Guns 'N Rosaries
Welcome to Guns 'N Rosaries – a spin-off from Avoiding Babylon, dedicated to firearms, self-defense, and self-preparedness through a Catholic lens. Join hosts Rob, a passionate firearms enthusiast from Avoiding Babylon, and Adrian, a Marine veteran of the Global War on Terror, as they blend practical skills with faith-based insights. Whether you're honing your marksmanship, building resilience, or preparing for uncertain times, we've got you covered. Subscribe for reviews, tips, discussions, and more! God bless.
Guns 'N Rosaries
Will the US See More Cartel Violence After Mexico's Gen Z Revolt?
A couple of busted tires and a shattered phone shouldn’t redefine a weekend—until they do. What starts with weather ribbing and a scramble to get to Mass turns into a raw look at how quickly order gives way to chaos, and how faith and family habits carry us when everything else seems to wobble. We talk about offering up frustration, the quiet discipline of doing the next right thing, and why those small choices are the backbone of real resilience.
Then the horizon widens. Mexico’s Gen Z protests, cartel assassinations, and a president under fire collide with border realities that won’t stay theoretical. If the Mexican state weakens, the pressure at our southern line spikes. We walk through what that means—policy, patrol bases, DMZ logic—and how street anger, online symbols, and old grievances mix into something unpredictable. It’s less about hot takes and more about first‑order effects on families, parishes, and towns.
From there, we thread the demographic needle: aging parents, understaffed long‑term care, and the brutal economics of too few children and too much loneliness. You can feel it in the stories—the smell at a facility gate, the empty visitor chairs, the mortgage math that ends with private equity buying family homes. Alongside the gloom, we ground the answer close to home: visit, cook, fix, pray. Teach sons to do hard things. Model love for daughters by how we love their mother. Swap yelling for push‑ups and a straight talk about obedience and danger. The frontier now is local: your block, your parish, your dinner table.
We close with Marines, purpose, and the speeches that send young men into the dark, and why so many still crave duty in an age that tells them not to. There’s humor—movies, steakhouse debates, road‑trip stories—but it all circles one point: you don’t beat civilizational drift with a single vote. You beat it by building households that keep their head, fix what breaks, and return to prayer when strength runs out. If that mix of grit, faith, and practical prep is your lane, hit play. And if it resonates, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review to help others find the show.
What's up, everyone? Hope my internet cooperates. I'm on the back porch. Hopefully this works better today than it has been. I was just saying, I was telling Rob a second ago I will I will switch to Starlink super fast.
SPEAKER_03:I was just giving Adrian difficulty since he's wearing a coat up, even though it's 60 down there. Well I don't know. Let me see what the temperature is.
SPEAKER_02:Well it's probably it's probably like as low as 57. Let me let me pull up my temperature right now. Let me see where we're at. No, no, no, no, no, no. Give me some credit. It's 46. I'm not bad. It's not bad. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Now the hot jacket at 40 was 68.
SPEAKER_03:A jacket at 46 is understandable. It's 22 here right now.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, that's why I don't live up there.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:I tell people who move who are so I have guys from the Marines who call me all the time. You know, they got you know, they're either still in or they did contracting or something, and they always call because they know exactly where I live, and I and I talk it up all the time. And I was like, oh man, what's Alabama like? Like, you know, you should I move to Alabama, especially with Huntsville, and there's a lot of DOD contracting going on up there. Yep. And I have to look back and I'm like, okay, in 08, who did you vote for? You know, it's like you were on the wrong side of the vote on that one in 08. I'm like, man, you don't want to move to Alabama. Alabama's terrible, super racist down here. But the other guys, I'm like, man, if you could just get over like the heat of July and August, Alabama just if you just the other 10 months are fantastic, just those two months. I don't believe you. Well, and and sometimes September. September it stays it stays hot. Okay, what June? June's not bad. In fact, June this year, I think the average temperature was like 70 this year. We had a lot of rain. I could do that, but it's not bad. It's not bad at all. It's just if you don't mind sweating in July and August and halfway into September. But like right now, like we I won't get it. We got two days of freezing last week. It got down to like 22 for like two nights.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:And now it's you know back up in the 40s is the low. But we might get a week and a half, maybe two weeks of consistent like 35-ish weather, and then and then we're out of it, and then we're done with it. So weather down here's great.
SPEAKER_03:We get two to three weeks of negative 35-ish weather. Negative five-ish. No, like is there is there a point where no negative 35?
SPEAKER_08:Is there like is there like diminishing cold returns? Like after a certain temperature, like it. So, for example, when I lived in Louisville growing up in Kentucky, if it gone down to like the teens, because it was humid there as well, and you would breathe in, and it would hurt your your nose and your pass air passage and into your lungs, right? Like icicles stabbing you. So, at what point does that just like you just you know it's always gonna hurt when I breathe outside?
SPEAKER_03:Anything below negative 20 is all the same. I bet yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Is it so at negative 20? Is that where they have that pitcher of water and they throw it in the air and it turns into snow or ice or whatever?
SPEAKER_03:It's like negative 30 or below 30 is when that happens, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, that's cool. That's a benefit. That's that's cool.
SPEAKER_03:You could do stuff with that for two minutes, and then you get frostbite. Yeah, there's yeah, there's always that. There was it was it had to be about 12 years ago. We had one whole month, it did not get above zero. We also got nine plus feet of snow that month. That yeah, that's too much at winter.
SPEAKER_08:That's too much. So I've got a buddy who's in Wisconsin, and every time it snows down here, he makes fun of us because we never drive in snow, right? But it the issue is not the snow, the issue is we get ice first, and then we get snow and the snow sits at the top of it. Do you know do you ever get black ice? Oh, yeah. I had a so I when I was I don't know, probably 19-20 years old, my job got moved out to the east part of the state in Kentucky. When from Louisville out to like Ashland, and I used to have a 1997 Dodge Dakota black. I love that truck. But anyway, I was going to work one day and it was one of these roads that's cut out of the middle of a mountain. And as I'm driving, I'm only doing like 25 miles an hour because I know it had snowed the night before. We knew it was supposed to be icy, and I start losing control, right? And I start going off the road and onto the shoulder. So I correct, and now I'm going into oncoming traffic, sliding, right? So I'm over-correct again, and then I shoot off the road, hit the wall, right at a corner at a corner, roll a couple times, end up back on my tires. My mom was in the car with me. No one got hurt, thankfully. Well, that's good. It was, but yeah, we black ice all the time. Ice, black ice. I just want to make sure I'm enunciating my words correctly. Nobody's scared of black ice. That's I gotta be careful. I gotta be careful.
SPEAKER_02:Are you sure you know what black ice is?
SPEAKER_08:Hey, I've I got plenty of black ice. I don't I don't know if I don't know if you're using it right. I'm serious. The average July, August, the issue is not the heat, right? It's not how high the temperature, because it's like 80s, like like high 80s. The issue is the humidity, right? And like you feel like you're breathing water all day. That's the issue with the heat in Alabama. Humidity gets real bad.
SPEAKER_02:Look at this.
SPEAKER_03:I I don't know if they are or not. I just know it made for a decent thumbnail.
SPEAKER_08:So, do Mexican grow groipers want to deport the Americans?
SPEAKER_03:To be fair, the type of Americans that go and live in Mexico City, I'd want to deport them too, probably.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it there was a they had a story the end of last year, a bunch of people who were moving like Tijuana and stuff from California because it was too expensive to stay in California, and the Mexicans were upset. Taking are they taking our gerbs, you know, and yeah, they're real upset. Oh I I had a friend in the Marines who he was Mexican. We you know make fun of him all the time for it. But I used to ask, like, if I go to a Home Depot in Mexico, is it white guys standing outside trying to get jobs? But he he made sure to to let me know no, it's like Guatemalans and Hondurans, yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but I you know had to make sure.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. You have a bunch of gringos moving down there and bringing their American dollars and buying up properties, like that. That a lot of there's a lot of expats that live down along the coast in Mexico living off of a pension of like$2,500 a month plus social security, probably another$1,500,$2,000 a month, and living like royalty down there. There's you know, it's especially good if you get farther further down into Belize where they speak English, uh, you have a lot of it down there. And there's no income tax, no property taxes in uh Belize. If you buy it right, Belize was uh British, right?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well, it was given to the British. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Who are you talking about here?
SPEAKER_08:Like during the summer, we keep it around 73 during the day. And at night I put it down to like, you know, well, my wife puts it down to like 69 or so because we like to sleep in the cold. But at night it's not so bad because it's at night. Now, right now, in between seasons, we don't use it a lot because it's very nice outside. So we might open windows or we just might not use it because the kids are going in and out so much anyway. We might as well have windows open. We keep our house about 70 in the winter. Yeah, we keep it about 70-71 during the day in the winter. Uh, because it just gets so dry, it dries you out real bad if you have any higher than that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07:Let's see.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that that's kind of the irony, isn't it? Yeah, Nick Futos is Mexican.
SPEAKER_08:Y'all didn't see that video of him where the cops were harassing him. He was saying he's not a white supremacist because he's Mexican.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I did see that, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. What is this blasphemy here? You do not give control of the thermostat to anybody other than the man who pays the bill. Very true. Very true. Y'all have your fathers have failed you. 67 in the winter. That's uh that's that's um, I like to wear a hoodie in the house at the temperature. I don't like to wear hoodies ever. You don't wear hoodies?
SPEAKER_03:Not a fan.
SPEAKER_08:I don't I have a few hoodies, but my wife takes a lot of them. She takes a lot of my clothes. But I got I got a few that I wear pretty consistently. I don't have as much anymore. When I was in the Marines, I had a bunch of them, but I don't have as many anymore. I would wear shorts and t-shirts year-round if I could. Guys, I don't think y'all know this, but Rob has set up dual cameras.
SPEAKER_03:I do.
SPEAKER_08:So when he goes into his song and dance later on in the second part of the show, see cameras.
SPEAKER_03:I want to try it out.
SPEAKER_08:He's gonna sing Over the Rainbow at 8 o'clock. It's gonna be great. Yeah, it's just I my dad used to have the the thought process that in the winter he kept it cold in order to keep me from being a sissy, right? So if it was like 65 degrees in the house all the time, then when I go outside and it's 45, it's not that much different. In fact, he wouldn't let us bring our coats in the house, our coats had to stay outside. What because he was of the thought process that if you wore your coat inside and you went outside, it wouldn't warm you as well. I mean, it doesn't make sense, but it kind of makes sense. No, it doesn't, it makes no sense. Well, if you have a coat on inside, yeah, and then you go outside, you're cold, right? Because you've been sweating inside, right?
SPEAKER_03:So now you're cold no because I didn't put the coat on until I was going outside.
SPEAKER_08:But that's what I'm saying. My dad would not let us wear a coat inside at all. So we had to keep our coats outside. Not like if it was raining, we wouldn't, right? We wouldn't put it outside, but we would keep our coat because that way when you put it on outside, yes, it's cold for a second, but it warms up real fast. I don't know. That's like old man blue-collar thinking, I guess. Oh, sorry, yes. I will read the comments out loud. Yeah, we're highlighting. Sorry, I'm horrible about that. I forget that some of y'all just listened. Why would y'all not want to see Rob's dual camera effects?
SPEAKER_03:You guys are really missing out.
SPEAKER_08:I'm kind of jealous actually. I wonder if I could do that on my iPhone.
SPEAKER_03:Uh instead of are you using a Mac?
SPEAKER_08:No, I just bought like a HP thing. Really, I never use my laptops very much anymore.
SPEAKER_03:Are you using the camera on the laptop? I am. If you go and get a plug-in webcam, then you can use both.
SPEAKER_08:I could do both.
SPEAKER_02:I've got a uh GoPro. I wonder if I could do that.
SPEAKER_03:Possibly. To be fair, your internet connection doesn't really handle even one, though.
