The Survivor: A Magazine For Nerdy Terrorists

So this is our first Corona recorded quarantine episode of Behind the Bastards the Quarantine Bastards, and I figured we should do something a little special for it, y'all. So, oh, I just had my first cup of sip of coffee for the day. That's nice. That's lovely, Robert, Why did you not drink that before you started recording? We have a rule because we're professionals, gotta be fast. Speed is everything. M Now, let's very slowly discuss this old Prepper magazine

from nine. Oh yeah, so yeah, I was given this mailed this by a fan, and I don't think they sent it weeks ago. So this was just a coincidence that it timed out well with the coronavirus. But it's called The Survivor by Kurt Saxon. Now Kurt's Saxon was a a fringe survivalist lunatic who uh wrote a book called The poor Man's James Bond and a number of other guides to making improvised weapons and uh and stuff like that. He's one of those Here's how to kill

people with objects around you type dudes, a fake James Bond? Excellent. It's more like, here's how to booby trap everything that you own and kill people if you had so. It's more like a bad mgeiver. Yeah, here's how to be like a drunk, lonely mcgeiver in the woods. So like a like a light terrorist. Yes, it seems like what we're talking about here. We got a lot of time on our hands. I don't know if this is a responsible thing to put out in the world, but we are so. I want you to look at I want

you to look at the beautiful copy of this. It is about it's enormous. It's about twice the size of a normal piece of paper. The book is it's handbound. Whoever made this clearly did it and like their garage and the front has a gorgeous an illustration that I can only describe as unhinged. It really is very lovingly made. Yeah, yeah, it's like a it's like a very it's a warped fairy tale. It's a fat zine. Yeah, like Katie's description,

made with love. It is definitely made with love. It it shows a man who looks like a young who's the guy from Greece? Greece guy Tommy, Tommy TRIVOLDI he looks like young John Travolta, got the hairy chest. I'm a phenomenon. He's hate he's clearly forging something, and he's forging something. What I love about this picture is that he's like clearly working on an active hot forge, right next to his daughter who's immediately left of the forge, playing with a doll spark. It's great, and he could

do that and be a good parent. He can, of course he can. They live in some sort of home built house. There's what I have to assume is a bomb making chemistry set, either that or meth amphetamine in the in the right hand corner. And then his very quiet perspective warped wife standing in the background operating some sort of rudimentary lathe. Yeah, she's got her apron on. I think you're damn getting her face burned off. I have a feeling Kurt Saxon does not like it when

women don't wear aprons. M I understand where you get that feeling from. Well, he's not going to shell out for her to buy another dress if she ruins it being stupid. Here's the thing about prepping, um, because I I do it myself. Unfortunately, you often wind up taking advice from lunatics who are light terrorists because they also know how to do a lot of really useful ship because they've been living alone in the mountains for thirty five years and they picked up some skills. UM. So

I'm interested in the ratio. I'm going to predict right now that this magazine will be a mix of incredibly useful survival tips and absolute madness. And I'm really interested as to what that ratio is going to be, right and how how they relate to each other, because I imagine a lot of the useful things will be like, hey, did you know this, and here's what you do with it? A cross over there, page one has a has ah.

What I would get I guess we would call an editorial. Uh, survival is looking out for number one, and I guess I should read a little bit from that to give you give us an idea of the tenor of this piece. Alarmists all around the country are promising disaster such a super inflation, famine for an invasion, the triumph of communism slash fascism. That classic. You guys remember when the communo fascists were were rolling in that red brown alliance. The

dangers of one thing, nuclear war, etcetera. Unfortunately, it's essentially the same thing, so I don't have too much of an issue with that slash lump them in together. Unfortunately, they may all be right, even though their timing is wrong. Semicolon, we hope not exactly where I would use a semical. But you have only to compare this year's food prices over last year's, this year's rise and crime over last year's. These things affected directly prices going up. Yeah, that's it is.

It is a little bit comforting to read the tone of certain imminent doom in this magazine and then be like, oh, this was fifty years ago, and we kept on limping for Just wait, buddy, just wait, maybe we'll get through this. M hmm. Yeah. There are two main reasons for this, which no political system can help. One is that the age of exploration and development and the Industrial Revolution is over. And the other is that the good crop weather worldwide

is also over maybe for centuries. You guys remember how we weren't able to We can't grow crops anymore. Yeah, the crop weather stopped. I'd almost forgotten with everything that's going on, But yeah, that's part of the problem. We don't have any crops. I mean, we actually do have a major problem with that because the Trump administration is not letting uh Mexican workers in on visas this year. The harvest crops, that's going to be an issue. But oh,

Kurt Saxon, I couldn't have known that. How dare you make this relevant, Robert? How dare you? We're trying to escape here into the world of awful bastards, not remember the bastard reality that we live in. Why don't we escape into hearing what Kurt Saxon has to say about the Age of Exploration and Development. Yes, it began around fift and into around nineteen fifty. From the beginning of that period, the earth was explored, mapped, annex developed, and

exploited with you. So far kurt Its resources, animal, vegetable and mineral were looted with little or no thought for future generations still on board. As national industries grew to take advantage of the impouring bounty from the hinterlands, living standards rows, enabling more people to survive and in turn to reproduce their kind human locusts spread over the earth, born only to exploit, rape, and destroy their own environment.

Have more babies so we can clear more land. Have more babies so we can mind more coal and metals. Have more babies so we can keep the factories running. Have more babies so we can take more territory from the hated enemy. That's right, We've got a built in workforce. The babies, the babies, more babies, babies. As you were reading that, I was like, I hope there's a third half more babies, And you did it, and then there was a fourth one. A lot of babies having suggestions here.

I mean, Robert, I guess it's better than the usual dead baby talk on this. It is. It is, although I think that he would argue that, like Lana del Rey, these babies were born to die. Yeah, I also think we're only on the first page. We are only on the first page, so there's there's more time for dead babies. This this opinion column is continued on page two, but before we get to it, we have a couple of really useful, uh little little guides just on page one.

