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The App That Could Save Thousands Of Lives | Lee Jones

• Eric Winegard • Season 3 • Episode 11

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Most people complain about problems.

A few people build solutions.

Lee Jones looked at a world with mass shootings, growing safety concerns, slow emergency response times, and communities that often don't know danger is happening until it's too late.

Then he asked a simple question:

"What if there was a better way?"

In this episode of the Gold Coast Podcast, Eric Winegard sits down with Lee Jones, Founder of Real-Time Alert, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, public safety, technology, faith, personal responsibility, and the mission behind an app designed to help people react faster when every second matters.

What starts as a discussion about innovation quickly becomes something much deeper.

Lee shares the story behind Real-Time Alert, a platform designed to enable faster communication among communities, event organizers, first responders, and everyday citizens during emergencies. He explains why traditional emergency response systems often move too slowly and how technology can help bridge that gap.

But the most powerful part of this episode isn't the technology.

It's the man behind it.

Lee opens up about growing up in Kentucky, discovering painful truths about his family, struggling with anger, making life-changing mistakes, rebuilding his marriage, finding faith, and learning that some of life's greatest setbacks can become the foundation for your greatest purpose.

In This Episode:

 Can technology help prevent tragedy?
 Why emergency response systems need to evolve
 The vision behind Real-Time Alert
 The future of AI and public safety
 Why community awareness matters
 How faith shaped Lee's journey
 Breaking generational cycles
 Marriage, forgiveness, and redemption
 Why grit matters more than talent
 The American Dream and personal responsibility
 The story of Paul Revere and the original "real-time alert"
This episode isn't just about safety.

It's about purpose.

It's about taking the hardest moments of your life and turning them into something that helps other people.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, parent, leader, person of faith, or someone trying to build something meaningful, this conversation will stay with you long after it ends.

Guest:
Lee Jones
Founder & CEO, Real-Time Alert

Learn More:
Real-TimeAlert.com
Instagram: @realtimealert
YouTube: @Real-TimeAlert

Hosted By:
Eric Winegard

CEO of Rare Blue Moon Marketing

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SPEAKER_01

Let me ask you this first. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Kentucky. Okay. You have a good old boy, southern boy way about you. Yeah. But you're brilliant. Oh. You are.

SPEAKER_00

I guess some people fooled. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01

No, no. Do not mistake this guy. We're already rolling, by the way. Do not mistake his good old boy Oh Shucks personality for not being brilliant. Because I'd really like to dig into this app. Like I want to just uncover it from start to finish. Because when I when my company works with somebody, you know, don't get me wrong. Like we want to help the business to make money, of course, because that's how businesses run. But when you can actually help a business make money and make an impact, it's it's fulfilling.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Talk about the impact this app has the potential to make. So basically what what the app is real-time alert, you know, we're a safety intelligence platform. And uh I I think we're gonna be like the apple of safety intelligence, in my opinion. We're we're we we're we're in a spectrum of the industry where there's very little play right now, and I think it's gonna become a very big play because sadly the situation that we're in in the US now, you know, it's um yeah, you you look at the the mass shootings. You know, there's we average in the US, we average more than one mass shooting per day. Yeah, in the last 10 years, over 25,000 people have either been wounded or or killed in mass shootings. That's nuts here in America, you know. And I I'm sick of it, and I know a lot of people out there as well. And we we've got a good system of, you know, 911, the the whore, you know, the vertical portion of making the alerts, or you know, calling the 911, the dispatch, but there's no horizontal out to your peers platform. And that's what that's what we conquer is getting the word out to your neighbors, to those around you if something's going on. And so that's that's what we do. We it's peer-to-peer and peer-to-authority alert platform. And uh so that's that's what we tackle. And uh it was the Lord gave me the download. It happened on uh, you know, November 11th, 2025. And so today we're 258 days in since the uh dream and the download. Yeah, the Lord gave me a dream because I was on September 10th, you know, I was watching, you know, the the all the news about you know Charlie Kirk, and I was you know destroyed by that because I really enjoyed Charlie Kirk. I think he was a a brilliant mind, and um, you know, somebody took his life in a public life.

SPEAKER_01

So likable. More than because I could bench Shapiro, I think it's brilliant, but I could see where he's maybe not as likable, right? Yeah, like because he has a brilliant mind, but Charlie was just so just so damn likable, too, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Great, great guy, you know, so sad in front of 3,000 people, and then this today, because of the internet, you know, is a worldwide display. In my opinion, he was martyred, you know. And what what got me about it was that you know, the people actually called 911. The 911 system is too slow. I don't know if you're aware of this, but when you call 911 dispatch, you have to first of all, you you're required by law to give them your address. And if you're in an emergency, a lot of times people are like, Dad gum, you know, what's the address here? You know, calling, ask what's the address here, or looking on your phone trying to give the GPS location. So our system actually speeds that speeds that process up as well. So when you when you you report it and then you can hit 911, and when you hit 911, the address is actually gonna come on your screen. So that way you it speeds up the process if even when you're contacting.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you could be at someone's house, you could be at some commercial building, you don't know what that you don't even know where to find the address. Exactly. You know, and you're just trying to report, you know, some chaos or a gunshot or whatever.

SPEAKER_00

And if you're in an emergency, your brain can't even think clearly. It's like, oh, I can hit my you know, my uh you know, Google or something and find the address, you know, but your brain is not working that well. And so that it took you so like in Charlie Curry in President Trump's attempted assassination, people saw the shooter on the roof way before they were shot. People called 911, 911 had the slowdown of what's the address, blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, 911 dispatch then went to the state police, and the state police said, we're not over that. It's could be the local police, then to the local police. No, we're not, then it was their own security team. So by the time it did all that big loop, you know, eight minutes had passed, and that was enough time for the shooter to get the shot off. And so what our system does is it boils it down and it speeds the entire process up. On the event situation, in our event app, which is gonna be launched, you know, come this fall. Right now we got the free and the paid subscription launched. It's not actually that's another story. It's not quite launched yet. We we've got the web app. Apple is giving us fits right now. Apple's that's a whole different story. But anyway, on the on the events, on the event side, all the reports then are gonna be funneled to whoever the administrator set up as the you know, as the contact of security for that event. So instead of going to 911, it's gonna go directly to their security team. So it's gonna speed up the process of notification to the authorities that can do something about it, you know.

SPEAKER_01

It's um do you think and and this this comes in line with the app too? I'm asking this for a reason. Do you think it's possible? Because I had this conversation with my wife a few months ago. You know, we live in Boca, we love Boca, it's a predominantly heavy Jewish community. We love our Jewish people, right? Well, we just disagree on who the Messiah is, right? But it's all good, right? Um, and and I I wonder if because of the Iran war, unfortunately, I've had to think like this, if there is going to be some sort of retaliation, no one can retaliate against our military. So unfortunately, they have to resort to terrorist type activities. And it could be at a shopping mall in Boca, and I've always wondered, I'm like, wow, we live in a heavy Jewish community, Israel's heavily involved. Like, is this a place that you know that is potentially under siege? Right? Like, it sucks that I have to think like that. But but we have been thinking like that a little bit. Um, you know, do you think do you think our country is in danger more than ever?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I do. Yeah, and I think everybody agrees with that. Um, you know, if you listen to like Dan Bongino, Cash Patel, you know, they're really concerned about the potential of drone attacks because you see what's happening over in the Middle East right now with the drones. Because you can buy a drone for like 3,000 bucks now, and think about the potential threat of a drone. Uh right now there's no coordination between FAA and 911. We're gonna solve that issue right now. I mean, that's that's what our one of the things our platform does. Right now, if you see a drone flying in the air, you can call 911. 911's probably gonna say something like, Yeah, does it look like it's a friendly drone? They're not gonna know. But with our system, because we're gonna layer in in our menu bar uh the actual no-fly zones because they change daily according to you know what's going on, you know. And uh we're gonna overlay that. And so if you see a drone and you see on your map then your personal map with our safety alert platform with real-time alert, you can see wow, that drones in a no-fly zone. You take a picture of it and you've got the GPS tag of the picture, get get that into 911, and then they can do something about it. Because the only people that right now that can do something about a drone is the military or the police.