SPEAKER_08:That is true. That is true. You know, it'd be sad if I got Starlink and it was much better. Would be sad, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:That would be super sad. What's on my shirt? Joan of Arc. Saint Joan of Arc is on my shirt from Bear Tooth Catholic. My daughters would love that.
SPEAKER_08:In fact, one of my daughters dressed as Joan of Arc this year for Saints Day. That's awesome. Yep. I was surprised. Did not expect that of her. Her favorite scene is Saint Rose of Lima. When Joan of the Arc came out, I was like, okay, we can do that.
unknown:All right.
SPEAKER_08:Do we want to get into the story? We don't want to bury it too much.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, I don't know if I have a story. So before we get into it, okay, before we get into it.
SPEAKER_08:So we've got to go over my weekend real quick.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Yeah, you said you had a.
SPEAKER_08:I've been under spiritual attack since Friday night, pretty much. Like, I haven't had time to prep for the show whatsoever. Just a bunch of stuff going on. Right. So Friday or Saturday, Friday morning, I go out and I'm going to get my SUV to go do something, run an error or something. And I've got a flat tire. I got a no, it was Saturday morning. My wife was out Friday night. I'll let her drive it. Saturday morning. And so I've got flat tires. Well, I gotta use my truck. Well, my truck doesn't have air conditioning. It's just it's a farm truck. I use it just to haul stuff around. It's four-wheel drive, I take it to my property to do stuff. Don't really do much with it. And I could get the air conditioning to work, but I just haven't bothered because I don't really use it off. I just brought down the windows and I'm good. I just know when I'm getting that thing. If it's the summer, I'm gonna sweat, and that's fine. So I I can't use it Saturday morning. And we had to get our we got we're selling two of our steers, and so I had to get them sectioned in a pen that we have, yeah. And after I got done milking the cows, and then I would bring the models over to the pen, and then the calves would follow them in, we'd lock them in. Well, it kept getting out, like they're jumping over it, right? Which is another reason why I'm selling. But so it kept getting out, and then the guy who's been trying to come and buy them for like three days, he'd reschedule him. He's supposed to be here at 11 o'clock on Saturday, never showed up. I was like, all right, he's gone, I'm not talking to him ever again. So then Saturday, my wife's you know gone a lot of the day. With she's having lunch with her friend. Speaking of which, it is very important to let your wife get out of the house and go talk to adults on a special if you have a stay-at-home wife, let her get out of the house and go talk to people that are you know not seven years old. Um, and you can't be it all the time. Like it's yeah, you're husband or wife, you know what, however, you run your household, but uh you can't be it all the time. Sometimes she's there's things that she wants to talk about to other women. Let her go do those things, right? So I find it important that I always look, you know, make sure my wife knows that she's always able to go do that stuff. As good as it is all day, Saturday. Saturday after that's pretty okay, right? Saturday night, move cows over Sunday morning. Sunday morning is not okay, but you know how someday is when you go to mass, like you're yelling at the kids, nobody's getting ready on time, can't find shoes, people you know, girls' hairs is not brushed or whatever, get to mass, pull into the parking spot. We're not doing luck this Sunday because we're gonna go have lunch with a friend of ours. As I'm getting out of the car, I reach back and I feel I don't have my wallet. Oh no, and my my house. Oh man. Can you hear me okay, Rob?
SPEAKER_03:No. I mean, yeah. I'm getting the gist of it. Getting the gist. You definitely sound very uh yeah, very robotic.
SPEAKER_08:Sorry if I sound like Peter Frampton. That's probably an older joke for a lot of y'all. So get the mask. I forgot my wallet. Well, on top of that, we're on like E. Like we have like you know, my wife's car, she never fills it up, so I'm gonna have to put some gas in it. After mass, we're leaving. And she's got her phone, she doesn't have her wallet either. She doesn't have her purse. We have nobody to buy gas, but she's got a phone, so we're gonna try to use like the tap thing, right? The what thing? So you know, like where it has that gap thing where you can like tap your phone to pay for stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I use it all the time.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I I never use it, I just use the card. Right? So go get gas, fill it up, it's great, right? It's it's sad that this is a conversation we're having to have in my internet. Alabama is not doing well for the image. So then we're on our way to go to a friend's house, and two minutes later, we're on the expressway, you know, good to go that way, and I get a flat tire. Uh again, yeah. So now this is on a van, not my HD, now it's a van. I've got a flat tire. So I get out and look at it, I've got you know, change the tire, and and it's blown the wall, like the walls all tore up. It's not like I got a nail or something. And so I'm changing the tire on the side of the expressway. There's all kinds of traffic going by. Yeah, I go to put the donut on, and the donut's just about flat, too. Of course. Yep, right. It's it's supposed to be 60 psi. It's you know, the rim's almost rubbing the ground, and so I get it on and we go to the gas station down at the next exit. It's at 19 psi out of 60.
SPEAKER_05:Yep.
SPEAKER_08:So I had to put some air in it real quick, and then we finally get then we get on the road, we get over to our friends, had a lovely lunch, you know, spending some time with some friends from church. It was great, right? As we're leaving, he he the father of the home that we were at pointed out, hey, your front right tire looks pretty rough, too. Oh my gosh, and I could see almost to like you know, the metal stripping tire. Yes, there's like a crack, and I could almost see the metal stripping. Oh, so and this is like a 50-minute ride from to home from their house, like it's way far away. We'll let we go to Light Mass, so everybody spread to the winds. So I'm stressing the whole way because I don't have another donut, right? And it's Sunday afternoon, evening time. Nothing. If I blow a tire, there's nowhere for me to get into tire. There's no pot like I don't know what we're gonna do. So I'm white knuckling it all the way home. I'm just I probably did a uh 1200 Ave Maria's on the way home just trying to just get me home, just get me home. And so I had to take the long way because I wouldn't I was scared to go on the expressway once I got up to it up near my house because they're they graded the road because they're gonna repave them, so they're really rough, and I don't need a rock going in and hitting the tire and blowing it up. I know so Cigarmo says carry portable air compressor. I wouldn't wouldn't that have helped it. It wouldn't have helped at all. Like, how many am I supposed to carry another donut? I don't know. So we get home. I'm like, okay, at least we're home. Get right by the bed. Wake up this morning, and I go milk the cows, come back in. I'm taking a shower, and my phone falls because I'm listening to it in the shower. My phone falls, hits flat on it. The screen is like half white now. So now I can't use my phone, and I use my phone for work, I use it for everything. Like it, I can't I have to have my phone for work because we have dual authentication to get into our computer system, and I can't get into it if I don't have a phone, right? So then I'm like, what like my wife's kind of like trying to keep me from spiraling? And because like it's just like one thing after another, after another, and then I'm like, I'm gonna have to so then I'm trying to find another phone. Can I just switch the other phone, use like an old phone for a little bit? Well, the new phones use eSIMs, they don't use a SIM card. Right, and these old phones don't use eSIMs. Yep, so I was gonna have to drive one of our two cars that didn't have hired, right, to go get a new SIM card and get all that fixed. And so finally I was like, Well, I'm just gonna take my truck and I'm gonna go to this like cell phone repair place, let them fix my screen. Well, as I'm about to leave, my wife is like, Hey, let's let me check it. So she checked, I still still under warranty on my iPhone. So I have to go 45 minutes to the Apple store, and I get there, and it takes them like two and a half hours to fix it. And then my wife's at home. We had already bought tires for her to go get new tires, and she's gonna have to go at you know five o'clock to go get them. I don't know if I was gonna be home in time to go, you know, follow her just in case. She goes to get new tires. I'm coming, I've got to go get a trailer to go take because we're taking our bull to process tomorrow. So far, got home with the trailer, she got the tires done. Like, let's just breathe. It's been a crazy weekend. Like, I don't want to test anything, but tomorrow's a new day. That's either good or that's bad. I'll know tomorrow.
SPEAKER_03:Oh man, you you had a rough weekend, man.
SPEAKER_08:It but the sad part is like now that I look back on it, it wasn't even that bad. But in the midst of like these little, I'm just like a death of a thousand needles, right? Yeah, and it that's what made it worse. Not only that, but I felt like I wasn't doing my job as a father because all this stuff was going wrong. Like this, this is my job to do all this stuff, and I was just I was stressing myself out for no reason, and we were my wife and I were talking about it, and she's and she's like, you know, you need to be offering this up, you know, how many people were gonna convert from this, you know, and and I was like, Man, and we better be converting the entire nations uh from this, but entire nation, it was bad, man. But no, like you know what? If if you're not struggling, you're probably pretty weak in your faith because God knows you can't handle it, yeah, right? You know, and so maybe he's just trying to help me grow, and that's the only way I can really look at it is like he's just trying to make sure I grow to where he wants me to be. But I don't like the way he goes about it. I don't like it at all. We do one thing at a time, not five in a row. Ease me into it. He just threw me into the deep water, yeah. Yeah, we have a so Cigarmo said it says again, I'm trying to read these out for y'all. CPR cell repair guys have saved him from three different states. I almost use them. We have one, but they didn't open till noon, so I couldn't even get into them to put auto-tune on like acon.
SPEAKER_03:That is what you were sounding like. That's so sad.
SPEAKER_08:I had fiber, right? And it shouldn't be like this at all. Oh, it's your routers now. Well, I mean, I had my routers for like three years. I mean, yeah, it's I don't know. Maybe I maybe I need to get better ones. Uh I don't know. We'll have to look into it. But I have heard that fiber, and any of you tech guys let us know in the comments. I've heard that fiber is very susceptible to the the temperature change because the expansion and contraction of the actual fiber, when it goes hot to cold a lot, it can cause issues and it can damage them. We had that issue when we had fiber at our last house. ATT did it, and they had all kinds of issues throughout the neighborhood. They had to keep replacing fiber because the constant, you know, high and lows of the temperature.
SPEAKER_03:Really?
SPEAKER_08:So maybe because the temperatures aren't gonna affect Starlink, I can tell you that.
SPEAKER_03:Shouldn't no.
SPEAKER_08:No, all right. Let's do the uh let's put that now. Y'all have my crazy weekend. Let's uh let's start, let's check on the story. I have not I've like just read the headline, so I'm gonna read this with y'all when we do it. I don't have an article. I've just articled okay.
SPEAKER_03:I got I got videos and stuff.
SPEAKER_08:All right, pull up the videos. I just so I saw the stuff going on in in in Mexico City. I saw the graffiti on the door about their president. Did you see that one?
SPEAKER_03:Yo, yeah, I saw that one.
SPEAKER_08:Can we show that?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I don't see why not.
SPEAKER_08:Oh for those of you that can read Spanish, this would be a nice one. Just pull that up real quick, and then the her comments afterwards. I've not seen her comments. So well, let's pull it up real quick and we'll pull those videos real fast.
SPEAKER_03:So, for anyone out of the loop, over the weekend in Mexico, there was calling them Gen Z a Gen Z protest, and they they've happened in few a few countries now so far this year. But basically, a bunch of young people unhappy with the corruption within Mexico's government, specifically in regard to the cartels, started protesting. And the president of Mexico is a Jewish woman, and I think Jews compose what 0.2% of Mexico's population or something like that. So this is how the Gen Z protests responded. They put this, it's either on the doors of their Supreme Court or on the actual presidential palace. I'm not sure which one.
SPEAKER_08:But yeah. I mean, is that really anti-Semitic?
SPEAKER_03:Well, I mean, it depends on your definition, I suppose.
SPEAKER_08:So anyway, it's it is a very gender-specific Jewish slur, we'll say.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. But yeah, so it all it started because there's been two or three assassinations of different mayors by the cartels within the last month or two, I think.
SPEAKER_08:Well, and when Schaumb was going through her campaign to get elected, that was the bloodiest election campaign ever.
