4-30-25

Okay, this one is going to be a bit different…..I’m going to be transparent

here…..I’m going to tell you a story about a dream I had….I looked back in the

Rightside archives because I was reminded of this story over the last 24 hours,

and my records show that I actually told this story to the audience three and half

years ago, in November 2021….but I’ve got some things on my plate right now

that have been weighing on me…..things that involve decisions, hard calls, clarity

of mind and purpose…..and they aren’t easy…..to some degree they suck, pure

and simple…..and yet, they are mine to do, and so I’m going to do them……and it

brought to mind this dream that I’ll tell you about over the next few minutes…..

So, speaking of dreams…..Do you ever remember your dreams?.......Sometimes I

do, and sometimes I don’t……. Generally, if I do I might remember them to some

degree when I first wake up……but not often past the first cup of coffee…..

But every once in a while there are those dreams that stick with me……..I’ve had

some dreams with my eyes wide open…….hallucinations at Army Ranger School

that I can still remember because they seemed so real…….like those little garden

gnomes running through the trees in the Florida swamps…..I can still see those

little beggars with their red cone shaped hats beating it through the

woods……scared the stew out of me!

But every once in a while I also have one of those really intense dreams……the

sleeping kind…..the kind that sticks with me well I after I wake up…..the kind that

are so vivid…….and so un-realistically realistic if you know what I mean…..In my

lifetime there are a handful of dreams that I had during my sleep that have stood

the test of time……and I had one such dream about ten years ago that I can still

recall every detail of……it was one of those dreams that even felt like I needed to

analyze it……Like it meant something…..something way more profound than just

the visual images of the dream itself…..I won’t go into all of the details but here

was the gist of it……and keep in mind, this was my dream a decade ago and I can

still recall the details of it to this day……

In the dream I was at a castle….a huge medieval castle that stood on the edge of a

small dark body of water, but if you looked out over the dark water you could see

a seawall in the distance, and it went from there out over the expanse of a huge

larger body of water….so basically the castle sat on the edge of a lagoon……in the

dream there was someone who was oppressive…..evil really….. and they were in

charge ……and I never actually saw their face, but I could feel how bad they

were…..and whoever this evil person was, in my dream they had taken everything

and everyone I cared about hostage……and they told me in the dream that the

only way to save them was if I was willing to go neck deep in this huge body of

water and stay there for an unknown period of time…… the thing is, I knew that

there was something living in the water that was dangerous…..I looked up and I

could actually see some kind of sea monster out there in the water ……I don’t

know what it was…..but it was dangerous of that I was sure….

I can still see, hear and feel that dream…..it was amazingly vivid! I was told by the

bad guy in the dream that at a certain time, I had to wade out into the

water…..and then he made me a slave and I had to do menial work…..but at some

point I was sweeping out the castle, looked down at my watch, saw what time it

was and ran to the water right at the appointed time……and I waded out in the

water until I was neck deep…..couldn’t touch the bottom……just treading

water……but that’s what it took…….and in the dream I became exhausted….and I

didn’t feel like I could keep my head above water…..but I wasn’t getting

out……because that’s what it took to save everything….to save everything I had to

give everything…..I was not going to get my loved ones and my life back until I

took risk……

I’m not going to tell you the whole dream…..there were other parts…..very

significant moments……but suffice to say the dream ended well when the good

guys saw what I was doing and the cavalry came to my aid …..but here’s my

point…..in the dream everything I loved and cared about was at risk and the only

way I was going to get it all back was to be willing to go neck deep…..I was neck

deep and treading water ……so yeah, as I deal with some things that are on my

plate right now in real life I still remember that dream that said that I need to go

neck deep……so I am…..

But you know…..that dream came back to my mind as I prepared today’s

show…..because that’s where we are……everything and everyone that we love has

been threatened in one way or another over the past few years……

- The Pandemic is still a fresh wound……vax mandates…..loss of jobs……

- Constitutional freedoms…….speech……assembly……worship……

- Spending on big govt programs……

- Sacrificing our international standing……..Afghanistan……southern

border…..

- Economics…….inflation……supply chain disruptions……

- Education……Alabama ranked so low……school shutdowns……liberal social

justice policies in our schools

- Social justice……BLM can march…..Antifa can riot……but churches were told

not to meet? Courtrooms can’t convene……

- Lawfare and the abuse of the court system…..

I could go on…..you get the picture……this audience watches the times as much

or more than I do ……..But in the middle of all that I have no loss of

confidence……have I been aggravated? Yes! ……..Do I yell at the TV sometimes?

You bet!......but I am not in despair……. Conservatives may be pressed down, set

upon, but we are not by any stretch beaten……because we know that we are

right……and there is still fight in the right….. there are people who are willing to

go neck deep if that’s what it takes……..

You see one of the odd things about that dream…..and maybe one day I’ll tell you

the whole thing…….was that at no time did I get into “pitiful me”

mode……everything and everybody I cared for in the dream was somehow at risk

or held hostage…….but I was still confident……confident in knowing that if I would

just get neck deep in that dangerous water that it would all work out……I didn’t

even know how. The ending was a plot twist if you know what I mean……But I

knew it would come together…….and here we are at the end of the first 100 days

of a new administration…..and the left is determined to scratch, claw and fight

every step of the way…..but we went neck deep on this one and now we have a

chance to put it all back into place…..

But there is an element out there working feverishly right now to remake our

society……they are working to pass laws…..spend money……create policy……that

are designed to fully and completely transform this nation…….

And the crazy thing is they’re not even trying to hide it…….

The only way……the ONLY way…..to counter that liberal transformation is for folks

like you Rightside Ruffians to get neck deep……to get involved in your

community….to capitalize on last November’s momentum……to know the

issues…..to be aware of your times….. to speak out at public meetings……

I know I say this a lot……and for good reason……because that’s what’s needed.

In the end of that dream……I got neck deep……and I wasn’t sure how long I could

tread water…….but I knew I was going to stay there for as long as it took…..but in

the dream, what happened was my going neck deep caused others to join the

fight……it wound up being a pretty cool dream……

Life has risks…..and sometimes life is just plain ugly…..but this past weekend my

paster said, “if we don’t quit , we win”……folks…..its going to take some of you

putting aside your personal comfort zones to get neck deep…..forget the

risk……get neck deep in the fixing of our society……the fixing of our

government…….or maybe the fixing of your personal positions in life…..your

relationships, your finances, your jobs, your families…..

get busy getting neck deep folks

And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way!