Get prepared! Green Beret survival training with author Peter Crittenden

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0:00 Hello, Patriots! Today I have got the wise one back with me, my mother, and she has found an amazing guest for us and I cannot wait to hear what he all has to say and mom has found him. And mom, you went to school with our next guest, correct? I did. So you want to tell us about, first of all, why don't you just tell us a little bit while we have him off camera and he can't say anything. Tell us about what he's going to say.

0:30 what you remember about him in school well actually his brother was in my class in in thailand so um i i don't remember a lot about pete but we've been in touch the last couple years and i really appreciate his his writings of late and his viewpoint and the fact that he's knowledgeable about a lot of different things and he's going to tell us about that today so welcome to the show Pete Crinderton. Did I say that right? Just remember. Yes.

1:03 Kitten, but Critten-den. That's quite right. Pronounce the way it's spelled. Okay. Well, Pete, it's an absolute pleasure to have you on today and to hear what all you do know. I know mom's been really excited about interviewing you, so I am equally as excited to hear what kind of information you have to say. So you guys, mom, take it away. I don't even know So exactly why Pete's here, what you guys want to discuss. But I do want to, you know, I have some things I want to ask Pete, like once you get the conversation going.

1:38 All right. Well, hey, Pete, glad to have you on finally. Finally glad to catch up with you. We were supposed to do a recording, what, a couple of weeks ago? And you had a slight interference. That's right. I had to blast out of town. a contract came up and I've been doing armed security down in Fort Myers, Florida as part of the hurricane response. Oh, so Pete, what do you actually do now? What is your role? What is your job? Considering you and mom went to school together in Thailand, that alone is interesting.

2:14 First of all, do you remember my mom at all from school? Not very well. She would have been a senior in my junior year, so she was totally off limits, you know, out of bound. And from what I hear, she was so concerned about getting back to the States, you know. She needed to leave Bangkok to come back to the States to find out what was going on here. I think that while you guys are abroad, my brother has two sons, and they were living in Germany, and they always felt like they were missing something here.

2:47 And literally I flew over. I had to go to Paris for something and I flew over and surprised them for 24 hours. And I was like, you're not missing anything. Nothing is happening over there. Like, don't don't let your friends fake you out on social media. Nothing is happening. You have a lot more going on here than they do there. And you're learning a lot more. So did you ever feel like that growing up in school? That's funny you should say that, because I lived in Thailand for 10 years. and I spent the entire 1970s and my entire adolescence in Bangkok, Thailand and all around

3:24 Thailand. At the time, it was the 1970s. There was so much going on over in the States and in Europe, big concert, everything. We were completely missing out. There was no concert scene, No big bands came and toured over there. I think the first band that showed up was Blondie for New Year's 1979, I believe. We thought we were missing out. We thought we were in a cultural desert. And then in retrospect, the life was so rich.

3:58 You know, the culture is so intense in Thailand. You know, it's just you've got to see it to believe it. And the odd thing is, the ironic thing is we thought we were missing out. Yeah, that's pretty funny because from what mom has said her entire, you know, senior year, she felt like she was missing out and couldn't wait to get back home to Georgia. And Pete, if you were to see where my mom went back home to, you would really like get a big laugh because it's like literally in the country.

4:31 There's like chickens everywhere. I love Thailand, by the way. She doesn't, she doesn't know what she's talking about, Pete. Ignore all that because I love Thailand. I loved my life overseas. It's just that, you know how it is when you come to the end of the schooling years, there's not a lot of job opportunity and there's not a lot of university opportunity because the internet did not exist back then.

5:04 So that's kind of unfair. You're looking at it from today's perspective, darling. No, no, no. I was just saying like, but when, when you came back, didn't you think that you were like, that, you know, Yeah, but that's, let's talk about something else because it's, Pete has so much to share. He has so much to share. I just finished reading one of his books. So Pete, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? So you spent all 10 years in Thailand, which I wish I would have spent 10 years in Thailand, to be honest with you, but I didn't have that chance.

5:37 So, I mean, I lived in Africa, Turkey, Mexico City, and then moved to Bangkok, Thailand. So we were like globetrotting around the world because my dad worked for Army Intelligence. But since then, so you were actually Australian and your dad, why don't you tell us a little bit about your background? Well, my dad was a mechanical engineer and he built power plants in Southeast Asia. My earliest memories are in Sumatra. And we actually, he was working for an American company.

6:11 So we were able to return to the States for a couple of years before he got the itch again. In those days, there was, the money was overseas. They were building Asia. So we ended up in Bangladesh spent four years there back then it was East Pakistan they had a civil war and we experienced all the the tumult going up to that got out of there then my dad got another contract in Bangkok Thailand we arrived in Bangkok in 1970 and us kids thought we had died and gone to heaven

6:45 because in Bangladesh, no telephones, no TV, shortwave radio. We could listen to the BBC and to Voice of America. And that was it. That was it. Life was very simple, very rural over there in Bangladesh. Got to Thailand, like I said. And for the first five years that I lived there, the U.S. military was huge. It was the height of the Vietnam War. Bangkok was a garrison town, as you recall. We saw soldiers in uniform walking up and down Sublimit Road downtown all the time. They had entire hotels that were leased as office buildings and where they lived.

7:31 There were huge facilities for the military families. And of course, that was off limits to us non-military types. But it was just it was overwhelming the military presence. We saw little military activity. mostly down in south, down by south of Pattaya, there's a place called Utapau, Roatai Air Base, and Sadehip, which is a harbor down there. And we could actually see B-52s taking off. That was

8:05 about as much as we ever saw of the Vietnam conflict, you know, the Indochina War, which what i refer to it as although we saw a lot of action in thailand in bangkok itself there was a bloody revolution a coup d'etat um in 1974 in your senior year i think you recall that um where it it got really out of control the extraordinary thing was they would have coups d'etat but it would always happen on the political side of town it never happened on the commercial

8:38 side of town or the tourist side of town. So really you'd be going about your business and there's a bloody revolution going down and you really wouldn't know until you saw the newspaper later in the day. It's kind of extraordinary. Anyhow, that was my upbringing in Thailand. I hung around for about 18 months after I graduated high school until things got counterproductive. Then I ended up in Australia where I fit in like a round peg in a square hole.

9:08 Had an opportunity to go to the States because my dad was working for that American company. And there was the opportunity to get a green card. So I jumped on it. I thought, this is good. Got over to the States. Had the same sort of troubles. And it's like this. And any international kid can identify with this. You look like you come from America. You sound like you come from America, but you don't come from America. You're not from the country you came from, even though you consider that home. But if you tell somebody, you know, if somebody says, where are you from?

