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Hi folks with the download button of Survivalist Podcast.
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And as always folks you can catch all of our old shows
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at survivalistpodcast.org, our website.
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As well as soundcloud.com/survivalistpodcast
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And also too don’t forget about our, we have our own Mastodon instance now,
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our own community instance. If you go to rebelsocial.media
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again rebelsocial.media, you can join in there, that’s our community
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not only a forum, it’s a Mastodon instance, kind of like
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what, kind of like a Twitter instance, you’ll see what it’s like when you get there.
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It’s very nice, a lot of fun, a lot of good people in there. And go ahead and join the community
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and we’d appreciate it, it’d be a lot of fun. So folks,
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I’ve been off for a little while, I think my goal for
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the new year should be to go ahead and try to do consistency. It’s been tough,
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I’ve got some new recording equipment coming as well for the car when I’m on the go.
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But I like my home studio set up, that’s kind of my problem.
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I get the best audio, best sound, but I guess if you don’t get a show out there, it’s no point of having
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the best equipment. But I do have some other equipment coming, but
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would like to go ahead and talk about it, been out for a little bit, a lot of stuff going on.
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Obviously I’ve been out because I had
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back surgery and some other stuff going on.
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I’ve been kind of off the grid for a while, but
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while I was out I started my own Mastodon and some of that so I could communicate with people
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and kind of start doing my own thing.
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I’ve had a large community on Twitter and on Facebook and stuff like that, but
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started doing Mastodon because we kind of don’t know what’s
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going on with Twitter over the next couple of years.
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I know Elon Musk bought it and he’s trying to
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make it an open platform and trying to do a lot
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of things, but it’s just really not working out for them.
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Laid off a lot of staff, unfortunately those people all lost their jobs, I feel bad
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for them. And it’s tough to get a job too in Silicon Valley, a lot of
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tech companies have been laying off, especially with this wacky economy
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that’s going on right now with inflation and stuff like that. They’re doing a lot of stuff
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to try to go ahead and fight the inflation, it’s not working out real well.
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A lot of those folks lost their jobs, but then also too laying off because he’s trying to
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kind of try to cut back and trying to
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kind of make a go of this thing. So we’ll see what happens
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going forward. He says he wants to either make it an open platform or
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he wants to make it an app that’s monetized.
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He tried doing the whole verification checkmark,
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that didn’t work out like he thought it was going to work out. So there’s
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quite a bit going on over there. I think he’s
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definitely for 22 billion, or 42 billion, something that he bought it for.
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So I’m curious to see now what he’s going to do
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to try to go ahead and monetize that, because that is, I know they said
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just alone, the interest on his
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loans is over a billion dollars a year. So that’s
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no joke, he leveraged Tesla to buy it. And now you have this
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other thing that I was talking about. They have this other platform called Mastinow
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which was kind of built on the ActivityPub old
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platform from years ago. I don’t expect you guys to know that. I’m a computer programmer,
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that’s what I do, so I’m a little more familiar with this stuff than a lot of people are.
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I started out my own instance just because I wanted to kind of do my own thing
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and I was kind of, you know, I have a lot of followers, a lot of you guys listen
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and I’m so grateful for that, but I was thinking of building a following
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on other people’s platform and then when they decided to change things, it hurts my following
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and hurts us and really hurts the followers of the show and stuff. So that’s why I said
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you know what, this year we’re going to do something different, I’m going to go ahead
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and we’re going to build our own following and our own platform, kind of like how Gabb
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and Parler did it. And you know, we’re going to kind of
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do that. A lot of you guys that aren’t familiar
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with the platform, if you go over to True Souls, which is Trump’s thing,
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it’s very, very similar looking to that. I’m working
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on customizing it and I’m actually going to want to put an app out with a link,
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it’s kind of something I’ve been working on on the side with other things, I want to put an app out for it
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where you’ll be able to not only tweet and do all that or toot
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or whatever you want to call it on the platform, but then you’ll be able to look at
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old episodes and videos, stuff like that, I’m working on it, it’s going to be a lot of work and something I’ve been
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kind of working on on the side and hopefully we get to it. Right now we have a web interface
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if you download any of the Maston apps, just type in the instance rebel-social.media
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you can go ahead and join with that, so I appreciate all that.
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Also, to folks, we have, like I said, other stuff going on
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like I said, a lot of layoffs on social media, unfortunately I think this is still the fallout
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from COVID, you know, you’re dealing with companies like
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Facebook laid off what, 11,000 people, Twitter laid
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off people, that’s because of the whole situation with Twitter, but I think Uber laid
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off, Facebook laid off,
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I think Snapchat did, and I think Microsoft is
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got, I know Microsoft, I don’t think they laid off, they have a hiring freeze, stuff like that
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so a lot of these companies, you know, a lot of companies
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laying off right now, and luckily enough in California they do have a law that you
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have to give somebody two to three months severance pay as part of any layoffs
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actually I didn’t know that, that’s something I learned from a friend of mine that’s a lawyer
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she was telling me all about it, there’s something called the Warren Act, and you have to, if you lay
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somebody off in California, you must give them, you have to give them two to
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three months severance pay, that’s why all those people that got laid off for Twitter, even though he laid them off
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and he is saving money on benefit packages and stuff like that, but a lot of those people
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are going to get months of severance pay, those people from Facebook, all of them are getting two, three months
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severance pay, so if I’m not mistaken too, I think Spotify might even be
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laying off as well, so a lot of stuff going on right now
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I almost actually almost took a job at Spotify a couple months ago, I’m glad I didn’t
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stay where I was at because I wanted health coverage, I had a back surgery
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L4, L5, and L3, you know, a lot of people asked
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what happened, and all of you guys were great when I wasn’t podcasting, asked me what happened, just
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years of wear and tear, man, working on the homestead, working on our house at the Fixer Upper I’ve been talking about
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for years, all those kinds of things, you know, it just was
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years of wear and tear, so unfortunately that kind of
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stuff does happen, and luckily enough we have excellent surgeons and stuff
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I was able to kind of put Humpty Dumpty back together, if any of you guys that live in
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Pennsylvania, up in the northeast section where I live up here, Dr. Gillick, he’s an
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excellent, excellent back surgeon, came, highly recommended, I want to
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plug him here, I know he’s got a very busy practice anyway, he probably doesn’t need the publicity from me, but
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I do want to give a shout out to him only because, you know, he did so much
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work on me, and, you know, I was, you know, he
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said to me it was pretty bad, and he doesn’t know why I waited that long, and
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thankfully enough, you know, he was able to kind of put me back together, so I want to thank him publicly here on the podcast
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and just like I said, Dr. Gillick, he’s over in Scranton,
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Scranton Orthopaedics, and I thank him quite a bit, he was able, just
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a better quality of life, not in the pain I was in, I can, you know, be able to take my kids
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for a walk, be able to do stuff out on the homestead here, be able to go hunting, stuff like that, stuff that I haven’t
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been able to do because I just can’t walk, but let me tell you, I’ve been wonderful, I’ve been able to
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walk around some of that, still recuperating a little bit, but I’m able to get back to
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work and able to do some things I’m able to do, and lucky enough, I was able to take a medical leave,
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talk about being prepped, thanks to
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you know, my rentals, and having a lot of sick time because I don’t take off from
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work unless I have to, stuff like that in my side business, and stuff like that, we were able to
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take a couple months off from work and still be able to keep a roof over our heads,
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and all that, so I’m very, very grateful. You know, sometimes, like I said, I’ve talked to you guys many
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times before about this, when it comes to survival and prepping and all that kind of stuff,
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it’s not always being prepped for the zombie apocalypse
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that’s going to come, but sometimes it’s being prepped for life stuff that can happen,
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who knew I was going to have surgery that was going to take me out for three months,
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you know, so it’s just very important that you’re prepared
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financially, always, if you can be, I know it’s tough, people live paycheck to paycheck, especially
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right now with the cost of living going up so much, and you know,
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it’s crazy to think about, think of how much our cost of living has gone up,
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and then you think about people like in England, the place that we’re
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going, there’s an inflation of 12 and 14 percent, we’re complaining here about
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7 or 8, and they’re seeing 14, maybe 14 percent, that’s huge.
