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198 Homefront Under Siege - The Illusion of Safety in a Fractured Nation

• Keith Otworth & Rhonda Triggs • Season 7 • Episode 198

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That is a lot. That's a lot to absorb, especially if someone um is unfamiliar with ah breaking down an intel report, um you know, or how to...

00:11:38.09
Keith
which I am not.

00:11:40.07
Jeremy
Well, I mean, you got to think of it from a ah like a person who's just getting into this and they're trying to digest all of that. It's like, what does it mean? um And trying not to send yourself down a panic hole, you know, for lack of a better term.

00:11:53.85
Keith
yeah

00:11:56.44
Jeremy
um But there's been like... like an absolute waterfall of information coming out, you know, again, because everybody has a cell phone and everybody's a reporter and you're getting real live imagery and video from, from people that are over there currently, regardless of how badly, Iran is trying to shut people out, which they are, they are, they've turned off their internet and, um,

00:12:08.90
Keith
Right, exactly.

00:12:26.17
Jeremy
you know But they there are people out there that are still getting imagery and they're still getting pictures. ah And now it's to the point where the current regime, because of how they are, how they act, and what they've done to their people...

00:12:43.02
Jeremy
there are people there in Iran calling for the United States and Israel to go ahead and remove and kill off the current regime and bring back the regime or the you know the the the the leaders that were pushed out um by the caliphate and Ayatollah.

00:13:03.03
Jeremy
And they've been in hiding or you know exile for quite some time. And there are people calling for... um you know, patriots of Iran to rise up against what is is currently happening right now.

00:13:19.33
Jeremy
So there's a lot coming out of there, like a lot, a lot, almost too much.

00:13:23.07
Keith
yeah And you know what else is ah is a problem, a real problem? Because i now i I face this directly on. So we're, Rhonda and I, were're we just ate dinner. We're sitting down. We're relaxing. I think it was like 8.30, 9 o'clock.

00:13:35.70
Keith
And we turn the TV on. And she's going through her phone like she normally does. And she says me, hear that. ah i hear that ah China is going to go to attack the United States now. I'm like, well where did you hear that?

00:13:48.46
Keith
She's like, it was on Facebook. And she said, and there was another one where she said, um Iran is mobilizing or putting together all of these um these long range missiles that can hit the United States now. And they're saying it could happen sometime tonight. I'm like, what? She's like, Facebook. I'm like, no, you got to stop. so There's a lot of misinformation out there.

00:14:08.56
Keith
i don't think it's disinformation. i think it's just missing and misinformation. and yeah And everybody's hearing this. They're all reading this stuff, man.

00:14:15.86
Buddy
Yeah, everybody's attacking us with that misinformation right now.

00:14:15.88
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:14:18.82
Buddy
There's the ah Iranian ah and other state actors, their hacking groups and, and their misinformation, disinformation,

00:14:30.72
Buddy
ah troll, troll farms and stuff. They're hitting hard. I mean, they're putting out huge, ah false, like AI generated, you know, scenes of Israeli, Israeli planes and airports getting taken out.

00:14:42.50
Keith
Yeah.

00:14:46.71
Buddy
And it's just, it,

00:14:47.50
Keith
So you think that's it? That is a form of terrorism in itself, man, because freaks people out.

00:14:51.25
Buddy
Yes, yes.

00:14:51.29
Jeremy
It is. Yeah, it is. And also... you you really, let's just say you sit down and you're going through your phone and the phone, unfortunately, the phones are almost, I won't say the worst, but let's just say you're on Facebook and Facebook book versus Instagram, even though Instagram is owned and operated by Meta, who is the, you know, the the parent lizard lord of of Facebook.

00:15:18.14
Jeremy
um Instagram has got like, more real stuff versus Facebook, which is you know just absolute nonsensical BS.

00:15:30.85
Jeremy
And um there are multiple pages that I follow on um ah Instagram, and it's no kidding, like people sending back cell phone coverage from different war zones.

00:15:45.88
Jeremy
um I like to look at that stuff.

00:15:46.85
Keith
Like actual stuff.

00:15:48.31
Jeremy
Yeah, like real stuff, like just happened today kind of updates.

00:15:49.60
Keith
Wow.

00:15:54.39
Jeremy
And one of the things that they were talking about is he's sitting there and he's like, I pushed this out, and I can't remember the guy's name. He's like, I pushed this out. I pushed it to an actual um couple of different news sources, and then they took it, and then what was came was out if you weren't If you didn't know what you were looking at, it's a newsroom and it's these people in a newsroom and they're having this you know concerted conversation about what's going on over there, but it's AI.

00:16:24.24
Jeremy
but if you don't

00:16:24.62
Keith
That's crazy,

00:16:26.02
Jeremy
It's an actual newsroom and everything that you would expect from the five o'clock news, it was all AI.

00:16:27.93
Keith
man

00:16:32.13
Jeremy
And I'm looking at it and I was like, there's something not right about this. and these peoples Like these people are too perfect looking. What's going on here? And then if you dig a little bit deeper and you watch, you can tell it's AI.

00:16:44.42
Jeremy
And a I'm telling you, AI, God.

00:16:46.05
Keith
it's so It's so hard these days. Everything is just, yeah every so every single video I look at now on Facebook or whatever, I have to say to myself, is this AI?

00:16:51.81
Jeremy
Yes.

00:16:54.73
Keith
Is this real or not?

00:16:55.81
Jeremy
Yeah. I mean, i am 107% addicted to the Bigfoot and Yeti AI videos. Like the best thing to come out this month. But...

00:17:05.34
Buddy
Yeah, who who isn't?

00:17:06.71
Jeremy
Oh my gosh, man.

00:17:07.28
Keith
are you talking Are you talking about the guys with the 360 cameras and they look like Bigfoots and they're running through?

00:17:14.75
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:17:15.09
Keith
do Oh, dude, that's the greatest stuff ever.

00:17:15.34
Jeremy
ah Oh my gosh, dude. um I have been absolutely hooked on that. But um what that actually...

00:17:22.72
Keith
They got a winning formula is what they got.

00:17:24.93
Jeremy
Yeah. ah What that's actually been doing though is, is again, meta and you're feeding your um your your algorithm. And the more I watch and then I go and I want to go ahead and just watch you know regular or would look at whatever stuff on my phone, I realize that a lot of the stuff I'm seeing now ah exponentially has grown that is AI.

00:17:49.19
Jeremy
And it is, I mean, you're looking at one scene and it it's very convincing. It's a, it looks like the Iron Dome um or in a combat zone and it looks like they're shooting down airplanes. But then there's like this weird moment where you're like, um that's not real. like There's something wrong with that.

00:18:10.58
Jeremy
go to the comments and they're like, dude, this is from this game or this is ai and it was, it was generated out of this.

00:18:14.54
Keith
Yeah. Yeah.

00:18:15.75
Buddy
Yeah. They were using a Call of Duty. I don't know what the latest Call of Duty is, but ah first the first part of the Ukraine war, they were using footage from there, from the actual game.

00:18:23.22
Keith
It's really good looking. I'll tell you that much.

00:18:32.26
Jeremy
yeah

00:18:32.38
Buddy
And you know people are like, wait a minute. and they ah One guy who was a gamer, his name is Funker530 or something like that.

00:18:40.19
Jeremy
yeah He

00:18:41.24
Buddy
he He's a gamer, and he was like showing footage you know of the game and this you know footage that they put out.

00:18:48.68
Jeremy
yeah fun

00:18:48.86
Buddy
you know yeah e go No, he was just debunking it.

