20% of Ireland Is Now Migrants — The Breaking Point Has Arrived

Belfast unrest, AI kill drones, “private” surveillance networks, and the daily grind of feeding animals in 90-degree humidity sound like totally different worlds, but we keep finding the same question underneath: what actually holds a society and a family together when pressure keeps rising? We start with real homestead life, fencing problems, surprise chicken eggs, and the never-ending list of projects that comes with land, livestock, and still working a regular job.

Then we zoom out to the bigger signals. We talk about violence in Northern Ireland, the role of immigration pressure in social flashpoints, and why the US is both harder to organize and easier to fracture. From there we get into narrative warfare and tech reality: the viral Trump “aliens” photo, what scares us more than aliens, and why AI drones making lethal decisions is an accountability disaster waiting to spread. We also break down modern surveillance, from Flock-style systems to Ring footage, and why “the government isn’t doing it, they’re buying it” changes the game.

Listener questions take us into practical preparedness: general purpose rifles versus specialized setups, why most people should train fundamentals first, and how sustainability and discretion matter more than fantasy scenarios. We close where we think it has to end: living a Catholic life, building local community, protecting your marriage, giving your spouse room to breathe, and thinking seriously about legacy, land, and what you are actually leaving your kids.

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Transcript

Farm Life Updates And Chaos

SPEAKER_04 0:16

If we're gonna have like three people in here tonight when I'm not doing it. All right, uh let's see. Chris, that headwear is amazing.

SPEAKER_05 0:29

Okay, but all we got, we got some monsters. Cigar, my beer salt, some bellows, some nicotine, my those ecties. That's probably amazing. My monsters and ivy. I see that.

SPEAKER_04 0:48

That's awesome. I uh man, today's been kind of crazy. I'm just with work going on today. Let me bring up the comments so I can respond to people. But and then, you know, so Fingerheart today is our family's feast day. And so this is like our the one devotion that we adhere to the whole year. This is the one, this is the feast day, like we bring up all the stops, or you know, whatever. So today for dinner, I made these really smash burgers, really big smash burgers I make the kids love. And but so as the kids are out and about say just playing whatever, we found three spots of random chicken eggs, and we found a chicken on one of them, and we're pretty sure she's been there a while. So we might have about a dozen chicks, and then I have to milk the cows, and it's like 90 degrees and 100% humidity, and like I smell horrible right now. So, but it's been a day, man. That's how it works in the farm.

SPEAKER_05 1:49

Right. Uh how's retired life, man? Not bad, man, but tiring, man. I got all this stuff I gotta do. I got like four projects on the land to catch up on, and but it's all good.

SPEAKER_04 2:04

Yeah, I've got we've got a we've got a rentable right now that we sold two cow cash pairs to a woman. She's trying to enhance her herd and extend her herd, and she let us borrow her bull to get our girls pregnant, and they're coming back to get them tomorrow. We've had him for about six weeks or so. But then I was down be down the two mamas and the two calves. So I've got, I mean, I've got once he's gone, I've got so many projects I have to do. I've got to start, I've got to move the chickens. I gotta get them, I gotta build them a new coop to move them because I gotta get them out of my yard. Because right now they're in an electric fence with a coop in the middle. I will get them out of my yard and put them in the pasture. I gotta build a thing for my dogs to get them out of the garage. I probably need, to be honest, I probably need to build another stanchion for out front for when our cows are furthest away from the house. So we can have two, one you know, in the back and one in the front. So yeah, it's it's never any problem, and just finding the time to do it is the hardest, especially with still working a job. And then trying to, you know, like my boy's got there, he's in the championship game tomorrow for baseball, and then we've got a Paris Dance tomorrow night, and then we have Potluck on Sunday, and like it's just hard to find the time for all this stuff.

SPEAKER_05 3:18

Right. Yeah, we like we're trying to get a purchase of bull from Clay. He's on uh A B or uh GNR chat. But uh I gotta shore up this fence line next to my neighbors because they're just trash everywhere. But yeah, try to put in, I have 140 T-posts. I've probably only been able to put in like 80, just so darn hot, you know.

SPEAKER_04 3:44

Are you just hand jamming them yourself?

SPEAKER_05 3:46

Yeah, well, I can't even get my tractor on there and they won't let me on hit their land, you know. So we just do that and my friggin' traps are getting bigger, and yeah, I it's funny.

SPEAKER_04 3:58

Every time I have a T-post driver, and the first time I let them I use it, the first thing I was telling them is don't knock yourself out. And within the first like five or six times, they almost knock themselves out every time.

SPEAKER_05 4:12

Have you seen the hydraulic ones? Yeah, my neighbor rented one one time. I'm like, that's that's awesome. I've seen uh sorry.

SPEAKER_04 4:21

If you're gonna have more than 10, that's an amazing idea.

SPEAKER_05 4:24

Oh yeah, especially the rocky soil we have here. I mean, I I have a few. I went to you get almost all the way to the end and you hit a rock and you just can't get through that rock, you know. It's like but yeah, I've seen some people put them on weld them onto the to their front end loader and use that as a the hammer for them. But then it's a lot easier when you have softer ground, so yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:51

Yeah, I tell my wife all the time, I'm I'm pretty sure this used to be a parking lot before I was here because it feels like I have like two inches of topsoil and then gravel. Everywhere, everywhere, and I'm right by the river, so that might have something to do with it. But but I always I find a bunch of golf balls in my yard all the time. I wonder if this used to be like a driving range, like a long time ago, because I know as far back as the 70s, it was a dairy farm, but prior to that, I don't know. But I mean I like every every day if I'm you know doing something, I find a random golf ball somewhere in the yard. So I don't know, it's everywhere though. Like I've hit because I because I use electric fences for all the animals. They got those, you know, six-inch spines on them pretty much, and like I gotta try it three or four times before I dump hit a rock. It's just it's infuriating.

SPEAKER_05 5:42

Is that just because you're like sectioning it off, or is it because you're are you adding that to like your barbed wire?

SPEAKER_04 5:50

No, so yeah, it'll be it'll be sectioned off. Like right now, pigs are in like three half three foot high electric fence that is portable. I can move it, you know, like the premiere one stuff.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

So when I put them in, uh and if it hasn't rained in a bit, man, I've like I've got two sets of field fence right now that this portable field fence, electric field fence, and all the

Fences, T-Posts, And Rocky Ground

SPEAKER_04 6:10

spines are like at 45 degree angles because I keep like hitting them in the ground and they just bend and hit a rock and just bend and giant pain in the butt. Yeah.

Belfast Violence And Social Breaking Points

SPEAKER_04 6:20

So what's uh you've been keeping up with this Belfast stuff?

SPEAKER_05 6:24

Not as much as I mainly the memes, because that's pretty much I mean, yeah. I saw that. I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 6:32

I was gonna say I created a video about it and put on X. Just like some of the uh I don't want to play the video here because it's got music on and now I'm gonna get the stream taken down. But so let me put let me play one real quick and then we'll song. So what I'm surprised, honestly, it's gone more than two days. I would have thought it it would have petered off by now, but it has not. It's actually only in increased in in intensity. So let me add the stage.

SPEAKER_05 7:12

What's the employment unemployment rate in Northern Ireland?

SPEAKER_04 7:17

Oh, I don't know, that's a good question. Let's watch this and we'll look it up. All right, so let me so this is just a news report.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

This evening, and the reason we're standing here is because just around the corner, a building has been set on fire, and at the foot of that building is an Arabic shop. Uh the residents of the uh flat just above, uh that you can see just how short they are, uh, they have been evacuated as part of uh this process this evening. And the reason we're standing here is because just around so they've gone from impeding traffic and setting up checkpoints to purposefully attacking known immigrant shops and residences to now they've been attacking some some migrants, right?

SPEAKER_04 8:10

And trying to get them out. Uh, not like I they're not trying to kill them, but they're like, yeah, if they're like for example, instance, I saw a video yesterday of a group of men walking, they've got their mask on, they were, and some influencer, some black influencer was there in Ireland, was trying to act like you know he was you know filming them and trying to show whatever, and they just knocked him down as they were coming by. And they're like they kept going, right? Nobody did anything else to him. But the we're starting to see the that specifically in Ireland, because Ireland's at a point where 20% of Ireland is now migrants and immigrants. Like it's not like us. We have, you know, we're probably at, I don't know, if you take into account the amount of illegal alias, we're probably at 30%. You know, if we have 50 million in America unknowns in the United States, right, as some numbers have been positive, but we're starting to see the breaking point. And what it took was that young man where they tried to behead him in the middle of the street. You know, I think that was it. After the Henry Novak stuff, and that was so quick afterwards, and Ireland was done. Didn't they just stab some some some young girl?

SPEAKER_05 9:24

Was that in Belfast also? Or I don't know, was it? I was watching. They stabbed like a 17-year-old, they stabbed her in the neck or something like that. I don't know if it was a migrant or it was a I don't know. A couple hours ago.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

I don't know. I haven't really been on as much today. I think I saw something to that. Let's see if we can find anything on it real quick. But I also want to get into the uh Trump meeting with the aliens. Yeah. You saw that in the comments.

SPEAKER_05 9:59

But I was watching that earlier. Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

I was gonna say, you know, just watching some of the video, it is very the obstacle is really to be admired at what they're doing. They're not allowing anybody to take pictures around, they're all masking up, and they're and they're hitting people who have taken pictures and making go through the roles and make sure to delete anything with faces on, but let them have everything else, right? And they're not when you come to these events, you're not allowed to bring your phone, you leave it at home, and so they're really taking some pointers from you know from the troubles. You know, when that was a lot more of a prevalent event going on.

SPEAKER_05 10:43

I will say that there it's it's they have an isolated group of people, though, right? I mean, they have more in common with each other, kind of like how Japan, it's so homogenous, you know. So people know like they have a little bit better ability to be like, hey, we're it's us against them, or like in the US, like how are we gonna do that? You know, yeah, and then also like it just takes one camera, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:15

So well, and also we're so big, right, that it would be hard to organize anything here only because I mean, technically we're technically 50 different countries that are united in one cause, these United States is you know what it was prior to the Civil War, but before the tyrant Lincoln came in. But it's very hard because every state has its own culture almost. Alabama is definitely different than Georgia, a little bit more similar to Mississippi, but definitely a lot different from like Louisiana. And those are the four states right next to me, right? And then definitely different from Texas. We are different cults, we have a lot of similarities, but overall the culture is different. So trying to trying to organize anything that doesn't matter, because someone said in the comments earlier, you know, that we haven't seen anything that's been Catholic pushed, it's you know, or organized Catholic at all, it's mostly Militons. Belfast Belfast is mostly Protestants, right? Right? So it's it's not as much Irish in Belfast. So that's why you're seeing that. But you are seeing Catholics organized.

