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How False Flags and Psyops Enslave America Through Fear w/ Chad Prather · Man in America Podcast

• 0:13
  Seth Holehouse: Welcome to Man in America. I'm your host, Seth Hullhouse. So already stepping into the New Year, we have all kinds of craziness. Who would have thought? America crazy, you know, weeks ahead of the inauguration and January 6 and all this crazy stuff happening.
• 0:30
  So we've got multiple terrorist attacks, right, which, you know, look like there may be false flags with our military or intelligence agencies behind them. I mean, maybe. There's a there's a few suspicious things about that. But not just that. There's a cyber truck that blew up.
• 0:46
  There's a shooting in New York. So things are popping off in a pretty kind of wild way to start the New Year. And there's a lot of us here questioning, what's this year gonna look like? What's the inauguration gonna look like? What's Trump gonna do in office?
• 0:58
  Will he make it into office? But most importantly, how do we live without fear? You know, we we after seeing these videos and the images of these trucks plowing through crowded markets, are we now gonna become too scared to take our family to a Christmas parade or a fourth of July celebration? I mean, these are some very real questions that we have to be asking ourselves as Americans living in a country that just so happens to be the target of multiple massive criminal cabals. Right?
• 1:27
  It's just where we are in history. And so joining me today is Chad Prather, who you've probably seen. He has a fantastic podcast as on his own. He was with Blaze TV for some time. Just a brilliant guy, but very just Texas.
• 1:41
  He's just a very Texas kinda guy, and I like that about him. So we're gonna be be chatting about what's happening in this country, how to get through, what the next three, four years looks like, how to not live in fear, and so much more. So, folks, please enjoy the show with Chad Prather. A future where every decision you make today creates a foundation of security for tomorrow. Right now, optimism fills the air.
• 2:06
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• 3:25
  Act now. Call (626) 654-1906, or visit goldwithSeth.com to get your free gold and silver investment guide. Again, that's 6266541906 or goldwithSeth.com. Mister Chad Prather, it is great to finally have you on the show. I I first came across you on Blaze.
• 3:51
  I I I had the, you know, had the app and the TV subscription. Like, who's this guy in the cowboy hat? He's he's got a cool vibe. So it's just it's great to kinda come around full circle and and have you on the show. So thank you for being here.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: Seth, thanks for having me, man. I've been looking forward to hanging out with you a little bit. I, for for those of those of you listening or watching this, we're doing this in the morning, so I feel like I'm in my pajamas. I'm really not honestly got dressed for your show. I just threw a hat on, and always question.
• 4:17
  You mentioned the cowboy hat. I always question whether or not I should wear the cowboy hat on other people's shows or what. I I've always kept the cowboy hat because that's the culture I come out of, and it and it automatically, like you said, it raises the question. People go, who is this guy? What does he got to say?
• 4:31
  You know? And sometimes they underestimate you, which is fun.
• 4:34
  Seth Holehouse: It is. I've I've kinda settled into like, I used to wear a suit jacket and and, you know, and I'm just like, that's not really me. Like, actually, this is me. These aren't pajamas, but they're they're this is my flannel. I am wearing pajamas on the bottom half.
• 4:47
  Right? This is a morning show in in a waist up, but so I will be just to be honest, I've got my my see, what am wearing today? I've got my L. L. Bean moose skin slippers on my feet below.
• 4:58
  So
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: There you go. Right there. I've got I've got my I've got my leather twisted x on. Don't even wear socks.
• 5:04
  Seth Holehouse: Just flex them. No socks for me. Yep. So, anyway, we're at a very unique time in this nation. So you and I are doing this interview on the second, January second.
• 5:15
  You know, yesterday was New Year's Day. We saw a lot of chaos in America. I just saw this morning there was a shooting in Queens, New York. Maybe it was, like, 11 people shot. I'm not sure what the what the total number of death count or or kills or injured was, but we had the, the, you know, ex military guy that drove a a truck through the crowd down in I think it was in Bourbon Street area down in New Orleans.
• 5:38
  We had the cyber truck explosion. You know, coincidentally, both of the the guy behind the cyber truck explosion and the the guy that behind the attack in New Orleans, both ex military, both, I think, actually, were at Fort Bragg for some point, which is, you know, raises all kinds of questions for me. But, you know, kind of stepping back and looking into the deeper underlying themes, which is where I think you and I both like to to live in our discussions is, you know, let's not focus on, like, the bread and circus and the coliseum and who's fighting. Okay. Who's controlling the fighters?
• 6:10
  Who's drugging them before the fight? Who's, you know, buying the bread for the crowd? Who built the Coliseum? And these kind these are the questions I think we need to be answering. And so when you look across our country and the and the landscape, which is really unique right now, right, we're coming off of this this high of the Trump win in the election and all this excitement and Elon Musk coming forward, but we've now got the h one b kinda split.
• 6:32
  There's this kind of, like, this MAGA civil war happening. Now into the New Year, we've already got attacks ramping up, and I'm I'm kinda seeing a lot of chaos as you know, my my word of the year is gonna be chaos. I just think that as much as as many good things are happening this year, there's gonna be a lot of chaos. But I wanna get, you know, what's your what are you focusing on? What's your sense?
• 6:52
  What's your gut telling you? You're someone that's watching the news, and you're talking to a lot of people, and what's your assessment of where our country's at right now and where and where we're headed?
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's there's a lot going on. That's for sure. And and my my first inclination is to express the grief and the sadness. Obviously, this is a loss of life.
• 7:10
  This is a tragedy. This was an attack. This was senseless. Trying to unpack all of that could take us, you know, the rest of our lives. I mean, there's still so many questions we ask about nine eleven and and so many different things that have transpired in our lifetime.
• 7:24
  And and, you know, we we're good at conspiracies. Right? And I and I one of those guys, I've been accused of being a conspiracy theorist, and I just tell everybody, I said, you know, at this point, we're all conspiracy theorists. And the reason we are is because the mainstream media or wherever we get our news tends to tell us only so much. Right?
• 7:42
  And and, you know, I was listening. I traveled yesterday, and and I was listening to the news on my satellite radio in in my vehicle. And they spent the entire trip, hours on the road for me, and all they did was tell you what they don't know. Now they have to fill in the time. Right?
• 8:01
  And I said back in I said back in the eighties when I was a kid. I said, you know, when Ted Turner came up with CNN and he had I said, how are they gonna fill twenty four hours a day, seven days a week news with they're gonna have to come up with stories in order to fill that time because there's just not that much news to be telling. You know? And so because they're not gonna be talking about Puck Sautani Phil seeing his shadow. Right?
