That Montana Life

30/07/2026

Tonight, inside the Egyptian Theater in Coos Bay, Oregon

30/07/2026

Put Fauci’s Ass In Jail

Dr. Frankenstein-Fauci owes the American people answers, and yesterday we got little satisfaction.
If we are a land of laws, than lets see the laws used, not just on people like you and me, but on the elite and powerful.

Frankenstein-Fauci’s moment in the spotlight yesterday revealed much about what is wrong with our country.
The rich are too powerful.
Liars get away with murder, and it’s as if that is normal anymore, at least to the deep state.

The reaction I saw from many of you yesterday was disgust.
Like me, you want justice for what this one man was able to do to not just the system but to millions upon millions of people.
Then, he brags about it in his own diary.
Who keeps a diary of the diabolical things you got away with?

Congress needs to find Frankenstein-Fauci in contempt of court and throw his tiny ass in jail.

The left and its media cohorts tout their spin of what’s happening.
Their reaction is disappointing but not surprising.
Most of the negative response comes from people who willingly took the jab and tried to force us to do it too.
These are the same people who tried to muzzle us with their masks, six-foot distancing, and a vaccine that’s leaving medical issues in its wake.
Even Fauci has a heart problem that could have come from the jab, but he and his doctors hid it from the public.

If you are one of the many who thought COVID was ridiculous, you feel a weight lifted.
I would suspect that if you bought in and could face the truth, you might feel bamboozled by a man equally as bad as Hi**er.

I don’t think the American people should let up on this.
If Frankenstein-Fauci gets away with this, what does that say to the next generation?
What good are laws if a feeble-minded President can give immunity to a mass murderer like Frankenstein-Fauci?

Like many of you, I didn’t realize how much space the pandemic lie took up in my head.
I started to feel like it would never end, like justice would not prevail.
Watching that little man’s eyes as he regurgitated his “plead the fifth” line over and over again revealed a sort of evil I haven’t experienced before.
That despicable man not only destroyed lives with his lies, but he also damaged the spirit of so many people.
Yesterday was like watching a public hanging, but in this case, little Fauci put the rope around his neck by refusing to answer questions.
Now, Congress needs to have the guts to kick the stool out from under him.

29/07/2026

The Inevitable Judgement

I know this is not going to make me very popular.
Racking up followers and garnering comments is no longer at the forefront of my mind.
God is in the process of judging our culture, and it’s getting really ugly.

Our poor decisions on the environment are blowing up in fire.
The lack of proper forest management and allowing crazy climate groups to control the narrative is being exposed as those ideas literally go up in smoke.
�Have you seen Dr Fauci’s diaries that were just released?
Dr Evil exposes himself and his narcissistic desire for power, in his own words.
The guy is as evil as Hi**er and yet some of you followed him like a lapping dog, hanging on his every word.
Turns out most of what he said was a lie, and some of you judged your fellow man based on the words of a man who is obviously sinister and mentally ill.

The public is like sheep, being happily led to slaughter by ideas and thoughts that feel so good but do the exact opposite.
Culture has robbed us of the ability to discern, and instead of basing our outcomes on facts, we base them on how it makes us feel.
I don’t give a damn how it feels; what does it do?
Does it make sense?
Does it add up?
Remember how many people signed Initiative 128?
People, we are better than this, or we should be.

Our leaders are being exposed.
The dirty little deeds they do in the stairwells and hotel rooms are no longer a secret.
Still, people blame party A or party B, but that message is so overdone that only the truly ignorant fall for that anymore.

Attempts to control the world with power no longer work.
Leaders’ stump speeches and pump-us-up messages fall flat.
The internet and podcasts have opened the world up to exactly what’s going on, and it’s ugly.

Everything that used to work no longer does.
The media is dead; the anchors and reporters haven’t figured it out, but we know.
They are powerless puppets spewing what they’re told to a dwindling audience of sponges, soaking up whatever they're fed.

And yet, there are those of us who welcome an end to the lies.
Exposure is the only answer.
We pray God restores our country, even if that means it has to fall first, which it probably will.

We can live in peace knowing God is in charge.
Sure, we should be on guard.
Yes, judgment has no favorites and can be swift.
Instead of listening to what people say, let their words sit there for a moment while you wait.
Let their words hang like stagnant air in a hot room.
Watch their eyes.
Pay attention to their actions.
Yes doesn’t always mean yes.
And no is something you and I get to say when their endgame fails to add up.
The inevitable judgment is upon us.

