Cajun Knight Live 15

I guess I don't want to just say Facebook, right, it's the metaverse and all of that has come forward before US representatives to explain how Zuckerberg completely sold us out to the CCP, knowingly, belligerently, all the things alongside that. Apparently the tariff war that's going on. China just blinked and has agreed to come to the negotiation table after Trump hit them with a collective two hundred and forty five percent tariff rate. We're gonna talk about that too. Also,

Chernobyl might be healing itself. Apparently there is a new black fungus that is actually drinking in it's feeding itself off of toxic radiation, and I don't know how this has happened. Nature finds a way, you know, I have my religious beliefs as to how nature finds away. Some people will say that it's science and evolution fixing itself. Either way you want to slice it, that's good shit. We have a lot of good things to discuss on this evening. So as we move on, I'm going to

take a little gander over here at the chat. Royce Sen sends something in here, what is this dead woman turning up in New England? Beach Town's police denial way, whoa, whoa? We got a serial killer in New England eventually, potentially allegedly. Okay, all right, well hey why not. I'm gonna pull that one up too. We'll see what the time looks like if we get to the end of it it. Oh man, oh wow, okay, yeah, this is from people, so yes,

I know it's a tabloid. Me me me, you know, I A if we have a new serial killer on the lose, I think we should discuss it, so, uh, you know, to start, let's go ahead and get in on the Facebook conversation. I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen at this time. And for anybody that is listening to this on Thursday who would like to be a part of this conversation or see what we are talking about, then please come check out the Cajun Night on Patreon. It is the only place, Okay, it's the

only place to see what we're doing here. It's the only place to be able to join in on the conversation. And there's only one tier for injury. Not trying to have no kind of other whole side hustle here. It's just a way to uh get this collective group, all of the same mindset to be a part of this conversation. This is a ten minute long video. I'm not gonna play all of it. I want to play maybe like six minutes of it, but I do want to stop and talk about a few things along the way. So

just off the title here. This is from Forbes Breaking News. Facebook whistleblower makes shot claim about Mark Zuckerberg during senate testimony. Y'all get ready for this one, because Zuckerberg has had this weird character arc, if you will, right under the Biden administration, he was that weird alien dude that was sitting on top of two separate couch cushions when he was testifying, right, and he had like this whole thing where he was drinking water like some sort of animatronic thing.

All of a sudden he starts doing BJJ. He lets his hair grow out a little bit, and then he goes on Rogan like six months ago, and he seems like a normal, almost bro, like an almost normal guy. Then we find out these things about him and it's like, ooh, man, that character arc age like milk. But let's listen in.

a very true statement. And That's why a lot of the people in DC, namely Trump is coming at them in the way that they are, although he's doing it for tariff and trade reasons. The data situation is something that we've talked about it at length as far as why that's so dangerous for them to get American data

in that way. And that's a very good point. For anything of the metaverse to operate inside of China, they have to operate off of Chinese servers that are owned in part by the CCP, and they have to have access to all of that. Those servers can go backwards, right, It's like hacking a system. There's always a backdoor. If you're able to hack in to the servers located in China, then you're able to hack into the entire metaverse through

the servers in China. And apparently Zuckerberg knew about this and said, yeah, run it, but let's continue.

I understand that, right, Fine, giving the credit where it's due, going and having weekly meetings with representatives in China that over of course are of the CCP, and then going to Beijing to have these kinds of formal face to face meetings about all of this, knowing full well the security risks and saying yeah, run it. It's just it's part of this business. Yeah, massive red flag. And again I would personally say, arguably treason is but we're going.

Ten thousand is not a big number as far as the world of content creation goes, right, as far as the world of social media goes, if something got ten thousand hits of any type, it would immediately get viewed by the chief editor again, a representative from the CCP for review to make sure that it wasn't putting anything in a negative light quote unquote, specifically in Hong Kong and Taiwan. And Zuckerberg said, yeah, run that shit, all right, all right, let.

We are not in a position to know exactly how the government would seek to apply its laws and regulations on content were we permitted to offer our service to Chinese users. Ms Williams, was that accurate?

long ago. But yeah, so I know what they're trying to get at here, and they don't expressly say it, but essentially they are getting at the point to where they're saying that China is just going to do that only on Chinese territory. Right, Obviously they're not. They're not gonna do that to any other country. However, they had the ability to because the metaverse is in fact one cohesive metaverse. Yes, I'm sure it differs country to country and region or region, it's only a hack away any

of it's only a hack away. So if they were putting a virility counter on Taiwanese and Kong posts at that time, for the principle of trying to make sure that everything was in line and following in with you know what the CCP deemed to be appropriate. Yeah, that's not that's not positive, y'all. This is not a good thing for anybody, especially not America, and the fact that Zuck lied overtly lied about all of it is a

reason for concern, if nothing else. So once again, I'm not saying fully treason this, but I'm also saying that I trust Zuck even less than I already did. Merlin, I see your hand raise, Please go ahead.

I don't trust him anyway. I didn't trust him before I heard any of these things, especially with China being what they are. I'm gonna let my favorite Taiwanese man speak on this at this moment, Donald Trump, don't trust China. China is ass ho. I fucking love that guy, like I think he's done my actual spirit animal. I wish I knew his name. I wish I can get him on the show. He's just great. Donal Trump, don't trust China. China is ass ho. Yes, I know I'm not mature

enough to have certain conversations this guy. I have a feel I'm gonna be playing more from him in a pit. But anyway, all right, all right, so let's shift off of China for a moment, and then we're gonna talk back about China here in a minute. All right. I did want to shift gears, though, towards this black fungus that might be healing Chernobyl by drinking the radiation. All right, this is this is insane. It's through a process very

similar to photosynthesis, but photo radiation synthesis. But I'm probably butchering how that's pronounced. That's right, Let's read in on this. This is from a Forbes article. The explosion of the Number four reactor in Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant near pre Piat, probably mispronouncing that in Ukraine on April twenty six, nineteen eighty six, remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history.

It left a thirty kilometer exclusion zone, a deserted landscape where high radiation levels remained even now, decades after the incident, where human settlement and habitations are restricted within this zone. However, scientists have discovered an unlikely survivor, a resilient black fungus called yeah, I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that ladin, sorry, y'all. After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observe patches of blackened growths on the walls of the Number four reactor fung guy

that seemed to thrive where radiation was highest. This is actually a picture of it, and it kind of looks like a black sand dollar almost. I'm sure I don't know the actual size of that. I don't know that's like the size of a quarter or the size of like, you know, a doablloon or whatever, but like, yeah, I could kind of see that the fungus has adapted to a level of radiation that would like that would be

lethal for most life forms. Even more fascinating is its ability to feed on this radiation, using it as a source of energy, similar to how plants use sunlight for photosynthesis. Further research discovered that spoor and some other black fungi species like geez, there's so many of these big words, all right, other types of black fung guy species possess melanin, the pigment responsible for human skin color. However, in these fungui,

the melanin serves a different purpose. It absorbed radiation, which was then converted into usable energy, allowing it to grow in areas with intense radioactive exposure. Now, the fungus itself belongs to a group of fung guid known as radiotropic fungui. Radiotropic organisms can capture and utilize ionizing radiation to drive metabolic metabolic processes. In the case of this particular black fung god, its high melanin content allows it to absorb radiation,

similar to how plants absorb sunlight through chlorophyll. According to an October two thousand and eight article published in the National Library of Medicine, while this process is not identical to photosynthesis, it serves as a comparable purpose and converts energy from the environment to sustained growth. This phenomenon, called radiosynthesis, has opened up exciting avenues in biochemistry and radiation research, which I personally just on my own little two cents here,

