The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Strangest Exile of Frank Castle

Episode Date: May 12, 2026

Tonight The Punisher One Last Kill is out and I cannot wait. I thought it'd be a great time to do a full breakdown of my short history paying attention to Frank Castle both in the comic world and in o...ur strange society. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/prepper-broadcasting-network--3295097/support.BECOME A SUPPORTER FOR AD FREE PODCASTS, EARLY ACCESS & TONS OF MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT!Red Beacon Ready OUR PREPAREDNESS SHOPThe Prepper's Medical Handbook Build Your Medical Cache – Welcome PBN FamilySupport PBN with a Donation Join the Prepper Broadcasting Network for expert insights on #Survival, #Prepping, #SelfReliance, #OffGridLiving, #Homesteading, #Homestead building, #SelfSufficiency, #Permaculture, #OffGrid solutions, and #SHTF preparedness. With diverse hosts and shows, get practical tips to thrive independently – subscribe now!Newsletter – Welcome PBN FamilyGet Your Free Copy of 50 MUST READ BOOKS TO SURVIVE DOOMSDAY

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Starting point is 00:00:12 Welcome in folks. May 12th, 2026. The Punisher One Last Kill will air tonight, and I'm looking forward to it. I thought we should do a show. Maybe we could call it a Red Beacon Media special production, but we should do a show about the strangest exile of Frank Castle. I've spoke about him in the past, but what has happened to his character over the last? two decades or so really deserves a talking to, right? A talking about. Because it is bananas to have seen a guy a fictitious character
Starting point is 00:00:56 in the midst of so many wild and crazy characters and anti-heroes and so on and so forth to see what this character means what he is, what he is, what he is, become over the years, it really deserves the time. And now is the time because in, you know,
Starting point is 00:01:19 in about 10 weeks, we're going to watch The Punisher played by Frank Berndt, or by John Bernthal, go from a rated art character to a rated PG-13 character showing up in Spider-Man's new movie, which to me might be the biggest change in like digestability. for the average person when it comes to the Punisher. I'm not in the game for long-term success for the Punisher or anything like that. In fact, to start this whole thing, I probably should mention that I never really cared for him. Having grown up reading comics and watching X-Men and Spider-Man animated series and, you know, collecting Marvel cards and video games and board games,
Starting point is 00:02:09 he was about the last on the list right frank castle vietnam veteran normal guy with a cool shirt who used guns was about the last thing i cared about in the marvel universe you know what i mean i wanted adamantium laced bones and healing factors and razor claws and laser eyes and you know, the kind of things that were uncanny. Not a guy who was, you know, strategically sound and militarily trained with an arsenal of firearms. Just didn't really move the needle for me growing up. And in fact, it was never really a thing at all. Probably and not until, well, not until he showed up with his own series on Netflix.
Starting point is 00:03:07 And I can't even remember the catalyst for watching that series. I did watch the initial series of Daredevil. I remember Daredevil dropping on Netflix. And I remember watching the initial episode and the background story of his father being a boxer. And I was really into it. First couple episodes. But it came out around the time that my wife was either pregnant or about to have our second son. it was somewhere around there.
Starting point is 00:03:39 Time wasn't, you know, it wasn't like, oh, yeah, let's just sit down and watch movies and TV all the time. And I remember the kind of fading out of the Daredevil series. And soon after the Punisher series dropped, and there was something about it. You know, I think a lot of it had to do with, frankly, with the exile, frankly, with the attack on the Armolite. semi-automatic rifle, right? You know it as the AR-15 and probably call everything that looks like it in AR-15. But really the black rifle, the scary black semi-automatic rifle, the things that were happening to the semi-automatic black rifle in that time, which were really bleeding into
Starting point is 00:04:29 the Second Amendment and a governmental desire to disarm the public, which, you know, exists to some degree. I don't care what you say. It is something that exists in the government at many levels. I believe personally that it has as much to do with disarming you for control as it does for disarming you for the sake of criminality and chaos in the streets. Because what's better for a class of criminal than a class of working, a working class people who are completely disarmed, right? So these things were under fire. Lawlessness was maybe not necessarily taking grip, but because of social media and everybody having a smartphone with a camera, it seemed as though lawlessness was taking grip across the country. We were far from 2020 and the riots that would come. But all of this along with just facing up to the fact that everything that you have worked for up into that point, being a father of two at this point in my life, can be taken away in a halo gunfire at, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:38 seemingly at random or, you know, in the blink of an eye, which is fundamentally the story of Frank Castle, right? He weathers the Vietnamese jungles and seems to do more than a better than a good job, right, returns home to have his family gun down, which creates this, you know, deep depression and then transformation into the vigilante known as the Punisher. But what he really represented to me when that series started, that Netflix series started starring John Bernthal, was the Punisher had become a societal metric, right? Frank Castle had become a societal metric to me. And I could look at his character and see all the things that were going on in our society. They were very clear to me.
