The Rising Republic - In The Shadow of Helene

[00:00:05] I don't want to set the world

[00:00:10] I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, maybe there will be.

[00:00:17] To chase, at least for a moment, Trump and the maggots off the stage.

[00:00:25] There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.

[00:00:31] I think he needs to go back and punch him in the face.

[00:00:35] I thought he should have punched him in the face.

[00:00:37] I feel like punching him.

[00:00:38] I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school.

[00:00:41] If you were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.

[00:00:44] I will go and take Trump out tonight.

[00:00:47] Take him out now.

[00:00:48] When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?

[00:00:52] They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.

[00:00:54] Show me where it said that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

[00:00:59] I'm not a little guy anymore, anywhere.

[00:01:05] I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

[00:01:10] Please, get up in the face of some congresspeople.

[00:01:14] People will do what they do.

[00:01:16] I want to tell you, Gore Dutch.

[00:01:18] I want to tell you, Kavanaugh.

[00:01:20] You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.

[00:01:26] We're going to go in there winning.

[00:01:29] This is just a warning to you Trumpers.

[00:01:32] Be careful.

[00:01:34] Walk lightly.

[00:01:36] And for those of you who are soldiers, make them pay.

[00:01:44] We are your lizard overlords.

[00:01:49] Stop listening to these.

[00:01:53] Preppers.

[00:01:56] Eat your crickets.

[00:01:59] Fight in the streets.

[00:02:02] Own nothing.

[00:02:06] And love.

[00:02:07] We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:02:18] Hello, everybody.

[00:02:23] Welcome again to another amazing episode of The Rising Republic with your boy, L. Douglas Hogan, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

[00:02:31] So glad to be back again.

[00:02:32] What a wild week it's been.

[00:02:34] I talked a little bit last week about Saluda and about Prepper Camp and how I was there and all the crazy things that went on during that visit right there.

[00:02:46] And I also mentioned to you guys in that last podcast how there was a guy probably 15, 20 yards down from me, Ryan Buford.

[00:02:55] He was also camping in a hammock next to me.

[00:02:59] And something I wanted to let everybody know was that I haven't previously talked about on this show that previously, I'd say the last year or so, I've been thinking heavily about bringing on a co-host onto The Rising Republic.

[00:03:12] And I threw some names out to some, or actually I talked to some friends and some friends threw the same name back to me, actually.

[00:03:20] And it was Ryan Buford, the guy that was camping just down the hill from me, probably like 15, 15, I don't even want to say 15 yards.

[00:03:29] It might have been 15 yards, probably close.

[00:03:30] It seemed like 15 feet when I was walking downhill.

[00:03:34] But Ryan's a great guy and I'm super excited to introduce him now because he is here.

[00:03:38] I'm introducing him for the first time on The Rising Republic and he is going to be my co-host here on out.

[00:03:44] So, Ryan, go ahead and intro yourself for a brief moment.

[00:03:47] Hey, how's it going, everybody?

[00:03:49] Hopefully you can hear me okay.

[00:03:50] Sound great on you.

[00:03:51] My name is Ryan.

[00:03:52] I used to host The Next Generation show with my son Colin here on Prepper Broadcasting.

[00:03:58] And, you know, for those of you who never heard that show, it's a great one.

[00:04:03] We did about five years together, just kind of the importance of parenting and preparedness.

[00:04:07] And, you know, I've been looking for a new direction here the last year.

[00:04:11] We took about a year off and, you know, I wanted to try and get back into it.

[00:04:15] And it's funny you were interested in having a co-host because I was trying to figure out what would be a good way to break into the scene, of course.

[00:04:23] So, this actually works out great.

[00:04:25] You know, my involvement in preparedness has been mostly personal camping expedition type stuff, but also, you know, surviving on the road as a road warrior of sorts, but also raising a family.

[00:04:39] And, you know, here I live in the Northwest.

[00:04:42] So, we have our own issues with regard to earthquakes, wildfires and things like that that don't seem to fit the same mold as what the folks on the East Coast tend to experience.

[00:04:52] And I've also been a speaker, a guest speaker at Prepper Camp for the last four years now, five years, something like that.

[00:05:01] And, you know, so, you know, I talk mostly about freeze drying and, you know, certain aspects of that.

[00:05:06] But I've got extensive background in, you know, industry and all that kind of stuff that kind of lends itself to preparedness on the safety side.

[00:05:16] So, happy to be a part of the show.

[00:05:18] Something you do on the side, like you do a lot of freeze drying and dehydrating and stuff like that that you teach at Prepper Camp?

[00:05:24] Yeah, so my shtick has to do a lot with freeze drying and, you know, food preservation on that side of things.

[00:05:33] Not so much the canning, but definitely, you know, the power behind freeze drying for long-term food preps and stuff like that.

[00:05:42] I've had a machine for about eight years now, and I use it for all kinds of stuff and kind of branching out into other fields all the time.

[00:05:49] So, everybody hears me complain a lot about, like, the politics in Illinois.

[00:05:53] And I'm really down on states and local governments that are highly liberal and densely populated because they seem to control the politics of an entire region, like a greater region, just because the densely populated areas, like Chicago, for example, dominates the politics in all of Illinois.

[00:06:12] What's it like living there?

[00:06:13] Washington, right, where you live?

[00:06:14] Yeah, Washington State's the same way.

[00:06:17] Five counties control the entire state.

[00:06:19] And if you look at it on a county-by-county map, I mean, it's a sea of red with a blue dot on the west side, which is discouraging, you know, because all of the legislation that comes out is against the majority of the republic that lives there, you know, including myself.

[00:06:39] Farmers and, you know, blue class, middle class working folks.

[00:06:43] But also, you know, it's kind of, how do you say, discouraging, you know, for someone to believe in the power of their vote when inevitably you feel like it's going to be overruled by the populace who has no idea what it's like to live in the real world, essentially.

[00:07:03] Yeah, every time I go out to vote as a conservative, I always feel like it's for no cause.

[00:07:10] Like I'm just going in to just toss it in, knowing that it's not going to matter for a hill of beans.

[00:07:15] That's very discouraging.

[00:07:18] But at the same time, I won't be able to reserve the right to complain about the outcome.

[00:07:24] Exactly.

[00:07:25] If I didn't at least cast my ballot.

[00:07:26] Yeah.

[00:07:27] And I'd rather be a part of a solution or at least, you know, that side.

[00:07:32] If my number counts, then I want it to count for something.

[00:07:35] And, you know, at least I say, I can say that I, I at least put my name in the hat and voice my concerns as quietly as possible until, until we are no longer to the point where voicing our concerns quietly is, is a state of being.

[00:07:52] Right.

[00:07:53] So you actually, how, how, what you, you bought it.

[00:07:58] What were you, did you drive or did you fly when you came out to?

[00:08:02] Oh, yeah.

[00:08:02] So for prepper camp, the last, every year that we've gone and, and the prior three, I think it must be four years now, I think, because the previous three years, uh, my son and I would fly down together and we kind of did the events together.

[00:08:17] He was a speaker for a couple of years.

[00:08:19] And, um, this last year I also flew down.

[00:08:24] And one of the things that was a challenge for us was making, cause I don't believe in checking bags because I'm just, I've been stranded in airports enough to know that's a fool.

[00:08:32] It's a foolish thing to do, especially if I'm going across the country to a campsite, I better make sure that I have all my gear on my back.

[00:08:39] So, um, so there's a little bit of a lightweight space challenge that we had.

[00:08:45] And I, especially this year had to meet just to stay dry.

[00:08:48] You know, um, it's, it's definitely a challenge.

[00:08:52] And we talked about that on our podcast too, like how we were changing our bags and what we were trying to keep in and things that we had to eliminate and dry running our equipment to make sure we were good to go before we left.

