July 4th 2023 | Can Aaron pass a civics test?

Ok. Ok. Ok. I know this episode's coming out. 

Technically July 5th, not July 4th day, late dollar short. I'm sorry. But did you know, did you know one time in our history as a nation, we actually celebrated Independence Day on July 5th and not July 4th because July 4th landed on a Sunday. And also did you know, according to the signers of the constitution, we're actually celebrating Independence Day on the wrong day. We're gonna blow Aaron's mind a little bit more with some more trivia here as we get started going on here. No, but happy July 4th. 

Hope you had fun with family and friends celebrating and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully you didn't blow a hand off. I'm looking at you, Aaron. I'm talking about what? Well, we haven't had July 4th yet. It's fireworks. And if your area is anywhere like my mother's, uh, the fireworks have already been going off for the last couple of days. And thankfully, my mom's dog is deaf, so can't really hear anything going on. 

Oh, I bet Zena is gonna have a world I was having a world with that. She's been ok so far. That's good. But that's because I've been there. So we'll have to see as things go on how she goes. But, you know, I have a feeling with me around she'll be ok. But if it's just my mom, we'll see, I don't know, say it's going to be getting dark pretty soon here and it's gonna get pretty loud. It was pretty loud last night and she was over at my mom's, I was over at my mom's too yesterday. But anyways, so the fact it is Sunday, July 2nd, 2023. And we're gonna celebrate what you have already celebrated July 4th. But before we get there, before we talk about July 4th and all of its fun. 

This, it's goodness, it's happiness, it's happiness. Should we still celebrate it? This, it's other things. This is a country worth saving, sort of deal. We're gonna find out if Aaron Johnson himself could pass a civics test and if he could pass the US citizenship test. Oh, absolutely not. Oh, ok. Absolutely not. No. Huh? All right, Johnson Johnson, let me ask you this. Who was the person that wrote the majority? Who authored the majority of the Declaration of Independence? 

I don't get a multiple choice. No. Gosh, who even comes to mind? I'm just trying to think of old dudes that I knew that were important back in the day, old dudes that were important back in the day. Like Thomas Jefferson and, and like Benjamin Franklin and like, uh, Abe Lincoln and like, uh but man, that was the right. So I do know, you do know. So the whole, like the declaration of independence was from the seven in the 17 hundreds. 17, what year? 70 six? Good job. That's why Crowder has his sale right now of all his shirts and hats for $17.76. 

I didn't even know that was happening. That's awesome. That's funny. Independence Day sale. That's, that's actually kind of cool. Um All right, but I don't know why like Thomas Thomas Jefferson just comes to mind, but I know. So are you locking that as your main answer? 

Sure, you are correct. Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence. OK. Now that being said, who was the first person to sign it? Benjamin Franklin. I don't know, I don't know that you're finding an answer. 

It's gonna be my only one right now. John Hancock. John. Oh I know that name. I actually do know that name. Wow, John Hancock. OK. He was the first person to sign it. It is likely because he was the president of Congress at the time. 

Hm uh His bold signature is where we get the phrase put your John Hancock when referring to sign your name. I, you've never heard that you've never gotten a document and we're told uh put your Jang John Hancock there. Not that I can remember. Wow, if I have, I it was a long time ago then because I don't, I don't ever remember hearing that. Yeah, I'm sure if we asked your dad and your mom that would be, they would know that. Yeah. Ok. So I already alluded to this in the intro, but July 4th, according to those who um you know, sign the declaration on that because the document was dated July 4th. So that, that's what it is, right? But when did they actually vote for Independence from Great Britain? Yeah. When did they actually vote for it? So they, so the documents dated July 4th, 17 76. When did they vote for the Independence? 

I would imagine it would be before. Give me a date. July 1st. You're so close, July 2nd. So they argue that we should actually celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd instead of July 4th. Well, I'm glad it's on the fourth for this week's sake because then we get more days off. So it wasn't. So while it was, the document was dated July 4th, not everyone signed until August 2nd until August 2nd. Yeah. Wow. So they, they got like the first couple of signatures on it, but it took a while to get all the signatures on it. Hm hm. That's a month, a month later. Yeah. John Adams was one of the first people to write a letter to his wife suggesting that we should celebrate on the second for Independence Day. And that's what he thought it was, he referred to Independence Day in his letter to his wife Abigail Adams as July 2nd. Ok. Hm. What newspaper was the first newspaper to print the Declaration of Independence? 

They printed it on July 6th, 17 76. The New York Times. No, I, I have no idea. The Pennsylvania evening post. Pennsylvania evening post. Yeah, I, I would never. No. Yeah. So, in 2021 there are about 331.8 million people in the United States. Ok. Ok. How many people lived in the United States that, you know, that we know of, back, back in 17 76 uh, 3800. 

