253 INDEPENDENCE DAY EPISODE

INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL w/ Keith and Jeremy

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Transcript

00:00.03

Keith
There it goes. All right. We're good to go. All right. So 250 years.

00:32.64
Jeremy
250 years. Yeah. Um, relatively short time as compared to, you know, most of the other countries around the world were actually, i guess you could say a newer country.

00:44.38
Keith
infants ah

00:45.08
Jeremy
Yeah. We're in our infancy. And even though 250 years may seem like a long time, our infancy as a country is, is scarily under attack all the time, every single day.

01:01.24
Keith
You know, I was watching, I think I've mentioned this a long time ago, but I was watching, i was watching a yeah British, who was it it? was a British guy. don't know. It was a show was watching and like a, like a, not a show, but an actual, you know, video of a guy from Britain. And he was walking around his place and he was like talking about the United States. And he said, United States is not old. He's like, my garage is older than anything in the United States.

01:29.21
Keith
am Anything.

01:31.19
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:31.48
Keith
You from Britain and pretty much everything is recycled. mean, he got like, you got old, you know, stone barns that were built a thousand years ago that people now have their cars in, you know? So it just, it was funny how he said, he's like, my garage is older than anything in the United States.

01:46.04
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

01:47.83
Keith
But Hey, that's cool.

01:48.06
Jeremy
I mean, i get it. You know, um we are, i mean, we are what we are. It, it, uh, it took a revolution over a 3% tax, you know, on T and back then we're talking about, you know, back then was, you know, effectively, I guess, what did they call them back then? Quid or Pence or whatever British money was being used back then.

02:14.81
Jeremy
But, um,

02:16.17
Keith
A quid is like bucks to us.

02:18.13
Jeremy
Is it?

02:18.84
Keith
Yeah. So when we say 20 bucks, they say 20 quid.

02:19.58
Jeremy
Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:22.58
Keith
Yeah.

02:23.83
Jeremy
Well, I mean, it's... Yeah,

02:26.55
Keith
Well, yeah it was three, three, you know, I don't know. I don't know the percentage, but you're saying it's 3%, 3% tax on, on tea. But on top of that, you couldn't grow your own tea. You had to buy the King's tea.

02:38.48
Jeremy
yeah. Yeah.

02:39.06
Keith
So there's that too. It's like, you're going to, you're going to buy this. Oh, and by the way, we're going to tax you on it.

02:44.57
Jeremy
yeah

02:44.70
Keith
Hey, and that, and that's cool. I mean, that's how countries like great, you know, great Britain or England, whatever it was, that's how they survived. That's how they made their money. That got got no problem with that. a colony tax, man. You know?

02:54.98
Keith
But, it you know, our people the people here, the British people here and and others, there was other people here as well.

02:55.19
Jeremy
Yeah.

03:02.48
Keith
They didn't want they wanted to have their own country. They didn't want to do it. You know, and they were like, hey, three percent tax.

03:05.88
Jeremy
Yeah.

03:07.44
Keith
We're interested in that.

03:08.70
Jeremy
Yeah.

03:08.71
Keith
Here's my gun. Yeah.

03:09.98
Jeremy
And it's, it wasn't a just tax. It was, ah it was quite a few things. You know, we were, we were several different colonies, of course, 13 colonies is how we started out.

03:13.75
Keith
Yeah.

03:18.46
Jeremy
And what was happening was, is that everything that was being dictated to us from England was essentially what we would call representation or taxation without representation.

03:30.01
Keith
Right.

03:30.71
Jeremy
And when we tried to you know send individuals over to contest the raising of taxes or you know contest certain things, usually they were always shot down or they were, for lack of a better term, reprimanded very seriously.

03:47.35
Jeremy
So it became a point where we were being dictated to from a thousand miles away on what we could or couldn't do by a monarchy that quite frankly, the, the then colonies had already established ways to govern themselves.

04:05.78
Keith
Right.

04:06.20
Jeremy
So ah again, it was a lot more than just taxing of tea.

04:09.98
Keith
When the cat's away, the mice will play.

04:11.86
Jeremy
Yeah, yeah, of course. And that's that is the nature of it, you know, and we were colonies for a pretty significant time.

04:19.10
Keith
Decades of very significant time. And that that's the thing. People think that, you know, well, this has happened over a couple of years. No, no, no, no, no.

04:25.72
Jeremy
no now No, no, no, no.

04:25.90
Keith
no no no Wars and all kinds of things happen. I can't give you the amount of the amount of time but a long time.

04:32.15
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, the when, when people think back to our founding, they, i think a lot of people have like this kind of perhaps skewed vision of exactly, you know, how we were founded, why we were founded, what happened.

04:51.00
Jeremy
um The people that founded this country, we call him the Founding of Fathers, if you think back about the timeframe in which this happened, you see pictures of you know Washington as this tall, because was tall for back then, you know white hair you know white wig, hearing you know very

05:10.51
Jeremy
what's the word dignified looking gentle maid um

05:11.97
Keith
Dignified with bad teeth.

05:15.45
Jeremy
with bad teeth. But that's kind of this kind of not exactly an an accurate representation. These dudes were young when this started out, young relatively for the age of you know the the period of time.

05:30.97
Keith
as As, you know, if you're comparing it to now.

05:33.24
Jeremy
Yeah.

05:33.82
Keith
Yeah, yeah.

05:33.98
Jeremy
Yeah. So when you start looking back and like the most of the presidents that we've had in say the past, I don't know, 30, 40 years, 50 years, they're all in their sixties and seventies, you know?

05:46.25
Jeremy
And, um, these guys were, yeah.

05:48.47
Keith
And now 80.

05:50.11
Jeremy
And now 80, and these guys were relatively young and didn't have Alzheimer's like the last guy, you know?

05:53.30
Keith
Mm-hmm.

05:56.50
Jeremy
I mean, i There's a comedian who describes George Washington as this six-foot-tall dude who looked like he had dizzle with wild, you know, wooden buck teeth with a sword crashing through the forest, and that's why the British were so scared of him.

06:14.90
Keith
and George Washington was was a tall guy, though. he you know He was much taller than most people were back then.

06:17.78
Jeremy
Yeah, yeah.

06:21.11
Jeremy
yeah Yeah, the... um

06:22.68
Keith
When he entered the room, you knew a presence just entered the room. I mean, you you could feel it.

06:27.45
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, Europeans are tall. Most of them are tall in general as compared to, you know, the average height here. But for a guy who was living in the colonies back then in 1770, that's a tall guy back then.

06:42.97
Keith
Yeah.

06:43.61
Jeremy
So, and there is a show, there's a series coming up soon, and I believe it's on Angel TV that I want to watch.

06:43.92
Keith
Mm-hmm.

06:50.33
Jeremy
It's about George. It's called Washington. And it's about him as a young as a young man who He was, you know, is him as a young man trying to become a British officer being denied because he wasn't a Brit, you know, he wasn't of Britain.

06:54.04
Keith
Oh, really?

07:05.69
Keith
Born. Yeah, born in Britain.