Starting point is 00:06:42 It was censorship. It was Second Amendment. It was criminality. It was innocence. All of these things were in conversation. And somehow this one character had gotten roped into all of it. His symbol was worn by men fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. His symbol was worn by our most successful sniper.
Starting point is 00:07:09 of all time. And there was a certain amount of people who hated that. His symbol was showing up on the weapons and uniforms of police officers. And this was something that despite, you know, what a cop has to deal with and has to do every day, the idea that he can't throw a patch or etch something onto his firearm to motivate him a little bit in what is truly the hardest job, I think, that exists. It's hard for me to figure out a job that really stands taller than police, policing Americans in particular in this modern age. Like, what's a more challenging undertaking this day and age, right? But this symbol was showing up in military, in police, and there was a growing, like, hatred towards those elements in our society. Meanwhile, active shooter, real true active shooter incidences were taking place, not made up ones where they have a, you know, a downtown Chicago gang war break off and call it a mass shooting.
Starting point is 00:08:27 But real, real detrimental Sandy Hook, you know, nightmares where young kids are being gunned down by lunatic. shooters. And they were carrying, you know, AR-15s, black rifles, semi-automatic rifles with, you know, large magazines, which were the weapon of choice for the Punisher. Somehow all of this got thrown in to a blender, you know, returning war veteran, anti-government, white nationalist, white supremacist, anti-government, you know, right-wing terrorist mentality that kind of fits Frank Castle in some sense and not really in others, right? Frank really does just seem to be a guy who was put on the earth to murder criminals and he gets to decide who is a criminal and who isn't. And the judges and the police and so on and so forth be damned. But all of these characteristics were put into a blender.
Starting point is 00:09:35 And in that moment in society, in that span of, I don't know, two decades or something like that now it's been. I mean, Frank is hardly removed from his exile, and we'll talk about that. But all of that was put into a blender, and this made-up fictionalized character was largely demonized. I mean, you can look at it. He was so punished. The Punisher was so punished for being the Punisher. that he went through a comic book arc where they took his guns away because we were so petrified of guns.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Like the mere mention of a character who used guns would generate gun violence in a country that was already racked with gun violence, predominantly in places where guns were illegal to begin with. Or gun, you know, you know the deal. The Chicago's, the Baltimore's, right, the Phillies, the New York cities. So it was really incredible to sit back and be, you know, creating content for the Prepper Broadcasting Network and talking about the defense of the Second Amendment and the importance they are in and watch this character from afar who I never really cared about growing up. And now all of a sudden I'm starting to watch and go like, why do they hate this made up character so much? And over the years I watched legitimate criminals like Walter White from the Breaking Bad,
Starting point is 00:11:07 Tommy Shelby from Peakey Blinders, Dexter, right? The characters from the boys become idolized and massive successes on television screen. People that, you know, young men even would model themselves after to some degree. And I couldn't help but think watching all of those shows kind of come up and take off and get popular and get, you know, rise to the next level of notoriety and think to myself like, these guys are all criminals. And Frank Castle would probably kill them all. He would at least try. And the only one he might struggle with is Dexter because of what his MO is. But there wasn't a thought. There wasn't a question. There was never a concern whatsoever. right these these shows were gobbled up in the way that Tommy Shelby talks talk like Tommy Shelby and get people's attention and all these kind of videos teaching young men how to be like absolute monsters I watched incredibly popular video games like Fortnite which my kids and I would be playing at this time you know what I mean together call of duty you know
Starting point is 00:12:28 a literal game about military, like the most military, militaristic first-person shooter there is. Do collaborations over the years with every character you could possibly imagine, you can play as Kim Kardashian and Fortnite, you can play as Nikki Minaj and Call of Duty. Neither of these IPs have yet to touch the exiled Frank Castle, both of which lean as heavily on using firearms in the video game as possible. Fortnite that An IP that I mean
Starting point is 00:13:06 John Wick Is John Wick not Frank Castle Who is John Wick if not Frank Castle In some iteration Some sense right I mean it's very close Right Of course there's distinctions
Starting point is 00:13:20 But How much different are we talking here And still to this day I mean it's a running joke in our household I talk to my kids And I say like, you know, did they put the Punisher in Fortnite yet? No, okay. They put the Punisher in Call of Duty yet?