I have no idea. I don't know. Take a real guess, 338 million, which I, 300 31.8 live now. Wow. I can't even that number. Um, II, I know, I mean, it's in the thousands, in the thousands. 

Give me an answer. Come on, give me an answer. Give me an answer. But how many thousands is to guess? 0, 300 I don't know. 300,000. Sure. 2.5 million. There was that many, like, wow. 

Yeah, that long I get. Ok. How long ago? That's, and 200. Well, no, it's not even 200 years ago. Never mind. Wow. Wait. Yeah, it is. Wow. I can do math. I promise. Like it's a little over, it's a little over doing a new, oh, my gosh, I'm awake. Wow. I got tripped up. 

You realize 2026 will be 250 years. That's scary. Yeah. Ok. Yeah. How many presidents that signed the Declaration of Independence died on the July 4th. Not that, not that year? Not 17 76. But how many presidents have died on July fourth that signed the declaration? So they signed it and then they became a president and then they died on a July 4th. That's depressing. Oh, three. That is correct. Nice. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 18 26 on the 50th anniversary of the country's independence. 

James Monroe died five years later on July 4th, 18 31. Also too late on the same day. Yep. The Liberty bell rings. How many times every Independence Day to honor the original States? Oh. Oh, no. Seven. No, no. Just trying to think of what the stripes and the, oh, no, because the stripes represent. Oh, no. Oh, no. Uh, 13, no. Yeah, you're right. Is it because it once for original state descendants of people who signed the Declaration of Independence? 

Tap the bell located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 2 p.m. eastern time. Every fourth of July thing. So they bring, they do it once, you know, once per state 13. Yep, the 13 original colonies came to 13 original states. That's right. Er, in his history class. 

All of a sudden kicking in a little bit. All right. And this one, I already alluded to one time Independence Day was celebrated on July 5th because the holiday fell on a Sunday in 17 79. So the, couldn't celebrate on the, yeah, on a good day. I had to do it on Monday. In what year was the 1st 4th of July fireworks show in Philadelphia? What year? Yep. 1800 I don't know. 17 77. 0, wow. The year after the celebrate the first year anniversary? Oh, that's cool. Yeah, they had that kind of technology back then. Oh, yeah, in 17 78 George Washington helped his troops celebrate by allowing them a ration of what is a special celebration for Fourth of July? For who, who did it? 

George Washington in 17 78. It allowed them a double ration of what? Whiskey? Now, I have no idea. What's your final answer going with the whiskey? Sure. It's close enough. Rum dang it. Alcohol. America was born right at the start doing it right from the beginning. All right. So this one I'm gonna give you, uh, a fact and then I'm gonna ask you a question. Here's the fact. The Macy's Fourth of July fireworks show which takes place every year takes 8000 hours to prepare for. Ok. Yeah, it's quite a large thing. Why, where does that take place at, um, New York City? 

Oh, my gosh, that's massive. Ok. Yeah. 8000. Now, according to the American Pyrotechnics Association. Oh, jeez. How much money is spent on fireworks every year? 

By Americans every year. Just overall. Yeah. Millions of dollars, I imagine. Take a guess, 5 million, I don't know, $5 million. Yeah. For all Americans. I mean, they're expensive but they're not that expensive Americans spend over $1 billion.01 billion dollars on fireworks every year. What a billion. Yeah. And there are like, 300 million people in the country. That sounds like close to 400 million, aren't we now? Right. We might be. But that sounds like $5 million. Really? Yeah, that's really low. Holy crap. What was I thinking? At least? 500 million? Oh, jeez. Wow. $1 billion though. It's a lot of money on fireworks. 

I guess that's why there can be so many of those stinking stores. They're everywhere but they always have those, buy one, get one or buy one, get three. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. All right. Next question for you in what year did Fourth of July become a federal holiday? Oh, Jeez. Federal holiday. Yep. Don't, no, I, one. 

I don't know why I'm thinking 19 hundreds because I feel like it was something that was really late to get to 1976. For those of you on audio. The look of disappointment on my face. How about 18 76? I don't know. I have no idea. 

Your second guess was closer. Yeah. 18 70. Oh, heck, yeah. Took almost 100 years for it to be recognized as a federal holiday. Yep. So, yeah, we're pretty slow. 

Thomas Jefferson believed that a new constitution should be written. How, every, how many years never I new constitution should be written every, how many years. Why have I never heard that before or? I probably have, I just never remembered it. Um, why do you think on that? 25? I don't know, you're close 19. In a letter to James Madison, he said, if one generation of men has the right to bind another saying that otherwise the lands would belong to the dead and not the living, which would be the reverse of our principle. 

You look lost it. What would you say if one generation of men has the right to bind another? So if one generation of people has the right to bind the next generation of people, right? Says the lands would belong to the dead, you know, the old families, the dead, the kings, you know, remember they're coming off kings ships with Europe and not to the living, the people that are around, which would be the reverse of our principle. Um You know what they just fought for. Yeah. OK. And the last one, I know this wouldn't be on a civics test, but I think it's just entertaining, right? 

