Matter of Facts: Things Are Popping

[00:00:00] Welcome back to the MatterFacts 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 MWFpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Rabble and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic and here's your show.

[00:00:23] And welcome back to MatterFacts Podcast. Me and my faithful co-host are back in the audience. It's literally like what a day or two after my wife and I recorded but that's the miracle of podcasting is that y'all will hear this six days later. So anyway, so hi Andrew.

[00:00:42] Hi.

[00:00:44] Do we have any gesticulating or admin work to do before we get straight to topics? I mean, you know, Prepper Camp is coming up in September. If I have to say that one more time, I'll literally start screaming.

[00:00:56] Well, you should because we should probably say it every episode. Prepper Camp is coming up in September. If you haven't bought your tickets, you should buy tickets. If you have not gotten your camp site, I mean good luck.

[00:01:09] But I mean, they do have tent city which usually there maybe might be a couple of spots available. But yeah, no, I actually plan on being I actually I'm going to be down there early.

[00:01:24] I plan on being down in North Carolina that Tuesday.

[00:01:30] So I know Prepper Camp usually we aim to get down there on a Thursday. Prepper Camp is Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'm going to try to get down there. My plan is get down there Tuesday. I actually reserved the same camping spot that you and I will will be on anyway.

[00:01:46] So I reserved that for Tuesday and Wednesday. So I don't have to move at all. So yeah, the plan is just to go down there. And honestly, I'm going to maybe I'll talk to Chen and Rick and Jane and see if I can't jump in and help set up if they need it.

[00:02:04] Otherwise, I think I might just kind of tour the city or little town rather that we are that we stay that we always drive through and then drive out of and never stop and see it.

[00:02:14] So I think I might go through it and just check it out. And then I might I got to look at my schedule again, but I think I might try to leave a day Monday early.

[00:02:25] And I might I think I'm going to try to make plans with Franklin Horton see if I can't link up with him today.

[00:02:34] So so yeah, but no proper camp. If you're going, let us know if you're going. It would be awesome to see some people and just to line some stuff up. I got I need to actually buy some. There's a couple things I want to buy.

[00:02:47] So I want to try to interview some more people that in the the one of the zoom things I want to buy will make it a lot easier to record.

[00:02:55] Just kind of like, hey, here you go. Instead of having a whole microphone set up and all kinds of stuff. So but yeah, no, if you're going cool. Let us know.

[00:03:05] Otherwise, same shenanigans as usual. I think we will be down on the floor again in a booth talking on mics, trying to line up some shows.

[00:03:16] Phil is going to do some roasting demos and

[00:03:22] Gillian is going to be there being the model. She's going to be our Vanna White that will stand there and get people to come want to talk to us since there's a nice looking person that is friendly looking

[00:03:37] That is standing there. So but yeah, no, I'm looking forward to it. Oh, I always look forward to it's gonna be fun. So yeah.

[00:03:43] Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would love to get there a little bit earlier, stay a little bit late. But you know, I've got to always have to be cognizant of like how much time that I'm taking Piper and Gillian at school because she's only got so many days off a year.

[00:03:58] That's the perks of me not having a single person to carry about care about besides myself. You don't care about me. So I mean, well, you're driving there anyway.

[00:04:07] So nice save, Andrew. Nice save.

[00:04:13] So I guess let's let's let me detour very slightly before we spend like 55 minutes talking about current events. I just, I don't know a couple of weeks ago I picked up

[00:04:27] I picked up a book and I don't know. I haven't been on a real big kick as far as reading for a while. And definitely not fiction. I just have have not been able to like, haven't been able to find an enemy to read fiction.

[00:04:44] But I came across the guerrillas guide to the Beofang radio by NC scout. If anybody doesn't know NC scout is y'all should y'all should probably like look into them. Cool dude.

[00:04:56] Cool dude. A lot of fun, very, very, very knowledgeable integrate many things that might be, you know, interesting to the preparedness community. But this book that is available on Amazon and we have an affiliate link down in the show comments if you'd like to throw us a buck while you check out a cool book.

[00:05:15] I started reading this last night and I stayed up to like 1230 in the morning reading it. I could I could not stop. It's like I was telling Andrew like admittedly in the in the recent history I've kind of dove headfirst into communications and the world of the radio dorks.