00:18:48.89
Keith
Oh, and saying that it's real that it's real military actions?

00:18:54.94
Jeremy
was debunking it.

00:18:56.07
Keith
Oh, he's debunking it.

00:18:56.17
Jeremy
yeah Yeah, that's Funker 350.

00:18:56.23
Buddy
Yeah.

00:18:57.15
Keith
Oh, okay.

00:18:58.98
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah, that's who it is.

00:19:00.38
Keith
Huh.

00:19:01.16
Buddy
530, 350. Wow. Yeah.

00:19:02.64
Jeremy
Yeah, something like that.

00:19:02.86
Buddy
wow

00:19:04.46
Jeremy
um But so going back to to the stuff that's coming out of there, I mean, and we've said this before, that whole region, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, all the stands, um the the entire Middle East, they've been doing this shit for thousands of years.

00:19:22.97
Jeremy
And it's their jam. That's their thing. But it wasn't always like that. You know, Afghanistan, before the the the Taliban moved in, was extremely westernized, very modern.

00:19:34.60
Jeremy
um Girls were allowed to run around wearing basically American-style skirts and dresses and doing all the things, and then the Taliban

00:19:41.40
Buddy
go to the university.

00:19:42.79
Jeremy
Yeah, and drive cars and talk without you know a man present. All this different stuff of normal human life that we think about it. But then before the tally, of course, they're the Taliban. They called him the tally. Before that, it was the Mujahideen and all these different names.

00:19:59.15
Jeremy
And then all of a sudden, the caliphate was brought back and extreme um Islamic rule was brought in. And now it definitely does not look like that.

00:20:09.44
Keith
So like the Ayatollahs in the seventy s basically is when that began, i think.

00:20:13.64
Jeremy
Well, yeah, the so the Ayatollah of Iran, when that regime came into power and it's extreme ah Islamic radicalism, and they're a terrorist state that sponsors multiple, multiple terrorist branches.

00:20:27.89
Jeremy
um

00:20:28.27
Keith
and And we are, we, the U S are enemy. Number one, we are the devil.

00:20:33.23
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

00:20:33.35
Keith
We're the demon and we should be totally and completely destroyed. So why wouldn't we want to, uh, to eliminate their, uh, ability to have nuclear weapons?

00:20:42.78
Jeremy
Right. And again, you know they always call us the West, basically Britain you know or England and the United States and any westernized country. They call us, i think it's the Great Satan or the Great Whore or whatever it is.

00:20:56.12
Jeremy
um But they they have been after a nuclear weapon for like forever. um And there is an online news channel referred to as Newsbacks and um this particular anchor, former Navy SEAL, been in combat quite a bit, got messed up medically.

00:21:16.87
Jeremy
And I was watching him and the way he put it is exactly how I feel about it. He's like, look, if we're going to do this, do it 100%. Don't half-ass it. Don't do a regime change. Dust that whole place right off the mat. you know Start over. put a A frigging Dollar General, a Halloween store, and a Walmart up.

00:21:36.27
Jeremy
Like totally destroy that place and then start over because therere you're not necessarily fighting a person. You're fighting an ideology. And if you are fighting an i ideology that's been around for thousands of years, unfortunately, you're never going to win.

00:21:54.08
Jeremy
yeah You are...

00:21:54.10
Keith
we with The human race cannot allow another group of humans to ah declare death on everybody. You can't.

00:22:02.29
Jeremy
No, you cannot.

00:22:03.01
Keith
it's not You just can't let that happen.

00:22:05.33
Jeremy
No. And there are not enough people, I believe, personally.

00:22:06.07
Buddy
well yeah the

00:22:09.04
Keith
Even if it's a religion, you cannot let that happen.

00:22:11.26
Jeremy
Yeah. I don't think that there's enough people in the world willing to accept that. I'll just use the motto of one of my old mild units. some Some folks just need killing.

00:22:21.65
Jeremy
And that is that is the honest of goodness. you The amount of evil crap that comes out of some of those countries. I mean...

00:22:30.14
Keith
We, ah we hear, you guys probably hear way more. We, the regular people in the, in the country, we hear little bits and pieces of really bad stuff, really, really bad stuff that comes out of that with that what they do, their citizens.

00:22:42.51
Jeremy
There's a couple of websites that you can actually go to and they it's pretty horrific to watch.

00:22:49.57
Keith
It'll disturb me too. I can't, it'll disturb me too much.

00:22:51.06
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:22:51.64
Buddy
Well, you can you can just go to England and and follow their news there. I mean, over half most of their major cities are are the mayors.

00:22:55.34
Jeremy
Oh my God.

00:22:59.68
Jeremy
Completely overrun. They're overrun.

00:23:01.15
Buddy
they're They're overran by Muslims and their mayors are Muslim and and there's Sharia law there, there's Sharia courts.

00:23:03.23
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

00:23:07.49
Jeremy
yeah

00:23:07.87
Buddy
The police are there and they have two sets of laws. If you're Muslim, you have one set of laws ah that, you know, basically you can...

00:23:19.86
Buddy
caught you can, ah you, you can, uh, and you know I'm sure we'll have some people, you know, attack us on this thing, but you, if you're a certain religion and you attack the other religion, then you're going to, I mean, you're going to go by their, their laws basically.

00:23:38.34
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:23:38.63
Buddy
But if you even talk negatively about the other religion from the other side, you know, you're going to court and getting the books on about you. I mean, you can put two and two together there and, uh,

00:23:46.63
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:23:49.09
Jeremy
and i i think i sent you guys a link and i've talked about it before what's going on ah going on and over in ireland um

00:23:56.78
Buddy
Same shit.

00:23:57.62
Jeremy
The people in Ireland had finally, they just, they got up and they were like, this, we're done with this. This is, this is the most ridiculous thing. And there are people going around and they're forcefully looting, rooting out these entire Muslim communities. And they're actually burning their houses and buildings down to the ground.

00:24:17.77
Jeremy
It that's for real.

00:24:18.43
Keith
that's for real.

00:24:19.87
Jeremy
The Ireland, the Ireland.

00:24:21.37
Keith
Cause I know Frank from Ireland.

00:24:21.49
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:24:23.22
Keith
He's, he's voiced his opinion a few times on what's going on over there. And he's at, they're just absolutely disgusted.

00:24:26.29
Jeremy
yeah Yeah. I mean, and, and it would be kind of neat to reach out to him and get some, some, some on the ground real lifeness. But from what I have seen, Ireland has lost complete control of the governance over that country and their, their country is in absolute chaos right now.

00:24:46.32
Buddy
Yeah, and I saw some stuff from Northern Ireland yesterday and it looked chaotic.

00:24:46.70
Jeremy
um

00:24:50.37
Buddy
I mean, you know, the the protests we're having in LA, pretty much the same shit.

00:24:51.11
Jeremy
Oh yeah.

00:24:55.23
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

00:24:56.39
Buddy
But it's it's it's the other side doing it this time, you know.

00:24:56.72
Jeremy
It,

00:24:59.78
Jeremy
Yeah. and I'll just put it to you this way. If the IRA is like, wait a minute, when did we lose control of being the cool bad guys? It's pretty bad over there.

00:25:10.40
Jeremy
If that's like, if that's what's going down, i mean, it's yeah, possibly.

00:25:14.09
Keith
Maybe they need to bring the IRA back and you know arm arm them.

00:25:17.31
Buddy
Oh, no, they they're still operating over there. They they are.