that is amazing. Literally, nature finds a way to fix itself even when humans do shit to destroy it. It's beautiful, but anyway, melanin, found in many living organisms, acts as a natural shield against UV radiation. However, in this black fung guy, it does more than shield. It facilitates energy

production by converting gamma radiation into chemical energy. An article published in the journal plus one in two thousand and seven confirmed this unusual energy production mechanism, showing that fung gui, like the black fung guy here, grown in high radiation environments tends to grow faster than those in non radioactive conditions. It is a discovery that is reshaping scientists understanding of the survival strategies of extremophiles, organisms that can withstand extreme

environmental conditions. I think also i've heard that term be used. What's that volcanic snail that has like an iron shell and it lives like near the lava. I think they also consider that an extremophile. Anyway, radiotropic fung guy may be an ally in battling radiation. The discovery of this new fung guy in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has brought renewed attention to the radiotropic fung guy, particularly for their potential role in bioremediation, the process of using living organisms

to remove pollutants from the environment. In radioactive sites like Chernobyl, where conventional cleanup methods are challenging and hazardous, radiotropic fung guy can provide a safer, natural alternative, according to an April two thousand and eight article published in Film's Microbiology Letter, Since this fung guy can absorb radiation and use it as fuel, scientists are exploring the feasibility of deploying these fung gui to contain and potentially reduce radiation levels in

contaminated areas Beyond the borders of the exclusion zones. Scientists are investigating other applications, especially in the field of space exploration. Okay, the harsh, radiation heavy environment of space is one of the most significant challenges facing long term missions to Mars and beyond. This fun guy has already been seen, has already been sent rather to the International Space Station for experiments to determine whether its unique radiation tolerance could protect

astronauts from cosmic radiation. Early results have been promising, suggesting that this fung guy could potentially be used to develop radiation resistant habitats or even provide radiation shielding shielded food sources. For space travelers. All right, so I see two hands raised Merlin, go ahead.

virologists went into the site regularly. Their first impressions were like they were talking about that it was really sad, but they could tell that this organism was growing a whole bunch And then through the nineties they went a whole bunch of times and found that over two hundred fungal species are growing at the site, including the jet black fungi with the melanin pigment in it pigment in it. And then that's when they hypothesized, like why is it

there and what is it doing? And they found that its ionizing radiation altered the structure of the melon in molecules in a way that it encouraged this fungi to grow faster than identical samples that were not exposed radiation, and the closer the fungui was to the source of radiation, the more melanin was expressed. In short, the black fung guy were not only growing in spite of the radiation, they were changing and growing because of it.

to grow in. But this is a part of this species that has been found all over the place in harsh climates, and so it looks like it says Additionally, the substantial parts of isolates from stressing environments is represented by microcolonies of fungi and black yeast. So it's a yes and no, Like this is a new it's it's changing how it's the melanin is reacting, so it technically is a new species.

most resilient fungi ever discovered. Its ability to adapt to hostile environments has given researchers hope that it may hold clues to further studies into stress tolerance mechanisms, which could lead to advancements in biotechnology and agriculture. For example, genes responsible for this hardiness and resilience might one day be used to develop radiation resistant materials or be adapted to help crop survive harsh climates. This fungus also hopes to

offers hope in addressing some pressing environmental challenges. It could possibly play a role in cleaning up radioactive waste. Sure as results excuse me as research continues. The lessons we learn from this amazing fun guy could inspire innovation in a wide range of fields and in the process, understanding the boundaries of life itself. Now that I'm gonna try my damnedest to pronounce this clautosporium spharospurmum clatosporium spa of

firnumps yup boy. One day one I would love to learn how to speak Latin and Greek and Hebrew, but like I have a you know, some would argue a horrible working understanding of the American English dialect. But yeah, that it sounds. It sounds just like a mouthful here. But okay, Now, as far as the space stuff goes, sending it to the ISS for UH testing to see how it would do again, solar radiation out in space. Okay,

I hear that that's good things. I don't necessarily know how they plan on using that to yield crops unless they are this would be what would lead to possibly like the terraforming of Mars. Right, if they were to build some sort of a dome structure, and if Elon actually is able to put people on Mars and this whole thing, you would need some sort of plant life that could take solar radiation to that level and feed off of it and protect against in all these things.

I'm not wise enough in the world of agriculture to understand how a fungus that white thrive in that environment could help other plants do the same, unless they're talking about doing some sort of a crazy gene splicing situation, which maybe quite possibly. We keep hearing things about these dire wolves that they brought out, which are not actually

dire wolves, but they keep acting like they are. But if they were able to do some sort of a cross breed or gene splice with the black fungui that can eat radiation and a plant that could thrive and possibly feed humans, Okay, that's say viable option here. I don't know if you've found anything as far as the space side of things go. But that's that is pretty remarkable.

from what I understood, it hadn't been found. But it says the high diversity of black funk Guy has however, been observed in rocky environments in sub arid areas of the Mediterranean, in the Arizona Desert, high Alpine regions, and the Arctic and dry Antarctica valleys, where micro colony species also known as rock inhibiting fungi, colonized exposed rock surfaces, or living associations with.

mushroom that eats nuclear fall out to thrive. I don't think I want that problem. I don't want to know what that other side of the spirituality is with the radiation fungus that I don't know. I guess you'll like see the matrix of how nukes work that. Yeah, Merlin, I see your hand raised brother, Go ahead.

but there are also more part fetched possibilities. Scientists wonder if the process and radiosynthesis performed by the melon in so of the fungu I could be applied to the melonin and human skin cells, making our skin cells able to turn radiation into food.

were doing some sort of yeast with it. If there's so much, I.

what I mean. But oh yeah, and there's nothing but airon opportunities as far as what the scientific advancements can show for this and other treatments and all these things, like you said, like cancer patients, I don't know if they mean they're gonna implant some fungus near a spot that was getting heavy radiation treatment to kill a tumor or if they're talking about making some sort of ingestible uh medication treatment option. But there's a lot of potential for good things here.

a good litmus test. But at the same time, if it was in the vacuum of space and had nothing but solar radiation to eat, like, would it take over the craft? I mean, as of now, the ISS hasn't been taken over. Maybe it's a very controlled environment. I don't know. I don't know. Again, this was this was a wild one to bring up. Thank you Raven for sharing this one with me. Zach I could bring it up on this show. This is a weird thing I found.

That's interesting stuff, y'all. Interesting stuff, all right. So now let's shift over to a little bit of a kaboom that happened in Utah with Northrop Grumman. Now, for anybody who doesn't know who Northrop Grumman is, highly recommend you go and check it out. They make a lot of things that go boom for the United States government. Right, they're one of our big military industrial contractors. And you know, we're gonna listen to the little news article about it,

then we'll read a little bit more about it. It says here, Northern Utah news crews respond to a fire after Utah Northrop Grumman facility explodes.

injuries or accidents to anybody. Now, just to give you a better idea of where we're at, so this is in very rural Box Elder County, about six miles south of Howell, and it's about halfway between the Golden Spike National Monument and Interstate eighty four. So all that's around us is industrial buildings and no homes are really close by. Now, with of course the emergency services on scene, they are

currently managing the situation. Initial reports, as I mentioned, no injuries or fatalities have been reported by the Box Elder County Sheriff's office.

