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Aug. 3, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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The Forgotten Side of America: Courage, Honor, and Sacrifice
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As it sits today, what is American culture?
If we had to explain it to somebody, if we could go back in time and speak to Americans 50, 60, maybe even 70 years ago, we had to describe to them what America is currently in 2025 or foreigners from any era.
And let's go out on a limb here and say, if we were finally face to face with the aliens, how would we describe America and our culture to them?
The mainstream media would have you believe that we're polarized.
We're separated.
There's a lot of hate and division, which isn't necessarily wrong.
But what they don't tell you is that it still exists somewhere.
It still exists in our communities.
Maybe we don't see it because the things that we're fed don't articulate that our American culture is still positive, that we're supportive of each other, that we take care of our neighbors.
So today we're going to have a conversation about that.
I found a pretty interesting story.
And most of us, if not everybody, has heard of it by now.
But we're going to discuss that and the current state of American culture today.
So stick with us.
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Okay, so if you haven't heard by now, which I find it hard to believe that you haven't, there was just recently an incident in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where a crazy deranged dude, for whatever reason, we still have yet to find out, went on a stabbing spree and stabbed 11 people, allegedly.
He allegedly stabbed 11 people.
He still has yet to face a jury of his peers, of course.
And it just so happens that in and about and around the Walmart were some veterans.
And these veterans stepped in.
Now, I'm going to throw a little shade here.
They are Marines.
They're crayon eaters and they're all, but truthfully, we have a little banter back and forth, which is good.
But veterans nonetheless.
And so these guys stepped in in between this madman with a knife and anybody else that he was looking to shove that blade into.
Got him.
I don't know if, I don't think that they detained him themselves, but they got him separated.
They held him out long enough for law enforcement to get there, take him into custody and bring him to jail.
And so I think that what we should do first is let's just go through it.
I pulled up an article just so that we are all on the same page about what happened or at least what was reported.
And so let's read through this quick and then we will talk about it.
This is all leads into this idea of American culture that I have and how we might explain it based on what it is that we are told and what it is that we see with our own eyes and experience for ourselves.
I believe that the media, the mainstream media, of course, does not always tell us the whole story about everything.
Now, granted, this story you can find on mainstream media.
But my guess is that these types of things don't just happen every once in a while.
They happen all the time.
And so let's read through it.
Let's talk about it.
And then we'll continue on.
So this article I found is titled Two Marine Veterans Help Stop Stabbing Spree at Michigan Walmart.
And it reads like this.
Two Marine veterans play a key role in stopping a man who allegedly stabbed multiple victims at a Michigan Walmart.
Matthew Kolakowski.
And sir, if I butcher your name, I'm really sorry.
Anybody ever on any of our shows, if I butcher names, I really do apologize.
I'm really bad with names.
Anyway, this guy, Matthew Kolakowski, had just left the checkout lane when he heard a worker scream that a man had a knife.
He then heard a mass of blood-curling screams from the back of the store, which is what was reported.
Kolakowski saw the man stab another shopper and then stab an elderly woman.
He told his daughter and her friend to stay where they were while he and his brother-in-law went towards the man.
The man identified as Bradford James Gilly, and I really don't care if I butcher his name.
He's a piece of shit.
Who's 42 looked like he was going for the elderly woman again, Kolakowski said, and then he rammed Gilly with a shopping cart took him out with his buggy.
Gilly tried to get up, but another man hit him with his shopping cart from another side.
This dude was stabbing folks and then got double-teamed by two dudes on the shopping carts.
Kolakowski began to raise the cart to smash it on top of Gilly when another Marine veteran by the name of Derek Perry arrived and drew a pistol and held Mr. Gilly at gunpoint in the parking lot.
On video, Perry can be heard along with others repeatedly telling Gilly to get down and put down the knife.
And he says this: Mr. Perry says this: I ultimately wanted him to put down the knife and back away until law enforcement got there.
I did not see myself as any type of judge, jury, or executioner.
I just wanted everyone to be safe.
I just wanted to do the right thing by my community and help where there was a problem, Perry said, in a statement shared by the sheriff's office.
I am just like any other member of the community.
I wasn't looking to be heroic.
I just wanted to help my neighbors.
I can't take all the credit because there were many other courageous individuals who were also standing up to the attacker.
I appreciate the outpouring of thanks and love from the public, however.
Might I add, might I add to this, Mr. Perry is a black guy.
Mr. Kolakowski is a white guy.
And so I think that this just goes to show that all this shit that we're told about this separation of black and white and Latino and this and that and the other thing, it doesn't always really exist.
And in this instance, for sure, all they were are their men.
They're men that was standing up to another man, if you want to call him that, who decided to go on a rampage and stab 11 people.
Kolakowski, who is 39, and his brother-in-law, Chris O'Brien, 43, spoke at a press conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday.
And they said this: both individuals were instrumental in detaining the individual until law enforcement arrived.
That's a quote from the Grand Traverse County Sheriff, Michael Shea.