SPEAKER_01

You know, there's no uh there's no commercial activity that can knock down a drone, but uh except for the police and the uh what are you what are you and I don't know if you've ever unpacked this, but if the drones are such a major threat, and I could see where I'm not trying to give any anybody ideas, but but I could see where if somebody had a family member or an access to a warehouse, and they were able to store thousands of drones, let's say, and package them all up with some type of an explosive or whatever it may be, and in a single night, you know, have these drones descend upon uh the University of Miami. I don't know, right? And thousands of them, they're you know, destroying buildings, property, injuring, killing people, etc. If if drones are our biggest threat, do you think that potentially they should just be outlawed completely? Or do you think that's being discussed at all?

SPEAKER_00

Possibly? I have no idea. Okay, that's that's a good thought. Uh, because I mean drones are a real threat. And you know, I mean, you buy a $3,000 drone now and and you know, radio controlled, and you can do what you want. And um, and right now there's just no there's no coordination, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, because I look at it like this, like I'm pro-gun, I'm sure you are as well, right? Of course, right? Um and but I don't think we should have atomic or atomic bombs in our basements.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_01

I wouldn't try to so so if if because an atomic bomb, if you know Crazy Joe had one in his basement and gets in an argument with his wife, you never know, right? So I do believe we should uh be weaponized and we should be able to defend ourselves against enemies foreign and domestic. Um but we shouldn't have an atomic bomb in our basement. If if the drone is an atomic bomb, then I'm sitting here saying, let's outlaw them completely. Like, like why, like, why would we even want them? Just for commercial use? For you know, maybe you get a slip of paper from you have to go down to city hall, they have to approve of it, or the county judge or whoever it is, and you can use it for you know commercial purposes, whether you're filming a movie or whatever. But I'm sitting here listening to you going, yeah, we're trying to protect against this thing that's almost indefensible. Like, why don't why don't we just be smart here and just outlaw it?

SPEAKER_00

There needs to be more regulation on it. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Because I mean it it's it's a it's a real threat, and we need to be careful with that, make sure that you know we've got that on it. And there's there's so many things right now just in in the laws that are I mean let me get can I get back to Apple for some fire away, yeah. Of course. Apple, uh because I've been looking forward to it, maybe you guys can help me out with this. Because it's we we've been working since March trying to get our app in the Apple App Store. And um they had approved us and then they disapproved us. We we got the free version in, and the when we got the paid subscription going through, they disapproved us and said we were breaking their 2.1 regulation. 2.1 regulation is something about they they thought that because our alerts were going to be going to 911, that uh we needed to have an approval, a letter from each 911 district. And with with our with our free and the paid, the the your contact is still by hitting the 911 call button. So we we got that. I thought we had that settled. You know, we had to fight that a couple times, but it looks like we got that settled. And they then they came back and said the 1.1. They they didn't like our icons, like on our icons here. I'll I'll just pull our little hoop up.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm not trying to um to cast uh any negativity on anybody. The the company that developed your app, or where are they based at?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so well, so we did actually. I I'm a farmer, I'm not a coder, you know. And but God had me start out the company coding myself. And that that was a whole story in of itself because I started out using chat. Chat is a total train wreck on coding. Don't ever do that. And then I then I got involved with uh I hired, you know, didn't hire, but he's on my board now, he's an investor. Uh Brian Powers, our CTO. So he he made an app, a quest event, and uh does really good in the rodeo, um, you know, for rodeo applications, getting into rodeos. And uh so he told me use Claude. So then I started researching Claude and just trained myself basically watching YouTube videos and stuff, how to code. And then I started coding. I did, I got my our free app about halfway coded, and then my daughter is a nurse practitioner, uh Jamie. She she said, you know, wow dad, you know, I love this because this this could potentially save a lot of lives. So as a nurse practitioner, I can only save one life at a time, but this thing is gonna save potentially a lot of lives, and that's what she's all about. When she was a little girl, she if she saw some something hurt, uh like a TV show or some little animal or something got hurt, she'd be like, Oh, well, show show me out, show me pain. You know, she would she was always you know very compassionate about you know people's going through painful issues or problems. So anyway, she she jumped on board and I said, Well, come on, you can help me code. She's like, I don't know how to code. And I said, Well, I don't know how either. Um, so I told her, I said, the most important thing on coding, what I found out is you know, when you're getting these things going across here and you're coding, you know, if you have to change something and insert something, make sure it's in line with this because they get all these columns. And if you code in the wrong spot, then it screws everything up. I found that out real quick. But anyway, so she jumped on board with us. We've got a great coder. So I've got, you know, it's such a blessing how God has brought the right people in with this because, you know, um, you know, my CSO and co-founder, um, you know, Seth Brigett, he's my first cousin, and he's got a lot of you know, experience. He's got, you know, two successful exits or three successful exits and one IPO. Wow. He actually helped develop a medical product that saved the life of his own son. So he's he's really he's he's he's out there. He's got 50 patents pending or or past. And um, and then the the people that God has just brought into my life to be able to get this thing off the ground is just is phenomenal because like I said, I'm a farmer, I'm not a coder. You know, God's got me doing crazy stuff, but anyway, so then we hired, well, then we talked to you guys, and uh, and we wanted the best of the best for digital marketing. We actually interviewed a lot of different companies across the entire nation because you know, we wanted the best of the best, and it was so amazing that the best of the best is right here local, right with us, you know. And uh so that was so cool because I mean you guys are off the charts. I mean, compared I I I had you know one of my other companies, uh Clean Sweet Pest Management that my son and I founded, it's a pest control company, and uh he's he's running the show on that now. Uh, but we had hired and uh it that was a train wreck, so um I hate to downplay anybody, but anyway, you you guys are off the charts. Yeah, I appreciate it. It means a lot. And but God has brought the right people around me. And then on the coding side, uh we we hired uh Mobile Logical. It's a right there, it's a local company, and he's got a lot of experience with uh with the coding type that we needed, you know. Um, and so that that was great. And then my living media, Glenn Festner, that guy is off the charts. I love him. He's just amazing. So God is it's all local, it's amazing. We got the best in the nation right here. It's so cool.

