Ep 22 "Cowboy In Hollywood"

Unspoken Podcast Episode 22
"Cowboy In Hollywood"
Hosts: Dan and Dawna Wilson
www.theoriginalunspokenpodcast.com

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SEGMENT ONE
Cigars & Whiskey

Dan's Cigar: Crux Guild Toro Extra Marbellhead BP
Dawna's Cigar: Asylum 13 Ogre Lancero Habano/candela
Whiskey: Grangestone Single Malt Rum Cask Finish

SEGMENT TWO
Cowboy In Hollywood

SEGMENT THREE
The Gym Locker Room

SEGMENT FOUR
Our Dying Parent's Generation

SEGMENT FIVE
Good Times And Bad Times - preparing for both

SEGMENT SIX
Do you know your sheriff? As things come unraveled, the Sheriff is our last, best hope. Do you know your sheriff?

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the original Unspoken Podcast withhosts Dan and Donna Wilson, Episode twenty
two. Welcome to the Unspoken Podcastwhere I'm your host, Dan Wilson,
and across from me is that dimemy wife Donna. This is Unspoken,
where we do discuss popular and someunpopular things social, moral, spiritual,

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and political. We like to doa little bit of all of that.
We're unafraid, unfaltering, and unapologetic. The other thing is, on occasion,
we do like some cigars and whiskeyon an occasion, Okay, an
often occasion? Do you eat threemeals a day? Often? Often?
Hey, I've got some great cigarsthat we're going to clip here in a

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second. We're gonna light them up. One of them never heard of them
before, the other one have heard. You gotta wait till the end of
the episode to get my honest opinion. Okay, So we'll stick around for
that. We're gonna be talking abouta whole host of things today. We
have so much to say. It'sbeen a while since we last broadcast episode
twenty one. Lots have happened.What have we been kind of doing since

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that time? No, we've probablydone a little bit of traveling. You
know, it's been so much timethat I don't even remember what we're doing,
but I can tell you right nowit is allergy season. So no
matter what time this has been listenedto, you can empathize with the pollen
in the air, the constant wipingdown of the pollen if you're needing to
go outside, the constant itching,just the discomfort usca varna blower and I'm

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going through a gallon of fuel aweek, just blowing crap off. Well
I didn't know that, all right. So look at this beautiful looking stick.
It's a land Sarah. Have youever smoked a land Sarah before?
It looks familiar. It's skinny andlong. Yeah. So it's made by
Asylum thirteen. Asylum is uh,I don't know they're they're a pretty well

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known cigar maker. This is avery interesting barber shop rapper. See how
that looks where it's kind of stripedlike the barber shop poll. The illusion
of it never ends. It's calledthe ogre. Why do you think it's
called the ogre? Well, it'sa little bit green, green and brown,
kind of gross. Yeah. Thirtyeight and that's the one you're given

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to men. It's gonna taste delicious. I've already clipped it for you,
so it's it's got this candela rapperthat is, I don't know, joined
up with a habana, so it'sgot a barber pole spin to it.
If you will, Okay, I'mwind it up for you. Hey,

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how am I doing on my mic? Doing great? I gotta pull my
mouth away from the mic so thatI can actually this cigar for you.
Well, yeah, that might beproblematic, and I can, of course
keep talking while you're getting out cigargoing, keep things rolling along. Can't
have dead air in this situation.Give that just a little rest, pience.

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We've just had the handoff, we'redoing the play by play, had
the handoff. Now we're giving thisa rest. So the humidor is full
of wild card sticks. Don't evenknow where I got most of them,
but they're loose, laying in thebottom. They're one offs. I was
thinking of this episode. I knowI've already talked about many of the regular

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smokes that I have enjoyed the pastyear, the Romeos, the law Auroras,
and I thought, I'm just gonnatake a chance. I'm gonna pull
wild card out of the bottom.I'm gonna try it. It is called

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a cruise by the way. Waylook at my speech impediment as it proved.
It's spelled cru x and it's pronouncedcruise. Oh here, I'm so
I was about to make a correction. I'm glad I held off. I
looked it up. Actually, allso, I looked this company up.
I don't know much about him.There isn't a whole lot on this stick.
Apparently they like them. There maybea boutique, a one off.

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So this crew cruise, Yeah,a cruise guild it is. Let's see,
let me look up my notes hereit's a cruise Guild Toro extra marble
head six point five inches and afifty two ring gage box press. What

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have I been telling you about thesedogon box presses? Well, you're not
a fan. They don't just theyjust don't sit quite right with you.
All right, I'm lighting this cruiseup once they crux. Mine is about
the size of the giant aunt pixiestick, not the little pixie sticks,
but the giant ones you'd get atGreat America. That hum in the background,

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of course, is our rabbit aircigar eaters, cigar smoke eaters here
it. It just got the messagethat we're smoking, and so the engines
are weren't whurring. How about alittle grainstone single malt. It should liven
things up, just to touch.I know it's kind of one of those

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days, isn't it. Two fingersfor you, three for me. Here's
a you kid. All right now, I'm officially ready to take on this
episode. You well, you knowwhat I figured out. I don't know
if I'm ready for this episode ornot, but I didn't figure something out

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I'm dying to know. In between, in between, I gotta keep my
cigar going. I figured out thatthe gym locker room is um basically the
closest thing you come to living withother people, except you're not really getting
anything out of it. Wait wait, wait, no, they're not paying
my bills, not making me dinner. Just people that are like doing their

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thing the way they do it,with no consideration of anybody else there in
the gym locker room. I mean, I can only speak for the women's
locker room. I don't know ifthis holds true in the men's there's some
observations like, well there's um lockersthat there are some that are the free
for all lockers that first come,first served, but there are ones that

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have been rented. So if you'vegot enough stuff you don't want to haul
it back and forth every day,you can rent a locker. I have
two rented lockers. Two you havetwo. That's like breaking code. They're
half the size, and nobody's gripingabout it. Well, I didn't know
this. You got the manage,I guess. So, so there's rented

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lockers, and I've noticed occasionally,you know, one will be left open
as one of the gals is comeand going getting ready whatever they're doing.
I think I've seen. I sawone a lady had scissors, probably a
power drill and like a metal detectorin their tabes, not a power drill.
It's it's one of those massage guys, like what are you doing on

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top of all the supplies that arein locker, which is now taking up
like a third of the space onthe benches in front of the lockers.
It's just it's a lot of stuff, yes, you know, and we
have to share the space, Yes, we have to share the space.
And then you know about this one. I call it the purple towel,
The purple towel. This has nowbecome the infamous purple towel in the women's

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locker room. Does the purple towelstink? I don't know the owner.
I don't know where she goes orwhat she does, but there's the towel
laying there on the sauna bench ina wet, steamy pile. And I've
still never seen the owner, onlythe purple towel. And there have been
times that I've left the locker roomdone my workout, come back to the

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locker room after workout, and thetowels moved and it's moved from inside the
sauna to then being draped down thefront of my locker. So I'm not
touching it. I don't remember tellingme that part. Oh yeah, I
come, I go. The purpletowels it's still there, so yeah,

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I don't know. I still don'tknow. Don't have all the answers on
that one. And then women gettingready in the locker room, it's like
definitely takes a village because the amountof things which I know I talked about
locker but then then when the itemsare spread out, there's a ten foot
long countertop in there, so you'vegot the magnification mirror. You've got the
appliances, the bags, the products, and just spread out ten ft ten

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feet of stuff. I'm like,it's just it's too complicated. And then
the sinks. There's always a swamppuddle everywhere all over the countertop. It's
like we're all we're savage. Somy technique is that you apply soap to
your hands before your hands are wet, so you're not then dripping and we're

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oozing like water and now the soapcontainers sitting in a puddle of water.
That's my technique. And I sharedthat with one person and I actually got
a lot of pushback on that.I got an argument because they went they
went to the CDC's website to findthat the CDC recommends that you wet your
hands first, So you got towet your hands first and then apply soap.

