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FFOD350 : Not Political. Patriotic. / with Keith Mark of Hunter Nation · Fist Full of Dirt

1:13
SPEAKER_07: It was alarming when you and I started sharing those statistics.
1:19
SPEAKER_04: So many people say that my vote doesn't matter.
1:24
SPEAKER_04: Everybody does.
1:26
SPEAKER_04: And not only does your vote matter, go you know, bring it up to your neighbor.
1:29
SPEAKER_04: Post it on your social media.
1:31
SPEAKER_04: Go vote, go vote, go vote.
1:34
SPEAKER_04: And you'll you'll hear you hear that all the time.
1:37
SPEAKER_04: This one is a tipping point.
1:39
SPEAKER_04: I say it every time.
1:44
SPEAKER_04: This is a tipping point effect.
1:48
SPEAKER_07: I think they're going to affect the area or absolutely understand.
1:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because one of these days, if you don't go, you're going to be going in the reference.
2:00
SPEAKER_07: So I didn't think it's a good idea.
3:18
SPEAKER_04: Well, I appreciate it.
3:19
SPEAKER_04: And before we get started, I gotta tell you, I you know, I follow not as close as you do.
3:24
SPEAKER_04: This is this is just your world, but I follow pretty close.
3:27
SPEAKER_04: The event in Kansas to me just look next level.
3:32
SPEAKER_04: I I've never seen that much enthusiasm.
3:36
SPEAKER_04: Am I right?
3:37
SPEAKER_00: No, you're right, cuz.
3:38
SPEAKER_00: And and you know, I've attended and helped uh with a lot of uh Trump rallies over the years, and there's kind of a special enthusiasm there, uh, and and you're gonna understand what I'm gonna tell you.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like if you go to WWE and they hit Shawn Michaels or Stone Cold Steve Austin's music, I mean, people lose their minds, right?
4:00
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
4:00
SPEAKER_00: That that's kind of the way a Trump rally is.
4:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think, especially now, you know, uh the president was there, and then of course Ted Nugent was there, who was unbelievable.
4:11
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
4:12
SPEAKER_00: What with the the whole energy in the arena, which was jam-packed, um, it it it you could literally feel it, uh, cuz it was really quite something.
4:20
SPEAKER_04: Well, I appreciate you sent me some photos in there, and I was like, man, I should have gone to that one.
4:25
SPEAKER_04: And then two days later, I get the I get the uh I'm scrolling, I think he's gonna be in Cornwall, Mississippi.
4:32
SPEAKER_04: I immediately RSVP and got a couple of tickets to that stuff.
4:37
SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna be fine under naked head and whatever else I got when I go to that.
4:41
SPEAKER_04: You know, I think heads and I've heard you talk a thousand times next level.
4:48
SPEAKER_04: And he said he said, yeah, he he gave me a nice text and then a picture of a a doe he had just center punched with his bow.
4:56
SPEAKER_04: And I was like, he is absolutely one of a kind.
4:59
SPEAKER_04: You and him have been running together a lot here lately.
5:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a it's a busy time.
5:05
SPEAKER_00: But you know what, cuz uh I I really thought I'd slow down, you know, at my age, but the truth is, uh, you know, the more I spend time with my grandkids, like I did last night at my granddaughter Rose's softball game, and I see all these other kids and young people and my kids and your kids and grandkids, and man, it's worth every second that we're putting in right now because uh what what is really at stake is so significant.
5:30
SPEAKER_00: And the problem is, as I look out among the hunters that I share hunting camps with, you know, weekly, and uh I mean, just the apathy uh to not vote.
5:40
SPEAKER_00: I I just can't understand it.
5:41
SPEAKER_00: Like I'll talk to some of these guys and gals and and they're gonna be like, yeah, can you believe there's a a Muslim that supports the the you know Muslim Brotherhood that could be the next senator in Michigan, or there's a pastor running for Senate in Kansas that thinks we should apologize for being white and repent if we eat meat and and that uh Jesus uh wasn't born of a virgin birth.
6:07
SPEAKER_00: And I I mean, and and they're like, Can you believe all this?
6:10
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Yeah.
6:11
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Are you gonna vote?
6:13
SPEAKER_00: And they're like, No.
6:15
SPEAKER_00: Why?
6:15
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, I'm busy or I got this or I got that.
