Matter of Facts: Shots Fired!!!

[00:00:03] Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns and politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at MwefPodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram.

[00:00:14] You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Rabbley and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic and here's your show.

[00:00:22] Bear with me a second. I was dealing with some technical difficulties I was trying to remedy at the absolute last minute so we just barely got everything stood up in time before the

[00:00:32] intro ran out. But that's kind of been the story of life lately with hopping from one foot to the other trying desperately to beat deadlines. Well, which is why we're having an 8am morning show on

[00:00:46] a Friday morning when we should have a podcast going out because I was traveling for work and got home yesterday evening and I'm about to go on a family vacation and this was like the one time we could slip this in. So for the audience that's listening,

[00:01:01] dad gum it we're trying. This is the Mof morning show. Yes it is 8am. No and I tried. I tried to snag somebody to jump on but with my work schedule and stuff it just

[00:01:19] yeah it just didn't work out so I'm glad that this happened so yeah and under under more normal circumstances like normally when I travel for work I'm traveling by POV I'm staying within my home state and in cases like that like we both have fully mobile podcast

[00:01:36] setups like if I had been if it had been a normal normal an air quotes travel trip then I would have had a mobile my mobile rig and you and I could have got together like late one

[00:01:47] evening early one morning we could have figured something out while I was out of pocket. But in this case I could not bring any of that and we'll talk about that on the back end of the show but

[00:01:59] this work trip has exposed some glaring holes in my preparedness plans. Yeah but you know I don't some of those might be holes for which there is there just is no plug but specific to running a podcast I couldn't do it off my work laptop couldn't

[00:02:20] didn't have the room to bring a whole another hard case of podcast stuff so it was kind of like it just had to wait and thankfully we got we managed to get together this morning to make

[00:02:30] that happen. I mean yeah but administrative work we apparently picked up one more new pot with one more new patron right before I left and another one I'm trying to make contact

[00:02:43] with while I was gone. So to the patrons who support the show as always thank y'all you'll make this possible all this anarchy possible and if you don't like anarchy I don't know why you're

[00:02:55] supported this show because that's usually what it turns into but I digress um merge so the southern gals handles are merge a matter of fact I did not throw on a shirt this morning like

[00:03:07] I swore I would this is one of our current designs brace yourself and Gillian has recently gone through a whole revamp of raising values that like I would like to see the two of us embrace

[00:03:24] towards matter of facts because like I have some ideas in my head I need to get out of my head I need to get to get her to turn into graphics and I would like to see us make the merge a bit

[00:03:35] more ours a little cheekier and more fun but merchandise if you do choose to wear the gear and buy the merch and support the podcast in that way understand that not only does it support

[00:03:47] this podcast but it also directly supports a small home business which is why we took that business away from teespring and gave it to the southern gals well I mean everybody's heard

[00:03:57] this bill before if I have to throw money in somebody's pocket I'd much rather be a small shop around here in mandeville than jeff bsos via amazon I'd rather go to a small business that's

[00:04:08] that's just uh call it a baseline principle with me yeah um the other thing too is uh I know chris uh we were talking about it um about uh getting him on uh and he's trying

[00:04:25] to snag his wife as well but uh we're gonna get him on and we're gonna discuss a couple things and um yeah just basically just kind of talk about the merch and what they offer and

[00:04:39] stuff like that because they offer a ton uh it's very interesting what she can do so it's great so mm-hmm um the other thing I want to really throw out there is operation skywalker uh if you have

[00:04:53] not seen our show uh regarding this this whole thing this whole ordeal uh let me know uh very kind gentleman uh was he defended himself against three individuals uh ended up killing one

[00:05:09] in self-defense and uh he was put in jail uh for what do you think about 100 and I think was 106 days I can't remember exactly oh no longer than that I'm sorry I'm uh yeah it's uh but anyway he

[00:05:22] was he was placed in jail uh unconstitutionally he was tortured uh I mean a number of things that this guy went through that should not be happening uh with something like this uh it's pretty

[00:05:37] crazy no but anyway uh there's it's called operation skywalker it's a goph it's a give send go so please if you check check out the link in the description if you go over to the matter of facts instagram page

[00:05:55] you can find information there as well but you can also uh just go out go over there and if you can please donate uh any amount helps if you it could be one two five a hundred dollars I don't

[00:06:07] care what you do um just please get over there and donate this guy he had his life ripped out from under him and uh he had to sell a lot just to get uh to cover lawyer fees and stuff like

[00:06:19] that so this is all going to him just to get him and his wife them just like back basically back under their feet yeah or their feet back under him sorry and if anybody needs a refresher on like

[00:06:29] what we're talking about June 21st was that episode release called when good shoots go bad it's an hour and 45 minutes long and uh it's not the first time I've heard of a nightmare happen

[00:06:45] for a concealed carrier but it might be a high watermark like it's it's pretty shocking to hear what it even though by any reasonable metric we could say it was a good shoot and in that situation most

[00:06:58] reasonable reasonable people would have done the same thing but it's still just shocking to hear the legal have a legal how the justice system like predispose the case and did everything possible to just beat him into submission so he would eventually just take a plea and roll over

[00:07:16] and well it was the not only wasn't the judge but the prosecutor the corrupt prosecutor police the police the corrupt the corrupt sheriff's deputy that tried to handle on his own everything I mean from the only thing like the only good thing that came out of this was