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I would argue and say, itmatters by what the manufacturer of the
soap says. So therefore there maybe a manufacturer that says wet first and
then leather, rinse, repeat.I don't know, so I don't know
about the men's locker room, butit's just it's a hard It can sometimes
be a difficult place to coexist withothers. Sure, you know we're kind

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of all living there in a way, but didn't agree to it. Well,
I think that the men's locker roomhas its share. Maybe there's more
decorum in the men's locker room.No, it's pretty stripped down. I
will tell you that, not thatyou would ever do this, but if
you ever had to go into themen's locker room, you would never step

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foot into another public restroom for therest of your life. Frequently I have
to knock on the stall doors sayhey, man, you may want to
see your primary care physician, becausethat's just wrong. We have all sorts
of and if I see a toweland it's been laying around for a while,

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I kick it. Oh you kickit. We got like something going.
But when a dude leaves his towelat the gym, that's it.
It's gone. You consider it aloss here, not going back for it.
It's just that's understandable. You know, you got um a new pillow
recently. I did you wake upone day and you're like, look,

(11:03):
I don't want to overstate this,but you have to give the background.
I gotta tell you something what's thebackground. Well, we got the box
from my pillow from Mike Lindell.His shining face was the first thing we
saw when we opened up the boxand I looked at the pillows that came
in, and I said, what'swrong with these things? Well? They

(11:28):
were they were rolled really really tight, really tightly packed very tightly. I
mean my first impression was, honestly, these look like a cheap hotel set
of pillows. Yeah, opened itup, fluffed it around because it has
all those those you know, patentedfill thinging majigs that that Mike came up

(11:52):
with. So I went a littlehack. I threw it in the dryer
for about ten minutes on low,fluffed it up. First night, yeah,
I wasn't too impressed. I wentback to my little foam pillow.
But then, oh, you weren'tfeeling the level, right, I mean,
you know when you're talking about agood night's sleep. Yeah, I

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only get four to five hours anyway, so those are precious hours. Anyway,
the first night, whatever, Thesecond night, I don't even I
think I must have fallen asleep whileI was trying it out, and I
woke up and I felt pretty good, and the next night, I tried
it yet again, and by thethird night I was waking up in the

(12:37):
morning without chronic neck paint my scms. You know, those little little muscles
on each side of your neck,they're always strained, always giving me a
headache. I woke up and Ifelt like a million bucks, which with
today's inflation, I know is nota lot, but I felt good.
Now this this new My Pillow twopoint zero. It's got some cooling technology

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on the cover of it, socomes in pieces and you can conform it
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get it to bounce back a littlebit when you run that through the dryer.
So I think that was one ofthe things you figured out, is
how to better conform it to theshape of support that you needed. I

(13:24):
am a firm, no pun intendedbeliever of the My Pillow two point oh.
I think anybody that has neck painought to consider running out buying one
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(13:48):
it is buy one, get onefree. That's why we hopped on that
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website for what the current offers are, and either way, whatever they are,
you're going to get deep discounts.Using the code word unspoken. There
is a lot of stuff on thePillow web page website. I guess you

(14:09):
say, yeah, there's slippers,there's clothing items. It's just a fun
website to shop because they're probably goingto be some things there, the good
household items that you can definitely usethat rather than buying from a big box
store or things that aren't made inAmerica. My Pillow is a great place
to shop for a lot of thosehousehold items. Mike, if you're listening,

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which I know you are, I'mstill waiting on my smoking robe.
So we were talking earlier in thisepisode about some traveling. We've done a
ton of traveling this spring. Wehad another great and it was a crampack
couple days down to Los Angeles.So we went down to Los Angeles.

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Donna had a shoot that she wasinvolved with some acting for one of the
brands that she reps. It wasa great time. She invited yours truly
to go along for the ride.I think I was more there to be
the bodyguard. I think so mycowboy, it was not on the top

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of his priority list to go toLA, to Hollywood or anywhere in the
vicinity. But I know that youwanted to be with me and keep me
protected in such a space. Andwe had a great time all in all,
probably some good stories which came awaywith on that one. It was

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LA, and there is no otherplace like LA. I have not been
to New York. I'm guessing thatNew York has its own vibe that's vastly
different from California. We're not talkingabout Portland weird. We're not talking about
Seattle swank, We're not talking aboutMissoula weird. Or we're talking about LA

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and there's I think I figured fivetypes of people in LA, and I
know that's that's majorly over everybody narrowedit down to five types. I was
not one of those five types.You are much better at blending in So
I thought you were going to tellus what the five types were. Where

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are you going with that? Iknow LA had a very distinct smell piss
in marijuana. That's what we cameaway though. That's Hollywood. I told
Dan, I said, look,you know, I don't know that I'm
going to get this opportunity again oranytime soon. And I want to do
some of the touristy stuff. Iwant to see the Walk of Fame.
I want to see whatever that iswhere people did their hand prints. Learned

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I learned later Chinese the I hada lot to learn on that one.
So we did go do some ofthose fun touristy things. He did that
on my account. And yeah,right down in that area, it's got
a very distinct smell. And thenyou've got the the open air street vendors
with their really interesting makeshift Jerry Riggcooktop setups that are anything but clean and

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sterile. Yeah, and you canjust see, well, nobody's worried about
Harrison Ford had a hot dog andsome sort that that had fallen from one
of the vendors. The kids aresitting right on top of the sidewalk and
there's there's a small hot dog onHarrison Ford start. That was one of
my takeaways is you you can achievethat level of greatness to where you're being

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commemorated on something that's so idealized andso Americana. And that really slapped me
in the face as we're walking overthose starts, for one thing, how
for how many miles down they goand the it fades into obscurity really and

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the fact that it's just pretty filthy. Yeah. So it's it's glamorized,
and there's the lights and the flashesand the glitter and all these things carpet
events. It looks like it's dazzling, you know that it's it's the stereotypical
Hollywood that we've all come to believeis real. Yeah. And I said

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to Dan, I wonder how manyof these elites refuse to be present at
their own star being placed in becausethey didn't like the placement of it,
or the hot dog stand or somethingthat it was in front of. Because
it really is just very sobering whenyou see it that way. The Chinese
theater is a dump. Yeah.And when you look at outside, where

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everybody has put their hand and footprintswritten their name in the concrete, they're
all mismatched, different heights, differentwidths. I mean, it's kind of
cool. But the older I get, the less I give a crap about
Hollywood. In general, not thatI ever really did, but of course
I'm like everybody in my generation.You have one or two favorite actors,
and I think it was cool JulieGarland, that was Yeah, what I

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say, Julie, I think soFreudian slip yep. Judy Garland. How
old was she when she put herprinting? I believe I learned she was
fIF teen. She was You're small, yeah, I mean, your your
feet are tiny. You could puttwo of hers in your shoe. Yeah.