SPEAKER_03:There was more some candidates assassinated.
SPEAKER_08:There was there was more candidates assassinated in that campaign than ever. And that's a normal thing in in Mexico. Yeah, like that's why they can't get anybody good to run because they just get killed. Because a lot of people run that are good quality candidates and they just get you know murdered right in front of their families.
SPEAKER_03:So here's another photo of a protester. Now, the flag he is carrying is from the anime one one piece, I think. I think that's what I've heard. Apparently, all these Gen Z protests are in these different countries. The protesters have flown that flag for one piece. From another one.
SPEAKER_08:What is it on? Is it like uh just on YouTube or something?
SPEAKER_03:I I don't know. I think I think it might be on Netflix. I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_08:The the young the young young is it like Rick and Morty style type thing? No, it's anime. Well, I know, but you know, anime is just the you know the style, but is it that same type of comedy? And yeah, but like the comedy is what I'm really referring to.
SPEAKER_03:It's on crunchy roll, that's what it's on.
SPEAKER_08:Adrian has no idea what that is.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know what crunchy rolls.
SPEAKER_08:Is that the thing that plays at the gas stations?
SPEAKER_03:No, no, isn't that the thing on the roller grill at the gas station is crunchy roll? Isn't that what I get?
SPEAKER_08:That is a taquito.
SPEAKER_03:Everybody knows Crunchyroll, it's what I get when I go to the sushi place, right?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I get that right after I get the California roll.
SPEAKER_03:One Piece is one of the is yeah, it's one of the most popular animes in history.
SPEAKER_08:Apparently, it's I don't know, it's I don't I don't see I don't watch anime because I'm not gay, so it just doesn't really appeal to me. In fact, you know, anime is the entire reason that Japan is as neutered as it is, like that was God's punishment on them after World War II was giving them anime.
SPEAKER_03:You don't think two nuclear weapons were punishment enough?
SPEAKER_08:Apparently they didn't learn their lesson, it gave them anime.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_08:Now I will take I will I will say this. I did my the first anime I ever watched was in high school Akira was the first one I ever watched. Okay, and then I watched it Yeah. Did you ever watch Dragon Ball? No, I never really got into that. That was that was a little bit after I was out of high school.
SPEAKER_03:That was right when I was in like all the memes.
SPEAKER_08:I get all the memes.
SPEAKER_03:Like I understand them. What's really interesting to me is Dragon Ball is really big in Mexican culture.
SPEAKER_08:Is that like Looney Tunes is really big in black culture?
SPEAKER_03:I was not aware Looney Tunes was very big in black culture. See Rob's never met a black person as a brawl.
SPEAKER_08:I mean, uh I live in the well, not quite the great white north, but yeah, like so it it's been big here for I don't know, down in the south anyway. It's been big forever. They wear a lot of shirts with like the Tasmanian Devil and you know, Bugs Bunny and Really?
SPEAKER_03:I I legit thought you were joking. I thought it was some sort of joke story.
SPEAKER_08:100%, yeah. Yeah. That's a The only thing they have, see, Minnesota was lacking in black folks so bad they had to bring them in from Africa. And now all of Minneapolis is nothing is little Somali.
SPEAKER_03:You have South Minneapolis, all Somali, North Minneapolis, all American black. And then that's why I don't go there.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's they're super in the let me see. Keep going. I'm gonna pull up some stuff for you.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, let me uh I got video from the protest. Let me pull that up real quick.
SPEAKER_08:See if I can find some images of these uh all right. So see the guy with the tan backpack on what? That tan backpack on the bottom left hand of the corner? That is a very military issue style backpack. It is for sure.
SPEAKER_05:A lot of maths going on.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, there's yeah, the one right in front of you right now. That backpack. That is a if I I'm not trying to look military, but I'm military. That's what that is.
SPEAKER_03:Like all my uh everly stock backpacks I got. Yeah, that's exactly what that is. I am not aware if she flew to Israel or not. I haven't heard that.
SPEAKER_08:I there's no way she hasn't. Like everyone has to go kiss the wall.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I g I guess they mean like now.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, right now.
SPEAKER_03:I would imagine that's what they're talking about. Hawk, I don't know if that's the case. If you mean like she's escaped to Israel at this point or not, I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_08:No, because so her comments afterwards, uh, and I these are not verbatim, obviously, because I don't, you know, I'm not gonna memorized memorize it, but basically it was I don't care how many protesters we have to kill, put this down. Oh, really? So things could get real spicy here soon. Because she's bought and paid for by the cartels, yes, right? And in fact, she made a comment at one point that putting down the cartels is anti-Semitic, which is weird.
SPEAKER_03:It's funny how the things they think are anti-Semitic. It makes me wonder if everything that is claimed is right.
SPEAKER_08:I've heard making fun of anime is anti-Semitic, so take that for what it's worth.
SPEAKER_03:Fair. Right before we came on the show, I got a text saying that they had set the Israeli embassy on fire.
SPEAKER_07:The Israeli embassy on fire?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, in Mexico. Let me see if I can find that real quick. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Because I wonder it how let's see, Mesco. If it's a reinforced embassy or not. Let's see, latest. Kind of like our one in Baghdad. Right. As of the 15th, they are attacking the embassy in Mexico City. This is all as the 15th, so this is a couple of days ago. At least on X.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I'm I'm showing that they did it in May of 24.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I see that too.
SPEAKER_03:So maybe that's not current.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I wouldn't think it is. It's just amazing that a woman with the last name of Schonbaum was elected as president of a Mexican or of a Hispanic country.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it is pretty pretty.
SPEAKER_08:That is a that is an astroturfed candidate, if you've ever seen one.
SPEAKER_03:By definition, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, absolutely. And the as we talked last time, as we talked Friday, you know, with the Gavin stuff going on and all that. And Joshua Charles has talked about this. The fact that they're pushing back and basically blanketing anything that is a criticism of anything Jewish whatsoever as anti-Semitic speech, is going to just blow up in their face.
SPEAKER_03:It is.
SPEAKER_08:Because it one, you have an entire generation Gen Z who just the more you tell them they can't do something, the more they want to do it. So, and which is why they have no shame now when it comes to criticizing certain demographics of people. They don't care. Like, what are you gonna do? Not give them a job? Because you can't fire them because they don't have jobs, because they can't get jobs, you know, because they're just not you don't have the right skin tone in in politics. And so like they're immune to this stuff, they're basically being forced to have apostolic poverty without the faith at this point, right? You're you're taking you're making them have to live a hard life, and then you give them access to the faith. These are gonna be the great the greatest Catholics we're ever gonna see in our lives, right? Because you've already taken everything from them, and then now they lean on God too. What can you do to them? Nothing, you can't do anything.
SPEAKER_03:You know, no, I hate all everything in our world today gets tied back to like World War II, but if you look at a lot of the parallels to basically what was happening almost exactly 100 years ago, like you had an entirely disenfranchised generation, right, in in Germany, of of of young men who you know who had who had gone through World War One, who's or who parents had gone through World War One, their economies destroyed, their inflation's rampant, worse than it is now. But but you you just have a generation that feels hopeless, yeah. And moral degeneracy degeneracy is being shoved down their throats, you know, by certain people, and I'm not saying it like a Jewish conspiracy or anything like that necessarily, but the people involved were very similar to the people that are involved in degeneracy down our throats today, and then you then as that populace starts to kind of become aware, you have you have Jews, individual Jews, write things like you know, they want to replace the entire German race, and you know, and things like that, and you end up with with the country that that elects Adolf Hitler democratically, and you know, and and obviously we well, I'm I'm not gonna say we know what goes what happened from there because that's kind of rather contentious at this point, but um well, and it's it's allowed we are just now getting to the point where we're allowed to question it, right?
SPEAKER_08:Like, not specific it we're not being encouraged to do it, and we're not being told to do it, it's more or less that they've lost grip of the narrative so much that we are now able to slip in these little questions like, hey, was this really true? Like, did Ann Frank really invent the ballpoint pen three years before it was really invented? Is this what happened? You know, and to the point earlier that Dale Grassis said that you know, talking about how let me pull it back up, you know, the neocons are based, you know, where'd it go? I want to I want to give him some here it is. So he says the neocons going hard to read out the American verses from the right. I know what you meant. The only thing the neocons have going from is they have money, and that's it. They have no morals, they have no principles. No, they have they have boomer money, yeah. And the and once they die, half that money goes to the government. So they're not gonna have that. They're they're not leaving it to anybody at all. And that's just this is that's a well-known trope amongst the boomers. You know, if they had, you know, if they're in an elevator with Adolf Hitler and Stalin, they had two bullets, they'd shoot their grandkid twice, right? For a lot of these people, and they I and I see it all the time, right? And and then what I you know, dealing with you know, people in in social circles, they just a lot of that generation not not everyone, there are some good boomers, right? They're guys that have helped, you know, Pat Buchanan is a good boomer, right? You know, everybody who has helped bring forth the faith, the people who uh kept the truth going forward that allow us to start learning about where the narrative is wrong, right? These are all the boomers they but the majority of them, unfortunately, they just they want to sap every little piece of everything they can for themselves and be damned by anybody else. And it's sad, right? Because these people had their one and a half kids and their kids don't even like them. And that's a sad situation, especially in your most vulnerable years, and your kids don't want to be anywhere near you because you treated them so horribly, or you were super selfish and you didn't want to give any of your time to them. That's so that's gonna be a lot of isolation and and very lonely people.
SPEAKER_03:Well, especially when they've taught their kids what to do with them in their old age by putting their own parents in homes and things like that in nursing homes.
SPEAKER_08:The long-term care situation in America right now is if you reach the age of 65, you have an 80% chance of needing some type of long-term care. We do not have enough facilities in the United States right now to take care of all the people that are gonna need it. We sure don't have enough young people to work in the facilities. And compound that with kids of these people that are gonna need long-term care, they're stuck in a double income situation, so they can't leave their job to take care of their parents because they can't afford it. Right? If you got two you know, people in a marriage and they're both making forty thousand dollars a year, they're barely making eighty thousand dollars a year, and now they have a parent who needs ninety-six thousand dollars a year in long-term care, like they're just not gonna be able to do it. And then these, you know, these older folks who you know, all they're living on is Social Security because they blew it all during the retirement years, like they're gonna be in a very a poorly managed government facility.
SPEAKER_03:And this does seem to be the ruling classes solution. My wife worked in in a long-term, yeah. Here she is. Yeah, a decade ago when she was working in it, the vast majority of her co-workers were Somalian, and this was in a a private, well-to-do long-term care facility. Yeah, and the the the amount of elder abuse she saw by by people who were not from our country, were not from our culture, who don't share our values, you know, it was it was heartbreaking for her.