SPEAKER_05 12:26

But they're Protestants, right?

SPEAKER_04 12:28

Right. So I mean they still have that Irish background, they're still Irish, right? And Ireland's having the same issue where Protestants are leaving the faith as well, and you're seeing a lot more conversions to the Catholic Church from the Protestants in Ireland. It's not just a phenomenon here, and so they're seeing it as well. So, but it doesn't matter because everyone identifies as Irish. Right. And so that's the common that's the us versus them mentality that they're seeing. If you don't look Irish, you're not one of us, and it's easier to do over there, right? Because they were never well up until recently, they have a much larger culture and a much larger ethnic origin of whites only, right? Or at least one similarity amongst everyone, you know, that is outwardly outwardly uh apparent. Whereas here in the United States, like we've had for 150, 200 years all walks. So right, you know, whether it goes back to the the China men building the railroads to the slaves in the south, right, to the Europeans in the north that immigrated over from Europe. So it's a lot harder for us than it is for Ireland. And it really was just pushed on Ireland in the last 20 years.

SPEAKER_05 13:42

Right. I mean, obviously you in the Marine Corps, you met like there's a bunch of immigrants and migrants from other places, but like you can definitely see a difference in people coming here for a better life, like especially in their family members, and you see their parents, like we're Americ, like they're very big. You see fathers and mother. No, we're American, like they'll stop trying to speak the language in their houses, and which I don't know if it's the greatest thing, but I mean it's it's nice to still know your culture and where you're from, you know. But but like I remember one guy and I had a bunch of guys in my unit that were like going to Mexico all the time, even though we weren't supposed to. And we said, like, if we went to war with Mexico, I'd fight with Mexico. I'm like, what the hell are you doing here? You know, like it's kind of like some making sense, you know, but I mean it makes sense, but it doesn't, you know, so it's like I can see where Ireland has I mean, they've been Irish, even the Protestant Irish are still Irish, right? Like still have like a history and a culture. I mean, the Protestants are fighting the the Catholics. I mean, they're that brought them together, you know. So now they have a common ground still, because it's you know, my enemies is you know, is my friend during the war, you know.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Yeah, and even my enemy is my friend, especially in the especially when you have a lot more in common with Protestants or Catholics than you do with pagan heathens, right? It's just we're we're in Rob and Anthony were talking about last night a little bit. I think Anthony's starting to pull back a little bit. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_05 15:19

He he said a lot of things that I agree with, you know.

SPEAKER_04 15:21

Yeah, I think he's starting he's softening his tone for some reason on some things, but Michael, what? Well, it seems like he's trying to pull back a little bit on the and I not that I disagree with him, right? But it's all right, I'm gonna put the screen now, and it's like barely on me. It just seemed like he was softening his tone a little bit on some people that we can't live with.

unknown 15:48

Right.

SPEAKER_04 15:48

There there are some cultures and some things that we we it's just not congruent with a society that Christians can live in. And I don't know if an event happened, I don't know if he just had an interior conviction about something or whatever, but it seems he's he's seeming to soften up on it a little bit. But I it's the same thing I said a long while ago, and what was it? It was like one of the it was during one of them the Minneapolis shows that Rob and I did. There's a difference between city black and country black. Urban black is a different culture than country black. And I live in the country, and I, you know, and there's they're just one of you know, there's one of us. But when I go downtown near my parish, I'm not one of them. And they make it apparent. If we're at our church for too long, they start to let us know we're not welcome. Right? Because we're our our lab mass is in the ghetto. In the ghetto. But uh, right. We're literally in the murder, the murder capital of the world almost. That part of that part of Birmingham has like is in the top 10 of murder in the in the United States. But they let us know, like that they will start making it appear. It's time for y'all to go home. Y'all been at mask long enough. You know, they start getting loud and you know, they start doing some things around the church. So we're like, all right, let's come to go. Especially if it's dark, like we're leaving as soon as mass gets out, if it's after dark, like no one's face. There's where's there's been times where we've had people leaving from a baptism on Saturday and having to drive by a body that's still on the sidewalk, you know, as they're leaving. So but it's it's a it's a matter of culture differences more than it is skin color differences. But don't be fooled because some people on both sides value skin color more than anything else.

unknown 17:54

Right?

SPEAKER_04 17:54

Whether I don't care what color, whether you're Mexican, black, white, you know, yellow, it don't matter. Some people value this color of their skin more than anything else, which is why you saw videos last night, Anthony and Rob, going through of people just they're siding with black people no matter what. Right, even if they're wrong, even if they murdered that young man for no reason, they're still siding with black people. That's going on for a long time. Exactly. It has been for a long time because people look at what is their us, like what who are they associated with, and everyone else is of them. Right. And when things get bad, you do not want to be a them to somebody who's uh who's a super predator, right? And so you don't want to be around those people, you know, especially if you have a family. So it's just you're seeing it in Belfast, you're seeing it with Henry Novak issue in England, you're seeing it in France now. We're gonna start seeing it here, but I think one aspect we have different than Europe is we have a shared culture in America based on the idea of America, which makes it much more flimsy. Like it there's not a whole lot of foundation to it, so it's much easier to break than someone who's French in France who has a thousand years of history behind them, right? And the very marrow of their bones is made up of being French. Whereas here it's mostly like my my origination in this country comes from my grandparents came over from Germany in the late 1800s, right? So I'm and you know, I've got some that are you know heritage Americans go back to like the Mayflower, but it's most of my family, you know, that I know and that that I can associate with that coming over from Germany in the late 1800s. So I don't have as much that heritage American side because three-fourths of my grandparents are German. Only one-fourth is you know draws back to England back before, you know, Christopher Columbus came over. But um I'm not one of those. So most Americans are building off their idea and their eth and their their identity off of just the idea of America, of looking for a better life, right? And that's why my grandparents came over for a better life in Germany before World War I. And when they got here and they found it, and then they fought on the side of the United States in World War I and World War II, and then you know, I fought in the global war on terror, right recently. So I just don't see without massive remigration, how we get back to what it was even 20 years ago. Well, I mean, I don't think we have the capability to remigrate.

SPEAKER_05 21:05

How many generations has gone by where they didn't come here for a better life? They've had a certain life, so they they haven't realized what they're fighting for until they lose it, you know? So it's like and and when you're applying laws unequally and it's visibly unjust, I don't know what are you gonna do. So I mean, you gotta think about what a civil war looks like here. I mean, it's not gonna be like our past civil war, it's gonna be even worse because everyone's gonna have their own little cliques, it'll be warlords and whatnot. You know, like you're gonna have to be like what's gonna be defining you are you gonna be I'm Catholic against a certain religion, or am I white? Yeah, I mean you're gonna have to fight it all, right? You're gonna have to fight the Protestants, uh you know, you're gonna have to fell I think it'll be something different than you.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

I think it'll be much more. Or I think you'll still be going to work, right? With random bits of violence. I think there's going to be more violence in the cities. I think it's going to be more like the troubles. I think you're going to see more just random acts of terror against certain prominent people. And then eventually, and occasionally you're going to see the lack of police capability to enforce the law. So some people are going to settle old feuds that they've had with other families for years.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

And the rural cart, like I don't know if I trust any of my neighbors. I'm friendly with them, but they got something they need or they want. They're going to take who's going to stop them, you know? I mean, really.

SPEAKER_04 22:38

Yeah. I I completely agree. You know, that's why I I try and encourage my guys and the guys I know, like you all we need to build community. Because someone who knows you and knows you well, and you do favors for and you've helped out is going to have a harder time turning on you.

unknown 22:56

Right?

SPEAKER_04 22:57

Unless it gets really dire for him. Like it gets to the point where he has no food and he needs food, and the only way he can get food is turn you in and your guns, you can expect that then. But you need to plan for that. Right. But that's why it's so much more I call it social equity. Like building those strong relationships with people where you just do favors for them. Right. So it's much harder for them to then turn on you later on when things get bad. And then you know, if you provide them with something, you know, whatever, food or labor or whatever they need, and then they're gonna be willing to ask you the same thing. If they see a reciprocating relationship there, they're that's something that they're not going to be willing to let go of as much, right? It's gonna be harder for them to do. Not that they won't, but it's gonna be harder for them to do it.

SPEAKER_05 23:51

Yeah. I just wait and see, I guess. That's kind of where I'm at now.

SPEAKER_04 24:00

Yeah, I um I was listening to a show yesterday driving back from work and it was a few veterans basically talking about just some like random stuff. And one of them brought up like, hey, you know, did y'all like did y'all vote for Trump this last time? And almost all of them are like, yeah, yeah. One guy's like, I didn't vote at all, I forgot, you know, whatever. But they're like, would you, if he was up for election again based on what he's done, would you vote for him again? And everything went like, nope, nope. Like I and one guy was like, I'm not voting for Israel again, you know, and and and it's funny because these are like these are guys who were all on board, right? But all it took was two months of Trump ruining his good name, right? All it took was Dairan. Like up till then, like all the Bovino stuff and the and the Minneapolis and Minnesota stuff and all that was they're fine with, right? Like, whatever we can we can excuse all that, let go of Bovino too early and stopping the remigration and then getting rid of the eagle legals, whatever. But it was when they saw like there was no reason for us to go to war with Iran, and we did it anyway, and we're still in war with Iran, and I'm paying a dollar more for gas, right? And here in about 30 days, I'm not gonna be able to change the oil in my car, right? They see all this, they're like, and it's turned a lot of them. I don't, but then the other option is what do we do? Like, who else do we vote for? Like, what do we do? Do we not vote? And we just let the Democrats take control, which is gonna make it even worse.

SPEAKER_05 25:37

They're the same.

SPEAKER_04 25:40

Mostly. I would, I mean, I would say I would say mostly we are, but you can't you you can't sit there and say though that Pete Hexeth is the same as Lloyd Austin or whatever his name was. Like that has definitely changed, right? The the footing and the preparation for what's coming because everybody sees the war with China coming. I don't think it's gonna happen. I think there are some other things involved there with China that they're they're a paper target and they're they're trying to make it look make it look as big and bad as they can, but but that that is definitely a change, right? And there's also definitely a change at the FBI, whether I like Cash Patel or not, and I don't. But there is definitely a change in the in them going after violent criminals. So that has definitely changed. Now, as far as my day-to-day life, right, it's just gotten more expensive. Right? I did I looked at an inflation calculator the other day. If you made $100,000 in 2020 to have the same purchasing power in 2020 today, you need to be making $130,000.

unknown 26:47

Right?