How to cut bottles with electricity from a nineteen nineteen Popular Mechanics article, how to make a stationary windmill from a nineteen thirteen Popular Mechanics article, And how to irrigate with cans stationary windmill. Yeah, station every windmill so it doesn't move with the wind. It just is like a statue. Uh no, I figured it wasn't that. I think it yeah down the hill. I guess. I don't know why you can specified that a windmill stationary, like my windmill

is not portable. My windmill stays where it is. I say, it runs regardless of the direction of the wind. That's probably what they're saying. Cody. Mills of this kind can be built of larger size in some localities have been used for pumping and cutting a bottle with electricity. You know,

Actually that's so that's that's like a useful thing. For um, if you've got like a bunch of big glass bottles and you need to make cups because the society has collapsed, but you still need a good cup, and you've got extra electricity hanging around. Well, if you know how to make your own windmills. If you're reading The Survivor volume one, I think you're ready for this. I mean, honestly, though they jumped right into the heavy hitters in volume one,

I'm surprised. This isn't even like a remedial guide. Oh boy, there's so many pages there's this is so big. I'm not going to go through the entirety of his column, but I do want to read the section where he starts about arming yourself and escaping society. That seems like that's the most important step, right, I mean, if you're not considering arming yourself and escaping society for the mountains, yeah,

that's right. Everybody is exactly exactly so uh, you may want to get a few acres and live cut off from everyone. This is fine if you're well armed and a professional woodcraft are already. However, this is too great a change for most people. The inexperienced dreamers simply cannot survive alone. Regardless of your choice town, commune, or small farm, you must choose an area about a hundred miles from any major population center. It must also be several miles

off from an major highway. Refugees streaming out of New York or Los Angeles will clog the main highways and strip every home from miles each side of their route, like irresistible plagues of locusts. I'm guessing he's imagining those crowds as being a certain color. You probably have to use much of your imagination. No, no plagues of locusts. I've I've seen the cover of this. Yeah, he does say that he's going to focus on survival without savagery.

So that's good. Okay, Oh Jesus, No matter how much you might think you can steal yourself against pitiful refugees, you must plan to live as far off their perspective roots as possible. Yeah, say, pitiful pitiful refugees. So next we have, uh, we have a guide to making a mouse trap, a guide to make popcorn cakes. So that's nice. How to make a house both dang right? Wait, how to make a houseboat? How to make a houseboat? Let's get into that. This is a short This is a

very short guy to make. So it's he's he's taken a lot of different guides from popular mechanics, and this is about a page for paragraphs on the houseboats. I didn't realize it was that simple in a very small time. Why aren't we all making houseboats? There's so much coast to California. You guys could be living in houseboats right now, free rent. We are dropping the ball. And if you make that stationary water wheel thing, then you'll have power exactly.

We don't have to oh this, we're gonna live like very very dangerous kings. Well, and I have to say, you know what's better for uh your what's a better value for the funders of some more news than living in homemade house boats and generating your own power with a wheel. Honestly, I couldn't think of a second thing. I'm sure the next page will provide some more for us. But what was that game? It's like, what page are

we on? We three? Oh my god, my god. Right next to how to make a house boat medicines like Granddad used to make, which is an advertisement for another two page book by Kurt sex. Oh my smart. Yeah, I mean, you know, you want to make the sign of medicines that your grandpa used to make. Oh my god, So it's ten dollars ninety six. Ten dollars. Kurt's charging

you quite a bit for granddad. Ye self published to like, but like, if you're you're learning really valuable into I could shell out some bucks to learn how to make a houseboat. I know that's different. You don't have to. You've got the free four paragraph guide right here, Katie. Um, can we talk about this entry that says a homemade blow blowtorch? Oh? Absolutely, Wait where is that it's from? It's from Popular Mechanics. N wow, popular mechanic is really

it requires no air and no pump. You have a blowtorch. I don't know how you blow without air or a pump, but I guess there's a way. Well yeah, I mean, instead of forcing a small stream of gasoline into a heated burner, it converts the gasoline into gas in the chamber and blows a small jet of it through a very small hole in the the combustion chamber. There we go. Just it's just that simple, Thank you, And this is why we're all looking for things to do while quarantined.

Make your own blow torch, following the guide this dangerously unhinged individual self published in his garage in nineteen seventy six. And maybe do not follow that advice we just gave you. Follow all of it, every piece of get out of here. I do want to read a paragraph from medicines granddad used to make, because it's made me aware of something. So this is not This is not medicines that Kurt

Saxon's granddad used to make. Uh. He included all of the medical preparations from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes eighteen seventy two and the complete text of the Medical Students Manual of Chemistry from eighteen eighty nine. So he's just taking old books and republishing them with a little bit of work and then selling them for a huge amount of money. Yeah, just like he got a

bunch of popular mechanics. I mean there's an element of that that's cool, because like there's a bunch of ship in here from like the eighteen hundreds that it's just like guides to life that that random people on the frontier figured out. But also like, Kurt, you're not coming up with this stuff. He's a he's a news aggregating website. Basically, Yeah, I do want to see. Yeah, he's BuzzFeed. He's like

prepper BuzzFeed from the seventies. The sections from Dicks cover such medical preparations as bitters, aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, f factitious mineral waters, facious of those work, Sophie, would you look up factitious mineral waters to see if that's a thing or if this is nonsense? Old people medicine, they maybe they used to refer to mineral waters as factitious because people used to think they were fake. I don't know.

