The Iran Terror Hype Exposed: What Do We Do When The Threat Never Comes?

You can feel it in the air lately: everyone is bracing for the next big headline, the next “everything changes overnight” moment. We start this one in the most normal way possible with Easter Monday, family chaos, and gear talk, then use that normalcy to ask a harder question: what do you do when the crisis you were promised does not show up on time?

From there we get practical. We talk oil supply disruption, why energy markets hit your wallet on a delay, and what that could mean for gas prices, travel, and day-to-day access to work, school, and even Sunday Mass. We share straightforward preparedness ideas like rotating fuel, understanding how gasoline storage differs from diesel, and why boring habits beat panic buys. If you care about emergency preparedness, self-reliance, and realistic risk planning, this section is for you.

Then we zoom out to threat assessment and resilience. If a major conflict is underway, why does life at home sometimes look unchanged? We dig into capability versus narrative, platform incentives, and why “nothing happened” still teaches you something. The theme we keep coming back to is competence: skills, trades, training, and strong routines, plus the role of faith and reverent worship as an anchor when the noise gets loud.

If this conversation helps you think clearer, subscribe, share it with a friend who worries about the future, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

Transcript

Easter Check-In And Gear Talk

SPEAKER_04 0:40

Happy Easter, everyone.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Happy Easter. My internet was working, but it wasn't performing up to my standards, so I had to reset my router. And I didn't want Rob to come on by himself because his temperament could not handle it. That's that's very true. Yes. 100%. I was being very, very gracious. So I connected my phone in the meantime until my router comes back up. You know, it's a good, it's always a good day when you accidentally find 500 rounds of 75 grain boat tip hollow point. Yeah, very nice. I was going through so I had to I had to re restore some ammo because I had these these plastic containers that I got from Costco, and they're they're supposed to be sealed and everything, right? And I've got the the the moisture absorbers, you know, the silica, but it's in the it's in the metal can so you can you know reuse them. So you just put them in the oven to and man, it was they I guess they aren't sealing. So I had to buy some more ammo cans. I had to go get some from a local place here, the Bloodman, and I happened to find a can behind some stuff, and it was 500 rounds. So man, that's amazing. That's nice, it is nice. So I bought 3,000 rounds of 22 long rifle last week for about 150 bucks because I've got that conversion, the CMMG conversion bolt for my AR. And I usually use that for anything less than 25 meters. If I'm shooting out long range, I'll use actual 556. Yeah, but anything closer, you know, if if I'm doing close shooting like 25 meters or less, even 50 meters, honestly, then I'll I'll use the 22 because it's way cheaper. I'm I'm spending like five six and round six cents around instead of 45 cents around what I bought that for. So it was nice. How was your Easter? It was it was pretty good, all in all. Did you go to the Light Mass for it, or did you go to a local one?

SPEAKER_04 2:37

No, we we went to the local Novus Ordo Vigil.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:43

And you know that's that's rough with the little kids. It was because it started at 8 30. But we had our we, you know, that it was it's in the town like half an hour away, and we were already in that town to uh see the Mario movie, and that just happened to end pretty much right when right a little bit before the the vigil started. So we figured well it's let's just do it while we're while we're here because otherwise it would be getting up at for a novice order mass at 8 a.m. the next day. And with four kids, sometimes those early morning masses are they're a pain to get to.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Yeah, they can be. Did your kids just fall asleep during the vigil?

SPEAKER_04 3:27

No, they actually all stayed awake and were delirious, deliriously tired at the end of it.

SPEAKER_03 3:32

Good. We went to the vigil a couple of years ago, and so like my kids, I've got a six, eight, nine, and thirteen-year-old.

SPEAKER_04 3:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Now then it was probably four, six, seven, and eleven, maybe, you know, whatever it was two years ago we did it. Yeah, and it was a little rough on the little ones. So we're like, we're gonna wait a while before you because I love the vigilance. Vigimas is beautiful, even though our our light mass bears, you know, we don't have a lot of support like a lot of traditional bearishes do, or like multiple subdeacons, deacons, and stuff. We just got the one priest. But um, it's beautiful, but it's just really rough on the little kids.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

So we'll wait until they're a little older and see how it goes.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Man, you're breaking up again.

SPEAKER_06 4:28

Can you hear me?

SPEAKER_04 4:35

Looks like so Hawk says his wife was baptized and confirmed at the Easter Vigil. Congratulations. Yeah, it was my wife was bad well, not baptized, but confirmed seven years ago at the Easter Vigil too. So that I know how big of a night that is.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

You're back? I just switched to my phone for right now. My wi-fi is doing some wonky stuff. I've got Starlink. I just have to where I'm at in my shop. So I'm I'm in a 1500 square foot shop. I'm in the this this room used to be the processing room where the uh this my property used to be attached to like 200 acres. And this is the room, this is the room where it's got a I got a stand-up bulk-in freezer right here to my left. And this is the room where they used to process all the pigs. Well, I it to get a good look at the sky, I've got to go to the other corner, right? Which is 50 feet that way, and I've got enough Ethernet cable to do it. I've just got to get it set up. I've got to run the Ethernet cable through the rafters, come all the way through, put it through the roof, you know, through my ceiling here. Yeah, I had time to do it. But I've got it. I just have to find the time to do it because today I had to mow three acres of my yard because we're about to drive your mowing.

SPEAKER_04 5:50

We're still having uh we're still having a plow ward driveway. We got we got a few inches while we were in the Easter vigil. Did you?

SPEAKER_03 6:01

Yeah, it's it's cool here today. I think it got to like the high 40s, low 50s today. We had like a little cold snap come through, but we're gonna we're supposed to have a drought to the end of the month. Oh really? We'll see how that because I didn't want to cut too much because I can if my cow because I've got some hay for my cows in case things like this happen, but I've got a separated a back portion of my yard that can come in from the pasture and have a lot of the grass get kind of wild over here. But the 200 acres around me, they're supposed to be building a neighborhood on it, and they had they're like six months by they didn't even started anything yet. I don't think they're gonna do it, but I might put my cows over on it. Let's see what are they gonna do.

SPEAKER_04 6:39

Yeah, so how do you like your A B sponsored drugs that that you're so I'm doing the blood orange?

SPEAKER_03 6:46

Yeah, I will say the the only thing I don't like is so I have a metal container I put my my pouches in, and it does this when I'm walking around all day now. And my kids are like, Dad, do you have some change? I'm like, No, I don't have any change, that's not what that is, but I like them. I like that I don't have to discard anything. Yep, I like the it's got a little bit more of the like the pepper taste that I don't I didn't really get with Alp very much.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

Okay, you don't talk about the you're on the six milligram, right? So maybe the three wouldn't have that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

I don't know, maybe, but I'm at this point. I'm like, man, do I need to bump up to nine? But but I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm not chasing the dragon, we're not they don't have a nine right now. They will eventually, they will eventually out's got up to 12 now. Really? Yeah, so I like them. I'm I think I'm gonna try lemon next. Blood orange is fine. I don't really taste a blood orange, but it doesn't taste bad.

SPEAKER_04 7:51

The blood orange isn't a very strong flavor. The lemon, you definitely taste lemon, but in a very good way. Yeah, yeah. I'm excited to try that one next. Well, yeah, we'll see how it goes. Tastes like a Chevy. Now the classics. So we in these things, in the Knickknacks, it's basically xylitol, which is a sugar-free sweetener, gum arabic, nicotine, and uh essential oil for whatever the flavor is. The classic is the same thing, just without whatever the essential oil is. So it's got the xylitol to make it a little sweet, but there's really no flavor. It's like you're probably gonna taste that, yeah, or like you're kind of sucking on like a sugar cube almost.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

I can see that. Yep, I like them. I like that. I've got a I got a buddy, a colleague of mine with at work who's down at Mobile, and uh he came by one day, came to mask. He was coming through town, and he came to mass one day with us, and I'm outside talking to him, and he's hey you you want a pouch? I was like, Yeah, man. He gave me one and I put it in, and like three seconds later, my head started swimming. I'm like, bro, what is this? Like, what this is not what is this like is that the time I think I was only doing threes. Okay, he's like, uh, it's a six. I'm like, there ain't no way this is a six, ain't no way, and but man, I was like, I had to I had to get rid of it. Like, I was starting to get like, but like I was you know, bobbing and weaving.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

So it uh the nicotine, I forget exactly the pri it screws with the blood sugar, right? I think it like it lit it like well it restricts your blood vessels.

SPEAKER_03 9:37

What happens is what nicotine does, right? So when you when that happens, it's it's it's restricting it to your brain as well, right? It's restricting a little bit, uh it constricts your blood vessels, we'll say, and that's what causes the swim. If you're not used to it, that's what'll happen because it does it fast. If you're not used to it, it'll that's where the head swims come from.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

Poor job, flavored.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

So today's uh Easter Monday. So I took the kids, I promised them I'd take them out to eat today. So we went and got some five guys, and of course, their milkshake machine was down because they haven't had dessert all lent. We haven't even had pancakes or donuts, nothing, we've done nothing the whole time, and they've done great about it. So I went and I was gonna get them a milkshake today, and of course their milkshake machine was down, like like their McDonald's or something. We end up having to go to Culver's instead, and Culver's has got good. I love Culver's. It's good. I love their burgers, they're probably the best drive-through fast food burger. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 10:43

Did you try their fish during the have you ever tried their fish?

SPEAKER_02 10:46

Oh, yes, I did.

SPEAKER_04 10:47

Yeah, I did. Their fish is good for fast food fish. Yeah, the the one downside, terrible fries.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

I never get the fries, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:56

You gotta get the onion rings or the cheese curds.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

I always get the cheese curds, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

I never get the fries.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

There's very few places that have good fries. These are crinkle cut and they're always soggy. Down here in Alabama, we have a chicken place called Guthrie's, it's kind of like a Raisin Cane's or a uh Foo Sackly's or a Zaxby's, you know, whatever you have near you, yeah. But it's local to Alabama only. They have the best fries, the best, and they're crinkle cut, but they're the best fries. I just only crinkle cut, it's just the shape, man. They don't get as crispy. Oh, these do. They those do. These are crisp, these are crisp, they are good. But I'm not, I don't I don't like fries too much.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

The thing about culvers is if their custom machine was down, they often have one or two freezers full of containers of frozen custard.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

They apparently they make the custard at the store. They do. That's amazing. See, that's what that's what you get when white folk decide to do something.

SPEAKER_04 11:56

You get butter in your burger and homemade custard. That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 12:01

Yeah, so Easter Monday, I'm just doing a bunch of yard work today because it's pretty much the only time I have to do it.

SPEAKER_06 12:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

So I'm cutting a bunch of grass and everything, getting a bunch of logs that now I've got a bunch of firewood now that limbs that have fallen throughout the fall, you know, or because I've got a bunch of very large, very old trees. We had one tree that was struck by lightning a couple of years ago, and it's dead out in my pasture right now. But I'm kind of wanting to call a guy to come cut it. Like, I need you to to lumber, you know, I want you to saw this up. I want some two by fours, some two by sixes out of it, because it's a huge, it's a it's an antebellum tree, it's probably it's got to be at least 180 years old. Wow, it's massive. It takes three of us to put our arms together to go around it. But I've got a bunch of those streets, so I'm getting a bunch of wood, so that's exciting for the kids because when I decide to burn it all, like they get to throw wood. Because I have a burn barrel, I usually do it when I burn stuff like that, and so they'll they'll be excited because they'll get to throw wood and everything. Wagner does good streams. Wagner's Wagner's great at his lane, right? When he veers outside of that lane is where he gets gay, right? Like Michael Loften. I can't keep up with the personalities of Michael Loften anymore.

SPEAKER_04 13:15

Are they yeah, they're all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

I I one I completely forgot about him, and so then I saw him come up on my ex feed one day, a couple of days ago, and now he's like anti-Pope Leo, yeah, and he's anti-Zionist now.

SPEAKER_04 13:29

Yeah, brother, anti-barren.