9:38 And you tell them, they think that you're spinning a tall tale. They look at you like you've got two heads. So you tell a lie. Oh, well, I'm from San Francisco. Oh, really? I'm from San Francisco. What high school did you go to? You know, you can't win. You cannot win. These days, people ask me, where are you from? I just say I'm from overseas. I grew up overseas. And I live in Pennsylvania and just keep it simple because it's something that bothers you all your life and all your life. You feel like you're on the outside looking in no matter where you are.

10:12 Although I feel very much at home when I'm in places like Southeast Asia, Africa. That's where I really fit in. That's really interesting, Pete. So when you're talking about the different areas, I just wanted people to understand, you know, because I think, you know, as a outsider in America, I don't think people realize how close everything is. And we don't realize our true history. And I think that's one of the biggest problems that we have with people understanding like where we are today.

10:48 Because, you know, here in America, while you guys were overseas, you know, there were all these concerts going on. And, you know, but we didn't realize like really where you are. And I just wanted to give everybody kind of a geographical view of where things were located. So like this is Bangladesh that you were in. This is where Thailand, where you grew up. You know, we have Cambodia and Vietnam. You know, so people really need to understand how close everything really is and how in relationship it is to China and, you know, Japan, South Korea.

11:25 Because, you know, even though we might have learned our seven continents, we didn't really learn where, you know, where they're really located today as adults. you know, because really what's happening here, you know, from somebody who, you know, I've traveled quite a bit and been to many of the continents, but the reality is I only know what I know from going there, not from school at all. Matter of fact, I hated school. So where you guys actually grew up in a totally different mindset, I try to give our audience the perspective of, you know,

11:57 what you guys had, and then also what we were dealing with here for being undereducated, you know, for not learning about, you know, what was going on on the other side of the world and why we should really care about it. Because, you know, it all, you know, everything that's really gone on there. I mean, I have people in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines that I speak with daily and China that I speak with daily. And they always, you know, can see things progressing way before we can because they

12:32 bother to look at our news. And so they're constantly, I feel like they're constantly sending out warning signs of maybe what they're going to try to do here next because of what they've done there. So do you ever feel like, you know, like now that you're back and you kind of see things, do you ever see, you know, any similarities or like you feel like, you know, that came about, you know, maybe 30 years ago in a country that you were in or anything like that? Maybe, maybe not.

13:03 Certainly. What I can say is the United States has almost unlimited opportunities. You can do or be anything you want. You can be born in a trailer park, not know who your father is, and end up becoming one of the most popular presidents of the United States ever, and his name is Bill Clinton. You can be a guy like Barack Obama, who we're not exactly sure where he comes from or what his status-wise, citizenship-wise, but somehow he became President of the United States. And I just think that's remarkable.

13:36 And beyond that, I would say, yeah, there's things that we take for granted here in the United States. I'll start with freedom of speech. I can say anything I want. I can say the most outrageous outlandish, scandalous things, I can make a big sign a sandwich board and stand in front of the White House saying it and the same kind of words are described as hate speech in the British Commonwealth

14:08 that is Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand and if I put up such a sign, something extraordinary like that, oh no no no no no, you go to jail now that's an extreme version of it, but in other countries like in Thailand, you cannot criticize the royal family. You'll go to jail. Yeah, you cannot. Right. I know in China that we can't, they have zero freedom of speech because they try to

14:38 send me things on VPNs a lot. But here in the United States, one of the things that I saw when I first landed in China was my phone pretty much being shut off at the airport with no means of communication whatsoever. And I call them my handlers now because I didn't realize when I first went that they're handlers, that I wasn't allowed out of their sight because they wanted me to see what they wanted me to see in the manufacturing world. And they didn't want me to sway over here or sway to the right. And I'm really good at that, by the way. I'm not the

15:11 I want to just go on the tourist trail and be done. I actually want to go eat where, you know, locals eat and see what they do. And when I realized how censored they were, it was kind of a scary thought because if I hadn't been smart enough to know what a VPN was, and, you know, we've only started hearing about VPNs the last three or four years here in America because of censorship. So like right now I can show you and actually I may do this while you guys are chatting and bring up later in the episode of where and what has been censored off of my own personal social media and what's been censored off of the YouTube.

15:54 I think that even might surprise you that we really don't have free speech. And that is a huge concern of mine, you know, that that actually started, believe it or not, with Julian Assange. And I know, you know, a lot of people in the military may think he's such a bad guy because they think, you know, secrets were leaked through him. But the reality is it's a lot of us who stood with him and WikiLeaks because we want to know the truth about the government and what they're actually doing with that Bill Clinton who grew up in the trailer and who became our president.

16:30 you know with Barry Seal and many other things that are even you know going on in Miami with Cocaine Cowboys you know there's been just so much go on that that I feel like we they've segmented us and when I don't I don't mean just you and I but just segmented people to the point where some of us know what's happened and some of us don't to the point where if somebody tells me that they robbed and actually stole children out of Haiti when they had the earthquake there,

17:01 the hurricane, whatever it was they had that back in the 90s that I actually gave money to. You know, when I find out from an actual Haitian that saw things happen that actually works here by building, you know, that's very, very hard to believe, you know, that that actually did happen, you know, because like, you know, they call it a conspiracy theory. And you said earlier that they label things that it's censored. What was it you said that they they call it a mistruth? There's there's hate speech. There's mistruths.

17:34 There's disinformation. Yeah. Yeah. So basically for actually posting something that I'll call him Beijing Biden, because that's what I call him for posting something that he actually said, my account on Facebook has been censored. Yeah. They have things grayed out. And all I did was post exactly what he said. Yeah. Well, Facebook, Twitter, the social media giants, these are private platforms. And so they use that. Well, they're private organizations, they're companies. And they use that as grounds for censorship.

18:13 they say, oh, yeah, you can have freedom of speech. You say whatever you want. You can't say it here in our house. But actually, they're public corporations, I believe. And it's going the process is going through the courts. And it's very similar to, well, you know, a utility. I get my electricity. I get my water. I get my cable TV, you know, from these places. They are conduits and they cannot, you know, inhibit my human rights, my constitutional rights.

18:50 And so that's being debated at this time. But I think it's also telling, look who's doing this censorship. It's the left. The left owns Facebook. The left owns Twitter. The left owns all these levers of power. The left owns the media. The left owns academia. They've got it all. and look at how they're conducting themselves. They're using tactics and techniques which are straight out of Stalinistic Russia. They do censorship.

19:24 If they could ban books, they would do it, and et cetera, right on down the line. Yeah, absolutely. So I just wanted to bring in something because we were talking about growing up in Thailand. And the difference is that we didn't have the internet back then. That's right. And we only knew, you mentioned the coup d'etat. And so we would get a, what, a vacation from school. And the only way that we knew what was happening really was when we got two weeks later,

19:58 we get a letter through snail mail from the APO address from my grandmother that's saying, are you okay? Is everything okay? Because they were hearing it on the news over here. So now fast forward to these days and where freedom of speech supposedly, but we have so much bigger reach with social media and the internet and everything. But I'll tell you, okay, so Christy said that she was censored when she was in China.