According to the National hot dog Council hotdog and Sausage Council from Memorial Day to Labor Day, which is peak hot dog season Americans consume around, I'm giving you this fact, I'm gonna ask you the question. But so from Memorial to Liber Day, Americans consume around 7 billion hot dogs. From Memorial to Labor Day. That's a lot of hot dogs. Ok. That means 818 are being consumed every second. 

On average producers estimate that during July which is designated national hotdog month, 10% of annual hotdog retail sales occur. Now knowing this data, Americans eat around how many hot dogs each Independence Day Americans as a whole. Not like each individual American 800 some a second, 818. But on Independence Day directly how many, how many hot dogs are being consumed? That's, uh, you're trying to do the math, aren't you? 

I can't do math. You kidding me? I couldn't figure out 200 years. Yeah. Um, but that's a second that, that, that's the average, you know, it's gonna go up and down, fluctuate up and down during that time frame. So, how many million hot dogs are eaten each Independence Day? 

How many million I just gave you a clue there. But, yeah, unintentionally. But, yeah. Well, that's good because I was screwing myself over here. Where is that? Uh, 750 million? No. Well, 150. Wait, what? Really? Yep. That's it. Yeah. Well, if you do the math out, right. 

Uh, 24 hours times, 60 minutes per hour times 60 seconds per minute times, 818 hot dogs per second. That gives you a total of 70 million, 675,200. So, we're above the average during that time of Independence Day. That just doesn't. Mhm. It doesn't seem like a whole lot for that day, for that day. 

100 and 50 million. That's not even like the whole country eating a hot dog. No, it's not. I'd imagine everybody's gotta have a hot dog on that day. You think? So? I can introduce you to someone who wouldn't. Hm. Guy, I work with. No. Ok. Then one less. So that's two per you. 

So, remember I told you 7 billion hot dogs are eaten between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Independence Day. 2% of that is eaten, eaten on that one day. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, that's wild. 100 and 50 million. 

It's a, it's about double the average during that time. Dang. And some hot dogs do so. But, yeah, so they consider brought into the same thing though, right? Yeah. Even though brats are so much better. 

Well, I'm gonna eat my extra this year. All right. Make that number higher. Let's do it. So, yeah, that was just some lovely little trivia there for you. For the Fourth of July for you. 

I'm glad I got some, right. Just like you got some of the, of the, another game we played, which will come out in a week. Or two here and is a love song or worship song. Aaron didn't do as well as I had hoped and that I hoped he would do better. Especially being Mr worship team. 

Mr Mr W, I just played drums, man. I just hit stuff. I know the drummers aren't the smart ones in the band. Ok. And I'm keeping that stereotype true. I see. Yeah. Not a good thing but no, it's not. 

No, it's not, sir. All right. So, yeah, I just want to, I was like, I wonder what Aaron knows about this. So let me pull this up and of course, I had a blind Aaron on the screen so he couldn't see all the information. Do you even give me multiple choice? No, I did have to pull that. 

All of them all out of my brain. I was seeing how much you remember from your history classes back in the day. Not much. All right. I'm glad I got the 13 right? And the name, right. Yeah. But she didn't remember us for the 13 states originally while singing 13 colonies. Were you? Yeah. Ok. Because you seemed a little surprised when I said 13 colonies. Oh, no. Yeah, because I was trying to remember the stripes where I thought were for the colonies. So I was like, but wait, uh, uh, because then I hesitated, I was like, wait a minute as soon as you said that that turned into the States, I was like, oh, yeah. Uh, yeah. And then I was trying to remember what the stars represented though. 

I don't remember what the stars were. I don't think I'd pass the thing either because I think, I thought the stars, oh, the stripes, isn't that for the, like, 13 original? Yeah, the 1st 13 original colonies. But then the, didn't they start adding stars for all the new states that are getting added on? Because there's like 50 stars on the flag isn't there? 

So, the 13 stripes. Yeah, they alternate red and white. Yeah. Represent the original 13 colonies. Yes. Ok. Yeah. And then the 50 stars represent the 50 states. Ok. Yeah, that's all. Yeah. Simple as that. Ok. So then I was right. Cool. Congratulations. Wow. I'm surprised. So what happens when Puerto Rico becomes a state? Uh, uh, get, get rid of California? 

I can support that. Sorry, if anybody listens to this in California, just move out of there. You're gonna want to fair enough. Uh, so what do you have going on this July 4th? 

Now that it's already cleaning, it's the future present passed for us. The future present, past, uh, cleaning. Yeah. Cleaning on the fourth. That's all you're doing. That's kind of sad. 

I, I might go see a parade if I wake up in time. Have you seen one or no? Uh, uh, union parade? Gotcha. Um, yeah, I'll go to that if I wake up in time. 