on it. Who knows. It may have been a freak industrial accident, and the fact that it was at a North of Grumming facility is just really bad timing and planning. Like, okay, fine, that being said, we also we need to acknowledge the fact that it very well could have been some sort of new experimental armament that went kaboom when they tried to make it. But let's read it in here. It says a Promontory. Promontory, Utah emergency crews respond to a

rural North Grumman facility in Box Elder County. God, they're very original with these names. After an explosion decimated the building early Wednesday morning, leaving what remains burning in a fire. I will say that I've seen videos of this. There wasn't like a mushroom cloud of any type. There's no as we were just talking about radiation. It's nothing like nuclear. It's nothing of that variety. It was a really big kaboom and it completely destroyed the building. You can see

these pictures, it says. However, with as with all ongoing investigations, details may change. There is no further information available at this time. One family member of a North of Grumman employee spoke with ABC four, saying she received a text right away after a brother in law saying he was safe, even before she heard the news. Another said he reached out to his dad as soon as he saw the smoke. I've seen some smoke and then I sent a text

to my dad because he works out there. But by the time the text went through, I heard the explosion. Local resident Tyler Free said it actually felt like the motor blew up in the truck. I don't exactly know what he's implying on that one, but yeah, he could feel a kaboom. The explosion came after several complaints about the facility were filed with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration aka OSHA aka the bane of my existence

over the past several years. The reports included health violations, accidents, and safety complaints. It is currently unclear what caused the explosion, but the building appears to be a complete loss. In one incident, two employees died after they were found unconscious at the facility in early twenty twenty three. The death was caused by ar gone gas, which officials said suffocated them.

While their deaths were ruled as accidents, OSHA filed thirteen citations related to the incident, finding the company more than one hundred and seventy two thousand dollars. All right, that actually, I'm gonna read that one again because that actually kind of upsets me. So two dudes died, OSHA found and filed thirteen citations related to this incident and only find

them one hundred and seventy two thousand dollars. That's not even like a decent life insurance policy's worth that they find North Grumming one of the biggest weapons manufacturers on Earth. But okay, sure that's worth two deaths. The citations were deemed serious quote unquote in nature and related to respiratory protections and permits required for confined spaces. So, being somebody who has worked in confined spaces before, I will say working under air sucks. There's no two ways about it.

Same time, like, yeah, certain environments you really need to go under air for you need to have ventilation, or you need to get a confined space permit. You need to get the little snow if we're out there, and monitor and make sure what the oxygen level is before you step inside of it. I hate Osha. God, I hate Osha so much, But I will say that safety requirements and safety policies are quite literally written in blood, and there's no two ways about that either. But this explosion,

as of this very moment, no injuries, no fatalities. I don't know the extent of what happened. I don't know the extent of you know, if Osha is even going to weigh in on this one, if this was a freak accident. Was this dealing with some sort of explosive materials, some sort of armament. Nothing is known, but something happened with Northrop Grumman. I felt like it was our duty to kind of talk about it. So moving on, here go ahead, Tony.

was executed. There's a whole Wikipedia article on it. But you can understand why somebody would have an incentive to do that at that time, you know, for the war effort.

hear about it. But if that was true and something, and I know I could already hear the people talking about being that close to the border and how we know that terrorists are already in this country that made their way through the sieve that was our southern border for the last few years. It's very possible this some sort of nefarious actor made their way to this site and caused this explosion. It, yes, it's possible. I can't negate that that is a real potential now, But that's

the thing. If that was the case, the building is a total loss. But it's not like that was north of Grumman's only spot, right, and it's not like it killed a bunch of people. It didn't leave some massive crater in the ground. I see it being very equally possible that this was from some sort of a foreign actor. It could also be something as far as some sort of espionage goes, I get that it could equally be just a freak industrial accident. As of this moment, thankfully,

nobody has been reported as injured or killed. But as the story progresses, I will keep tabs on this and we will talk about it. Hopefully we won't have to talk about it. Hopefully that just is what it is, the freak accent. We never bring it up again, but if more information comes out about it, I'll bring it up on the next Cajun Night Live. Let me see me before we go into the Arctic Circle, and how and why that's becoming more important. Let me check out

the chat here, Roy says Jacob. I told you I'd help teach you Hebrew. Yo, I do want to learn it. I do want to learn it one of these days, specifically so I can learn a lot of the Old Testament and read it in the proper language and like understand the entire meaning of it. It's a part of my book, dude, one of these days, but not to day.

But after I finished learning through that book, I was actually able to understand so much more of the tour itself because also you go through these seven wonderful verb verb categories, which is fun, too active, too passive, and a reflexive. So but if you're if you're a pattern oriented like you said you were, it's it's actually not so bad.

they're very very different. Or is it more akin to like a like a.

Actually they were speaking it in Jordan too, but it brought it way up north and it kind of drove Aramaic to extinction, virtual extinction. And Hebrew was also mostly extinct, but they they've been revived, at least Hebrew has. It's kind of like I guess Gaelic similar story, or even even Latin. It mostly died out. It's actually still dying because the Catholic Church was keeping it alive until the sixties, and now they don't really have an incentive to keep doing that anymore either.

which is like so far to the left. And then and then a short time later you had these guys like, all right, well, you guys are too far right, you guys are too far left. We're gonna try to go to the middle road, which is how the conservatives are basically came into me. But so when it comes to all Orthodox synagogues, they are all parading Hebrew, doesn't matter who can or cannot understand the language. Like if you're coming here, you will either pick up a language or

you will try to follow along. But I think that was enacted to keep the religion as it is, because when you start watering things down, as you know, things just keep getting less and less and less and less and less. So I think they made it because when they came to America, and you know, assimilation was such a big thing. Like my great grandfather who emigrated from Poland, I know he knew Hebrew, he knew Polish, he probably knew Russian Yiddish like, but he didn't pass it down

because they wanted to assimilate with the US. And also during that period of time, it wasn't so great to be Jews. Yeah, but just in order to keep the religion as it is, they the rabbi has basically decided, look, we are not going to take Hebrew out of the synagogues because even one of the things that we're taught is that one of the things that made the Jews specific special in Egypt whenever we were and we were slaves, is that we kept our clothing, style, our names, and

our language. So those are the three big things that we used to keep so having our own specific language at least as far as prayer has always been a huge Oh.

few times. How on an anthropological standpoint, religion and language are kind of hand in hand as far as what gives a civilization their cultural identity. Now, I know there's nuances to that, tons of it based off of where they live on the earth and all these things, but you can't separate a culture from their language necessarily unless you're trying to dissolve the entire culture.

It seems like the religious, depending on which group they have specific words that gets translated, but they also end up having slang terms depending on which section they're in and which little cultural group that they vibe with.