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So, you know, it’s pretty nuts, and I think you guys have listened
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to me long enough to know that I’m one of those preppers that, you know, I’m not
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right wing, I’m not left wing, I’m not, you know, the world’s coming to an end, and I’m not
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one of those guys, I’m one of those people that, you know, look at it as
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you know, kind of down the middle and all that, and you know, it’s
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just one of those things sometimes where, you know, look at this, I mean, I could have had as much
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food stocked up as we wanted at the end of the day, if we can’t pay the bills, we can’t pay the bills, I mean, that’s, you know,
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it’s one of those kinds of things where sometimes you have to prep not only just for the end of the world,
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maybe sometimes, or for a survival situation, but sometimes just financially
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for stuff that happens like this. At times, a lot of people have brought this up to me too
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over the years that have watched, listened to the show, and watched my YouTube videos, some of that, that
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they think of the show kind of more as a business show
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more than like a prepper show, and I really want to thank you for that,
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it really means a lot to, you know, the fact that people listen that much and they have opinions because they’ve
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listened to so many shows, I really appreciate all of that from all of you guys,
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and I do really appreciate you guys asking, a lot of people, a lot of listeners
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reached out to me and asked me how I was doing, so I really, really do appreciate that.
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So while I was gone, we also had the elections,
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I’m in Pennsylvania here, and we went blue, we have a blue, we’re going to have
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a Democratic governor and a Democratic
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Senator now, one thing I’m having, I hate, I, you know,
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I didn’t like Oz to begin with, to be honest with you, I really didn’t, he has no loyalty,
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he ran in New Jersey, he ran in Delaware, and now they’re saying he might
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even try to run in New York or one of those other states, so I heard that
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Donald Trump was very upset about, he wanted Oz to get in because he wanted,
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I guess, wanted to kind of keep the Senate in
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Democrats’ favor, so, you know, they didn’t,
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you know, things didn’t go how the Republicans planned, but I think they hurt themselves a lot with that
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overturning that road versus way thing.
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You know, I got to be honest with you, a lot of you guys listen, don’t agree with me on that, and that’s fine,
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I don’t believe the government has any right to tell you that kind of stuff, whether you can or
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cannot have an abortion, I don’t believe in that. The government has no right to tell you what you can
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do with your body, same thing goes with the vaccine, the government has no right to tell you if you
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need a vaccine or not, they have no right to tell you if you need to
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wear a mask or not, they have no right to tell you during the COVID that you’re in a
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central business and you’re not, they don’t have a right to do any of that, that’s why I
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say I’m very down, people say to me all the time, you’re very down on both sides, I take whatever side is right,
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you have the side, you have the rights to your body
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and to do what you want with your body, who the hell is the government to say, no you can’t do that,
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no you can’t do that, no you can’t, no, no, the government has no right to say
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you can’t get an abortion, you can’t get, no, who the government, why does the government have rights,
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why does a bunch of old guys in Congress who are all in
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their 60s and 70s and 80s have rights to tell my daughters what they can and can’t do with their bodies?
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I don’t believe in that crap. The same thing, I don’t believe that there’s a
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right for the government to tell me to have a vaccine or tell me I can’t keep my business open during COVID,
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no, I mean, no, the government’s job is to govern, not to tell me what
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I can and can’t do with my body or my land
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or my, no, believe that’s BS man,
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plain and simple, the government doesn’t have a right to tell me that kind of crap,
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that’s not right, I don’t care what anybody else says, oh do you vote Democrat? No,
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I voted for my, there’s no reason why the government
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has to butt their nose in this crap, it’s not their responsibility,
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come on, be real, just like the government doesn’t have a right to tell you you can’t have a gun,
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no, you have a right to have a, you have a second amendment right, you have a right to have a gun, you have a right to,
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you have a right to free speech, you have a right, I mean, it’s ridiculous,
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I don’t, I mean, I’m not, I don’t believe in hate speech, people that invoke violence, I don’t believe
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that’s enough free speech, free speech is the ability to say
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what you want to say, if I want to stand outside on the front of my porch and yell that I don’t, that I think
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abortion should be illegal and that we shouldn’t, you know,
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please, the same thing with drugs, come on, you can, they can make you make drugs illegal
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all they want, 10 day people that want to do drugs are going to do drugs, I mean, so you’re going to make abortion
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illegal, people that still want to get abortion are going to get abortion, it’s not, it’s going to do it, you know,
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that whole thing of, the whole thing with, well we’re going to make it illegal, well,
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people that want them are still going to get them, they’re just going to get them illegally,
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I mean, it’s ridiculous, this whole thing, just like, oh, we make, we make drugs illegal, yeah, but people
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still want drugs to get them, doesn’t mean, just because you make drugs illegal doesn’t mean nobody has
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to do drugs, people do drugs all the time, please, it’s ridiculous, it’s BS, come on,
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the government, the government sticks their nose in too much crap that they don’t need to stick their nose in,
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and it’s a bunch of these old people in Congress that should not be making
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decisions, I mean, really, I mean, oh, well, hey, I don’t do
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drugs, I don’t partake in drugs, but there are a lot of people that I know that do drugs, just because you make it
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legal does not mean that they’re not going to do it, I mean, my God, Joe Rogan is in Texas
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and he openly smokes pot on his podcast all the time, pot’s illegal
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in Texas, but I still see Rogan doing it, I mean, you know what I’m saying, come on, it’s ridiculous,
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it’s such BS, and he’s even said the same thing on his show, that it’s such
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BS that people, you know, they do this crap, and it’s, it’s ridiculous,
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it’s a load of crap, I don’t believe in it, the government
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has rights to do governing things, not to tell you
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what you can to do with your business, your body, please, come on,
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just like I don’t believe, oh, you know, believe me, I’m not,
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I’m pro, you know, I’m pro, I’m not, people say, oh, you’re anti-vax,
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I’m not anti-vax, I’m pro-vaccines that can, you know, if you,
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hey, I got the vaccine, I think, you know, I think that it’s just like a flu shot,
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I’ll get it, whatever, I don’t care, nobody told me how to get it, I chose to get it
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because I didn’t want to get sick, okay, my wife got COVID and she got
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extremely ill, the more she hospitalized for ten days, okay, so me as a responsible
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spouse, I went and got the shot so that I would not,
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I wouldn’t get as sick so I could help her, okay, and my kids, my oldest one
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got it, my youngest one hasn’t yet, she’s still too young yet, but, okay, we got it,
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I didn’t get it because the government told me to do it, I did it because I wanted to do it, okay, because I believe
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that a shot could help save my wife’s life, save my kids, you know,
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my one daughter got very sick from the COVID, not as bad as my wife, but, so we did what
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we thought was right for us, we did it, the government didn’t tell us we had to,
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we did it, okay, that’s the difference, forcing
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people to do it, saying you have to get a vaccine to go back to work, I don’t believe in that,
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corporations and all that, they don’t have the right to tell you that, I’m sorry, they don’t,
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come on, be real, who are you, who are you to tell me I have to get something so I can go to
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work, I’m worried, you know, I don’t believe in that shit, I don’t, I don’t believe in that,
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just like I don’t believe in this whole thing now, they’re trying to ban drug tests on people that are getting
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government, if you want to go on welfare in certain states, you have to get a drug test, people are like
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that’s illegal, please, I mean, you know,
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I have to get a drug test to go to work, so you have to get, you know, if I have to get a drug test
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to go to work, you should have to go, you should be able to have to pass a drug test to get money from
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the government, I believe in that, I mean, do I ever think that it’s right that my company makes you
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get a drug test to work, no, but unfortunately if I want to work, I got to do it,
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and I’m going to unfortunately have to deal with that if I want to work at that job, I mean,
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hey, that’s, you know, and that’s, and that government, that company has a right,
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does have a right to tell you to get it, because, you know,
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they have their rules, and if you want this job that pays very good to support your family,
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you’re going to have to put up with it, and I mean, you know, and they do have a right to do that,
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do I think it’s right? No, but they have a right to do that, you know,
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because they’re an independent company, so I mean, you know, it depends, you know,
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I’m more pro of let
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people do what they want, and let people do it on their own terms,
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than I am forcing people, because I don’t
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think it’s right to force anybody to do anything, you know, and I’ve said this once before,
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that’s why, you know, a lot of people upset me, because I’ve even said, you know,
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that I was, you know, I think I was voting Democrats, and I’m like, why even, first of all,
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Oz has no loyalty to Pennsylvania, he’s only running because he wants to get in, in some
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state, he doesn’t care about Pennsylvania, he ran in two other states
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before he ran in Pennsylvania, he doesn’t even live here, by the way, his home,
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it’s basically a house he never lives in up here, okay, it’s ridiculous,
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well, I’m not going to vote, he doesn’t care about Pennsylvania, he cares about getting into politics,
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you know, and, you know, and I don’t, I mean,
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I’m not a big fan of Biden, but I’m not a big fan of people that attack
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the Capitol building either, so I mean, you know, you can look at it either way, I mean,
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a lot of people listen to this show, say to me all the time, well, I can’t see, I don’t know if you’re on the right or the left, no, I’m down the middle,
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I’m down the middle in that, I’m for people, not for
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the government, you want to say what side
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I am, I’m on the side of the people, because I don’t think it’s right that a lot of things that they force people to do.