I mean, Yeah, we, we never really have done much, like, maybe we'll do a lunch, a late lunch thing with family in the past. But this year, like my sister and them are all gonna be gone. So we're not doing anything with them. There's nobody else nearby really to do anything with, unless we got together with friends, I guess. 

But, yeah, I figured, well, so I'm getting a desk, you know, future episode right there. Yeah, getting the desk. But, uh, yes, the desk episode that'll be entertaining. Yeah, that would be great. That, um, yeah, that one might be, yeah, we'll see what happens with that one. It'll be good. We'll start with the baby pictures and then the whole history of and yes. Sure. But, yeah, so I'm gonna clean up down here and kind of get it set up to where I can bring the ho hopefully if I can even get the dust down here. I don't know. So, yeah, I'll probably do some cleaning. 

I, I kind of just want to take a day to kind of relax. I do a whole lot. Maybe spend some more time reading. Dig into that kind of stuff. 

Yeah, I don't know. I just have a stroke. It's either you or me, man. I don't know. But, yeah, spend more time reading. Yeah. What are you reading? 

Uh, whatever I end up feel like reading, uh, which is, I mean, maybe some of the more of the knowing God book otherwise, man, I don't, I don't, I've been trying to think of where I want to start doing some more reading in the, the Bile. Mhm. I wanna do, wanna do Galatians. I don't know. There's a couple different books that weren't just like, hm, dig into a little bit. That's about it. Super exciting. Maybe I'll go see some fireworks, but that's normally the third for some fireworks. Well, yeah. Third for Raymond. Racine's fourth. Racine is in the fourth. 

I don't really care to go to the beach for that. Yeah. So. Oh, ok. I, I got to back up a second here besides the Bible. What other books? I don't know. I don't know if there's nothing else really that I know what to read. 

Well, I didn't know that. So I was just like, what? Wait, wait, he's away. He was actually gonna read a book. Yeah, it's surprising, um, that, you know, I'm just gonna sit and play taco all day now. I'll probably be me. 

Well, then we'll be online together. But I mean, I also want, man, I, I wanna take some, I wanna try and spend some time writing and working on music stuff too. That'd be sick. So, hopefully cleaning doesn't take too long because otherwise it's gonna be hard to get the other stuff in, but there's a ton of junk to clean up. 

That's for darn sure. So, yeah. Really fun. Really fun. Fourth of July. It's been such a busy weekend though, so it's like, kind of makes up for chill. Fourth of July. All right. What about you? I mean, I guess even though you just, maybe playing Tako all day, yeah, I got nothing else going on. 

I have planned, you know, I got family that's all sick and then dying. So, you know, not much happening there. It was just like, oh, yeah, I'm just gonna, I mean, stay at home and chill. Um, but yeah, I suppose that would probably be better what let's say just come over here. We can just both like, but, you know, but then that probably pro be tougher. It probably, uh, we, we'll figure we'll figure something out if we do, we'll figure stuff out later. Ok. I was just curious what you're doing for what you have done did Dun will do for the fourth? 

I mean, yeah, in the past we used to do just some fun little family cookouts and whatnot, but that's why I said you knock off your hand there. No, no, no worries about that this time. This time. Yeah, I mean, if some friends want to go out and just go do some shooting that always be fun too, but the range is gonna be closed and the next best place would be out in, out in the grove. But yeah. All right. So I have a question for you Mr Johnson answer as truthfully as you want to or not. I don't care. You, you, as the, as the Youngins say these days you do, you do you man? All right. Looking at the country as is the divide in the politics, the fervent political worship, the why? What was that expression for? Oh politics. Yeah. All the craziness is going on the um as I, I don't know if you were paying attention to screen the, the person I stream by uh not that person. Uh This one right here where it looks like a man with a b a little wooden box thing on their desk that says and they're, and they're in their army close. Yeah. She her what are yours? Mhm. With all that being said and all the political discourse around stuff like that and everything. Are we due for another constitution? Are we due for another? Is it worth saving our country? As is, are we due for another constitution? 

I would be afraid to see what the new one would look like. But are we due for another one? Should we try to save what we got going on now or should we just burn it to the ground? And I mean, I would like to see what we got going now. Ok. Right. Yeah. Why so? Hm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How don't you know? So now I'm nervous. Bye. I'm thinking of like as far as like our, our, our rights and whatnot? Ok. Like can they just take those all away by rewriting it. 

That's always a possibility. And at the same time it's kind of weird because it's like, this is the first time I ever, I'm ever hearing this from will, from my knowledge, you could probably ask me the same question next year. Be, I've never heard of that before. Yeah. I know because I, like, have, like, have we actually done that? What? Rewritten it? Mhm. I don't think so. That's why I'm asking because I guess what, for how things are right now? Like, who's it hurting? 

