The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Matter of Facts: Shots Fired!!!

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

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Welcome back to the Matter Facts Podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns and politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at mofpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host, Phil Rabelais, and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic, and here's your show. Bear with me a second. I was dealing with some technical difficulties. I was trying to remedy at the absolute last minute. So we just barely got everything stood up in time before the intro ran out. Oh man. But that's, that's kind of been, well, it's kind of been the story of life lately with hopping from one foot to the other,

trying desperately to beat deadlines. Well, which is why we're having an 8 a.m morning show on a friday morning when we should have a podcast going out because i was traveling for work and got home yesterday evening and i'm about to go on a family vacation and this is like the one time we could slip this in so for the audience that's listening dadgummit we're trying this is the uh this is the mof morning show yes it is 8 a.m and i tried i i tried to snag somebody uh to jump on but with my work schedule and stuff it just um it yeah it just didn't work out so i'm glad that this happened so yeah and under under more normal circumstances like normally when i travel for so i'm glad that this happened so yeah and under under more normal circumstances like normally when i travel for work i'm traveling by pov i'm staying within my home state and in

cases like that like i we we both have fully mobile podcast setups like if i had been if if it had been a normal normal in air quotes travel trip then travel trip, then I would have had my mobile rig, and you and I could have got together late one evening, early one morning. We could have figured something out while I was out of pocket. But in this case, I could not bring any of that. And we'll talk about that on the back end of the show, but this work trip has exposed some glaring holes in my preparedness plans. Yeah.

Yeah. But, you know, some of those might be holes for which there just is no plug. But specific to running a podcast, I couldn't do it off my work laptop, didn't have the room to bring a whole nother hard case of podcast stuff so it was kind of like it just had to wait and thankfully we got we managed to get together this morning make that happen i mean yeah but administrative work we apparently picked up one more new pot one more new patron right before i left and another one I'm trying to make contact with while I was gone. So, to the patrons who support the show, as always, thank y'all.

Y'all make all this anarchy possible. And if you don't like anarchy, I don't know why you're supporting the show, because that's usually what it turns into, but I digress. Merch. So, the Southern Gals handles our merch. As a matter of fact, I did not throw on a shirt this morning like i swore i would this is one of our current designs brace yourself and gillian has recently gone through a whole revamp of raising values that like i would like to see the two of us embrace towards matter of facts because like i have like to see the two of us embrace towards matter of facts because like i have some ideas in my head i need to get out of my head i need to get

to get her to turn into graphics and i would like to see us make the merch a bit more ours a little cheekier more fun but merchandise if you do choose to wear the gear and buy the merch and support the podcast in that way, understand that not only does it support this podcast, but it also directly supports a small home business, which is why we took that business away from Teespring and gave it to Southern Gals. Well, I mean, everybody's heard this bill before. If I have to throw money in somebody's pocket, I'd much rather be a small shop around here in mandeville than jeff bia visas via amazon i'd rather go to a small business that's that's just a call it a baseline principle with me yeah um

the other thing too is uh i know chris uh we were talking about it um about uh getting him on. He's trying to snag his wife as well, but we're going to get him on and we're going to discuss a couple of things. Yeah, just basically just kind of talk about the merch and what they offer and stuff like that because they offer a ton. It's very interesting what she can do so it's great so um the other thing i want to really throw out there is operation skywalker uh if you have not seen our show uh regarding uh this uh this whole thing this whole ordeal

uh let me know uh very kind gentleman uh. He defended himself against three individuals. Ended up killing one in self-defense. And he was put in jail for, what do you, I think it was 106 days. I can't remember. Oh, no, longer than that. I'm sorry. Yeah, but anyway, he was placed in jail unconstitutionally.

He was tortured. I mean, a number of things that this guy went through that should not be happening with something like this. It's pretty crazy. But anyway, there's, it's called Operation Skywalker. It's a go, it's a give send go so please if you check check out the link in the description if you go over to the matter facts instagram page you can find information there as well but you can also just go over there and if you please donate any amount helps if you it could be one two

five hundred dollars i don't care what you do um just please get over there and donate this guy he had his life ripped out from under him and uh he had to sell a lot just to get uh to cover lawyer fees and stuff like that so this is all going to him just to get him and his wife them just like back basically back under their feet Yeah, or their feet back under them So and if anybody needs a refresher on like what we're talking about June 21st was that episode release called when good shoots go bad it's an hour and 45 minutes long and It's not the first time I've heard of a nightmare happen for a concealed carrier,

but it might be a high watermark. Like it's, it's pretty shocking to hear what, even though by any reasonable metric, we could say it was a good shoot. And in that situation, most reasonable, reasonable people would have done the same thing, but it's still just shocking to hear the legal have a legal how the justice system like predisposed the case and did everything possible to just beat him into submission so he would eventually just take a plea and roll over and well it was the it not only was it the judge but the prosecutor the corrupt prosecutor police uh the police the corrupt uh the corrupt sheriff's's deputy that tried to handle it on his own. Yeah, everything.

I mean, the only good thing that came out of this was the guy, he lived. He evaded, he fended off the attackers. Unfortunately, someone did lose their life, but it was in complete, like, self-defense where you can't look at this and say, nope, that's not a good shoot. Morning, Kyle. But, yeah, it's pretty interesting. It's crazy.

