Surviving America 079: America 250

Society in every state is a blessing. A government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already nid Surviving America seventy nine. What a better time? Is there a better time to talk about these United States? Two hundred and fifty years in? What does that mean? What does that look like? I have no clue. Today? Today we are going We've got all kinds of stuff happening here at PBN. Today's show, by the way, brought to you by Hydro Blue Water purification, sanitization, filtration, incapacitation. We're going up to like one hundred and five heat index today. Man, you better have access to clean water. How would you deal with that? In an off grid situation? No air conditioner, no clean water. Right, all takes is a power outage. It's all takes power. My lights could flick or go off right now, Hydroblue dot com check them out. But suffice it to say, today we're gonna do it like something we haven't done in a while. Guarden Girl, welcome in. We're going to talk about America. I'm going to talk about America in a stream of consciousness today. I don't know do you want me to go. Do you want me to go sort of like canonically personal experience? Now, I want to give a personal, sort of stream of consciousness on the United States of America, one poor kid raised in a small town outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And how the sort of the representation or what. I don't know. You don't need the word at all, fancy. I just want to stream of consciousness my way through life as an American kid, up into adulthood as a parent now and uh a guy who does an annual American Independence Day extravaganza that is hyper patriotic and I don't know, It's just one of those things, man, You know what I mean. It's the evolution living in America, what it's all about, what it's like, what it has been like, what's the real story. Normally something like this wouldn't make any sense, but it seems to me that we live in an age where we rehash everything. We rehash everything, we redo everything. We we uh, we have to explain to one another. They think this is a microphone? Are you sure this is Yes, this is a microphone. And I'm gonna do a podcast and explain to you why this is a microphone, right, Jake the snake in the chat. What is up? My man, ain't seen you in a while. Hope you're preparing for a great July fourth. So I was born in nineteen eighty six. I can't really remember my first I don't know. My first memories of the fourth of July are something like lighting snakes in the on the back porch at twenty four Chestnut Street. Something like my father lighting tanks that would shoot across the small sidewalk in our little row home in Marcs of Pennsylvania for little bits of fireworks that were brought home, sparklers, probably Mom's burgers. It was one of the great things about the Fourth of July, right, Mom would make burgers, and my mother is tremendous cook. My father, he was the champion for America perpetually. You live in the best country in the world. Is the best country in the world, is the best, best, best, best, everything best. It was like a spokesmouth for the nation, you know what I mean. And there was no doubting. I mean, I knew nothing of geopolitics, I knew I knew nothing of geography. I was probably less than five years old or five years old around there, but I knew one thing for certain, and that was America was the greatest place on earth. They didn't really, It wasn't like I don't remember hearing it from people on television. I don't remember hearing it from teachers. You know, we did our Pledge of allegiance and you know those things in school. But what I remember most, the greatest champion for the United States in my in my childhood was my dad. He was always on it. And it's just funny because in this age of nihilistic, narcissistic quote unquote late capitalism that everybody cries about, it is still funny to listen to Dad inject his common sense in the world. And you know, when you it's so important to talk to people who live through everything because they have a hold on reality like younger people don't. I mean, they have a real hold on reality. You know. He looks around at this country, my father, and he sees an unbelievable thing, many unbelievable things. He sees things that he can't believe. He sees what really one of the things that he always talks about that really blows him away is he says, everyone has a new car, and the cars go anywhere. They never break down. They go everywhere. And he said when he was growing up, seventies, even eighties, hell, even the nineties, like cars will break down all the time. They would just break down things, you know, expensive things would go cheap things would go, belts, timing belt, you know, all this kind of stuff. Things would break. Cars would be breaking down all the time. Like the idea that you're gonna hop in a car and drive to California or hop in a car and drive to Florida or something like that, it was like, yeah, maybe maybe if you had that kind of car, you know what I mean. But it wasn't like that in his day. And he's just he's always blown away. He looks around at the world. He listens to the world, and then he looks at the world. And when I say the world, I mean America, right, his slice of America that he knows. And it's an important His perspective is a vital perspective because he grew up outside of Philly too. He was a working class guy, probably lower middle class his whole life, right, And that's the type of person that sees how the quality of living has you know, gotten a million times better from nineteen fifty when he was born till now. So listening to him is great. Listening to people cry about America and we can't do anything and there's nothing you can do, and you can't get ahead, and there's no opportunity, and you know, we're it's stuck in this this run of late stage capitalism, and I don't know how to make it in the country, and AI is going to take all the jobs, and you know, we're a racist, colonists, colonized colon colonnade