The police said that 11 people suffered injuries in the Saturday attack at the Walmart.
And the victims range from 29 to 84 years old.
And all of them are expected to survive.
The elderly woman that this man was going to go stab a second time was 84 years old.
What possibly could an 84-year-old woman do to provoke a man, a younger man, a way younger man, to stab her and then want to come back again?
Probably nothing.
The guy's just freaking crazy.
Gilly was charged with 11 counts of attempted murder and one single terrorism charge and is being held on only $100,000 bail.
Now, I understand that as Americans, we have a constitutional right to bail.
I understand that well.
If you don't know, I was a bounty hunter for quite a while with Stu Peters.
Him and I were partners for many years, about 15 or 16 years.
And so we understand the bail system.
And we know that everybody, if you're a citizen or whatever, you have a constitutional right to bail.
However, I would say that $100,000 bail bond is not enough.
Not enough for a guy who decides to do these things.
Because what might happen is that some shitbag radical organization or person would love to put up $10,000 to get this idiot out of jail.
In my opinion, this bail bond should have been $6,000, $7,000, $800,000.
But that's probably why I'm not a judge.
Because this guy, who I believe, if this happened in a Walmart, they have him on video.
They haven't reported that they do.
That's why they use allegedly.
But I would imagine that they got this guy on video, security cameras.
I'm sure there were other people in there filming.
They just didn't send the videos or whatever.
And it's probably a pretty cut and dry deal, if you ask me, if I had to guess.
So his constitutional right to bail.
Yeah, he can get it, but let's make it unattainable.
Anyway, the rest of the article goes through the men that helped out, Mr. Perry and Mr. Kolakowski.
Kolakowski enlisted in the Marines in September of 04.
He deployed to Iraq in 06 to 07, August 06 to March 07, and then got out of the Marine Corps in 2008.
Mr. Perry, however, served in the Marine Corps from 1994, October 94 to June of 95.
And it says here his last duty assignment was listed as the School of Infantry in Camp Pendleton, California.
So unfortunately, Mr. Perry's military career ended before he got out of training for one reason or another.
But I don't think that that matters.
He still was a Marine, and he did a pretty amazing thing, at least here in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Now, I have the video.
It's not very long, but I wanted to show it to you guys because I just want to make sure that we're all seeing and listening to the same thing.
So here we go.
Here's the video.
Just check it out.
It's only a minute or two.
Drop it!
Come on!
The guy with the long hair is Mr. Perry.
The dude in the purple shirt and black shorts is Mr. Kolakowski.
The old guy, we don't know.
And I believe the guy here on the phone is Kolakowski's brother-in-law.
There's the old woman that was stabbed.
He just told them I'm a soldier.
Mr. Gilly told him he's a soldier.
I don't know.
There's like several people stabbed.
Oh my God.
And there they are.
They occupied his time long enough for the police to get there before he could stab anybody else.
There they are taking him into custody, searching him, all those other things.
And then the rest of this is just people filming squad cars and things like that.
And so I read you this article and I show you this video to outline that if we had to describe American culture as it sits today versus what it was in the past, I believe that the narrative, the story, would be vastly different.
These two men who were trained to run at gunfire, they were trained to stand up for the people that can't protect themselves, like this, this 82 or 84-year-old woman.
Who, if you, if you watch the video, uh, you can see that she's somewhat disabled, maybe already.
Um, she was an easy target.
And so, I ask again, like, what could this woman have done to provoke this man to stab her in the side, in the belly?
And then, furthermore, what else could she have done after being stabbed for him to want to go back a second time?
And I think that we know what the answer is.
I think we know that the answer is the dude's got some mental health issues going on.
He's an EDP and he is an emotionally disturbed person.
And so, I wonder if I wonder if we ever will revive American culture.
I wonder if we will ever get back to something similar to the olden days, right?
The older days in America where we respected each other.
Yeah, there's always been crime, there's always been tyrannical people floating around.
But how often are we seeing these types of things happen?
I mean, if you get on X, if you have an account, you get on X and you start scrolling through, you're bound to see just pure stupidity.
And often, I think we see it all the time.
We've seen mobs of people destroying businesses, we've seen mobs of people attacking innocent folks.
People just don't care, they don't care about keeping your hands to yourself, keeping your hands off of shit that doesn't belong to you, and just moving about and talking to people just any old way they want.
And where did this come from?
Our culture used to be something that we could all take pride in.
And I think to a certain extent, there's some of that still around.
But even the folks in our communities that are like Mr. Kolakowski and Mr. Perry, who would run towards the gunfire, they will run towards the man with a knife to protect the innocent people around them.
We don't see it, it's not shown to the American people enough.
We don't see these examples in the mainstream media where a large amount of our people go to gather their information.
This is where they consume information.
And none of the stories that we hear are really ever consistent across different networks or platforms.
And so we've gotten to this place where the news doesn't just report the news.
The news will report the news and then put their own spin on it.
What happened to the days of the news reporter just telling us what happened and then moving on to the next story?