So, yeah, go take a gander at it. And, yeah, like I I said it's on MOF the Instagram page I know if anybody here follows MDFI track the guys over at MDFI have been really pushing it too but yeah if you guys could please just go over and donate

this guy is we need to try to help this guy the gun community if the gun community could come behind something it would be nice if community could come behind something, it would be nice if they could rally behind something like this. And that's what I'm hoping. The poor guy should write a book about this. It would sell.

I mean, like I said, me having met the person who this happened to, it sounds like fiction. Like there's no way it could be this bad, but we know better. So, I guess let's talk about the I was about to say the orange elephant in the room, but I'm not going to take that pot shot at President Trump. I just couldn't help myself for a moment. But let's talk about the assassination attempt on President Trump, which i'm not gonna lie i was not looking forward to talking about because mercifully i was on a work trip

when social media i was i was home when it happened i was kind of surprised when this trip wasn't canceled to be perfectly honest given what was going on but i was mercifully tied up when uh social media just went ballistic with the conspiracy theories and uh what was it staged did the trump campaign stage this to boost his numbers yeah yeah there was one that they were like oh there was one i think i saw that some leftist was pushing. Basically, they called for the assassination, basically, the entire four years he was in. And then all the way moving forward, they've been really wanting, oh, we need his head on a spike, on a pike, basically, through all the hearings. And then it was, oh, I can put blood on he put fake blood on his ear

i can see you know he did that you know he went down it yeah it was uh his head on the desk that has to be my favorite one yeah yeah it was uh it was pretty crazy i mean yeah it it's nuts i the crap that has come out of this i mean will there always be conspiracy theories of everything? Yes, there will be. Uh, but I don't know. I,

I'm a, I'm a type of person who I like to see evidence and I like to see as things get come out. I like to see, uh, that's when I make my conspiracy theories is when a bunch of evidence drops and then it just, like, it doesn't make sense. It's kind of like this,

uh, whole situation like i mean we won't get into that right now because i think there's more there's more drop we're getting into a little bit of it because there's already there's already evidence or details here that just don't line up for me but go ahead no no but uh i all i know is if you want to if you want to defeat the federal government, just put a slightly sloped whatever, like a ramp. If your roof is a little bit slanted, you're fine. Something that will just defeat them from going over it or on it.

So you're safe. That's how we defeat the federal government. I know Biden said we would need like AR or not AR-15s, but like F-15s and all kinds of stuff if we had to do it. But nope, just a sloped roof that that that gets that that stops them every single time. So, yeah, well, apparently also, like despite the fact that, you know, are that was it like 160 million Americans with AR-15s, you know, isn't enough to resist tyranny. But one string bean 20 year old soy boy with an AR-15 and the command detonated IED in his vehicle, that is enough to potentially take out a presidential candidate. So here's, here's the thing. I don't want to indulge in likeant conspiracy theory nonsense because it's exhausting.

It's a hole without end. But let me just... I just have one thing I've got to talk about with you, man, with regards to this. First of all, I'm thankful that President Trump survived the attack, regardless of whether or not I support the guy. Trump survived the attack, regardless of whether or not I support the guy. Like, I feel like when we as a nation reach the point where it's open season on political candidates, I feel like we've reached a tipping point that we're not going to come back from. You know what I'm saying? Once that starts to become the norm, we've reached a tipping point we're not coming back from. And that's, I've said before,

you know, on several occasions, like you and I have even had this conversation when we get really frustrated with world rounders and we say, okay, it's time for a reset, like asteroid financial collapse. It's time for, it's time for something to sweep the idiots off the, off the table. But even as I say that, I tell people very often, I'm like, I don't want that world. Because I understand that I have within me the ability to be as vicious as necessary to survive in that world. But my wife and daughter don't. I don't want my wife and daughter to live in that world. And I don't want my wife and daughter to live in the world where politicians get assassinated in broad daylight

as a regular event. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to go there. I think if you want to defeat a presidential candidate, you've got to defeat him at the ballot box. And it has to be done in such a transparent way that there is no question he was defeated at the ballot box. If my candidate gets defeated at the ballot box, then our ideas were not the best ideas, and that's the way it was. But if you cheat at the ballot box, if you assassinate my candidate, if you do those things, we're going to go to a place nobody really wants to go. So that's my little spiel on that.

But Andrew, here's the thing I can't quite wrap my head around. Maybe you can help me with this. So the Secret Service is supposed to be some of the most, you know, chisel-jawed, not an inch of fat on them, highly trained, pipe-hitting, you know, paramilitary force in our country, right? I mean, they protect the president. They protect dignitaries. They protect some of our most high-risk people in this country, right? Supposedly. Okay.

So you're going to convince me that this very highly trained, highly funded, well-equipped group let a 20-year-old soy boy string bean 150 yards inside their perimeter with a rifle to take a shot at the president when he'd been reported to them.