of monstrous people who've ruined everything. It's funny to talk to a man who is seventy six years old and just has the complete and total different outlook. He was telling me one time my dad not long ago. We're coming home from crappy fishing, right, and I stopped at the wah wah to get gas, and I said, I'm gonna run and get coffee. You want a coffee? He said, no, I'm good. So I come back out with the coffee and he says, you know, I was just thinking about how you couldn't get coffee when I was little, Like you'd had to go the only place you could go pick up coffee. You couldn't pick up coffee. First of all. The only thing you could do is you could go into a restaurant and eat and order coffee there, or maybe like to a bar that had coffee. But there was no You didn't just like pop in for a coffee. He said, you had to make it at home. People make coffee at home. He drank coffee at home or not at all for the most part. And just the idea of that is a one to wrap your head around. No matter how you feel about this country, the leadership, the president, the president and the mistakes we've made. You know for a fact that we have everything. We have everything, We have everything, and nearly everything is affordable. And I know there's people out there who might be struggling to get a job, or might be struggling to buy a house and that kind of stuff. And look, it's not perfect. The housing market is wrecked. The housing market is so out of line it's unbelievable. Pricing it large is out of line. That's where the people have to act and they have to speak up. We're at that point, we reach that point right where we have to act and we have to speak up. I'll give you a little peak behind the curtain, I'll tell you and listen, this is a sticking point for me. So we're gonna talk about America. We're gonna talk about how you know, butterflies and rainbows. We got to talk about the real shit too. And what's happening right now is people are charging that prices things that they're absolutely out of line. And I don't like it. I don't like it at all, you know what I mean. It's I just feel like people are being taken advantage of. On vehicles, people are being taken advantage of. On houses, people are being taken advantage of on clothing, clothing. Some warehouse full of Bangladeshi ladies stitches together cloth ships it over to America with a certain logo on it. And you're telling me that the only way your business can stay afloat is if you charge eighty dollars for a pair of jeans. So, but then again, you know, what is that? What is that? Right? Like? What actually are we dealing with? What are we talking about? What is that thing? What that is? As a reminder to well, let me check the comments section, it's a reminder to people that, like, you know, we can we can affect these things. We can affect price. Stop buying it. Stop buying the shit, you know what I mean. Stop buying it, don't buy the homes. Live radically or something, Live in a bus, live in you know what I mean. Like, I don't know. We've long lost the idea of sacrifice and the difference that it can make, and instead we're like falling in line, even if it means falling into slavery for God's sake. Right, the taxes are out of controling nation. It's another big one. The taxes are absolutely out of control. They have to they have to end, they have to end. I mean, it's it's so far beyond intolerable acts. It's unbelievable, right, I just it's a crazy thing. It's a crazy thing in that and that has to change. There's no arguing the fact that there are things right. In fact, the like I said, I'll give you a peek behind the curtain of Redbeaconmedia dot com. Red Beacon Media is going to swallow up the Prepper Broadcasting Networks membership. Okay, but we're making huge changes in terms of price. I don't know if it will work. I have no clue. I have no, I might literally be shooting myself in the foot, really, and trust me, it's not a good look if that. If that's the case, I might be shooting myself on the foot. I might be making a terrible decision. But I'm the type of guy that, like, I get so sick of certain things that I just have to do something. And you get sick of it, you know what I mean. And I've watched enough people and I've heard enough people, enough members, enough people on the internet, enough people in communities talk about the price of everything, talk about reoccurring costs memberships. I myself, looking at the world, feel the same thing. You're telling me, this thing costs this much money. You're out of your mind, right, You're telling me that in order to watch your movies on my television with advertisement baked in, I have to pay monthly for that privilege. So what I decided, and this is where I really need your help to make Red Beacon Media success. I mean, I just is what it is. I need your help because what I decided is, rather than do a reoccurring membership, rather than do insane prices on courses and stuff like that, We're gonna do a one hundred dollars flat fee membership to the whole thing. Whatever we do, whatever we put up, webinars, courses, videos, videos, behind paywalls, all that kind of stuff. If you're a member, don't worry about it. You'll already be in. But that's the way we're gonna handle it. You're not gonna sit there and go, oh, my payment to Red Beacon Media or PBN is coming up again. All you guys who are on payments, annual payments, that's going away. You'll be you're a member already, you're done. Lifetimers, obviously you're done. You've been done since you paid. You'll have access to everything, and new people who want to be members at Red Beacon Media. You'll pay one hundred dollars one time. That's it. I'll figure it out. I'll figure the rest out. The other thing we're gonna do is we're gonna have a dollar store. We are, We're gonna have a legitimate dollar store, like a dollar store. Everything that we have on membership, every cool thing that we put out behind a paywall. Maybe not everything behind the paywall, but every lots of cool things. Videos, documentation, webinars, those