Starting point is 00:13:39 No. They put Megan the Stallion in one of those games. But so what, you know, looking at that and watching that has always made me look at Frank Castle in the way that society perceives him as a real societal metric, right? Like, what do we think of this guy? and why do we think of this guy? And it's just, I mean, it has been fun and it has been chaos.
Starting point is 00:14:12 You know what I mean? One of the things I think people hate most about Frank Castle is that he is a warrior for innocence. He's a no-questions-asked warrior for innocence. And in an age where criminality has reached such height of power and such influence all over the world. I think it's important to understand that that, that, like it's good to have concern.
Starting point is 00:14:42 It's good to post, feel good posts online. It's good to be the arbiter and the one who can decide who are the innocent and who need protecting. What's real scary, I think, to our society is some military veteran with guns who decides that he will protect the innocent. and he will protect the innocent by eliminating the evil. And it'll be sort of a pretty straightforward, you know, I find them and I kill him, which is the basis of all Punisher books, right?
Starting point is 00:15:18 Comic books. I find him and I kill them because they're evil. Which, I mean, you could argue is the defense of innocence. Now, of course, we're going to talk about the quote-unquote castle doctrine. because it's important, right? It's important, but there's no doubt that this mentality is built out of a concern for innocence. Right? He lost the most innocent things in his world being his children.
Starting point is 00:15:56 You can't deny that. In the second season of the Daredevil series, Frank changed. daredevil up on a rooftop for a variety of reasons. But what ensues on that rooftop is a conversation that I think everyone needs to hear. It is such an important conversation in times like these. It has a little to do with this doctrine of protecting the innocent and really truly protecting them. And of course the great juxtaposition with Daredevil and Punisher is the idea that like one of them wants the system to work and the other one has given up on the system. This to me is one of the best things that Marvel has ever made. And I want you to listen to it slash wash it, watch it depending on where you're at.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Frank, that's your real name? You get off threatening innocent people. He's only in danger because you squealed because you get a gun on him, you thumb back the hammer. Well, that was for you. Part of the show. What does that mean? You really have to spell it out for you, Redd? I'm disappointed. Listen carefully, okay? You're listening? Yeah. How about now? You're listening?
Starting point is 00:17:34 You're not that guy, right? You want to explain that to the orphans and the widows of the men you kill the shit? That's what you think. I'm just some crazy asshole going around on loading on whoever I want. Yeah, that's exactly what I think. Do you think you're anything else? I think that the people I kill need killing. That's what I think.
Starting point is 00:17:55 You left men hanging from Nitos. It got off easy, my opinion. You shut up a hospital. Yeah, nobody got hurt or didn't deserve it. What about you, Frank? What happens the day someone decides you deserve it? I'll tell you what. They better not miss.
Starting point is 00:18:10 You run around this city like it's your damn shooting gallery. Yeah, what do you do? You act like it's a playground. You beat up the bullies with your fists. They throw them in jail. Everybody calls you a hero, right? And then a month, a week, a day later, they're back on the streets doing the same goddamn thing.