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I mean, just like, I mean, look at your paycheck, watch what you get every
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weekend, watch how much the government takes, and where does that money go, I’d hate to help you in May, folks,
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it’s to fund all these stupid political things that they’re doing,
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now granted, a fifth of taxpayer money does go to defense,
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which I do believe that we should, because, I mean, God forbid after 9/11,
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nobody should have to go through that, and I mean, that’s, I don’t ever want to see another
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11 again, so, you know, I do believe we need to be spending money on defense,
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but, I mean, watch where your paycheck, watch your paycheck go other places,
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watch, you know, it can rile me up, because, you know,
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watch how much money you bring, you and I bring in, and watch how much goes to taxes,
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it’s sad, I mean, watch how much your paycheck is chewed up by all the taxes,
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and that’s going to be under any president, by the way, it doesn’t matter Democrat or
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Republican, they’re going to keep taking and taking and taking as much as they can, no matter what,
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no matter what side of the aisle you’re on. And now you’ve got this other crap, now you’ve got
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a million people running for president now this year, coming up again,
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you’ve got Donald Trump who says he’s going to run again for a second term,
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you’ve got Kanye who’s going to run, and apparently he’s going to buy Gab, I think they’re saying,
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for those of you that don’t know, Gab was actually a Mastodon, and since back in the day,
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those of you that weren’t Gab back in the day, you probably do remember it was a Mastodon
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instance, so it’s kind of the same thing now, but yeah, he’s running for, he’s saying he’s
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running for president, it looks like the governor from Florida is going to run,
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DeSantis, I know he’s got a lot of backing from people, from a lot of big political names,
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Alex Jones, he’s got Megyn Kelly, a couple big political
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radio hosts, I’m not sure, I think
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Hannity might have endorsed him too, so he’s got a lot of support going forward, he
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really does, but he’s another one that
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I think that, you know, I think it’s going to be,
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I really, and I know you guys, a lot of you guys, I know some of you guys listen to
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a little bit on the younger side, some of you guys a little bit on the older side, but I
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know a couple of you guys that do remember the election back in during the Clinton
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and George Bush administration, one of the things that really
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messed up Bush Sr. from getting in a second term was
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when, I think it was Al Gore ran, and that split the Republican party,
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I hate to say that, I think that’s what’s going to happen this time again, and I think we’re going to get Biden
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for another couple more years, because what I think is going to happen, Trump’s going to
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run either way, I think Kanye’s going to run either way, and then
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you’re going to have probably DeSantis running, and you’re going to have two or three people on the Republican ballot, which is
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almost going to guarantee a Democrat gets in, so I mean, that could
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be a good thing and a bad thing, but I think that is what’s going to happen
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now, I just think there’s so much split going on in the party
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right now that I don’t think either way it’s going to really matter, but like I said, I think that
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is what’s going to happen going forward, I do think it’s going to be this year’s election,
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because I think Trump’s going to run whether he gets the nomination or not,
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and I do think that, that Kanye, and the thing that
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scares me about Kanye, he’s got a lot of support, he does,
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I mean, I remember when he had a tax bill, he co-funded me, he was like what, like millions
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and millions of dollars of tax money, so I do think he’s going to be able to run
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and I think either way, he’s going to, I think he’s going to have a lot of support,
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whether or not he’s with the party or not, he’s still going to get a lot of support.
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By the way, public service announcement,
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good time, but I do think, I do think Kanye is going to run, and I do think
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he’s going to have a lot of support, and you know probably Kim is going to, Kim Kardashian
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is going to probably support him too, and that’s going to be a big chunk of people,
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so I hate, I don’t like to think about it, but I have a feeling
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I have a feeling either he, if he runs, it’s going to be, I think it’s going to be him,
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Trump, and DeSantis running, I think it’s going to be all three of them running together,
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and I think they’re all going to run as Republicans, or they’re going to run as their own party,
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I don’t think Trump can get back in again, I really don’t, I think he’s got
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I mean he’s only got like 4 million followers on that true social platform
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now, compared to like the 100 million he had on Twitter, I just think he’s lost
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a lot of support, I think they’ve been slamming him pretty good the last couple of years on
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television, I just don’t see, I think he’s got a lot of too much
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baggage, I don’t think he’s going to get the, I mean he has a hardcore group of supporters, I honestly
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do believe that, but I don’t think he’s got enough to get in, he lost kind of that fringe
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voting, or the swing voters, I think with all the crap that’s went on
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especially now, after he didn’t get in and all that, so you know, and I
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don’t think, and I have a feeling it’s going to be DeSantis, and
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DeSantis has a lot of support, so especially after COVID and keeping his state open, wherever it is closed
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down, so I think he’s got a lot of support, and I do think it’s going to be
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and I do honestly think it’s going to be Kanye, so I think
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you have three people running on the Republican side, and you’re going to have, and that’s almost a guarantee that Biden’s
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going to get in if he runs again, which I think he is going to run again,
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so probably enough Democrats don’t want him in, which I do
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I am kind of surprised, like I said, I’m
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kind of surprised by that, a lot of his own party doesn’t want him in, they want somebody