[00:09:02] But I mean, this year was totally different to be able to, to camp in essentially a hurricane.

[00:09:10] And I have never done that before.

[00:09:12] So this was a first for me.

[00:09:13] Yeah.

[00:09:14] Uh, the podcast you're talking about while ago, we were checking, talking about checking our gear and stuff.

[00:09:17] We was on the changing earth podcast with Sarah F Fathway just yesterday was talking about some of the things we did before and during and after, uh, the hurricane and the prep and just kind of coexisting.

[00:09:27] Coexisting in that.

[00:09:30] Um, it's, it was, it's crazy.

[00:09:31] Cause like you said, I've never slept in a hurricane either, but I've slept in days of rain because I was in the Marines.

[00:09:37] Oh, sure.

[00:09:37] And probably this was probably the third, three times my life have I ever been saturated that much.

[00:09:43] Um, this probably be probably the third.

[00:09:46] The first was some stuff I slept, you know, it was in the, when I was in the Marines.

[00:09:50] I mean, uh, when I was in the Northern training area in Okinawa, Japan, it's just straight up jungle.

[00:09:54] And it was miserable, wet, miserable, wet.

[00:09:59] And, uh, they teach you how to take care of your feet and all this other stuff, which is why I tried to bring so many socks with me.

[00:10:03] And I was so discouraged when my shoes got so goats got so wet.

[00:10:06] And I stepped that, that muddy Creek I told you about, uh, yesterday.

[00:10:09] Oh yeah.

[00:10:10] Um, it's frustrating cause I hate the feel of mud and water squishing between my toes.

[00:10:15] It's just, it's disheartening.

[00:10:17] And, um, and the second problem would be on the Appalachian trail.

[00:10:20] Well, yeah, you know, I've, I've talked to you before about how I love to hike and I'm an avid hiker.

[00:10:25] And I like to section hike on the Appalachian trail and, and camp out.

[00:10:28] It's very remote.

[00:10:29] And you go, I'm used to not having a signal.

[00:10:31] I'm used to going out and just kind of unplugging from the world and just kind of living that way.

[00:10:36] And, and, and I know one time in particular, it rained on me for two days straight and it was, it was rough.

[00:10:43] It was miserable.

[00:10:44] Um, but you do your best to stay, stay wet or excuse me, stay dry, keep, keep out of the wet.

[00:10:50] And, uh, and this, this was the third and it's after two days of rain.

[00:10:54] Cause we, that first day when we got there on Thursday, um, was you there on Thursday as well?

[00:10:59] Yeah.

[00:11:00] Yeah.

[00:11:00] I was there.

[00:11:00] I rolled in about midday on Thursday.

[00:11:02] Okay.

[00:11:03] Yeah.

[00:11:03] Right before the storm.

[00:11:05] See, I, what time did I get there?

[00:11:06] About three 30.

[00:11:07] I think I got there three 33 45 ish in the afternoon.

[00:11:10] I got there and it was raining.

[00:11:12] So it had been raining and it was raining for some time.

[00:11:15] And then we were supposed to set up that day at, uh, originally, but it got pushed back because of the rain to one o'clock the next day.

[00:11:23] Uh, the winds held us back and actually that kind of extended out to five o'clock PM the next day.

[00:11:32] So we, yeah, we wait a little bit, but that night, let's talk about the hurricane.

[00:11:36] That was kind of, uh, I don't know if exciting is a good word for it.

[00:11:39] Definitely that.

[00:11:41] I mean, so I've, I've camped tent camped in the rain before and had to contend with that before.

[00:11:49] And I personally, I prefer tent camping over using a camper or cabins or anything like that.

[00:11:54] To me, it's just, if I'm going to be out there, I want to be in it.

[00:11:57] Um, but that being said, I've also camped in the rain and had stints in Yellowstone and the Uintas and the Wasatch Front there in Utah.

[00:12:04] Um, portions of Montana and Northern Idaho where, you know, yeah, it rains and then you deal with it or you wake up in a puddle or something.

[00:12:12] But, um, this was altogether different.

[00:12:15] I mean, just a constant barrage, 24 hours of nonstop rain slapping down on my rain fly for my hammock.

[00:12:23] And I was just thankful that it actually held up because I wasn't sure if it was going to be adequate and I wasn't, I wouldn't be rained on in the middle of the night.

[00:12:32] So, I mean, to me, I didn't get much sleep and it wasn't so much because of, you know, my comfort level inside the hammock because I was actually dry.

[00:12:43] For me, it was just that, that constant noise of rain hitting the tarp and that little bit of fear in the back of my head that I was going to catch a branch or something from way up above that had enough speed to, you know, gore me on, on the ground basically.

[00:13:00] So, I was just kind of crossing my fingers that I was a small enough target to where it wouldn't be an issue.

[00:13:04] I kind of remember when I came up, right?

[00:13:06] Because you were, you were pitched before I got there and I went up just because I actually had another site where I was camping at and you had sent a message up to the, to the, uh, the office and to let, let me know, let Doug know that, uh, you had secured a different location.

[00:13:20] If I was interested, there was room for me.

[00:13:22] And that's how I ended up going over to be, uh, up just up, up the road from you in a manner of speaking.

[00:13:28] But I was the same way.

[00:13:30] Uh, I got there and I looked, if you remember, I looked straight up looking for widow makers.

[00:13:33] I'm like, Oh yeah.

[00:13:34] Um, I'm, you know, and there was a lot of them, that one tree that looked as like tall and looked strong at the base, but looked up and there was just a bunch of old brands.

[00:13:41] I'm like, no, no, no.

[00:13:42] And I moved up and I found a couple other ones, but I was like you, uh, I was comfortable.

[00:13:47] I was very comfortable.

[00:13:48] I wasn't cold.

[00:13:49] I wasn't hot.

[00:13:49] I was very comfortable.

[00:13:51] Um, to me though, like white noise, which is kind of how I equate the sound of rain hitting a tarp, just bigger, you know, bigger sounds.

[00:14:01] It, it, to me, I sleep better like that.

[00:14:03] And the reason why I didn't sleep well wasn't because of the sound or even my comfort level.

[00:14:07] It was because I knew that there was an impending threat that was kind of looming in the background.

[00:14:12] It was heading towards us and it was natural disaster.

[00:14:14] Mother nature is the most fiercest thing in all of the earth.

[00:14:17] And there's nothing more powerful than mother nature.

[00:14:21] And so, you know, I knew hurricane Lee was coming in at us and I wasn't sure how, because we're on the side of that mountain, how the wind was going to affect us.

[00:14:30] Is it going to ride up and kind of slide down?

[00:14:32] Is it going to go kind of blow over?

[00:14:34] And I think, um, because we did have a breeze, but I don't think we had gale storm winds like, you know, we could have had if we were maybe on top of that mountain, for example.

[00:14:43] Yeah.

[00:14:44] And I think that blocked a lot of it.

[00:14:46] And I was actually kind of banking on that really, because I knew that my setup would be toast as soon as my rain fly caught wind underneath of it.

[00:14:55] So it was just, it's just basically a giant umbrella.

[00:14:59] I mean, when the wind comes in for a tarp, you remember when you came up and was looking at my gear and you saw the giant window weights that I had?

[00:15:07] I brought those in preparation for the strong winds.

[00:15:10] So, um, I, I had the, uh, the titanium alloy, uh, spikes with the grabbing.

[00:15:17] It's kind of like a soil grabbers.

[00:15:18] I don't know if they're like, I don't know.

[00:15:19] They grab a little bit better.

[00:15:20] I think.

[00:15:21] And they're like in the shape of a cross and you stick them down into the ground.

[00:15:24] Um, or a plus sign that goes down into the ground.

[00:15:27] So I feel it grabs better than just around spikes.

[00:15:30] Uh, and then I laid those, those heavy weights.