SPEAKER_04 26:48

30% inflation in six years. That's insane. I did not get a $30,000 a year pay raise. So now I'm having to pay with things that support less. Right? No, I am not on the Trump train. At all. At all.

America, Culture, And Civil Conflict Fears

SPEAKER_04 27:10

All right. So I went next thing I want to get off of this because I think it's talked out. But I just kind of wanted to throw some of that out there and see what you thought. I want to bring up.

SPEAKER_08 27:21

Where is it?

SPEAKER_04 27:22

Here we go.

SPEAKER_08 27:26

Let's see.

Trump’s “Aliens” Photo And Hype

SPEAKER_04 27:33

So if y'all unaware, President Trump had some uh visitors today or the other day at the White House. I am pretty sure that isn't that the guys from uh Twilight, like the the rich vampires.

SPEAKER_05 27:55

Oh, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

So I've seen a lot of guys putting this stuff in uh AI checkers to see if it's AI. It's coming up zero, right? It's comes up, there's no AI in it, uh, which means these are just guys on stilts and makeup, right? But are they from Argartha? They may, they may be, right? Hells are vampires, like we all know. Dark elves, likely, yeah. White hair. So it and just it's funny because because disclosure came out today, and now this is being released today, right? So is this is this is this Trump trying to do his friend Spielberg a favor and like trying to gin up interest for his movie? Because everybody else seen this that saw the movie said it's garbage.

SPEAKER_05 28:42

Yeah, my son went last night and he said half the half the audience left like just over halfway through, and then they left too. It's like he said Is it real bad? Yeah, he said it made no sense. Like, and they kept trying to like repla it. He's like he felt kind of uh uncomfortable. I guess there's a sort a part with uh Catholic nuns in it that made him feel uncomfortable, and he was like, This just sucks, man. Like it made no sense. And he was like, and so they just went out to the lobby and played video games and looked at chicks.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

Yeah, I was like, I haven't heard of a single person who watched it, like, oh my mom was blown. Like, not a single everybody's like, or like one guy was like, it was an okay movie, right? But not a single person, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:25

Silver's like trying to say it's gonna change your what do you call it, your theology?

SPEAKER_08 29:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:31

He was like, my son's like, it made no sense. Like, it was stupid.

SPEAKER_04 29:36

All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna post a picture in the telegram for y'all in a telegram. So if y'all on telegram, go look what I just posted. But uh, yeah, like all the like high on detects is 1.2% chances AI generated. Yeah, another one, you know, a bunch of them are zero and it's just it's likely actors, if anything, if it's not AI generated on stilts is most likely what it is. But just keep in mind, right? Something that looks like that still bleeds, still got a T-box, right? Just gotta put one round right there and stop them forever, right? It doesn't matter. Everybody's seeing the picture in the in the telegram. But like the what scares me more than

AI Drones And Accountability In War

SPEAKER_04 30:35

aliens is the robots that they're building. Yeah. Well, so let me uh if I mean while you're saying that, hold on.

SPEAKER_05 30:46

AI drones are probably what important. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

That's why I was just bringing it up. Hold on. If I f if I can find the article. It looks like white chick. And I saw a report that AI drones were used for the first time where there was no here it is, right here.

SPEAKER_05 31:11

In Ukraine, right?

SPEAKER_04 31:13

Yep. Here we go. All right, Titus AI software kills humans for the first time. That's a few years old, too, right? I think this was used in Ukraine and they just reported on it. Yeah, uh reports in 2023, yep. So here's here's the issue. You drones should never be responsible for the decision to take someone's life because they are not held accountable. Or you can't hold a drone accountable. You can who program the drone accountable, someone's got to be held accountable for the decisions that drone makes. You can't say, Well, I didn't know it was gonna do that. No, you released it knowing that it was unknown, possibly what it could do, and it kills somebody, that is on right.

SPEAKER_05 32:12

Did they use a facial recognition? Or I'm wondering what the code was because, like so here's here's another thing kill anybody on, you know, just kind of like gas used to be, you know, and they gas World War I, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

So I have there was a there was a woman in Kansas or Oklahoma or Idaho or something, somewhere out west, somewhere west of the Mississippi, right? Who got arrested for a crime that she didn't commit because AI misidentified her as someone else, and they don't look anything alike whatsoever. You know, and then so then I don't know if y'all are aware of this. So y'all seen the uh what would I call them? The the cameras that are put up everywhere? Clock, right? Yep. I tried not to use the term, but thanks. They uh sorry, but they call it phylos in Austin. They there is not enough bandwidth for them to constantly record and and report back, right? So AI is having to make it up, right? So they send back like super grainy video, and AI is enhancing it, and it's right like 10% of the time, right? So this is more in uh, I think PJ Morris was talking about it today on the risky on the bare independent whatever channel. Y'all watch him. I think he was talking about today too, but it's more of a projection of power

Surveillance Cameras, Ring, And Private Data

SPEAKER_04 33:40

more than the having the actual power. They want us to think that flock is everywhere, and then they can see us doing whatever with flock or whatever, right? But there's not enough bandwidth for all these flock cameras to be working. It's just not possible.

SPEAKER_05 33:55

Well, so my daughter works in the up in the dispatch center in Austin. It's a huge, it's huge complex, like got you know, 12 foot, 20-foot walls, concrete, barbed wire, they got like phone, you know, biological attack, hazmat attack, you know, kind of all those kind of things. And you go in there, and there's a massive, the whole wall on the back side is just cameras, and it's like got tech stock can use them, the the cops can use them, and you can switch through it, and they're constantly watching those, and those are live, but it's in small areas. But what happens with those is like you just have to tactically be like, because I'll do like I remember going downtown and they'd have they'd have an assault or something coming out of the bar, and so they'd go, Hey, can I get halo? They call them halo, and they can follow through the cameras and take over like even like small business cameras and just and follow where the person went, what parking garage they went to. So I mean you just have to tactively put them in a place, it's like, okay, there's only one road this way, and if they're already going down it, they have to go there. And so you don't have to keep them going all the time. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, if to catch people, but a lot of those are like I was asking, like, a lot of those cameras, like you see on the roads, or almost every camera that's at a stop sign, stop light, they're privately owned. Yeah, it's it's a company, like probably I think it's one of those Chinese company, and so they actually actually writ time to or be able to use them. I mean, I'm sure there's laws that say that they can use them, but yeah, I mean, I don't trust that the facial ID stuff because that's already been proven to be like mess up a bunch, but yeah, it doesn't it doesn't it's not gonna stop them from getting you, you know, like from trying to bind you up, you know.

SPEAKER_04 35:47

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, even Flock is a privately owned company, they just sell their surveillance basically to the government was how they're allowed to get around it, to for how the government's allowed to get around you know surveilling us all the time. Because they're not doing it, they're buying it.

SPEAKER_05 36:04

Yeah, we're going on we go on shooting scenes and like or like break-in scenes, and the cops are coming, hey can I see your ring camera footage? And and then they go around because like you know, you like you can see a ring camera because it's blue light would be on and people's houses and stuff, and so they go to neighbors and go, Hey, can we download your ring camera footage? And everyone would let them. And so they get those are a lot clearer than some of those other ones, you know. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:29

So I mean like we have ring cameras around our property, ripped mole is just around the house, and it so they start incorporating AI into it, so it'll send me a message on like, hey, you know, your front cameras up, there's a small child riding their bike in the front. Like, what the and I'm like a black, and it's my boy riding his bike, like, oh, and then it's like on the side, like a German shepherd, two German shepherds running around and playing in the driveway, and then spot two German shepherds running around playing in the driveway. I was like, Oh, this is creepy. Like one, they're not gonna pay for it.

SPEAKER_05 37:01

I'm not paying for it, but you gotta look it up because um I was looking into those YZ, those are the like years ago. I'm sure they're a different company now, but those are one of the more common um Wi-Fi cameras you could get. And then and like the other second most common one, their server is in like Cayman Island or offshore. And so it's like you know, anybody can get that data if they want, like, or they you know, they're not gonna be able to subpoena it, but it's like the info is going everywhere. You're getting I think you're getting you're on you're on camera almost. If you're outside your house, you're probably on camera everywhere, you know.

SPEAKER_04 37:37

Yeah, I would like I would like some hardwired cameras that have a secure IP I can log into to view them when I'm not at home. That's what I but I mean you have in security there, yeah. They're still that secure because they can still but it's a little bit better, you know, than because all the because like I can literally I actually have a ring camera out here, and there's no power here, right? Not right there anywhere. So it's just better, it just picks up my Wi-Fi on my mesh system here, right? So like I've had ring cameras on trees, right? And I didn't have to run power anywhere, which is the nice thing about ring, but the problem is also with the ring, it's all through Wi-Fi. So if someone, if my Wi-Fi is off, I don't have ring cameras, but I can't see anything. Or if there's no if if someone comes in and they just put a jammer up, I can't see anything. Whereas someone's hardwired is a little bit uh that's a little bit more secure, but I want the ability to look at it when I'm not at home, right? If I'm out that you know out somewhere, but that just it invites a little bit less security in order to be able to do that, right?

SPEAKER_05 38:41

Yeah, I've been looking into doing a hard wire, but you'd have to put a because my my front gate, it's all like our we have we kept up our we have trees all around our property, so it's like we like it that way, but you can't ever see your front gate. And so, except our dog, we always know when there's someone in the front gate because even way up here, we're like 200 yards from our gate, maybe further, probably actually no, probably further than that. And 900, something. And so it's like I have to do I'd have to do Wi-Fi, but even Wi-Fi is not gonna reach that far, you know. You still have to do some stuff.

SPEAKER_04 39:17

You almost have to get one of those uh those cellular hunting cans, like the deer cans or whatever, the cellular deer cans, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a bunch of cameras, but we don't have a soul cellular, so yeah, it is yeah, but for like for us, like our our gate from our house is about 110 yards away. But we're up on a hill and we could we can see at the gate, but we've got a uh driveway alarm. So when someone pulls in it, it breaks the beam and then it notifies us in the house just with an audible noise. And it's probably so we can then move around students here.

SPEAKER_05 39:49

Is that a radio signal?