When they saw him on a roof for multiple minutes before he took the shot. Wait. I think they've known about him for like three hours. Let me get it all out. All that, and then people in the crowd were reporting it. These highly trained badasses let this little knucklehead do all this because they're that incompetent at their jobs? Sell me that idea. Because the other option here is that if the Secret Service is not that incompetent,

then you're convincing me that this 20-year-old kid, who, by the way, did not demonstrate great marksmanship principles, but somehow managed to have a command detonated IED in his vehicle, which is a whole new bucket of weird because like I went through classes on how to identify IEDs they're not super difficult to build I mean people in caves and third world countries build them so they're not that hard to build but it's a skill the average 20 year old doesn't possess and you have to go looking for that information and by the way if you do without a VPN the FBI 20-year-old doesn't possess. And you have to go looking for that information. And by the way, if you do that at VPN, the FBI shows up on your door, you know, like it's a thing. There's just so much weird about this kid and about this incident. Like he's either the second

coming of James Bond and he managed to outwit the entire Secret Service detail, or they're so freaking incompetent at their jobs that these boobs let this 20-year-old knucklehead damn their assassinated presidential candidate. And it's got to be one or the other. Which one? Neither one makes sense. Or it could be both. Okay. Give me that scenario then.

Give me that scenario there. You know, the thing is, though, is the director of the Secret Service has been out because people are calling for a resignation. And she's out basically trying to play. Rightfully so. Right. But she's out playing damage control and stuff. She said basically, I think it was the whole sloped roof thing when the counter team that was on the other side alongside Trump was, I mean, if you look at the pitch of their roof, it was way more than what that one was. There was a picture of a cow on top of a sloped roof. You guys couldn't put a SWAT team on this, but a cow got up there.

You guys couldn't put a SWAT team on this, but you could. A cow got up there. The idea that there was a ladder sitting right there, that he climbed up a ladder. So that's a thing is I don't know. And that's a thing is I don't know. And from what the accounts that I've been reading, too, is they knew about him roughly for, I think it was like three hours prior to this. They knew about this kid. I think it was like three hours prior to this. They knew about this kid.

You know, he was, he tons of, and I mean, I really hate the idea. I hate today's society where we pull phones out at the craziest moments of, well, hey, we need to like flee or get in and help. But people are like, no, I need to like flee or get in and help but people are like no i need to record this uh that on the other hand goes second hand to where it's actually thankfully that there is there because there's a ton of video evidence out there and there's a ton more that we have not seen yet uh so the idea that they've got this kid walking around just aimlessly uh the when people are pointing out about it there's people that were pointing out saying hey there's a guy that there's somebody on the roof there's with a gun um all kinds of stuff pointed out to the to the people or to the cops that were sitting there

the local leo and stuff um the fence that was actually in the way that they couldn't bypass like they were having a hard time because there's a there was a big fence that was actually in the way that they couldn't bypass, like they were having a hard time because there was a big fence that was up. And apparently from one thing that I was reading was that they couldn't get around the fence that easy. So that was just a fail on their end. The idea that I believe I also saw this has been confirmed. Again, if it's not, I'm i apologize please correct me but i did read another article from mainstream that they uh there was like a SWAT team that was actually in that building but they because of the roof and because of like the how hot it was and stuff like that they actually were inside that

building uh like on the second floor or whatever um so i mean and then the thing is though is with the this kid i don't know i mean i don't know anything about him i am glad that he is dead uh but uh you know if you have anybody that has any common knowledge of the dark web uh you can you can find this you can find plans and all kinds of stuff on there uh if anybody's familiar with the tor browser the vpns and stuff like that it's this you can definitely uh get in get into some information so uh is it feasible that this kid looked up on how to do all kinds of stuff and then yeah it is feasible uh it's also feasible that this was a planned assassination attempt. And this is where my conspiracy theory kind of kicks in.

With all of the loopholes, everything going on, who knows? You know, I mean, the CIA has been behind a lot of stuff. I killed two Kennedys. We can start there. Yeah, that's what I'm saying is like i'm a firm believer that the cia is behind jfk uh well two kennedys um i'm pretty you know that's a thing so i don't know i mean it's crazy i'm curious to see where more information comes out it's going to be it's going to be interesting to follow as more information comes out. So I just, it's just one of those things where you look at what happened,

you're like, all right, cool. Like what happened was crazy because people did lose their lives that got shot during the whole ordeal. And so, yeah, i don't know i just i really hope that uh uh trump can i like i've said before trump can kind of take this and go a couple different ways with it and one way is he he really pushes basically that the left uh has uh they tried to silence him in the courts, which didn't work, and then so they turned and they decided to try to assassinate him.

And that didn't work either, so where do we go from here? But the other side that I'm hoping he doesn't go down is gun control, especially since the GOP basically, the Republican National Committee, they removed, they basically removed the idea of the talking points of supporting Second Amendment rights. They kind of silently removed it from their platform. So I'm kind of hoping that they don't go down this route because all the momentum that Trump has gained, popularity, basically the number boost that he got from this attempt on his life, if he starts pushing gun control and all kinds of stuff, he's going to lose it.