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That was interesting to see because herfeet were just about as tiny of
as adult feet that I've seen,so that that was a bit surprising.
But yeah, I'm the furthest thingfrom a movie buff that you'd ever meet,
and I still had my curiosities aboutthe area so I would have fun.
And to that end, when youand I started dating, I asked

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you the typical questions, what's yourfavorite books, what's your favorite movie?
Your favorite movie is The Wizard ofOz. But outside of that, you
really didn't have a favorite per se, And I was taken aback because you
know, even I have five favoritemovies, one of them being, of

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course, Braveheart. I mean,which dude that loves freedom doesn't love William
Wallace. I also love the IndianaJones movies. You know, Raiders of
the Lost are changed my entire world. Of course, I like John Wayne
two anyway, So yeah, itwas it was interesting to see how everything

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was laid out. It's been twentyplus years since I saw that. We
also went down and walked the beach, because of course you wanted to see
the La Beach scene. We landedat Santa Monica, walked down to the
pier, and then we took athree mile stroll southward to Venice Beach and

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the sites never disappoint. All inall, I had a great time.
It was good to see things.It was eighty degrees up here in North
Idaho and it was sixties. Yeah, of course overcast down there. Yeah,
we finally got some warmth in NorthIdaho on the weekend. I had
to jet, but but we gotto see where Baywatching Sunshine was typically filmed

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at that That was our favorite.I don't know if we've told you guys
about that yet, but Dan andI doesn't. He didn't want you to
know this. He didn't want youto know. Hey, no, let's
talking generalities. One night, Iwalk into the room, it's got the
TV on. Are you watching Baywatch? Are you watching Baywatch? Who wants

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to know? We have we havea channel. It's all Baywatch all the
time. And neither neither he norI watched it when it originally aired in
what the late eighties, eighties,throughout the nineties, throughout it different iterations
of it, or at least tothe Hawaii. But so we've been watching

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these episodes and just like, thisis classic. Well, I don't even
know how it could how it couldbe made today, everything being all woke,
there is no way that that couldbe made today and have the kind
of following that it had. AndI didn't realize this at the time,
because, of course I'm gonna watch. I'm gonna look into it. David

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Hasselhoff stars of course the Hoff inthe series. In the first year,
they're going to cancel it, soI believe, if I remember the story
correctly, he ends up taking somekind of a deal and they moved networks
or they basically went into syndication.And it was at one time the most
popular, most widely watched show onTV, with I think a billion viewers.

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I mean, it's some astronomical I'mwhat though. I'm watching it now
and I just I can't get enough. Well, look, there's lots of
there's lots of scantily clad people,which but but the actings horrible. Everybody
gets CPR. I know. Here'sthe fact. I did not realize so
many people every day almost drowned inthe Pacific Ocean along the La Coast.

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Oh, they've had they've had oiltankers blowing up capers on the high seas.
I mean they know that Baywatch Lifeguardscould also have detained power and investigatory
powers and maritime powers. They haveall all of it, all the powers.
Unbelievable. They were arresting people,they were, you know, stopping

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heists. It's just there, there'sno end to the entertainment. But one
of the things we look at withthat show is we're now how many years
thirty thirty years unbelievable. But theone of the fun parts is Dan alluded
to the fact that there's some scantilyclad Okay, a lot. They would

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not have allowed it, not approved, which is really the reason I never
watched the show. But it's beenfun now that we're thirty years advanced to
while we're watching look up some ofthese actors and actresses, Okay, where
are they now? They were inprime top you know, condition, and
their physiques were impeccable. So let'sjust see how this is held up thirty

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years later. And that's been afun point because you can get immediate answers
on that while you're because the worldwe live in access to the information.
So it's been completely fun and itis makes it ever present in my mind
where a person and their health andphysique can be thirty years prior to where

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it is today when you don't stayon top of it. Yeah. Right.
So Dan and I are part ofGeneration X born in the seventies,
and we're sandwich between baby boomers andmillennials. Our parents are baby boomers between
the ages of like fifty nine toseventy seven years old. So I'm gonna
tell a little bit more of mypersonal story related to where I'm going with

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this. My mom was having majorissues with her health even when I was
in my early twenties. I mean, I was just having my first baby
at that time, and she wasalready experiencing some pretty aggressive health issues.
So that would have put her,you know, yikes, probably still in

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her forties I guess some of herhealth stuff you could say was genetic,
but I'll argue that point and saythat a lot of the contributing factors were
lifestyle. And then along with thatis a big one is mindset. Fast
forward to today and my mom isgone. That's been a painful point in

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my life, something that I've sharedsome about already. She was just like
seventy two, seventy three years old. Yeah, she was weak and ailing
when she came to my oldest son'shigh school graduation, which I mean that's
now been a while ago, ahandful of years ago, and I didn't

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realize at that time that due tothese progressing issues that she wouldn't even be
able to consider attending my middle son'shigh school graduation. And she was gone
before my youngest my daughter graduated.There's the loss of relationship with the kids

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experiencing vibrant grandparents. She'll never seethe two youngests get married or experienced great
grandchildren. Life, as it turnedout, was very short. Between last
year and this year, there weretwo major incidents where I also had to
contemplate very seriously losing my dad.He's still here and he's a determined individual.

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But he's also losing strength and stamina, and he's spent the last year
plus really missing my mom, andthat has affected his mindset in a big
way. So I take a stepback from all this and find it almost

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perplexing that I'm here already. Itdoesn't seem like I'm old enough to have
lost a parent or contemplate losing anotherone. It seems like just yesterday that
I was moving out of my parents'house as a teen, and now I've
experienced the loss of one and havebeen fearful even this year of losing the

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other. And you know what,it's come with some anger, anger that
they weren't taking better care of themselvesearlier on in life. There are things
you can outrun for a while whenyou still have youth on your side,
but when you're not actively tending toyour health and fitness, you will deteriorate.