SPEAKER_03 13:31

He just he just goes with uh whatever way the clicks will get him. That's all it is.

SPEAKER_04 13:37

It really is. What's this?

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Uh let's see. What even is Lofton's lane? I don't know. Lofton is the pro the the the issue that happened to Lofton is when he tried to make this a career. That's when he started getting he started backstabbing everybody uh and doing whatever he could because he was trying to get that Vatican podcaster liaison job, whatever it was. Oh, like someone else who has recently backstabbed compromised and decided to go against their friends to to get something. Yeah, it's he's uh he's an interesting, he is a head case, is what he is. Well, the problem the problem with that with Wagner's lane is there's only so much you can really do, right? There's not a lot of variance to it, and it's really just going deep into the same topics over and over again and finding a new source to reclaim a topic that you've already talked about is the issue you he has, and it's it's gonna grow stale, and people are just gonna stop watching it.

SPEAKER_04 14:45

I mean, even even Anthony and I like even even though we we try to keep things fresh by you know talking about like current events, like still we're four years in, and like a lot of the topics we're just sick of, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 14:59

Like, bro, I'm so tired of talking about the Jews, but yet they always seem to find a way to make where you have to talk about them, yeah. Because their problem is is they're always trying to make themselves the main character, right? And so when they when that happens, they're trying to interject themselves into things all the time. And right now, so I went to a friend's kid's birthday on Saturday, and we're talking, and you know, and he's uh and the topic of forbidden topics came up, and we were talking about different things and you know, conspiracy theories and all that, and how we're at a point now they're not even conspiracy theories, they're just spoiler alerts at this point. But we were talking about the Jews came up very quickly, but he's like, he's like, hold on, he's like, I want you to talk to my sister about it because she wants to know about this stuff and she doesn't understand where it comes from. So then I had to go out and have a conversation with her. See, Hawk, be safe, Hawk. Hawk is out doing the Lord's work right now, so y'all keep him in your prayers. But so I go out and I have to explain to her how they basically captured the the banking and financial system, as well as they have captured modern evangelicals and the ideology of dispensationalism, um go field Bible, and like and that's how they've been able to big basically capture America right now. And she got it, you know. She immediately that makes sense because she didn't really know what dispensationalism when I talked to her, like, well, do you know what the rapture is? She's like, Yeah, all right, so that's dispensationalism, right? And then, like, this, you know, this and this and this is involved with it. She's like, Oh, that makes so much sense. It's like so. Now, not only do they have the backing of all the financial systems, but now they've captured an entire population of the United States of America who are honestly some of the most fervent about going to church on Sundays, most of them. Yeah, but they all have bad theology and they're taking advantage of that. Um, and and so then you know that made a lot of sense to her. But we're seeing more and more people become aware of it, like, and they're just and to be honest with you, they have burned a lot of their goodwill that that they had prior to this, because now they're I mean, like they just blew up an entire Lebanese town, the whole town, they just blew it up so the Lebanese can't go back to their home, right? And if that was any other country, yeah, it would, you know, we we would be you know, Oracle Fiving and you know bringing up in the UN and putting in sanctions, but because it's as TJ Morris from Bear Independence says, the the Middle Eastern death cult, the Middle Eastern New Jersey death cult, right? Because the Middle Eastern Dearborn Michigan death cult, it's like yeah, that's the uh it was he call it the Persian pagan death cult. You know, YouTube's stupid, right? We have to censor what we say, and unfortunately, this is the biggest reach that we're gonna have for anybody, so we have to utilize this for right now. So you have to get around their wordsmithing to be able to even though they've they've got them better with the strikes.

SPEAKER_04 18:18

I think they've just switched. No, I'm not gonna say like shadow banning, but I think the algorithm, unlike the main the main avoiding Babylon channel, like yeah, I think it punishes us for you know for it.

SPEAKER_03 18:34

Well, it seems like the algorithm goes through phases of what they're willing to push, yes, right. And you know, for a time there, because that y'all shot to 70,000 fast from like 35. You basically doubled your subscriber count in what like six months.

SPEAKER_04 18:52

Well, we've gone from like 55,000 to 80,000 in like six weeks, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

That's insane, right? That's and and you know how many of those turn into like regular watchers, probably less than 10. Right? It's just people watch one clip they like and they and they subscribe to you. Like I found out that with that Instagram thing I sent you. I'm still getting 50 follows a day.

SPEAKER_04 19:17

How many views did you get on that? I don't know. Let me look, I'll tell you right now. It was it was over a hundred thousand, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Yeah, it was wild. Let's see. I got I've gotten 18 since this afternoon, and I've never like I really just use Instagram to look at stuff. I don't really post.

SPEAKER_04 19:34

Let's see. So that's where I get my Kanye and Fuentes beams basically. Uh 830,000 views, 830,000 views on an Instagram video. That thing's gonna hit a million, man.

Kids, Vigil Mass, And Parish Life

SPEAKER_03 19:50

Yeah, and I've I've gained I'm up to almost a thousand followers on it. It's wild, it is it just decided to pick that up and share it with everybody. And I think like it the thing with Instagram, what you have to do is you have to put a hook in it to where people go back and watch it again, yeah. And that's what I I mean. I didn't do it on purpose, right? I just kind of did it. I was like, because I was it was like a stupid little video of a guy up in the rafters, and he's you know trying to get away, but not long enough.

SPEAKER_04 20:18

Because once you said that at the end, I'm like, what's Adrian talking about? And then you have to go back and watch it. I'm like, yeah, what is he doing with his feet?

SPEAKER_03 20:26

Yeah, and you go back and watch, like, oh, he's 100% correct, you know, like that's that's the thing that guy's doing that. Yeah, when I get to when I get to six million ocean, I'll let you know. But it's it's just you never know what the algorithm is gonna pick up and just decide to share out to everybody. Yeah, that's like it's stupid. Like, why are y'all watching my stuff? Like why are you why are you following like watch it and like it? Yeah, but don't follow me, like none of my stuff is worth what I'm just gonna disappoint you in the future. Like your expectations are way too high for me.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

At the uh at the vigil on Saturday, this was the first year we felt confident enough to let Iggy hold a candle, right? You should have seen him. He's standing, he's standing up on the he's standing, you know, on the on the pew, and anytime if someone gets within three feet, no, no, no, I have fire, stay back. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

My kids played swords with theirs. While lit. While lit. Awesome. Yeah, awesome. Yeah, so that was uh that was a teaching moment. Um it's funny, you would think my kids are firebugs, but they're not. But we date you could put some fire in their hands, and man, they went crazy. Let's see.

SPEAKER_04 21:59

Not in the cup. It was, you know, just just a little candle with the little paper halo underneath it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

Yeah, that's the only thing uh Mike doesn't have going for him, is he doesn't have the superpowers of the autism. We just gotta give him some Tylenol. Yeah, give him a lot of talent. A lot of telenth. Yeah, gotta pump those numbers up. He had a really good one. I don't know when he posted it. I watched I listened to it today while I was mowing the lawn talking about how the cross is triumphant, right? And he went through like the etymology of where triumph comes from and all that. But he was basically encouraging guys like just because Lent's over, not to stop doing what you're doing in Lent. Maybe not do it as much, right? Right, but still keep up the fasting, keep up you know, the exercise and your daily scripture reading, whatever. It was really good. That's why I like Mike, man. Like, I I rarely listen to something from him that's not that at the end. I'm like, man, I could have like done without that.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

I rare there's a lot of guys I do that with some of them Adrian at the end of every avoiding Babylon episode.

Oil Shock Forecast And Gas Reality

SPEAKER_03 23:15

I like to listen, some I like to listen to y'all because I like to hear what Anthony steals from me, right? I'm like, and you you at least credit me, brother. You get but I'll let you have it. I'll let you have it. I'm like, yeah, he got that for me. But it's you know, it's uh as y'all get all the time with the comments on your show, it's it's like hang out with the guys, yeah, right, and just listening. It's not it's not too intellectually above my head where I'm like, what am I? I need a thesaurus to understand what some of these guys are saying. Like Tim Gordon, I think he just looks up like a word of the week and decides to like just overuse it the whole week and nobody knows what it means, yeah. Right. I'm like, why you know why are we doing this? But y'all are y'all are an easy listen. So I like that about y'all. Man, if you don't have at least overwhelming cortisol by this point, you're not paying attention. Like it's man, I watched a video today going over the oil issue we're about to have because it's a there's a lag time to it, right? So because the Strait of Homerous is closed, basically, for most people, there is a lag time between those ships getting through the strait and getting to refineries and stuff where it's eventually gonna hit us. Like the last what was it, the last oil tanker to get to I want to say Japan was the first. The 10th will be the March or April April. The last one to get to the UK will be the 10th, the last one to get to us will be the 15th. Now, keep in mind, we just basically took over Venezuela. Yeah, it's probably gonna hit us less, but it's not gonna hit, it's not we're we're still gonna have access to oil, it's just not gonna be as cheap as it was.

SPEAKER_04 25:19

I was gonna say we we actually export oil, so people are wondering, well, why are we also importing oil? Right, because the oil we import is actually cheaper than the oil we export. So we we have oil, but it is going to be more expensive.

SPEAKER_03 25:33

Yeah, yeah. It so it it and what do you call it? The guy was talking, he the term he used I never heard before. It was destruction of I want to say destruction of distribution, destruction of something. He's like, once that goes, like once it hits a critical mass to where it's it's not it no longer coming out, it never comes back, right? Because especially with the oil refineries that have been hit in the Middle East, UAE, Dubai, and all these, right? It's gonna take years to get some of those back online that were hit with missiles by Iran, which was on purpose. And so and as he's talking now, and I was thinking, I was like, man, this is like this is like an economic COVID, what's about to happen. Because a lot of these countries are now mandating like three-day work weeks, so you're not using as much gasoline and stuff and all that, right? And they're and then I then I'm thinking like for myself specifically, as like if gas gets like six dollars a gallon, I mean thankfully I can work from home, right? So you know I can absorb it a little bit easier, but my mass is still 45 minutes away, right? And so that that may limit my access to the traditional sacraments. I can still get to locally to sacraments, but you know, they're they are what they are. But a lot of people who have to go to work five days a week, go into the office or whatever, it's probably gonna push a lot of them to go back to remote work for a while because gas are so high that they're gonna have to petition their employers to be able to do that. Yeah, exactly. Is what's it it's an economics Iranian sampson option, is what's happening right now because it basically what Iran's doing is they are they are leveraging how long they can last before the the entire economy throughout the world just buckles because there's not enough oil coming out because it's not just Iran that's not putting out oil, but basically the whole Arabian Peninsula can't get their oil out, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:43

They're they are switching over to the Red Sea, yes, but that is gonna take a while.

SPEAKER_03 27:51

Israel is is trying to build a pipeline from the Arabian Peninsula through to through Israel to get out to the Mediterranean, right?

SPEAKER_04 28:01

Um interesting. I wonder how that works. That's crazy. Well, well, well, so we'll we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 28:13

Just keep an eye on it, guys. If you can, if you have the availability now, I would get like five or six five-gallon jugs, right? And go and just keep them topped off, like cycle through them, right? And like use one a week. Just that way you're they're not getting old and you don't have to put any stable in it. If you don't know what stable is, is is gasoline stabilizer. Because gasoline is very water heavy, and so it evaporates fast and it goes bad fast. That's why you can't you know let gasoline sit for like a year, uh, because it'll go bad, you won't be able to use it. Not like Diesel. Diesel can sit for years. That's why you have a lot of farms who have giant 3,000 gallon tanks, yeah. They just you know they'll hold on to it forever, they'll buy it low and hold on to it for a while, right? So gasoline, you can't do that. So if you have the availability, get like five or six five-gallon jerry cans, what we called it, gasoline, and have it just in case, right? And then not only that, but then you're keeping your dollar cost averaging your gasoline, you're keeping it lower because you're buying it consistently and you're not buying it when it's super high. You know, but that I've seen out in California, it's eight, nine dollars a gallon right now. That's crazy. Most of that's taxes, and yeah, the government of California is not willing to reduce how much their taxes are getting off of it, but it's it was insane. So just keep that in mind. I and I've got the uh let me see if I can pull it up.

