034: Hold My Gold

I wish I had been a girl. Just like my dear papa l lo. And welcome to unrelenting episode number 34 for July of 2022. I am Darren O'Neal, and I'm coming to you live from a bunker deep in the heart of middle America and across this big virtual desk. Oh, sir. Gene hiding somewhere in the cave today. Moscow, Austin. It's hard to tell. You are constantly on the move, my friend. I'm right here in Austin. What are you talking about? Constantly on the move. I mean, maybe it's just virtually.

On the move. So soundings on the show, the star citizen she'll show the other day. They're not wrong. Yeah. I know. Speaking of Star Citizen as a public service announcement, free play week is on right now, which means anybody can sign up using the link in. Sir Gene, speak second part. Yes, and be able to play for free for a week and have a bunch of chips and no requirement of spending money at all. I was surprised I was doing a couple of eBay searches just looking for others.

A lot of star citizens in there. A ton of star citizen stuff. It's crazy. All this virtual goods. Then again people buy crypto and NFT is. Yeah it's just it's basically pre NFT and if these. Right. They're not on the blockchain but they effectively are the same thing. People will pay real money for fake. Crazy, isn't it. I think so. Yeah. But if it provides you a level of entertainment, is it really fake though. That if if you get entertainment out of it, then no, I will agree with that.

If you get something. And some people even even make money on it. You know, there's a lot of people that just say that about going to Vegas. You know, we're gambling and I'm in that category because I don't gamble a lot. But I've been to Vegas a couple of times. When I'm there, I will gamble and it's like, I know I'm going to lose. Now it's Vegas is more about knowing when to stop. Yeah. Before you can afford the plane ticket home.

And most people stop too late because they don't have a stop loss. You should have a stop when. You get there. Everybody always thinks, Oh, I'm just one spin away from the next the next big haul. Yeah. I remember when I was in Vegas with Adam, and then we were in a casino and working by a flat table. And so he puts down, like, 50 bucks on bread or something. Probably 33. No, no, no. Because I put $100 on 33. And I have a big. Grin on my face. I'm like, I'm here with The Godfather.

Fuck it, I'm going to do it. Yeah. Oh, what a story. That would be. Right. And then the spin comes and it's like 36 was like, so I didn't, you know, like, we both lost. He didn't get his either. Odds are evens. I didn't get my number. As we're walking away, next spin on the board. 33 oh. Three All you had to do it was two in a row. Two in a row. That's all I want to take in 200 bucks. Because it is one. What does that payout. 31, I think. Yeah, I think so.

Um. Mm. You never had a nice steak dinner coming. Yeah. Well, instead we went to a burger place. See? There you go. Yeah, exactly. That was an expensive burger. You stop one too early. One thing early. Truth story. So I finally got the money to figure it out. Finally. You've only had it for, what, four years now? I know, right? Well, the reinstall of the reinstalling.

I finally did what I think you've been telling me you've had for a while, but I never bothered doing it, which is set it up for, for people. Who nice themselves were. Independent and in and out channels with four different mix minuses, basically doing the thing that this new whiz bang Australian broadcaster cannot do. Correct. And that's what I've asked everybody that has it. That sounds like a really good device for a lot of people. Mm hmm. Depending on your needs. Here's the funny thing.

This device has been panned by one of the well-known video creators that I watch for that very reason. He's like, Well, you know, when we get on a a live stream and twitch and we get like four people on, they all hear themselves right? This isn't this isn't going to do it. Now, he says he's been talking to Road. They've been talking to him. And they're saying they're going to come out with a software update that will allow them to do that.

Now, I believe it when I see it but right now it appears like you do have one makes my this Adam confirm that I talked to him about it but I think that's all you get one max minus. There are two actual distinct USB ports, which I don't even understand why you would need that. So you can go and do a mix minus either on two different machines or allegedly two. To the. Same machine. I mean, of course I have not tested this out, but that seems to be the limitation.

Unless you want to add in a Bluetooth device, which nobody does. And Bluetooth is pretty crap. The reality is these the original devices, the problem was they were really more for music. They were never created for band casters. Well, they I mean, they were it was the closest device they had for broadcasting. It wasn't perfect. It was it was basically the musicians make the device for podcasters. Right? So they made some changes to this one, which seemed to be good changes.

And. It is perfect for the average Adam Curry show, for instance, who is a guy locally and bring in somebody remotely works perfectly for that. Yeah one local dude, one remote dude seems to be good for that. And I think you can add one other person to that mix now with the road again haven't tested that, but if you want to add two people, then you're paying for another service. Like Please. Peter's tempted to pick one up and I've actually dude named Ben named Ben.

My other co-host here sent an email an email to Adam right away. Suzanna mentioned he was on the broadcast or to the they did I'll buy your remote, you know. And it was like, no. Yeah, exactly. It's like, good luck with that one. I mean, I know you'd love it, but I don't as much as Adam may say, this product does it all. Now, they've done what we originally talked about doing seven years ago and worked on seven years ago.

But the reality is, I don't think you'll be willing to let the month to go. No. Well, I think if I had to put money down at some point, Adam goes back to the MOTU is my guess because it is a more professional device. The it is the road caster. It's a cutesy thing. I get it. The buttons there you got faders that you can feel and a lot of people like that. But for me the MOTU is a more professional device I think, and the MOTU totally disappears. It's sitting underneath a monitor of mine and.

It's just going up. You don't even see it. Yeah, no desk space. So it's like magic. Hey, you got a fan? Are you doing this live? Yeah, I'm doing it live. Good idea. I mean, you know, I've got I've got buttons program now Jim does every podcast needs buttons. That's what the are you know, marketing literature told me. Yes you have to have the sound effects built into that. I mean, I can up what is on the program that I use, which is free. It's called mics.

If anybody's doing live streaming, it's great. Am I x x x dot org and I can have eight different cards and then you can add more to that where it's all just in the software and then you can add the key, the hotkeys if you want. You can do that. Or you could just use a stream deck which has a built in now. Yes. Which is a beautiful thing as well. Which is what I'm using. Yeah, exactly. You free buttons of sound effects or anything else you want in there.

You're kind of you're kind of right with that. If you add a stream that to a MOTU. Yeah. Do everything. Everything. Including bringing people in and out and moving things. And I'm but that is where this device falls short. So if you have like we do a show, so okay there's one channel dot if we want to bring in one guest, perfect. If we want to bring in two gas and you have the road, you can't do it.

Yep. Unless you go to something again, like a clean feed and then that you're paying for another service to, to do what you could do. Unlimited guess. You know, I don't know about clean feed, but definitely ends cast or you could do whatever you want. That's what I use for the other broadcasters and guest caster and you can keep adding people. Yes. So that one channel coming in, that would work. But it's a different experience because at that point then what's coming into you?

Isn't the recording mix. What's coming into you is essentially the the headphone mix. It's your own version of a mix minus coming from Zen caster through. So you're not hearing yourself, but you're hearing all the other people on the same podcast. So I mean, really, you don't need a mix minus if you do use something like Zen caster. Correct. So if you want to add that to the mix, it's way easier if you want to be a true DIY.

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is do you want to do it in hardware or software because you kind of need a network connection anyway to do any kind of a guest show because you don't have a guest without a network connection. But if you have a network connection, yeah, might as well use Ancaster, which is free for a I don't remember. It's got limits for the free version, but certainly two people on it or even two guests and one host is still free. Right. And I don't know the same way.

Yeah. Clean feeds the same way. Clean feed has minimal feature set. I find Zen caster. I like Zen caster for the fact that even on the free version, it records the audio. So it is doing the master recording. You can do a backup recording if you like, and what you end up with is and it integrates, by the way, with Dropbox. So the great thing is I don't even need to download those files. As soon as the stop button this pressed those files are magically in my Dropbox for that show.

Yeah that is nice locally. So and then all I do is just drag and drop those files into. Now I'm still using the script for this but you could use any audio app. I probably will drop the script just because I'm not live recording anymore. And the only thing it's really doing is building the transcription. Yeah. And the Adobe premiere does a fantastic. Job as well. Yeah. Mm hmm. So, yeah, there's a lot of these things that are now starting to overlap.

Yeah. Yeah. So what do you do to get the multiple calls in? Are you just spawning multiple windows of the clean feed or through Zen caster when you set up the multi mixed minuses? Oh yeah. So for doing more than one other person. Yeah, I've just done multiple clean feeds. That seems to be the easiest. In different browsers. So you do you can root them around for people that are trying to do that at home. Yeah, that is the trick. Go get different. There may be a better way to do it.

This is the quick and dirty way that. Yes. And it works. It absolutely works. As long as you've rooted your mix minuses correctly. Right. And that's the part that I didn't even bother attempting until now. And now, with this latest reset of the ice and the rebuilding of the computer, I figured that was a good opportunity to do that. You're like, it just works. Then once, yeah, now everything works.

The only thing that was screwed up right now when when you first brought me in, was I had the headphones playing a different mix. I couldn't hear you. Oh, that'll do it. You can send different things to different places. Again, it's a very professional oriented device. It's not the easy plug it in, it's not for the faint of heart. I've told a few podcasters that who were interested in it. It's like it's going to take a little bit of trial and error to get to figure out how the routing works.

You're definitely best off working with somebody who does it and I remember when Adam got his after he played with mine for a while, I sent them screenshots of everything, and then he replied back, like, now, dude, I'm going to figure this out. And they'll say, How? How long until he was asked? You had to do it again. Well, the thing is, Adam has worked with a physical patch base, right? So he he gets what they're representing digitally.

So I think it was probably much easier for him than most people. True. Because when you first go to that routing table, it's like, why am I looking at a spreadsheet? It's a lot of squares. What is this? And the fact that you can't just click each individual square on and off, that there's a dragging and move. It's like, what is this? It's it's a replaying the game battleship onscreen screen. Exactly like. Battleship do you think my battleship and. If you win, you get delightful sound.

If you lose, it's pretty much silence. And as far as I know now, maybe there is something now. But certainly when I bought this device, there was zero documentation. Like literally none. Yeah. So mother's assumption is, oh, are you not a professional. Because it's fashionable. This is a professional device. You're supposed to know what you're doing for for doing audio patching and and if you don't, I guess you need to watch some videos and learn.

Yeah. I went to pod for other gear dot com and that's where I got it from. Adam screenshots. They were quite helpful. Yep. Yep. And it's the same way in both the mk4 and the AVP MOTU, which you have. I will say just once again, if anybody missed it, the MK five, not the same. Yeah. Don't buy them at least not for this purpose. Yes. And you can't do actually. What they say. Ben, Ben's got an empty favorite though. I think the audio quality is great. Oh yeah. It's just I don't want to have this.

Yeah, they, they upped everything. They up the preamps and the circuitry and whatever. The magic even went. Cleaner, which they're super clean with the ones we have, but they made them even cleaner, meaning lower noise ceiling. Which is good because, you know, we can only run so many filters, although the filters are getting better and better too. If there's a pretty good. But as we talked about on the last show, I've actually turned off all my all my queuing and all the other crap.

