The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Rising Republic: Mental Health and 2A

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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I don't want to set the world on fire. Indeed, the American Revolution cannot be understood without taking into account the religious teachings that motivated patriots to action. But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. When I decided they'd go kill some Americans, what difference at this point does it make? We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Welcome, everybody to the Rising Republic. It's L. Douglas Hogan. Ryan Dupor.

Glad to have you joining us for the show today, folks. How the heck have you been there, Ryan? Hot. It's been hot, hot, hot. What's going on in Washington? We don't have that kind of heat going on right now in Illinois. We've had some really nice weather. It's been brutal.

personally just because it's so hot so dry we've been looking at temperatures in the upper 90s and over 100s and we haven't seen i think in the past three months we've had one or maybe two rainstorms that lasted no more than a couple of hours so it's uh it's pretty dead everything everything's pretty much done around here wow we've had no storms we've had a couple drizzles. It's been really dry in Illinois. The farmer's been having a heyday pulling up their their yield. Oh, yeah. So, you know, we got, we got the corn coming up. Let me look across the street real quick here. Nope, the corn's still up in front of my house, but the corn in the back of my house has come down. I harvested pretty much everything over here. We, garbs, lentils,

I mean, all that kind of stuff is pretty much gone, which is good, because that, this time of years when all the wildfires tend to kick up and when that happens it's very easy to those fields are so dry they're like a tingerbox that's the west coast it's nice to happen yeah no over here it's been quite different we've had a high of the low 80s and a low overnight have sometimes going into the into the low 50s I think I saw 51 once yeah that's like perfect I love that weather um that's usually the stuff we're we were chatting briefly before the show you know when mama bears um gone when she's at work i'll i like to go outside to get my stuff done that i want to do outside um she bought me um my for father's day a a canopy

um that i'm going to put oh yeah i'm going to build a little deck for it and i'm going to put it i'm going to fast it down on on the deck so that's kind of lifted up off the ground and i'm put my blackstone or our blackstone. I actually bought the blackstone for her, but I cook on it all the time. It's, I know it's one of those things. When I bought black, I bought her a blackstone. No, I get some eyebrow raises. It benefits her okay because you're not cooking as much. That's how I see it. It's like, I'm cooking here. Yeah. That's like, here's my gift to you. I'll, I'll buy this and I'll cook on it so you don't have to cook. And that's how I look at it anyway. So no side eyes coming from anybody listening to this. That's how I see things. So I'm a build like a, it's like a 10 by 10.

um canopies that she purchased for me i just got to put it together but before i even put it together it's you know i'm going to build a platform probably that's i don't know 11 by 11 or 12 by 12 i'll get that ironed out pretty quick here and uh just set that down around top of i'm guessing i'm probably going to do a six by six for the for the beams on the corner beams that way i could just put it down inside of that i got to measure everything out then when i when i bolt it down it'll go down inside of those beams yeah and uh and of course the beams will be concreted into the ground so they won't they won't blow and lift up off the ground but i'm kind of excited about that man yeah that's awesome it's always nice to be able to have that little space to yourself and

have your stuff undercover and secured we have to be really careful over here with that kind of stuff because the wind will kick up like it'll be beautiful now but man if you don't and it's calm but as soon as the seasons change we get these crazy windstorms that come through and then you know I've seen my neighbor's trampoline probably 3, 400 feet away from their house off in the ditch bank because they didn't anchor it down and it's a full-sized trampoline, you know? I've seen that, I've seen storms.

You know, because you always see those videos on YouTube of the storms or the storm damage. You see these trampolines are one of the first things to take off or garages or little carports or even canopies, you know, just taking off. The awesome thing about this canopy that you purchased for me is that it's got a retractable overhead, right, so that the

actual awning party retracts. So I can take that, move it back, or even I think I can even clip it, take it off. If I know a storm is coming. I just got one thing, you know, it's got these little drain holes on it because of that. So I won't be cooking in the rain because of the drain holes.

But that's okay. I could cook in the sun and have a breeze and shade and that's kind of what I'm looking forward to. But it's been too hot to go out. I'm not to go out and dig holes and the heat kind of guy if I can avoid it so I wait I wait and play it smart I work smarter not harder kind of a guy try and catch it in the early morning and afternoon right before dusk yeah yeah or fall yeah yeah I so so we went to um we went to a Chinese restaurant a couple um a week or two ago

and uh I have a couple uh fortune cookies I'm not I'm not stupid sicious but I have a fortune cooking here. I want to open it for you just for fun. Just for fun. And see what your fortune is here. So the first one I'm going to open is going to be for you, okay? Open this fortune here. Yeah, I'm not stupid ciches. I don't believe it. Here we go. I love it when the English is so bad. It doesn't make any sense. I know. And usually on the back, there's some junk on it. But like,

they usually have like one version in Chinese on the back and on the front. You have it in English. And then it's got lucky numbers on that and stuff. But here's your fortune that says, hope for the best but prepare for the worst oh awesome I will take that I will take that all they want but that's like a mantra of life ain't it I mean that's something I live by right there just on you know all the time prepare prepare that's what we do that's a wordy bookmark right there

oh it'd be a good bookmark too but it's like this thing is like two inches long I don't know that it'd suffice okay let's see what mine's probably to be something stupid all right my fortune cookie you're going to have a very comfortable old age. You're going to have a very comfortable old age. I love this. You know, why? Because I am going to be 53 next month, right?

And me and my wife are working towards, of course, I've already retired once, and she's working towards her retirement. I think she's got five years to go. And I'm working towards my second pension. And the plan is we're going to buy a class C and we're going to travel. We're going to travel to the United States. and get on some planes and fly around and see the world. So like I said, I'm not stupid.

You come over this direction. Oh, yeah. Put you up. Oh, yeah. I appreciate that. That's really cool. Yeah, but you're going to be very comfortable in your old age. Okay.

That's great. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. Okay, man. So the last time we talked, we didn't have, I know we had some things going on last week. So we didn't record last week.