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else, but you would think that they would want him to run
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again, get in, and then maybe come out of that, Kamala
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would run again, but apparently that’s not what they want
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so I don’t know, we’ll see what happens, but I think he has the right to rerun as
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a sitting president, the party can’t tell him, he listens to everything his party
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says, but you know, I don’t think that’s going to happen
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and I think they’re going to, they’re not going to, it would be very stupid for the Democrats
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to un-sit a sitting president. By the way, some of the
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things I do want to point out, talking about taxpayer money, a couple things I have on my list to talk
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about here, this one really annoyed me, apparently
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the Republicans now that they have the House, the majority, once they take over the House, which is going
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to be, I think in January they take over, I think, not yet, I think it’s going to be
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I think it’s a couple more weeks, they’re saying the first thing they’re going to do
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is investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, they’re going to be investigating Hunter Biden
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I’m like, you know,
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I know a lot of people don’t like this guy, I’m not a big fan of his either, the whole
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thing about the laptop when he was running for president, now they’re saying they’re going to try to impeach Biden
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since they’re going to have the majority in the House, I just think that this
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again, this is another example of taxpayer money being wasted, I mean that whole investigation
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into Trump went nowhere, now they’re going to spend all this money investigating
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somebody’s laptop who is the son of the president, but
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not really, he’s not really involved in anything, the president does
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I just, I don’t know, I think this is going to be another
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tremendous waste of our financial resources now, and it’s
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going to be another tremendous waste of taxpayer money that could be going to more important things
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programs and stuff to help people during this tough
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time with the inflation that’s going up, which is basically the government’s fault because
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they kept pumping money into the economy during COVID so that it wouldn’t crash
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and now the side effect of that is massive inflation
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and so it’s kind of their problem to fix now, and the only thing they keep doing is
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raising interest rates, which unfortunately caused a lot of people I know’s mortgages to
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double, so all they’re doing by raising the interest rates is maybe they’re slowing down
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inflation but they’re also going to really hurt the housing market and they’re also going to cause
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a foreclosure probably on some people who can’t afford their house because their interest rates have gone up
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like three of them, I mean I have a friend of mine who literally
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since he bought his home three years ago, his mortgage rate has almost doubled, now granted he took an
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adjustable rate which is basically what a lot of the banks are giving out right now
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but yeah, nice isn’t it? So
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like I said, they keep upping the interest rate and all they’re doing is going to cause
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another housing bubble to explode again and we’re going to
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go back into the same thing we were in again in 2008, watch
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I hate to say that but I have a feeling that’s the rate we’re going unfortunately kids
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at least the job market is solid still, unfortunately according to the numbers
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we’ll see what happens with that, that can change pretty quickly
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so we have all that going on, and the government is more interested in investigating
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somebody’s laptop than they are in fixing the massive inflation problem that
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they cost, so it’ll be interesting to see
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what happens here over the next
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couple of months, we’ll see what happens, it’s probably going to be a couple of months
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because once they all get in then they got to pass a vote and all that
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I have a feeling you’re going to see, again
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this is what I talked about earlier in the podcast, the government is worried about what they
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want to worry about and they’re not worried about us, that is the thing I’m saying
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it’s a system that doesn’t work, they just keep worrying about their
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crap and they’re not worrying about the problems that they need to fix here in America
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like inflation, like oil prices, hey have you filled your
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heating bill yet, have you had your first heating bill yet folks, it’s getting that November, it’s going to be
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December 1st here at the end of the, probably later in the week here, have you seen
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your heating bill lately, they’re going to investigate 100 Biden’s laptop
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doesn’t matter that you’re paying $3 and change for heat or oil or $4 for oil
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doesn’t matter that, let’s check out this kid’s laptop, I mean it doesn’t, again it’s a system
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that I feel is broke and it’s not working, which is why I’m getting so annoyed about it
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I mean really, I mean,
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it’s costing me double what I was paying last year to drive back and forth to work but hey
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let’s go ahead and let’s investigate this kid’s laptop, you know, let’s not worry
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about the freaking people in Ukraine that are suffering, I mean, you know thank
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God the Ukrainian army is fighting back like hell, but I mean, you know, let’s look, you know
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hey, come on, I mean, let’s worry about the bigger problems
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you know, and for some reason the Democrats are shoveling money into Ukraine, which I’m
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all for helping them, we owe this to them and here’s why, they surrendered
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a lot of their weapons to us during the Bush administration
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in exchange for our protection, so we
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actually kind of owe them, they surrendered their arsenal to us, their nuclear arsenal
00:27:23.000 –> 00:27:27.000
specifically to us in exchange for our protection, so we kind of owe this to them
00:27:27.000 –> 00:27:31.000
because Bush Jr. promised them this to them, probably
00:27:31.000 –> 00:27:35.000
right before 9/11 or right after 9/11, so
00:27:35.000 –> 00:27:39.000
you know, we kind of owe this to them
00:27:39.000 –> 00:27:43.000
and you know, the Democrats keep pumping money in there, but yet when they
00:27:43.000 –> 00:27:47.000
said, hey, can we have some accountability for where this money is going, all of a sudden
00:27:47.000 –> 00:27:51.000