This all sounds like stuff. Grandpa Simpson would prescribe fluid extracts, medicinal lessences, medicated syrups, oxymel elixirs, medicated waters, medicinal solutions, lotions, liniments, pills, ointments, salves, serrates, poultice is, plasters, garbls, caustics, rubefacians, Balsom's tonics, and a diet. It's diaphyretics, diuretics, electuaries, fomentations. I'll turn it. What are these things? I'm gonna be honest if you're trying to sell me medicine. You lost me at a lix, sir,

I'm not gonna buy your stuff. So update, there's really nothing except I found one thing that's titled Drugs and Our Drinking Water, and I don't think it's related. So I think this person just made up a thing awesome or time ago. So next page, how to make make up a candy floss outfit. What's the candy flaws outfit? You know, it's how to make floss, it's how to it's a it's how to make a not candy like a costume. No, we would call it. Um. What's that

ship they sell at the carnivals. It's the cotton candy, cotton candy. How to make a cotton candy machine. That's neat, I would go, yeah, I love. It's like an outfit. I love. I love their old old terminology for that. Yeah, yeah, definitely it was an outfit. Yeah. So on that page we have had to make up a candy floss outfit catching insects with a vacuum cleaner and homemade blowtorch. And then right next I don't really I don't think that we need a big long description of how to catch

a bug with a vacuum cleaner. No, that actually seems pretty simple. Yeah, that's straight title. The title is the explanation. You know what I think he's filling. You know what's amazing he gives us. He dedicates exactly as much paide space to making a houseboat as he does to catching insects with a vacuum cleaner. Well, now we know both.

And then on the same page another ad for another Kurt Saxon book keeping score on our modern profits, psychic researcher and Bible expert levels on people who give the occult world a bad name? Do you think that he's publishing books just to promote his other books? I think so. I think that this is all he's got his whole media network. Like, this guy is kind of like a low tech Alex Jones who has like his own But

actually some of this is really useful, um right? Yeah, Like I imagine I might wind up digging this up to find out how to make a homemade blowtorch if things get a lot worse. I knew you were going to say blowtour techny. Hey, Robert, what else is really useful? The products and services that support this podcast yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they do. All right. We're going to go to products right after we get back. We're going to talk about how to keep score on our modern profits. So I

think we should all be excited about this. I'm stuck always and we're bad. We're back. We're talking about living in the mountains and forming a militia. Um, a militia in which we would all be colonels um. Everyone is a colonel in in my militia. So can I give a quick anecdote? Absolutely. I'd never said the word colonel out loud until I started auditioning for projects and I was reading something and I had to say the word colonel. But I just read it and said colonel. And that's

my anecdote. I immediately knew my mistake. You can cut this out. It's done. No no, no, no, no, no no, we're all saying. Kurt Saxon has shared his emotional vulnerabilities with us. We should share ours with the listeners. Thanks guys, thanks for receiving me, Thank you for sharing, Thank you for opening up, Thank you for sharing. I missstook a wrench for channel locks once several years ago, and I very silly and all of the people who knew what they were doing with tools around me made a lot

of fun of me. So everybody makes dumb mistakes. I'm so sorry that you experienced that, Robert. I'm so sorry. I feel like, yeah, they were all woodsmen and I wanted to be cool around them, But then I didn't know what channelocks were because I was a fool, And I'm so sorry. I still don't know what. I only have a vague idea, to be honest, Cody, do you want to say share a shameful and vulnerable moment? Or should we read about what Kurt Saxon has to say

on modern profits. I've never been embarrassed once in my entire life. That makes sense, That actually makes complete sense. Modern profits promoted by trashy tabloids claimed to know the future. Aside from predicting natural disasters, they are very heavy on sweetness and light. Everything is going to turn out all right, God tells them. So too many people believe frauds like Gene Dixon. They don't prepare for rough times ahead because

Jean says great things are in store for humanity. The fact that these things seldom come off as prophesized is forgotten as new prophecies come out. The author is the only one to collect and record four years of prophecies and the most popular of the most popular modern prophets, with their miserable scores, it is amazing that any of them stay in the limelight. If you were hooked on the modern prophets and there's someone who is, you owe it to yourself to read this. But oh, I think

he's actually like busting, like talking about what liars psychics are. Yeah, he really hates this Genie Dixon woman, And yeah, there we go. I don't know. I went to one psychic that told me in a past life I've saved a lot of Jewish people during the Holocaust, and I tend to believe that that's true. That is a nice thing to believe. I feel like, can I share one other psychic story that might uh convince you this is the time? Do you think it? So? My good friend Nellie, who

loves Hawai, goes every year. Okay, in her adult life, she has seen six different psychics who have all said that she used to be the ruler of a South Pacific island. Oh that's cool. Do what you will with that. That is a creepy coincidence. Either that or a lot of different psychics in Hawaii tell tourists to come in that they used to rule a South Pacific island. Well, she didn't go to all of her psychics were in Hawaii. She lives. And I'm also going to throw it out

there that most people like Hawaii. Yeah, I'm not saying wrong, Well, but most people don't go every year of the I do wanna. While we're talking about California, I feel like I should note that the the address for Kurt Saxon's business is in Eureka, California, which I used to live next to, and nothing has ever made more sense to me in my entire life. That does make a lot. God, wait, have we done the fun thing where we just search

words yet? Can we do that with the digital I kind of want to know who Gene Dixon is, But no, I don't think we can search words since that's a scan will include the link. You can read this all online. It's in a pdf. Uh oh god uh Touring in the Auto the land Cruiser. It's a guide to building your own RV and it is much longer than the guy to building a houseboat, which I feel like does it. Oh no, there's a little guy to making a barrel boat too. That's goods. Wait, Robert, go to page thirty two.

Go to page thirty two. Oh but the poor Man's James Bond is on the next page. Okay, do that first. Do that first. Take a look. Take a look at the illustration for the cover of The poor Man's James Bond, and I E. Cody, I'm gonna need you to describe that for me. Is what makes him poor? The fact

that he's got eyeglasses on. Yeah, I don't know. So. The picture of the cover of The poor Man's James Bond features like a dude who looks like a nerdy engineer with big coke bottle glasses and like almost a like a like a very nerdy seventies combed part uh. And he's sitting with a shotgun that is easily two ft taller than him um and appears to have some

like a home built for grip on it. And then there's a beautiful young woman sitting in his lap with a beer, and he has an entire handle of whiskey and is surrounded by piles of shotgun shells and explosives. I'm gonna read. I'm gonna read the text. The poor Man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in the field of books on improvised weaponry and do it yourself mayhem. It gives full and simple instructions for making tear gas, explosives, firearms, silence.