But here's the beauty. I was actually making this comment on another social media account just yesterday, Conservatish, Peter Felicianna's account. But I made the comment. He was talking about supporting candidates depending on what they're doing. Basically, we can't be all in on Team Trump or Team Biden. We can't be all in on any one candidate. We have to support what they support when they're supporting us,

and when they don't, we need to call them out on it. And I said that's where having principles comes into play. Because when you have principles, you support a candidate when their principles align with yours and then you shitpost them mercilessly and make memes about them when they screw the pooch. And I think that is an important standard to live by politically is that you had, you had, you cannot, you cannot look at Donald J. Trump or Joseph R. Biden's, you know, platform and say, this is what I'm going to model myself after. And then in four years,

I'm going to change the whole thing. That's not how this works. What you have to do is you have to decide every single issue. And in my case, like where gun rights are concerned, I'm easy to figure out. I think we should be able to buy machine guns out of vending machines. Until we can do that, we're not having a conversation about winning back gun rights in my humble opinion. But like, that's me. And I'm an extremist in air quotes. And I'm okay with that because I do have a very extreme opinion on gun rights and gun control. But that is my principle. Whoever pushes the needle in the direction I want to go is okay with me, and if they push in the wrong direction, I'm going to scream and yell about it because that's my principle at play. But I have other principles that don't always line up perfectly with Republicans. So I have to have principles, and I have

to conduct myself according to those principles, and I have to allow my opinion of politicians to be shaped by those principles. So, if the Donald starts going the wrong direction on gun control, you can fully expect to have to pull out that blood pressure warning name.

Because I will go through the ceiling. Just like I did during the bump stock ban. Just like we did have to pull out that blood pressure warning name because i will go through the ceiling just like i just like i did during the bump stock ban just like we did i mean like we've done this before with donald trump when he started getting silly about guns about you know firearm stuff we both went nuts yeah yeah so uh yeah so i'm curious to see where this goes. Uh, I mean, I, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure on the show and I know we've talked about it, uh, behind the scenes, but, um, I know we've, we've basically the, the idea that, uh, this was going to happen. Um, I had a feeling that this was going to happen. Uh, I didn't, I thought it was going to be, I thought I was predicting that

it was going to happen closer to the election uh but uh here we are uh and so i don't know it's it's gonna be interesting uh it's it's definitely a crazy time but it's gonna be interesting so but in other news one president rises while one is falling down a flight of stairs all the time i was about about to say, was that a pun? But yeah, it was a pun. No, I mean, look, Biden... So, here's the weird thing about watching the Biden regime, the Biden presidency, the Biden administration,

like I call it a regime, because that's just the way they behave. But like, from my perspective, they were never doing that great to begin with. They've... From day one, they were never doing that great to begin with. Not from day one. Yeah, they've bobbled almost every facet, if not every facet, of running a country you could possibly bobble. They seem to spend the first two years of their presidency just being anti-Trump.

Like, whatever Trump did, we're going to do the opposite, regardless of whether it was a good idea or not. And, you know, predictably, people were very upset about that because as polarizing of a person as Donald Trump was during his presidencyize big businesses to bring their plants and everything and the jobs back to the U.S. He did a lot of great things. Regardless of what you think about his locker room talk or his mannerisms or his boisterousness or whatever else, there were things he did that were great things. Or whatever else, there were things he did that were great things. And the Biden administration unwound all that as fast as humanly possible just to be anti-Trump. And now here we are on the back end of their presidency. And Biden and Harris' approval numbers are in the toilet. Biden is getting calls from his own party to step down because they do not believe he has a chance

in hell of winning against Donald Trump and they didn't think he had that chance before the assassination attempt that Trump survived they thought he didn't have that chance after a presidential debate that clearly made Trump look... Here's what came out of the debate, which I only watched a very brief moment of it because I am so over politics at this point. And I already know how this is going to work out. But what I saw, I wasn't even interested in what they were saying, I was interested

in how they were presenting themselves. And Donald Trump, unlike 2016, was calm and collected, a little bit sarcasm, a little sassy. But he seemed, he came across as a man who was acting his age and who was like the gentleman politician. Very, very unlike the rhetoric I heard and we heard in 2016, or in the run-up to 2016. And Biden came across like a stuttering old man that needed to go to a nursing home. And from the moment that debate was over, his party wanted him out because they just don't see the path forward. And now it looks even more lopsided. So I've been hearing all across social media all the rumors that, oh, Biden's going to step down this weekend. But here's the problem, bud.

Who the hell do the Democrats put in? I mean, Kamala Harris is not well liked by her own party. I mean, Kamala Harris is not well liked by her own party. No, but she does, from my understanding, because she's VP, from my understanding, she's the only one that can access the money that is for the campaign fund and all that stuff. Assuming they don't change the rules, which they have done before. Yeah, they could just change the rules which so they have done before yeah they could just change the rules yeah uh but no i've uh i've heard names floating such as gavin newsom uh i've heard uh stretching gretchen whitmore uh for i've heard that she's been uh being talked to

or groomed or whatever you want to call it heard hillary's name thrown around again yep i've heard killary uh which funny meme uh really quick i'm gonna throw out there saw a meme that said uh donald trump has officially uh he ended uh hillary's kill streak i didn't see that so that that was that was funny quite quite fine yeah so uh but yeah no yeah i yeah, basically Hillary, Big Mike, Big Mike Obama. I could, you know, they're talking about floating that because Obama was so popular. Maybe they could get a round two with Big Mike in there. But yeah, so I don't know. It's going to be interesting. And so after this weekend, it's going to be interesting because it's one of those things where, but that's the thing, it's a puppet.