SPEAKER_04 29:38

Can we play a YouTube video on here and not have an issue for uh like 30 seconds?

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Let me see if I can find he doesn't have it time stamped. Let's see.

SPEAKER_04 29:54

Uh yes, I'm very I'm very glad I just recently bought a 12-passenger diesel van that gets about as uh the aerodynamics of a billboard. It actually gets pretty good mileage for what it is, it gets like 20 to 30.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

That's not bad. That's way better than I get my Toyota Sequoia. Yeah, I get like 13 miles of the gallon on that thing. It's it's it's kind of it's it's kind of ridiculous. Because my other I have a farm truck that I use, it's an old 08 Nissan Titan, and it's it's ratty looking, you know, because I've had it since 08. Yeah, and I just I I haven't even hit 200,000 miles on it yet, but I just don't use it very much because once I had more than three kids, it didn't work anymore, or like I couldn't use it every day. But I was like, If it's paid off, why would I get rid of it? But that thing is like 11, 12 miles of the gallon. So I don't use it very often. Not only that, but the the gasoline, the the gas meter on it is wonky, man. Like I it'll take forever, it'll take like 250 miles to go from full to half and then 75 miles to go to empty. It's not very helpful. It drives me nuts, man. Because I give about 325 miles every tank. Yeah, like man, I had to have a tank.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

We have not actually gotten to that subject yet, so don't worry. We're getting there, not missed anything.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

We're getting there, we're getting there. But just with the oil, guys, just do what you can. It's coming, just expect it. Expect it's gonna go up even more. Um, we'll probably hit 200 bar dollars a barrel, which means you're we're looking at closer to eight, nine dollars for a gallon of gas. For at least a few months, at least, at least through the summer, right? Yeah, because we're we're on the we're on the summer recipe right now, basically, to reduce you know the effect on global warming. We're on the summer blend, so it's always more expensive in the summer anyway. But I would expect probably through Labor Day is going to get high.

SPEAKER_04 32:14

Boy, I'm so so glad we just decided to do a road trip down uh St. Augustine for Memorial Day. When are y'all doing that? Memorial Day, Memorial Day, but probably better than trying to fly you know five like five tickets worth.

SPEAKER_03 32:30

There, yeah. I thought the price of a ticket for like from here to Indianapolis, because I you know, I'm a college basketball fan. Auburn was in the NIT, and it was basically like the the loser's bracket is what the NIT is, and because we weren't very good this year, but I was looking at tickets for it just to go to Indianapolis round trip was like$800. Whereas before, like this time last year, because I I you know Indianapolis is where we had a work conference last year, it was like 250 round trip, so it's more than tripled just because of the fuel cost, yeah. So yeah, I do not envy anybody who has to fly a lot right now because some there the other issue you're having is a lot of these airlines are yeah, they're cutting flights down, they're cutting down where they're flying to. And some there's a couple of smaller airlines that are closing because they can't kick up with the cost. So just keep that in mind, guys. Let's see. Anything else we want to go over before we get in the main topic?

SPEAKER_04 33:34

Um, I don't think so.

Iran Threat Expectations Versus Reality

SPEAKER_03 33:42

I just want to say I'm highly disappointed in y'all on our last stream. We got one person, we got one person who decided who wanted to come on and ask some questions. Y'all are a sad bunch. He didn't, I you didn't even have to show yourself, but none of y'all came on. Y'all got plenty of questions when we're in the show, but you want to come on and ask, and all of a sudden it's too much. We'll do another one one day, though. See if maybe we can get two. We'll have a hundred percent return on that. All right, so let's get into the Iranian stuff. And as Ocean liked to say earlier, nothing ever happened. It's not that nothing didn't nothing happened because we did have when the the Iranian war first kicked off, there were a few terror attacks that were linked to the conflict in Iran. But we have been built up and told for so long. In fact, you know, because when I used to work in the Marines and the Intel, we were getting was always that the Iranians were very good at terror, and especially with the open border between 2020 and 2020 to 2025, basically, that who knows how many came through. And then we have Joe Kent saying, well, we have 18,000 known terrorists in the United States in the how many unknown we don't know. And when the as the Iranian conflict kept going and still going, there have been no attacks, pretty much, yeah, nothing today, at least, right? Not here, which tells me that Iran either it's it only the two most likely courses of action, most likely things that happened were either Iran is holding back and they're not doing anything right now, or they can't, they they don't have the ability to do anything, right? It's only one of those two things because if something was going to happen, it would have happened Palm Sunday or it would have happened at Easter. Because keep in mind in Iran, there's really no such thing as evangelicalism. Yeah, their only experience to Christianity is orthodoxy and Catholicism. That is it. So they when they come here and they're looking for a church, they look for a church that looks like a church, they don't go to a strip mall to find a church, and nothing happened, right? Nothing at all. So it's more than likely they just don't have the ability to do it, or they did have guys here and they got here and they realized how great it is to live in the United States of America. They're like, I don't want to mess this up, so I'm not doing that anymore. Yeah, I'm not going out and gunning down a bunch of people. I'm like, I they're gonna kill me, and or they're gonna send me back to Iran if they catch me. They get here and they realize just how many guns we all have, and they're like, Yeah, especially in the south, because I keep seeing it happen in Texas and they're dead within like six minutes. Yeah, yeah, like that's the wrong. You need to be picking, you know, Chicago, New York, even Miami, you know, if you're gonna pick because Florida's not really the South, but definitely not Miami, yeah. Yeah, no, no, not Miami, Miami's like little Cuba, yeah. But nothing happened, right?

SPEAKER_04 37:02

I could because you know, right now we're seeing like the US just gave them 15 conditions for a ceasefire, they responded with ket 10 conditions, like they do seem like they're still at the point where they want to get out of this somehow, right? And I could uh if they were to to launch like attacks inside the US, that would pretty much, depending on what happens, solidify opinion against them, or at least maybe that's what they think, and they don't that they are still at a point where where they want to get out of it somewhat intact. I could see that being the case. I could also see being the case that maybe we've been sold a false bill of goods for the last 20 years about them and their yeah, their terror capabilities and desires.

Preparedness Even When Nothing Happens

SPEAKER_03 37:54

And and it the the truth may be somewhere in the middle, yeah. Yeah, they may have a capability for terror, and for whatever reason it didn't pan out, they didn't decide not to act on it. And it also may be that they decide not to use it, you know, whatever it is. And the truth is always somewhere in the middle, it's never on either side, right? It's never either of the extremes. So with Iran, it's especially their reach may not be as far as we thought it was, and especially now with the conflict going on, it's mostly within a you know, a couple thousand miles of Iran, it's the farthest they can hit. Because I don't know if y'all remember like the number station that kept coming up at the beginning of the Iran conflict, right? Which you know is supposedly was them, you know, triggering the you know the sleeper cells, the sleeper cells to to go live or whatever, and nothing ever happened, mostly. And like we had that one Ethiopian guy that wore like an Iranian t-shirt, decided to shoot him, and that was it pretty much. But it doesn't mean nothing won't happen because you're always gonna have homegrown terrorists. There are Iranians who live here now. Most of them are expats who are waiting to be able to go back home when the Shah guys are yeah, or the Shah's back in power, the I told us are no longer in power of some sort, and you know, we'll just have to see how that goes, but we all prepared for this big something to happen, and so far nothing's happened. So then what do we do? Like, we do all this training and we buy all these ammunition and we buy these IFAC kits, and you know, we prepared for if they take out some substations and you don't get power for weeks, like what do we do? And I think for those of us who actually bought into being more self-resilient and more self-reliant, all it did, if nothing ever happened, is just give us more time to do more training and more time be prepared because something will happen, and it may not be terror, it just may be a slow collapse of the system, yeah. And as that happens, because all of our systems are very complicated, and we are losing a lot of expertise as we're firing out or dying, right?

SPEAKER_04 40:23

For instance, there are systems are complicated, but also aging, and like you said, we're losing the competency to be able to repair them.

SPEAKER_03 40:32

I have brought this up before, but I don't know if y'all remember when the the pipeline that was going through Ohio, it you know, basically sprung a leak, right? And they couldn't turn it off because the power station to turn it off, they couldn't get to it or something. And there was a manual way to turn it off, but nobody knew how to do it anymore. They all retired, yeah. And or they forced these guys to retire out and never got that knowledge from them, and so it just kept gushing out into Ohio until eventually they could get to the substation to turn it off. But if they had kept that knowledge base of being able to turn it off manually, they'd have been fine. But they pushed them out, they pushed out these old white engineers to make room for these younger DEI hires that didn't know half of what they needed to know. And you're and that's just one example that comes with y'all remember the the submersible that went tried to go down to the Titanic, right? And it just like imploded, right? Because they decided not to hire, and specifically, they said in their own promotional video, we decided not to hire any old white men to design the submersible. We specifically went with younger minorities, and six people died, and they also ignored every every uh design principle used by every previous submersible ever. Yep, yes, it was the video game, it was the Xbox controller one. So I'm swiping mosquitoes in here. I've got the door open because I it I need some fresh air, so I've got like Japanese beetles coming in here and mosquitoes and stuff, but yeah, it was that one, right? Because they decided not to retain any of the knowledge that has been garnered over the last hundred years of engineering because the guy's skin color is wrong, right? And so we're and that's the one downside of the boomers of our relationship with them is yes, they're horribly economically, they're they're wasting the most amount of wealth ever, right? But they also have a lot of knowledge. A lot of boomer dads out there know how to build a deck, and they know how to repair a lot of plumbing and electricity, you know, and put electric wire in their house, but they never pass that knowledge on to their kids.

SPEAKER_04 42:57

I was gonna say the problem, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

It was also the kids didn't want it, right? Like the one aspect I see from a lot of people of the millennial generation and Gen Z and Gen Alpha is they don't want to know how to do things for themselves if they can just pay somebody else to do it. And as well as for example, I've got a client who's about 30 years old, and he had the opportunity to take over his father's HVAC company, but the stipulation was from his father was to get before he gave him the company, he's like, I want he's like, I want you to go get your HVAC license so you know how to you know to do this and to be able to lead these guys, and you're gonna work a year doing it. And the young man decided not to do that because it was too hard and too much sweat, and he decided to go get a job that made$35,000 a year. Year because he'd be behind a desk nine to five. That was much easier for him.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

Even if he wasn't ever gonna own the company, like I worked for a plumbing and HVAC company, and even our like newest HVAC techs starting made 60 to 70,000. And within two, three years, there wasn't a single one that was making less than a hundred thousand. There were plumbers that there were plumbers that made 200,000.

SPEAKER_03 44:26

Especially if you can do your own business and you have a couple of guys that work under you, you you're you're making good money. Yeah. Really, really good money. Especially like even down here in Alabama where the cost of living's low. You know, we have guys, we have plumbers regularly. As long as you're competent at what you do and you're not trying to gouge people all the time, you get a lot of word of mouth business, you're making a hundred thousand easy, which is a pretty good living down here in Alabama. You can support a family by yourself pretty well on a hundred thousand dollars a year, as long as you know you're you're responsible with it, and you're not trying to buy a new car every couple of years, all that stuff. But but they just don't, they have no desire to do anything that's hard. Now, not all of them, right? Gen Z and Gen Alpha, you know, they have their their outliers like the boomers did, right? The boomers, there's some really good boomers out there, and they're just not the majority. The same thing Gen Z and Gen Alpha. There are some Gen Z and Gen Alpha that are willing to do the work, and they're the ones that are going to do really well, but it's not, it's very few of them.