Now, some would argue that that type of reporting and that type of putting out of information is what got us there because we never really heard anything else.
We never really heard the background.
We never really heard anybody's opinion.
News networks back in the day, in the 90s, we could say in the 90s and before, they didn't really have a whole huge plethora of contributors.
And why was that?
I believe it was because they were just reporting the news.
Hey, today at a Grand Rapids, Michigan Walmart, 11 people were stabbed by a man with a knife.
How many networks who picked up and reported this story also went on to, you know, maybe this guy's background, where he's been, what he does, and then make assumptions about who he is and why he's doing what he's doing.
And some people will say, well, Richard, you just did the same thing by saying he was fucking nuts.
But the proof is here.
There's bystanders shooting videos, and I'm sure that there were more videos taken by people who were also in that parking lot, who also were in the Walmart when he started stabbing people.
Because now that's the thing to do.
Instead of helping your neighbor who might be actively being perpetrated by some dude with a knife, they take out their phones and film it.
Or they go live on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube or TikTok or whatever.
Everyone wants to just put it out, just put it out.
Instead of just helping.
I saw a video recently on X of not an old man, but an older fellow, probably late 40s, if I had to guess, being attacked by a couple young young men.
And the four people that were passing by, one didn't stop.
He just kept walking, didn't pay any mind to it.
And the three others pulled out their phones and were standing within arm's reach of this interaction and just filmed it.
Nobody said, hey, man, stop that.
But what you did hear is people giggling, people covering their mouth and going, ooh, instead of jumping in and helping.
And I don't know that anybody needs to jump in and start beating the shit out of the attacker.
It'd be nice.
But hey, man, separate him.
Try to maybe try to calm him down.
But then again, nobody wants to get their ass beat to.
There's just this shift in our culture, man.
And I don't understand how we got here.
And it all seemed to start heading this direction when Donald Trump came down that elevator and through the big ladle in the shit soup and started stirring.
And I don't know about you, but for one person to have that much power doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.
I personally think that Donald Trump has been doing some pretty amazing things.
I think our economy's back on, getting back on track.
I think there's some good things that he's done for this country.
There's also some questionable things that I would Have more questions about if I could talk to him.
But that's my own opinion.
But what about these two men?
What do we know about veterans and military culture?
We know that soldiers and Marines and airmen and whatever else are trained to not think and let the training take over, which is what I believe that these men did.
They saw innocent people being attacked by a madman with a knife.
The one guy, like we heard in the article, was there with his daughter and her friend and told him, stay here, then ran towards a man with a knife on a stabbing spree.
Now, is it possible that things could have went way further south?
And this little girl and her friend watches her dad get stabbed by a guy with a knife and ends up bleeding out or laying on the ground bleeding until an ambulance gets there in the parking lot of a Walmart.
Yeah, that's possible.
But he didn't think about that.
He thought about telling them, you stay here and stay safe, and I'm going to go help this situation out and try to resolve it or at least stop it from happening.
You see, military members and veterans in our community are an amazing, amazing help when need be.
And maybe even not when need be, just all the time.
But these aren't the stories that he hear.
We don't hear these types of things often.
How often do you turn on the news and see a positive story, something positive happening?
Does anybody ever watch the news and feel good about it when it's over?
The only positive thing for me, when and if I ever watch the news, is that the weather might be nice tomorrow and not rain so I can ride my motorcycle to work.
That makes me feel good.
When the sports broadcast comes on and the Minnesota Twins are winning and they're moving up in the standing, I like that.
I like baseball.
I like the hometown team.
I like the Twins.
I like the Vikings, the Timberwolves, the Minnesota Wild.
I like them.
So when they're playing well, and we get to see that on the news when we watch it, that makes me feel good.
But other than that, we don't see really anything positive.
And if we do, it's a very, very short story.
So why are veterans essential and a positive thing for our communities?
Well, it's things like this.
If somebody else was going to jump in and help these innocent people and keep other innocent people from being stabbed, you would think that it would have happened before 11 people got a blade thrust into their bodies.
As the report says, this all started in the back of the store.
Well, the video we just watched is out in the parking lot.
So this man got from the back of the store out to the parking lot and in his travel stabbed 11 people and nobody did anything.
They ran, they watched, they screamed, they stayed clear.
Nobody intervened.
And we've seen stories like this in the recent past.
Does anybody remember Daniel Perry?
The guy that stopped a madman on a train from attacking people?
The guy ended up dying from the chokehold.
But okay, so what?
This man was out to hurt innocent people.
Daniel Perry, also a Marine, stepped in, stepped in for the common good.
And so do we really value veterans in our community?
I think we do, or we should, if we don't.
We created, we created these people in a certain sense.
Not everybody shows up to their basic training and their advanced training to learn their job, an alpha, an alpha male or an alpha female.
Not everybody is willing to do the things that these two gentlemen and Daniel Perry did.
And why?
Well, they're scared of prosecution.
They're scared of getting hurt.
They're scared of being ostracized in the public square, the public square of social media, if you will.
