SPEAKER_03: 0:25

Well, how'd you been? How are you today? I'm doing well, Gene. Yourself?

SPEAKER_00: 0:29

Oh, I'm doing great. I'm still running Emoto.

SPEAKER_03: 0:33

Yeah, okay. And haven't had to touch a damn thing in a year. Uh-huh. Well, good for you. Not everyone has that experience with that product.

SPEAKER_00: 0:42

Uh-huh. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_03: 0:45

I'm doing well. Yeah. Anyway, Gene's referring to because something happened in Unify on the road, and I had to change a few things around before we got started.

SPEAKER_00: 0:56

Sounds like a firmware update, but all your settings, right?

SPEAKER_03: 1:00

Yeah, but see, with the Motu, there's no longer any firmware updates. Exactly. And that's a unsupported device. Hey, it's a feature, not a bug.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09

Uh so's Windows 10. And yet 67% of all people running Windows are on Windows 10 right now.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16

Well, I wish I was. I'm still I'm on 11 because I bought this PC with it, but but I actually have hope of getting the Rode working on Linux.

SPEAKER_00: 1:28

That would be something, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_03: 1:29

Because I don't have to do any multi-channel bullshit with this.

SPEAKER_00: 1:33

That's true. Yeah, you're using it uh straight material.

SPEAKER_03: 1:37

So I'm gonna try it out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:40

Yeah, yeah. Definitely you should. And if you do, you should make a post on Reddit or something. So that when people do a search for how the fuck do you make this work, you can explain.

SPEAKER_03: 1:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I think the in fact, I could even make the case to Mr. Curry to downgrade from his road.

SPEAKER_01: 2:02

Yeah, break him too.

SPEAKER_03: 2:03

Break his show. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_00: 2:05

What's that? Nothing. No, it didn't say anything. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Hey, break the new agenda show. At least if you break this show, the casualty is pretty minor. But if you break no agenda, you're gonna have people mad at you. People mad at me? Why? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

unknown: 2:22

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 2:22

Telling Curry could go, oh, Linux works great. You should get on Linux again.

SPEAKER_03: 2:27

Uh-huh. That'll be something. All right. So it's kind of been a pretty heavy news week, dude.

SPEAKER_01: 2:34

It's been a bit of a week, but then again, so's every week.

SPEAKER_03: 2:40

I mean, yeah, insurrection act incoming.

SPEAKER_00: 2:43

Hopefully. We're hoping, right?

SPEAKER_03: 2:46

Yeah. We can hope.

SPEAKER_01: 2:50

So, where shall we start?

SPEAKER_03: 2:54

Well, do you want to start with pregnancies in space?

SPEAKER_00: 2:58

Yes, because that's one I didn't read. So, you tell me what's going on.

SPEAKER_03: 3:02

So, they evacuated the the crew off of the I International Space Station early because of a quote unquote medical emergency that's undisclosed. Oh, we know what that means. What? Pregnancy. Yeah. I think the chick got pregnant. Of course. The one girl up there getting gangbanged constantly. Finally got pregnant.

SPEAKER_00: 3:26

Kinda, you know, there is an OnlyFans channel. Just saying. There's an OnlyFans channel, what? Zero G Sucks.

SPEAKER_03: 3:33

Really?

SPEAKER_00: 3:34

Oh yeah. But girls don't make that much money working for NASA, does she? Come on now. What you think she does? Dude, I don't think astronauts make over buck fifty.

SPEAKER_03: 3:47

Okay. But I I don't think NASA would allow one of their astronauts to have a lot of.

SPEAKER_00: 3:53

Oh, there's been so many videos from out there. You know, they're bouncing off of the satellites that Adam Curry built. All that shit.

SPEAKER_03: 3:59

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 4:00

You know, the homebrews. The homebrew satellites.

SPEAKER_03: 4:02

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 4:04

Doing Morse code in space and everything.

SPEAKER_03: 4:06

No, but seriously, it's like, why won't they just tell us what the you know?

SPEAKER_00: 4:12

Well, what the issue is. Obviously, it is not an issue with the space station itself, because then you would have had news like space station has leaks and everybody had to be evacuated. This is this is clearly a something happened to one person.

SPEAKER_03: 4:28

And they're coming, they're bringing a whole bunch home early.

SPEAKER_00: 4:31

Yeah. And if you look at the interior of the space station, it's basically similar to a insane asylum soft room. Yeah, there's there's bags lining every single wall. So if you're gonna bounce off something, it's not gonna be something sharp. Now maybe somebody was pooping and the vacuum turned up a little higher than normal or something. Pulled all their guts out. You never know.

SPEAKER_03: 4:59

I think they would have rushed home in a faster period of time than they did.

SPEAKER_02: 5:04

That's the other thing, is they didn't just hit the evacuation button and go, right? It wasn't like that kind of medical emergency.

SPEAKER_00: 5:11

So you're saying you can't use the toilet vacuum cleaner for an abortion up there. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01: 5:19

I'm just saying, I don't know, man. I it's it's you know, space. The laws don't apply up there.

SPEAKER_00: 5:27

I don't know how this stuff works.

SPEAKER_03: 5:30

Anyway, as into space as you are, I figured this would be a story you would know about.

SPEAKER_00: 5:35

Did not pop up on the space feeds that I normally get. So it must have been something. It must be covered up. That's probably a conspiracy. Where'd you see it? An X or somewhere else?