[00:05:34] And this showed up on my this actually was recommended me by somebody else. And I wasn't sure what I was getting into. I honestly I'll be honest, I went into this kind of reticent about it because I know this book is very heavily centered around like the Beofang UV5R which is an amateur band or a ham radio.

[00:05:54] And I've kind of waved off of him mostly because if I can't get my wife and my daughter set up to talk on it, it doesn't do me a ton of good. So I've gone for GMRS instead. But the more I read into this book, the more I started to realize that what NC scout has put together is much more than a user guide for the UV5R.

[00:06:16] He discusses he discusses different different pockets of information like signal intelligence and communication security and how to do voice encryption like not the thousands dollars military digital encryption but literally like how to code your messages in such a way that it's not super obvious they are coded.

[00:06:39] He talks about a lot of the principles of like how we use milk we use we communicate in the military and mentally, I wasn't a radio guy in the army. But I had to know enough of how to operate them to get by.

[00:06:52] And this book is just layers upon layers upon layers of really good information for a person who wants to communicate on a radio while simultaneously accepting the fact that when you hit that push talk button, somebody can be listening.

[00:07:09] So this is kind of a good primer for how to use a radio limit your exposure and limit how much information you could be giving away to people you don't want to have it and that's, that's way more than a preparedness topic that is a, if you got if you and your wife and your kids are at a campsite and you hand them the little bitty bulbak radios.

[00:07:30] That's a good topic to kind of get yourself thinking about how do we how do my kids talk on these things where they don't tell people who might be listening specifically where they're going the fact that I don't have an adult with me and things that we may just not want random people to know I mean.

[00:07:46] I mean, you know we have discussions all the time with our daughter about being careful what she tells people what she tells people and stranger danger and all those things but people think don't think about when they hit that radio that button on the side of the radio.

[00:08:03] Everybody's listening because it's an open air band.

[00:08:07] So I thought it was a really good book I thought it was very thought provoking and when you get into the more nerdy aspects of the book like towards the back half of it he talks a lot about how to program the rate how to program a UV5R and that's not I mean most of those concepts are fairly standard across all radios.

[00:08:24] If not exactly the menu options spends a couple chapters talking about how to build your own attendance from just stuff you find lying around which I personally found super interesting and he gives you the math and the theory and everything right there it's just.

[00:08:38] It was a it's a hundred fifty page book that you can seriously sit down and slam in an afternoon and it was way more than I thought it was going to be so I'm I'm giving it my seal of approval I'm recommending it.

[00:08:51] Like if unless you're the person whose eyes glaze over when people start talking about radios then this may not be for you but if you ever intend to pick up a radio and speak into it I think it's I think it's worth reading.

[00:09:07] And let's be really serious you know everybody has a radio in their pocket it's called a cell phone and those things as we're going to talk about here just a little bit but those things are not the hardest things to spy on so you might want to take some of this information hard as far as how do I communicate on this thing knowing other people are listening.

[00:09:27] You know what I mean Bob?

[00:09:31] Yeah I mean honestly I mean yeah if any kind of situation you got to think people are listening just like when you're on your phone so which will kind of segue into our next topic.

[00:09:46] House goes full retard.

[00:09:50] Yeah the so basically Friday I think it was they House they voted to renew the FISA the spy program and there was an amendment in there to require warrants for American people.

[00:10:13] They wanted warrants for the American population and it went down basically party line and our House representative or well the speaker rather you know since he gets to vote on ties he actually voted to he voted basically with the Democrats.

[00:10:35] So now the big old government that we you know trust and love and expect us to protect us they do not need a warrant to spy on American citizens.

[00:10:48] Which is concerning I mean you know everybody's you know especially with everything going on with Iran the terrorism the open borders that you know our awesome administration has given us.

[00:11:01] They are using every means necessary to completely destroy what is left of anything of the Constitution.

[00:11:10] And so yeah so again this is a this goes right back to what we were just talking about I mean anybody can be listening so if you have the ability if you know that if you have the knowledge or anything to if you can encrypt any of your text messages if you can work on encrypting your voice your phone calls.

[00:11:30] Anything you can do to encrypt your day to day operations honestly research it look into it and apply it because it's up to us to take our own safety in our own hands and our because our government obviously they don't give a crap about the average American unless you're voting for them.

[00:11:50] Unless you're a Democrat or really Republican and you're voting for them they don't care about you.