07:07.16
Jeremy
um His brother was born in England and had a formal education, was considered a gentleman.

07:07.23
Keith
Yeah.

07:15.48
Jeremy
And um ah he was, for for lack of a better term, the way that the British saw George Washington was he was riding his brother's coattails.

07:26.52
Jeremy
So, yeah, and part of is the only education that he had received up to that point is he learned how to survey.

07:26.88
Keith
Mm-hmm.

07:34.23
Jeremy
So he went on expeditions to survey these you know very rich and governing individuals' um properties, which were millions you know millions of acres back then.

07:47.22
Jeremy
Um, and he would go out on these expeditions and survey to create maps for these landowners and aristocrats. So it looks like a very interesting series that I definitely want to watch.

07:57.21
Keith
Nice.

08:00.81
Jeremy
So, yeah.

08:01.30
Keith
And they did, they did that with chains back in those days.

08:04.65
Jeremy
Oh man, the, the stuff that they did to create maps and the maps from,

08:04.82
Keith
Chains. Crazy. They got, they got ah lines that are like perfectly straight just using chains.

08:12.89
Jeremy
Yeah, yeah. And the the way that they did the maps back then, I love old, old, old maps. Like when you see maps drawn from like the 17, 18 and early 1900s, some of the colors and the detail and the way that they actually did the maps, I think it's i think it's fascinating because they didn't have, you know, GPS and satellites and all that stuff, but they walked.

08:23.67
Keith
Mm-hmm.

08:38.45
Jeremy
Yeah. They walked rivers and they knew their pace count.

08:41.14
Keith
right

08:42.47
Jeremy
They walked these mountains and they knew how high it was based off of, you know, a myriad of different things.

08:50.44
Keith
I did the one side of my property just to check a fence to make sure, because it was put in a long time ago, and I wanted to make sure that it was done right.

08:55.04
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

08:58.43
Keith
And I actually used a pointing laser.

09:00.70
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

09:01.59
Keith
And what Rondo and I would do is we would get on each T-post, and I would send the laser across a T-post, and she would be at the third T-post. And that's how we did it. We did it by threes and we just kept doing it that way, getting on one, hitting another, putting a, putting stake in the ground, putting another, you know, doing it like that.

09:18.54
Keith
And we actually ended up using the laser. We actually ended up right on target half a mile away up the hill at the very corner of the property.

09:26.91
Jeremy
Wow.

09:27.00
Keith
It was pretty cool. Now they did it with, with chains, but still it's the same sort of, you know, technique. Nowadays we got GPS and, you know, you hit a button and it's done, you know,

09:32.90
Jeremy
Yeah.

09:35.90
Jeremy
Yeah.

09:38.58
Jeremy
Yeah. And I mean, like the, the house we live at here, it's 30 years old and we were doing some, we were having a contractor do some stuff in the backyard. And, um, he's like, well, where's the, the border? Like, where's your edge of your property? And I looked and I was like, well, you see the edge of that fence just pretty much to here. And he's like, uh, no, hold on a second. And he pulled out a,

10:01.88
Jeremy
He pulled out a metal detector and he started walking along the edge of the grass and there was an actual metal pin.

10:08.22
Keith
Did they find the, did they find the pin?

10:10.23
Jeremy
They found the pin.

10:11.03
Keith
No way. Wow, man.

10:12.05
Jeremy
Yeah. And I looked and I was like, what the hell is that? And why is it in my grass? And he's like, he's like, this is your property marker pin.

10:20.09
Keith
Right.

10:20.14
Jeremy
And I'm like, I had no idea.

10:20.49
Keith
Yeah.

10:22.27
Jeremy
i had absolutely no. and i I don't know if I'm ignorant for not knowing that, but I didn't know that they used like, no kidding. It looked like a railroad spike kind of like that.

10:31.38
Keith
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Very, very long. You know, it goes deep into the ground and,

10:35.22
Jeremy
Yeah.

10:36.09
Keith
It's sometimes it'll have numbers on them too for, I don't know, you know, like lot number or whatever it is.

10:38.33
Jeremy
Yeah.

10:41.68
Keith
You can mark it down on your, on your deal.

10:41.88
Jeremy
Yeah. This one had it the head of it was, it actually looked like it. Have you ever seen the geography markers that you find on like national parks and stuff?

10:50.33
Keith
Yeah.

10:51.10
Jeremy
Look kind of like that had a lat long and it had a serial number and it had something else from the, i think from the county.

10:54.20
Keith
ah

10:58.87
Jeremy
um

10:59.06
Keith
Yeah. Stamped on it.

11:00.73
Jeremy
Yeah. And the reason that we were having to do that is, you know, we, we haven't unfortunately lived next to a restaurant, but um when that restaurant got put in, they cut into our property without permission and they laid a road.

11:19.16
Jeremy
So coming back from Afghanistan, 2012, you know, Missy's like, that's interesting. Why is there a road in my yard? Like where did the hell did this street come from? And, um, so she ended up getting with, uh, an attorney and the land developer and we, and we, we basically own half of a street because of what they did.

11:44.02
Keith
They should have paid you for it.

11:45.27
Jeremy
Oh, shit they did. They paid her because she's the landowner for this house.

11:47.29
Keith
Good.

11:49.21
Jeremy
I'm just merely an employee who lives here sometimes. So,

11:51.93
Keith
Well, I feel the same way.

11:55.51
Jeremy
yeah. But, yeah, so we discovered that they put this pin right there. And um because, and I don't know, and I'm sure you've seen them based off of your former work, but those, they're cement pillars that stick up out of the ground and they have two letter markers on, you know,

12:12.86
Jeremy
on the on the sides of them. I've never quite exactly understood what those are, um but we found several of them like on the other side and we were like, okay, so it looks like they moved our property line.

12:25.75
Jeremy
So now when you look on our county GIS website, we went from an acre to three quarters of an acre, but she technically owns the the street.

12:36.89
Keith
Right, right, right.

12:38.52
Jeremy
So,

12:39.32
Keith
Well, and the map is, you know, for the United States, the map has definitely changed since the birth of the country 250 years ago. And I was just looking it up.

12:45.69
Jeremy
Oh yeah.

12:47.12
Keith
You know, I know that the the very first um settlement was English settlement was Roanoke and it's considered the the missing colony.

12:53.54
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

12:55.95
Keith
It's a very interesting story. And I believe there's a movie coming up called Roanoke. If it's not out already, it's definitely coming. And it talks about that very first colony that, that you know we had that they were English people and they just up and disappeared.

13:01.80
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

13:09.16
Keith
nobody has any There's clues and stuff, and nobody knows what really happened to them. And that was, get this, fifteen eighty s A long, long time. So you're talking over years States.

13:24.66
Jeremy
Yeah.

13:25.56
Keith
that you know the that the english were colonizing this entire area and before it became the united states

13:25.75
Jeremy
Yeah.

13:31.32
Jeremy
Yeah. And the majority of the people.

13:33.30
Keith
Oh, hey, Rhonda just popped on. Sorry.