There's poisons, zip guns, grenades, knockout drops, flamethrowers, in a wide variety of weapons. It also tells you how to buy most of the needed chemicals from your grocery and garden store. Includes fireworks and explosives like granddad used to make. He really likes his granddad seems like a like like a trooper. Yeah. This book has hundreds of formulas and processes for making fireworks, blasting compounds, gunpowder, nitro gun, cotton, etcetera.

The material was gleaned from formularies written from eighteen seventy two to nineteen oh seven, plus George W. Weingart's classic on fireworks Pyro Technique. This is the simplest and most comprehensive book on actually making fireworks. It is heavily illustrated and how to make roman candles, shellcases, fuses, colored fires, explosives, powders, rockets, mortars, firecrackers, torpedoes, etcetera, plus the complete texts of explosives, matches and fireworks from

Joseph Riley nineteen thirty eight. So it's yeah, it's it's more coalating all these old guides to just like help people make tear gas and grenades. Thank you, Kurt, could you really quickly the very first sentence of that again, the poor Man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in the field of books on there we go. Okay, I really wish it was like book like books. I wish

it was books on improv. And there was just I thought, just like a page on like yes ending and stuff, and like we all thought, Dell Close is the is the Grandfather Been? But no, no, no, no, it's the poor Man's James Bond. This is this is like a whole book on how to do an improv version of James Bond at U c B basically not a popular tone.

And I have my gun the truth, A guide to making a thresher, a guide to making a handmade drive press, and then how to raise cucumber on a trellis, yeah, how to make I mean he's covering all the bases I don't see the problem. Maybe cucumber is part of the tear gass recipe. I don't know. This is interesting.

There's a guidance on the next page, and how to make alkaline water drinkable because in the past they knew that alkaline water was a bad thing to drink and you needed to to filter it right, and now we just sell it for forty dollar aga cancer. Yeah, that's cool, all right, Sophie. What was the page you wanted me on? So it's probably not going to be the same page, So just look for how to make see through mirrors. Yeah. I think it's past the enterprise. M hmm, okay, so

past the poor Man's Armorer. How to make a basic crossbow plus aero sling, how to make an arrow catapult a simple but lethal toy, and and improving the eleven shot shotgun. Yeah, I think it goes up to twelve. Yes, Katie, it's simple. It's clearly a child using the arrow thrower that is a simple but lethal toy. The Coming the coming age of steam your basic steam engine. God, there's so much in here, black powder, how to make boomerangs? Right?

Could I turn my houseboat into a steam engine? Is there an entry about the question is can you afford not to turn your houseboat into a steam engine. I don't know that I can't not in times like where do I get a train tracks? You probably make it? Yeah, he teaches He teaches us how to make imitation gold and silver. It's like a page and a half on it. What were you looking at? Oh yeah, that's what we're about to say, Cody, Um, I was going past the the past or the future is our past with a

big picture of the U. S. S. Enterprise. Oh my god, we're at the front page thirteen for me. You'll it's got the Enterprise on it. You can't miss it. I'm way past that. It is before how to make imitation gold and Silver. Yeah. I haven't run into that one yet. Maybe our books are different, but maybe maybe have a specially Oh here we go, Oh no, here it is.

It's right. It's the page before burglar Proofing your Home, the poor Man's Way, and Simple Protection against Mugger's We're gonna have to come back to that because I'm gonna guess it's murdering. Oh my god. Our future lies in the past. Yeah, yeah, okay, barring a nuclear war, with the soon to be starving Russians. America's irreversible collapse should be apparent to anyone by nineteen eighty. By then it will be too late for city dwellers to go back

to the land. All they will find is will be armies, will be armed survivors, treating them like improvident, ignorant refugees. They will be you, guys, remember when that happened, and I'm thinking about it now. You were reading it and it painted a picture of a memory Jesus Christ. The world cities will perish, but there need not be another dark ages. Instead, we can go from our survival homesteads onto the stars. It's just that easy. You build a

good enough steve and you can get displaced. I imagine it like by volume gonna have how to build a spaceship at some point in here, right, because otherwise he's definitely skipping a few steps. We might learn that we better fake gold. We better, guys. There is a letter's suggestion, and the first sentence lets me know it's gonna be special. Dear Mr Saxon, congratulations on issue one. I got my copy yesterday as soon as I rob a whino of six bucks I'll send you the money for a year subscription.

If they ever banned books, If they ever banned books, which they eventually will do, yours will be the first. That's something to be proud of. Seems free enterprise is a dangerous thing. It's available for free. We're reading there right now. It says Rob a whin o like that's printed. Yeah, it says Rob oh win. Oh yes, take them take six dollars from a whin Oh. Yeah. I mean though, I'm not going to shame you for your wine. No, we're all drunk today. Yeah. Wait, so the person wrote

a letter about publications they got. Yeah, I'm guessing this is another edition of it. Yeah, I'm going to guess. That's why. The only complaint I have is of the poor Man's James Bond. You didn't have a section on establishing a new identity. A few paragraphs would have done. This is the popular rage. Visit a graveyard, take along a pencil and paper. You won't need any flowers because you're not going to pay respects to the dead, but a wreath will be provided good cover as you move

from grave to grave. The best identity is of a kid born about the same time as you, but died about a year later. The younger the better, because there will only be two records, the birth and of death copied down about three names recording date of birth and of complete name and the name of parents have listed. Then go down to the local courthouse and ask for a copy of the birth and death certificates of the deceased. The birth certificate will enable you to get a Social