The live DSP. It sounds better. All of it is turned off right now. So you're getting this just my voice with no, the only thing that's on is the gate. Gate is still on. You're getting the pure Jim experience. That's right. It's a beautiful thing. I mean, it'll be interesting. I mean, they've already updated this thing once. I know they have room in the firmware to do things. Mm. And once they figure out a way to bring in four people.

Years may have been updated once I think I've seen three or four updates since I bought it. Yeah, I've had mine I think once or twice. Only located. Probably twice. I think twice. The road thing will be updated. They keep promise. The road. Yeah, the road. I think road had four or five updates in two years last time. So I'm sure. That they came out. People were like, Wait, why can't I do that? I mean, there were some very simple you couldn't do like record to the computer or something.

Either record to the computer or the card. And people were like, Well, why you should record the both hands making a back up one I'm actually using, huh? And they were like, Oh, it was like they had never talked to anybody doing a podcast before. Right. Exactly. Which seemed to be Adam Curry's biggest complaint was I've got a little experience with this. Maybe get picked up the phone and get like, hey, any any tips? Yeah. Since you guys ripped off the spec sheet directly off of our website.

Yes, that would be good. And even the shape of the damn thing is exactly the shape that I, I modeled in CAD seven years ago. They're like, you know, this seems like a really good idea. These guys never went anywhere, but they got some money in the Kickstarter. Let's just make this, huh? There you go. Yeah. And the fact that they they added a second XB literally right off our device that was missing on their first model. We have that and now they've got it.

Audio routing, funding to the whole family. Yeah. And that was, that was the whole point is that back seven years ago, that was the only way that I could figure out on how to do multi-channel mix minuses. It's like, well, we're going to have to add a second USB chip. Well, are people going to be willing to plug in two cables and we'll find out. That that is the way to find out. I know when I asked my buddy, Meet US of the Fun Fact Friday show because he picked one up.

I'm like, Well, so many others. What? Yeah, what can I do with this that I can't do with the mode two. And he said record without a computer. And I'm like, okay, what are you. Good answer and something that I doubt I would ever want to do, but I can see where people would like. If you're going to those. The monster, you can run off an iPad and to the iPad. That is true. You just need something there to. It's something that has a USB port, but including the iPad, it works

fine with that. I've tried before. It does get a little bulky because it's not wireless at that point. It actually has to be plugged in if you're recording on an iPad, but you can control it. Like I've got the motor set up to be, you know, controllable through the iPad wirelessly, but it's plugged in to the computer.

What if you were only doing a two person podcast? Mm. You can also use have it, just set it up on a computer, set it up to put the two channels going out and just bring a a zoom or other portable recorder with you. I mean, honestly, if you're just doing two people, I would get those headphones with the DSP that I that we tested on a couple of shows back and use and guess that's it. True and if you're local to a zoom recorder.

It's literally a well yeah but then Casper makes it easy to download the two files separately so you can actually level them separately. The whole do that too. It'll record on in the little channels. Just so you can. You can download the individual audio tracks on Zoom. I didn't know I. Mean actual a hardware zoom device not these zoom. Oh I thought you were talking the zoom meeting. I'm like, oh, zoom meetings. Getting into podcasting. That's interesting. I've heard this.

Is just a little zoom, but the whole recorder, you could do a two person show and okay, they've made four years, they don't have all the fancy stuff. It's basically you could plug in like 4 to 6 microphones and level them out. You know, no, none of the fancy stuff. I don't think you had it in this far as processing, but there's a lot more devices out today than there were. Three. Years ago. Yeah, but you don't even need a device.

As my point is right now with Ancaster and I think Clean Feed paid version lets you do recordings as well. The Free one MP three only thing maybe that. I'm clean fees. I didn't think the free version did any recording. I thought it only allowed you to transmit audio, but well, whatever the point is you literally don't need. Now there's a record button here. You can go ahead, hit it so you can hit the record button. And to start recording, I want to let me know what it does after the recording.

Let's like name this session. Okay. Well, name this thing. Yeah. Because you have to treat the, the free version right now, right. Yes. I put on renting but that's the same ad day and time to the file name record renting. Yes. On renting, which is going to be what's happening to a lot of people. They can't afford the rent and then it will allow you to record the audio for my audio only guest only. So everyone or both or a stereo split. Right. So every so I hear everyone create two files on.

And now it's recording. No, it's only going to be one track. Is this up or. No, it's going to combine them. You know, I'm going to combine them. So you but you could do a stereo, which I would call it. Yeah. So you really the nice. Thing then is the, even the free version of Lancaster, you can have three people on there and it'll generate three soundtracks. No, it'll only generate one, but it will mix those all together for free. Now if you want.

Your clean feed, I'm saying then Casper, it'll generate three separate tracks. Yeah. Even in the free version. So, yes, clean feed will not do that. They will give you one track and one recording. Unrelenting. Yeah, we don't need to actually record that. But yes, you can rent thing. It's a great show. I highly recommend people listen to it. Yes, I've I've been a guest on there. I enjoy it and you guys should check it out. Along with searching speaks and random thoughts and all the other shows.

And the crazy Larry Guy show. That's a good one, right? I love the crazy Larry Guy Show. Yeah. Yeah. And tech nerd news. I hear Tech Nerd News is a great show there. Their news. Yeah. Now, angry tech nerd news. Angry tech. Their names. Sorry, sorry. I mixed up the URL and. Then you have you can't forget grumpy old Ben's. I mean, you were also a guest over there. Which one? From Bill Benz. You were on that show. Does that ring a bell? No, me that it's a small show. Let's talk about Ukraine.

Why it's a news shocker. Really? Why? Why now? What's going on different that hasn't been going on? Well, I'll tell. You what's going on. Pull Poland, the ceiling, all the gold out of Ukraine. Really? Yes. This is awesome. Yes. So in in spite of the fact that Ukraine is winning and has been for the last six months. Well, of course. And Russia is a weakened. Well, everybody knows. That army. They really don't get bear threats.

Literally on the brink of invading a Russia and going into Moscow right now. The way I hear. I mean, things are so bad. Yeah. I mean, soon the Ukraine will take over Russia. That's the plan is they're supposed to have well there's a few plans but. And then they get to join Naito and then Putin come back. To power. That's right. Is Russia will be part of NATO's under the Ukrainian rules. What if this is all a head fake? I mean, Putin's even faking his illness, whatever it is. Italy might be.

And then they they're like, okay, now, okay, Ukraine takes over Russia. Now you're in Naito and then Vlad's like, Ha ha. Yes, we've always wanted to be in Naito and now we're back in Mano. Like, forget. This. And so, but somehow there's a big concern in Ukraine about the fact that Russia might capture the Ukrainian gold reserves. Ooh, and preemptively they have now decided to ship all Ukrainian gold to Poland for safekeeping.

Now, this is interesting to me because not only has the United States happily thrown all the people of Ukraine at Russia because it's cheaper to throw people than bullets, apparently, and they're willing to sacrifice people to the last Ukrainian as our great president has said. But now also they have stolen the money of Ukraine, which does not belong to the government of Ukraine. It belongs to the people of Ukraine.

And if the people of Ukraine are happy to see the Russian liberators coming in and defeating this, you know what, 14, 13, 14. So seven year old occupation force that's been brought in by the United States into Ukraine, if they're happy to see that well, just to make sure they're less happy, they're going to steal all their gold. That does not seem fair. Well, you know, I mean, I think they have more gold than the 900 billion, which they're currently asking for from the West.

It is the best money laundering situation I've ever seen. Somebody really needs to make a movie about this. Call it the big heist. There's something similar about how Western politicians picked on this this poor Slavic country that didn't know any better and basically turned it into a huge money laundering operation. And when threatened, threatened with that coming to an end, decided to just burn the country to the ground, steal everything they could on their way out.

It's very reminiscent of the Germans stealing our earth from every country they invaded and then shipping it back to Berlin. We except, except here it it's allegedly being invaded by Russia, which is really liberating the country. And it's great is the the people that that took over the country seven years ago that are actually stealing everything and shipping it out of the country right now. Yeah. And Ukrainians are dying because they keep getting sent weapons to go up against the.

It makes very little sense when you look at it from a little further back. The West is basically sending big flags with red targets drawn on them to Ukraine for Russia to drop something. But I mean, let us hold your gold. This. Yeah, yeah. We'll hold your gold and Poland. Don't worry. I mean I mean, be safe. The show everybody hates Chris. It was a great sitcom. No. No. One of the I think The. Raymond or Chris. Chris, Everybody Hates Chris. It was the Chris Rock show.

I thought Everybody Hates Raymond was the show. Everybody Loves Raymond. Everybody hates Chris. I like Chris Rock. He's hilarious. Rock What are the ongoing bits was him you know, this is all about his childhood that there was the, you know, thugs, you know, although there were somewhat friendly thugs in the neighborhood, that every time they would see Chris, they'd be like, Let me hold a dollar. And he would have to give him a dollar. That was just let me hold a dollar.

This is kind of what we're doing. Like this. Hold your gold. Yeah, let's hold your hold. Ever get that back. Yeah. Now they'll never get it back. And that's the other thing that's so hilarious is all these motions towards war, Ukraine will be made. Okay, so a Russia friendly government, Ukraine is going to be in naito. Is Naito going to like that because you realize there is no process for kicking a country out of NAITO. It doesn't exist. There is no process ever developed that is.

To expel somebody. You once you're in, you're in. Exactly. Exactly. It literally does not does not exist. Well, this is the knee jerk reactions that we get in this society now. I mean, you saw it with Kofi Annan, the same thing here. It's like, oh, no, oh, war Russia. Oh, let's let them into naito quick. And then it's like, wait, what did we do that? What? Huh? Anybody think of that? No. At least Boris is getting kicked out of office over in the over in the U.K..

He can't trust. Anybody. So that's the other part that's happened. As you know, he's been one of the most more hawkish politicians as far as Ukraine is concerned. You're getting a little. Cheeky Porzingis. This is leaving. Yeah causing massive problems in England for the British people but and to the point where he has to resign but no one seems to be figuring out the curse of Ukraine here.

Seth, when you support Ukraine more than people in your own country, your own people are going to get rid of you. Well, no, not here. We love it. Let's send all our money to Ukraine while this country falls apart. Let's send all the aid. Let's send all the weapons. Let's because, you know, Russian people coming across the border in the Ukraine is bad. But, you know, anybody wants to come across the southern border here. Come on in. It's okay.

Yeah. Let's forget the fact that they've caught that we're on terror watch list. Just imagine how many were smart enough to evade getting caught. And. Nothing to see here. Yeah, yeah, it's. Oh, I mean, I just feel so bad for people in Ukraine because they're. They've been sucked into this private war. Uh, they, you know, they're just people.

Most people in most countries just want to be left alone and live their lives, that they're not wanting to be working for the government or in the military or any of these things. So consequently, it's a yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's I'm just trying to put my thoughts together.