the Democrats are like, no, no, no, no, no, well, that’s taxpayers’
00:27:51.000 –> 00:27:55.000
money, don’t you think we should kind of have some accountability for where it’s going?
00:27:55.000 –> 00:27:59.000
No, so the Democrats are all pumping money but they don’t want accountability for it, the Republicans don’t want
00:27:59.000 –> 00:28:03.000
to give money, or when they do, they want accountability for it, which I’m okay with the accountability part
00:28:03.000 –> 00:28:07.000
but, you know, we keep pumping money into a place
00:28:07.000 –> 00:28:11.000
but nobody knows where it’s going, so
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I don’t agree with that, I believe, I’m all for helping them, but I do think there needs to be some accountability
00:28:15.000 –> 00:28:19.000
but at least we know where the money’s going, but yeah,
00:28:19.000 –> 00:28:23.000
we have that, so now that we’re kind of caught up on the news
00:28:23.000 –> 00:28:27.000
here a little bit, every time I come on here I just rant
00:28:27.000 –> 00:28:31.000
I feel bad about that, but there used to be, there’s a podcast called Rant Nation
00:28:31.000 –> 00:28:35.000
it’s a great podcast, he does, he basically comes on every day, I think it’s like once a week
00:28:35.000 –> 00:28:39.000
or twice a week, he does the same thing, same type of show I do, but all he does is rant
00:28:39.000 –> 00:28:43.000
about everything, and I like his show, but I’m not going to lie, if you listen to it every week
00:28:43.000 –> 00:28:47.000
it does get a little repetitive, because unfortunately politics do change every week, but
00:28:47.000 –> 00:28:51.000
sometimes you just get tired of the dooming loom all the time
00:28:51.000 –> 00:28:55.000
let’s see, what else we have going on, so a couple things
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again, I have a whole list of stuff I want to talk about that I haven’t been on in a while, I am feeling pretty good though
00:28:59.000 –> 00:29:03.000
so thank you, and I wanted to say, I did save for, but I want to say again, thank you to all you guys that reached out to me
00:29:03.000 –> 00:29:07.000
I do appreciate it, I am feeling pretty good, and I really am grateful
00:29:07.000 –> 00:29:11.000
and I’m really happy I had the surgery done
00:29:11.000 –> 00:29:15.000
I’m still kind of recuperating, I can’t really, I can do a lot, but I still have to watch the lifting
00:29:15.000 –> 00:29:19.000
but everything else, I’m good
00:29:19.000 –> 00:29:23.000
so kind of a public service announcement too with this, I just want to make it a point
00:29:23.000 –> 00:29:27.000
when I had the surgery, if any of you guys out there
00:29:27.000 –> 00:29:31.000
if anybody ever tells you that you have sleep apnea, go get checked
00:29:31.000 –> 00:29:35.000
I myself, when I had the surgery, coming out of the anesthesia
00:29:35.000 –> 00:29:39.000
the anesthesiologist said to me, you really should be tested for sleep apnea
00:29:39.000 –> 00:29:43.000
so I do have an appointment to get checked for that down the road, not this week
00:29:43.000 –> 00:29:47.000
but probably over the next month or so, because I mean there are furrows for that stuff
00:29:47.000 –> 00:29:51.000
we’re a little bit on the slow side right now, but any of you guys out there that either
00:29:51.000 –> 00:29:55.000
feel like you’re sleeping, you’re waking up a lot, or if anybody tells you you stopped breathing, you’re not having an issue
00:29:55.000 –> 00:29:59.000
especially if you sleep next to a spouse and they notice you stopped breathing or something like that
00:29:59.000 –> 00:30:03.000
go get checked for sleep apnea, it’s a really simple test, it’s not like it used to be
00:30:03.000 –> 00:30:07.000
you just take the machine home, you sleep with it, and then they run the study, and then if you do, they either give you
00:30:07.000 –> 00:30:11.000
a mouthguard to keep your tongue down, or they give you the sleep apnea machine
00:30:11.000 –> 00:30:15.000
or whatever, so it’s a very simple fix
00:30:15.000 –> 00:30:19.000
very easy fix, if you do have sleep apnea, just go get checked if you think you have it, or somebody tells you
00:30:19.000 –> 00:30:23.000
they think you have it, in my case the anesthesiologist told me you should be tested for sleep apnea
00:30:23.000 –> 00:30:27.000
because a couple times we were bringing you out of the anesthesia, you stopped breathing, which is
00:30:27.000 –> 00:30:31.000
definitely not good, so that is like my little public service announcement
00:30:31.000 –> 00:30:35.000
if you do have, if you think you have it, just go get tested for it, it’s a very simple test, it’s not a hurt or anything
00:30:35.000 –> 00:30:39.000
you just sleep with something on your finger for the night or something like that, it’s a very simple test
00:30:39.000 –> 00:30:43.000
if you do have it, it can be dangerous, it puts a lot of stress in your heart if you have it
00:30:43.000 –> 00:30:47.000
it puts a lot of stress on your body because you stopped breathing and your body has to gas for air
00:30:47.000 –> 00:30:51.000
and believe me when they tell you, if somebody tells you it’s because you’re overweight
00:30:51.000 –> 00:30:55.000
my friend is literally, I think 100 pounds soaking wet, he is in
00:30:55.000 –> 00:30:59.000
prime shape, runs 5 miles a day and he has it
00:30:59.000 –> 00:31:03.000
it doesn’t matter, it’s all about to do with the soft tissue in your throat, in your mouth
00:31:03.000 –> 00:31:07.000
and your teeth and just the way your jaw is made and your tongue
00:31:07.000 –> 00:31:11.000
it used to be, if you hit 300 pounds, a lot of professional
00:31:11.000 –> 00:31:15.000
bodybuilders have it, a lot of overweight people have it, yes, but I have a friend
00:31:15.000 –> 00:31:19.000
of mine, like I said, he’s in top top, he runs
00:31:19.000 –> 00:31:23.000
marathons on the weekends of it, he’s in incredible conditioning
00:31:23.000 –> 00:31:27.000
and he has it, so just go get tested, if you have insurance
00:31:27.000 –> 00:31:31.000
it shouldn’t cost you anything, he’s just a machine you bring home, years ago when my dad had it
00:31:31.000 –> 00:31:35.000
you would have to go into a place and sleep there overnight
00:31:35.000 –> 00:31:39.000
nowadays, you just wear something on your finger
00:31:39.000 –> 00:31:43.000
it’s very very simple, very very basic and it could really help you out, so please
00:31:43.000 –> 00:31:47.000
if you do have it, or if you think somebody told you to do have it, please go get checked
00:31:47.000 –> 00:31:51.000
it’s very dangerous, people die from it, I didn’t think, I was the same thing
00:31:51.000 –> 00:31:55.000
I was like, I’m not going to go get it, but then a couple friends of mine I found out have it and they’ve almost
00:31:55.000 –> 00:31:59.000
died from it, so, or they’ve had damage to their heart because of it
00:31:59.000 –> 00:32:03.000
so believe me, especially guys, we’re known to have heart problems, men have more heart problems than women
00:32:03.000 –> 00:32:07.000
if you’re a guy listening, go ahead and get tested, it’s really
00:32:07.000 –> 00:32:11.000
it’s such a small, it’s such a little thing to do
00:32:11.000 –> 00:32:15.000
and just get it done so you can, you know, so you live a long happy life
00:32:15.000 –> 00:32:19.000
so something I did want to talk about while I was on the mend
00:32:19.000 –> 00:32:23.000
you guys know I like to talk about TV shows that I watch, especially those survivor
00:32:23.000 –> 00:32:27.000
prepper shows, we talk about them all the time, but I want to point out
00:32:27.000 –> 00:32:31.000
if you, any of you guys that have Disney Plus
00:32:31.000 –> 00:32:35.000
go ahead and watch The Rescue, it’s Disney Plus
00:32:35.000 –> 00:32:39.000
but it’s actually part of the National Geographic package, go ahead and
00:32:39.000 –> 00:32:43.000
watch The Rescue, it actually talks about those 13 kids
00:32:43.000 –> 00:32:47.000
that they had to rescue over in Thailand
00:32:47.000 –> 00:32:51.000
that were in, it’s about a two hour documentary
00:32:51.000 –> 00:32:55.000
it’s very very well done by an independent filmmaker and
00:32:55.000 –> 00:32:59.000
what it actually does is it actually shows
00:32:59.000 –> 00:33:03.000
the whole process of what the, and this is interesting
00:33:03.000 –> 00:33:07.000
the Navy Seals went in there and tried to save these kids, actually one
00:33:07.000 –> 00:33:11.000
Navy Seal died, what it was is these kids were in these
00:33:11.000 –> 00:33:15.000
underwater caves and they just could not get out
00:33:15.000 –> 00:33:19.000
and the Navy Seals are not trained for cave diving
00:33:19.000 –> 00:33:23.000
cave diving is kind of a very very niche kind of
00:33:23.000 –> 00:33:27.000
thing that people do, and I don’t, I wasn’t a huge
00:33:27.000 –> 00:33:31.000
expert on it but I did watch the show and one of these cave divers is
00:33:31.000 –> 00:33:35.000
cave divers, they don’t, like a lot of people carry the tanks on
00:33:35.000 –> 00:33:39.000
their back, well cave divers actually carry the tanks in the front of them, on the side of them
00:33:39.000 –> 00:33:43.000
so they can get through those little things, and these cave divers
00:33:43.000 –> 00:33:47.000
they go through and they lay lines so they can find their way back out and this whole thing
00:33:47.000 –> 00:33:51.000
was really amazing, the Navy Seals could not get into these kids because they were not
00:33:51.000 –> 00:33:55.000
trained for that kind of work and what they ended up having to do, they got these bunch of guys that were
00:33:55.000 –> 00:33:59.000
like 10 or 12 of these guys that are like some of the best cave explorers in the world
00:33:59.000 –> 00:34:03.000
I mean these guys are like IT people, real estate agents
00:34:03.000 –> 00:34:07.000