Starting point is 00:18:25 So you just put him in the morning. You got damn what I do. You ever doubt yourself, Frank? Not even for a second. Really? Really, you never think for one second. Shit, I just killed a human being. It's being pretty generous.
Starting point is 00:18:37 A human being who did a lot of stupid shit, maybe even evil, but had one small piece of goodness in him. Maybe just a scrap, Frank, but something. And then you come along and that one tiny flicker of light gets snuffed out forever. I think you're wrong. Which part? All of it.
Starting point is 00:18:56 I think there's no good in the field that I put down. That's what I think. And how do you know? I just look around, man. The city, it stinks. It's a sewer. It stinks and it smells like shit, and I can't get the stink out of my nose.
Starting point is 00:19:07 I think that this world, it needs men that are willing to make the hard call. That's what I think. I think you and me are the shit. Only I do the one thing that you can't. You hit them and they get back up. I hit them and they stay down. It's permanent.
Starting point is 00:19:19 I make sure that they don't make it out on the street again. I take that. pride in that. Let me ask you this. What about hope? Oh, fuck. Come on, Frank. And I live in the real world. Yeah, and I've seen it. What do you see? Redemption, Frank. It's real. And it's possible. The people you murdered deserve another chance. To kill again. Rape again is. No, Frank. To try again, Frank. To try. And if you don't get that, there's something broken in you, you can't fix. And you really are a nut job.
Starting point is 00:19:51 It is a, uh, it is a masterpiece. And I think it calls into question a lot of things in our society today. And if it doesn't call anything into question, then at least makes people think. Right? And at least makes people think it makes people discuss. And to me, that's critical, right? That's a critical part of where we're at right now as a society. Where we're at right now as a society is there's a yearning for stability. And there's a yearning for stability. And there's a yearn of for an end to the chaos. We've never seen, the average person has never seen criminality,
Starting point is 00:20:39 has never seen lawlessness, has never seen violence in the way that we see it today. Never before have you been able to access social media and see every city, every state, every terrible situation, every quote-unquote teen takeover, every,
Starting point is 00:20:57 the worst name ever for what's happening. we've never been exposed to it so much before. And we're all wondering the same thing. Is this going to get worse? Is it going to get better? The police doing their job? Do we need to send the National Guard? What do we need to do?
Starting point is 00:21:13 We need a society that can function. And you're seeing sort of this castle doctrine, if I hope you like the name, this Frank Castle doctrine sort of bubbling up. It's bubbling up. And the real trouble with it, of course, is that is that it's a lot of the same. It stands against one of the great miracles of human history, which is innocent until proven guilty. Right. The idea that we as a people believe that you are innocent until proven guilty is a miracle.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Okay? It's an absolute miracle. You can't look at history and go, oh, yeah, that's a natural progression. We'll get there. You know what I mean? 300 years before that, we were burning people at the stake. You know what I mean? It's not like we were on our way to being like, no, hold on.
Starting point is 00:22:10 Let's gather together a group of this person's peers and figure this thing out. But like so many things with what's happened to Frank Castle, it's a two-sided issue, right? It's not the lawlessness that we see. It's not just violence. It's not just people being violent or criminals doing crime. but it's structural corruption at the at the DA level at the judge level that has been brought to our attention thanks to social media right and we're all looking at that mess and going okay well it's one thing to have crime and criminals right it's one thing to have police combating the crime and criminals but it's a whole other ballgame it's a whole another ballgame it's a whole another fight entirely when you start to see, oh, we're letting people out 10, 15, 20, 30 times. And why I think Frank Castle is such an important character in a moment like this is not because I want to see vigilantism reign.
Starting point is 00:23:24 I've warned about vigilantism for 10 years because I saw this stuff happening, right? People who are doing terrible things and not answering for it. at all the way from the outhouse to the state house, if you will. But what's so important about a guy like Frank Castle is he brings a conversation to the forefront that we need to be having. We need to be having this conversation. We need to be having the conversation about innocent until proven guilty, about things like the death penalty, about things like,
Starting point is 00:24:05 how many times do you let a guy out? And about vigilantism and about a desire, an overwhelming desire that exists in everyone to be like, man, I could solve this problem. You know what I mean? There's a lot of people out there. No one's going to... Very few.