But veterans are different.
Military people are different.
We could also say the same thing about law enforcement officers.
They're also trained to run towards gunfire.
But in these instances, before the cops get there, before the police and law enforcement have a chance to intervene, sometimes, and I imagine that it happens a whole lot more often than it ever has, somebody has to be the equalizer and stop this stuff.
And that's what we see here.
So what do we describe?
What do we describe to people back in time?
What do we describe to the aliens?
When and if they come down and ask us, what the hell have you guys been doing down here?
I would much rather show them these types of things, these types of videos, and have them read these types of articles instead of showing them videos of mobs of young people beating the shit out of somebody else or disrespecting a teacher or men or women for that matter going on a stabbing spree.
But the question is, how prevalent is that in our communities?
And I guess I don't have an answer for that.
But I would imagine that based on the way our country is operating and walking through life right now, we don't have anything really positive to share.
We don't have anything really positive to talk about, which is kind of a kick in the shorts if we did go back in time.
It's a kick in the shorts to the people who are in their 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s now, when they remember America like it was.
They remember America when it was great.
I don't know, man.
I am a huge Fan of the United States of America.
But I don't know that I would be able to, in good faith, tell these folks that we're as great as we used to be, because I just don't think that that's true.
I think in our current climate, we've learned a whole lot about what really has been happening over many, many years.
And it's disturbing to know and to think that for so very long, the people that we, we the people, elected and sent to Washington to advocate for us have been up to no good.
Treachery, treachery everywhere.
And then also to think that there really hasn't been a whole lot done about it.
There's a whole lot of people talking about it.
We talk about it.
Stu talks about it.
Many other content creators talk about what's happening.
But nobody really is doing anything about it.
And I can raise my hand that I'm guilty of that too.
I'll sit here and talk at this camera and talk to all of you until I'm blue in the face.
The frustrating part is that the folks who are in positions to be able to do something about it, to hold these folks accountable, like Mr. Gilly.
Now, Mr. Gilly will probably spend many, many years in prison after this whole charade.
But if Mr. Gilly was an elected member of Congress, if he was a state senator, somebody of importance, if he had a couple hundred million dollars in the bank, was able to hire high-powered attorneys who know people or whatever, probably not much would happen to him.
And so that's also part of our shift.
There's no accountability.
People in positions of power aren't held accountable.
The only people in positions of power that are held accountable and sometimes falsely accused and prosecuted are the cops.
When's the last time?
When's the last time somebody in a, especially a political position of power, was held accountable?
What's going to happen to Barack Obama after all of these things that came out that they say they have damning evidence?
All these new reports of all these documents and emails and this and that that have Hillary Clinton's name all over it.
What's going to happen to her?
She's already been put out with the emails and the private servers and blah, blah, blah, all those years ago.
Nothing.
And we were told, the American people were told, there's no running from it.
She can't run from it.
We were told recently Obama can't run from it.
It's all there.
The evidence is there.
And then our president comes out and said he's not going to prosecute him.
So what stops our culture, our society, the United States of America, what stops us from just continuing to swirl the drain.
The United States of America, in many different ways, is circling the toilet bowl.
And the people who we are told are responsible for this, who are guilty, never see any prosecution.
They don't ever see any discipline.
Nothing.
The only thing that really happens to them is they get shoved out into social media or the mainstream media for all of us to judge and be pissed off about.
But as sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, nothing will be done.
And so then folks also wonder why there's so many pissed off people in our communities.
There's so much anger, so much anger towards government, towards people in positions of power.
And it's because they can do whatever they want and not be held accountable.
My question is this: Do you think that there is a chance that Mr. Perry and Mr. Kolakowski are in any way put in a negative light for what they did?
Now, they never laid their hands on them and they didn't hurt him.
They didn't strap him down.
They didn't sit on him.
They didn't kneel on him and they didn't do anything.
They occupied him long enough for the police to get there.
So my hope is, my thought is that, no, they'll never see any kind of negative attention, which is great.
It was also a really good example of how black folks and white folks can work together instead of being told or the narrative being spun that they hate each other or whatever that bullshit is.
But I think that we really need to do some thinking and some soul searching as a country to figure out what it is we want to portray.
And I think that it is a really good measure for you to ask yourself: if you personally had to describe to somebody from the past or the present who has no idea what America is really about other than what they see on their cell phone when they live somewhere in Africa or Russia or wherever else,
anywhere else in this world, whatever they learn about America from any other source other than our own mouths, what do we say?
What do we describe to them?
And then what do we show them to back up what we're saying?
I don't know that there's a whole lot of positive shit.
But the one thing I do think that we would be able to say is that the men and women who served America's military, no matter what the current status is, no matter what the current posture of America is,
we still do have individuals in our communities that will run towards the gunfire, that will stand up for people who can't stand up for themselves, especially like all 11 of these folks.
We still have those people.
It just so happens in this instance and others, They were folks who wore a uniform, strapped up boots, and stood a post.