That's a good question. Who would it be hurting? Depending on where you look at on social media and online and that you see different people saying it's hurting different people. Right. Again, based on political ideation in that correct, you know, part of the country saying, oh, we're being hurt because of the recent Supreme Court rulings about blah, blah, blah, take your pick. 

There's a bunch of them people don't agree with action. There's, there's a bunch of people don't agree with or agree with depending on, on your party line politically. You know, people are going, oh, all voting is rigged, da da da. And then the other side of the A, well, all voting is rigged because of ba, ba, ba ba. Right? So that's why I said there, there may not be necessarily, yes, things are broke or, you know, bad, but they think they are right because I think there's probably more stuff as far as states go that would be restrictive as far as the constitution goes, like, as far as for, like, just wait, actually, I don't even know this are, is, is like, um, gay marriage, like, accepted over all states now, or is there still places that are like a no go in that? 

There's a lot of places that don't like it, let's say. But legally it's, the Supreme Court ruled, the Supreme Court ruled it allowed. Ok. That's kind of what I was thinking by now. I guess what's the next thing to have to pass or like, have to be put through to make more people? Ok. With things. The biggest one I'm afraid of is obviously the whole gun stuff being taken away. 

I like my second amendment. Right. But, yeah, what, I guess what is it that's restricting these other people other than American people? Just not liking it, liking it, like, to some degree, like, I haven't know, like, heard of any, all of the whole transgender stuff until they started making a huge deal out of it. Well, especially with the, well, I guess probably started with what the bathroom stuff. 

I don't know, I don't even know where it started but it just like, came out of nowhere. Thanks to the media blew up. It, like, for the longest time. Like, that's been around for a long time, hasn't it? As far as, like, transgender stuff, gender dysphoria. Y kind of stuff. 

Well, ok, let, let's take a step back on that. Right? Transgenderism A K A. Well, let me rephrase that even people who would dress as another gender kind of has been around. Do the drag. Yeah, the drag. It's been around a little bit. 

It's kind of been fringe and people will go, well, look, look at the old days of like Shakespeare and all that. You know, men would play all the parts, including all the women's parts and, and they use that as support for transgender. Yeah. So back in the day, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back in the day when women didn't have rights. Mhm Wasn't necessarily that in that regard, but we're not going back to stone age days. But, you know, back in the old days when they did theater, if there was a woman on stage, I was actually a man dressed as a woman. 

Nice, you know, so they, they use that as evidence that transgenderism and all that is, is fine. It should be accepted, blah, blah, blah and also drag and all that fun stuff. They're like, see, it's hard, it's da da da, I'm like, not really, but let's not get into that. Right. So yes, it was happening but it wasn't as mainstream because it didn't have mainstream news coverage and it wasn't the popular thing to, to be social media didn't help flame it and spread it around like it was on gasoline and everything else was grass. So things you know, were happening. It just wasn't as public, let's say nowadays, it's kind of like everywhere they have every right as just every, every other human being, don't they? 

Well, that's the argument that some of them make saying that they don't because at the age of 12 they're, you know, some states are disallowing them from getting gender reassignment surgery. You know, if they're a minor in that. So that, that's why you keep seeing in the news trans genocide because states are passing laws saying, you know, Children, you can, minors can't get gender reassignment surgery or get the hormone stuff soon enough or they cannot get hormones because they're under 18. You know, and they don't like the argument of, well, you know, you're a kid and you can't get a tattoo because you're under 18. Why are you able to do that? Do this a very massive permanent change to your body? Which what? So this is the funny part. 

The only episode we've ever gotten a negative review on was the one we did about the uh transgender athletes and they're, they're going on and off about all this. And since then, since then looking at the review, all of it, all that review has been refuted by science still trust the science people. So I was like, I was, I'm sitting there going ok, fine, whatever I don't, that doesn't bother me. I have thick enough skin that can roll off of me. I don't care. Oh, absolutely. It's like I know what your agenda is and that's fine. Go ahead. Go bye bye. Um, it's like, that's the thing, like, as far as, like for, as an American. 

Yeah, you should be able to have, it's like you have your freedoms have your rights. But it's at, and at some point, like, if you want to do that, then there's, if you, why not allow those kind of changes at an age before you hit puberty or whatever it is, then there's a lot of other laws that need to change regarding the age of what you can do at a certain age. Like tattoos, like smoking, like drinking. Yeah, because, I mean, that's only, I mean, for as far as like drinking and smoking and all that stuff that's only gonna have a negative impact on you. Yeah. If you abuse it. 

Well, well, even a young kid, a teenager, right, growing up those chemicals impact how they develop, develop and mature. Gee, I wonder why we disallowed that? Maybe we should delo disallow the other stuff that, oh, wait, no, that, that's hate speech because, and we can go into that again in our time. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of statistics showing that like a bunch of teens, like, if they say they're transgendered, but if they're allowed to grow up as the gender that they were born with, they were born as not born with, born as, or they, the assigned at birth. Um That new cult phrase. Um I had that in quotes, by the way, assigned at birth was in quotes. Um But if they grow up, guess what? 