SPEAKER_03: 5:47

No, I heard about it on No Agenda, actually.

SPEAKER_00: 5:50

Oh, well, there you go. It's it's clearly covered up. Hey, speaking of No Agenda, I was watching Alex Jones today.

SPEAKER_03: 5:59

Yeah, you sent me a link, but by the time I saw it, I couldn't go back and watch it. There's no way to rewind.

SPEAKER_00: 6:05

I know, that's that's an annoying feature, isn't it? It it's brutal. Alex does his show when everybody's working. Right. And who, so who the hell's gonna watch it? Except guys like me.

SPEAKER_02: 6:18

Yeah, the unemployed.

SPEAKER_00: 6:19

Uh-huh. Exactly. Still looking. So yeah, you had Nick Fuentes on.

unknown: 6:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 6:27

The the gay Mexican Jew who's a white supremacist.

SPEAKER_03: 6:31

That you that you are probably now pissed at Alex for platforming.

SPEAKER_00: 6:36

Alex actually pushed them back on like the normal platformers. He said, Come on, dude. We know you like you like all this trolling, rage baiting shit, but you don't actually believe this shit, right? And they could just sit there with a big shit eaten grin, like, well, you know, if you look, if you look, the Jews have been responsible for a lot of stuff. While he's smiling. Yeah, I think uh, and then the the comments was the real the real bonus there because the comments are something else. First of all, it's Alex Jones in general on X. Right? So you gotta understand your audience. Comments range from I was a part of the Stargate program for the government, and now I'm going and disclosing everything that I know about the program to people saying, like, I like Nick Fuentes, I think he says a lot of the right stuff, except when it comes to black people. Okay. I mean, it was like you know, you're paying attention more to the comments scrolling than you are to the actual conversation that the two guys are having. And and I I think, in as much as I think uh Nick Fuentes needs to tone down his rhetoric a little bit and people need to stop taking him seriously, there's nothing wrong with a guy like Nick Fuentes being out there because there are plenty of people that are happy to believe what he's saying and give him money, and as long as he doesn't believe in himself, I'm okay with it.

SPEAKER_02: 8:12

Why why can't he believe it himself?

SPEAKER_00: 8:15

Well, because you don't want somebody that is a genuinely uh how do I phrase this nicely? Because I don't think he's as stupid as he pretends to be, but you don't want a genuinely stupid person getting too popular because that tells you something about the state of the country that we're currently in.

SPEAKER_02: 8:38

Well, I hate to tell you, but it tells us something about the state of the country.

SPEAKER_00: 8:43

Well it is, but but you know, there's a there's a difference though between stupid and you know brain damage. Like Biden clearly was brain damaged. Biden 30 years ago was talking about getting getting rid of the wetbacks, and he used the word wetbacks. So before they took his brain out, there was something there.

SPEAKER_02: 9:10

Which he literally said they did.

SPEAKER_00: 9:12

Well, they did. It's incontrovertible. I'm not trying to, you know, make light of the fact the guy had three brain surgeries, three. Count them. So what's left? All right, we got you. Now, how they make him, you know, for those two times in the debates against Trump, how they made him be so animated, that's what I want to know. Like, what kind of drugs was he on?

SPEAKER_02: 9:35

Well, I mean, the the problem is the the second debate, he he wasn't.

SPEAKER_00: 9:42

Well, yeah, the second one. But the but the one that and the one that was previous, he did really good.

SPEAKER_03: 9:49

So anyway, I don't know if I'd say really good, but okay.

SPEAKER_00: 9:52

Well, he did a lot better than people expected him to do, which I think made people impressed that maybe he actually isn't all gone.

SPEAKER_02: 10:01

He he was refried and toasted, and you combine that with a TDS.

SPEAKER_00: 10:05

Anyway, so you you got to watch Nick Fuente's what all did he have to say? I mean, I was mostly reading the comments. It wasn't anything new, there was literally nothing new, it was just a rehash of what Nick's previously talked about and been asked, and Alex Jones talking about how there's people out there that just you know they don't realize that some people take this stuff seriously and then they'll show up to your house and want to kill you. It's like, well, yeah, dude, but that's it goes around, comes around on both sides. There's there's guys that showed up to Nick's house, and then there are people that you know showed up and killed, actually killed a guy that Nick was talking badly about. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's I I think this is the lesson that I'm seeing Nick learning from last year is that when he was a very marginalized character that people just sort of referred to, but nobody was actually watching except for gropers. Gropers. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I said gropers, except for them. But once he started getting some more publicity and more people are paying attention to him that don't fit that general basement dwelling incel stereotype, you know, I think he's realizing that he wants that attention and he wants that money from normal people too. And to accomplish that, he needs to start messaging away from what he's been doing. And if he's successful, he'll still be edgy, but he'll be edgy within the mainstream instead of outside the mainstream. And that's the difference between making 200 grand off YouTube and 20 million off YouTube in a year.

SPEAKER_05: 12:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 12:03

So I think Nick wants the money, is the bottom line.

SPEAKER_03: 12:07

Okay, so Nick wants the money.

SPEAKER_00: 12:09

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. So that was his appearance on Alex Jones. And oh, did you see Alex's I mean he's he's diversifying, he keeps selling more and more stuff.

SPEAKER_02: 12:26

What's he selling now?

SPEAKER_00: 12:27

So the latest thing that I haven't seen.