6:18
SPEAKER_00: They got a million excuses.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: And and it just blows me away, cuz, because when you just look big picture, okay, look what happened out in Oregon.
6:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, I always say, hey, our hunting and gun rights could be gone in one election cycle when everybody goes, they ain't gonna ever do that.
6:34
SPEAKER_00: Well, in Oregon, they tried to ban hunting, they tried to ban fishing, they tried to ban trapping and really all kinds of animal husbandry, including ranching.
6:45
SPEAKER_00: It failed, of course, but that's not the point.
6:47
SPEAKER_00: It failed because there was still enough good people out there that beat that back.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: But the fact that it actually got that close in one of our 50 states, doesn't that scare the living bejesus out of everybody?
7:00
SPEAKER_00: Well, if it doesn't, it should, because.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: And then you just look across the country at how they've tried to just destroy the Second Amendment.
7:09
SPEAKER_00: And why do they want to destroy the Second Amendment?
7:11
SPEAKER_00: Because none of the other amendments will matter if you can't protect them with the Second.
7:17
SPEAKER_00: Just look at Nazi Germany.
7:18
SPEAKER_00: The first thing they did was take the guns.
7:20
SPEAKER_00: Once no one had guns, they were on train, and then they were in concentration camps or worse.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: And and I know people say, oh, Keith, he just talks all this.
7:29
SPEAKER_00: Listen, look what's going on with some of the elected people that really have no allegiance to America.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: I mean, are you following the Ilr Omar story?
7:39
SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh uh the the side up there.
7:42
SPEAKER_00: Look what's going on in New York.
7:44
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the mosques that are getting built all over the country.
7:47
SPEAKER_00: And and if good people, Judeo Christian people with good values, traditional values, don't vote, trust me, because all of those people are voting.
7:59
SPEAKER_00: And so I I say this to my fellow hunters and your fans and your listeners.
8:04
SPEAKER_00: It's not a political thing to go vote, it's a patriotic thing to go vote.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: You know, and I'm not advocating for a party or a candidate.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: I think yeah, I mean, you have to be brain dead not to see it for yourself in 2026.
8:18
SPEAKER_00: But what's at stake in all these elections?
8:21
SPEAKER_00: Is President Trump on the ballot?
8:22
SPEAKER_00: No.
8:23
SPEAKER_00: So a lot of people are gonna stay home.
8:24
SPEAKER_00: But he is actually on the ballot, Cuz, because his agenda, what he's done here in the last two years, like the for hunters particularly, opening up all of that access so we can hunt uh public uh uh national public land.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, what he did saying, hey, you can't ban lead shots on federal lands, you know, which the the lunatic left was trying to do.
8:48
SPEAKER_00: Um and just a lot of the other things.
8:50
SPEAKER_00: Look at what's happened recently with suppressors, mufflers on guns.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: Now we can do it.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, so it's President Trump has been a real good friend of the American hunter and sportsman.
9:01
SPEAKER_00: It's not a surprise because he has a Donald Trump Jr.
9:04
SPEAKER_00: whispering in his ear, who, by the way, is on the board of directors of Hunter Nation and my good friend.
9:10
SPEAKER_00: So President Trump is actually delivered when it comes to hunters, but but there's a lot of those politicians out there that are not.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: So although Trump's not on the ballot, what is on the ballot, if you lose the U.S.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: Senate, it's the U.S.
9:22
SPEAKER_00: Senate that picks the next Supreme Court justice.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: There will be one Supreme Court justice that's going to be uh probably in the is certainly in the next six years, which is the Senate term.
9:34
SPEAKER_00: And so where are the Second Amendment, all that stuff decided ultimately at the Supreme Court?
9:40
SPEAKER_00: So people need to think ahead.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: The Second Amendment is on the ballot because the Senate picks, the Supreme Court confirms the Supreme Court justice.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: Don't pick them, the president does, but they have to be confirmed at the Senate.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: And look what goes on at the congressional level.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: The Voting ID Act, that's going to be coming back.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: Do you believe if a certain group gets in that we're ever going to have voter ID proof of citizenship?
10:06
SPEAKER_00: No, you'll have non-citizens voting in federal elections, and then what happens?