SPEAKER_08:When I was a firefighter paramedic at Atlanta in the metro Atlanta area, I used to have to go to a facility half a mile, maybe three-quarters of a mile down from our station. I would go there three or four times a shift. And this place was mostly run by Medicaid. But I knew when I got there that I was either dealing with somebody who was dead or was almost dead, because that's how long they'd wait. Like I had to get there and they're like, Yeah, I just checked on him five minutes ago, and I checked him, and like he's rigor mortis has said, and this guy's obviously been dead for 12 hours or more. There's no way you just checked him five minutes ago, yeah. Right. And I used to rate these places based on at what point I smelled urine, right? Even the really nice places, when you get older in life and you lose continents, right? You're gonna, if you go into somebody's room, it's you're gonna smell it. It's just just a fact of old life, right? But this place, man, it when I pulled up, so when I pull up, the EMT is driving, I'm paramedic, right? And I get out, I get the jump bags, he gets the stretcher, and we're going up. Well, they had a wrought iron gate that was about 10 feet from the door, and then the door was you know, they had to budge in. You go in the door, it's 20 feet to the nurse's station, and then from the nurse's station, it's it's like a like a crucifix, and the next room is like 20 feet from there, you know, and even in the nice places, I walk into a you know a room, I'm gonna smell it. Some of the less nice places, I'm gonna smell it outside the room, and then as it gets progressively worse, I'm gonna smell it at the nurse's station, right? This place I would smell it when I got to the wrought iron gate. Like I could smell it before I even got to the front door. And every time I went in there, it was it was this is one of those facilities that was so poorly run because it was all paid for by Medicaid. No families came to visit anybody, and these people are just waiting to die. That's all it was. And we're gonna see more and more of these happen as a lot of these kids cannot or will not take care of their parents, and they're just gonna need somewhere to shove their parents until they just die. It's long-term hospice, is all it is. And that's you know, unfortunately, the situation we're in because the baby boomers did not have yeah, cruciform. Sorry, thanks. Appreciate the correction, but they didn't have enough kids, right? And so there's no one to take care of them, even if they had kids, their kids are stuck stuck in a double income trap, right? Even if they wanted to help them, they can't, because now that their kids have kids and they can't afford to take care of their parents, too, right? So you're gonna see a whole lot of houses go on the market because they're gonna have to do reverse mortgages to pay for long-term care. These houses are gonna get be bought up by private equity firms, BlackRock, Blackstone, you know, Vanguard, and so forth, right? And then it's still gonna create the issue where housing's expensive, medical's expensive, because uh the government's having to pay for all these boomers to get medical care, because they're already doing with Medicare right now, and it's just gonna make it's gonna exacerbate everything, and then it's gonna it's going to come to a critical mass where eventually it just collapses.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, and this isn't gonna happen just in America. Matter of fact, America's gonna be one of the better off nations in regard to this, like Japan and South Korea, it's going to be civilizational ending. Like do you see? I think like 2100, the population of South Korea is supposed to be something like a tenth of what it is now, or something like that.
SPEAKER_08:Italy just hit their replacements at 1.13, which is lower than South Korea. Lower than South Korea. Yeah. That's how bad it is. Because in Italy, the the running joke is like kids never leave the house. One, because they can't find anywhere to live, and two, because they can't find jobs. There's nowhere, and so there they did this whole issue of failure to launch where they just could never leave the house. What's Dale Grazia saying? Back in the 80s, my aunt was in was in a RN in a retirement home. I visited for the summer once at a retirement home, and it was so bad that the place and the old folks just wanted someone to visit them. Yeah, all the time. We used to do it in high school. We used to go to a lot of the retirement homes and just you know sing Christmas carols and stuff. And you can tell these people have not seen anybody and who got who knows how long.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, my the uh my dad was diagnosed with MS. Well, before I was born. I don't know exactly what year it was off the top of my head, but so he had MS my my whole life, and but when I was 14 or 15, he had a seizure and brain bleed on top of the MS. And that that caused the whole thing. He ended up divorcing my mom and living with his brother, but towards the end of his life, when his bro when his brother could just no longer deal with him, you know, his brother was gonna put him in a nursing home in down in the Twin Cities where I grew up, four hours south of me. And we decided, well, if that's gonna happen, we might as well bring him up here. Yeah, you know, I I I'm not able to care for him with his his medical challenges. My you know, my wife isn't it'd be dangerous to have him around my kids with his personality, mood changes. So if he's gotta be in a care facility, at least let's have it up here. And you know, we I made sure to he ended ended up being up here for two months before he ended up passing away. But you know, me and my kids visit him visited him every day during those two months, and I was the only and I mean I wasn't there all day, obviously, but yeah, I I never saw anyone else visit anyone else in there. It was really, really sad.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it is is it the the abandonment, and some of it like you can understand because how poorly they treated their kids, but sometimes the kids are treated really great and they decide to chase career and such instead of you know maintaining contact with their their family, yeah. So this is going to so Hawk's comment here, he's he's responding to some another comment, but I want to highlight his first. He says, I believe it's private revelation, you can ignore it. Technically, yes, you can. Like you're it it is not required to believe any private revelation, but ask how the king of France dealt with that during the French Revolution. He ignored private revelation too and warning from heaven, and he lost his head for it, right? So, yes, you do not have to believe in private revelation. It your faith is not dependent upon it, but if if God is sending us messengers to give us things that he wants us to hear, we should at least give it some notice, right? And at least to help use it to help cultivate our interior life, if anything.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and we have to use prudence, obviously, to kind of weed out yeah, because I don't follow Megigu, right, whatsoever. You know, and and the church does have means of of helping with that, obviously. Those have been clouded over the past 80 years, give or take. But generally speaking, if the local bishop has approved it or disapproved it, that's usually uh what you should follow.
SPEAKER_08:And we've got to be careful of some of these false ones, too. I don't know if you remember this from back in 2020. There was supposedly a apparition happening in Texas. And is it found out she the woman was just making it all up? Yeah, but a lot of people were bought in, or like the stuff down at what is it? The uh what is that monastery with with the priest and the cloistered nuns where she's getting a like a locution like every day, pretty much? It's in Texas.
SPEAKER_03:It's happening right now, yeah. It's like constantly every day. I know what you're talking about. I've seen some of the supposed messages, but I don't know the name.
SPEAKER_08:It's like 21 21st century Megigu, but in Texas, it's it's like a sequel.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean, generally, you know, there are numerous apparitions of Our Lady that all have very similar messages, you know. They call call the faithful to similar acts and you know and devotions and things like that. And I think you know, it with those, those if our lady has come and told us the same thing three or four or five times, it's probably pretty solid. Well, it's always about repentance and prayer, it's always repentance and prayer, like repentance, prayer, and the rosary, basically.
SPEAKER_08:So I won't go back to White Knight's comment. He's like, How do we reconcile this stuff with Catholic private prophecy? How much is avoidable, how much it has been having according to divine providence?
SPEAKER_03:Are we talking about like general, like like everything that's going on?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, like everything that's going on right now. I think everyone feels like there's about to be a shoe to drop. Yeah, even people who have no faith whatsoever who are atheists, they're like, something's about to happen, right? Everyone kind of like we've all been holding our breath for. Yeah, like we're waiting for that gut punch.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_08:Like you've got a guy in front of you, you know he's gonna punch you, you're just waiting for when's it gonna happen, right? And I think we all feel that. Now, how does this line up? You know, and Rob and I have talked about this a little bit on the side. Like, how does this line up with things, you know, with you know, the Fatima? Because obviously Russia was never consecrated. If it is, but want a refund what world peace looks like. Okay, so if that was not done appropriately, right? Because there's there's obviously still graces involved, yeah, because it consecrated, you know, the world and Russia and you know Ukraine all at the same time. So there's gonna be graces involved there, but like how much worse would it be right now if he didn't do that? Right? And then you have to think, well, for the set of acontists that are out there, like, well, he wasn't the real Pope, so it never counted. Which there can be an argument for that. Okay, I get that. Like, I was never on the I was never on the boat that Francis wasn't Pope because I didn't, it's above my pay grade. Yeah, like I can't make that decision, right? And we have if now if someone came out with irrefutable proof that he, you know, I manipulated the the election and everything, then like that's a different story, but we don't have that. All we have is conjecture and first edition of a biography that kind of says some stuff, and like, but it doesn't really, it's not really real proof, right? So we can't really go by that. But if we follow the timeline on some things from Fatima, 100 years is 2017, but that 100 years really isn't as much of an indicator as when Sister Lucia was implored to have to have the Pope consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart, and that was in 2029. I'm actually so 2029 would be the 100-year mark, right? No, that's only three and a half years from now. Well, not even three and a half anymore, right? So how how much worse are things going to get between now and 2029? Yeah, yeah, you know, we're with what's going on in Venezuela, you know, and now Mexico's kicking like it seems like the entire world, there we're not gonna have World War III, we're gonna have world civil wars, like we're gonna have a bunch of civil wars happen all at the same time. And I don't think we'll have any type of you know, monolithic war whatsoever. I think we're just gonna see you know, civil wars in Africa, civil wars in Europe, civil wars in Asia, civil war in the Americas. It's all good, but it's all gonna happen at the same time. So then either one of two things is gonna happen. Either we're gonna get the antichrist, or we're gonna get the great monarch. Somebody's gonna pull us back from the edge, right? And if you follow the prophecy of the great monarch, you know, he he comes out, he comes from France, doesn't mean he's in France, right? He could be in Canada, no, he could be French Canadian.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, I quit.
SPEAKER_03:We'll not deal with a French Canadian monarch.
SPEAKER_08:Supposedly he's alive right now.
SPEAKER_03:Well, hold on, hold on. You know who are used to be French Canadians, specifically from the region of Acadia, Louisiana? Cajuns, yeah, he might be Cajun. He could be Cajun, wouldn't that be great?
SPEAKER_02:Good food at least. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:That'd be amazing. What would his coat of arms be? Like crawfish? Crawfish and a gator type.
SPEAKER_03:Gator head. It'll be one of those gator hunters from the history channel show. Did you did you ever used to watch Turtle Man? No, but I it sounds familiar.
SPEAKER_08:Man, if you ever get a chance, you should watch Turtleman. I have a feeling my wife knows what the he was on like history channel or something. His his his his coined phrase was uh live action. He was he would yell live action before he dove into a pond to come out with like a snapping turtle or something. Live action, he got like five teeth. He's hilarious. I'll have to find it for next time. But I mean, but so to go back to the prophecy question, 2029 could be a big year, it could also be nothing. You know, we who knows, but realistically, like what I do and what I advise y'all to do, y'all need to plan like it's gonna be dependent on you and your community only. Because we're we're our infrastructure, our entire country is held up by the engineering of old white men that are retired. We have a super complicated system, and we don't have anybody with the expertise to keep it down anymore. It's going to start degrading and it's going to start falling apart, and it's going to start getting worse.
SPEAKER_03:Literally, everything was jerry-rigged, and the jerries aren't allowed to do anything anymore.
SPEAKER_08:We'd had a different word, different term in the south, we used to call it, but I know, but you're not allowed to say that one. Yeah, not allowed to say that. I'm not allowed to say that one. I wouldn't anyway because I grew up I grew up with jerry rigging anyway. My grandfather would have used it though, right?
SPEAKER_03:But see, my grandpa used jerry rig because he was German. Yeah, we I and he would jerry rig everything.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, we used to, but my grandfather would not. My grandfather would use a completely different word related to Brazil nuts, related to Brazil nuts. That is correct.
SPEAKER_03:I did not know, I did not know about that other name until like five years ago.
SPEAKER_08:Really?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. When my grandma dropped it, and I was like, What did you just call them? Yeah, it's like you've had this from Obama. What are you doing calling them that?
SPEAKER_08:That the first time I heard it was from my grandmother. And my grandmother's a sweet old woman, but that was just what they called them. That's just how it was.
SPEAKER_03:I think we're going to see a lot of we're just gonna see a lot of low intensity conflict continue.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, yeah, 100% and grow over the next few years. Well, we're already seeing it, yeah. Right? We're already seeing Antifa is just low intensity conflict, yeah. Right with with the raids they're having in Charlotte right now, they're hitting these, they're hitting these cities on purpose. And because what Trump's trying to do is basically shine a light on how these people act, right? And so they want as much press as possible, and he knows that it's not going to come from your mainstream sources anymore, it's going to come from citizen journalists, people on X, people on Facebook, you know, whatever, YouTube, you know, AmericaFirst.plus, whatever it is. We probably do all have the same grandmother. But yeah, it's it like in my car, I keep mace on my door. No, I'm sorry, not mace anymore. I keep bear spray because it shoots like 12 feet. Because if I come up on a and there's like a you know a mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter protest downtown Birmingham, right? I'm I'm not shooting anybody, I'm spraying bear spray, and then I'm getting out of there, right? Because like I last thing I want to be is arrested because I defended myself, right? Um, you know, but it that's because that stuff is going to happen. Yeah, he'll probably come to Birmingham last. It's good, you know, there's a lot of other areas he'll come to first, but I still have to be prepared for it. I go out of town all the time. I go to Atlanta, you know, or I'll go up to Tennessee, or I don't go to Mississippi. There's nothing in Mississippi to go for, but you only go through Mississippi to get to like Arkansas and Texas. That's the only reason Mississippi's like a speed bump for the rest of the country, uh, which is why it's a great place to live because no one will ever come there.