[00:15:33] They're about, I don't know, five, five and a half, 10 pounds each.

[00:15:35] I feel on top of that so that it wouldn't pull up and that held real strong against the wind that again, it wasn't, it wasn't a hurricane wind that we were catching, but it was just enough to blow the wind.

[00:15:48] Like the, the walls of my, my tarp back and forth, like it'd go in one direction and it did suck back in and go in the other direction.

[00:15:53] That was kind of weird.

[00:15:54] And things were falling on my tarp all night long.

[00:15:56] I kept hearing that.

[00:15:58] Um, yeah.

[00:15:59] And I, so I couldn't even bring tent stakes on the plane.

[00:16:02] Um, I probably tried, I could probably try, but I've had them confiscated in the past.

[00:16:08] So I didn't want to wind up losing on those.

[00:16:12] So I just wound up using little sticks and hoping for the best, which wasn't the best, but I mean, it got me through.

[00:16:18] I wish I had known that because I brought, I brought extras with me.

[00:16:21] Uh, I try to bring extra, a little bit of extra, everything, you know, just in case.

[00:16:25] Cause I, I, I, I had a tent set up.

[00:16:27] Uh, I had an air mattress.

[00:16:28] I had a hammock set up just in case I didn't know, you know, if I was building,

[00:16:32] I didn't know if I was going to have trees to hang my hammock in when I got there.

[00:16:36] Um, and if I did, that was going to be prepared for, for the, for the, for a tent camp.

[00:16:41] You're right.

[00:16:42] So I had the tent stakes and I had my, my gear that I carry my Appalachian trail backpack, which is C packs.

[00:16:48] It's made of Dyneema fire.

[00:16:49] It's all waterproof, similar to what your stuff is.

[00:16:52] Yeah.

[00:16:52] And, uh, so that's what I use for my tarp system, but I had the tent spikes also just in case.

[00:16:57] Oh, plus I had some extra ones for the canopy.

[00:17:00] It came with some extra spikes.

[00:17:02] Yeah.

[00:17:02] So I was loaded for bear.

[00:17:04] And my poncho actually is designed to be able to convert to a tent also.

[00:17:08] So I was kind of using that as a backup and it comes with spikes, but I, again, I couldn't, I couldn't bring those.

[00:17:14] Or if I did, I wouldn't, I didn't want to risk losing them because if I'm packing around here, I'd much rather have them on me, you know?

[00:17:20] Yeah.

[00:17:20] Yeah.

[00:17:21] And then, and then, so that we had, we had the instruction day, which ended up being only one day.

[00:17:27] So what was it?

[00:17:28] Saturday, right?

[00:17:29] We, I taught my one class Saturday.

[00:17:31] We were supposed to teach another class Sunday, but it kept raining.

[00:17:33] It started raining again and just pounded and pounded and pounded.

[00:17:35] And it's like the situation just deteriorated outside of where we was at.

[00:17:39] But in fact, if we wanted to leave, what was it?

[00:17:43] Thursday, early Friday, I think we, nobody could have left anyway because so many trees had fallen down all the roadways.

[00:17:50] Yeah.

[00:17:51] But we had to cut our way out.

[00:17:52] Right.

[00:17:53] And fortunately, you know, this was prepper camp.

[00:17:56] You know, did everybody come prepared, you know, for this kind of thing?

[00:17:58] Not everybody did, but there was people that actually had chainsaws and hacksaws and hand saws and everything else.

[00:18:04] And went out and made a way, at least opened up one lane so people could get in and get out.

[00:18:09] Yeah.

[00:18:09] And I think I, I, the first thing I did when I got there was I looked for a commando saw and I couldn't find one because I don't, I don't know that I could get that on a plane, but it's probably, it's one tool that I'm definitely going to try next time to keep on hand in my pack.

[00:18:26] Cause I, if I can't have a knife or a hatchet or anything that I would normally have for camping, at least if I could get by with something like that, then I could secure some firewood or.

[00:18:36] What if there's a way to mail stuff out?

[00:18:39] You think, you think prepper, like the campground has like a PO box or some kind of something so we can mail something there like that to the future and grab it later?

[00:18:46] I've never considered that in the past and, and I could do that, that it's sent a small care package so that it's there for me when I arrive.

[00:18:52] And then I got to mail it back home.

[00:18:53] Right.

[00:18:53] If I want to keep it.

[00:18:54] Yeah.

[00:18:55] Cause that's kind of like what we did.

[00:18:56] Um, well, what, not I, but like people that would do like the full hike, the full Appalachian trail, do it like a full hike.

[00:19:04] Um, a through hike, they call it.

[00:19:06] They would, they would, they would mail things from home before that.

[00:19:09] So they, or they have family members mail things to them to the closest post office where they are at.

[00:19:13] And they would kind of restock their goods.

[00:19:15] They go off the Appalachian trail onto a local little, like a little town, a trail town, uh, North Carolina, Tennessee, or Georgia, wherever, you know, you are, uh, shower up, go to the post office, get your, your goodies and then restock and get back on the trail and keep going.

[00:19:30] You know, I mean, it, it makes sense to do that kind of stuff, especially well in advance in this event.

[00:19:37] I'm, I'm, it's been the fifth year and I think about it every year and I never do it.

[00:19:42] So it's just kind of like on me.

[00:19:45] One of the things I continually fail to do is, is send stuff to myself.

[00:19:51] Maybe one of these days.

[00:19:52] Well, uh, I don't know now, now, now that we're talking about this in advance, we could kind of work our way up to it.

[00:19:57] Yeah.

[00:19:58] Next year, for example, next prepper camp, uh, next September, 2025, we'll have this, all these details sorted out by now.

[00:20:05] Yeah.

[00:20:05] What do you think about, um, uh, the, the lack of help that, cause FEMA has been out there, but they're, they're actively, they're actively pushing, uh, and inhibiting people from going out there.

[00:20:18] People who've been threatened to be arrested for that are going out there to, to help.

[00:20:22] Yeah.

[00:20:22] So, um, I actually have my IC.

[00:20:26] So if you go to FEMA, you can get NIMS certifications for, um, ICS 100, 200, 300, 700, whatever.

[00:20:34] Oh, I understand.

[00:20:34] Um, so incident command structure, that's basically the, the emergency management structure for things like this.

[00:20:42] Um, it's the type of thing that you can get for free online through FEMA to be able to be a resource in your local area.

[00:20:53] And I can tell you that the training is extremely dry and boring, but it does provide insight into how that monster works.

[00:21:02] And, you know, the, the whole planning P and some of the components related to incident command and, and being able to manage these kinds of things.

[00:21:11] But one of the things that I'm seeing happen with FEMA is in this particular instance, is there not, they, they didn't take any proactive measures to get out in front and establish MOUs or like a memorandum of understanding between agencies so that they could get out in front of this thing.

[00:21:31] And, you know, be, have assistance available and ready on standby to be able to transport in.

[00:21:39] Instead, they were extremely reactive.

[00:21:41] They don't appear to know what's what, and people on the ground, like the Cajun armies, quote unquote, is able to get in and get supplies to these people and do their thing.

[00:21:52] So on one hand, you know, these platoons essentially are able to get in and act like special forces to get in and get supplies in.

[00:22:01] And on one hand, it is, it can be interfering, but on the other hand, it's lifesaving.

[00:22:07] So what you have is this giant monster that's there to reestablish government that is not there to assist people.

[00:22:15] And people need to realize that FEMA is not there to clean up.

[00:22:20] They're not there to do any sort of aid other than minimal to be able to reestablish government.

[00:22:28] And when people wrap their heads around that, they realize, oh, well, what's left?

[00:22:33] And that are your churches.

[00:22:35] That's going to be your Cajun army, that kind of stuff, to be able to, and I use that term loosely, but you kind of know.

[00:22:40] I think our audience knows who that is.