10:10
SPEAKER_00: It's a disaster.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: And then go down to your state and local level.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: I mean, your state house decides boundaries, decides all the rules and regulations in your state, and hey, let's just take it right down to your neighborhood.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: How about your local school board?
10:24
SPEAKER_00: They're the ones that decide what your kids get taught, cuz.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: And I mean, are they going to push a woke, anti-gun, anti-hunting, vegan, open borders agenda?
10:35
SPEAKER_00: Or is it going to be the traditional values that you and I support?
10:39
SPEAKER_00: That's why voting is so, so important, cuz.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: And for these people that just say, Oh, I don't think I'm going to vote, shame on all of you.
10:47
SPEAKER_00: I mean, literally take a step back and think about all the flag draped coffins that came back from overseas on airplanes so we could actually have the right to go vote and be we the people.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: So act like you're we the people and get off your tree stand or duck blind and go cast a vote this November.
11:09
SPEAKER_04: You know, I put a post up this morning.
11:12
SPEAKER_04: And you you know, for a for an older guy, I got a pretty big following on social media between Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and all that stuff.
11:21
SPEAKER_04: And it's about a judge's race up here in North Mississippi County.
11:28
SPEAKER_04: He's running for judge.
11:29
SPEAKER_04: He's a great guy turkeying with him.
11:31
SPEAKER_04: I put a picture of me and him up there with a turkey with me and all that.
11:36
SPEAKER_04: And it just is no response.
11:37
SPEAKER_04: I get a lot of response.
11:43
SPEAKER_04: It's aggravating because a lot of that stuff just started.
11:46
SPEAKER_04: Your local leaders affect you more than the national leaders do.
11:51
SPEAKER_04: You get you got to get out and vote.
11:53
SPEAKER_04: All the research that Hunter Nation has done.
11:57
SPEAKER_04: Why why why do hunters not vote, Keith?
12:00
SPEAKER_04: Just your personal opinion.
12:01
SPEAKER_04: What keeps them out of the polling booth?
12:04
SPEAKER_00: Well, there's really two major reasons.
12:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: And one is it's inconvenient.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: That that's sad to hear, but we'll get responses back to polls is hey, that's right in the middle of hunting season, and I just won't take time.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: I only have so much time, and I'm going to go choose to set in a tree stand, or I'm going to go set uh uh in a duck blind, or I'm gonna be walking fields.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: That's number one.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: I I I I it's tragic, I don't get it, but that's one of the excuses.
12:30
SPEAKER_00: And the other, and this is even in industry people that you and I deal with on a regular basis in the outdoor industry, the answer is I don't want to get involved in politics.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: And that's why I said earlier, it's not political to go vote.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: It is not political to go vote.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: I'll repeat it.
12:53
SPEAKER_00: It's patriotic to go vote.
12:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, I mean, you don't have to say, you don't have to talk politics, and a lot of hunters are like, hey, I don't need anybody.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm self-reliant, I kill my own game, I can protect my own family, and I make a good living.
13:08
SPEAKER_00: I got my NFL ticket and a 12-pack of beer, and I drew my buck tag this year, and so on and so forth.
13:14
SPEAKER_00: I don't need any of those people.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, for a long time maybe they didn't because the two parties, maybe they disagreed on one thing or the other, but they did agree that America was the greatest country in the world.
13:27
SPEAKER_00: We don't have that anymore, cuz.
13:29
SPEAKER_00: We've got one side of the aisle right now that does not believe America is the uh shining city on the hills.
13:36
SPEAKER_00: Um, they believe that we should morph into a one world, um, everybody included, um, coexist even though they don't assimilate uh type of a country.
13:48
SPEAKER_00: And and not and they don't want capitalism.
13:51
SPEAKER_00: They want socialism leading to communism.
13:53
SPEAKER_00: And so all these things that our people are just setting back apathetically not participating, um, they're gonna lose it all.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: And and if we can't wake them up, cuz I mean it's gonna be a shame.
14:05
SPEAKER_00: And I hope that those people are on the train ahead of me.
14:08
SPEAKER_00: Uh, because I'd like to say I told you so before they go, and then I go.
14:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, but but the answer was is just so simple.
14:15
SPEAKER_00: Just take 30 minutes out of your day and go vote.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: There's early voting right now in almost every state.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: Just pick one day here all the way up until election day and go vote.
14:26
SPEAKER_00: Or I love to vote on election day myself.