I mean, it basically we the the majority of the people I think that are that experience any kind of a conflict, whether it's you call it a revolution, whether you call it invasion, whatever it is, they're just trying to get on with their lives. This was true in Iraq. This was true in Afghanistan. This was true in Syria. This is true in every place that the US has invaded in the last 20, 30 years.

And it's certainly true in Ukraine this time around with Russia invading Ukraine, people just want to have the least impact on their lives. And so. Why it's being done, I mean, if you look at map. And if this well, let me finish the thought.

If this was the way that they're portraying it, Ukraine pushing back against Russia and Russian aggression and the wanting to, you know, keep Russians out of their country, you wouldn't need to have mandatory conscription the way that Ukraine's had it since the first day of this conflict, you would have people lining up ready to get shipped off to the front if this was a patriotic activity. You had that in World War two. You have people willing to join up. Nobody needed to be conscripted.

And right now, the latest thing that I just heard today is they are looking at starting to conscript women into the Ukrainian army. Well, that's equity. Well, it is equity. I mean, we can make lots of jokes about it, but the point at which a country is forcing its mothers to give up their children to state control, you mean birth has to go fight? That country is a lot closer to Nazi Germany. All jokes aside, the main thing else, because in Nazi Germany you lived for the country.

The country didn't exist for your benefit, and so you were expected to make every concession that they wanted out of you. If you have a country that is motivated by a common cause like the UK during World War Two, for example, or the US during World War two, you don't need to conscript people. You get volunteers ready to go. We have that here in 2001 after the the World Trade Center bombing. Yes, people were. Willing to. Wait. A ton of people went into the Army. Yeah, I know.

People went into all the branches of the military because they were passionate about it. They they saw this as a reason to do it. And unfortunately, they became disillusioned when they realized what happens after they join the military is they they're sent to Afghanistan to guard poppy fields from Taliban, which didn't like all the drug production, and it was harassing the poppy farmers. The U.S. came in to guard those. I mean, it's like, well, it's yeah. You do end up doing a lot of where is.

The weapons of mass destruction that everybody was gung ho about? Oh, we're going to kick his ass. Yeah, there were no weapons of mass destruction that we now know they never were. By the time Bush knew it. You got there? I believe there was. There weren't much. We have proof, dude. We have the people that actually came up with the lies have now said that, yes, those were just created to get the public on the side of the government. There was never. Anybody saying that. Well, you've heard it.

I would invite anybody with half a brain to do Google search on this topic. You'll be able to Google. I said John to Google the other day, John. And so I posted a little blurb about how in Canada now all the uniforms are now unisex, meaning men can wear skirts and nothing in the world. Jerry. The Canadian military. I can't believe you didn't see this. Yeah, yeah, I posted this. You don't really look at gender social do that. I mean, I do. I post an average of 20 things a day on there.

I mean, I think I probably have you muted or blue. I'm not sure you even subscribe. You probably do have me black. They know, right? I'm okay. You keep talking. I'll block your ass, please. Yes. So the Canadian military I personal screenshot about it and then John replies my email and says not sure about this. Do they have any of unstated sources? Which is always a good valid question. So yeah, totally valid question.

But Again, all I did was type in to Google those same words and it brought me to the official website of the Canadian Armed Forces where there was a Q&A about the new dress code. And in that dress code it says, yes, men can request clothes that have been previously only in the women's military catalog, and women can have clothes that have been in the men's catalog.

And we're getting rid of all the archaic 50 year old restrictions on things like hair color, chewing gum, tattoos that are visible. All these things have been removed because I think somebody did the math and said, hey, you know what, there's not a single Gen Z here who who has no tattoos. They literally all have tattoos. So if we have an anti tattoo policy in there, military code, then. We're. Not going to have a military.

There will not be anybody as the older guys retire, there will not be a military. So you see what happens. You give these tattooed people guns of what you saw that in Chicago, the suburbs here. Yeah. And that's that's I'm glad you went there, because that is exactly the representative of the Gen Z generation. Oh. With the colored hair, the facial tattoos and you know, and again, now the there's already arguments sort of like, see, this is why we need red flag laws. This is why I've passed this.

The reality is. We have red flag. You don't. Need well, you don't need red flags because they're now you have somebody that has been previously. Uh, system. Yeah. Not just in the system, but like they had to confiscate his other weapons previously. He has his family obviously called the police on them. How, how did this person go through the background check?

And a lot of it is that in this country, for whatever reason, we separate what is a juvenile record from what is an adult record that I've talked about this before this interesting. Yeah I that I didn't realize that I mean I knew that happened but I didn't realize that was what the problem was in this case because I looked at was like, how did this guy not get declined? Because every time you buy a gun, you go through the the ATF system, you have to answer a bunch of questions.

And then they will check to see if you in any databases that you know where you don't want to be on those databases that says you can have a weapon if you've ever committed a felony, you'd be in there. If you are on the no fly list, you'd be in there if you are. There's a whole slew of things. Some of them maybe are going too far that would prevent somebody from being able to obtain a weapon legally.

Now, if he obtained it illegally, then none of these rules matter because criminals would be criminals. Not much you can do to make new laws specifically targeting criminals. But if he obtained it legally, which it sounds like he did with his dad's help. Yes. Who's obviously at fault here? I would I would make the dad a coconspirator in this case. And sentence him probably to manslaughter.

It would make you cannot you can not be buying a gun or allowing signing paperwork that allows your kid to buy a gun when your kid is nuts. Right. And, you know, he's got a you know, again, they hate to judge a book by the cover for all of you who listen, who are listening, who might have facial tattoos and the rest like this kid have but know that the kind of screams that you've got a some kind of mental issue I'm sorry. I did a mike Tyson facial tattoo like six, seven years ago.

And, you know, like not not a real tattoo. Yeah, not yet. Not a permanent one. It was no, it was done with Heller. Right. So it was permanent for seven days or thereabouts. And just slowly faded out. But people kept a bigger distance from me than normal. When I had that, that was the weirdest thing. I had never gone to that experience. I mean, to some people I look intimidating to begin with.

You know, I have the the thousand yards stare usually, but hey, you know, it doesn't take long when people hear me speak to realize, oh, well, he's like Santa Claus. Right? He sees a benevolent. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And when I had the facial tattoo on, there's about a 25 foot area in front of me that was always empty. Because when you do a facial tattoo that says something about your character, which is, I'm not trying to fit in right, and I'm not trying to look pretty.

I'm letting you know that if I do this to my own face, what do you think I'm going to do to your face? That's a good point, too, that I had never seen. I don't know if this is a recurring bit. I just saw it on the YouTubes, your favorite place, which was a Jimmy Kimmel show. Bet. You know, they do a lot of this man on the street thing where they're asking people and in this particular one, they were asking him about athletes.

And, you know, the one guy was a young, you know, maybe 22 year old black dude. And they're like, well, what do you think of Mike Tyson's facial tattoos? And he's like, I think they're ugly as fuck. Now, of course, the bit here is Mike Tyson is there. And this guy, he's giving the answer. Mike Tyson is like walking up behind them next to him. And so it's the guy he's finishing. He looks next to me like, Oh, I said just before Tyson went out, he's like, Yeah, he better be happy.

I'm a peace loving man or something like that. But you know, you. See Mike Tyson interviewing Alex Jones. No. Was that good? I know he has a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. So Alex Jones was just on there. Tyson is an interesting character. He he's got a white beard now, which, I mean, that makes sense. He's that old. Yeah, he looks like he's starting to look nice. Although, would you fuck with on an airplane? He'll still put you back in your seat. I'm sure, but.

Yeah, yeah, well, he just looks like a, you know, a black dude is in good shape of of that age where black black dudes generally and movies are giving you words of wisdom like the black guy with the white beard is always the character that that gives you sage advice, the. Morgan Freeman character right now. Well, Morgan Freeman seems to have played an awful lot of those characters. Yes. He's got the voice, though. He's been you know, people say that his voice in all that. I mean. It's not.

Getting decent voice. Joan, but it's. Not exactly. It's exactly right. Yeah. He's not James Earl Jones. Absolutely. He's that guy can talk, man. That guy had a very, very good voice. I loved him in CONAN the Barbarian. I mean, everybody, of course, knows him, Darth Vader's voice. But he was I liked him because, again, I have a love affair that comes and goes with baseball in the The Field of Dreams. He was great. And I think my favorite if you watch I know some people hate the show.

Some people love it. The Big Bang Theory. That I did during COVID, I did a marathon viewing of every season of that show. Does a James Earl Jones episode was fantasy stick? Mm hmm. When Sheldon meets and James Earl Jones is a bigger deal than Sheldon is. Yeah. Yeah. Was a great episode. Was hilarious on that show. It did cameos so well because everybody played an exaggerated version of themselves.

Yeah. And so you had because other shows like I remember Love Boat had cameos every episode and you got used to seeing, you know, a variety of stars cycling through there. Like, what's her face as a daughter? Yeah, yeah. The fact that I've done that means I'm old. And if you are. You are definitely not. Exactly. Forget Farrow for all zero. Yeah, she was good to go. Yeah. Yeah. So for people that have never heard of Love Boat, you can Google it. I thought they booted it recently. Did they?

I don't know. I don't even know. But it was a it was a kind of a neat idea for a show. It was a weekly cruise. And you had five people that were the staff on the cruise that were recurring characters. And then, of course, because it's a cruise, you have brand new actors going through and they're the plotline characters.

So they're they're bringing their storyline arcs with them and, you know, some of them are just whatever, no name actors, but plenty of them were well-known actors that happened to be going through there. And it was a much more way to do it than to have, you know, a show about people living on a farm where all of a sudden famous people keep showing up randomly right? It's like it's a cruise ship. So it makes sense.

And it was at the time it was the largest cruise ship in the world, the Pacific Princess, that at the time of the show was as good as cruise ships got. Now it's it's probably half the size of modern cruise ships. I've never been on that ship, but I've been on a few other of the the princess ships. Did you find love? That I find. You know, amazingly, I did not. I found plenty of alcohol, though. Well, that's close enough. Yeah. Uh huh.

Well, anyway, so the idea of shows with guests going through famous people is fine, but I'm a big bang theory. They did it really well because they they typically had the guest be just an exaggerated version of themselves like Wil Wheaton was. Drew became a recurring character. Yes. Actually playing Wil Wheaton. Yeah. Playing an asshole. Wil Wheaton. Much like he is in real life, from what I hear. Yeah. So and he does a great job playing those characters. I don't know why.

Maybe it's all the practice, but he did the same thing. A show that started off as a web show, which was the what was it called? The The Guild. The Guild was a show with Felicia. What's your last name? Felicia Something. And you're talking about the get together? Yeah, the kind of red haired one.

And it was it started off online only and and after I think two seasons it was picked up to actually be on TV one of the channels, but he played himself in that one as well as, you know, the guy that's like also into video games and sci fi shit with a nasty personality. And so it does a great job playing these characters. So it was always fun. Felicia Day Right, that's right. Felicia Day Correct. You used to be pretty cute back then.

