn't be at a better time in history to start pulling apart those narratives and those mindsets, because there truly is a percentage of people among us. It's a small percentage, but that evil has had a chance to grow exponentially without pushback.

David Pasqualone: 35:01

And that'll transition us into the next segment. But before we move on into the next segment, is there anything we missed, Phillip, between your birth and today before we transition to what to expect when you're in office as lieutenant governor of Minnesota?

Phillip Parrish: 35:20

I've been writing wr- especially writing music for a long time, and it's part of how I've stayed healthy. Now I simply write. I just write constantly. Sometimes I write two, three articles a day, and it's a part of my life that has helped keep me healthy and strong, and it's helped me sort out and discern what's just noise and what keeps me centered on the truth. And y- if you could see my writing process, you'd probably, I- you'd either laugh or think, "Oh, he's some kind of genius." But I'm not. I'm just that determined to just get to the truth. And even after… There's some articles I'll be on my seventh or eighth or ninth version of the article, and I'll still find something wrong with it. But I guess that the big thing is just so much writing and research and prayer. A lot of prayer.

David Pasqualone: 36:13

Yeah, absolutely. I know that, Jesus said, "Cast your cares upon me, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." And a lot of times I'll journal or write and almost just like everything that's bothering me, just dump it and give it to God, and then I feel so much better, and go back to bed and sleep like a baby. Yeah. And you said journaling and writing has helped you just process life, correct?

Phillip Parrish: 36:33

Yep, absolutely. Yeah. I strongly recom- I strongly recommend it. Actually, I will recommend one other behavior piece that I learned, and this is something I share with everyone, my family, and when I'm at speaking engagements, with my children. When you're in those moments of struggles and pain, and you're anxious or you're hurting, resort, r- rely on prayer. I s- for me, I call it behavior substitution. It's not a new phrase. I'm sure s- plenty of psychologists use it. But behavior substitution. If I can't sleep, I'm anxious, I'm may- maybe getting angry, I say a prayer repeatedly. For me, it's the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary, and I just repeat it over and over again till I start to forget wait a minute. Where was I at in the Lord's Prayer?" And okay, now I'm off of whatever I was focused on, and I'm back to being a little bit more centered. And f- so behavior substitution. And if you want one behavior that'll help you get away from negative behaviors, quiet yourself and pray a prayer, a favorite prayer or a favorite song. Do it repeatedly in your head till you get back to being centered and grounded

David Pasqualone: 37:45

Yeah. I actually, this isn't disagreeing with you, but I do what you're saying with one addition. I do it out loud. And the reason why I'll read the scripture out loud or say it out loud is Because I know that when Jesus was in the garden being tempted by Satan, he always quoted it out loud to get rid of Satan. And I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just saying for me, I do it out loud. You said you, you do it quietly in your head, right?

Phillip Parrish: 38:08

Yep.

David Pasqualone: 38:09

Yeah. So either way, ladies and gentlemen, you choose what works for you. Pray about it and go. I just like saying it out loud. That's me. That's perfect. Even sometimes… Yeah. Sometimes I'll play the Bible… we used to have the Bible on cassette, right? And then the Bible- … on CD. Now we have Alexa and these devices. Yeah. Sometimes if I'm feeling really oppressed, I'll just play the Bible in the background. That way if Satan's anywhere nearby, he just gets, him and his minions don't want to be around. Just play the word of God.

Phillip Parrish: 38:35

Or how powerful is a s- how powerful is a song? Yes. Your favorite Christian song. This might sound really elementary-ish, but my mother taught us many Christian songs as children. And you will catch me singing when I'm a little bit stressed even at work here at Divine Mercy, I, you- the staff will catch me singing some, childhood song. And they'll go, "Okay, what's going on, Phil? We know the trigger here. You're singing a positive song, so what are we really fighting?" And it's just a funny anecdote for the staff to share that they recognize m- my behaviors, and that I'm combating some negative or, yeah, pushing out Satan.

David Pasqualone: 39:14

Yeah. And then you know what? You made a point that not everybody sees these days. You said your favorite childhood song. When we were children, there was, like, Jesus loves me, this I know. Yeah. Yeah. These fun- fundamental songs that were simple, but they taught real clear biblical doctrine. So I don't want to- Yeah … speak for you, but you're not talking about songs that want to make you get up and dance, and your favorite tune. No. You're talking about songs that it's about not I, me, and my, but about Jesus, and love, and his sacrifice. Yeah. That's what you're talking about.