13:34.94
Jeremy
oh hey, Rhonda.

13:35.62
Keith
Sorry, Jeremy.

13:47.58
Keith
Oh, really? everybody Everybody's on?

13:52.50
Keith
Oh, very cool. Happy Fourth of July. We are right in the middle of our but our Fourth of July special right now, and that's awesome. Great to hear you guys.

14:00.33
Jeremy
Hell yeah. And it's hot outside, so it's skies out, thighs out. So, yep.

14:03.54
Keith
Oh, man.

14:13.11
Jeremy
Yeah.

14:22.58
Jeremy
ah Happy 4th of July.

14:24.89
Keith
Thanks, guys. Happy Fourth July to you guys, too.

14:25.98
Jeremy
Happy birthday to America.

14:29.53
Keith
Bye.

14:30.90
Jeremy
That was interesting. Uh-oh.

14:35.55
Keith
No, they're still there.

14:38.42
Jeremy
I was not expecting that.

14:40.18
Keith
That was interesting. ah Yeah. so over 200 years, man, that we, you know, the the English was here colonizing and, you know, getting things right, getting things wrong. And by the time we got to, but let's call it 1776. By the time we got to that point, we were 13 different colonies Everybody having their own way of doing things, people having their own cultures at that point.

15:01.18
Jeremy
Yeah.

15:02.82
Keith
You know, the the people had changed. They weren't just simply English people anymore or, you know, Dutch or whoever else was coming, German. It was it was everybody was different and everybody wasn't agreeing.

15:14.23
Jeremy
yeah

15:15.56
Keith
And that's why that's why we got, you know, the United States. You know, the i think the best um I love the the show. it was a miniseries. um What was it called? ah John, what was who's that again? I'm trying to think now.

15:35.43
Keith
I'm going to cut this out because it sounds stupid. ah John, um the the the second president of the United States, first vice president. um And he's

15:44.38
Jeremy
Oh, hold on.

15:49.30
Keith
John.

15:49.34
Jeremy
Google to the rescue.

15:50.90
Keith
Yeah, duke do Google.

15:53.30
Jeremy
Okay.

15:56.25
Jeremy
John Adams.

15:57.32
Keith
Yeah. yeah so there was the the show john adams and it was either called adams or john adams i don't remember what his miniserers outstanding i mean if you really want to get a feel for what it was like for those folks back in those days and what they were going through and You know, you didn't just you didn't just, ah you know, pick up the phone and talk to people.

16:06.33
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

16:12.11
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

16:17.62
Keith
You had to travel on foot, on horseback, through snow and ice and heat, you know, and leave your farm and your work and your practices or whatever else just to get to, you know, these meetings and such.

16:29.58
Keith
It was it was a difficult life.

16:31.61
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, you also, if you really wanted to go back and and look at how we became what we are and who we are, um the the history actually goes back a whole lot farther, probably closer to, let's just say, a thousand years.

16:49.91
Jeremy
We had Vikings that landed here

16:51.74
Keith
Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. Yeah.

16:53.72
Jeremy
Yeah, we, oh yeah.

16:53.82
Keith
Pre, pre English.

16:55.78
Jeremy
So we had Vikings that did land here in what we now call the United States and in Canada.

16:55.99
Keith
Yes. Right.

17:01.34
Jeremy
And then flash forward many, many, many years in 1492, of course, everybody knows Christopher Columbus.

17:02.78
Keith
Nova Scotia.

17:10.55
Jeremy
they He did not necessarily discover America.

17:10.68
Keith
hmm.

17:14.20
Keith
Nope.

17:14.26
Jeremy
he He originally landed in in in the islands, in the Caribbean islands. And there's a huge connection if you've ever gotten the chance to go to some of the Caribbean islands between the Caribbean islands in Florida and North Carolina and Georgia.

17:30.90
Jeremy
And unfortunately, a lot of it had to do with the slave trade, which you know sucks, but it is part of our history that does have to be talked about.

17:36.70
Keith
Is what it is. That's ah that's the way things were back then.

17:39.61
Jeremy
Yeah.

17:40.50
Keith
Sorry.

17:41.24
Jeremy
But if you look at the timeframe of 1492 to the first actual permanent settlement in the United States, which was in 1565, that was in St. Augustine, Florida, and that was by the Spanish.

17:54.97
Jeremy
So

17:55.13
Keith
Yeah, it's very it's very old down there. Very, very old.

17:57.05
Jeremy
Yeah, very old, but they didn't consider that one of the, of course, British settlements. So there was a lot of infighting that was happening within like the structure of the United States what back then, before the Brits even established saying, okay, this is ours now.

18:10.35
Keith
Mm-hmm.

18:15.98
Jeremy
You can't have this. And I mean, look at all the different stuff that happened in between that we're talking a lot of, a lot of time.

18:17.36
Keith
Mm-hmm. Right.

18:24.66
Keith
Oh, yeah.

18:25.27
Jeremy
So I think personally that the history of our country is is pretty damn fascinating. You know, even though people don't want to talk, they don't want to recognize that every nation has, and i don't know another way to word it. Every nation has a little bit of blood on their flag.

18:45.63
Jeremy
Ours is no different. We had great periods and bad periods. And it just so happens that, you know, we are what we are based off of the history that we had to go through to get here.

18:56.31
Jeremy
So.

18:57.82
Keith
You know, there's a lot of videos out right now on YouTube with all these folks that are visiting from ah Europe, you know, for the, what's that?

19:04.68
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

19:05.78
Keith
The the football, the cut the the World Cup.

19:07.09
Jeremy
The World Cup? The World Cup, yeah.

19:08.78
Keith
Yeah. Which is soccer to us, football to others.

19:12.13
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

19:13.88
Keith
And there are so many videos, man, where people are saying, They got they're telling you the wrong thing.

19:20.37
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

19:20.59
Keith
They're they're telling you things on the media and this and that. Other governments are saying things about the United States and they are absolutely not true. You've got to come check it out. Everybody is blown away. They're blown away by the food, by the people, by the cultures, by the beauty, just just everything about it. and I didn't realize that.

19:38.42
Jeremy
yeah

19:38.58
Keith
I thought people in other countries were just like, oh, I love to go to that place. It's going to be it's really the the the golden land, you know, um this and that. No, they're not thinking that they're thinking that they're going to get killed if they come to the United States.

19:50.34
Keith
They're thinking that they're not that they're going to die of you know cancer in the next year because of whatever they're eating. They're they're thinking all these bad things that they're told, you know, about. And and yes, we do eat bad.

19:59.90
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

20:00.09
Keith
But damn, it's good. It's good. And they're and they're and now they're now they're saying it.

20:02.52
Jeremy
Yeah, there were.

20:05.39
Keith
They're screaming it at the top of their lungs. There's so many videos out right now. I'm blown away by it.

20:10.39
Jeremy
yeah Yeah. Some of the countries actually flew food into the United States to give to their athletes.

20:19.35
Keith
Well, I mean, yeah it's a product.

20:19.54
Jeremy
Because and, you know.