[00:07:38] the guy he lived he he evaded you know he fended off the attackers unfortunately someone did lose their life but it was in complete like self-defense where you can't you can't look at this and say no that's not a good shoot morning morning but uh

[00:07:55] but yeah it's uh it's it's pretty interesting it's it's crazy um so yeah go take go take a gander at it uh and yeah like I said it's on mof the instagram page I know if you guys if anybody

[00:08:09] here follows uh mdfi uh trek the guys over mdfi have been really pushing it too but yeah if you guys could please just go over and donate this guy is we need to try to help this guy the gun

[00:08:21] community if the gun community could come behind something it'd be nice if they could rally behind something like this uh and that's what I'm hoping so the poor guy should write a

[00:08:31] book about this it would yeah it would sell I mean it's like it's like like I said like me having met the person who this happened to it it sounds like fiction like there's no way it could be this bad

[00:08:44] but we know better so I guess let's talk about the uh I was about to see the orange elephant in the room but I'm not going to take that pot shot at President Trump I just couldn't help myself for

[00:08:59] a moment but let's let's talk about the assassination attempt of on President Trump which I'm not gonna lie I was not looking forward to talking about because mercifully I was on a work trip when social media

[00:09:14] I was I was home when it happened I was kind of surprised when this trip wasn't canceled to be perfectly honest given what was going on but I was mercifully tied up when uh social media

[00:09:28] just went ballistic with the conspiracy theories and the was it staged did the Trump campaign stage this to boost his numbers yeah yeah there's one that they they're like oh there is one I think I saw

[00:09:43] that some leftists was pushing basically they called for the assassination basically the entire four years he was in and then all the way moving forward they've been really wanting you know

[00:09:54] all we need is head on a spike you know on a pike basically through the all the hearings and then it was uh oh I can see him he put blood on it he put fake blood on his ear I can see you

[00:10:07] know he did that you know he went down it yeah it was uh he hit his head on the desk that has to be my favorite one yeah yeah it was uh it was pretty crazy I mean yeah it it's nuts the crap

[00:10:21] that has come out of this I mean will there always be conspiracy theories of everything yes there will be uh but I don't know I I'm a I'm a type of person who I like to see evidence and I like to see as

[00:10:33] things get come out I like to see uh that's when I make my conspiracy theories is when a bunch of evidence drops and then it just like it doesn't make sense kind of like this whole situation

[00:10:46] like I mean we won't get into that right now because I think there's more there's more dropping but we're getting into a little bit of it because there's already there's already

[00:10:53] evidence or details here that just don't line up for me but go ahead no no but uh I all I know is if you want to if you want to defeat the federal government just put a slightly sloped uh whatever

[00:11:08] like a ramp um if your roof is like a little bit slanted you're fine uh something that will just defeat them from going over it or on it so uh you're safe that's how we defeat the federal

[00:11:21] government I know Biden said we would need like air or not air 15s but uh like f-15s and all kinds of stuff if you know we had to do it but uh nope just a sloped roof that uh that that gets that

[00:11:34] that stops them every single time so yeah well apparently also like despite the fact that you know our that was it like 160 million americans with air 15s you know isn't enough to resist

[00:11:48] tyranny but one string being 20 year old soy boy with an air 15 and a command detonated ied in his vehicle that is enough to potentially take out a presidential candidate so here's here's the thing I don't want to indulge in like rampant conspiracy theory nonsense because

[00:12:06] like it's exhausting it's a hole without end but let me let me just I just have one thing I got to talk about with you man with regards to this first of all like I'm thankful that

[00:12:19] president trump survived the attack regardless of whether or not I support the guy like I feel like when we get we as a nation reach the point where we where like it's open season

[00:12:35] on political candidates I feel like we're at we've reached a tipping point that we're not going to come back from you know I'm saying once that starts to become the norm we've reached a tipping

[00:12:46] point we're not coming back from and that's I've said before you know on several occasions like you and I have even had this conversation when we get really frustrated with world around us and we say okay it's time for a reset like asteroid financial collapse it's time for

[00:12:59] it's time for something to sweep the idiots off the off the table but even as I say that I tell people very often I'm like I don't want to I don't want that world because I understand that I have

[00:13:13] within me the ability to be as vicious as necessary to survive in that world but my wife and daughter don't I don't want my wife and daughter to live in that world and I don't want

[00:13:22] my wife and daughter to live in the world where politicians get assassinated in broad daylight as a regular event you know I'm saying like I don't I don't want to go there I think

[00:13:35] I think if you want to defeat a presidential candidate you got to defeat him at the ballot box and it has to be done in such a transparent way that there is no question he was defeated

[00:13:45] at the ballot box if my candidate gets defeated at the ballot box then our ideas were not the best ideas and that's the way it was but if you cheat at the ballot box if you assassinate

[00:13:54] my candidate if you do those things we're going to go to a place nobody really wants to go so that's that's my whole spiel on that but here Andrew here's the thing I can't I can't quite wrap my head

[00:14:06] around maybe you could help me with this so the secret service is supposed to be some of the most you know chisel jawed not an inch of fat on them highly trained pipe hitting him you

[00:14:21] know paramilitary force in our country right I mean they protect the president they protect dignitaries they protect some of our most high-risk people in this country right supposed to be okay so you're going to convince me that this very highly trained highly funded well equipped group

[00:14:44] let a 20 year old soy boy string bean 150 yards inside their perimeter with a rifle to take a shot at the president when he'd been reported to them when they saw him on a roof

[00:14:58] for multiple minutes before he took the shot well I think they know they knew about they've known about them for three hours let me get it all out all that and then people in the crowd