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True, now, I mean,I get it, We're we are
in a state of deterioration regardless,but if there are some key things that
you're not doing, you're expediting thatprocess. And guess what, it's actually
disrespectful to the most important people aroundyou, to your spouse, to your

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family, your kids and your grandkids. There are plenty of people our age
who actually still have young kids athome. We've got two girls here at
home still, ye, And Imean that's that's our our generation at the
ages we are still raising kids butalso caring for parents. And we're not

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alone in this because parents refuse tofind responsibility in this area when they still
had time on their side. Yeah, we both know that. Yeah,
there are things that happen that areinevitable. So that's not what I'm speaking
to. You can make plans alllifelong and the unexpected happens, but barring
that, and I want to openthis to discussion what are some things at

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our age or for those who areyounger than you and I are, that
we can be doing to plan fora healthier life as long as we're alive.
And you and I have I feellike we share that. That's one
of the things that draws me toyou, or that I love so much

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about you, is pursuing that ideaof health so aggressively that you don't know
what time you have, so whatyou're eating, what you're putting into your
mouth matters. I mean, mymind has been blown when I've seen people
no sooner come out of a hospitalstay where they've had quite a scare,

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and ride through the fast food drivethrough on the way home when you know
when they finally get their walking papersand it's like it just doesn't connect that
how you're feeding and fueling your bodyor what an impact that has. So

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I know that you realize how importantthat is. What are some of the
other things that we can be doingto prepare as we age so that we're
being as responsible as we can withour families and our kids, because again,
there's the things that are inevitable,but I don't want to unnecessarily be

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a burden. Sure, well,you have to set yourself up first of
all physically, as we've been talkingabout eating correctly, eating the right foods,
eating the right amounts, exercise,keeping yourself mobile, all of those

(31:22):
range of motion exercises, muscle building, those are all a hydration. Those
are all extremely important things that everybodycan do. It doesn't take a ton
when you talk about exercising, though, expound on that, but how aggressive
I mean, Look, I'm anengine toward fifty and I remember, I

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want to say, I remember mygrandma, my dad's mom at this age
I've described her even before. Butthe panty hose, the sensible shoes,
the polyester, it almost like thething, the house gown thing that you
are what I just feel like,I'm in such a different place where I'm
running and jumping and pushing weights andI feel mobile and energetic and wanting to

(32:13):
be stronger and stay lean. Sowhen you talk about what are the things
people should avoid or be scared ofwhen it comes to exercise, because if
they say, okay, you guys, well I've never really been athletic,
I've never I haven't done that.So what are you suggesting? I mean,
do I go on a walk everyday or what are you talking about?
You have to start out with somethingbasic, which is setting your alarm

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every morning early unless you're working anight shift. But you get you get
what I'm saying to where you dedicategetting up and physically doing something. Walking
at a bare minimum, it's best, I have read better than running,
better than biking. To spend yourfirst I don't know, within the first

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hour of waking, going for awalk, not a hard walk, not
exerting yourself at a on a treadmillat a five percent incline, but walking
thirty minutes minimum. That by faris one of the absolute greatest things that

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you can do for not only yourmetabolism but also for your joints, getting
that oxygen that you need to supplyto the rest of your cardiovascular system and
your mind. And then after thatyou can do lightweights. There are so
many resources if you don't have theability to go to a local gym where

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you can find a personal trainer ora group class, which they're everywhere anymore.
Right our gym, for the communitywe live in, there must be
a couple thousand people that are theyare members of this chymp. But there's
all sorts of classes. There's bikingclasses, there's the zoomba, there is

(34:15):
the well, guys don't do zoomba, but you know, there are the
group classes, yoga, all sortsof things, and then you can get
a personal trainer and learn how toactually start doing resistive training. You know,
I'm not a personal trainer, nottrying to give advice as one.

(34:36):
I am just here to talk aboutone the absolute power of resistance training,
pushing weight, pushing and pulling weight, lifting weights and doing it as aggressively
as you possibly can. Of course, you've got to have a handle on
avoiding injury. So you don't goin too hard and too fast when you're

(34:58):
you're unprod, just unrehearsed. Youdon't know, you're not trying to go
in and get injured. Well you'llget yourself discouraged. Rafa back. Yeah,
you know, take it easy andwork your way up. But the
amount of not only strength and enduranceand what it's done for my mobility and
that the feeling youthful, but alsojust confidence. I had a friend to

(35:20):
ask me the other day, youknow, you strike me as a very
confident person. Where does that comefrom? And I mean at first I
had to sit back. I wastyping an answer to her, and I
had to sit back and think,well, I don't I mean, am
I even confident? Is that justsomething I'm projecting and it's not really the
case. But then I thought,no, I think this is a an

(35:44):
instance. This is an opportunity forme to encourage her. So it's not
it wasn't a chance to deflect andgo oh chucks and oh I don't know
and I'm not I mean really I'mjust insecure. Like no, I felt
that it was an opportunity to givean answer that, look, if I
can encourage somebody toward this, letme give you some real practical things that

(36:05):
have made a difference in my life. And weight training has been huge.
I mean, I gave her acouple of other answers about my personal growth
from where I had been as ashy kid, but I said, I'll
tell you what you know, pulling, pushing, lifting weights and resistance training
in the gym has has been huge, and it's it's spilled over into every

(36:25):
other area of my life in beingable to project confidence and go after that
whole mindset. Because that was oneof the things I was touching on earlier,
that your mindset has a huge effecton your health. Sure you know.
So if you're sick, it's likewill you recover well? If in
your mind you're not determined that youwill, you really may not after the

(36:50):
first time you have a catastrophic fallor break something well. And I think
we're talking about all different ages,right, And it's when you're younger you
can get by with it. Yeah, you can get by without having to
do the things that when you aregetting upwards of our age are more important.

(37:12):
You can still go out into likebasketball scrimmage or softball with the younger
boys and kind of laugh it offbecause you're not as fast as they are,
but you that can carry you forquite a long time. So I
think when you're talking about because wehave all different types of people that are
listening. If you are young,don't ever get out of the mindset like

(37:35):
and I'm going to speak for bothof us, I was a pretty fit
kid. I work construction all theway until I went into the office.
When I started the company and movedfrom the field into the office, I
went for eight years, and Iam extremely disgusted with how undisciplined, not

(37:55):
only with finding the time to workout, but also my eating habits right.
And once you get to that point, you have to do a lot
of work to correct the excessive weightand the other things that come acid reflux,
you know, to name just one. But if you are young,

(38:20):
don't ever stop working out. Controlwhat you eat. Don't be eating constant
refine processed foods and sugar. They'renot good for you. So if you
stay on that path, that course, by the time you get into your

(38:43):
late twenties early thirties, you canmaintain a lot easier because your body has
been accustomed to doing what it should, what we were designed to do.
Now, if you have put ona bunch of extra pounds, you got
to start cutting. And there's athousand different diets and fads and all that

(39:04):
stuff, but it really gets downto disciplining what you're eating. You can
read up on that, you canfind it on the interwebs. But if
you are in your golden years,which anybody over fifties and their golden I'm
like, what's golden? I thoughtthat was eighty five. It's more important

(39:27):
by the time you get to yourI'm gonna say for the average sixties and
seventies to just do the simple things. Light, lightweights, and lots of
movement because you don't want to loseyour balance when you're you're older, that's
when the falls happen. You've talkedabout this before. This is the fall.