SPEAKER_04 45:32

Well, we're on the subject of boomers, Saturday at the vigil at the Nova Sordo. Well, we go to the Nova Sorda when they get to the sign of peace, my whole family kneels down, right, and prays so that we're not involved in the whole handshake debacle of the sign of peace. Yeah, so that's what we do. Some boomer lady that we kind of know, I mean, just from going to mass there, you know, and the pew behind us on the other side, walk all the way over, you know, to our side behind us, and even though we're all kneeling down, heads down, praying, like pet each one of us, including my kids on the back, and you know, to give us a sign of peace. It's like we not make it any more obvious we don't want anything to do with this.

SPEAKER_03 46:23

Nothing, nothing reinforces my decision to never go to a novice ordo than the sign of peace. Like if I travel, we travel with the family or whatever. Like next month, we're you know, assuming you know, I'm not paying out the notes for gas, but next month we're going up into the mountains up in North Georgia for a weekend, and I'm gonna have to go to a local Novus Ordo probably, or if we leave early enough on Sunday, I can hit the FSSP in Georgia on the way home. Yeah, but every time we travel and I go to a Nova Sorta that I don't know when when the sign of peace, I'm just like I'm dreading dreading, and I'm not antisocial whatsoever. You know, I I love people, I love to talk to people, I love to talk to people all the time, but mass is not the time for it. Yep, and the the sign of peace has become that and is like, oh, it's social minute, you know, like let's all talk flashing the sign of peace, you know.

SPEAKER_04 47:14

I hate that like they're like 20 rows up, and they're like yeah, oh my gosh, turning turning all the way, turning their back to Christ on the altar to yes, and I mean I'd hate it.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

I hate it that yeah, yeah. So we so I used to use the website reverentmass.org.com or wherever it was when I would travel, and that thing was not correct. No, it there's no there was like it's TLM or nothing when you're traveling. Yeah, you there's it's just it's liturgical roulette out there. And we went to one, it was supposed to be a great mass, it was supposed to be, you know, adorientable. We get there, and I should have known as soon as I walked in, and uh, we should have just walked out because it was still early enough of the day that we could have found another one, yeah. But I'll walk in, I was like, Oh, you know, it doesn't got a school attached to it, so you know, there'll at least be some kids there, and you know, hopefully, no, no kids, not a single kid. I take that back. There were four kids, there were four girls, and they were all serving. And I was like, Oh, this is not gonna be good, and then it wasn't it wasn't good at all. And as we're leaving, like all the old people, like, oh yeah, are you? You want to come talk to the kids, and like they've never seen a child before, like children of men that walking around and they finally see another child, you know, and uh, and my kids are like you know, they're all stone faced, they don't know what to do because all these older people are like pinching their cheeks and stuff, you know. Like, all right, yeah, we're good, we're just visiting, we're passing through. Thank you. See you later.

SPEAKER_04 48:53

Could be worse when when we go to a novel soto and some random person wants to talk to my oldest Matthias. He likes to tell them how we generally don't go to the Novusoto because they treat Jesus like a potato chip. I'm sitting standing there, like, he's not wrong. This is awkward, but he's not wrong.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

My six-year-old is scandalized anytime what someone receives the hand, and she's like she'll say something to me after match. She's like, Daddy, they touched it. Like, what they touched what? Like, who touched you? What you know, like I will kill them. I'm going to jail today. Uh but uh she's like, they touched it, like touched what, baby. She's like, they touched Jesus. I'm like, what do you mean? You know, she's like, when they when you hang out with the Eucharist, and she's got like a little bit of a lisp, so it's like super cute, yeah. Uh when she's doing it, you know, I was like, Oh, I was like, Yeah, then I was like, Unfortunately, some people do that, you know, it's not what we do, and we're not gonna say anything to them. That's between them and God, you know, and it's not our place to say anything. And of course, instead, sometimes she'll say something so loud that you can't help but everyone hearing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They shouldn't be touching Jesus like that, daddy. Let's go, let's go. Everybody in the car hitting the button on the on the doors to open so we get in faster.

SPEAKER_06 50:20

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

unknown 50:22

Red team go.

Traveling Mass Problems And Reverence

SPEAKER_03 50:23

Irene, Irene. That's man, it it is it is funny because I'll see it on X and I'll see guys talk about there was there was a big long post that went around of a guy who's talking about the local his local English mass and how bad it is, right? And there's so many people, that's not how mine is, you know, like that's not how mine, like be thankful, yeah, because it's like that a lot of places, and people just can't understand that. Well, because it's not it that way, my mass is not like that anyway, anywhere. Yeah, no, it's not it at all. And then who was it hillbilly things? Yeah, yeah. She's talking about the one she went down an Eagle Pass, and and she kind of like she didn't really want to say what happened, and then she kind of alluded some of it, and just I just that's everywhere, it's so many places in some dioceses. It's it's the standard, yeah, unfortunately, which is why it's so important that we have the Latin mass because that's the only oasis to get away from the abuse that's going on in a lot of places. But I don't know, it's it. I I will say that like I commented on Anthony's ex earlier today. He he's talking about he's not he didn't he doesn't see there's a resurgence because there's still gonna be a lot of parishes that close, and like, yeah, there is, but there's a resurgence at a very small number of parishes whether being inundated with people because people know that's where it's serious, right? Like in my diocese, we have four or five parishes within 30 minutes of downtown Birmingham that are busting at the seams because they're ad orientum or they're very they're very traditional, even if it's an English mass, as much as they can be, and then we have the Latin Mass, right? But on top of that, the other seven parishes that are within 30 minutes, they're probably gonna be gone in 10 years. Right? So you're you're seeing a concentration of people coming into the church at specific places, but not everywhere, which is where you're seeing a lot of this, and a lot of it is just the the demographic decline that that's happening all over, right?

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Like, like in you know, our local Novus Ordo parishes here, like we had two people come into the come into the church, which is two more than I've seen the five, six years we've lived here. Yeah, so it is more, it is only two, but like you know, it's a town of 3,400 people, like yeah, you know, so that that that's more than I've seen, but if you count those two and add in all the kid, you know, babies that have been baptized in the parish over the last year, yeah, it's gotta be like maybe one-tenth of the number of funerals the parish has celebrated, you know, celebrated.

Where Church Growth Is Concentrating

SPEAKER_03 53:27

So, for instance, at the cathedral in Birmingham, the the priestess there who's in charge of it, because the bishop does like one mass a Sunday and then the other priest does like the other three. Yeah, but he has a policy of if you're already baptized Christian, you don't go through OCIA, which is he'll instruct you himself, right? He'll instruct you himself, and so like every Sunday, two, three, four, five people every Sunday are getting first communion and confirmed throughout the year, 52 weeks a year, right? And then on Sunday, uh this past Sunday at Easter, they still had 18 people come into the church, right? So in the cathedral is very traditional. That priest would offer the Latin Mass if he was allowed, and he has done it before in the past when he was allowed to. We used to do uh the exaltation of the Holy Cross there, and we used to do the varati chili there. Beautiful, beautiful, and he's like he he tries to humble himself and say he's not very fluent in Latin. He's fluent in Latin. Like he might not be a conversational, but he can read it very well. He all he speaks like three languages, three or four languages, all right. But and that's just the cathedral, right? And we have another parish, and I'll give the there's one 20 minutes down the road from me, just and it's a Novosoro parish, it's semi-traditional. Last year, their OCIA class was like nine people. This year it was 38, right? And they've already got 40 people signed up for next year, right? And and that's that's not even one of the four that's within 30 minutes of Birmingham, it's in the diocese of Birmingham, but it's not even you know close to Birmingham, it's an hour outside, pretty much. But that's just one, right? But then I've got another per parish that's you know down the road from me, and they probably have 12 funerals a year and one baptism, yeah. You know, and like it's completely, it's they're within 30 minutes of each other. It's just where the tradition is, that's where people are going. That's what it comes down to.

SPEAKER_04 55:35

I know growing up for me, uh, like our confirmation program was a year long. And a focus we did have not focused. We had to go to a Steubenville retreat, not at Steubenville, but organized by Steubenville at our local Catholic college. And boy, that was that was terrible, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_03 55:58

I remember I got confirmed when I was like 14 or 15 in Louisville, Kentucky, and it was like a like an eight-week class we did for confirmation, and it did me no good whatsoever. I don't I don't think I remember anything from it, but I do remember we did like an overnight retreat type of thing, yeah. And it was just basically like we were just hanging out all night, yeah. Like it really was it really was had no benefit whatsoever. Now that was me, I'm I'll be 45 in a month, so that was 30 years ago, right?

SPEAKER_04 56:34

And the one the one positive to my confirmation retreat is that I gotta see Father Stanford Tuna Live. He was Enoch before Enoch existed.

SPEAKER_03 56:47

Yeah, have you there's another there's another white priest rapper trying to remember his name. He goes by Father Pontifex, I know that.

SPEAKER_01 56:57

Father Pontifex?

SPEAKER_03 56:59

Yeah, I can't remember. He's I haven't heard him in a long time. I used to listen to him when I used to listen to Father Claude Burns. Dioceses of Evansville, Indiana.

SPEAKER_04 57:10

Is he a ginger? This might be the cringiest thing I've ever seen, Adrian. Hold on. Let me pull this off. This is terrible.

SPEAKER_03 57:24

This was when I was coming back into the church like 10 years ago, and I was like a Catholic answers kind of guy. Yep, that's him. That is him. He's in he's in his steampunk phase right there, it looks like yeah, and he's uh so there was a podcast, and it was some priests out in Denver that lived in a community with each other, and they used to have a podcast together, and remember being exposed to him through them. I mean, I can remember that what that podcast was. But yeah, I listened to some of his stuff, and it was like, and then I heard Enoch, right? This is way better, this is way better than other pontifacts. Other pontifacts was not good whatsoever. I don't even like rap, I don't like hip hop at all.

SPEAKER_04 58:19

Me either, but I can uh I definitely don't mind Enoch.

SPEAKER_03 58:24

Yeah, I don't mind Enoch at all. What's up? Yeah, Enoch's I won't listen to him, but like if somebody's playing somebody's playing it, I'll I'll power through it.

SPEAKER_04 58:34

But do we have anything else to talk about with the Iranian terror?

SPEAKER_03 58:40

I would just say as well, just as a point of advice, keep doing what you're doing because if it's not Iran, it'll be leftists, Marxists, or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 58:51

Yeah, this I mean, this or the summer could still get yeah, interesting.

SPEAKER_03 58:56

And the next few summers, as long as Trump is the president, right, could get bad. And as long as any Republicans are president. Now, I think the Republicans are gonna get destroyed in the midterms, but as long as their guy isn't in power or a guy that they're much more tolerant of, this will happen all the time. Yes, Catholic, yes, that's what do you think there's any possibility that they pull a 25th amendment against Trump?

SPEAKER_04 59:28

No, you don't think so?

SPEAKER_03 59:30

No, because it would have happened against Biden, right? And they tried to towards the end and it was too late, and then they tried to switch in Kamala, right? Uh but you don't think the war continues on and the account economies really bad and because it's good for both sides, it's good for the left because it's bad for the for the right, which means they'll they'll win the midterms, right? So they don't want to they'll they'll talk a talk, but they won't do anything about it. Now, if the once they get in it once they get control of the Senate, and if they get control of the the House too, maybe, but then the problem with that is if you do that, well then now JD Vance is in power, yeah, and that's even worse for them because they see Vance as like at least from what I see, you know, because every because like you know, Fluentes has his opinion of JD Vance being a basically a teal puppet, but they the left sees JD Vance as a like a like a Catholic integralist, right? And they don't they absolutely don't want him in power. So if they're doing the 25th amendment, they gotta get JD Vance out of there too, because then that becomes then whoever the speaker of the house is then steps up.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:48

Who even is a speaker right now?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:50

Is that uh Mike Johnson? Oh Johnson, yeah, Johnson right now. Well, the speaker of the house, yeah, it's Johnson.