Phillip Parrish: 39:43

Yeah, my earliest memory climb up Sunshine Mountain, heavenly breezes blow. Climb, climb up Sunshine Mountain, faces all aglow. Turn from sin and sorrow. Look to God on high." Those kinds of things. Yeah. We just, I it became a way to overcome the darkness, so to speak.

David Pasqualone: 40:04

Yeah. There is so much in those good old hymnal songs and child songs. There's so much truth. Not the… I get upset with a lot of the 7-11 songs. They make you want to go to a concert, but they really don't bring you closer to Jesus. So be careful, ladies and gentlemen.

Phillip Parrish: 40:19

Yeah.

David Pasqualone: 40:19

All right, let's move to part two of this about you are running with Mike Lindell. He's running as governor. You're running as lieutenant governor. What are some of the things, what do you believe and why needs to change in Minnesota, Phillip?

Phillip Parrish: 40:36

So Mike and I have a shared experience on two problem sets that have run parallel for a long time. Mike got really focused on the election integrity stuff, and I was always focused on the fraud stuff. And in not knowing each other, that parallel history of what our state has gone through, I couldn't think of a better team right now because we have a set of attributes and experiences that are direl- directly related to Minnesota's challenges that we have a keen understanding about. Because election fraud in Minnesota is far worse than anybody is publishing or talking about. The fraud in Minnesota, you're finally starting to hear more and more of the truth about what people and I, like I have been doing for, well over 10 years we've been trying to tell the truth. And our experience separately, and now shared, matches up in a way where we will be able to come after all angles of this fraudulent behavior. That is a great starting point. Now, the depth and understanding of business practices social practices, social agendas we both have grown up witnessing how Mike c- obviously can speak for himself with regards to his personal challenges early in life and how tho- those led him… I got a chance to do an event with him the other day, and he really related clearly how his challenges that he faced in life are directly allowing him to be able to look at some of our social challenges in a very unique way, in a very meaningful way for a great deal of Minnesotans. When you talk about addiction and you talk about how people treat these are core concepts that he can really provide insight into why these social programs are working or not working and so on and so forth. I've had a dramatic and depth of understanding of how… There's a piece I wrote called The 30 Year Heist, and it talks about how our legislators were the true beginnings of what I call a thieving and grifting pipeline. And what I mean by that is Minnesota legislators are- Some of the worst of destabilizing foreign countries and then creating the legislation statewide and federal, which involves Amy Klobuchar clear back to 30, 40 years ago, legislators creating a Munchausen's by proxy industry. We create the need or the dramatic, a way to exploit the American people or the Minnesotans taxpayers in a way that exploits our generosity and our care and concern, and then we funnel in people that some of them genuinely got help or maybe need help. But the need was created by a policy and a destabilization agenda that allowed these legislators to put into practice ways to thieve and grift off of the taxpayer, both federal and state money. That created this systemic build of what… For example, there's over 400 NGOs in Minnesota. You'd think that by now, 40 years later, 400 NGOs and trillions of dollars that have gone through the NGOs we should have saved the world by now. So y- you gotta think to yourself what's the real purpose here?" And then you fast-forward into now Minnesota with Tim Walz being exposed for the autism fraud, the housing fraud, the daycare fraud, the Medicaid fraud, and on the list goes. It's no longer happenstance. It's actually you can prove through time and behavior patterns how it was intentional. And Mike and I have witnessed these kinds of behaviors, both on the social level, the economic level the moral and ethical level. We have witnessed these things in our personal lives and professional lives in a way that brings strong skills and attributes to going after why it's wrong and how it can be fixed

David Pasqualone: 45:02

Yes. And ladies and gentlemen, I hope, I truly hope and pray that all citizens of Minnesota and the United States are listening to this episode because it doesn't matter if you're a quote unquote liberal or conservative, doesn't matter if you're a Democrat, a Republican, a socialist, a communist. If you are an American, what's going on in Minnesota is going on through the whole country. Okay? But Minnesota is to the point where it was so flagrant, and then you had someone appointed to run for president of the United States, which didn't even go through her party, and who did she choose for her running mate? Walz. Yep. And then the same man who is so corrupt, and his hand is in everything evil in the state, Amy Klobuchar is watching it all and doing nothing. Now she wants to run in and step in as governor. So this is all, like Phillip was saying the 30-year heist. There's just year after year of building corruption and them laughing in the face. So if you are a citizen of Minnesota and you're a liberal and you're listening to this, or you've been voting Democrat your whole life, two plus two is four. What is best truly for you today? What is best for the next generation? And what's really going to help Minnesota thrive in the United States and not go bankrupt and be taken over by illegals? There's nothing wrong with immigration to America and Minnesota, but there's a huge problem where you're like France and other countries who let so many in, they've lost their own country. And Minnesota is being flooded with illegals. Look at some of the senators. And they're- Yep … immoral, terrible humans doing things against Minnesota, doing things against the United States, and they're stealing your money and your future….