SPEAKER_03:The first time I drove down to Alabama, we made the mistake of driving through Memphis and Mississippi to get to Huntsville. That was in the middle of the night.
SPEAKER_08:What a horrible idea. Well, were you on Math Quest? Did you have to print out your directions like a pirate to get down there?
SPEAKER_03:Well, I went that way because we went through Iowa and Missouri and then Arkansas and then over through Tennessee and Mississippi because I wanted to drive around Illinois because my carry permit doesn't work in Illinois, works everywhere else, but not Illinois. I get that.
SPEAKER_08:I mean, that was quite the dude. Memphis is horrible. It was it was it was scary. Like there's no good parts of Memphis. No, none. It's like driving through Toledo, Ohio. There's nothing good redeeming about it whatsoever.
SPEAKER_03:There is definitely some deliverance playing, you know, songs playing as we go through Mississippi.
SPEAKER_08:And this, in fact, I'd rather go through Mississippi than Memphis. Like, I'd rather live in Mississippi than Memphis. At least in you know, Mississippi, they're southern. Memphis is just a bunch of transplants or you know, some very horrible parts of town. Um but uh the Brazil nut neighborhoods are just not good. Yeah, Memphis is real bad. Yeah, I don't, man, don't do that again. Well, in fact, don't go through Nashville because the traffic's so bad in Nashville because you have all these California transplants moving there now, and New York transplants coming down there now that they they can't update the roads fast enough. Traffic is horrible there.
SPEAKER_03:You think that's bad. Try having that many transplants coming, but they're from Somalia. You shouldn't try driving in Minneapolis.
SPEAKER_08:Imagine giving a license to somebody, and the first time they saw a car is when they took the test.
SPEAKER_06:Literally.
SPEAKER_03:All those daily wire transplants in Nashville.
SPEAKER_08:Did Matt Frad move to Nashville?
SPEAKER_03:I don't know, man.
SPEAKER_08:Or was he just like go up there for shows and then go back home? Because they moved to Florida for that. Unless they paid him a lot of money, enough money to justify moving up there. I don't know. And I would not Nashville used to be great. That's the first place I ever saw Kanye. That was the first I used to it was back in uh 2000, 2001, maybe. Thanks, and I had that song in my head. Yeah, I wish he had that song back then. But they used to have a A concert series downtown on the on the river, and they the there was a barge that was the stage. And I saw Kanye for like five bucks.
SPEAKER_05:Really?
SPEAKER_08:I used to see cake a couple of times down there. I saw them like three or four years in a row. But yeah, they used to be great down there. Now it's ain't no way I'd go to Nashville. And I've got family that lives in Nashville. And I will not, I I won't go there if I have to. Should I try to try down next to my visit my mom?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but my my wife's family lives in Jacksonville, St. Augustine. So yeah. Yeah. We have to go down there sometime early next year to see her her mom. So y'all swing by. Yeah, we should. You come right through. Well, we're gonna fly.
SPEAKER_02:We're not driving. I know where we're driving too much. Yeah, don't do that. I was gonna say I'll send you home with a pig or something.
SPEAKER_03:No, that's another reason why we won't drive because you will.
SPEAKER_08:You should come down. I'll send you home with a pig. My pigs are furry. Like Pua from Moana. What?
SPEAKER_02:Y'all y'all haven't watched Moana? I've seen it once, I think.
SPEAKER_08:Like the pig that follows her around everywhere.
SPEAKER_02:You know its name?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, my kids watch it. Of course they do. Crazy talk. Why wouldn't I know that? See? Have little coonies. They run they'll flop over on their side and let you rub their belly.
SPEAKER_03:Adrian's gonna be at the midnight showing of the live action Moana movie.
SPEAKER_08:Well, they uh the kids just watched the second one.
SPEAKER_03:Oh they they made a second one?
SPEAKER_08:They did. This is my daughter's cat, Leo. He's turned out to be a great cat. He was a house cat. Yeah. Now he's a mouser. But now he's like hunting mice like a champ. He is talk about a redemption arc. This cat.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, now he's all over me. I shouldn't, I shouldn't have picked him up. I would be so itchy.
SPEAKER_03:I used to be allergic to cats. I'm not anymore. It's dogs.
SPEAKER_08:How do you how are you not allergic to cats anymore? How does that work? That's what happens. No, it's not what it is that's not how allergies work.
SPEAKER_03:It is how they work. Allergies get worse. They don't get better. Well, it depends. I am now I I'm a lot more allergic to dogs than I used to be, but both my cat and my peanut allergies went away.
SPEAKER_08:That's not how that works. I don't know, man. Ask the dog. You must have been allergic to something else. That's not how that's not how allergy about allergies. Allergies, you you so the reason like the anaphylaxis is such an issue is because you start to your body starts seeing those as more and more of a threat, so it starts giving more and more of a reaction. So as you get to get through allergies, right, you don't get better, they just get worse if they get worse at all. They might just be the same forever.
SPEAKER_03:Allergy shots, allergy shots increasingly expose you to more and more of that allergen.
SPEAKER_08:No, that's not how an anaphylaxis or any type of allergic response works.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:All I know is I'm no longer allergic to cats, okay?
SPEAKER_08:Well, then it wasn't cats you were allergic to, you're allergic to something else, and it just happened to be on like around cats when you got into it. I was maybe I was a little immunity doesn't change every seven years. Do I have to have Christopher on here to give you all medical talk? That's not my algae.
SPEAKER_03:My my allergist literally told me that that's like allergy shots. You start with a very small dose of the allergen, and as you go through them, they increase the dose of your body gets acclimated to it.
SPEAKER_08:No, that's not how that works. He's giving you something else. So it's it's kind of like so, for example, it's it's like an inoculation. He's probably giving you something else.
SPEAKER_03:There's probably something else about the cat that was giving you the I was probably allergic to cat ladies, old cat ladies, old crazy cat ladies. Yeah, everybody's allergic to that.
SPEAKER_08:All right, let's move on. This this topic's stupid, it's a dumb topic.
SPEAKER_03:Well what do we think the unrest in Mexico means for us?
SPEAKER_08:It it means increased turmoil at the at the border.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:You're gonna see more and more desperate people come up to the border. Where you are as it is right now, there's a lawsuit of the Supreme Court talking about how basically the Trump administration is arguing that border patrol agents should be able to refuse asylum seekers at the border before they as long as they're in Mexico and they don't come on our land. Once they're on our land, like we have to give them asylum or whatever. So they're trying to station border patrol agents on the other side of the border wall. Now, the border wall is like hundreds of feet in with our outside the border, yeah. Right. So it's still technically our land, but they're wanting to station them right at the border so they can deny them before they ever come in. But with what's going on in Mexico, if there is a revolution of sorts there and there's a there's the overturning of the government, you're just gonna see cartels seize more, and there's and then because the cartels are already on a on a fine balance as it is, they're already fighting each other all the time, anyway.
SPEAKER_05:Right.
SPEAKER_08:So it's just going to foment more and more conflict, which means we're probably gonna have to go in.
SPEAKER_03:In uh I don't have it at the top of my head here, but I want to say I saw something by Trump that almost kind of signaled that.
SPEAKER_08:Well, which surprised me that we're going after Venezuela because we should be going into Mexico like we're threatening Venezuela right now. Right. I understand.
SPEAKER_03:I guess the the big difference is Mexico doesn't have oil that we know of. Yeah. True, true.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but I I I think where's got oil if you drill hard enough.
SPEAKER_03:I almost made a bad joke. I also don't understand the the the thing with Venezuela, like not obviously there's so there too, but like I can't imagine that's as big of an issue as Mexico is.
SPEAKER_08:From a layman's perspective, because there's probably all kinds of different, you know, geopolitical theories. What from a just a layman's perspective perspective, with Venezuela's aggression towards Guiana, yeah, the fact that they have oil, the fact that they released all of their prisoners and sent them up here, who are causing all kinds of issues, it's more or less just uh we're gonna get back at you for doing all this horrible stuff. And we need to get you out of power and put somebody in who's much more uh favorable to the US, right? Just like what we've always done in Latin America, yeah. But I could see eventually, and I don't know if it'll be Trump's term, it might be in the Vance's term if we get to Vance. If we get to Vance, but uh I could see it starting to encroach into Mexico and start putting in like patrol bases along the border and start you know starting to try to normalize the border a little bit, kind of make it more safe, or make it almost like a DMZ sort of situation. Yeah, I mean they would just put they would probably just put Marines there because well that might be a bad idea. Because you don't want to mix Marines with big booty Latinas, that's a horrible idea. They might want to put navy on the street.
SPEAKER_03:Second only to being as bad as sending them over to like Okinawa or Jamaica.
SPEAKER_08:That's why they sent us to the desert. You can't get a rock pregnant.
SPEAKER_03:And the Muslims have all the goats, so man.
SPEAKER_08:Have y'all seen the things I've seen Muslims do to goats?
SPEAKER_03:I'm glad that didn't make the ultra.
SPEAKER_08:That was one of those situations where I'm I wish I didn't have a thermal camera. What? Oh, it's horrible, man. It's horrible. Yeah, not good. What if we already have cover we do? We have covert assets everywhere. They're everywhere. We don't like we have an entire we have entire units built around the capability of just destabilizing destabilizing a country if we if we decide that that's the route we want to go. And they've been there for decades. Yeah. You know, they just you know swap them out every 10 years or so. These are guys who who you would have no idea that they're uh employed by the United States government, they've been there so long. We would be a lot of illegitimate babies, unfortunately. You know, uh I think the Marine Corps is the only branch that is a majority Catholic. Is it because of Puerto Rico and the it's just more Marines or more Catholics join the Marines than any other branch? Oh, really? Yeah, it's I mean it's not like it's not 50%, it's like 35-40 percent of the Marine Corps is Catholics. It's because of redemptive suffering. Yeah, Catholics just uh embrace suffering and the Marines they glorify suffering. Well that any can't be can't be Catholic and gay, so the navy's out. Yeah, we could put them along the border. Don't have to worry about it then. In fact, hey, pull up did you get that video I sent you earlier about the Marines?
SPEAKER_03:Where did you send it?
SPEAKER_08:I text you. Let me pull it up. I know y'all y'all were complaining about the uh the chat the other day, and I didn't want to send it through that it not 50 percent. So if y'all may not know, those of you who are young, back in the 1992 LA riots, back when the roof Koreans were born, they called in the Marines to help bring peace. And they called the Marines to bring peace, yeah. They didn't they didn't train the Marines on how to do non-lethal activities whatsoever. So there was there's a couple of issues where there's a communications error that crept up.
SPEAKER_00:And this is this is one yeah. Two police officers fired upon with a shotgun, and one of the officers shouted cover me to the Marines, intending for them to be ready to fire if needed, but the Marines interpreted that cover as providing suppressive fire, and they fired approximately 200 rounds.
SPEAKER_03:That actually happened. They fired approximately 200 rounds.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, they're covering him, he's good. The guy keep the enemy's head down. Give him give him some suppressive fire, some grazing fire. He's gonna get wherever he wants to go.
SPEAKER_03:You imagine them explaining that to an officer later. Like, why did you guys fire 200 rounds? Sir, he said cover him.
SPEAKER_08:He said cover him. That's that's the difference, like, between like they say the same word but mean two different things. It wasn't their fault. Imagine being mad at a tiger for being a tiger, you know, like no one was upset at Harambe. In fact, Harambe is a good one.