Listener Questions And Content Ideas

SPEAKER_04 1:00:59

Let's see here. Want to see a video not just on get home bags, more generally survival and stuff at the fan related. Like what?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:08

Like, what do you want to do you want to see my farm? Or like bushcraft sort of stuff, or I love I love but I'm not good at bushcraft, but I love it. Well, this I mean as the weather improves, we like yeah, it just the that sort of content takes a lot more work than it does, and there's a there's a lot of you can't do a stream on bushcraft, pretty much you have to do an edited video on it. And I don't have the logistics, the funding of someone like Dirty Civilian does, so but I mean we could try and get somebody, I could try to get somebody on to talk about it, but you're you're gonna want instruction videos on stuff like Dave Canterbury. If y'all know who he is, he is probably the best resource out there. Dave Canterbury, yeah. Like he's he's tried to get on alone a few times, but they won't let him on because they know he'll win. Because he goes out and does like a year out by himself in the woods, like all the time, just to do it. Yeah, yeah, he's he's he but he's really good. He runs a school up in Ohio that he teaches at. And I've got I've know a few guys who've gone through it now become instructors in their own states, and they they really know their stuff. But let's see, Promethean Action Group. Who's that?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:30

I have not heard are they on YouTube?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:34

Let's see, Promethean Action Group.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:41

Let's see. Well, it's not these two old ladies, I can tell you that from Promethean updates. Maybe it is the two old ladies. I don't know. I don't see. All I see is this Promethean update is this two old ladies of Promethean updates.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:05

Promethean Action is a political movement dedicated to defying oligarchy and unleashing the fire of the human create creativity. Go to PrometheanAction.com. That's I think that's probably what it is. PrometheanAction.com.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:20

Let's see what this is.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:22

Oh, yes, they are two old ladies. It's two old ladies. Hold on, let's see if their merch is any better than they have merch.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:33

Is it two man? If it's good, if it's a t-shirt, two old ladies' faces almost gonna buy it. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:38

Okay, our merch is better. Okay, there's not much of our merch, but it's better. Uh the Promethean Action Store. The Promethean Action Store.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:52

Bro, I have the wrong skin color to be trying to survive in Atlanta. Bro, you might as well put a sandwich burger on me that says well, if y'all haven't seen Lethal, was it that that was that hard three? I think it was two, uh was it Samuel L. Jackson in it?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:12

Yes, three, because two is in the airport, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:16

So one is at Nakatomi Plany in the airport.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:21

Three, I think three, you're right. Because four is live free or die hard with his you know what's really funny about die hard three.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:28

So when it was on TV and they had to censor it a lot, you know Samuel L. Jackson, he's got a catchphrase. They changed out his catchphrase to you right. He said, You racist MFRA, but instead of MFR, he said, You racist melon farmer. Man, that was way funnier than using the actual term. They should have used that in the beginning. Two old ladies, William. I didn't know you had a thing for old ladies. Let's see. Team 40s. No, Atlanta is already seeing a lot of productions go away from them for a number of reasons. It's become just as expensive as Hollywood at this point. That's why you've seen a lot more productions go into South America, uh, but it's a lot cheaper down there, and plus nobody makes good movies anymore. I was struggling, I was struggling to give some good movie suggestions to a friend of mine. I ended up having to go back to I told him he needed to watch face off, he's never seen face off before, and then the 13th warrior, right? He's never seen the 13th warrior either. Like, I'm going back to all these movies from like the late 90s, early 2000s, because they really don't make anything good right now. Yeah, um, I just watched uh Mercy on prom video with my wife the night before last. Yeah, like Chris Pratt. It's by AI, like an AI court. Basically, you have like an hour and a half to prove your innocence. It was okay, but I wouldn't watch it again. It wouldn't be. Gotta think for the oh for the white hairs.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:14

Yep, you guys, Mr. Falco.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:16

Sometimes the censorship is way better than using the actual term. Yeah, mercy was okay. Now, the Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt is entertaining and worth watching. I feel like I've seen that one. It's a little campy at the end, but man, it's it's enjoyable to watch. I will say that it is worth a watch. Warrior was good, yeah. I I remember Blood in Blood Out was in the theaters. Saw that in the theaters. Never heard of it. Snuck in. I would buy a ticket to another movie and go watch the R-rated movies. I do that all the time. We had a dollar theater growing up, and I would pay a dollar and I would just stay there all day watching movies. Really? Yeah, it was awesome. I saw another question up here. Oh, someone asked earlier. Here we go. White night said, do more QA videos, like once a month, bonus video with an extra video. Like, man, what do you think? This ain't my job, bro. I'm already doing three three nights a week. I was already doing like I could do one by myself if y'all want me to, but it's gonna be few and far between. A lot of people took off Lent with no social media. I'm sure there would be more people back now. Possibly would you guys want to?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:30

I mean, do you guys want to do one for the next 50 minutes? You guys have questions you want to ask in person?

Downed Pilot Extraction And Military Ethos

SPEAKER_03 1:07:37

We can do an impromptu QA if y'all want to come on. Because I'm just kind of shooting the breeze at this point. I didn't uh I didn't keep up with the the news too much this week. I did see the really cool where we got the the second pilot back.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:51

Okay, I was gonna ask you. Do you think that is what do you think that was actually what happened, like the goal? Or do you do you buy into the it was a failed attempted extraction of their fistle material? I'm I'm I don't I'm not sure like I could see where it where it definitely could have been what they say it was. Like that would not surprise me.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:23

I think nor I think it was a very high likelihood it could be both.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:30

That's true. I mean that that's a good point, right? Because the the the F-15 strike eagles could have been up there, obviously, you know, to to to take out anti-air defenses before landing, you know, spec ops and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, I could see I and then they had to they had to pivot to make it all about that. Yeah, I could see that being the case.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:54

I I think I think it could be both, but I know for a fact they got him out. Yes. I know that because I know guys that would know.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:04

Okay, and and they were so they're really so at the very least, there really was an extraction of a of a downed pilot and weapon weapons officer.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:14

Yeah, now keep keep in mind, like now there's some video out of the AC or the AC 130 gunship basically, just swacking a bunch of uh that is the easiest video to fake, yeah, because it's just thermal video and it's super easy to fake, right? So don't take that as that actually is real. It could be, right? And probably is, but it's also super easy to fake that type of video.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:41

Or have to be from a previous engagement, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:44

And but I think what I think that the the philosophy behind it is more of the story than us actually doing it. We're willing to sacrifice 300 million dollars worth of equipment and put hundreds of men's lives in danger to go after one guy, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:01

And that's why I said like it would if if if that is really all it was, would not surprise me. They would all eat what happened would still make sense to me, and I'd be completely okay with it. Like, yeah, that's that's what that's what you do, you know. At least that's what we're raised to think the military should be like, and you know, as Americans, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:23

And and that's that's been an ethos in the military, and it's not just an SF guy ethos, it's you know, in the straight line units I was attached to, you know, if somebody if something happens to somebody, we were risking everyone to go get them. To give you an example, when I my last deployment in 2012, I was doing a basically a walkabout of our AO to introduce the new unit coming on to take over for me and taking them around. And we we basically walked into an L-shape ambush and we were pinned down, and it we were like probably a platoon plus, right? So we were probably you know 15 guys or so. No, we had about 20 because there was a squad plus, you mean? Yeah, squad plus, but they it was probably closer to 20 because we had an uh six other guys that were there to just train the af Afghan border patrol, they had come with us, and we got pinned down, and the Marines sent everything to come get to come assist us, like every piece of air asset they had in Hellman province came to assist us because the the closest unit to us was about three hours away by land, right? And so they sent everything, right? And we we were seeing I've got you know, y'all see it in the outro video. A lot of that is from that engagement, right? So, if y'all, when we do the the best outro video in in YouTube at the end of the show, watch it. That's a lot of that is from that engagement, right? They sent everything to come, you know, they're sending cobras, Apaches, they were sending you know warthogs, everything to come assist us because no one else was anywhere close to us to be able to come out, and we were at the furthest edges of the empire, we were close to the Pakistan border, and there might have been some Pakistanis involved, we don't know, right? Because we couldn't exactly go after them because we couldn't cross the border, we weren't allowed to. But that's the difference in the American mindset is we don't leave Americans behind, no matter what, even if you're dead, we're getting your body and taking your body back for your for your family, and we will risk and men will die to do that. They're willing to die to do that, and that's the difference between us and a lot of other militaries. A lot of European militaries don't understand that right now. Like, why would you do that? You know, you just wasted 300 million dollars worth of equipment, like because one life is worth it. That is the difference between us and everyone else in the world.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:46

That and that 300 million is like their whole military, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:50

That is true too. That's that's a that's a daily toilet expenditure for us in the military.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:55

The UK has, I think, what, 47 working main battle tanks right now. 47, 47.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:02

I know it, I know it wasn't a lot.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:06

Canada has one destroyer and one halfway broken down submarine.

Artemis Missions And Moon Skepticism

SPEAKER_03 1:13:12

So I'm I'm not a space exploration guy, I have no interest in it whatsoever. I do know that we sent off a rocket with a bunch of people in it, right? That's about the extent of my knowledge of Artemis II. So what is like I what's going on with Artemis II?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:30

So the so Artemis II is basically a test flight prior to Artemis III, Artemis III being uh an attempt to land on the moon, Artemis II being a pass around the the back, you know, the dark side, so-called dark side of the moon. The way I see it is like uh at this point, whether or not Apollo 11 landed on the moon or not, I at this point, even who really cares. As far as this goes, though, like yeah, the rocket, the rocket went up. I mean, there was so many people saw that with their own eyes, that a rocket went up. Pretty sure there were people on it, like you know, and like so we have videos, we have video of them in zero gravity, which unless it's all AI, you know, and they're streaming the almost the whole thing. So, and if that's all AI, someone's gonna notice that, someone's gonna be able to prove that, right? Someone's gonna get six fingers for a while at some point in the video, you know, in the video if they're streaming multiple days worth. So it would seem like it's a pretty good bet we have astronauts on a rocket in zero gravity because you're not faking zero gravity with wires or any sort of like any sort of what they call a practical effect, right? And like I said, you're not doing with AI for multiple days either. So we have astronauts at least in zero gravity, you know. So if you're gonna have them in orbit around Earth, it's not much more difficult in terms of physics to widen that orbit and get that orbit to the point where it can make a lunar transit. So I think it's probably likely that it's really happening. Whether or not they're gonna end up landing on the moon the next time around, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:27

Because I I did see they've got plans to create a moon base like within the next 10 years.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:36

Oh, Artemis 4, not Artemis III. My bad. My bad, Freeman.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:42

They look the chat. Well, if you're wrong, they're gonna let you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:46

Yeah, they will.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:47

They will not, they ain't sitting back on their laurels saying, Oh, maybe he'll get it right.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:51

So, yeah, the van not Van Allen's that they also also known as the jump belt. I'm I'm guessing that's just a joke, but for anyone who doesn't know the Van Buren belt, the Van Allen is event, it's Van Van Buren was a president.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:07

Is it the Van Buren belt?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:08

Hold on, it's the Van Allen belt, I think.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:10

Van Allen belt. You're probably right. I'm gonna give you all right, let's see.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:15

Yeah, the Van Allen radiation belt.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:17

Yeah, the Van Allen here. I I see I have a diagram and everything. Why is it so big? So that so there we go.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:24

The one obstacle, physical obstacle, kind of, if you it's not it's not physical as like they're hitting something, but the one physical obstacle between Earth orbit and the moon is the Van Allen radiation belt. And people wonder, well, how can we get astronauts through the you know this radiation belt with them without them dying of radiation sickness, you know, things like that. The speed they're traveling, they pass through the belt in an about an hour, and the amount of radiation they receive in that hour is like one-tenth of the max daily dose of radiation they can get and still be completely safe. So, yeah, you don't want to sit in the in that radiation belt, it you would you would be bad, you know. In about 10 hours, you would you would exceed your daily dose of what you should get. But just flying through it at that that speed is it takes about an hour, and it's not much worse than you know getting a couple x-rays at the doctor.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:22

So, how do we know how much radiation they would be exposed to in the vanilla belt? Probes we sent. Probes were sent. Who said the probes?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:35