And I think that that stands for something.
And I think that those are the types of things that we need to be reporting of more.
These are the stories that should be headline news.
This one got a lot of attention.
And I believe it wasn't because these men were veterans.
I believe it's because this dude, Mr. Gilly, stabbed 11 people.
The amount of terror that was put out in this situation is why it caught a whole lot of attention in the media.
This idea that bad news travels faster is why this one got attention.
The same reason that Daniel Perry's case caught a whole lot of attention.
And a really good measure, an example of how we're swirling the drain is that in the instance of Daniel Perry, he saved lives.
And it just so happens that the man who was taking the lives of innocent people or attempting to died while being restrained, while being stopped from hurting innocent people.
And then these assholes had the audacity to try him for murder.
It just, it's absolutely ridiculous to me.
Anyway, folks, we got to take a break.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
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Let's continue on.
I think the thing that we should touch on now is the difference.
What really is the difference between, let's just say, 50 years ago, 60 years ago, whatever, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, versus today.
And I think that one of the biggest differences is just this expectation, expectation that society, for the most part, has of the veteran community now.
This idea that if something happens and there's a veteran nearby, they're going to do something.
And that all plays back to, and maybe some could blame the internet, right?
This idea that we can get on the internet at any time, any day, no matter where you're at, as long as you can get service and you can get instant gratification.
And although in many instances, that's nice, sometimes it's to our detriment.
Think about World War II veterans and maybe even Korean War veterans.
They went and they did their jobs.
They served.
They fought the war.
They won the war.
And then they came home.
And many of those guys, they came home and sometimes, as you hear from family members, usually now kids of World War II veterans who are getting up there in age, you hear that, well, you know, dad just never talked about it.
You never would have known.
You never would have known that he was in the military.
Never would have known that he stormed the beach.
Never would have known that he was in Germany and fighting the Nazis and this and that and the other thing.
Whereas now, veterans' experiences are vastly put out into the public square.
And so maybe that cultural difference is something that I'm guilty of because I believe that when veterans share their stories, it helps the general public to understand a little bit better.
Understand a little bit better what they went through, what it took, the size of the testicles on some of these people, the bravery that these men and women displayed in the course of their duties.
And then to understand that it wasn't just the ones that we read about.
It wasn't just the men and women that we read about.
It wasn't just the men and women that we see in documentaries.
It wasn't just Audi Murphy.
It wasn't just Chris Kyle.
It wasn't just General Patton.
There are so many, so many men and women that serve this country.
And sure, there are people out there that will say, well, you know, all of these military members are suckers.
They're suckers because they were duped by a government who was sending them there for a purpose other than what we were told.
This longest war in our country's history, Iraq, Afghanistan, the global war on terrorism.
Well, that's all bullshit.
There were no weapons of mass destruction.
There wasn't any of this.
It was all politically motivated, all fueled by this desire to have more money, more power, and more control from the people that we put into offices on the ivory towers.
And so, and maybe, maybe that's all true.
But does it really work to our detriment for veterans of all eras to tell their stories?
I seem to think no.
But I am also part of a generation of Americans that can't be super proud of where we're at.
I think I have high hopes of where we can go.
But at this point, as it sits right now, as a country, as one whole society, I don't know that we can tout that we're the greatest country in the world.
We're certainly close to the top, I would say.
America, in my opinion, is the greatest place in the world to live.
But boy, we got one hell of a shiner.
We got one hell of a black eye right now, in my opinion.
Now, I don't want this, I don't want this to seem like I'm American.
I am an American hating American, because that's not true.
Will I admit to being a little disappointed about what's happening in our country and how it seems like in many different corners of this land that we are not supportive of one another?
We're not doing anything necessarily to help our neighbors, to make the place that we call home better.
I'll admit to that.
But these guys back in the day, they came home.
They didn't say much, if anything.
They opened businesses.
They went to work in factories.
They became cops.
They became teachers.
They built homes.
Whatever it was.
They raised families and they went about their life back in the shadows.
It seems like back then there was this idea that veterans were to be respected.
They were to be cherished.
And this thought that, well, these guys, they've done their share.
World War II, these men went to Europe and were there for God knows how long, a year, two years, three, whatever.
And now it's their time to come home and live comfortably and be silent.
No one's going to force you to talk.
No one's going to force you to talk now either.
But we're a whole lot, we're a whole lot more excited.
We're a whole lot more fueled to tell our stories now, which personally I don't think is a horrible thing.
But we can't argue with the differences.
And sure, there's a lot of other factors that play into the difference between what our country was back in the 40s and 50s to what it is now.
But there just doesn't seem to be any overwhelming effort to make things better.
As time goes by, things get worse.
And so having these individuals in our communities who will run towards the man with the knife.
Although a tragic story, 11 people were stabbed, if there's a silver lining in it anywhere, it's that we can take away from this story, from this whole incident, that there are still people that will help folks that can't defend themselves.
Whether they couldn't defend themselves before they were stabbed or certainly couldn't defend themselves after, there are still people that will run towards the man with the knife.