Phillip Parrish: 47:08

yeah, absolutely accurate, 100%. And it really is premeditated. And one of the biggest challenges that I've had over the last 10 years after coming off of my last set of active duty orders was helping people to start to dig into what you just said and feel like they're not a horrible person for digging into it. There's something in the mindset of a Midwesterner of always looking at almost like a guilt thing. We've got so much, we're so blessed, we need to help the unfortunate. The mindset wasn't prepared for the fact that you have fake unfortunate A staged unfortunate, a premeditated narrative of unfortunate that in some pieces of the puzzle, there's a thread of truth, but it was weaponized by our legislators into a way to create a thieving and grifting machine that they didn't care anything about the people from Laos, the peoples from Somalia, the people that they've trafficked. It's human trafficking. They've trafficked from South America. They're… These legislators that created these policies and these mindsets and this exploitation of our human condition, they don't have any care or concern for people, for the actual human being. All they care about is that you believe in their narrative and keep funneling them cash and fees, taxes and fees to pay for their grift. It truly is that sick and evil. And for the average Minnesotan 10 years ago, one out of 100 might listen to me. Five years ago, people… And during COVID, people were like, "Whoa, time out. What just happened? And what was Phil saying all this time?" Then you fast-forward to the last 12 months, and it's like, "What? Was I sleeping? Was I in a coma? W- when did all this happen?" And some people are embarrassed by it, they don't… Nobody likes being wrong. Nobody likes being humiliated by their own behaviors or their own choices. But somehow here in Minnesota, we have gotten to the point where Especially after COVID where more and more people are ready for this message and ready for this question, and the questioning of the leaders that were allegedly benevolent, and that benevolent idea was all sold under a lie. So i- it's a really interesting dynamic that, an opportunity we have now.

David Pasqualone: 49:49

100%. And Phillip, I thank you for being here today, and I know you had to pull over to get this call, and I appreciate you and our listeners appreciate you. We have a couple minutes left in the show. I do not want to rush you. I want to respect your time, though. Is there anything else that you want to say? When I'm in office, this is the first thing Mike and I are doing, or is there any just closing thoughts you want to share with our remarkable community?

Phillip Parrish: 50:17

So on Mike's website and my website mine is parish4mn.com, P-A-R-R-I-S-H, the number 4, M-N.com. You can see a lot of what both of us, what I've been writing about, and then on Mike's website as well you can see what we've been writing about. And you can see in there a lot of care and concern for the truth and helping people get to an outcome that is not just bullet points on a spreadsheet to make somebody happy. It actually has substance to it. So especially when Mike and I are in office, I know in his head and in his ethics and morals he's going after especially social programs in a healthy and productive way of helping people, actual needing people that need help, to get that done without all of the, 80 s- 80, 90% of it going to fraud. Mike has a clear direction in how to get those programs done without all the fraud. I have a clear history of being able to tear apart fake companies, investigate the mechanisms behind fraud, and you can count on us to, to get that done and to cooperate with the federal government. Some of the things that you'll see from us sound a little frivolous to some people, but s- just take the flag, for example. Our Minnesota flag, if the audience doesn't fully understand what happened with this flag that was instituted while the Democrats had a trifecta they call it. They had the House and the Senate and the governor's office, and they installed this flag that has nothing to do with Minnesota. I know it seems a little silly to some people, but it's not. It's more than that. I- it's a ripping apart of our fabric of our who we are in Minnesota. It's not an ethic or a ethnicity thing. It's not a white people versus Native Americans thing. In fact, Native Americans are more upset with the flag change than some, Minnesotans who have … never from here originally. And but res- restoring the flag having some common sense. I love that you brought up two plus two ver- was four. That kind of struck me because one of the primary concepts that I use is, when I'm talking with people, is two plus two is four. If you try to convince me that it's five, you're going to have a bad day.

David Pasqualone: 52:44

Yeah, exactly.

Phillip Parrish: 52:45

And north is north, to steal a phrase from Supreme Court Justice Thomas. North is north. Yeah. It's not changing. We're supposed to be the … W- what did they call us for decades? The North Star of the United States, minnesota was the North Star. Boy, could we… would it be amazing to get back to some ethics and some integrity, where north is north, we're the North Star of the United States, and just have that respect and integrity and decency with people, and not be shamed into believing that we're bad people because we don't… or we're called racist if we don't believe what they claim that they want to shove down our throats. I believe that Minnesotans are going to see a very determined, not just Mike and I, but our team that we have, the volunteers that we have, are just salt of the earth, hardworking, persistent, determined people that I believe if Minnesotans really open up and are willing to take a look at things and question what they've been told, especially by Minnesota's media, oh my goodness- They're going to find a really wonderful group of people that will lead with integrity and decency.