kinds of things. Like a dollar. One dollar. That's it. I don't know if it'll work. I don't care if it'll work early on, I really don't care. I just want people to come to Red Beacon and go like and get that feeling that I get when I go thrift shopping, you know what I mean. I just want people to have that feeling. Again, I'm serious about one hundred percent serious, Like, this is no Joe. This is a man, one man driven to his wits end about price of everything. So with my little world and my business, what I can control one hundred dollars flat fee for membership. And then we're also going to have you know, a variety of content available every day that will cost a dollar. I mean valuable stuff, not just me rapping about America for an hour. Right. How to build a five hundred dollars bunker one dollar? Right, how to make thirty year shelf stable soup one dollar for the video? Right, webinars, courses, documentation that we have the annual Preparedness Master schedule. You want it, you want to you want the Annual Preparedness Master schedule, but you don't want to become a member one dollar. I don't know. Sometimes, uh, Falling asleep at night is one of the most valuable things that you can have, you know what I mean? Falling asleep peacefully and happily and fulfilled in something is as valuable as anything. It's way more valuable than you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank and go and honey, I sure took advantage of some people today. Let me tell you about the money I made off of dumb people with money today. I mean, I took people for a ride. I taught them how to put cans in their pantry, and what cans to put in their pantry, how to store water, how to do all these things, and I charged them the same amount as a brand new car for a twelve week course or whatever the situation is. And like, I can't do it. There are price points, there are things in business that I can control. This is the world that I can control. And I just think we need people willing to do stuff like this value to really invest themselves in value in their business and value in order to change people who are like you want four plates, that's four hundred dollars you want you know what I mean? You want to drive a new car off the off off the lot. I think it's a great idea. It's gonna be about a seven hundred dollars monthly payment. Cool with that? No, man, nobody's cool with that. And it's it's not even like the problem is, it's not even a flex you know what I mean, You're just dumb. You're being taken advantage of. I don't care if you can afford it or not. You know what I mean. It's the thing. It's the point of the thing. What is that movie is that from. It's the thing of the thing. It's the principle of the thing. So it suffice to say, you know, we got work to do as a nation. There's no arguing about that, right, there's no denying we've got work to be done. I will do my part, for better or for worse, because you only get to live once, right, and when I'm settled down into the dust for the end times, then for the end of my time anyway. Yeah, I don't want to carry the burden of well, a lot of things, but in this particular situation, I don't want to carry the burden of having lived a life where I just took advantage of people, where I made a whole lot of money on providing an okay service, you know what I mean? Or I upcharged for a thing that was exclusive. I don't know. Let me get off it. Let me get off it. You know what, you live in it, you know what it is right, you know what you know what the feeling is, you know what the deal is. Thanks everybody for joining us live today. I do appreciate it. Haven't checked over on Kick. I don't know what's going on. If you're over there on Kick leaving, say hello, I could see your messages through streamyard. So fast forward from the row home in Marcus, Pennsylvania to the ball field in Lynnwood and the independence of childhood in those days, the ability to take a walk from home, no cell phone, couple of kids, disappear for hours in the dark, come back home in the dark. Everyone's okay, everything worked out, Everything was fine. Could we have a sleepover? Maybe? Could we make the day, the night last a little longer? What can we do? But up over the bridge we would go into Lynwood on the fourth of July as the sun was setting, and to Paulson's Field in Linwood and we'd take a blanket, or maybe we'd forget a blanket and we'd wind up laying in the grass and getting all itchy. But once the last light of the sun disappeared into the horizon, they would start firing off fireworks at the field and there'd be hundreds of people, you know what I mean, all kinds of people from Hook from Limwood, some from Boothwyn, you know, all around the area would converge on Poulson's Field to watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July. The crack and snap chemlight necklaces and wrist bands and that kind of thing. And the boys would be hanging out and laughing and the girls hanging out laughing, and each group looking at the other group and wondering what the future might hold. Would we one day fall in love with one of these girls from town and have a little baby running around with a you know, an Eagles onesie on and we'd have a ball. We'd have a ball and some celebrating the birth of the nation, and as like a ten year old ish on. That was kind of that was kind of how the Fourth of July was done around my way. You know, there was a time when they shot fireworks off in the Delaware But as you got older, you wanted to be alone. You didn't want to be alone, but you wanted to be away from parents. You wanted to be away from the watchful eye of parents. Not necessarily to get in trouble, but because that's the way that nature works. That's the way that nature works on the brain of a growing human. Right growing up, you slowly but surely start to understand that the safety and security of home, as wonderful as it is, the funny jokes your dad tells, the wonderful meals your mother cooks, these things are not only are they just you