00:25:20.11
Jeremy
oh yeah. They, they never went away. But you know i can just see like um an IRA meeting and they're like, why are we not the bad guys anymore? like What's going on here? like

00:25:32.11
Buddy
Well, a lot of their biker gangs, and they have biker gangs like we have, they they do the same stuff over there. They're...

00:25:37.82
Jeremy
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they definitely do.

00:25:38.80
Buddy
therere

00:25:39.43
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:25:40.34
Buddy
They're really active now starting. I mean, it's an underground movement over there, but now that if you have any, uh, patriotism whatsoever, you're, you know, or Nash, you're nationalist, you're, you're considered ah Nazi.

00:25:53.95
Buddy
So,

00:25:54.27
Jeremy
yeah

00:25:54.35
Keith
But isn't isn't Northern Ireland, i know there's two Ireland, isn't Northern Ireland the is part of the United Kingdom?

00:26:02.27
Keith
It's one of them, right?

00:26:03.40
Jeremy
it

00:26:03.42
Keith
i don't I don't understand the politics there. I really don't. I'm an idiot.

00:26:07.34
Jeremy
i I don't know like how the split works. I know that Northern Ireland is much smaller compared to the main part of Ireland.

00:26:20.20
Jeremy
um and then Indianapolis,

00:26:21.08
Buddy
I think Northern Ireland got their freedom, if I... And I'll have to look it up, but...

00:26:25.08
Jeremy
Yeah, northern...

00:26:25.19
Keith
got the freedom from the United Kingdom.

00:26:27.06
Buddy
Yeah, that they're they're separate, but...

00:26:27.10
Jeremy
Possibly. Yeah. Now, Northern Ireland is closer to the United Kingdom than, i guess, ah regular Ireland.

00:26:30.42
Keith
ah

00:26:37.57
Jeremy
So...

00:26:38.22
Keith
Well, I guess my point would be if it's all the United Kingdom or Great Britain, which doesn't seem to be too great right now, if it's all United Kingdom, why aren't they united? and supposed to be Aren't they supposed to be united together to help each other? Isn't that all part of it?

00:26:52.31
Jeremy
I mean...

00:26:53.13
Keith
i mean greg I mean, England's got a fairly good military.

00:26:58.66
Jeremy
Yeah, they do. They do. But the problem with the problem with England and so many other parts of Europe is they don't want to rock the boat and acceptance.

00:27:09.87
Keith
Fuck it, man. Rock the boat. what what do we what do What are we crying about here? Rock the damn boat.

00:27:13.69
Jeremy
I. I agree with you. Trust me, I definitely agree with you, um but i will just tell it to you this way. um There is a vast portion of Europe that's... I don't and don't know another way to put it, but like basically it's lost.

00:27:33.10
Jeremy
they are They are no longer what we remember in the day as Europe. It's lost. there're There there are whole communities and whole areas completely taken over by caliphate Muslims.

00:27:46.34
Keith
you know they just need to make make the phone call, man, and talk to Trump.

00:27:46.53
Jeremy
mean...

00:27:50.95
Jeremy
i mean

00:27:51.28
Keith
get back Get back in the good gracious. I mean, we we're we are allies. Trump will handle stuff if he was asked to.

00:27:55.60
Jeremy
Yeah, but look at – I mean think about what happened in the four previous years prior to the second administration of Trump and the DEI and the everybody's love is love and blah, blah, blah.

00:28:06.46
Keith
Yep.

00:28:08.54
Jeremy
Well, take that, put it on steroids, and now in England, if you go on Facebook and you say anything derogatory pretty much about anyone who would they consider to be a protected class, you are going to jail.

00:28:21.14
Jeremy
They're –

00:28:21.14
Keith
I heard that. Yep.

00:28:22.33
Jeremy
And then they threatened ah people in the United States if they make derogatory comments on English um or you know British Facebook pages, if you put derogatory remarks in there.

00:28:36.90
Jeremy
Bring it on, man.

00:28:38.17
Keith
They can't get to us.

00:28:38.46
Jeremy
Go ahead.

00:28:39.21
Keith
What are you talking about?

00:28:39.71
Jeremy
No, they can't, but I encourage them to try.

00:28:40.34
Keith
That'd be all over again

00:28:45.23
Jeremy
um my gosh. I mean –

00:28:46.12
Buddy
Yeah. Whip their ass again, fuckers.

00:28:48.43
Jeremy
i mean i mean I mean, what do we have? we They don't have anything. they They definitely don't have a dental plan. you know They don't bathe enough as it is. But I mean, it's like,

00:29:00.42
Keith
I feel for our great Britain, ah our brothers and sisters, because I, I really feel like we're all part of the same, you know, clan.

00:29:02.95
Jeremy
I do. Why?

00:29:08.89
Keith
I don't know what this, I just feel like we're all still there, but why are we not helping each other?

00:29:10.22
Jeremy
it

00:29:12.57
Keith
That's the thing.

00:29:13.44
Jeremy
Well, I can say this. I compare what Britain is now to California. That's exactly what, that is exactly what it is.

00:29:20.19
Keith
Oh, well, see you, you say it like that. And now it starts to, you know, cause Cal, cause I guess California does not feel a lot like America sometimes.

00:29:25.03
Jeremy
It makes sense.

00:29:29.62
Buddy
Well, they they say what happens in Europe seven years later happens in the United States.

00:29:29.63
Jeremy
No, they don't.

00:29:34.51
Buddy
Okay, so look what happens.

00:29:34.71
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:29:36.12
Buddy
Usually California is leading trends, and especially with the liberal shit.

00:29:40.08
Keith
Right.

00:29:40.62
Buddy
um If you look at what's going on in l LA and most of California, basically the whole West Coast, and look at what's going on in England, if you if you hit the rewind button back a few years, seeing the same shit, you know,

00:29:56.31
Keith
copying each other.

00:29:57.36
Buddy
Yeah, they're... Okay, so what what do you see now? You see the Palestinian flags flying. You see, you know, the Mexican, you know, flags. You see foreign flags flying.

00:30:08.08
Buddy
You know, how unpatriotic is that? Well, if you say anything...

00:30:10.25
Keith
And American flags burning.

00:30:11.90
Buddy
Yeah, and if you say anything, you're you're a a nationalist or Nazi or a fascist.

00:30:12.08
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:30:17.05
Buddy
you know Trump's a fascist. He's a Nazi. So, i mean, which is all just propaganda. It's it's a narrative that other so other foreign actors, other foreign states, they're they're funding this shit. i mean ah I mean, if people don't know, what I do all day long is I collect intelligence, and most of it's open source intelligence, which is basically what we used to call the news.

00:30:40.94
Keith
What do you do that for?

00:30:42.29
Buddy
um i I feed some podcasters and i have some contracts that ah basically, can't really go into most of them, but um i have contracts with agencies.

00:30:53.08
Keith
that's yeah that's fine.

00:30:56.72
Buddy
I'll just say that. Where it's main mainly open source, there's something called Roomit, which is basically Rumors.

00:31:03.38
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:31:03.78
Buddy
So those are the top two that you you get on you know the the internet. So I have feeds. I scrape the internet. And this is my day. I sat there all day long getting stuff and and compartmentalizing it and collecting data and trying to come up.

00:31:17.17
Keith
Thank you.

00:31:20.80
Buddy
ah And i have I do some analysis, but most of it's just collection. I'll let them ah work with the analysis. But I mean, it's it's sometimes it's heavy, man. And right now,

00:31:33.36
Buddy
The trend lately has been so heavy. i don't know where they to concentrate. I got some people calling for, Hey, what's going on with these riots, yeah these protests. And so I'm collecting on that.