I mean, Biden's a puppet. You can clearly see, like, I mean, we see, we knew the last handful of presidents. I mean, not even just the last handful. They've all been puppets. They've been all-pun puppets. I mean, so the fact that it's going to be – it's basically they're going to say, well, who do we want to change out for? And Biden is no longer – he's no longer a feasible candidate as a puppet just because he has messed up so bad. I mean, he can't even read off a teleprompter. That's how bad of a puppet he is.

I disagree. He reads off a teleprompter so well, he even reads the punctuation and the subtitles. So, uh, yeah. So it's, I don't know.

It's going to be interesting, but, uh, my wife did ask me an interesting question last night, which I, I disagree with her immediately, but it's, it bears pointing out at this point, going to be interesting but uh my wife did ask me an interesting question last night which i i disagree with her immediately but it's it bears pointing out at this point but she asked me she's like do you think the dnc would reach out to a robert f kennedy and i was like only in their worst wildest most lsd infused dreams would they would they reach would because the problem is

and like at least this is the way i see it like you're free to disagree if you if you do but i don't think the republican party really wanted donald trump in 2016 and they i don't think they want him anymore now than they did then because trump like the only way they were able to stop the swamp draining in 2016 was because they surrounded him with people who steered him in the wrong direction, in my opinion. I hold him partially accountable for that because he allowed himself to be steered in the wrong direction. But I digress. Trump is not a Republican Party person. He did not come into politics on a wave of money from the RNC. He's

a bull in a china shop. He's a populist. He has the support of a lot of money from the RNC. He's a bull in a china shop. He's a populist. He has the support of a lot of people behind him, but not really a lot of party support. And we saw that in his first presidency, even with the number of Republicans who refused to support him, J.D. Vance being one of them, by the way. And I believe that if the DNC courted Robert F. Kennedy,

it would be the exact same problem for the Democrats Democrats because Robert F. Kennedy is a populist. Robert F. Kennedy is not coming into the DNC on a wave of money being provided by the DNC. He has his own money. He's independently wealthy. He's a Kennedy. He could set up a microphone in the middle of any town in this country and get half the town to show up just to listen to him talk because of his legacy and who he is. And the DNC would be very smart to court him to be their

candidate to replace Biden, but I don't think they have the stones to do it because if they do, then they've got a progressive Trump in the White House. They have another person who they can't control, who, if he's smart, he's not going to trust the Secret Service for all of his security. Because, you know, the CIA kind of, his uncle and his father. But they won't even issue him a Secret Service detail anyway. But I guess what I'm saying is, like, let's say, hypothetically, the DNC reached out to Robert F. Kennedy and ran him.

I feel like that'd be a hell of a race between Robert F. Kennedy and Trump on the Democrat and Republican tickets. But then again, I said the same thing about Bernie Sanders as the Democrat front runner and Trump back in 2016. And look what the party did then. They took Bernie, they maneuvered Bernie out into the weeds to get Hillary in place because Hillary was the party person and Bernie was the populist. Do you really think the DNC now is going to reverse course and they're going to bring in a populist they can barely control who's going to act according to his principles, not according to the special interest? I don't think they want that fight. I think they would rather put up a party person, take the L for 2024, and try again in 2028. Rather than give somebody like Robert F. Kennedy the status as the Democrats' frontrunner.

as the Democrats' frontrunner, even though I believe that if Robert F. Kennedy went toe-to-toe with Donald J. Trump, we might end up with a Kennedy in the White House. I think he could probably beat Trump, but I don't think they'll do it. Well, I think what would be really interesting is, I mean, Kennedy's running as an independent. So, has he announced his VP? Yes, he did.

Did he? I don't remember who it was. Because, obviously, the mainstream media, you can't really, I mean. But anyway, I mean, anyway, if he did or not, it's whatever. But my thing, though, too, with that is, depending on what the DNC does and who they pick, I mean, honestly, they could pick Gavin Newsom. They could pick Whitmer.

They could pick whoever, really. But the idea that they're just basically going to pick somebody who is an established Democrat and all that, what's going to be interesting is if Trump went, if he did debates because the DNC is so screwed up right now, went if he did debates because the dnc's so screwed up right now if he did debates with kennedy and started you know started getting kennedy if kennedy started if they did it right and they and honestly being an independent and everything like they should be able to all like every party should have a position on the stage on the debate stage that shouldn't just be two parties that are there, slash one party.

But I would definitely think it could be interesting that if Kennedy sticks it out and everything and they get to it in November, I mean, depending on what the DNC does, we could be looking at an independent versus a Republican. Like, that's what I'm saying, is depending on who it is and depending on what the people say, I mean, I know there's going to be those people that are going to be like hardcore democrat i don't care they could pull some dude out of a butt and vote blue no matter who yeah vote blue no matter who and that's it but i really hope and it would be really interesting to see is if this time around uh the independent side got more votes or close to more votes than uh democrat and the idea that if kennedy plays his cards right and

he really pushes it out there the idea that we could see because we have those we have those hardcore never trumpers that no matter what happens, this dude almost got killed, and they still find they can't rally behind him. They can't find a single thing that they like about him. When, yeah, he's not, is he perfect? No. But I can't, and am I happy with him? Not exactly. But I do see with my paycheck was a heck of a lot better and my grocery bill was a lot lower my mortgage was a lot was well actually no i take that back and i have a mortgage back gas bill but like rent and stuff like that gas bill