SPEAKER_04 39:50

No, it's um it's I think it's infrared, or no, it's not infrared.

SPEAKER_05 39:54

Well, no, I mean to respond to you, like does it because even for us, we still have to put dig a trench for a hard line for something like that.

SPEAKER_04 40:01

No, it's I'll send it to you later on. It's it's all wireless. Oh, cool. But it's not much, like it's not a whole lot, like it's you know, I think it's just like it's like a much more powerful garage door opener type signal, you know, like an infrared signal. But it's we're about 110 yards away and we get it fine. But it always but the only problem is when the cows go to that part of the property up by the gate, they're constantly setting it off. Yeah, so it's like d-ding d-ding d-ding d-ding like sit down already.

SPEAKER_05 40:27

Yeah. Is it is it in front of your gate or past your gate?

SPEAKER_04 40:32

It's in front of my gate, it's on the post with a keypad. Oh, cool. So they have to pull up there anyway if they wanted to get in. So it's gonna let us know when somebody's here. But then we can just open the gate from the house, let somebody in so we don't have to go all the way down there. So it's been it's been nice, but it's fairly inexpensive. I think I paid like 60 bucks for it. It wasn't anything expensive. Yeah. Let's see. I uh I got a little bit of a little little bit of a tussle with Lucas Botkin's shooter guy earlier today. So his name's Jesse Sinko. And he's doing, I don't know if y'all know who Lucas Botkin is. Lucas Botkin used to own T-Rex arms. And Jesse was basically touting the Sons of Liberty Gunworks, Mark One. And I just had some passing criticism about it, about like it's just too expensive. It's $3,000 for a rifle that should be at most $2,000. At most, right? There's nothing innovative in it where you would pay more other than just a good quality rifle. And he he seems to disagree. So then I asked him, I was like, hey, just so everyone's aware, did you buy your rifle or was it comped? Because that kind of colors the yeah, the the opinion there a little bit. And he was silent forever, but he didn't say nothing for a long time. A couple other guys were like, Man, there's some crickets going on here. They finally, he finally responded, and he said, I'm working on its development, right? So I'm gonna comment while I'm on here with y'all. So it was comped. There we go. Just while y'all are here, y'all hearing me, you know, throw a little gas on the fire here or here, but all right.

SPEAKER_05 42:21

Is that on X? Yeah, it's on X.

SPEAKER_04 42:25

I like to I like to stir the stir the pot of lily occasionally. Man, I don't know how any of you guys have time for that. To be honest with you, it takes up too much of my time. Yeah. To be honest, I I really should not be on it near as much as I am. But when throughout my whole day, I'm mostly either talking to clients or my kids. I need some way to have an outlet to range bait or troll or something. Yeah. That's telegram. Um at my wife's changes. I've noticed.

unknown 42:56

I've noticed.

SPEAKER_04 42:57

All

Listener Rules And Open Q&A

SPEAKER_04 42:58

right, guys. I want to bring some of y'all on and see if y'all have questions about anything. I'm gonna prioritize people in Telegram first, right? So I'm going to post the link in Telegram. If you want to come on, let me get the link again. Hold on. There we go. All right, I'm gonna post the link in Telegram. If you want to come on, you know, go ahead and join in the green room, and I will add you when we get to you. So, two rules, right? When you're on screen, you're in the green room, no firearms. Okay, do not pull up a firearm. Two, rule number two, try not to cuss. Some people, like my kids may watch this, right? And I don't cuss in front of them barely. Right. Unless it's for emphasis.

unknown 43:46

Right.

SPEAKER_04 43:46

But um, so that's my two rules no guns, no cussing. Right. So I'm gonna post it in the telegram chat first for those of y'all in Telegram. And join if y'all want to come in, ask whatever, talk. About whatever, if you got some on your mind, we talk about whatever. But uh oh, as long as we bring those two roles, we'll talk about anything.

unknown 44:08

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:09

I know we had uh the alpha gal stuff if you want to talk about that later. Oh, were you? What'd you find out? Yeah, I'm still there's still more stuff to it. It's like really weird, bro. Like I'm looking, I'm trying to find more of the pathophys on how it works, but it's I mean, being that it's a syndrome, I mean you understand what a syndrome is, right? It's like a group of symptoms, right? They have no knock it down, but um the the weird thing that really got me kind of like it just doesn't act like like a normal I don't I don't want to be like I mean I'm a conspiracy, but still like it doesn't act like a normal natural type of disease, if that makes sense. And I found they the first time they saw these symptoms, I was watching this one uh doctor lecture, they found it in a certain chemotherapy they were using on people. And they were having the sim the syndrome, and they were like, this is unusual, and then they started seeing it with the ticks and everything, right? So it's like you know, I'm trying to I'm trying to nail down, but uh basically like to treatments like until they can have until somebody until like a non-biased person tries to start researching some sort of like cure or something. I don't know. Right now it's just treating they're treating it like a an allergic reaction, you know. So like heavy, heavy steroids and and whatever pharmacy laboratories.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

It takes years to go over it. I had a guy uh when I worked in the fire department, he was he got alpha cal, and we could only eat chicken when he was on shift, so everybody hated it when he worked.

SPEAKER_05 45:51

But um, some people can't eat chicken, like there's yeah, it's a whole spectrum now. Like people are having problems with eggs, people are having problems with like it's not just red meat anymore, so it's like kind of it's just yeah, it's weird.

SPEAKER_04 46:04

It's nothing to nothing a little nicotine won't fix.

SPEAKER_05 46:07

Yeah, right.

General Purpose Rifle Versus SPR

SPEAKER_04 46:09

All right, we're gonna bring on the first we're gonna bring on our favorite office, Billy, first. All right, we got Billy on. Billy has Billy has gone down a rabbit hole lately, if y'all are on Intel. He is a really big fan of the Marine Corps, if y'all are aware. What's going on, Billy?

SPEAKER_06 46:27

Nothing much. I got the I got the turkey gear on because I uh I fell face first into some tiraks at work at work on Wednesday. Still got the gnarly stitches in the in the um black eyes, so I don't want people to look at the horror. So Patrick Star like I want you to look at it.

SPEAKER_04 46:48

By the way, yeah, horror, horror, horror, not the hooers.

SPEAKER_05 46:57

You know you beat somebody up.

SPEAKER_04 46:59

That's exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_06 47:00

Well, the funny the funny thing was the med student, the med student who was in residency in ER, he who came who volunteered to do this to do the stitches, he looked at me and said, Who was the so who so who was the other guy? I told him I pulled a multi-ton Austrian machine, multi-ton machine and machine from Austria. Got it.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

You work at you're like a machinist, aren't you?

SPEAKER_06 47:25

No, I uh I'm I'm a grunt, uh I'm a grunt who basically just just packs styrofront products on a pallet, wraps it up, and sends it basically gets it, gets it ready to go, sent to the wrapper so it gets so it gets wrapped up and then sent to the warehouse, and then it goes out to wherever.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

I gotcha. How long have you been doing that?

SPEAKER_06 47:45

I've been doing that since uh 21 or 22.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

Okay, what did you do before that?

SPEAKER_06 47:51

Actually, I was I was customer service at a call center. Basically, there was a there was a uh the company I was the company's come out that I was working on was a uh huh?

SPEAKER_08 48:07

Do it!

SPEAKER_06 48:08

Do it off! Do it off for Golden Bloods this starts hitting me over the head with reeds.

SPEAKER_04 48:18

Billy the Slurpiest. Yeah. All right, Billy, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a one good question. We'll give one good question you got. Then we're gonna move on from my office.

SPEAKER_06 48:27

Okay, well, let's see.

SPEAKER_04 48:29

Hmm. He has jumped in with both feet.

SPEAKER_06 48:38

I'm uh I'm a I'm a new battery. I'm like, well, like one of the things that I was thinking on Brassbacks, he was talking about general purpose rifle versus uh special purpose rifle. Like SPRs basically are meant for like long distance engaged shooting, like sniper platforms, but 556. And I was wondering, what do you guys think? Because my personal thought is why invest in SPR when you just do a general purpose rifle and just train well with that so that way you can do both the close in, that way if you have to do the closed in stuff, and the other times you can still hunt and do do your marksmanship competitions.

SPEAKER_04 49:16

You should. You want you want to start with that one, Chris? Because you got you got a little bit different opinion probably than I did.

SPEAKER_05 49:23

Get get the general purpose rifle, man. Like, because 99% of engagements in combat are within a 300 yards or less, you know, like and most of them, like if you're in an urban setting, they're less than 50 feet away. Like if you're if it and if someone's further than that, unless you're sure on that shot or there's a reason to shoot that person, especially like a shit hits the fan scenario, you don't want anybody knowing where you're at. Like, if you don't need to shoot some that person, then don't shoot them and like you know scoot and go, right? Like, so I mean get a general purpose, you can do a lot of things with it. I mean, it it's it just doesn't make any sense to be having a specialized uh I mean with an AR platform is kind of cool because you can carry an extra, like I can carry my 6.5 Grindle and already you know with the bolt in and everything, just have extra mags, and I can just pop it on top of the 556 lower. Yeah, if I needed the longer longer legs on it, but you need to first get your marksmanship skills down before you're reaching out that far, Billy.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

Yeah, you're remember remember, Billy, we talked about it at Project Appleseed, right? If you have one near you, they will teach you the fundamentals, right? It's the first hand. It's such a three-day course, right? Yeah, it's fun too. And it's all 22. It's all 22. And so if you can learn fundamentals on 22, you can do on anything.

SPEAKER_06 50:59

Well, I I uh well I don't want to I don't want to uh invest in another in another rifle. I I do have a 22 bucks. Well, I know, but still it's an it's another rifle I gotta stand up to get some ammo for. Why not just why not just run my own?

SPEAKER_04 51:16

It's 80 bucks for like a thousand rounds.

SPEAKER_06 51:19

Seriously?

SPEAKER_04 51:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 51:22

It's like this. I haven't been I haven't been I haven't been doing I haven't been involved in farmers for like months like a year yet.

SPEAKER_04 51:30

It's like waiting. So so so here's my opinion, Billy. Here's my opinion. Yeah when you go outside your house next time you do, right? Look how far you can see from your house. Right? If it's like a hundred yards, and no, which is gonna be most urban areas, right, is at most 100 yards in most instances, unless you're like on top of the hill, right? You need a GPR, right? Now where I live, I have both, right? I'm downtown a lot. I'm at you know for work, I'm downtown a lot. So when I'm downtown, I'm not worried about shooting somebody more than 100 yards. If I am shooting somebody 100 yards, it's to keep them back so I can get away. Yeah, well, it makes sense. If I can't if I can't positively identify them, I'm not shooting at them.