Week before that, though, we had left. And I believe I mentioned at the end of that episode that we're going to, want to talk about the cracker barrel situation so let's just pick up there um what what have you heard so far about the whole cracker barrel situation last time i heard and there was a quite a bit of change in uh like a like a plot twist almost and that is most recently because because conservatives were boycotting cracker barrel because uh i guess in the fashion that that liberals do they make a lot a racket about when they have like uh aunt jemima uh the member of the land of lakes the native america yeah so you could probably think of probably a few of those that have been uh kind of eradicated

the i don't know what you would call them they're not symbols or mottoes but uh she was both those people i mean land of lakes it's not it's not a racist thing to put a native american female you know, on something like that, on a product. And Aunt Jemima was a real person. And she became famous. And her name was plastered and her image was plastered on her products. And the left, and it's usually the white liberal left that does this. They move to wash this kind of stuff, the products off the shelves.

And in the end, all you have is these ignorant-looking logos and things. And they're causing more damage than they're causing good. But in the midst of all this shakeup with Cracker Barrel, I guess the boycotting from the conservative right on what they were doing with this old-fashioned country store restaurant was because they took the white man off of this, the old man off of the Cracker Barrel logo. And they just made a generic cracker barrel looking sign that was just, I mean, just generic is all get out. And I guess there's a boycott. And as a result of the boycott and their shares have dropped all. so much it's just been huge

but uh yeah and I mean it's really surprising to me I mean it seems like the court of public opinion is finally starting to get some traction and when people make decisions like this the bud light thing I mean I didn't see much

much of a hang up from the Antiamima and the Uncle Ben rice and some what was the other one the land of lakes like people boycotting these things but I think we're getting to the point where people are getting so sick and fed up with it. They're like, no, no, this is dumb. If you're going to change and do all this kind of stuff, we're done with change.

We're done with the transitioning that you guys are doing for this kind of stuff. We just want things to be like they have been because it's not like a bad thing. And there is something to be said like Coca-Cola. it's one of the most recognizable logos in the world and if you go start changing that kind of stuff up it changes kind of how people perceive the company and people are starting to perceive these companies as being flakes or being overrun by woke agendas and this is a classic example of it so i mean i am personally i'm not shocked on one part that people and the amount of outcry that there has been

kind of caused them to backpedal, but I am shocked at how fast that happened and how fast that company backpiddle because they saw, I mean, the Bud Light thing like we talked about last time, I mean, we realized hard and fast how detrimental that can be over the long term if a company sticks to their guns

and says, oh yeah, we're just going to go ahead and do this and disregard the people that buy their product. And it seems more and more that as these things happen, especially to companies that have predominantly right-wing customers or adult male customers or white customers, they tend to be the ones that are most outspoken about these changes. And I think when that happens, it's like, wait a second, we just will stop spending money there. We'll spend money somewhere else. And I think that's finally starting to catch on with these companies. Like, wait a second.

And that's a big thing that's going on everywhere because, I mean, most of the United States, when you look at the at the voting map, I'm talking about red and blue voting maps. Most of the United States is red, right? But you'll see these deep blue areas around, around, and they're the cities. They're always the cities. That's where you see a lot of the blue and the electoral college vote. that tends to carry the state. And that's also where you see the headquarters and these companies.

Yes. And so it stands to reason that naturally these headquarters are going to be hearing the most from those individuals, not realizing that most of America is conservative in their values. They don't want that stuff that they're trying to force feed us. There was, do you have an X account by chance? I know you avoid social media. pretty much.

Okay. That's one of the only things I have left, yeah. On X, this Julia Perry, she's the vice president of marketing communications at Cracker Barrow, and she's the one that's caused most of the stir. I don't know. I need to do a follow up and see if she's lost her position. I know the Cracker Barrel logo sign, the plot twist has gone, we're keeping the old, the old guy, or kicking the old sign, but she actually posted on X,

and you can dig this up. Anybody can dig this up, but she actually, posted on there at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, we've been on a journey of improvement and understanding as individuals and as a company. We believe that when we harness the uniqueness of our differences, you could probably already see where this is going, right? The DEI stuff. When we harness the uniqueness of our differences, we become better. A Cracker Barrel dining room is a place where people of all ages, races, genders, ethnicities, walks of life, political preferences, and sexual oriented. Why does everything have to be set?

Exactly. Why do you have to sexualize a post about a restaurant? That's just, it's ludicrous to me. Anyway, she goes on, and sexual orientations can come together and feel at home. And there's a picture of Cracker Barrel, I believe it to be Cracker Barrel anyway, with a rainbow of rocking chairs sitting out front of a restaurant. And she's got this circled on, on this, on this post, they plastered. And this is so the narrative there is, what she's trying to say is, like, this is her LGBT. plus crowd that she's trying to appeal to. But she's got a red, a rocking chair, an orange rocking chair, a yellow rocket chair, a green rocket chair, a blue and rock. I mean, and she's got the whole rainbow one color per chair. Everybody knows what that means. And if you're pulling up in front of a restaurant, a Cracker Barrel restaurant, and you see that in your conservative America, you're like, let's go find somewhere else to eat.

I had a buddy send me a picture recently of our local Crackle Barrel on a Friday. It's always, has always prior to this. woman has always been packed out. There was like three or four cars in the parking lot because she has destroyed it with this stuff. Nobody wants anything to do with it anymore. And so just put things into perspective. The stocks used to be $117 per share. Now they're $54. And this was, yeah, $54.40. And this was two weeks ago when I put this together. Because remember, two weeks ago, we were going to talk about this. It's probably gone down. a little bit even more since then from 117 to 54 to 54 dollars 46 that's 54.8 5% loss to the

stockholders because of this woman's DEI projects she has made a she has made this business into a DEI project well and if I think I might have heard somewhere that there were board members that adamantly rejected this concept of changing the the um what do you called the logo and it was ignored and they went ahead and did it anyways and now we're seeing the follow out and the board members are probably like screw you I'm selling out then if this is how you're going to treat us you know because if you're a board member you have to have a certain percentage of stake in the company and you sell off your stake in the company before it tanks like that yes I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that's what's going on and so people don't want to have

anything to do with that anymore. I mean, I don't know what the deal is. And I, this is coming from someone who is basically embedded in a region that is primarily in a red zone, you know, but also there's, there's a significant blue component where I am. And as a result of that, it's like, I get it. I mean, I see the, the wild concentration of trans and LGBT clues. Q and, you know, dudes and dresses or whatever you want to call it. But the reality of it, of everything is that that is not the majority. And these people that are in places of power are making that the majority. And it's simply not.

