SPEAKER 04 : 0:02

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SPEAKER 01 : 0:37

Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in today to Shooting the Breeze. I am your host, Karen Murray, otherwise known as Mama Glock. And you guys need to come check out Franktown Firearms if you haven’t been there. It is… I mean, I walked in on Saturday to teach a class, and the store is being compliant with all the new laws and all that good stuff. All the ammo is behind cases now. I don’t know. They’re kind of like gates, security gates that you have to request to get a box of ammo or whatever. We’re in compliance all the way around, including with our classes. We are now teaching the eight-hour concealed handgun permit class. So if you need to get a concealed handgun permit, then you need to go to franktownfirearms.com and check out the calendar, see when the next class is. I think it’s on the 19th. We also have a couple of refresher classes coming up on Saturday. We’re going to offer two because they’re only two-hour classes. So we’re going to give two on Saturday, and then there’s two more on the 27th. So if you want to go check those out. The CQB classes are filling up fast, and they are just, Absolutely amazing. If you want to train in that 360 kind of realistic environment, you can go check out the CQB classes, and you can find those at cocqb.com. You can find all this information. You can actually call the shop, and if you have questions pertaining to any classes or either of the websites or whatever, you can call the shop at 720-770-7000. 7777 and somebody will be happy to take your call and answer your questions for you. Private instruction is also available. I do a lot of the private instruction, but we have other instructors who also do it. But you can send me an email if it’s something you’re interested in. If it’s pistol instruction, I can definitely help you with that. If it’s rifle or shotgun, We might direct you toward one of our other instructors, but you can send an email to karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com, and I can certainly guide you in the right direction for that. But I hope everybody had a great Independence Day weekend and all of your fingers are still intact. I saw that we had a fire in Douglas County. Again, I remember a few years ago this happened, too, or just in our county anyway, that somebody disposed of fireworks in their regular trash, and they hadn’t been, you know, wet or disposed of properly or waited the proper amount of time, and these fireworks caused the embers to actually ignite whatever was in the trash can and burn somebody’s house down. I have three words for you guys. Bucket of water. Bucket of water. Just keep a bucket of water. Yes, it’s a mess. Yes, it’s a drag to clean up. But if you take your spent fireworks and you submerge them in a five-gallon bucket of water or two or three or whatever, I can just assure you that it’s not going to cause a fire when you throw them in the trash. So it’s sad to see. I don’t know. It just really makes me sad that somebody lost their home because they didn’t use their heads. If you would like to talk about anything that I’m going to discuss today, you can give me a call and Luke will patch you through at 303-477-5600. I’d love to chat with you about anything that I’m going to talk about. And I’d like to start off by extending my thoughts and prayers to everyone affected by the flooding in Texas. It is horrific what’s happening there, and you guys know since I’m bringing this up, you probably, if you know me, you know where I’m going with this. At the same time, I also want to kind of give a big metal finger to the lunatics who are out there saying that these people deserve it. Considering many of the victims of this flood who lost their lives are children, There’s a special place in hell for you for believing that those kids deserve to die because of the way their parents may or may not have voted. It’s absolutely disgusting how these people think. So the middle finger salute is for the people who think that they deserve to die. And we’re going to mention this cloud seeding stuff. And I know that you can strap on your tinfoil helmet if you want to. But the cloud seeding is happening. And the cloud seeding that was happening right before this flooding happened, you can look it up, you can go to the internet and find the information. Many people out there are sounding the alarm about the weather modification and how it impacted even events in the past, like Maui, the LA fires, North Carolina, and now we have this Texas thing and many other places. You can go to the NOAA website and find documents admitting to all of the weather modification that’s going on. There’s actually a company called Rainmaker Technology Corporation that is responsible, in my view, for a lot of this flooding that happened in Texas. So I don’t know if you know who Christopher Key is, but he’s an amazing patriot. I actually follow him on Facebook and a couple of other places, and I’ve actually been in communication with him to come on the show soon. And that will happen. If you know who he is, then you know who he is. But if you don’t, then just go look him up. Christopher Key. Christ is Key. He’s a Christian. He’s a patriot. He’s a great man. But here’s what he posted yesterday. And if this doesn’t give you pause… And if you think that everything we’re seeing in terms of all this crazy weather is natural and, you know, just it’s kind of Mother Nature and it’s whatever, you need to open your eyes and do some digging on your own. And you can start by, and Christopher Key has nothing to do with this website, but it’s geoengineeringwatch.org. If you’ve never been there, just go check out that website. But Christopher Key says, 26 feet in 45 minutes. And that’s a question mark and an exclamation point. He says, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how the flooding in Texas got so devastating so fast. Why didn’t they evacuate? He said, and then I saw this. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes at 4 a.m. Let that sink in. 26 feet in 45 minutes. That doesn’t sound natural. That doesn’t feel like an act of God. I believe this was an act of war, not of nature. This reeks of geoengineering, and I suspect the use of HAARP or deliberate dam manipulation. Weather can now be weaponized, and if you control the skies, you control the ground. No warnings, no time to evacuate. People asleep in their homes, just like Maui, just like countless other natural disasters that turned into land grabs and control ops. It’s time we stop calling these disasters natural when they are clearly engineered. This is not about climate change. This is about climate control, and it’s time we expose it. And, of course, you will never even hear a whisper about this on mainstream media, ever. You’re never going to hear anything suggestive of anything that what I’m saying. It’s all Mother Nature. It’s totally normal. Move along. Nothing to see here. We’ll talk about the devastation. We’ll show you the body count. We’ll show you, you know, video of the floods as they rage through the streets or whatever. But we’re not going to tell you why. We’re not even going to question it. And these same cretins who lie to us about the bizarre weather around the world, about stuff like COVID being real, naturally occurring disease, the COVID shots are safe and effective, are pumping the airwaves full of lies about this big, beautiful bill that was recently passed by the House and was signed by President Trump. Now, I’m sure you saw Hakeem Jeffries and his eight-hour grandstand trying to prevent the bill from passing. Between him and clowns like AOC, we probably heard people will die dozens of times. I think Hakeem Jeffries actually said tens of thousands of people will die because of this. And I think AOC said it’s a deal with the devil. Even on Fox News, right after the bill passed, On the five, I was watching the five, and my favorite human being in the world, Leslie Marshall, and, of course, I’m being facetious, who claims to be a moderate Democrat, she was lying to the people about rural hospitals closing when, in fact, and thank you, Katie Pavlich, for quickly correcting her, $50 billion is going directly to rural hospitals. in what’s called the Rural Health Transformation Program. You can go online and read about that. But right there, blatantly, out in front of everybody, Leslie Marshall says all the rural hospitals are going to suffer and they’re all going to close. And of course, the career welfare recipients are all freaking out because now, if they’re able-bodied, they’ll actually have to work or volunteer in order to get their government check. I see nothing wrong with that, nor do I see anything wrong with defunding Planned Parenthood, which this bill also does. If you want to get an abortion in your state that allows it, like this one, fine. That’s fine. I just don’t want to have to pay for it. Tell me why this is such a huge problem for some people. Good grief. It just makes sense. I don’t want to pay for your abortion. I don’t want to pay for your transition surgery. And I don’t want to pay for health care, housing and food and child care, et cetera, for millions of illegals. It seems common sense is not so common anymore. Because to me, I look at that stuff and I’m like, OK, yeah, of course, of course. It’s unbelievable, but they have filled the people who already suffer from incurable TDS with so much fear and anxiety that they literally believe they’re all going to die. And if you spend any time on TikTok or Instagram Reels or whatever, you will see this. You will see people out there just beside themselves because they think they’re going to die. And because that’s what the politicians have told them. I’m going to play some audio for you right now that kind of confirms just how deeply disturbed and how deeply brainwashed these people actually are. Check this out.

SPEAKER 03 : 11:35

The last few days have been torturous. I’ve been doing everything, calling, emailing, everything I can. Today, my rare disease community are going to die. Lots and lots of my friends are gonna die because of Medicaid. Once they start cutting Medicare, I’m gonna die. And I don’t know what to do and I can’t do anything. And then on top of it, sexual, he got off. What’s the point? What’s the point anymore? I’m gonna die. I’m gonna die. My rare disease community and I’ve done everything in my power. I’ve wrote and I’ve emailed. I’ve done everything forever and there’s nothing we can do. This is insane. We’re gonna die. My rare disease family is going to die. I’m gonna die. The GOP. Trump. Hers who voted for Trump. I hate you Nazi. I hope you die with me. Because if I’m going down, you guys are going down, too. Trust me. I don’t die alone.