Adrian, don't do this.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:38

All the breadcrumbs, but all the breadcrumbs. Oh, the same people who who told us we went to the moon? Okay, so they have a vested interest in making sure that we believe that you could probably also figure out how much radiation from calculations.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:54

I I don't know. I'm not a physicist, not an astronomer. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:59

Look, Fantastic Four was a documentary. I just I I does anyone think their god would cause some sort of event that set space travel back decades before we colonize another planet. Moon-based travel to Mars gives Tower of Babel vibes.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:25

I think it's I mean, that kind of I would say the Heart Seller Act was an event that set space travel back decades before we can colonize the moon, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:38

Plus, we can't colonize the moon because you know we'd have to have slaves to build everything. Well, that's already been a bad idea, we can't do that anymore. Or so I like what they use for H1Bs, what exactly get all the Indians out of Texas, sell them to the moon. But what's the point? Like, what's the point of is there a is there a mineral on the moon that we need? Are we using it as a a jump off point to go to other places to other planets? What's the point, right? Like, why are we doing that? We're just saying so we can do it. I mean, I mean, I guess that's cool. Like, you know, you you don't climb a mountain because there's something at the mountain that you need to get. There's like a quest for a the holy grail at the top of the mountain, you do it to see if you can do it to push your limits of the human human capabilities, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:22

But that's a lot of money to be just to say we did something, especially especially like right now in our day and age, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:30

Like, yeah, especially right now where we we're just borrowing money to spend it all the time. Yeah, it is not a good fiscal use of our money.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:37

Now, if if SpaceX wanted to use private funds, yeah, to do something, that would be different. And like, I do think on one hand, it is there potentially some sort of like Tower of Babel sort of prideful, you know, act about it. Yeah, there definitely can be there if you're doing it solely to aggrandize humanity or something like that. But at the same time, I think you could also do something similar simply to just learn more about God's creation, too, right? Yeah, so I think a lot of it's gonna be like the intention behind why we're doing things and and stuff like that. I've I guess I have no problem with space exploration itself, but like you said, it I don't necessarily want public funds to be doing it at this point in time.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:28

Yeah, it's just it's not a good use of money at this point, even still. I was gonna say, unless there's like some type of uh defense capability we could use from the moon, like Jewish space lasers, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:42

I mean, I think the next big uh thing in in like strategic weapons technology is is like the you heard the rods from God, yeah. Yeah, I I think something like that is it right around the corner, no, but I I think that there is some real viability behind stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:05

I because we talked about it before, we're like what what nation will we be will we need some type of capability like that against? Like China, maybe, right? But Israel.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:20

Yeah, we we call it the menorah of doom, but um oh no, a one-pound tungsten rod fell from space and hit the western wall, whatever will we do.

China Corruption And Demographic Decline

SPEAKER_03 1:21:33

I just don't uh I think at this point, like something that grandiose to keep China on their heels is just not needed. No, and we just have to wait the Chinese out, yeah. I think so too, at this point, especially if we are to believe that their population is as low as as been 500 million, yeah. If that and they're in and losing 100 million every 10 years because they're just not having enough children, which is why you know birth tourism has been a huge thing for the elites in China over here, right? You know, they've got they've having like eight, nine babies over here with one woman, you know, but they're just not there's not that many people in China having that many babies. One because they can't eat them, right? With the amount of droughts and then and then on top of that, the next year it's floods that completely destroys crops and their infrastructure is crumbling. I like Chinese steel is guard terrible. It is horrible. They built an aircraft carrier, and within one year they had a crack in the deck of that aircraft carrier across the entire chip. Because their steel, there's so much corruption in China, they can't do anything that's worthwhile. Their missile bases, uh, they had multiple commanders who were relieved of duty and executed because their soldiers were stealing the fuel out of the rockets to be able to cook and eat with, because they were not giving anything to cook and eat with, and so they refilled it with water, and so they can't they their missile capability is super compromised at this point as well. And China, the amount of corruption there is a debilitating factor for them, yeah. So there's no need for any of any type of capability like that for China whatsoever. And so other than just saying we're able to do it, not to mention you you've heard about their newest uh rifles.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:34

No, what they they they showed video of them shooting them, and people noticed that on the targets they were shooting from about 10 yards away, the rifles every once in a while were key holing.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:51

How old were the rifles?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:53

Brand new. No, but you know, if if your plan is to have an army of two or three million, you know, just rushing at people and they don't need to do much more than key hole at 10 yards, I suppose.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:17

Z has been the issue because he keeps killing people that are competent that threaten his power. And so he he he's he's kind of creating his own issue there. But it it's the it's this there's a difference between country Chinese and urban Chinese, uh and the urban Chinese are are like rats in a bucket, they will climb on top of others, kill others just to try and get out of that bucket, and they're all trying to and the bucket is China, they're all trying to get anywhere else other than China. The problem is, is the Chinese government does not allow anyone to leave China that they don't want to leave, and so they've got a pretty strong grip of the people in China for that fact. So, and then you get to the the country Chinese who just want to live their life, most of them. That's where a lot of your Christians are, they're out in the country in China, and because they it's it's it's too far for the government and military of China to reach out and have a daily interaction with them, keep it.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:29

Yeah, you you're you know, a low soul social credit score from being a Christian doesn't matter out in the boondocks, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:36

So that that that's where the difference that's where because they have entire cities built in in China that have no one living in them. Yeah, the most of the economy in in China is real estate. The issue is with the real estate in China is it is a Ponzi scheme. So what so for example in China your 401k is basically real estate. So when you buy a condo in a high-rise in some city, you and you pay for this condo, these companies are then taking that money, then cede to buy more property to build another condo, and they never actually build that condo, so you never really own anything, and nothing's ever built for you to even go live in or rent out or anything. But in order for them to do that and go to buy to buy some more property to build up another condo, they then have to bribe the government of that municipality for that land to be able to buy it, to be able to build another condo there. Nothing ever gets built, and if it does get built, it's so shoddy that it's falling apart, or it's you know, a lot of these cities are there, they're entire multi-million population cities that have no one living in them in in China, not a single person, they're empty, and they're all over the place in China, and it's because their economy is a Ponzi scheme. Let's see. No, the dollar's not getting replaced, and it'll be devalued, but it's not getting replaced. It's still what the entire world buys oil with, and most of the debt in the in the world is in US dollar. Now, because BRICS has basically become nothing, they tried to replace the world reserve currency with the one, and it just it didn't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:30

No, and and all the stuff in Iran is only gonna hurt Russia and China even worse than us.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:35

Now I did see who somebody recalled all their gold from the when the reserve was it France? France, and then I saw a report also that Germany is not allowing any fighting age males to leave the country.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:47

Yeah, you can't leave the country for was it more than three months or something like that?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:53

Which means that they're preparing for something.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:56

Yeah, that that's actually the scariest news I've heard over the last Few days.

Digital Currency, Barter, And Resilience

SPEAKER_03 1:28:01

Because that's what Ukraine did. They weren't allowing any fighting age males to leave at the beginning of the conflict. And now like they're conscripting 60-year-olds because there's no one left. They've lost an entire generation of men in Ukraine to this conflict. When they would have been better off years ago, three, four years ago, when they you know they're barely a year into this conflict to just give Russia what they wanted. Because they they don't have the capability to hold it. And we can't support them anymore. And we won't support them anymore. No because we have our own conflict in Iran that we're having to deal with, as well as Venezuela and Africa. I mean, we're we're in conflicts on four different continents at this point. We just don't have the capability to support them. And so they need to make a deal with Russia and be done. But you have an entire generation of men in Ukraine who will never have families, and that will be a demographic clip for them eventually that will just collapse at Ukraine because they've lost so many young people. So digital did digital currency will replace the dollar. It will happen eventually. I don't know if it's happening soon. It may happen soon. I don't know. But the thing is, because the concern with digital currency is they can control what you buy. They can flag you if you're buying things that are unapproved, they can keep you from making purchases of things that they don't want you to buy, right? Unless you're on the right list and you know the right people, whatever. The problem with that is they can't control barter. Yeah. And you get outside the cities and you're going to have people bartering with things, right? You know, like for me, like I've got a pig. I'll give you a pig for you know a car, right? Because you can't eat a car. And you know, I need another vehicle, or I need a better vehicle, or I need parts for my vehicle, so I'll give you a pig for it. And a pig is a replaceable commodity. I can just breed more pigs, right? And that I have a constant food source. Or I've got silver, right? Silver is no good. The best time to use silver is when the dollar is no longer usable and before the barter system hits. So you've got like a two, three-week period of where things like you know, silver and gold are worth it. And then after that point, if you still have it, you hold on to it to be able to pass down to your kids for when the monetary system comes back. Right. But barter is is impossible to control. You will not be able to, you will have flea markets basically pop up everywhere of people selling and bartering things to get what they need. And that the only people that will really be affected by it is people that live in urban areas because they don't have the capability as much to be able to procure their own food and other things like that as the people out in the country do, or even the suburbs, right? Because once you once you get to that point, the people in the suburbs are gonna start having chickens, chickens and gardens or having pigs. HOA goes out the window at that point because people are gonna do what they need to do to take care of theirs and the and the people in their community, which is which is honestly a white pill when this happens, because you see how much people are willing to help out their fellow Americans. We saw it during Katrina, we saw it during COVID, at least out in the country we did, in the urban areas.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:42

We saw a lot of bad things with Katrina too, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:46

But we you know, anytime there's a natural disaster thing of the uh hurricane Helene that hit North Carolina, people were coming from the other side of the country to come help out. Right. That is that is the one that is the issue that Marxists don't understand, is because they don't understand human nature, right? Because they try and pigeonhole everybody into what they think human nature should be instead of understanding what human nature is. And most people want to help out other people if they're able to do it, and they're willing to do without to be able to help out others, um, and so I think that will backfire if they end up going that route. I think it'll backfire fantastically.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:26

Let's see. You uh I've got a couple ARs. What's your price, brother?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:42

I'm glad it was him and not someone else.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:48

It depends. Is it a novice ordo gated community?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:54

Do they do they sing chant or Marty Hogan? Because I tell you, if it's uh the gated community where they're singing Marty Hogan, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:04

We the uh the password to get in is uh sign of peace. The password to get in is say the entire pray the entire potternoster.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:19

What comment? Because I see that one, but I don't see any other comment from you, solitarious. Was there a link in it? Because I it does block links, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:32

It will also self-moderate restricted language, which is why we have end towers and we don't have people who actually say the word. The steel industry is coming back, specifically here in Alabama. In fact, the Birmingham is known as the Iron City because of where it's situated, it has it's within very close proximity to all the requirements needed to make steel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:07

Yep, it's coming back.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:13

You made a joke. I said we can see it's all very I see it. I don't know what you said. It was probably hilarious. That's probably why I didn't post it.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:22

Ocean, no. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:25

There we go. Yeah, it does. That's where EWT ends at in Iron Dale, Alabama. All right, we got 15 minutes. Does anybody want to pop on and ask a question other than Ocean? Ocean, I love you, but I know exactly what you're gonna do when you come on. What do you think he's gonna do? The same thing he did when he came on on the all show. I wasn't there that time, remember? Oh, you aren't there? Did you watch it?

SPEAKER_04 1:35:02

No. I I don't watch my own shows when I'm not there. Well, I don't watch it when I am there either. I'm just there.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:10

Yeah, it was funny, but anybody wants to jump on, let us know. We'll we'll send you the link real quick, answer a question or so. We got about 15 minutes before we're done. Let's see. While we're waiting, I'm gonna see if there's anything crazy going on.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:28

I know I was kind of looking too. I don't see anything too crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:33

My goodness. It has you know what has been nice is seeing all the people talking about how they're coming into the church. Yeah, man. Do you follow Michael Sebastian at all? Um his tag his uh his tag is honor and daring. He wrote a book a while ago called The Patriarch Mindset.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:02

I I've I see his tweets all the time, but I guess I'm not actually following him.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:06

Man, he is he's he's he's MAGA first, Catholic second.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:11

Really? That'd be why I don't follow him. It drives me nuts.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:16

He's a good dude, but man, he is he's all about there's a political solution. I'm like, no, there's not, brother. We are way past any. I think Joel Webin's gonna convert.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:26

I think so too. D did you see that tweet he had about uh about watching uh all the reformed guys?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:34

It was the Pete Heggseth and and Doug Wilson yeah, thing he made a comment about that. I was like, he's on his way. I may not be it may not be a year from now, maybe a couple years from now, but he's on his way.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:46

He's got I mean, he's got so much in that in that world where like it does take a while to extract yourself from it.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:56

Look, if Aaron Gorn can do it, Joel Webin can do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:00

Aaron Gorn didn't have a media company based on no, but his entire living was from it. Yeah, that is true. And Webin would instantly be one of the biggest Catholic podcasters. Oh, 100%. Did you see Fuentes and Marshall wish with each wish each other happy Easter?

