The American Pulse E29: The Semi Bird Interview

E29: The Semi Bird Interview

 

E29 Introduction

Hello listeners and thank you for tuning into The American Pulse.  One of the defining characteristics of Americans is a courageous willingness to put our values on the line in the narrative and spiritual battlefield that we are facing. And to take heat in the process. My guest today happens to be a perfect example of this.

He is a man who selflessly stepped up to public service after a long and decorated military service to our nation. Only to be targeted by the morally compromised Uniparty donor class and their little minions in the media and within the Republican party.

He was the candidate of WE THE PEOPLE did not win that battle. However, we are Americans. We are tough-minded and hard to get rid of. We dust ourselves off, learn our lessons, and come back with greater clarity, vision, and resolve. The founding fathers (and future generations)  are counting on us to not let the Globalists and Communists have our nation.  This is neither hyperbole nor a falsehood to state it this way.

I feel honored to have this be the first interview that my guest has granted after an extended period of rest, renewal, and retrospection following his 2024 gubernatorial race.  We caught up with him to talk about all the things we care about: God, family, the American way, and serving our nation.

We also talk about the aftermath of his 2024 gubernatorial candidacy, his re-emergence in his Christian faith and the documents of the Founding Fathers. We talk about how America is a nation blessed by God and how we have, to our detriment, outsourced our authority to govern ourselves and what we can do to fix this and start to move the needle in the favor of WE THE PEOPLE.

Let’s get to our sponsor and our interview with proud American Semi Bird. Enjoy the conversation.

Basecamp for Men E331: Basecamp Classic

E331: Basecamp Classic

 

E331 Introduction

Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Before we get to our epiosode, I want to give you a short update on my health as I sort of dropped the bomb on all of you a couple of episodes back with Lisa.

Just finished my 4th round of chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the treatment and my alternative remedies are working brilliantly together. I am in good health, good spirits, and am incredibly grateful and optimistic about things right now. Some of you reached out and I appreciate the warmth, love, support, and sentiment. I truly do so thank you.

Today’s episode is a Basecamp Classic but not because I don’t have a great interview in the hopper.  I do. It’s a part 2 with my new friend and former gubernatorial candidate Semi Bird. Semi and I get into the whole Marxist, communist, Globalist control dynamic as it vies for supremacy with the American values of freedom, natural law aka God’s law, Constitutional protection from all this collectivist overreach and what it all means for our future.

The Basecamp Classic I chose is a solo episode I did all the way back in Season Four titled E136: Rezac v Marx. I think it acts a a great lead-in to our talk with Semi. And sorry about some of the cussing in my solo rant. I am trying to tone that down a bit but I still have a tendency to drop in colorful expletives from time to time. I’m workin on it Basecampers!

Anyway, I hope you like this replay of Rezac v. Marx. Enjoy!

Basecamp for Men E322: Circling Love

E322: Circling Love with Special Guest Noel Rudhe

 

E322 Introduction

One of the things you may have noticed over the years is how much I love to interview friends of mine. As much as I pride myself as a good interviewer of guests that I just meet a few minutes before showtime, there is an intimacy and ease that comes when I really know my guest.

Such is the case with today’s guest. A friend of mine who just wrote a book! It is called Circling Love and is a deep, funny, authentic inquiry into the question of what is love? Today we cover such topics as: why you don‘t have to like someone to love them, why are we so often kind to the world and unkind to ourselves, and, for those that had traumatic upbringings….does this sharpen our ability to love more than hinder it?

We cover all this and more in this far-ranging conversation. On to our sponsor and then to our excellent guest. Enjoy the interview.

Noel Rudhe Bio

My guest today is Noel Rudhe. Noel is an writer and painter and all-around creative who just wrote a new book titled Circling Love. Here is my interview with Noel Rudhe. 

E322 Final Thoughts

If you liked that episode and want to listen to another one with Noel. Her and I did E221 The Wisdom of Optimism back in the now-legendary Season Six. Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.

Basecamp for Men E318: Basecamp Classic

E318: Basecamp Classic

 

E318 Introduction

Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode is a replay of a Basecamp Classic. I am traveling to see my Mom on the big island of HI and I was not able to get something fresh out.

But I have a great Classic today and another great new interview coming after this with my new friend and mentor Terry Hodges.

Today’s episode is a replay of an episode I did back in Season two with Sophie Maclean. I like to pick Classics that still very much resonate and this discussion about the role of the ego in suffering and the benefits of right-sizing the ego or traveling lighter in life, certainly still teaches and resonates with me. Enjoy Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.

Basecamp for Men E310: The Mish Mosh Episode

E310: The Mish Mosh Episode

 

E310 Introduction

Today’s episode is another Firestarter (short format) episode aptly titled The Mish Mosh EP. I have a couple of memes, a few tidbits from the narrative battlefield and then some personal thoughts on depression and the dark knight of the Soul, something that I am observing in the culture as well as something I have personal experience with.

But first a couple of memes! Love me some meme warfare. Tee hee hee.

From activist Jaime Michell who says: “Liberals need to calm down. President Trump is not going to harm gay people, bring back slavery, or strip women of their rights….He’s not a Muslim.”

From Stacy is Right:

“The hashtag rotates, the outrage gets recycled but it’s always the same sanctimonious clowns, the same hysterical tantrums, the same useless street theater. A new flavor of moral superiority every couple of years, same cast of perpetual protesters, same zero results.

Fuck ICE is just the latest costume swap for “Free Palestine”, “Defund the Police”,”Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”, “Believe All Women”, “I’m With Her”, “No Blood for Oil”, “I Can’t Breathe” and “We Are the 99%”

It‘s not activism. It’s a lazy, taxpayer-and-foundation-funded lifestyle subscription for spoiled narcissists who want the cheap dopamine hit of feeling holier-than-thou without ever having to build a damn thing, solve a real problem, take responsibility, lead anyone, or produce one measurable win in the real world.”

Oh, and here’s one for you all of the misguided people who can’t stop virtue signaling about Israel. It is from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, recorded at Finks in Jerusalem, Benji says “America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up and sell it off piece by piece, until there is nothing left but the world’s largest welfare state that we will create and control. This is what we do to countries we hate. We destroy them, very slowly.”

Don‘t shoot me, I‘m just the messenger. What a charmer he is! Let‘s get to this episode.