you know, accountants, stuff like that
00:34:07.000 –> 00:34:11.000
they’re not like hardcore guys, but they are like the leading
00:34:11.000 –> 00:34:15.000
guys when it comes to cave diving, they were experts and
00:34:15.000 –> 00:34:19.000
they actually went in and found these kids because they
00:34:19.000 –> 00:34:23.000
knew how to do cave diving and they had special equipment that was
00:34:23.000 –> 00:34:27.000
custom made, it’s a very very interesting thing, there’s actually a
00:34:27.000 –> 00:34:31.000
forum dedicated, I mean it’s hard to find stuff even about this because it’s such a niche thing but
00:34:31.000 –> 00:34:35.000
there’s actually a forum about it and these guys
00:34:35.000 –> 00:34:39.000
went in and then these kids had been in there for like 10 days
00:34:39.000 –> 00:34:43.000
14 days and when they got there, these kids were
00:34:43.000 –> 00:34:47.000
luckily enough still alive, none of the kids had died and then what they
00:34:47.000 –> 00:34:51.000
were trying to do was they had to figure out, they brought food into them because these kids had no food for like 10
00:34:51.000 –> 00:34:55.000
14 days, look they’re still alive, but they brought food into them so they started
00:34:55.000 –> 00:34:59.000
to get these kids going, get them hydrated, get them food and stuff like that, well
00:34:59.000 –> 00:35:03.000
just to get there is a 3 hour swim through these caves and it’s a 3 hour
00:35:03.000 –> 00:35:07.000
cave ride, swim back and
00:35:07.000 –> 00:35:11.000
so long story short, these guys are there and
00:35:11.000 –> 00:35:15.000
part of the problem is, these caves are
00:35:15.000 –> 00:35:19.000
so small you can barely fit a person through them and to try to
00:35:19.000 –> 00:35:23.000
swim with somebody next to you on a rebreather, it was just, they tried it
00:35:23.000 –> 00:35:27.000
you know, on some other little test runs
00:35:27.000 –> 00:35:31.000
and it’s impossible, so what they had to figure out was, the only way to get these
00:35:31.000 –> 00:35:35.000
kids out of there safely was they had to sedate them
00:35:35.000 –> 00:35:39.000
and that sounds pretty nuts because sedation is something that has to be, and I was thinking about this because
00:35:39.000 –> 00:35:43.000
what happened to me on my back, you know when you’re
00:35:43.000 –> 00:35:47.000
sedated, you’re intubated and when they put a tube down your throat and all
00:35:47.000 –> 00:35:51.000
that kind of stuff, what they had to do with these kids was they actually had to sedate them
00:35:51.000 –> 00:35:55.000
and then give them a shot of something that would stop your
00:35:55.000 –> 00:35:59.000
saliva from being made so that they wouldn’t choke on their own saliva because they can’t
00:35:59.000 –> 00:36:03.000
intubate while you’re going, like you can’t intubate while they’re in the water
00:36:03.000 –> 00:36:07.000
so then what they had to do, they used positive pressure masks, there was only like 4 or 5 of them
00:36:07.000 –> 00:36:11.000
they were able to find in that area that was to put the mask on your face and it
00:36:11.000 –> 00:36:15.000
pushes the air into you, into your face
00:36:15.000 –> 00:36:19.000
and it doesn’t allow, it pushes air out rather than
00:36:19.000 –> 00:36:23.000
in so that it would keep the kids breathing because they were sedated and
00:36:23.000 –> 00:36:27.000
and too, having to tie, I hate to say this,
00:36:27.000 –> 00:36:31.000
kind of like tying the kids, almost like tying their hands up and their legs
00:36:31.000 –> 00:36:35.000
up so that they couldn’t move, so that these cave divers could
00:36:35.000 –> 00:36:39.000
maneuver these kids on a, on an air tank
00:36:39.000 –> 00:36:43.000
and maneuver them through these caves that are tiny
00:36:43.000 –> 00:36:47.000
I mean, and what they would have to do, they would have to push, kind of push the kid through and then
00:36:47.000 –> 00:36:51.000
they’d have to go through behind them and I mean just unbelievable feat
00:36:51.000 –> 00:36:55.000
of what they did to save these kids, luckily all the kids are alive, they all
00:36:55.000 –> 00:36:59.000
made it, but I mean unbelievable, then they had to give the kids Xanax
00:36:59.000 –> 00:37:03.000
and they had to give the kid something else, I’m not a medical
00:37:03.000 –> 00:37:07.000
person, but they gave them another shot of something and then the other
00:37:07.000 –> 00:37:11.000
issue is, it’s a 3 hour trip
00:37:11.000 –> 00:37:15.000
from there to bring them out, so it’s
00:37:15.000 –> 00:37:19.000
half way through they have to stop, it’s this one chamber that they found
00:37:19.000 –> 00:37:23.000
and they have to pull the kid at, almost out of the water
00:37:23.000 –> 00:37:27.000
give him another shot so he doesn’t wake up, because if they start to wake up
00:37:27.000 –> 00:37:31.000
and they panic, they’re dead, so they have to give him another shot to keep him sedated
00:37:31.000 –> 00:37:35.000
then put the kid back in the water again
00:37:35.000 –> 00:37:39.000
and take him the rest of, I mean it was unbelievable what these men did
00:37:39.000 –> 00:37:43.000
and really, you know, unbelievable feat
00:37:43.000 –> 00:37:47.000
amazing, these gentlemen and what they did for these children
00:37:47.000 –> 00:37:51.000
and these guys by the way, I want to point out too, were volunteers, they were not part of the rescue crew
00:37:51.000 –> 00:37:55.000
they volunteered their time to come out, thank God they did, because incredible
00:37:55.000 –> 00:37:59.000
I mean, talk about something, a niche market
00:37:59.000 –> 00:38:03.000
where you were able to just really, there’s only like 12 or 14 and maybe 20
00:38:03.000 –> 00:38:07.000
of these guys in the world that do this, and they all like in a little group
00:38:07.000 –> 00:38:11.000
and they were able to get a bunch of those guys over there and help them and they could only take like 4 kids out a day
00:38:11.000 –> 00:38:15.000
and they were doing like 4 kids a day, but it took weeks to figure, like almost
00:38:15.000 –> 00:38:19.000
2 or 3 weeks first of all to find them, because the cage is so big
00:38:19.000 –> 00:38:23.000
and then fighting against the current, and then they had to reroute
00:38:23.000 –> 00:38:27.000
some of these guys, not the divers, but the
00:38:27.000 –> 00:38:31.000
Navy that they brought in, the Korean Navy and the US Navy and some of that
00:38:31.000 –> 00:38:35.000
able to reroute the
00:38:35.000 –> 00:38:39.000
water away from the, so it wouldn’t
00:38:39.000 –> 00:38:43.000
keep filling these caves up so the kids wouldn’t drown while they were waiting to get rescued
00:38:43.000 –> 00:38:47.000
and it was just unbelievable feat, not only by the divers of course who did a lot of the
00:38:47.000 –> 00:38:51.000
dangerous work of getting the kids out, but also too the Navy and
00:38:51.000 –> 00:38:55.000
the Thai Navy and our Navy and all these rescuers
00:38:55.000 –> 00:38:59.000
I mean, literally rerouting a, you know, with these big
00:38:59.000 –> 00:39:03.000
sandbags and just what they had to do to, because the problem was these guys are swimming
00:39:03.000 –> 00:39:07.000
to these kids, but they’re swimming against the current, so the only way to get the current is to reroute the
00:39:07.000 –> 00:39:11.000
water out of the way, but the problem is, every time they had rain or a monsoon
00:39:11.000 –> 00:39:15.000
they had to redo, I mean, these workers, I mean, all these people,
00:39:15.000 –> 00:39:19.000
God bless them for the work they did and all the
00:39:19.000 –> 00:39:23.000
effort that was put into saving these lives, but talk about a real survival
00:39:23.000 –> 00:39:27.000
preparation situation where these men are working around the clock trying to save these kids
00:39:27.000 –> 00:39:31.000
and part of the problem is, like I said, at first they couldn’t
00:39:31.000 –> 00:39:35.000
even get to them because they were swimming up current, finally some of these Navy workers said, listen
00:39:35.000 –> 00:39:39.000
we can reroute this, you know,
00:39:39.000 –> 00:39:43.000
this river, we can reroute it if we dam it up
00:39:43.000 –> 00:39:47.000
and then trying to, it was unbelievable the effort these guys made
00:39:47.000 –> 00:39:51.000
and at least made the current so they could swim to these kids and I mean, I think it was a couple, and
00:39:51.000 –> 00:39:55.000
nobody had been able to get to them besides these cave divers because they were able to kind of,
00:39:55.000 –> 00:39:59.000
they knew the cave system and kind of knew how it worked and
00:39:59.000 –> 00:40:03.000
having special tanks because regular air tanks don’t last as long, so they had these special tanks
00:40:03.000 –> 00:40:07.000
that they could last hours to pour the, I mean, I thought that was pretty cool
00:40:07.000 –> 00:40:11.000
too, I never knew that air tanks would last that long, air tanks that lasted hours
00:40:11.000 –> 00:40:15.000
and hours so that they could get to these kids, you know,
00:40:15.000 –> 00:40:19.000
because that was part of the problem too, is these tanks aren’t, they don’t have tanks that long, so
00:40:19.000 –> 00:40:23.000
these guys had bigger tanks, so it was just unbelievable and then laying
00:40:23.000 –> 00:40:27.000
lines so they could find the kids and then get back to the kids, you know, and how many times
00:40:27.000 –> 00:40:31.000
they had to bring, just before they even started the rescue, having to bring the kids food
00:40:31.000 –> 00:40:35.000
and then dealing with, you know, they couldn’t get to them again because the monsoon hit and they had to pump out, they
00:40:35.000 –> 00:40:39.000
had to get special generators and special waterproof pumps
00:40:39.000 –> 00:40:43.000
to be able to pump the water out just so they were able to kind of get in