SPEAKER_03 1:37:23

Yeah. The crossover we never knew we needed. Yeah. I would that would be an interesting show between them two. It would have to be it, it would have to be in person though, and not and not streamed for it to be authentic. Because Taylor he has such he cultivates such a specific image, right? Because it's he's trying to do the best the most good as he can, yeah, even though he's got some edgy opinions. But it's it's one of those things where like he'd be like an end-person-only interaction.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:07

Do you keep any animals for defensive purposes?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:10

Yep, me. I'm the most dangerous person on this farm, brother. I have two German shepherds that are purely for protection. Now, I love German Shepherds and they love me. You know, animals just love me. I don't know why. Probably because I'm a pure soul, but I think it they they they really say they can they feel like they're on your level. That's probably true. That's probably true. But yeah, I have two German Shepherds. One, he is they're four years old now, and we just got him fixed this year, so he's a hoss. He is. In fact, my daughter got you know, the the little polar bear that we got her, he's like locked onto her all the time. We can't let him interact because he's constantly trying to dominate her. Uh, and so my wife went accidentally let him out while my daughter's dog was out, and he went at her. Not he wasn't trying to my daughter thinks she's gonna kill her, right? But I'm like, that's not what he's doing. If he's gonna kill her, she'd be dead. Yeah, because he's just wanting to dominate her. But my wife tried to grab him and pull him back, and she and my and my wife's you know pretty strong because she has to be living on the farm with me and doing things when I can't do it, and he's dragging her everywhere, and he just he just dance, nothing but muscle. Um, but he's but if he knows that like you and I are on good terms, he'll love you. Like he picks up what my attitude is towards you, he he reciprocates that. But if he know if I'm around him and I'm wary of somebody or I'm cautious around somebody, his his fur stands up and he's just you know look at them real tense. And like one time we had my my wife's aunt was over and she went out front to smoke, and I let my dogs out, and they didn't they didn't see her yet, like they've never been introduced to her, so they didn't have a they didn't have a an understanding of like what her relationship was to us, and he started like bowing up on her, and he was about to come at her until my wife got there, like oh, you know, told him his name's Charlie, short for Charlemagne, but uh and told him to call, you know, then he immediately was fine. He went up to her and like a little letter, but my other dog, her name is Mia, short for Mia Culpa, but uh but they're both German Shepherds are the best dogs, without a doubt. You know, people who want like King Corsos, right? Or what's the other one everybody wants? Uh or decent ridgebacks, like or Malinois, right? First of all, you have to Malinois are not for the average person, though they are super smart.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:48

Yeah, you and you need a gate or you need a fence legit like 12 feet tall, otherwise they just jump it.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:54

They'll climb a 12-foot fence, yeah, or they'll run up a tree to jump over the fence. Malinois are not like you have to be a specific type of person to own a Malinois. So my wife or my daughter's dog is half Great Pyrenees, half golden retriever, and I think she's kind of stopped growing, which is good because she's not gonna get as big as I thought she was gonna get. But the issue down here in Alabama is it's too hot for a Great Pyrenees, they just don't do well, and a lot of people down here have them. Like, I hope you have a pool for something for for them because it is just way too hot down here.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:28

I unfortunately am allergic to dogs, like very, very allergic to dogs.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:33

So that ain't good, brother. I you need to have some claritin on and an epi pen.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:41

I I I take I take Xerotec daily, do you every day of my life? So no, no, no, what is wrong with you? We are not teaming monitor lizards, we are teaming Komodo dragons.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:00

I've seen a monitor lizard eat a deer, yeah. Like, it's not a good idea. No, man, literally a reptile brain. You can't train that.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:13

Do you guys have access to the prayer blessing for firearms, or has that been prayer been changed since the 60s? Have you seen the priest textbook for the actual prayer? Yeah, no, I don't know, and no.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:25

The I think it's called the Paris Ritual Book, it's the pre-1960 blessings book. Rituale Romanum. No, it's called it's called Parish Ritual. Okay, and because I I buy it for new priests ordained in our diocese every year. Oh, okay. Um and I give it to them, but uh it has it in there. But the problem is like with that and with the uh reculta, is it's not allowed to be used anymore. Like we don't know the reculta is reculta is the old book of all the indulgences, yeah. But the the the church is in her infinite wisdom has decided to remove the capability of using and having those indulgences anymore, which you know makes sense. Wow, you know, that that's something we should do.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:14

Well, you you can use the reculta, it's just you don't get the indulgence for them. Uh I think you might still get the indulgence, but it's no longer like because the reculta will say, you know, you get 300 days indulgence for this. They now anything that's not a plenary indulgence is just a general partial indulgence with no specificity as to how many days worth.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:39

I thought I remembered Father Dave Nick's because the new book of blessing, ritual romana, whatever it is, has now superseded it. The recolta that the recult, like you can still do the prayers and stuff, but they're they don't receive the the credit. That could definitely be the case. I'm not sure. Because the church has decided to supersede them. Now, did so, what is your understanding of like the 300 days indulgence, the five years indulgence?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:11

So, my understanding of of how indul the partial indulgences used to have a number of days attached was it people thought that that was the number of days off of purgatory you would get when in reality it was it was it was almost an exchange rate, like this indulgence is worth doing X number of days of fasting and penance. So if an indulgence is worth 300 days, getting that indulgence would be the same as doing 300 days of fasting and penance.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:48

So that's pretty on par with what I understood because I had a priest explain it to me one time that in the in the I wouldn't even say the early church, but in the church, it would be you know, you you would do your confession or whatever, and or and they would tell you, like, hey, you can't receive the Eucharist for two years, right? But you can do indulgences to cut that down, right? So if you do a 300-day indulgence, well then off the you know 730 days, you can knock 300 days off of it before you again, right? If you do a you know one year, I'll knock a one year off, and then and the the worse the sin, the the longer the period was basically to encourage you to complete those indulgences to cut that time down, right? And that was my that's how he explained to me. I was like, Oh, that makes sense, you know, like hey, you you know, you committed a murder, so you're just like you can't receive the Eucharist for 30 years, you better be getting the to indulgence maxing real quick. Yeah, whatever it is, but then that made more sense to me. I was like, Okay, that because uh for instance, my the Blessed Be God prayer book. I I've been using that more for Sundays because it's it's thinner, it has the Sunday mass, you know, it's a lot easier to carry than my because I usually I use the St. Andrews, yeah. Um which is the best missile, by the way, like without a doubt. But and it has a lot of the prayers in there, and it's like three 300 days, you know, two years, like 30 days, whatever it is. I was like, man, what is like why do we not see that anymore? Now everything's like a partial plenary, right, or a plenary, like uh it feels like the the weight has been taken out of indulgences. Now it's like all or nothing, pretty much at this point, all the time. Basically, right, yeah. New Marion, I haven't seen the new Marion Missile. It uh who did that one? Loreto Pubs? Is that who did that? Little publishing. The the new Saint Edmund Campion missile is it's thinner and it's easier to use, but the older one that was like a textbook is yeah, I I I have I do have the older like hardcover textbook missile. Yeah, that's where our parish has those in the pews for everybody to use.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:16

You can get the numerian missile from the FSSP, it looks like.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:20

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:23

The Baronius Press one, the worst missile, which is unfortunate because they usually do a good job with all their stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:30

Yeah, it's just not, it's one. So, for example, when I get a new bot, when I see a new Bible translation, the first thing I do is I go to Luke 128, like and see what they say. Like, so the new Augustine Institute ESV Bible, yeah, it says highly favored one. Oh, I'm gonna pass on that one. Yep. Now the new Saint Joseph's I can't remember what the name of the translation was. It does say full of grace. I was like, so I got it for my son, and he loves it. It's a like it's a little easier for him to read than the Dewey Rames. But I do the same thing with with missiles. I'll I have like a standard I look at the first thing I look at on a new missile is I'll look at what the prayer for the Jews is on Good Friday, right? And Baronius Press fails. Does it really? Yep. Yep, it does. And they're not, and then on top of that, their Knox translation of the Bible is edited horribly, like the layout is terrible. It's it's which is unfair, like a wall of text on every page. No, that's that is the Knox. That's what I'm saying. It it's it's horrible. They need to break it's it's super hard to read like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:49

No, that the Knox is always going to be like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:53

No, the Knox translation is specifically a newer English translation off the bulgate, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:48:59

But Ronald Knox wanted it to always be a single column on the page. He did not want it split into multiple, he wanted it to be read like a normal book.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:09

But it's a wall of text, there's no like paragraph, nothing whatsoever. You sure about that? I mean, I go in the house and get it. I mean, I have it right behind me too. Yeah, pull it out, pull it out. Look at it. Okay, give me a second. It's terrible to read. Terrible. It is not, it is not conducive to whatsoever. It's horrible, and I wanted to like it. But I just it's like as you'll lose where you're at in the page. Super easy.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:43

Yeah, all right, keep going. Keep going. Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:50

Did you push the button? He's boomering it up. Is it so you're boomering it up? You're picking up on your laptop mic. Or computer mic instead of your actual mic. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:26

Is that better?

SPEAKER_03 1:50:28

Oh yeah, way better. Okay, good. I don't know what I hit there. I'd interview Voice of Reason in person. Like face to face. As the kids say, I would mug him. Or I mug him too. I could do both. Bro, he he's got such a punchable face. Punchable voice. And he's got you know he's got a glass jaw. You know he does. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:59

He's a former actor. Super easy.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:02

You know what the Romans thought about actors? They were lower than.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:07

Too young. I'm barely Gen X. Barely. Like the next year is millennial. You might as well be a boomer. In some aspects, I am. Stupid.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:22

They're super voluntary. Zero. Just zero. No violence. They're viable zero percent. I mean they're super cool, but they're not viable. Russia had a knife that the blade would would fire off of a blank, would that you uh would insert a blank cartridge and it would fire the blade of the knife off.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:45

They also had a a knife that would uh fire a gust of air in the wound. Ooh. So like you'd stab somebody and then they see their like calf explode. Awesome. That'd be awesome. But so the Knox version is not easy to read. Like it's super easy to to lose yourself on the page in where you're at.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:10

It I mean, yeah, so there are kind of paragraphs, but yeah, it's the verse numbers are weird because they're not in the line, they're at the end, yeah of the line. So it it is it's not it's not one you want to you don't pull it out to find a verse. No, this is like one you read a whole chapter at a time through, yeah, or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:35

Tan or Tan or Sophia put out the reader's companion of the Bible, which is much more to like sit down and read like a novel. Okay, and I think it comes in like two or three or four volumes, I think, to be able to read like that, and that's way easier to read. So if you want to sit down and read like a whole book, like you want to read all of Mark in one sitting, that's a much better capability of doing that. But the Knox, man, I was so disappointed. I like it just sits on my shelf. Like I bought it, and like I don't even want to give it away because I don't want someone else to be disappointed in it, too. So it's just like it's it's like a cursed book on my shelf that I could never get rid of. You know, somebody'll do something weird with it. That's true, yeah. With Archbishop, what's his name, Commentary? What the late oh Challener? Challener, yeah. Yeah, I've got a what is it? It's a Dewey Rames, but it's the confraternity. Yeah, the confraternity version. And it's it's I that's probably my favorite Bible to read. Loreto Publications, don't get it from Refuge of Sinners. Because Refuge of Sinners Publications has removed some of the Hadock commentary that refers to the Elder Brothers, whereas their Loreto Publications has has an entirety.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:12