20:30 Okay. I was in Washington, D.C. on one certain day, not going to name the date, but you can just fill in the blanks. all of our cell phones were censored. Okay. So there you go. There's the power of overreach. You weren't only censored, but you couldn't even record with your own camera. I couldn't record with my own video camera, not even going online. That's how censored we were. Trying to get directions to get back to Union Station. Okay. Yeah. So that's here in the United

21:07 States. And so that's the difference of us growing up over in Thailand and overseas, where you had really very slow moving news as compared to today. I mean, we know it from minute to minute. We know when something happens. Oh, it's a whole different world these days. So there's one thing I want everybody to know while we're talking about Facebook. And one reason I brought up is because I believe in recording, you know, what they have on and

21:37 we're on Wikipedia right now. And basically, you know, Facebook started out as a Florida company. One of the first series A funders was Excel Partners. And, you know, I learned all of this directly in the Silicon Valley. I am an NBC spokesperson for social media. And I used to be on NBC News, Silicon Valley quite a bit, telling small businesses about what they could expect next regarding social media. I actually went for Series A and Series B and Angel Investments

22:12 for several companies. And one of the things that people really need to realize is our government, our military, the Department of Defense actually had, through DARPA, had a company called LifeLog that shut down the very day that Facebook started. And so we should all be questioning ourselves. And, you know, how come every time I've gone to an organization and went to speak with Randy Zuckerberg,

22:44 which is Mark Zuckerberg's sister or Mark himself, they don't want anyone really speaking with him. You know, it's very much, you know, a timeline question and they usher them in and out of the room. And I personally believe that they don't want that to happen simply because they know that some of us know the truth and the right questions to ask. And they might not be able to cover up, you know, the whole DARPA scheme that we all know and the

23:16 truth about what really happened because our military industrial complex has somewhat bought out a lot of these organizations. So we may think that we haven't paid for items like Facebook, but I think that it was a great way for them to basically get all of our data entered in by us so that they could then begin to track us. I mean, I think that's one of the things that I would like every military person that I know to look into because it is a big, you know, it's a big scheme.

23:51 And if you think about who's running our elections right now, or I'll call them selections, you know, Facebook with a Zuck box have really controlled the power of our entire elections. And it's pretty, it's a pretty scary thought. And the acquisitions that they've tried to take on, They really will not let any other company really come about on the scene because of that. And it's just it's very interesting. I think it's all very interesting.

24:21 I'm sorry I didn't mean to keep on ranting about about this, but I am very concerned about our free speech. Well, on the subject of social media, I don't go by my real name. I abbreviate my name. And my birthday, every October 12th, I get all this happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday. I was not born on October 12th. And I'm not actually 10 years younger than what I am. So I'll just put it that way. Yeah, I give out as little as I possibly can.

24:51 I explore the whole concept of our digital footprint in a novel that I'm writing right now. and it's becoming extremely difficult to write. How long could a person become anonymous and with no digital footprint in the United States in this day and age? And the best estimate I can come up with is about 45 days. And that includes even if you have a cell phone, a certain type of cell phone, certain type of service,

25:22 putting it in a Faraday bag, turning it off, putting it in a Faraday bag as you move around. Sooner or later, you have to have access to cash. Sooner or later, you have to use a credit card. So about 45 days. And that would really be pushing it. And I know we were going to talk a little bit about survival and about what I was doing down in Florida with the weather, you know, with the hurricane response. I was hoping so. But this is something that I'm concerned about.

25:54 And the overarching power and presence of, you can call it the industrial, you know, the military industrial complex, but it's more than that. It's the intelligence organizations, the federal law enforcement, which have become almost more powerful than the state itself. and then on top of that, yeah, you're right, the Silicon Valley bucks, all the money, the fortunes that are there, which are greater than any fortunes known in the history of mankind,

26:29 the wealth that those people have and the way they throw it around. And exactly what Zuckerberg did in the last election, dropped $400 million, $400 million dollars to switch votes, you know, because money is the fuel of politics. And he's going to do it again. And they're all going to do it again. And how they control the message. And a good example, a very vivid example, is the Hunter Biden laptop. I nearly said Hunter S. Thompson. The Hunter

27:03 Biden laptop. That story came out. That would depth charge any candidate in any normal times. the information that came out about the corruption, the outright corruption of the Biden family, and to include the big guy, Mr. 10%. And the media sat on it. They colluded and they sat on it. And that information was kept from the voters. We're not living in normal times. We're living in extraordinary times. And it's quite scary what's going on. In any case, though, I'll let you

27:41 Pat, well, I'll let you get back to what we wanted to talk about. Right. Okay. So, so a couple, what, a couple months ago, you put out that you'd written some books. Yes. And one of them was about survival and which I think that we're all very interested in at this day and time. There you go. Survival Mindset. So why don't you, is that a prepper book? I mean, because we hear a lot about prepping, you know, you get online, you can hardly even turn on the television without hearing you need to store up food, you need to prep food,

28:16 you know. So why don't you tell us about what that is and what you suggest that we do. And I know that you've said 45 days. That's pretty interesting because I know some people who can't go 45 minutes without being tracked. So tell us about your survival mindset book and then your other book, which I've read, which is very interesting. I loved it. Well, survival mindset, a guide on what to do when things go wrong, is a guide that includes bushcraft and survival themes and information,

28:53 emergency planning and situational awareness. I'm not a prepper per se, because I see a flaw, a primary flaw, and trying to prepare to survive for six months or longer, hunkered down within your residence. Survival, there would be a limited time to that. It has to be a team sport. But it's a good idea to have survival items on hand and bug out items.

29:26 And a great example of that is what happened in Florida. If you've got to grab it and go. they had very short notice to uh to evacuate and very few of them did evacuate uh if you got to grab it and go are you ready right now to walk out the door jump in the into your car or your truck go and be confident you've got what you need to be comfortable uh you know for an initial period time then an extended period of time and um so i cover things like that now in my house i keep 15

29:58 gallons of water, I buy those large five-gallon water bottles at Lowe's, you know, the kind that are for a water cooler. That's for, if the power goes out, then I can't get water out of my well. I need to have a, I need to develop a hand pump, or of course I can hook it up to my generator, but just for power outages during winter storms, that we've got water. Prior to a winter storm, I put five gallons of water in coolers next to every toilet.

30:31 That's so you can flush the toilet. You take a little bucket, pour it into the toilet. It works. I learned that trick in Thailand, right? Okay. It's a good idea to have at least a month's worth of food. And I'm a big proponent of spam. Okay. It's a perfect survival food. A family of four could live off one can of spam for a week. if they're really hungry and really rationing it out. So it's high protein.