it took a lot less to fill my truck up under trump than it did in the last four years under biden like everything is so it'd be really nice to go back to that and i'll love i would love to take some mean tweets uh and have some uh cheaper gas and everything like that to be able to put more money in my uh in my pocket so yeah it's it's gonna be interesting and uh it's gonna be interesting to definitely to see as it gets closer and remember uh because honestly yeah if kennedy plays his cards right i mean this could be a independent versus republican uh more than a democrat versus republican you know and then the independent is the independence

kind of like nah i'm just gonna sit in the back and i might steal like 5 000 votes um no it's i think this is a good opportunity for and then this is also for the people that are crying independent vote independent every single election who just to me it's you're throwing away your your vote in a sense uh this could be a good opportunity for those get those people to really start pushing hey vote independent uh and see what happens and this might be a good year to vote independent honestly depending on what's going on because uh you know and so yeah not that i think he would have done it but i did have a fever dream one time and thought to myself like what would have happened if trump would have picked robert f kennedy to be his vp i'm not right i don't and here's the thing of it i don't think robert f kenn Kennedy would have accepted. I could be wrong. That would have been an interesting ticket. But I had that thought of like, you know, I could see like so. And this is this is why I've listened to Robert F. Kennedy, because I agree with what he's saying. I don't know if I would agree with how he plans to do it because some of his policy ideas just don't quite mesh with my

ideas. But his perspective, to me, seems to be, we need to find, we need to, this cannot, we cannot continue to move forward as a country if it's red team versus blue team and who wins. It has to be, what can we do so that red and blue both win? So that, you know, progressives and conservatives both are heard and both have a solution they can live with. Like that's how we win. And unfortunately, like me being more of the libertarian minded folk that I am, I tend to think that the way we, the way we all win is for the government to leave everybody

the hell alone so everybody can live their own lives somewhat separately. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not, I need to pass this law so that everybody's happy. It's like, no, you don't pass law at all and let everybody do their own thing. Like, I believe as a, and I'm not going to soapbox because I don't have the energy for it this morning. I haven't been caffeinated enough. in a soapbox because i don't have the energy for it this morning i haven't been caffeinated enough but like i believe that a lot of the problems we face in this nation is an overabundance of legalese it's too much control and power and oversight and effing with people's lives that's

led us to this point like somebody pointed out recently like the person who sits in the white house should have so little control over your life that it doesn't matter to you day to day. And I agree with that on principle, but that's not the world we live in, but we should try to get back to it. All right, so you think we can take 20 minutes and talk about, like, the hell for preppers? The hell for preppers. So, Andrew knows, and the patrons know, and the general population probably doesn't, because I don't usually advertise when I'm going to be away from home for obvious reasons.

OpSec and all that. But I recently had to fly out of town for work. And first and foremost, I hate flying. With a passion. I get extraordinarily air sick um but from a stand from the standpoint of a person who like you know carries a firearm every day and has medical equipment in his truck and yada yada yada the idea that I had to get on a plane go play play around with the TSA for a day on the way there and back, live out of a hotel room, didn't even have a rental car, much less my own POV.

We were cabbing and Ubering everywhere. I was in a situation for the first time in years where I literally could not do a lot of the things I would normally do to be prepared for an emergency situation. And it was an immediately uncomfortable situation. So I thought it would bear maybe a short discussion today. And if it winds up looking like it's going to be a bigger discussion, we'll cap it up some other time. But let's start with the fact that I flew into Washington, D.C., which means my concealed carry permit was...

So I could not bring a firearm with me at all. Oh, I thought you were going to keep going. Oh, I am. I'm corralling my thoughts together. So couldn't bring a firearm at all. Concealed carry permit was, you know, a joke in that city. I did pack a tourniquet in my laptop bag, which was almost always with me, just because I do that when I'm at the office, you know, and I've never had anybody pitch a fit about me carrying a tourniquet with me except for some weird looks. Carried my flashlight with me me because i always do couldn't even take a pocket knife because the buildings we were going into

involved going through a metal detector so i couldn't even take a knife it was just you know andrew it was a really it was a very intensely uncomfortable situation like my workplace is already a place where i can't bring a firearm i I can't even have a firearm like in my vehicle in the parking lot because we have to go through security checkpoints to get in. But even at work, I've got like my whole blowout kit in my vehicle. I've got a turn kit in my laptop bag. I've got like my little bitty pocket knife that I can bring into the facility because it has a blade length less than two and a half inches. So it slides in under the radar. It has a blade length less than two and a half inches, so it slides in under the radar. Like, I've got some options.

And when I'm working at the facility, if something popped off, I never go to work with less than half a tank of fuel. So I could drive literally like three times further than I have to to get home if I had to take a really circuitous route. I've kind of like arranged my life so that when I have to go into the office, I have accounted for as many weird situations as possible. But in this situation, I was in Washington, D.C., didn't have a vehicle. So my only way to get home was get back on a plane to fly home or, I guess, theoretically try to rent a car and drive home. I was really thinking about, especially right on the tail end of the Trump assassination attempt, I was really in the mode of, if something weird happened, and I had to get out of this city as fast as possible, what do I do? How do I pull that off? Because, like, I don't have any sustainment gear with me to be able to sit it out here any for any length of time so my plan a was if i

could find a rental car i was just gonna like swipe swipe swipe a debit card rent a car and just drive home if i had to it was about 15 hours but i would have raw dogged at home if i had to um i did make sure i carried cash which anybody that's traveling any distance i think if you're just walking out to the end of your driveway, I encourage you to carry cash. And I'm going to tell you, I got some funny looks from people when they realized I was carrying a pretty decent amount of cash. But I was like, cash always works. When your debit card declines, when the telecom hum all goes down, cash still works. That's why I carry cash. Cash is the ultimate emergency get out of jail free card. But, I don't know man.