00:31:46.17
Buddy
And then other people are asking, well, what's going on with this threat to the homeland, which ah you've talked about a little bit on your forward. And it's, There's so much going on in so many different areas.

00:32:00.61
Buddy
You can't keep up with it. And I think that's the, what they want when I say they, the big, they, they, they want to just lock us down to where it's all misdirection.

00:32:07.12
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:32:12.15
Buddy
What happened two weeks in a new cycle, you know, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, something that came new cycle had a two week lifespan. Now it has, it has basically two days.

00:32:20.57
Keith
Right. That's right.

00:32:23.68
Keith
A day. Yeah, exactly. couple of days and it's done and something's on.

00:32:25.25
Jeremy
year And that's being generous.

00:32:27.72
Buddy
Yeah. And, and with the AI misdirection shit out there. And, and so if I, if I going to give any advice to anybody, uh, coming from a, uh, I will used to be a hobbyist collection guy and until guy now I'm starting, you know, I guess you can put me in the pro category. not that great.

00:32:44.74
Buddy
Could always improve, but you know, I do make some, some cash on it. Uh, get your sources and vet them, you know, uh, If it looks like it's AI, it probably is.

00:32:57.04
Buddy
you know If you watch Fox News all day long and get all your news from Fox, probably not a good idea. you want to

00:33:03.45
Jeremy
Yep.

00:33:04.02
Buddy
it it it pains me to listen It pains me to listen to Al Jazeera about eight times a day.

00:33:05.24
Keith
you got you got You got to spread it out.

00:33:10.98
Jeremy
Ugh.

00:33:11.32
Keith
ah You know, al Jazeera, though, forget about the politics of it. They do have they yeah do give you the news of what's going on.

00:33:19.52
Buddy
Well, and yeah, and and and if you listen to different sources like ah like I think they call it ION in a in India. That's a good source, and they they do the news.

00:33:33.13
Buddy
I get news from all over. and so

00:33:35.44
Keith
guy Sky News doesn't hold back either.

00:33:37.77
Buddy
No, Sky is pretty decent. BBC, oh, God. you know it's But what I'm saying is if you get it,

00:33:44.64
Keith
did you wait did Did you hear ah Ted Cruz and and Tucker Carlson?

00:33:48.64
Jeremy
Oh my gosh.

00:33:48.93
Buddy
yeah, that –

00:33:50.01
Jeremy
But did you hear the after effect of it though?

00:33:50.24
Keith
what what What happened to tucker hart Tucker Carlson, man? He used to be an American patriot.

00:33:55.02
Jeremy
but did you hear the afteref effect of it though

00:33:57.82
Keith
No.

00:33:58.18
Jeremy
So they had what they had in their little discussion and their argument and whatever. And um i'm trying to think of exactly what he said regarding Trump in this whole situation.

00:34:10.37
Jeremy
he He actually called Trump and apologized. And him and Ted, yeah.

00:34:17.10
Keith
Tucker did.

00:34:18.35
Jeremy
And Trump and Ted Cruz also had a sidebar conversation.

00:34:19.29
Keith
Oh,

00:34:23.78
Jeremy
And they, you know, this moved things out. But...

00:34:27.96
Keith
Oh, okay. Okay.

00:34:28.69
Jeremy
I think, yeah.

00:34:28.97
Keith
Cause it was, it was heated, man. and And I could play it. I could play a ah section of it. Hey, can you,

00:34:34.52
Jeremy
Yeah, it it was ah it was interesting to watch because you know you're you're <unk> watching these two guys who are ardent patriots and um who are always seen as some of the strongest conservative voices.

00:34:48.52
Keith
Right. Dude,

00:34:49.17
Jeremy
And then they're going at each other. He's like, how do you not know about you know the population of this? Yeah.

00:34:54.10
Keith
he was tearing him up.

00:34:55.40
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:34:55.63
Buddy
You know, that that makes my point to where they're they're trying to divide and, you know, our country.

00:35:01.38
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:35:01.71
Buddy
not, not, not, we're already divided between Democrats and Republican and the far left and far right. in it Now, if they can divide the, the conservatives compared to the you know, the far right compared to, you know, whatever, then, you know, they're winning and they're winning right now.

00:35:20.61
Buddy
And that's what we all have to look at is and, and understand that this, a lot of this shit is generated from foreign actors and,

00:35:20.64
Jeremy
yeah

00:35:28.68
Buddy
to divide us. And it's it's part of the the color revolution.

00:35:33.01
Jeremy
yeah

00:35:33.10
Buddy
The same shit we've done in the Middle East for years, our CIA and State Department and USAID was involved in it. So all these, toppling all these you know Muslim dictators that had peaceful countries, toppling them and then causing a vacuum and guess who steps in?

00:35:50.34
Jeremy
yeah

00:35:54.61
Buddy
You know, the ISIS character, look at Syria. you know, and all the terrorists, you know, step in like Afghanistan and we're allowing it to happen for whatever reason. So, you know,

00:36:06.00
Jeremy
Yeah, and you know a long time ago, everybody saw that one Rambo, and it was the Rambo and the rebels, and they were fighting the Russians. and That was actually the Afghan-Russo War.

00:36:20.90
Jeremy
um And the people who were, those rebels, quote unquote, who were depicted in the movie, that actually became the Mujahideen. We armed the Mujahideen against Russia.

00:36:35.84
Jeremy
Because we were at that particular time more concerned about the great communist you know threat, um which of course had never went um

00:36:46.63
Buddy
And what happened with the Muzsa Hadeen?

00:36:47.12
Jeremy
away. And then guess what the Mujahideen becomes?

00:36:49.24
Buddy
Yeah.

00:36:50.90
Jeremy
They become the freaking Taliban.

00:36:51.42
Buddy
Yeah.

00:36:54.14
Buddy
yeah

00:36:54.86
Jeremy
They become Al-Qaeda, which eventually becomes Boko Haram, and it eventually becomes a new Dawn, and it becomes all these different names with the same principle.

00:37:05.26
Jeremy
Death to America. Death to the West. Everything must be under Allah and the Caliphate. there It's...

00:37:14.17
Keith
Well, and that that would have to drive us into another point, which would be really for us and our listeners as prepper survivalists. Do we have, are we safe in the United States? And are there, I mean, the the thing that I read off, the the a threat assessment read off was saying that there are actual ah terrorist cells in the United States at the ready.

00:37:36.53
Jeremy
And there have been. There's thousands of them and for ages.

00:37:39.04
Buddy
For years and years. Yeah.

00:37:41.77
Jeremy
And, you know, people watch movies, and I am trying to remember the name of it, like it's two Russian spies. They're perfectly normal-looking Americans. They speak English perfectly well. They've got these kids and all this different stuff.

00:37:54.56
Buddy
Oh, the Americans.

00:37:54.71
Jeremy
And then they're... Yeah, and then they're activated by this code and they do these cool missions. Well, unfortunately, when you go to certain areas, especially if you keep going west and you head out to far or west Texas and a whole, lot of those blue states in that area, especially California, there are no kidding actual training camps that would do the same kind of stuff in a training camp in the Middle East and they're in the United States and they've been doing it for ages.

00:38:24.92
Jeremy
And they were

00:38:25.20
Buddy
There's one in Eastern Oklahoma that's, it's,

00:38:28.11
Jeremy
There's several in El Paso, Texas, on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas.

00:38:31.99
Buddy
yeah, we have a Muslim run.

00:38:32.62
Jeremy
they Yeah.

00:38:34.63
Buddy
the Yeah. In, in, in redneckville hillbilly country, you know, in Eastern Oklahoma.