We can guesstimate, right, but through certain writings we can at least see how the language like traversed time and changed over time, but as far as how it actually sounded and speaking it with the proper accents and the proper inflections and stuff, one hundred percent agreed. The only that I know of anyway, and there may very possibly

be a few outliers on this one. The only language that I can think of that might stand out as being truly passed down orally that long would be Hebrew, because they've been able to keep it through everything that they went through for religious reasons, and it was passed

down orally person to person a person. The only other ones that I could think that might possibly get away with that kind of statement would be like uncontacted tribes in the Amazon or something like that, But then they're also out of the conversation because we don't actually know their language anyway, But yeah, one hundred percent. And I also go ahead, Royce.

it originally sounded? I would say there is a ninety nine percent chance. So it also just a phrase I know in Ara makers like what's the like the nav camina or the havamina? So enough, Gamena is like what's the practical application of something? As opposed to manischma, which is Hebrew for like what's up? So just the difference in how languages are.

translation and correct pronunciation. But still there's outliers, you know, culture to culture, Like I don't know for a fact that the using Hebrew as an example, I don't know for a fact that the Polish dudes in a synagogue are speaking it in the exact perfect way that the dudes in Jerusalem are that the dudes in New York City are, Like I can, I can assume this, but I'm sure that there is some sort of a difference in some way shape or as far as like.

do anything either way, but just so just to know the difference between how Hebrew sounds as opposed to Aramaic. So there's a phrase, don't ask for me to translate it, I just know how to how to speak it that he's So that's an example of Aramaic as opposed to zahor about lid show so difference. So there's a clear difference in how for for sure, sometimes it's like such a crazy tongue twister.

on how they perceive and listen and speak.

the past few hundred years. Four reasons. Not saying that's a good thing, either of these reasons, but there's reasons, right, So just found out that, all right, So when we talk about New York area, the Iroquois nation, then you go just below that and you're talking about like the Cherokee linguistic family. Below that the uh I think it

might be Muskogee language nation, and then the Seminole nation. Okay, these four linguistic groups all come from completely unrelated families, right, So to give everybody a context of how crazy that is, this would be Spain, Italy, Greece, and Portugal all speaking languages that come from completely different linguistic families. Like we think of that and we hear, all, yeah, they all have their different languages, but they're all basically Romance languages

with the exception of Greek. I get that. But to say that all of the these Native American tribes who were neighboring to each other couldn't understand each other. And this is just per the current study goes, because they came from completely separate areas of the world, and then out of nowhere you had this little section in Louisiana that had no connection to anything other than just themselves linguistically,

and they were like isolated that in that language. It is crazy to watch how languages traverse and to see the linguistic families and how that goes into different cultures. And I mean, I'm happy that the Native American talking point is getting more credibility these days and getting looked at for the for the historical precedents that they are.

But see, that's another one too. We know this now based off of like written sources, and we could kind of tell based off of some linguistic things, but how many of those languages were snuffed out with the trail of tears, right, and with the westward expansion and all

these things. It's there's assumptions that could be made to say that the true Choctaw language and the true Navajo language like the one the wind talkers were using, right, that we can assume that that is the true language that was being spoken by these tribes a thousand years ago. But the same thing happens, right, game of telephone and the westward expansion and the trying to snuff out all cultural relevance of each of these tribes. How can we

really know that for sure? But again, I'm happy that experts and historians and anthropologists are looking at it for what it is these days.

But yeah, she must. She spoke some language, and something happened to all her people, like all her people left and she was the only only one left. And she still remembered the language and could speak it, but nobody else could understand it because the diversity of the native languages was just so much. And I've seen this guy

on YouTube called Chiama. He tries to learn languages just for fun, and he tried to learn Navajo and he said that was the most complicated because the cases for all the nouns and the verbs just overlap way more than anything. He said, it's like a Rubik's cube in terms of grammar.

situation kind of similar to this. So there's two guys on Earth that speak this dialect of like it's not Spanish. Some are saying that it's like a dialect of the traditional Aztec language. There's only two guys that still speak it to this day, and they refuse to speak to each other because of some long standing blood feud. They're both in their eighties, and once they died, the language dies with them. And I thought that was so crazy, Like y'all could communicate in a langua that no one

else knows. But y'all don't want to talk to each other because there's beef. That's the pettiness of humanity, honestly. But yeah, fascinating stuff, y'all. Fascinating stuff. All right. So now we've gone into this whole conversation about languages and stuff, Let's talk about the Arctic. Because I didn't realize that the Arctic was such a count intended hotbed of conversation. But wait a minute, Oh, this is about the dead

women in New England. My bad. Apparently the Arctic is becoming like a hot topic, especially in the twenty first century, right, so let's talk about it here. The Arctic is one of the coldest and least populated regions on Earth. Most much of it is covered by ice, but in recent years it has become one of the most important sites of geopolitical tension and a key focus of American policy. Yes, we are going to talk about the Greenland situation. Yes, Russia's gonna get brought up here. I get it, I

get it. Hold your allegiances to whatever you want. But the North Pole hasn't been a real situation to be discussed at all in quite some time, and now it is really becoming that all right. So despite its inhospility, in hospitality, people can't live there. Land north of the Arctic Circle has long been inhabited by indigenous people like the Inuit sami Yukagar and today includes territories belonging to the eight countries Canada, Russia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,

and the United States. In nineteen ninety six, these countries formed the Arctic Council, a forum that includes all eight countries as member states, along with representatives from indigenous groups. But while the Arctic was once envisioned as a neutral zone where research and conservation could promote deeper international cooperation, multiple developments since then have turned into a site of competition. The number one issue facing in the Arctic is climate change. Yes,

here we go with that. Since the nineteen nineties, the Arctic Sea has declined by seven point six trillion metric tons, with the rate of loss increasing fifty seven percent. Besides contributing to rising sea levels, the loss of ice also reduces global solar reflection. This creates feedback loop as the darker ocean water absorbs more heat, causing more ice to melt,

adversely affecting global weather patterns. The meltic Arctic ice. Melting Arctic ice also directly affects local wildlife, with polar bear populations projected to decline by two thirds in the next quarter century as they lose their hunting grounds. Okay, I'm personally not upset about that. They're the only animal on Earth that actually goes out of their way to hunt human beings as a food source. So, like, you know,

I don't care what Coca Cola tells you. Polar bears are not cute, and like they're the only they are probably the most dangerous predator to human life. But neither here nor there, but where some sea environmental disaster other sea opportunity. The melting ice is making Arctic trade routes more navigable, providing shorter distances for transoceanic shipping and current

lanes using the Suez and Panama Canals. Furthermore, increased navigability is expanding potent for exploration and extraction of natural resources. The Arctic region is estimated to hold over twenty percent of the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves, with over four

hundred oil and gas fields already discovered. Both the seabed and offshore areas also hold vast quantities of minerals, ranging from staple commodities like iron, gold, nickel, and zinc to rare earth metals such as neodymium and dysporesium, which are used in electronics, batteries and technology. Even traditional sub subsistence activity may be greatly altered and expanded as global warming leads fish stocks to migrate north and more coastal land

becomes available for agriculture. Okay, so aside from the global warming conversation, although that would be why it's more navigable now than it's ever been. That's kind of the biggie here, right It holds allegedly over twenty percent of the remaining fossil fuels on Earth, and it has rare earths, and as of right now, China is making a massive push for all the rare earths because they process them in plants that produce a lot of toxins that we don't

like to produce in America. China really doesn't have like an Osha to speak of. So the fact that we have rare or at least access to rare earths that don't have to go through China, that's kind of a biggie here, right. Yet, economic opportunities in the Arctic are emerging at a time of increased geopolitical tensions, as countries scrambled to secure resources, state territorial claims, and develop facilities.

With fifty three percent of the Arctic coastline under its control, Russia has the largest presence in the region in terms of civil ports like Murmansk and Argengelsk YEP, as well as multiple airfields and military bases along its northern border. More recently, Russia has moved to expand its claims in the Arctic Sea bed, at the same time that the invasion of Ukraine in twenty twenty two has led to other members of the Arctic Council to suspend cooperation with Moscow.