• 8:24
  So they're they're they're gonna come up with something to keep the viewer intrigued. So they spent the entire day telling us what they did not know and what they speculated on, and they were waiting for answers. And so what happens is you you wind up with this this mental void. There's no information there. And I we voids don't exist in nature.
• 8:43
  So our imaginations and our questions and our brains and our study and our and our exploration and just our inquisitive nature rushes to fill that void, and we come up with theories. And so, you know, it's okay. I I you know, in a free market of ideas, in a place where we're supposed to have free speech and opinions are welcome, and we should be able to have dialogue and discussion, debate, even disagreement, those things should be okay. But we're living in a society where every idea gets attacked. And and and I think they should be dissected because ideas do have consequences, but we're living in a country right now where we're we're we're kinda fragmented because in one sense, we're dealing with the sadness and the grief of this tragic event, but we're trying to unfold it because this affects all of us.
• 9:26
  Right? You know, I I look at, I had a friend of mine who texted me this morning. Well, Sarah Gonzales from the Blaze, my very dear friend, Sarah Gonzales. She texted. She's going to Washington DC.
• 9:36
  Our friend Brandon Gill, Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law is getting sworn into congress. She's attending that. She said, I don't wanna fly today. And I said, I don't blame you. I said, but you can't, you know, you obviously, you can't live in fear.
• 9:48
  And there's a lot of people I'm supposed to be at the inauguration now, and a lot of people are second guessing. You know, I'm supposed to be at the March in Washington DC in a couple of weeks now. You know, people are second guessing. There there's all these things that now you look at it. You say, this this type of thing affects me.
• 10:03
  Do people wanna go to a football game tonight? Do they wanna attend the Super Bowl? And and at the end of the day, when you live like that, fear wins. And and that's where we can't live. We can't exist in that place.
• 10:15
  And I think our country is dealing with a lot of a lot of things where we're trying to find the truth. We're trying to figure out what in the world's going on, who's in control, who's pushing the buttons, who's pulling the strings. And at the same time, we we're got our heads on a swivel because we don't know what's coming. You know, if I go to into a restaurant, can I, am I safe to sit with my back to the door? No.
• 10:37
  You know, if I'm if I'm if I'm at a parade, if I'm taking my kids to a park, I mean, where we at in this country? What's going on? And so, you know, that's kind of the 30,000 foot view that I take at this stage in the game of of saying, you know, who do we trust anymore? If you, you know, if if if the COVID pandemic, whatever you wanna call it, revealed anything, it revealed that people can't trust our institutions anymore. We can't trust the media as we've discussed.
• 11:04
  Our court system is corrupt. We saw that in the law affair against Trump and many other things. Our educational system is is gotten brainwashed and corrupt. Our our federal governments, our state governments, all of these things, we don't know who to trust. And and the list goes on and on and on.
• 11:22
  There's so many medical. I mean, the medical industry. We don't trust that anymore. So so who do we trust at this stage in the game, Seth? It's it's a hard place to be in and, you know, here we are.
• 11:32
  We're not good at being dictated to as Americans. We still have an independent spirit. So that we're not just gonna trust somebody who's gonna come out and give us, you know, a watertight answer and believe that that's the truth. It's it's crazy. And you're right.
• 11:45
  I've talked to a lot of people. A lot of people that are special forces, former special forces, people that have engaged and been a part of of government things, and man, this this whole thing yesterday is very, very fishy, but everything that's happened, in the last however many thirty years have been very fishy. So where do we go with this stuff, Seth? Obviously, we don't live in fear, but but where do we go with it?
• 12:09
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. It's a tough place to be because I I remember when the pandemic first hit and, you know, you know, early on, my wife and I, you know, we we were both kind of what you call the conspiracy theorists. We, you know, we saw through it. Yeah. When we we said, okay.
• 12:22
  This is operate this is event two zero one. This is operation lock lockstep. And, you know, we we knew the the playbook. And so we were watching it, and then they rolled out with the jabs, and and we kind of watched that. But then, you know, we we got into the whole thing about shedding, which has now been proven to be true.
• 12:36
  And but, you know, even for us, we lived at a place where, you know, we had a we our my first daughter our first daughter was born in 2020. Right? So she was born in September 2020, which is a crazy time to have a kid, right, right before the election. Yeah. And but at that time, you kinda shortly after that, there's always discussion about shedding, and and so we became very reclusive.
• 12:59
  You know? We weren't not going out because we were scared of getting you know, catching COVID, and I wasn't wearing a mask and, you know, wasn't doing those things, but we were worried about, okay. What what what type of all these spike proteins that are kinda coming off? Do we wanna bring our daughter to the local farm market even? And and, you know, so we even though I think that we saw through things, we were still living in a state of fear.
• 13:22
  And so at that time, you know, we were living back in Ohio where I grew up, and we lived, you know, way out in the country. You know, we had we were building a homestead, and we had chickens and gardens, and and it was this mentality, though. It was a very fear based preparedness approach. We were kinda hunkering down, waiting for the world to collapse, right, as we so we could kinda ride it out, but I realized that we've become very isolated and very alone, and, it wasn't it wasn't healthy. And so we we moved, you know, about a little over a year ago.
• 13:53
  We moved, and we bought a house in a different area, which we have a lot of friends in a in a big community, but it's really shifted. But I can see, though, that there's still so much fear. And even now, if people aren't scared of a virus or they're not scared of, you know, whatever pandemic that they're pushing, you know, people are certainly, I think, as you mentioned, you know, second guessing, should I go to this parade? Should I go to that big event? Because there's there's this concern of what's just happened, but also, unfortunately, if you look at all the people that have come across the border, the the the fifth column that exists in our country, it's, you know, comprised of, you know, Chinese, you know, military, you know, PRC military
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 14:37
  Seth Holehouse: Gang members, cartels, you know, terrorists coming from Middle East. I mean, they've just they've let all this stuff in. And so I almost feel like right now we're sitting on this ticking time bomb of, you know, when's it gonna when's it gonna be the day when these terror cells get the call that says, okay. Now's the time. And you have something that happens, you know, that maybe collapse, you know, takes down our grid across the nation.
• 14:59
  I mean, these are very
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:01
  Seth Holehouse: Real threats. And and I don't wanna live in fear, but I also don't wanna live with my head in the sand and and be really ignorant and have something go wrong and be like, oh, crap. Now I can't defend my family. I can't feed my family, and I'm now stuck in a bread line or doing whatever it takes. So, I mean, how do you knowing all knowing all this and being aware of everything that's happening, how do you keep yourself centered, and and how do you not live in that kind of a fear based based, new lifestyle?