SPEAKER_03:He was the cat, he was the catacomb.
SPEAKER_08:He since Harambe died, everything has gotten worse. But it was a gorilla being a gorilla, and we killed him for it. In fact, he was being a good gorilla, he was protecting that kid, and we killed him for it because we didn't know how to go in there and get him away from the gorilla.
SPEAKER_03:Protecting the kid from his terrible mother that let him fall into the enclosure.
SPEAKER_08:But I mean, when you send Marines into a situation, you only send Marines in for two reasons. You want to kill everything there, or you want to keep anybody from deciding to fight. That's the only reason you send Marines in.
SPEAKER_03:Or if they have a crayon surplus and you need to get rid of.
unknown:I don't know.
SPEAKER_08:I saw some pictures from a buddy of mine's so every year on the Marine Corps ball is uh November 10th every year. Well, it's around that time anyway. Yeah, but a buddy of mine sent me pictures from his Marine Corps ball he went to, and their desserts were cookies in the shape of crayons.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, the best thing about the Marines is you make a joke about any of the other you know branches to their face and they get a little butthurt. You make it to a you make a joke about a marine to a marine and they just laugh.
SPEAKER_08:That that whole the meme about Gen Z having racist friends, but all of them are like different races being racist to each other all the time. That's just the Marine Corps. That is the Marine Corps every day. The most racist things I've ever heard came from black guys to white guys, and we could not breathe from laughing so hard.
SPEAKER_03:What was the documentary you mentioned the other day? I tried finding it, and I couldn't.
SPEAKER_08:From my deployment?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. The battle for Marja.
SPEAKER_03:I looked for it, and it's not streaming anywhere. It's not? We'll see.
SPEAKER_02:No, you can buy it on DVD. It's not an HBO at all.
SPEAKER_03:I guess I didn't look on HBO.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, look on it's a it's a it's on HBO. It's a it's an HBO documentary. Okay. Yeah, the Battle for Marja. On the ground, it's a whole different war. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Joseph says that's because the Marine Corps treats everyone like they're black.
SPEAKER_08:There's another really good documentary about a friend of mine called Bastards Road. And it's about a no no, I don't know. In fact, uh Rudy from what was he in? What was that Marine show on Man? What was it? What are you talking about? There was a there was a drama about the ins the insert into Iraq in 2003. It was about the Marines going into Iraq. What was the name of it? Like a minute. His name was that like a big movie or it was like a it was a series on like HBO or something. About the insert about the invasion into Iraq by a Marine unit. And it was about a Marine reconnaissance battalion going in. Generation Kill? The Colonel's name was Yeah, Generation Kill. That's what it was. Anyway, one of the guys in it, his name was Rudy, right? He's one of the Marines that was in the unit. He was really a Marine, and he was really on that invasion into Iraq. And I had a buddy that served with him in that unit. And he used to say that guy was like, he's not gay, but man, if anybody else was, if anybody was gay in that unit, it was gonna be him. Because he was really into like working out and looking good and making sure all the guys saw him all the time. But uh but he's but he's like a he's been in a bunch of stuff since then. Uh but his claim to fame was he was a good-looking Marine, and that was it. And people kept like you know, picking him for stuff. Where was I going before that? Before I got interrupted. Anyway, battle marines. I go by that all day every day.
SPEAKER_03:What are some other what are some other good recent like war movies? Like the last road. That's all I know. Bastards Road.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. Some other good. So Bastards Road is good. Bastards Road is about a friend of mine named John, who he was in the battle for Fallujah in 2004. He ended up you know changing jobs in this in what I used to do, and then he got out and he was he's not in a good spot. You know, he he almost became one of the 22, and he ended up basically right doing a walk across the entire United States to raise awareness for a lot of the guys that he served with and such, but it's a phenomenal, it's a phenomenal documentary about his life and what is having. Now he's in, you know, he's got he's married and he's got kids and stuff, and but Bastards Road's really good. See what's some other good ones? Battle for Marja was good.
SPEAKER_03:Because the last really good war movies I remember seeing were I mean, it's like 20 years ago at this point. It was like Black Hawk Down, We were soldiers.
SPEAKER_08:What is another one that came out recently that was good? I haven't seen Warfare yet, but a lot of guys who I've I've served with said that was a little too realistic for their tastes. Really? It was hard for them to watch.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, what I don't know if you watch the main the the Avoiding Babylon channel, but we talked to Mel Gibson himself about that movie. So yeah, that is a good movie, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's the brothers. And there was another one that recently came out, and I remember the uproar about it being about how it was showing a bad side of the Marine Corps during the war, and apparently the documentary documentarians kind of did all the footage to make it look like Marines were like you know war criminals, yeah, whatever. But it was pretty true. What was the one with Jake Gyllenhaal where he was a sniper who never got to shoot anybody?
SPEAKER_03:I know what you're talking about, I can't think of it.
SPEAKER_08:That one fathers was a good one. That one with Jake Gyllenhaal in it, where he was a sniper, when he was like getting hazed and stuff like that, that is the most accurate portrayal of the Marine Corps that has been.
SPEAKER_03:So he's been in two. There's Jarhead.
SPEAKER_08:The Covenant is just a good movie. And I get it in The Covenant, because I we I had an interpreter that we've been trying to get to the United States forever. Because we knew his family's gonna get killed if they ever found out he used to do that. And I don't I don't I've got some friends that work at the embassy and they've been trying to get him over, and I don't know if they've been ever able to get him over.
SPEAKER_03:Now, if I remember right, flags of our so flags of our fathers is about Uojima, right? Is there or is that the one about like John McCain? It better not be the one about John McCain. I'll kick whoever put that in there is about John McCain. But because I think I think Flags of Our Fathers came out about Uojima from the American side, and then I think there was a movie that either was like the same team, the same production team from the Japanese side. Yeah, I forget which one I will saw both of them, they were both good. One of them, though, man, had some of the most realistic scenes of like wounds I've ever seen, and it was yeah, little much.
SPEAKER_08:Well We Were Soldiers was probably like the the depiction of Napalm, yeah, was some of the worst I've ever seen. But the probably the most accurate war film uh that I've ever seen was probably Tropic Thunder.
SPEAKER_07:Super accurate.
SPEAKER_03:What do you mean, you people?
SPEAKER_08:I wanted to dress like uh Tom Cruise is in that movie for Halloween one year. His whole thing, like the whole the whole reason he got that, he wanted to be in that movie, but he's like he's like, I'll be in it and I'll do whatever part you want. They're like, Oh, we want you to do this guy. He's like, I only do it if you give me fat hands. So they gave him prosthetics to make it look like he had really fat hands. I don't know, I didn't serve World War II. I can't tell you about Sabre Bright Ryan or me at the end of the year.
SPEAKER_02:Behind enemy lines.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but that one's just fictional. In Owen Wilson.
SPEAKER_08:Trying to say Top Gun 2 wasn't a good movie.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I'm not gonna say that. That was amazing.
SPEAKER_08:It was an amazing movie. It was fantastic. I know, but we all that yeah, if y'all get a chance, y'all should watch Battle for Marja. Y'all see some of the stuff that I went through. How bad?
SPEAKER_03:Like how graphic is it? It's not graphic. Okay, so I could watch it with with my now.
SPEAKER_08:There's gonna be some cursing. Okay. Like you're around the Marines, there's gonna be some bad language. But as far as graphic, as far as like wounds and stuff, it's not right. It's not bad. In fact, let me see if I can find. So we had a gunnery sergeant before we went into Marja. Gunny. Let's see if I can find it. Right. So Gunny Walgren, here it is. This is a really good uh this might be a little long. Let me share copy. So it's got this is gonna have a little bit of bad language in it just because he's a marine. I'm gonna send this to you in the private chat. You can share, can you share your screen?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, can I? Yeah, see. Down at the bottom. Down at the bottom. Presenter invite.
SPEAKER_03:All right, so it's gotta be in a Chrome tab for sound to work.
SPEAKER_08:Chrome? Hold on. Do I even have Chrome on this thing?
SPEAKER_03:If it's a Windows computer, why would you not have Chrome on it?
SPEAKER_08:Be under Google, right? Google Chrome. No, I don't have Chrome. I can download real fast. So anyway, Gunny Walgren.
SPEAKER_03:Or just or send it to me and I'll do it. All right, I'll send it to you, make it easier. But I'll yeah, Hawk is asking for the telegram link. I'll put that here in a second.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, y'all join the telegram. Get in there. Since my weekend has been crazy, I haven't been able to do anything with the competition. I'll put I'll just post it in there and I'll do it tomorrow when I after I take that bowl in. I'll get home and I'll I'll declare the winner and I'll contact the winner to for the to buy them the shirt.
SPEAKER_03:There's the new Vatican First hat they could choose.
SPEAKER_08:Hello, I might get one of those. But yeah, get in the telegram. We have a lot, we post a lot of deals, training, you know, a lot of intel that goes in there about what's going on.
SPEAKER_03:You know how I bought that Pinelli.
SPEAKER_08:Did you pull a C Z? Like when I bought my compact?
SPEAKER_03:No, no, no. You don't what do you mean? What are you talking about? You're frozen. No, we've lost Adrian again. No. Okay, no, okay, you're back. You're back. Well what do you mean that I pull CZ?
SPEAKER_08:Because you know, I bought that Shadow Compact, and then like two weeks later it came out with the carry.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so I bought the Benelli M4, you know, and the downside compared to like the Beretta 1301 is that it has a five, you know, a five-shell tube because it's made in Italy. Well, what did they announce today? Vanelli M4 with a seven-shell tube. I want to get a magazine Fed shotgun. I do too, but the only ones that look worth it are the Genesis, and they are so spendy. Are they?
SPEAKER_08:Like a Turkish one that's fairly reliable and affordable at the same time. Because the biggest thing you have to worry about is the is is it jamming.
SPEAKER_03:Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:That's the biggest thing you gotta worry about.
SPEAKER_03:So you just well, also I mean, depending on what you know what type of ammo you're using, it's cycling too, right? Because that's that's a downside with semi-automatic or yeah, with semi-automatic shotguns in general, is depending on what sort of system they use, if it's gas or inertia, it may not may not feed. Yeah, the falafel 12. Genesis 12 to the phalafel 12.
SPEAKER_08:The uh well, the other issue is like, you know, that's why in Kentucky when we used to go duck hunting, no one ever had a semi-automatic because they froze all the time.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_08:Right. So you'd always have to have a pump. And that's the only ones that you could fire. Because I can't tell you how many times I'd hear one of my dad's friends just cussing up a storm because he goes to the lift a lid off the duck line and click act like nothing happened. Because it froze up. Yeah. Did you get that link? Are you able to pull it up? The private chat?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that was okay.
SPEAKER_08:Let me so this is Gunny Walgren, who was the gunnery sergeant, I think, of weapons battalion when I went in to when we went into Marja. Gunny Walgren was a very salty Marine. He'd been around for quite a while by this point. This is like his fourth or fifth deployment at this point. So there will be some foul language. So if you don't want kids to listen to it, make sure they don't hear it. They're not in a room. But this is a a speech he is well known for, and it's viral, it goes viral like every year around Veterans Day.