14:29
SPEAKER_00: And the reason is it's just I feel good about it.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I I plan how to do it.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: I my wife and I plan, we go together and we make an event out of it, and we go have breakfast and we just make a you know, kind of an election day out of it.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: And I wish we'd make it a national holiday.
14:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, but it nonetheless hunters cuz these self-reliant, independent, non-political people literally could control the direction of America if they voted in block.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: We proved it in 2024.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: We turned out more hunters in 2024 than in recorded history, um, and they made a huge difference.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: And just among hunters that either had never voted in the last 16 years of polit of presidential races, or cast 50% or less votes.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, very low propensity voters or not at all, they were more than the presidential victory margin in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan.
15:28
SPEAKER_00: Think about that for a second.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: Hunters that never voted or very seldomly voted in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan picked the president.
15:38
SPEAKER_00: And then a lot of down ballot races thereafter.
15:41
SPEAKER_00: If they would just realize how powerful we are as a group, oh my gosh.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: The rooms we would get in, the policies that we would impact.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: In fact, I was lucky enough myself, because because of all that voting in 2024 to be in the Rose Garden, uh having supper with the president when he signed the executive order, opening up all that land, that very pro-sportsman um executive order.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, but here's what happens: if we set out this election and the next election, we won't be at the Rose Garden.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: We won't be getting positive executive orders.
16:14
SPEAKER_00: We won't be getting diddly squat it'll be like the old days.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: But but listen, I'm optimistic because I do believe that the people that I, you know, I live in in a little town and I go up to the local coffee shop and I talk to a bunch of people regularly, and um, they're pretty quiet about what they're gonna do, but they know what they're gonna do.
16:33
SPEAKER_00: They know what's at stake.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you don't have to look very far.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you want Sharia law in America?
16:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't.
16:39
SPEAKER_00: You know, do you want people that hate America, that are socialists, hate guns, won't eat meat, despise and tell you to repent if you eat meat?
16:47
SPEAKER_00: I mean, is that what hunters in America, those are the people that you want to control the U.S.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Congress, the U.S.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: Senate, pick the next Supreme Court judge, be on your school board?
16:57
SPEAKER_00: No, not me, and not the people.
16:59
SPEAKER_00: And I'm seeing, like you mentioned earlier, at the very onset of this call, cuz, the enthusiasm at that Wichita rally and and and the other rallies that the president has had, we're gonna be Sunday in Michigan.
17:10
SPEAKER_00: Um, Nugent's gonna speak again, and and so on and so forth.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: I I think this undercurrent of enthusiasm is gonna catch the pundits and the pollsters by surprise because I think a lot of the hunters that didn't respond to your postcause they saw it.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: They don't really want to say anything.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: They're just gonna keep their opinion to themselves, but they are gonna get their backsides to the polls and they are gonna vote.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: I think we're I think our group is gonna get out again in big numbers.
17:39
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be the difference makers that nobody sees coming across the country.
17:44
SPEAKER_00: They're not counting on these hunters to go vote.
17:46
SPEAKER_00: In fact, the left is convinced that these hunters are gonna stay home again, that we just did a one-time uh deal and then we're gonna go back to our sleepy selves.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: I don't think that's gonna happen, cuz, because I think our brother and sister hunters that believe in the traditional values, the God family, country, the constitution, and live the hunting lifestyle that you and I live, I think they are gonna go vote.
18:10
SPEAKER_00: They might not publicize that they're gonna go vote, but I think they are gonna go vote those values because they are patriots.
18:17
SPEAKER_00: Not political, but patriots.
18:20
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
18:21
SPEAKER_04: Ted made that clear.
18:22
SPEAKER_04: I I was uh like I say, I can't get over that rally up there.
18:25
SPEAKER_04: And it gives me hope.
18:26
SPEAKER_04: But you know, you look around that room, I was just watching on the screen and all that, and I was like, oh, those people are gonna vote.
18:32
SPEAKER_04: It's like we need to tell them to tell their neighbors.
18:36
SPEAKER_04: And you know, it's like Keith Mark, he he went through a just a terrible hail scare.
18:43
SPEAKER_04: And weeks after that, health scare feels worse than it was.
18:48
SPEAKER_04: Your inspiration is like we gotta provide these people.
18:52
SPEAKER_04: You know, 100% the best people in the world, the best criteria.