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I the the world is out of control in such a big way. I mean, you know, you look at the drones in New Jersey a couple weeks ago, and everybody was speculating about that, And and it was amazing to watch the inaction or the ineptitude or even the lack of intelligence on the part of the government. They said, well, we don't know. You know?
• 15:46
  Like, you know, come on. You quit feeding us these lines. I mean, something's going on here. It's not one big prank that's going on. So, you know, you look at these things and you go, why are you guys trying to, you know, keep us in the dark and feeding us crap?
• 16:00
  And to your question, you know, I I am the same way. I try to keep myself prepared. I try to keep my head on a swivel where when I'm in public. I was in I was in Nashville, Tennessee A Number Of Months ago, and I was sitting, having a cup of coffee outside, and I was talking to a friend, and I was watching people walk down the street. And, you know, you catch little glimpses of their conversation as they walk by, and the stuff they were talking about, you know, you just I just had this this sense of foreboding.
• 16:28
  I said, people live in this false sense of security all the time. They don't understand how dangerous the world is. They don't, and I again, I've spent a lot of years in third world countries. I've been in places that I you know, youth goes where angels fear to tread sometimes, and I've been in places where I look back and I go, man, it really was a dangerous situation, and we're starting to see this false sense of security that we've always had here in America that we're protected, that we're taken care of, that somebody's looking out for us. There's that guy in the tower or that man on the wall, and we're starting to see that the wall's kinda flimsy.
• 17:02
  Right? When you realize that you have more fighting age illegal males in this country than we do actual military members in this country. That's a scary thought. And I sent my friend Matt Murphy who's, former Green Beret and very active in the intelligence world. I I sent him a message yesterday.
• 17:22
  I said, I just feel like a lot of things are being greenlit right now. You know, people can get into the research of MK Ultra and the brainwashing and the drugs and the, you know, you talk about these are two former army guys. Both were at Fort Bragg, both rented a vehicle from apparently the same company. You know, there's speculation about or it's not just speculation. They seem to confirm that the truck that was used in the New Orleans attack was came across the border at Eagle Pass not by this driver but by somebody else.
• 17:58
  I can't find anybody in the special forces community. Now, again, at the time this comes out, this may be proven completely wrong, but I can't find anybody in the special forces community. I've even had, I've even seen Tim Kennedy, who knows literally everybody in the special forces community. I mean, Tim Kennedy is a friend and and I he knows everybody. He's reached out saying, has anybody served with this guy from Vegas who's supposedly a green beret?
• 18:22
  I can I can't imagine a green beret, a special forces guy, committing suicide with fireworks and a cyber truck? That doesn't make any sense. Then you look at the news headlines that that says a cyber truck or a, you know, electric vehicle explodes. It it like the misleading headlines that are basically saying that an electric car exploded. That's not what happened at all.
• 18:44
  So, we're being fed a lot of garbage but how do you live? I I live with I live with preparation. Now, my preparation might be a little extreme compared to what what others what others might do. You know, I'm a big believer in being mobile. I, you know, I have a vehicle that doesn't have a single computer on it.
• 19:05
  I'm not making any 500 mile trips but I but I can get where I need to be. It's basically a tractor with a roof on it. I have, you know, obviously, we've got food. We've got access to fire. We've got access to water.
• 19:17
  The ability, we've got, you know, ammunition. We've got this the the equipment that that ammunition goes into. I have tents. Christmas day, I took my big canvas tent out to the middle of nowhere and we we camped out for a number of days just to make sure that everything was still watertight and good and taken care of. You know, there there's that ability to produce heat.
• 19:37
  I mean, you you look at the threats that we have right now. You you alluded to the grid. People have no idea how fragile our energy grid is in this country. We saw it here in Texas of just a few years ago when our air cock grid went down because apparently, we don't know what to do when the temperature gets below 31 degrees, here in the state of Texas. That grid is still not where it needs to be.
• 19:59
  The American grid, the the grid across this country, it had that Chinese balloon that was shot down after it crossed every significant place in America and took surveillance footage and they finally shot it down off the Eastern Seaboard Of The United States. If it had been carrying an EMP which took out the energy grid in the Eastern Seaboard, we're talking two or three years of of blackout. You know, you got about seventy two hours before the bad guys realize that the good guys aren't going to come and we've started to realize that the good guys aren't really coming anyway. You know, right now, with the defund the police movement in Austin, Texas, unless you're in the active active state of being murdered or raped and you call 911, they're not coming. They're they're just not coming.
• 20:41
  They don't have the the human or the financial resources to take care of people. You know, our law enforcement has become second responders. You are the first responder. But now we saw with the Daniel Penny case in New York in the subway situation that you're scared to stand up for yourself. And so what do you have?
• 20:56
  You have an illegal that sets someone on some woman on fire on the subway. We just saw two days ago where a guy pushed another guy out on the in front of a train in a New York subway. Another person got their neck slashed, three nights ago, in the New York subway. And so you you you eliminate the Daniel Pennies of the world and you start penalizing yourself as or you get penalized for being a first responder. Somebody breaks in your home and you, eliminate that threat.
• 21:22
  Guess what? The police are gonna come and put handcuffs on you until they sort it all out. So this is the world we're living in. I encourage people to live in some some place that is absolutely as free as it can possibly be. Get your butt to South Dakota.
• 21:36
  I I would love to say get to Texas. Texas is better than many, but it ain't that great anymore. We've got we've got a lot of people that parade us conservatives, and they're not. You know, Florida seems to be, doing reasonably well, but but, you know, you gotta get yourself, know, you talk about homesteading. You talk about having the chickens.
• 21:56
  Everybody should have feeder rabbits. And people are like, man, this is so extreme. I I'm like, exactly. Because people are it's not extreme when you think about how the rest of the world lives compared to that false sense of security that we live under. And it is a false sense of security.
• 22:12
  Seth Holehouse: It really is. And I think that it's, stems from a really strong, normalcy bias and cognitive dissonance that the, you know, the the the vast, you know, kind of majority of the American population has. If you look at how people live now versus how, like, you know, my great grandmother who lived through the Great Depression, she always had a fully stocked seller. You know, she had a huge garden. She knew how to can her food.
• 22:34
  She knew how to, you know, clean a rabbit or, you know, clean a fish or whatever it was. And we're now at a time. And and again, I think that when, you know, when Trump was elected, and we won the election, you know, I was, of course, saying, hey, this is this is really this is positive. You know, I'd much would prefer that over the the other alternative, But I, you know, kind of caution people, and and even with my own thinking and my own family, I'm saying, look, don't put you know, don't rest on our laurels. Don't put our feet up and think that, hey, we're we're fine now because now I felt that, you know, now is when the war's really starting, because Right.