And they're getting their asses handed to them, frankly. And they should. Because, like, it's not that if you're any one of those letters, that there's anything bad about that. I don't care. keep it to yourself do whatever you do in your bedroom but it doesn't mean that it needs to be blasts in my face and every time I go to the grocery store or every time I go to the movies or every time I go to the restaurant or whatever and what's happening is people are pulling back from these environments you

I mean movies getting more and more woke and every time I get a TV series that all of a sudden you got two main characters that start kissing each other or doing whatever when before have had nothing to do with any of that or some weird political tirade as soon as they get to that point I stop caring and I'm done. I don't want to watch it I don't go to movies anymore

because it's like every time I turn around it's a bunch of old BS because of where it's coming from. But I think there's a lot more to that because a lot of these people with power and megaphones and whatever else are using that to be able to put

trans and in LGBTQ environments on a pedestal when they shouldn't be. They're not like a protected class or something that's like wildly oppressed or anything like that. But apparently they're everywhere. I mean, it's just like it's like a cancer that's just kind of spreading everywhere

and it doesn't really, it's not justified and it's way out of the norm, especially in schools. That's the one thing that's really kind of getting me I'm being a little bit off of a little bit of a ramp but you know the latest trans shooter and again it's not school shooters anymore they're just basically trans shooters at this point

come out as just another one and statistically that seems unrealistic to me it doesn't seem like that is normal that is not like oh you know one person over here you know one person of this race one person of this socioeconomic class no it's just flat out you can see the parallel similarities between each of these shooters over the last couple of years and the one key component of that is mental illness related to some sort of trans or non-binary you know sexual orientation right and i don't want to name names on this on this show because these guys should not have a name these these shooters but just just let's just you you mentioned that and i i just happen to have to have this pull

up. So let's, uh, let's, let's go over this. The, because now we have, how many, what does it take to create a pattern? Is it one shooting? Is it two shootings, three shootings? I, I usually adjust patterns at three. Okay. Perfect. Once, once is a phenomenon, twice as a coincidence, third times a pattern. Let's say three is a pattern with 100% certainty. Let's say that's globally accepted. Okay. Okay. Our Catholic school shooter, we know him as a trans shooter, right? as a trans person, right? The Denver school shooter, number one, identified as trans. The Denver school shooter number two, and I'm not mentioning any names.

I have their names here. I'm not going to mention them. Identified as trans. The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans. The Nashville shooter identified as trans. The Yuvalde shooter. People believe that he was trans, but it was unconfirmed. Also, another unconfirmed was the Georgia shooter, unconfirmed.

Looks like a dude to me. The Iowa shooter. was gender fluid. The Philadelphia shooter identified as trans. The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non-binary. So whether they have gender dysphoria or some weird sexual deviation from the norm, we have established here right now that on the show that, let's see, one, two, three, four, five of them were one, we're trans, 100% trans.

And then we have two that were, are believed to be trans. And then we have two that are gender fluid, or I'm sorry, non-binary and gender fluid. Non-binary to me in itself, because if you're saying that you're not of two sexes or you prefer not to be identified as the two sexes means that there are in fact two sexes, right? So it's kind of a, what they call it, a, when you, an oxymoron. Right. All right. So we have an issue. Yeah, it is.

And I think there was something that came out recently about, and I don't know how this is because it was probably something over social media that got blown up. But the concept that firearms rights should be limited or denied for people of trans, you know, whatever, orientation. I am going to say that I think that is a slippery slope that can be a dangerous place to be on the Second Amendment side of things. But on that same side of the fence, I think that it makes, it just establishes more to the point that it's not a gun problem, it's a mental problem and it's a mental health problem.

And I think people need to focus more on that concept of mental health that these people who are going into this rabbit hole of weird sexual preferences and orientations and, you know, being told by every, you know, bud-like commercial to, you know, whatever Pixar cartoon coming out, what's that one that came out recently where there was a bunch of weird Barbie? I think there's a Barbie one that came out. It got how weird. Yeah, Barbie had a, it wasn't a Pixar. It was a Barbie and Ken movie type of a thing. Yeah. I haven't seen, I haven't seen movies in quite some time. So there's probably more out there.

But I think there is more to be said about indoctrinating mental health issues into the population that's causing them to go toward violence instead of having a bare-bone base level of respect for firearms and their capabilities. Because if any one of those shooters had basic gun safety, firearm safety, and a solid, I'm going to say it, male influence in their life to be able to understand the power and the consequences of their actions, these shootings wouldn't have happened. And that's probably a bold, you know, thing to say, but I don't care. anymore. It's, it's, it's, we are to the point where it is plain as day to me that if you do

not step in front of your child who is identifying as something that is, maybe they want to be a freaking cat or a turtle or a whatever, it doesn't matter. If you, if they're going down that road, you as a parent need to step in and make some lifestyle changes and seriously get involved in that child's life and part of it as well comes down to respect because if these shooters have zero respect for firearm safety or their fellow human beings that is a formula for another school shooting or church shooting or you know concert shooting or whatever it might be I mean this is getting out of control and I to me it's like oh yeah there's another one guess what he fits the profile you don't even have to think about it anymore like I just know

and I want to say that his father had some kind of connections to the government in some way yes I believe so I remember reading that I was listening to you and I I can multitask being police officer really good at that but I was I was multitasking here I'm trying to find what his father did what his connections to his with his father was to the to the government but he did have some connections in some way to the to the I want to say it was really somehow to Tim Walts. I could be mistaken. His mother actually was retired

from this Catholic school. And it was also, it was Trump's idea. One of the earlier things you said in that in your comment about restricting trans persons. Yeah, I disagree with that. And everybody on the show knows that me and you don't agree. We're not Trumpsters. We don't agree with everything that Trump stands for all necessarily.