[00:22:43] But the people like at our campsite who showed up ready to go with chainsaws and knew where to scout out fuel and what the, you know, get intel from the local regions on where fuel was, where it wasn't, where power was, where cash only was accepted, that kind of stuff.

[00:23:01] I mean, those are the guys who are doing the boots on the ground work to reestablish community.

[00:23:07] Whereas FEMA, on the other hand, is a different monster that's designed to reestablish government.

[00:23:14] So, yes, they have failed on the community side massively on a huge scale.

[00:23:19] And the whole spending thing that we're fighting out now that's all going out to DEI and housing migrants and stuff, the billions and dollars that's going to that instead.

[00:23:28] That's just, you know, that's a sign of continued government with this particular administration and misspending of taxpayer money.

[00:23:38] So what's that press secretary's name?

[00:23:40] Is it Jean-Jean-Pierre?

[00:23:41] Is that her name?

[00:23:42] Oh, yeah.

[00:23:43] Catherine Jean-Pierre.

[00:23:44] Yes.

[00:23:45] So she's saying it's categorically false that the Biden administration is using FEMA funds, right, to, for the illegal immigrants or the undocumented, however they want to say it, undocumented persons, immigrants, whatever.

[00:24:00] I have an audio clip here from September 22nd, right?

[00:24:04] I'm sorry, September 2022.

[00:24:06] Now, this is her.

[00:24:07] Listen to her on this clip right here.

[00:24:09] This is interesting.

[00:24:10] And then I'm going to play you a clip where she's saying it's categorically false.

[00:24:13] Here's the first clip from from 2022.

[00:24:16] So FEMA regional administrators have been meeting with city officials on site to coordinate to coordinate available federal support from FEMA and other federal agencies.

[00:24:26] Funding is also available through FEMA's emergency food and shelter program to eligible local governments and not for non-for-profit organizations upon request to support humanitarian relief for migrants.

[00:24:39] All right.

[00:24:40] You don't get any more clear than that.

[00:24:41] She literally said in that press conference that they're taking funding.

[00:24:46] FEMA is taking funding and spending it on migrants.

[00:24:49] Like, it's here.

[00:24:50] All you got to do is request it.

[00:24:52] On the state, local level, just request it.

[00:24:54] It's coming from FEMA.

[00:24:55] That's what she said September 2022.

[00:24:57] Here's what she's saying now when she's questioned about it.

[00:25:00] This is October 2024, this month.

[00:25:03] No, Biden did not take FEMA relief money to use to use on migrants.

[00:25:10] It's just categorically false.

[00:25:12] Yeah.

[00:25:13] So and that's something that Peter Ducci is good at.

[00:25:16] Like he catches her all the time.

[00:25:17] Oh, yeah.

[00:25:18] Because she's she's a straight up liar.

[00:25:20] And all she's doing.

[00:25:20] I mean, they really think that they got that.

[00:25:24] They're pulling the wool over our eyes.

[00:25:26] Well, and it's a tax grab because, you know, it's right after this.

[00:25:30] They're like, oh, we don't have any money.

[00:25:32] Well, when the government runs out of money, guess what?

[00:25:34] They go asking for it.

[00:25:35] They increase taxes.

[00:25:36] They, you know, ask the legislation.

[00:25:39] They are, you know, and next thing you know, we're seeing money come out of nowhere getting

[00:25:43] printed for things that shouldn't even be required in the first place.

[00:25:48] It's misallocation of funds to non-United States citizens when we actually need them.

[00:25:53] And here we're on the brink of a whole new hurricane that's going to basically put Tampa

[00:25:58] underwater in the next 24 hours.

[00:26:00] Milton.

[00:26:01] Yeah.

[00:26:01] Hurricane Milton.

[00:26:02] So, I mean, there's 400,000 people in Tampa.

[00:26:05] It's not good.

[00:26:05] And that's just no, that's just one.

[00:26:07] That's just one city on the on the path of this.

[00:26:10] So that's a whole nother topic.

[00:26:12] But I'm kind of curious how these these hurricanes are linking together in such a way that we've

[00:26:17] got potentially critical infrastructure.

[00:26:19] And, you know, Cape Canaveral is right on the path of this thing.

[00:26:23] I think I saw somewhere today that that this hasn't happened to two hurricanes come in this

[00:26:30] close together since the 1940s.

[00:26:32] Yeah.

[00:26:33] And the devastation is even more extreme because of our population density.

[00:26:37] And we got all these people that are living in the mountains.

[00:26:39] And it seems, you know, you know, you got a situation when mountain towns are flooding

[00:26:43] mountain towns.

[00:26:45] Right.

[00:26:46] And I thought we were safe on the high ground, you know?

[00:26:48] Absolutely.

[00:26:49] Absolutely.

[00:26:49] And you, I don't know, you, where'd you fly out from?

[00:26:54] Spokane, Washington.

[00:26:56] It's kind of northeast.

[00:26:57] I mean, I'm sorry, on your way back, where'd you land then?

[00:26:59] Oh, so I landed in Charlotte.

[00:27:02] Charlotte.

[00:27:02] And then on the way, actually, so on the way to Saluda, I went from Minneapolis to Minneapolis,

[00:27:07] St. Paul, and then flew through the thunderstorm the day before to Charlotte.

[00:27:12] On the way out, I left Charlotte to Georgia and then back.

[00:27:15] Okay.

[00:27:16] Yeah.

[00:27:16] I went up to Charlotte trying to catch better roads on my way out because I was told that

[00:27:20] 26 was closed and 40 was closed.

[00:27:23] And so I tried to find a different route.

[00:27:25] I knew I'd have to get on those, on 40 and or 26, but I, you know, I needed to get on the

[00:27:30] sides, on the other side that was open.

[00:27:33] Yeah.

[00:27:33] So I thought Charlotte could offer me that.

[00:27:35] So I drove an hour up, I want to say it was 73.

[00:27:38] And just to find out that it wanted me to go back down.

[00:27:41] It's like, so I, I drove an hour, an hour to Charlotte and then I had to turn around,

[00:27:45] drive an hour back.

[00:27:46] And that was two hours wasted.

[00:27:48] And then it wanted me to drive to, uh, to Atlanta, Georgia.

[00:27:51] And so I'm following Google maps and Google maps say, go this route.

[00:27:54] And I tried following it.

[00:27:56] And there was a tree over the road.

[00:27:58] I'd like, there was no way.

[00:28:00] I wasn't one of those kinds of guys that had a chainsaw with me or any kind of anything

[00:28:03] that could cut this tree up so I could get through.

[00:28:05] And so I had to backtrack in, in all, it took me five and a half hours to get out of North

[00:28:09] Carolina.

[00:28:10] Yikes.

[00:28:11] But, uh, yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a taxing drive.

[00:28:15] Very much so.

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[00:28:49] But, uh, I ran into, I got a friend, I can't reveal his name.

[00:28:53] He's asked me to keep him a secret because he was deeply embedded with FEMA.

[00:28:57] And I don't know if this, some of this stuff is, it's very interesting.

[00:28:59] I didn't really know any of this stuff, but just assuming that everybody here understands

[00:29:03] the different kinds of levels, the security levels in the military.

[00:29:06] And that's how he was deeply embedded with FEMA is through the military.

[00:29:09] But, uh, you know, there's confidential, there's, there's secret, there's top secret,

[00:29:12] there's top secret itself has nine, what they call talent keyhole levels.

[00:29:17] After top secret, there's TK nine.

[00:29:20] You go to, uh, to special compartment information, which is a SCI, they call it a kind of lateral

[00:29:25] cells for information to the left.

[00:29:27] So the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing kind of a thing.

[00:29:30] Well, he says, he says at a high level, my, my SCI cell was related to the successor program,

[00:29:35] practicing prepping for the president, a group of people, military, three letter agencies,

[00:29:41] SS and FEMA dream up situations.