31:02 It's high fat content, high salt, all the things that you need in a survival situation. The trouble is once you start stacking up cans of beans, cans of Spam, cans of chili, everything, you have to rotate your stock eventually. And who wants to be eating all that canned food, you know, to go through to keep your stock rotating? So I donated to the food bank because I'm just not going to eat that much Spam. In any case, yeah, it's a good idea. Have a first aid kit, have a first aid kit and know what kind of injuries you're likely to experience, what kind of maladies you're likely to experience and how can you treat them. I cover that in my book.

31:41 and then I start let me back up a bit I do something that I've never seen in a survival book and I base this on my experiences of survival instructor in the military I cover priorities and principles and your priorities are shelter water food fire signaling primitive medicine weapons and tools and then miscellaneous shelter first because you can live three weeks without

32:17 food you can live three days without water but the environment can take you down in three hours so of course in the winter time around here i've got a sleeping bag in the car i've got a heavy coat in the car and everybody gets in the car i tell them get a coat well we're only going here yeah you don't know when you have to get out and walk um and then i've got a we don't think about often is is you know little things like that getting out and walking well that's true even in places like georgia i mean we've had a couple times when i was living in north georgia that they

32:52 have you know the ice storms or the snow storms come through and there have been people that have stuck been stuck on the interstate with no coat you know because it's just not that cold in georgia but when it's cold it's cold you're right oh yeah oh yeah it's still north america and uh water water supplies and or the means to acquire water uh how to purify it store it food the means how to acquire it uh preserve it store it uh fire fire is a form of shelter fire is used to uh

33:26 purify water it's used to preserve food prepare and preserve food how to make fire you use it for signaling um you can use it for morale in the army we call it ranger tv you sit there and you look at the fire um so how can you make fire how many means of making fire do you have uh firecraft is a discipline in and of itself and then signaling electronic and non-electronic and that's a whole chapter in my book um and then of course uh after that uh primitive medicine i don't cover actual

34:00 trauma medicine and everything what i suggest is these are the kind of injuries you'd need to learn how to treat and seek this training from the american red cross the american heart association uh sometimes fire departments give emt classes uh community colleges and i send people in that direction for a couple of reasons for one thing you can't really learn it from a book you have to attend a class that includes hands-on and the other thing is it's a liability thing if somebody goes to render assistance to somebody and you know a disaster ensues well they're

34:36 covered by the good samaritan law but then the lawyers come sniffing around they go well where'd you learn this stuff oh i learned from pete's book right here boom i'm liable so i had to avoid i can teach that stuff i've taught that stuff i've taught trauma medicine i am an emt but i had to back off for liability purposes. But I did identify primitive medicine, and this is the kind of medicine people do in prisoner of war camps, places like that, using salt as a medicine, using hot water as a medicine, using chalk as a medicine, using fire and ash as a medicine,

35:11 and treatments when you have absolutely nothing. Then I go into primitive weapons and tools. I had to actually include a chapter about navigation because it occurred to me, I'm writing to a wide audience and most people have no idea of navigation. And so I covered that. And of course, it's hard to replicate the entire US Army map reading and land navigation manual, which takes 40 hours to teach in the classroom and about four days of blood, sweat and tears

35:43 and heartache out there in the woods trying to find snakes in the middle of the night following your compass. I couldn't replicate that, but I did the best I could. I covered not only using compasses, the compass that's in your smartphone, which is an actual magnetic compass, but also I covered using the sun and the stars. A few tricks of the trade like that. And if you're in any city in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in the third world, the developing world, you'll see satellite dishes on the sides of buildings everywhere.

36:16 Yes. Which way are they pointing? I forget, is it up, right? They all point south. Okay. The constellation is around the equator. And so if you're in the northern hemisphere and you're in a city and you want to know immediately which ways northeast southwest, just look at satellite digits, they'll tell you. That's great information. Yeah, that's good. The one thing I wanted to include about Bug Out Bag, an item that is not in my book that I'll have to include in a future version, is take pictures of all your documents, your important documents, passports, driver's licenses, birth certificates, deeds, everything you've got.

37:03 take pictures of them and save it to a thumb drive because you might have to like scoot real fast um particularly what if there's a fire you know in your residence and have that thumb drive like next to your car key uh or uh in your bug out bag can i add one thing can i add one thing to that is one one thing that i would also recommend and this is that's great advice and have a duplicate one that you actually mail to someone else because many in many cases in catastrophe they're

37:38 expecting you not to have your documents and our documents our live signature documents are the only things that hold up in the court of law today so i always advise people to close on their properties in person, even though do it digitally. It is to your benefit, everybody. I promise you that. And, and Pete, if they back them up on a USB drive, the reason I say that's because my mom and I've had USB drives go corrupt

38:10 after a place a lot. And during like a Thanksgiving weekend on a POS system, right? Where we thought we had like duplicate backups and we didn't. And we even had like a real like at that point, listen, we had a few minutes to with technical glitches getting on here. We had a technology expert helping us. Then that's when I actually started doing social media because because of situations like that. Well, you can save them. You can save them in the cloud.

38:41 Email something to yourself and it's automatically saved in the cloud. But of course, then you're subject to is the Internet up. Right. but yeah duplicate thumb drives absolutely one more thing I'd like to say about survival mindset is the introduction and the opening chapter I talk about man in the primitive state and think of the hunter-gatherer type societies the Australian aborigines these tribes that they continually find in the Amazon etc what was life like then and my point

39:17 is what can we learn from that? What can we gain from that? What do we still have inside us that we can use in our daily lives, in situational awareness and in survival, you know, the survival attitude? And consider your average hunter-gatherer type person. They live in groups of about 30 to 40, roughly the size of an infantry platoon. Too many, and they'll denute the environment of stuff to live off of.

39:48 And so it's too big a group, too few, and they can't hunt and gather enough stuff to survive. It's too small a group. So somewhere around between 30 and 40, roughly half male, half female, half juvenile, half adult. Adult is defined as age 12 and above. You die of old age somewhere between 35 and 45. That was man in the Stone Age. I was in Ethiopia. I was in the National Museum there in Addis Ababa looking at a skeleton, the fossilized remains of a human being two million years old.

40:24 Not two hundred. Two million years old. Yeah. The famous Lucy. She was about four and a half foot tall. They were small back then. But just to look that people have been around that long living in that style, you know, as hunter gatherers. um all right do you remember do you recall what her teeth look like by chance well i can't remember right off the bat one of the things that um i was hearing like a dentist saying about teeth you know

40:55 about how we're treating our teeth now we're actually damaging our own teeth supposedly i have to find out a little bit more information but i was just curious if you remember because you know there was no teeth back then and he was saying like look at all these old skeletons they all have teeth and they had no you know they had they didn't have what we have now they also didn't have the crappy food that we have now they had to chew on things yeah they didn't have a lot of carbohydrates and so there weren't a lot of sugars um but yeah my point about the uh the hunter

41:28 gatherers is um we only got away from that lifestyle about 12 000 years ago which was the beginning of of the agricultural revolution, which of course is when villages, towns, and cities developed, civilization being defined as being able to have one more day, you know, have be able to store up enough stuff for the security of one more day. That's the beginning of civilization. That was

41:59 12,000 years ago. Okay, the anthropologists and the biologists, they say that it takes about 36,000 years for an observable evolutionary trait to manifest itself. Well, we're not even halfway away from that. So in other words, we're still hardwired for that lifestyle where you're seeing the same 30 or 40 people every day that you've seen all your life. Now, fast forward to where we are now.