You know, by and large, you know, we do. But we don't agree. We're not 100% Trumpsters wherever. no matter what he says. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever he said, yeah, we're good. You know, especially when it comes to his Second Amendment stuff, because he has, you know, the bumpstock ban that he, you know, early on. Shady history on Second Amendment side.

Yes, I'm not for Trump on those Second Amendment things. And I don't think it's a good idea to just throw out a blanket law or however he plans on going about this, you know, to restrict, because we have a Second Amendment. The Second Amendment protects everybody. It says everybody has a Second Amendment right, okay? So there has to be a means for which a person, and like you said, it is very slippery slope, but I don't even like talking about this, to be honest with you, but it has to be addressed, and it has to be addressed by people who represent us,

people who are voted in office. So whatever I'm saying, you know, this is just my opinion. I might not reflect the views of Ryan, and what Ryan says might not reflect my views, but what I'm saying right now is I don't think that a blanket take firearms away from all trans because I have seen trans persons and people in the LGBT community

who are against these kind of people. You know, my favorite kind of LGBTQ person are the ones that are, you know, not, and there's a lot of conservative LGBTQ people out there. Oh, yeah. You know, they are. I mean, you can look them up, you can find them, and I follow some of them on social media.

I don't care that I mean I don't care that they're that's their life they want to be gay be gay I don't care it's not affecting me just just don't be flamboyant and come into my freedom space that's all that I ask so that being said I don't think that there should be a blanket law out there restricting people who are trans from from that's not the answer that's an extremely slippery slope because if you say that this person has a mental disorder we're going to keep a firearm from him well what qualifies as a mental disorder. And can we apply this to everybody that has a mental disorder? Um, you know, because we already have red flag laws. We already, you know, which is ridiculous. And I believe it's

against the second amendment. Um, you know, what about people with PTSD? Just because a person has PTSD doesn't mean that they can't own firearms or handle firearms, be responsible fire gun or firearm owners, you know, it just means that sometimes when the fireworks go off, they have flashbacks about, you know, being in combat and so like that. It doesn't mean. mean they're going to run to the rifle that may be hanging on the wall or reach under their nightstand for that, you know, that, that pistol that's attached to a magnet underneath the nightstand or run to the gun cabinet and pull that that's the, that's what the left thinks, though. And they're going to pull this gun out that could shoot 15,000 rounds per second.

And I've heard ridiculous stories from the left, you know, that's madness. And that's not what we're saying here today. But there does, we didn't have serious talk about it. And I don't think if you start with a mental, if you start with a, uh, mental assessment, for example. I mean, where do you stop with that even? Right. I mean, there is a solid correlation between mental health and firearms abuse.

100%. And it doesn't matter what race you are. I mean, I don't know if you remember the D.C. sniper, black dude out of, and his kid or nephew, I think, this was back in mid, early to mid-2000s, out of Fort Lewis, Washington. and wound up going to D.C. And they just tag team shot people out of the lock set of a trunk of a K car. I don't remember what it was. It didn't get a lot of coverage, right?

Because he was a black guy. Right. And then, I mean, you got a ton of coverage up to that point. But then after that, it just kind of got washed away. But there was mental health involved in that. And I would argue that pretty much any firearms related. public mass shooting or whatever has more to do with mental health and stability than just random cycle paths that are just like out to do do harm.

You know, there is a buildup, but there's also a lack of respect. And I think in the past, you never saw this kind of thing because there was an expectation that you respect other people and other people's property and other people's sanctity of life. And that, I think we need to get to a point where. people start respecting each other again. And I don't know what that means or how to achieve that, but taking away Second Amendment rights of one group is not the way to do it. I don't know that I can draw connection between those two,

but there's a lot going on right there. And I think if you sit there and you say, okay, well, you know, this one group statistically we've established already that, hey, look, this is happening among these people. and it's happening frequently, and it seems to always be these people that are doing it, that doesn't mean you can go round them all up and stick them in a prison cell or something and say, well, you know, you have the propensity in this type of violence, so we can walk you up. That's not what I'm saying.

You know, it's so we need to reestablish a level of respect, and it's not violence against these people that's driving it. I think there's probably something else going on because there's more than enough people out there that are more than tolerant and could really give a shit about these people. But the reality is, is their perception of how other people perceive them is messing with their brain and scrambling up to the point where they feel like they need to act out in a violent way such that they are taking someone else's life. They're taking it to that level instead of, oh, you know, maybe I should look internally and find out why I'm feeling this way.

Or maybe I should get help about this particular issue. or maybe I should go to a support group. You know, it just, it, and I guess this kid that did it, and I hate to rail on this. No, it's good. Go ahead. You know, this particular guy that did the most recent one was spotted in a gun shop, not a couple of days before,

purchasing the firearms that he used at the thing. And I know that that's going to be used as a gun control point because he was probably, there was no, no reason why to deny this person to fire him right the gun owner or the gun shop owner could care less what this guy was planning to do you know if if he had nefarious intent then he would never have known about it bro did you see did you see though his did you by chance see his uh his video that he put out i did not his weapons like he everything that he had was black on black.

I mean, they were all pristine, brand new, black on black. I mean, whatever he purchased, it looked like he purchased everything at the same location

and at the same time. And I actually have the video because I was, you know, I somebody put it up, I downloaded it really fast. Yeah. Because I tell you what,

I know sometimes some things happen and the feds move in to try to control the narrative. And so I hijacked it. But he was deeply disturbed. And to what the point you're making, there's no reason why anybody, you know, if you walked into some place and said, this is what I would like. If he had no, no violent history in his, in his background check, then he had no

violent history in his background check. That's what we look for when we go to, you know, that's what we have the background investigation. But here's where it fails to me, Ryan, is what I'm thinking is that people in that boy's life throwing no blame to the person who sold this to him but people in that that that boy's life somebody knew he was mentally ill yeah i mean and i i grew up with there was one kid that i grew up with and i remember i lived in the apartment above him and i remember some nights waking up to the sound of his mom's boyfriend beating her up so bad that they were, you know, I could feel

the door slamming in the floor below me. And this kid internalized everything. Because, I mean, he was sitting there in his room. But there were times when I heard him. And I heard him going up against this guy trying to get him off of his mom. Right. And, And I remember, and I made it a point to make friends with this kid because I knew he was going through some stuff. And I had never had to deal with that kind of thing. And we never really talked about it. But I just made it a point to be there for him. And we built a great friendship.