[00:29:43] And we build preps and practice.

[00:29:45] You can guess how elaborate it gets.

[00:29:47] He goes on to say many of those special compartmented, uh, TS programs were funded by FEMA.

[00:29:52] What I was told from a guy who'd been in the program, uh, that had been working under the, uh,

[00:29:57] under the white house was that the reason they wanted FEMA to pay for their, their most secret

[00:30:02] programs was that FEMA was set up with a much lower bar for funding audits.

[00:30:07] Congressmen and auditors can get full access to army and or Navy budgets or even FBR secret

[00:30:12] service.

[00:30:13] But at the FEMA level, all they can get is high level broad strokes.

[00:30:16] As he said, FEMA has a huge budget.

[00:30:19] And if ever, they want more than simply wait for the, for the next disaster and ask for more.

[00:30:24] Most of that money goes to all their secret pet projects.

[00:30:27] So it depends on the sitting president and FEMA director, how much effort they want to put

[00:30:31] into helping people.

[00:30:32] Um, but he goes on to say, uh, just a, a giant, uh, slush fund.

[00:30:37] Yeah, that's all it is.

[00:30:39] And then they, they burn it all up before the storm season hits.

[00:30:43] Everybody knows it happens every year.

[00:30:44] And then they have to go back and ask for more or do this or that.

[00:30:47] And, you know, just basically fall on their face.

[00:30:52] And, and they're not actually serving the public.

[00:30:55] They're, they're not doing what they were designed to do.

[00:30:59] That's the thing.

[00:30:59] None of our government perception of what they were designed to do.

[00:31:01] Yes.

[00:31:02] And none of our government is doing what they're designed to do.

[00:31:03] I mean, everything, every, every agency that we have right now seems to be doing the inverse

[00:31:07] of what they're supposed to be doing.

[00:31:08] And, you know, FEMA has been inflaming and almost agitating these disasters.

[00:31:14] The department of defenses is issuing stand down orders, um, uh, for, for Americans, uh,

[00:31:19] you know, uh, to endlessly die in the mountains, for example, they're just, just, we're just

[00:31:23] going to leave them up there.

[00:31:23] The FDA is authorizing poisons and everything else.

[00:31:26] And they're banning medicine, taking medicine off the shelf that like when COVID came out,

[00:31:30] you know, I've been back to another things that could help fight COVID.

[00:31:32] It disappeared off of the shelf and they, you know, they go ahead and they authorize

[00:31:35] these poisons, all this other garbage.

[00:31:37] The CDC is causing diseases to spread and distributes misinformation.

[00:31:40] And when you try to put out the correct information, they call it misinformation.

[00:31:43] You get fact checked and censored Homeland security is facilitating an invasion.

[00:31:48] The FBI instigates insurrection.

[00:31:50] They're, they're hiding evidence.

[00:31:51] They're, they're going on these, uh, uh, what they call them lawfare against, against the

[00:31:55] Trump administration.

[00:31:56] I mean, it goes on and on.

[00:31:59] Yeah.

[00:32:00] It's, I mean, even the social securities, there's a social, social, um, what is it?

[00:32:04] That's, uh, secret service has been compromised.

[00:32:07] I mean, you talked about that on your show a couple of weeks ago on, you know, the whole

[00:32:13] Mayorkas and his debacle.

[00:32:16] And guess who's in charge of FEMA?

[00:32:17] Oh, same guy.

[00:32:18] Yeah.

[00:32:18] Yeah.

[00:32:19] They're all, they're all tied together.

[00:32:21] And, and lo and behold, if we haven't found out, and we talked about this earlier, you

[00:32:25] don't get kind of prepping up for the show that lo and behold, yes, they're, they're,

[00:32:30] they're, they're trying to, they're scaring people.

[00:32:32] I actually saw a helicopter, military choppers coming down to staging areas where people,

[00:32:37] civilians, not military, not FEMA, not anybody to, there was washing them.

[00:32:41] Yes.

[00:32:42] They're, they're just blowing their, their canopies, their, their, their tables over.

[00:32:46] They're, they're coming down with their helicopters, just blowing the hell out of them and then

[00:32:49] taking off, just antagonizing the help, making things worse.

[00:32:55] Yeah.

[00:32:55] And I think that's, I think it's a real eye opener for folks.

[00:32:58] And I, I hate to say it, but these events are really, they're, they're actually a positive

[00:33:05] thing for the preparedness community because it wakes a lot of people up all at once to

[00:33:10] the realities of the federal government, what they're capable of doing and what, where

[00:33:16] their incompetencies are.

[00:33:17] And as, as a person, I mean, I'm in region 10 and I know that nobody's coming to help

[00:33:24] me out ever because of where I live.

[00:33:26] I mean, the only places that are going to be impacted are maybe Anchorage in Seattle.

[00:33:30] That's it.

[00:33:32] Anything else?

[00:33:33] Like if there was a tsunami or something that hits Seattle, FEMA would probably step in.

[00:33:37] But other than that, good luck.

[00:33:39] You're on your own.

[00:33:41] How much of this weather?

[00:33:43] I've kind of, I've kind of just developed my life around that fact and written off the

[00:33:48] entirety of FEMA, uh, any sort of federal aid, government assistance of any kind.

[00:33:54] They have no legitimacy to me at all.

[00:33:56] No.

[00:33:58] So, and unfortunately it's rural America that's impacted by that.

[00:34:02] Yep.

[00:34:03] 95% of the time, I would say.

[00:34:06] How much of this do you think is not, not much, perhaps because we, I believe a weather

[00:34:11] weather modification.

[00:34:12] They've been doing that also since, since the 1940s.

[00:34:15] Yeah.

[00:34:16] Operation Popeye.

[00:34:17] Look it up.

[00:34:18] Pause this podcast and go look up Operation Popeye.

[00:34:20] We did it in Vietnam to control monsoons so that we could try and get the Viet Cong basically

[00:34:27] out of their hidey holes and, and slow their, uh, their transport for their, you know, supplies

[00:34:33] and stuff along their pathways.

[00:34:35] I mean, it's, it's ridiculous what we've done and what, how much we've come to like on the

[00:34:44] weather modification side and how we're using it for warfare instead of, oh, I don't know,

[00:34:49] providing water to area to area, area regions where we can grow farms.

[00:34:54] Right.

[00:34:56] You know, it's, it's, it's something that we could use in a positive way that has been

[00:35:00] weaponized.

[00:35:01] And I think that's coming back to harm us in a big way.

[00:35:05] Yeah.

[00:35:05] I fear that it's being used actually against its own, its own people, uh, that the U S

[00:35:10] government's doing this to against its own people.

[00:35:12] And again, there's, there's just a lot of shady things.

[00:35:16] There's a lot of breadcrumbs that point my mind, at least into this direction.

[00:35:20] Uh, because when you look at the quartz mines, for example, that are in North Carolina,

[00:35:24] when you look at the, the lithium mines that are in North Carolina, these are things there,

[00:35:27] there's big names, uh, Piedmont, uh, uh, is a Blackstone or a Blackrock, uh, you know,

[00:35:33] the, uh, uh, Smart Street, I think it's, I might have that name wrong, but there's, there's

[00:35:38] big companies that have been trying to get permits and some of them that do have permits and,

[00:35:41] and others are trying to grow.

[00:35:44] Um, and, and they're, they're receiving a lot of, uh, backlash from the, from the population,

[00:35:50] the voters that live there.

[00:35:51] And then all of a sudden this happens.

[00:35:54] And then, and then on top of that, there's, well, we're not going to, we're not going

[00:35:57] to help you.

[00:35:57] And then when help tries to come in and help, and then they get, they, they bully them off

[00:36:01] and try to stop people from coming in.

[00:36:02] It's like, and then I hear that, that, that doubt the waters are receding.