Starting point is 00:24:31 Very few is even the wrong way to say it. but almost no one will act on this mentality. As long as things don't get too terribly worse. But very few people will ever act on the idea that, yeah, I could do this better than the court system's doing it. Right? I could take the castle doctrine and run with it. Almost no one is going to subscribe to that. But what's really important is that it exists and that you talk about it.
Starting point is 00:24:59 And the best place to talk about is in the fantasy land of comic book, TV, and movies. where you can say, wow, look how this plays out. This is crazy, right? I can see the sort of the good and the bad of this situation. And to have somebody rub up against Frank Castle like Daredevil is, it's so important, man, you know, because you get to see both sides of the argument. And a lot of times, you know, in that show, the Daredevil's argument really is found wanting. Truly. But that's the thing. You know what I mean? The thing is, It's not whether or not, because every situation is different. So it's not even about, like, is the Punisher right? Is the Daredevil right? It's just that when that conversation ends, when you're not allowed to have it because the Punisher is persona non grata, because he has been exile. His methods are unacceptable.
Starting point is 00:25:57 When you're unable to have the conversation because of that, in the void, in the vacuum of that conversation is where chaos sparks, right? It's where Luigi Mangione pops his head up and goes, oh, I think I can have an effect here. You know what I mean? It is the strangest. The exile of Frank Castle is very much the strangest. And it is hard, you know, it's hardly over. I think it's headed in the right direction, and I'm glad. The question I keep asking myself is, why now? Why now the resurgence? Is it because the woke, the woke tirade is over. As the woke tirade come to, and I remember the,
Starting point is 00:26:53 the Punisher was stripped of his guns and became a ninja. You know what I mean? Like, it was the saddest of sad. I think they even, at one point, I didn't read it because I would not read it, but I think at one point they even gave him some superpowers, which defeats the whole purpose of this guy. but it's so you know
Starting point is 00:27:17 we're going to watch one more clip from Daredevil Born Again's season one which was another epic look at the whole mentality the whole mentality between and the whole
Starting point is 00:27:38 battle between the dare devils but not just the daredevil but the daredevil and our society's way of handling bad guys and the punishers. And again, you'll be treated to just, you know, something epic, but also you'll be treated to the importance of the conversation and the importance of a character like Frank Castle who's decided to take matters into his own hands.
Starting point is 00:28:07 In this scene, Matt Murdoch, the daredevil, finds Frank Castle. He finds a shell casing with the Punisher Loat. go etched into it. And he wants to talk to Frank Castle about it. But there's also something else he wants to talk to Frank Castle about. And Frank is keen to it immediately. He's immediately keen to what the daredevil's actually there for. In the beginning of this season, he suffers an incredible loss. Basically, his best friend is murdered by a criminal, by a, by a like a super villainous criminal and how he's handling that how he's dealing with that tremendous loss and then another
Starting point is 00:29:02 loss to follow up actually pushes him down this dark hallway to talk to the only man you can talk to about these things and that is Frank Castle so let's uh let's watch nice place you got here appreciate that well here's a thought You know, you could use all this. It could be a service. Yeah, be a service, huh? Are you, uh, are you a service, Red? Did you serve?
Starting point is 00:29:47 He pranced around the city in a Halloween costume, beating the snout out of bad guys. Hey, thank you for your service. I mean, you could help people. You could save lives. Actually, I did that. I was downrange, Red. Look at what it got me. Oh, I apologize. I didn't realize you were a victim in all this. I used that pussy ass word my entire life.
Starting point is 00:30:09 You don't put it in my mouth. You understand that? So you tell me what's going on, buddy? What are you doing down here? Day after day, just hiding out. I ain't hiding from shit. You walked in that door. You goddamn right.