SPEAKER 01 : 12:45

So Luke did a fabulous job at bleeping out all the expletives that this woman was throwing out there. But, you know, in essence, she’s saying that, you know, we’re all to blame because we voted for Trump. you know, just F all the Republicans for voting for him and the whole thing. So she is literally freaking out. She is beside herself. She truly believes in her soul that she and her friends in the rare disease community, if you couldn’t understand what she was saying, that’s what she was saying. The rare disease community are going to die, and there’s nothing she can do. And It makes me mad, but it makes me sad at the same time because they don’t know any better. And I don’t know why they don’t know better. Maybe they don’t know where to look. I don’t know. But all of these people believe the mainstream media and the leftist wackos to the degree that they honestly believe that this is it. This is it. Like Red Fox and Sanford and Son, this is the big one, you know. Trump has finally found a way to kill his political opponents and people who didn’t vote for, you know, people who voted for him or whatever, didn’t vote for him. It’s truly mind boggling. So very sad. And, you know, obviously she’s one of countless videos that you can actually go watch. So go go check that out for yourself if you dare. So I’m going to switch gears here just a second. And this is kind of on a lighter note, I guess. Well, if you consider Black Sabbath and the music of Black Sabbath light, but a concert is always fun. So I don’t know if you guys know about this event that happened yesterday. Actually, wait, no, Saturday. Black Sabbath performed their final show in Birmingham, England, which is where it all started for them back in 1968. It was called Back to the Beginning. And Black Sabbath, of course, was the final act. They finished out the sold-out concert at Villa Park Stadium, which holds about 45,000-ish people. Black Sabbath performed with their original lineup, which is always great to see, Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward. And I would love to hear your opinions on this, too, because there were some of the performances from people like Axl Rose and that were kind of questionable at best, but it was really neat. Black Sabbath performed, you know, all their fame, although I was kind of sad that they didn’t perform the one biggest song that the whole thing was named for, but whatever. But the concert consisted of a star-studded lineup of bands, including Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Sammy Hagar, Anthrax, among others. And again, I don’t know how many Black Sabbath fans I have listening right now, but it was a really neat thing to see. It was in Birmingham, England, so it played in the morning here because it was already, I think it started, it was a 10-hour event, so it was pretty wild. tribute videos from bands and performers who couldn’t be there. Billy Idol did one, Def Leppard, ACDC, among others. A bunch of people all had videos featured. But even Elton John and Dolly Parton gave their tributes to the band. So that was really neat. And they were running 15-second clips. I guess you could pay… I don’t know how much extra, but you could actually send a video in 15 seconds, and they would play it on the big screen from fans around the world. So that was really neat, too. This was not only Black Sabbath’s final show, but it was a charity event, which was also cool. According to Wikipedia, and again, some of these numbers might need to be researched or whatever because it’s very, very early, but all 45,000 tickets for the concert sold out in minutes, with 150,000 people having waited in a virtual queue for the opportunity to attend. The entire event was streamed online via pay-per-view with a two-hour broadcast delay and peaked at 5.8 million concurrent streams, which I thought was really awesome. Overall, the concert raised $140 million. It has the British pound symbol on here. I don’t know if there’s a pound anymore, if it’s a euro. I don’t know. But 140 million, which will be divided equally between two local charities, Acorns Children’s Hospice, and Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the National Charity of Cure Parkinson’s were going to be the beneficiaries of the proceeds of that concert. And now I’m not a diehard Black Sabbath fan, but my husband kind of is. He likes all that kind of music, but he’s a fan of Black Sabbath. And so we bought the streaming ticket. And it was actually really neat to see Ozzy up there. He had a big black chair up. He kind of looked like a throne, had a big black gargoyle on the top of it, and just very Aussie. But Aussie confirmed that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2020, and he has been kind of open about the toll that it’s taken. And it’s pretty obvious when you see him, and you see him doing live stuff and his shows, and he does all those kind of paranormal shows with his son, Jack. And on top of the neurological disorder, Ozzy canceled his tour in 2023 to focus on his recovery from spinal surgery. And he had a long-lasting health issue following a 2003 quad bike accident. And I’m sure he’s got some lingering health issues from decades of, you know, abusing drugs and alcohol and biting the heads off bats and snorting lines of ants. Thank you for having me. So I was reading some articles the day before the concert, and they were saying that concert promoters were unsure how many songs Ozzy would actually be able to perform because his health is so bad, you know. He can’t really walk around, which is why they put him on that throne or that seat or whatever. So I was wondering, too, like how is he going to do? How is he going to sound the whole nine yards? Very questionable at best. So he got up there, and he shocked the world. And he did an entire short set, they were all short sets, of all the Ozzy songs, as well as did the headline act with Black Sabbath. And he sounded great. So much so that we kind of suspected that he might be running through an auto-tune, because he sounded really good. But I don’t think, I think it was real. I think it was his voice. And the only song where he struggled, and I was thinking that he was struggling vocally, was Mama, I’m Coming Home, which I’m sure you guys have all heard that song. Which in retrospect, I don’t think that he was having a hard time singing it. I think he was choking back tears. because he came out and just crushed the song Crazy Train immediately after. So it was just neat. It was a very awesome spectacle to see so many bands and artists and fans out there paying homage to now the grandfathers of heavy metal. So super cool. If you’re a metal fan, if you know, you know. So before I get into my next segment, I have a question that has been burning in my brain for the last few weeks. And I have been seeing a commercial for the gaming app Royal Kingdom. If you ever watch Fox News, I’m sure you’ve seen those commercials. You had to have because they play them ad nauseum during every show that airs on Fox News, primetime especially. And these commercials feature some pretty big names as far as celebrities go. You know, some of them A-list, some of them kind of has-beens, if you ask me, whatever. But Kevin Hart, Shakira, Jimmy Fallon, these are the ones that I remember seeing. Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox, LeBron James, Jason Momoa, Chris Pratt, and a few others. And now I’m sure these celebrities aren’t donating their time. I know that they’re taking money and likely lots and lots of it to do these commercials. And one of the big selling points, if you can call it a selling point, I guess, since the app is free, is that the game doesn’t contain ads. Now, just put that in your head for a minute. The game doesn’t have ads, which ads are what, a gaming app will use to get you to spend your money to part with your hard-earned dollars. If you’ve ever played any kind of game on your phone or iPad before, you know how many ads are you forced to watch unless you pay to use the ad-free thing where you have to pay $10 or $12 or whatever. Sometimes it’s per month if you want to play a game that’s ad-free. So how is it that Royal Kingdom, a free gaming app that contains no ads, can afford to hire celebrities like this to advertise for them? So think about that for a minute. Any other kind of ad that you see, doesn’t matter what it is, Wendy’s, King Soopers, Walmart, Kohl’s, whatever, they all pay for ads. Sometimes they have celebrities in them. but they charge for their products. They charge for their merchandise, right? This is kind of an obvious situation here. But this Royal Kingdom, no ads, free app, how are you paying these celebrities for this to appear in these ads? So evidently, I am not the only person asking this question. I went to the Internet to find the list of celebrities who have appeared online, in the advertisements for Royal Kingdom, and some of them I didn’t list because I didn’t think of them, and they were people that are pretty obscure, but there’s several of them. And I ended up on a Reddit thread. And after reading a few of the responses to the question, some people thought these celebrities might actually be AI, which would make more sense than actually having them on a set filming a commercial. But still, that’s not what’s happening here. Other users, here’s one guy’s response. He said they are not AI. Dream Games is, I guess, the company who produced Royal Kingdom was valued at $2.8 billion a couple of years ago. And that just nearly doubled after a recent $2.5 billion investment from CVC Capital Partners. They can definitely afford celebrities. What I don’t understand is why the celebrities do it. According to Google, these celebrities get paid anywhere from $500,000 to $4 million. My current theory is that rich, famous people are so out of touch with ordinary people, they take the job thinking people actually play this game and aren’t aware of how cringe they look. But it does feel like something more is going on somewhere. This game has a history of investors throwing money at it, and I don’t entirely understand why. So that was his quote there. And even if it was AI, they would still have to pay the celebrities to use their likeness, right, or get their pants sued off, one of the two. Another user said this. I think this is about China owning certain celebrities. They make them do whatever they want, and obviously this app is some form of information-sucking scam. If you think it’s crazy that China owns celebrities, dig a little deeper. You’ll find it. Also, Big Pharma owns several celebrities, too. They’ve always made being a celebrity so glamorous and wealthy, but they signed their life away literally. It’s crazy and extremely sick that people would actually do this just for fame and money. If you know, you know. And yet another one said, whoever truly owns this game has some crazy dirt and blackmail material on these celebrities. So a lot of users on this Reddit thread feel that it’s very suspicious in some way. like a company that just launders money or something. Others think it might be related to the Epstein or Diddy client list, which, where are they? I guess we won’t ever know where they are. It’s because they don’t seem to exist now. These big stacks and these big binders full of truckloads of information that Pam Bondi was telling us, just wait, just wait, I’ve got it, I’ve got it, we need to look through it, whatever, and now… There you go. It was kind of a gut punch, actually, to me to hear that the FBI couldn’t find any evidence of a client list or even that Epstein didn’t kill himself. Did you guys hear about this? I’m sure you did. For years, we’ve been talking about this, questioning whether or not Trump was on the list, the list, the list, the list, the list. Where’s the list? I want to see the client list. Everybody in the CT community, otherwise known as the conspiracy theory community, in has been waiting with bated breath for someone, anyone to be arrested for diddling little kids. And now it’s all just going to go away. There’s a very profound meme that just showed up on the interwebs as of late, as of the last day after this announcement that the FBI couldn’t find any evidence of a client list or that anybody needs to go to jail. It’s a picture of Ghislaine Maxwell, because evidently she’s the only one that’s guilty of anything, right, that she’s behind bars. And she’s saying, if there are no clients, why am I in jail? That’s all you need to think about right there. If there are no clients on the Epstein list or in Epstein’s sphere or whatever, why is she in jail? We’re going to get back, talk a little bit more about this right after this break. We’ll be right back.