I mean, just ask yourself, would you, if you were in Walmart and some dude was running around stabbing folks, would you try to intervene and try to stop him from hurting anybody else?
Or are you one of these people, like we talked about, that will have the thought, well, man, I'm sure there's a veteran around here and I'm sure that he'll do something.
So I'm just going to film this.
I'm going to go hide.
I'm going to run away.
I'm going to leave.
And I don't know that there's any wrong answer.
I mean, if you are not a person that is deciding to step in, okay, I mean, nobody can force you to do it.
But there are some people, many veterans that I know in my own circle and ones That I meet along the way, who their moral compass will not allow them to turn the other cheek.
And so that plays right along with this idea that just because we take the uniform off doesn't mean our service to our communities stop.
And now more than ever, I'm grateful.
I'm grateful that people like Mr. Perry and Mr. Kolakowski are out there.
I think it's a story that helps to restore the faith in America.
Not anywhere else around the world, but here at home.
And so is it wrong?
Is it wrong to have the thought, well, hey, man, if there's a veteran here and the cops aren't here yet, they're going to do something.
They're going to step in.
Maybe not.
But I guess what I'm trying to get at is the idea that these things are not, at least in the thought process of many Americans.
And when you see these things happening and then you see a crowd of people all take out their phones to record it and film it or go live on their social media platform of choice, that's disconcerting.
I don't know about you, but I came up in a community, in a home.
My parents raised me to help, to help people that can't help themselves.
Now, if all of these people are going to hurl themselves in front of a train, do I need to hurl myself instead of them?
And, well, it should be me and not you.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that when you see somebody who probably needs help, it means they need help.
And if you're physically able and mentally aware enough to provide some help, don't take out your phone.
Don't run away.
Even if you don't step in, even if you don't step between the old lady and the man with the knife, stick around.
If you can be safe, stick around.
Because what you see and what you hear can be helpful if need be.
And it's not just about stepping in front of the guy with a knife.
How about helping the people who are injured, who are perpetrated?
Help calm them, help comfort them, provide them some kind of medical aid.
Everybody who's above the age of 14, maybe even the age of 12, understands that if you see bleeding, we got to stop it.
Got to cover it up.
Maybe we don't know to apply pressure.
Maybe we don't know to tie a pressure dressing.
Maybe we don't know where and how to put on a tourniquet if needed.
But we can understand that if someone's bleeding, we should try to put some kind of bandage on it or a shirt or something.
Like everyone understands that.
And the fact that these aren't the first thoughts in people's minds tells me that there is a massive shift in our culture from the 40s, 50s to now.
I think that throughout the whole, throughout time in our country, veterans always have been a symbol of traditional American values.
And the cool thing about today is that many veterans display the old school traditional American values.
The new school traditional American values, I believe, are a lot different.
I'm not quite sure what the thought process is because that's not me.
I would say that I have more of an old school approach to my value system, my belief system, and what it is that I will do to try to help my neighbor.
And just like anybody else, sometimes I think to myself, man, I just don't want to be bothered with this today.
But my moral compass will not allow me to turn the other cheek if somebody needs help and I know that I can provide it.
Now, I'm not trying to say that I'm some superhero that's going to jump in front of somebody with a gun and take a bullet, but maybe.
Maybe I would.
I guess nobody really knows what you're going to do until you're in that situation.
We can sit and talk about it all we want.
We can Monday morning quarterback and say, well, you know, if I was there, I would have done blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But that's all bullshit because you never really know what you're going to do until you're presented with the problem.
You never know what you're going to do until you're in it.
And if you're also one of those people that say, well, you know, you just got to, you got to have a plan.
You got to have a plan in case those things arise.
Well, you can plan all you want.
Plans don't usually play out the way you plan them.
There's always a variable in there that changes the plan on the spot.
And so I guess what I'm here to say is, let's look for, let's look for these positive things.
Now, as I said, this incident wasn't very positive.
11 people were stabbed and injured, and it's going to be life-changing for many people.
But the silver lining in this incident is that we still have people who are willing to lend a helping hand, even if it means injury or harm to them.
Because my neighbor, the common man, is pretty important.
It's pretty important to our community.
And if it has to be military members, veterans, who are the ones to do this through the rest of our time, then so be it.
Although I hope that these types of things start to become a whole lot less frequent.
But unfortunately, there's not a really big light at the end of the tunnel for these types of things ceasing to happen.
So let's look for these things.
Let's look for these positive things.
And that's what we should talk about.
That's what we should put out.
And I know that's real rich stuff coming from a guy who sits in front of this microphone every week and usually bitches about the government.
But when we see something positive, we got to put it out.
And so moving forward, my call to action to you today is to look for those things.
And if you are a person that uses social media frequently, find positive, feel-good stories to put out.
When you see people helping others, take a picture of that and put it out.
If you see a post that's positive, share that.
I think that we could all use a little bit more positivity in our lives, in our daily goings-ons.
So a whole lot of opinion today.