Security car, driver's license, etcetera. The death certificate gives cause of death and related items. A new identification is a necessary survival object since it gives a person the benefit of two people. Finally, you can get a po box for receiving through the mail certain things which you wouldn't want to deliver to the front porch. Well. Um, so I was looking through volume two to see if that advice was heated, and he was like, okay, and volume two,

I'll do a whole section on stealing an identity. But they seem to have laid it out pretty well. Um. Also, the more you say, how we're gonna skip another dark age and go straight from our homesteads to the stars. In volume two there's a several page spread uh titled Preview of Life incoming dark age. So he gave up that dream pretty quickly. I mean, thank god he's got

that information. I'd like to imagine he spent all of his time learning how to reading old popular science and learning how to make blowtorches, and he just knew nothing about space and assumed it was like traveling to the town over. Then he read a book and was like, oh no, I thought he said to build a really tall ladder. Oh this is so much harder than building a houseboat. This is going to take at least paragraphs. I don't have that kind of time to take a

few more volumes. Buddy, oh Man, h good, good, Christ in Heaven. This book is amazing. Um yeah, I want to find there is a review of the movie Taxi Driver in here there ish wait, come out. I found Sophie's I found Sophie's things first, Well, well we will find the Taxi Driver review. How to make I think, what year did this come out? Again? Okay, much later than I thought. How to make C through Mirrors. The FBI used the C through mirror in the House on Street.

I guess that's a movie. Most guys who learned to make these mirrors claim they want them for surveillance of America's enemies like the FBI and CIA. When you learn to make such a spy mirror, you will probably run right out and buy a motel and a roll of film. I don't care what kind of sicky you are, as long as you send me some of the prints a window, right, Yeah, that was really worth the way. Yeah yeah, And he's he's just joking about how you should use it to

take pictures of people in their hotels. I think this Kurt Saxon is a good dude. I think he's a really good dude. Canceled hashtag canceled. This survivalist from the nineteen seventies who is certainly dead from inhaling his own feels still out there. Man, he's still surviving. He's in space mine now right, Oh my god. Okay, so Sophie is telling me that it is time for another ad break. And after that ad break, we're going to start talking about what Kurt Saxon thought of the movie Taxi I

What an easy thing to guess. Yes, I love shooting sets. Like we're back and we are still talking Kurt Saxon. Now we're gonna get to that Taxi Driver review. But while I was I was running towards it, I found, in addition to some guides on making your own ammunition, which I am going to bookmark. Uh A, what I think is another op ed by Kurt Saxon. This is a long magazine, so he has a few extra and there's a little cute little picture of a newsboy extra.

Kurt Saxon warns when politicians banned guns, bombers will ban politicians. Okay, I feel like this might double as his review of taxi driver. Ah, it's so timely. It's timely. Though many of your number, and possibly dear politician, I should say, is how it starts. Many of your number, impossibly yourself, have been raising alarms against the private ownership of handguns propagandist site pitiful example such as the four year old boy who shoot him elf and the six year old

who shoots his sister. Actually a man who lets his children get it his guns deserves to have his line die out. Jesus Christ, Urt, that's not the take to Oh, here we go. And then there are the minorities brawling their way through the ghettos and barrios on a Saturday night, shooting each other in quarrels over their females and dope, Okay, there we go, he said, female female America, that are the Republicans want to bring us back to Well, you

can talk like this, I think it is. You know, Katie, it's interesting that you say that because I have my questions about Kurt, and I wonder if because there's this there's this chunk of the right, like the what I will call the dangerous right um who like went all in for Trump because like it was really has all

was all about racism. And then there's the chunk who are like fundamentally anti authoritarian and even though they are super racist often although not always were Like, no, Trump is bad because he's an authoritarian and I hate the government, Like you don't understand, I don't care if he's like hates the people I hate. I hate the government most and I kind of think Kurt Saxon would be in that.

I hate the government more than anything else. But I really don't seems to have some racism, sexism, Oh, tons of it, tons of it. Yeah, what's a matter of Yeah, which one sort of wins out? Yeah, He's one where I'm like, I don't know if he would have ever supported a presidential candidate. But maybe yeah, if any if anyone, it would be Trump, of all people, if anyone, it would be Trump. Yeah. Yeah, Okay, that's about all that I think we need to read. Oh wait, no, he

talks about Sarahan. Sarahan. We gotta talk about that. Yeah. It may be the real So still like threatening politicians, it may be a real belief among those of you who are most sheltered that guns can be banned and that lying then lying politicians won't be shot by disappointed constituents.

Not so, and worse than not so. First, guns can be banned by law, but then private illicit gun factories will flourish, and worse than guns there are their alternatives will make any public appearance by a liberal politico a great show for a TV audience as he and anyone else on the platform is blown to bits by a casually thrown bomb. Bombs are easy to make, their components

are cheap and easier to get than our guns. Moreover, the chances for escape by the bomber due to the panic and confusion, are much greater than hetty used a gun. Make guns hard to get to any degree, and the dissident will choose bombs and even be glad you helped him make that choice. If Sirrahn had thrown an easily made, black padded bomb at Bobby Kennedy, he would be partying with his accomplice. Now. If Brimmer had thrown a bomb at Wallace, he too would probably be free, and Wallace

would now be edging toward the presidency. Books on bomb making and improvised weaponries such as My Own poor Man James Bond are sold all over the country and numbers directly proportionate to the growing threat of gun confiscation. In fact, all books on grilla warfare and military science are gaining interest. So he's just he's he's literally saying, if you pass gun control, I people will kill you with bombs and I Am going to provide them with the guides to

do it. And the fact that it's like a terrorist thread, it's it's it does a little bit right. Yeah. Yeah, we really got into the terrorism part of this, uh little publication. We sure did. Right after how We're going to get to the stars by home from um I really quickly. I have to have to read this. Uh so you mentioned improving the eleventh shot shotgun earlier. Yeah, I do want to know how you would improve the eleventh shot? That seems perfect. What's better than a left eleven?