42:30 You walk down any city street anywhere in the world, you're surrounded by strangers. I can go up to the little shopping area north of where I'm at about 20 minutes up the road. I can go there every day of the week. I'll never see the same person twice. It's extraordinary. So we're surrounded by a sea of strangers, and yet we're still hardwired for man in the primitive state. So that goes a long way towards suggesting why people are going so crazy these days more and more often.

43:00 And in any case, so that's the whole meaning behind mindset of my book in the title there, Survival Mindset. Do you, which is exactly, and I want to encourage everybody that's listening. We're going to have a special link for you, Pete, on PatriotsPerspective.com forward slash Pete-Crendenton. So that's running along the bottom. It will also be a link that we will have to make sure that people know exactly where to go, make sure they know where to get your books just in case you get booted off of Amazon or anywhere else.

43:37 Because, listen, they don't like they don't like they don't like people that are going to sway them away from like truth and how to survive anything that they might throw at us for sure. Well, I was looking at it on Amazon. And for some reason, the price is almost double of what it is on Barnes and Noble. it's there at the regular price. And the link from my publisher, Blacksmith Publishing, goes to the Barnes & Noble site. And what I think it is, is people are selling, they're reselling the older used copies and the price is going up. So I guess that's the vote of confidence.

44:12 That's good. Yeah, that's great. That's great. Well, and the other thing that's happening with some of the authors that we've interviewed, one reason I've agreed to make pages for everyone, pete is because some of the authors have either sold out and their publishers are saying oh we can't reprint anymore so we're also like helping them find printers and believe it or not i'm not going to say where we're having them printed but you know because we don't want them to know that either so that's another way i believe they're trying to censor is because they don't they don't

44:42 want us to have the printed version of your book because what are we going to need to go to That's exactly right. The printed version. There is an electronic version, but absolutely. You're going to need the, it's a field guide. It fits into a Ziploc bag and then it fits right into your cargo pile. Yeah. Yeah. So that's awesome. So in terms of the survival mindset, can you tell us about, I know mom probably has her mic muted because I think she wanted to ask you,

45:17 I do. Well, I mean, you know, we were supposed to interview Pete a couple of weeks ago before, and I thought we were having something go on. And I text him and I said, we're going to have to delay. And he goes, well, I'm going to have to delay because I'm headed to Florida. So, you know, I'm just thinking, you know, survival mindset and the people that had to had to evacuate like Sanibel Island and all that.

45:48 And I know I've talked to you a little bit about it, but could you share a little bit of your experience down there? And then I want you to share some about your other book as well. The one that I really, really enjoyed reading is and I still like a paper book as much as as much as technology seems to have taken over. I still like a paper book. I like to take it down to the pool and read it and relax. And I loved it. So that was a really fun book. And I want you to talk about that. But before you do that, while we're on the mindset issue, you know, maybe give us a little perspective.

46:20 Since you're back from Florida, what you got back not quite a week ago, right? I got back Friday night. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your experience down there and what you saw? because I mean, I've got friends down there, but, you know, they're in the midst of cleaning up and everything. So I'd really like you to share what you saw down there. Well, I've been through probably 10 or more typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones. A typhoon is a hurricane when it's in the Western Pacific.

46:53 Typhoon just means big wind in Chinese. It's a cyclone when it's in the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean. um and uh of course hurricanes in the carolinas uh i've seen some pretty widespread flooding and devastation but nothing like what i saw down there uh it looked like the atom bomb had gone off uh out there on the island the first place uh we went to was uh north naples and that's a

47:24 very exclusive neighborhood a lot of money there we were guarding a building which was little little condominiums beach condominiums about 1100 square feet that sell for about one and a half million dollars which I can't imagine these things were like bed sitting rooms they go for a million dollars one and a half million dollars and in North Naples the ground floor of every beachfront building looked like somebody had driven car bombs into it and just blown it all

47:58 out and I've seen what car bombs do to the insides of buildings it was just it was that it was unbelievable and wherever there had been patios paving towards on the beach side that was all disrupted all washed up now there were craters and you could look down there and see foundation pilings which were 12 12 inch by 12 inch steel reinforced concrete snapped in half. What the water did was unbelievable. And they're just going to have

48:29 to destroy that building. We were in that part of town. We'd just driven down. We drove down because we had to bring our firearms with us. And it's easier than dealing with the airlines. So we drove 20 hours to get there. Then we pulled duty right away because the guy we were leaving had been on duty for more than 24 hours. And we were exhausted. And we're sitting in the front the vehicle and we became aware at night there was no light none we became aware there were people moving through the ruins uh looters and that was so dystopian it was like night of the living dead

49:05 and uh you know it was like that film uh legend or the omega man and uh you know we we said to issue well what are we going to do you know what are these firearms for that we're carrying you know if somebody's going off with a wide screen tv or something what are we going to do you know i'm not willing to launch a bullet over over that right so we decided okay the firearms are to protect our lives and to protect other people's lives and that's the start and stop of it we had to do an assessment because it was just so weird and otherworldly um then for about the next week

49:41 I was guarding a Costco gas station in Fort Myers near Cape Coral. And basically, because they'd had some anxiety at first, they were rationing fuel at first, but then it was obvious that things had achieved a tempo of normalcy. During that time, I observed wind damage on every single building in Cape Coral and in Fort Myers. Every business sign, big plastic business signs I got in front of McDonald's, et cetera, all blown out.

50:14 But they didn't have widespread flooding. But they had enough flooding where you couldn't use the water. So water couldn't go into the ice machine. So there was no ice. And that was a problem. And restaurants couldn't open. They couldn't open because they couldn't get water. But also they wanted to cut their people loose to go home to, you know, attend to their recovery. so getting a proper meal was very challenging i lived off of basically bread cheese crackers

50:44 cheese pepperoni cheese apple trail mix for more than 10 days the power finally came on after about 10 days but you know there's no restaurants and i'm moving real fast i don't have time to prep a proper meal ate a few cans of chili finally had a meal uh at a waffle house one sit down meal the whole time i was down there i was down there for two weeks uh the last couple days i was there i went out to the island and um that was mind-boggling like i

51:17 said it looked like it got hit by the atom bomb um you go to the causeway and the first thing you see is a ship on the side of the road i'm not talking about a yacht or a large boat i mean a ship this these were fishing trawlers which are small ships but they're still huge you know uh and it's it's so out of perspective and then you go up over the causeway and you see more of those fishing ships up where they'd floated up and gone to land about half of them and then of course

51:49 boats all over the place cars all over the place um and then you started seeing the destruction wide swaths of neighborhoods just looked like Hiroshima. Other places looked like I described in North Naples. The flooding had just come through and destroyed houses. And I mean, it was terrible. The place smelled pretty ripe. And every now and then you could smell a body. We were trying to find out how many people died. And the press is reporting about 100.