I could believe that while land jurisdiction in the Arctic is largely settled aside from a few disputes, maritime claims are much more complex. Control over Arctic waters is generally governed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which defines multiple types of territorial waters where a nation may have the right to restrict activity of

foreign vessels. The range from internal waters that are considered part of the nation's sovereign territory to exclusive economic zones where foreign ships may travel freely but cannot extract resources. Although the United States played a formative role in the negotiating the treaty and abides by most of its provisions, it remains one of the few countries that has not formally acceded to it because of concerns about limitations in

places on seabed mining. Even among the UN's Group signatories. However, boundaries definitions can vary. Boundary definitions excuse me. While Canada considers part of the Northwest Passage to lie within its territorial waters, for example, most other nations, including the United States, consider it to be an international rate where foreign ships

may transit. Similarly, Russia has claimed part of the Northeast Passage along its northern coastline as internal waters, moving to restrict right of passage in areas where it was previously allowed. Given these disputes, the Transpolar Sea route through the Center of the Arctic Ocean, which lies fully in internal waters. International waters rather, will become more attractive as polar ice continues to thaw. Okay, so all that it says here,

Now we're going to go into China here. The increasing importance of the Arctic has attracted the attention of other powers without Arctic territory. Several of these states have been omitted as observers in the Arctic Council, including Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea. China, which is also an observer, has unilaterally declared itself a near Arctic state.

In what realm is China a near Arctic state? But that's how she sees things and draws maps, and has expanded both research and commercial activity in the regent by partnering with Russia, as well as investing in infrastructure in Norway, Iceland and Greenland. I'm sure they found a way to rope that into the Belton Road initiative. Anyway, China's increased

present in the Arctic along Russia. Alongside russia more aggressive posture has been among the reason side of for the US President Donald Trump's insistence on nnexing or buying Greenland, a territory of NATO allied to Denmark. While Greenland already contains a US military base on its northwest coast, the discussion is likely to result in further militarization of the

territory even under Denmark. Satellites are also expected to play a major role in exerting control within the Arctic, given the importance of the observation and monitoring in remote areas of poor communication and infrastructure. So now as we're talking about this the Arctic Circle, it's just been an ice block for quite a while here, right, and now all these countries that are now not so allied with each other as of the past few years are going to

start vuying for the resources in the Arctic Circle. And of course who's got the most coastline will have a say in what goes down there. I get this. For China to start weighing in on the Arctic Circle conversation, that's a bit of a concern for me personally. Go ahead, Raven, So.

their claimed sea in the Arctic Circle. That blows my mind that g has the balls to actually make such a claim that China is a near Arctic country, like in what map are you looking at? Bro? But okay, sure, totally. And I understand that some people are gonna say, well, America doesn't have that either, but we do because of Alaska and also because we run the world's seas, so that's kind of how America flexes. So good things there.

But as we are talking about the Russia and the China situation, I found a little YouTube short and I do know that this is going to ruffle a few feathers, Tony. I do want you to weigh in on this one. Actually, so this short here was brought up by former Russian president of what certain people, former Russian president anyway and others are saying Ukraine might look like if and when Ukraine loses this war. And I don't know if he's not speaking on behalf of Putin. I know that he's

not speaking on behalf of the Russian military. Fully understand that too. But if we were talking about Russia only invading just the easternmost sections, right, the sections that wanted to be Russian allegedly and all these things, this map kind of paints a different picture. Let me know what you think about this one.

of the Nipa River, along with southern Ukraine's Black Sea coast. Interestingly, Poland would be in control of much of western Ukraine, including the country's sixth largest city, Leviv. Hungary would get this Zakharpatiya ablast, while Romania would receive Chernivzi and Vinizia. Ukraine itself, meanwhile, would become a much smaller, landlocked country based around the capital city of Kiev.

Hungarian and Romanian minority there are. The Polish area used to be Poland way back a long time ago, but the Ukrainians took it over and there aren't too many Poles left there. Although the main Catholic bishop in western Ukraine is Polish and that the tiny little Ukrainian spot. I think that's where Kiev is or slightly west of it. But yeah, I don't think Russia will get this much. There's still enough hostility to Russia in the central part of the country in my opinion that Russia is gonna

mostly just settle for what they got now. If they wanted any other territory, it would probably be Kharkov and Odessa. Odessa's in the southwest and Kharkoff is kind of in the more northern east part. But I don't think they'll get either of those. Personally, I think that the line where it is right now is where it's gonna stay.

this map. Poland. I didn't even know that that area had, Like you said, I didn't know that there was any Poles, or at least a majority of Poles still living in Western Ukraine. I mean, yeah, there's pockets of them for sure, but nothing to this scale. And then yeah, I, like you said, I don't know how aggressive the former Russian president is or is this kind of the ramblings of an old guy who's just kind of out of his box, or was there any kind of real validity to this.

I definitely knew you would have more of a knowledge based on this one than I would.

Ukrainian nationalists were more aligned with the Germans for sure. Yeah, and that's part of their history that they're simultaneously proud and ashamed of. And the Russians. They used that for propaganda for sure, the fact that there were so many Ukrainian nationalists on the German side, that's whyfying Ukraine. He's not completely wrong.

part of Ukraine. It used to be called Galicia, and some of my wife's ancestry is from there, And well there was a lot of transition in World War One and World War Two and basically the Germans lost a lot. So yeah, my wife's ancestry is part German from that area, but it then it became Polish, and then it became Ukrainian, and that's where we are today.

of Levov Poland calls it Levov. That's the biggest city there. Russian calls it Levov, Ukrainian language calls it Lviv.

all right. Last week we talked a little bit about the tariff situation, and I did give the preface before I even spoke on it. I am not an economist. I don't know everything there is to know about tariffs and money and things and stuff. Yes, Trump did the example that I gave as far as how the US Treasury will get money for basically an extortion fee, a street tax, whatever you want to call it, for any country to sell things on American soil. Right, Yes, this

is very accurate. And as you learned about on the Cult of Conspiracy Live Tuesday night last night, actually we heard from a Chinese high school dropout who is probably in a hard prison or hard labor jail as we speak, for making that post on social media about how America's spending power is three or is a third of the entire world's spending power. And that's a big deal. So basically, China, Gie,

I should say, not just China. Jijaping and Trump had been in this stare down contest, right, and this has been a big thing. Uh, China raise the tariffs. Trump raised the tariffs. China raised it more. Trump raised it to one hundred and forty five percent. Basically, he doubled down and just raised it to two hundred and forty five percent. Today, whenever this made headlines, Jijiping finally decided, all right, bro, let's let's have a conversation, but we

won't respect that. That's his big thing. Now. He's willing to come to the negotiation tables, but he wants America media to stop talking shit on China and Jijuping. So that's not gonna happen. But let's hear a little bit about the situation because as everybody is so worried about prices of everything in America going up, and yes, I understand it's probably going to go up in some way shapes your form, and things are going to trickle down, things are going to go a certain way. Currently things

are kind of looking up. Let's learn a little bit, shall we.

makes the disparaging remarks about China. And then the other more specific conditions is that China wants the USI to appoint a person that it could have those talks with, which is understandable because we've seen how different members of the administration have said different things over the course of the last couple of months, and China is frustrated that it doesn't really know what the US wants from.

the world's largest buyer of things and stuff. I'm not saying China can't survive without America. I'm saying that they would have an extremely tough go of it if they were to try to make that happen, right, But I'm sure it's possible. It's not probable. It's possible, but not probable. Right that being said, g is finally willing to come to the negotiation table with Trump. But they want China to have a guy because apparently the current administration says

a lot of disparaging things about China. They're superman, super mean to she, and she wants there to be a guy in the administration, right, so they lost their guy. They had one on Sleepy Joe aka China Joe, and he was their guy. Since like ninety two, he's been in bed with China. There's very famous speeches that were given from him in ninety two when he was a younger man that had a cognizant brain, where he was telling Americans that or to I think it was Congress

or Senate. I forget what he was in his earlier days, but either way, he was basically saying that we need to strengthen relationships with China rather than see them as an adversary. And in the nineties not exactly a bad take. But then we cut to Obama putting harsher restrictions on Chinese trade. And that's whenever they took the pandas away from the DC zoo because panda diploma. Right, if you're cool with China, you'll get a panda in your zoo. If you don't, if you upset the CCP, they take

their pandas back. And that's a whole anybody wants to look up panda diplomacy. It's kind of ridiculous, but it's a real thing. It's a real thing. Now they're saying that they're willing to come to talk, but they want somebody in the White House or in the Cabinet or somebody somebody in the US government that's not going to just skull drag them for being themselves. And that's like an actual talking point they're trying to make that they

want respect. Now. With all that being said, economically America is not doing bad. Everybody was super worried about prices skyrocketing, however.