• 23:10
  You know, they've they've lost the the the deep state or cabal, however you wanna refer to them. They they've lost control of the White House. Now there's a bill that say that, you know, Trump has different allegiances that they're they're questioning. And, yeah, I'm sure that there's certain controllers of Trump that we're not aware of that, you know, who knows what, you know, what other side agendas are happening, but I do think that he is, you know, very American first. He's very, you know, nationalist.
• 23:33
  You know, the things that really align with my own value system, you know, very pro God and, you know, all the things I'm sure that you and I could could spend a lot of time talking about where we we come together in our our beliefs. But I I really believe, though, that, you know, even looking at the energy grid, you know, I'm I'm not sure. Have you ever interviewed Jonathan Hollerman?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I have. Yes.
• 23:54
  Seth Holehouse: Okay. Yep. So I've had him on the show a handful of times, and I got I found him through his book. So at that time, I was living in New York
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: City.
• 24:00
  Seth Holehouse: I was living, like, in the 3040 Second or 40 First Floor in a high rise in in New York City thinking about prepping and thinking, okay. Holy crap. Like, the grid goes down, like, I'm screwed. Live up in a building in New York City. But, you know, now, obviously, you know, we're out in the country.
• 24:17
  We're on about seven acres, and we've got enough, you know, enough land, and we've got, you know, forest surrounding us full of deer and everything. Love it. But I I think that this is it's there's, unfortunately, I really believe that that there is, there's a lot of threats that could be hitting our country, and I think that, you know, the fact that we've just entered into the New Year, and we're seeing it's almost like the playbook got activated. Right? It's like, okay.
• 24:42
  You know, from the inaugurate or from sorry. From the election up until New Year's and the holiday, things seem relatively peaceful. There's some infighting within you know, people argue on social media about h one b and all that kind of stuff, but those are minor things compared to this. But then when you look at, you know, these two, you know, the two, you know, the Cybertruck and and the the the truck down in New Orleans, yeah, you're right. There's there's so many anomalies there.
• 25:06
  I even, you know, Herb was reading this morning about how they have these the steel kind of pylons that are supposed to be in place, you know, for, you know, for the busy streets to prevent cars from coming in and how those were supposed to be up, but they weren't up. Right? So it's it's almost like, you know, looking at 09:11 or even looking at October 7 over with the, you know, the Hamas attack. And it's like, well, how did they just you know, a cat can't get across that border without getting shot by an IDF soldier. Right?
• 25:32
  So how how is it that this, you know, these things have come about and you look at, again, at both these people, both these men were were military. They I think they're both that, you know, had spent some time at Fort Bragg. You know, it reminds me of what was it? Fort Hood. Right?
• 25:48
  It's the Fort Hood shooting. Right. Because that was down in Texas. Is that correct?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yep. Killeen, Texas.
• 25:52
  Seth Holehouse: You know? And, again, it was another guy that I think was on all kinds of psychiatric meds that talked about hearing voices in his head, you know, that carried out those shootings. And it makes me wonder, you know, getting into M. K. Altrak, you know, I've been interviewed, you know, folks like Kathy O'Brien or, you know, people that have detailed, like, yeah, these are real programs.
• 26:12
  And it makes me wonder is that is are they using is some of the strategy behind this I'm just kinda you kinda throws my ideas out there, but is it using some of these Manchurian candidates? Is it using these people that are you know, because we know the military has you know, go go back into Michael Aquino and everything. They've got very, very advanced mind control programs. Mhmm. You know, The Manchurian Candidate was a documentary.
• 26:34
  I mean, it wasn't a movie as far as I'm concerned. It's a documentary about how they can use MK Ultra psychedelic drugs, behavior modification drugs, but they also use things like voice of God technology, which, you know, I'm not sure if you've looked at the patents for that, but it's like, oh, yeah. They can project voices into people's heads. Like, you know, here's the government patents for it. Right?
• 26:54
  So it just makes me think that are we is this being geared up for something something bigger? And and I I I don't know. Certainly, head's on a swivel. And what do what do you think?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I could tell you this. If if I had an agenda and the tools to get it done, I would use those tools to get the agenda done. And if we can come to this basis agreement, this foundational agreement that we have some untrustworthy, unsavory characters that are out there trying to run things, and they have access to those types of things, then why wouldn't they use them to to be disruptors? We all know for whatever reason, we all know that the powers that be, do not like.
• 27:41
  The the the shadow figures do not like Donald Trump. I mean, they've spent billions of dollars and and mindless hours over the last number of years trying to convince us that Donald Trump was the antichrist. He's not. You know, he you know, and again, I'm not one that's gonna say I'm just gonna jump from one billionaire class to an to another. You know, we they've got Soros on one side and Elon Musk on another side, and you got Trump in the who knows with that kind of stuff?
• 28:11
  I I I'm always wary of those types of personalities no matter who they are, what they espouse, but they've wanted Trump gone. Right? So with Trump winning both the popular election and the electoral votes, they they really have to be disruptors in a big way right now. You know, you alluded to this a little while ago. The the win on November 5 wasn't the end of the story.
• 28:33
  That it was just the beginning of the chaos that we're about to see, and I encourage everybody that listens to this show, watches this show, that that I wish I could say that what happened yesterday in New Orleans or Vegas or or the thing in new the shooting in New York, I wish I could say that was the last event we're going to see, but it's not the last event we're going to see. We've been warned various, you know, we we were talking before the show. You know, Sean Ryan has been very vocal with his guests about the potential upcoming events that are in place that can happen. We have not begun to I I just read my friend Jack Carr's latest book. It's it's his nonfiction book called Beirut.
• 29:13
  You consider what happened in regards to the Beirut bombing. Was that '82 or '83? I just read that book. It's phenomenal book. And, the mass casualty event that that was and just kind of the the the safeguard let down blind eyes that were turned towards that and what escalated to that.
• 29:32
  What happened in Beirut could could easily happen here in America. We saw that with the Murrah Building in, you know, I'm so horrible with years. What was that? '94, I think it was, in Oklahoma City, the the federal building bombing. You know, I we weren't you know, that Tesla explosion yesterday, you know, fireworks aren't, you know, 4,800 pounds of fertilizer.
• 29:53
  I get that. But that could have been theoretically, that could have been a mass casualty event as well. We're we're for whatever reason, he he detonated that in a cyber truck, which is if you look at it, I mean, the cyber truck is basically, with the exception of the glass and the and the trunk space, it's undamaged. I didn't even break the glass in the front of the Trump hotel. So that's curious to me.
• 30:17
  But yeah. So you look at all of these things and you go, okay. The the assets are out there. The tools are out there. The people that wanna control and stay in power, they're out there.