They don't wanna go, they don't want to transition. Yeah, they wanna stay as if they were, people are people on Reddit who give de transition stories are, like, always, like, shut down because people don't wanna hear that. They call it hate speech. So that's one, that's something that I find funny is how we can allow their speech but now have to shut down other people's speech. Which Michigan? Yeah. Was the anti free speech thing or whatever. So you have to use a person's designated pronouns otherwise you could be thrown in jail or fined. But we're getting, we're getting off topic here. 

We're getting, let's get back to this. Just gets farther into is, is America worth saving? I don't know what, what I, I know, I hate this question but I'm gonna ask it anyways. What's like, like your gut instinct where you, like, you had a one second timer, you either answer or a bomb goes off in your head. What's your answer? Is it worth saving? Yeah. Jeez. Oh, your heads exploded. 

Yeah, I'm dead and it's fine. Whatever this is. Where is America worth saving? Mhm. I mean, yeah, I guess, I guess it's worth the effort. But regardless of what, and that's in my mind, I'm thinking all right, is it worth trying to save the American, I guess, like, original, I guess, beliefs or values and whatnot? 

I mean, that's cool and all it would be nice. But at the same time I'm trying to think of it as far as just like for, like Christian perspective kind of stuff where it's like, no matter what the living condition is or how the, you know, how the country goes, where it goes. It's like, that's, I mean, I'm not living to keep the American lives or like, yeah, the American values to be what they are. I'm here to talk about Jesus, the biblical stuff and that should be the main, primary focus, primary focus, primary, primary, uh, focus of what I'm doing here. And that's a lot, a lot harsher than American values. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm going a little more even farther than what a, the standard American stuff, at least what it is now or what it's come to be. Oh, yeah. I, we, we can get into that later. But, yeah. So in some regard it's like, yeah. Is it worth, worth it? I guess not. It's one way it's going, it's going one way or another. 

I was just curious what your thoughts are as we're celebrating Independence Day here. I'd still like to my, my thought on this is, it is absolutely worth saving. Oh, it absolutely is. Yes. This is uh a unique experiment in world in the government and how it's run in the world. Not really any other government runs like this. 

There's a lot of things that, you know, it changes just a little bit and be, become like any other run the country in that regard, government wise. And I think it helps uh, people, I'm gonna use a word but I'm not using it how culture use it. When I say minority, I'm talking about political minority, I'm not talking about cultural or ethnic minority. It, it keeps a minority from being disenfranchised because of what the majority is doing because of like how we do the electoral college and all that. There is still a chance even if things don't go, right? Like how you wanted to or things get, you know, Biden wins 100% of California, let's say some not rigged at all. Um fair and fortified election. Uh uh But let's say Biden wins 100% of, of California, right? 

Just because California outnumber like every state 2 to 1 population wise doesn't mean that Biden is gonna automatically win because of how the electoral college electoral and our constitution is set up, right where we have in our constitution, the ability to balance the three branches of government, you know, where, you know, but you can see him this past week with the decisions about affirmative action as well as like the student loan bailout essentially where Biden was upset that the Supreme Court ruled against him and said, hey, you can't do this. But guess what? Supreme Court is able to hold Biden in check on the things that he does that is great. Not every country has that ability where there's three parts that are able to keep each other in balance on that. Right. It's not just one man controls the show here and yeah, where we do have some deficiencies where we do have some issues where we do have things that personally I don't like. 

I think overall how it's going is it's going well enough where I can go. Ok. I know. At least somehow it's being addressed somehow, for example. Right. Um, yes, short barrel rifle stuff in the, in, in pistol braces. Right. Ok. Yes. Yes, I don't agree how that all happened and all that went down. But also at the same time, people are able to bring lawsuits to challenge it. 

It's not just the government said it, you have no ability. It's the government said it, da da da people go. We think you're overstepping the bounds. We are now going to sue to get this reversed or change or whatever. And while right now it's still in effect except unless you're a member of the one group, two, there's a couple, ok, couple groups. But, yeah, unless you're under a, you know, with a special group right now, it's still enforced. But those lawsuits are moving forward, challenging it where they may get reversed all the way where there is still change. 

It's not just so says, Joe Biden, so say, we all it is by the people for the people. And if the people say we don't like this, it can get changed, it can be altered in any way. And then if things are happening and people go, you know what, this is not working, we, the people have the ability through the state legislature and that to say we are going to convene a constitutional Congress and we're going to amend the constitution in X amount of away and then it can get updated, ratified. And that's the new law bypassing those three parts altogether because all of a sudden now the constitution is amended, guess what? The President Congress Senate and now the judicial in the Supreme Court, guess what? They have to follow the constitution in its amendments. 