know, ephemeral, and they're largely memories, and one day with it will be only memories. But there's also the idea that, like, there's a drive to get out of there, to get out, to get away. And I think that drive comes from the fact that you you know, you're gonna have to establish it yourself. One day, you're gonna have to create all of that yourself. One day you're gonna grow up and you're gonna be responsible for the funny jokes and the meals and the good times and all that kind of stuff, the traditions and so forth. And I don't know how people stay at home so long. It's very strange to me that you could stay at home so long. You know, I didn't move out until I was nineteen, but I didn't live in the house full time, probably from the time I was about fifty, you know what I mean, between friends and girlfriends and that kind of thing. Like I was not at home, rarely at home, rarely at home, rarely sleeping at home, and you know, it was strange. I mean, we had problems in the family, but it was strange because I didn't miss being home and I don't regret not being home, you know what I mean. We have this thing, this regret thing that follows us around, and it is scary. But most of the time, what I've learned about regret is you got a choice. You can worry about regret or you can live in regret. To me, it seems like the more you worry about regret, the less you wind up regretting, you know what I mean. Whereas if you throw caution to the wind, it's like, uh, oh, I might why, But then again, are there are seasons in life where I do where things were not right and I have zero regrets about it. It's just life. You know what I mean, It's just life in America. It's hard. It's hard for me, me from around that time, from the teenage years, where everything becomes cynical, right, you're sort of max cynicism. Everything's a joke, everything's cynical, everything's silly, and it's hard for me to really drill down on what celebrating the Fourth of July was like in those years. I know we'd go to Sun Valley High School to watch fireworks from time to time. I think we might have went to Philly once to watch fireworks. I don't have many memories of the Fourth of July back in those days that really blew me away. Oh well, not until I met my wife. And I think a lot of that was because up north in the Northeast, you know, I was living through the early stage Wokes, like before it had a name, before it had an identity, before it really was a thing, right I was. We were in early stage Obama. That's where we were at, right. No, No, no, I'm sorry. We were late stage Bulls. That's what it was. Late stage Bush. And yeah, because Bush was the first president I voted for ever, because I was turned eighteen and so I was I was, I guess Bush second time. Yeah, that's what it was, So I guess we were late stage Bush with all that sort of comedic started as like a comedic mockery of the man, right, but it bloomed into this sort of radicalism that is infected everything now, you know what I mean, all over the country and I being in the Northeast, you didn't. You don't know it. You don't know when things like that are happening and starting. You don't see them, really, you know what I mean, because they're very small. But I think a part of it had had to do it that well. It was the overwhelming, like I said, sin sardonic nature of your teenage years, where nothing is important, nothing is sacred, nothing is valuable, nothing, you know, everything's a joke. You know, that's just what it is. Right. We're having a good time. Maybe we take a few things seriously. We work a job, we have a band, you have a girlfriend, and the rest of it is one big joke or one big uh, one big event to burn off the anxiety of the coming of life that is like a freight train, and also the horrors of high school and the fact that you as a man largely, right, sixteen seventeen year old man, You, as a man are forced to sit in a desk chair with people that you like, have disdain for, and teachers who you think are as likely to teach you anything as they are to with a classmate, Right, And you find yourself in that sort of predicament as a teen, particularly a late teen, and it really does feel like your goal is to kind of fill up every moment, every second of every moment of your life with something to just sort of help you deal with it, help you deal with the fact. Right, it could be the drugs and alcohol and sex just fill up every second, trips to here or there, you know, spending money, spending time to make it the graduation day where you can forget all these people that you spend all that time with, Right. But not really until I met my wife around seventeen did the stars and stripes come back. And I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that she was from Virginia. She was from the South, from a very patriotic family, and yeah, it was wonderful. It really was. Probably The standout memory from those days was pre kids in Virginia heading down to buck Row beach heading down the buck Row Beach because her father and her were telling me, knowing I was a fisherman, were telling me, yeah, you go down to the pier and you can fish the pier all nights open twenty four to seven. You go out there and fish all night long. I'll never forget it because the first time we went, I don't think the first time we went was the fourth of July, but we went one year and I wound up catching some flounder and I was jigging my bait, dragging my bait across the bottom, and I kept catching rods. I kept pulling fishing rods off the bottom of the ocean because I was just lightly like slowly jigging, slowly dragging my which is not how you're supposed to use the uh the bottom rig, you know, live bait bottom rig that you're using. I did catch fish doing that, though, But I also caught, like I said, two or three fishing rods off the bottom. I guess somebody threw them over by accident. I don't know how long they've been sitting underwater. I didn't keep them, so they must have been in pretty bad shape. But we'd return to buck Row Beach one Fourth