• 30:26
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• 30:28
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• 31:38
  Speaker 2: We're just, you know, peasants out here trying to, you know, feed our chickens and gather the eggs and keep ourselves alive and keep our kids from being brainwashed from a Marxist socialist educational system that's out there and brainwashed by all these screens that they're in front of constantly. And we're just trying to live and be left alone and leave others alone. And keep as libertarian of a mindset as we possibly can. And we got people out here trying to kill us for some reason. So so it's kind of a weird place to be living in.
• 32:07
  But but again, man's inhumanity to man is not a new concept. It's been going on since, you know, Cain killed Abel with a rock. So, I we shouldn't be surprised. We should be prepared But, you know, Seth, the underlying issue that bothers me more than anything, and I said this twenty five years ago. I said, as we move into a postmodern age, I said back then, I said, people can't define what postmodernism is, but we're moving into a postmodern age where emotions are gonna overrule truth and feelings are going to overrule facts, and people are gonna feel their way into reality.
• 32:44
  They're gonna feel their way into acting instead of acting their way into feeling. And and and it we're gonna be controlled by people who in you know, are overly sensitive. They're offended by everything. They manufacture oppression. They create victimhood.
• 33:00
  They're they're going to lose their identity. I said all of these things literally to audiences twenty five years ago. I said people are gonna question their identity. They're gonna question their genders. They're gonna question their sexuality.
• 33:12
  And what are we living in right now? I mean, if you lose your sense of identity as an individual, you're in trouble. Your destiny is in trouble. You don't know where you're going if you don't know who you are, and you don't know where you're going if you don't know where you came from. Well, when a country or society loses that identity, you're going to get chaos because there's no order.
• 33:30
  You wanna have peace? I'll preach for just one second. If you want to have peace, you gotta have the right government over your life because government leads to order. Order leads to peace. That's why Jesus was prophesied to be the prince government title of peace.
• 33:42
  You gotta have that right government in place, that right structure that leads to the right order that leads to the peace. We don't have peace right now because we don't have order, and we don't have order because we don't have the proper government. So, yeah, here we are. You know, I I encourage people. I said, you've got to get your individual life in order first.
• 33:59
  Get your family in order. Pretty biblical principles, foundational principles that I think have worked throughout eight the ages. And and, you know, start start low and slow and deliberate and get your get your own house in order and then your community, your neighborhood, your community, you know, your city, your state if you can but you know, we're so worried about what the federal government is doing and I'm like, you know, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, they're not coming to dinner at my house. I've been to dinner at Donald Trump's house a couple of times but but he's not coming to my house. It it is a big difference in that.
• 34:30
  Right? So I gotta take care of my house, and and that's where we are. But a lot of people, they don't wanna think anymore because thinking is hard work, and they definitely don't want to do the work because that's gonna take some effort and exhaustion.
• 34:42
  Seth Holehouse: It it absolutely. But I wanna I wanna get your thoughts on, just the overall kind of shift the the trending shift in America because I'm seeing the same time as, you know, this, you know, fear, chaos, everything we're talking about, I'm also seeing this really positive movement that I'm seeing. There's a lot of people that I think I think COVID was was one of the the greatest blessings this country's ever had because we took a country that had been asleep at the wheel for a really, really long time. And we, you know, completely you know, it was it was really it was it was Rome Two Point O. Bread and circuses.
• 35:17
  People were more concerned about, you know, Monday night football than the Monday night school board meeting. Right, where they can help, you understand what's what's being taught to their own children. And, of course, there there are people who have always been, know, vigilant parents, etcetera. But, in a lot of ways, I'd say that we really veered off course. And and a lot of folks I talked to, I said, you know, what is it that really kind of stirred you and woke you up?
• 35:37
  They saw it was COVID. Right? Some people's 09:11, some people's other events, but for a lot of people, it was really these past three or four years that made them think, oh, like, the government's not out to protect me. Like, the the media is lying propaganda, and and and so people really saw through a lot of that. And I think that's that's off you know, been one of the big catalysts towards what I'm seeing is a massive movement towards homesteading, towards homeschooling Yes.
• 36:07
  Towards getting back to God and realize that man can't fix this. Right? That there's, you know, there's only there's only one person who can decide if America's gonna make it in the future or not, and it's no one walking on Earth right now. And so I I do see, though, that and that's been encouraging to me because and this is what, you know, we've done with our own lives, and and we're gonna start documenting it this year and create some other, you know, channels, you know, kinda showing this. So this this process of going back towards tradition.
• 36:33
  And I I see it, though, happening across America and the people that I'm talking to and the comments I'm receiving. So while there is a lot of the country, it's still kinda like, oh, what's going on? What's going on? There's a lot of people that are really getting serious, and that they're taking responsibility. They're they're gardening.
• 36:49
  They're getting chickens. They're moving out of these big blue cities into rural country, you know, with like minded people. Also, you know, building local communities. Like, this is something I think is is really big is that we have to pull this country off the teat of globalism. You know, the we've gotten used to buying, you know, these these cheap things made in China for, you know, you know, $9.
• 37:11
  You get a mouse made in China. And so think it's got some growing pains, but I I really I really hope over the next four years and and and beyond that we do see this shift of bringing, like, bringing America back to what it it can be. And and you know, the whole h one b discussion. I'm much more on on the opinion that, like, let's fix America First. Like, if there's problems, that's the solution is not to to bring in outside help.
• 37:36
  Of course, there's a place for I mean, I've got I've got Indian friends that are h one b, you know, visas, and they, you know, they got married here, and they're great people, hardworking, top of their class. But these they're data scientists. You know, they're not a line cook. Like, we saw, you know, in these h one b visas being revealed. It's like, wait.
• 37:52
  Why is a line cooker in h one b visa? You know, someone who's who's writing, you know, in deep code and AI for Microsoft is different, right, than Yeah. A lot of these other things. But fundamentally, though, I I really think that we have to go through the growing pains of, you know, again, you know, cutting off the the the, you know, the the drug of convenience and cheap stuff that's, you know, that's put money in the CCP's pockets for them to build their war machine to come after us. It's, done all kinds of bad things.
• 38:20
  It's left our, you know, our towns. Again, I'm from I'm from Ohio. My my family's from Southern Ohio. You go to Southern Ohio where, you know, used to have these beautiful manufacturing towns that they're ghost towns now. And there's Yeah.
• 38:31
  Drug problem. There's fentanyl. You know, people can't support their families anymore. So I think that has to be fixed. But, again, what what does encourage me, though, is that there is this massive movement of people that want to buy American made.