SPEAKER_01

A lot of talent has migrated to South Florida.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's it's so amazing. But this is our app. We'll we'll show it on this. Yeah, so anyway, so if you see like right down here, so on the free app, you've got free uh four easy buttons to hit, and then eventually we're gonna have the um uh also the drone icon on there as well. So there'll be five buttons you can hit. And then if you see act of violence, you hit the blue button. I'm a farmer, so I got common sense. You know, if you if you're in a fight, you're gonna have black and blue. So I made it a blue button, you know. You know, a weapon threat, if you see a weapon, you could potentially see blood. So I made it red. And then a yellow is a suspicious person or package, because I call them yellow bellied, you know. That's I was raised in the hills of Kentuck. So, you know, it's and then you got an orange button, which is for an accident or other, you know, a fire or whatever. So you when you hit one of these buttons, and the problem that that uh Apple's having with this now is yeah, okay, great, good. So I'm I'm talking to my home phone. Exactly. Awesome, awesome. But you know, a red uh button with a picture of a pistol and a knife, they want me to change that, and then they don't want me to call it a suspicious person or package. They're saying suspicious activity because they shouldn't be, you know, profiling that you got a suspicious person, even though there's not going to be a picture going to the general public. It's just you're you're just marking it, but it's so daggone woke. So anyway, so we got to change these icons up a little bit, apparently. Now we've been working since March trying to get it into Apple because the ISO, you know, we've got a web base. This is a web base right now, but it doesn't have the flutter, all the capabilities that the Apple app is gonna have with ISO integration. So it's we're fighting this thing tooth and nail. You know, we just we did another submission again this morning. Uh my my uh coder guy, he did another. He's he he told me, don't worry, we're gonna make it through eventually, but it's just painful because I'm so ready to get this product off the ground right now. I've been ready since April.

SPEAKER_01

We just developed a couple world-class apps, and um I'm really excited. And and they're a pain in the butt to get in the Apple store. They're they're not easy. But he actually has relationships there too, where he can get on the phone with somebody from Apple and kind of just isn't isn't that amazing? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you you have trouble getting something like this in the app store, but yet you've got like the Iranians were funding uh the tents to be put up for you know the Palestinian protests and stuff, you know. Iranians were funding all that stuff, you know? And then you get, you know, the the spam spam muffage, you know, that was the that where China was funding all this different disinformation. That the the enemies, you know, of this nation are funding into this nation disinformation to try to divide us as a nation, you know, because they know that united we stand, divided we fall, so they're trying to get us to stay divided, defund the police. Our police are daggum off the charts. Look at this right here. I mean, this is this is on our app. That's four weeks of data. Wow. We that's only the last four weeks of data.

SPEAKER_01

And what what is what is that measuring or what is that illustrating?

SPEAKER_00

Each one of these icons right here, let's blow it up here a little bit. That's a police officer. This these are where arrest, actual arrest occurred, the location of the arrest. Wow. Uh the little blue guy? Where is that? Well, let me show let's see right where we're at here. I'll blow it up so you can see what's happening right here at you. Yeah, this is this is what's happening in your neighborhood right here. So you had uh right here, right around you, it's not too bad. Uh but you did have that looks much better. You had you had vandalism, you know, right there close to you. That happened on May 15th. Um you actually had a a shooting that occurred far from you here.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh that happened on May 15th.

SPEAKER_01

That's very surprising when that happens here.

SPEAKER_00

And you know what? A theft happened right here a couple blocks away from you. Um and then you've got a an assault that happens. So all these you can you can click click on each one of these little this is up to date for the last four weeks of data.

SPEAKER_01

And where is that downloading the information from? The county records or um, yeah, from the county.

SPEAKER_00

Each each that that's a total that's another story. It's a total pain in the butt because each district, um, I guess some districts that when they when the police arrest somebody, they actually, I guess GPS tag the location of it, and other ones they just have to write down the actual physical address. So the data bringing all the data in, that's a that's a chore. You're bringing all the data in each one of these points.

SPEAKER_01

Wow.

SPEAKER_00

But it's it's full. Look at that. Our our cops, we we need to every time you see one of them cops out, you you need to tell them thank you. Absolutely, for how much activity there is. Yeah, yeah, keeping us safe. They're not sit sitting at the donut shop like people are, you know, defund the cops and all this stuff. I mean, these guys are are putting their lives on the line for us, you know?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and we need to thank them because it's uh it's defund the police, and I don't care what political line you are, like uh that it never made sense because if if somebody felt that you're that somebody's not doing a good job, I would argue that means, okay, then they need more training. Not less training.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Right? They need more equipment, not less equipment. That to me, that was that was almost demonic.

SPEAKER_00

And you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I mean we're we're people. Cops are human too, you know. You're gonna have some good guys and some bad guys in every group. You're gonna more than likely with the police, you're gonna have more good guys than bad guys, but there are gonna be a few bad guys, but you don't throw the entire group out just because of a few bad outs. You don't do that, you know? That's not what this country's built on. Yeah, and then and then and then all these countries, these foreign countries, I was just researching that this morning about the laws, you know. That they can actually, they can actually foreign countries, China, Iran, all these countries, they can have a huge funding funnel into the U.S. funneling in multi-million dollars for social media to blast us with a bunch of disinformation that's going to cause division in the U.S. that they they need to they need to change the laws to where they they should foreign countries should not be allowed to pour money in to get to funnel disinformation to us to cause division. That's that should be totally illegal, but right now it's not. There the Congress is working on some laws to change that, hopefully, but it's it's it's it's it's it's a mess.

SPEAKER_01

See, whenever I hear stuff like that, I think it's either incompetence or it's criminal, right? So it's either they're dumb as shit or it's intentionally being done. Right? So it's like, but which one is it, right? So and I I actually almost hope it's incompetence.

SPEAKER_00

Well, it's it's it's not only incompetence, I I don't think it's I don't the the laws to change the laws in Congress, it takes time and effort. And you know, the last laws I think when I was researching this morning, I think the last laws for like social media for funding of that sort of situation from foreign countries, I think the last laws came about like the nineteen nineties.

SPEAKER_01

But so much has happened since nineteen ninety of of the incompetence of our government's ability to pass legislation then. Yeah. I would argue that.

SPEAKER_00

And and and they can actually foreign countries, they they can they can fund lobbyists. What what is that?

SPEAKER_01

You know, isn't that nuts? It's uh something something that's really This will trip you out because uh I I really like basketball and I put into chat GPT, I said, make it look like I'm taking a selfie with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and like two other basketball players. And it and it made you know, I'm like taking the picture like this, and you could and it looks real, looks real as heck, right? How would I meet Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and like these two other random guys? And um, and everybody was commenting, oh my god, that's so cool. I where'd you meet those guys? That's so amazing. And I'm like, oh my god, like AI is is gonna change the world, no doubt. And that's this iteration of it, you know. Now the other thing that scares me too is, and and I don't know if you know this stat, uh, as of I believe in November, more of the accounts, the social media accounts that are online today versus the actual real accounts that are backed by a verified user, there's more bots today than there are real accounts. And that yeah, that that tipping percentage just happened, I think, roughly six months ago. So now, like when I look at comments, I I just think it's just all automated and bots, and yeah, it is trying to create division. And it's like if you get into an argument with somebody, dude, you're probably not even arguing, right? You're arguing with a freaking robot that you know China or Iran has invested money in to create friction. Um, so it's it's pretty wild when I see people engaging in social media, and and like I'll see these like Facebook groups of people just um you know getting getting aggressive towards each other.