[00:15:10] were reporting it these highly trained badasses let this little knucklehead do all this because they're in there that incompetent at their jobs sell me that idea because the other option here is that if the secret service is not that incompetent

[00:15:31] then you're convincing me that this 20 year old kid who by the way did not demonstrate great marksmanship principles but somehow managed to put somehow managed to have a command detonated

[00:15:42] ID in his vehicle which is a whole new bucket of weird because like I went through classes on how to identify IDs they're not super difficult to build I mean people in caves and third world

[00:15:56] countries build them so they're not that hard to build but it's a skill the average 20 year old doesn't possess and you have to go looking for that information and by the way if you do

[00:16:06] with that a VPN the FBI shows up on your door you know like it's a thing there's just so much weird about this kid and about this incident like he's either the second coming of

[00:16:18] James Bond and he managed to outwit the entire secret service detail or they're so freaking incompetent at their jobs that these boobs let this 20 year old knucklehead damn they're assassinated presidential candidate and it's got to be one or the other which one neither one

[00:16:34] makes sense or could be both okay but I mean that's a thing that's in there you know the thing is though is the director of the secret service has been out because people are

[00:16:49] calling for resignation and she's out basically trying to play right but she's out she's out playing damage control and stuff and she said she said basically I think it was I mean the whole sloped

[00:17:03] roof thing when the counter team that was on the other side alongside Trump was I mean if you look at the pitch of their roof it was way more than what that one was there was a picture of a cow on

[00:17:17] top of a slope roof like you get you guys couldn't put a SWAT team on this but you could a cow got up there the idea that there was a ladder sitting right there that he climbed up a ladder so so that's

[00:17:31] a thing is I don't and that's the things I don't know and from what the accounts that I've been reading to is they've known they knew about him like roughly for like I think it was like three

[00:17:41] hours prior to this like they've known they knew about this kid uh you know the he was what he tons of and I mean I really hate the idea I hate today is society where we pull phones out at the

[00:17:56] craziest moments of well hey we need to like flee or get in and help but people are like no I need to record this uh that on the other hand goes second hand to where it's actually thankfully

[00:18:10] that there is there because there's a ton of video evidence out there and there's a ton more that we have not seen yet so the idea that they've got this kid walking around just aimlessly uh the

[00:18:24] when people are pointing out about it there's people that were pointing out saying hey there's a guy that there's somebody on the roof there's with a gun all kinds of stuff pointed out to the to the

[00:18:33] people or to the cops that were sitting there the local leo and stuff um the fence that was actually in the way that they couldn't bypass like they were having a hard time because there's a

[00:18:45] there was a big fence that was up uh and apparently though from one thing that I was reading was that they couldn't get around the fence that easy so that just a fail on their end uh the idea that

[00:18:55] I I believe I also saw this was has been confirmed uh again if it's not uh I'm I apologize and please correct me but I did read another article from mainstream that they uh there was

[00:19:08] like a SWAT team that was actually in that building but they because of the roof and because of like the how hot it was and stuff like that they actually were inside that building uh like on

[00:19:19] the second floor or whatever um so I mean and then the thing is though is with the this kid I don't know I mean I had no no anything about him I am glad that he is dead uh but uh

[00:19:33] you know if you have anybody that has any common knowledge of the dark web uh you can you can find this you can find plans and all kinds of stuff on there uh if anybody's familiar

[00:19:47] with the tour browser the vpns and stuff like that it's it this you can definitely uh get in uh get into some get into some information so uh is it feasible that this kid looked up on how

[00:20:00] to do all kinds of stuff and then yeah it is feasible uh it's also feasible that uh this was a plan was an estimation attempt uh and this is where my conspiracy theory kind of kicks in uh with all

[00:20:13] of the loopholes everything going on uh who know you know I I mean the CIA has been behind a lot of stuff uh I killed I believe kill two candidates we can start there yeah that's what I'm saying

[00:20:26] is like I'm a firm believer that the CIA is behind JFK uh well two Kennedys um I'm pretty you know that's a thing and so I don't know I mean it's crazy I'm I'm curious to see where more information

[00:20:41] comes out it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to follow uh as more information comes out so I just it's just one of those things where you look at what happened you're like all right

[00:20:53] cool like what happened was crazy because people did lose their lives that got shot uh in the whole during the whole ordeal uh and so yeah I don't know I just I really hope that uh uh Trump can

[00:21:11] I like I I've said before Trump can kind of take this and go a couple different ways with it and one way is he he really pushes basically that the left has uh they try to silence him in the courts

[00:21:26] which didn't work and they and then so they turned them they decided to try to uh assassinate them and that didn't work either so where do we go from here but the other side that I'm hoping

[00:21:36] he doesn't go down is gun control especially since the GOP basically they the Republican National Committee they removed uh they basically removed the idea of the talking points of supporting Second Amendment rights they kind of silently removed it from their platform so I'm kind of hoping

[00:21:57] that uh they don't go down this route because all the momentum that Trump has gained uh popularity basically the number boost that he got from this attempt on his life uh if he starts pushing

[00:22:11] basically so if he starts pushing the gun control and all kinds of stuff uh he's gonna lose it oh but here's it's so but here's the beauty and I was I was actually like making this comment on another

[00:22:22] social media account just yesterday um conservative Peter Felicia on his account but um I made the comment he was talking about like supporting candidates depending on what they're doing basically like we can't be all in on team Trump or team Biden we can't be all in on any