• 38:43
  They wanna they they'll they'll pay twice the amount for something to buy it from a local artisan instead of buying it at Target, right, where it's made in some factory over in China. But I I wanna see what are you seeing because you're in Texas. You're observing a lot. You know a lot of people. Are you seeing a similar kind of movement alongside this evil?
• 39:01
  Are you seeing the the reverse happening of just this this positive trend?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I do because I surround myself with people who see it that way, and I and I try to I try to make sure that those are the people that are sort of feeding into my life and and kinda nurturing my soul, if you will. I I'm an optimistic guy by nature. Right? I excuse me. I try to find the silver lining.
• 39:26
  I'm also a cynic in that I'm a passionate person who gets tired of being disappointed. And so sometimes that comes out of me and people are like, why are you so negative? I said, I I'm not necessarily being negative. I just want to point out what's going on and make people aware. And excuse me.
• 39:43
  Speaking of being from Texas, we have these allergies here. So, yeah, every time it the weather changes, I get this stuff. But yeah, you know, we have, you know, we we have a big god who's in control of human history, and I do believe that. I believe in prayer. I believe in truth.
• 40:02
  I believe in seeking truth. I believe in critical thinking. I believe in common sense. I do believe in goodwill. I believe in charity.
• 40:08
  I believe in, you know, I had somebody accuse me yesterday. I've got a dear friend of mine who suffered a stroke on, Christmas Day, and we're trying to raise some money for his family. He said, oh, so you believe in so somebody said, oh, you believe in socialism? I said, charity is not socialism. You know, there's a huge difference in that, but that's how brain dead people are in our society these days.
• 40:27
  They wanna throw a label on something. No. We're not talking about an economic system that leads to death and destruction. We're just talking about helping somebody get through a hard time. And that and that's that's charitable.
• 40:37
  So, you know, we look at these things in spite of the naysayers and say, you know, the providential hand of God's been on us for a long time. And I don't anticipate he's gonna take it off at this point, especially if we have people who are willing to change their ways and do exactly the things you say, and that is and and go back to being self reliant, being independent thinkers, you know, trusting god, not the government, disobedience to tyrants, and taking care of yourself. Take a little personal responsibility. You know, my friend TJ Morris with Refuge Medical, they are one of the biggest suppliers, American made suppliers of, first aid and medical equipment that everybody should have one of their, you know, refuge medical kits in their vehicles. I travel every bag that I have when I travel and I travel a lot has a tourniquet in it.
• 41:29
  I mean, you don't know a lot of people that travel with tourniquets. Right? But, you know, you you never know. I mean, I you never know when somebody's gonna drive a street, a truck down the street and turn it onto the sidewalk and run people over. So, you know, he says all the time, and it is such a true statement.
• 41:43
  TJ says, you know, personal responsibility is the biggest thing we've lost in this country of people just taking care of themselves, taking care of their home, taking care of their family, taking care of their community. At the end of the day, it's an inconvenience but you've gotta put your money where your mouth is, man. If you're going to prepare, it's going to take work and and you know, you've got to be ready. You you need to read. You need to have the right people in your life.
• 42:04
  You need to have the right network. You know, when Jesus told the disciples to throw their net on the other side of the boat and he said they were pulling up the fish and it said the nets were breaking because there were so many. I always liken that to those knots in the net being your network. How tight are those, you know, the net is the network but how tight are the knots? Those those are your relationships.
• 42:22
  Those are the key relationships. Make sure that you got the right knots tied in your network and and have those people that are there, but I am seeing a trend. I'm seeing people out there who are saying, I wanna get a little further off the grid. I don't know if I can completely do that, but I wanna get a little further off the grid. I I don't wanna keep sending my money to a federal government that's gonna spend, you know, 250,000,000,000, 3 hundred billion dollars in Ukraine fighting a proxy war, and we don't get any form of audit to know where that money goes.
• 42:47
  We just saw the other day. Joe Biden approved another 2,400,000,000 to Ukraine. Well, what happened to the first two hundred billion? We don't know. So I don't trust any of that stuff.
• 42:55
  I'm working my tail off to pay a federal government who's not taking care of America First and putting American exceptionalism above everything else. You know, I'm with you on the h one b. I just had this conversation the other day with my friend Dinesh D'Souza. I'm name dropping like crazy on this show. But but I was with Dinesh, and, you know, Dinesh, he came here on a student visa, went to Dartmouth.
• 43:15
  But here's the here's the thing about people like Dinesh D'Souza who came here from India versus as you mentioned a lot of these other folks that are here, who have abused the system is is this horrible word, this horrible word that we've lost in America, and that is assimilation. Like, that is the not politically correct to say that people need to be a part of a melting pot coming here and embrace American American ideals. You know, go to go to Minneapolis, Minnesota where Sharia Law, man, they wanna put it in place because of the Somalian people that the Clintons and the Obamas stuck in there. This idea of assimilation has become a bad word. People don't come to this country to be Americans anymore.
• 43:55
  They come to to, basically strip mine the system and then leave us holding the the, the the the check. So we gotta get past all of this stuff. We need a government that puts America First. Even saying America First has become a bad word. Right?
• 44:11
  Talking about exceptionalism, that's a bad word. You know, Barack Obama had this plan to make America, you know, we talk about globalism. He had this plan to make America like the other countries on the planet. We were up here. He wanted to bring us down here so it levels the playing field.
• 44:25
  They call that equity. I call that ridiculous. I I'm I'm thankful that god made America the greatest country that's ever existed. You know, our our constitutional republic is the greatest idea ever conceived in the minds of man. I truly believe that god's hand was on it.
• 44:40
  People say, well, you know, god's not even mentioned in the constitution. Well, you need to read your state constitutions because at the time of the ratification of the constitution in The United States, they were basing it on the fact that the states had more importance than the federal government. They always wanted the states to have more importance than the federal government. And every, almost every state constitution talks about a reliance dependence and a belief in God. So they already had that underlying foundation there when they wrote the US constitution.
• 45:08
  And and I truly believe that that this idea of America is the thing. This is the greatest notion ever to yeah. Almost divinely inspired, if you will. And and we've gotta remember that, and we gotta get back to that. And if we don't, we're in trouble.
• 45:21
  But I see a lot of people who are who are embracing that. They don't trust anybody, and I think it's a healthy distrust, but they are taking care of themselves or at least they should be. And they they're trying to do the take the steps to, take care of themselves. I encourage everybody. Do what I did just this week.
• 45:37
  Go put your tent up in the woods, and you'll realize the stuff you forgot at home. Like, you'll be like, dang it. I didn't bring any matches. Like, I I I didn't bring this to waterproof that. I didn't bring go out in the woods for a week and you'll realize for just on a smaller scale, how much reliance on technology we've gotten, you know, the ability to just illuminate a dark place.