SPEAKER_02: 12:31

I know he was doing the tallow.

SPEAKER_00: 12:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was doing that, which was cool. I think we discovered that while we were recording. No, no, he's selling now ammonia. Okay. You know, like a lot of weight listers use it. Guys in training just do a quick, quick breath of ammonia before you pump the weight. For what? It has a very it wakes you up a lot. It's it's got awful smelling. Yeah, I mean Yeah, it's basically like smelling salt. Yeah, yeah. But it it's meant to be that sort of very bitter smell that just wakes you up. And and I don't know if I've ever heard anyone talk about the the biology of it, but I have heard a lot of weightlifters talk about how great it works. So it could be all in their heads, or it could be chemical.

SPEAKER_05: 13:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 13:33

But the idea is that you like and the way he's selling it was hilarious because he's it's it looks like a fairly decent sized container. And it's not like you can pour it out. I mean it's it's like powdered form, right? It's like an inert concoction of it. Not inert, but you know what I mean. It's like dehydrated ammonia. And dehydrated cat piss, got it. And so he hey, uh, as somebody who has to clean up snake piss, which is in solid form, which is pure uric acid, yeah, yeah. Let me tell you, that's worse than cat piss. Fair enough. Okay. So it it's yeah, I won't even go there. But amazingly, fruit flies don't seem to mind it, they don't mind the smell. Because I tried killing fruit flies with it, and it didn't work.

SPEAKER_03: 14:27

Okay, nope.

SPEAKER_00: 14:29

I ate a banana, I put the the peel in the trash. I saw that there's some fruit flies that obviously were born from the peel that were buzzing around, and I happened to be cleaning up after the snake, and I was like, this is totally gonna kill him. You can't be around this. I put that in the trash, tied it off so there's no more outside air. Little fuckers didn't care. They're still alive in there a week later. Anyway, so so the way he's selling the product is like this stuff will never go bad, it will never spoil. In fact, you'll never need to buy more than one bottle, it'll last you your whole life. It's just a brilliant sales pitch.

SPEAKER_03: 15:10

Why is that a brilliant sales pitch?

SPEAKER_00: 15:12

Because it's hilarious, because everybody, when you learn about sales, everybody says never say shit like that, even if it's true. Because the way you make money is on repeat customers, not one-off customers. Yeah, so if if something's gonna last forever, do not ever tell that to people because some of them will automatically, by default, not knowing any better, will just assume it's spoils and we'll keep reordering it from you. And he's literally alive on there saying, Yeah, this stuff will never go bad. You just buy a bottle, last you forever until you're dead. So, anyway, I thought it was pretty damn funny. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 15:53

I just don't know why anyone would huff ammonia.

SPEAKER_03: 15:57

Well, yeah, I'm sure that there's by the way, don't ever mix ammonia-based cleaners and Clorox. Yeah. Don't it's a good way to make chlorine gas.

SPEAKER_00: 16:07

It is, yeah. And it might smell good at first, but it's not good for you, so don't breathe it. Mm-hmm. I do like the smell of chlorine gas.

unknown: 16:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 16:21

I also like the smell of skunk. I don't know. I've got a weird smell.

SPEAKER_03: 16:24

That that yes, you there's something wrong with you.

SPEAKER_00: 16:29

I just don't find it to be unpleasant. I mean, it's not like I would wear a skunk cologne or something, although if somebody made it, that'd be a funny gag gift. But I just don't find that smell to it all be unpleasant.

SPEAKER_03: 16:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 16:42

Unlike snake poop. Or snake piss, rather. Which is in sod form. It's like a thick chalk.

SPEAKER_03: 16:52

But all right, uh, thank you, Gene.

SPEAKER_00: 16:54

Okay. Thank you. Uh uh, hopefully you're nobody's eating while they're listening to this.

SPEAKER_03: 16:58

Right. I feel bad for everybody who is.

SPEAKER_00: 17:01

Yeah, yeah. Content warning.

SPEAKER_03: 17:03

Hey, PNY SATA 3 SSDs. Yeah. 4TB for 249 at Walmart. At Walmart? At Walmart. Cheapest. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 17:15

Say that what size?

SPEAKER_03: 17:17

4TB. Four terabyte. SATA 3 SSD. Yeah. For 249.

SPEAKER_00: 17:24

Okay, well, that makes sense because the SATA 3 ones are really slow compared to the M2s.

SPEAKER_03: 17:30

Right, but for instance, Crucial is 348 for the same drive. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 17:36

So it actually wouldn't be a bad thing to stick into like an external meaning like my direct attached storage that I have.

SPEAKER_03: 17:44

Like one of those. Currently running on hard drives, so that would be an incredible speed upgrade.

SPEAKER_00: 17:48

That would be a huge speed upgrade compared to a hard drive, absolutely. That is very true. And four terabytes, something to sneeze at. I mean, I'm sure the hard drives bigger than that in there, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 17:59

No, the hard drives are two terabytes.

SPEAKER_00: 18:01

Oh, well, damn.

SPEAKER_03: 18:03

Yeah. Now there are two terabyte enterprise black edition western digitals that I had to add.

SPEAKER_00: 18:10

Well, yeah. But anyway. Yeah, it's not a bad deal. Browse. Yeah, I mean, I'm glad you're so bored that you're just browser. Well, I mean, you talk about snake piss. Well, that's interesting. People enjoy hearing about that topic.