And we were together for a long time up until I wound up moving to a different school and all this kind of stuff. And I could tell that he had it in him to be that kind of person. that could go quote-unquote postal. I mean, half of our listeners probably don't even know what that means to go postal. But he had that in him. I believe that he could have done that. And sometimes all it takes is someone to just step up and just be there for someone when you know that they're going through something like that.

And you're right. There have been people in all of these shooters lives that have seen it, they've experienced it, and they have turned a blind eye to it for whatever reason. And I think the difference, and I don't know that this kid that I went to school with and the kid, you know, he lived in the apartment directly below me. And, you know, we kind of, we formed a really strong bond. And we were able to focus his energy on something else.

Even though he did enjoy firearms, he enjoyed cars. He enjoyed card games and, you know, all kinds of stuff. And we would go and do stuff together, but I really tried to make sure that he was mentally sound and he was going to be in a good place at the end of the day after school, you know. And I think there's some of that that needs to happen in the real world around everybody. And people need to get out of their own heads, get off of their phones, and get involved in some of these people's lives so that they realize that life is worth more than what happens at the end of that trigger pool. Do you remember Kyle Murphy, Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL, they made a movie about his story, and he wrote a book, and he was, he's like a really, really famous Navy SEAL sniper. Chris Kyle, no, he was a, he was a Navy SEAL, and he used to, he took, he was killed a few years ago.

Oh, that's right. He wrote the, he wrote himself on a firing range? No, he was killed on, he was, he was killed on a firing range. It was killed on a firing. Yes. by somebody he was trying to help. So he came back. I mean, there's a, there's a movie out there on him.

I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of the movie that, you know, it's about Chris Kyle. It's a story of his life. But basically he, when he came back from Afghanistan, he was trying to, because he had, he had some PTSD issues. And he was trying to help other veterans with PTSD issues. issues. And what he would do is he would meet with them, these other veterans, and he would take them out to the range. They would just have range days, you know, just kind of blow off some steam and bond. And, you know, that's what brothers do. But this one gentleman, and I can't remember his name with PTSD, it was severe. It was bad. And he killed Chris Kyle when they, you know,

on one of these, one of these events that they went on. You never know. You never know what's going on. and that's why it's so important. I think one of the things that could possibly help, it's not, sometimes background checks ain't going to, ain't going to show you that you're dealing with somebody with a mental illness. But people close to these people that have mental illness with no, no criminal background,

there should be a hotline available to them. I mean, it should be a very popular hotline, as popular as 911, that you can call when you know that somebody has a mental, health issue or you know so at least when people i'm not saying that that they can't buy firearms but something that could be at least be accessed by people who sell firearms perhaps i'm just throwing wild ideas this is very first time i thought so so if you're selling firearms you know it's because

there's there's a waiting period when you buy go to buy a firearm in most states uh for the background check and so and so let's say that that a guns guns and ammo place that selling a firearm to John Doe, who has a mental illness, but has no criminal history, can call this line and type in some information and can hear voicemails or can read chats or some kind of, you know, whatever that have been left behind by somebody that's concerned, maybe a relative or a friend, right? Now, this person was talking about if he had a gun, this is what he's going to do or his days have been really dark lately.

I'm really concerned about him, right? You don't need a reason to deny a person of firearms. I wouldn't think. I'm not, you know, I don't have a, you know, a license to self-arms, so I don't really know. But I would think it'd kind of be like that, that if you want to deny someone's service, you just deny them service.

Because if you have access to some kind of information like that, and you listen to that, or you read some kind of warnings, and then you choose to sell it anyway, then we have somebody to hold accountable besides a shooter, right? So, and that would be an incentive for people who are selling firearms to say, well, maybe I should reconsider before I sell this person at. And that's just a wild idea.

I don't know if that might be bad idea. What do you think? Well, you know, I think it might even be worthwhile for, because you, the, how do I see this? Okay. So background checks are one way for to take the liability off of these gun vendors, these firearm. But when you think about it, like I could go to Cabela's and fill out the forms and pick up a pistol or a rifle or whatever right off the right over the counter, depending on where I live. That said, the person behind the counter knows nothing about me.

You know, they might have received my information and faxed off to the FBI and got their information back. But the reality is they don't know who I am. And I think it might be useful for those people to be able to read cues, to be able to be like, hey, look, you have a Second Amendment right. You can own a firearm as much as you want, but I'm not going to sell you this firearm. is I don't, I personally don't want the liability of selling you this firearm and watching you do harm with it. And I think some of these shops might need to really work with their employees and be like, look, the bottom line here isn't just the amount of money that you're making from selling a firearm. Right. Because it could very well mean that you're selling a firearm to someone who's planning to do harm with it.

And, you know, there could be something about that that is not like, you know, a red flag law or anything like that. Sometimes you just know. You can get that feeling in your gut. And if you're, if you are not empowered as an employee to deny the sale of a firearm to someone because you feel that they could do harm with it, then you're forced to sell that personal firearm, regardless of your gut instinct. because the company wants to make sure that they're not missing out on that sale. And I think there might be a disconnecter. At some point, you have to be able to step up as an individual and say,

I'm not taking responsibility for what you do with this firearm. Yeah. And we're not saying that that person that sells it to them, you know, needs to go to jail if he ends up killing somebody. We're saying he needs to be questioned, right? Because you've got to make it an inconvenience for people who are selling these things to people who end up being shooters.