00:38:40.90
Keith
Is what they're doing illegal?

00:38:40.95
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:38:43.57
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:38:43.66
Buddy
No.

00:38:44.56
Jeremy
Well, it depends on what yeah they're doing.

00:38:48.50
Buddy
They're staying to themselves. I have caught, I, I mean, I can't go down that rabbit hole. I know people that know about them and they're in high positions and and they've been watching them.

00:38:53.29
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:38:57.46
Buddy
All you can do is watch them because they're not doing anything wrong.

00:38:57.74
Jeremy
Yeah. Some of them, some of of them do get busted out because of some of the stuff they're doing in these training camps. Like if you were to, if you were to go on the outskirts of say El Paso, Texas right now, and you head out to an area that we call red sands and you heard a bunch of gunfire and even automatic gunfire, there would be no like, um that's so common out there that it would be like, yeah, whatever. They're just having a good time on a Friday. Yeah.

00:39:27.51
Jeremy
But then all of a sudden it was like there's automatic gunfire and explosions and yelling. And then so what ended up happening is they used the assets that they had from JTF North and certain air forces Air Force bases that are close by there. And then we have these systems that can see for really freaking long way. And then they realized those dudes are doing maneuvers. Those dudes are doing actual training. Who is this?

00:39:57.58
Jeremy
They thought it was military at first, but they were like, no, that's in the wrong area. And the next thing you know, they conducted a raid and they arrested a whole bunch of dudes that if you didn't know what you were looking at, and I do not mean this in any meaning or demeaning way whatsoever.

00:40:12.61
Jeremy
And this plays on some of the, um for lack of a better term, absolute ignorance of some individuals. But if you didn't know whom you were looking at and you took a person from the Middle East and you took a person who crossed the border,

00:40:25.73
Jeremy
Most people cannot physically, based off of their appearance, tell the difference between the two.

00:40:31.10
Buddy
Yeah. And, and, and they have, they have documented terrorists that they had, uh, remember the bad hide systems back in Afghanistan.

00:40:40.11
Jeremy
Yeah, bad sides.

00:40:40.91
Buddy
So they've been doing the, you know, in Syria and Iraq and in different places around the world, they've caught people who were in the system that were terrorists that somehow roam free, they got away or got paroled or whatever it may be coming across speaking perfect Spanish.

00:40:53.17
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:40:59.07
Jeremy
Yep.

00:41:00.16
Buddy
And so, and, and there's places down in Mexico that were, they would hang out there six months, eight months, nine months, a year and get fluent in Spanish, uh, work with the cartels and doing things and, uh, and then come across, you know, they, they pay the money and, and I can talk a little bit about these people coming across and this is open source stuff.

00:41:10.27
Jeremy
yeah

00:41:23.10
Buddy
So, so yeah, you get a guy who comes across whether he's, uh, uh, a terrorist from another, you know, from a terrorist organization or ah ah foreign actor from another, you know, ah you know, an operative from, you know, a certain country.

00:41:41.88
Buddy
And so they come across and and they, and these, they become these terror cells. Okay. They're trained and they know what their mission is and they go dark. They come across with a, and they have a cell phone that they use and they have an ATM card.

00:41:56.70
Buddy
And usually they have fake documents. So come across here, they go to, they go hiding. And so they're hiding out, just living the dream. They go to the ATM every, you know, once a week, grab some money. They get an apartment to pay that they're paid for.

00:42:09.83
Buddy
They're just living life. They're just hanging out and being an American. And then all of a sudden, kind of like in the Americans, the the whole, the, Netflix, you know, uh, series. Then all of a sudden they get this cell phone, they get a phone call or a text.

00:42:21.92
Keith
they They get a phone call.

00:42:23.36
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:42:25.70
Buddy
Usually it's in a form of text because the signature is lower because of the, they call it a digital exhaust or an email. And, uh, And it's it's encrypted and it's, it's a a, you know, might be, you know, the, the chairs against the wall, you know, for a stupid phrase, it means nothing, but it means for them to, you know, go to a certain area and get, ah you know, their, their orders or marching orders for whatever it is. And,

00:42:55.57
Buddy
you know supposedly, and i have a whole podcast I can talk about, the threat to America, that there's something that's been out there for since February is when I first found it. is you know they're They're planning these complex attacks on simultaneously across the United States.

00:43:14.07
Buddy
and What they're going to do is they're going to start these IEDs and then people are going to get hurt. and It's going to be simultaneously across the United States. and Then

00:43:22.75
Keith
for our For our listeners, explain IEDs and and how they work.

00:43:26.74
Buddy
Okay.

00:43:27.11
Keith
but Quickly.

00:43:28.21
Buddy
It's just, ah it's an improvised explosive device. It's it's a bomb, roadside bomb. It's the stuff that blew us up in Iraq and Afghanistan, stuff like that. across

00:43:36.06
Keith
You hide them on a road?

00:43:37.59
Buddy
You can hide them on the road. You can hide them in a building. you can put them in a bag, in a crowd. You can do whatever with them. They're usually remote detonated ah with a cell phone or what could be a garage door opener, just something that emits signals.

00:43:52.74
Keith
Right.

00:43:53.35
Buddy
Or it can be command detonated with the wire. OK, so they go out there and.

00:43:56.63
Jeremy
Yep.

00:44:00.48
Buddy
They place these, they cause some casualties all of a sudden, here comes our first responders, man, they come in and we they load them up on an ambulance, take them. Down to the local, you know.

00:44:14.04
Buddy
ER r and as soon as they get to the yeah ER, boom, here comes some more IEDs. ied And it just causes chaos. Now you got the first responders getting hit, police fire, whatever's happening. You know, they might hit a on there they might hit them at the spot.

00:44:30.46
Buddy
They might hit them again at the at the ER. r And then once they get in the, this is their plan. I'm going through their plan. Once they get to the ah ER, then they storm it with a certain number of of highly trained

00:44:49.19
Buddy
terrorists. And then they wire up and caught and they take hostages and wire up the hospital. Now we got a hostage situation. So then they start detonating things across town. They start hitting our power. They start hitting our sewage. They start hitting cell phone towers. They start hitting all these things and it just causes chaos.

00:45:09.68
Buddy
Nobody knows what's going on. And it just seems like we're, you know, we're, you know, powerless basically.

00:45:16.91
Keith
Is this, ah you know, make believe kind of stuff or is there people actually talking about this?

00:45:20.69
Buddy
No, this is, this is real.

00:45:22.65
Jeremy
No, this is real.

00:45:24.48
Buddy
um It's, it's, it's out there and, and i don't really want to dive down too much because they think now the latest I've seen on it and I, and I dig on it hard and I follow people. I've read a couple of books about it recently that was been taken, that's been released.

00:45:42.59
Buddy
So They think now that since it got public, they diverted that first ah plan. So all of all this is being planned in Afghanistan in the, in, it's not just ISIS. It's not just Al Qaeda. It's ISIS K, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram. It's all, all the, what I would call the assholes in the world are going to join up and they, they don't talk to each other. They're not coordinated with each other.

00:46:11.99
Buddy
Their leaders are talking.

00:46:13.70
Keith
Don't they normally fight each other?

00:46:15.52
Buddy
Um, normally they do, but, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:46:19.19
Keith
Skirmishes? Yeah.

00:46:21.72
Buddy
So, it's, each of them have a role to play in this. And they know the role to play, they know what their role is, and they don't care if they die. It's just, look back at the, uh,

00:46:36.48
Buddy
One of the things I remember back, it's been 20 years now, probably, they took a school in Russia, some some Chechens, Tarasel, took a school in Russia, and they had took put all the kids in this little...