And once you get to the point in your career where you're just getting paid to play you, that's not even really work well. But it's not so much a point in your career. Kacy pretty much didn't really act the whole lot after his stint on Star Trek. True. And then he he I think he's written a number of books. He seems to be very, very woke in all the aspects of Wokeness. A lot of folks are. A lot of folks from Hollywood and California certainly are.

And and he was definitely the most hated character on Star Trek The Next Generation, which I remember watching when I was first brand new every week. Well, because everybody's like, what do you thrown a kid into the mix for? Well, he has no business being I mean, he can live on the ship. He has no business working on the ship. Correct. But to capture that audience. Yeah, it's like, oh, we'll get the young and know they believe me. What captures that audience is not watching another kid.

It is watching cool sci fi shit and uniforms with low cut females. Yeah, but now males in those. If you're watching a Canadian star. There were males and that was if you watched Star Trek the movie, the uniforms were somewhat unisex. See, they were way ahead of their time. Well, they were predicting the future. Yeah, totally.

So there is a yeah I think it was the first one somebody correct me if this is the first one or maybe the the or Star Trek, but for sure there were uniforms where there were men walking around in dresses in Star Trek. No, there's no question. There is no question. And just like chlamydia. They just like they can go up there. You can get some maple sirup, wear a dress, whatever you want to do. Whenever there was it, wasn't there a monty Python skit about that

in the seventies? Probably there was a body parts skit about a lot of. Stuff about a lumberjack. Yeah. Whereas high heels and a dress. I recall something like that, but it all melded together for some reason. The bookstore was always one of my favorites, which was a full bookstore, and somebody came in with it, would ask for a title and they'd be like, Books, notebooks, these are sold. Thank you. Good morning. And these are so yeah, it's. I never read.

It's like I going to go back and there's a lot of this stuff I watch as a kid where I think I only remember like parts of it and they don't all really make sense. But that's reality now because that means going back to the Highland Park shooter, there have been other people in the Chicago area now, rightfully so, Alderman, stuff like that, pointing out that, yeah, there were I don't remember the numbers exactly here.

What, 20 something, 30 something people the kid shot and like a handful, like seven dad, eight dad, something like that. Well, there were more people shot and killed in Chicago that weekend than at the parade. But ain't nobody talking about that because the shooter wasn't a white kid who got the gun legally. Right. Exactly. But there were more shootings outside of that. But those were mainly black with no legal guns, most likely. So that's inconvenient to point that. I think I found that.

Let's see if this plays if if it doesn't play, let me know. We are hearing silence. All right. You're saying silence? Yes. You do not know to route your audio. I do. I do. Please. Audio, sir. I do. I do. Okay, let's try this. If you can hear this. No, we know the most. You can do it. Damn it. What the. Mean? I hear it like in the background, like coming out of the speakers. It is coming out of the speaker that. That it shouldn't be this work. Last time I did this. Was it.

You know that they met? Yeah. With a dude named Benjamin and surging speaker about this. You hear this? Negative. Can you hear me now? Think you're like the horizon guy all of a sudden? I can hear you now. Fine. But you don't hear anything, right? I can see clearly now. So why would it be doing? How about let me try this. He's with the mix minus minus C, Brooklyn. How about this. Negative. Negative. Seriously, that wasn't you should have been hearing.

No, no, I can play clips that you hear so I thought I would you we're hearing the pure jazz. That is that is so strange because you're you should be definitely hearing these clips. I should be definitely hearing them. But I'm not. Wow. Okay. I may just be so transfixed by your voice that anything else just disappears. I mean. Literally. Maybe. I don't know what most. People are hearing about to karma in the literal truth. Motor Karma. I know, right? It's awesome about. Mo to do your thing.

I mean, it could do everything. You just have to figure out how to make it do it. It's not a mo to issue, it's just routing the browser that's playing YouTube to the right thing. Just the issue. Here. You got to get that out of the right channel. Yeah. And I just through like six different channels. But it's not working like. What the break. A leg. You can set the link to me then or you could just. Yeah I guess I could do that but it, it should be like it's set up right here.

It's a YouTube video. You could just convert it to an MP three. So I'm on three. I'm on one to your five six. Talk a little bit. One, two, three, testing. One, two, three. Is a. Free. For that. So I sure am I. Oh really. That's too funny. Yeah. So maybe the one I haven't tried yet is five six, which I thought was the one you were on, which is why I didn't try. So let me put on two, three, one, two. If you can hear this negative. Nothing. No. Okay. Three, four out.

Nine, ten is my normal channel for you. I don't know. Nine, ten. It was set up that way here and you just throw enough crap at it until it works, and then you're like, I'll. Just leave it there. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. Leave it. Now they have Post-it notes with what you need to set things to clean. Feed doesn't have a facility, unlike Zendesk for sending notes, does it? I do not believe it does now. So I need to email you. Yeah. This is live podcast again.

We're live. But yeah, this is how it happens. This is what every life podcast does. They email messages back and forth or. It's texting, it's all you know. And it's there. There's a magical system on the Internet that people can communicate with. And okay, I sent your message. Anyway, we keep going, but it is a cute little song that kind of talks about Canadians, you know, wearing dresses. A cute little song about Canadians. Yeah. I don't know if there is such a thing.

The but that that is the reality for the shootings is that this is quite normal for Chicago and this is going to get massive news coverage and people still yelling about getting guns off the street. Yeah, but the problem yeah. Well, the problem is that over a how many months in a row do you see the story then. How many people have been doing the background check things. It's been over a million a month for months. Yep. Tons of people going to get guns and a lot of them are female and minority.

So this is absolutely for the Democrats. Well, and it's also interesting that the guy that did the shooting is a Democrat. Oh, there's no I thought he was like a commie, you know? I mean that. Yeah. Commie Democrats. Any difference? Yeah. Yeah, same difference. My my point being that you look at the list of people he was following on his Twitter account where they Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, all Democrats, not a single conservative he was following. He is one of the woke proud. That is scary.

I mean, who would follow Nancy Pelosi who is looking for the the big breaks? Yeah. So everything about this guy screams Gen Z, socialist type. Giant red blotch in the fur. Oh, my gosh. Pie. What about like Nancy Pelosi, the smell of fresh cut timber, the crash of mighty trees with my some Canadians side. We sing. There you go sing sing. I tell you, Jean, I'm a lumberjack and I smoke, I sleep all night and I work all day. And he's a lumberjack and he's okay.

He seems so nice and he likes all those catchy. I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory on Wednesday, I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea. You got to stand, please. It's his lunch. He goes to the lover's dream on Wednesday. He goes shopping and has budget scones. But he is a lumberjack. Now, this being caught in somebody is dangerous. It's not copyright on trees. I'll skip and jump. I like to press wildflowers. I'll put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

He got some trees down. He likes to dress flowers. He puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars as a lumberjack. And he's okay. Is it so nice? And he likes holiday. I cut down trees, I wear Parkhill suspenders and a bar. I wish I had been a girly. Just like my dear papa. I cut down trees to wear high heels and a bar. We shot just like Dear Papa. Oh, heavens. There you go. But yeah, thanks for put that in. Everybody's head. Oh, you're welcome. Well, there's a couple of things here.

One is I have a great memory. The four things I can't remember the names of two is, boy, Monty Python over 50 years ago. Over 50 years ago. And out of copyright. Uh, it's amazing that they were so ahead of their time talking about the Canadian transvestite lord restriction lifting. The biggest issue I take with that is not that people do whatever the hell they want. The privacy of their own bunks are. In the army. Right? That there is something to be said.

For the only reason the military at any level works is that everybody is the same, they're treated the same. This is the cohesive of unit, not a it does not work when people start standing out. Absolutely. So I mean, that. Being a wig you like bright colored hair would be bad in the military because you're going to get shot. Uh huh. We have one with Lacey. Evans, one would think. Snipers going to get. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know, man. I mean, it is conforming comply.

That's what the military is all about. No, it's not. Yeah. Well, we have to have a woke military. I mean, let's see how far this works. You'll still see how well this goes. And that's the Canadian military. I'm thinking you and I with, you know, a no agenda beat up crowd could just go take over Canada. Oh, yeah? Well, they'd yell at us a lot and then say that, you know, our words are, uh. Well. They're they're not a safe space. What they call them. Yeah, yeah. Your your words are, uh.

They're violence. Words are violence. That's what I was looking for. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. butI sd the points out, this is the same Canadian army that did not allow turbans for the Sikhs. Well, fuck the Sikhs. They're religious. Oh, right, that's true. They don't like that religiously. Yeah. No, no. As long as your anti-religious are not religious at all. Yeah. What you want? Yeah, as long as you're non-religious, anti religious, then you should be fine.

But if you do it in the name of religion, obviously a hateful person who needs to be expelled from the military. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Canadians. Who knew? I know, right? So I. Yeah, I don't know, man. It seems to me like was going to hell in a handbasket. As the saying goes. And we're just sitting on the Titanic deck chairs watching, you know, the everybody trying to make sure this trip to get steered into the iceberg.

Yeah, because they believe that crashing the system is the only way to fix the system. And I honestly, I'm kind of with them. It's not a bad theory. Yeah. I mean, the great reset didn't work for many different people, their whole being. Obviously, the Great Reset, amazingly means that middle class is destroyed and rich people once again get to be much higher up than the plebs, than the serfs. But there's nothing that says that has to be the case. They could definitely crash the other way round.

And we're finally getting back around to the original thought I had, which was the reason that the Ukraine thing is happening is not because of Ukraine, it's not because of Russia, it's because of the great reset. Let's just be look at the reason that we're being given, oh, why is gasoline sky high? Why is the cost at the grocery store sky high? It's the price hike.

Yeah. This is why this is all being done to cover what the real plan is, which is to get everybody off of fossil fuels, not let you run your air conditioner because you're an evil person. Yeah. If you want to run your air conditioner, this is what it's all about. I mean, somebody posted a map of the world with, Ukraine in red, and the rest of the countries had white or whatever it was. And they're like, Tell me all of this going on in the world is because of this one.

I mean, it's I know it's not a super small area, but in the grand scheme of things, this one little area is responsible for all of these problems. Bullshit. Yeah. No, exactly. Putin Price hike. No. Uh huh. Bullshit. Yeah, it's it. Well, I've seen multiple versions of cartoons showing that the, you know, Putin sure seems to be running most of the Western world because he's getting to dictate the price of gas.

He's dictating the interest rates, is dictating what how much we do is going to be available. I mean, it's like, holy shit, you know, Putin is doing a hell of a job just running the whole Western world, but it's got to be then. Biden that's running Russia. If we send him there, then that would be helpful. That would be well, I mean. Because we all know how wise and successful Biden is and Russia is having just massive, uh, you know, increases in the value of their currency.

The, all the predictions Russia, you know, problems that existed there more, more items available in Russia today than in Europe. If you go to the grocery store, there are it's amazingly they can afford to run their air conditioners in even to, you know, cool their swimming pools right now. But yet Germany is on the brink of complete deindustrialization. Companies like BMW and Mercedes are going to go under. Companies have been around since pre World War Two.