19:02
SPEAKER_04: You send me a little video.
19:06
SPEAKER_04: I take you a couple of things to look at and want to say, hey, you you there's crazy people that they're running for after.
19:15
SPEAKER_04: It's kind of criteria because it's like do what you can.
19:22
SPEAKER_04: And one of the great things about ironation is all you concentrate on is getting people registered to vote and getting them up and getting them to the polls.
19:31
SPEAKER_04: You're not saying do this, do that, vote for this person or that person.
19:35
SPEAKER_04: And uh man, people need to join and get behind you.
19:38
SPEAKER_04: So I appreciate that.
19:40
SPEAKER_04: Just for me, thank you for what you're doing.
19:42
SPEAKER_04: It it it just means so much.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Well, I appreciate that, cousin.
19:46
SPEAKER_00: Did you see who I got to set by at the rally, other than my beautiful wife of 41 years, Jeannie?
19:52
SPEAKER_00: Did you see who was on my other shoulders?
19:54
SPEAKER_00: I did not.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Danica Patrick.
19:57
SPEAKER_05: Mm-hmm.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: You know, and it's the first time that I've met her in person, and she is a tremendous patriot.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, she is a just a firecracker.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: I mean, and she she was alike, a lot of the hunters that are listening right now.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: She really wasn't involved at all in politics nor voting up until, you know, roughly 2024.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, somebody tapped her on the shoulder and said, Hey, Danica, you need to be voting.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: And then she looked at the uh both sides, and she's been at a lot of Trump rallies.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: She's uh, you know, she went to a lot of Trump rallies uh and events leading into 2024.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: She's a conservative lady, she's a patriotic lady.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was a pleasure getting to sit next to her.
20:44
SPEAKER_00: And then my good friend Brooke Rollins, who's the Secretary of Agriculture, set two chairs down from me and got to talk to uh uh Secretary Rollins about some of the great things that the U.S.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: uh Department of Agriculture is involved in and some of the things that are you know unfolding as we speak, uh leading in.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: It's a four-year term for President Trump if these midterms go the right way.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, you know, all the good policy that they've started, um, it's gonna get thwarted.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: Um you you I think you can, and I would, if there was a prop bet I could bet on, you're gonna see the war in Iran in very shortly after the midterms, either way, um, because the uh Iranians, they're gonna they they're they're gonna be forced to to a deal because they're about uh destroyed as we speak, and they're hoping that the um more liberal side of the aisle wins because they know they're gonna get a much better deal, an out card.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, and you're gonna see gas prices come down.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: I think we're already seeing the biggest investment in the U.S.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: economy in the history of the U.S.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: economy.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: I think the president brought in$22 trillion in extra income that's never come into the country because of his tariffs.
21:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and I think I get a chance.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that some people got upset about this, but I'm just repeating it.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh President Trump said that it's he's so confident that the economy under uh his leadership and conservative leadership is going to continue to explode like it is.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: But if the Republicans, and I'm not saying I advocate for this, I'm just saying this for your listeners.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: If the Republicans hold the House and the Senate, meaning they continue to have a majority in the House and the Senate after the midterm, the president is going to spend five thousand dollars to every American citizen 18 years of age and older, with only one stipulation you have to spend the money in America.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: You can't take the money and go travel overseas.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: $5,000.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: So if if people are thinking about you know, you people bet on NFL and they bet on basketball and they bet on, you know, whether two crickets are gonna get up the screen sooner.
22:54
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what they bet on everything.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: But if you want to bet on one thing and make five thousand dollars, you know, get off your behind and go vote.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: And if you if the right team wins according to President Trump, you got five thousand dollars waiting on you.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm definitely gonna be casting my vote and and hoping to catch five thousand dollars personally.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: That's not keithmark on our nation, but you know, keep mark personally because um as I look out on this horizon, I'm scared to death from my grandkids that we keep electing Muslims, uh we keep electing socialists, that we keep electing people that would ban hunting and guns if they get into the majority.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: And I I keep mark personally and that's why I'm on my own uh war path right now.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: It's cause I just want hunters and gun owners and traditional American values supporting and rural America to wake up and just go vote.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: Just go vote your values.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: Just go vote your values because I know it's good enough.