00:46:53.31
Buddy
I think it was high school or it was a smaller town school, put them all in the the gym gymnasium there. And they wired it all up for explosives. They had explosives in the basketball nets.

00:47:04.20
Buddy
They had the whole place. ah They chained everybody up together and they had to pee on themselves and poop right there and stuff. And, and basically there wasn't any getting out. And once ah the special specials, the Russian special forces found out about it, they went in and, and just started, you know, taking care of business because,

00:47:23.01
Buddy
You can't negotiate with these people and they want one thing.

00:47:26.55
Keith
Russians are are tough sons of bitches, man. For them to be able to pull something like that off, that's that's terrifying.

00:47:30.70
Buddy
Yeah. And, and it's, it happens all over Russia, not all the time, but it has, at the Balshoi, I think it was a Balshoi theater and, uh, in Russia, same thing happened. But the, what the point I'm trying to make is you know, I'm not trying to, you know, scare anybody, but I want to wake people up.

00:47:51.07
Buddy
And some, you know, some people are, I don't believe that shit. There's no way that shit can happen here. Nothing ever happens here.

00:47:56.76
Jeremy
Well, some of it's already happened.

00:47:57.10
Buddy
ah It has. I mean, what happened in your state, Jeremy? I mean, recently.

00:48:01.61
Jeremy
do 2nd of June, an IED was found just outside of Asheville, North Carolina, yeah along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

00:48:09.17
Keith
and About two weeks ago.

00:48:13.14
Jeremy
And um of course, you know that area still has has not and may never recover from Helene.

00:48:13.22
Keith
Oh.

00:48:19.37
Jeremy
um But the the area where it was found... is an extremely popular destination for people in cars and some of them but especially motorcyclists so the blue ridge it's amazing um and somebody and again if something looks at a place it might just be that it's out of place somebody noticed something they looked at it and realized what it was

00:48:31.02
Keith
Yeah, it's a nice ride.

00:48:45.47
Jeremy
And um there was an evacuation conducted. Nobody was injured or killed or anything like that. um But there was a an IED that was actually recovered on the Blue Ridge Park just two weeks ago-ish.

00:48:59.97
Jeremy
Right there.

00:49:00.30
Buddy
Yeah.

00:49:00.87
Keith
Do they know how it would have been triggered?

00:49:03.24
Jeremy
um Excuse me. A lot of it, and it's surprising, it's actually kind of hard to find the information on it, and it's...

00:49:12.67
Buddy
A lot of it's been suppressed big time.

00:49:12.99
Jeremy
ah and It is being suppressed. And again, we have to go back in a lot of conspiracies. But why now in that particular area that was absolutely devastated by Helene already?

00:49:27.47
Jeremy
you know It's like, what's next? And and i was thinking about something, and this is main mainly for the listeners. um If you guys are not familiar with the different types of intelligence gathering, and we always, in the military, we call them ints.

00:49:44.00
Jeremy
So you have like SIGINT, which is signals intelligence. You have OSINT, which is open source intelligence. You have human, which is human intelligence. When we use those, those phrases and you can Google them.

00:49:56.55
Jeremy
Um, it's our intelligence and a mode of a gathering intelligence. Um, um And I was just thinking about that. But finding good, credible um sources about some of the information that's already happening um is kind of getting more difficult. but Because it's like, you ever heard that phrase, if everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority?

00:50:21.76
Jeremy
So you've got the stuff happening in l LA, then all of a sudden Israel happens. And then you've got this IED over here that was found, and then this happens. And it's like this continuous, like really weird looking circle of of look at me, distraction, look at me, distraction, look at me, distraction.

00:50:39.79
Jeremy
And then you normalize the craziness. And when something happens, that's absolutely crazy. They're like, oh, okay, well, moving on to the next terrorist attack. That's how we become completely desensitized to some of this stuff.

00:50:52.85
Keith
Well, in movies, which I love, um a lot of times and and shows, you'll you'll often see FBI agents um you know foiling these these type of attempts.

00:51:05.25
Keith
And my my question is, is you know one would be, how real to life is are these stories? That would be my one question. And another question would be is, Is the but there' a general public getting to know that these are that these things are being foiled?

00:51:21.62
Keith
like but Like, would we have known that yesterday, and just, you know, top of my head, you know, a nuclear weapon was found and it was disarmed and everything. Would they tell the public that this happened?

00:51:33.32
Buddy
No.

00:51:33.71
Keith
and You know?

00:51:35.54
Jeremy
I think i would say yeah I would say no and yes.

00:51:37.47
Keith
Because we're supposed to be we're supposed to be a transparent government.

00:51:42.37
Jeremy
um would trump

00:51:43.62
Buddy
If it fits the narrative. Yeah.

00:51:45.07
Jeremy
if if well that but I think, like for instance, Trump would probably say, hey, yeah, we we did this. If it was severe enough and could potentially set off a like a no-shit panic, I don't know. It might be with the the answer of the truth, but it may be diluted with a little bit of hokey-pokey and there.

00:52:08.09
Jeremy
um you know It's kind of like we they we already know who killed JFK, and we know who ordered it, and it is now a fact, and the and the clearest of videos that you could possibly imagine has been released.

00:52:22.18
Jeremy
But nobody was shocked that It was like, yeah, dude, we already knew that. And that's that's the problem.

00:52:27.40
Keith
Yeah, it's weird, man. It's crazy how that happens.

00:52:30.06
Jeremy
it's it's That's the problem with developing normalcy bias. They make this thing, you you pump it up, you pump it up, and then you kind of dilute it a little bit, and you pump it up, and you pump it up, and you dilute it a little bit, and you continue to dilute it, and then it's not so weird anymore, and you're like, yeah, we're never going to know the truth, and then all of a sudden, bam.

00:52:49.92
Buddy
and you You hit it on the head, the normalcy bias.

00:52:52.69
Jeremy
It sucks, man. And and but but governments have been doing it to people for like so long. It pisses me off. And they do it through so many different means.

00:53:04.19
Jeremy
You could be sitting there watching Netflix and you're like, damn, why does this seem familiar? Oh, it's real freaking life. Like they made a movie about real life, but turned it into fiction. So guess what? Now you think, well, was it real or was it freaking fiction?

00:53:18.86
Jeremy
I don't even know anymore.

00:53:20.67
Buddy
Yeah, you just got to watch Simpsons or South Park to see the future if you want to know what's going to happen tomorrow.

00:53:25.95
Jeremy
ah Oh my gosh.

00:53:29.86
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:53:29.90
Buddy
But...

00:53:29.99
Keith
Well, wasn't that wasn't that movie um that that we we talked about in a couple episodes back, it was like a sort of post-pocalyptic end of the world movie with Lee the Robo-Hop.

00:53:38.94
Jeremy
Oh yeah. Leave the world behind.

00:53:41.15
Keith
Wasn't that like ah produced or or backed by like the Obamas or something?

00:53:44.94
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. The script was, uh,

00:53:46.53
Keith
Why would they do that?

00:53:48.90
Jeremy
Well, you have to look at who is you'd have to look at who was in the movie and who's part of the elite.

00:53:49.84
Keith
What's the point of that?

00:53:55.37
Jeremy
um i The premise of in the way that I read it in an article, because I just basically Googled, why did Obama have anything to do with the script of this movie? And he said he wanted to portray a level of accuracy.