SPEAKER_03: 18:26

Okay. So after space pregnancy and then Nick Fuentes, anything more to say about Nick Fuentes?

SPEAKER_00: 18:33

Nah, nah not really. I mean, it's it's what what was funny is that both Alex and Nick were talking about how insane Candace Owens is. That that is ironic. I think it's funny as hell. And again, I think it's part of the Nick becoming more mainstream strategy. I think he's getting media training. I think he has hired people to teach him how to be somebody that could be more mainstream and make a lot more money. And you know, like he's looking at Tucker. He's like, hey, I could be Tucker. I could be making 20 million a year. And he's right, he probably could. There's nothing that Tucker does or says that Nick couldn't. Right. I mean, that's mostly thanks to Tucker going insane and speaking the same shit that Nick is, but still, it's like there's no reason that Nick ought to be making a tenth as much as Tucker.

SPEAKER_03: 19:32

Okay. I I guess. Like, I I don't think either one of them should be like Tucker's built up his reputation over a long period of time, so that's a little different. But like I I just I I personally do not get the appeal of Nick Fuentes.

SPEAKER_00: 19:50

Well, he's funny. Everybody, even people that don't like him, will say he's funny. He sure he is a constant joker. Some of those jokes land, some of them don't. Some of them are quite offensive, but some of them are not. But it's you know, he's like the comedian who's not self deprecating. Okay. Right? Because most comics are self deprecating. They have very low self esteem. That's how you become a comedian. But some comedians work the whole non self deprecating, like Andrew Dice Clay is a good example. Much like Nick, also a Jewish man. You know, somebody that that their whole shtick and kind of there are a lot of funny Jewish comedians, I'll grant you that. Are you calling Jews funny now? Is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_03: 20:36

They're hilarious.

SPEAKER_00: 20:37

Okay. That's funny because that's what Nick said too. That was his number one positive aspect about Jews when he was asked, was the well, they're really funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 20:50

So anyway.

SPEAKER_00: 20:53

You know, I I just I I wish him well. I just hope he he grows up a little bit and then uh and then he'll be rich and he'll he'll start getting his seven thousand dollars per post on X.

SPEAKER_03: 21:09

Well, we'll see about that. But uh so do you want to go to Iran or Little Somalia?

SPEAKER_00: 21:17

Let's go to Iran. Dude. So my main complaint about Iran or Iran is that the voice recognition software does not fucking know the difference between Iran somewhere, as in movement, and I ran the country. Like it completely puts the wrong thing every time I say Iran or Iran, even, into text of speech every time it just says capital I space R A N. What's your maybe you shouldn't use Apple? Ooh, maybe. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03: 21:57

Just try it's in pronounce it Iran and it'll do fine.

SPEAKER_00: 22:01

I say Iran and it's not fine. It doesn't understand what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03: 22:05

Well, then that's that's uh that's an Apple thing. Because I'll I I can do it right now.

SPEAKER_00: 22:10

If I do Iran, it goes into Iran.

SPEAKER_03: 22:13

It does a so I just said Iran into my voice speech. I got Iran.

SPEAKER_00: 22:18

Well, mine spells Iran in Gaelic. Because that's a Gaelic word as well. So it thinks I'm speaking Gaelic when I say Iran, which is crazy. So, yeah, let's talk about it. So, what where we left things off last week was we were both quite excited about the probability of an actual revolution happening there, and the citizens of Iran taking over and kicking out the government that really came in there back in 1979 illegitimately in a hostile takeover and getting their country back. Now, there's still very much riots going on. They had a blank uh blank out of the internet, which way slowed down the amount of videos coming out of the country to the point of even jamming Starlink. Right, right, allegedly. I don't know if they are. I mean, I guess you could just broadcast in that same frequency just garbage and you know it it should jam it to some extent anyway. It's not like it's an unknown frequency they use.

SPEAKER_03: 23:33

Yeah, I mean they can't they can't just constantly frequency shift, right?

SPEAKER_00: 23:38

So not gonna happen, yeah, not enough.

SPEAKER_03: 23:41

Well, no, because they only have so much spectrum, exactly, right? They're limited by the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00: 23:45

Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. So, you know, there is that there's also of the videos that were coming out, there's a lot more videos with gunfire in them. And it's not the protesters, it's the government's response to the protests.

SPEAKER_03: 24:02

Yep. Well, and they're making people pay for the bullets to kill their loved ones, right? Because they pick up the bodies, really, yeah. Wow, like they're literally making people pay to pick up the bodies.

SPEAKER_00: 24:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_03: 24:16

At least what's been reported.

SPEAKER_00: 24:18

Okay, I guess there are some things to admire about how they do things. But I it's a brilliant policy, man. I love that.

SPEAKER_04: 24:25

I really think that's a good policy.

SPEAKER_00: 24:28

Yeah, I remember when I was watching the movie Brazil, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. That same policy where the the family had to pay for the cost of the apprehension of the criminal that that's in their family, I thought, well, this solves a lot of problems.

SPEAKER_03: 24:51

Yeah. You know, it gets families to enforce shit.

SPEAKER_00: 24:54

It gets and and that's the thing, right? So if you turn them in, then the reward is equal to the payment that you would have to make for apprehension. So you it's a no-cost thing to you. If you don't turn them in, well, you're gonna pay for the apprehension. That might bankrupt you. So I don't know. Good policy. I like it. I dig it.