of July evening, and it never crossed my mind until it started to happen. When you go out on a pier on the fourth of July and you're jutting out into a bay or into an ocean, you'll see multiple firework shows, you know what I mean. You're like, you're not treated to one fireworks show. There may be one close, but there'll be one down yonder also, you know. And I remember sitting there with my wife and fishing and watching the watching the fireworks go off in a bunch of different spots, and going like, Wow, this is something, this is something, you know. Is it America that is standing in our way of achieving the American dream? Is it our standards? I think largely the success that I've had in life. I really believe this, The success that I've had in life, the joy that I have in life. The reason that I love American I think it is the land of opportunity is because I don't know how else to really say it. Like you, and it sounds cliche, but you marry a person you align with who wants the same things as you want. Incredibly important, like incredibly important. We live in America, this is not the land of arranged marriages for now. Radical Islams getting a foothold, so that could that could might not be the case in certain areas. They love a good arranged marriage with a fourteen year old it seems right. But largely you get you get to decide who to marry. If you're a man, you really really get to decide who you're gonna marry. You know, a woman has to wait and ask, wait for someone to ask. You know, for most part, and I'm telling you right now, the cost of living, the everything, where are you, the location, the money you make. All of these things, man are a side note if you marry a person who aligns with what you want and what you believe and those important things, because you're in the same boat. You know, I always say, and it's mean, but I think it's great advice. It's like, marry somebody who's poor. And if you're rich, don't be crazy, don't go insane with everything, so that you know, leave some things for your children to show you. In other words, if you're rich and you do everything with your kids, and you take them everywhere and you show them everything, and you Europe and Asia and Disney's and all the parks and all the places in every river and every mountain and everything and every toy, andy this and all that and every technology, and you buy and buy and buy them everything and show them everything and do everything. I think you put a child in a position where they're like, I don't know what to show this guy, to blow him away the way he's blown me away my whole life, because there is something like, there is a level of joy that you can have in America, and it is uniquely maybe not uniquely American, but it is sort of a it's a big piece of the American dream, right, A big piece of the American dream is to show your parents, Look look what I've done. You know what I mean, Look what I've done, Look at what I've become. It's a huge piece of the puzzle. It's I mean, to be honest, it's some of my greatest memories are doing that for both my and then my wife's parents. He was just a month ago, literally a month ago, that we took my father to the Outer Banks for his first time. And you know, that's one of those things, that's one of those places and I just think, you know, some dads and some men and probably some women too, can get wrapped up in this idea of success and wealth and getting rich and you know, living this life, this sort of kind of life. But one of the things I've always thought about is, like you, I want to make sure, though we do a lot of fun things, we go a lot of fun places, I want to make sure that it's easy for my kids. Not easy, but because it's not good if it's easy. But I want to make sure that my kids have the ability to have that feeling dad, Look what I did, Look what I made, Look what I am. Look. Let me take you some low ayer. Let me show you something, Let me let me you know. I don't know if everybody gets off on that kind of thing, but I've always been the kind of person that likes to show people new things. Look at this new thing, huh. You know. And to be able to do that for your kids is a great feeling. To be able to do it for your parents, it's also a really big thing. So leave some you know, leave some success on the table for your kids to gobble up and to show off to you one day. That's the continuation, right of the American dream. That's the sinuation. I always think about, like the day will likely come should we not blow everything up, or should we not completely be taken over by robots with guns attached to them. There will come a day likely where my son tells me, Dad, we're gonna go fly to Utah and then we're gonna fly right back. But when we fly there, we're gonna go into space. And I want you to see it. I went there with with my girlfriend or my wife or my wife and kids, and we want to take you. We want to take you up out of the atmosphere and back down into Utah. You know, it's two thousand miles away. We'll travel there in like a couple hours or whatever. That's America, baby, do you know what I mean? People aren't sitting around and in Pakistan right now going I can't wait to see outer space, you know what I'm saying. That is one of those beautiful things about the nation. But from the moment that uh I met the woman I would marry and then on, you know, life has been You start solidifying traditions at that point, you know what I mean. You start you start doing things year after year, and you know there's nothing better. There really is I mean, there's something beautiful about it. It lines up perfectly for our lifestyle. It is. It's better than Poulson's Field, it's better than Sun Valley. It's we head down underneath the Nickel Bridge in Richmond. It's dark. It's a treacherous walk to some degree, not treacherous, but it's not an easy one. It is kind of an easy walk. There's one little part that's a little treacherous. Maybe I feel like it's treacherous because I've gone down there so many years with little kids and