23:51
SPEAKER_00: I know it will be good enough and and and the outcome will be very good for guys that believe like you and I believe because my standard pitch when I'm talking to people is like, hey, you don't want to go to the polls, that's cool.
24:02
SPEAKER_04: One of these days you're gonna be in there and the referendum's gonna be on your gun and your right to hunt.
24:08
SPEAKER_04: That's coming.
24:09
SPEAKER_04: I mean, you you hear it every all the time, man.
24:12
SPEAKER_04: This is this is the biggest election in history.
24:15
SPEAKER_04: This is a tipping point.
24:16
SPEAKER_04: Well, this one is, and Trump's not even on technically, he's not on the ballot.
24:21
SPEAKER_04: But you man, I listened to Glenn Beck the other day talking about what the other side has got planned win or lose, and the fight continues.
24:32
SPEAKER_04: It doesn't matter.
24:34
SPEAKER_04: This is the one in front of us right now, but that's never gonna go away.
24:38
SPEAKER_04: And and good moral common sense people have gotta they've gotta get up and do it.
24:45
SPEAKER_04: And I appreciate what you're doing.
24:47
SPEAKER_04: Now, I want to know first off, I gotta ask you about this.
24:52
SPEAKER_04: You you you were just uh you didn't volunteer for this, but now you're the chairman of the national EPA.
24:59
SPEAKER_04: Tell me about that appointment to the EPA for for Keith Mart.
25:02
SPEAKER_04: That's pretty exciting stuff.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: It is, and I appreciate that because I I did accept uh a position in the Trump administration in the EPA to chair uh a committee, um, basically trying to figure out how we teach uh sound uh environmental science um to the next generation.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: Um under the last administration it was the Green New Deal and that land and resources were meant to look at, not touch.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: And that's why hunting was banned on so many public places and drilling was banned and motorized vehicles were banned and gates were closed and and we couldn't access so many different things.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: And so it um administrator Zeldon asked me if I would chair this committee that would bring back a a letter to the president of recommendations with regard to the next generation of how we deal with the environment.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: And when they asked my idea on that, I said it's gotta be hands-on, hands-on conservation, hands-on uh resource management is always the best.
26:08
SPEAKER_00: Hunting is the best way of hands-on conservation when it comes to wildlife.
26:13
SPEAKER_00: Um, and the only thing is we have to leave it better than we found it.
26:17
SPEAKER_00: Your dad, my dad, my grandpa's, your grandpa's.
26:20
SPEAKER_00: It was always the same.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: If you went onto another man's land, don't leave press.
26:24
SPEAKER_00: If you open another man's gate, close the gate.
26:27
SPEAKER_00: If you build a fire, clean it up.
26:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, it was so simple that it was stupid, really, and it was just common sense to us, and we've done it all of our lives.
26:34
SPEAKER_00: And that's the way I think it ought to be when it comes even to the bigger picture.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: Whether it's uh oil exploration or logging or or whatever mining, whatever it might be.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: With modern technology, we can leave the land better than we found it.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: We know us hunters are gonna leave the land better than we found it.
26:51
SPEAKER_00: We go in and hunt these um public lands, these national forests, and so on and so forth.
26:56
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna manage wildlife in a in a much better way than hiring government sharpshooters to do it.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: And so I needed to have a champion group around me.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: And so our mutual friend Jeff Foxworthy agreed to come on the committee with me.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: Um Albert Huddleston uh is on the committee with me.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: We've brought multiple biologists.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: Um Dr.
27:19
SPEAKER_00: Nathan Roberts, Dr.
27:20
SPEAKER_00: James Kroll, Dr.
27:21
SPEAKER_00: Deer, he's on there with us.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, a school teacher that's got the greatest curriculum of outdoors.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: He's produced more uh game boards and conservation officers at his high school than anywhere in the country, Scott Jordan.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: And it's really kind of impressive the team uh that we've put together and others too.
27:40
SPEAKER_00: And so what we're we've already had one meeting, we have some subcommittee meetings, committee meetings coming up uh next month, and then uh we have another meeting early in January, and then by the end of the president's term, we will put together a proposal, a letter of recommendations of what we think that the president and uh the EPA ought to do uh when it comes to our public resources.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: And again, because I said this earlier, Keith Mark from Hunter Nations is not on this committee, or certainly not the chairman of this committee if they didn't realize that hunters have a pretty big, powerful voice if they vote.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: So because hunters voted in 2024, um, I think there's a recognition that hunters are gonna come back again and we get a say at the table.