(39:51):
What do we want to say,Well, there's a high percentage of
the fall risk. Yeah, therisk for falling you lose your balance and
you just trip over your own feetor a curb or something, sl a
toy on the ground, whatever itis, and there's it. I'll get
it statistically wrong. You can lookthis up, but it is a high
percentage that once you fall after acertain age, when you break something,

(40:14):
the only half or fewer of thepeople recover from that. It's the statistically,
it's not good. Over thirty wecontinually lose muscle mass. I think
it's thirty five, thirty six,somewhere in there. Maybe it's forty.
But if you're not consistently working everybody part with resistance training and you start

(40:37):
losing that muscle. The reason thatfalls are so dangerous is yes, you
can still move and you're less likelyto stumble and fall, but you want
all of your stabilizer muscles to bestrong and resilient enough, which keeps you
able to with stand falls and towithstand impacts that for some could be catastrophic.

(41:00):
You and I obviously aren't doctors.We're talking really on experience and things
that we have observed, but byand large, you should be exercising when
you can, to a point whereit's uncomfortable. I enjoy working out every
day, but I don't really Imean, I don't want to go and

(41:23):
start moving heavy objects for an hour. I'd rather sleep. I'd rather sit
and drink a cup of coffee andread. But you should be pushing yourself
at every workout time to be somewhatuncomfortable for it to hurt a little bit.

(41:47):
We're not talking about injury hurt.We're talking about sore. I can't
do one more rep because I'm justtired. Just remember again, we don't
have to be a doctor to provide. This isn't meant to be discouraging,
like come on, look at yousitting. No, that they're on the
gad. No, It's meant tosay you still have time on your side

(42:12):
and think about what you're moving towardthat. I want to be as strong
and confident and capable and efficient andpliable and able to move as I can
possibly be for my family moving forward, so that I can prolong for as
long as possible, being as lighta burden as I can possibly. I

(42:37):
love giving my boys a round fortheir money. They still don't want to
take that on. Yeah, right, So I'm quite a bit older than
my boys relatively speaking. They stillknow not to mess with that, which
is a good thing. Now I'vealso learned, and this is something that

(42:57):
has taken a while, but I'vehad a couple injuries to where things are
somewhat impaired for a while, andyou know it's on the ones I'm talking
about. I have learned to startpacing and being practical. So, for
an example, a couple of weeksago, I was rolling on on a

(43:21):
Tuesday night. I was I wasrolling with jiu jitsu, and I the
next morning could barely walk. Ohyeah, on your way home, you
said I'm crippled, and I said, excuse me, I said, are
you injured? Key questions? Oh, I'm letting you. The next day,

(43:45):
I got to the gym at myregularly early morning time, and very
shortly I realized I was not goingto be able to perform my entire set
the way I normally would and inthe old days would have pushed myself through
because I realized the potential for greaterprolonged injury was not worth it. So

(44:13):
you modify, or I'm going togo and grab some bands and I'm going
to do some light weight, highrepetitions, all sorts of things that you
can do. So and I injuredmy arm once where I couldn't use I
paralyzed my wrist right my hand.I couldn't move my hand. I had

(44:34):
to adapt for about six weeks.Stuff happens, but you know, we
have to get in the mindset thatyou don't let any little thing ever stop
you, even mentally. We've talkedabout this in previous episodes. Discipline equals
freedom when you are pushing yourself throughthe difficult things. It's also a mental
game, right, and you wantto be mentally strong. You don't ever

(44:59):
want to get to the point wherelittle things or even one event causes you
to give up and say I justcan't do it. Somebody else will do
it for me. Remember that phrase, nobody's coming, It's up to me.
And that's the mindset that we haveto have when it comes to our
kids. I have to be dad, the leader of the family for a

(45:22):
long long time. My boys won'tbe ready to be leaders of the family
and to other at least fifty right, that's probably what we're talking about,
Yeah, But more importantly, Ihave a grandson, and I want to
be able when my grandson is inhis teens and his twenties. I want
to be physically active with that youngman. I want to be able to

(45:44):
go places that a lot of youngermen don't want to go. I want
to be able to continually be thatguy that my sons and my grandchildren look
up to and say, there isa great representation of grit, and we're
just sharing this because sometimes you don'twant to hear it from your doctor.

(46:07):
It's the want want wah blah blahblah. You don't want to hear it
from your partner. Maybe they're ona health kick and you're like, oh,
brother, here we go again.Because a lot of times when that
happens, you have somebody close toyou do that, it's almost discouraging as
you see them succeed. I understandall those feelings. I've been there.
So we're just here to encourage that, to say we might just be that

(46:29):
different voice that you needed to hearit from, to light that little fire,
to say, you've got time onyour side. Now you go to
the gym and you're like that jiujitsu. If you go to the gym
and your treadmill every day, goyou know what, I think I can
do more, I can do better. I can what's the value of weightlifting
for women? Go I go,look, go read You'll your mind will

(46:50):
be really encouraged. Also, that'sa fine line between being obsessed with appearance.
Well, that too looks I don'tget it. I obviously want to
always be as best in shape asI can for you, but I'm not
going to sit there and worry everymoment whether or not I look like something

(47:14):
that is unachievable and stupid. Yeah, and we're obviously, I think we've
done our best to be transparent andto say, wow, we're sitting here
with Dan and Donna, and wereally feel like we're knowing who they are
and the type of people. Weenjoy life. We go out to eat,

(47:34):
we try the dessert, we trythe drink. Everything in moderations.
Yes, And people can say,well, you guys are a bunch of
idiots because you're telling us about eatingbad things. And you start every episode
of the Unspoken podcast with a cancerstick, a big cancer stick, and
it's like ten times worse than asingle cigarette one cigar, and you're drinking

(47:57):
liquor. And by the way,what have we been seeing a trend towards
lately, If you have one dropof alcohol, you're poisoning your body.
So, yes, we are livingand enjoying ourselves. We're taking in moderation.
If if you're working out regularly andeating, have a cheeseburger every once
in a while. Yep, Wellthat's what keeps it. Oh, now

(48:20):
I have a too, that iswhat keeps it sustainable. You don't want
to do the all or nothing.I don't mean to enjoy. I don't
ever forget that God made us toenjoy things, good things, And I
just thank God every time I havesomething that I enjoy because He is the

(48:43):
one that has provided all these things. But at the same time, taken
care of that chassis. Well yes, And I'll leave you with this word.
Dan has a daughter, my stepdaughter. She has Down syndrome, and
basically, any any food that I'macre she loves. Yeah, She's like
this, this is the best thingever. Make this for my birthday.