So if they will be more, more apt to actually look into the person or selling to, instead of just while they said, here you go. Because in some states, that's why there's a second amendment. And because there's a second amendment, the second amendment is very, very clear. It's very clear. But that means that all persons, you know, in the United States get to have firearms. But we have all these different states that regulate it because the second amendment is so simple. states say well you know it doesn't see it says it says that they can have a firearm it doesn't say that we

can't uh i don't know do it in a background check for example right and then you know because we have not sold for many years uh firearms to to inmates or parolees you right so it would be it'd be a situation like that where they could just tap into some extra resource and say i something's off about this guy, you know, you know, there's some posts about him or there's, you know, whatever the case may be. They don't have to sell. It's kind of like in Illinois, you know, if somebody wants somebody trespassed off their property, they don't have to give them a reason.

I'm talking about a business now. I get, as a police officer, get calls all the time. He was acting very weird. He did this. He did that. We would like him trespass from the property. I don't have to tell that customer why they're being trespassed. In fact, they don't even have to give a reason why.

being trespassed because it's private property. If somebody comes on your land and you don't want them there, you don't have to give them a reason why they can't be there. Well, it's because I don't like your DRI color. You know what I'm saying? You don't have to give them a reason. You just say, this is my property. You're not welcome here.

And that's how it's the businesses. And that's how it should be with a firearm salesperson's business. If you're selling a firearm and this guy just seems a little shady or something comes back in his background checked, that isn't quite right, or this extra resource idea that I've, I just threw out while going on a wheel, on a whim, you know, I can turn, this is just a, what, a $200, or a $500 rifle, you know, it's not worth my, it's not worth being questioned over. It's not worth the hassle that might come with this in case this guy goes out and shoot somebody. Yeah, it's like, I mean, I think it would make sense because that, you got to think about it, this, this firearms dealer, who's on video, has this kid on video, purchasing a,

firearm you got to think if you're that guy that was standing at the register at that at that moment selling this firearm to this person you don't even know you have no idea who they are and then you go home wake up to find out a couple days later that that kid that you sold that firearm to killed a couple of other kids and you could have been the point where that that stopped i mean how do you sleep at night like how do you how do you how do you not make that internal as a person. You can't tell me this guy didn't have no friends or family that didn't

that knew he was mentally and had all this stuff. Yeah. I mean, it's just but yeah, I mean I think there's more to it. There is there is something missing. There's a piece that is missing that I think would be nice if it were in place to

where we can still have the Second Amendment rights. People can own and use firearms but under the condition that it is used in a respectful manner for self-defense and or hunting or whatever. But there has to be something. And it's weird because it's something. Do you remember?

I think the movie was Judge Dredd back in the 90s. Salone. So that's their Salon. I think they were like they were able to identify crimes or criminal behavior in people before it happened kind of thing. No, that was what you're thinking of. Tom, a Tom Cruise movie, where they prosecuted people in advance? Yeah.

Was that, no, was that a vanilla sky? Nope. No. Juddred or vanilla sky. Nope. Anyways, that's kind of where I think we're heading. If we're not careful, then what's going to happen is we're going to start seeing technology stepping in to do what we as humans are already capable of doing with our own instinct.

And I have a feeling that if we don't put those. if we don't exercise our own ability to trust our gut instincts when it comes to these things, then we are going to succumb to whatever AI kicks out. And I think that's a dame. I mean, we're kind of going off on a tangent here. But that's kind of, I think, where I see this going. This guy, he was so mentally ill. Let me see here.

Some of the things he, because he wrote, he got like a white paint marker. And he put, and I don't know what some of this stuff is. he put such his life um burn he was like like i said crazy i can't read some of this stuff some of that's i think is language that only he understands had to be deciphered actually by by any i destroy hyas whatever hyas is brinton forever not sure what that means um israel must fall uh typical left us here uh like a phoenix we rise from the ashes and that was he oh my goodness this looks like if this is actually if this is actually accurate. It looks like an M9 barrel, a grenade launcher underneath. And I've known to discard. This is a clip I took from the video. It's not. It's a pump shotgun. My bad. Yeah, he put like a Phoenix vise from the ashes on, on the front end of, I think it was a clock. The slide tube that the that the slide forwards moves forward on and it slides on it comes back. He put like a drew like a little smiley face on it.

on one of his magazines he put get clapped whatever that means i don't know where is your god um he wrote suck on this on another uh magazine i mean just bizarre uh antichrist things he did because he had he zoomed in on he had like a human silhouette target pinned to his wall and on the head of the target he had like a like a picture of crucified christ just the head and shoulders portrait of Christ like taped onto that

the head of the silhouette like it was a target that's how demonic he is yeah there's some stuff going on oh yeah I mean I the weird thing is like okay I was into

9 inch nails Marilyn Manson corn I mean all these people in the early 90s and that was their message Antich superstar was one of the number one rock hits, then problem was the number one.

But it was one of the number one albums, I think, for a short period in certain genres. I mean, I listened to this stuff. It wasn't like it changed my life. It wasn't like it was a big deal. There is a message there,

and there's definitely some innuendos, but that doesn't, like it was on me to be able to decipher that. And I think if you are just assuming that these things, are the way it is. That's the path you travel down.

You know, it's kind of like what, where's your own level of interpretation there or self-control or problem solving? It just doesn't exist. You just automatically believe everything on the radio or what music is playing, and that's the way you need to act. It's just so weird to me. I think and I think that's a lot of it because you let's let's be honest here a lot of what these people they don't do a lot of their own homework and so they're the news they get the only source of

news is is the algorithm that there is feed to that fed to them off of say TikTok for example exactly all right so what we get then is is we have individuals listening to stuff and I just want here let me play a couple um sound bites I got three sound bites want to play because this is some of this stuff this is what the left is feeding out of legacy media and this was just as an example you know this has nothing to do with shooting but it goes to show as an example what the left does when it controls the narrative because the left will say something will feed a certain narrative to legacy media and they run with it so here is a collage an audio collage if you will of the left talking about the word of the day ambush listen to this garbage

In the Oval Office today, the tense confrontation, President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa. Next, another Oval Office meltdown, President Trump, ambushing the President of South Africa. President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a diplomatic ambush of South Africa's president in the Oval Office. To be with you, I'm Katie, Sir. President Trump orchestrated another Oval Office ambush today. Today, Donald Trump, meeting with the President of South Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate that leader. Zelensky territory, where essentially he was a bit ambushed inside the Oval Office. It felt like an ambush in there, kind of like the President Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office. This was an ambush. It was orchestrated.