[00:11:55] They want you in chains and yeah it's bad they don't care so whatever we can do to better basically help get us away and you know I don't know I have no idea I'm just it's frustrating.

[00:12:15] That this went through it's frustrating that this even got passed and it's frustrating that it was even a thing that need to be done because you think that it's just common knowledge but here we are with even less of our Constitution that we had so it's just another chip away.

[00:12:31] So it's frustrating but is it that surprising.

[00:12:35] No it's not surprising at all but it's it's frustrating because it shouldn't be a thing like it literally should not be a thing that we think about and you know it just I mean just like our gun rights every single year I mean every day we have a anti-gun group that ships away at our gun rights every single day.

[00:12:55] Our Constitution is has every single day our Constitution has been chipped away every part of it.

[00:13:03] I know we did a show a long time ago on Bill of Rights and all kinds of stuff and a couple of shows on the Bill of Rights honestly I mean that that's right over a couple of months.

[00:13:13] Right but if you look at it if you if you look at the constitutional amendments not just Bill of Rights but just go down all the amendments.

[00:13:22] Every single one of them have been broken have been over like basically the government has stomped on them completely heel toe boot to the neck like they have completely destroyed the Constitution.

[00:13:36] And this is just one more like this is a brick on top of more bricks that they're laying down.

[00:13:44] So if you voted for this or if you like this then you know what I could care less if you get robbed at gunpoint in your house.

[00:13:53] You deserve everything that bad happens to you.

[00:13:55] You deserve it.

[00:13:56] So I hope the I hope the worst things happen to you if you voted for this.

[00:14:01] I think the part of this that like the part of this that makes me want to rub my temples is the fact that like you know anybody that's passed high school civics understands that the Fourth Amendment is a thing and that police officers have to get a warrant if they want to you know tap your cell phones or you know come into your house and they want to search.

[00:14:22] Search and yes there's exigent circumstances but exigent circumstances is not a blank check to just stomp on your Fourth Amendment rights and do whatever the hell they want.

[00:14:31] Like there are rules here and I don't more often than I'd like to see those rules kind of get you know fudged a little bit but this isn't even fudging the rules.

[00:14:41] This is a freaking honey pot.

[00:14:45] And Congress has told the FBI you can dip your hands into the honey pot like you are winning the mother effing poo anytime it suits you and.

[00:15:00] Part of this that frustrates me Andrew is I just wish that the American people that every every every person had the right had the ability to spy on Congress people the way that they have authorized federal law enforcement to spy on us.

[00:15:15] I wish like hell we could see where they are 24 hours a day seven days a week who they're talking to what they're saying.

[00:15:23] I wish they had no privacy in their own homes in their own bedrooms with whoever they are sleeping with.

[00:15:29] I wish that they knew the full weight of what they have unleashed on the American people and I don't think they will because our government officials are phenomenally good at shielding themselves from the consequences of the very things that they visit upon us.

[00:15:49] You brought up gun control earlier they love to freaking limit our right our second amendment right to keep and bear arms while at the same moment they are protected by armed security paid for by our tax dollars.

[00:16:01] And it's that little it's that thing over and over and over I keep seeing where they set themselves up in an ivory tower where they have rights they are protected they are taken care of and then they pee in our faces and could tell us it's raining.

[00:16:18] And it's not surprising not at this point I mean I'm 41 years old this has been going on plenty longer than I've been alive but it's been going on long enough that I can see the trend.

[00:16:28] It's still frustrating though especially because I guarantee you there are people out there they're gonna forget and cope see cope and justify this nonsense and say that well they they need to be able to do it so they can protect us from terrorists because they're doing such a fucking great job of that lately.

[00:16:45] I'm done.

[00:16:47] Yeah and the other thing too is I believe I know.

[00:16:53] I got a little more into it but I know what is it representative Tom is it Thomas Macy.

[00:17:01] Massey Massey sorry yeah Massey he came out and basically he he came out and said yeah the Congress they're exempt.

[00:17:12] They're exempt they they're they're exempt from this rule.

[00:17:16] They imagine that they need a warrant.

[00:17:20] The government needs a warrant to go after them but not the American people so I mean I don't care what side of the aisle you're on I don't care honestly I could care less like if you're voting for Biden again and you know you're going that full freaking stupid but I don't care what

[00:17:39] I don't care what your policy what your politics are we should all be on board with our constitutional rights and we should have and we should be all on board with how bad this is that the FBI and the basically the government they no longer need a warrant to spy on American people like that should be a that should be backed by every single American citizen hands down

[00:18:08] full stop period dot like I don't care.