Not a whole lot of fact, just a whole lot of opinion for me.
But man, I think it's so important.
It's so important for us to try to start rebuilding our communities, rebuilding faith in each other.
And not caring about what color or ethnic background or where they come from or their sexual orientation, whatever gender they decide they want to be.
Whether we agree or disagree, at the end of the day, we're all human beings.
And when a human being needs help, we should probably try to help them.
Just like these two men did.
So, Mr. Perry, Mr. Kolikowski, and your brother-in-law.
Thank you.
Thank you for being the shining, glimmering hope to change the tide of American culture back to a positive side.
We all need that.
And I personally, if you ever see this, which you probably won't, but if you do, thank you.
And you should be honored.
Maybe you don't need to be given keys of the city if that's not something you want.
But you should be honored.
You should be recognized.
That just helps to keep building that positive story.
Anyway, folks, we have run out of time for today, but I, again, thank you for being here.
We'll see you next week.
Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other, of course.
Good night.
Good night.
As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over.
And instead, we're just sending them money.
And it's fucking craziness.
Look at the side of Israel.
Look at the site of Tel Aviv and look at the side of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going.
You tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God.
Go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign study, you go Jewel citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the bottom and say we stand with them.
You go look at Trump's cabinet.
You've got Biden's cabinet.
for Jews.
I have a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew.
And I just like to say that, you know, in our Bible, it says that you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
The Jews crucified our God.
Here on the break, folks, we're going to talk about mushrooms.
What do you know about mushrooms?
Specifically, Coriolis versicolor mushrooms.
Well, I don't know a whole lot, but I have some friends here that do.
So I want to introduce you to Kurt and Kristen Ludlow.
Hello, folks.
How are you?
Great.
How are you doing?
Very good.
We have limited time.
I don't want to rush.
I don't want you to feel rushed, but I'd like you to tell us quickly about Coriolis versicolor mushrooms and this breakthrough that seemingly not a whole lot of people have been informed about or know about, but we're here to change that.
So help us out.
What do you know?
Absolutely.
Well, let me give you some background real quick on it and how we got our hands on it.
First and foremost, one of our partners here at the company, his mother was dealing with a very severe issue that affected her lung.
She was attending Sloan Kettering.
That issue ended up getting worse.
They tried everything medically they could to resolve it.
Nothing worked.
And so they gave her two months to live.
He started reaching out to friends and family regarding her circumstances.
And her cousin or her nephew out in Japan reached back and said, look, I have something.
It's just in a capsule form.
It's a mushroom.
We have a proprietary way we extract it.
You know, he was talking to her son, his cousin, and said, why don't you have your mom try it and just see if this might help her out in any way?
And so she started taking it.
And after 30 days, she noticed quite a considerable difference in the way she's feeling.
Month two went by, more improvement month three.
She's feeling as if there's no issues whatsoever.
And she goes back to Sloan Kettering.
Sure enough, they run lab work on her and find that condition to no longer be there.
And so they were flabbergasted.
They wanted to know what she was doing.
And of course, she was able to reach out to her nephew and bring all the information that they requested to them.
And that's where the first clinical study started here in the United States.
And from there, MD Anderson started studying it.
The American Cancer Society, Loma Linda, Harvard.
It's been published in the Library of Medicine many times.
And today there's hundreds of studies on this mushroom.
And what they've concluded was that it didn't cure.
It didn't mitigate it.
It didn't prevent anything.
But specifically, it would modulate the immune system and get it working optimally again.
And if we can get our immune system working optimally again, I think you can agree that it's the best way to resolve any type of issue that we might be dealing with because that's what it's designed to do.
And so for years, you know, if that happened to your mother, our partner Simon could not keep from telling anyone that would listen to him about it.
And he started getting all types of reports back from different people with all kinds of different things that they were dealing with that they were noticing some great results with it.
And it wasn't just for sick, you know, people.
It was for people that didn't want to get sick, that wanted to be proactive versus reactive.
And, you know, many great things that people were saying with renewed energy, feeling younger, sleeping better, things like that.
And so eight years ago, what ended up happening is one of our partners, aside from Simon, Steve, he lost a dog due to cancer.
Within two months, Gino, our other partner, also lost a dog due to cancer and two of their children.
And so they were sitting around looking into it.
And the dogs are all between the ages of four and eight.
They were young and they weren't happy about it.
And here they had this mushroom that they'd been getting out to people for years as well as us.
And they thought to themselves, wow, I wonder if this is safer animals.
And sure enough, they found a study done by the University of Pennsylvania declaring that dogs that were taking this product were living three times as long as the dogs that weren't that had a very aggressive form of cancer.
And so at that point, that's where Pet Club 24-7 was born because they knew that they had an incredible strain.
And here's what they found out, Richard: 65% of our pets are getting cancer today.
One in three allergies, 6 million new cases of diabetes are going on.
They're medicating them with human medications, and our pets are living half as long as they used to.
In the 70s, the average age of a golden retriever was 17.