SPEAKER_00

And sometimes I wonder if they're even talking to another human. It's the wild west right now. I mean, and laws have got to change, but the laws are happening too slow. I mean, for what's going on. AI is gonna change the world, no, no doubt. It's gonna be used for good and bad. You know, that there was actually some Christians that were kind of uh you know arguing with me about AI because our our product is 100% AI derived, our AI embedded. We're we're AI all the way. I'm using AI every day, you know, and as we've coded, even using AI and got AI in our code. Um, you know, it's I've seen it increase in power over the last 258 days. I've seen it increase in power, probably 100x. I'm not kidding, because I'm using it every day. It's it's crazy how fast this thing is is exploding and it's it's gonna change things. And somebody I had a Christian was arguing with me one time. Well, you know, man, the AI is gonna, it's it's demonic. You shouldn't even be using that. I'm like, well, listen, you know, it's it's it's a it's a resource. Most powerful resource ever created by man, no doubt. It's the new age. I think it's probably gonna be the final age before Christ returned, in my opinion. But it's it's it's powerful, but it's a resource. But just like gold, God instructed them to put gold in the temple, you know, and gold was also used by Aaron to make a calf that was worshipped, which was wrong. So it's used for good and evil, and that's how AI is, in my opinion. It's gonna be used for good and evil. So we need to use it while we can for the good because it's got a lot of good potential, but it also has a lot of bad potential we need to be aware of.

SPEAKER_01

My my mom was a Christian way before I ever I ever became a Christian, and she always felt the Antichrist wasn't gonna be an individual. She always felt it was gonna be a like an ideology. That's what my mother used to say to me in the 90s. And I wonder, I wonder if if taking what she said, like could AI potentially be the Antichrist, right? We all believe it's gonna save us, you know, and then maybe it doesn't, and it turns out to be the devil, but but I I agree with you that you know when I when I use AI or I use social media or I use technology, I do I use it for good, right? So like social media, I'm not just so you know, I've never been, I don't even know what OnlyFans looks like. Okay, like like you could argue the internet is a good thing and a bad thing, and I think OnlyFans is obviously something that's pretty disgusting, right? Um, I don't even know what it looks like. I've never I've never clicked on the website, I don't even actually know how it functions. Um, social media, I actually don't consume social media that much. The only social media I really consume are when I want to educate myself on my industry. Like I follow some of the top guys like Alex Ormozy. I'm a big Patrick Bat David fan. Are you familiar with PVD? So it's like I I I don't really consume it, but I use it to promote myself, right? So I do you think there's it sounds like you're of the opinion that technology can be a blessing if you allow it to be a blessing and use it as a blessing, or it can be it could be a demonic curse if you use it the wrong way.

SPEAKER_00

The number six is actually the number of a man, right? But when you put six, six, six together, that's gonna be the mark of the beast, right? Yes, sir. And it's also interesting that WWW, you know, W is a sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So WWW could if you put the numbers to it, it would be six, six, six, you know. So it's kind of interesting. But I think there's a lot of strange coincidences like that. And and is it, you know, is that where the antichrist is gonna be? Only God knows. And uh, but it's it's it's pretty cool to think about. I like thinking about stuff like that too.

SPEAKER_01

What no for sure. What uh I'll do I'll give you another scary one. I think the and I could goof this up, okay. But I believe the earth rotates around the sun sixty-six thousand miles an hour. Yep, almost sixty seven thousand miles an hour. Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_00

It spins at a thousand.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, you know a thousand thirty-eight, I believe, right? Yeah, and then I think the solar system or excuse me, a solar system rotates around the galaxy, something to that effect, six hundred and sixty-six thousand miles an hour, which is kind of interesting.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's you know, like is it coincidence? Yeah, it is so man, I I I I just took a picture the other day of, you know, because I'm I hate light pollution and uh because I I live out in the country. And uh so I you know, the other morning when I was out walking, you know, the uh because I've got the Star Chart app, so cool. And I looked in because it was a black sky, I could see the Milky Way, and I was like, where's the moon at? So I looked down this the moon was on the opposite side of the earth, the sun was here, the moon was there, so I could see in the heavens amazing. That's that's my favorite part of the day. I'm I'm usually up between three and four every morning because I'm a farmer, you know, and so I was out there looking, and that's my favorite. That's that's when I walk and I pray, and I look in the heavens, like, God, you know, you're amazing. You know, just look into the heavens, because in the daytime, you know, when you got the atmosphere, the blue sky, the clouds, I feel more in control. But in, you know, when you're looking out in the night sky and you see into the heavens, I realize, man, we're on this dirt ball floating in outer space. We ain't in control. We have no control. We're just a little peanut, you know, nothing. And uh I the other when when I was looking out, you know, this morning, you know, the Scorpio is in the southern hemisphere right now. And I'm I was born the end of October, so I'm Scorpio. I don't believe in all that zodiac, all that, you know, stuff, but uh there are signs in the heavens. God put signs out there for us, and and you know, you were in the Navy, so you know how to read the star charts and stuff like that. And it's you know, it's like you can look in Scorpio is so awesome because right in the middle of it is the big huge star, you know, Antares, and it's 250 light years away. I mean, our sun is only eight light minutes, like light minutes away. Yeah, that's 250 light years away. That's crazy, and it's and it it's 700 times bigger than our sun. So if it was in our galaxy, it would it would take up the capacity all the way to Mars. You know, it's so huge. It's it's it's crazy to think about. We're just a speck. Yeah, God created it all. He's outside of time, he's outside of space, he's outside of matter, he created all those things, and he's his his glory is just amazing. And then have the ability to be able to talk to the creator of the universe. Isn't that nuts? We can talk to God and He wants to have a relationship with us. That's nuts. It blows my mind, you know?

SPEAKER_01

Something that's made me, you know, my my wife and I have been calling ourselves proud Christians for about the past year. It was a long journey for us, you know. And something that's just even made my faith even stronger recently is watching my wife go through a pregnancy. Because I'm just seeing this thing, which I know as a baby, grow inside of her. And like when I saw, you know, when we did a couple of the scans, and I could see her leg bones, and I could see my daughter's spine, I'm like, wait a minute, this is growing inside of you. And I see her belly getting bigger, and I see the the kicks getting stronger. I I swear it felt like she was kicking like this the other day, and now I'm watching her swim around in the belly, and I'm watching the belly move, and it and it's just I don't know how you can think that that special or spiritual of a instance or thing is is random. There's no way, there's no way that that's yeah, like she's growing another human inside of her, and it's still it's like I've never experienced it, and I'm 45 years old today, but to witness it is just only added to my conviction and in spirituality.

SPEAKER_00

There's no explanation. God is in control, you know. The people that have evolution think about evolution, that's it's nuts. You you have to have a lot of faith to believe in evolution. I'm sorry, you you do. I mean, to be able to think that it took millions of years to get this giraffe, you know, somehow everything came together to create a giraffe, you know, and then the giraffe bends over to get a drink of water, it would blow its mind brain out if it didn't have those valves in its, you know, because the pressure in that tall long neck would bend over, it would blow its brains out, literally, you know. So it had to have it's God created special valves in its veins so it doesn't blow its brains out. And then it's got a little special sponge there too to slow the the flu flow down. So think about, you know, evolutionists. So so somehow over millions and zillions of years, somehow one giraffe happened, you know, but then you could have two to reproduce. And then and then the the second giraffe, you know, to have the female parts. I mean, only God could do that. You know, there's there's no explanation. You know, it's that's just like I was praying the other morning. I was like, God, you know, God don't God doesn't need Lee Jones. God doesn't need real-time alert. You know, he could he could do whatever he wants to. He doesn't need me. He doesn't need real time. God, God could put across the skies a neon sign that said, Jesus saves, you need to accept him today. And you know, we would probably look at that, probably be some parts that would change all of a sudden if there was a neon sign that appeared in the in the heavens floating on its own. It's not even a living organism, but it's a neon sign, you know, that would probably amaze people for a while. And then eventually, probably 10 years down the road, they'd be get used to seeing it. They're like, uh, it's just a neon sign, it just appeared there, you know, just happened, you know. I mean, that's that's the kind of evolution mindset that you've you would have to go through to to believe in evolution. You it takes a lot of faith. A lot more it's it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

Were were you a man of faith at a young age? Did you grow up in a in a Christian household?