I don't know. I'm sure I'll tell us. But I think that the very first sentence of this uh section is a perfect microcosm of this entire, entire thing, and so improving the eleven shot shotgun. They all laughed when I demonstrated my notorious eleven shot shotgun, and then it goes on. They all laughed at my homemade shot. But then I had a shotgun, and then he explains how to improve it. And I'm sure it's some good advice, but I I bet he knows how to improve a shotgun.

So it's about sweat proof. Oh okay, because you're gonna be shooting so many people, right, You're gonna get sweaty. That makes sense. That makes sense. I like practicality. So Atlan Atlin is his his publishing company, Atlans first and maybe last movie review taxi Driver. In my third issue, James Allen asked for a description of the device the taxi driver used to snap the gun out of his sleeve and onto his hand. I watched the making of

his device carefully and I'm still uncertain how he did it. Anyway, he had an arrangement built of odds and ends, and it had a track away down his arm on which the gun carriage was on rollers. When he snapped his arm to the firing position, the carriage would rattle considerably in the gun would slide into his hands. It was noisy, and it reminded of putting a cointed a coke machine and waiting for it to finally finish its grumbling and

shoot the bottle out. Any police officer I know is faster on the draw, and I think such a device would only give the wear a false sense of security. Travis the taxi driver is an x marine in Vietnam vette. He can't sleep, and whether he is haunted by war memories or intestinal parasites picked up in New York or Vietnam is not made clear. Anyway, Travis supplies for night

taxi duty in New York City. So the first third of this review is just him arguing with like a specific point of like a gun delivery device that uh, Travis Bickle put like builds for himself. So that's interesting. I don't know if he knows how to write reviews. No, he doesn't. It gets into it here a little bit. Travis develops a protective interest in Iris, a twelve and

a half year old hookier played by Jodie Foster. She's hardly a turn on, since anyone would identify with her her role as the cute little connut is playing alongside Christopher Connolly in the TV series Paper. She's not hot because of her role in a TV series, not because she's still in a half I like, I like how he uh is saying he takes on the role of protector. Uh.

That's one way to describe that anyway in text. Oh buddy, I I love Yeah, all of these and it's the same thing with like um, like I'm have a degree of interest in like some of the three D printing gun stuff, but like the the the organization that started really doing it, Defense Distributed. It was like headed by this capitalist um, anarcho capitalist, I think is how he

identified dude Cody Wilson, who turned out to be a pedophile. UM. Like all of these like friend people turn out to be like all the Adam Offan guy, one of the big Adam Offant guys they just arrested. UM. The like it. It came out weeks after the arrest that like, oh yeah,

and they found child porn on his computer. Also, like, these guys are always plicking pedophiles, and that's how a pedophile, like no one else is, Like Jodie Foster is not hot in this movie when she's twelve, Like no one else thinks of that, does Kurt and the guy who shot Reagan, except for he had the opposite conclusion. We don't make enough of that that the guy who shot Reagan was trying to impress a teenager. We really don't. We really don't. Anyway, we certainly can if you want.

The upshot of the movie is that Travis raids the house Iris works in and kills everyone but her while stage hands stand off camera slashing buckets of orange paint on everyone. Travis survives and gets his name in the papers as a hero. Iris goes back to school in Pittsburgh. Don't be upset, I've told you the plot. If you've seen the movie, you'll thank me for showing you that it had a plot in the first place. The message I got from taxi drivers that most New Yorkers are

not fit to survive. Travis shows that casually Gunning Down Travis shows that casually gunning down New Yorkers is a public service, good target practice, and has its rewards. It's a kind of recruiting film for vigilantes, but it probably won't inspire much zeal And good folks to go there and help the peace Corps. Fever has largely died out in our land. Go see it, but leave the old folks at home. Kurt, Baby, you got the movie all wrong. I think he missed some point. I want him to

write reviews for every movie that's ever been made. Yeah, I want his review of like the English Patient, The Man with the Man who Went Up and Dylan came down a mountain. Yeah, it's just gonna be like four paragraphs of him complaining that there are no twelve and a half year olds and the ones there are are don't enough. Kurt Saxon apprecia, where's the buckets of blood? Yeah? Really makes me wonder about what kind of patient are we talking about here? Now? Yes, yes, it does, Cody

uh now. And of course, now there's yet another column by Kurt Saxon, and this one actually does strike home as a result of the the current situation we're in. You can't change the channel. A while back, I saw a funny and tragic cartoon in a magazine and showed a car pulled over to the side of the road. A harried and exhausted mother was inside, flanked by some miserable children who plainly didn't like the situation at all. The father was outside, trying to pump up a flat tire.

Well hard at work to save their vacation. The father was saying, but kids, this is real, this is life. We can't change the channel. The cartoons showed the absurdity of the children's confusion between reality and TV. I got a charge out of it because it paralleled the American adults confusion between real world conditions and here entertainment. So he's talking about how like, yeah, I don't know, that's something that like I've heard people express variations of on

Twitter as a result of this whole situation. It's like it's a bad movie that you can't turn off. Like we put on some sort of low rent Netflix contagion series and uh, it just keeps auto playing. Yeah, the surreality that we're in. I can Yeah, the remote control is broken and it's right next to and of course it's right next to a guide on how to make the super still, she includes this which includes this paragraph for the real poop on alcohol for its own sake,

for the real, for the real one. What we read that? Such, it's one more time for the real poop on alcohol for its own sake. Get Granddad's wonderful Book of Chemistry Alcohol. Metree starts on page one nine. Oh my god, so want to get something else? You don't want the real poop on alcohol. He's trying to keep it light, to have words like ship in them. No, I mean the real. That was a term people did use back then, for

like scoop. Yeah, okay, the scoop use scoop, but people did not use How did poop become synonymous with scoop back then? I don't know. It was like an old timey thing. I remember of Bloom County cartoons from around this same period of time using that phrase. I don't know. All right, bloom County is a great combat Oh, here we go. There's yet another book about how to make your own alcohol, which I get now that we're all in quarantine. Bar drinks and booze like Granddad used to

make by cut Saxon eight dollars. If you're tired, if you're tired of paying a dollar for a nickels worth of booze, you want to make your own. Anyone can do it, and millions do. Once you learn to make it for yourself, you can make it to sell. Most commers know you cannot, Kurt, you absolutely cannot legally do that. Is that his bootlegging. I don't think that's a concern. I don't think that's a concern of his either. Cody, Oh my god, he's got a guide to making champagne.