the market. Multiple regions of the country seeing home prices tumbling. Parts of Florida specifically, huge movement and home prices falling sharply. And we're just getting started. Trump writing on true Social this morning, the United States taking in record numbers and tariffs, with the cost of almost all products going down, including gasoline, groceries, and just about everything else. Likewise, inflation is also down. Promises made, promises kept.

necessary evil, and I still do. Even if the prices were to hike up for a year or two, this would establish American domination on an economic scale like we have never experienced in any of our lifetimes. I'm here for that smoke. But yeah, it was gonna be a tough transition. And I'm not saying that we still don't have a tough road ahead of us. It's very early, like you said, it's only been two weeks. But this is a lot of good things as far as Hope is concerned. So I do want to read this article.

I think it's from the Toronto Stars, so I'm gonna check it out for what it's worth. China open to talks if US shows respect and names a point person. Again, China wants to have a boil on the inside. Shocker. I know how many Chinese spies have we found that were inside of different political cabinets? Neither here nor there.

Let's talk about it, shall we. China wants to see a number of steps from President Trump's administration before will agree to trade talks, including showing more respect by reigning in dispara during remarks by members of his cabinet. Highly unlikely, according to a person familiar with the Chinese government's thinking. Other conditions include a more consistent US position and a willingness to address China's concerns around American sanctions and Taiwan.

Again not likely, said the person, who asked not to be identified to discuss internal thinking. Beijing also wants the US to appoint a person a point person for talks who has the President's support and can help prepare a deal that Trump and Chinese leaders Ji Japan can sign when they meet, the person said. The fate of the global economy and the financial markets hinges on in large part on whether the US and China can find a

way to avoid a practical trade war. Trump is at China with a with tariffs of one hundred and forty five percent on most goods since taking office, prompting Beijing to retaliate and threaten to wipe out most trade between the world's biggest economies. The offshore one gained zero point two percent against the dollar in the wake of the report. The Australian dollar, a China proxy currency, is also advanced

zero point five percent. The S and P five hundred index futures paired losses from as much as one point six percent early in or earlier in the session. The rapid onslaught of the US tariffs has in uh in engineered red. I think that's I don't know what that word's supposed to be, Honestly, I think it's supposed to

be engineered, engendered, engender okay. The rapid onslaught of US tariffs has engendered broad public support in China for retaliation, giving G a political incentive to rebuff Trump's repeated demands for a phone call. The US leader on Tuesday again called on China to reach out to him in order to kick off negotiations to resolve the trade fight. It's unclear what will be uh produce a breakthrough to get

talks moving. While both sides have indicated their open to negotiations, Trump appeared determined to get G on the phone straight away, while China wants any conversation between the leaders to produce a clear outcome. Even then, if they agreed to on process, fundamental questions persist on what any arrangement would look like. Trump's demand remains unclear, and tariff levels on China would need to remain high to achieve his goal of balancing

trade and attracting manufacturers to the US. They go into the difficult road ahead here. However, let's read about what jd Vance had to comment on this. And I know some people hate him, some people love him. I'm kind of in the middle on him personally, but anyway, while the person didn't identify any specific comments by administration officials. Beijing has recently expressed notable displeasure with comments Vice President

JD Vance made about Chinese peasants. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Linging, I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Last week called the remarks ignorant and disrespectful in what was a rare direct rebuke of a US senior leader. In addition to wanting a consistent message from the US administration, officials in Beijing also want to know that Washington is ready to address

some of China's concerns, the person said. Chief among those is the prevailing perception among Chinese officials that the US has enacted policies designed to contain and suppress China's modernization. I don't think that's yeah, okay, the point person here. China also wants the US to address its national security concerns, particularly over Taiwan. Beijing claims the self governing island as part of its territory and has pledged to take steps,

including military action, if necessary, to protect those claims. China will not undertake any provocative actions on Taiwan, but it will respond if provoked. Again, no one's provoking them, No one's going to provoke them. But okay. Finally, Beijing also wants the US to donate a point person to oversee talks. The person said, China has no preference on who this is, but they want the person to clearly be speaking and

acting with Trump's authority. I don't this sit in like Game of Thrones, hand of the king kind of stuff. You want Trump's authority, You got to talk to Trump. I don't know why they have the need to go through a middleman. Like Trump has told them, Yo, pick up the phone, call me. Like that was the big thing. Whenever you put all these tariffs down and you put that ninety day hold on all the tariffs. He told them, listen, if you're willing to come and negotiate, we don't have

to go this route. If you take retaliatory measures towards us, things will get worse. He made it was like an eighty something percent tariff, China took retaliatory measures one hundred and forty five percent. China took more retaliatory measures two hundred and forty five percent tariffs. Now China's willing to come to the negotiation. It's like, why, why did we have to do this like if you're trying to flex on which one of us has got the longer stroke

game here, I promise you the answer is clear. But like, we can go this route if you want to go this route. But all the things concerning here. The Trump administration confirmed Wednesday morning the baseline tariff rate on Chinese imports to the US remains one hundred and forty five percent, after a White House fact sheet released Tuesday afternoon, Washington Times said that China now faces up to a two hundred and forty five percent tariff on imports to the

United States as a result of the retaliatory action. So I hope that everybody can get together and be adults about it and figure things out here. However, that being said, Donald Trump don't trust China. China is assh I like him. I like him a lot. Uh, you know, I don't trust him. I still don't and probably never will, to be honest with you, as long as she is in charge or as long as China is a communist country,

I'm never going to really trust them. But if they wanted to really go down the road here to see which one of the people will blink first, say what you want about Trump. Like him, hate him, Think he's incompetent, think he's an evil genius, whatever, whatever. You're not going to out trump him. You're not going to out audacity the man. This is the environment to which he thrives, and we're getting into an economic war. The man speaks

the economic language. That's, if anything, that's the one language he speaks very well. So I don't know why she thought that this was going to play out in a different way, And who knows. It's still very early. It said as of Wednesday morning, so as a time of recording that was like fourteen hours ago that that dropped. It's very possible that later this week they go back on it and Trump hits him with some sort of five hundred percent terror for some wild shit. It is

so possible. But that would be so bad for the Chinese economy. But I don't understand a world in which that's gonna play out positively or even neutrally for them. It's not like they can go and beat the streets and find more buyers for their goods in other places. Most countries don't have the buying power to sustain maybe a yeah, I don't know, I don't know. If anybody wants to weigh in on that one, please feel free. I'm gonna check over here on the chat real quick.