Starting point is 00:30:18 Great. How's that working? You want to go out there on the street. Have it. But I do not have time for your candy-ass hero shit. Is that clear? Yeah. Loud and clear.
Starting point is 00:30:29 Yeah? Sorry to waste your time. Yeah, I'll tell you what I think, right? Tell me. Tell me what you think. I don't think you came here for my help. See, I think you want my permission. You won't get your hands on somebody, huh? More hurt him.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Maybe a little bit scared. You're scared about what that means. It's an interesting take. I like it. But, yeah, no, sorry, buddy. Way off on that one. You're so full of shit, counselor. You're so full of shit.
Starting point is 00:31:07 You guilty. Excuse me? I guilt that shame. That's my home, Red. And I can see it on you. I can smell it on you. It's all over you. I'm gonna come back another day, Frank. Maybe catch you at a better time. You come at me with that horseshit about saving lives. How about that friend of yours? You saved his life. You lost him, didn't you, Red? It's not about him. It's not about him. It's not about him. It's not about him.
Starting point is 00:31:37 Oh, for Christ's sake. Say his name. Say his name, you coward. Say his name! It's not about him. You hate yourself. He's eating you up because you ain't done a goddamn thing about it. Let's go. God damn it. God damn it. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:31:58 I apologize. What you sorry for? First honest thing you did, Red. It's not about him. No. Talks to you, doesn't he? Hear his voice. You tell him I stop moving.
Starting point is 00:32:24 I still hear my little boy. I see him. And I hear his voice. He says, get him, daddy. A single one of them get him. That's why I do what I do. That's why I see him in you. That's why I seen at you, because you know you didn't do a goddamn thing.
Starting point is 00:32:48 And it's going to keep eating at you. It's going to keep eating and eating and eating. There's no getting away with that you understand. I ran him down. Oh, for Christ's sake. I did what I had to do. I let the system take care of the rest. Oh, you and your goddamn sick.
Starting point is 00:33:07 You and your goddamn system. Christ. So what now? Everyday bullseye goes to the chow hall eats his slop. You know he gets to breathe the same hair that you breathe. You feel good about that? He got life. How about old foggy?
Starting point is 00:33:32 He got life. How about old foggy? Did he get life? Foggy was daredevil's best friend if you don't know. And that, first of all, that's, I mean, the fact that that exists, that that scene was made between those two is just it's a gift and it's a reminder that like all this stuff that happens you read about murder you read about these things happening and you see people in you know people have been ripped away from them by monsters it's a proximity thing man it's it really is
Starting point is 00:34:19 like loss and the feeling of loss and the desire for vengeance and the desire for justice you can feel it when you see something unjust happening but you also realize it like it's distance from the from the situation you know it's it is really the culprit it is really what's made makes people go well like you know i hope you know hope he gets better for him you know what i mean if it were your kid it'd be a very different scenario if it were your best friend
Starting point is 00:34:50 if it were you right if that kind of a thing were to happen to you directly that's a different story so what else in there there's a lot in there, man. There's a lot in there. You see the breakdown of these two super heroic characters over the people they love and the people they lost.
Starting point is 00:35:13 And you see the very clear, like, belief in our justice system and the clear hatred for our justice system in the Punisher. And this is that discussion of the castle doctrine that I think is so important. And you watch a scene like that, and what's so amazing about these characters, is that I don't know about you, but in many ways, you feel like it's hard not to feel like the Punisher has the answer, right? It's hard not to feel that way, especially, like I said,
Starting point is 00:35:52 as close to the murder as you are, just in watching the show, right? In seeing those two for several seasons, paling around, Foggy Nelson, Matt Murdoch, and then all of a sudden he's ripped away in cold-blooded murder. And that is what makes Frank Castle so important. What makes his mentality so important, what makes his vigilantism and his murder rampage on the criminal so important is because keeping the light of justice alive, your right to a fair trial. Like, these things have to exist, man.