SPEAKER 02 : 27:58

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SPEAKER 01 : 29:04

And we’re back after that little short break. And I was just kind of railing about the Epstein thing and about the client list and how it’s, I’m just, I’m kind of furious. As to why or how, it’s just going to go away. So how does that work? Several memes have been appearing on the Internet right now. One is from a guy, Gunther Eagle, I think it is. He says, right now my trust in government is at zero. On my desk, in quotes, and truck full. in quotes, is what we were told. The lies are blatant. Someone has some explaining to do. People have to go to jail. And I couldn’t agree more. How many years has it been? And, you know, I know this whole thing kind of happened where we were questioning, yes, Trump’s on the flight logs and whatever, and the people in the Trump camp are saying, like me, I’ve also said this, that, you know, yes, they were rubbing elbows with you know, they all rub elbows together, right? The billionaire class, they all kind of hang out together and whatever. And yes, they’re seen at parties. And yes, they’re photographed and videotaped at parties and whatever, whatever. But as soon as Trump found out that Epstein was a creep who was trafficking little kids, that was it. He kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. That’s kind of the ongoing narrative in the Trump camp, okay? But now this, The FBI actually says there’s no evidence that anything… So what happened? If there’s no client list, who were they trafficking these kids to? Why is Ghislaine Maxwell sitting in jail if Epstein, you know, did what he did and it was all him? He just wanted kids, and he had no friends taking part in the same thing, and that’s it. It was just, that’s it. It was just Ghislaine Maxwell driving her submarine around to pick up little kids and bring them back to the island for just Epstein, and now Epstein is dead, and that’s it. We’re done. End of story. Move along. Nothing to see here. I don’t buy it. Do you buy it? Oh, my gosh. to me it’s maddening it’s maddening to think about that this story this whole entire thing is just going to go away because there’s no evidence that cash patel and dan bongino said nope can’t find anything so one of the two either somebody got to them or the evidence was all destroyed because i can’t see how epstein had this this island and this enterprise and this thing and um What’s her name? Jufri, Virginia Jufri or whatever. She was just, I mean, nothing. Like, she’s nobody. She’s nothing. And she’s dead now, too, according to the mainstream media. So that’s it. I guess that’s just it. We have nothing else to talk about, right? Okay. So you guys have heard me talk many times about being awake, right? or pre-awakened, or asleep, or whatever, or to the degree one would consider themselves awake. And it has been my experience over the course of the past 20 years or so that I can kind of look back on my whole journey of, and it all started with me kind of getting into politics, but I can look at my awakening journey, I’ll call it, and I can recognize the different stages of where I was. So there was a time back during the Bush administration and Clinton, I guess you could say Clinton kind of started it with the AR ban and all that stuff. But, you know, fast forwarding to George W. Bush and I guess even George H.W. Bush and Desert Storm and all the stuff that happened there. And just, you know, you kind of know where you were, what you were doing, how much you cared or didn’t care or whatever. Right. But you kind of, with each phase or with each event that happens or whatever, you kind of reevaluate your worldview and how everything works and how it’s supposed to work and how it doesn’t work and all that. So when you think about the major events that took place over the past maybe 20 to 30 years and even before that, those key events that alter your perception of our country, our leaders, et cetera. And You can either buy the official narrative, which most of us do, or at least did at some point, or you research and figure out what really happened, and more importantly, why it happened. And I can tell you that I look in awe at some people who have been fully 100% awake for 30 years or more. Because I’m just like, wow, how did you know? But that would have made me 30 years old and I was a new wife and getting to be a new mom and the whole thing. And your priorities change and you don’t really focus on the stuff that some people have focused on for the last 30, 40 years. Personally, I think the development of technology and our ease of transmitting information is via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social media, and all this stuff has made it much, much harder for the people in charge of keeping us all under control to do that. People from every country in the world can now send pictures and videos and documents to anywhere in the world in a split second. And if you think about this, the Internet itself, the Internet wasn’t developed until the mid-’90s, the World Wide Web. And I remember being a student at Denver Institute of Technology back in 90, this was 95, 96. And the Internet was just coming around. And I remember sitting down in the lab at school, and one of my lab partners was telling me about the World Wide Web. And I’m like, what’s that? I had no idea. And he’s like, you don’t know what the web is? And I said, no. And so he showed me this web and I’m like, I had no idea. And I know that sounds crazy because my generation, we watched all of this become a reality. And I’m 60 years old and I kind of embraced it because I saw it happen in my late 20s, early 30s. I saw it all unfold. And So I kind of embraced it because I was young enough to embrace it. My parents’ generation