SPEAKER_06 52:15

Well, it makes sense because the only reason why you'd want to engage at 500 yards is that if it's a shit, if it's if it's the stuff hits the fan situation, grid is down, there you don't have to worry about rule of law. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 52:28

Now someone's 500 yards, man. Like if shit isn't a fan, someone's at 500 yards, they don't know you're there unless you you're wearing a rainbow-colored, you know, yeah, or you shoot at them. Like, and if shit is the fans or not, you don't want to be seen. You want to get the you want to bug out. You want to get away.

SPEAKER_07 52:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:47

Because you're not gonna have you're not gonna have enough ammo to sustain a firefight with somebody, and he's probably not the only one there. So, and as soon as you shoot it, everyone knows it. Even if you have a suppressed weapon, everyone's gonna hear it.

SPEAKER_04 53:00

Like unless unless the 300 blackout, then the one it's also a chargeability issue.

SPEAKER_05 53:08

But you're not hitting somebody at 500 yards or 300 blackout. I'm sorry, it's it's like 22.

SPEAKER_06 53:14

Yeah, it's all it's also a sustainability issue because uh I'm not the um uh I'm I don't have the war department behind me with this whole logistics system.

SPEAKER_04 53:22

Right, I just got what I'm not. You've got you've got boys at home that you have to get back to, right? Your job is to just get the ass the situation, as we called it. Get out of there, right?

SPEAKER_05 53:33

It's not it's not sexy, but it if you don't have to shoot anybody and you get back to your kids, that's the best option, man.

SPEAKER_06 53:41

But like like like Mac V saw, break contact, continue mission.

SPEAKER_04 53:46

Yeah, I will say though contact with ammo, so learn learning how to shoot long distance will make you a better short shooter at short distance, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 53:57

Oh yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 53:58

So just learning the skill is what is important, sure, you can go for it if you got the time and inclination to do it. But GPR is the way you want to go.

SPEAKER_05 54:05

But initial the initial marks missive skills are gonna be the same at every distance, you're just gonna start learning different like wind calls and stuff as you go out farther. I mean, long distance, I love long distance shooting. It's it's probably one of the more fun things for me to shoot. But you need to start like 25 yards or less with a 22 and start grouping in a size like junior mark junior Olympics. When I was it was it's uh you had to put five rounds into the quarter size at 25 to 50 yards, and it's uh it's honestly not as hard as you think, even with like a crap rifle. So I'm just saying, like I know you don't want to invest, but it's not a big investment into a 22. And you you want your dad, man, you want to get your sons best prepared. Yeah, so I uh you need to start closer and get your marksmanship skills down, like yeah, the same marksmanship for that, and for yeah, yeah, because right now for me, just long distance like shooting up to 500 yards or more.

SPEAKER_06 55:10

That's just I like I want to get there because I because I just want to be good at what I do, even is like just for fun, if nothing else.

SPEAKER_05 55:17

Right, but you don't start at 500 yards.

SPEAKER_06 55:19

Well, yeah, of course. Uh right now, right now I'll go I go to a range where it's like 25 yards at the longest. I'm just trying to zero the thing.

SPEAKER_05 55:27

Yeah, but you had a 308, you can't do a any kind of zero at 25 yards or 308. You can do 50 is the max is the the max closest because of the arc the arc of the round. So a 50 yard, a 50-yard zero BGO would be the same at a hundred yards, which is a great, a perfect starting point for because then you can start getting your your wind calls and build offs, you know, for coverage and stuff at further distances. It's really there's tons of calculations already out there you can just look at. Same with like a 556, a 50 yard is just as is good enough for the 100 meter. It's like what is it, like a quarter inch for a quarter inch up for 300 and another or 200 and another quarter inch for 300, and then you can come down. And I'm sorry, I have to go look for my but yeah, I mean, yeah, but I mean 556, I'm saying it's like a 50 yard, yeah, is one of the best.

SPEAKER_04 56:22

Like so 50 and 200 are the same on the same arc.

SPEAKER_05 56:26

Google Travis. Yeah, Travis Haley has a great video on BZOing a 556.

SPEAKER_06 56:33

Oh, that guy should know. You've got to calculate for the bullet drop.

unknown 56:37

Right.

SPEAKER_04 56:38

Yeah, because when the bullet comes out, it goes up. Well, it doesn't really go up, or it's just the angle of the barrel look makes it look like it's going up, but then it eventually comes down. So you're you're calculating for that on the BCO. So on a 556, the 50 and the 200 are at the same spot. Right. So if you shoot at 050 yards, you can shoot at 200 yards at the same exact spot. It's gonna hit the same because the arch between them, right? That way, so like 100 yards, you're gonna be a little high, right? Right. Where and then 150 yards, you know, you're gonna start coming back down, and then 200 yards you finally hit. Japanese Beatles that were all right, Billy, we're gonna let you know, we're gonna bring somebody else on. Thanks for coming on, brother. All right, we're gonna bring on a towel head, apparently.

Hardwired NVR Cameras And Ammo Tech

SPEAKER_08 57:24

Oh Brock!

SPEAKER_01 57:26

Hello, hello, bro. Yeah, I've I've met Chris in the Italy chat. Yep, yep, brother. 100%.

SPEAKER_04 57:36

Are y'all going to Italy with Anthony?

SPEAKER_01 57:39

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 57:40

I feel so bad for y'all. It'll be fun, dude. He's gonna keep y'all up all night. Y'all are gonna be drunk every night. You know, all right. Before we know anything, before we say anything, Brock, are you going by yourself?

SPEAKER_01 57:53

I'm going by myself.

SPEAKER_04 57:55

Are you single?

SPEAKER_01 57:57

I am.

SPEAKER_04 57:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 58:02

I don't know why. You had a handsome French tickler there, man.

SPEAKER_01 58:07

That's all I can do. That's all I can do. So you you were talking about oh I guess you were talking about rifle zeros and stuff, and my buddy, he's he loves the 36-yard zero for personally.

SPEAKER_04 58:25

Was he a marine?

SPEAKER_01 58:26

He's not, he's not, he's in hotist, that's for sure. I'll tell you that. He was but the cameras that you were talking about. I set up cameras for like uh summer down in the South, Louisiana, Arkansas a little bit, and uh NVR box. If you can figure out NVR box, those are NVR box, they they store a ton of data, and you can go back and look at a lot of the cameras, you can program them so if people walk by them at certain times of the night, they flash red lights, red and blue lights at them, and all that kind of stuff. You you'll have you would have like an offline or an online option if you wanted to. There are all kinds of different ones that you can get set up. If you wanted to do a company, you could, but no, not really necessary.

SPEAKER_04 59:23

Yeah, I don't really I don't want to I it's kind of like the people who built the pyramids, they killed them and buried them under the pyramid too, so they know like I don't want anybody to know properly like where things are at, right? And not to like I'm important or whatever, but like if I don't want to have if I don't have to shoot somebody trying to rob me, I don't want to have to. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 59:39

100%.

SPEAKER_05 59:40

So send me a link to that, dude. I'm interested.

SPEAKER_01 59:45

Yeah. I I work for the company's called Alder, and I don't know what cameras exactly they were using, but like it's all hardwired into a box. You can set up a monitor on it. It's there's a lot of there's a lot of cool stuff you can actually do with it, but it takes a little bit of know-how. Yeah. My question let's see. Oh let's see. I know I know this is Adrian's show, but I've been messaging around with Chris and the Italy group chat, and I think I've got a question for Christopher.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:22

Uh-oh. So I'm gonna take this one off. Let me just hit magnetism. What? I'm just in magnetism.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:30

So you I think you do some hunting, right? Yeah, so have you ever been uh West hunting for anything? That's it.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:40

Like West Texas? Oh just West.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:44

West, like I'm talking like Wyoming, Idaho, Mount Pauntana.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:50

I've always wanted to go my uncle lives in Sinclair and my aunt and uncles and I've always wanted to go up there and hunt. Like they my aunt and she was known to be the she always got the first the first uh speed goat out of the year out up there, or you guys call it antelope, whatever.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:07

Yeah, speed goat, yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:10

But no, I would dude, that'd be a dream, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

That's that's a lot of fun. This past past year I barely got out.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:18

It was that's where my my 308 would work great.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:21

Oh, my thirty yeah, I'm gonna do my 30 odd six.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:24

I did my 30 odd six.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:25

That's uh that's what I shoot, so 30 odd six. Nice lots of y'all seen lots of versatility.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:31

Right. Have y'all seen the new the Hornity put out uh is called peak ammo? So it's a new alloy for their casings, and 65 Creedmoor, they're able to get from like 27, 200 feet per second up to 3,100 feet per second.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:48

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:49

Right with just a different type of casing, a different alloy on the casing. Uh like at 125. Really?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:56

So is it right? So is it carrying like the same is it is it's increases the friction factor?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:03

It reduces the friction and it increases the PSI from 62 to like 81,000. Uh right, so they're able to get another 300 feet per second out of the same exact projectile. Is it a big thing? The guy is also testing it with 556.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:18

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

See, that's that'd be that's something my friend would have known about like six months ago. He's he's one of those kinds of guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:27

It's it's apparently been out for C5 Creedmoor for a while, but now because we have so many like government contracts wanting a round that specifically is 5'5, because they're going away from the 277 fear with the M7. Like if y'all don't know what that is, six hour uh won the contract for basically where we got the SIG Rattler and SIG MCX and stuff from, right? But they made a a basically two-part round, like one is steel, one is brass, and it's kind of like welded together to create increase the PSI on a bigger round because their goal was they wanted to be able to shoot out the five, six hundred yards and still get armor piercing capabilities. Well, the M7's a flop, it's it jams all the time, it's not accurate, it goes down all the time. The rounds, it's super heavy. So now they're wanting to change to a 556 with an increased pressure in it in order to get the round to go faster. So now you have like the 855 A1 Plus, right? Which is the increased pressure. So they put out a bid for contracts with the call the high car, right? But they're now looking at doing the peak alloy in the 556, we're allowing to get to 82,000, which is going to increase the speed of the route. So in order to get armor piercing, you have to do one of two things. You either have to get a denser metal going fast, so a heavier round going fast, or it's modeler round going super fast, right? And so they're trying to do both a little bit, right, with the with the peak. So are they dropping the steel penetrator or so the A5581 Plus has a tungsten penetrator in it? Isn't tungsten heavy steel? It is so that's why they have to change the alloy on the round on the casing to increase the PSI in order to get it at faster speeds, right? Which is where like the Mark I comes from. Guys we've putting out their rifle for in in contest for it. The issue you have when you do a heavier round that's going faster is it wears out your barrels faster and it wears out your your bolt faster. Right. So if the trade-off is, hey, we can do this, but we gotta change out our barrel and our bolt, you know, earlier than normal, then you either change the material that the bolt and the barrel are, or you just do maintenance earlier.

