July 8, 2023 • 9 mins
In this episode we dive into the significance of Independence Day and discuss our admiration for the courageous men who signed the Declaration of Independence. I draws parallels between the challenges faced by the colonists and the issues of today, particularly discussing the Second Amendment and the need for individuals to stand up for their beliefs. Join Jeff as he pays tribute to the brave individuals who shaped America and encourages listeners to celebrate and protect the freedoms they fought for.
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(00:15):
Welcome to Live Cheat Podcast.
My name is Jeff Dole and I'vebeen licensed Firearm to live
for the last 16 years.
In this podcast, we talk aboutall things related to the Second
Amendment, as well as anythingthat might be going in the other
news or stories from my personallife or anything else that I
might be interested in.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
Today is July 8th.
It's been a couple weeks sinceI've put a podcast out.
(00:37):
Took a little break, took alittle trip with my wife to
Steamboat Springs Colorado.
We stayed with some friends intheir condo and just loved it.
the temperatures were as high asa 75, low of 40, and at the same
time here in Dallas it washitting a hundred.
So it was nice.
We hiked.
Just saw some great sites.
(00:58):
It's a beautiful country in the,in the summer.
Think I almost like it betterthan when there's snow on the
ground.
We did see some snow.
We went up pine enough thatthere's still some snow there.
They got a lot of snow over thewinter.
So the, the rivers are high, thecreeks are high, they're
flowing.
There's bridges closed, thingslike that.
But when we were out hiking, wewent up to 11,000 square, 11
(01:19):
hike.
You wanna say 11,000 feet on onehike and, That's one thing when
I look out over this country andI think, more people need to get
out and see this, it seems likethis country is, is made up of a
lot of people in these bigcities, New York, Los Angeles
San Francisco that never reallysee.
(01:42):
What's going on in the middle ofthe country and the great
vastness of this country and theuniqueness of it and how awesome
it is.
And what, what we are reallyfighting for and our founders
fought for.
And it's, just amazing isbeautiful to see.
And so, I just think that if.
People got out and, and met morepeople in the middle of the
(02:03):
country and understood what ourperspectives were and saw what
we're looking at.
When you look out over vastacres of land with cows
sprinkled on it and you starthearing how cows are bad for the
world, and you're like, really?
Look at those creatures.
They've been feeding us forcenturies and.
(02:24):
just things like that, that'sjust so ridiculous and that the,
climate's changing anddestroying the world.
I think you just need adifferent perspective than
what's going on in, in these bigcities.
And I think cities are part ofour problem.
But anyway, enjoyed that time,you know, and then, Tuesday was
Independence Day, the 4th ofJuly, and I've said this before.
(02:45):
It's one my.
Favorite holidays?
Just I am a big fan of therevolution, the revolutionary
times what, how this countrycame to be, because not
understanding that, you know,you can't understand what's
going on today and why we haveto fight so hard to maintain
(03:09):
this, this great country and,and how it came to be.
And.
Celebrating that is very, veryimportant.
to me it's celebrating the birthand death of, of Christ and then
celebrating the birth of thisgreat country.
And I hope we never are talkingabout the death of this country.
But sometimes it feels likewe're getting awful close.
(03:29):
But when I look back at thosemen, That started the revolution
on Independence Day, July 4th,1776.
I'm amazed at their courage thatthey had and we're gonna get
back to the Second Amendment,and we'll touch on it.
But, you, Supreme Court casesand Biden and all that baloney.
(03:52):
Sometimes I feel like But whenyou go back to where it all
began, I think sometimesimportant, important to reflect
and put yourself in their shoes.
They're there and they have,this wasn't their first choice
and they, they, they've made alot of attempts to.
Rectify what they saw was someinjustice from the king to get
(04:14):
their own independence in, in adifferent way.
But the finally push came toshove and they realized they had
to just take up arms and, and,and fight for what they believed
in.
And, and that took great couragebecause, these men came from a
lot of backgrounds.
They all had a lot to lose.
when you look at the, there's 56men.