kind of went into this whole technological age, kicking and screaming, and I guess depending on who you are. My dad, for example, he tried to embrace it, and he did okay with it. He had the Internet, he had the computer, and he would go do what he did on the Internet. He loved to play games. Solitaire, which was actually on his computer. He didn’t need the Internet for that. But online banking, forget it. No way. Not happening. You know, he was very suspicious about everything, which he should have been. I guess that was very smart of him to think like that. And my mom, she used the Internet for Facebook, which I created her account for her. And she scrolled recipes. And she would sign up for everything. email subscription when it had to do with a recipe. She was that lady. She got dozens of recipes emailed to her every day as if she was going to cook all that stuff. Right. And then my dad passed away and then that was it. That was the end of her cooking. But my dad was more of a political person in general. So he used to go to all the political sites like WND and Newsmax. And, you know, Newsmax was the alternative conservative website. you know, source at the time, and he got all those emails, and he would read every word of every one of those emails, which I get that stuff now, and it just goes to my spam folder, and I delete it, you know what I mean? But that generation, or very few of them, would have had Instagram or Snapchat or TikTok on their smartphones, even if they had a smartphone, which most of them didn’t, right? So I guess what I’m saying is that our generation, Gen X, as we’re called, are the last generation that the crazy, power-drunk, deep state can potentially pull the wool over the eyes of. And my daughter’s generation and those after her, they can’t be fooled anymore. There’s way too much information out there that counters the mainstream narratives. And once you find alternative sources of news and information, and I’m talking about reliable ones, I’m not talking about crazy, you know, whacked out conspiracy sites or whatever. I’m talking about places like OAN or Newsbusters is fun or to look at even stuff like Infowars. And you can say what you want to say about Alex Jones, but he’s been right more than he’s been wrong. So just stuff like that. And you find that kind of thing. And once these people find these news sources, your ABC, CBS, NBC, you know, HuffPo, New York Post, or New York Times, Washington Post, all those, they’re just irrelevant to them. And, you know, the days of newspapers, printed newspapers are all but over, right? So the reason I’m talking about this is the idea of celebrity. Now, I kind of sidetracked a little bit, but I’m going to talk about the difference between the generations and the content that we saw on TV and movies prior to social media and the internet versus what we see now. As we discussed earlier, I was talking about Royal Kingdom and the gaming app and the celebrities and especially the big names are so rich, they probably couldn’t spend all their money if they tried. And at the same time, we have this big homelessness problem, right, in this country that’s just off the charts. The balance is off is what I’m saying. There is no balance. And you hear people talk about the homelessness and the homeless veterans that we have and all this money is spent on this other stuff and USAID and we’ve got homeless veterans on the street and the whole thing. And we know that there’s a lot of stuff that’s not right that’s off. So the same celebrities who claim that we’re all going to be underwater in 10 years because of climate change take private jets to their next movie premiere and spend their free time on yachts and all that stuff. You know what I’m talking about. They’re on vacation. They’re at the south of France sitting in the Mediterranean somewhere sipping on an $80 cocktail wearing whatever. You know what I’m talking about. So I’m in a place right now where I don’t even go to movies anymore. Because I can’t stand the actor or the actress starring in it. Mostly, and I’m being honest here, mostly because of their political views and their outspokenness about whatever, climate change or about Trump or the GOP or Elon Musk or whatever. And Rosie O’Donnell, you end up having to see her face because, you know, it’s a big deal, evidently, that she moved to Ireland. But you know who they are. Kathy Griffin, even though she’s kind of a B-lister, but Ellen DeGeneres, whatever. You know who I’m talking about. And I’ll give Robert De Niro as a little example. I used to love Robert De Niro. I mean, I’ve never really been a fanatic about people, but I loved him. And Casino was one of my favorite movies, and I’ve seen it probably 10 times. Now I would not go to a theater to see a De Niro film if you paid me to go. I just, I can’t stand him. I can’t stand the sight of him just based on what he thinks, what he believes. And this might be all by design. This is part of that whole divide that we talked about that I think Obama’s kind of responsible for. But another actor that I used to adore is Sean Penn. he’s an amazingly talented actor and I loved him in dead man walking along with his equally insane co-star Susan Sarandon. And we can talk about, um, what’s his name? Uh, Oh my gosh. Forrest Gump guy. Luke helped me out here. What’s his name? Tom Hanks. Thank you. Um, So, you know, I look at all that, and I loved his movies. I loved his voiceovers in Toy Story, and I loved Forrest Gump, and I loved Big and Cast Away. And there’s just, you know, he’s done so much great stuff. And I just look at him differently now. And you guys probably all have the same sort of feelings. Stephen King used to be one of my favorite authors. That man can paint a picture in your mind with his words. He’s a