Yeah, there's no question about that. Yeah. I mean, it's like this is man, I wish I still stayed in contact with one of the heiresses that I knew, but they're from Germany. But it was it is amazing that, uh, that it takes so little to go from Germany being the leading outward force of Europe from the country that was really running the unification of Europe, selling every other country. And the idea of, do you want to be as successful as us? Well, you got to join the European Union.

You know, so work it out. Right? I mean, I, I suspect that, uh, I don't know about countries leaving Natal because there's literally no provisions in the native charter to leave once you're in Naito. You're in NAITO. So it's like, it's like a really, really bad street gig. It's kind of like the mafia. Yeah. Once you're in, you're in. There is no leaving. And unless you're dead. Yeah. So and a lot of people are going there. Uh huh, uh huh.

But as far as Europe, I there are provisions for leaving Europe and I suspect there will be countries that end up leaving Europe. Well that's already yeah, we saw that with Brexit. I think they're not going to be the only ones leaving the EU. I suspect if Germany crashes the way that it's looking like it is, France is very likely to leave the EU because they don't want to be settled with the bills to rebuild Germany and France has been smart enough, you know, all other jokes aside.

Right. But France has been smart enough to keep their their power nuclear. And they don't have all the greenies that Germany has that want to get rid of nuclear power plants and go to Mother Earth. And it's wind energy or there is no means of power. Well, this is the issue with what's going on here and everywhere with the green energy thing is. Mm hmm. I'm fully behind finding the most earth friendly, efficient way to power things.

But you don't give up what's working until you find a better solution. Yeah, totally. Then that's the problem of what's going on here. Not that people are working at making this happen. It's okay. If you could put up one windmill in the middle of the United States and run everybody's power. That's great. Yeah, but that's not the case. And it's like, Oh, we're going to shut all these other things down. Like coal plants, nuclear plants and that go well. Oh, even if.

You don't even if you don't say you're going to shut them down here in Texas, effectively that happens because you're artificially subsidizing wind power. Meaning, yeah, let's say that wind power costs three times as much as coal for the same amount of energy. But then the government comes in and pays 90% of that. And now wind power looks like it's about half the price of coal. All right. You need to look at the true cost. Yeah, the real cost without subsidies.

And that's what's killing power production here in Texas. And again, my other co-host dude been named Ben May. God damn it. I bet that's the guy. It's a running gag now that I can't pronounce his name, I even screw it up and nudge in the social. I've now talked to like two or three other Bens. You've got to. You're not not him.

Yeah. So, so what we, what we have is the, the coal and natural gas and all the other power production facilities have to compete with wind that is artificially lowered price due to taxes from the populace going to pay for it, which is bullshit. But you know, anytime that you're taking money from one group of people to make something cheap for another group of people, it's not actually cheap. It's a Ponzi scheme. And then it should be called a Ponzi scheme because that's what it is.

They, on its own wind can never compete with other power sources. It's only available during limited hours. It's unavailable at random times, and even when it is fully operational, the cost of equipment to generate the same amount of energy from wind as from other sources like coal, gas or for sure nuclear. Nuclear is by far the cheapest, although the regulation costs in the US have driven nuclear be more expensive. But the wind is the most expensive power duration.

Even solar is cheaper than wind. And the reason, although it may not be, given the cost of materials to make solar these days, but wind power requires it requires physical movement, it has parts that wear out. So they put up one of these giant windmills. Well, that leaves span of that windmill. And again, Ben would know better than I would, but it's it's under a decade. And then you've got to put up another one, which is an elitist service them. You need to service them on a continuous basis.

If you neglect the windmill for a year, its power production will either stop or go down to a trickle. There are a lot of components that are replaced on a yearly basis, according to Ben. Which is you have to add that to the cost. Absolutely. And the only way that they end up getting used, because Texas has more windmills now than the rest of the world not combined.

But any individual place more than California, which started the whole crazy craze, more than any other country that has windmills and it's stupid. I wish all of them would just get toppled over some big hurricane or something because this is the stupidest thing that Texas can possibly do. So Germany doing likewise, equally stupid, if not more so, because I don't think they have as much wind. Or it's just ignoring the fact that it is inefficient. It isn't cost effective.

The windmills, okay, there's the moving parts, the solar panels, I think, if I'm not mistaken, also wear out. So, you know, they they get progressively less efficient. So right out of the box. Yeah. You're getting X amount of power out of it if that is, as you just said, going progressively down from the minute you start it up. Yep. Then that also has to be replaced. This is not like a set it and forget it thing.

No, no, no. And I'll tell you, back in the seventies, before solar panels really became efficient enough to even use, there were water heating systems that utilized your roof.

So essentially you'd have these black panels on your roof that would heat up in from sunlight and you would have a instead of a water heater or maybe in addition to a water here, you would have a pump that would pump water up to your roof to then go, you know, along these these black roof panels, these water blocks, if you will. Right. Kind of like the inverse of.

Right. Yeah, it Tried to cool down the roof by and warm up the water and as a result, you end up having basically super cheap or free hot water. So that's your cooling works. It's exactly like CPU cooling. What is the downside? Of course, it's only available when the sun is out. So you're limited to about 12 hours a day or less. A hot shower in the middle of the night. You got to. If it's cloudy, you have warm water instead of hot water.

You know, there's you're dependent the availability of bright sunlight. So like this probably would work just fine in in New Mexico or someplace or in Mexico itself. Right? Places where you're in the desert and you have constant silent sunlight, very few clouds, then at least for half the day, not night, but for half day you would have free hot water.

The dream on all of this is a way to capture and harness this energy that you could capture so much during the day that you could become, you know, 24 hours. Even when the sun goes down, you would have enough for the reserve. Yeah, but battery technology really is what although there was an article today that somebody created a battery that uses regular sand instead of lithium, which could be very interesting for situations like this. Regular sand is mostly silica. Well, there you go.

But there's a lot of it around until people start using it, I guess, for batteries. Well, we've been using it for glass and computer parts forever. The always plenty or it's a very abundant element for sure. But, you know, lithium isn't that rare. Lithium is relatively abundant. It's just not cheap to extract. There's certainly, in a way, certainly concentrations of lithium in different countries. Some countries get much luckier in this than others.

Oh, the farmers farmers in the Netherlands all their best shot at getting shot at by the police. Well, you. Know, I say let them starve. So if you're a farmer in the Netherlands, fuck those people. Why would you feed somebody shooting at you? It's going to be a what are. They going to do when there's no produce in the stores? Because, God knows. Let more. People have their produce? Well, there maybe maybe there will be more shooting.

But I suspect, you know, the farmers have way more power than they've been exercising and they need to keep sending it. I'm totally on the side of the farmers on this one. I've Adam will attest to this. I've watched farm porn videos from the Netherlands. That's not like, you know, horses and things. That's watching farming equipment. I know where you were thinking. No, I wasn't. But you were. Proudly. You were. Doing that. Yeah. While you were definitely thinking about that. I can, I can tell.

Uh, but that was a the there's some beautiful videos done with, with quadcopter copters flying over like, you know, tulip harvest and things like that. Very cool. So I watched those many times and so trying to de farm the Netherlands, which historically is a country that that has its biggest natural resource I think is water. It has. And while it has good soil, they can farm there and trying to say, yeah, there's nitrogen pollution. So we shouldn't be farming is insane. It is crazy.

While there may be nitrogen pollution and then what they're talking about, nitrates. Nitrates, not nitrogen. The gas, the element nitrogen, which some people are confusing, but nitrates are a side effect of predominantly animal farming. It's one of the waste products and it's it's a waste product from animal farming, but it's a fertilizer product for all other types of farming.

And the this is happening in California as well, is that when you have large amounts of farmland close to residential areas, you have that nitrate in getting into the water, you get nitrates in the water and that is definitely problematic. So the solution, it seems to me, for the Netherlands is not, hey, we have nitrates in the water, let's stop farming. It is, hey, how about we get some better water purification technologies here? Pure water.

They could literally do desalination using the seawater that is the entire northern coast of the country in all dams that they have and provide clean, totally pure drinking from the ocean for their entire populace and not have to get drinking water out of streams and rivers that might have runoff from the farmland. That would be a very, very good solution of being able to continue farming and have better water supply. The issue here is the water contamination. It is not farmers.

Yeah, I wouldn't think it was the farmers. I mean, they're doing God's work. But what their solution is to eliminate like 70% of farms in the Netherlands. That's the goal. That does well. This, again, is the goals are being made in a way to push people towards things they don't want to do. Ladybugs. Mm. Yeah. Bug farming. That's much better than confirming. That was just looking up our comment. I haven't looked at this so I can't tell you exactly when this jumped.

I mean, like, look this up when I was doing the, the theory of Mining, which was maybe a year ago, which it was like seven and a half per kilowatt hour or something like that, and now it is nine over nine and a half. So that's a pretty big jump to 20% jump, which explains. Why it's cents per kilowatt hour or nine and a half cents of Etherium. No. Of this just what the that is the supply charge now. So the. Electricity went up by 20% is what you're. Saying. Yeah, it seems that my math is correct.

That's about right. And you know, plus taxes and fees and all that, which makes our our monthly electric bill $259. Well, it's still cheaper than mine, but yeah. I'm running the bills. All the time. Right. Well, that was there was an article on one of these leftist leaning, obviously tech sites which know I don't think you have to mention that if it's a tech site, it's almost. Always it's obviously left leaning.

Yeah. So like, you know, things you could stop using to save money and they're like, oh, you're central air costs about $0.56 an hour to run. And I'm like, 24 hours a day, baby. Yeah, yeah. You know, that's what I'm podcasting for, to be able to pay to run the air conditioning. That's that's why. And has it has anyone contributed though. There's been some. Yeah, we can thank those people if you like. Well I figured if they're paying for your electric bill, yada, right.

Because if you stop paying, if you stop donating the electric goes off, then you know, hell they can't do a podcast. Exactly. But our buddy Certain Oven comes in and he's a big, big donor. And the other shows. Big, big donor. Came in with $26.25. And he came in with a very confusing note. I don't know, maybe, maybe you can break this down for me. Maybe the the troll room at no agenda. Streamcam can help me with this.

Understand this has to be code in some way, shape or form the note read and I quote Sir Gene Rock's end quote. Hmm. I don't understand what that means. I don't either. I mean, I don't I don't really played the rock and roll freak show. That's kind of your thing. So what is he referring to? I don't know, sir. Gene Rocks. So I could see the. He think we sound alike and he's he's heard the rock and roll pre-show and he thinks I'm on that.

Maybe he does. He's a big donor of the rock and roll pre-show. Mm hmm. And we appreciate their nubbin. Yeah. He's like, You're half. Here. I'll make sure I play songs you like. And the next one, there's certainly been I. Will say that no agenda social.

You know, the every now and then you have to do the blatant post asking for people to listen to all of your podcasts if you have more one as I do, and everybody's pretty positive about all the shows, they're just like, it's just a slightly different everybody seems to think. Ben Rose and I have the best back and forth and grumpy old bands. But you've been married for five years. Of course you do. Yeah, it's a little longer. But you were coming in as a close. Dog in five. How many?