(04:36):
Signed the declaration of of theIndependence.
two were brother or two werecousins, one was an orphan.
Benjamin Franklin was the oldestat 70.
The youngest was Thomas Lynch.
He was 27.
I think they averaged about 45.
Was about the average age.
They were merchants,businessmen, farmers, doctors,
(04:59):
mo a lot were lawyers, judges.
There was a governor Many hadbeen in their own legislation.
There's clergy.
They were all, almost all wereeither Protestants and there was
one Catholic Charles Carroll ofMaryland.
Seven, of the signers wereeducated.
Harvard, Fort Yale, Fort Williamand Marion.
Three at Princeton and Harvardand Yale, and Princeton.
(05:23):
What they are today, theyweren't this communist
birthplace, they were formed byChristians.
For Christians, when you look atthe, what they all had to risk,
and they knew that if they werecaptured and, and that they
could hang, they were tre this,they were committing treason at
this point in time.
And think about today, who hasthat courage to really stand up?
(05:47):
Because, we look at the, thepower that the government has
had and how they misused it tocome down on what they consider.
They're adversaries, theiropponents, president Trump,
people around him, Steve Bannon,Charlie Kirk, and the, like,
that they, they've come on hard,you know, they, and, but you
(06:08):
know, the, the signers LA atthat time they weren't really
facing anything much differentthat this king had a lot of, he
was powerful.
It was the British nation and.
president Biden says, you knowwhat, when he talks about AR
fifteens and you, you needsomething bigger than an AR 15,
you need an F 16 to, fight theUnited States government.
(06:30):
Look at these colonists.
They had muskets and they had afew cannons.
The British Navy and the, theBritish army, the, the, the red
coats, they were the finestfighting force.
In the world at that point intime, we didn't have a navy of,
of any kind.
So you, you, the odds may seemto be stacked against you, but
(06:52):
there was a reason why theyfought to keep their arms.
And that's what again, when the,you look at the way this thing
started, the British were comingto ground up all their
ammunition, gunpowder in theirarms because they knew that they
couldn't have this, an armednation and keep them controlled.
But so that, the, the times weredifferent, but they weren't all
(07:12):
that, they different as, as youthink, and that, we need to find
people of courage today.
they had five of the signerswere captured by the British
during the, the war.
17.
17 fought in the American recordrelationship.
American Revolutionary War.
11 of the signers had theirhomes and properties destroyed.
15.
(07:32):
Participated in their state'sconstitutional convention, and
six actually signed theConstitution.
So we had 56 signed theDeclaration of Independence.
Six of those 56 signed theConstitution.
I believe there was 14 thatdidn't see the end of the
revolution.
They signed the Declaration ofIndependence, but they died.
(07:53):
25% of the people that signedDeclaration of Independence
didn't even see.
At the end of the RevolutionaryWar, they didn't see what they
signed up for, but they knewthat was a risk.
These were great men and wecan't forget how great they
were.
They put a lot at risk.
There was a variety of,different types, but.
(08:14):
They all had, one thing incommon is they, they believed in
these inial rights that we wereso, that fought for, and that
they had been pushed to thelimit and it was time to stand
up and fight.
And I just think, that's the,what the beauty of the 4th of
July is, and this time period isto sit back, reflect, honor,
(08:35):
these men don't bete them, formistakes that they made.
there's a lot of that.
That we like to go back and lookin history and criticize their
faults, and we all have faults,but they had one thing in
common.
They believed that we man neededto be free, and that at that
point in time, we don't get too,too down the shoot that was all
(08:58):
men and don't believe inanything that just because they
held slaves, that these men werenot fighting for freedom for all
men.
It was a different time.
The England is the one thatbrought the slaves here.
And we put, we the signersThomas Jefferson, some of the
first to, to start puttingthings in place to end slavery.
(09:23):
So fourth July.
It's for the independence of allmen.
And we need to celebrate it.
We need to honor it, and we needto always remember these men
that put everything on the linefor what we have today, and we
need to do whatever we can toprotect what they started.