truly gifted writer. And I won’t buy his books anymore. In fact, I had a whole bunch of Stephen King books, mostly paperbacks, and I donated them all to the library. I just don’t even want them anymore. He’s a lunatic, politically. Rob Reiner. I’m just not going to fund these people. They’re all crazy to me. And that’s a problem. And because of social media and you know they all have social media accounts it’s just something that you can’t I can’t get past if I don’t like you personally and I think you’re kind of a of a jack-in-any why would I pay money to go see your work or why would I pay money to to you know download one of your songs or buy buy one of your movies or your books or whatever it’s just I mean it’s I’m not going to fund them. I’m not going to help pay their bills or buy their books or watch their movies when they’re so diametrically opposed to how I feel about life in general. And frankly, I’m kind of just sick of watching it all and spending the money on it. And you should be too. You’ve heard the phrase, put your money where your mouth is, and that can go the opposite way. You know, pull your money out of things that you don’t agree with. That’s why we’re boycotting Bud Light and we were doing all those things against Target and the whole thing is that, you know, you got to hit him in the pocketbook. You should stop funding these celebrities with your hard-earned money. What little you have left over from paying your taxes anyway. So the excess that we see on our TV and the movie screens is just, well, it’s disgusting when you really stop and think about it. And I remember being horrified when I found out that the stars, you remember the TV show Friends? I was horrified when I found out that they were demanding. Now, this was obviously after Friends had run for a couple seasons, and they recognized the popularity of the show, and they started demanding more money when their contracts would come up and the show would be renewed, and they would renew the actor’s or actress’s contract. I think they were demanding like a million dollars per episode. And, you know, I don’t know. If you think about how much money that show was making, right, and all the advertisers that were contributing to the show and the whole thing, yeah, there was a lot of money to be had, and they wanted their cut of it. And I guess I understand that, but a million dollars? because you might work a 12- or 13-hour day, you win a million bucks. My daughter works 12- to 13-hour shifts when she works. Her husband works 48, sometimes 72-hour shifts. I don’t think I need to tell you that neither of them makes a million dollars a day. Oh, and this leads me to something that I consider part of the problem in our society right now. And that is all the crap that we glorify and call it good TV. And I’ll call them out right now, TLC, you have some explaining to do. Because they’re probably the perpetrators of most of the stuff that I’m about to talk about. I was thinking about what we call the seven deadly sins. Did you guys see the movie Seven Deadly Sins? And that’s probably part of the problem as well, but they kind of talked about the seven deadly sins and how many of them are not only shown on every TV screen in the world, but they’re glorified and they’re praised from television to movies to music to politics. This is Satan’s playground, in my opinion. So to anchor this, let’s recall what the seven deadly sins are. Do you guys remember what they are? Do you know what they are? Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Traditionally, these vices were considered grave ethical pitfalls. Yet today, their presence in our media landscape is often celebrated. But why? How did we reach the point where the very traits that ancient wisdom warned us about are now painted in glamorous, irresistible ways? So let’s start with pride. I don’t think we need to reach very far to find the most glaring example of pride. The month that we just finished, first of all, June being Pride Month, right? But pride is also on full display in everything having to do with Hollywood and advertising and makeup and just the different reality shows and the TV shows and stuff that we watch, the entertainment industry as a whole, right? and the people who work in it. Pride is everywhere, right? So that’s kind of a general one. Greed is the next one. Do we really need to explain this one in terms of big corporations, big government? They’re all greedy as hell and stealing our money and robbing us blind for their own benefit. Greed is a given. And we’ll go back to talk about Friends, and they wanted the million dollars an episode. That’s pretty greedy, and there was negotiations going on because the producers of Friends were like, oh, we got bills to pay, and those bills are being paid at ridiculous rates, and greed, greed, money, money, money, money, right? So let’s go to lust. Again, I don’t think I need to elaborate on this one. Sex sells. This has always been the case. And I don’t see that changing anytime soon. And you look at shows like, and this is TLC, stuff like 90 Day Fiance, Love Island. And I don’t watch these shows. I just see them pop up. I watch Investigation Discovery. I’m kind of a true crime lover. And I watch those and I see the advertisements for shows like Love Island and 90 Day Fiance. And, you know, even shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, they all prey on the desires of the average human being that’s watching. Envy. This one is a little more subtle when it comes to the entertainment industry, but when you really think about it, what you see on the screen invokes feelings of, I wish I was her. I wish I was him. I wish I had that lifestyle. I wish I had a yacht. I wish I had a limo. I wish I could walk on the red carpet and go to