[00:22:39] one candidate we have to you know support what they support when they're supporting us and when they don't we need to call them out on it and I said that's that's where having principles comes into

[00:22:50] in play because when you have principles you support a candidate when the their principles align with yours and then you should post them mercilessly make memes about them when they screw the pooch you know and I think that is an important standard to live by politically

[00:23:06] is that you had you had you cannot you cannot look at Donald J Trump or Joseph R. Biden's you know platform and say this is what I'm gonna model myself after and then in four years I'm

[00:23:18] going to change the whole thing it's not how this works which you have to do is you have to decide every single issue and in my case like we're gun rights are concerned I'm easy to

[00:23:27] figure out I think we should be able to buy machine guns out of vending machines until we can do that I we're not having a conversation about winning back gun rights in

[00:23:34] my humble opinion but like that's me and I'm an I'm a I'm an extremist in air quotes and I'm okay with that because I do have a very extreme opinion on gun gun rights and gun control

[00:23:46] but that is my principle whoever pushes the needle in the direction I want to go is okay with me and if they push in the wrong direction I'm gonna scream and yell about it because

[00:23:54] that's my principle in play but I have other principles that don't always line up perfectly with Republicans so I have to have principles and I have to conduct myself according to those principles and I have to allow my opinion of politicians to be shaped by those

[00:24:13] principles so if the Donald starts going the wrong direction on gun control you can fully expect to have to pull out that blood pressure warning name because I will go through the ceiling

[00:24:25] just like I just like it did during the bump stock ban just like we did I mean like we've done this before with Donald Trump when he started getting silly about guns about you

[00:24:33] know farm stuff we both went nuts yeah yeah so uh yeah so I'm curious to see where this goes uh I mean I I'm pretty sure I I'm pretty sure on the show and I know we've talked about it behind the scenes

[00:24:50] but um I know we basically the the idea that uh this was gonna happen um I had a feeling that this was gonna happen uh I didn't I thought it was gonna be I thought I was predicting that it was

[00:25:02] gonna happen closer to the election uh but uh here we are uh and so I don't know it's it's gonna be interesting uh it's it's definitely a crazy time but it's gonna be interesting so but in other

[00:25:16] news one president rises while one is falling down a flight of stairs all the time I was about say was that a pun but yeah it was a pun no I mean look Biden so here's the weird thing about watching

[00:25:32] the Biden regime the Biden presidency the Biden administration like I call it regime because that's just the way they behave but like from my perspective they were never doing that great to begin with

[00:25:44] they've not from day one they yeah yeah they they've bobbled almost every facet if not every facet of running a country you could possibly bobble they seem to spend the first two years of their president's presidency just being anti-trump like whatever trump did we're gonna do the opposite

[00:26:01] regardless of whether it was a good idea or not and you know predictably people were very upset about that because his polarizing of a person as Donald Trump was during his presidency

[00:26:13] you know he did do what he claimed he was going to do he did reduce taxes on the middle class he did he did remove a ton of red tape from businesses he did financially incentivize

[00:26:26] big businesses to bring their bring their their their plants and everything and the jobs back to the US he did a lot of great things regardless of what you think about his locker room talk

[00:26:36] or his mannerisms or his boisterousness or whatever else there were things he did that were great things and the biden administration unwound all that as fast as humanly possible just to be anti-trump and now here we are on the back end of their presidency and biden and harris's

[00:26:57] approval numbers are in the toilet biden is getting calls from his own amendment from his own party to step down because they do not believe he has a chance in hell of winning against Donald Trump and they didn't think he had that chance before the assassination attempt that

[00:27:16] trump survived they thought he didn't have that chance after a and a presidential debate that clearly made trump look because here's here's what came out of the debate which i i i only

[00:27:29] watched like a very brief moment of it because i just i am so over politics at this point and i already know how this is going to work out but what i saw i wasn't even interested in

[00:27:41] what they were saying i was interested in how they were presenting themselves and donald trump on like 2016 was calm and collected a little bit sarcasm a little sassy but he seemed he came across

[00:27:56] as a man who was acting his age and who was like the gentleman politician very very unlike the rhetoric i heard and we heard in 2016 or in the run-up to 2016 and biden came across like a

[00:28:12] stuttering old man that needed to go to a nursing home and from the moment that debate was over his party wanted him out because they just don't see they don't see the path forward and

[00:28:23] now it looks even more lopsided so we've i've been hearing all across social media all the rumors that oh biden's going to step down this weekend but here's the problem bud

[00:28:37] who the hell do the democrats put in i mean kamala harris is not like not well like by her own party no but she does uh from my understanding because she's vp or she's you know vp

[00:28:51] from my understanding she's the only one that can uh that can access the money that uh is like for the the campaign fund assuming they don't change the rules which so

[00:29:02] they have done before yeah they could just change the rules yeah uh but no i've uh i've heard names floating such as gabin newson uh i've heard uh stretching gretchen whitmore uh for i've heard

[00:29:16] that the she's been uh being talked to or groomed or whatever you want to call it heard hillary's run around again yep i've heard killery uh which funny meme really quick i'm not the

[00:29:28] way out there saw a meme that said uh donald trump has officially uh he ended uh hillary's kill streak i didn't see that so that that was that was funny quite quite fine quite fine yeah so uh but

[00:29:40] yeah no yeah i've yeah basically hillary um big mic uh big mic obama uh i could you know they're talking about uh floating that because obama was so popular uh maybe they could get around