Hold on here, what is this? Ravenlee shared a map? Oh, that's the North Pole and all the land that's claimed by different people. That's legit. Let's see here, h everyone's favorite tranny. What a fucking fuzzy Yeah, I agree, I agree, but yeah I get it. Yeah. Look, I don't know what's to really be expected from the tariff war. I know that Trump's gonna win it regardless, because that's just what he does as far as economic wars go. That being said, that's kind of a massive flex. I feel

like they're at the poker table right now. Anybody who ever watched like the World Series of Poker or anything like that. These two guys, and one of them thinks he's got the strongest hand at the table. The other one knows he's got the strongest hand at the table, and they keep like upping the bet on each other, and then finally one of them makes the signal like he's about to go all in. And I don't mean on a military standpoint, nothing, nothing about actual armaments or

weapons or anything like that. Strictly money and flexing on each other. It's the gamble. It's the game here. Right Trump is making the signal like he's willing to go all in against everybody right now, everybody else at the table is gonna have to match his bet. Nobody sitting at the table has the ability or the want to match this bet. There's a few that are gonna try to save face, and they're gonna try to make it

seem like they got it figured out. It's it's not gonna play out well unless the American economy absolutely collapses under its own weight, which it was at risk of for a good while there. Everybody was saying that we were practically in a recession, whether they were willing to admit it or not. And we are now on the other side of that, or beginning to get to the other side of that, and it seems like the crisis averted, but new crisis might have been spawned up as a

result of that. Right that being said, Yeah, yeah, I'm glad that China's finally, hopefully potentially seeing the light at the end of this tunnel and being like, hey, hey man, we don't want that smoke. Let's talk about it. You know, but we shall see, we shall see how everything goes. Let's see, let's go back to another article that I had pulled up here. Uh, we talked about Dinah, talked about China. You know what. Hey, let's go ahead and talk about what Royce had brought up here. Apparently we

got a potential serial killer. What the hell? Okay, I don't really see much of a common thread between the three victims. Usually a serial killer has like a type they hunt for. But okay, let's get after it. Here. Dead women are turning up a New England beach towns. Police deny a pattern, but locals fear a serial killer. Yeah, that's all I was saying. I don't see much of a pattern here in age and race and any of that, except for the fact that they were all women. Like,

all right, let's dive in a little bit here. Since March, bodies of six people have been discovered in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Three of the remains were identified as belonging to women aging thirty five, fifty six, and fifty nine. News of the disturbing discoveries is fueling speculation about a serial killer or killers preying on New England residents. The

rumbling start on social media in early April. Posts about bodies seriously turning up in sleepy towns in the coastal New England states of Connecticut, Rhode Island Massachusetts began hitting for you pages on TikTok and newsfeed on x Since early March, the remains of six people have been found in towns close to one another in three states, ramping up speculation about a serial killer in the area social media.

Social media users claim the disturbing discoveries are connected, but police say they haven't yet found any links between the cases. Police are also cautioning the public not to jump to any conclusions. Yeah, I bet they are. I would tell people don't rush to judgment, Groton Police Chief Lewis Fosso told the News on April eleventh. Given the relative proximity of the towns where the remains are found, people are telling each other to stay away from their surroundings and

report any suspicious behavior. On March nineteenth, human remains are found near Colonel Ledyard Cemetery in the seaside Connecticut town of Groton. The remains belong to a female between the ages of forty and sixty. God, that's a wide age gap, all right, between the ages of forty and sixty, and we're left near the cemetery. In mid February, investigators said per NBC Connecticut, the woman may have been missing before that. They said, well, no, shit, sherlock all right. Anyway, her

remains found in a suitcase. Okay, that's a bit of a nuance here. Residents concerned about the new discovery became spooked when they learned that the bodies of two other women had recently been found in two other Connecticut towns, Norwalk, Norwalk, Sure and New Haven. On March six, remains of a woman identified as Page fan in thirty five of West Islip, New York, were found in the Norwalk River near the abandoned Gritztmill Road bridge in Norwalk near the Wilton border. Okay.

The same day, March six, a human skull was found in the woods off Route three in Plymouth on the Massachusetts Coast. Authorities have not yet determined age or gender. Weeks later, on March twenty first, the body of a third Connecticut woman, identified as Denise Leary fifty nine, was found in New Haven, about forty minutes away from Norwalk. According to New Haven Police, Leria, a mother of two

for New Haven, was reported missing in August. People who were cleany or clearing brush behind their house in Rock Creek found her remains. Five days later, the body of a woman was found in the woods in Foster, Rhode Island. Michelle Romano, fifty six, was reported missing from the coastal town of Warwick in August. Police say her death has been determined to be as suspicious in nature. Authorities have

not yet said how she died. Most recently, on Wednesday, April ninth, human remains are found in woodwards in killing Lye. The Connecticut State Police told the people in an email they have not yet been identified. This investigation is in the early stages, remains active and ongoing, and there is no information about the time suggesting any connection to similar remains discoveries actively under investigation by the CSP or the CT law enforcement agencies. The statement also said there is

no known threat to the public at this time. Officials are still trying to determine the cause and manner of all of their deaths. Okay, well, that's just a depressing way to wrap this one up, isn't it. But okay, and it's possible social media is going to be social media and is going to be TikTok. But I you know, I'm not saying that there's obviously some sort of a serial killer on the luce here. It's horrible that there's bodies being discovered and and that's horrible. But also, I

you know, I'm why don't people just carry weapons? It'd be so much easier to just go buy a gun and carry it with you at all times. I don't know, Okay, let's see here, anything else going on in the chat here. Raven Lee has shared an article the Daily Express archaeology breakthrough at the church standing where Jesus was crucified, Oh, the Sepulcher Ooh, well, you know, actually I've just recently heard a different belief as far as where they believe

Jesus was crucified. There's two mounds. Yes, they're both. It could be referred to as Golgotha or Place of the Skull, right, they are next to each other. But there is a conversation now whether the Holy Church of the Sepulcher is actually built on the correct site or not. So actually, I am very interested to see what you have brought

to the table here, Raven, let's check it out. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher Sepulcher in Jerusalem is believed to be the site where Jesus crucifixion, burial, and resurrection, and recent archaeological digs have revealed a huge amount of history about the site. Yeah, so the things that I had researched here recently showed that back in the day before it was the land was taken back by the

Israelites and the Hebrews, way back when. Apparently gold Gotha is the place where they sacrificed their children to Moloch, the Canaanite god. And that's also why that place is known as the Mound of the Skull. That and also the side of the mound looks like it has a skull etched into the side of it. So I've heard

both being true. But let's check it out here. Recent excavations traditionally held by the at the Holy Church of the Sepulchurt traditionally hailed to be the cation of Jesus Crucifixion, have un earth fascinating historical artifacts. The latest discoveries indicate that the site, which dates back to the fourth century

were initially an ancient quarry. Signs of extensive stone attraction, including deep saw marks in the rocks, suggest that the area was deserted during the Iron Age before being repurposed for farming activities in the Roman Era. Following the AD seventy siege, Emperor Hadrian erected a pagan temple on the site. The temple stood into the fourth century, where Emperor Constantine commanded its destruction to make way for the Christian Church.

as Jesus burial place. Among the recent findings are remain or remnants of Roman cultic structures, underscoring the sites shifting religious significance over time. Currently, archaeologists are concentrating their efforts on further probing the northern aisle of the church, scrutinizing the Roman foundations, and delving into the historical strata that contributed to the site's religious prominence. Now that's Fascinatingway is there more here?