you're like, oh God, I hope they don't slip and hit themselves on the rocks. But you make your way down underneath the bridge, and you follow the course of the bridge down to the James River, and you can get into water if you want, you can swim around if you want. There'll be people there, They'll be dark shadows of people you do not know, who live share the same city that you live in, and they'll be lined up on the banks and it'll take forever, and the kids will complain and they'll say how much time? And the sun will finally go down, and all of a sudden, over a dog would dell the fireworks will start to come up, people will pull their phones out and record them like they're gonna watch it at some point later in life. Right, how many fireworks shows have you filmed? But it's import important that when you feel that desire to take your phone out to film the fireworks, right, that's important, not filming the fireworks. Nobody cares about your fireworks filming. Nobody's ever watched a fireworks show on the Internet and been like, dude, I'm so glad I watched that. But you that feeling that you want to capture this moment. It's important to recognize what that is. Don't film your fireworks. Enjoy the fireworks, enjoy the family, you know, ooh nah, and do all that stuff, but recognize that like, oh, I want to capture this, just like when you see a sunset or a sunrise or something going on in the in the heavens and you want to capture. But you know, even as you're pulling that phone out, there's a part of you that knows this is gonna suck compared to seeing it, like it's really beautiful. Sunset's impossible to capture on a phone. The sun is closer you put on a phone, it goes out here. If you zoom in, then you missed the out right. It's impossible to capture these kinds of things, just like the importance and the value and the joy of the fireworks. You know, it's impossible to capture. But it's important for you to understand. Like you know, it's a big deal. You know. Oh, go ahead, cast ole prom share the share the stream. I would love it. Yeah, I'd love it. Thanks for leaving a comment over there, kick, Sorry it took so long to check those comments. My apologies. Thank you for the share. We'd light fireworks here at the house every year. We have fun. The oldest is lighting them. Now we throw around smoke bombs, We do all kinds of stuff. The neighbors come over to see the fireworks. You know. And a tradition you're in the house is the PBN stream, the PBN twenty four hour stream, patriotic stream. We have another really interesting traditions. It's a little off color, but it is what it is, and it is very much a tradition in my family. Back in two thousand and eight, before my son was born. Even I'll give video game relays called home Front and the game home Front was It was a great linear America's taken over by North Korea hard to fathom, but there was a reason there was an EMP directed over this. The nation was basically shut off by an EMP. It was the storyline. It was before I'm even prepper podcasting, right before I'm podcasting at all, before I'm prepping any of that for any of that, I'm playing this game home Front, right, all right, and America's been shut down with the MP the North Koreans rolled in. Now you have to understand home Front the game is a front. The storyline is a front for China. North Korea is actually China, but they were afraid to say China. I don't know that that's a fact. That's my own, you know, my own thing. But suffice it to say, it seems pretty reasonable to believe that home Front the video game was about North Korea taking over the US. Probably in the mind of the creator, it was China who was taking over the US, but they were afraid to admit it. They were afraid to bring it out. But also at the same time, this was around the time North Korea was getting their nuclear weapons and we were all worried about a MP home Front two. The home Front one was a great linear game, you know, scene to scene, shoot this, kill this, do this, start this, stop this, sabotage that so on. You know, stop the Norcs at all costs, bring the nation back from the brink. Home Front two was almost like a reboot where we were sold faulty electronics that went into our military from the North Koreans, again, right from the North Korea. You know, we get all our electronics from North Korea, but we were sold faulty electronics from the North Koreans, and they had a back door security or a back door off switch, and they shut everything that our military had off overnight and invaded and invaded with high technology. Right. And the reason that this game has stuck with me and my family over the years is because the setting is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And even when my kids were very young, I know this is weird, but I'd call them down on the fourth of July and we would shoot up the invading force in the morning. You know, we would shoot them up. We would blow up their tanks, sabotage their electric resources, and drive little RC cars around with bombs trapped to them and blow up their soldiers. And we do it every year every year for some little it's like this, you know what I mean, the period that we spend on this shrinks every single year. Righte of my son, when my oldest son was like I don't know, probably seven something like that was peak when it was like, all right, let's just play this kids games fun, let's play, let's sabotage stuff, let's you know, sneak and hunt these these invaders. But still every year to this day, when the kids wake up, I'm down there, I make sure the game's on, and we play, and we we kill some norks and then we enjoy the rest of our Fourth of July. And until they create like a revolutionary war game that's better, We'll always play home Front two on the fourth and dabble in the fantasy of Resistance Gorilla Resistance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It's a fun game, man. You can craft your own weapons. And I mean they even have like a firearm rifle, a firework rifle type thing. I don't