[00:29:55] two with uh with big mic in there but uh yeah so i don't know uh it's gonna be interesting and so after this weekend it's gonna be interesting because it's one of those things where

[00:30:07] and but that's a thing is it's a puppet i mean by the puppet you can clearly see like i mean we see we knew the last handful of presidents i mean i mean i mean just like they've all been they've

[00:30:20] all been puppets they've been all pun puppets uh i mean so the fact that you know it's gonna be it's basically they're gonna say well who do you want to change out for uh and and biden is no

[00:30:34] longer he's the he's he's no longer uh feasible like a feasible candidate as a puppet just because he's messed up so bad i mean he can't even read off a teleprompter that's how bad of a puppet he is

[00:30:48] like a person that he reads off a teleprompter so well he even reads the punctuation and the subtitles so but no uh yeah so it's i don't know it's gonna be interesting but uh my wife did ask me an

[00:31:02] interesting question last night which i disagree with her immediately but it it's it bears pointing out at this point but she asked me she's like do you think the dnc would reach out to a robert f kennedy

[00:31:13] and i was like only in their worst wildest most lsd infused dreams would they would they reach would because the problem is and like that at least this is the way i see it like you're free to disagree

[00:31:26] if if you if you do but i don't think the republican party really wanted donald trump in 2016 i don't think they want him anymore now than they did then because trump like the only way

[00:31:39] they were able to stop the swamp draining in 2016 was because they surrounded him with people who steered him in the wrong direction in my opinion i hold him partially accountable for that because he allowed himself to be steered in the wrong direction but i digress trump is not

[00:31:55] a republican party person he did not come into politics on a wave of money from the rnc he's a bull in a china shop he's a populist he has the support of a lot of people behind him

[00:32:10] but not really a lot of party support and we saw that in his first presidency even with a number of republicans who refused to support him jd fans being one of them by the way

[00:32:19] and i believe that if the dnc courted robert f kennedy be the exact same problem for the democrats because robert f kennedy is a populist robert f kennedy is not coming into the dnc on a wave of

[00:32:32] money being provided by the dnc he has his own money he's independently wealthy he's a kennedy he could he could forget and stand he could set up a microphone in the middle of any town in

[00:32:43] this country and get half the town to show up just listen to him talk because of his legacy and who he is and the dnc would be very smart to court him to be their candidate to replace bide

[00:32:54] but i don't think they have the stones to do it because if they do then they've got a progressive trump in the white house they have another person who they can't control who if he's smart

[00:33:08] he's not going to trust the secret service for all of his um security because you know the cia kind of his uncle and his father but they won't even issue our secret service to tell

[00:33:19] anyone but i guess what i'm saying is like let's say hypothetically the dnc reached out robert f kennedy ran him i feel like that'd be a hell of a race between robert f kennedy and trump

[00:33:28] on the democrat and the republican tickets but then again i said the same thing about bernie sanders as the democrat frontrunner and trump back in 2016 and the part look what the party did then they took burning they maneuver burning out into the weeds to get

[00:33:44] hillary in place because hillary was the party person and burning was the populist do you really think the dnc now is going to a first course and they're going to bring in a populist

[00:33:55] they can barely control who's going to who's going to act according to his principles not according to the special interest i don't think they want that fight i think they would rather

[00:34:07] put up put up a party person take the l for 2024 and try again in 2028 rather than give somebody like robert f kennedy the the the status as the democrats frontrunner even though i believe

[00:34:24] that if robert f kennedy went toe to toe donald j trump we might end up with a kennedy in the white house i think he could probably well trump but i don't think they'll do it well i think

[00:34:36] would be really interesting is i mean kennedy's running as an independent yes so i and i don't has he announced his vp uh yes he did did he i don't remember who it was um

[00:34:47] because obviously the mainstream media like you can't really i mean but anyway i i mean anyway if he did or not it's it's whatever but uh he but my thing though too with that is dependent

[00:35:00] on what the dnc does and who they pick i mean honestly they could pick gabin newtsom they could pick whitmer they could pick whoever really uh but are they the idea that they're just gonna they're just basically going to pick somebody who is established democrat and all that

[00:35:16] what's going to be interesting is if trump went if he did debates because the dnc's so screwed up right now if he did debates with kennedy and started you know started getting kennedy if

[00:35:30] kennedy started if they did it right and they and honestly being an independent and everything like they should be able to all like every party should have a uh position on the stage on the

[00:35:40] debate stage that shouldn't just be two parties that are there um slash one party uh but uh i would definitely think it could be interesting that if uh kennedy sticks it out and everything

[00:35:52] and they get to in november uh i mean depending on what the dnc does we could be looking at an independent versus a republican like that's what i'm saying is depending on who it is and

[00:36:03] depending on what the people say i mean i know there's going to be those people that are going to be like hardcore democrat i don't care they could pull some dude out of a butt and vote blue

[00:36:12] no matter who yeah vote blue no matter who and that's it but i really hope and it would be really interesting to see is if this time around uh the independent side got more votes or close to

[00:36:28] more votes than uh democrat and the idea that if kennedy plays his cards right and he really pushes it out there the idea that we could see because we have those we have those hardcore never trumpers

[00:36:44] that no matter what happens this dude got almost got killed and they still cannot they still find they they can't get they can't really behind them they can't find a single thing that they

[00:36:56] like about this individual about him when yeah he's not is he perfect no but i can't and am i happy with them not exactly but i do see with my paycheck was a heck of a lot better