SPEAKER_03: 25:39

Yeah. Well, anyway, it it looks like we were moving stuff into the area, like there was a lot of activity. Looked like we were gonna do some airstrikes, and then all of a sudden, threats going out, that's for sure. Then all of a sudden we backed off. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 26:03

Well, we do know that a lot of Trump's strategy is posturing, it's it's a combination of posturing along with surprise strategy to where he'll say three or four different contradictory things to get you off your game, and then you have no idea what he's actually thinking. So that is in line with what he's done in the past. Because he's he's said he said a lot of things. Now, the one thing also we know is we've now officially had confirmation from Mossad about what they're doing there, which is you know, they're supplying people with way to reconnect to the internet, probably Starlink is the most easy way to do that. They're providing some nation of information, they're organizing some folks, but they're not bringing any guns in. And I think that's gonna be a PR thing. Like, for this revolution to stick, it's gonna have to look like it wasn't an overthrow done by the US and Israel. Right. So it's gonna have to look a lot more like the vast overwhelming majority of the people just through sheer willpower toppled a government.

SPEAKER_03: 27:25

Well, and I think they've got a pretty good chance. Yeah, I think so. I I think the US is talking to Iran and saying, hey, Khomeini, you and your son get out.

SPEAKER_00: 27:41

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_03: 27:42

While you have a chance to leave before you saw what we did to you know Venezuela, yeah, don't make us do it again.

SPEAKER_00: 27:48

Yeah. Yeah, I think I think you're right about that. They're really trying to encourage them to leave. China has expressed a little bit of cooling towards Iran. No surprise there. So the you know, people are saying, well, that he's gonna go to Russia, he's gonna go to China. I don't know that either one of those is open right now. I think Russia doesn't want to stir up the Islamists and China. Well, you know, they're a fair weather friend. China will always be friendly when they can see a future where they are getting something from you and will completely ghost you if that changes. So Iran definitely looks like the only friend that it has are the blue-haired nose-ring protesters in the United States and in Europe, who are all protesting this revolution because they now support totalitarian regimes, I guess. Maybe they've always supported them.

SPEAKER_03: 29:01

Yeah. Well, that that's kind of the thing, right? Is that they have and uh did you watch Timcast yesterday at all?

SPEAKER_00: 29:12

Not now, I watched it the day before.

SPEAKER_03: 29:15

So had the really attractive Jewish girl on there, so you might want to watch it. I don't remember her name.

SPEAKER_00: 29:21

I watch them all, I'm sure I've seen her.

SPEAKER_03: 29:24

They they they did a my pillow ad based off of her breasts. No, they did not. They they did, they made the joke. Oh boy, yeah, because of super chatter, and anyway, it was funny. But you know, even she, which is conservative, but more of a neocon, you know, talked about putting in a different dictator. Like, don't worry about giving them democracy, put in a pro-US dictator, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think, like even in Venezuela, I think that's the direction we're going. Hey, we don't care what you do as long as you're on our side and make us look good.

SPEAKER_04: 30:02

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00: 30:03

So well, no, and speaking of the dictators, the the name that I've seen floating the most from people that are, you know, like me posting a lot about the revolution on X is the prince who's living in France. Well, okay, he's splitting his time between France and Washington, D.C. He actually has a place in DC as well. But I was I was watching one of my favorite CIA agents, and he said that this guy is not well connected except for rich people. He doesn't really represent the the people of Iran. He was like five years old when he left. He's never been there. Well, obviously, duh. So it's really very symbolic, but it was Erin Wexler. Aaron Wexler? Okay.

SPEAKER_05: 30:56

I'll have to check that out. I don't think I do watch her. She's cute.

SPEAKER_00: 31:03

Alright. Now you got me curious. How do you spell her first name?

SPEAKER_05: 31:10

A R Y N N E.

SPEAKER_00: 31:15

Okay. So he seems to be the Crown Prince as the the preposition. Now, Trump tweeted out on True Social that people keep bringing that guy up to him and he doesn't know anything about him. So he's like, I don't know who this guy is. And in response to Trump's tweet, the crown prince himself tweeted a few things and then basically says, Well, here's my plan, Trump. I want to be the last prince of the country and bring in a true democracy and transition to it as soon as we have elections. I want to get rid of all Islamic extremists out of the country. I'm going to recognize Israel and Somaliland. And we're going to destroy all w weapons. I don't think he used the word mass destruction, but all weapons beyond what is, you know, small, small firearms. So basically, all military weapons they're going to destroy.

SPEAKER_03: 32:29

So that's that's the three things he's talking about. He's not going to disarm the country.

SPEAKER_00: 32:33

My point is, this is what he's selling Trump.

SPEAKER_03: 32:36

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 32:37

Now, I don't know if there is somebody else, but I will say that from looking at the the footage from in country that we've seen, there is quite a few people walking around with his portrait. So, and these are people that look like they're way too young to have been alive when the revolution happened in 79. I I remember that revolution, but I think most people are that are in Iran are way younger because they lost a whole generation of people to the Iran-Iraq war. Somebody keeps texting me, what the hell man? Turn that off. Really annoying.

SPEAKER_03: 33:14

Or you should look. So they lost a whole generation of people to the Iran-Iraq War.

SPEAKER_00: 33:20

Yeah. And so the vast majority of Iranians are like 35 and under. There's not a whole lot of Iranians that are my age and older that are left. It's a very young country, which is also why I think it's it's feasible for this revolution to stick. Young people don't value their lives as much as older people, and so they can take more risk.