[00:18:13] The simple fact that this has managed to piss off the ACLU who is contrary to the name of the organization they have not always been our greatest ally in this fight to maintain you know constitutional rights.

[00:18:30] There have been times where depending on the issue they get a little squishy on whether or not Americans should have certain rights but in this case they seem aggravated which is encouraging but I just don't think it's going to have any effect because unfortunately like I don't know Andrew what do you think like two thirds of our voting populace are basically asleep.

[00:18:53] And that's assuming that a further like five percent of them aren't basically voting for beyond the grave but that's a whole nother discussion.

[00:19:01] I just don't I just don't believe that enough Americans are aware of what's going on behind closed doors in their government to even be aware of this nonsense to say nothing of whether or not they care enough or educated enough on the subjects to vote these a-holes out of power.

[00:19:21] I just don't think it's going to happen.

[00:19:23] Well it's not the thing is though is it's not I mean if you look up I mean I went I went to Fox News onto CNN I went to I mean name your mainstream media website and the whole thing this whole vote on Friday was not on the top page like it wasn't even like it was not talked about.

[00:19:47] You have to like you actually have to know what you're searching for in order to start finding articles and that's disturbing right there.

[00:19:55] And so but the thing is though is you have the whole thing with Iran and Israel which we'll get into shortly but this whole thing happened on Friday and all of a sudden like all this crap happened with Israel and Iran so okay well now it's just going to get swept under the rug.

[00:20:10] No one's going to pay attention to it and the people are just going to be like whatever.

[00:20:15] Whatever and if anybody doesn't know about it they're really not going to know anything about it.

[00:20:20] So so yeah it's frustrating I mean this year being a political year a election year I mean we should be paying attention to this kind of stuff like every single Republican that voted for FISA like I know this amendment kind of went down party line.

[00:20:41] But the fight like FISA itself there was like eighty six Republicans voted for it in favor to pass it again.

[00:20:49] Every single one of them should be out of a job every single one of them should be out of a job let alone up against the wall but that's besides the point.

[00:21:00] So you know it's ridiculous like they are voting to strip rights away from American citizens every single day and doing it gleefully.

[00:21:09] Yeah they don't care. That's the thing is they're doing it and they're exempting themselves.

[00:21:13] I mean again it goes back to whole gun control stuff.

[00:21:16] They're doing it and then they're like man you don't need the right to protect yourself.

[00:21:21] But yet they are surrounded by firearms they are surrounded by guns that we cannot get like there's like that's what's ridiculous is they're surrounded by that kind of stuff and like just like this whole just like this the FISA.

[00:21:36] It does not apply to them.

[00:21:39] Well it should they should be the first ones that applies to.

[00:21:44] Yeah and call it what it is their protected details can go places with firearms that would land you and me in federal penitentiary for 10 years.

[00:21:50] Well yeah right.

[00:21:53] But.

[00:21:55] So you mentioned Iran and Israel Iran's been misbehaving.

[00:22:00] Yeah if you haven't been living if you've been under a rock basically yesterday on the last 48 or 24 basically 24 hours.

[00:22:08] Yeah I ran decided to Iran launched like around 300 drones and missiles into Israel from what I've heard and read roughly 99 percent of missiles and drones were stopped by the Iron Dome.

[00:22:27] And by UK I believe the UK had some birds in the air that shot down some stuff the US kind of helped.

[00:22:36] I think the country of the country of Jordan also intercepted some that had drifted into their airspace.

[00:22:42] Yeah it's got which I'm happy.

[00:22:44] Well but I mean if you if you look at the geography like it's not hard to end up in Jordan Jordanian airspace from Iran going to Israel like you would have to make a concert effort to go around Jordan put it that way.

[00:22:57] So it's one of those weird situations where it's like I'm sure the Iranians aren't happy about some of their drones being intercepted but Jordan has a right to say you can't fling shit through our airspace and potentially in danger our people because you're having a tiff with Israel.

[00:23:13] Yeah and yeah that's the thing is but yeah so basically they they said it was retaliation for the Israel Israel striking a place in Syria and that killed two top like I think those two top generals Iranian generals or someone that they considered high up.

[00:23:35] But but I mean Iran has been proven to they are training terrorists and their funding terrorism.