(49:06):
But I watch her enjoy food,and I mean, I know when she
says this line, I know shegot it from me. But she'll eat
whatever it is. She'll say itwas the chicken tonight. She'll take a
bite and she'll savor it and she'llsay why is this so good? And
I'm like, I don't know,but isn't it. So we're definitely saying
you've got to have the us.I think that along this vein talking about

(49:34):
doing hard things. It reminds meof many episodes ago when I gave the
example of hard times and good times, and we talked about the fact that
look good times are often followed bybad times, and those bad times can

(49:55):
either be of our own doing,because we do stupid things and end up
causing hard things for us. Maybeit's the way we interact with people.
Maybe it's bad financial decisions, Maybeit's the way we enter into relationships.
Maybe we complain too much. Maybewe're never satisfied and everything's a problem.

(50:22):
Sometimes things happened to us that wewere not planning. Job was one of
those dudes. He was living lifeand he was a righteous man, and
God allowed tough times upon Job.I'm going to revisit that episode from last

(50:45):
year where I talked about that andjust do a little recap. Good times
are often followed by tough or badtimes. It's cyclic. You have to
expect it. You just have to. You can't think that you're always going
to have good times, and youcan't think that you're always going to have

(51:07):
bad times. Most of the timeit is out of our hands. But
here's what I want people to considerand to thoughtfully ponder what I'm going to
say next. You must be always, even if it's good times, planning

(51:36):
for bad times, ready for anything, prepared for the worst was one of
my mottos for Selkirk Security Group,and I've narrowed it down. There's probably
more, but at least I thinkit's five different areas in our lives,
and the next several episodes we aregoing to examine each one of these five

(52:04):
areas in greater detail because I wantto be encouraging anybody out there, no
matter what your station in life is. These are all universal male female,
young kids in school, retirement age. It applies all the way across the
board. I'm gonna go over thembriefly. Number One, Spiritually, you

(52:28):
have to know who your creator is, what is promises are for you having
your eyes on eternity. We're gonnadig into that one deeper at the next
time that we have this podcast,which hopefully won't be as long as it's
taken between the last ones. Numbertwo Physically, you have to be prepared

(52:50):
for bad times physically by you're eatingwell, lifting, doing the resistance training,
cardio, all of that stuff.Mentally is a third one. Constantly
looking daily for items of gratitude,developing your creed, your plan, what
your purposes, Pushing yourself mentally todo the hard things that you don't want

(53:15):
to do, keeping in mind thatyou could lose what you have tomorrow and
what are you going to do materiallybeing wise with your money? Are you
saving it, cutting stupid expenses,stocking up on items, keeping things in
repair, whether it's pandemics, manmade or other, whether it's the power

(53:39):
grid going down, whether it isa collapse of the economy, going to
a digital currency. Last is,socially, family is of the utmost importance.
If you don't have a biological family, ends that our family close friends

(54:02):
with different skill sets. Maybe they'rean attorney, maybe they're a doctor.
Maybe they're a mechanic, a farmer, a rancher, somebody that's good at
radio communications. How about a tobacconist. That's gonna be pretty important. Somebody
that also knows how to make whiskey. I'd like to try some North Idaho

(54:24):
single malt scotch. That's gonna beon my bucket list. We got to
find the story right, examining ingreater detail with the intent to encourage and
equip all of you around the globewho listen friends like Darren with freedom elements.

(54:45):
This guy knows how to put thoughtto paper. He reminds me in
many ways of our great founders.He is so good at taking a truth
a principle. He's a poet.So we're gonna be talking about these things.

(55:06):
Tough times are upon us. Youwould be completely a moron if you
don't realize that very thing, everythingright now is on a thread. Do
we live in fear. Nope,we don't live in fear, but we
are prepared for anything, and we'reready for the worst if that time comes.

(55:30):
We have stuff that's going on allover the world. We have wars
in Ukraine, we have Taiwan that'sstarting to heat up. We have skirmishes
in Africa. We just send awhole bunch of troops into Africa a couple
of weeks ago. We have thecartels that are in essence running military style

(55:57):
operations across our border and along theborder, and their shootouts, and there's
military grade warfare going on. Scarytimes can be scary times. The things
that you and I when when whenwe were kids, we were always worried
about Russia, right, nuclear bombsgoing off, and the Cold War,

(56:21):
and once that fell, we hadnine to eleven and that was scary.
And while we were concerned, thathappened all the way across the world unless
you had family that was stationed deployedover to the Middle East. Statewise,

(56:45):
in our own country, we havesuch great risks that are going on around
us right now. What I loveabout our constitution, the cornerstone for us,

(57:06):
we the people, was equal protectionunder the law. And what does
that mean? The laws of natureand Nature's God which gave us those unalienable
rights, the right to free speech, the right in that free speech to

(57:30):
practice and follow the religion that youwant, to be able to say whatever
you want. There is no suchthing as hate speech. I don't care
what any of you say out there. I will debate you six ways to
Sunday. There is no such thingas hate speech. Now, is there
a speech that we don't like andthat is unkind or hideous? Absolutely.

(57:57):
We also have the right to peacefullyassents umble. We have the right to
free press, and we have theright to petition our government to keep and
bear arms no exception. We havethe right to be secure in our person,
our place, and our effects akaour property. And we have the

(58:21):
right to be secure where nobody canviolate that except for a while, but
under a warrant signed by a judge. And then you have the right to
not testify against yourself. You havethe right to a speedy trial. You
have the right to go before ajury of your peers. And we're looking

(58:45):
now, unfortunately, at a rotat decay that has been here for a
while, and we were just notaware. It wasn't until COVID in the
Black Lives rioting in Antifa of twentytwenty, when they burned our cities,

(59:07):
when governments locked the people up andtold them you're not essential. You cannot
see your loved one that is dying, you can't go to their funeral,
you can't have a wedding, youcan't have a graduation. I wasn't even
able to see my oldest daughter graduatefrom the Navy. Close your business down,

(59:32):
stand six feet apart, wear amask, complete absolute tyranny, and
most of the government. I agreedwith it in the beginning, but as
I was saying, the rot hasbeen here for a long time, and

(59:57):
it was exposed through the Trump administraas to how deep and corrupt it is,
and it is Republican as much asit is democrat. They are at
a federal level against we the people. We see it. By the insider
trading that they are all involved with. They become millionaires in a short few

(01:00:21):
years. They move around, theycan move and get their hair, They
can walk around and get their hairdone without wearing a mask inside a salon
that was allowed to be open,because you know, it's important that our
representatives look good on camera while therest of us are locked in our own

(01:00:43):
homes. But we are able tosee how there are two tiers of justice
federally. The violation of the Januarysix prisoners is absolutely disgusting and unacceptable.

(01:01:07):
Equal protection under the law. Everybodydeserves their day in court and to be
tried by a jury of their peers. We have allowed things like the Patriot
Act to be enacted that stripped awaythe Bill of Rights, and we did

(01:01:32):
it while we were pro Bush,pro Republican, pro rah rah rah,
let's go after the terrorists, andwe didn't realize what was really being done
to us here at this time,we have tough times coming our way.
We have tough times because we haverealized now that at a federal level,
the government, those people, youroverlords, can come at you any time

(01:01:57):
they want. They can do anythingbecause they have unlimited power and resources to
come after you. If you donot follow the narrative, if you don't
fall right in line with what theytell you, you will be doing.