unknown 1:04:46

Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:46

You do one or the other. And I think they're gonna end up changing the material more than they will changing maintenance, right? Because it's cheaper to just change material and still have to go the same longevity.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:57

But they're gonna change the barrel too, because right now they're they don't they don't change barrels out on like M4s for 8,000 rounds. Yeah, but so if you're going out faster and you're going a different metal, yeah, that's gonna be changing out at two, three thousand rounds or less.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:14

So Suns Limited Gunworks has a what they call an RMAD barrel to make from RMAT steel. It supposedly we get 70,000 rounds through it before it starts changing any type of deviation.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:27

But then you're gonna be losing extractors like crazy and got the week before the bolt. But it's but it's cheaper to replace those than you know, a barrel.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:34

No, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:38

Is that like the oil that says 25,000 miles guaranteed?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:42

Kind of look, that's real. That's real. That's real. No, you still should change your oil like every six thousand miles, regardless of what it tells you.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:53

And it's mostly just because you're your engine, it's not because of the oil.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:56

I haven't changed my oil and my uh C R V for last like probably 20,000 miles because it's got a gasket leak. So I just keep adding oil. You don't need to. You're taking the oil every day.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

I had a Nissan version. I was driving this fall. It was a stick ship, you know, like it's a gay west member, but at least it's got a stick ship. But I was driving it down to the the three hearts pilgrimage and it like exploded. It's pretty funny because it's like it's like 14 hours and the the lights sure enough it comes on at like seven hours.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:44

Any other questions?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:46

No I I did see like uh this is with tungsten specifically like people use it for turkey hunting because it's a heavier load right so they can shoot a smaller shot. And some of those those like shotgun pills now they're like it's like ten dollars a round or something. Like and they sell boxes for you know like they're hundred bucks but it's crazy how expensive they got because I remember a few years ago and you know it was expensive but it was like it was like three dollars a round so you're like I group my I group my shotgun and then I you know go out. You can still be in that $20 range and be fine. But now it's like that's not happening.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:32

I'm wondering if uh if you can make because tungsten being that it's stronger and harder you could probably make it a smaller penetrator so that would lighten it up a little bit you know and if it's real one from the 855.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:45

Yeah so like yeah yeah I don't know if that'd be interesting I don't know how they would how they would figure that out because it's kind of like there's just so much of a trade off like with the everything.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:02

Like when you're talking about the general purpose rifle so like I've got a 16 inch the R15 basic platform and like I've got a little LPVO on it and it's like I shot out the 600 with it. No problem. You know like it's easy easy.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:23

So yeah I mean well we used to shoot irons but we had 20 inch barrels you had a little bit more but you're only losing like 130 feet per second down to 16 inch and we were hitting irons I was getting 10 out of 10 500 yards with and that's even with you had to have to deal with wind calls on those too but yeah it's the two the 556 is just I don't know why it's just a great round man like all my kids have taken deer with it you know like it it it does amazing things.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:51

I shot an antelope with it the nice thing about the 556 sorry what oh I was gonna say I shot an antelope with it and I had it in the scope and it started spinning right as I was breaking it off and it entered behind like the back rib and I think it went into its brain I've never seen an animal drop as quick as with that. 69 grain but yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:19

My oldest daughter took out at 200 yards took out a a small dough low light with we had a tragic on LPBO that and she took it right through the heart man and it just like blew up you know how they do that spring and it just dropped like nothing I was like and it just the only damage is it blew up the heart.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:38

I was like I was so I'll have to send the picture in the telegram I did some of the you know like the the military where they black out the eyes and stuff. Because I had because I was you know like it's my it's my kit like type rifle. So it's black out the eyes and then standing on the back of my buddy's Toyota.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:06

There's a guy I used to follow that he's a he's not a game warden but he he's in charge he he's in charge of like calling deer herds in Texas and for like a decade he just used 556 and he would say he would ask people like what what weight do you want me to use you know like my my daughter used a 45 grain hornedy ballistic tip you know like and he dropped it you know so it's like yeah I mean it was and he would like and people pick it and he just he said he dropped every I mean he would drop every deer that he did you know like with five five six you know like so good to meet you man. Yeah good to meet you can't wait to can't wait to drink and smoke some cigars in uh Italy.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:49

Oh yeah it'll be a lot of fun yeah I'm I'm a grandpa though so like I'm I'm like go to bed at nine grandpa get up at yeah basically no I mean I mean like in in spirit oh it's oh gotcha I was like there ain't no way unless you had your your teens and you're 11 years old I'm 23 no about to sweat I'm like there ain't no way you're like my 10 year old man he always has he always has to go to he's a big runner and stuff but he always goes to bed like early early earlier than anybody so bro when you when you work hard throughout the day and you sweat more than you can drink in like sleep is absolutely necessary like otherwise you ain't making it at all right on man all right brock was good talking to you brother good talking to you god bless god bless all right I don't know if I know somebody I think uh somebody brought this up earlier we'll pull this up real quick and stage so apparently we got the leader of Trendargua it's like Tom Clancy clearing presentation it is it's so awesome so what was his name something Nino Guerrero or something we'll see uh Nino Guerrero yeah I got a good memory in coordination with Venezuelan authorities look Maduro's already giving the balls dudes we owe own anyway he can have everybody yeah what are they gonna do about it nothing they gotta do nothing hey I I'll put the the link for the show if anybody wants to join it in the comments uh if anybody else wants to come on and ask a question we'll see what else I want to bring up have you been watching like all the Europeans being enamored with America being here for the World Cup have you seen any of that yet? No so there's so in Auburn Alabama they Iceland played Argentina in the World Cup and there's a couple of Germans there who went there to watch the game and they were just shocked with like the game atmosphere how friendly all the Americans are like how much food people give you when you just like don't even know them. Right going to going to restaurants and like the serving sizes are ridiculous and you know like and then afterwards they go to Bucky's and experience buckies for their first time it's just been it's been fun to watch them like some of them are just engagement because you're trying to get paid I get that but some of them like initially were very you know very authentic uh by just being shocked about things. But it's been it's been kind of fun to watch like some of these Europeans realizing like hey everything we thought about America was like not even close to true yeah at all. Yeah I mean it's just what the government says right they're all sold well well uh yeah in Europe all the news stations are government sponsored right so they're only being being told what the government tells them I go ahead I was just saying I've I've been seeing a lot of pictures of UFOs going on and why is it in the year of our lore 2026 we still have people taking videos of UFOs with a potato it's like the grainiest thing I've ever seen well it's like Bigfoot man he was just born blurry it's not the camera it's just he was born blurry and can't help it there's a uh there's a podcast called blurry creatures and it's all about like phenomena whatever like supernatural phenomena and uh they talked about that at stuff all the time Bigfoot was just born out of focus yeah I still believe man bro I've been watching X Files with my life which is like we start from like episode one episode one and it's it's been like not knowing what I know now and then seeing the programming that's going on has been it's like this is wild. Right. It's like they which is the same thing like Steven Spielberg's been trying to do since encounters with the third kind right it's just it's they're trying to prime us to get us to accept information eventually. But I think what they did the the problem that Democrats and communists have because they're not Christian and they don't abide by the Christian ethos and the Christian understanding of the world they don't understand two things original sin and human nature. And you know that all you know all people would want to do good and they don't realize like no original sin is makes us all evil and we have to work against that. But so seeing watching X Files and just seeing the way they're trying to get us ready to accept something. And then now we're at this world where like if aliens did come down like I'm pretty sure most people like man like I've had a hard week like you know like I didn't even be able to fill up my tank today. I really don't have time to deal with this I'm just gonna go home I'm gonna I'm gonna shoot up I'm gonna heat up my hot pockets and I'm gonna watch a little bit of the game I'm going to bed I'll talk to y'all tomorrow. I don't I just don't white people don't riot you know like we got we got responsibilities yeah we got responsibilities I got to riot at home I don't need to deal with this I got four kids at home I see more violence in one day than you see all week yeah I just don't I we're just like whatever aliens whatever yeah like what else you're gonna tell us like we have to wear a mask and stay six feet away from each other all the time you know like this is like we don't believe anything anymore and they don't understand this they've lost control and they're grasping now and this that's how you know the violence will start soon.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:11

Yeah because they can no longer control what we think yeah like I was watching that what was it Billy that turned put on that thing or that the citizens IRA or something like that. Yeah the ICA the Irish citizens I was like sitting there and all I could kind of get out of my mind was this is a Q op you know like could be I mean they've got everybody at the point where the they've been trying to get us to this point since the 60s right and it's finally like COVID just broke everybody so they're ready and and they're realizing they're losing power they're losing all the ability to do this so they know it's ripe so now it's just it's got a it's a powder cake and so yeah man I just keep seeing like God just everyone just gets to get out of the like get out of the cities man like it seems like it's just closer and closer and I got myself watching all these prophecy videos from our the the saints like like I watched that hill I was I was putting in T posts listening to Saint Hildegard of Benjamin and she was talking about the error the errors whatever I put it like and she said like basically like we're basically at the time of the gray wolf which is just before it's the one that enters enters the the antichrist right because it's at the I mean she described it she described it in like the 1300s like almost to a T of like how the elites will start collecting all their funds like trying to steal take everything as much as they can everybody will become poorer and poorer and you know there's gonna be a famine there's gonna be all this stuff and it's just like okay well then let's just let's do it you know I'm kind of at that point where it's like let's just get it going you know yeah we'll deal with it when we yeah my my wife went to a homestead festival up in Tennessee the week before I left those are fun.