00:54:12.52
Jeremy
Now, if you think about it from the aspect that, as much as I didn't like him, he was the commander in chief and privy to a significant amount of information. um He probably does have a perspective of a lot of stuff that, you know, potentially could have happened and he

00:54:31.01
Keith
Yeah, no doubt. He wasn't sitting on his hands. He he got and he got information.

00:54:34.17
Jeremy
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The president United States is going to, I mean, except for the last dude, the president United States.

00:54:39.65
Keith
ah Exactly.

00:54:41.69
Buddy
The robot.

00:54:41.88
Jeremy
I don't think, i don't think the last dude actually knows that he was the president of the United States.

00:54:45.90
Buddy
he was a He was a robot, man.

00:54:46.07
Keith
and Nothing.

00:54:48.35
Jeremy
I mean, oh my gosh, did you guys, did you guys see some of the, some of the testimony going on in Congress about the auto pen and his, his mental state?

00:54:58.20
Keith
Oh. Yeah.

00:55:00.87
Jeremy
Oh my gosh.

00:55:01.19
Keith
So why are people not in jail yet? I mean, seriously, it's just, wow.

00:55:05.69
Jeremy
it's where It's incredible, the stuff that is coming out. And they do now know for a fact, it has been like it is uncovered and it has been released.

00:55:18.43
Jeremy
China definitely interfered with the 2020 election by producing thousands upon thousands of fake driver's licenses and influencing the mail-in votes.

00:55:32.47
Buddy
and votes. Yeah. I think I, something I read with the, they actually mailed in ballots, uh, fake, fake ballots and stuff.

00:55:34.78
Keith
Wow.

00:55:41.28
Keith
Wow.

00:55:42.92
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:55:44.28
Buddy
So I, you know,

00:55:45.27
Keith
You know, it's interesting that the world's most, the the world's largest superpower was being run by office staff for four years, basically.

00:55:54.22
Jeremy
yeah Yeah. And the stuff that the stuff that got signed by Autopen is

00:56:03.63
Jeremy
If it were up to me and I was in charge now and I'm hearing about all this, i would want you know fair trial. um But I think that they should bring back tarring and feathering and and like tribunals.

00:56:18.52
Jeremy
And these people should be put on the record for sedition and treason and dealt with – yeah.

00:56:22.94
Keith
It's treason. It's the highest offense you can, you can the against the law in the United States. It's the, it's the biggest one. It's still, isn't it still, um you put get put to death for that, right?

00:56:37.12
Keith
It's punishable by death, isn't it?

00:56:37.77
Jeremy
Uh, treason. Yes. Yeah, it is And, you know, the thing is, is that, um, what the theory is, is that they brought the man in knowing that one, he had, he had cancer because this type of cancer didn't all of a sudden develop that his, his prostate cancer had to develop and met a minimum between five to seven years to get to the level that it's at.

00:57:02.35
Keith
Right.

00:57:02.58
Jeremy
And then they also brought him in knowing knowing his mental faculties were just gone. And they used it as basically four years of we're going to get all the stuff done that we can possibly get done.

00:57:18.11
Jeremy
And they had the means in which to do it. And that was auto pen. He did an interview with the current speaker of the house. the The speaker of the house did an interview and he was in there talking with ah the former president. And he said, why did you sign this? And he's looking at it and he's like, I didn't sign that. I don't remember signing that.

00:57:38.30
Jeremy
He's like, dude, look, at that's your signature.

00:57:41.04
Keith
Oh, I heard that.

00:57:41.12
Jeremy
this is This is your signature.

00:57:42.08
Keith
Yes, I heard that.

00:57:43.62
Jeremy
And he's like, oh, well, I guess I guess i signed it.

00:57:45.57
Keith
I think he was, I think he was, he was talking with the Speaker of the House.

00:57:46.18
Jeremy
I don't remember.

00:57:50.18
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. He was talking with the Speaker of the House, and the Speaker of the House is trying to determine, you know, we had a good discussion, and all of a sudden you signed this.

00:57:51.32
Keith
Yeah.

00:57:58.57
Jeremy
Why?

00:57:58.68
Keith
Right. we Like you went against what we talked about and you signed this.

00:58:00.72
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:58:01.28
Keith
He's like, I didn't sign that.

00:58:02.54
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:58:02.64
Keith
Yeah, you did.

00:58:04.39
Jeremy
Yeah, and um it is unlawful illegal ah to sign a ah a pardon or a um stay of execution or a I think it's clemency is the right word.

00:58:21.28
Jeremy
It's actually illegal to sign those by any means other than a hand wet signature. So when he did those preemptive you know pardons, it was done by Autopenh And you cannot pardon a person unless a crime has been committed. So all of those pardons that were, you know, signed, ah they're now complete.

00:58:43.48
Jeremy
They're complete garbage. they're They don't mean a damn thing. ah Anthony Fauci fair game. And I'm so freaking happy that General Tilly, who is a gigantic sack of crap, is fair green game.

00:58:53.84
Keith
yeah

00:58:55.66
Jeremy
Former SecDef, retired general. um

00:58:58.25
Keith
so is So should be Pelosi, Schumer. There's so many that have been running the country without being elected to do so.

00:59:02.35
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

00:59:07.43
Keith
And it's wrong, man.

00:59:08.80
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:59:08.79
Keith
It's wrong. Yeah.

00:59:10.67
Jeremy
Yeah. and and And all of them, Pelosi, ah Schumer, that one fat dude that can barely breathe, um they are dyed in the wool true to their form communists, and they are criminals.

00:59:29.13
Jeremy
And I'm sorry, but nobody who goes into Congress ah goes from making minimum Congress ah wages to being one of the wealthiest Americans in history.

00:59:39.66
Buddy
only like a hundred thousand or something. I mean,

00:59:41.75
Jeremy
and they They make – it's a little over $200,000 a year but base base pay for a congressman, which in my mind is like really good money.

00:59:51.11
Keith
Yeah, so how are they millionaires?

00:59:52.70
Jeremy
But now you have someone who is as stupid as Ocasio-Cortez, and she is worth like almost $100 million. dollars she is she is i have a I have a spent cigarette butt that I just pulled out of my pocket.

01:00:02.26
Buddy
Yeah.

01:00:02.31
Keith
she do the...

01:00:02.74
Buddy
Bartender did a hundred million in what? Six years.

01:00:09.85
Jeremy
That thing contains more knowledge in its tiny little filter than that chick has in her brain. Oh my gosh. so yes, the threat is real.

01:00:20.47
Keith
but wasn't Wasn't she the one doing the beach twerking?

01:00:23.21
Jeremy
Oh my gosh.

01:00:24.03
Keith
wasn't There was a video of her doing beach twerking and stuff.

01:00:26.05
Jeremy
I can't, I, I, I can't, her level of stupidity actually actually makes her unattractive to me.

01:00:26.15
Keith
I don't know.

01:00:27.31
Buddy
It wouldn't surprise me.

01:00:32.18
Buddy
They actually took her TikTok.

01:00:32.53
Jeremy
It's. Yeah. Yeah.

01:00:34.99
Buddy
She was TikTok-ing for a while and they made her quit because she was making an idiot of herself.

01:00:36.77
Keith
Yeah. Yeah, they took away from her.

01:00:40.94
Jeremy
yeah

01:00:40.96
Keith
And, you know, another surprise to me is actually, in a good way, is actually Fetterman from Pennsylvania.

01:00:46.69
Buddy
Oh, yeah.

01:00:47.55
Keith
I can't believe he made a comeback from that. You know, what was it? A stroke. Right.

01:00:52.40
Buddy
Yeah.

01:00:53.08
Keith
Yeah. And he's, and he's like half on board with a lot of Trump stuff.