• 46:01
  People don't how had the difficulty of starting a fire in certain conditions. You know, I it's it's it's an interesting telltale sign of our reliance. I encourage everybody to go do that.
• 46:12
  Seth Holehouse: So you mentioned before that you're an optimist, and and I'm I'm similar. Like, I I'm someone that you know, it look. If I can live in a world of of uncovering the things I'm uncovering and and, you know, diving into these Luciferian documents and, you know, looking into, you know, SRA victims and all the things. It's like, it's it's a pretty dark world, but I can still show up and usually have a smile and and still have hope for the future. I think that one of the things that really affects people because I'm a big person.
• 46:39
  I'm a big believer in the power of vision, the power of having an idea of what you want to become and and and letting that guide you and and shape you to become that. And I think that one of the issues is that when we look to the future, you look at Hollywood or any of the stories that we've been told, anything about the future, it's almost always dystopian. Right? And I think it's on purpose. Right?
• 46:59
  You know, whether it's Blade Runner or Hunger Games or Mad Max or any of these these major, you know, blockbuster movies, Book of Eli, what what what they're showing us is that the future for mankind is some sort of postapocalyptic, post nuclear war. People have, you know, big, you know, tumors growing on them. People are, you know, raping and killing each other. And it's like, well, how how would we possibly have the energy to fight for something if that's the only idea that you can create or, you know, conjure up is the vision that we've been sold by, you know, the controllers. But, you know, I wanna ask you as someone who's an optimist and but also someone who's grounded in reality, let let let's fast forward four years from now.
• 47:38
  What would you if you could if you could create a vision for somebody of what America could look like, not like if the politicians do what they're supposed do, but if if the people do what they're supposed to do, and that is reflected in the political class that they have to con you know, they have to follow us. Right? What does America look like? What what is this, you know, what is this golden age that Trump could be has talked about? Like, what what do you see if if you were, you know, sitting down with one of your children and saying, okay.
• 48:05
  Look. This is what America can look like if we fight for it and if we bring God back into this country. What's what's that vision look like? Paint it for us.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: You know, my audience gets tired of me saying it, but it but we've gotta return to critical thinking. And and when I say critical thinking, here here's what here's what that means to me. Whenever I have an idea or I get in engaged in a conversation, or debate, I I ask myself, the first question is, where am I wrong? Where am I wrong? Like, if I hold this idea or if I'm formulating this idea, where am I wrong?
• 48:38
  And I and we don't like to think about being wrong. We want to be right all the time. Men are especially bad at that because we want to one up each other. You got a story. I got a better story.
• 48:45
  Now, you got a better story and we just, you know, it's it's the locker room, you know, talk where we just go back and forth. But I wanna know where I'm wrong. If I can do that and get back to critical thinking, I think that, you know, four years from now, we can get back to discussion and dialogue and debate, disagreement. Our country was founded on that. You know, the the the go back and read the the, you know, the war of the minds between a John Adams and a Thomas Jefferson.
• 49:11
  Right? But but at the same time, they had the same ideal. They had the same goal. They could disagree, but they still wanted this idea of America to exist. And it was that that headbutting, if you will, that caused the sparks that ultimately led to the freedoms we've enjoyed for two hundred and fifty years.
• 49:30
  If we don't get back to that, we're not we're not gonna have any of those freedoms. We're already seeing so many freedoms restricted. I mean, I shouldn't have to fill out a form to buy a gun. I I I and I get it. I get it.
• 49:39
  But you this again, it's not constitutional. I I shouldn't you know, the the the, you know, I shouldn't be censored because I use a certain word. You know, for two and a half years on my show, we referred to the vaccine as the blah blah. And we said blah blah because they would penalize you if you use the word vaccine. You know, you couldn't have an open and honest discussion because the Google overlords were raining down on you.
• 50:02
  You know, I'm hoping that that, you know and I keep I keep a healthy distrust of Elon Musk. I just don't trust any billionaire, including Donald Trump, that continually inserts themselves into the conversation and makes themselves a center of attention. I'm why are you doing that? But, hopefully, more Elon Musk will arise. I I don't know.
• 50:19
  Maybe Mark Zuckerberg will keep rolling around on the floor with MMA Brazilian jujitsu guys and some testosterone will actually rub off on him, and he'll grow a pair and and come off of this that we've seen him do for so long. And we can get back to the free market of ideas. So, you know, four years from now, if I'm looking at my kids in the face and I say, I wanna give you a better future. We gotta get back to the transference of ideas, that ability that I can critically think in my mind, and then I can use the words that come out of my mouth, and I can transfer them to your ears and ultimately into your brain, and then you can process those and send them back to me, and and we can communicate once again, because social media isn't real life. At this stage in the game, I don't know if I'm communicating with a human or a bot.
• 51:04
  AI is a real thing. It's a very deceitful thing. It's a very it's like a laser. It can be used to heal. It can be used to harm.
• 51:11
  Right? It's just a matter of whose hands it's in and how they're using But but this is what's coming at us whether we're ready for it or not. You know, my mother's 81 years old. She's still trying to figure out how to get YouTube on her smart television. But yet we're getting bombarded with with AI, and and I see people all the time getting scammed by bots that are pretending to be me on social media.
• 51:30
  I get these messages every day. And it's like, come on, people. You gotta be more aware. You got to be more aware. Social media is not real life.
• 51:38
  And I know when I walk into a restaurant, I don't start looking around the room and picking out, I I I just just a real honest example. I I did a live show, in in Tyler, Texas for New Year's Eve, and we were staying at the hotel, and some other friends of mine were there. We went to dinner. This girl comes up. She's got her head shaved.
• 51:57
  She's got an earring in her nose. You know, she's all these things, you know, just all those telltale signs. I'm like, I bet I know who you voted for if you voted at all. Like, you know, I immediately made that judgment, but I was kind to her. She was kind to me.
• 52:12
  We didn't start you know, I didn't look at her and say, I bet I know who you voted for. You know, it crosses your mind because in my brain, I'm just I find everything funny. And, you don't in real life, we don't do that. Now on social media, we might have been at each other's throats because again, we're keyboard warriors, and we do those things, but that's not where people live. So I don't walk in a restaurant, start trying to pick out who I think might align with me politically.
• 52:36
  I I'm a member at a at a golf course here locally. I I I, you know, gotta do something. Right? So I go over to my golf course, and the guy that owns the golf course, he says, we don't have, he said, I'll I'll censor this. He says, our members, we don't have Democrats, and we don't have a holes.