[00:36:07] They're fighting bodies in the trees, you know, uh, and they're not letting people go

[00:36:11] and get the bodies out of the trees and out of the mountains.

[00:36:13] Instead of talking about bulldozing everything down because now it's my understanding that

[00:36:17] now that all this has happened, that, that the government can just come in at a much cheaper

[00:36:20] price and just kind of take this over because they've, they've helped it.

[00:36:24] I don't know.

[00:36:25] I don't want to say clean it up, but it, yeah, it just, they wipe, wipe the slate, wipe the

[00:36:30] slate clean.

[00:36:30] I want to play a little bit of an audio by here.

[00:36:34] This is from, this was nine years ago on CBS and there's a doctor.

[00:36:38] I can't remember his name.

[00:36:38] It's Mityo.

[00:36:39] It says it on, on here.

[00:36:41] Uh, what his name is.

[00:36:42] Kaku is his last name, but he's talking nine years ago about weather manipulation.

[00:36:46] So listen to this real quick.

[00:36:50] It changed yesterday.

[00:36:52] And now we're learning that scientists and researchers are looking at how to change the

[00:36:56] weather on purpose.

[00:36:58] That's right.

[00:36:58] Lasers now could one day manipulate rain and lightning.

[00:37:02] CBS This Morning contributor Michio Kaku is a physics professor at City College of New

[00:37:07] York.

[00:37:07] Professor, nice to see you.

[00:37:09] Extraordinary seeing Al Gore and Bill Clinton there together with Charlie, wasn't it?

[00:37:12] That's right.

[00:37:13] Yeah.

[00:37:13] They did not get into this discussion, though.

[00:37:15] But it is fascinating.

[00:37:17] I mean, lasers, really, to change the weather?

[00:37:20] That's right.

[00:37:21] Well, as Mark Twain once famously said, everyone complains about the weather, but no one ever does

[00:37:26] anything about it.

[00:37:27] Well, instead of doing a rain dance, we physicists are firing trillion-watt lasers into the sky

[00:37:33] to actually precipitate rain clouds and actually bring down lightning bolts.

[00:37:38] This is potentially a game changer.

[00:37:41] But this is experimental.

[00:37:42] It's experimental.

[00:37:43] However, in the laboratory so far, it works.

[00:37:45] When you have water vapor and you have dust particles or ice crystals, you can precipitate

[00:37:51] rain.

[00:37:51] It condenses around the seeds.

[00:37:54] These seeds can also be created by laser beams.

[00:37:57] By firing trillion-watt lasers, you rip apart the electrons, creating what are called ions.

[00:38:01] And these ions act like seeds, like dust particles, bringing down rain and even lightning.

[00:38:07] Judy, go ahead.

[00:38:08] Well, this fascinates me in part because, too, I remember reading the stories that China had

[00:38:12] used this during the Olympics, that the USSR had used this after Chernobyl to create rain clouds.

[00:38:18] I mean, did those...

[00:38:20] I'm just going to stop it there.

[00:38:21] But what's your thoughts on that?

[00:38:23] I mean, it's there.

[00:38:24] We have the technology.

[00:38:25] Other countries have the technology.

[00:38:26] And I don't think we can rule out the potential that we're actually under attack, in my opinion.

[00:38:31] Because these things stacking up with the intensity that they have, it seems beyond normal.

[00:38:39] I mean, not...

[00:38:40] I mean, yeah, we can say, oh, it's a 50- or 100-year storm or whatever, 200-year storm.

[00:38:44] But I think these things are lining up in a sequence of events that is far beyond what

[00:38:51] you can say is a typical coincidence.

[00:38:55] And, I mean, if you look at it, the way this storm hit, as far inland as it hit, in areas

[00:39:03] that had never been impacted by storms like these in the past 100 years, and for them to

[00:39:09] have the impact that they did now with the lithium...

[00:39:13] Because this is probably the United States' purest lithium mine resource out there.

[00:39:19] And we don't produce a whole lot of lithium.

[00:39:21] I mean, we have reserves of like 1.1 million and production of about 900...

[00:39:28] Or sorry, 2023 production, 9,600 tons.

[00:39:32] So, I mean, other countries are doing far better than we are.

[00:39:37] Australia, to name one, is about six times what we produce.

[00:39:42] And to me, for us to be targeted is...

[00:39:47] If you think along those lines that, oh, China or Russia has the ability to do the same weather

[00:39:52] modification that we do and have done to other countries in the past, with the tensions that

[00:39:59] exist right now, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

[00:40:02] Because if you can cripple our lithium production on top of, you know, the other stuff that's

[00:40:08] happened with our fuel reserves that people kind of forget about, but, you know, our fuel

[00:40:13] reserves were tapped two, three years ago, something like that.

[00:40:17] And, you know, you look at this next storm, the implications that it's going to have, the

[00:40:22] potential for nuclear failures in that region.

[00:40:26] I mean, it's...

[00:40:27] You can pinpoint a missile source location, but you can't pinpoint where a weather event was

[00:40:33] created or who created it.

[00:40:35] Right.

[00:40:35] And we're at a point now where other countries can affect the ionosphere to create weather

[00:40:42] in our area from a distance.

[00:40:45] As far as it being, you know, made public, good luck.

[00:40:49] You think the United States government's going to tell us that we're under attack?

[00:40:53] No, it's hysteria.

[00:40:55] Yeah.

[00:40:56] We're just going to get shut down as, you know, conspiracy theorists.

[00:41:00] But you look at it, this isn't...

[00:41:02] This can't be anything less than targeted, in my opinion.

[00:41:05] What do you find about, like, some flight trackers?

[00:41:08] What do you got going on there?

[00:41:10] So, yeah, I just happened because there's a website called Flight Radar 24.

[00:41:14] You can get live radar air traffic.

[00:41:17] And I noticed, because I was just clicking on some of the flights that were happening around

[00:41:23] Asheville, most of them are helicopters.

[00:41:26] And I wasn't as concerned about those, but I clicked on an airplane that was kind of curious

[00:41:31] to me.

[00:41:32] And I realized that they were doing basically a grid flight pattern.

[00:41:38] And normally, I wouldn't be as concerned about this, or it wouldn't really pique my interest

[00:41:42] if there was, like, a search and rescue effort.

[00:41:45] For as many people that are lost and as much of an impact as this had, this seemed out of

[00:41:51] place, you know?

[00:41:52] Because here we are doing a back and forth pattern.

[00:41:56] And the aircraft that I was looking at was N54796.

[00:42:02] And you can look up their history to see what they've done in the last week or two weeks

[00:42:08] or whatever.

[00:42:09] So, you can go back and look at their flight pattern.

[00:42:11] You see exactly what I'm looking at here.

[00:42:12] But they made a couple of passes right around Black Mountain, where this mine is, and along

[00:42:19] other regions.

[00:42:20] So, one of the things that I kind of questioned that, and I put it out to social media, and

[00:42:25] one guy actually came out with a great response.

[00:42:28] It could very well be GPR, which is ground penetrating radar.

[00:42:35] Basically, what they do is they use it to, it's a geophysical method that uses radar to pulse,

[00:42:41] radar pulses to image the subsurface.

[00:42:44] So, essentially, you can find out what's going on with the minerals below ground by doing

[00:42:51] a scan like this, just like you would if you were doing a, you know, if you were a plumber

[00:42:56] water witching a line or something like that.

[00:42:59] So, not only do they, and they're operating in a vacuum right now because everything's

[00:43:06] shut down.

[00:43:06] There's no power on some of these areas.

[00:43:08] There's nothing that could interfere with this signal.

[00:43:11] So, this level of mapping right now is a little sus to me.

[00:43:16] Perfect timing.

[00:43:18] Yeah, exactly.