So, yeah, I can't break that. So while there are, well, they do. But yeah, yeah, they shouldn't but they do. So that's what I said while there are definitely things that I do not agree with. Well, there are definitely things going on that I'm, that caused me to raise an eyebrow while there are definitely things that I would like to see changed. No system of government is gonna be perfect. 

No, at least earthly form. No, no. And so that's I was like, I think this is an experiment worth saving and keeping around and seeing what happens where the comic time when I go. Nope, I'm joining the resistance. Maybe. Who knows? I hope that day never comes. 

I pray that day never comes. But you never know. In these times things can go all in a hot second. Yep. Change in a hot second as you say, as you young and say, I just say those all that's, that's what I say. I have no idea what the, the kid is saying nowadays they mumble wrap it. 

Mhm Well, then I'll never understand what if, when you go see enough. He's a mumble rapper in real life and a non mumble rapper on the album. Well, I might just drive separately then. So if that happens, I'm leaving, but I've already seen him once a little bit. So OK, I'm just playing with you but so I should be fine. All right. Would you, would you be fine? I hope so. So, so you would save it. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing I would like to. But if I feel like all hope is gone. All right. But then what, when is that point though? I don't know. I don't have a set point for that. 

Neither do I at the moment. And that's something that will take time and prayer. And you know, there's a lot that goes into that because we are told by the Bible that we are supposed to respect our and follow our government as long as it's not directly going against his word. So, you know what? That's probably, that's gonna be the threshold as much as I might not like it at some point. But that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that if there are things I don't like that I can't work to change in, within the framework. Right. I say, yeah. What happens when, like, what if another civil war breaks out? 

It's gonna be very interesting to see the sides. Yeah, because it's like, what, what do you do then? Guess it depends on what, what is the laws at the time then at which that happens at. But, well, also who, what side are you joining? Because the right one, of course, whatever being, uh, I don't know. 

I don't, I don't know it yet. I don't know what the sides are yet. Exactly. But it'll be a, a very, it'll be a very interesting combination of groups. I'm sure whichever side it ends up being. Mhm. But you know what, I'm not gonna worry about that until then I can become a prepper and I assume it's gonna happen right away or not. 

I should, I shouldn't say, I assume it's gonna happen right away but I'm just basted, you know what it could have happened right away. It cannot happen right away. I don't, yeah, I don't know. Ain't nothing to worry about that. Is. Exactly right. So, this July 4th, you guys just have fun. Enjoy freedom, man. Exactly. Well, I still have it put on your red, white and blue tank top, flip flops. Walk outside. Get, well, actually no, put on your blue and white tank top. 

If you're a white person walk outside, get red, your red, white and blue, gonna get nasty sunburn. Yeah. You know, if you're, if you're married or whatnot, you know, make sure that your wife doesn't get you. Those, um, I don't know if you've seen those where wives have been getting their husbands, uh, the swimming trunks that dissolve in water. That's the thing. Yeah, that's hilarious. There's a thing I saw, there's like, you know, a bunch of families that got together, they're all youtube people, whatever, of course. But all the wives conspired together and got all the husbands matching swim trunks and they're all dissolving in the water. So they all got in the pool and then they all start dissolving. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I don't know if I would do that like that. 

That's kind of weird. It's kind of weird because, I mean, if it's just you and him then all right. But really it's kind of weird. Yeah. So don't do that. 

Don't celebrate your freedom by doing that unless it, as long as you're not all, just like peeking at the men though. Yeah. That's kind of weird because otherwise it wouldn't be so bad. Then, I mean, you think about, like, for guys that go to, like, to the gym or whatever. I mean, they all, you know, all shower and a lot of them are just like, whatever, all letting it all hang out. So it's not weird in that way, but then not all the wives are there looking at you guys while you're in the pool and it's kind of weird. 

I wouldn't, like, just don't do that. Don't do so what he said, don't do it. Yeah. So, I've, I've been seeing that recently a lot like that and then the wives will also get their husbands, like, color changing shorts. 

That's kind of cool. No. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah. But I was just, like, keep it at the color change. Yeah. Keep at the blue and white tank top. 

Go outside, get red through the sunburn. Now, if, if you're, that's, if you're melanin challenged a K A white, if you're not melanin challenged, well, just red, wear a red, white and blue tank top or t-shirt or if you're in a, a northern state that's cold. You can wear a sweater or stuff like that because right now it's a little cool outside. It is a little cool out today for July 4th. If I start seeing snowflakes be hot for July 4th though, it's gonna be pretty warm. If I see, uh, snowflakes, I'm just gonna say, nope, I'm done. 

It's time to move at that. Point. Yeah. But going down to Texas, going down to Texas and we'll see. Sure. All right. So, anything else you wanna add about July 4th? Anything else that's, it's in there? Well, what have I learned today? 