know, like, what do you do? What do you do with your one hundred years? I don't want people to spend one hundred years in a nation that's so beautiful as the United States, so wide open, so filled with opportunity, and buy into this idea that their destitute buy into this idea that they live in some nation where nothing is possible and everything is taken over and nothing is affordable and nothing you know what I mean, because it's not true. It's simply not true. How do I know it's not true. Let's go to the personal America is unaffordable. That's the claim, right, I could go to Walmart any day of the week. There's the money coming from if it's if it's so unaffordable here in the United States, and how people have money to fill these parking lots, fill the I mean, I could say lows, I could say home depot, but maybe some of that's business. But there's a hell of a lot of money in this country. It doesn't mean that prices are you know, it's fine, right, it doesn't mean that. But it's just a reminder that this is America man tremendous opportunity. I think we are narketized to a degree that we can't handle a lot of us. I think the Noonday demon. Look it up, the Noonday demon has a hold of us. And it's not easy. You know, battling resistance to get shit done is it's all a part of life. All I can tell you from personal experience is the more you battle the resistance, the less it's. It's a threshold that shrinks. It takes a much shorter period of time to get through that resistance. Oh, I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. I do okay, I'll do it right. I think a lot of people in this country live in a state of I don't want to do it for six hours of their day. I don't want to do that thing. I don't want to do that thing. I'm gonna push it off. I don't want to do it. I'll push it off. I'm not gonna do it. I'll do it later. I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it the next day. I'll do it in a few hours. I can't do it. I won't do it. I don't want to do it. And the reason that it can last so long is because of this, Because you can say, oh, I don't want to do it, and then you can pull this out and distract yourself for thirty minutes, easy hop on a video game, distract yourself for another thirty one. Now you can boom. An hour's going by. Okay, Now I got to do that thing. Oh, I don't want to do that. I don't want to write that book. I don't want to play that instrument. I don't want to learn that skill. I don't want to shoot that bow. I don't want to go outside and lift or run or do any of those things. I don't want to do it. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it the next day. I'll do it. You know what I mean? And I think this, this is the real culprit here. This is the real culprit in my mind. Doesn't mean that there is no cost of living issues, right, It's a real thing. In the United States. Ladies and gentlemen of Instagram, well, ladies and gentlemen at large. Inert mugs has joined the live stream, and I just want you to know, Like, if you want to see the coolest tumblers on the Internet, go check out inert mugs inert mugs dot com. He's in the Instagram live feed if you want to click on him and follow him. But if you're into explosive ordinance and who the hell listening to this stream is not into it explosive ordinance. Right. If you're into explosive ordinance inert mugs dot com check them out. They were a sponsor in the past. 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We froze our asses off on an overnight camping trip. Even with a camping stove in the tent. It was a very cold night. It was fun. It was fun. It was exhausting. Really, it was wonderful, to be honest. It was one of those you know, you have kids and they get to a certain age and you start to realize that these things that you do together are gonna be fewer and far between. The days are waking up every day and the first thing your kid does is come to see you. Those things start to you know, they start to wane. It don't happen as much anymore. There was a time I'd be sitting in this very chair not long ago, a couple of years ago, max, and every day before that, but summer break, I'd be sitting in this chair and my son would come down and you would sit right here on my leg and tell me about his sleep, or about his dream, or about his plan for the day. My youngest, that's over, and you know what I mean, These things come to an end. But suffice it to say, you know, my son's getting to that age where he's starting to see the world. This is my world. My world's out there waiting. It's not mom and Dad's world anymore. Here I am in America. What am I gonna do. One of the things you can do for your kids in this country has show them things. It's probably the most important thing you can do. And I don't mean show them things like you know, here is Bush Gardens, Williamsburg. It's a great place to go and write roller coasters, right, Not nothing wrong with that, We do that too, that's fun. But show them what's possible, introducing the people who do things, show them what they could do with their life, you know what I mean. And being up on that mountain, we went to the tip top and we were doing the things that you do on the top of mountain, take pictures and videos and all that kind of stuff, right, and sit there and think about the vastness of life and the years ahead. And I remember just telling them and it was it was planned. I planned it, you know what I mean. It was it was a planned dad speech. But I was just trying to show him. I was trying to show I was trying to tell him, like you live in America. This is one park of thousands, tens of thousands millions of acres of public land exist in this country. It's yours, it's yours excuse. You could make a life. I told him, Carter, you can make a life just exploring national parks. You could do that. That could be you know, you could work. You're nine to five if that's what you want to do, and every weekend you can go to a new place. You could take vacations, go across the country see the Rockies. I mean, you