• 52:51
  And I said, well, I'll tell you what, buddy. I said, you might not have any democrats out here, but you do have a couple of a holes. I said, you know, I but it's a funny philosophy to have that. We don't have any democrats out here at this golf club. Well, that's true and not true.
• 53:07
  Just because somebody quote aligns with you in some ways politically doesn't mean you're always gonna get along with that person either. We saw that with the h one b between the, you know, between the tech nerds and the MAGA people. Everybody was at each other's throat the other day. I didn't have H one B visas on my bingo card on election night in terms of the most important issues we were gonna be facing. But, you know, we melt down.
• 53:31
  We saw we see the people that supported Trump and the people that supported Ron DeSantis in the primary, and they're at each other's throat. I got people out there that absolutely hate me on x because I've said, you know, here recently with numerous things they hate me for, obviously. I'm easily hateable by some, I guess, but, you know, I made the I made a post made two posts this week where I said, Donald Trump endorsed Mike Johnson. I don't particularly like Mike Johnson. I wish Mike Johnson had a, you know, a stronger backbone than what he's obviously easily controllable.
• 54:01
  But I said, I'm gonna support Donald Trump in in endorsing him for speaker of the house because I don't know everything Donald Trump knows. I don't know the deals that are being made. Now I'm gonna hold it with an element of suspicion, but at this stage in the game, when everybody when 70%, seventy five % of Americans voted for Donald Trump, I'm gonna trust the guy right now to say, okay. This is what we need in this moment because he's gotta get this election certified. And if Mike Johnson, you know, is is he is he better than Kevin McCarthy was?
• 54:33
  I yeah. I think so. Is he is he strong MAGA? No. Do we have the votes in congress right now to get somebody that's very strong MAGA?
• 54:44
  We don't before January before Monday, January 6. And, you know, will Mike Johnson cave to the pressures of MAGA? Yeah. I think he will because we've we've seen him cave to a lot less. So let's use him.
• 54:59
  I said on Dinesh's show the other day, I said, I hate calling people useful idiot, but let's use the useful idiot for right now. Well, you know, you make those comments and you try to explain that logically to people and say, listen. This is politics. This is how you play the game. It's not ugly, and you don't it's not a popularity contest all the time.
• 55:15
  This is how you play the game. Let's play this game for a little bit and get to where we need to be, and then we'll reassess after the, you know, the inauguration. Man, people hate you for talking like that, though. They really do. I mean, they're, like, vitriolic hate.
• 55:28
  Like, they're willing to crucify you over, you know, 250 characters on a X post. I mean, they are willing to crucify you for a forty second video that you make about that stuff. And I just remind people, that's not the real world we're living in. That's not the real world we're living in. Don't make that you know, don't don't don't let that scare you from sharing your ideas of of giving your opinion because as we started this conversation, there are those big voids.
• 55:53
  So many things we don't know and our brains rush to fill them with our questions and our imagination and our thoughts. Don't let the trolls under the bridge scare you off from that. That's not the world we live in. So I hope we can get back to the critical thinking and the free expression of ideas and and the conveyance of those things without without fear of repercussion for those. And and, you know, these days when they're putting people in jail for a meme, this is scary scary prospect of the future.
• 56:21
  And I'll tell you, I'll go one further. You talk about the dystopian futures that the that the movies are always talking about. There's, you know, for years, we've had those apocalyptic movies, you know, the day after tomorrow, you know, the the homestead movie from Angel Studios just came out about, you know, LA getting getting hit with a nuclear bomb and and how are people prepared to to, survive after that? There's something fascinating in all of us with these end of the world scenarios. You know, I don't think we're that far off anymore from zombieland or walking dead or, you know, the aliens being among us.
• 57:00
  Of course, I think they're driving past our solar system and locking the doors at this stage in the game because because we're nowhere near joining the federation of, planets or whatever Star Trek was, you know, because we're so disgruntled and so disenfranchised and and disjointed at this point. So, man, I hope I hope I hope our optimism wins out over the next few years, Seth. I really hope it does.
• 57:23
  Seth Holehouse: I I hope it does as well. I'll I'll keep fighting for it, I know, as you will as well. And Yeah. So as as we're wrapping up, I wanna bring up your website. So it's just watchchad.com.
• 57:35
  And there you've got you know, they get you access to your book, your podcast, music about you. You've got your links to your social media, YouTube, etcetera, there, your Twitter. So, you know, recommend, you know, folks check that out there. And, you know, Chad oh, so here you go. Here here's your, your tour dates.
• 57:50
  So this is, this is a comedy tour. Is that right?
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Comedy tour. I I know I talk about serious things, but I really am funny in real life. We you know, I I'm kind of an anomaly. I if I were just a comedian, it would be it would be interesting, but, you know, I ran for governor in 2022. I was on the primary ballot.
• 58:08
  People take, you know, they hate me. So, they got people that hate me, love me for that. You know, got the book that's been out for now. That one's been out a couple of years. Am I crazy?
• 58:16
  And the answer to that is yes. But we we go out and you know, I do stand up comedy. I'll be in Louisville, Kentucky this weekend. This next weekend, I'm sorry. And then, you know, we're bouncing all over the country.
• 58:31
  You know, I I say every year, I'm not going to travel so far because I was doing, you know, I was doing 200 dates a year in 35 states across the country, and and now I'm 52 years old, and I'm tired, and I'm tired of airports, and I'm tired of, you know, just going, going, going. But I'm being Klamath Falls, Oregon on Valentine's Day, so I just can't slow down. I I don't know. I think maybe that helps keep me, that youthful vigor if you will. But, yeah, I tell people, as you go to watchChad.com, that is the most vain web address ever.
• 59:02
  Watch it. It sounds like an OnlyFans. I don't know what you're going to watch me do but watch Chad or ChadPrather.com. People will find me. I'm I'm out there, man.
• 59:09
  So, we, you know, Seth, you know, the good thing is we we get to make a living in a lot of ways running our mouth, right? It's a blessing. America affords us that opportunity to do it. We've taken advantage of it. We've both gone viral in different ways with our videos and our comments and commentary.
• 59:26
  And and I'll tell you, we're blessed, blessed people, and I and I hope we can protect that. I really do. Just that ability for us to just talk, and it's such a significant part of society.
• 59:38
  Seth Holehouse: It is. It is. And I'm happy to see the collapse of the mainstream media and this rise of independent media as well because, you know, these conversations are important, and neither of us are, you know, censoring ourselves or, you know, we're not we're not avoiding certain topics. And and this is what we we need to have. Again, you know, like what you said, critical thinking, open dialogue.
• 59:57
  Yeah. Well, Chad, thank you again for for joining us today. It's been great having you, and I look forward to next time. This thank you thanks for doing what you're doing.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother.
• 1:00:08
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