It's not champagne unless it's just sparkling wine if you're not making in the Champagne region France. Kurt Saxon, Okay, he's got this guy disarming the letter bomb. He teaches you how to disarmed letter bombs. I know on the same page. Yes, Granddad's sky to boots. It very makes sense. That makes sense. I'm not gonna laugh at that. At various times of the year, probably during full moons, letter bombers go into their act too cowardly to confront that

you just were making guides to bombs. Kurt Saxon, You don't get to call letter bombers cowardly. I don't want to be defending letter bombers here, Kurt. Let's be fair. He wrote that other article during a full moon. Jesus Christ. As there is status among criminals, there's also status among political fanatics and those who use violence to register protests. Among any prison population, the lowest group includes child molesters and all those who use helpless children to work out

their pathetic fantasies. The letter bomber has the same status. You can't get any lower. In fact, I see a similarity. I wouldn't say that all child molesters are letter bombers, but all letter bombers would have the same degree of social inadequacy. Curt, Buddy, Kurt, something going on again. You just told us how to make bombs. You you have repeatedly been telling us how to make bombs. Throughout this

how to make bombs. The parts of this that are not about going to space or taxi driver are about or liquor, are about bomb making. Skipping to space. Yeah, really really wanting to figure out where the uh the space guide comes in this. Oh, this is wholesome. How to lay out a sundial? That's nice? Yeah, that that's potentially useful stake your claim. Some of this stuff deserves to be in a different book. He's just mixing his

branding a lot. Yeah, it's this mix of like, here's useful old timey survivor survival tools, I cold from, you know, our ancestors wisdom, and then here's how to make a bomb homemade liquor and Jodie Foster wasn't hot enough and taxi driver. To Katie's point, it does seem like it's like if we're equating, it's somebody where you find out who they are in real life that has like a very popular social media page and you're like, wait, what yeah,

very like mixed, very mixed content here. Yeah. Yeah, depending on the day, I guess depending on the moon phase. Sure, yeah, okay, yeah, we have a politics and politicians, and I think we're getting this might answer our question as to what Kurt Saxon would have done in two thousand sixteen if he hadn't. I'm just going to guess here killed himself in a distilling accident. I mean it could have been his house.

Pope could have sunk, Yeah, his house pote could have sun his steam engine could have gone off, His steam powered spaceship might not have made it up into the atmosphere. Or maybe he's that guy that died launching himself in his homemade rocket. I'm gonna bet you, I'm gonna bet you. Kurt Saxon was a real big influence on that fella. The liberal is so insecure in his real value that he must reduce the value of all so that he

looks better by comparison. Hence the idealistic social programs that fail, along with the roads that go nowhere, in the damns that break, in the publicly subsidized industries which loot the wage earners. It doesn't really matter if the dummy is ignorant or actually stupid, whether he calls himself a liberal, conservative or a moderate. They are all political pigs, wanting only to get up to the public trough and stay there.

They all plead ignorance in one way or another. They all need the support of the American people, as if that support will somehow put the stamp of validity on their incompetent efforts towards a better life for all. That's why they all say, even if you don't vote for me, vote they know your vote is a vote for their own way of life. It ensures that if they lose this election, they'll still have a goal to shoot for

next time. It's a vote to keep those places at the public trough available for creeps who have nothing to sell but themselves. And since they have nothing to sell but themselves, the accent is on personality and agreeableness. They parade out there and usually pretty wives and homely children, and read speeches written by others. Most such speeches are written by Madison Avenue types, whose work sound like commercials written for kitty shows. Vote for Captain Monster, more sugar

to the spoonful. Okay, the first sentence really really like, yeah, yeah. Survivalists don't involve themselves in national politics at all. They don't want to be dependent on either big business or labor unions, the tweedled or tweedled dumb of our political system. They know that, as part of an intelligent minority, that our votes will be canceled several to one by the ignorant. So yeah, I I don't think he would have voted, but you're right. If he was going to vote, Trump

would have been the guy to get him on there. Yeah, I think, yeah, he would have been. I don't think. I don't think he would have voted, but I think

he would have been pretty into the idea. I think the first person he ever voted for would have been Donald Trump, yeah, if at all, Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I also kind of think he might have been the uh you know, the very first things Alex Jones said about Trump's campaign before he got on board was that like Trump was mobbed up and this was all a conspiracy to like, uh infiltrate and take over the liberty movements and and you know, the dissident right, and um,

I think Kurt Saxon might have started like that and stayed on that course. But I really don't know. But what I do know is that we have another letter section, and I found one that is just amazing. This is our bore Lea from California. Dear Kurt, I have made two batches of your acroleine tear gas is described that the poor man's James Bond, and neither has retained its potency. Am I doing something wrong? It's fantastic stuff when it's fresh. Yeah,

but he doesn't. But they don't know because they've never made it right. He's saying he's made it and he has tested it and it's fantastic stuff. Yeah, it just loses a bit of oomph after a little bit. Well, of course, you know, nothing nothing, you know. Look, if you want forever perfect tear gas like I've never heard before, saved it, saved it for this, saved it for the tear gas part. And then yeah, like how do cane chairs? It's just like Ron Swanson plus terrorism, that's actually really

good touchstone for this. Yeah, Ron, if Ron Swanson was a tear Alex Jones, Yeah, like if that show wasn't so tweet, would be like, all right, let's get real. Yeah, let's get real. Run like dies in a shootout with the a t M. Because he's been manufacturing a legal sought off shotguns and giving them to the area and nations giving advice and how to improve his eleven shot shotgun because they all laughed, they all laughed, a very different shot. Yeah, we got boomerangs and how to make them.