this movie premiere. And I wish I had cameras focused on me the entire time. And I wish I had a makeup artist and wearing a $100,000 gown and some borrowed $6 million jewelry from Cartier or whatever. We’re programmed to be envious of the people we see on the screen. And then we go to gluttony. And This one, if you watch any episode of a show like Man Vs. Food, or there’s a YouTube channel from a guy, I think his name is The Bearded Foodie or something like that, or watch the guy who wins all the hot dog eating competitions for the rest of time. I don’t know. I can’t even remember the guy’s name, but you’ve probably seen him. He’s stuffing hot dogs in his face. Yeah. You know, you think about the excess that we watch even on something as benign as the Food Network. How many of you guys watch that channel? Have you ever seen any of the Halloween or Christmas baking championships where they make these monstrosities of cakes that are, like, taller than me or sugar sculptures or what? Why? It’s indulgent and it’s excessive. And all that food, all those ingredients, they go in the trash. You know they do. And gluttony isn’t just about food. It’s more, more, more. Me, me, me. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Like I said earlier, these disgustingly rich celebrities have multiple beachfront homes or New York penthouses, limos, and the finest jewelry and the designer clothing and the best of everything. And, again, they walk from their limo-driven car, and they get to their movie premiere, and they have somebody open their door, and they have armed security. And, you know, there’s probably a homeless guy a block away who’s living on the streets, probably a veteran. And most of them don’t even bat an eye. They drive that past there and whatever. So next one is wrath. Every Hollywood movie has a villain. And it doesn’t matter if he or she is a character we love to hate. It doesn’t matter. That actor or actress is making millions off the wrath of that character. So wrath, anger, you know, hatred, people make money off of it in the entertainment industry. And then we have sloth. And this one really bothers me. Shows like My 600-lb Life, again, a TLC show, or Thousand-lb Sisters, again, a TLC show. Or we can put this show into a different category, but the Sister Wives, all about polygamy and having more than one wife. And, you know, yeah, maybe watching these shows doesn’t really produce feelings of envy or, you know, you’re not really glorifying anything. being gigantic and can’t sit in a car, can’t get in bed, can’t take a shower, can’t live on your own. They’re not making it appealing in any way, but the people who are subjects of the show are making money off of their sickness and their morbidities, right? And if you wanted to take this step a step further, let’s talk about shows like Hoarders or Balin Out Loud. One is about people with a mental condition causing them to keep every scrap of everything they’ve ever owned and house it all in their homes to the point where they can’t even move in their house anymore. They have rats or mice nesting in their piles of trash and boxes and whatever. If you guys have ever seen it, it’s like, oh, yes. And bailing out loud about a young woman who has Tourette’s syndrome. And because of the nature of that disease, the production crew, I’m sure, has to bleep out half of the dialogue of the movie or of the show that they use in every episode. So just contrast this all with our shows of our generation and before us. Shows like Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons and the Brady Bunch. Remember, go back in time for me for a moment. Back when shows would teach people that there are consequences for your actions, They teach you right versus wrong, family values, all of that, right? At the same time, think about the Brady Bunch. It was probably pretty controversial even at the time with the Brady Bunch, considering you had two people with three children each from previous marriages. Probably pretty scandalous, right? And now look at where we are. And this is called progress. If this is progress, I think we need to reevaluate the word and determine its meaning that’s not such a good thing. To me, progress should be figuring out who’s trying to put the screws to all of us and exposing them for their evil deeds and what they’re exposing us to and what they’re exposing our kids to. It should be teaching kids that there are consequences for their actions and quit with this gentle parenting nonsense. It should be teaching the value of hard work and being happy with the way you look or what you have. And if you’re not happy with it, you change it. You exercise, you eat right, you drink water, you do whatever. But we don’t have to go to the Internet and claim that being morbidly obese is beautiful or that demanding a million dollars for a 13-hour day is reasonable because it’s not. So that’s going to do it for me today, you guys. I want to thank you so much for tuning in to Shooting the Breeze and spending the last 58 minutes with me in the fastest hour in broadcasting. Make sure you guys visit Franktown Firearms’ website. Go to FranktownFirearms.com or COCQB or ColoradoCQB.com and check for the latest class offerings. And remember, you can always opt for private training if you just want to brush up on your skills or learn to safely handle a firearm and you have no desire to carry concealed. I can help you with that. You can send me an email, karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com. We can help you achieve your goals no matter what they are, even house lights. It doesn’t matter. I can help you with whatever you need. Mama Glock is out for now, you guys. Take care, everyone. Enjoy your day. God bless.

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