[00:37:09] and my grocery bill was a lot lower my mortgage was a lot was well actually no i take that back and i have a mortgage back gas bill but like rent and stuff like that gas bill it took a lot less

[00:37:19] to fill my truck up under trump than it did in the last four years under biden like everything so it'd be really nice to go back to that and i'll love i would love to take some mean tweets

[00:37:31] and have some cheaper gas and everything like that to be able to put more money in my in my pocket so yeah it's it's gonna be interesting and uh it's it's gonna be interesting to definitely to see as it gets closer and remember because honestly yeah

[00:37:46] if kennedy plays his cards right i mean this could be a independent versus republican more than a democrat versus republic you know better and then the independent is the independence

[00:37:56] kind of like nah i'm just gonna sit in the back and i might steal like 5000 votes um no it's i think this is a good opportunity for and then this is also for the people that are crying

[00:38:07] independent vote independent every single election who just to me it's you're throwing away your your vote in a sense uh this could be a good opportunity for those get those people to really

[00:38:18] start pushing hey vote independent uh and see what happens and this might be a good year to vote independent honestly depending on what's going on because uh you know and so yeah not that i think

[00:38:31] he would have done it but i did have a fever dream one time and thought to myself like what would have happened if trump would have picked robert f kennedy to be his vp i'm not right i don't

[00:38:40] and here's the thing of it i don't think robert f kennedy would have accepted like i could be wrong that would have been an interesting ticket but i had that thought of like you know i could see

[00:38:50] like so and this is this is why i've listened to robert f kennedy because i agree with what he's saying i don't know if i would agree with how he plans to do it because some of his policy

[00:39:05] ideas just don't quite mesh with my ideas but like his perspective uh to me seems to be we need to find we we need to this cannot we cannot continue move forward as a country

[00:39:18] if it's red team versus blue team and who wins it has to be what can we do so that red and blue both win so that you know progressives and conservatives both are heard and both have

[00:39:31] a solution they can live with like that's how we went and unfortunately like me being more the libertarian minded folk that i am i tend to think that the way we the way we all win is for the

[00:39:43] government to leave everybody the hell alone so everybody can live their own lives somewhat separately you know i'm saying like it's not i need to pass this law so that everybody's happy

[00:39:51] it's like no you don't pass law at all and let everybody do what they do do the wrong thing like i believe as a and i'm not going to sew boxes i don't have the energy to for it this

[00:40:02] morning i haven't been caffeinated enough but like i believe that a lot of the problems we face in this nation is an overabundance of legalese it's too much control and power and oversight and

[00:40:15] effing with people's lives that's led us to this point like somebody pointed out recently like the person who sits in the white house should have so little control over your life that it

[00:40:27] doesn't matter to you day to day and i agree with that on principle but that's not the war we live in but we should try to get back to it all right so you think we can take 20 minutes

[00:40:37] and talk about like the hell for preppers so andrew knows and the patrons know and the general population probably doesn't because i don't usually advertise when i'm going to be away from home for obvious reasons ob second all that but i recently had to fly out of town

[00:40:59] for work and first and foremost i hate flying with a passion i get extraordinarily air sick but from a stamp from the standpoint of a person who like you know carries a firearm every day and

[00:41:16] has medical equipment in his truck and yada yada yaw the idea that i had to get on a plane go play around with the tsa for hey on the way there and back live out of a hotel room didn't even have

[00:41:29] a rental car much less my own pov we were cabbing and boobering everywhere i was in a situation for the first time in years where i have literally i literally could not do a lot of the things i

[00:41:42] would normally do to be prepared for an emergency situation and it was an immediately uncomfortable situation so i thought it would bear maybe a short discussion today and if it winds up looking like it's going to be a bigger discussion we'll we'll cap it up some other time

[00:42:00] but let's start with the fact that i flew into washington dc which means my concealed carry permit was so i could not bring a firearm with me at all oh i thought you're gonna keep going

[00:42:15] oh i am i'm corraling my thoughts together so couldn't bring a firearm at all concealed carry permit was you know a joke in that city um i did pack a turn kit in my uh in my laptop bag which

[00:42:31] was almost always with me just because i do that when i'm at the office you know and i've never had anybody pitch a fit about me carrying a turn kit with me except for some weird looks

[00:42:43] carried my flashlight with me because i always do couldn't even take a pocket knife because the buildings we were going into involved going through mel detector so i couldn't even take a knife

[00:42:52] it was just you know andrew it was a really it was a very intensely uncomfortable situation like my workplace is already a place where i can't bring a firearm i can't even have a firearm

[00:43:03] like in my vehicle in the parking lot because we have to go through security checkpoints to get in but even at work i've got like my whole blowout kit in my vehicle i've got turn kit in my laptop

[00:43:15] bag i've got like my little bitty pocket knife that's that i can bring into the facility because it has a blade length less two and a half inches so it slides under the radar

[00:43:25] like i've got some options and when i'm working at the facility if something popped off i never go to work with less than half tank fuel so i could drive literally like three times

[00:43:36] further than i have to to get home if i had to take a really circuitous route i've kind of like arranged my life so that when i have to go into the office i have accounted for

[00:43:46] as many weird situations as possible but in this situation i was in washington dc didn't have a vehicle so my only way to get home was get back on a plane to fly home or i guess theoretically

[00:43:59] try to rent a car and drive home i was really thinking about especially right on the tail end of the trump assassination attempt i was really in the mode of if something weird happened and i had to