and cultural tapestry of the city. You know, I've heard a lot of things as far as like what's going on with Jerusalem in an archaeological standpoint here recently, like, for instance, Herod's Palace, the Palate of Herod the Great, not who was the one. It wasn't Herod the Great that had Jesus crucified. It was his son Herod. I'm gonna butcher the second part Argustia something. There was another part of that name. His palace wasn't at Herod's palace

in the city of Jerusalem. As a matter of fact, conscious pilot was staying at the actual palace of Herod the Great at the time. So there's a lot of the story of the final day of jesus life right well before the cruise fixion. He came back from the dead to all this stuff. But they believed for the longest time that when he was put on trial, right he went right next door to where the temple stood,

to where the Roman barracks were housed. They are now starting to believe that he might have been brought to a different place as far as his prison and beating and all that goes, because there was another barracks for Roman soldiers close to the palace of Haret the Great, which is a parking lot today, I might add, But they believe that that barracks is where he might have been tortured and scored. Right then, as far as where

everything is played out here. They thought for the longest time that he was, you know, carried his cross through the entirety of Jerusalem to go to that spot. But on the backside of where Harrod's Palace once stood, which was at one time the wall surrounding Jerusalem. That backside there they now have found a spot where there was stairs, there was a stage, if you will, and it seems like that might have been a place for judgment that was literally just through the door. Oh, I wish I

had the thing pulled up. There's a whole there's a whole, uh, like three D model showing where Herod's Palace was, which was being occupied by Pontius Pilot, third governor of Judea, all of these things, and on the other side of the wall, Harrod's Palace like butted up to that wall.

On the other side of that wall. It's been destroyed since then, but there was at one time like a doorway, stairs, a whole platform where basically he just had to step out and he'd be, you know, presenting to the crowd in this way. So they actually think that Jesus didn't walk through the city of Jerusalem. He walked around the outskirts as he was carrying his cross. And also as far as what I said earlier is the barracks that

was right next to the temple. They think that the whaling wall is like the last remaining wall of the original temple. But that doesn't make sense per the written traditions, because they said that the Roman guards were able to peer down into what's it called the the woman's not the women's section, the women's section, thank you. It was like the outer on where even women were allowed to go, and they were able to peer into that from their vantage point. The problem is their vantage point is the

whaling wall. So we actually believe that that whaling wall might be the dividing line between the former Roman barracks and the women's section of the temple. I see your hand raised, Royce. I know you're gonna want to weigh it as well.

religious reasons, for sure. But the reason why they chose to use the Roman sword figuratively not actually as the mechanism for death was because it would have put them in a better grace as far as their oppressors of the day and age, right they were trying to play the political game to get Shade thrown off of them because at that time, and Tony helped me out here, there was a bit of I mean, there's always been upheaval as far as like if you look at the

historicity of Rome in Judea, but at that particular point in time, there was a lot of upheaval and they saw this as kind of like a bargaining chip, if you will.

tough spot right there. And of course the Caiaphas and the Pharisee authorities wanted to get the Romans to do this or at least sign off on it as much as possible, so that if they're killing him, for example, assuming they did it, if that provoked a revolt, then the Romans might have the Pharisees back a little more. So, Yeah, it was politics and I'm doing a bad job explaining it.

I want to come back to a brief thing I said earlier about Yeah, it was Vespasian Flavius who was emperor in seventy eighty and his son Titus conquered Jerusalem killed a lot of people. Titus is mentioned in the Talmud, and Titus later became emperor. That was there's one major war.

There was another major Roman Jewish war, and one seventeen AD at the beginning of Hadrian's reign, and then there was a third one called the Barkokpa revolt in one thirty five or so ap toward the end of Adrian's reign. And Hadrian did build that temple, the Aalia Capitalina in Jerusalem, but it wasn't at seventy a D. So that's what tripped me up. When I was reading that and I saw seventy a D. I thought that's way too early.

That's that's a whole conversation. But so all right, Pontus Pilot himself was a younger guy, and I don't mean youngers and like he was a teenager, no, no, But he only got that position because of his father's influence in Rome at that time, right, and the Pharisees, specifically Caiaphas, knew that if they were to kill Jesus, he had an insane following, right, And at that time during Passover, when Jesus came to Jerusalem, they knew that if they

killed him they themselves that would have made him a martyr and they would have been an even bigger uproar, and they were not afraid of but they didn't want to lose any of their sway over their people, so they wanted to make it seem like it was the evil Romans that did it, not us. We were justified in all of our actions, and it was like a very political exchange, if you will. Now, on the other side of that, poncious Pilot, he didn't want to kill Jesus.

As a matter of fact, he washed his hands of it and said, I find no fault with this man. And apparently y'all find fault in him because of some things that he said. That's not my problem. Why are you making it my problem. That's when he brought out Jesus Christ and Jesus Barrabas, which, by the way, Barabbas the guy released. His first name was Jesus too. It's the whole thing, which Jesus should I release, right, And they wanted Barrabas release, and they wanted to kill Jesus.

If he would have said, no, I'm not going to kill this senicent guy, he was afraid of an uproar, like an actual revolt to happen, and he was already almost on his third strike as far as the Romans were concerned. If Pontus had one more thing go wrong, he would have lost his position, if not lost his life, and he knew that regardless of his father's influence. So he killed Jesus to appease the crowd. Kaiaphas wanted Jesus killed,

said he could maintain his influence and power. And yeah, it was a whole it was a whole, messy, messy, messy situation. But all of those prophesied in Psalms twenty two, like all the way down to them, like gambling over his clothes as he was being crucified, and the nails going through his hands and feet. All that was prophesies and psalms, So like it's a whole thing.

Jewish woman, from from the line of David. So there's so no supernatural like yours. Your soul needs are record deemed because nowhere in the Torah or honestly anywhere in the Old Testament anyway, it talks about an internal damnation from God.

way south. But there was this need to put his birthplace in Bethlehem because there was a prophecy about it, and oh, how convenient he fulfills that prophecy if we just make him born in Bethlehem. Oh and he's also got to be descended from the line of David, so we got to work that in there. Because the tribe of Judah is south of Jerusalem. It includes Jerusalem, but those northern tribes were already mostly lost before the time

of Jesus, and he was born way up there. So what exactly is he Well, I feel like there's this tendency to try to force him to fulfill a lot of prophecies. And in Catholicism this means that, Okay, Mary's got to be a virgin, and she must be always a virgin, and to other people that particular belief is

not that important. And you know, you just start lining up all these boxes that have to be checked, for example, and at a point I go, okay, okay, I'm supposed to have faith in this, but do I really have faith in it? I'm going to plead the fifth I guess I don't want to be too much of a heretic. I am a Knight of Columbus, and yeah, I don't want to scandalize anyone no, no, no.

had to go to Egypt. And while some people believe that's where he spent his early years and that's why he's some sort of ascended master type. And I know I'm sounding a lot like Jonathan at this one. That is at least the trail of thinking that would lead to why they had to go to Bethlehem rather than stay in Nazareth. But then cut too, when he comes back to Nazareth, everybody knows him as the carpenter's kid,

you know. And Mary, we know for sure had four other sons, not Jesus, and up to two daughters, maybe more. But yeah, certain people believe that that takes away from her significance. I am not of that, but yeah, I feel you on that it's a lot of people try to force a circle into a square hole.

information that survived, like the census records or something. Do we have any Roman censuses?

him do what they wanted. And that's that was like the gentle balancing act. And it's not like that was just indicative of Herod. I mean, there was a lot of Roman conquested areas that had local leadership that they tried to let remain in place. And yeah, they put Roman governors over them, but as long as they could have a decent working relationship with the people, then they

would try to do that as best they could. Rather than force their beliefs on them, they would allow these people to maintain their own religion in a lot of cases and things like that. But the second it became a Roman problem, they ended that problem. That was a reoccurring theme for them for sure. But anyway, so yeah, again, we could talk about this literally all night, and I do have to edit this so we can get out the next day. So I do want to thank everybody

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