SPEAKER_03: 33:47

Well, it's not just that, it's the the it's it's all it a good analogy is Gen Z here in the US. If you're a young person in Iran, you can bear but worse, right? You can barely feed yourself.

SPEAKER_04: 34:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 34:00

Because of the inflation rates that have happened. Housing, everything. Like you're already poor and you're you're just totally destroyed through this inflation.

SPEAKER_00: 34:11

Yeah. That is a good point. So I just got on Aaron's Instagram here. Yeah, she could use a nose job.

SPEAKER_01: 34:23

She's Jewish. But yeah, not a bad looking. Not a bad looking girl.

SPEAKER_00: 34:28

All right. So yeah, well, I might have to rewatch the Timcast. Yeah, I generally only catch like one or two Timcasts a week. I don't I don't watch every single one like you do.

SPEAKER_03: 34:38

Yeah, I don't watch every single one. It's just what I put on at night when I'm doing stuff. Yeah. I had to use the cough button. So it's interesting that they closed their airspace and then allowed the no TAM to expire, opened it back up, then closed it again, and then is opening it back up.

SPEAKER_00: 35:00

Yeah, and during the closed airspace, we had several planes from China show up. Yep. Which is also interesting because you would think there'd be planes leaving, but not showing up.

SPEAKER_03: 35:13

Well, but then they left. So it may have very well been an extraction. Khomeini may not be in Iran.

SPEAKER_00: 35:19

It could be, but it I think it might have been negotiations. I think it might have been a last ditch, like, okay, so you sign over all rights to all minerals perpetually to China, and here's what we'll do for you kind of deal.

SPEAKER_03: 35:33

Uh-huh. Well, it's interesting because as this airspace is now reopening back, Trump is saying killing it says killing is stopping. Yeah. So it sounds like there's some negotiations going on.

SPEAKER_00: 35:48

I would hope so. But also I really want this to get done and over with. Because I want to be a tourist in Iran. I love the food. Persian food is my favorite of all the Middle Eastern food. I think it's better than the Arab food. Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 36:07

And it's a it's I flew over a Ram once.

SPEAKER_00: 36:12

Did you? Yeah, interesting. It's a cool country. I mean, it's got like real climate. It's not just a desert. It's got skiing weather. Yeah. You know, you watch some of those videos from the 70s. They look great.

SPEAKER_03: 36:30

Well, in the 70s it was a fairly westernized country.

SPEAKER_00: 36:37

Yeah, absolutely. So I think for a lot of people they're tired of living like the country is getting closer to Afghanistan than it is to the West.

SPEAKER_05: 36:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 36:55

I mean, they're already like Afghanistan in terms of you know women's fashion, but what I mean is their standard of living has been steadily going down, and they're uh in a lot of ways what people are saying called causes the revolution at this point in time is the tremendous devaluation of their currency.

SPEAKER_03: 37:16

Well, and with this payment to the people of seven dollars a month, it's only gonna increase. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 37:25

So yeah, I think it's a great opportunity for Trump. I think a lot of people can get their names in the record books, the history books, for stopping the major cause of violence in the Middle East. And that would go over quite well. Now, slightly on the same topic, but not great news is Saudi Arabia has said that they will not allow any flights over Saudi Arabia or taking off from Saudi Arabia to bomb Iran.

SPEAKER_03: 38:06

Yeah, Qatar and Saudi both pushed back against and UAE against the Trump admin on that one.

SPEAKER_00: 38:14

Yeah. Which is A not something they can do because we control all the military in all three of those countries.

SPEAKER_03: 38:24

Well, and not only that, but what we did do was start sailing an aircraft carrier.

SPEAKER_00: 38:29

Yeah. So yeah, yeah. We did do that. But also, I mean, I I see their point as like, hey, we're just staying out of it. We're not gonna be pointed the finger at saying, because everybody knows Saudi Arabia doesn't like Iran because they're in competition. So they don't want to look like they were the ones that took out Iran and then have somebody try and do jihad on them and then import you know violent extremism to Saudi Arabia the way that well it's been imported into Europe.

SPEAKER_03: 39:08

Let's be clear that if the regime falls, the sycophants are still gonna exist.

SPEAKER_00: 39:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 39:16

They just won't be as well funded.

SPEAKER_00: 39:18

Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I I think that's that's what everyone's banking on is that by removing Iran, you remove the funding, which even if people's minds aren't changed, is going to effectively neuter them. We're just not going to see any kind of massive terrorism operations going on without the funding. And I think that's true. Because it it takes a combination of money and ideas to get people who are a little off in the head to actually do radical actions.

SPEAKER_03: 39:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 39:58

This is why Osama bin Laden was so important. It wasn't so much for his great leadership, it was for his of access to money from Saudi Arabia. So well, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 40:13

So and that's the thing, is e even if you buy the official 9-11 story, which I do not, you know, the Saudis were involved and not just for funding.

SPEAKER_00: 40:29

Well, I'm I'm I'm using your take on World War II for 9 11, which is I don't know exactly what happened in 9-11, but I sure as hell know that the history that we were told is not the right one.