20:22.09
Keith
You know, their athletes are a product.

20:24.12
Jeremy
Yeah, and i get it. I do, honestly, because, i mean, the stuff that we allow here as compared to the stuff that they allow around around like most of the world is completely different.

20:36.53
Jeremy
We allow poison and trash, and most European countries, they don't do that.

20:41.88
Keith
Yeah, you let your football team, your soccer team, go to Mickey D's.

20:42.01
Jeremy
it's

20:46.90
Jeremy
Oh, man.

20:47.18
Keith
they're going to They're not going to play the next day the way you think they're going to play.

20:49.59
Jeremy
No, no. And while they're playing, they're definitely going to shit their pants.

20:53.98
Keith
Yes.

20:55.00
Jeremy
Like that's gonna happen.

20:56.85
Keith
I haven't been to McDonald's in decades. yeah and it To me, it is the most nastiest food out there. I cannot stand. I mean i do. I like some you know fast food places like Taco Bell. I know even though it's very bad for you, I don't eat it a lot. We don't eat fast food that much. We used to. But McDonald's, no, I haven't been there in decades, man.

21:15.70
Keith
that Every time, ah anytime I've eaten anything from McDonald's, my stomach hurt an hour later.

21:20.82
Jeremy
Oh yeah, absolutely. But I will say this every so often, uh, I get like a crack fiend thing going on for their fries and their nuggets. You know, it's, I don't know what it is.

21:32.58
Jeremy
It's like, I can't, I can't help it.

21:34.49
Keith
You get the 20 piece.

21:34.74
Jeremy
It's, oh man, I can smash two of those, but a lot of barbecue sauce.

21:39.80
Keith
um I remember back in those days. Yeah. I remember the 20 piece, man. By the time you got to the 20 piece, you're like, ah I don't want to eat these anymore. And it's like, this is not good.

21:48.38
Jeremy
Especially even but dropping a micro dose, you're definitely going to want those munch. But yeah, um back to our country. um

21:57.84
Keith
years. long to us. For It's a long time. to us for us it's a long time

22:01.30
Jeremy
Yeah, yeah. And and for the for the person who lives the prepared lifestyle or, you know, as AKA preppers, um the fact that we've made it this far is is pretty monumental for, it should be, i so I should say, should be monumental for a lot of people.

22:22.20
Jeremy
um Because for many, many years, there has always been someone who has tried to extinguish what we are.

22:33.56
Jeremy
We are, as Reagan put it, ah the last beacon of hope. We are the last bastion in this world of actual freedom. And it's it's a scary thing to know that if you are in this country,

22:51.64
Jeremy
Um, and you're, you're a citizen. No one is coming to rescue us. You have to self rescue. And if our country has to be rescued, I mean, God help us.

23:04.22
Keith
If our country has to be rescued, it's going to be done by patriots.

23:07.42
Jeremy
Yes, it is.

23:08.89
Keith
That's just simple as that.

23:09.94
Jeremy
Yeah.

23:10.01
Keith
That's what it comes down to. and um And we're not saying Americans are better than people in rest of the world.

23:11.32
Jeremy
It's gonna be.

23:15.00
Jeremy
no

23:16.46
Keith
We're saying America is better We're saying the freedom you get. that That's what we're talking about. that I know there are places, there are beautiful places and beautiful people all over the world, but their governments are, you think our government's got problems, you should you shall look into some of the other countries out there that you think are doing great.

23:32.22
Jeremy
Oh,

23:35.68
Jeremy
yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And again, it's it's a scary thing to acknowledge for for some people. and And some people have their head completely buried in the sand.

23:49.11
Jeremy
um Every single day, our nation is under attack in some form or fashion. um And it's been going on.

23:56.12
Keith
More right now than than usual right now with with this whole ah you know communist socialist thing that's happening to the Democratic Party and and actual real patriotic Democrats are in a bad place because of it.

23:58.39
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

24:03.30
Jeremy
Yeah.

24:10.31
Keith
they how How do they fight it? How do they fight this new takeover of their of their party?

24:15.00
Jeremy
Yeah.

24:15.10
Keith
you know And it's powerful, very powerful stuff.

24:15.28
Jeremy
And, yeah and Yeah. And, into and and to, so to a lot of ah the extent of what is wrong, you know, and and, and even in other countries, but also ours, um, when history gets altered, that's when, that's when things really, when people see altered history and they don't recognize it for what it is, it's the beginning of the end.

24:41.50
Jeremy
And in the communist manifesto that was written many, many, many decades ago, They said that they were going to destroy the United States without firing a single shot. And they've done so through the use of media, television, social media, um the use of the word democracy.

24:59.32
Jeremy
You know, we are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic. We have never been a democracy.

25:04.47
Keith
Right.

25:07.58
Jeremy
And then they started using, what's his name? Mom, Donnie. He coined that phrase. I am a democratic socialist. Come on, bro. Seriously. Just come out and say what you are. i mean,

25:21.43
Jeremy
and

25:22.62
Keith
But the the problem is he he's very popular.

25:23.00
Jeremy
it's

25:27.09
Keith
He's he's being followed by very powerful people. And there is a movement happening.

25:32.57
Jeremy
There is. And the most ignorant people are the ones who who voted for him. I don't mean that in a mean way. They are ignorant to what he is.

25:40.47
Keith
Well, not ignorant, stupid, dumb, dumb, dummy, but ignorant as in you don't really know what's happening here.

25:43.51
Jeremy
Right.

25:46.15
Keith
yeah if you still If you actually learn the facts, you might not be thinking what you're thinking.

25:46.53
Jeremy
Yeah.

25:50.59
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

25:51.19
Keith
You know?

25:51.27
Jeremy
They are ignorant as to what he truly is. And he's, he, he and now they are so emboldened that they say what they are. There's no, there's no hiding it. You know, they, they have said what they are. And for some reason people still vote for them. I don't, I just can't wrap my mind around it.

26:10.58
Jeremy
It just doesn't make any sense to me. But then I have to look back at the current state of our youth and what, what, is really happening with our youth of, of today and what we have allowed. And it's an unfortunate truth, but what we have allowed our children to be taught in the public school system, which was yet another infiltration point in this country.

26:35.90
Jeremy
It just, it is.

26:37.53
Keith
it It's absolute control. the when When I think of socialism, communism, as far as I'm concerned, the same, even though they're not. ah It's control.

26:48.79
Keith
that That's what it is. And Americans don't like to be controlled. The problem is these young folks, the young the young generation coming up and coming, they don't know.

26:59.37
Jeremy
Yeah.

26:59.38
Keith
They they don't they don't understand what control really is

27:03.48
Jeremy
No.

27:04.28
Keith
And I'm going to tell you right now, it it is going fly with with the patriots.

27:04.63
Jeremy
No.

27:09.22
Keith
Now, Democrats and Republicans alike that are actual real patriots and love freedom are not going to let this happen.

27:15.52
Jeremy
No. The ones and then if if something absolutely crazy were to happen. the ones who are going to save this country are gen Xers and early there. I think they're referred to as Xennials that they're like the end of the Gen X, the beginning of the the millennial.