Always comes back to them every time, every time, every time, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:18

Loreto Publications is the best one. They actually have the best version of the Katana Aria as well. They so if y'all don't know the Katana Aria, most publications is a Protestant translation of it, where you get it from Loreto Publications is a Catholic translation of it. I wonder what uh the app uses, probably the Protestant translation because the Loreto Publications is the first one to do it in like 100 years. I have an old 1882 Hadock Bible with the metal clasps. No way, yeah. It's awesome. That is awesome. We we busted out for major feast days and stuff to read out of. Yeah, Lareto Publications is a really good publisher. They have the best book that I've ever got from them was called the The Peacemaker Who Went to War. It was about St. Nuno Alvarez Pereira. You all it's it's a quick read, you'll it's like a sit down and read it in a couple hours type of thing. And it's about Saint Nuno, who was a it was a knight in Portugal, kind of during the Reconquista, but most of his fighting was with Spain because it kept trying to take over Portugal. It's a fantastic book, especially as a father who's into what we do. Because his span of his life is he grew up being very militaristic, got married, had a child, she grew up, married her off, she died early, then his wife died, and after he, you know, obtained sovereign sovereignty for Portugal from Spain, he decided to then become a monk and into a Carmelite monastery. But while he was a monk in a Carmelite monastery, he would wear his robes, but he always wore his armor under it, so everyone would know he's ready to take off his robes and defend Portugal if he needed to. In fact, the envoy from Spain found out that he was in a monastery and decided to come verify, make sure, and he made sure, and when he got there to meet St. Nuno, Saint Nuno removed his robes and showed him that he still had his armor on, he was ready. And Donald Voice from Spain went back and reported to the king and said, okay, we can't go after Portugal right now. He's he's still a threat. It's the best, it's a fantastic book. You also read it. I like the way they incorporate who Loreto get the Loreto publications one.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:00

The three volume Yeah. Well, that's that's on the four gospels.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:11

I just go back to some of these comments, man. Y'all are a little out of pocket on some of these things. Our audience? Father Father Lessons, I the best thing about the Father Lessons missile is that it has thicker paper for the ordinary of the mass. Because that's the portion you're going to use the most. That part of it is the best. The reason I like the St. Andrew Missile the best is because every Mass, every you know, whether it's a feast day of a saint or it's a regular Sunday mass, it always has a blurb at the beginning talking about where we're at as far as in the liturgy of the church, what the readings that day where the divine office are, and how it lines up and with everything. Like it's it's way is fantastic. Not only that, but the after communion prayers are much more conducive to my personality, so that's why I like it. Because it's it's about a lot of the after communion prayers which start at page 996, I think. But like the prayer I end with with is basically a prayer asking God to give me the death that He deigns me to have. Right. And that's it. So after I get communion, I come back, I go through all my after communion prayers, you know, the prayer before the crucifix, and a you know, a few other prayers to really align myself with the will of God, and then I finish with God, give me the death that you you want me to have. But it's it's much more in line with my personality. I just I just like the way it lines up a lot better.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:42

If you want uh if anyone wants to learn about different translations, um Tim Flanders actually wrote a book. I have it. What is it called? It I think it's the Catholic Bible for traditionalists or whatever. Yeah, something I have it on my Kindle too. Hold on. I was just looking at it the other day, actually. Introduction to the Holy Bible for traditional Catholics. So he he looks at about probably 12 different verses that tend to be problems in other translations, and he gives you those 12 verses in each in like the Dewey Reims and the KJV, the NAB, the you know, RSV. And so you'll get a C you'll get to see each of those verses in each of the different translations, and it's got a good Bible reading plan too in it.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:35

And for for the Cliff notes on on Timothy Florence's opinion on that, the Dewey Reims is the best, but the RSVE CE2 RSV RSV2CE, yeah, yeah, that one is it just is it's pretty close, pretty close. Yeah, so if you like you get the Ascension Bible, that's the Ascension Bible or the Ignatius Study Bible, uh RSV2 CE. Yeah, it's just the they he they tries to be a little bit more faithful to the Vulgate, pretty much, than trying to use more modern Bible biblical translations. Now there is a new ESV that's supposed to be coming out next year that's supposed to be from the Vulgate.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:27

Really?

SPEAKER_03 2:00:28

Yeah, I can't remember who's putting it out, but I heard uh I think it's Joshua Charles talking about it, actually. I think you're right. I think it was on your show, in fact. I think you're right. That's about the only time I listen to Joshua Charles. I can't man with his shows where he just reads like the church fathers, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:47

Yeah, he he he's actually got a really good and engaging personality when it's in a discussion, yeah.

AI Limits And Reading On Islamic History

SPEAKER_03 2:00:56

Because I don't do well with audible books at all. Like I'm I right now I'm listening, like today when I was doing yard work, I was listening to the the Andalusian myth today, and I just like man, thank god I don't like the what I'm doing right now doesn't require a lot of thought because I would be distracted.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:13

How was that book? I I was just thinking about actually getting it for audiobook.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:17

It's uh I mean the audio version is okay, it's just like someone reading it to you. It was there's not a lot of inflection and stuff, right?

SPEAKER_04 2:01:25

In fact, there's one part part that I was listening to today where he was The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez Moreira, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:34

And there was a portion where he was being very tongue-in-cheek, and I couldn't tell until he was the the reader was like all the way through it, and I was like, Oh, he's being sarcastic. Like, okay, I got it because you had no idea by the way, his inflection of his voice whatsoever. But it because it that I've read the book before, but I wanted to listen to it again because it's been a while, because I did like a big Islam phase about 10 years ago and I read a bunch of stuff, and want to kind of go through it again, but that's you know, that's where I learned things like everything the Muslims claim that they are responsible for, like medicine and philosophy, like they just stole from Christians that they enslaved. Yeah, that's all it was.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:20

Yeah, if you look if you look at most of the Arab names behind those things, yeah, you find out that that was just the Arab name of a Christian slave, 100%.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:29

Yeah, and that's really what a lot of the book is about. It goes through a lot of that, and then and then also it debunking a lot of the modern scholarship again about Islam, how it was like this peaceful thing, you know, this peace, you know, the Iberian Peninsula is very peaceful, and it wasn't until the Christians, in fact, Islam was going through a reformation until the Reconquista happened. No, it wasn't that wasn't. It's a it's a giant myth, but it's it's it's a really good book. It's it I advise everyone to read it. I like TLM Ryan. I like his videos. I think he his voice doesn't bother me. Man, the the Lloyd DeJoung book shows with Kennedy Hall were eye-opening about Islam, but then he has a giant blind spot for Israel. Yeah. So then I have to think is a lot of his research slanted because of his blind spot. Yeah, I agree. Because he he uses AI for a lot of his research, and we all know how reliable AI is.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:37

I just saw an article where Apple showed that AI can't do elementary math.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:47

Like two plus two? Yep.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:52

Really? It's not so much like because AI will be able to look right through all its language language models for any time two plus two showed up, so it will find equals four. But if you take if you take the like the logic of math and change change, you know, change numbers and change notation and stuff like that, and have it try to actually work through just the logic, it get it doesn't know what the heck to do.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:20

So if you gave it like a word problem, yeah, you can't do it. Yep, exactly. If I had two ducks and they went down the road, right, and they found two other ducks and they mated, how many ducks would they have?

SPEAKER_04 2:04:31

I just saw an article on Twitter.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:32

I'll have to I'll have to look for it and read it, but that it wouldn't surprise me, honestly, because it the problem with AI it is it doesn't think, it just references, yep, right? And so if there's not something out there that can it can use that exact language from to pull what the answer is, it can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:51

Like, I mean, there are some things it's gonna be really good at, like there might not radiology might not be a a thing five years from now, right? Because like all radiologists do is they're they get good by reading x-rays and and mrize over and over and over and over and over and over and learning to spot small things on them. Yeah, well, you know what? Having a computer, you know, look take a record of a million x-rays with the the notations of what that x-ray shows.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:26

Yeah, guess what?

SPEAKER_04 2:05:27

That thing is gonna be way better at looking at a new x-ray and saying or new MRI and saying, hey, this little little little little dot right there could be a tumor in two years.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I there's I think there's a lot of fields that would will go away because of that, because there's just a lot of reference material out there to be able to answer those questions, some of them being medical, right? But it's AI is still not gonna build a building. No, AI is still not gonna fix the the P trap in your sink, right? Just not gonna happen. I think he's Anglican. I think Lloyd Jong is Anglican. If I remember correctly, or he's Lutheran, one of the two.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:14

He he's gonna be Dutch Reformed with his name.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:17

He's he is he is Catholic adjacent and he's very supportive of Catholics. I do know that. He's just not Catholic. But I think I think he's been anglican or something. Talking about the ducks? Live on a farm, brother. Everything's about animals and I've I've just had my fourth calf. We have we went from four cows two months ago to eight cows today, two days ago. So it's all about the birds and the bees on this place. I'll never have to have that talk with my kids because they just see it. True. I never have to worry about that. That's a good point. I just I just have to explain to them, like, hey, we don't do that till we're married. Mr. Cow and Mrs.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:03

Cow, I married.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:06

Yeah, he was yeah, he was some type of force protection specialist working in the Middle East. It wouldn't surprise me if he worked alongside Israelis in some capacity. He but he has a giant blind spot for them. He doesn't he thinks they can do no wrong, which is wrong, but everyone could do wrong. Especially people who are anti-Christ. All right. Well, anybody else? Anything else, guys? You got get for speak now, forever, hold your peace.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:42

No, ocean, we do not all go through a high-tier Anglican phase. 100% not.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:47

I was like saying we we were gay at some point. I don't even I've never even had an ordinary phase. Ordinary is gay. 1%.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:57

Cranmer coded. It's cramer coded. So I mean, I'm gonna be completely honest. If there was an ordinary ordinary at like 20 minutes away, I would go there over the sort of every day.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:13

If the Latin mass was an hour and a half away, but an ordinary it was 20 minutes away, I would go the ordinary. Yeah. Without a doubt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:21

But I'm gonna make fun of it until that happens.

Training Challenge, Telegram, And Closing

SPEAKER_03 2:08:24

Yeah, if we're gonna have an English mass, it should be the ordinary. All right, guys, we're gonna stop it here. We will see y'all unless something crazy happens this week. Wait, please, Lord, please don't let anything crazy happen.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:37

Please, Lord.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:40

But unless something crazy happens, we'll see y'all next probably next Monday. And maybe we'll have nothing to talk about, which would be great. It would be great. Talk about stupid stuff, like we did some of it tonight.

SPEAKER_06 2:08:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:57

Uh y'all have a good week. Sorry I haven't posted the winner of the competition. I've just got to get my daughter to pick the winner. I'm gonna literally pick you out of a hat. If you participated, you got a chance of winning. So and this this month's competition is I've got it. I just gotta copy and paste it into the telegram channel. If you're not in the telegram channel, get the telegram channel. A lot of good information being passed over there. And I'll post this month's this month's competition will be shooting involved, but it's it's not gonna be who does the best. It's gonna be if you participate, you get a chance to win. Uh, the goal of this is for you all to encourage you all to go out and train. It's the whole point of the show. This is the whole point of what we do here. Be able to go out and train, gain skills that you didn't already have, be much more self-realiant, self-resilient to be able to get through what we're about to go through. You need to be chastisement proof as much as you can because the chastisement's coming. If it's not, God's gonna have to apologize to Sodom and Gamora because we're way worse than they are. All right, guys, but if that's it, we'll see y'all next week.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:03

I don't cry no more. Don't look to the guy no more. Have mercy on me. Have mercy on the So am I?

unknown 2:12:18

Have mercy on me.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:21

Baby, baby, baby, many, baby, many Well, you don't know.