Excerpts from the podcast:
Host: Joining us once again is a distinguished guest, a true patriot, and the mastermind behind the All-American Flag Store, Mike Bergquist. His first appearance left us eager for more. And now, in this much-anticipated part two, we're delving into not only the essence of his business but the profound chapters of his life.
Host: Like we mentioned right before we got into the recording, we'll get to a point, I believe, where this technology may go away, and it could go away tomorrow.
And all we'll be left with is our skill and our know-how.
And if we have gotten lost in the minutia, if we've gotten rusty, we're going to have problems.
Mike: Yeah, one of the big things they're talking about is power outages.
Host: Yeah.
Mike: These things become useless without power.
Host: So it's a big topic that I'm actually kind of passionate about, and not for a good reason. And well, not for a bad reason either, but, I'm passionate about it because it's a real thing that could really happen.
Host: You know, Tomorrow, the bad actors of the world could send a H-E-M-P or an E-M-P, and all they would really need is about two well-placed E-M-P's or H-E-M-P's, high altitude electromagnetic pulses, and it could knock out the entire grid of our entire country.
Host: And one thing I've noticed living in Maine is that people do for others.
People do selflessly for others.
My first winter up here, I was at my in-laws, and I was blown away by the ability
of people to help their neighbors,
a plow truck.
Host: Bear in mind that a plow truck got stuck plowing my in-laws. Some random guy saw them trying to get out of there, kicking their gears or whatever, came up with a tow cable, pulled the plow truck out, said their congratulations or whatever, and left.
You know, just the average person just saw them had a tow cable.
They came in, did that, and left.
Host: The guy was appreciative, and they both went on their way.
Now, you imagine that's a small scale.
Where are we going to be when the power's out, the groceries are gone, and we're left to fend for ourselves, so to speak?
Mike: As a Christian, I want to straighten these people out, you know, I mean, and I've had a woman calling me from Chicago looking for Palestinian flags and ended up having to send a friend in to get them when I said I had them, you know, but I wanted to tell her, listen, why are you supporting those people?
Mike: They're bad, you know, but it's not my place to be in the middle of that when I'm trying to run a business.
All-American flag store.
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