[00:23:42] So not saying that the United States is not our government in general but you know that's the thing is and so yeah they they launched today I was actually getting ready to go golfing today and I was watching I was drinking a good old whiskey and Coke watching the news in the golf course waiting for some friends to show up in Israel.

[00:24:04] They had a press conference and basically they said yeah we won't strike now but we will choose the timing the timing of it.

[00:24:13] So expect to strike back from Israel and honestly I mean we're on the doorstep of World War Three really because Russia has come out saying well we'll defend Iran.

[00:24:25] China is doing their whole thing with Taiwan and I'm sure they'll jump into and you know granted the United States has come out and said hey Israel knock it off.

[00:24:37] We're not going to back you kind of thing so we'll see where that goes but but yeah I mean that's the thing in the but like the home front here in the United States.

[00:24:46] I mean we got to pay attention to this kind of stuff because there's a lot of Iranians and there's a lot of Iranian sympathizers here in the United States.

[00:24:55] I mean you see what's going on Palestine so yeah expect disruptions here on the home front and this kind of goes into caring and making sure your preps on the home front are are up to par or you have food set aside you have water your firearms and everything like that.

[00:25:12] So because honestly right now is the best time I mean if you don't prep today then you'll be not ready for tomorrow whatever tomorrow brings but if you start today you'll be prepped one that's one more day that you're ready for something that happens.

[00:25:25] I don't care what you get if you go buy a bag of rice that's more bag that's more rice that's a bag of rice more than what you had yesterday.

[00:25:32] But just I can't see how people are blind to this kind of stuff and what they're doing and what they're overlooking and everything so it's scary.

[00:25:43] I mean it really is but having a plan will help ease someone's mind.

[00:25:49] I think the part of all this that because it's phenomenally easy to kind of write off this conflict as it's half a world away it's not our problem you know like and even I tend to fall into the libertarian pit of foreign policy is not my concern we need to be worried about the home front.

[00:26:11] I think there's merit to that to a degree but what worries me is that that that little pocket of the world we're talking about right now you have such tension then some of these rivalries between countries go back half a century or more.

[00:26:26] Some of these are you know religious rivalries and those have been going on for a thousand years and will go on for a thousand more unless the world ends.

[00:26:36] And the part of this that concerns me is that like sooner or later someone is going to do something crazy and it's either gonna happen now or it's gonna happen at some point in future but once that starts it's going to it could potentially be exactly what happened in World War I and it's going to happen in the future.

[00:26:55] And that's why I think it's important to think about World War I because like World War I and World War II were kind of were historically speaking I think were fairly different like World War II you had a psychopath who was you know just looking to take over Europe and it was very easy to unite all these other countries against him.

[00:27:14] And then on the other hand was caused because two tiny little nations that no one otherwise would give a shit about got into a tiff with each other because one terrorist from one nation murdered the dignitary of another and then those two were at war but then this one brought all their buddies and allies and this one brought all their buddies and allies and that kept propagating back and forth until you wind up in a situation where the whole frickin' world was going to be destroyed.

[00:27:44] And then the world is at war with each other because of this complex spider web of alliances and that's the part of this that makes me a little nervous.

[00:27:53] Yes Joe, Archduke Ferdinand. If we end up in a situation where like these countries back Israel and these countries back Iran and then Iran accidentally pisses off Jordan by shooting missiles or drones into it and now you've got Jordan once getting on the fight and their allies come with them, you end up in another situation where these complex spider webs of alliances could ignite a very very large conflict very very quickly.

[00:28:22] And part of this is also just based on the fact that like I don't honestly believe Russia has a lot of love for the Iranians. I just don't see it. You know like Putin has demonstrated that he is a populist, he's very ethnocentric and none of that is a bad thing. It's just a foreign diverse domestic policy decision.

[00:28:42] But like he does, I don't think he gives a damn about Iran or Iranians. I think for him this is an opportunity to elevate his country on the world stage and prove that you know America does not have the foreign influence they once did.

[00:28:59] And that is his only play here. But that still potentially means we wind up drug into another proxy war against Russia that we have to fund to the tune of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars at a time when our inflation is running away from us.

[00:29:18] I don't know, do you watch the stock? Do you watch like the stock market by any chance Andrew, the stock tickers? No. So I do just because it's the industry of men and I like to kind of keep abreast of things. But very recently after like record growth for the last year those stocks have all ticked over.