SPEAKER_00

Like Yeah, so I I was I was saved at seven years old. Uh we weren't in church every weekend. Um, you know, we did a lot of traveling around when I was growing up, but God God touched my heart at seven years old. And then I went to college and kind of ran the opposite way a little bit, and then and then I found out some things about my father that were just destroying. Uh my father was actually a child molester. So that was a, you know, that was a very, I didn't even know anything about that until, you know, until I was just new newlywed. And that was a that was a real, that was like a a moment of of you know, in my life spiritually, I was like, wow, you know, did I live a lie? Did I grow up a lie? You know, maybe there is no God. So I actually turned my back on God in 1990. I was kind of going the opposite direction because when I found out about my father, you know, nuts, angry, you know, and upset and didn't everything was hidden, didn't know, and just uh that so that pain to interrupt you how Yeah, and just um just crazy and my and my k too. I mean, just uh the pain of all that was unsurmountable, you know. So I just I buried myself in work. I became very much a workaholic. I was going, going, going and moved away. We moved up to um South Georgia because this I was I was in farming, you know, and I was asked to be the farm market manager in South Georgia there uh for Vigoro. And so I did that, but I was totally focused on work. And then eventually I went away and and for a weekend and uh at a uh sales event, and then I had a one night fling with a gal and uh just committed adultery, you know. And the craziest thing is my darkest moment then I remember looking in the mirror the next morning and looking in my own eyes, I'm like, man, that should have been a great night. Why do I feel so bad? I felt I felt terrible, felt like dirt, you know. And looking in my own, looking in my own into my own eyes as deep as I could look. And I was like, man, the only way, the only reason I'd be feeling this bad is there must be a God. So then I got a book called The Case for Christ, and I started going back through the book and looking at, man, you know, all the the saints, you know, Peter and all these guys, you know, Peter actually denying Christ, you know, at his uh his crucifixion, then actually being, you know, uh willing to sacrifice his own life for the cause. And like, you know, then I really started digging into it. I was like, man, God is and I rededicated my life to Christ and just um I was on fire for the Lord. Then in 1997, I was actually beginning to wonder if maybe I wasn't called to preach because I was just on fire. And my wife You have a preaching way about that. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. But anyway, so my wife was like, my wife, uh, she had a brother that was a preacher, and she was like, I never want to be a preacher's wife. No, you you know, so it was it was crazy because then in in 97, then uh this when the Brownsville revivals were going on, if you ever heard about those. And uh I was home and it was up in in uh Pensacola, and I was came home to Jensen Beach there, and I was like, I said, honey, I said, for some reason I think I need to go to the Brownsville Revival this weekend. Would you mind if I went? She said, No, no, go. So I went up there and man, God nailed me right between the eyes, you know, because I was beginning to wonder too if I was called to preach, you know. And uh, and Kirkpatrick, I'll never forget he was standing behind the pulpit, and he said, he said, you gotta understand, he said, in these last days, you know, preachers that are standing behind pulpits today, they're they're more worried about numbers than they are souls. They're standing behind the pulpit with a butter knife rather than a sword because they're worried about numbers. He said, in the last days, the everyday man is gonna have the the more ability to evangelize than the preacher behind the pulpit. And it that just that word nailed me, and God told me I was a preacher disguised as a farmer. And uh so I knew at that point that that was my place. You know, it wasn't it wasn't to stand behind a pulpit. And uh so that's kind of the testimony, I guess.

SPEAKER_01

I you know, I'm I'm fascinated by this. So just so you know a little bit about me, I grew up with a single mom, welfare, homeless shelters, um, and she was very physically abusive to me. I mean, to the point to where I was, you know, laying down bloody as heck. And I what I realized was it took me a long time to realize this, that's where my anger developed from because I had a very bad temper problem. So my mom would beat the heck out of me. You don't hit your mom back, you know, you're just thinking I'm a bad, I must be the worst boy ever. And then so I would go to school, and if I had conflict with somebody, I thought, oh, I pop you in the face. That's how we resolve this, right? So I learned the wrong way that the way you handle conflict is popping somebody in the face. Now you're a big man, I'm also a big man, and I once I got to the point to where I was stronger and went through puberty, now my pop isn't just hitting little Joe, you know, I'm knocking people conscious, you know, with one hit. And um and then now I'm getting in trouble at school. So now I'm like, you know, I'm not trying to play victim here because eventually I had to be a better decision maker and and have more um be more calm during times of conflict. Um, so I'm I just want I'm just trying to let you know my background was uh dark. I have to ask you this, like when you found out because somebody might hear this and they're going through some chaos like this, when you find out your father as a young man, like do you keep the relation? I can only imagine the emotions because you love him, but now you're thinking you hate them, you love her. Like, I can't even imagine the the torture you were going through. How did you how did you get through that?