No, it's only been a couple of years. Less than two, I think that. No, you were doing Grumpy Old Ben's more than two years. No, no. I mean, we've heard it more than two years. We very quickly went to two shows a week, which I. That's right. You did say that. I sent you a message when you first started saying, hey, I should be a guest on here and didn't. Right. And didn't you say you never heard of Grumpy Old Ben's a little earlier in the show. Yeah. Yeah, I did. That's correct.

I think you missed some mispronounced that is what you did that was. It's come back here which was clearly. A mispronunciation. Episode number one was April 12th, 2016. Okay so three years three. Okay. Well, that sounds more more realistic. But people overall and know what you are the social like all the shows including this one even though they call it the Russian apologist hour some. Only only one Polish gold thief would call it that. And you are bringing the the backing for it.

So they just don't want to believe what's out there in the world and they don't want to believe the news from vetted sources that I don't know. News deniers, all of them. Yes. Right. Everybody out. There. You be a news denier. Due to kooky coming in with this $10 monthly and that's appreciating as well. Is that Johnny Hip? Well, with his 333 says unrelenting, please. Johnny from Canada. Nice. Well, we appreciate it. Well, you appreciate all those because you get them. But yeah.

And thank you. Thanks for the record, guys. Yeah, I love unnerving what Danny Kaye and Gene Autry if gee Gene Autry he'd be so much cooler with the cowboy hat. Would you have to keep the beard? Have a cowboy hat? See? There you go. We Need the support of. I have photos. Have I not shared photos of me in the cowboy hat. I don't. Think so. Yeah. Oh yeah I do. There's no yeah. The social is good for so many things when you post so many links that. Would be get $1,000 donation.

I would be happy to post a photo of me in a cowboy hat or. Not if you would prefer. If you get to the thousand dollar level, it just be like never release that photo. Uh huh. Uh huh. Whichever you prefer. But I think there's a photo of me that I can probably scrounge up for in the cowboy hat and a cowboy shirt with a better shirt. One of those for the 32 ounce filet in front of me on a plate. Oh, and you down there, baby. Of course I down. That baby didn't make that.

Big old was a ribeye tomahawk would something. Good. Yeah I don't like ribeye. Woody until. Filet mignon. Oh so come on the filets like a girl steak. Now 136 ounces. It's not. It's a big damn filet. Mm hmm. Did you just say, like, give me the whole tenderloin and just make it? Yeah, make it ed wide. Well, this was at a restaurant, but, yeah, I do that. I buy tenderloins. You just make them whole. And, like, that's just like once you. Talk about this.

Like, a year ago, I could have sworn we talked. About you buy beef tenderloin. Yes. I don't know. We ever talked about if you just consume them all in one big piece. Well, no, no, no. I mean the tenderloins, about five, £6. The point is, you can snap one piece. Know I'm not going to eat £5 in one sitting. Oh come on. £5 of flying. I can eat £2 of steak in one sitting but I don't I don't think I could eat more than that. And I sure as hell don't want to be throwing up steak.

No, that would be wasteful. Totally wasteful. So you only eat as much as you can, which is, you know, £2 or less. So potentially filets are like frickin yeah. The girl ones you're talking about a six ounces that's like, you know, a. A, a half a cup of cottage cheese and boom, you've got a meal. I like cottage cheese. It's not bad. So when I know you're not doing it right now, when's the last time you did Lemon? It's been a while. I need to pick up another bag. I keep forgetting.

Now, once you get off of it, it's. You're kind of like, oh, you forget. Okay. I need to get the blender back up in the place. I need it to be. So I remember, like, oh, let's do that. Let's do the lemon thing again. Mm hmm. But we are a Value for value podcast. If you would like to help us out, we hope you do unrelenting that show. And I was really excited the other day when it comes down to. The. Satoshis in the lightning system. Mm hmm. Because I went to up my nordvpn. It was expiring.

And I know I talked about this over on grumpy old bands, but not everybody listens to that. Not Everybody now. And you could always pay with Bitcoin. But when I went to pay with Bitcoin, there was a little slider that's like, would you like to pay with the lightning? And I was like, Hell yeah, I would. Huh. They took lightning payment. It was like two years of VPN with a terabyte of online storage for two years, and that was like 100 bucks.

And the lightning payment processed within like milliseconds. It was beautiful, which is the biggest problem with the Bitcoin payments are like, Oh wait, it could take up to an hour for this to process. Yeah, that's that is an issue. It's always been an issue because bitcoin is it has to go on the blockchain, which takes time. It is not instant, which I think is the main reason that lightning was created. And then lightning is it because it is as quick as lightning? You just and it happens.

And it was there was a coin something around was obviously that Coinbase there is a service you can sign up for. I got an account off to see what they charge, but it's like if people just start accepting that for payment for various things online, that would be really cool. Um, comic strip blogger just said to booster Graham 1533 Careful Gene wants to steal Alaska and give it to Russia. That's true. He's right about that. Okay, so you give away.

There is some there is some proof the say that the the purchase contract of Alaska was never actually signed. Oh, yeah. So you want that land back. But there are no signed copies of the purchase agreement and either U.S. or in Russia. So that that was a theoretical deal that was never truly consummated. Alaska is still part of Russia that. So that means those Americans up there. I still find it murky. In the whole areas that CSB is listing. CSB loves your show.

And Julie, Steve 3333 SATs and the Ride the Lightning and actually just got this from the post office yesterday I forgot though I can hear paper. You sound like Rush Limbaugh now. Also from. Boise. In fact, that's. A $6 in 96 cent check from Bully Steve for the show. So we'll add that to. Yes. Okay. See, now, now you finally got the sound effects working. Congratulations. There's only two. Gene, what's it now we're going to have today to get that working. But thank you, Billy.

Steve and I found the problem and I was I was I had the headphones into or set to the wrong mics and I was sending you just my microphone, not the form. Max. Oh, see we were just getting the full G experience. While you still are, but now you're also getting the sound effect experience. Audio routing is not easy. But actually it is easy. Even the musicians can do it.

I think the fact that comic strip blogger listens is, is an a testament to the fact that I bring a great portion of the show and he can happily love listen to my report part and then he hate listens to yours and it just he out in the end. Yeah yeah no I think that's the that probably has got a little bit of truth to it. I think there's a little bit of heat listening going on there as well in that. But Jason had no agenda yesterday. He poked the bear, though. He poked CSB.

Did he? What do you. Think they were talking. I'm as usual, I'm two episodes behind. They were talking about the art, of course. And and Adam said that J.C. really liked one of the comic strip blogger things, but, you know, Adam hates CSB, so of course, they couldn't they couldn't use it. And J.C. said he loved his Slavic brother. That was there was. Nice. Membros is talking about putting together a bingo card for the art segment and one of the boxes definitely has to be mentioned.

CSB But that's funny. Yeah, it's the constant, there's no question. Yeah, no. And I think CSB mainly, rather than like being you or hating me, enjoys hearing his name be on the livestream. Well, he likes to get his shows promoted and that's what these shows on the No Agenda Stream get is a little bit of a kickback from everybody else. Although it's not really his show. I mean, he's not really on it. He writes it, though. He's the producer anyway. He's the writer.

He may be the producer, but, you know. With is the performer with. The talent. Griff is a talent. So if you want to listen to Griff, you can listen to the show. That's CSB, right? But you know, ultimately to have a podcast, you need to be on the it's like, you know, you don't have a podcast name the Joe Schmo podcast. The the Tim Pool is on you have the Tim Pool podcast. Yeah. Would be fair. Tim Pool would re that exact you sent him for the right amount of money.

Well he definitely reads the same VPN crap that you do, so. Yeah. Well I don't even read those because we don't even have a. We don't even have a sponsor. But yet you're still reading it. I just used the server. How about how how awesome the service is because they accept leaving. That's a fucking ad lightning thing. We accept lightning.

Can they accept lightning bully Steve who just boosted grabbed and sent us a check says please speak about surging post on no agenda social showing how EU breaking up Ukraine and how the Swiss got the Baltic coast. Somebody is obviously followers. Oh yeah. That was a tension. Yeah. So it's basically it's. I mean I'm not but bully Steve is so that's a plus. I know you're not you're not totally doing that.

Yeah. So I've posted a map of Ukraine, different regions with different European flags on there. This is not a funny meme. This is actually a slide from a conference. I can't remember which of the conferences they had. Oh, right. This was the one about you said a bunch of like one world order guys are breaking up Ukraine. Yeah. See I did see that post. Well or somebody just said that in a in control room that that would be banned for. I saw that one. I don't see a lot but I see I saw that one.

Yeah. So the context and I'm totally trolling here which why I didn't put the context in there, but I can tell you the context on here is that these are the regions that they've decided will be the partner zones for the rebuilding of Ukraine and which country will be partnering with which region of Ukraine and providing the funds and the manpower for rebuilding.

And what was funny about it was that Poland, instead of getting, you know, western Ukraine, something that's nearby, something that used to be part of Poland anyway, they're on the very opposite side in the eastern most Ukraine. They have. To go rebuild that. Area in Donetsk. Yeah. To pull them has to rebuild Donetsk. Which is mainly just damage.

I know why dangerous, but it's the one that's been the most damaged by the Nazis in Ukraine because that's what they've been shelling is Donetsk and Lugansk and all that. But so they got formed into taking on the worst part. Poland is complaining like wouldn't believe about this because it's not fair that they have to go and partner up and help rebuild Donetsk. You know, this is all like post the Alinsky victory when they're just about to capture all of Russia.

Now everyone can focus on rebuilding Ukraine as well. I guess you guys know Zelensky, but the letter Z has been banned, so I referred to them as Alinsky. No, that was Saul Alinsky was the guy that Obama taught the, you know, the the guy that wrote the book that he dedicated to the devil about socialism and all all of those kind of practices. Well, he was he was Ukrainian. So there you go. So he was Ukrainian that.

Yeah, look, no sense. No, I don't I pick up little things here and there, but now all things are starting to make. Some things are making sense.

So. So, yeah, this is creating quite the controversy because the Polish government is totally not interested in rebuilding eastern Ukraine, even like post victory and assuming that that now Ukraine is fully liberated from Russia, even though the people that actually live in Ukraine are waving Russian flags and bringing food to the soldiers as they're coming in to liberate them from Nazis.

But it is it is just more European stumbling over their own feet and and trashing their economies, which Europe was always, you know, how people say, well most Americans are living like one paycheck away from bankruptcy? Oh, yeah, paycheck to paycheck. And with Europe, huge mortgages and only about ten, 20,000 and credit card bills. Well, and Europe has been living that way for decades.

And the crazy thing about it is, not only are they one paycheck away from bankruptcy, which is becoming very evident right now and the UK is government is just the first one to fall, the German government's probably going to follow the Dutch governments probably going to fall. There's going to be a lot of governments that are not following in Europe or like this, what this year, the next six months.