(01:02:20):
And unfortunately, we have seen thatsame tyranny down to the state level.
Remember when the Republic was founded,it was a dual government. Each state
had its own constitution and its ownlaws and its own governance, and you
had at the same time, whilethey were sovereign, you had collectively all
the states together to form a federalgovernment. And as long as the states

(01:02:46):
didn't violate anything in the Bill ofRights or the Constitution, the Tenth Amendment
says, leave them alone. TheFeds can't come in and enforce things that
they have no business. It's inthe documents. Read the documents for yourself,
the Tenth Amendment, Read the Constitution. Don't listen to the word salad

(01:03:07):
of these jackasses today that want totry to argue otherwise. So we've seen
it at the federal Now we're seeingus entering into global packs with the who
over pandemic response, and they canstrip away our sovereignty. I'm going to
tell them, come take it.I'm not gonna do what they tell me
to do. So if you can'ttrust our government, which was originally formed

(01:03:36):
by we the people, by theconsent of those governed, you now have
really one last stand, and it'sthe way the founders purposely set it up.
We've just forgotten. And that's atthe local level, and most of

(01:04:00):
us it's at the county level.You may have something similar back on the
East coast, but the county iswhere we make our mark. It is
the first and the last stand.So let me ask you, how do

(01:04:23):
we secure our rights locally? AndI'm gonna light my cigar and I'm gonna
come back, and I'm gonna tellyou that because I'm getting a little probably
a little bit too much preachy rightnow. I'm thinking I could almost be
a pastor. Where's your pulpit?You need a pulpit locally? Do you

(01:04:55):
know your sheriff? Do you Themajority of the people I talk to,
really, even where we live,have no clue who this guy is.
He's a nonentity. Unless you happento run around all the time with the
local political party. Who is thesheriff. We've talked about this. I'm

(01:05:19):
gonna readdress it again because this isimportant. I want anybody right now that's
living in the US of A toconsider what I'm going to tell you.
Do your own research, become informed. Who is your sheriff and how does

(01:05:40):
he or she differ from a chiefof police and or a commissioner. Well,
the sheriff is an elected position.He is the chief law enforcement entity

(01:06:00):
in the county. Usually, eachstate constitution has the sheriff inside the constitutions
as being constitutional. It's part ofhow we operate our states, elected versus
appointed, that sheriff while he isupholding law and order. And I want

(01:06:30):
you guys to listen to this upholdingthe very thing that we all started out
with, which is equal opportunity underthe law no. Two tiers of justice
system. A chief of the policeis appointed by the mayor typically or the
city council. He serves at theirwill. The sheriff serves at the will

(01:06:55):
of the people that elect him tothat office. Typically, the only entity
that can arrest a sheriff is acorner. Now, the Congress, they
knew the importance of a sheriff.And I'm not going to get back into

(01:07:16):
the history all the way back toEngland to where sheriff's originated, because that's
a pretty interesting story and how weeven came up with the word sheriff.
Kind of a funny name. Butthink of England after the Civil War,

(01:07:39):
there's a lot going on the countrywas fractured. Still, we didn't have
the internet like we do today.We didn't have rapid communication, no telephones,
no radios. You can imagine withall of the southern and the northern
troops spread throughout really the country,the south, all the way on into

(01:08:00):
Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, well you still had a rag tan
rag tag of marauders, pirates,if you will, those that would go
and take advantage in in large groupsof gangs, and they'd cause havoc.

(01:08:24):
And there's something we always knew thatyou don't do. You don't use the
military to enforce domestic laws completely different. You don't want to cross that line.
So Congress passed in eighteen seventy eightthe Possecommatas Act, which basically it
was signed by President President Rutherford Hayes, and it limits the powers of the

(01:08:50):
federal government in the use of thefederal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within
the US, and they pass thatact as an amendment to an Army appropriation
bill, and the authority under whicha county sheriff or another chief law enforcement

(01:09:10):
officer, if you have to livein an area that doesn't recognize the sheriff,
they can conscript any able bodied personto assist in keeping the peace.
We used to watch those old westernsand you'd have the bank robbers or the
stagecoach robbers, and they were causingmayheim. So the local sheriff, because

(01:09:32):
he was only one or two guyshim and a deputy, they would deputize
a whole bunch of the townsmen whowould saddle up with their guns and their
ropes, and they'd ride off andhelp the sheriff for bringing the fugitives to
justice. That's really what we're talkingabout. So a sheriff has the ability

(01:09:54):
under the Constitution and even the localto use whoever he needs to at any
time there is an emergency where lawand order has to be maintained, and
that sheriff has the ability to forma posse and to use those able body
individuals to help him keep his communitysafe. So a couple interesting things that

(01:10:20):
people may not realize, especially ifyou don't follow all things constitutional versus state,
and that is a little case calledMac versus the US. It's pretty
profound ruling. So you have SheriffMac, who is a sheriff down a
Graham, Arizona. And the longand the short of it is the Brady

(01:10:43):
Bill, which was that in essenceto handgun bill that prevented people from being
able to purchase a handgun without acertain background check. You know, you
go back, you can look itup. Roald Reagan, Jim Baker,
that whole thing where and got shot. Brady got basically turned into a vegetable.
So we got to have a kneejerk reaction and we got to start,

(01:11:08):
you know, controlling anybody has ahandgun, not the people that are
doing this, but the handgun.So as it goes over time, Mac
argued that trying to make local lawenforcement conduct federal law enforcement is illegal.

(01:11:30):
That's that's what he argued. Yousaid, you can't make us, at
the local level, a sovereign state, enforce your federal laws enacted by Congress.
Well, eventually Max Max's argument withthe US government was turned into a

(01:11:54):
couple more a couple more sheriffs andjoined him on this argument, and so
ultimately Mac versus the US became Princeversus the United States. They kind of
consolidated them all. And in theruling they said the Brady Handgun Violence Perfection

(01:12:16):
Acts interim provision commanding the quote chieflaw enforcement officer for each local jurisdiction to
conduct background checks is unconstitutional. Okay, well, what does that really mean?
When you go back and you reallylook at the reading and the ruling
rather and read it, you realizethat the federal government right there are saying

(01:12:36):
under the Supreme Court the Tenth Amendmentstipulates there is a separation between federal and
state, and the Feds cannot comein and make the states responsible for federal

(01:12:58):
laws. Okay, what does thatmean? What that means is your local
sheriff has the ability to stand betweenyou and an out of control state and
or an out of control federal government. Interesting, when you start seeing the
abuses that are taking place similar tothose things that we read about in the

(01:13:26):
Declaration of Independence, now more sothan ever, you need to know who
your sheriff is for the safety ofyou and your community, and you need
to know what the worldview of thatsheriff is and what his position is on
being that bulkhead between you and anout of control government. Right now,