SPEAKER_00

I didn't handle it very well. Um, because I mean I I actually turned my back, I feel, on God. I went the other way. I was like, you know, the is God God can't be real, you know, and I hated my father. And then the very thing I hated my father for, I didn't bless a child, but I committed adultery, you know, and my my father had numerous affairs on my mother, and plus was a child molester, you know. And so um sometimes I think when you judge, you know, judge not lest you be judged. I think that um I passed a judgment upon myself in that in that situation. And that that was that's a whole nother story. Because I didn't even so when I when I rededicated my life to Christ then, I uh I went to our our pastor. We were still in South Georgia there, and I confessed to him, I said, This is really getting on me. I said, I I I've you know, I committed adultery on my wife, and um, you know, what do I do? And he said, Well, he said, if you if you told your wife, he said, What what would she do? And my wife, she she was a virgin when we got married. She she was raised in the church, and she's been she's been my rock my entire life. I mean, just amazing woman. I'm I'm blessed beyond what I deserve in her 110%. I've got a better woman than I ever would deserve. And um, you know, and she she's always she's the woman that when you say when she when she says something, you take it to the bank. There is no there's no question, and when she says something, you take it to the bank. It's it's it's it's that way. And uh she told me if I ever you know had an affair or something like that, she would leave me. So I had no doubt about that. So I told the preacher, I said, Well, Linda said she would leave me. And uh he said, Well, he said, uh, take it to your grave. He said, Don't, don't tell her. He said, let the let the blood of your sin be upon me. That was his that was his remark. A preacher, you know. I think come to find out later, I kind of researched him a little bit, and I think he had I think something happened in his previous marriage, so that was the best, I think, maybe advice that he could give, which I don't think was good advice. And uh, but I buried it. You gotta confront it. Yeah, you gotta confront it. Then I started, God gave me a vision for Shekinah Ranch, was which is gonna be AG missions, which I we're eventually gonna be able to do, it looks like. I'm 57 years old, 58 years old now, but it looks like it's finally gonna start happening potentially. But anyway, it's gonna be AG missions, training missionaries and how to grow their own food and stuff like that, and then have something. And the Lord gave showed me that Dunklin was gonna be connected to Shekinah Ranch. And I didn't even know I I don't even know how I knew that name. I knew nothing about it. And I was working in in um in the groves there in Indian Town in the Orange Groves, and um the extension agent at the time, Jack Hebb, uh, and I told him about Shekinah Ranch, and he said, You know what? That kind of sounds like Dunklin. I was like, wow, Dunklin, I I journaled about that. And uh he said, I know Brother Mickey, I'll introduce you to him. So I went and met Brother Mickey who had founded Dunklin Memorial. It was a drug and alcohol regeneration center. We live right next to it out on Martin Grade now in 714. Amazing place. God, God touches men's life that have been you know addicted to whatever substance or alcohol, you know, for years and just changed it. And it's a faith based program. They don't take any money from the government because they want to be able to keep Christ in it. And uh just an amazing place. And so I started going out there every Friday morning with Brother Mickey to his pole barn for a prayer meeting. Every Friday morning, I had the ability to do that with my work, so I did that every Friday morning. And uh one morning I was there, Brother Mickey was real big on journaling. I actually just coded a journaling app too. I'll share that with you eventually here. But um he said, Lee, he said, I want you to go back in the back room and just journal. He said, go show show me what God's showing your heart. So I went back there, came out bawling. I was like, Brother Mickey, I said, I ain't got nothing. And Brother Mickey, he's he passed now in 2014, but he looked at me like he only could do. He looked through me. He said, Lee, he said, what's the enemy holding over your head right now? So I told him about, you know, my you know, adultery. And uh he said, Lee, he said, Do you think she kind of ranch is for real? And I said, Well, I hope so. And he said, Well, he said, unless you confess that to your wife, it'll never happen. And I said, What do you mean? He said, he said, the enemy will use that over your head. You're a target, that's an opening for him to nail you, and God loves you too much to put you at that level without your your confession to your wife. And he said, I'm not telling you to tell her right now, but he said, God's gonna open it up. So then, fast forward about probably six months later, uh, our son was born, and he was doing like this little twitch thing with his eyes, and my wife's an occupational therapist, so she automatically thinks something potentially neurological or whatever. And so it was crazy because I would have fits of rage at different times, and my wife could actually see my eyes change. She said it was almost like fire would start coming out of my eyes, and it's like I never struck her, I never hit her or anything. But we got an argument one time about coffee mugs, and I took every coffee mug out of the out of the uh counter, uh, out of the cover there, and I smashed every one of them. I punched a truck one time, put a dent right in the fender, you know, busted the windshield out, just fits of rage where I had to break something, you know, just an uncontrollable rage. But the the rage was it was actually me blaming somebody else for my screw up, you know, that's what it boiled down to. So that night, then we were getting ready to go see the uh a specialist the next day. That night uh Linda could see that rage starting to come back up in me. And I was already, you know, I was a Christian, I was going to, you know, see Brother Mickey. We can still have anger. We're human, you know. And Linda said, Well, you need to call the preacher up. So I said, Okay. So we called the preacher up and he came out there and uh and he said, Lee, he said, um he said, I feel like this is an attack from the enemy. You're the man of the house, so why don't you pray? And my prayer was, God, if it's an attack from the enemy, fix it. That was my prayer, short and sweet. I was I was mad, you know. And he said, Whoa, whoa, whoa. He said, You're you're the man of the house. You're you're the watchman of your household. He said, You need to go seek the Lord tonight. What is going on with you? And so I went, I started walking up, I didn't sleep a wink that night, started walking up and down the street, and the Lord gave me a vision of Abraham and Isaac that I needed to take my family and put them on the altar, you know. And uh so that next morning, yeah, I called up a bunch of people that started praying for me and stuff, and the next morning, I went and uh I knew I was supposed to tell Linda that day, so I went and told her, and as you can imagine, it was like stabbing her with a knife, you know. And I had had that adultery that happened years before that, but I told Linda, I said, honey, I said, You got every reason to leave me, and I don't know how this is gonna end up. But I said, I want you to know I'll do whatever it takes. If you see anything in our marriage that could be, you know, saved, I'll do whatever it takes. And uh so it was from that point on that we started restructuring our marriage, and it wasn't a matter of probably three months later. Like I said, Linda says nothing without 100% meaning. She didn't tell me she loved me until we'd already been dating for almost a year, you know. She says nothing half-hearted. She told me, Lee, I forgive you. Wow, and that was experiencing God's grace in a way that I never experienced. I I deserved separation, I deserve divorce, and she gave me grace. That was just a just an amazing, amazing thing.

SPEAKER_01

I'm sorry to bring these emotions, but it's a but it's a uh but it's a it's a happy ending, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, oh man, she's man, our marriage now is stronger than you would ever believe. And it's just uh I'm grateful and thankful every day for my wife. She's a a blessing.

SPEAKER_01

I take this very seriously. Like our I feel our job as men is to you know, I always call it breaking the chain, right? Like you had this nasty discovery of your father. Nasty. And listen, that can turn into alcoholism, that can turn into drug use. And sometimes it's the craziest damn thing. You'll see it, you'll see the child end up being a repeat offender, and it warps something in their mind to where they now become a and you just see these warp things, and you know, the the son who has a dad who's alcoholic, and maybe the dad is physical to the wife, and the son grows up observing that, he says, never me, but then he ends up repeating that, right? Because that's the the behavior he modeled or that he saw, right? And eventually somebody has to have the mental, spiritual, cognitive, emotional fortitude to uh bring that rage down, you know, pull that behavior back and become the new model for how this family is gonna be moving forward. Exactly. And and that's what you did.

SPEAKER_00

Break break the chains, yeah, the generational curses, it's only Jesus.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00

I mean if you dig deep into me, you'll f find all kinds of issues, you know, but it's it's only Jesus. You know, I I put Jesus on every morning and um I do uh uh mentally, you know, spiritually, I put him on, and the armor of God, you know, um he's the he's the helmet of salvation. You if you study the armor of God that they talk about, you know, in in the scriptures, it's the helmet of salvation. You know, Yeshua, Jesus, he is our salvation, his name means salvation, you know. He guards our mind, you know, our our the the helmet would cover the mouth, the eyes, you know. He's he's the guard, he's a he's the protector of our of our head, you know. The breastplate of righteousness. There's none righteous, no, not one. It's only Jesus, his righteousness that we can stand before God. You know, the the belt of truth, he is the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through Jesus. You know, the sword of the Spirit. That's the only offensive weapon there. The sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. We have to eat that word daily. Brother Mickey taught me this it's a daily bread. And the Israelites, you know, they had to go collect the manna every day. He didn't call it the the stake of life, you know, because a steak will stick to your ribs for a while, you know. But the bread of life, this quick energy, but you got to renew that every day. We have to renew our mind every day. We got to read his word, we got to eat his word every day. And I used to think that I wanted to be a warrior for Christ, you know, pick up the sword and start waving that thing around, but it's it it's you have to swallow the sword. We we're we're more like a circus clown. We swallow the sword because it's the that's where the power is. That's and that's how the power is released through us, is by swallowing his word, eating his word, you know.