28:29
SPEAKER_00: And that's why I just I hate to say it like this because it sounds so demeaning to myself.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: But I literally beg I am begging my fellow hunters, men, women, young people, old people, everything in between to please go out and vote in this election.
28:46
SPEAKER_00: So we can continue to have a seat at the table, so we can continue to live the lifestyle that we live, so we can continue to own our guns without fearing that they're gonna be taken away from us and the ramifications of if that does because you mentioned earlier about the referendum to take your guns.
29:02
SPEAKER_00: What's really gonna happen is if hunters and gun owners don't vote and the socialists and communists take over, there won't be a referendum.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: They're gonna just take off.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: You can vote yourself into socialism and communism, but you sure as the hell cannot vote yourself out.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: Do you think the people in Russia can vote themselves out of that or China or any of the Iran, any of these other countries that are socialist communist dictatorships?
29:30
SPEAKER_00: You cannot vote yourself out of that once you get in it.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: The only way to get out of uh a tyrannical government is the Left Lincoln Greens and the Bridge of Concord and so on and so forth.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: And we sure as the heck don't want to get to anything like that when we can solve the problem so simply by voting in large, large numbers.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: If every hunter would go to the polls, we win.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: If 70% of the hunters go to the polls and take a friend, we win.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: It's pretty simple.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: If 50% of the hunters go to the polls and take ten of their friends, we win.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh it just takes a little effort, cuz, and like I said, I hate to demean myself to this level, but I literally am begging my fellow hunters to get out and be patriotic and vote.
30:16
SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
30:17
SPEAKER_04: You know the sad part is you get people like that involved that's got common sense, you're gonna find out no matter what the issue is.
30:25
SPEAKER_04: There's room for everybody.
30:27
SPEAKER_04: You know, there there's environmental stuff we need to look at, but there's also you know, everyday you stuff we need to look at.
30:33
SPEAKER_04: Thank God.
30:34
SPEAKER_04: To me, and I follow Hunter Nation, we're gonna talk about that one more time.
30:38
SPEAKER_04: It's like I you can get more as much information, everything you need to know what's going on, if you just join Hunter Nation and keep up.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if you go, and I'll tell you what, if there's anybody out there that is they they're like, Well, I've never voted.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm registered.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: Um and some states allow voter registration right up to the wire.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: So if you don't know or you want to know, go to hunthevote.org.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: Huntthevote.org, which is a sister organization to Hunter Nation.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: HuntTheVote.org.
31:08
SPEAKER_00: Plug in your little Mississippi down there, codes, or I'll hit my little Kansas button and you put in your information, and it will tell you how to get registered, when your last day to get registered, if you're registered, w when your next election is, um, where your where your polling place is, where you have to show up.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: Everything is in there.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: I we designed that website for bow hunters like you and me, cuz.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: It's so dang dumb simple.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: I understand it.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: And if I can tail everyone else in for sure, on the vote.org, put in your information.
31:41
SPEAKER_00: There's a really cool I Pledge of Allegiance on there.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: The celebrities that are on there.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: It's it's really kind of cool.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: And you know, because you talk about events, and you know, I've done a lot of cool things with a lot of celebrities.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh one of my friends is uh your own Brett Favre, you know, Mississippi's own Brett Parr.
31:58
SPEAKER_00: And and uh, you know, I did an event up in Green Bay with uh Nugent recently, uh get out the vote rally, and we did another one in Waukeshaw, Wisconsin, and my guest was Brett Favre.
32:09
SPEAKER_00: And I got to set on the stage in a question and answer format with Brett for about 45 minutes.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: And man, I'll tell you what, I was starstruck.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: You know, kind of like you and your grandkids when Shawn Michaels came down the ramp, you know, and there were many times I would be with Sean and I'd be starstruck myself, don't get me wrong.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: But Brett Favre is such a great guy, a Hall of Fame quarterback.
32:32
SPEAKER_00: And so when you've got guys like that that are willing to travel across the country to try to talk hunters into going out and vote, the Ted Nugents, Jeff Foxworthy, we've got ads running, Jeff Frox where he's telling people to go out and vote, Cuz Strickland, ads running, uh Craig Morgan.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: I mean, when you think about some of these really powerful people uh in their own lives that are so concerned with hunters not voting and helping us here at Hunter Nation, I mean it's just cool, but Brett Farr, man, you want to talk about I mean he is my I mean my hero.