[00:43:19] I mean, and the week prior, a couple other times, they were doing some other similar back

[00:43:24] and forth patterns.

[00:43:25] So, it could be just a company that was hired to do this.

[00:43:28] But what's interesting to me is that it's happening right now.

[00:43:32] When all this other activity is happening, you got a lot of confusion and chaos on the

[00:43:36] ground.

[00:43:37] You know, air support is interesting.

[00:43:39] Your Black Hawk helicopters that are doing weird stuff, but also private helicopters that

[00:43:43] are flying in and out supplies and rescue.

[00:43:45] So, that was kind of interesting to me.

[00:43:47] And you mentioned that there was another one.

[00:43:49] There could be multiple ones happening.

[00:43:51] But this particular one, I just happened to catch.

[00:43:54] Yeah, I was like, I scrolled through videos and things like that on watching the Hurricane

[00:43:59] Helene.

[00:44:00] And I came across this video.

[00:44:01] Now, I don't, again, I can't verify this.

[00:44:05] Well, I'm just going to play it and let the listeners kind of decide, you know, what they

[00:44:09] want to do with it or not.

[00:44:10] But it's interesting to me because you said that and this guy saying he saw this.

[00:44:13] And just listen to this audio.

[00:44:15] Then you tell me because you're hearing this for the first time too.

[00:44:17] And we'll talk about it and see what you think.

[00:44:21] I'm not saying that the government is what I am saying is that the government is in 1947.

[00:44:29] What first caught my attention with Helene was the shift in the storm's projected path.

[00:44:34] One day, it looked like it would hit my town.

[00:44:36] The next day, it had shifted east.

[00:44:38] I then noticed an odd flight path of NOAA-42.

[00:44:42] The aircraft being flown?

[00:44:44] A Lockheed Martin Orion P-3.

[00:44:47] This prompted me to look at previous uses for the P-3, where I discovered that they

[00:44:51] were used in the 1960s to manipulate Hurricane Camille in a, quote, weather war on Cuba.

[00:44:58] Now, I know this sounds out there.

[00:44:59] But as we begin to see more and more of the terrible things our government has done in

[00:45:03] the past, is it really so far-fetched?

[00:45:06] Here are the projections from the 23rd of September.

[00:45:09] A large spread traveling the Alabama-Georgia line and ending up in Illinois.

[00:45:15] On the 24th, projections shift slightly east, and the storm is projected to finish in Indiana.

[00:45:22] On the morning of the 25th, the path shifts back west and shows to be finishing in western

[00:45:30] that evening.

[00:45:31] A P-3 conducts a six-hour operation inside the developing storm.

[00:45:36] The next morning, on the 26th, the path shows to have shifted slightly east again, now finishing

[00:45:43] in northwestern Tennessee.

[00:45:49] The next operations throughout Hurricane Helena as it makes landfall, and the storm's actual

[00:45:55] path shifts further east, finishing in northeastern Tennessee.

[00:46:01] From its motivations possibly to retain our republic long enough, time will eventually tell.

[00:46:11] What do you think?

[00:46:12] That's interesting.

[00:46:13] Yeah, and actually, so I'm on flight radar 24 right now, and you can actually track this

[00:46:19] aircraft right now where it is, and it's actually outside of the Yucatan Peninsula, just north,

[00:46:25] doing some weird stuff.

[00:46:27] It looks like it's doing some crisscross patterns, but usually you can go and see a history, and

[00:46:33] I'd be curious to match this guy's history, not only with the previous flight plans for

[00:46:39] that one, but the previous flight plans that are in Florida, because I would, and maybe this

[00:46:47] is something that we as preppers should be watching, you know, this particular flight,

[00:46:51] because hey, if there's a hurricane on the horizon, and this thing just happens to be

[00:46:55] there a couple of days ahead of time, that's your early warning sign.

[00:46:59] Get out, get prepped, buy your water, buy your supplies, get that stuff dialed in before

[00:47:04] it makes landfall, because you'll know before it even hits the NOAA website.

[00:47:08] And that's what it looks like, it's a NOAA aircraft.

[00:47:10] Yeah, so they're using these same aircrafts that were used, confirmed aircraft for a confirmed

[00:47:16] weather, we'll call it weather war, you know, against other countries, so now it's being

[00:47:24] used here, and so he said, he asked a good question, why would they do this?

[00:47:30] I don't know, but it's awful funny that we got all these quartz mines, and the Piedmont,

[00:47:36] for example, just put one in very, very recently, and got some kickback on it.

[00:47:41] And then there's the quartz, the lithium, you know, it's just, and it's all very, very

[00:47:44] timely that this, this, the flight you were looking at, the flight that this guy's talking

[00:47:49] about, and they're all kind of corresponding with the shift shifting of, the shady shift

[00:47:53] shifting of this hurricane as it came in.

[00:47:55] And now we've got another hurricane coming in.

[00:47:57] Is it going to do some crazy bending maneuvers too, and kind of, kind of come in and go west

[00:48:02] and east and west and east again, you know?

[00:48:04] Well, and I used to look at hurricane, yeah, absolutely.

[00:48:07] I used to look at hurricanes like, oh, where's it going to impact?

[00:48:10] What kind of people, you know, what's the region going to feel as a result of that?

[00:48:14] Where are people going to go?

[00:48:15] That kind of thing.

[00:48:16] But now, I'm starting to look at these things as strategic strike points.

[00:48:23] So, you know, if there are, if there are specific mines or power plants or, you know, like Cape

[00:48:30] Canaveral is another one.

[00:48:31] Maybe there's something there that is the target of this event where if, if, if it actually

[00:48:36] is a strike, what are they striking and what are we going to do about it kind of thing?

[00:48:41] Because there's not going to be any retaliation.

[00:48:43] Good luck.

[00:48:44] How do you prove it?

[00:48:45] Yeah.

[00:48:45] They'll just deny, deny, deny, deny.

[00:48:47] And I would mention before the show, man, how, how deep down the rabbit hole do you want

[00:48:51] to get with this?

[00:48:51] Because I started recalling information from about two years ago when we had that really

[00:48:58] curious weather balloon.

[00:48:59] Well, guess where that weather balloon crossed?

[00:49:02] Where?

[00:49:03] Asheville.

[00:49:05] Interesting.

[00:49:06] It went right through the flight path of Asheville and, uh, before it wound up going through what

[00:49:12] Myrtle beach, I think.

[00:49:14] And when you have a Chinese weather balloon, you know, doing it's, you know, just traveling

[00:49:19] a normal calm path.

[00:49:21] Next thing you know, you've got a, the United States largest and most productive lithium

[00:49:26] mine that goes up, you know, tits up literally underwater because of a hurricane.

[00:49:33] And then we, now we have another one right on the horizon.

[00:49:36] It kind of, it's kind of hard to turn a blind eye to those coincidences.

[00:49:40] Absolutely.

[00:49:41] Hopefully that's what we're about here at the rising Republic.

[00:49:44] Wow.

[00:49:44] Good chat, Ryan.

[00:49:46] Appreciated your first day, man.

[00:49:47] That was, I think we killed it.

[00:49:50] Yeah.

[00:49:50] Hopefully we didn't give people too much fear mongering.

[00:49:55] I mean, it's, it's definitely something worth watching.

[00:49:58] Hopefully folks are out there paying attention because I know I am.

[00:50:00] I'm hoping you, when I sign my books, you know, especially by, uh, my, my, uh, my

[00:50:04] oath takers, my post-apocalyptic books, I, I always try to put something on there.

[00:50:08] The one I'm put on there the most is, uh, you know, I, of course I autograph it, but then

[00:50:12] I put, uh, be prepared, not afraid.

[00:50:14] Yep.

[00:50:15] Absolutely.

[00:50:16] So I want to ask, can I ask you one question?

[00:50:17] We have time for me to ask you the question.