Like, I did, before I made this trip, I did make some phone calls through the patrons and through some friends and through the PBN crew and I was basically trying to figure out like, okay, who has people make some phone calls through the patrons and through some friends and through the pbn crew and i was basically trying to figure out like okay who has people in the dc area well like if if i if i need to make a phone call and i need somebody to come pick me up and get me the hell out of this city right here and now who's my first and second point of contact but and it was really just kind of like my what i was envisioning was like if somebody has to get me out of D.C., where's my next stop on the way home? And I was going to like underground railroad it, like have friends that would just meet halfway and just get me as far out of the city as possible if it came to it.

But I know we've talked about it before, but it just – and I mean I'm re-listening to the book series now but locker nine from from franklin horton like that that's exactly the the premise of his that book series is his daughter's off at college he has a whole booklet of friends of his that he that she can trust and it's her ability to get home and everything like that i did that when my mom, my mom went on vacation of Florida with my sister, my brother-in-law, my niece, you know, on my nieces. Uh, I did, I put this thing together that it basically took them from Florida, basically close enough to where I could go get them. And so that just, that's the same thing.

I mean, when I go down to there's, or there's a good, there's a slight chance I might go to Florida in November for work. And if that happens, I'm going to be bringing this, I'm going to be updating this pamphlet or this PDF that I have. And it's going to come with me because the idea that, okay, if something happens. All right, I know this guy's in Georgia. All right. I know these couple, I know the couple of these guys are in Georgia. I know this guy lives close to close enough to where, Hey, if I need to, if I don't have a car, Hey, if I can get a car, if I can walk, can you meet me here? And that's where, you know, you look at your, and I know your end goal is to get back home. But if you have to

travel North for so long to get out of the city and then kind of go west and then south and kind of backtrack around, I mean, so be it. Especially if the roads are all blocked off and stuff like that, you're going to have to detour around crap. So that's a thing is definitely prep your trip. So prep, you know, prep your trip. So it's like, okay, if I need to get home and I got to drive or whatever, okay, this, this way, this exit, or this road takes me out of here, this direction, this direction, this direction. And if I need to go get picked up, okay, where's the best places to get picked up?

Okay. This place is, I know I can walk two and a half, three miles, four miles in this amount of time. All right. This is going to be my, uh, this is going to be my pickup point. Okay. Okay. This is, if is going to be my, this is going to be my pickup point A. Okay, this is, if I can't do that, this is going to be pickup point B. And then you, you rally and say, okay, if this person closest couple people that you have a team with or the plan with, okay, hey guys, I'm sharing this pamphlet with you. If something goes awry and I need to get out,

if I have to walk, definitely be on comms to let people know. But hey, if this happens, this is where I'm going to be at. I'm going to be at A. If something's going on, then I'll be at B. If something's happening again, I'll be at C, but I have at least three points I would say of retrieval. And then also, I mean, it's one of those things where obviously you probably, that you probably wouldn't be able to carry it, but, or I don't know if you, maybe you could carry it. Uh, but, uh, the whole ham radio and stuff or your GMRS, uh, if you could, if you have a handheld or something, uh, or if you have your, you have your work laptop, uh work laptop, the programming that you have for the GMRS radios, you have the program, if it's possible, have the program be able to run it on your laptop or whatever, have a thumb drive with all the programming crap on it. You're talking about SDR, software-defined radio? Yeah yeah so like your gmrs and stuff so so sdrs sdrs are received only not transmitted

oh yeah but so anyway just but what i'm saying is if you have basically if you have the software not the software but if you have you know because how do you program your gmrs you have is it cut you have a piece of software that you have to do that you can yeah so you have that software you have it on usb drive installed on the usb drive along with the all the all the uh the all the the program frequencies and everything uh programmed in on that usb drive something happens you don't have your radios with you you go to the local store, you buy one. And then you just hook it up. You can carry the cable with you.

So hook it up and then figure out a way to, okay, I can run it off this laptop doing this, this, and this. I can install, I can reprogram it. Or if you know how to program it by hand, these are my list of frequencies. I can program the frequencies in or whatever. And then you just try to make that plan to where, hey, I have, uh, I'll have comms within such and such a time, get on the road. This is where we're meeting, uh, and switch to this frequency. And once you get in the area, the media area, every five minutes, uh, hit the button and try to transmit and I'll answer you or I'll be answered, you know, or something like that,

that way you have a comms plan, you know, so, I mean, that's, that, that's honestly, like, I mean, I, I don't know jack about comms, but I need, I should really change that, but, you know, it's one of those things where, when're traveling like that and you can't travel with all your general gear well you know maybe this is uh have those plans set up and especially if you're gonna need someone to come get you because that's the thing is if something were to happen well you you may have the idea to rent a car but so does a thousand other people yeah and what's the idea and do you really want to be in a crowded area like that with a thousand other people yeah and what's the idea and do you really want to be in a crowded area like that with a thousand other people trying to get a car and the idea that okay i got a car well good luck getting out the parking lot because the next guy who wants to get