52:24 and that was backed up by the law enforcement people that I spoke to, although they were still finding bodies. FEMA had ordered 1,000 body bags, but they're sticking with the around 100. It might be double that, but that's just speculation. And I heard some pretty horrific stories. One guy, he weathered the storm out. a homeless couple that I met at Costco. They talked about weathering the storm out in a tent.

53:00 And they eventually had. Why would they go? Why would they weather the storm in a tent? I've never understood why that they had no place to go. They're homeless. Oh, OK, OK, OK. Oh, OK. They're homeless. OK, OK. I thought that maybe somebody had moved out of there because I have heard of people like going out of their house, like into an RV or never understood why they, why they change, you know, yes, oh, poor people with the homeless people. That's awesome. So they have to be homeless.

53:31 Because, you know, this is the other misnomer. I actually believe it or not. I'm the girl who stops and talks to the homeless people when I see them out. And what I'm finding with the homeless encampments here, at least here in Miami are, they bring them in. they get their social security numbers and they begin to collect. This is what I've been told by the homeless. I actually have a video from a homeless guy that actually he's very smart. And he told me that they, they go into each of the shelters,

54:03 they get their social security numbers. And evidently that shelter gets money, whether they come or not, they're only supposed to get money like every day. What's happening is they get their social security numbers and they continue to say that those people are coming there and they're not. So he says if they're in another part of town, they'll say, oh, no, you can't come in here because you're already checked in the other place. And he's like, but we're not. And that doesn't surprise me because a system like that with no oversight is going to get abused. Yeah, exactly.

54:33 So that's that's what I want people to know, too, because, you know, when we're all looking at these homeless people on the side of the street, number one, stop and ask them why they're homeless. You know, ask them, you know, and I'm not a fan of giving the money. Listen, guys, I'm not a fan of giving the money unless you want it to go to drugs or alcohol. But because in many cases it does. This guy was actually really funny with my neighbor and she wanted to give him money. And he's she's like, go buy some beer. And he's like, OK, thank you.

55:03 And I'm going to get him something to eat over here before he goes nuts on me. You know, so and he was I won't say he was honest because I don't know what he did with the money. But the point is, just ask them what the problem is in your own neighborhood or your own county, because I'm going to start a little investigation to find out what's really going on with them and why these organizations are claiming that they're there. You know, basically, it's like we can we can do an audit if we're if we're, you know, just stop by, find out how many people are going in, how many people they're actually feeding or volunteer in the organization to find out really how it's going down.

55:40 So the homeless people on Sanibel, they made it through the hurricane? Oh, they weren't on Sanibel. They were in Cape Coral. Oh, in Cape Coral. On the other side. But there was flooding there, of course. Yeah, well, the whole homeless dilemma, you know, it kind of haunts me. I met people who were multi-billionaires and I met, and I had conversations with the homeless and everybody in between.

56:10 So that in itself was interesting. And if I had Bill Gates' money, if I'd consider building a bunch of housing, building apartments, you can do it out of shipping containers, right? Put them all in there, clean them up, give them a chance, give them some sort of make work jobs, what have you, and see how many then rehabilitate and become part of society and how many are actual no-hopers.

56:41 That's what they do in Europe, actually. Well, I've said to me, it seems very simple. I mean, I know that it's a simplistic approach, but it seems like that they could, considering it's the county that's getting the money, why don't the county also supply them with a job? Because what I'm looking at, like I'm looking at our medians and our islands where they could. And these people would probably be happy to come to learn how to garden. Right. Like if you had a garden leader, learn to teach them how to garden and, you know, take it. Like you said, take them to a normal home, even if it's a tent camp, you know, where they're actually getting a meal and they're they're feeling some sense of community in some way, shape or form.

57:19 I don't think it can be that hard. But I think the problem is us as citizens, we're not really paying attention to it because we're not paying attention to it until we're there. Right. well there but for the grace of God go I yeah exactly yeah so it's something that concerns me because it's the human side you know it's heartbreaking yeah thank you for going down Pete I mean because I know even though I know you probably had a contract or something to go down

57:49 but in terms of actually being one to go and help these people I can't thank you enough Well, honestly, I was trying to duck out of it. And then the owner of this security company, you know, I told him ages ago, you ever need me, I'll be right there. I'm your guy. Then he called me. So I couldn't get out of it. So did you guys fly back? Did you fly back? Yeah, I flew back. I left my kit down there. I'm going back. We're just there. Oh, okay.

58:20 Yeah. I said, take care of some things here. Some personal business here. So what did you see? You told me something when you flew out and looked out the window. Oh yeah. Well, driving out to the airport, just miles and miles and miles of very expensive houses on a grid. And these are people from up north, retirees. These houses are anywhere between 500,000 to a million dollar properties, nice houses. And that's obviously what I was

58:51 looking at it and there was so much damage to roofs etc uh a lot of damage down there and so just driving past miles and miles for hours you know of all these uh neighborhoods and flying out i was looking down and you could see they're all laid out like a grid so much of it and then you know i was interested in the grid and interested in what i'm seeing and a lot of blue plastic where they had to put temporary protection over roots then there was a lot of green a lot of green and

59:26 water i mean a lot and florida is a big place and it's got a lot of swamp and forest and i know i've been in the swamps and forests um it just made me think north america is huge and we are we are the country rather we're the continent with the most wilderness out of all the continents unbelievably yeah i saw a pile of uh telephone poles power poles i should say uh stacked up uh where they

1:00:00 were going to go in and repair and replace you know uh about a football field full of of these enormous wooden power poles. And I told my sidekick, if we were in Europe or Africa or Asia, they would be made out of cement. They make power poles there out of steel reinforced cement. And he said, why, why? He couldn't understand that they don't have wood like that in those places.