But yeah, they're, they've have been living one paycheck away from bankruptcy and they're spending the money that they do have with Russia because all Europe somehow have managed except for France, France being the crazy exception here. But the rest of Europe is dependent on energy imports from Russia. Think I didn't even realize it that many European countries couldn't supply their own energy any other way.

I thought they were still buying energy from, you know, the Middle East, from Saudi Arabia and all these other places. Apparently not. Apparently, everybody's just sucking down Russian gas. Well, I didn't understand. There was a report that the United States was sending millions of barrels of oil from the reserve over to Europe and China. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Somebody will have to explain that one.

Well, this was so I know how accurate this is, but this is what I've heard on a couple of different channels is somebody in the Biden administration decided that a good way to fuck Russia would be to lower the price of oil or natural gas for energy in general, lower the price by dumping kind of with what Japan was accused of doing with us and then China has been accused of doing with the U.S. by dumping product for cheap.

And so they tapped the strategic reserves of the US and then sold off a bunch of that at lower than market prices in the hope that this would start driving prices down overall and screw Russia out of the high profits that it's seeing and instead what happened of course is that China said, oh, I'll buy that and bought out the majority of it.

Some still managed to go to Europe, but effectively we just depleted a good chunk of our strategic reserves that are meant not for peacetime, they're meant for natural disasters or wartime, that the whole point of having these reserves in the US is not to play with, it's not to try and affect pricing. It is to make sure that there's still a supply here in case of either a natural disaster or wartime, something that is beyond predictable factors and that really easily controlled.

And the Biden administration is treating this like it's their piggybank, like, oh, well, we can just go and sell that. Right leg of the pond to play this game. And they didn't even it didn't work. That's the really. The lowest the lowest approval rating of any president, including Jimmy Carter at this point. Even among Democrats. Even lower, even among Democrats, but overall lower than any past president. Ever. And so he's gotten notorious at this point in his administration.

But they don't care. They don't care. They know he's in there for another two years. They could do whatever they want. Nothing's going to happen. They're probably already thinking that there's a chance of losing both the House and the Senate. Now, some people think that it'll be a complete blow blow out in the Senate and the House will go full on Republican. I've been saying for a long time, I just don't see it because I expect there to be election. What was the phrase election improprieties?

No, no, no. They had a nice phrase for the Democrats. There was reinforcement or something like that. It was essentially ensuring that the elections go the right way and so I think a lot of these races will be much closer than what people on the radar assuming is going to be the case, because there will be plenty of people willing do, quote, whatever it takes, unquote, to ensure that their guy wins. So don't assume that there will be a blowout in the House or the Senate.

I don't think there might be slim margins in both. But remember those slim margin don't even matter because most of the Republicans are RINOs. It's like there's. Literally horror, half over 50% of people with an hour next to their name are RINOs. And at this point, every time I get a mailing from one of my local rhino politicians here for Texas, I just reply back, We've enjoyed your last term. You know know.

I've always said it would be kind of interesting if you knew how to play this game, right? You can retake a state like California or Illinois by having a bunch of conservatives. Once you realize they're conservatives in high school, college, like go out there, act liberal, act really win your local seats when the governorship, when the House seats and then the state Senate and then after we've got the all in, then you go, yeah, actually, we're we're not, we're not liberal at all.

Yeah. And that's literally what, what the rhinos do all the time. They are liberal and they pretend to be more conservative than they actually are. They get elected and they get into office. They have an R next to their name, but they vote with the Democrats. I believe that that's very typical because most conservatives don't want a lie from the get go. Right. It's hard to keep their their. Belief sur they want to say, look, this is what I believe in and if you believe in it to vote for me.

Whereas the Liberals know that it's a strongly conservative area, we're not going to get elected unless we lie. Okay, let's just say. Let's do it. Yeah. I mean, how many how many clips of Joe Biden do we have with him being pro-life? I mean, but of him, do we have talking about how he's not going to put the the miners or mining coal out of work? I mean, clips of him that we have talking about his support for Detroit and for the auto industry. I don't think Joe knows where he is.

I think if the Republicans do win big at the midterms that Joe Biden's days are numbered. I would bet he will find a health reason to step down. Now, that leaves Kamala, which is not good, but I could see them wanting to do that for the simple reason of, okay, Kamala, even with Democrats total trainwreck, they may want to give her a year and a half or so to try to prove she can act presidential in the hope that maybe they'd be able to hold that.

But because they know Biden's not going to win again right now. Maybe, Kamala, if you give her a vice president, that's not totally woken insane. But that's a lot to ask the Democrat Party right now. I don't I mean, she's just crazy. Any other way to describe it? Her crazy laugh and her inability to put a sentence together? Oh, my God. She was up here in Highland Park after the shooting and like, well, everybody's going to take this seriously.

You like you're taking it serious because you were forced to take it seriously. The serious situation seriously know it's like, what do you saying. She she I don't know if it's brain damage from drug use or maybe she's been roofied too many times by and. I will say I. Don't know. I'm all for it cause I know there's a lot of people in the no agenda audience in our audience that smoke pot. I'm fine with people doing that, but I don't know if I, the leader of the free.

World, be on smoking pot, though. She's got something more serious happening here. You know, and there's a difference, I guess, between doing it recreationally, you know, on the weekends and then going to work for the week. There's a big difference. You know, it's like drinking. Same thing. You don't want a drunk in the White House. Exactly. Dude, you don't want a drunk working for you. I don't care. Again, I don't really don't care what people do in their privacy of their home.

But what I do care about. Is going to. Perform. But he has a job to do. Yeah. They should not be inebriated by any means while they're doing that job. Right. Now. Adam will say that all his guests have been in touch. Right. And he's a creative guy, and that's a creative work, and it's fine for that. Well, and I'll go beyond that. This is also why Adam doesn't have a job. He doesn't work for somebody. He works for himself. This is why he doesn't have the nuclear codes. Well, that too. Right.

But, you know, it's it's a lot easier to do something just for yourself. And even better if people like what you're doing, then, I mean, try. Adam Curry is the Willie Nelson of podcasting. Yeah. Problem. I don't see a problem with saying that Willie is well known for being good at what he does and for smoking pot. Yeah. And Adam is also known for being good at. What he does. And smoking pot. You know, that's it. And they're both Texas, you know. So there you go now anyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Well, and. And Willie relocated to Texas. He didn't start there. Where is he from originally? I don't remember. Well, he came through Nashville and he it was him and Waylon that decided Nashville sucked. So they both ended up moving to Austin. I thought Willie was here originally. I don't think so. It wasn't. Oh, okay. He was a he was he went to I mean, you see the early pictures of Willie Nelson. He is like straight laced. Without that, it's like.

Well, he was more like Johnny Cash. Look. He was very straight laced. Hell of a songwriter. He was born in Abbott, Texas. There you go. So he he is a local. He is a Texan. Yes. I mean. It's like a little. Tiny town just outside of Austin. But then he went to Nashville, but then came back and relocated his base to. Well, yeah, I mean, he was traveling for a long time. He was married like lot of different women for four of them, I believe. One of them and one of them like tied him up in the bed

and beat him with a baseball bat. I mean, a lot of. People like that. There were. Some. He's got seven kids. I mean, Willie's been through it. He's done a lot. Of really. Playing guitar. While trigger baby that is one about have worked I think there's a documentary about it. There is. I've watched the documentary. Yeah. Let's go out into that guitar. Yeah. But when you hear Willie Nelson, it's like it's very similar to like Mark Knopfler.

For me, the minute you hear the guitar, you know who's playing it. And Willie, I mean, okay, it's because of the type of a guitar that he plays is a little unique. But, you know, Willie's style and he does not get the credit he deserves. Yeah, for the vocal phrasing either. He's very much. Sinatra asked his vocal phrasing. You can't get much better than Willie. I mean, I remember going to see Willie when I was like ten years old or so. I wondered why the crowd smelled so strange.

But now I know. Right? Yeah, you kind of. You do kind of wonder, too. I remember the first time I smelled, but it which probably in the seventies and I was like, good fuck is burning rubber tires. What the hell are they thinking? There's a big music event here. We're all sitting here listening to this band and some idiot nearby is burning rubber tires. What's going on? It was not a pleasant smell. It was. It was a unique smell at the very least.

Yeah. But that was the great, you know, I think about Willie and still is as far as I know the crowds that he brings in all types, you know, from accountants to just hippies to bikers. It's and everybody has a good time and gets along. You know. Because you have have one time music. I always like this music. He's a hell of a writer. He is. If you've never caught Willie, you missed out. I see him a bunch of times. Mm And just a hell of a band, too.

And the fact that he looks, you know, maybe he's finally starting to look a little older, but he went through a phase from between, like 40 to 80, and he didn't change at all. Like 43. Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. The look from when he, when he got kind of white in his beard and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. He always like he's always tell by his braids because I don't know if people realize this. If you, if you're shaving all the time, you don't notice it.

But when you have like a long beard the way I do, the of your hair changes. So it's not like you go from brown hair to white hair overnight. The color if you look at a long hair whether it's a you know on your head or in your beard or anywhere else, you can see that the change in coloration over time. And so like my beard I got plenty of brown hair towards the the tips of the beard. You could remember those halcyon days.

Yeah, well, and then you trace that single hair back and then you're like, oh, like four inches up. It kind of starts going gray and then like eight inches up. It's pure white. That was when we start doing the podcast. Pretty much, yeah. It's wet, straight, white. The stress, it'll kill you. Podcasting is not for the faint of heart. It's funny to hear stuff like that. Life will kill you ultimately. Oh, yeah, that's nobody. A lot of die. Don't live. Pretty much. Pretty much.

And that is where a lot of this stuff gets lost in the shuffle, where people want to start fighting about crazy stuff and it's like, Well, how do you want to live? That's the question? It's like, Well, what you're doing kill you. I mean, there's a lot of people, I'm assuming, that think it's crazy for the people that voluntarily go into the military.

I know a people a lot of people think racecar drivers are crazy, although the safety has gotten a lot better, it's still you're doing a job that, you know, things could go horribly wrong in an instant, yet they still do it and love it because that's living not. Yep. You know, if you just want to sit in a room and hide your whole life, well, okay, you might live a little longer. A little, probably not, because there's other health problems associated with that.

But this concept of, no, no, we have to we have to clear the country of all guns. There was the former prime minister of Japan was assassinated in Japan, an area where guns. Is technically not dead yet. But no, I thought he was. I thought he was. Let's see. I thought that he was in a coma. Dies after being shot. Dies. Okay. All right. My last last I saw was he was in a coma. Yeah. I mean, this is this is the kind of insanity that goes on even in Japan.

Who was disarmed after you know we dropped the bomb on the moral standing. It was a it was a shotgun. Yes. With shotguns are allowed. Yeah. With you know. With shotguns. Ironically or maybe not ironically. I know the shotguns rarely used in the United States for mass murder. Much easier to commit mass murder with a shotgun. I really don't understand why they're not as popular for mass murders. Because the news pushes those AR 15 so everybody thinks that's what you want. It's really not.