01:00:53.58
Buddy
Yep.

01:00:58.52
Keith
So i don't know, man, for being a Democrat.

01:01:01.36
Buddy
yeah it's Yeah, it's amazing.

01:01:05.31
Jeremy
All I can say is this is when it comes.

01:01:07.98
Keith
what can we tell our our listeners is what, what should they be head on a swivel type of thing? What should we be looking at for this, this year? Cause you know, we're almost at half the head.

01:01:18.34
Keith
What are we at? Uh, June, we're almost at the half of the year over.

01:01:22.10
Jeremy
yeah man, that that went by super quick.

01:01:23.77
Keith
Yeah. Well, fast. Yeah. Yeah.

01:01:26.60
Jeremy
um I mean, it's what would I say is dial in on actual factual, and you know, news sources and but take it in sparingly.

01:01:38.90
Jeremy
Don't delve down and do not doom scroll and stay up late at night thinking that the world's going to end. Continue to prepare. Think about the the the steps in survival in which you need for you and your family.

01:01:52.66
Jeremy
And then be prepared to do that anywhere besides just your home in case you have to leave. That's what I would say.

01:02:03.47
Keith
You're up, buddy.

01:02:04.89
Buddy
All right, so first off, fetch your sources. get Get multiple sources and try to make your best decision from it. As Jeremy said, there's different types of intelligence gathering.

01:02:18.69
Buddy
used to be called the news, the open source. RUMINT is just rumors, but it's a form of intelligence. A lot of stuff we get off the news is RUMINT and OSINT.

01:02:31.88
Buddy
good or bad. Rumor is what it is. It's a rumor. um You, human's the best stuff if you hear it from a ah valid source and it's good. So just take your, take your news that you get ah and listen to the other side. Try to, somewhere in between the left and the right is the middle, which is, you're going to get truce out of it.

01:02:54.25
Buddy
um The other thing is, get prepared. I mean, we've been saying this every episode and there's a reason why we do certain episodes. If you look back on it, we just, you know, why, why we do the episodes we do, there's a method to our madness and and the listeners maybe can clue in and, and be free thinkers. I say this a lot, uh, get in shape, you know, you're going to carry that rucksack, think for yourself and get prepared. I mean, and it,

01:03:25.34
Buddy
The time to prepare was yesterday, but you still have time. and And the biggest threat, in my opinion, the biggest threat is right now, it is the threat to the homeland.

FORWARD

The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment is the Intelligence Community’s official,

coordinated evaluation of an array of threats to U.S. citizens, the Homeland, and U.S. interests in

the world. A diverse set of foreign actors are targeting U.S. health and safety, critical infrastructure,

industries, wealth, and government. State adversaries and their proxies are also trying to weaken and

displace U.S. economic and military power in their regions and across the globe.

 

Both state and nonstate actors pose multiple immediate threats to the Homeland and U.S. national

interests. Terrorist and transnational criminal organizations are directly threatening our citizens.

Cartels are largely responsible for the more than 52,000 U.S. deaths from synthetic opioids in the 12

months ending in October 2024 and helped facilitate the nearly three million illegal migrant arrivals

in 2024, straining resources and putting U.S. communities at risk.

 

A range of cyber and intelligence actors are targeting our wealth, critical infrastructure, telecom, and media. Nonstate groups are often

enabled, both directly and indirectly, by state actors, such as China and India as sources of

precursors and equipment for drug traffickers. State adversaries have weapons that can strike U.S.

territory, or disable vital U.S. systems in space, for coercive aims or actual war.

 

These threats reinforce each other, creating a vastly more complex and dangerous security environment.

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea—individually and collectively—are challenging U.S. interests

in the world by attacking or threatening others in their regions, with both asymmetric and

conventional hard power tactics, and promoting alternative systems to compete with the United

States, primarily in trade, finance, and security.

 

They seek to challenge the United States and other countries through deliberate campaigns to gain 

an advantage, while also trying to avoid direct war. Growing cooperation between and among these 

adversaries is increasing their fortitude against the United States, the potential for hostilities with any 

one of them to draw in another, and pressure on other global actors to choose sides.

 

This 2025 ATA report supports the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s commitment to

keeping the U.S. Congress and American people informed of threats to the nation’s security,

representing the IC’s dedication to monitoring, evaluating, and warning of threats of all types.

 

In preparing this assessment, the National Intelligence Council worked closely with all IC components,

the wider U.S. Government, and foreign and external partners and experts to provide the most

timely, objective, and useful insights for strategic warning and U.S. decision advantage.

 

This 2025 Annual Threat Assessment details these myriad threats by actor or perpetrator, starting with

nonstate actors and then presenting threats posed by major state actors. The National Intelligence

Council stands ready to support policymakers with additional information in a classified setting.

 

 

INTRODUCTION OF REPORT

 

This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to

Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act. This report reflects the

collective insights of the Intelligence Community, which is committed to providing independent, and 

unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law enforcement personnel need 

to protect American lives and America’s interests anywhere in the world.

 

This assessment focuses on the most direct, serious threats to the United States primarily during the

next year. All these threats require a robust intelligence response, including those where a near-term

focus may help head off greater threats in the future.

 

NONSTATE ACTORS - TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS

Transnational criminals, terrorists, and other nonstate actors are threatening and impacting the lives of U.S.

citizens, the security and prosperity of the Homeland, and U.S. strength at home and abroad. Some transnational

criminal organizations are producing and trafficking large amounts of illicit drugs that are imperiling

American lives and livelihoods.

 

They are conducting other illegal activities that challenge U.S. security, such as

human trafficking, cyber operations, money laundering, and inciting violence. U.S. citizens, at home and

abroad, are also facing more diverse, complex, and decentralized terrorist threats.

 

Actors, ranging from designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including the Islamic State of Iraq, the ash-Sham 

Known as ISIS, al-Qa‘ida, other Islamist terrorist groups, some drug cartels, and even terrorists acting alone or in small cells, 

are likely to pursue, enable, or inspire attacks. Finally, large-scale illegal immigration has strained local and national 

infrastructure and resources and enabled known or suspected terrorists to cross into the United States and await orders.

 

MAJOR STATE ACTORS

Several major state actors present proximate and enduring threats to the United States and its interests in the world,

challenging U.S. military and economic strength, regionally and globally. China stands out as the actor most

capable of threatening U.S. interests globally, though it is also more cautious than Russia, Iran, and North Korea

about risking its economic and diplomatic image in the world by being too aggressive and disruptive.

 

Growing cooperation among these actors expands the threat, increasing the risk that should hostilities with one occur,

it may draw in others.

 

If you would like to read the entire report, we’ll put a link in the show notes to the Office of National Intelligence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So there it is… the current state of our world… fractured, hostile, and inching closer to something most of us hoped we'd never see in our lifetimes. Wars rage abroad, but the cracks right here at home are the ones that should keep you up at night. 

 

But here's the truth—chaos doesn’t mean collapse for those who are ready. It means opportunity. It means clarity. When the world spins out and goes sideways, preppers don't panic—we pivot. While the masses chase comfort and cling to denial, we sharpen our edges, we test our plans, and we adapt.

 

You’ve got a choice now. Go back to what you consider normal and pretend everything’s fine, and gamble your family’s future on hope… or, you rise up. You get serious. You build the layers, you form the tribe, you own your fate.

 

We don’t prep out of fear—we prep out of respect for reality. And that reality is loud and clear: no one’s coming to save you. But you? You were never the one who needed saving.

 

Stay alert. Stay armed. Stay one step ahead. Thanks for listening… and Goodnight.




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