1:00:31 They don't have a forestry industry like we've got. They just don't have plentiful wood and all these trees. goes but it's a renewable resource and yeah they don't have it uh they might do in africa but it's different kinds of trees they don't have pine trees like that and anyhow no matter how hard you treat the wood in africa you put it in the ground the termites will eat it um but uh yeah just that boggled his mind the fact that he took for granted what he was looking at and i was looking at thinking you'd never see that in europe that wood is worth gold they think it's

1:01:05 crazy that we make our houses using wooden studs over there we use steel steel frame and or cinder blocks or pre-cast cement even the furniture makers um some of the some of the english furniture makers we actually have here in miami that makes some of our furniture and he he actually like just he's always in awe at the wood that we have you know the natural wood to the area and um even you know the woods that we have available you know from other regions as well too you know that are

1:01:40 more exotic but yet the local wood selection that we have is just amazing and abundance and cheap in comparison yeah we take it for granted we take it for granted and that was what i was thinking as i looked out the airplane at all that vast wilderness you know as as much cities and and development as they have in Florida, it's the Everglades are enormous, they're gigantic. And that goes for all of North America and the United States. I mean, people just have no idea how big our country is

1:02:13 and how wide open it is. And just think, you know, Western Europe could probably fit in the size of Texas, definitely within the size of Alaska. Yeah, the UK, you could cram the entire UK into the Carolinas. Wow. And people from the UK have heard them say, oh, we're going to come over and you can just drive over and visit. You don't understand. It would take us a day and a night to get there. They have no appreciation for how big America is. No, they don't.

1:02:44 They'll say they're going to come over here for a week. And I'm like, which part? And they're like, oh, I'm going to go to the West. I'm going to go to LA and I'm going to go to New York. And I'm like, you're going to spend your whole time in a plane. You know, we don't really have trains. It takes a really long time to get anywhere on a train here. So you're kind of doomed. In terms of this, what you saw from the plane, it looked like a pattern. Did it look like a pattern at all? Like a pattern, are you saying?

1:03:17 Oh, you're talking about the layout of suburbia there. Yes, absolutely. It was a grid. Yes. Okay. Because interesting. Okay. So did it look like anything that could be weather warfare at all? I'm not exactly sure. There was weather. Okay. Whether or not it was generated by some kind of means, I would have no idea. Yeah. So some people don't realize that our government actually has a patent to control the weather.

1:03:49 um so that is you know here's the application the process um it's completely downloadable here on youtube um and i'm showing everybody just so you can see exactly where it's at um because i know some people when we say you know that they have the ability to manipulate the weather it's very difficult for people to believe and understand um but here's the patent right here so it's amazing to me that, you know, since 1948, there's been this patent and it's, you know, publicly available

1:04:26 that we're able to see. It's actually patent number US 2550324A. So if everybody wants to look that up, they can, we can see that they've been able to control the weather. So it's amazing to me as to if they can control the weather, why there keeps being these issues in specific places. And, you know, people have reported many times, you know, out in California, there are firemen

1:04:56 that are reporting, you know, specific neighborhoods that have like a line, and it literally like the fire stops at the lines of the neighborhoods. And, you know, it's just all very interesting to me and suspicious at the same time that they're able to do this. And in terms of, and I know it looks like I was not even sharing the patent, so I need to share the correct page. I was just showing the patent number, but it's all just so interesting as to

1:05:29 why they would, why different things would happen, right? Because we all know that our government makes a ton of money whenever there's any kind of war or warfare going on, and the vast amounts of money, and who actually gets paid during the process, because I'll tell you, I'm going to have my neighbor on, and he is going to go over the amount of money that was collected for Champlain Towers, and he is actually the manager of the fund that went directly to all of his

1:06:08 residents. You might want to remind them what Champlain Towers is, Christine. Champlain Towers was the tower that actually fell in Surfside. Many people know it as Surfside, but the city of Surfside and the county of Miami-Dade collected a huge fund that none of residents saw so i think that's also a misnomer so every episode and pete and pete does not this is not pete's he doesn't we don't have to agree on this case i don't know anything about this stuff

1:06:38 i was gonna say but yeah i was gonna say i want to make sure that people know that you don't even know this um this is coming from someone else but um you know in terms of them actually controlling the weather having these open patents right in front of our face to be able to do it is all just extremely interesting i'm just saying we should all be asking questions looking it up because pete did you know about that patent before no i didn't but the only thing i know in this uh in related any way to this would be they've been seeding clouds what do they use it's like silver

1:07:12 iodide crystals to create rain and i was reading a a book about the sante raid which was the uh the the rescue mission, they flew three years of war out of North Vietnam in a town called Santé near Hanoi. And the prisoners had been moved. And they'd been moved because there was flooding in the river. And it was ironic because the United States had been seeding clouds up in that region

1:07:43 in order to make the ground soggy, to make it difficult to move supplies by the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And as a result, they had this flooding and then the prisoners were moved. And so when the rescuers arrived, there was nobody there. That's all I know about the weather and anything to do with the U.S. government and or the military. Speaking of rain, speaking of rain, Pete has another book, which I read.

1:08:17 a thousand drops of rain. Yeah. A thousand drops of rain is a novel and it was just about that. Cause I found that to be a very entertaining book. It was, it was, thank you. It was just published by my publisher, Blacksmith publishing. And it originated when I was pulling a security uh contract on an oil rig off the coast of africa and i had a little workstation up there on the

1:08:50 bridge and i uh i had time on my hands 12 hour shift and all i had to do was just walk around the oil rig every now and then and make sure the pirates weren't there if the pirates came is another story and um so i had time on my hands and i had six months of it i was looking at so i thought, well, this is a really good time for me to write a book. I've always wanted to be a writer. And so this is great. I'm all set up, ready to go. And I didn't know what to write about.

1:09:20 So, you know, when I was younger, I wanted to be a writer, but I thought, well, I need adventures. So I know what to write about. So I had this, you know, life full of adventure over the past 30 years and, you know, went everywhere and did everything twice. And And now I didn't know what to write about. So I wrote about a professional adventurer who wants to write his memoirs. And he sits down and he doesn't know what to write about. And I put him in a very interesting place.

1:09:50 I created this hotel in southern Thailand. It's built on a jungle cliff. And it's an unorthodox hotel. It's a bunch of little cabanas and cabins and rooms with little decks and interlocking staircases and ladders all up and down the cliff. and the main edifice is a traditional Thai structure. And there's a large deck above it and embedded within the structure is a traditional colonial style pub. And my protagonist, he's in there.

1:10:22 Is that the correct word? In any case, he's in there. And people come to him and visit him, people from his former life. And they're, you know, ex-military types, contractors, mercenaries, ne'er-do-wells, you know, all kinds of people. And, um, they tell him their story. And each story is a chapter and each story is actually starts out based on something that actually happened to myself or to a friend of mine, the giant serpent that actually happened to me in Bangkok.

1:10:55 Yeah. Giant serpent came out of a tree. I think that's what makes the book interesting as I was reading it, because I'm thinking that you said that it was something that happened to you or to happen to somebody else that you knew. So in the back of my mind, I'm thinking that that was more entertaining. You made it more entertaining. Well, then, of course, I always have the stories warp off into the fantastic and the amazing and the realm of science fiction and spiritualism and surrealism

1:11:26 and weirdness. And, you know, because I thought, hey, let's really take the ball and run with it. And so that's what I did. And everybody seems to enjoy it. I put pictures in it. Yeah, you did. Right. I took pictures and I would use this app on my phone where I could make them like sepia style or with the linotype style of graphic art. Like you see the art on a dollar bill or something. I did that to set the themes.