00:40:43.000 –> 00:40:47.000
to the cave system so they could dive, I mean, just unbelievable, all these guys
00:40:47.000 –> 00:40:51.000
too, everybody too, not just the gentleman that dived, I mean, they did, you know,
00:40:51.000 –> 00:40:55.000
I think a scary work of having to sedate these kids and get them out, but
00:40:55.000 –> 00:40:59.000
unbelievable feats of effort to be able to get these kids,
00:40:59.000 –> 00:41:03.000
they’re just amazing. It really is a good documentary, if you have
00:41:03.000 –> 00:41:07.000
time, it’s on Disney Plus, and like I said, if you have it, it’s free
00:41:07.000 –> 00:41:11.000
and actually is an amazing feat, and like I said, these, unbelievable to see what
00:41:11.000 –> 00:41:15.000
these guys actually went through and just the preparation and just
00:41:15.000 –> 00:41:19.000
the figuring the little details out of how, where are we going to put the tanks so that
00:41:19.000 –> 00:41:23.000
it’s not in, so that the kid doesn’t, the tank doesn’t shut off halfway through or doesn’t get
00:41:23.000 –> 00:41:27.000
bumped and it turns off and the kid, you know, he’s sedated, so he’ll just, you know,
00:41:27.000 –> 00:41:31.000
asphyxiate to death, you know, and then also too, these caves only have so much
00:41:31.000 –> 00:41:35.000
air, so they have to keep bringing air into these tanks, they would have to bring air tanks
00:41:35.000 –> 00:41:39.000
and then put the, and then open the air tanks up in the cave just so these kids would have
00:41:39.000 –> 00:41:43.000
air, I mean, just unbelievable, and then too, the situation with these kids going to the bathroom,
00:41:43.000 –> 00:41:47.000
and all that kind of stuff, and then too, trying to keep them
00:41:47.000 –> 00:41:51.000
warm, trying to keep, and it was just, and then too, at the beginning when these
00:41:51.000 –> 00:41:55.000
men wanted to go in there and sedate them and take them out, because it was the only idea they could think of,
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the government was like, well, let’s just drill a hole to them, but you couldn’t, it would have taken
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weeks and months to drill a hole, you know, they wouldn’t have made it
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in the time, and then the other problem was trying to,
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one of the plans was what if we just leave them there and just keep bringing
00:42:11.000 –> 00:42:15.000
them supplies, problem is, as these caves,
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that was part, one of the thoughts was let’s just leave the kids there until the water
00:42:19.000 –> 00:42:23.000
goes down, problem was that the monsoons were coming,
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the monsoons were coming, and the caves would have
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flooded out anyway, and then the kids would have drowned to death, so they had to get them out of there,
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and that was one of the things, well, if we just leave them in there for a few months, and then, well, we can’t do that, and then
00:42:35.000 –> 00:42:39.000
lo and behold, after these guys had run these kids out, like I think it was like
00:42:39.000 –> 00:42:43.000
six or eight weeks later, I think eight days, eight weeks, I don’t remember the exact day, but
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the caves just flooded out, and then that was a blessing if they had everybody
00:42:47.000 –> 00:42:51.000
out by then, but really an unbelievable, I mean, I remember watching this story in the news,
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and watching it, following it closely, but actually,
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the documentary really brought you in deep, and what these men had to do
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to do this, and just the
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preparation that went into it was amazing, and just trying to,
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and I hate to say this, but politics played an issue in it, you know, when they originally said we want to do this,
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and they were like, well, we can’t let a group of, you know, we can’t let these, you know,
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if something happens, this is going to look horrible on us, we can’t do it. Well,
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this is the only idea we got, like, you know, well, you know,
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it wouldn’t look good for, you know, politically, it’s not a good move if something happens. We’re trusting the life to
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people that aren’t even Thai, you know, citizens. It was, you know,
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public safety and public health should never, public, politics and public
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health and public safety should never go together, but it always does, unfortunately, and
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watching this show, and watching these men, these amazing
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feats that they were doing, you know, just, just,
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you know, you really appreciate what, these guys were all volunteers,
00:43:51.000 –> 00:43:55.240
here, one guy actually, while he was away was his wedding. And one guy had his wedding anniversary
00:43:55.240 –> 00:43:59.160
while he was away. He called his wife, it was a crappy anniversary. And one guy, unfortunately,
00:43:59.160 –> 00:44:04.760
his dad passed away while he was away. And he was also the doctor. And his father who was,
00:44:04.760 –> 00:44:10.360
I guess, was a vascular doctor. He had spoken to his father about what his plan was to sedate
00:44:10.360 –> 00:44:15.080
the kids. And his father had said, “Go.” And he knew his father was sick and he wouldn’t leave.
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His father was the same. “No, no, go, go, go, go. I want your doctor to help these kids.”
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His father understood a doctor’s job is to help people and all that. So it was a really amazing
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thing to watch. And just a wonderful documentary. Very well done for an independent filmmaker.
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And I’m really big in independent films. I like that kind of stuff, documentaries. One thing I do
00:44:38.200 –> 00:44:43.000
recommend if you do watch any documentary, I don’t watch political documentaries very often. I watch
00:44:43.000 –> 00:44:47.480
history documentaries, not political ones. Some of those political documentaries tend to be a little
00:44:47.480 –> 00:44:52.680
bit, depending on the film. That’s one thing about documentaries and series and films that are
00:44:52.680 –> 00:44:58.440
political and even history ones you got to watch too. It depends on who makes them. It depends on
00:44:58.440 –> 00:45:02.760
which way history gets written. But especially the political ones. I don’t really watch too
00:45:02.760 –> 00:45:09.560
much of that, but I will watch ones like this, rescue ones, stuff like that. But I’m not a big
00:45:09.560 –> 00:45:16.360
one for some of the political ones. Just get a little bit. I don’t really watch too much of them,
00:45:16.360 –> 00:45:20.360
but I do watch the history ones. I do watch a lot of those stuff. And the history ones you got to
00:45:20.360 –> 00:45:26.120
be careful too, because history is always written by the winner. But I do, especially this
00:45:26.120 –> 00:45:30.840
documentary wasn’t political at all, but it shows more of our, for us as people that are into
00:45:30.840 –> 00:45:36.040
survival and prepping and stuff like that. This was very, very well done film, documentary film,
00:45:36.040 –> 00:45:39.880
very, very well done. A lot of good footage that you didn’t see on the news. Because that was my
00:45:39.880 –> 00:45:45.720
main concern was, I rewatched this on the news. I’m not going to watch it again. But a lot of the
00:45:45.720 –> 00:45:50.120
stuff, a lot of the film that you see was not on the news. So I thought that was really cool.
00:45:50.120 –> 00:45:54.120
More really behind, actually behind the scenes, but that’s the only word I can really think of
00:45:54.120 –> 00:46:00.440
to describe it. More behind the scenes kind of thing, where you don’t really, you really
00:46:00.440 –> 00:46:05.480
haven’t seen too much of that. So I thought that was very, very well done. And then also too,
00:46:05.480 –> 00:46:09.560
some of the things as well you’re going to see is the equipment. I thought the equipment was very
00:46:09.560 –> 00:46:13.960
neat. Some I didn’t know about not being, I’m not really into diving, but some of the stuff I
00:46:13.960 –> 00:46:18.840
didn’t know, you have a pressure mask, which is a, where if you get a leak in the mask, it blows,
00:46:18.840 –> 00:46:24.200
it blows air out where some masks are negative pressure and it actually pulls water in.
00:46:24.200 –> 00:46:29.720
There’s different kinds of masks for different kinds of diving, different kinds of breathers,
00:46:29.720 –> 00:46:33.720
different kinds of masks, all different kinds. I mean, lots of stuff I didn’t know about and
00:46:33.720 –> 00:46:38.280
because I’m not really into diving or cave exploring. We all remember on Batman, what,
00:46:38.280 –> 00:46:42.440
what is this for us? It’s blunking, you know, underwater cave diving, you know.