Survival ammunition by Clyde Barrow. So that's probably great. Anyone preparing for survival in these uncertain times should be ensured, should be sure that he will have adequate ammunition for any guns he might own. Okay, that's that's that's fair. Uh. I was wanting something crazy to be in here, but this is just a pretty basic guide to reloading am Good for you, Clyde Barrow. I'm sure you won't murder anybody. Uh. Survival ammunition and how to make boomerangs is on the

same page as how to make hayne chairs. It's just as it's incredible. It's such constant whiplash survivalist whiplash. Oh and here's a column called now, Who's Stupid Dad? By Mark Rittenhower. Ever since my feah, you have to say it right, Robert, Now, this is like the subtext of the entire thing. Who Ever. Since I first brought up the subject of survival, my father had scornfully rejected anything I had to say. He was one of those it

can't and won't happen here attitude. He reminded me of the brass in the US High Command prior to Pearl Harbor. December seven. That evening I sat, as I sat reading my latest issue of The Survivor in my room, my younger brother Jeff, who was a carbon copy of the old man, stuck his head through the door. What you're doing? He demanded to get out Himmler. I barked his name, or no, he's calling him behind Rick Hibler, his little brother. He stuck out his tongue at me, don't have to

laying aside the paper. I got up and went for him, turning. He fled for the stairs, closing the door. I locked it and then sat down and resumed reading. Presently, I heard heavy footsteps on the stairs, and my father's voice demanded, are you reading that idiotic paper again? Clubbing cluttering up your mind with that survival rubbish. I didn't reply answer me. He demanded open that door. This instant came a second demand. Again.

I paid no attention, muttering about worthless whelps and other things. He stomped away and went back downstairs. He the runt, and my mother would all agree how impudent, disrespectful and no good I was, and how I ought to be punished Jesus Christ. So this is just like a kid, a small child reading the Survivor. Okay, what actually happens that kid calling his little brother Hmmler and in and doesn't seem like a very healthy family. Oh, the power goes out in their town and he has an a

MFM radio and flashlights uh. And so he's able to find out what's happening. Uh oh, yeap, yep. This goes on for pages and pages. I think we get the idea. Yeah, we sure do. Okay, I'll be a disaster profiteer, also interpreting baby talk. Planning to profit from a disaster will give you an edge over those who simply plan to survive it. Thanks Kurt, that's thank you, Kurt Saxon. How to how to price gouge gunbelievable? Yeah this this he's

a good guy. Oh, here's another letters section. Let's see if we can find another guy who's absolutely committing horrible crimes. I really enjoyed your book The Poor Man James Bond. In your poison section, you should list a different source of nicotine soul Fate Blackly forty has been outlawed for two years thanks to your book. My mother and grandfather mother consider me in need of counseling or psychiatric help.

So far, I have used your hydro cloric slash aluminum smoke bomb in the local walk in movie twice, in the school gym once. I also got detention on the second day of school for igniting some stuff in class. Thanks a lot j L. Missouri. He only got detention. You're welcome, says Kurt. He does. Hey, your book on poison. Some of the stuff in your poison book is illegal. Seed update your poison book. Also, my grandma thinks I'm crazy because I've set off bombs in school. Wow, Kurt special.

This has been very special. And I think we all learned a lot from Kurt Saxon. Um, We've learned about ourselves. We've learned about Kurt, We've learned about taxi driver, We've learned what Kurt Saxon thinks about certain twelve and a half year olds. Um. A lot of information here from Kurt Saxon. Not a lot of good time prizing information. No. No, I wouldn't say accurate information either, not all of it, Not all of it. I mean that houseboat guide looks bulletproof. Yeah.

How to make a monorail slid. How to make a miniature stage amazing. Vote is also a floating tomb. Speaking of floating tombs, do you want to plug your social media? The floating tomb of our society? Very appropriate? Amazing, I'm Katie stole on all the social media's Katie with a why that is um and We've got other shows. We co host a show with Robert called Worst Year Ever. You should check that out if you don't. And we also have our own podcast, even More News. You should

check that out if you don't. Do you want to say the other things? Absolutely? We also have a YouTube show called some More News. And me personally has Twitter dot com and that is Dr Mr Cody with d R and m I S t R and A C O d Y. We speak good on Mike's Good We do good job, guys. We do good English speak on Mike's dot com. Also, before Robert does his plugs, Jamie Loftus says hi to everyone. Hello, Jamie Hi, Jamie Hi, Jamie um. Also, Robert has a new show. It's called

The Women's War. Look out for it. Our trailer launched, uh when this comes out last week. So that's uh, that's out episode one March. It's it's very exciting. It is very exciting. You can follow Robert at I Right Okay on Twitter. You can follow us on Twitter and

Instagram at Bastard's pod. Uh. You can wash your hands, and you can avoid the coronavirus by staying indoors and reading through back issues of The Survivalist and learning how you two can make tear gas that works really well initially but quickly loses its potency and then go to space. That's all we ask. Yeah, if I can't think of anything better to do in quarantine an experiment with making your own tear guests. So get on that. Get on it. It's all available online for free. It has not been

banned as Kurt may have thought it would be. There were definitely legal issues with some of his books that I think contributed to Paladin Press shutting down. But I I will we will do a whole episode on Paladin Press because it's amazing. Es. This is some good stuff. Also, if you're looking for some peaceful content, I post a photo of Anderson every single day on my Twitter. Does why underscores? Opie underscore why not? Uncommonly more than one.

So there are true, many, many, many photos of Anderson. Yea. Sometimes there's like Fizzy, only other living entity in my room. You guys, there's like forty pages on how to make puppets and puppets shows. And we're done. I know we're done. That is what we're on. How it's starting