[00:29:38] Almost all of them. And a lot of it is being driven by this, by you know what's going on in the Middle East, the concerns around that. So I don't know at a moment in time when we in America have so many hazards that are besieging middle class America, the fact that we could potentially be drug into a serious kinetic conflict or even just an economic conflict with other nations.

[00:30:04] Again, after we've already gotten our after we've already funded the Ukraine war out of our own pocket and we still have China taking over Taiwan lingering in the distance.

[00:30:15] I'm concerned. There's nothing you or I can do about this. It just it feels as though this would be a wonderful opportunity for somebody with some foreign policy chops to like come in and try to talk sense to everybody in the room, but I just don't think that's going to happen.

[00:30:36] I think what we have here is we have, you know, very old deep seated rivalries that have been that were ignited by the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel.

[00:30:48] And I don't know enough of what's really been happening on the ground to pass judgment over Israel's response to all that. I just I don't know enough so I'm going to keep out of it because I don't know.

[00:31:01] I know that I've heard serious allegations of human rights violations and I've heard basically that's completely overblown.

[00:31:09] And my experience of, you know, calling CNN the communist news network because they sure love during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to stretch the truth to make a story will say that's why we have saying they lie through their teeth about US service members and what was being done on the ground.

[00:31:28] But I don't know, man. Like I see a conflict that can boil over very quickly. And if it does, it's going in. Here's the thing of it. Let's say I saw a miracle.

[00:31:40] You and me and our country stay out of that conflict. Do you know where the Middle East is situated relative to international shipping lanes?

[00:31:50] A big conflict in that area is going to severely impact the global shipping lanes and therefore could hugely impact the global supply chains in a way that we haven't seen since COVID.

[00:32:04] And if people thought that was bad, this could be worse. This could be more long standing. I mean think about think about what happened during World War One and World War Two.

[00:32:14] And that was at a time when our country was nowhere near as dependent upon foreign imports for basic things like we manufacture our own stuff right here at home.

[00:32:22] That's not the case anymore. You shut down this international shipping lanes and things are going to get really, really squirrely really fast around here.

[00:32:33] Things like being able to, you know, Amazon Prime one click and it shows up on your door the next day.

[00:32:38] That's going to be a thing in the past. Grocery stores overflowing with food are going to be a thing of the past too because most of that ain't made around here either.

[00:32:46] I don't know. I mean, do you think I'm overreacting or the idea of a large scale conflict in that area worries the hell out of me from a lot of directions?

[00:32:57] Yeah, no, I mean it's the worrying about it. I mean there's not really much we can worry about because it's not really anything we have control over.

[00:33:07] Besides trying to vote out the a-holes that are trying to pull us into stuff. But no, I mean all we can do is just be ready here.

[00:33:18] Have food and stuff set aside to where, I mean if things go bad then I don't know, just figure out what's going on because it's heading that way to a major conflict of some kind.

[00:33:32] Over the last probably 10 years it's been boiling that way. It's just one of those things where it's like someone turns the heat up and it kind of simmers, it boils up and then the heat goes down and it kind of simmers.

[00:33:43] And you know every day, every time it happens it gets worse and worse and worse and eventually it's going to boil over.

[00:33:50] And what that's going to look like I have no idea since we have multiple nuclear powers that are in the mix of it. But yeah, I don't know, I mean it's going to be interesting to see what happens.

[00:34:03] Especially I mean and honestly Israel if you look at it, Israel is not going to just forget. They're not going to roll over and just take the attack. There's something that's going to happen.

[00:34:15] So what that is I have no idea. But we just need to sit back and I guess sit back, grab our popcorn and wait for some stuff to happen and see what does happen and then just basically hey okay let's prepare for this and let's move on this way.

[00:34:31] So yeah, I don't know. I mean it's spicy but the biggest thing is keep your ear to the ground and have that group of friends that you can rely on and see what happens because it's going to happen.

[00:34:47] It's going to happen. It's going to be within I predict if honestly if it's not this year, it's going to be within the next few years that something is going to boil over. This year I think it's just definitely it's an election year so something is going to happen.

[00:35:03] So now we get to round out with some good news. Our boy D-Haw got his heart broken.

[00:35:10] Not only did he get broken, I think he got ripped out and stomped on. If anybody does not know who David Hawg is, look him up and he's a D-bag that he really needs to be silenced in some way.