Today, that average age is 9.
And they wanted to do something about it.
So they added this mushroom into incredibly well-put-together products with no bad ingredients because what they found and why these conditions were happening was it came down to like our humans.
You know, it's the foods, treats, and toys they're eating.
The regulations are very loose and it's causing all types of issues as a result of that, on top of all the other things that are going on.
And that's where the company was born.
And that's where we are today.
That's a beautiful story.
I think that there are so many people that are looking for something that's not from the mainstream, not from big pharma or whatever the case may be.
I mean, we all have these stories, right, about grandma's old home remedies.
And I'll tell you what, I'm super interested in this because I have a dog.
His name is Gus.
He's a Berna doodle.
He's five or six years old.
He was supposed to be a mini.
He's now a 108-pound lap dog.
And he does struggle with some hip issues only at five or six years old.
And he also has these subdermal, almost acne-like bumps on his skin along his back and his side.
And so as you're explaining all this, I'm thinking about Gus.
I'm thinking, man, we need to get him these mushrooms.
I also, I also think about veterans, right, who have service animals and they get super attached.
And I know a few that have been through two and are on their third dog now.
And it's a real struggle for some of these guys because the training's long.
They get super attached.
They take these pets everywhere.
And so this type of product, the mushroom, I think would be perfect for the veteran community as well.
Do you guys see veterans or law enforcement or anything like that?
Do people use them for these pets as well, on top of some other supplements or anything else that might be out there on the market?
Absolutely, because regardless of what our pets are going through or even what they might potentially have to go through, their immune system is always going to be their first, their best bet, right?
It's intelligently designed to handle everything in the body, repair, recover, rebuild, regulate, renew, rebalance everything that's happening inside of the body.
So especially therapeutic dogs or dogs that are trained to do jobs where they have to focus and they have to have stamina and endurance.
And we have spent a lot of time and resources training them.
It's very important that we're not only keeping them with us longer, but that they actually have a good quality of life during those years.
And so that's why we say every pet, every person every day should be getting this Coriolis versus Color mushroom into their system.
We've been so blessed.
God has given us a really pure and potent strain of this mushroom, and we've perfected the extraction process.
So that's why we're seeing such positive results relatively quickly from anything that you can think of with dogs, cats, horses, even people.
It's just been absolutely amazing.
And we just want to be good stewards with what we've been given and take good care of it and be a part of restoring creation.
So especially in those conditions, we encourage you to get your pet on the Coriolis versus Color Mushroom.
Or if you're a veteran yourself and maybe you've been through some trauma and your body's been through a lot mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically, let's get this mushroom into your system so that you can get that support that you need to really be able to recover from the inside out.
Well, and it makes a lot of sense to me, right?
I mean, let's get our immune systems working as our creator intended it to, instead of feeding it all this other junk and who, God knows what they give us in pill form and our food and all that other stuff these days.
So this is actually a very refreshing conversation that we're having because it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of things out there that are holistic and are natural to help us feel better.
Explain to us, we got a couple minutes left, why Pet Club 24-7?
Why is it put out as a club?
I think that this is an important thing to touch on.
Yeah, it was really important to us.
We feel very called to do what we're doing.
And we know that we're able to offer the world a gift.
And so we never really wanted to build a company.
We want to build a community.
That's the idea behind it: if we stand up together and lock arms, change the way that we're doing things so that we can get different results and educate each other, make each other aware, connect each other with better solutions and better options that are going to give us better results and that are a lot more affordable in many cases.
You know, we believe that this community can truly change the way that pets and people are being treated just by being a voice for those that don't have one.
So that's why the name of the company is Pet Club 24-7 is because we want to be a community of people that are solution-oriented, that do something about it, that don't wait for other people to fix our problems or solve what's going on.
That we just stand up, control what we can control, and contribute how we can contribute through this community.
That's beautiful.
See, folks, here at the Stu Peters Network, we're here to help you feel better.
We're so thankful that you guys are here, Pet Club 24-7.
Kurt and Christine, we're very happy to have you.
Thank you for everything that you've done, bringing this stuff out to people.
Let's get healthy again.
What was the movement that you talked about, Kurt?
I said, you know, we have the Maha movement.
Yes.
And we also have it here for our animals, make animals healthy again.
Absolutely.
We're applying to do so, just like on the human side.
And people can count on the fact that there's no bad ingredients in our products.
Everything made in human, great whole food commercial kitchens, all sourced from the U.S. and made right here in the U.S. Very interesting.
Well, Kurt, Kristen, thank you very much for being here.
Folks, Pet Club 24-7, make sure you get there, get your supplies of mushrooms, not just for you, but for your pets, dog, cats, horses, all those things.
Pet Club 24-7, guys, thank you very much for being here.
Let's connect soon.
I'm going to get my supply, and I'm going to report back for me and Gus to make sure that we...
I'm super excited to talk to you guys again.
We'll see you very soon.
Thank you.
Thank you, Richard.
All right, bye-bye.
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They're like our children.
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