I probably need to study up on my history. It probably would be a good thing for most Americans to do. Yeah. And there's a quiz, there's like a quiz out there where you can be like, oh, you know, can you pass a USA citizenship test? Uh-huh. I, I definitely cannot really, I highly doubt I could. Why? I don't know because I don't know what's all on there. 

I, I'm just gonna imagine, I assume the worst. It's stuff like who is the first president? What's the National bird? Who is the only president to ever resign? Yeah. I definitely don't know that one. Come on. Uh Nixon. Oh, yep. What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States? And that uh France is coming to mind. 

I don't know why Friends is coming to mind but Friends is coming to mind. Is that your final answer? Yeah, it is France sick. What color was the statue originally? Uh It wasn't like a bronze or copper, copper, copper. Yeah. So there, there's questions out there. 

There's a little quizzes if you want to see what I'm not gonna mention any names. But it was funny, I knew someone who had a family member that they were good at like, learning to take this, like, a citizen's test. Ok. And this person that I knew was asked, what are the two parties that, uh, that I guess, like, yeah, are, you know, always, like, going against each other? The political parties, the two major political parties? It was the person had said Republicans and the Dominicans. 

I was like, oh, no, it's like incorrect. So close but so far away. It was so funny. It cracked me up. I was like, you almost got it. But you're pretty far off at the same time. 

Oh, it reminds me of Scrubs Scrubs. That's the show. I've still never seen Dominican or Republican or part or Puerto Rican. Yeah, there was a, a song on Scrubs called where the guy is um singing and she's like, I'm Dominican and then it's like, oh, are you Puerto Rican? I can't play it on here, obviously. Um But there was a, a whole episode of Scrubs where it was just basically musical because there was a woman in there with a head injury and heard everything as song, even though the people were speaking, but she interpreted it as music and so they did it as a musical and so they did uh Dominican or Puerto Rican. That's awesome. I think even at one point they say black, black. Oh jeez. Well, I mean, you gotta get them all in there, I guess because he was saying his kids were going to be black because they were a, a married couple in the show. 

It's also Turk and Karla Turk and Carla. Yeah. Nice. Is that I'm guessing the two, the two characters? Yeah. Yeah. Nice. All right. But, yeah, man, be good to study up on some history. Yeah. Especially with the July 4th. Coming. Well, coming and being gone now. So. Right. Well, yeah. Good refresher on. Maybe you can read a book on American History. 

Maybe I'd recommend that. That's right. I'll get, I'll get, let's try and get to the other ones first and see how those go. I do have some recommendations for some books for you to read though. What for American History? Oh, no. Just in general. Since you want to read some load. Oh, goodness. Some that are fiction, some of that are nonfiction. Oh. And especially if you do audio book. 

I know some great audio books. Still wanna read the screw tape letters. That's a good book. Yeah. Another good fiction book is World War Z. Oh, I've seen the movie I read. 

Oh, no, it's completely different. Completely different. Oh, I believe it is. That's what I always hear. People say. No, no, no, no. Like they share 0%. 

They share 1% in common. It's about z, they're zombies. That's about it. No. Like Jurassic Park, the book and the movie, there's a book, the book came before the movie. 

I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, I didn't know that. A Jurassic Park book. Yeah, there's a book series Jurassic Park. Um, you know, that is, the book is better than the movie, right? But they're at least close related. Ok. World War Z is like nothing. Yeah. And the reason I like the audio book of World War Z is fully voice acted by multiple voice actors. 

Like, not just people who do voice actors. Like one of the guys. I don't know, you might not know him. Alan Alda. No, uh Hawkeye on Mash, I never seen Mash. Oh, I've seen mash, I just don't tall black hair. Uh had the still in his tent. 

Main character of mash. Oh, oh, yeah. So like he's one of the people being interviewed in it and how he survived the thing and yeah, it's, it's way better than the movie. Uh Ready player. One is another good one. 

If you're looking for something to listen to, it's at least closely related to the movie again. Book came out before the movie, it's at least closely related. But the book is better. How, how can a book be better than the movie? Because they can say a lot more detail in there than they. 

Your movie has like an hour and a half, two hour run time before they have to break it up into two or three parts, you know. And then you have a three part movie about Family A K A Fast And Furious. Three part. Yeah. The final movie. Well, the final, the final movies in three parts. Yes. Yeah, they, they're making a trilogy out of this. 

That's, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that sound like otherwise we have how many Fast and The Furious movies? That's all about family. I don't know. I don't, I don't think that's enough explanation about family. I think we need more explanation. Oh, we'll, we'll always need fast and the Furious to explain family. All right. So anything else you want to say about your wonderful Fourth of July or things? Enjoy? All right, your hot dogs and brats and beer and fireworks, whatever the heck else you want to do. Oh, thank you for joining us on this episode, user words podcast. Talk to you later. Bye.