Starting point is 00:36:39 And they are fragile. And they are so fragile. And the more, we don't even need more corruption. We just need more access to the corruption. We need more understanding. Years ago, you would never know that a guy who murdered someone, and it probably would never happen, and that's part of the reason. But you never would have known in 1992 that a guy was,
Starting point is 00:37:03 let in and out of jail 15, 20 times. It would have been covered up. You never would have heard about it. You know, it would have been terrible enough what happened and throw the guy in jail again. And that would be the end of the story. But it doesn't take a whole lot of murderers with rap sheets as long as, you know, the Constitution of the United States
Starting point is 00:37:25 for people to start getting antsy, for people to start questioning what it means to be judged. in front of a jury of your peers and to be sentenced by a judge and to say like, is justice going to be served or not? Or is this guy going to be out on the street in three years and kill someone again? And how many people do you get to kill before you get killed before we take you off the game board altogether? So the last question I ask is, why is the Punisher get a show now?
Starting point is 00:38:05 Why is he wind up in Spider-Man of all characters? Now, he was created for Spider-Man. I mean, I don't know if you know that, but he is a villain from Spider-Man. That's where his first appearance was. That's where he came to be. But why now? Again, back to the Punisher as a societal metric. What does it mean for the strangest exile of Frank Castle that he is returning now tonight in a full-length feature?
Starting point is 00:38:36 I think it's 49 minutes long. and then in 10 weeks he'll be in probably one of the most popular Marvel movies of the year what does that mean is this the is this the the the the is this sort of the Hollywood issued thank you and goodbye to John Bernthal for taking this character and making him even more epic right or does it say something about society once again right no longer are the right wing conservative army veterans and the like the ones with the guns.
Starting point is 00:39:18 We know that. We've seen the trans shooters. We've seen the Luigi Mangions. We've just seen the Cole Allen's, the socialist gun club of America, right? What does it all mean? Or am I digging deep for something that doesn't require such thought?
Starting point is 00:39:38 I've been known to do it. But I wanted to do it. do the show today because there are things inside of us all that sometimes need to get out. And it is Punisher Day in my head. I have a Punisher hoodie on right now. I can't wait till 9 o'clock to watch John Bernthal do his thing tonight. I'm super excited, man. I've been thinking about it since I heard about it since they announced it May 12th and I'm just happy to be here. And I wanted to do this as the show today. I just want to I don't know. So many things. The societal metric, the great equalizer because he shows the, you know, the power of firearms,
Starting point is 00:40:17 which is not allowed. You know, Frank, the warrior for the innocent in a time where the most corrupt judges and DAs exist of our time, the Epstein age, right? I mean, the corruption and the evil. The people that a guy like Frank Castle would show up and take out are running rampant, right? And then of course, the most important, I mean, really, to me, the reason the Punisher is so intriguing is the Castle Doctrine and the question and the perpetual debate that exists in every society, which is at least every Western society, which is innocent until proven guilty. Is this the way we should operate? right innocent until proven guilty by a court of your peers
Starting point is 00:41:08 it's a wild concept it's a miracle it's a miraculous concept and you could I mean really the the innocent until proven guilty has not really been the problem
Starting point is 00:41:21 in our country it's not that people haven't been proven guilty it's they've been sentenced for a week at a time and let off and let off for insanity and back in and back out
Starting point is 00:41:28 and back in and back out and multiple juries are said no guilty So it's not even necessarily the people who are losing touch, but the DAs and the judges that let them out Larry's of Philadelphia, the Jay Joneses of Virginia, these guys, these guys have lost grip. And yeah, God only knows what they'll create in all of this. But I don't want to get too far afield.
Starting point is 00:42:00 Thank you for taking the time to listen to this. I hope you got something out of it, enjoyed it. It's just one of those side topics back burner topics that's been on my mind for probably almost 10 years to a real long breakdown of this character and his journey over the last 10, 20 years and how it relates to our society, you know. So I hope you enjoyed it. It's our first ever sort of Red Beacon media production. I don't know where it'll end up. The audio will end up on PBN for sure, the video, not sure. But I think we did good today, folks.
Starting point is 00:42:34 Thank you for your support and I'll talk to you guys soon.

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