27:35.19
Jeremy
Those are the individuals who are going to save this country.

27:40.28
Keith
What age group is that right now?

27:40.47
Jeremy
And,

27:41.52
Keith
I don't know the whole that whole status thing.

27:43.00
Jeremy
um Between 35 and 65, like that range right now.

27:48.34
Keith
Okay. 69.

27:50.46
Jeremy
So i was I was born in 77. Misty was born in 67. I think you are, yeah.

27:57.40
Keith
sixty nine

27:58.57
Jeremy
So the the Gen X crowd, the Gen X generation is going to have to probably be the one that what is going to bring this country back around. And that's only because we grew up hard as shit.

28:19.54
Jeremy
You know, we we were the the generation of latchkey kids.

28:21.50
Keith
yeah

28:23.94
Jeremy
We were the we were the post Vietnam kids like that's that's how we were raised, you know, in um if you go back to that phrase of ah Weak men create hard times.

28:38.98
Jeremy
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. It's ah it's a cycle that just repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats.

28:49.08
Keith
Where are we now?

28:50.49
Jeremy
Well, um it's kind of hard to say because in the last administration, i was convinced that it was a good times create weak men.

29:02.62
Jeremy
And then weak men create hard times. Like we're we're on that that cusp right there in that, in that part. And I think the next part of the revolution of that, that circle is the hard times and the hard times are going to create hard men and strong men and those strong men.

29:25.28
Jeremy
And, and that's just, men is not just like isolated to males. It's, it's women as well.

29:30.23
Keith
Yeah, mankind.

29:31.51
Jeremy
mankind and those strong people are gonna have to be the ones that um pull us back through and because we know we know how to do stuff unfortunately and i'm i'm just as probably as guilty as anybody else a lot of our kids and grandkids don't know how to do the things that we did commonplace when we were kids because we didn't want our kids to have to suffer and i get it um

30:03.06
Jeremy
I am fortunate to have feral kids and feral grandchildren. They know how to live off the land. They know how to do certain things. um But that.

30:14.39
Keith
my My boys are are are strong, tough men. they are there're They're physically fit and tall and strong and all that. However, they were brought up very... um like a lot of kids these days, they were given whatever they wanted.

30:30.78
Keith
They were given you know given everything.

30:31.54
Jeremy
Yeah.

30:32.86
Keith
And I think that, well, and I do know, you know, as and and they're really good, you know, great kids. But as as I do know that they they appreciate and know that they have been brought up that way, if that makes sense.

30:45.17
Jeremy
Yeah, it does.

30:46.30
Keith
So they're able to say themselves, yeah, I can be spoiled sometimes and I totally get why and I probably shouldn't be like that, but that's kind of how I am. They they they get it. You know, and I think that their their generation is really going to have to.

31:00.44
Keith
I'm not going to be able to do it. um I'm not going to be able to in 10 years from now, whenever this might go down, I'm not going to be able to pick up ah pick up the rifle and go go march. ah I'm going to be too old.

31:09.66
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. yeah and i

31:13.37
Keith
i can i can protect my own and my area and my people and my group, but I can't i can't go fight a war. I'm too old for that.

31:20.45
Jeremy
Yeah. And i think the other the i think the other thing that a lot of the newer generations of Americans especially don't um don't take into account is they've – how do I word this? um They have been rescued their whole life.

31:40.29
Jeremy
They have been pulled out of they have been pulled out of bad situations their whole life.

31:41.68
Keith
Yes, that's right. Yes.

31:47.19
Jeremy
Is that partly our fault as parents and grandparents?

31:49.82
Keith
Yes, it is.

31:50.27
Jeremy
Yes. Yes, it is.

31:51.00
Keith
It absolutely is.

31:52.66
Jeremy
It is because we don't want to see our children suffer.

31:55.29
Keith
No, exactly.

31:55.38
Jeremy
but But the thing is, is that we have unwittingly created, um i don't know if I would say a standard of weakness, but that's like the first, that's the first thing that kind of comes to mind because our kids and grandkids didn't really have to suffer.

32:16.54
Jeremy
You know, like, okay, maybe some of them lived through dial up. Oh man, that sucks. You know, um but when I grew up, I was, we and we were a military family and we were dirt poor.

32:23.22
Keith
Yeah.

32:30.30
Jeremy
We were trash poor. I mean, to the point where sometimes even though my mom was in the military, We couldn't afford meat, so we had spaghetti noodles with butter. And, you know, we there was a period of time between us moving from one base to another and our housing wasn't ready.

32:48.34
Jeremy
Well, we had a Volkswagen bus and we actually lived in it. I thought it was the greatest camping trip that lasted several months ever.

32:51.62
Keith
Mm-hmm.

32:56.31
Jeremy
I didn't realize that we were homeless. We were an actual homeless military family because we had nowhere to go yet. And back then, rules were a lot different. Like they were a lot looser.

33:09.88
Jeremy
So um we took a very long camping trip and i i saw it as like the greatest time of my life. You know, we cooked outdoors. We went from National Park and State Park to, you know, just different parks. And we just kept doing that.

33:26.09
Jeremy
And we got to San Antonio in like, I think, think like late 79, early 80, or maybe it was 81. I can't remember, but I'm there for a couple of months. We had no place to go.

33:41.82
Jeremy
And so we lived in this van and we just did whatever. So that's when I learned how to swim. I got tossed into a river that was moving rapidly.

33:50.65
Keith
Well, and and in the same in in the same breath, what what you're saying is is basically how our forefathers and everything started this country. And it it took grit.

34:01.42
Keith
And they were tough as nails people, men and women both.

34:01.93
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

34:04.66
Keith
They were very, very tough. And they went through extreme hard times. And living was hard. And nothing was easy. And they fought and fought and fought and fought wars, several wars, to get to to get our country to where it is right now.

34:14.35
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

34:19.67
Keith
And I don't think that the younger generation understands that you will have to continue fighting for that same greatness. If you stop fighting, if you stop having that passion for, now this is why people, this is why this is why a lot of people can't stand Trump. I love Trump. The reason why is because he is 100% an American patriot. He loves this country and he loves Americans.

34:44.28
Keith
Everybody across the board. he wants He wants things to be great. And are they in a cocky kind of way? Yeah, they are, but who cares? it's it's ah it's ah ah I'm old enough to remember The 200 year anniversary, I was seven years old.

34:59.22
Keith
And I remember as kids, we we, I mean, it was a massive party. We decorated our bikes with red, red, white, and blue ribbons. And we put the little ah baseball cards in our spokes to make the sound when it when you rode down the block.

35:11.02
Keith
I mean, it was a big deal, man.

35:11.38
Jeremy
Hell yeah, man.

35:13.24
Keith
It was a big deal. And then here I am now, you know, the 250th and, it's, and I love it and I love America and I'm an absolute patriot across the board. I've got an American flag flying in my yard and I'll always be there, but I'm, I'm worried about what's happening with the younger generation and the, you know this whole entire communistic socialistic thing that's happening.