The Air 15 uses a fairly small round. The reason that the US military adopted that round, the 2 to 3 or the five, five, six round, depending on which measurement you use, is actually an analysis of post World War Two. It was determined that it is better to wound the man and take 2 to 3 people out that are rescuing him than to kill a man who will be left on the battlefield. So if you want to maximize the amount of your enemy not shooting back at you, you have to go for wounds, not deaths.

And the best way to do that is by using what amounts to a 22 caliber bullet, which is what a the air 15 uses. It's a it's that diameter. It's slightly larger than the small tattoos that maybe people shot. But but it's only longer. It's not wider. So it's a 2 to 3 bullet. And the intent of that using a round like that was twofold. One, more wounding than killing and two more rounds because it's lighter to be able to be carried by an infantryman.

So if because in World War Two and previous wars, all countries use traditional hunting rifle rounds which are significantly bigger. Like in the U.S., it would have been a 3030 round, which I think the them one rifles used. And so there was a these two problems were solved going to a smaller round.

So what that means is if you're using a rifle that is chambered in the same round like an air 15 is, you're basically doing a you're trying to be a mass murderer by using a gun in rounds that were utilized by the military, not to not to kill, but to maim. You're you're making your job harder if you use either larger rounds that are more typical of hunting rounds. Most of those shots would be death shots. They wouldn't be wounds that could be treated.

You know, Kyle Rittenhouse took out that that guy that was attacking him, his bicep, had that been a larger caliber round, he would have probably taken out his entire arm and cracked the bone. And, you know, the guy would have bled out very quickly and been dead because it was a smaller round coming out of there. 15. He certainly caused physical trauma, but that trauma didn't lead to the death of that person. And with the shotgun, you have two options.

You can have an even larger sized projectile at a slug, which is usually one ounce led, uh, you know, bullet shaped or potentially a big round ball bury the ball bearing shape round that will put a very large hole into somebody.

And even if you don't hit a major organ the size, the hole, the wound channel that you're causing is going to bleed out that person very quickly, very, very high probability of death, even if you're not accurate or you could be shooting buckshot, which are bibs basically that are packed into a single round. And there you have a much wider cone of death because it's you know, it's the idea there is it's not going to go as far and it's not going to be as accurate. But there's a lot more rounds.

So you're basically shooting the equivalent of eight or maybe even up to 12 bullets that are about the size of what a what an AR 15 has. Well, it's spray and pray just with one shot. Yeah. And then there's a whole lot of prey happening because at the, the distances you're talking about and all these mass murdering situations, you're close.

The only one that was from a large distance was the Vegas shooting, which really didn't seem like a mass murder situation, but more of a gun deal gone, bad situation. There was a lot of inconsistencies, a lot of weird things with that Vegas shooting, right. Until this kid in in Highland Park who went up on the roof. Yeah. Well, from the how tall of a roof. I think it was like a three story building. Yeah. I mean, even a three story building. You're close enough with a shotgun.

You're going to kill people during that. It had better coverage. You might have had much more people getting hit. The other thing is that this this latest shooting is he did not use any air 15, even though that was what was reported initially. What he used that looks like was actually kind of a cool rifle, but not a really good quality one that is foldable. And just stick it in. Well, I mean, he dressed. Made my clothes. So we're right back to manned by it's made by Caltech.

They are known for making mediocre quality but very innovative guns. They've always are coming up with interesting concept for guns like. They have a pump action shotgun that that had like two I don't think that two barrels I think it has one barrel but two different chambers, uh, for storing rounds. So it's somewhat unusual.

But anyway, the bottom line is, yes, if you're going to be at a big distance like the Vegas shooter or the shooter at the the the mass murder in Texas, you're in university in Texas many, many years ago. Then you want that distance. But even still, you would do much better using a hunting rifle, which nobody ever talks about banning then you would in, you know, an air 15 style gun.

And there are variants like there are ten uses larger size rounds from a gun that looks visually very similar to an they are 15. So you could you could go that route. But I think mostly people buy these guns because they look cool. Well, not because they're actually the best tool for the job, right? Well, it's because that's what the news told them they should be using. In movies, and that's what the military uses.

So you're thinking like, Oh, be cool, good luck buying the new mil three guns, the new Army contract that's got two arms for their new hybrid rifle. First of all, uses first of all, the gun right now is going for about $5,000 down in the civilian version. I got to imagine the military version is even more expensive. But in the civilian version, it's they're going for about five grand, which is, you know, single shot. So there's no model fire.

And the the ammunition that it uses right now is not soft, reloadable and very hard to get because it uses a a new relatively new technology by a metal cartridge that has a much higher PSA pressure inside the cartridge. So the cartridge can't just be a typical brass cartridge. So good luck emulating and LARPing that gun. It's going to be very expensive, at least for a while, maybe ten, 15 years from now, those prices will have come down, or maybe the inflation will have made it.

So a $5,000 gun is what isn't totally normal. Maybe. Because that's what all the guns are. The Sig Sauer makes nice stuff that's I've got the the P 320 which is the civilian version of the military pistol. That is too funny. That's exactly the same one. That gun that dude named Ben just talked about buying. Nice. That's a nice, nice pistol. Mm. My wife, Cassie, a small hands has a little p 365. I mean, some of these guns look like toys, man. I mean, they. Do do. This kind of scary.

You got to know what's real and what's going on. History is clearly appealing to children by making guns looking like toys. Yes, obviously. Don't be spreading those rumors, ma'am. Obviously, you should have got you should learn how to use it. You should treat it with the respect that it deserves. Yeah, but you deserve to be able to protect yourself.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I get maybe there are people who wouldn't want to carry it around, but having one at home, you know, if somebody breaks in your house. Yeah, the police are a few minutes away and you might not have that. Kind of stuff. Police are half an hour away. Let's face if you're lucky. Yeah. And their drill job, as we saw with the the mass shooting in the school previously is not to actually stop the shooter. Their job is to collect evidence after the fact.

Well, yes, we can prosecute or not or not. All the states. May be like this kid in Highland Park killed. I don't think there's any question that he's a psych case. Yeah. And I'm just surprised. I guess he jumped in to his mom's car, drove to Wisconsin, ditched his cell phone up in Wisconsin, but he was planning on going to shoot up a parade or something in Wisconsin as well, and then just decided to turn around and come home, which it's like, you know, you're going to get caught, right?

I mean, I don't know the whole turning around and home thing, but again, psych case. So I think the only question with the mass shooting is whether you die afterwards by either suicide or police or whether you survive it and are in prison for life. Or maybe, you know, I don't know how many states have the death penalty these days. Illinois doesn't.

So I mean, again, you're taking away the stick. You know, but either way, it's like you can't you know, it's totally different to do a mass shooting like that than like I remember the D.C. sniper that we had who was trying to stay hidden and he wasn't shooting up. You know, dozens of people all at once. He was shooting. Cars, right? One person at a time. Yeah. And it turned out to be a black dude. So that was not. You know, not good for the. Narrative. Not good for the narrative. Exactly.

You can't you can't have a story about the black guy with it. You can have a story about the kid who is a fan of Nancy Pelosi and have faith statues with again, like these are counter-narrative stories. Is anybody seen at one mainstream media site that oh, he followed Joe Biden, the Nancy Pelosi on Twitter. There are spewing hate in that the midst some to go shoot people up. Hey one last thing I want to talk about before we wrap up, is that the whole Georgia Stones? Yeah, yeah. What's your take?

I had never heard of them before, so I have really little to say about them. Well, I've definitely heard. And they were there's always a big question as to exactly who paid for and or built them, which I don't know that we've ever found out. I think they've been around since the 80 use. Maybe it's been a long time. I can't remember exactly. But interesting art project, no question. Very little. The Stonehenge.

The idea was that these are going to survive and guide the next generation post-nuclear nuclear war into what to do. And of course, they couldn't even survive a stick of dynamite after 4th of July. I mean. Right? Yeah. It's like, yeah, guys, you probably made them out of the wrong material, but the messaging on them was definitely quite. Uh. Globalists, globalists. Yeah, absolutely. And, and quite hated by people that are not globalists and are freethinking individualists.

And so I certainly am not sad to see them go. I'm curious as to who managed to do it, and I'm wondering if this will end up being sort of seen the future in the history books as the first battle cry of the Anti-Globalist movement. As more things with globalism end up being destroyed, potentially people as well, or whether this will be seen as, you know, the first act of terrorism, a string of terrorist actions, you're exactly right.

In the United States, it all depends on who writes the history books and who ends up winning the conflict. Everybody's either a terrorist or a freedom fighter, depending on who you ask. True, the Nazis in Ukraine were and still are being portrayed by the United States as the liberators of Ukraine from Russian rule, not so much by the people of Ukraine who are currently welcoming the Russians or liberating them from the Nazis.

And the last years of basically their country being used as a slush fund for Western politicians, as a the black webs operating headquarters, as as the place that was simply being used and without having any real impact on what the people of Ukraine wanted, the countries resources were utilized and sold to the West, and meanwhile complete corruption in its political and banking systems ensured that all politicians from all parties

had a safe haven to do these black deals and they're still doing it. I mean, Biden, when Biden sends $50 billion to Ukraine, what does that mean? Well, first of all, it that most of that is sent in equipment and items not in cash. And so that is a a payout to the corporations that manufacture that stuff. It is payment to the industrial military, uh, companies out there, the right that's your military complex.

So that stale revenue, since we haven't been in a war with the U.S. since we shut down Afghanistan, Biden needed to sacrifice at the altar of of the industrial military complex. And that sacrifice was, don't worry, we're not using shit up in in Afghanistan, but we'll do two things. One is we'll leave all our gear in Afghanistan. So you'll have to re manufacture it. And the US government will buy all replacement plants. Your enemies could use it against you. Well, but that part doesn't matter.

What matters is then we need to churn. That's exactly right. We need to turn the military production capabilities and now sending stuff to Ukraine's doing the exact same thing. And what's happening to the gear that's showing up is either it's getting blown up by Russian rockets or it's instantly being brought right out of the country, sold on the black market and available for purchase to anybody else who wants it.

And I've seen tons of ammo already coming like us manufactured ammo being sold out of Ukraine have literally advertisements in my inbox for that stuff. It's available. It's not being utilized in Ukraine, it is coming into the country and somebody is making money off of it. It's a scam. It's total scam. And whatever is going as direct cash payments to rebuild the infrastructure is the exact same Ponzi scheme. It's it's leaving the U.S. Treasury.

It's going to Ukraine where slices shaved off reprocessing fees, and then the remainder is being sent back to the politicians that authorized the transfers as payments. You know, for this, this is a service Ukraine's providing they're providing a money laundering service. Let us hold your gold, bro. Yeah, well, Poland, they're happy to do that. As should be those evil Poland's people. Poland's people.

Well, the pull the polish, I think ultimately and I literally said this from day one and I said this before I started banning any Polish people from my account is you have nothing to worry about because Poland will get western Ukraine. That was always part of the deal. But the way they're acting, they might be screwing themselves out of getting western Ukraine. Gold filled pierogies for all. And with that. We'll be back next week on Friday with another unrelenting.