SPEAKER_01

I'm I'm I'm glad you phrased it like that because sometimes I do feel like my job is to put war paint on my face. You know, and and and be that soldier, you know, uh for God's glory. But I like the way you said that. That's um, you know, I can I can uh I can digest that figure it out.

SPEAKER_00

I'm excited about this uh journaling app at God's table that uh that I finished coding here about two weeks ago, and uh I'll I'll share that with you, but it's it's pretty awesome. It's it's it's everything Brother Mickey taught me. And I I almost like that app better than the real time alert. Real time alert's gonna save people's lives, no doubt about it. It's gonna save a lot of lives, but that's saving them physically. I I I the this app with at God's table, I think, is gonna help save people spiritually, and I think that's more important even than real-time alert. Real time alert is probably where the the funding, you know, money's gonna come at the the at God's table. It's not gonna be a money made. I'm I'm actually gonna only have 10% come back to me at at God's table, journaling app, and I'm gonna have 90% that's donated out uh of the of the profits. It may, it may be 90% of two dollars, who knows, you know. But I I wanna that's my heart. I wanna to um I wanna help people. I love that.

SPEAKER_01

I'm actually so I've been blessed, which I realize today it's an actual blessing. I have so many wonderful clients, and they're all CEOs, business owners, entrepreneurs. We deal with the top dog of every company. And then because of this podcast, I've also interviewed maybe like a hundred other, you know, some of them are our clients, some of them are just local uh business people to Palm Beach County or Miami or Stewart or whatever it is. And I just kind of started realizing that I was playing Connector a lot. Like today, I'm gonna take my developer with you. And and uh like I had this one general contractor who told me, you know, he's always looking for good subs. And I was like, Oh, I know this Canadian HVAC guy who just moved down here and he has a huge business up in Toronto and they and they're looking for work down here in South Florida. I go, why don't I connect you guys in email? And I DM them the other day. I said, Hey, I hope this relationship works out, and they're like, Oh, it's perfect, thank you for connecting us. And then I start looking around and I feel like it's God telling me to do this because I'm I'm just feeling this like intuition. I'm not this smart of a person. Make a community, right? So we're calling it the Gold Coast community. And I yeah, the Gold Coast community, it's uh it's basically like um basically a website or community that you log into. I'm gonna make it very affordable. Some of the communities that I'm a part of, I've spent a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. Don't get me wrong, they're amazing. And I and there's an ROI there, and I love those people, but I'm gonna do this for 97 bucks a month and put everybody into a community because I have all these CEOs and owners, and I'm gonna initiate business with people. I'm gonna say, hey guys, I worked with this guy, uh, he saved my company a hundred grand in insurance last year with all of these tax deductions. I highly recommend if you have, you know, 50 or more employees, you want to look at this, and I'm just gonna initiate a community to do business with one another. That's awesome. Yeah, right. Great, great idea. Yeah. Yeah, and it's like, and it's like, wow, like and I don't care about the Instagram picture. I see some of the communities in Miami. It's more about that. No, no, no. I I want good, hardworking people that are trying to provide for their families to get connected with each other. And then, you know, every uh month we can either do a virtual meetup and then a physical meetup. You know, it might be um, you know, it might be something where you can present the app one day, or it might be, you know, something where like I know a tax strategist that knows all these loopholes and what you can push and what you can't push. Imagine getting a hundred business owners in the room knowing what you can actually push with the IRS in right, like actually providing really cool education. So I'm really I this is my new pet project. I'm really cool.

SPEAKER_00

On that is if if if you would allow people then to put what is your grit, you know, in there on their own bio, you know, because that so so many people are are ashamed of their grit, you know. Like my father's a child molester. That's a he told me as I was growing up, Lee, you will never amount to nothing. You you're gonna he he never abused me.

SPEAKER_01

You mean like what's the chip on your shoulder?

SPEAKER_00

Well, he he never abused me physically, but mentally. You're never gonna mount to nothing. Yeah, but the grit, what is what what formed you into your grit that you that you have, you know, because yeah, everybody can say their you know, Facebook page, what they're really, really good at, whatever. But what got you there? What what is the grit behind it? That that's what Trump has really done well. What mud have you walked through? Yeah, that's what Trump has done. If you look at the people around Trump, they've got grit, you know. I mean, Hegseth graduated Princeton. He went to Princeton on a scholarship, uh basketball scholar, but he he he didn't get there from his parents being rich or wealthy. He got there on the you know on a scholarship. And then he goes on and starts working in Wall Street, and then he put he he puts a suit down, you know, so he can go fight, you know, in the Marines, and so he can go serve his country, you know. That's that's grit, you know. Uh DeSantis, you know, that he's he's got grit. His his his you know his grandparents were you know immigrants from Italy. His dad was a TV repair man, you know, his mom was an earth. He didn't have he wouldn't didn't grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth, yet he went to Yale and then on to Harvard and got his doctorate's in you know in in law. How did he get there? He got there on a baseball scholarship. He was in the he was in the Little League World Series there, right here in Florida, and then he went on. That's that's how he got where he was going. He didn't he didn't give us, he didn't want a silver spoon. So Trump surrounds himself with people with grit. I mean, Rubio, look at him. His dad was a bartender, you know, from Cuba. His mom was a was a hotel maid, you know, and yet he goes on and does what he, you know, that's that's people of grit, you know. That's yeah, it's like what's your why? Yeah. Yeah, what drives you, yeah. And if you look at Trump, that's what I love about Trump. He he surrounds himself with people with grit. Trump has got more grit than anybody you could ever imagine. You know, the joke, he was born, yeah, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he laid the silver spoon down. He could have, he could have bought his own island and done his own thing, you know. He didn't have to sacrifice himself, put his life on the line for this country. I mean, people got to get past. I mean, I don't care what you think about him, he's got grit, you know? And he surrounds himself, he he surrounds himself with people with grit, you know, and that's that's how you can tell a gritty person what who do you surround yourself with? And that's that's what Trump surrounds himself with.

SPEAKER_01

I love that. I I I know what the term grit is, but I've never actually heard it defined as a uh almost like a like a noun, right? Versus a verb, right?