35:37.32
Keith
It's powerful and I see it happening. It's bad.

35:40.31
Jeremy
Yeah. um And if I can remember it, um when we were down at the Sardin Majors Academy, Missy was also doing her master's at the same time.

35:51.35
Jeremy
And she did her master's in defense and strategic studies. And they had a guest guest speaker. And if I remember correctly, it was the former deputy director of the, it was either CIA or one of, um one of the agencies. And one of the students asked her what keeps her up at night. And she said, whether or not America will make it to its 300th birthday.

36:20.60
Jeremy
Yeah. um and

36:22.68
Keith
ah

36:23.99
Jeremy
And that right there, when you start thinking about it, if the if one of the top heads of one of the strong like most powerful agencies on the planet says that what what does that, what does that translate to for us as people who live prepared?

36:38.66
Jeremy
like

36:39.31
Keith
Right.

36:39.70
Jeremy
Are any of us going to be alive in 50 years? Meh.

36:42.52
Keith
No, but our kin will.

36:42.74
Jeremy
I do. argu Yeah.

36:43.64
Keith
And we got to make sure that they are that they're that they understand. They understand these things. they They have to be able to understand. They can't just know how to can and how to grow and how to shoot. They have to know how to love all those things.

36:59.05
Keith
They'd have to know that that had to be passionate about it and protect it and fight for it and vote for it and all that sort of thing. They have to be on the cutting edge of that.

37:09.17
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. And um I mean, When I think, when I try to think forward that far, you know, I, I have no doubt in my mind that I will not be here.

37:23.67
Jeremy
Um, but I do have children, you know, children will be much older, but grandchildren who will be, you know, I'll have great grandchildren by then. And,

37:34.56
Keith
Right.

37:34.81
Jeremy
I want them to not just survive on scraps. I want them to thrive. I want them to, because it's not um

37:44.18
Keith
Right. Yeah.

37:48.67
Jeremy
it's not just, you know, I know how to make rice and beans. I have a place where I'm hiding and that's how I'm going to spend my days. Hell no, man. Live, be happy, thrive,

37:59.62
Keith
That's what I said about having a passion for it and to love it and to own it, you know.

38:02.14
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's not just survival. It is, I was going to say through revival. It's write that down, write that down through a Bible to, to thrive and actually be happy with your situation, even though it might be hard, even though it might be tough and it might, it might feel meager at times.

38:10.93
Keith
That's nice. i like that. Thrivival. I like it. Write it down. That's yours.

38:31.51
Jeremy
um to know that yeah exactly the alternative is death the end of your line yeah

38:32.46
Keith
What's the alternative?

38:35.86
Keith
The alternative is depending on other people to to help you through life. And who wants that?

38:41.11
Jeremy
yeah and i'll tell you this if you want to see ah how socialism will never work and this is coming from a person who has native american blood in them go to a reservation if you want to see socialism at its absolute finest failure go to a reservation

38:59.99
Keith
Oh, you're talking Indian reservation.

39:01.59
Jeremy
Indian reservation. Absolutely.

39:02.62
Keith
Yeah. Okay.

39:03.27
Jeremy
It is a prime example of what happens when you try socialism in scale. It just, it never has, it's never worked. So the Soviet, Soviet socialist republic failed, you know, it went down in flames.

39:16.60
Keith
Yes.

39:18.76
Jeremy
um What's another one? Venezuela, also socialist. Mexico is socialist. Chinese is communist. vietnam Vietnam is communist. There's so many different examples of around, around the world of where eventually the cracks in the system begin, begin to become just huge geysers.

39:39.26
Jeremy
And once that crack starts and the water starts coming through, people are like, oh, this sucks. I don't want this anymore.

39:47.93
Keith
Yeah, but it's too late at that point.

39:49.94
Jeremy
It is sort of, kind of, there are countries.

39:52.87
Keith
It's too late unless you unless you have an appraisal, unless you have another country like the United States to step in and help.

40:00.52
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. You know, and, and I just, I just hope people understand that for us to make it to this point here, you know, 250 years, man, I'm just telling you the amount of people who laid down their life in order to ensure that we have this weird experiment called the United States um a It is an indeterminable number.

40:34.81
Jeremy
People do not have any idea that if we were not successful on D-Day during World War II, this country would be speaking German, Italian, and Japanese.

40:46.14
Jeremy
They have absolutely no idea how close we were to being destroyed by the Axis during World War II.

40:54.83
Keith
Oh, yeah.

40:55.61
Jeremy
I mean, we actually had foreign troops land on both coasts and people today still have no idea that that happened. There were, there were, small, um, submarines on both coasts.

41:11.91
Jeremy
There were boats that were taken out that German and Japanese on both sides.

41:14.49
Keith
Were these were these ah German?

41:19.10
Keith
I didn't know I know that there was some skirmishes, but I didn't think it was, you know, I thought it was something different.

41:21.75
Jeremy
Yeah.

41:24.38
Keith
I didn't know it was actual army landing.

41:25.46
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. There were German personnel that landed here on the East coast and you want to know who stopped them. Um, besides the coast guard of what it was at the time, it was local yokels and world war one veterans who were like, Oh no, no, no, we're not allowing this. We're going to kill fucking everybody.

41:46.87
Jeremy
And they did.

41:47.54
Keith
Well, and and that's the problem with ah with an invading army these days is they're going to – they don't just have the United States Army.

41:51.32
Jeremy
oh yeah.

41:53.30
Keith
They've got a much bigger army ti to face, you know, of really passionate people that don't have any law or rules.

41:55.55
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

42:01.45
Jeremy
Yeah.

42:01.59
Keith
there's There's no army rules when you're a yokel. You know, you you do what you have to do to win, period.

42:05.37
Jeremy
Yeah.

42:07.71
Keith
End of discussion.

42:08.92
Jeremy
Yeah. and when, and I would think I would, let me rephrase that. I would hope that if other countries were really looking to pick a fight,

42:21.21
Jeremy
um that they would remember that there is a an entire, and I mean huge, huge generation of veterans from the global war on terrorism.

42:35.35
Jeremy
And many of us deployed um ah to many different conflicts over the years.

42:46.55
Jeremy
And I'm going to play a clip and see if I can make it make make it sound good. um

42:55.13
Keith
You got a clip?

42:55.96
Jeremy
Yeah, I've got a clip. And it's one of my...

42:57.43
Keith
what do you what are you What are you playing it on?

42:59.38
Jeremy
So this is, going to play it up to the mic and see if I can catch it correctly, but it's from YouTube and it's probably one of my most favorite clips from Medal of Honor recipient.

43:03.38
Keith
Okay, okay, yeah.

43:12.92
Jeremy
um And let me see if I can play this correctly. Once I get past this stupid ad, you might have to cut that part out. Okay, here we go.

43:29.09
Jeremy
Hold on. They're going to have cut that. I'm going to die. This entire military is one cohesive, dedicated force. And the threats to our nations, they don't sleep.