(09:44):
Thank you.
God bless America and just sharethis podcast.
Continue to listen.
Do whatever you can.
I appreciate it, everything thatyou do.
Thank you and have a greatweekend.
Welcome to Live Cheat Podcast.
My name is Jeff Dole and I'vebeen licensed Firearm to live
for the last 16 years.
In this podcast, we talk aboutall things related to the Second
Amendment, as well as anythingthat might be going in the other
news or stories from my personallife or anything else that I
might be interested in.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
Today is July 8th.
It's been a couple weeks sinceI've put a podcast out.
(00:37):
Took a little break, took alittle trip with my wife to
Steamboat Springs Colorado.
We stayed with some friends intheir condo and just loved it.
the temperatures were as high asa 75, low of 40, and at the same
time here in Dallas it washitting a hundred.
So it was nice.
We hiked.
Just saw some great sites.
(00:58):
It's a beautiful country in the,in the summer.
Think I almost like it betterthan when there's snow on the
ground.
We did see some snow.
We went up pine enough thatthere's still some snow there.
They got a lot of snow over thewinter.
So the, the rivers are high, thecreeks are high, they're
flowing.
There's bridges closed, thingslike that.
But when we were out hiking, wewent up to 11,000 square, 11
(01:19):
hike.
You wanna say 11,000 feet on onehike and, That's one thing when
I look out over this country andI think, more people need to get
out and see this, it seems likethis country is, is made up of a
lot of people in these bigcities, New York, Los Angeles
San Francisco that never reallysee.
(01:42):
What's going on in the middle ofthe country and the great
vastness of this country and theuniqueness of it and how awesome
it is.
And what, what we are reallyfighting for and our founders
fought for.
And it's, just amazing isbeautiful to see.
And so, I just think that if.
People got out and, and met morepeople in the middle of the
(02:03):
country and understood what ourperspectives were and saw what
we're looking at.
When you look out over vastacres of land with cows
sprinkled on it and you starthearing how cows are bad for the
world, and you're like, really?
Look at those creatures.
They've been feeding us forcenturies and.
(02:24):
just things like that, that'sjust so ridiculous and that the,
climate's changing anddestroying the world.
I think you just need adifferent perspective than
what's going on in, in these bigcities.
And I think cities are part ofour problem.
But anyway, enjoyed that time,you know, and then, Tuesday was
Independence Day, the 4th ofJuly, and I've said this before.
(02:45):
It's one my.
Favorite holidays?
Just I am a big fan of therevolution, the revolutionary
times what, how this countrycame to be, because not
understanding that, you know,you can't understand what's
going on today and why we haveto fight so hard to maintain
(03:09):
this, this great country and,and how it came to be.
And.
Celebrating that is very, veryimportant.
to me it's celebrating the birthand death of, of Christ and then
celebrating the birth of thisgreat country.
And I hope we never are talkingabout the death of this country.
But sometimes it feels likewe're getting awful close.
(03:29):
But when I look back at thosemen, That started the revolution
on Independence Day, July 4th,1776.
I'm amazed at their courage thatthey had and we're gonna get
back to the Second Amendment,and we'll touch on it.
But, you, Supreme Court casesand Biden and all that baloney.
(03:52):
Sometimes I feel like But whenyou go back to where it all
began, I think sometimesimportant, important to reflect
and put yourself in their shoes.
They're there and they have,this wasn't their first choice
and they, they, they've made alot of attempts to.
Rectify what they saw was someinjustice from the king to get
(04:14):
their own independence in, in adifferent way.
But the finally push came toshove and they realized they had
to just take up arms and, and,and fight for what they believed
in.
And, and that took great couragebecause, these men came from a
lot of backgrounds.
They all had a lot to lose.
when you look at the, there's 56men.
(04:36):
Signed the declaration of of theIndependence.
two were brother or two werecousins, one was an orphan.
Benjamin Franklin was the oldestat 70.
The youngest was Thomas Lynch.
He was 27.