SPEAKER_03: 40:42

Mm-hmm. So I I agree. All I can tell you is when the the NIST report came out about the NIST report came out about the Twin Towers. I was in a I was in a a materials science class and I I read it because, you know, interested. And I never I I I early on I I just believed the government story and I thought my parents were nuts for thinking anything else. And then that missed report came out, and I was like, I took it to my professor, showed it to him, and said as an excerpt, and said, How does this make sense? And he says, It doesn't. And I said, Well, here's where it's from. And he asked me to get out of his office. So there you go.

SPEAKER_00: 41:35

Uh-huh. See, these days you would have a camera to record that interaction and then put it up on the on YouTube or something. Right. But back then, back then he didn't, for sure. Lucky professor got away with it. Yeah, it it's I just I don't see a downside to changing the government of Iran to something much more Western and much more in line with the interests of the people that actually want that that live there that want a government that's more western. Like there's nothing it's it's a foreign government. The the culture of the last 50 years, or however long it's been forty something years in Iran is not Iranian culture. It's not the Persian culture. They're not Muslims. They're Zoroastrians, they're Christians, they're Jews. There were a very multi-religious, proud, ancient people with a long history who basically got taken over by Arab Muslims.

SPEAKER_03: 42:46

Well, and that's yeah, and there are plenty of Persian Muslims too, but you know, that that's the thing is interest in alternative religions, including Zoroastrian, is clearly rising in Iran. They're they're they're ready to go back to a more secular lifestyle.

unknown: 43:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_00: 43:08

Yeah, and you know, if you watch the history of the Soviet Union, which the state religion was atheism, once the Soviet Union collapsed, the rise in interest in all religions, but in particular in Christianity, Orthodox, yeah, was you know, it went through the roof. It was like 90% of the population all of a sudden wanted to be religious because of the repression that was going on. And I think the same thing is gonna happen in Iran. Well because there's plenty of people that were forced to be Muslim that never saw themselves as actually believing in this bullshit, they're just doing it to survive.

SPEAKER_03: 43:51

And it let's be clear whether you think you need religion or not, you do, right? There's an inherent need in the human spirit for religion.

SPEAKER_00: 44:03

Well, I I think at a certain IQ level that's true. I don't think that's universally true across the entire board. But as I mentioned before, I think that you you definitely have a lot more problems in a country with no religion than you do in a country with some religion. Now, it what if it's a choice between no religion and Islam? That's a tough one, dude. That's really a tough one because they both have big downsides. Like no religion has a big downside, and Islam has a big downside. But I would bet that if the Chinese government at some point in their lifetimes also get overthrown, China would become probably the country with the most religious people in it, period. And a lot of them, probably I'd say about 25% end up being Christians. There's there's definitely interest in that. But there's a lot of repression from the government itself. But also there'd be plenty of Buddhists and you know other older religions there as well. There also be some Jews in China, that's for sure. But it's not a it's not something that you can force on people. So that I guess that's the way I would describe it. Is like I think that religion and the option for religion always has to be available. I don't think it should be forced, but it also can't be unavailable.

SPEAKER_03: 45:35

Agreed. You know, it goes back to that whole First Amendment right of freedom of religion.

SPEAKER_00: 45:41

Well, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 45:42

And I would say freedom the First Amendment is all about freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

SPEAKER_00: 45:49

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's I think that's the way that it was written. But the the ide uh if you're saying, well, get your religion out of our schools as as the arguing point, I think it was never about getting religion out of schools. It was about not having a official state religion.

SPEAKER_03: 46:09

It was never about keeping religion out of government, it was about keeping government out of religion.

SPEAKER_00: 46:15

I don't agree with that.

SPEAKER_03: 46:16

I think it was about the the one thing that most of the colonists had in common was they were minority religions in Europe, and when they came out and distrusted Catholicism and Anglicanism, but also minorities within Protestantism.

SPEAKER_00: 46:33

You know, you had Calvinists, you had all these other groups that were not the majority religions.

SPEAKER_03: 46:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 46:39

So Baptists the way that I read that is it's its main intent is to prevent an official state religion. That's now what that implies when you have that as your goal is that you're going to permit a whole bunch of different religions and not have a favorite that the government favors. Now, people can favor one. There could certainly be way more, you know, Quakers than anybody else. I don't see that happening, but it could. But it doesn't mean that there should be no religion. But also people that aren't religious shouldn't really be ostracized either.

SPEAKER_03: 47:19

Mm-hmm. So I actually was baptized by a Quaker pastor.

SPEAKER_00: 47:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 47:26

And Quakers don't believe in baptism.

SPEAKER_00: 47:29

Not a real pastor, then.

SPEAKER_03: 47:31

No, they believe in baptism of the spirit, not by water. And he asked me, Well, why, Ben, do you want to do this? And I said, Well, it's a it's a public declaration of my faith. And that's why I want to do it. So he thought about it and he agreed to do it. And he re-baptized my dad at the same time in the Clearwater River outside of Cameoe, and the entire damn church showed up.

SPEAKER_00: 47:55

The whole commune made it up there, huh?

SPEAKER_03: 47:58

Yep. Nice. At Party Beach on the Clearwater River.

SPEAKER_00: 48:02

And what kind of music did you have playing? None. Really? Okay. Yeah. Breaking my fantasy, dude. Every time somebody talks about baptism, I go back to that scene in oh, what was that movie with Clooney and the other two guys?

SPEAKER_03: 48:18

Go down to the one.

SPEAKER_00: 48:20

That's the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. With the hot chicks all like wet clothes and everything. Uh-huh. Ah, that's what I'm talking about. It's a hot baptism action.