Daryl Ruma Posa brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush. What started as, to some degree, an ambush. Well, Katie, I mean, it wasn't ambushed. Ambush. Ambush. Ambush. Ambished. Ambush. Ambush. Ambush. Ambushed ambushed. Ambush. Ambushed ambushed. Ambush. Ambished. Ambush. Ambush. Ambush. Ambush and ambushed inside the Oval Office. Okay, and that's just ambush. What about, what about this one? Dangerous to democracy.

The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming. Some media have published. We are true without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

And the very last one, let's not forget about the Russian hoax, which has been debunked a thousand times over. Russia hacking the election to elect Trump, But is the end of our democracy. Votes were definitely affected. I know, but you're not. Russia hacked the election to tilt it to Mr. Trump. The Russians definitively hacked the election.

Russia did hack the election. No doubt. The Russians hacked the election. Yes, Russia hacked the election. In fact, Russia hacked the election. President elect Donald Trump still not sounding convinced that Russia hacked the election. The president does not want to come to terms with the fact that the Russians hacked the election. President Trump says he still wonders if, if the Russians had the election.

The Russians hacked the election. If you can get him to accept that Russia hacked the election, see if you can get him to accept who won the civil war. If he admits it, it casts a shadow on his victory over Hillary Clinton. Russia hacked the election. Russia hacked the election. Russia hacked the election. Russia hacked the election. Let's be clear, Russia hacked the election.

Definitively, Russia hacked the election and Russia is doing it again now. Election-related cyber hacking. Cyber hacking of U.S. elections. cyber hacking of the election Russia was cyber hacking the election Russia was cyber hacking That's enough I only pay 75% of that

But you get the point Ryan I'm trying to say If you're being constantly spoon-fed This Kool-Aid Why would you not be pissed at the world And want to do something about it? Yeah, exactly And like you said, it's that algorithm

If I sit and scroll Twitter And I stop at some sort of random I don't know If I stop and look at an image or a video or something that is maybe negative. Maybe it's a street fight or something. And I'm just kind of curious

what's going on with this. Then all of a sudden, I keep scrolling and scrolling and there's another street fight. I keep scrolling and scrolling. There's another one. There is an algorithm that is basically going to feed you what you are interested in. And it's, I mean, that's just on Twitter alone.

That doesn't include TikTok, Facebook. What's the other one? Instagram, all these other ones, Snapchat. chat and as a person when you gravitate towards something having that thing

gravitate back toward you in such a rapid manner it's not natural I don't know if you've ever heard of the law of attraction or if you've looked at any of that kind of stuff but it's basically that principle and if you

are getting dopamine by watching something negative a fight or a shooting or this or that or you know somebody with purple hairs crying in their car or whatever it might be you're going to see more of that and you're going to get fed more of that because of social media if you sell it you're going to reap it and vice versa exactly and if you I mean it to me I have to shut it off I've got to know like

wow this is this is getting dark I need to go somewhere else or go so I limit my time looking at stuff because I'm like out of 10 20 minutes of looking at social media, I might find one good thing about gardening or some mechanical component that's like, yes, that's what I want to see. And then I don't see very much of that. The positive stuff is definitely outweighed by the negative. The weird airplane scenarios where people are yelling at each other, you know, screaming, that thing isn't real, you know, the back of the plane and, you know, this weird baseball event in Philly, whatever that's going on with that. You know, It's just like this negative stuff gets fed to us far more than the positive things.

And I think that it's because of that dopamine, that reaction, we get to it. If you start looking for that, you will wind up receiving that significantly more and it'll get darker and deeper as you go. If you can't pull yourself out of that, then you're going to wind up getting, you're going to be subject to that. And maybe that could be a biblical thing, that could be, you know, something that that religion or Christianity or whatever pulls you out of it, family, friends, whatever. But if you don't have enough self-control to be able to step aside, then you will get bombarded with the level of negativity because especially if you just stop on one thing and happen to watch it. And I didn't realize it was happening as much. But now that I know that it happens, as soon as I start to see that happen, I just shut it down. Same thing goes with sexual images.

You see some girl in a bikini and you stop for a second to look at it. And then you scroll up and there's, oh, there's another one. I mean, it's not like it's intermingled that you're being fed this information and it is happening in the form of an algorithm. Yeah. It's designed to get you involved in keeping. you entertain on that platform. So, yeah, I mean, it's, and if these people are tapping into something that is triggering them to be able to go to that point, then, you know, there's got to be a way out of it.

There's got to be some level of shutdown to where it's like, no, there is. You spent too much time at this, you know, interject with something else. There's a way to adjust the, the algorithm, because what it does is, is it records, it records monitors and stores, however you want to look at this, how many times you've watched the video, how long you let it play, the comments you've made to it, if you've hearted it, there's these kind of things that go into it, and so it feeds you. And so if you, I one time got stuck, my algorithm got stuck on this. And I, this is how I learned how to deal with this. I was, I saw a flat earth post one time. Oh, yeah. On a TikTok, and there's, there's like an entire movement

out there. Anyway, so somebody posted on the, made a flat earth, something rather. And I posted on it. And I'm like, well, you know, whatever. I can't remember. But because I posted on that, I saw another video and then another video and then another video. And what I had to start doing was blocking these.