Homesteading Costs And Food Security

SPEAKER_04 1:19:06

And yeah we like I went with her last year this year we just didn't hang by watch the kids uh so I stayed at home and watched the kids and I let her go it could keep so let me let me tangent real quick guys if you have a stay-at-home mom right it is imperative that you give her time to go talk to her friends hang out with her friends and go get some like relief from the kids for a little bit right she talks to yeah absolutely see I told you Texas and Alabama two different cultures two my wife doesn't want friends man like you gotta you gotta untail her from the stove man I try to so so but so I let so she goes out and you know I and you know of course I pay for everything because I love her right and I'm I'm not above bribing my wife of things but um and she she goes and but she comes back and she's like you know you're telling me all the stuff we need to do at the farm and like she's right I'm just lazy and I don't want to do it. But but so then I'm like well okay let me start listening to some podcast uh about some of the stuff I want to do because like we're horrible at gardening like I've I've got the animals down like I can raise an animal keep an animal alive no matter what right like I've got that down gardening it's just I don't have the time for the attention or at least I don't make the time for the attention right so anyway so I'm listening to a podcast talking about you know what are what are our you know regrets about homesteading is it cheaper blah blah blah and I think people get into homesteading and farming whatever thinking that it's gonna make food cheaper it does not at all but it guarantees you our source of food right you know exactly where your logistics are that's why I do it so raising my pigs I don't pay any less for pork than you do at the grocery store right now not you but people watching right but I know if I want pork I got it and I know what's in my pork right right so that's worth it to me to pay for same thing with my cows my like I milk my cows earlier today I milk them every day right and it wouldn't be cheaper to buy milk especially like that cheap garbage milk at the grocery store yes of course absolutely but my my milk is way better and I know there's not a bunch of hormones in there I don't have to worry about that so that is the point of is the guaranteeing the logistics guaranteeing the food source is what it's about it's not about making things cheaper because it's definitely not cheaper and it's definitely a lot more time. So I think a lot of people get into homesteading for the wrong wrong reasons right like I've got eggs out the ears man like I can't even sell enough of them I've got so many. In fact we just found three new spots today with like 30 new eggs and we got one chicken sitting on you know a dozen or more so we're probably gonna have more chickens here soon.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:00

But we go through eggs we sometimes have to supplement I mean we got we have a ton of eggs but we also have a ton of kids at home so eat eggs like all the time which is a good source.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:11

You want to get rid of eggs make quiches yeah like each quiche is like a dozen to 20 eggs like and then that'll feed like four people like mostly eggs. If you need to get rid of some eggs do a quiche but it's I just see people getting into because a lot of people get into homesteading and then they get away from it after two years because it's just too hard they don't want to do it. They'd rather go on vacations they'd rather buy a new car every three years you know because it's hard like we started from scratch like we were living in a trailer for five years like it's hard but it's worth it.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:47

Yeah you know all my kids know how to frame they know how to you know it's like they know how to plumb they know how to like you know it's it's worth it. It's just hard it's not going to be cheaper it's not gonna be you know there might be some things in the end that will be cheaper but like you said just the guaranteeing what's in your food is so much better.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:07

But I mean we still have to supply supplement stuff from from at home you know from the stores and stuff but we just money on our cows yeah yeah I'm about to sell a uh bull calf probably next in in a couple a couple of months I think they want these four months he needs to let his wife give her a spa day or something you know yeah I know I know one of my my former colleagues at work he would um he would rent a an Airbnb for his wife and he's like I got the kids for the next two days you go yeah you know so my wife especially now during the summer my in-laws have a condo down on the lake they live down there so I like last year I did it twice and I'm gonna do it probably a few more times this summer like one Saturday a month just me and the kids are going down the lake and let my wife have the house she can do whatever she wants for the whole weekend right by herself not to worry about anybody else not have to worry about yelling anybody to take a bath or go to bed or nothing. Right she's just having herself I did a couple times and then this year you know she went to the homesteading conference I let her you know she went to that for about three days and then next month she's going to a homeschooling conference by herself right letting that time away and she goes with some some ladies from church so she'll be able to you know have some conversation with some other people because it is important for both of you to have relationships with people that you can talk about things that you shouldn't be talking to your spouse about right like as men you should not be talking about to your wife about things that that stress you right that's not her do not put that cross on her right talk to your boys about it. Talk to your boys about it right and because they're gonna be able to give you a fight hey this is how I got through it or amen let me you know do if you just need to talk about whatever but don't put that on her that's not her responsibility that's your responsibility and you need to have some good dudes to be able to talk to about that stuff. The same thing for her is she needs to be able to have conversations with other women that's outside the kids right she needs to have adult conversations like I talk to people all day with work. And when I come home I don't want to talk anymore sometimes not all the time sometimes I'm like I'm okay but sometimes if I've been talking I've had four or five meetings with clients all day last thing I want to do is come home and talk right but my wife has only talked to kids all day she needs to have an adult conversation right so we'll talk about whatever right and whatever she's got on her mind or whatever. And sometimes it has to wait for bedtime after the kids are down. Then we have her talk to them sometimes that just means me and her lay in bed and we look through Instagram reels and laugh the whole for like an hour before we go to sleep.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:51

So instead of taking the kids down there by yourself like my wife and I started a few years ago just like doing like a three three night stay at an Airbnb together because I mean one like I mean you used to work shift work you know how you're gone all the time and that that really helped a lot you know so I mean because even like you're just giving her away from but you're also together instead of just you know you know have have your if you have your parents to be able to watch them.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:18

Luckily we have older kids that can come and watch them you know so yeah we're we're getting to that point now where my oldest can like I just let them watch them for like she's 13 and I let her watch the three youngers for like 45 minutes when I want to get to go feed from the feed store. And that's the first time we've let her home by herself she did fine. It was 45 minutes. They're watching TV you know like it's it's not a big deal. We aren't quite to the point where we're going on dates and letting her you know have a charge yet but we'll get there eventually but just slowly giving her more and more responsibility so we can do those things.

Just War, Crossbows, And Modern Weapons

SPEAKER_03 1:26:50

But yeah all right we got uh got a new guest we'll see who we got here all right Bellator this is gonna be a strange question can you hear me yep hear you perfect okay second council ladderin condemns canon 29 crossbowmen and archers and I'm like what the heck yeah how binding is that today for modern weapons you think on holy ground what wait what are you asking like you're asking if we can have uh I mean scale it you know archers versus a person carrying a nuclear bomb or someone in between with you know like a R 15 or AK or you know six hour or something like that. It's like okay yeah is the church ever going to come out and condemn any of that I doubt it but you know just just just what are your thoughts on can 29?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:52

So keep in mind that that was mostly written for Christian non Christian law Right. But also keep in mind, like the the nature, the the nature of warfare has evolved so fast that the church can't keep up. Right. And it honestly, what's an overarching rule is the the law of self-defense, right? So if someone else has a firearm, I should be able to have a firearm to defend mine, my own, right? Me and my family. And it was a decision to ban something, hope, hoping it would retard, right? In the proper use of the word retard, that it would retard the progress of weaponry, right? And it was ignored. Of course it was. Of course it was. Because it is also it was outside the realm of theology, right? A lot of people like it's not for me to say or not, right? But a lot of people at the time felt it was outside the bounds of the theological boundaries the church is seeming to be bound to, since they especially since they gave up their temporal power. But so a lot of people ignored it, right? And that was, you know, was that the beginnings of the SSPX? I don't know, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:22

Okay. But uh follow-up question. How seriously do you think we'll see new criteria to added to the just war theory?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:31

I don't think we'll ever will.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:32

I know, I don't think I care anymore.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:34

I don't think I don't think any clergy has the theological chops to even approach that anymore. We are we are dumber than we were 60 years ago. We are far dumber than we were 200 years ago.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:48

1500 years ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:49

Yeah, like we are we don't have we have one, we have no clergy that even know how to fast anymore, right? They can't even deprive themselves. You know how many fat priests that's see all the time, right? Like they don't they only know how to not eat a meal once a day, right? They don't have the theological tough to even approach making adjustment to just more theory anymore. Now, are there some that have the capability? Yes, there are some that are smart enough and have the ability to do it, but they also probably have weak spines, and that's the reason they're priest now because they were chosen to be a priest because they could be molded.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:30

He wasn't he wasn't skinny, bro. There's a reason why they called him a he was a linebacker, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:37

He was he was a hoss, man. I bet I bet he is a thousand-pound client.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:45

I've seen thin theory and I've seen fat theory on that, so I'm not sure which one to buy. You know, I think it's just artists' uh personal license.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:55

But uh yeah, you gotta listen to the words and not the not the book. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:03

All right. Well, thanks, man. All right, belly. That's all I want to do. Thank you for the question, brother.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:08

Take care.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:08

Take care.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:11

That was an off-the-wall question, which I enjoyed. That was fun. How many clergy can even handle a firearm? I tell you, my priest can handle a firearm. He's usually our security for our uh social events if we can't if we can't get a police officer over. He's usually one hand on security. I know of quite a few others who are avid hunters. So now would they? I don't know. You know, is the protection of their parents? I don't know, maybe. I doubt it. They probably leave that to the lady. But I know quite a few who could, if they needed to. They couldn't handle a firearm. All right, let's see. See if I got a response to all do. Nothing. Let's see. Anything else crazy going on? We've been on here for an hour and 40 minutes. Oh man. All right.