[00:35:30] But yeah, I mean he's backed. I'm wondering where his money is coming from. He's getting backed by probably Soros and a bunch of these anti-gun individuals and groups and stuff like that.

[00:35:44] So yeah, anyway he had a town hall. He had like a meeting at a college if I remember right and we had a...and people could ask him questions and he could answer how he wanted to answer.

[00:36:00] One question in general was from a Chinese immigrant who...she fled communism and she basically came out and she threw it right on his face and just said, hey, can you guarantee me that our government is not going to go tyrannical and try to kill thousands and hundreds of thousands of people like the Communist Party did?

[00:36:27] The amount of people that the Chinese government killed, they disarmed them, killed them and basically swept them under the rug. I mean it's history. We all know about it but they can't do nothing about it now.

[00:36:41] I mean look at it from around the world. It's a lot of governments, pretty much every government in the past has disarmed the people and then slaughtered the people. It's gotten to that point.

[00:36:58] So yeah, it's interesting. I don't know the guy's name. There was another guy though that questioned and basically asked him saying, hey if you agree with this are you going to be the first man in the stack that comes through my door?

[00:37:12] Yeah, Hogg was kind of like, I don't know.

[00:37:17] Yeah, well and this particular Chinese immigrant is Lily Tang Williams who is running for US House Seed. So she first popped onto my radar when she first announced her candidacy and she was on the Tim Pool Show, Timcast.

[00:37:38] And you know her experiences having basically escaped communism and the CCP and Maoist China is pretty compelling. Like if anybody would like to I encourage you to go hunt through the YouTubes and find that interview with her.

[00:37:56] But her stories are very compelling and she is very outspoken, visceral, you know pro-Second Amendment. We cannot give up our guns. And this is literally the crux.

[00:38:11] This is the crux of her argument and this has been the crux of so many Second Amendment advocates' argument has always been that the Second Amendment and the right to keep mayoral arms was instituted first and foremost as a check against our government's power because you cannot oppress an armed populist.

[00:38:32] It's not possible because if you say something that enough of the people are upset about and they say no, then you have to kick hundreds of thousands or millions of doors in to enforce your will and they're not going to do that.

[00:38:48] And this young lady, this lady's you know kind of assertion is if you cannot guarantee that this government will never indulge in tyranny then there is no debate about whether or not we're going to give up our guns.

[00:39:02] We're not giving them up because we know from history that's what always happens. Every government that has stripped arms from its people has turned around and either forced people into prison camps or murdered them outright.

[00:39:17] And if that sounds like conspiracy talk, I'm just telling you what history has told me. You can argue that it will never happen again but you can't argue it hadn't happened like eight times in the past because it has.

[00:39:28] So this is one of those situations where like you know I don't even want to watch the rest of the debate.

[00:39:40] I don't care what David Hawkes has to say. He's a freaking stooge and he's a kid and I am not I am not willing or prepared to be told or chastised by a 98 pound weakling whether or not what I need to defend my family.

[00:39:57] Not going to happen. I don't care to have the debate with anybody because it's not a debate. I'm going to do what I'm going to do and you all are all going to get over yourselves.

[00:40:05] But this little snot in particular aggravates me because he launched his career as a mouthpiece for gun control on the freaking graves and the blood of classmates of his when he when he was at a school shooting that happened.

[00:40:21] And that I find particularly distasteful.

[00:40:25] So you're right Andrew. I don't know where his money's coming from but obviously some group or some person is propping him up.

[00:40:32] I keep hoping for the day when this little knucklehead just disappears from public eye like I don't know if I want him dead that's a little spicy my Christian heart won't let me quite go there but I definitely want him to just disappear into the bowels of the internet and never be heard from again.

[00:40:46] I'm sick and tired of him having a platform to screech and screech and cry about had the evils of everybody being armed when the truth of the matter is I've got history on my side and history has proven that when the government disarms people people fricking die.

[00:41:01] And even though I hate to point it out I keep having to do it because people keep quoting statistics and statistics are a funny thing because statistics don't lie but statisticians do very often.

[00:41:11] If you take suicide and gang related shootings out of those equations for gun violence you find a really interesting thing that the number of people that are legitimately being killed via homicide that isn't gang related or drug related and it wasn't a suicide is so fricking paltry it's ridiculous.