43:42.82
Jeremy
They're watching our every move. Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, ISIS, Al-Qaeda. They may be watching this right now.

43:55.42
Jeremy
Our military should not be mistaken for a cable news gab fest show. We don't care what you look like. We don't care who you voted for, who you worship, what you worship, who you love.

44:07.67
Jeremy
It doesn't matter if your dad left you millions when he died or if he knew who your father was. We have been honed into a machine of lethal moving parts that you would be wise to avoid if you know what's good for you.

44:22.68
Jeremy
We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. We've seen war. We don't want war. But if you want war with the United States of America, there's one thing I could promise you, so help me God.

44:36.25
Jeremy
Someone else will raise your sons and daughters. One of my...

44:41.17
Keith
Ooh, damn, that's powerful. Who who was this?

44:44.44
Jeremy
um Excuse me. I'll get you the name here in just a minute. But that is like... hands down one of my, like when I heard him say that, and I think, what is I, I think I was just retired ah when this one happened.

45:00.98
Jeremy
um But I heard that and I was like, dude, that is probably one of the best speeches I think I've ever heard from an active duty service member receiving the medal of honor.

45:14.65
Jeremy
I mean, that's just like, It's pretty crazy that he said that like in front of everybody.

45:21.04
Keith
It's bold.

45:22.04
Jeremy
Yeah.

45:22.16
Keith
it's It's very bold and it takes a lot of guts because it's a speech where, you know, most people would, you know, probably think to go, a you know, I want to thank this person. I want to thank that person. i want to thank this and, and um and you know, that that sort of thing. But to actually come out with a speech like that, that's that takes balls, man.

45:42.20
Jeremy
Yeah, that was US Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia. Yeah. um And it's, i was one. and

45:52.15
Keith
Staff Sergeant, is that is that the kind of the guys that scream and holler at boot camp?

45:56.25
Jeremy
Well, I mean, there's some, I mean, w I was,

45:58.65
Keith
I don't know what what the Staff Sergeant actual role is.

46:01.56
Jeremy
So in the Army, a Staff Sergeant, it's E6. So you have the rank, which is Staff Sergeant, but you have the enlisted grade, which is E6. um I mean, i ever everybody before, yeah at some point in time, if you're going to be anything higher than that, has to become an E6.

46:13.87
Keith
Huh.

46:20.22
Jeremy
It's just a... You can be in a leadership role or in a non-leadership staff role. That's basically kind of what it is. But um when I heard that, I was like, hell yeah. Hell yeah. I have been waiting for someone to say something like that during you know a Medal of Honor speech because, i mean...

46:45.98
Jeremy
it's It's crazy to think that he said that. mean When I go back to saying how many hundreds of thousands of Guat ah um veterans that are out there today.

47:01.05
Jeremy
that actually feel the same way. And many of us still have ah built up, I don't know, built up aggression, especially after 9-11 that never got kind of extinguished.

47:15.96
Jeremy
Now imagine coming into our country and trying any other way other than like worst case, which would be nuclear. Imagine trying to come into our country by by actually landing forces on here.

47:30.24
Jeremy
Imagine what a Chinese or and and an Iranian soldier would be feeling or thinking if they landed in the Appalachia up in West Virginia and Virginia and North Carolina.

47:41.62
Keith
They wouldn't. They wouldn't.

47:43.06
Jeremy
I mean,

47:43.33
Keith
they they They land in New York and and and say hi to Mondami.

47:46.74
Jeremy
oh yeah, exactly.

47:47.61
Keith
they they get They get lunch, you know, in a bed.

47:49.24
Jeremy
Yeah, because they know, they do know for a fact that if they cross down into certain areas, they'd be done.

47:58.01
Keith
Oh, yeah.

47:58.07
Jeremy
you You go down into West Virginia, into the hollers, you're going to get laid out and you're going to hear banjos just before it happens, you know, and all of a sudden you see some 300 pound redneck with four teeth yelling bojica, you know, carrying a shotgun with a straw hanging out of his mouth.

48:02.81
Keith
Those people don't play.

48:18.84
Jeremy
You're getting greased up.

48:19.10
Keith
you might you might You might get barbecued and ate.

48:20.40
Jeremy
That's just all there is.

48:22.54
Keith
That's all I'm saying. I don't know. but

48:25.08
Jeremy
Oh man. But i don't think that. And again, I think a lot of countries, what the way that they see our country in certain areas, especially, and they're like, man, everybody in America gets shot.

48:38.42
Jeremy
I mean, it's, that's not entirely true, but we have more firearms and ammunition that are civilian owned than some countries have within their entire armed forces.

48:51.39
Keith
Well, the last stat that I heard was that there's more civilian-owned firearms and ammunition than all of the military in the rest of the world combined.

49:00.06
Jeremy
I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it at all. I mean, it's, and that, that, ah that's also, you know, under attack, always under attack, you know?

49:11.67
Jeremy
um

49:11.90
Keith
Well, in a socialist government, it will it'll be gone.

49:14.62
Jeremy
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep. I mean, it is it is a crazy thing that we have to – I don't think that people realize that to keep what we what we built, we have to fight for it.

49:28.06
Jeremy
They think it's just ah you know a permanent thing.

49:30.84
Keith
we need we need We need smart people that can fight with their brains.

49:33.39
Jeremy
Yeah.

49:34.92
Keith
We need we need strong people that can fight with their work ethic you know and that sort of thing. There's lots of different things when you say fight for it. It it doesn't necessarily mean fight with a gun.

49:45.29
Keith
i mean In fact, it most most ah definitely doesn't mean fight with a gun.

49:49.80
Jeremy
Yeah. yeah

49:50.60
Keith
It means fight with your voice, fight with your vote. You know, your work ethic, you know, your productivity, your kindness to others, your your ability to to be sustainable, your ability to be prepared and to take care of yourselves and your family and all that sort of thing.

50:06.38
Keith
There's there's a lot. There's a lot that goes into the word fight.

50:10.17
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. um And you have to be willing to learn. Fighting also is learning. If you've not dug dug into the constitution, if you've not dug into the bill of rights, if you've not dug into your state constitutions, you need to do so because

50:28.57
Keith
I refresh the ah Bill of Rights in my brain every now and again. i do like to go through it.

50:31.62
Jeremy
Yeah.

50:32.65
Keith
I've never read the Constitution itself, but I've i've seen it and I've stood in front of it, looked it, it's beautiful, but i've never but I've always kept the Bill of Rights refreshed in my brain just to go over it, you know.

50:37.72
Jeremy
yeah

50:43.83
Jeremy
yeah Yeah, we have the when I had last time I was up in PA when I was down at the Liberty Bell and right there where they, you know, the sign the Constitution, all that I picked up to the large parchment prints and we had them framed and hung up in the the den.

50:53.91
Keith
Yeah.

51:00.95
Keith
Oh, nice.

51:01.54
Jeremy
Yeah.

51:01.59
Keith
That's cool.