00:46:43.720 –> 00:46:48.280
Yeah. We all remember that from the, from the Batman. What is this for? We didn’t really market
00:46:48.280 –> 00:46:54.520
these suits to the billionaire space jumping spelunking crowd. But you remember he had that
00:46:54.520 –> 00:46:58.840
special suit. He wore in the first one that they were, it was supposed to be for spelunking
00:46:58.840 –> 00:47:02.920
underwater cave diving, but he has to use it as a vat suit. They were trying to sell those kind of
00:47:02.920 –> 00:47:07.240
suits to the Navy, but yeah, it was, you know, one of those kinds of things, but I will say this
00:47:07.240 –> 00:47:11.480
about these, the underwater cave diving thing, spelunking, whatever you want to call it. It does
00:47:11.480 –> 00:47:16.520
seem like a rich man’s hobby to be honest with you. These guys, they were saying like they,
00:47:16.520 –> 00:47:21.400
they take, I mean, these trips that they go on for these things are, it does seem like it’s a,
00:47:21.400 –> 00:47:24.200
it does seem like it’s a bit of a rich man’s hobby. That’s why I think there’s such a small
00:47:24.200 –> 00:47:30.600
group of them that do it. I think the guy said he had like 10 or 20, 30,000 equipment. And then he
00:47:30.600 –> 00:47:36.040
had spent like hundreds of thousands on, on going on these cave dives. I was like, yeah, it does
00:47:36.040 –> 00:47:43.400
seem like kind of a rich man’s hobby, but it was very, sorry about that. I need more coffee. But
00:47:43.400 –> 00:47:47.080
it was very, very well done for an independent film. And I do recommend you watching it if you’re
00:47:47.080 –> 00:47:54.920
into that stuff. If you’re listening to this show, you probably are, but that was the, like I said,
00:47:54.920 –> 00:48:00.680
that was, it’s called The Rescue. It’s on Disney Plus, it’s part of the National Geographic thing.
00:48:00.680 –> 00:48:05.080
It’s about an hour and 47 minutes. But if you are, like you said, if you’re listening to the show,
00:48:05.080 –> 00:48:09.720
you’re probably into that, you’re into survival and prepper situations. Really interesting.
00:48:09.720 –> 00:48:13.400
And the other thing was too, when you watch this too, some of the things too that you don’t realize
00:48:13.400 –> 00:48:17.080
really is that the, like the rations that they were trying to bring to the kids,
00:48:17.080 –> 00:48:23.240
you know, we think of, you know, just bringing rat, but when you’re diving under water,
00:48:23.240 –> 00:48:26.520
some of these rations are not waterproof. I mean, yes, the vacuum seal, but they’re, you know,
00:48:26.520 –> 00:48:31.560
they’re not really meant to be submerged. You know, some of these things, you know, they’re
00:48:31.560 –> 00:48:37.240
tight, but you know, when you’re going under water like that, you have to, you know, what they do to
00:48:37.240 –> 00:48:43.240
bring stuff just to these kids, how they have to wrap it. And too, you know, the more you’re
00:48:43.240 –> 00:48:46.680
exerting yourself, the more air you’re going to go through. So these guys have to try to bring this
00:48:46.680 –> 00:48:50.440
stuff and they try to, you know, fit it in their belts and stuff like that so that they’re able to
00:48:50.440 –> 00:48:57.400
bring it to these kids. And so it’s not wasted, you know, rations and bringing fresh water because,
00:48:57.400 –> 00:49:01.320
you know, these caves, you don’t really be drinking water where you’ve been going to the bathroom.
00:49:01.320 –> 00:49:07.080
So bringing fresh water to these kids and all this kind of stuff, really, you know, some amazing
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things that these people did. And I was really, you know, really interesting to watch, like I said,
00:49:13.320 –> 00:49:19.240
just what these men went through just to bring these kids food and just to bring them water.
00:49:19.240 –> 00:49:23.000
And just, I mean, like when I was watching the show and I’m, and I think, and they have to think
00:49:23.000 –> 00:49:28.440
about this too, just the physical shape these men have to be in. I mean, because think about this,
00:49:28.440 –> 00:49:34.040
folks. It’s three hours to get there and three hours back. I mean, you’re spending six hours
00:49:34.040 –> 00:49:39.560
diving. Okay. And these guys are bringing food to these kids. You know, you know, they bring like,
00:49:39.560 –> 00:49:43.560
they brought like a hundred meals to these kids. Then like a couple, then like they’re there a day
00:49:43.560 –> 00:49:47.080
or two later to do something else. They’re bringing them, I mean, these guys, I mean,
00:49:47.080 –> 00:49:51.640
it’s a six hour trip. I mean, these guys, the physical cape, I mean, the physical fitness of
00:49:51.640 –> 00:49:57.240
these men must have been just amazing. Just from a physical standpoint, where they were able to
00:49:57.240 –> 00:50:01.800
endure, you know, I mean, they had to be in incredible physical condition to be able to
00:50:01.800 –> 00:50:06.920
swim three hours through the day later, swim in there back. I mean, just unbelievable. The risk
00:50:06.920 –> 00:50:13.320
they’re taking by going through this cave system, you know, all these times, I mean, they could,
00:50:13.320 –> 00:50:17.400
I mean, what’s to say, they don’t get snagged or get hung. I mean, they ran, they ran a line,
00:50:17.400 –> 00:50:21.240
but still, I mean, you just, what these men were going through putting themselves just going back
00:50:21.240 –> 00:50:24.920
and forth so many times. I mean, you just, some of the things maybe I don’t think documentary hit on
00:50:24.920 –> 00:50:29.720
enough that I was thinking about after the fact. So it’s something I just want to bring up, but like
00:50:29.720 –> 00:50:33.960
I said, really, really well done. I really would like to just say, I mean, it’s obviously National
00:50:33.960 –> 00:50:38.200
Geographic, so I expect to be well done, but it was an independent film that National Geographic
00:50:38.200 –> 00:50:42.280
picked up. So I was really impressed by that, but that is one. One of the things I did want to talk
00:50:42.280 –> 00:50:46.920
about that I did watch recently is very well done. And I really think you should take some time to
00:50:46.920 –> 00:50:51.240
watch it if you’re into this stuff and just things, little things that you don’t think about that you
00:50:51.240 –> 00:50:57.480
learn, especially about like just keeping things dry, like how they kept the rations dry or how
00:50:57.480 –> 00:51:03.160
they, how they have to rig the, so that water doesn’t keep running into this cave. There was,
00:51:03.160 –> 00:51:08.600
and how they used piping to keep the water flowing out. So just really a lot of interesting stuff
00:51:08.600 –> 00:51:14.680
that as preppers and as survivalists, you really would, would appreciate, you know, aside from the
00:51:14.680 –> 00:51:19.880
rescue mission, which was just amazing to watch and, and the cam, the, the inside of the cave
00:51:19.880 –> 00:51:25.880
stuff they got that was not on the news and stuff that, you know, and, uh, you know, really, really
00:51:25.880 –> 00:51:32.040
see how durable a GoPro is when you really are watching one of these films. So like I said, I,
00:51:32.040 –> 00:51:35.480
like I said, I’m glad to be back. I’m going to try to do this much more often. I do have some new
00:51:35.480 –> 00:51:39.480
recording equipment coming in so I can kind of record on the road. Um, audio quality may not be
00:51:39.480 –> 00:51:45.400
as great as this is because this is, um, I actually record this, uh, on a really good setup, but if I
00:51:45.400 –> 00:51:49.880
can start doing it every week, um, you know, at least I can keep you a little more consistent.
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Uh, I want to thank everybody for listening. Like I said, all of our shows, uh, survivalistpodcast.org
00:51:54.520 –> 00:52:00.520
are our instance for, um, team to talk and where I’m on there quite a bit, uh, that’s
00:52:00.520 –> 00:52:07.080
rebelsocial.media. And like, as always, um, like I said, I want to thank you for listening and I’ll
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catch you on the next show. Thank you very much.