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we have the Federal Bureau of Investigationsfailing to comply with a congressional subpoena over
information that it needs. They arerunning continually above the law, doing whatever

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they want, and all they sayis, well, we can't compromise ongoing
investigations. Reminds me when we werekids and my brother was always pulling that
that lineout, You can't do thatbecause X, Y and Z right,
using that little petty ass move.That's what the federal government is doing right

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now, the FBI, it istime for it to be disbanded. It's
going after mothers and fathers that areprotesting under their god given First Amendment right.
They're recognized right to petition their localgovernments, and we have the DOJ
going after them, and abortion protestersthat are peacefully protesting or praying. I'm

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telling you, your sheriff had betterbe proactive and ready for what's about to
come and what is coming, andhe better have extreme grit. He better
have he or she better have aspine of steel and the ability to do
what is right no matter what thecost is. Who is your local sheriff,

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What do they believe? What havetheir actions told you about what they
would or would not do when thattime comes for you to be that person
in the hot seat. These arevery hard conversations that we are starting to
have. It's probably unpopular for aformer law enforcement officer, because I'm now

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retired to be saying this to peoplethat maybe I know we have listeners in
New Zealand and maybe this doesn't applyto you they're in New Zealand. I
don't say this to cause any problems. I say this specifically because I want
you to be aware. I wantyou to be safe, and I want

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you to be able to do somethingproactive. Get out and vote. Find
candidates locally that a spouse, nota political party or an ideology, but
are true believers and lovers of ourconstitution and our Bill of rights. You
said something earlier on that I wantto call on this as you draw it

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to a close. You encourage peopleto do their own research. Here's something
that I'm noticing is that this ideaof doing your own research is that by
itself is coming under attack. Yeah, in mainstream that is being attacked.
And it's like this, all ofyou people doing your own research. That

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there's you're not an expert. Yeah, you your your research? You know,
what are your resources? What doyou really have access to? You
can't know the truth, you're notYou're not the source, You're not the
expert. You need to understand thatthat by itself is under attack. But
you do have the ability to digand do research. You do have a

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spirit and a conscience that understands thedifference between right and wrong. Yeah,
and that is specifically under attack,making you feel less than or actually stupid.
Yeah, for trying to dig andfind your own information. You're you're
not stupid when you are continually seekingout the truth. And you don't have
to buy anybody on the right justbecause they say something automatically give them a

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pass. I don't. I thinkthe so called rights some of the journalists
there or the purveyors of information areevery bit it into propaganda and with their
agenda as the far left neo Marxistar, this is a global thing. I

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didn't tell you this, but asI was doing a little prep. I
don't use Google, haven't used itsince twenty twenty. I think duck dog.
I'm finding now my searches being extremelyfunneled, and I've never I've never

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observed this before. And the otherthing that I don't like is I'm starting
to see now many resources for AIchat, GPT solutions because it's all part
of it. It's going to controlthe narrative, it's going to control what
you read, what you witness.They are going to lead us down a

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path of what they want to convinceus through the data, through the science.
Yeah, and so a practical solutionis what I mean part of that,
or books expanding where you're going forinformation. It's a pain, I'm
going to tell you. I understandwe're all pressed for time there. Most
of us feel like we don't haveit. I don't have the time to

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give. I need something easy,I need one stream of him. I
understand all of that. But it'slike exercise, though it is. We
have to try harder. You haveto dig into different resources, put yourself
on multiple platforms, like Dan wassaying, find find books that are earliest
copies of books of store, whateveryou know to. Every town has a

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bookstore you can go in and findold books. Are Are they dry to
read? Sometimes? Yeah, Butyou don't know what kind of nugget of
truth you're going to find in thoseold publications back before people were so polarized
and globalized, before we were sofull of propaganda and dependent upon the internet.

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If you look right now in thenew Green Dragon Tavern located in the
beautiful North Idaho Republic, you're goingto see in on the table and all
the tables, what do we seebook after book after book stacks of them?
American history, the Federalist papers,the Constitution books that maybe are from

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history one hundred two hundred years ago. But those people weren't stupid, and
you can read something that they saidthat maybe isn't specifically for today, but
you can glean something from the waythey handled it, or things that they

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said that inspire you to apply itto today. Not only that, the
relatability, I mean Old English orhowever it's written, their relatability is almost
eerie. Yeah, when you whenyou finally do sit down to read it,
or sit down with another person todissect it and bounce it back and
forth, because you're getting something.Each person is getting something out of that

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that you might not personally. Sotake the time to dialogue about it.
Make that your new book club.Maybe skip the fantasy novel and start digging
into some of this quick scrolling.Grab a cigar there you go, a
fine liquor, sit down with abook, read read a paragraph, reto

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paragraphs, and just think about whatthey were saying. Are there any parallels
to today? That's what the Bibleis really. The Bible was written a
couple thousand years ago, and yetyou can still pick up the Bible today
find truths like the Constitution that transcendtime. Constitution, the Declaration transcend time.

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They were not they are not dead. They were not written for a
specific time. They have principles thatare for eternity. And what would you
say those men were governed by atthat time? Because obviously with the Bible,
we say, well, that's God'swritten word. That's why that stands

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the test of time. How darewe compare something like the Bible to the
Constitution? But what were the peoplewho were involved in that process governed by
the founders. I could argue withyou all day long, and I can
show you they all universally had abelief in God. Did they all agree

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theologically the same or the same doctrine. Absolutely not. In fact, you're
going to find that many of thefall Founding fathers fought about such things.
But that's not the point. Thepoint is is that they had a belief
in a higher being that already setagain. What do we call them?
The laws of nature and Nature's God. Those are the things that are universal

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throughout time, such as men canbe free, they are to be governed
by no other man. You cango back and read the works of Washington.
In fact, I have a prayerright here, Washington. If you
want to argue and say, well, these guys, these founders were hypocrites
because they had slaves, that's anotherconversation, and it's a fair conversation,

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but there are facts that need tobe discussed about. That does not diminish
that these men were men. Butthey are extraordinary men, and they had
vision and they were learning. Washington, during his inaugural address, had this
prayer. I'm gonna leave us withthis prayer and remind people that we did

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not descend from fearful men. Wedescended from men like Washington. He says,
Almighty God, we make our earnestprayer that Thou will keep the United
States in thy holy protection, ThatThou will incline the hearts of the citizens
to cultivate a spirit of subordination andobedience to government, and entertain a brotherly

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affection and love for one another andfor their fellow citizens of the United States
at large. And finally, thatThou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose
us all to do justice, tolove, mercy, and to demean ourselves
with that charity, humility, andpacific temper of mind, which were the

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characteristics of the Divine author of ourblessed religion. Without a humbling imitation of
whose example in these things, wecan never hope to be a happy nation.
Ran our supplication webcch the through JesusChrist, Our Lord. Amen.
Amen, you have been listening toepisode twenty two of the original Unspoken Podcast

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