I think they averaged about 45.
Was about the average age.
They were merchants,businessmen, farmers, doctors,
(04:59):
mo a lot were lawyers, judges.
There was a governor Many hadbeen in their own legislation.
There's clergy.
They were all, almost all wereeither Protestants and there was
one Catholic Charles Carroll ofMaryland.
Seven, of the signers wereeducated.
Harvard, Fort Yale, Fort Williamand Marion.
Three at Princeton and Harvardand Yale, and Princeton.
(05:23):
What they are today, theyweren't this communist
birthplace, they were formed byChristians.
For Christians, when you look atthe, what they all had to risk,
and they knew that if they werecaptured and, and that they
could hang, they were tre this,they were committing treason at
this point in time.
And think about today, who hasthat courage to really stand up?
(05:47):
Because, we look at the, thepower that the government has
had and how they misused it tocome down on what they consider.
They're adversaries, theiropponents, president Trump,
people around him, Steve Bannon,Charlie Kirk, and the, like,
that they, they've come on hard,you know, they, and, but you
(06:08):
know, the, the signers LA atthat time they weren't really
facing anything much differentthat this king had a lot of, he
was powerful.
It was the British nation and.
president Biden says, you knowwhat, when he talks about AR
fifteens and you, you needsomething bigger than an AR 15,
you need an F 16 to, fight theUnited States government.
(06:30):
Look at these colonists.
They had muskets and they had afew cannons.
The British Navy and the, theBritish army, the, the, the red
coats, they were the finestfighting force.
In the world at that point intime, we didn't have a navy of,
of any kind.
So you, you, the odds may seemto be stacked against you, but
(06:52):
there was a reason why theyfought to keep their arms.
And that's what again, when the,you look at the way this thing
started, the British were comingto ground up all their
ammunition, gunpowder in theirarms because they knew that they
couldn't have this, an armednation and keep them controlled.
But so that, the, the times weredifferent, but they weren't all
(07:12):
that, they different as, as youthink, and that, we need to find
people of courage today.
they had five of the signerswere captured by the British
during the, the war.
17.
17 fought in the American recordrelationship.
American Revolutionary War.
11 of the signers had theirhomes and properties destroyed.
15.
(07:32):
Participated in their state'sconstitutional convention, and
six actually signed theConstitution.
So we had 56 signed theDeclaration of Independence.
Six of those 56 signed theConstitution.
I believe there was 14 thatdidn't see the end of the
revolution.
They signed the Declaration ofIndependence, but they died.
(07:53):
25% of the people that signedDeclaration of Independence
didn't even see.
At the end of the RevolutionaryWar, they didn't see what they
signed up for, but they knewthat was a risk.
These were great men and wecan't forget how great they
were.
They put a lot at risk.
There was a variety of,different types, but.
(08:14):
They all had, one thing incommon is they, they believed in
these inial rights that we wereso, that fought for, and that
they had been pushed to thelimit and it was time to stand
up and fight.
And I just think, that's the,what the beauty of the 4th of
July is, and this time period isto sit back, reflect, honor,
(08:35):
these men don't bete them, formistakes that they made.
there's a lot of that.
That we like to go back and lookin history and criticize their
faults, and we all have faults,but they had one thing in
common.
They believed that we man neededto be free, and that at that
point in time, we don't get too,too down the shoot that was all
(08:58):
men and don't believe inanything that just because they
held slaves, that these men werenot fighting for freedom for all
men.
It was a different time.
The England is the one thatbrought the slaves here.
And we put, we the signersThomas Jefferson, some of the
first to, to start puttingthings in place to end slavery.
(09:23):
So fourth July.
It's for the independence of allmen.
And we need to celebrate it.
We need to honor it, and we needto always remember these men
that put everything on the linefor what we have today, and we
need to do whatever we can toprotect what they started.
(09:44):
Thank you.
God bless America and just sharethis podcast.
Continue to listen.
Do whatever you can.
I appreciate it, everything thatyou do.
Thank you and have a greatweekend.
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