SPEAKER_01:You gotta be done with it. No, negative, negative. I agree with one thing that's been said, it is about how good you look. I see a whole bunch of new racks that motivated me. Now we've been talking about this. I've kind of said about the speech. We don't tell you. What do you all want to hear? You all want to hear the white police? I don't like you. What the fuck would you do if somebody doesn't know? John Glend said it's not right. I served twenty-three years in the United States Marine Corps. I fought for two war. I flew a hundred and forty-nine. My plane was in my airfire on twelve different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my job. It was my life that was on the line. And this wasn't a nice job right. I was to take the telecast for the fight. I asked you to come with me because I went together. And you stand there. You look at those men with their mental bodies. You look them in the eye and tell them that they never held a job. You come with me and visit the gold star mother. You look her in the eye and tell her her son never held a job. You come with me to the fight program and visit the widows of the orphan of white customers of a rocket place. And you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad never held a job. You come with me on this Memorial Day weekend coming up to Arlington National Cemetery where I got more friends than I'd like to remember. And you stand there. You watch those waving flags. You think about this nation and you tell me that those people never held a job. I'll tell you, Howard Mr. Bob, you should be on your knees every day of your life, thanking God that there are some men who have held a job. And they require You're gonna know what you need to do. The people of Marshall will be on their knees every day in their fucking life. Fuck you, get up.
SPEAKER_08:Told y'all I had some language.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it wasn't wasn't where isn't me that much?
SPEAKER_08:It's Marines, man. They pepper that stuff in like it's a they're seasoning the steak. Imagine that, like it's been hard for me to kick that habit.
SPEAKER_03:I I can't imagine what it would be like living that daily.
SPEAKER_08:Three hours after he gave that speech was the world's largest Hilo-born insert in the Marsha. And you had the average of a 19-year-old going in with a gun to go liberate a city that had been terrorized by the Taliban for you know five, ten years.
SPEAKER_03:The saddest part of all of that it was for nothing. It was for nothing.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. It was. It was 100% for nothing. Because it it eventually got to the point where those people welcomed the Taliban back just for have some type of order. Because once the Taliban were out, you had issues with warlords, they were doing the same stuff. Right? If not worse. It was all for nothing. We saw that, you know, when we did the when we left Magrom and everything, you know, what was that, five years ago now?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, three or four years, five years ago. Yeah. But yeah, that was uh Gunny Walgren. He was I remember we were doing an operation, we were going to go clear out a village, and we our food had got like like our MREs had got flooded. We had no food. So him and he got two him and two other vehicles by themselves to come out and bring us some food. And like they were not supposed to be able to make it to us because of the wadies and the the canals and everything, but he made sure to get to us. So Gunny is a was a good dude. He's had a hard life since he got out of the Marines, but most guys do, man. You'll know what to do yourself, like because that's your identity. When you get out, you just it's hard for you to find that purpose again.
SPEAKER_03:Well, like he was the story about John Glenn, like you get out and you're presented with some ale, you know, like whoever that politician was saying crap like that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yep. Yeah, that was uh that was a an inspiring speech before going into margin killing a bunch of Taliban. But it's it's I was what I was watching a reel the other day or something on Instagram, and it was it was a scene from the movie Warfare where they're all just hanging out before they go do an opera or whatever. And then all it said was, if you only knew that this was the last time you would ever hang out with these guys and do this again, you know, would you have treated it differently? I think everybody that served does that. I mean, even guys who whether you're in the fire service or a police or whatever, like you're never going to have friends like someone that you put your life on the line with, right? So that's I think that's why a lot of men seek that now. Yeah. Right? They they want to have that that camaraderie, that that point where they've had to risk their life for something, and they're all chasing it, and it's not anywhere because nobody wanted to serve in the military the last four years because they're gonna send you to Taiwan to because you know Taylor Swift said you should, right? Because you she wanted you to vote for Kamala, or they're gonna send you to go fight for Israel, or you know, nobody wanted to serve them, and now they join because of Trump, and he's gonna send you to go fight for Israel, and you know that's just not what guys guys want to defend their homeland, and you might have to do that outside of the regular military. You know, there might become a day where you're gonna have to do that in your own neighborhood.
SPEAKER_03:I saw a very interesting tweet today, I forget who it was by, but it was comparing the differences in fantasies between men and women. And it it talked about how most women uh most fantasies that women have, it's about them giving up responsibility, accountability, right? Just basically being able to live a carefree life in some form or fashion. Whereas the most of the fantasies that men have, there it's actually about taking on greater responsibility, you know, going out and and you know, dying in a last stand for your protecting your family or protecting your country, or or literally giving your life for a greater cause. And I don't know if there's always been that difference or if that difference is more stark now with modern women versus modern men. I don't know, but it definitely I definitely see it as being at least true today.
SPEAKER_08:If you there's there's no frontiers anymore, yeah, right. There's there's no adventure to be had, right? Until they start getting us letters of mark to go down into Mexico, like none of us really have any type of adventure to look forward to, right? That's why a lot of guys join the military. So I got the only there's only two reasons to join the Marine Corps, right? You want to prove you're a man or you want to shoot bad guys in the face. That's the only reason. No one joins the Marine Corps for the college money. That's not the reason you can join the Air Force for that. You can go to the merchant marines, Coast Guard, anybody else. You join the Marines because you have a you you want to fulfill a purpose of some sort, right? So, but we don't have any of that anymore. Like Alaska has been conquered. Like we can't go to the moon because did we ever go to the moon, right? And then you can't go very deep in the ocean anymore because you know, every time we send a submarine down there, it implodes, you know, because there's because they use an Xbox controller, yeah, right. So and so you have a lot of men who lit live in these careers where it's behind a desk all day. That's why Fight Club was a prophetic movie. If y'all haven't seen Fight Club or read the book, the the movie is almost page for page the same as the book. There's a couple instances where it's a little bit different. And but it was a prophetic movie because we have all these men who I'll give you an example. I've got a client right now who is preferring to work behind a desk, making half of what he would if he did he went to go work for his uncle's HVAC company. But because he doesn't want to get sweaty and work, he'd rather be soft behind a desk. He's making half the money, right? Then the other side of it is I have guys who would love to join the Marine Corps, but they can't because now they've got you know a vaccine injury from having to take a vaccine to keep their job at you know, you know, Whataburger or whatever, you know. So there's just nothing there, but it's coming. There's going to be this this time of false peace that we're in right now, it's going to end. And it's going to end very quickly. People are going to start seeing violence that they never thought they could ever see. And that's when we're going to start finding out what we're made of.
SPEAKER_03:It's one thing I I actually try to talk to my boys about a lot. And then they're, you know, they're only six and four, so they're young. But I don't know. I don't, I don't, I mean, I don't know what else to do to try to get them ready for what I think is coming. Like, you know, trying to get them to understand, like we live where we do. You know, we moved away from from my extended family because because something is coming, and this is where I think we need to be for it. But even then, like, there's gonna be no escaping it, you know. And the world we live in now is gonna it's gonna fall apart, and the world that you're gonna grow up in is gonna be infinitely worse than the world I grew up in, and I don't know how to get you ready for it, but I gotta try.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, the the did you ever listen to the father ripper talk about how to raise a man? Yeah, that that is required listening for anybody out there that's married or gonna be married, or or even if you're discerning the priesthood, because you need to understand you know how fathers should be raising children. But some of the things I've tried to incorporate that with my son is give him hard things to do all the time. He hates it because he still likes to be he's with his mama most of the day, and she's trying to reinforce that against her nature, right? Because she doesn't like doing it, right? Because she wants to be a mama, she wants to take care of him and make sure he's okay and everything, but she also realizes that he's gonna have to be a man one day, and so she's she's trying to do both, right? But I give him hard things to do, you know. He has to go outside when it's cold and let the dogs out, you know, whether he likes it or not. He has to go do the chickens, or or I need him to go drag a bag of feed somewhere or whatever. And sometimes it would be something that I could do easily, but that's a lesson he has to learn. I don't spank him anymore. I haven't I I probably haven't spanked him in a little you know a while. I make him do push-ups and squats and stuff right now because if he's gonna get in trouble, he's at least gonna be strong. Yeah. And that's but that uh but then I also sit him down and I talk to him, like, why did you get in trouble? Like, why did I punish you? Right. And I he has to explain it to me as he has to understand why. Right. When I when I did spank my kids, it was only for one of a few reasons. They either were being disobedient or they did something dangerous, right? If they did something dangerous, because they were being disobedient, right? That was the only time I never spanked for you know accidentally messing up or doing something that on accident. I never did it. It was only when they deliberately did it. That was the only time. And it was only to let them know how dire the situation was. We are not disobedient in this house. Because there's a day that if I tell you to do something and you don't do it exactly when I tell you, someone could get hurt. It's not asking me why do I have to do it, why do I have to do that, Dad? You need to do it, and then after you do it, then ask me why. Right? But you need to do it when I tell you to do it, right? Because there's going to be a day when I'm gonna tell you get back, and you're gonna turn around and say why, and then you get hit by a car.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Right? No, you get back first and then say why. Right? And and getting my kids to that point where they understand that has been hard, especially for my girls, right? And because I can't be as rough on my girls as I am my boy. Like I have to I have to discipline them differently. Um it's hard because I'm trying to exemplify to them the man that they should want to marry. Right. I'm trying to to love their mother, like to let them know how they should be loved, and to show my son how he should love his wife, right? But also still be a dad. Right, because that's I it's so it's it's a hard line to to walk sometimes, but we have to get them ready for a world that's going to be worse than what we inherited. Yeah, and it's getting worse as they can see it, yeah. You know, and and how do we prepare all we can do is our best, you know, and and we just kind of hope that what we gave them and the knowledge we gave them and the values we gave them and the faith we gave them is gonna be enough. That's my scariest thing. That's my scariest nightmare is my kids leave the faith for whatever reason, some trauma happens in their life, whatever, that you know, because like we've all heard the tropes of like, well, I when I grew up, the nuns were mean to me, and that's why I left the faith. No, but you wanted to sleep with your 15-year-old boyfriend, and the nuns became the excuse, right? Exactly. Right. The nuns weren't so mean to you that made you leave the faith.
SPEAKER_07:But I'm scared to death of that happening to my kids. Yeah. And hopefully when I don't have to worry about that, we'll see.
SPEAKER_03:At the very least, hopefully, you know, you can give them uh enough of foundation when if they do go and leave, and when they realize what they're missing, they have enough of foundation to come back to it. Come back, yeah. You know, that's that's one thing. Same same with me.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, and it's it's probably entirely due to the rosaries of my grandmother. 100% right, and and I should be dead right now, like I should have died in Afghanistan, and I should be burning in hell right now, without a doubt in my mind. But God sought me and gave me the grace to I always talk to my wife all the time, I think the reason he brought me back into the church was to bring her into the church because I think she's gonna be the catalyst for a lot of people to convert. Everyone loves my wife and they tolerate me, but that's just how life is, you know. But and then my kids, like my son, he wakes up at 6 a.m. ready to conquer the day. He's the most joyful little boy I've ever met in my life. My girls are the same way. My oldest is a teenager now, so she's acting like a teenager. Um so, but I'm still like her favorite, you know, like she still likes to be around dad, so I enjoy that.
SPEAKER_03:But we'll see. The reason God didn't let you die in Afghanistan is because he wanted you to do live shows every Monday with me.
SPEAKER_08:Hey, I heard y'all liked Friday better. There's a lot of people, but I'm not doing shows on Friday very often.
SPEAKER_03:I'd rather not do shows on Friday.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I did not that I do anything on Friday anyway, but I usually do a lot of stuff early Saturday, and I don't want to have to stay up on Friday night so I can get to bed early.
SPEAKER_03:I like having Friday to be able to do, you know, stay up late with my kids. See, I don't I don't stay up late with my kids. I put them to bed.
SPEAKER_08:I'm talking like 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock. My kids are in bed by eight. Well, yeah, my kids are in bed.
SPEAKER_03:My kids are in bed about then too, but that's what I'm saying. Stay up late until like 10 o'clock.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, eight o'clock to ten o'clock is mommy daddy time.
SPEAKER_03:That's what we try to do here, but it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_02:Friday show was pretty lit, he said it is well, too bad. Some people were liking it. Yeah, Rob's on his way down.