[00:44:11] get out of this city as fast as possible what do i do how do i pull that off because like i don't have any sustainment gear with me to be able to sit it out here any for any length of time so my plan

[00:44:26] a was if i could find a rental car i was just going to like swipe swipe swipe a debit card rent a car and just drive home if i had to it was about 15 hours but i would have raw

[00:44:37] dog to home if i had to um i did make sure i carried cash which anybody that's traveling any distance i think even if you're even you're just walking out you know to the end of your

[00:44:47] driveway i encourage you to carry cash and i'm going to tell you i got some funny looks from people when they realized i was carrying you know pretty decent amount of cash but i was like

[00:44:56] cash always works you know when the when your when your debit card declines when the telecom hum all goes down cash still works that's why i carry cash cash is the ultimate

[00:45:10] emergency get out of jail free card but i don't know man like i did before i made this trip i did make some phone calls through the patrons and through some friends and through the ppn crew

[00:45:25] and i was basically trying to figure out like okay who has people in the dc area well like if if i if i need to make a phone call and i need somebody to come pick me up and get me in hell out of the

[00:45:36] city right here and now who's my first and second point of contact but and that was really just kind of like my what i was envisioning was like if i if somebody has to get me out of dc

[00:45:48] where's my next stop on the way home and i was going to like underground railroad it like have friends that would just meet halfway and just you know get me as far out of the city as

[00:45:55] possible if it came to it but i know we've talked about it before but it just and i mean i'm re-listening to the book series now but lacker nine from from franklin horton like that that's

[00:46:07] exactly the the premise of his that book series is his daughter's off at college he has a whole booklet of friends of his that he that she can trust and it's her ability to get home and everything

[00:46:23] like that i did that when my mom my mom went on vacation of florida with my sister my brother-in-law my niece and me on my nieces uh i did i put this thing together that it basically took them from

[00:46:35] florida basically close enough to where i could go get them and so that just that's the same thing i mean when i go down to there's a well there's a good there's a slight chance i might go to florida

[00:46:49] in november for work uh and if that happens i'm going to be bringing this but i'm going to be updating this pamphlet or this pdf that i have and it's going to come with me because the idea that

[00:47:01] okay if i something happens all right i know i know this guy is in georgia all right i know these couple i know the couple these guys are in georgia i know this guy uh lives close to

[00:47:11] close enough to where hey if i need to i don't have a car uh hey if i can get a car if i can walk can you meet me here and that's where you know you look at your and i know your end goal is to

[00:47:21] get back home but if you have to travel north for so long to get out of the city and then kind of you know go west and then south and kind of backtrack around i mean so be it especially if the roads

[00:47:33] are all blocked off and stuff like that you're gonna have to detour around crap so that's a thing is definitely uh prep you know prep your trip so it's like okay if i need to get home and i got a drive

[00:47:44] or whatever okay this this way this exit or this road takes me out of here this direction this direction this direction and if i need to go get picked up okay where's the best places to get

[00:47:55] picked up okay this place is i know i can walk two and a half three miles four miles and this amount of time all right this is gonna be my uh this is gonna be my pickup point a

[00:48:07] okay this is if i can't do that this is gonna be pick up point b and then you you rally say okay if this person closest a couple people that you have an i uh team with um or the plan with okay hey guys

[00:48:20] i'm sharing this pamphlet with you uh if something goes awry and i need to get out uh if i have to walk you know definitely be on comms to let let you know let people know but uh hey if this happens

[00:48:33] this is where i'm gonna be at uh and this isn't i'm gonna be at a uh if something's going on then i'll be at b uh if someone's happening again i'll be at c but i have at least three points i would

[00:48:45] say of retrieval and then also i mean it's one of those things where obviously probably that you probably wouldn't be able to carry it but or i don't know if you maybe you could carry it

[00:48:54] uh but uh the whole ham radio and stuff or your gmrs uh if you could if you have a handheld or something or if you have your you have your work laptop uh the the programming that you have for the gmrs radios

[00:49:12] you have the program if it's possible have the program on your be able to run it on your laptop or whatever have a thumb drive with all the programming crap on it or even

[00:49:22] you're talking about s dr software to find radio yeah so like your gmrs and stuff so so s dr's s dr's are received only not transmitted oh yeah but so anyway just but what i'm saying is if you have basically

[00:49:37] if you have the software not the software but if you have you know because how do you program your gmrs you have is it cut do you have a soft piece of software that you have to do that you can

[00:49:45] yeah so you have that software you have it on usb drive uh installed on the usb drive uh along with the all the all the uh the all the the program frequencies and everything uh programmed in

[00:49:59] on that usb drive something happens you don't have your radios with you you go to the local store you buy one and then you just hook it up you know you can carry the cable with you so

[00:50:09] hook it up and then figure out a way to okay i can run it off this laptop doing this this and i can install i can reprogram it or if you know how to program it by hand these are my list of

[00:50:19] frequencies i can program the frequencies in or whatever and then you just try to make that plan to where hey i have i'll have comms within such and such a time get on the road this is where we're

[00:50:30] meeting uh and switch to this frequency and once you get in the area the media area every five minutes uh hit the button and try to transmit and uh i'll answer yeah or i'll be answering you

[00:50:43] you know or something like that that way you have a comms plan uh you know so i mean that's that that that's honestly like i mean i i don't know jack about comms but

[00:50:56] i need i should really change that but uh you know it's one of those things where when you're traveling like that and you can't travel with all your general gear well you know maybe this is uh have those plans set up and especially if you're gonna need someone