a car that's just as desperate as you smashing your window out and he's coming after you that kind of thing worst case scenario this is also this is also why like my initial go-to plan was i just need somebody that can get me out of the city because if i can because i knew that i and and y'all have to understand like this is preparedness 101 is that you think about what is a likely scenario and then how do i defeat that scenario like this is not i'm not thinking like what happens if the russians drop a nuke in the middle of, you know, wherever, like I'm thinking like what's likely to happen. And what I was really concerned about after Trump's assassination attempt was what happens if there's attempt on another politician at the same time. And I happen to be right there in the city when it happens. I knew the whole city

was going to go to lockdown. I knew that my stated reason for being there in D.C. was going to evaporate overnight, and I was going to have to get home any way I could. So what I was really focused on was how do I get out of D.C.? Because I knew that if the event was in D.C., then the further away from D.C. I get, the faster things like flights and rental cars and everything else are available to me again so that I can get home. But my initial problem was how do I get at DC without walking? But I digress. Like it was, I guess for me, it was, it was a reminder that we all, we all had, we all prepare for our most likely scenarios. And you brought up Locker 9 earlier. Like, here's the thing.

If I spent considerable time in D.C., I would probably have a little bit more of a robust plan in place for how do I have stamina gear? How do I get out of D.C.? Like, what do I do? I'd have a more robust plan for that. But I don't go to D.C. This is the first time I've ever been to Washington, D.C. in my life. And I hope I don't have to go back anytime soon. A beautiful city for anybody that's up there. I'm not a big city person.

So I was happy to visit. I would have absolutely jumped off a bridge if I had to live in that place. But I guess this was supposed to be just a really short, like, what I did to plan was I tried to figure out who was my underground railroad to get me out of the city so that I could at least get to a place where I had friends who could, you know, get me to the next stop or hold on to me until my wife could come up and get me. Or at least just get me out of the city, get me as far away from the city as possible so i could find a rental car and drive the rest of the way home but it was one of those moments in time that because of the situation i was in every single thing about how i prepare went right out the window immediately because all of my plans are really developed around the idea that like even even when even when we go on vacation and we don't take my truck, we take my wife's Jeep, I download most of the emergency roadside kit out of my truck into a shoulder bag, and that goes in my wife's Jeep.

We have rations. We have water. We bring firearms with us. We don't go from home without those things because if something weird happens, I need the tools in my trade to take care of my family. But in this case, none of those things come with me. So it was a very immediately uncomfortable situation that very quickly reminded me that sometimes the prep isn't the stuff you take with you, it's the planning. prep isn't the stuff you take with you it's the planning well and this is where uh i wish you could take uh like treks when a gun and when a gun is not an option uh kind of thing because he kind of i mean he gets into like pepper spray and stuff like that which obviously is not legal in dc either the tsa but tsa would have also had a field game with, but a field day with. Yeah, but it's just the idea of thinking outside the box. I mean, Ed Calderon, the one class I took with him, it was basically around you,

what can you use around you to make a weapon? Yep. What can you use around you to make a knife or a blade? Something that can stick, something that will cause pain. So you definitely got to think outside the box. Well, I'm pretty sure it's the Marine Corps that says this frequently, although I've heard it attributed to certain people in the Army. But the mind is the weapon.

Everything else is just a tool. So I would encourage you, without making your coworkers look at you too, too funny, to always bear in mind that if you're creative enough, you are never disarmed anywhere. And if anybody wants to test that assertion, talk to prison guards, because they'll tell you about some of the stuff they've seen in a super

controlled environment where no one's supposed to have a weapon, but everybody does anyway. Oh yeah. Drugs, cell phones, frigging Playstations. I mean, every, you can get whatever you want in prison. If you in prison if you can sell enough cigarettes and cheeseburgers.

Or favors. Anyway. Anyway. Well, we didn't go completely off the rails talking about Team Red and Team Blue, so that's a plus. I'm going to be honest, man. I am, like, it's freaking July and I'm already exhausted with politics.

I was exhausted from, I was exhausted from day one. As soon as I saw the first ad on TV, I was like, God dang it. Maybe we're getting older. Is that a possibility? Because, like, I seem to remember, maybe we'll have to go back that a possibility? Because, like, I seem to remember,

maybe we'll have to go back and listen to some of the old, old episodes. But, like, I feel like we got much more wound up about politics way back in the day. And now we're just like,

God, would you all just shut the hell up? You're all insufferable. Now we just want to vote for Thanos. Yeah, right. Alright, well, let's go ahead and wrap this up. You need more coffee, I need more coffee.

And then I have to get this day going. Alright, well, have fun. Oh, I plan to. I'm going to the beach with my wife. Let that one hang. Thanks. Bye. Matter of fact, this podcast will be going out the door. Just remember, you are always

prepped. As long as your brain is still working, you just got to plan ahead a little bit and think outside the box. But please, for the love of God, don't get too wrapped up in the politics. it's all theater anyway it's basically like pro wrestling for boomers god i'm gonna turn that into a tagline matter of fact this podcast is going out the door bye everybody Thank you. I'll see you next time.