SPEAKER_08:I'm sorry, guys. Look, I went through a horrific weekend, and Rob's already tapping out.
SPEAKER_03:Every single one of my kids had fevers Saturday and Sunday. Have you seen Night Watch?
SPEAKER_02:Are we talking about the Russian movie? No. What's the Russian movie?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, dude, you gotta watch it. Is it does it got subtitles? It's got night, there's night watch and day watch, and I forget the third one, but it's like a Russian. But in Russian. In Russian. I think they they think I don't know if they have a they definitely have versions with subtitles.
SPEAKER_08:So I'm gonna have to put that on the list.
SPEAKER_03:I'll watch Battle for Marja if you watch Night Watch. I'll watch Nightwatch. Don't threaten me with a good time.
SPEAKER_08:Have you seen have you seen The Gorge yet?
SPEAKER_03:No.
SPEAKER_08:I heard that was good. I'm gonna watch that one. But Nightwatch, the one with I think Jake Gyllenhaal is in that one too. Where they were no, no, that was Last Watch. Or what am I thinking of? There's a cop movie where they stumble across a cartel like house or whatever. What was it? I think it was Last Watch or Final Watch, something like that. I don't know, I don't know what they're talking about. Maybe they must be talking about your Night Watch. I thought I was thinking of the Jake Gyllenhaal movie.
unknown:I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:That's a good one, too. Yeah, I don't I don't know what what he is talking about. No, night duties, he says. Night duties, no night duties, what he said duties.
SPEAKER_08:Yep, like my daughter did last weekend when she did a header off the trampoline and busted her chin open.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, he's not talking about a movie at all. Okay, but you guys should all go watch the Russian movie Night Watch. I'll have to watch it. It's out there, but it's I wish I wish they would do like I wish like a big Hollywood studio would do would redo it and do do it well.
SPEAKER_08:Did you ever see Equilibrium?
SPEAKER_03:No.
SPEAKER_08:With Christian Bale. Uh-uh. Man, it so it came out the same weekend as 9-11 happened. Really? And so that's why it never got any traction. But it is a cult classic. You've gotta watch Equilibrium. I've never even heard of it. I'll have to watch it. It's like it's like the Matrix meets 1984. Interesting. It's it's fun, it's a fun watch. It's very good. Yeah, the gun caught us scenes.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Oh, is that the is that the one that the the meet like they have the gif of him in the white suit with the with the probably. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I haven't seen it, but I've seen that like movie.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, it's so many. I watched the first time of the Marines, it was so good. Yeah, it's like the first Matrix, not the oh my gosh. What are you doing? She looked y'all need tomorrow night, y'all need eight o'clock, kids are down.
SPEAKER_03:She doesn't like the Goonies, she doesn't like Sandlot. Right? Right, and yet she she she has the temerity to complain about my the movies I don't watch. How do you not like the Goonies?
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. The Goonies is amazing. Does she like Lost Boys?
SPEAKER_08:I'll be honest, I've never seen them. You've never seen Lost Boys. So okay, you have to watch Lost Boys, but then you have to watch the sequels. There's sequels campier and campier as they go, and they get really bad. Pretty sure it started off. I love watching or did you ever see Monster Squad from the 80s? No.
SPEAKER_03:Man, that's a good one. Yeah, I'm 10 years younger than you.
SPEAKER_08:I know. I that's why I don't I'm not I'm not shocked that you haven't watched them. But man. But you've seen the anime Lord of the Rings, though. You haven't seen those either? Don't watch them.
SPEAKER_03:I was gonna say don't do that. I I've I know enough about them to not watch them.
SPEAKER_08:They're so bad.
SPEAKER_03:They're so bad.
SPEAKER_08:Don't watch it'll ruin it all for you. Do not watch them.
SPEAKER_03:She's a girl. Yeah, you're right. That is the problem.
SPEAKER_08:That's her problem.
SPEAKER_03:You're 100% right.
SPEAKER_08:Well, you know what we should do? We should have a movie show occasionally where you will watch an old campy movie and just make fun of it.
SPEAKER_03:I mean Rick stole our idea, so we can steal Rick's idea, sure. Was that his idea?
SPEAKER_02:Well, he he he used to do a movie review show, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Like actually like watch the movie.
SPEAKER_03:No, he wouldn't. We'd have to do a review.
SPEAKER_08:That's dumb. We could do like a white guy on Mystery Science 3000.
SPEAKER_03:Just choose the worst movies in the world.
SPEAKER_08:Just choose like some really horrible movies. Just like some old like nostalgic movies and watch them.
SPEAKER_03:I'd be up for that. We'd have to record it though, because we couldn't do it live.
SPEAKER_02:Could we do it on X? We could do it on X, yeah. And then release it later on live.
SPEAKER_08:And then release it on YouTube later. Yeah. We should do that. Like once a month. We'll watch like an old like campy 80s movie. We gotta start with Lost Boys. Okay, we can do that. Oh man.
SPEAKER_03:What other movies? Oh we can watch The Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. Both of them weird ones.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, those are Willow, of course. My kids love Willow.
SPEAKER_03:I I don't think I've shown it. I I don't know how I feel about it. I've watched it a lot, but it was one of my cousin's favorite movies, and I always disliked whatever he liked. It's on principle. So I don't know for sure if I actually dislike it or not.
SPEAKER_08:Flash Gordon. You know, I accidentally watched a movie my dad had it was called Flesh Gordon. I wouldn't recommend that one. Man, the thing. Have you seen the thing?
SPEAKER_03:I've seen they made a remake, right?
SPEAKER_08:The one with the kids in high school?
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_03:The faculty. No, no. I've seen the I've seen the faculty, but didn't they make a remake?
SPEAKER_08:The faculty is the exact same premise.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, but I thought they made a remake of the thing in Antarctica, right? Because that's what the thing was. It was in Antarctica. I thought they didn't.
SPEAKER_02:If not, then I watched the original. You might have Kurt Russell in it? I don't think so. Yeah, you probably didn't watch the original. Oh, we gotta watch Red Dawn.
SPEAKER_03:Not the remake.
SPEAKER_08:Not the remake.
SPEAKER_03:I haven't seen the remake.
SPEAKER_08:The remake doesn't exist. Good. There's no such thing as a remake.
SPEAKER_03:You know what we'll have to do? If that's why I ordered that, that's that's a good reason for why I ordered the AK. I'll get a shot. I hope we'll get a shot of me on a hill somewhere just raising the AK going, well the rain.
SPEAKER_08:I remember growing up, like the threat of the Soviets coming up until like the 90s, and then like the you know, the wall went down. But I remember in high school or in elementary school in the 80s. Did y'all ever have to do the nuclear fallout tests growing up?
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_08:I don't think y'all did that anymore. We used to have to get on our desk and put our knees behind between our or our head between our knees in case there was like a nuclear blast or whatever. But it means it's like the all through the 80s.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, but it's for the good of the channel.
SPEAKER_05:You will be seen five miles when we do that.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. They then they turned it into uh earthquake drills. Like we don't get earthquakes in Kentucky, right? We did tornado drills.
SPEAKER_03:Do you get tornadoes in Minnesota? Oh, yeah. Really? Not where I am now, right? Not in far northern Minnesota, but yeah. Down down in the Twin Cities, we did.
SPEAKER_08:Huh. Because I used to tell guys all the time, like you depending on where you would live in the United States, you have to pick how nature's gonna try and kill you. 100%. Right? So, like in the south, you've got tornadoes pretty much, hurricanes, too, depending on where hurricanes if you're on the coast. Yeah, you know, up north you have you know blizzards and somollies. Out west, you have mud slides and forest fires.
SPEAKER_03:Well, we got forest, so we got forest fires and blizzards here. Yeah, we got the the opposite ends of the temperature spectrum. You're either gonna reach the death or burn to death.
SPEAKER_08:But you just say like I've got guys that move down here, like I've never been a tornado. It's like neither have I. I've been here 44 years. I've not now my mom, my my wife's mom has she's been in a tornado. That's why she's scared to death. That's why we have helmets in the house and flashlights, and she's ready to go every time there's a a storm coming through because she's just scared to death, something's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_03:So obviously, I'm not the skinniest person in the world, so this shouldn't surprise anyone. But thanks to the movie Twister, you know what Associate, I get in my head every time I think of a tornado, steak and eggs because of because of uh Aunt Meg or whatever in that scene, it's all around the breakfast table. Yeah, I hear the word tornado and I instantly I'm like steak. Sounds so good.
SPEAKER_02:Well, Waffle House was for me.
SPEAKER_08:Go Waffle House because you just like steak and eggs.
SPEAKER_03:I've been to Waffle Hall Waffle Hall's twice, and that was that was that was that was enough.
SPEAKER_08:Waffle House is great. We love Waffle House.
SPEAKER_03:Of the two times I've been there, I've only been accosted by a homeless person outside one of the two times.
SPEAKER_08:Hey, that's only 50% of the time. You're good. You're classing up the joint, is what it is.
SPEAKER_03:Well, so so the the the set the last time I was there was after mass in Charlotte. Oh Bob, me, Bobby, and after at that after SSPX mass, yeah, went out to a waffle house and we're all in our suit jackets.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, me and um St. Longenists, we'll call them. We went to some like barbecue restaurant that was like supposed to be well known. It was okay.
SPEAKER_03:We we thought about going to that, but it was the opposite way of the airport, so oh yeah.
SPEAKER_08:The uh there's only one cut of steak and it's a ribah.
SPEAKER_03:100%.
SPEAKER_08:Everything else is just be to be ground in the ground beef, subpar.
SPEAKER_03:Although flat iron is my second top choice of steak.
SPEAKER_08:Like I my wife loves like a New York stertloin, right? And I was like, there's I like uh I like mine to have some fat on it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:But she just she's she just she loves steak though. When we go, there's a hibachi place in the next town over from us, but the one with robots where the where the robot uprising will start.
SPEAKER_03:I was gonna say, make sure you bring green tip when you go there.
SPEAKER_08:But they I mean they have really good steak. I don't know where they get their meat. It's not Wagyu, so I don't know where they get it though, but it's they have actually a really good steak there. But she loves sterting all the time. I can't stand it, man.
SPEAKER_03:I mean it's got a good flavor, but you're right, it it's it doesn't have the the fat.
SPEAKER_08:No, you need you need a good now. You go to like a nice steakhouse, like we here we have Fleming's, but that's a chain they have them a lot of places. Yeah, Ruth's Chris, it's probably some of my favorite steak. There's another one. Then there's a Brazilian steakhouse downtown that we go to. I love the Brazilian ones, the ones where you start to do the card, you know?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but that is that is my that is Maddie's favorite restaurant to make it worth your while you've got to fast for a few days, yes, and then go in there. Well, and the worst part is I don't know, you know, I don't know if it's uh because there's a a couple different Brazilian steakhouse, but does it have the big like salad table that also has the I don't bother with the wrap? The right well, I'm I'm there to get the meat sweats. I know, I know, but that's the problem. That stuff, it is really good for what it is, yeah. But you you fill up and then you're like, Oh, I made a mistake. Yeah, I screwed this up.
SPEAKER_08:Like, if I'm not leaving there with the meat sweats, I have failed. Yeah, ribeye is where it's at. White knight, but can you t-bone's good? Like, you know, t bone is just a poor man's ribeye.
SPEAKER_03:You know, if you can't, you know, get whatever you can. Flat iron, I I'm finding is it's not as cheap as it used to be because people are realizing it's a good cut. Isn't that the worst?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's like bacon.
SPEAKER_03:Well, brisket thrown away. Brisket was trash meat. Yeah. But when everyone got into smoking, now it's expensive. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:When I found out, like they used to give bacon to the poor people.
SPEAKER_03:But we were at 30 at one point in the time until we started talking about it.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. Rob's gonna play all the um the awesome outro video from last time that he kept playing because my internet kept going out.
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