have a nation of public land that once you buy a tent or a hammock and a small backpack and make very minimal investments in what kind of food you want to eat while you're hiking and camping. How you want to deal with water? Hydro blue. Hydro blue is how you want to deal with water. Check out the sidekick. That can be a life. I mean, that's enough to be a life. You had a family, you had a wife and a kid's I mean you are living a dream life now. Now you're living a dream life. Now you're living a life that when your time comes like you'll look back and say this was a great life. We have over complicated living in America. We have allowed our hatred for one another to overwhelm us. Our obsession with the political, the most corrupt aspect of the country. We've allowed our complete and toil focus to go to the most corrupt and fake people in the entire country outside of Hollywood, which is politics. Right, That's where our focus is. We hate each other because of each other's politics. We hate each other for liking the FAKEUS people on the planet. You like that fake one, Well, I like this fake one? Fuck you? You know what I mean? That's that we're throwing away the greatest gift, the land of milk and honey, over AOC and Donald Trump. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, this is what we're where we're at as a people. This is why we are struggling so much. This is why the depression, and why the SSRI, and why the whole thing. It's not because times are tough. It's because we live in an incredible nation with unbelievable opportunity, but we've been brainwashed and narctized to believe that we don't. Meanwhile, it couldn't be more to the contrary, because the whole world is coming here for opportunity and we're sitting here going I don't know how to get ahead and this and the American dream is dead. Yeah, I don't think so. I think you're off. I think something's off with that thought. So whatever, get outside of all the noise. This fourth of July, right, it's two hundred and fifty years of magic miracles. If you can think about the miracles that have happened in this nation, if you think about the fact that we decided to build our judicial system off of the Magna Karta and continue down the path of Hey, how about we how about instead of just hanging people, we figure, you know what, maybe the guy's innocent, and he's innocent until proven guilty. What do you understand what kind of a miracle that is? Do you understand that the nation is ripping itself apart, north versus south, and we're a whole to a founding document at a time where the worst atrocities that ever happened in this country are happening amongst the citizens in a civil war, and we use that moment in history to end slavery in the country. Now you can argue it wasn't a war for slavery. It was a war for slavery. It was commerce, It was this, it was that it was the evolution of you know, whatever, industrialization, whatever the cause was, the effect was that we passed the thirteenth Amendment. It's huge, it's monumental. It's monumental. It's what happened to make that happen, the miracles that had to happen in order for that to happen, But just the sheer miracle of the fact that men making money living free. How long could slavery have gone on for? It could have gone on much longer, right, much longer, even with the growing abolitionist movements and all that kind of stuff. It could have gone on for much longer. We let the slaughter continue. It so much was put on the line, and it was all put on the line because all men are created equal and are endowed with inalienable rights given to them by God. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those things don't happen often. You don't lay a decree down and then one hundred years later less you know, stick to it, stick to it. In the worst possible situation you could be in the nation is killing itself, seceed, We're gonna hold it together. We're gonna hold it together, and we're gonna come out on the other side stronger because we're gonna stick to our founding principles. You see the nations we do business with miracles miracles. So on that note, we're gonna end this show, folks. I I really, you know, listen to Red Begon Daily News. I talked about the miracle of Ben Franklin today, going over to Paris and Passy and figuring that situation out, becoming the first true American ambassador and getting the French on our side. They we already hated the Brits, but whatever, Now is the time to spend some time thinking about America in its first two hundred and fifty years. Read something you know. Don't watch TV. Don't watch you know what I mean. People are gonna cry because Americans cry. It's what we do. We're rebellious, we're pissy. We cry. We want things to be better all the time. We see threats and problems coming from Afar, and we get radical because we want to prevent it. But just read some history about the country and wrap your head around all the things that had to happen in order for you to be sitting in the chair you're sitting in right now. Or in the car, or standing in the kitchen and living the life that you're living. Okay, would you do that for me? And look forward to Redbeaconmedia dot com, which will be lighting the lamps on the fourth of July. It's on top of our great broadcast. We'll also be starting our new website, which is as much a movement, an American movement as it is a website, a collection of ideas and concepts that make for a good life, make for a good life, a stronger Republican. So go on. So thank you all for everything. Don't forget to check out hydro Blue dot com, our incredible sponsor for all your water preps, all your water filtration needs small and large. What are storage needs? Hydroblue dot com. I will I'll see you guys tomorrow likely what is tomorrow Thursday, at the very least, we'll be on for Redbeacon Daily News. All right, enjoy your Fourth of July. If you don't see me or if we don't touch, touch an antennas and I'm gonna go refill the coffee and have some breakfast. Talk to you soon, folks.