33:04
SPEAKER_00: He's just a stud.
33:06
SPEAKER_04: Well, you run in a different circle than me, and I don't put myself in there, but I'm gonna do my part because you inspire me.
33:12
SPEAKER_04: And uh that's why we want to do a special.
33:14
SPEAKER_04: We're gonna air this a couple of days, three or four days before election day, and and uh yeah, if we can get a few people involved, so be it.
33:22
SPEAKER_04: And if they can't if they can't feel it coming from you, then there's no hope.
33:26
SPEAKER_04: Some people just aren't gonna vote.
33:28
SPEAKER_04: But watching you keeps me inspired, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking some time and I know you're busy because this uh this election's coming up really soon.
33:39
SPEAKER_04: So Keith Mark, God bless you and your family and everybody, and thank you for the the pace you keep.
33:45
SPEAKER_04: And man, we feeling it down here in Mississippi, brother.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: Well, I appreciate it, cuz, and I'm looking forward to this spring because I'm gonna set with my back up against a tree and let Cuzz Strickland call me in one of them Mississippi turkeys.
33:58
SPEAKER_04: Absolutely.
33:59
SPEAKER_04: I can't wait.
33:59
SPEAKER_04: God bless you, and I'll be watching you, my brother.
34:02
SPEAKER_00: Thanks, cuz.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: Love you, man.
34:04
SPEAKER_04: Love you too.
34:04
SPEAKER_04: Thank you, brother.
34:07
SPEAKER_03: Hi, everybody.
34:07
SPEAKER_03: This is Jeff Foxworthy, and as a lifetime avid outdoorsman, I was a little shocked to learn that in the last election, over 280,000 registered voters that are hunters did not vote in the state of Georgia.
34:22
SPEAKER_03: Those kind of numbers change elections.
34:25
SPEAKER_03: And I don't care who you vote for, go vote for your values and the way of life you want.
34:30
SPEAKER_03: Because that's one of the gifts of freedom.
34:32
SPEAKER_03: We get to choose who represents us on a local, state, and federal level.
34:36
SPEAKER_03: God bless.
34:57
SPEAKER_06: Sign me up.
34:58
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, sign me up.
34:59
SPEAKER_04: He is relentless, and the people around him are relentless.
35:03
SPEAKER_04: And you know, he just had a hell scale long ago, and his schedule just increased.
35:08
SPEAKER_04: Try to keep up with Ted Nugent, Keith Mark, Donald Trump.
35:13
SPEAKER_04: Good luck with that.
35:14
SPEAKER_07: What a perfect example of that quote they tell you about.
35:17
SPEAKER_07: Be careful about the five people you're closest to in your circle because you'll be the sixth, or whatever that quote.
35:23
SPEAKER_07: And I'm like, those kind of people just feed off of their own positive energy, and it's it's contagious.
35:29
SPEAKER_07: I feel like that after I get off a phone call with him.
35:32
SPEAKER_04: Ted Nugent had one of the best quotes ever, and he said it right here on the show.
35:36
SPEAKER_04: He said, His daddy told him, Show me who you run with, and I'll tell you who you are.
35:42
SPEAKER_04: Amen.
35:42
SPEAKER_04: That's right.
35:43
SPEAKER_04: So run run with good people and go vote.
35:47
SPEAKER_07: Yes, be a good person.
35:49
SPEAKER_04: Be a good person.
35:50
SPEAKER_04: That's all it takes.
35:51
SPEAKER_04: And I'm telling you, in the end, if common sense rules, there's room for everybody.
35:56
SPEAKER_07: Got this.
35:57
SPEAKER_04: So uh again, thank you, little bonus for me and Laureen up here in the Camo Cave.
36:02
SPEAKER_04: So God bless each and every one of you.
36:04
SPEAKER_04: Thank you for listening.
36:05
SPEAKER_06: Go vote, and we'll see you in five days.
36:08
SPEAKER_06: I can't do math.
36:09
SPEAKER_06: We'll see you next week.
36:10
SPEAKER_06: We'll see you next week.
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