28/07/2026

Oregon is Burning Up: It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

It makes me sick.
I see my birth state burning up and see people online making excuses.
The reason over a million acres burned over the weekend is lack of management, politicians sucking up to the climate change audience, and people unwilling to look at the science, not their feelings, for answers.

It’s not just Oregon that suffers in this environmental disaster; your smoke is polluting Idaho, Montana, and Washington states as well.
You say you want to sequester carbon, and yet, in one weekend, you filled the skies with what? Carbon.
You think “Mother Nature” can take care of herself.
You are lying to yourself.
Even though you too are human, we are part of the equation and put on this earth to steward it.
Yes, way back in the past, people chose dollars over long-term sense.
But get over it.
Some of you keep bringing up clear-cuts.
For the most part, that is a process of the past.

Humans can be so stupid.
We get so locked into our position that we fail to see the very things we do to save something actually destroy it.

Some of you still think a healthy forest is a forest that is left alone….WRONG.
Look outside your windows.
See all the smoke and the health warnings due to smoke?
That’s the result of “leaving it alone.”

It’s time to get lawyers and judges out of the business of managing our forests.
It’s time to stop pretending that smoky skies and burning forests are just part of our summer.
I see the politicians who enacted the laws we have regarding forest “management” now screaming that the sky is falling.
It’s falling because of your weak, uneducated indoctrination by people and groups who claim to be environmentalists.
Bu****it.

It’s time we bring loggers, landowners, real scientists, and forest managers back to the table and figure this out.
The very thing the so-called environmentalists claim to be saving, they are destroying with their ideological stupidity.
Enough.
These are public forests. That means they belong to you and me…too.
Why does a single-minded group of people get to decide for the rest of us how our land is managed?
They don’t.
Look out your window.
How do you think their plan is working?
Exactly.
It’s not.
Oregon is burning up, and it doesn’t have to be like this.

27/07/2026

Don’t Allow The Bad Ones To Taint You

There are so many amazing people in the world.
Finding them isn’t all that hard.
When I was a television news reporter, the good ones used to drop out of the sky and onto my lap.

I had a reputation for finding the heartfelt stories.
Actually, those stories found me.
In our newsroom, people would say, “Oh, that’s a Rick Dancer story.”
I never thought that much about it until now.

Over the years, I think I’ve allowed myself to sour on people.
Let me explain, please.
What many of us witnessed during the COVID Hell floored me.
People I thought I knew cowered, allowed fear to consume them, and they dropped me like flies.
They didn’t just dislike me; they hated me.
One guy I know, and went to church with for years, actually called my clients and tried to get them to stop supporting my work.
Yep, that’s as low as it gets.

More recently, I lost thousands of viewers when I started to question “SOME” of the things our President has chosen to do.
When you see the frailty of humans and how quickly we turn on one another,
you are bound to become disheartened and even angry.
I’m hearing the same thing from other podcasters who try to tell the truth and question when culture says don’t.

I think I was starting to put my hope in politics, a movement, or people in power.
I’m realizing the real hope is found in the connections, stories, and people God puts in my path.
Those subtle stories create a hope that goes far beyond political rhetoric and lies laid out to pacify a public that doesn’t want solutions; it just wants everything to be okay.
Not everything is okay, but it will be if we rebuke apathy and get back to the business of paying attention to each other, not to the message makers.

What would happen if we took away the ability of the messengers to manipulate us?
Not by fighting them, but by flooding the market with stories about real people whose lives touch us deeply.

The best way to expose evil is to highlight good.
The dastardly tremble in the light.
So why are we playing their game?
Why allow them to set the tone?
Make truth the goal and stop making excuses for the liars.
Let them dig their grave as we cover them, not in dirt or manipulation; that’s their tactic.
We change our focus, look for the good in people, and remind ourselves it’s not what we do that matters; it’s who we do it with.
The power is in righteousness.
Oh, I know all hell will break out when we start.
But if we set the tone, and it truly is God’s will, mountains will move.
How do you start?
Smile at someone today.
Say hi to a stranger.
Take time to listen to the stories of those who drop into your circle, and be kind.
This is just the start.
Don’t allow the bad ones to taint you anymore.