51:02.74
Jeremy
Yeah, and I love the way that they look and that the the guest speaker um that said um you know that she was worried that America wouldn't make it to its 300th birthday was Honorable Sue Gordon, who was the former deputy for the CIA.

51:23.29
Jeremy
And, you know, to hear that from a person at that high of a level of the CIA itself, which I have my own reservations and opinions about the CIA, but for someone to actually say that, man, that's like, if that doesn't set people's minds into overdrive, I don't know what what will.

51:39.16
Keith
Well,

51:43.03
Keith
that was former deputy director.

51:44.76
Jeremy
Yep. Former deputy director CIA.

51:45.25
Keith
Okay. So they're they're read in on most most things. They're read in on on most things.

51:49.16
Jeremy
hmm.

51:50.41
Keith
You know, you what what you got, if you want to make it another 50 years, America, what what you've got coming at you now is going to be, obviously we've already said, I believe in my opinion is is the the socialistic and ah that whole entire part of the democratic party, you know, changing really into that, into a communist, uh, socialistic party.

52:12.35
Keith
That's one thing, but you've also got AI and that's a whole nother thing.

52:15.53
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

52:18.02
Keith
That's going to happen very quickly. It's already happening and it's going to have, it's going to, it's going to sweep across humankind very, very fast and i don't And I don't think we're goingnna get we're going to get a handle on it.

52:31.54
Keith
I think it's going to go is going to become a controlling type of ah a thing. it's going to ah I believe it is going to change the face of the earth, AI.

52:42.68
Jeremy
i I think so too. And not to get too biblical, you know, not to get too down that particular path. Um, some people believe that ai is gonna become the mark of the beast.

53:01.48
Jeremy
It's gonna become,

53:02.42
Keith
I don't disagree.

53:04.82
Jeremy
yeah

53:05.30
Keith
i don't disagree. And I'm not, and I would even take it away from the but but but biblical part of that and, and say, you know, maybe not from the Bible, but it is definitely going to be the downfall.

53:15.67
Keith
I believe it's going to be what you can consider to be evil, you know?

53:19.38
Jeremy
Oh yeah. Yeah.

53:20.46
Keith
And then, you know, also, and this is for a lot of listeners right now that are listening, that might go my direction. This is also the age of disclosure and things are going to, things are going to come out.

53:31.61
Keith
Very soon. that They're already starting to come out.

53:33.01
Jeremy
Yeah.

53:34.78
Keith
And we don't know where that's going to go either. You take that, you take, you know, all of the the aggression in the in the world and you get AI, which is a very powerful force.

53:46.07
Keith
And you' you get a lot of things to fight for, you know, fight against.

53:46.20
Jeremy
ye

53:50.39
Jeremy
Yeah, but you also have a lot to fight for. Regardless of what's happening now, this is still the greatest country on earth. And i know i i know we have some people out there and other places that listen to us, and i don't I don't discount any other country or anything like that.

54:09.81
Keith
Oh, there's so many places in the world I want to go see. I would love to go see places.

54:11.90
Jeremy
Oh, yeah, absolutely.

54:13.24
Keith
There's so many places. I i don't care what their governments are like. I just want to go meet the people and look and get the culture in my blood, you know, eat it, eat the food and all that.

54:20.62
Jeremy
Yeah.

54:21.52
Keith
I want to be there, smell it.

54:22.97
Jeremy
Yeah.

54:23.26
Keith
But I don't know if I ever get to you because I'm not rich, but, you know, that's the way it is.

54:23.58
Jeremy
but

54:26.68
Jeremy
But the thing is, is that here you can, well, you're not supposed to be reprised against, but you so you can and have the right and ability to go up to a governing person and tell them exactly what you think and what you feel and complain And if you were to take that same right that we have here and try that in any other place and then see how long you either don't go to jail or keep your head

55:02.01
Jeremy
You know what i mean? Because people here, like these young people who are out there trashing our country and destroying things, complaining about capitalism and complaining about the United States while wearing a $300 pair of shoes and an $800 iPhone.

55:19.03
Jeremy
And they're complaining about the rich and yet they have things that other countries have never even seen. You go try that somewhere else.

55:29.85
Jeremy
You go try to live your alternate lifestyle somewhere else. These individuals who sit there and say um from the LGBT community about how they need to free Palestine and all those things, they do not get to see the part where they throw homosexuals off of buildings, off of 30th floor building. They don't get to see what happens to people that speak out against their government.

55:54.63
Keith
it's It's interesting that a lot of those folks think that that's that they're protecting. It's interesting that they don't that they don't know. that

56:03.19
Jeremy
Yeah.

56:03.67
Keith
To me, it's more interesting that they haven't actually done some research, gone down a few rabbit holes and actually discussed it amongst themselves, you know, what but they're actually fighting for.

56:13.94
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. They don't know. And i would tell anybody, okay, cool. If you feel so passionate about it, go try that over there.

56:24.76
Jeremy
Go to Afghanistan, go to Pakistan, go to any of those places, go to Russia and try some of the crap that they do here. Don't do not discount the fact that this, oh yeah.

56:36.60
Keith
Oh, people have tried, by the way.

56:40.86
Jeremy
Yeah. And they never came back. I mean, it's just, I, for those of you who are Americans listening in America, or if you're an American abroad, just cherish the fact that we've made it this far.

56:55.51
Jeremy
And don't take this country for granted. We are the last, we are the last ones. And if we go, that's it.

57:06.23
Jeremy
If we, if we no longer are a Republic, if we are no longer the United States of America, just be prepared to self rescue because nobody's coming for us. I said it before I'll say it again.

57:22.84
Jeremy
so

57:24.82
Keith
Happy birthday, America.

57:26.64
Jeremy
Yeah.

57:26.84
Keith
250 years in three days.

57:28.72
Jeremy
Hell yeah. And also do not hold on to your firecrackers or your fireworks when you're lighting them off. Try to keep all your fingers. This is the number one emergency room visitation day ever, like period, every single year.

57:41.75
Keith
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

57:45.62
Keith
People are going to lose fingers.

57:45.91
Jeremy
Don't. Yeah.

57:47.94
Keith
They're going to lose hair, eyebrows.

57:48.98
Jeremy
eye Eyeballs.

57:49.30
Keith
Some are going to lose their sight.

57:50.97
Jeremy
Do not mix fireworks and alcohol.

57:50.99
Keith
Mm-hmm.

57:53.75
Jeremy
Leave that to me.

57:55.13
Keith
Well, what are you going to shoot the bottle rockets at? mean, they're called bottle rockets for a reason. You put them in a beer bottle.

58:00.12
Jeremy
It used to be like the old school, like Coke bottles.

58:03.06
Keith
No beer bottle.

58:03.56
Jeremy
That's now, I mean, yeah, but I was a kid when we used to do them, but yeah. Happy birthday, America.

58:09.72
Keith
ah You know, when you use stuff like 20 bottle rockets into a beer bottle and light it watch that.

58:10.80
Jeremy
goodness. All right.

58:15.96
Keith
Watch what happens. Don't stand too close. Put your protective eye gear on too. Cause I'm telling you right now.