[00:51:13] to come get you because that's the thing is if something were to happen well you you may have the idea to run a car but so does a thousand other people yeah and what's the end and you really want

[00:51:25] to be in a crowded area like that with a thousand other people trying to get a car and the idea that okay i got a car well good luck getting out of the parking lot because the next guy who wants

[00:51:35] to get a car that's just as desperate as you smashing your window out when he's coming after you that kind of thing worst case scenario this is also this is also why like my initial go-to plan

[00:51:46] was i just need somebody that can get me out of the city because if i can because i knew that i and y'all have to understand like this is preparedness 101 is that you think about what

[00:51:55] is a likely scenario and then how do i defeat that scenario like this is not i'm not thinking like what happens if the russians dropping nuke in the middle of you know wherever like

[00:52:06] i'm thinking like what's likely to happen and what i was really concerned about after trump's assassination attempt was what happens if there's an attempt on another politician at the same time

[00:52:17] and i happen to be right there in the city when it happens i knew the whole city was going to go to walk down i knew that my stated reason for being there in dc was going to evaporate overnight

[00:52:27] and i was going to have to get home anyway i could so when i was really focused on like it was how do i get out of dc because if i look because i knew that if the event was in dc then

[00:52:36] the further away from dc i get the faster things like flights and rental cars and everything else are available to me again so that i can get home but my initial problem was how do i get at dc without

[00:52:48] walking but i digress like it was i guess for me it was it was a reminder that that we all we all had we all prepare for our most likely scenarios and you brought up locker

[00:53:03] nine earlier like here's the thing if i spent considerable time in dc i would probably have a little bit more more robust plan in place for how do i have stamina gear how do i get at dc

[00:53:18] like what do i do i'd have a more robust plan for that but i don't go to this is the first person there have been a wash in dc in my life and i hope i don't have to go back any time soon

[00:53:28] the beautiful city for anybody that's up there i'm not a big city person so i was happy to visit i would have absolutely like jumped off a bridge if i had to live in that place but um

[00:53:41] you know i guess this was supposed to be just a really short like what i did to plan was i tried to figure out who were who was my underground railroad to get me out of the city so that

[00:53:52] i could at least get to a place where i had friends who could you know get me to the next stop or hold on to me until my wife could come up and get me or at least just get me out of the

[00:54:03] city give me as far away from the city as possible so i could find a round car and drive the rest of the way home but it was one of those moments in time that because of the situation i was in

[00:54:14] every single thing about how i prepare went right out the window immediately because all of my plans are really developed around the idea that like even even when we go on vacation and we don't take my truck we take my wife's Jeep

[00:54:28] i download most of the emergency roadside kit out of my truck into a into a shoulder bag and that goes my wife's Jeep we have rations we have water we have bring farms with us like we

[00:54:40] we don't go from home without those things because something weird happens i need the tools of my trade to take care of my family but in this case and none of those things come with me

[00:54:51] so it was a very immediately uncomfortable situation that very quickly reminded me that sometimes the prep isn't the stuff you take with you it's the planning well and this is where i wish you could take like treks when a gun and when a gun is not an option

[00:55:10] uh kind of thing because he kind of i mean he gets into like pepper spray and stuff like that which obviously is not legal in DC either the TSA but TSA would have also had a field game with

[00:55:22] but yeah but it's just the idea of thinking outside the box i mean ed kelder on uh the one class i took with him it was basically around you what can you use around you to make a weapon uh

[00:55:35] what can you use around you to make a knife uh or a blade something that can stick something that will cause pain so uh just you got you definitely got to think outside the box so well

[00:55:47] i'm pretty sure it's the marine corps that says this frequently although i've heard it attributed to certain people in the army but you know the mind is the weapon everything else is just a tool

[00:55:56] so yeah i would encourage you without making your co-workers look at you too too funny to always bear in mind that if you're creative enough you are never disarmed anywhere and if anybody wants

[00:56:08] to test that assertion talk to prison guards because they'll tell you about some of the stuff they've seen in a super controlled environment where no one's supposed to have a weapon but everybody does

[00:56:20] anyway oh yeah drug cell phones friggin playstations i mean ever you can get whatever you want prison if you can if you can sell enough cigarettes and cheeseburgers right or favors anyway anyway

[00:56:36] well we didn't go completely off the rails talking about um you know team red and team blue so that's a plus i'm gonna be honest man i am like it's freaking july and i'm already exhausted with

[00:56:51] politics i was exhausted from i was exhausted from day one as soon as i saw the first ad on tv i was like god dang it maybe we're getting older is that a possibility because like i seem to maybe maybe

[00:57:07] we'll have to go back a list of some of the old old episodes but like i feel like we got much more wound up about politics way back in the day and now we're just like god would you all just shut

[00:57:16] the hell up you're all insufferable now we just want to vote for Thanos yeah right all right well let's go ahead and wrap this up you need more coffee i need more coffee and then i

[00:57:33] have to um get this day going all right we'll have fun oh i plan to i'm going to the beach with my wife let that one hang thanks bye matter of fact podcast we're going out the door just

[00:57:54] remember you are always prepped as long as your brain is still working you just got a plan ahead a little bit and think outside the box but uh please for the love of god don't get too wrapped

[00:58:03] up in the politics it's all theater anyway it's basically like pro wrestling for boomers god i'm gonna turn that into a tagline matter of fact podcast going out the door bye everybody