27/07/2026

26/07/2026

Life is too short to suffer

Each morning as we awaken, we have a choice to make.
We can choose to get stuck in our heads, or we can focus on telling ourselves the truth.
What is the truth?
Life is good; we have value, and it matters less what we do and matters more who we do it with.

We get to choose what kind of day we’re going to have.
That does not mean the powers of Hell won’t throw everything in our direction to try to stop us; it means we are choosing to live our life the way we want.

I want to ride the wave, not chase it.
I’m sitting here on a mountain, looking out over Sandpoint, Idaho, as the sun warms my naked chest.
I sip on a cup of coffee, listening for sounds: hummingbirds buzzing by, restless birds talking with each other, and in the distance, a small plane taking off from the airport beneath me.
The day begins around this part of the globe.
How many people will allow the day, their schedule, and the demands of others, to set the tone for their day?
Yes, this is your day, and no one gets to ruin it for you.

I silence the whispers in the recesses of my brain, as they try to stir chaos and spoil the moment.
Thoughts of what needs to be done fill my head, but does it really need to be done, or is it just the destroyer working quietly to rob me of my peace?
Chipping away, bit by bit.
Then, God himself causes a cool breeze to bend the treetops and push those negative thoughts away.

Yesterday, I listened to some podcasters I respect talk of their change of heart when it comes to paying too much attention to the turmoil that envelops culture.
They spoke of how it sucks the life, the joy, and the meaning of life, out of life.
It was as if they were reading my mind.
They talked of their phones and how those instruments of communication really hamper it more than they enhance the way we live.
Perhaps our phones bring too much knowledge into our lives, I think.
Perhaps that’s why the logo on the back of mine is an apple with a bite taken from it.
Knowledge is good, but too much is what led the human race astray.

I interviewed a woman for a video I’m producing in Priest River, Idaho.
She talked of her love for her small town.
The need to be involved in the comings and goings of her fellow humans.
She spoke of involvement, commitment, and a desire to take care of each other.
When she talked of her town, she teared up.
Truth and authenticity are a potent elixir.

There is so much bu****it that we, that I, allow to get in the way of my interaction with people.
What if God has it all planned?
You know, whom we run into, whom we see on the bike trail, the person who serves us at the restaurant.

A blaring train just rolled by on the tracks down the hill from me, reminding me that the hustle and bustle of life doesn’t go away.
Instead, in the midst of it, despite it, life is too short to suffer.
Make a choice and fight like Hell to keep the darkness from dimming our hope.

25/07/2026

Kathy found us a great little cabin waaayyyy on top of a mountain, headed to the ski area. It's only ten minutes from Sandpoint. Wish we could stay here longer. It's so cool we're going back to town to grab some food to make dinner up here. Rick Dancer Rick Dancer Media Rick Dancer PNW BackStories

25/07/2026

Answers Found In Rural America?

The more we travel to small-town America, the more I believe the answers to our cultural questions are found here.
I’m in the panhandle of Idaho, in a small town called Priest River.
We’re producing a video on a dangerous highway and what needs to be done to change that.
More on that later.

I interviewed Liz, a community member, who is what my parents would have called a go-getter.
She lives way off the grid, on a mountain top, surrounded by 100 acres of her own land,
We were talking about small-town America and the misconceptions many have of the people here.

Culture often leads urbanites to look for answers to big and small questions.
We think numbers and letters after someone’s name give them credibility and a louder voice than others.
We tend to respect the opinion of someone with a degree from a university over that of someone schooled by life’s ups and downs and spending time living life, rather than reading about it.

The pandemic should have taught all of us degree’s and doctorates mean little when real answers need to be found.
When you go back to rural America, common sense is still common.
Taking care of human needs is not more important but equally valued with concerns of sustainability and cultural concerns of the day.

When you live in a city, you can hide.
In rural America, words like community and love are directly connected to action.
You can’t love a place or a person without doing something.
To be part of a community means you get involved, especially when it’s inconvenient.

Kathy and I are in the process of creating a new brand with a Sprinter Van.
We plan to travel the country, as the American Nomads, introducing you to the thousands of Lizs out there with inspiring stories to tell.
Politicians aren’t going to change our country for the better.
Another non-profit won’t do anything.
We learn from the stories of others.
We are inspired by doers, not talkers.
If you’d like to follow us, come over to our new pages.
Thanks, Liz, for making my day and lighting a fire under my butt to get moving.
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