[00:50:19] So you're kind of, I just got your book in the mail today.

[00:50:22] So I'm excited to read it, the, um, surviving martial law.

[00:50:25] And I want to get your take on what the impact of these storms will be for the folks on the

[00:50:33] martial law front and what the potential is that we could have widespread martial law in

[00:50:38] different targeted locations as a result of this kind of stuff.

[00:50:42] Yeah.

[00:50:43] It really depends on like, it boils down to martial law as, as you, cause you sat in my

[00:50:47] class.

[00:50:48] It boils down to, um, how to the, to the member of the doctrine of lesser magistrates I talked

[00:50:52] about in the class, it boils down to what's the sheriff willing to do and how much constitution

[00:50:58] is a, is the sheriff of, cause he's an elected official, uh, how much constitution is he willing

[00:51:04] to, to wink at and say, you know, forget this, forget your first, you know, your right to

[00:51:08] privacy, forget your first amendment, forget your second amendment.

[00:51:10] You know, we're locking, we're locking things down.

[00:51:13] I, I, I don't, I don't see a lot of it happen to be honest with you.

[00:51:16] There are, there are counties like, uh, you know, where you're up, where you're from, you

[00:51:21] know, the densely populated blue, blue counties in Chicago, Cook County, Lake County up there,

[00:51:25] the densely populated blue counties, those kinds of places with the, with the, the, the elected

[00:51:32] officials that are almost installed, uh, by Fiat, you know, you perhaps, or maybe they

[00:51:37] are elected because they're in blue zones.

[00:51:39] They're going to want to please their people, the people that elect them into those positions.

[00:51:43] So it's, it's, it's possible.

[00:51:45] Would it, would it affect them?

[00:51:47] The areas that, that we're concerned about right now is like, uh, is it Ash County where

[00:51:52] Asheville is?

[00:51:52] And it's a, uh, there's wood.

[00:51:55] I can't forget all the county.

[00:51:56] I don't want to be.

[00:51:57] Yeah.

[00:51:58] There's like a hundred different counties that are impacted.

[00:52:00] I think in North Carolina.

[00:52:01] Yeah.

[00:52:02] It's, it's a, it's a sad state, but, uh, unless I don't see a martial law happening,

[00:52:06] honestly, unless, unless people start getting belligerent, uh, you know what I'm saying?

[00:52:11] No, I don't, I don't see it.

[00:52:13] Cause right now they're going to, the government's going to have a hard time trying to explain,

[00:52:18] uh, the, the, the martial law when people are trying to help.

[00:52:21] Yeah.

[00:52:22] So I also don't see it happening, especially with an election like this.

[00:52:25] Now, maybe after that, at the, at the, on the other end of the election, you know, that's

[00:52:29] cause you got to weigh things out with how things are going to work in the political arena.

[00:52:33] Cause people are always thinking about their own, their own skin.

[00:52:36] Oh yeah.

[00:52:37] Um, they're not going to do anything cause this hurricane makes Kamala Harris look bad.

[00:52:41] You know, I, it's an act of God, but her response to it was horrendous.

[00:52:45] It's still horrendous.

[00:52:46] Uh, has she been out there?

[00:52:48] I don't know if she has, but I know Trump has been out there and he's doing things to

[00:52:52] help, but what has she done?

[00:52:54] Well, she's given $750 per person.

[00:52:55] Meanwhile, she's sending, uh, billions of dollars, uh, to you, to Ukraine and, and, and

[00:53:00] several hundred million dollars to Lebanon.

[00:53:03] Yeah.

[00:53:03] $700 million to Lebanon.

[00:53:05] She's more concerned with the people overseas than she has her own American citizens that

[00:53:09] she would hope be trying to win a vote for.

[00:53:11] Yeah.

[00:53:11] And that's, I mean, that's the state of affairs that we're in right now, which is scary.

[00:53:15] I mean, some people might be like, Oh, that's great.

[00:53:17] You know, because all those, you know, hillbillies in Western North Carolina.

[00:53:24] Screw those guys.

[00:53:25] Right.

[00:53:25] You know, because it's more important that we have, you know, healthcare for illegals

[00:53:29] or whatever, you know, it's, I don't, I don't get that thought process personally.

[00:53:34] You know, when people are, are more concerned about other nations or other nationalities

[00:53:40] within our country compared to people who are productive taxpaying citizens.

[00:53:47] Right.

[00:53:48] It just, it just blows me away.

[00:53:50] Right.

[00:53:50] And you're giving all this money away.

[00:53:51] We got our own homeless veterans, our own homeless people, our own sick people.

[00:53:55] We got all these people now that are without homes in the mountains of North Carolina.

[00:54:01] Yeah.

[00:54:01] And, you know, I thought about Katrina, how this, this is Katrina.

[00:54:06] People don't understand because this isn't getting the coverage that Katrina got.

[00:54:09] This is way worse than Katrina, way worse than Katrina.

[00:54:13] But there was also martial law during Katrina, but it was because the people were looting.

[00:54:18] They were, you know, there was, there was widespread looting and I don't know how far

[00:54:22] this is going to go on.

[00:54:22] Maybe perhaps they started actually covering it.

[00:54:24] There might be some looting there.

[00:54:25] I don't know.

[00:54:26] But it seems to me that the people of North Carolina are a lot, a whole lot more family

[00:54:30] oriented and patriotic than, than the people of the victims of Katrina with all the looting,

[00:54:36] all that stuff that happened.

[00:54:37] I'm, I'm really praying that nothing like that happens.

[00:54:40] We don't want a martial law scenario.

[00:54:42] It would be regional.

[00:54:43] We don't want it at all.

[00:54:45] But if that happens, like I said, in my class, just buckle down and go with it because

[00:54:50] anybody, if you never lived under the uniform code of military justice, it's not fun.

[00:54:55] And if you're a veteran out there and you listen to the show and it happens, you'll,

[00:54:58] you'll just fall back into your military, uh, your military attitude.

[00:55:01] Just that's how you want to live it.

[00:55:03] Just yes, sir, no, sir.

[00:55:05] And, and, and comply until it's over with because it'll be temporary.

[00:55:09] Yeah.

[00:55:09] And I think that's good advice for the folks who are staring at the barrel of that potential.

[00:55:14] I mean, I don't know if it's going to happen, but like you say, if, if there are certain,

[00:55:21] uh, keys or, or events or trigger points or, or whatever, you know, that there is a potential

[00:55:28] for that.

[00:55:28] And I think people need to be aware of that, you know, come down the pipe.

[00:55:32] Absolutely.

[00:55:33] All right.

[00:55:34] Well, we're at 56 minutes.

[00:55:35] We're going to tie it up.

[00:55:36] I want to thank everybody for listening to the rising Republic with L Douglas Hogan and

[00:55:39] Ryan Buford.

[00:55:40] And, uh, may we'll be try to be right back here next week.

[00:55:42] Thanks everybody for listening to the rising Republic.

[00:55:44] We are excited that you are here and, uh, be feel free to send us an email.

[00:55:48] Actually, I got a new email, uh, done up Ryan.

[00:55:51] I didn't even tell you about this, but I'm going to share it right now.

[00:55:55] It is Patriot rising 1773.

[00:55:58] We all know what happened in 1773, right?

[00:56:00] Yeah.

[00:56:01] Yeah.

[00:56:02] The tea party, baby.

[00:56:03] You sure do.

[00:56:04] All right.

[00:56:04] Yep.

[00:56:05] Tea, tea went in the old river.

[00:56:07] Yep.

[00:56:07] So it's Patriot rising 1773 at gmail.com.

[00:56:11] If you want to reach out to me and Ryan, do so.

[00:56:13] Uh, the rising Republic will be happy to receive you at Patriot rising 1773 at gmail.com.

[00:56:19] Thank you again for everybody listening.

[00:56:21] Catch you next time.