So when it's fed, I would block it or not interested. And I would do that until it stopped feeding me these flat earth videos because it was dominating my feed. And I don't believe in. at earth and I don't want nothing to. It's like these people are crazy. And so stop feeding me this garbage. I don't want anything to do with this. And that's what I had to do. And so that's how you would address any other. The algorithm is exactly the same. Block it. Scroll past it real fast. Don't spend time on it. Don't comment on it. Don't heart it. Don't replay it. Don't rewatch

it. You know, because it will save it. It's oh, he likes this and keep feeding him more. And I mean, I don't know what the magic recipe is that they're kicking out to these kids to show them what they need to see when they need to see it and be able to put them in an environment where, you know, they're able to go out and start shooting up schools and churches and whatever else. I mean, what's the name of that weird government project where they like... Yeah, Ultra. Yeah. I mean, it's almost to that level where it's like... Like you're being brainwashed, but not like TV, like we were told. Yeah, Candace Owens is big time into that.

She believes deeply, and I do too. I believe that M.K. Ultra. But to her, she's coming out with lately with everything's MK. Ultra. And I don't know what is or what's not. So I just don't talk a lot about it. Well, we're of the generation, even time, you know, years apart where we, we had a different perception of reality. You know, it was very different.

to where you could basically say, no, I don't believe this, and I want to look into it a little bit more. Now, you can't even hardly determine the difference between reality and figs sometimes. And it's getting increasingly difficult to be able to differentiate between that, not only to if you had even the ability to question that. And I think the ability to question reality anymore is something that is going to be really the life-saving component of the human race. whether or not this is even real yeah people got to learn people have to learn to to think for themselves because that's what i'm going to be doomed if if somebody out there with with a lot of money is controlling what is fed to you and you believe what is fed to you just because they're

the one spoon feeding you then you're you're not a free thinker you're actually a slave and people think that slavery is gone i'm here to tell you it's not it's just it's just transformed it's transubstantiated, it will be my word of the day, it's changed into something different. And it's gone from physical chains of slavery to mental chains of slavery. And there's a whole half of America are slaves and they don't even know it. Yeah. I mean, we've got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to that, you know, mental health and just you even like you say, that slavery side of things.

I mean, it's people, people aren't aware of. And people can't seem to differentiate between reality and what's not real. And that's a dangerous place to be. Minority Report was the name of that movie by Tony. Minority Report. I had to say that before we go on to this break real quick. I just want to run this break real quick. I hear from our friends.

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i think i heard that how racist is that yes he's the first main street yes he's the first main African American that is articulate and bright and clean. Yes. Oh my goodness. Okay. Who said this? And this was spoken to a large, mostly black audience. If my opponent wins,

they're going to put y'all back in chains. That was Biden. That was Biden. Yes. Okay, we're setting up a pattern. We got two. I'm sure it wasn't true. I'm sure it wasn't true. I'm encouraging everybody to think for themselves in Google, I say, don't believe it, don't drink the Kool-A, just because I'm serving it up to you. Go and do your own homework and see for yourself. Okay, who said this?

Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. That's definitely a Joe Biden quote. I remember that one. That was Joe Biden. He said, poor kids are just as broad and just as talented as white kids. Zero hair time. Oh, my God. zero air time. You're absolutely right. They're like, oh, no, no, no, we're going to cut this out. We cannot air this. Legacy Media will not air things like that. That's why the left doesn't hear things. And I see things like this all the time on like, basically, basically you get people like,

I'm not going to say no names because I'm just going to brain farting. But there are people who go out, Charlie Kirk used to do this before he got really big. But he would, you know, people would go out onto the beach and just walk up and down the beach. They would have these racist little remarks. they would ask random college kids who said this of course it's always the conservative they're accusing of and they're surprised and shocked when they find out that it wasn't it was the actual

the liberal candidate that said it who said this if you don't vote for me then you ain't black oh that's definitely Joe Biden that was Joe Biden I remember that first what was it that was that 2016

it was whatever he yes that was whenever he was running against Trump and I'm trying to remember what he He was on a, it was a black rapper who turned podcaster, and I can't remember the guy's name, so I'm going to try. But that's who he said it to. Okay, here's the next one. I got two more, this one, and then one after.

You can't go to a 7-Eleven or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Oh, shit. That one, I don't know. I want to say Joe Biden. It was. That sounds like something he would say. Yep, you can't go to a 7-Eleven or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. How racist is that?

oh my goodness now this was this was back several years ago so this is probably going to be a given and this is referring to inner sitting busing for anybody I don't know

what intercity busing I'm sorry inner city busing is it's bringing black kids to mostly white schools okay unless we do something about this my children are going to grow up

in a jungle the jungle being a racial jungle that's also Joe Biden that is also Joe Biden in the 90s I think that was some time ago actually yes so so all those racial comments there was by Joe Biden the one who everybody represented oh yeah still alone to the day oh my goodness fun times man all right that was a good episode I had fun on that man you're sorry I kind of go off on rant sometimes no no no Don't ever apologize for going off on race. I'm triggered.

You what? I'm triggered. That's okay. I actually like talking about those things. So, you know, those are good topics. And at some point in the future, I definitely want to, yeah, we need to talk more about the Second Amendment. And also there's, we, I would like to spend more time talking about, about artificial

intelligence and the one world system that's coming, economically speaking. And it's all tied together with the Mark of the Beast and stuff. So, and I remember you saying that it would be an interesting rabbit hole to go down on a show. Yeah. And I've learned some interesting things with regard to stocks and registering your stocks and things of that nature. The whole fallout from the, what is that, game stock, stock explosion slash implosion back here a couple years ago. That has been kind of an eye opener to me. and I think when people realize that they don't actually own the stocks that they might have

because you're getting close to retirement. I know I'm building up for it myself, but, you know, if it's not on paper, it's vapor, so they, so to speak, you know. Oh, that's a good one. I'm going to use that. Not on paper. It's vapor. Yep. So, I mean, I think as things get tighter and tighter are financial stability and making sure that you have tangible assets in hand,

that's it's going to be even more valuable in the next decade for sure okay yep all right man let's do it let's tie this episode up uh i want to thank everybody i'm l douglas hogan i'm ryan thanks for joining us everybody have a great week america's at a crossroads every day our freedoms are tested and our values are challenged our future is being written on the rising republic we cut through the noise and talk about what really matters, faith, liberty, survival, and standing firm against the tides

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