[00:41:31] It is a statistical anomaly. It doesn't mean it's not a personal tragedy when it happens but it does mean that it's not a really good argument to eviscerate the constitutional rights of millions of people because of it.

[00:41:46] I mean this is like saying you know this is like saying I had to buy a bottle of touch up paint for my car today because I got a rock chip so I'm just going to pay $20,000 and have the whole thing repainted.

[00:42:02] It's just the math doesn't math man. The argument doesn't make any sense.

[00:42:10] Hell if we want to have a rational discussion about how to reduce gun violence in this country we should probably start by freaking asking ourselves why the hell we can't give violent crime under control.

[00:42:19] Why we can't get the drug trade eradicated? Why we can't deal with organized crime because the FBI is too damn busy conducting warrantless searches of people via FISA instead of doing their freaking jobs and going after gangs because that is organized crime.

[00:42:36] Just saying.

[00:42:38] Yes, Raggle, Raggle. We're live on a Sunday because you know when you and your co-host have disparate schedules you have to kind of figure it out.

[00:42:52] And yes my right doesn't ever your fears begin.

[00:42:56] My rights don't care about your feelings either.

[00:43:00] I'm still waiting for the I'm still waiting to live in the America where I can have like a machine a Belfast machine gun for home defense.

[00:43:10] I mean if anything maybe we could maybe we could go maybe me and a bunch of my neighbors could go in a couple different ways on one it'd be cool for the neighborhood watch to have one.

[00:43:21] Yeah, so no I mean it's a lot's going on.

[00:43:28] Yeah, it's crazy.

[00:43:29] I it's you know.

[00:43:32] But I mean as much as is going on in in the world as much nonsense going on you know the things I keep telling people is the things that I continue to do myself like what were you notorious for telling me all for all those years Andrews three foot world.

[00:43:48] Okay, so within the within Phil's Venn diagram of crap.

[00:43:55] There's this big old circle of stuff that worries me and then there's this big old circle of stuff that I can actually do something about and where those two circles overlap.

[00:44:04] That's where I focus so I don't worry about oh if the supply chain shuts down we won't be able to get avocados from Central America.

[00:44:11] I just think to myself I need to figure out a way to stock the stuff I need so that when we can't get it I still have it.

[00:44:18] You know like we went to the grocery store today.

[00:44:23] And I was literally like picking up a couple extra boxes of stuff because you know we've got some on the shelf I want to put some back and overflow and my daughter literally told me she said but dad we already have like three of those on the shelf and I gave her this look like who's child are you.

[00:44:37] Like do you do you not do you not know who your father is we have three on the shelf.

[00:44:42] We should have six.

[00:44:45] I bought five more pounds of ground beef broken up and put in the freezer why because you know like the half of the chest freezer that's full of ground beef is starting to worry me a little bit I need to add to it I'm watching for a sales cycle loaded up again but I don't know guys like the lessons here the takeaways are very simple.

[00:45:04] The things you can't the things you have control over the things you need to focus on and while I think it is I think it is worth like being aware of what's going on internationally.

[00:45:14] I don't think it's worth the average person getting really wound up about it because there's just nothing we can do about that.

[00:45:20] I can't influence foreign policy but I would like to know that that's going on so that it's kind of my impetus to buckle down and do more prepping so that we're ready when things pop off.

[00:45:32] Yeah exactly so yeah it's interesting stuff but the biggest thing is just take take this and put another bucket of food downstairs and just you know prepare for whatever's coming.

[00:45:47] Well I don't suppose we'll belabor the point you it is a Sunday afternoon and I know that you and I both have things to be off handling but you know I thought that this was worthwhile to talk about.

[00:45:59] I mean watching David Hawke get raked over the coals is always just pure entertainment to me and I think that it's very important that we be aware of what our own government is doing.

[00:46:11] And as far as like Iran versus Israel the only reason I care is because of the impact that could have on international shipping lanes and the fact that our government is almost sure to be funding one or both sides of that war which is going to make inflation go to the frickin moon.

[00:46:26] So anyway anything else before we head out?

[00:46:30] Nope.

[00:46:31] Cool short and sweet keep your head down keep prepping keep paying attention come to Prepper Camps in September if you don't you'll regret it and if you come you better find us because we won't be hard to find.

[00:46:42] Matter of fact it's going out the door. Bye everybody.

[00:46:45] Bye.

[00:47:26] Bye.