SPEAKER_00

What's the grit of the American dream? You know, I I get I get sick of people saying the American dream is you know, two kids, a car, and a house. That's not the American that's not what people like you that served our country. That that's not what people bled and died out for for you to have a house and two kids and a car. They bled out for our freedoms. That's that's the American dream is our freedoms, and our freedoms are on the line right now, and that's what drives me. What drives me is saving people, you know, physically, spiritually, and then waking the the sleeping giant up. You know, the America is a sleeping giant right now. You know, wake up to the grit of the American dream, you know. Paul Revere, that joker had grit, you know, back in the Revolutionary War, you know. I mean, you know the background of Paul Revere, some of that? Um maybe. Yeah, Paul Paul Revere, man, that Joker, I don't know if I'm getting on a rabbit trail. No, you're fine. Man, Paul Revere, man, that joker had grit. You know, he he was born in Boston, you know, to immigrants from from France, and he was he was born to the and and they were fleeing religious persecution. So they go to Boston there, and he was born there. His dad was a silversmith. So at 13 years old, he quit school and worked for his father, the silversmith. At age 19, his father died, and he had to support his mother and siblings by running the silversmith shop, Paul Revere did. And then he goes on and gets married and has eight kids. At the birth of his eighth child, his wife dies. So people in America today will be like, oh man, you know, here, grab a bottle. You deserve it. You know, you're getting you got a rough, rough time here, you know. No, Paul Revere had grit. He ended up getting remarried, had another eight kids. That Joker had 16 kids. And at 40 years old, he saw in Boston, he saw all the red coats coming in there, and he didn't like it because he was afraid that his American dream, you know, was going to vanish of religious freedom. He saw the red coats come in. There was four uh by 1775, there were 4,000 British troops right there in Boston. And Boston had a population of 15,000. So that's a huge percentage of the entire city right there. And he saw that happening. So he volunteers then, you know, for the for the Boston Committee of what was it called? Boston Committee of Emergency Safety, I believe is what it was. And it sounds like a real innoculus group, but it was actually like the CIA in emergency management services rolled into one. They were taking the the intel from the heart of Boston and disseminated it out to Samuel Adams and John Hancock to all the Patriots, you know. So he was he was bringing that information out on the Pony Express. He led the Boston Tea Party. Sixteen kids, you know, has got a silversmith shop. And yet, you know, he could have said, you know, Uncle John, I've got 16 kids running a silver ships uh silversmith shop, you know, why don't why don't you go go do this? We don't like what's going on. We need to help the Patriots go go go go help, you know. No, he was 40 years old and he volunteered. He was he was the leader, one of the leaders of cutting open the tea bags and pouring them out, you know, for the Boston Tea Party, and then jumping on a pony the next morning and taking that information to Lexington to Concord down to Philadelphia, spreading the word of what was going on. His name was famous all the way down to Philadelphia. You know, they they would actually put his name in the papers and say, this is the intel coming from Boston as spoken by Paul Revere. And his name was famous. His name was famous in print, and yet he was in the heart of the enemy territory running a silversmith shop every day and doing that at night. He was putting his neck on the line, you know. Think about that. He he believed in the American dream. You know, he was he was there, and then and then everybody knows April 16th, the where the poet, you know, the poem came about, Paul Revere's Midnight Cry, Midnight Ride, you know. So that Joker was getting on a little boat, going past the British warships that in the middle of the night, British, you know, the warships, they they had the best Navy in the world at the time. They had 250 battleships. Wow. Each one could house up to 800 men. Wow. They were huge. They they had a strong, strong. He was on a little boat rowing past those guys, jumping on a pony then, riding through the night to get to Lexington.

SPEAKER_01

I didn't realize he rode through the ships like that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, some of his memoirs. You go back and read some of his memoirs, it's it's crazy. He as he's getting into Lexington, there's there's two British soldiers there on the outskirts of town on horses and see him coming in, and they see they spot him, and one of them starts towards him, and the other one goes to cut him off, and he knew he said, you know, he turned that pony around and said, Boy, hope you got something left in you. And his his wore-out horse was able to outrun those two fresh horses still to make it to Lexington. Wow. To sound the bell. That was the that was the real-time alert of the day, was the bell, you know. The bells would tell a story. You know, if if it was a fast rhythmic bell, it was a wedding, if it was a slow, mournful bell, then it was a funeral. It would ring out twice for a woman and three times for a man, and then ring out their age, you know, and then if it was a real-time alert, they would it would ring multiple times arrhythmically over an extended period of time. So that's the bell that was ringing out that started the Revolutionary War. And so he got into Lexington, said, Ring the bell, guys. And they said, Where's the other guy? So they the the other two guys for the Pony Express, because they would run right in groups of three then, so that way if some of them got captured, they could still split up and somebody would get to spread the word. So they, before they get out of town, the British spot them, and before they could split up, and Paul Revere sacrifices himself. He says, You know what? Think about that. He's got 16 kids running silvers. The the responsibility has, yet he puts his life on the line for the American dream. He pulls his horse off to the side so he could get captured and the other two could keep going.

SPEAKER_01

Wow.

SPEAKER_00

And he gets knocked off his horse, a gun pointed at his head, you know, he's got grit. You know what he know what he tells the soldiers? Gun pointed at his head gets knocked off his head. He says, Boys, you're gonna hear those bells ring in a few minutes, and there's gonna be 500 patriots right here on your butt. And as Providence had it, the bell started ringing out the real-time alert. And those British soldiers had to make a quick decision. You know what? He's unarmed. If he didn't have a horse now, let's go back and tell our troops that they know we're coming. So they left him there to go warn the troops then that you know they the Patriots were aware that they were coming. But as a real-time, that was the bell, the real-time alert. That's why I'm calling the real-time alert the Revere Revival, because it's spreading the word, getting the word out about you know what's going on around you, the safety alert. And Paul Revere, he dedicated his life then to making bells. After the Revolutionary War, he he lived to be 83 years old. Somehow he made it through the war.

SPEAKER_01

83 years old?

SPEAKER_00

83 years old, and he dedicated the rest of his life then to making bells. And on every bell, he wrote the inscription. It said, uh the inscription was, All living to the church I call, to the grave I summon all. And that says it all right there, you know. All living to the church I call, we're all called, we're two or more gathered in his name. He is in their presence, you know. To the grave I summon all. You know, we're all gonna die when you're we're gonna shed these shells through Christ. We have eternal life, but these shells we're gonna shed, some of us are gonna be, you know, it's gonna turn into a little pile of dirt. Some of us gonna be bigger piles than others. Yeah, but we're all gonna be a little pile of dirt one day, but our spirit's gonna last forever. It's God offers eternal life or eternal death through Jesus.

SPEAKER_01

Amen. I and I that story I can't wait to cut up for you on social media and use it as a way to help you market real-time alert. I did not know that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it was the first that was the first real-time alert in history.

SPEAKER_01

That's beautiful. Started the Revolutionary War. That's a beautiful story. I think that's an unbelievable story and way to end. Um do me a small favor. In a matter of under a minute, take a look in that camera and give your elevator pitch on real-time alert, who it's for, who should download it, and uh the impact it's gonna make.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so uh Real Time Alert is a safety intelligence platform that's gonna allow for peer-to-authority and peer-to-peer uh alerts to go out that speeds up the process of alerts to the authorities and those around you. And it's a uh it's AI empowered, it's AI, it's got an A AI delivery mechanism, and um it's gonna it's gonna uh cause people to be able to, you know, live in this world there where there's more danger happening all the time. You know, like like I said earlier, there's you know, over 25,000 people have either been you know killed or wounded by mass shootings over the last 10 years. That's more than one mass shooting average per day. And I'm sick of it, and I know a lot of people out there as well. So this this real time alert, when it's available in the Apple store. Right now it's on it's web based, which is not that impressive, but hopefully, prayerfully, it's gonna be in the Apple App Store before long. And um you'll be able to download it there at real dash time alert.com and um and it's um gonna hopefully change the world and save some lives. Oh, it's good.

SPEAKER_01

We're gonna make damn sure it does. And uh I I know a blessing when I see one, you are a blessing. You you are a blessing to everyone around you and and the impact you're making there. So uh it's excited and excited to partner with you guys.

SPEAKER_00

You guys are a uh a blessing. I'm so excited. I mean, what you guys have already done is is been impressive, and uh I can't wait to see how this thing is gonna blow up in the future.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we got some tricks up our sleeve too that you haven't even seen yet. Wait till we really guys, thanks again for tuning in to the Gold Coast Podcast. Uh, building the Gold Coast community. I'm your host, Eric Weingard. Make sure to like and subscribe. We will see you again.