Catholic Priorities, Legacy, And Closing

SPEAKER_04 1:32:14

Parting thoughts. What do you got, Chris? We're gonna wrap it up here soon.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:21

Oh man, I just think I keep seeing people worry about all this stuff, like trying to get all these things for the future. And I just see us already, I mean, I think it's the time now to just bunker down and be Catholic and realize like we're gonna suffer. Like we're probably the ones that are gonna suffer the most and just accept it because this isn't where we're supposed to be, man. We're supposed to be in heaven, and you know, yeah, we're gonna. I mean, like I said, watch for these prophecies, like St. Bridget, Sweden, St. You know, Saint Catherine, I think, said some stuff, but like Catholics are are not gonna benefit, they're gonna be tortured and whatever, no matter what you do, whether if you run out to the country, whether you it's just like just accept that and take care of your what you can take care of here with your family, and stop worrying about all these things going on, like in Belfast and all that stuff, because we already know it's gonna happen. Yeah, you know, we're we already know that it's none of this is a surprise anymore. I mean, granted, I'm older than a lot of the other guys, but it's like it doesn't really phase me. I'm like, okay, well, it's gonna happen, you know. Like, I think you gotta start accepting that fact instead of just stressing out and getting all tripped up with things.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:42

I don't know if that makes sense. Yeah, I think with with the invention of a lot of the technology we have, we have the gift of foresight, right? We're we can see the first domino go down, even if it's 4,000 miles away, right? Because if it starts in Ireland, it's going to spread to England, right? And then at that point, the rest of the European Union has a choice to make. Do they allow to happen in their countries what's happening in the British Isles, or do they get totalitarian about it and clamp down on that real quick before it could start? Right. So it's very possible World War III could start in Ireland, right? Or it's possible that nothing happens of this, right? I think to your point, the best thing we can do is live a Catholic life. Make sure we're taking our family to mass, make sure we're praying every day. My kids specifically, I try and encourage them just to talk to the Lord every day. It doesn't have to be an ascripted prayer that we use turn the rosary or whatever. Just talk to him, like he's right next to you, like he's a friend, right? And tell him and talk to him about things. Because if you can do that, you can engender a much closer relationship with him. And because I all my kids know. They know that I don't care what they do for a living. I don't care if they're an astronaut or a doctor or a waitress at a hop. I don't care. If they don't get to heaven, I have failed. That is the only thing that is of any importance to me, that they have a good relationship with God and they are willing to suffer for him and to make it and persevere to heaven. Right. And so that everything I do every day, even with my failings and my lackings, I try and encourage them to be able to get that point. And everything I sacrifice is for them. Like, I would much rather not have a homestead. I would rather go on vacations all the time. I would rather have a brand new car, right? I would rather be able to buy whatever I want whenever I want. But I don't do any of that because I'm trying to set up my kids better than I was set up. I bought 40 acres down the road to give to my kids so that they one day can have land of their own and build a house on it on their own and not worry about a mortgage. Right? It doesn't matter what building code is if you're in an unincorporated area and you don't plan on selling the house. You can build whatever you want and live on it. Right? So you don't have to worry about permits. And I mean, so just until you sell it. Yeah, but the word and there's no point selling it. You know, it's just it'll be family. That and that's another thing. So I was talking to Bug Hall about this a long time ago, or probably a year ago. We were having a conversation about this. And primogeniture, right? Basically giving all your land, all your holdings to the oldest son, right? And then it's for him, and then the daughters, like your goal is to marry them off, or they can live with your oldest son at home until they get married as well. Right. But that's why we have seen in the United States of America, uh, you know, 200 years ago, people had like a 2,000-acre farm, and then every generation that's been broken up because they keep leaving it to all the kids, so now it's like a one-acre plot. Right? It went from like, oh, 200 years ago, well, they had two kids, so now they each have 500 acres. Well, they had three kids, so now each one has 155 acres, whatever it is, 170 acres, close to whatever. And then they have four kids, and each one gets like 50 acres, you know, whatever. And it finally breaks down to where now, like four generations down the line, everybody's got an acre. Right? Or what you should have done is just give it to the oldest son. And then more than likely, your family would still have that thousand acres. Right. But the fact that we keep like, well, everybody should be on the same footing, this egalitarianism is is eating us alive. No, like my son will get everything more than likely, assuming he doesn't, you know, discern a vocation of the priesthood, then it'll probably go to my oldest daughter husband. Like, because I've only got one boy. I've got three girls, one boy. So if he's in the priesthood, my name dies off. But it'll probably go to my oldest daughter's husband and let him then get from there, and then he can have everything, right? But then, like, but the acres is also for the kids, right? So I have something else for them for the other girl to have. So it's just a matter of how do we set up our kids for a better life than we were given. I was given nothing, right? And my dad had nothing to give me because his parents gave him nothing, and they couldn't give him nothing because they're poor as hell, like you know, so but there are some families out there who had a lot and could give it, and they chose not to. And that's the saddest thing because as the psalm says, the man who does not leave an inheritance for his grandchildren is worse than an unbeliever. And that means not only materials, but that means the faith as well. Mainly the faith, right? It's mainly the faith, but it also means providing for their well-being as well.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:04

So my wife and I looked into, or we are looking into I forget what it's called. It's it's like a trust, but it's not, where it's like it's the family's land. So not one person can take it over and fight for it. So it'll always be like a refuge and a retreat for all the families. And mainly because also like we bury our son here, you know, it's like this is for them, you know, like it's for all of them. Because there's always gonna be people that the kids are gonna move away, you know, because that's where the work is. You pay, you know, your your daughter's gonna marry off, you know. But we always want a place for a refuge, you know. Yeah. So I don't know. There's things to think about. I was one of the guys is asking about raise we should do a show on raising daughters, but or you guys should do a show on raising daughters. I love my daughters.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:59

I got four of them. I do too, man. I got five of them. I mean the good thing is being a dad of daughters, like we have good relationships, right? With all I have a great relationship with all my girls, like they're all daddies girls, but as they get older, they start to butt heads with my wife, like real bad, because they're so alike her. It's like, especially my oldest, she's 13. Her and my wife butt heads because she's got my personality, my daughter does, and she butts head with my wife like like a stubborn me would, but you know, and so it's it's it's funny to watch.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:33

Oh no, that's so five Latinas, five Latinas to deal with, so or six of my wife.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:39

All right, Brendan asks, obviously, New York is awful, but at what point in proximity to extended family not enough to stay? And you're look, man, it that this is this is a hard one for a lot of people who are who are used to being around family. But your extended family is not your responsibility, your immediate family is your responsibility. I live nowhere near my family. All my family's from Kentucky. I grew up in Kentucky, right? We moved to Alabama because one, my wife's from here, and I didn't really know where else to leave. I just couldn't get out of Atlanta fast enough. But we moved here because I was sort of familiar with it. We're we could come here a lot, but it was mostly just for somewhere to get out of Atlanta as close as we could get. And my goal and our focus has always been our family first. And then if anybody else wants to come along for the ride, they're more than welcome. So, like specifically, when my wife came into the faith in 2019, after we've been married for 11 years, and I just came after the faith three years before that. But like that caused a rift with between her and some friends, and a little bit with her parents. Now they've become much more accepting since then because they see the obviously difference in us, but they see the difference in our kids and all their other grandkids, right? Which is why they prefer to be around my kids and their other grandkids. And my kids aren't even there, and especially my step or my father-in-law's stepdad, uh, they're not even hurt his blood, but he prefers to be around our kids, right? I can see it. He may, he's not gonna say it, obviously, but I can see it. He he much prefers to be around my kids. My kids are well behaved and they know the faith and they know about and they know about charity and treating other people with respect, right? And and being compassionate. Whereas a lot of these other kids today are not raised like that. So you have to do what's best for your immediate family, and if that means you have to move away from your extended family, that's what you have to do, especially if you're not able to provide for them in New York. Get out of there and get somewhere where you can.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:47

I will say a benefit, because I wasn't, I didn't have to stay there, you know. I'd already been in the military and stuff. And my wife used to say, I'm not, I can't leave my family, I can't leave my family. And then once we got married and just saw how expensive California was, she was like, she shocked me when I told her, Hey, I told her about Texas and stuff. She's like, when can we go? And I was like, okay, so we went and looked it up, you know. But I will say, like, leaving our extended families was one of the best things we ever did for our marriage because we only had ourselves to rely on, we came closer, we became true friends, we became a true husband. I mean, not that we wouldn't have done that there, but I mean it it was a it might have probably would have been a lot harder. My wife jokes the whole time, like we would have been divorced by if we had stayed there just because of just inner family politics stuff, you know, whatever. But yeah it's been a great thing. I mean, we've it's just been us, you know, and when you have you can't have that unless you are in an extreme, like where it is just you two, you know. And that's I think that's a good thing, you know, honestly. Because eventually your extended family will start following you.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:57

I mean, yeah, unfortunately, sometimes. We we went through the same thing. We we got married, and two days after being married, I moved her to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from Burningham, Alabama. And when we got there and we had an apartment for about six months before we bought a house. But I I would agree, like us being separated from family was the absolute best thing for us. Because if we got into a fight, we couldn't retreat to someone's house. Like we couldn't go back to my mom's house or my dad's house, and she didn't go back to her parents' house. Like we had to work it out because we were 13 hours away from the nearest people, so we had to absolutely work that stuff out, which made us even stronger in our marriage. Because I'm we'll tell in a little secret. I was not mature enough to be married when I got married. Like I was just, I was just not ready, right? Uh but I grew, I grew with my wife. Like I wanted, I made the decision to be better for my wife, right? Because I was still used to like I was, you know, I've been a marine for like four years at this point almost, three years, four years, right? Like I had lived a marine life for a while, and like I was just super immature. And but I also met my wife, and like I didn't want to be ever be without her, right? So, like, how do I marry how do I get these teams together? Well, I chose her. I stopped being a selfish prick and I started trying to be better for her, right? But being to the because we had two roles, well, really one big rule when we first got married, because both of our parents were divorced. We're not allowed to even bring up the word ever. We work it out no matter what, and we also never go to bed angry. Sometimes that meant staying up to two o'clock talking it out when I had to get up at 4 30 to go to the range.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:42

How do you do that, man? Like, bro, I just do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:47

Dude, just do it. Like just don't go to bed. Go to bed when you talk it through. Right? And when you're tired and you're delusional, you start to capitulate into things that you wouldn't normally capitulate to. Right? So you just work it out. All right, go to sleep. Get up two and a half hours later because I gotta be on the range.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:05

Sometimes getting getting in fights makes her better than it.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:11

That is also true. That is also true. Sometimes the fight is the point.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:19

Usually on the girl side, but yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:23

Yeah. Oh man. All right, guys. I think we're gonna call it here. It's been fun, Chris. I'm gonna start bringing you in for now on when Rob can't. Because usually if we don't have a show, it's because Rob can't make it uh for whatever reason. So I'm just gonna start letting you know. Hey, can you come on? Like I would be I would be sue, like I'd have to have a bunch of people in chat in order to be able to do a show by myself. Um but uh yeah, if this happens again, I'm bringing you on. So just be prepared. It's all good, man. The the the Chris segment is what we'll have. I don't know if I have enough hats to bring on, uh I can make up some more. Look, I'll send you some. I'll send you some. We'll get you going. All right, guys. We are going to end it here. We we're probably gonna start doing shows on Fridays for at least for the summer until the fall, and then we might expect the Mondays. But I enjoy the Friday shows. I don't do anything on Fridays anyway, my dad, so I don't really drive any much anymore.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:23

But uh no, next week we'll probably have to do.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:26

Next Friday, I'll probably have to do because we have a men's night next Friday. So I might have to do on Wednesday next week. We'll see. But I'll let you know. This was an impromptu show, so I expect a lot of people to watch this one, but it's fine. I have fun, and I always enjoyed talking to Chris. All right, guys, y'all take care, and we will see y'all next week.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:43

God bless.