David Pasqualone: 53:59

Yes, and I want to… Personally, I don't live in Minnesota, but I live in the United States, and I love the United States. And please, ladies and gentlemen, listen to this episode. Share it with your friends and family. Think about the five years or 10 years or 20 years from now, if you can. Even just five months from now. Mike and Phillip are sacrificing their lives and time just to help the country. Two plus two is four. And most of the, quote-unquote, "good people" in America, they just think all the politicians are scumbags. They think nothing's going to change, it doesn't matter Democrat or Republican. And historically, you've been right, but now we're in a different day and age. We have men like Donald Trump, the businessmen like Phillip and Mike. They're going into office saying, "We're tired of this. We're cleaning up the mess." So please, even if you don't think it's going to change anything, listen, don't waste your vote. Get up, go to the voting booth, give them your vote if you believe they're the best men for the job, and get someone with sanity back in Minnesota to secure your future, to get your taxes down, to get your childrens' and grandchildrens' a place to live that's happy and safe and wonderful, not where they're moving out. Liberal corporations.

Phillip Parrish: 55:25

Yep. UnitedHealthcare, Target, Starbucks. One after another. One after another, especially Target, how liberal they've been. And they're moving out.

David Pasqualone: 55:34

Yeah. So if the most liberal of liberal are moving out of the community, do you understand, ladies and gentlemen, that means no jobs, no income. That means you pay more taxes, and you have less opportunity for work. So listen, Phillip, it's been an honor having you on the show. Any other final thoughts or just like promises before we end this episode? And then also, how can someone help support, get involved, donate, the whole works?

Phillip Parrish: 56:02

Absolutely. First of all, God bless you all. Thank you for your time. And if you get to the website, whether it's mine or Mike's, we have , a county ambassador program. Become a county ambassador. There's 87 counties in Minnesota, and you be- can become a point person or a co-point person in your county and help people coordinate events, help people coordinate sign deliveries, help people coordinate messaging. You can participate in the team. We have, we're starting to have weekly Zoom calls where the team can get together and talk about ideas and concerns. So there's lots of different ways to get involved. Make sure you pay attention to how important the primary is. Minnesota, despite the, all the talk about the endorsement conventions and all endorsement processes, the truth is about Minnesota, we are actually a primary state. The pub- the media and the political establishment, they want you to believe it's only an endorsement state. That's a lie. It's actually a primary state. And get to the August 11th primary and make sure Mike and I are on the general election ballot. We need your help with regards to votes. We need your help with regards to sign deliveries. We need your help with organizing events. And just be kind and talk to your family and friends. Open the door to a conversation that you've been avoiding. Have courage. Be patient and kind, but have courage and be firm. This is relating back to the earlier part of our conversation where you have unhealthy people in your life- Take a chance. Set a boundary."This behavior is not healthy and it's not productive for you, your family, your children. Let's talk about this." And be brave enough to have the conversation.

David Pasqualone: 57:50

I agree 100%. And ladies and gentlemen, think on your own. Take any topic and say, "Okay, what has Tim Walz done? What does Amy Klobuchar plan to do?" If it's even listed. But just say, "Okay, if they believe in this, what does that cause? And then what does that cause?" And just follow the trail. And most of what these people are voting for, it's coming back to their own personal gain and a really evil communist agenda. So Phillip, I really appreciate you being on the show. If I was in Minnesota, I would be voting for you and Mike hands down, no question. I really appreciate. You're a remarkable man, and thanks for spending time with our community today.

Phillip Parrish: 58:34

Thank you very much for having me. God bless you all.

David Pasqualone: 58:37

Oh, amen. And ladies and gentlemen, like our slogan says, Listen. Do. Repeat. For Life! Take what Phillip taught you, apply it to your life. Have the boldness to go out there, because if you have that peace with God, good or bad, quote, "days" don't matter. You have that foundation on the rock. And when you're out there, share this episode, not so we can have more downloads, but so more people can hear the truth and we can turn America back. And when I say back, back to a thriving economy if you're a non-believer, and if you are a believer, back to God. That's it. Any other final thought, Phillip, before we wrap this up?

Phillip Parrish: 59:17

Thank you. Well done. Good stuff.

David Pasqualone: 59:19

All right. We love you, ladies and gentlemen. Share this and we'll see you in the next episode. Ciao!