1:11:57 every uh the beginning of every chapter has a picture and uh usually one or two pictures throughout the chapter and i did that because people like to look at pictures when they read books and that way even if you can't read you can enjoy the book okay so are you going to do an audio book yes absolutely that one you should you definitely the hardware i think you should narrate your own book, Pete. That'd be amazing. That's my intent. I've got the hardware for it right here.

1:12:32 And yeah, and I'm learning how I'm trying to figure, because I learned what not to do. Don't record it as a MP3. And so I've got to figure out there's another way to record it too. And I want to learn how to splice in sounds like, you know, seagulls squawking and waves crashing and stuff. so I can have the beginning and end of a chapter sort of, you know, trains and planes and that sort of thing. But yeah, absolutely. I'm going to I'm going to make an audio book because people enjoy that.

1:13:02 Yeah. Don't come. Don't come to us for audio advice. I was going to say, we might want to come to you for audio advice. Yeah. Well, nowadays, you don't need a sound engineer. It's all out there on the Internet. You can do your own thing. But we actually did have a sound engineer on the other day. and he still like managed to mess it up poor dana he's gonna have to step back in yeah it's in any case yeah that that's my plan to go with that would be great that was that's

1:13:32 gonna be a great audio book i'll tell you it will be i love the audio effects that's that is gonna be great yeah it would be interesting if i could get female voices to do the female characters particularly the Asian, the Southeast Asian girls in there. Because I can't mimic that. You should go to Angela, comedian, Angela Johnson. Oh, I'm not sure. She has so many different voices.

1:14:02 That's what mom says, like the Asian nail salon girl voices and everything. But she's a Hispanic comedian. She's hilarious. Sorry, we're getting off track. She doesn't think. That's all right. Yeah, well, there's a lot of Southeast Asian spiritualism and surrealism in my book. And I'm concerned that I might upset or offend the Thai people with my references to Buddhism and Hinduism. So I had it proofread by two different Thai people, friends of mine.

1:14:35 I said, did I get this right about Buddhism and the Buddha? Because Thai Buddhism is a little bit different than, like, for example, Zen Buddhism. Um, and they said, you got it perfect. You got it spot on. How did you know this? Oh, wow. Just, just a little experience, life experience. Yeah. Because yeah, one of my stories, uh, involves, uh, uh, a character who comes into possession of a Buddha image, you know, a small Buddha statue.

1:15:09 And he's tasked with transporting it up from Singapore all the way up to northern Thailand into Laos. And, you know, the Thai is very touchy about moving Buddhist statues in and out of the country. You're not allowed to do it. And the Buddhist statues themselves are considered, they have a spirit. It's a form of animism, right? And, well, that features in this story. and i was very uh concerned that i got it right uh you know so that the uh i don't want to offend

1:15:42 the thai people or you know uh somehow you know uh get it wrong and i was told oh no you got that perfectly how did you know and i also wrote about um a form of an exorcism because uh there's a the thai people practice a form of animism which is spirit worship um and it's not buddhism on the surface, an observer might think, oh, they're doing some Buddhist stuff. No, it's not. And, you know, for example, they have the spirit houses in every property over there

1:16:13 in Thailand. And before you build, you have to put the spirit house there. Then you have to have a ceremony and get the spirits of the land into the spirit house and then keep them happy, bring them food, bring them drink. If they're not happy, bad things will happen. And so, of course, I discussed that concept a few times. And then, of course, I had a few crazy stories about other places, adventures down in Africa, that sort of thing. Central America.

1:16:48 They just need to buy the book to read about them, right, Pete? yeah yeah okay i'll give you one more one more hint um i wrote a story about uh the the revolution in central america i created a fictitious country and that country was actually el salvador i was down there and i heard it from my hotel this uh woman's voice on a megaphone every night and a crowd and i thought well they're having some sort of political uh movement going and my My hotel was on the edge of the Zona Rosa, you know, the entertainment.

1:17:22 Red zone, pink zone. Yeah. Yeah. The safe part of town, the party part of town. And it was on a street with a T intersection leading away from the T intersection every night for three nights. I heard this woman's voice and all this crowd shouting. And so I created the story about how it was a revolution, a street revolution where the the old order was taken over. They stormed the president's palace. And then my hero became,

1:17:53 you know, they wanted to make him el president. And he's like, don't do that. And then the story proceeds from there and just gets crazier and crazier and crazier. Well, I found out after, you know, three days of this running through my imagination, I went out there and I walked up and I realized I found a place. It was like a giant cage. It was the size of about a football field with large chain link fence going up about 60 feet. And inside were all these weird apparatuses, giant cushions, all different colors, ladders, ropes.

1:18:26 And what it was, it was a TV game show. But I created that story about a street revolution. That was in my imagination because I could hear it, but I couldn't see it. But that's what you were really thinking that it was prior to knowing. Yeah. Gotta get all the facts. Well, Pete, thank you so very much for coming on and sharing with our audience, sharing your books and all of your knowledge, your survival knowledge.

1:19:01 We hope that we can have you back on soon. We hope that everything goes well with your next trip back to Florida. maybe you can come on and report on that afterwards and do you have any final closing comments well I'll keep you informed and yeah what I'd like to say my book Survival Mindset it's available on Barnes and Noble it's available on Amazon there's actually an e-book version of it my novel A Thousand Drops of Rain the same or you can go to my publisher's website

1:19:34 Blacksmith Publishing and click through there and it'll take you to Barnes and Noble. And thank you very much for having me on your show. And, you know, keep the faith. You're very welcome. And everybody, you can also go to PatriotsPerspective.com forward slash Pete dash Crenderton. That way we can update if Pete has any changes or his publisher kicks him out or anything like that. We can make sure that you always have a way, a path to your books. I'm all about backup plans these days.

1:20:05 as we survive the digital war and the digital minds that tend to be going off all around us. Mom, any closing comments? I just want to say thanks to Pete for being on and keeping us up to date and for the books. And I can't wait to write the Amazon review now that we've got a pathway. So anyway, yeah, and I'll be doing that. I very much appreciate your books and can't wait to read the survival mindset.

1:20:38 Pete, does Amazon reviews help your books? Does it help it go to the top? Absolutely. Absolutely. They do. Okay. So everybody, if you go on Amazon, please try to purchase the books on Amazon. We'll make sure that we have the link that we post in the video description below. And if you will make sure that you write a review after you get the books, that would be super, super helpful. That's even if they get digital or print, right? that's quite right okay perfect so please make sure you guys help Pete out write his review and if you have any other questions make sure that you

1:21:13 comment them below we'll be sure to ask Pete on the next maybe we'll have a segment called ask Pete ask Green Beret Pete thank you very much for being on it everybody just remember to do unto others as you would have others do unto you and we are out.