SPEAKER_01: 48:31

You should see the job.

SPEAKER_00: 48:31

I would totally get baptized in the River Jordan. I think that would be fun.

SPEAKER_03: 48:35

You should see the Mormon girls music video for Amazing Grace, my chains are gone.

SPEAKER_00: 48:43

Really?

SPEAKER_03: 48:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 48:45

Okay. I'll do that.

SPEAKER_03: 48:47

You you can Google it after the show.

SPEAKER_00: 48:50

I'll Google it right now if you insist.

SPEAKER_03: 48:52

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 48:55

What Mormon Girl? That's the name of the group?

SPEAKER_03: 48:58

Uh it's something choir. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 49:01

All right. Well, you're gonna have to send me like finding way too many versions of that to dig through all of them. Uh oh, Brigham Young University, maybe?

SPEAKER_03: 49:12

There you go. Yeah, Bringham Young, not Brigham Young.

SPEAKER_00: 49:17

Holy shit, these are hot. Sorry. I mean, you know, they're wearing they're standing knee deep in water wearing white nightgowns, or what looks like white nightgowns. And it's a bunch of college chicks looking age-wise. Alrighty. Yeah, we'll watch that afterwards.

SPEAKER_03: 49:39

Anyway. Yeah. And you just want to see the behind the scenes where one of them slips and falls into the water.

SPEAKER_00: 49:45

Man, I bet you they got some good money on their OnlyFans, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03: 49:48

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Well, but you know, they might be wearing their special underwear gene.

SPEAKER_00: 49:52

They are. I know. And but the when they're standing in the water and wearing their special underwear, that's what makes it hot. You you've seen the well, anyway. Of course I've seen it. Are you kidding? Yeah, okay. I mean, like you've never fucked a girl from Church of Lady Day Saints. Come on. Everybody has. Uh uh, no.

SPEAKER_03: 50:17

I uh I have never dated a Mormon chick. Really? Really? And that's living in Idaho for 10 years.

SPEAKER_00: 50:25

Yeah, how is that possible? Don't they have all kinds of what weren't the didn't you have like a Mormon encampment near you guys?

SPEAKER_03: 50:32

Oh, yeah. The the biggest church in town was a Mormon temple. Yeah. And hell my Boy Scout troop met at the Mormon church.

SPEAKER_00: 50:41

That's funny.

SPEAKER_03: 50:43

I had lots of friends who were Mormon, but I bet.

SPEAKER_00: 50:46

No, no sisters though.

SPEAKER_03: 50:49

I had a really good friend, her name was Katie. Very she was a little bigger, but you know, very proportional, if you know what I mean. Yeah. And great bubbly personality.

SPEAKER_00: 51:04

Yeah. But were you trying to entice her to drink tea?

SPEAKER_03: 51:09

Oh, she was no, she was wild. Yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 51:15

That's wild. All right. Well, good. What the hell were we talking about?

SPEAKER_03: 51:19

Iran.

SPEAKER_00: 51:20

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 51:21

And religious fundamentalism and so on.

SPEAKER_00: 51:24

So, point being that I really am keeping my fingers crossed and doing a lot of free publicity media-wise and just posting like crazy and trying to keep the ball moving on this revolution because I think it would be good for everybody and it would create another tourist destination for some of us that would enjoy that kind of culture.

SPEAKER_03: 51:50

I mean, I would love to go at some point. You know, I think if you get like you get rid of the security state that's there, everything else, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 52:01

And I'll tell you, if they start going more towards uh it's not gonna happen overnight, but more towards their roots from the 70s that we've seen in the videos, it's gonna put a lot of pressure on the other countries in that region that are Arab to because now you're gonna have somebody that's a very big contrast to you. It's gonna put pressure on Pakistan, it's gonna put pressure on all the other surrounding Islamic countries because they're gonna start realizing, you know, if we stick to ultra-orthodox, we may get a revolution.

SPEAKER_03: 52:34

Well, but I I there aren't many ultra-orthodox countries left in that region, actually. Yeah, when you look at the moves that MBS has made inside Saudi Arabia, uh like he the Riyadh airport that's being built that my company is actually working on. Of course they are.

SPEAKER_00: 52:51

It's it's it's you know, when you say my company, you might as well just say the company. That's everybody knows what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03: 52:57

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01: 52:58

Uh, what do you mean they're the engineering firm?

SPEAKER_00: 53:01

Putting in the uh security for the airport that ties back to the US Embassy.

SPEAKER_03: 53:06

But yeah, literally, we are putting in the security for the airport.

SPEAKER_00: 53:10

Oh, surprise, surprise. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 53:12

Like the European version of my group is actively working on that.

SPEAKER_00: 53:18

Yeah. Well, you know, you got five of those spread all over. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03: 53:23

But no, uh like Saudi, like Saudi is becoming very westernized, though totalitarian. Yeah. Like I think at least Saudi, Qatar, and UAE are going with the Singaporean model.

SPEAKER_00: 53:38

I don't know about Qatar. I think the other two probably are.

SPEAKER_03: 53:40

No, Qatar absolutely is, dude.

SPEAKER_00: 53:43

Well, we've just moved all our people out of Qatar.

SPEAKER_03: 53:47

Yeah, for retaliation purposes.

SPEAKER_00: 53:49

Yeah, for retaliatation, yes.

SPEAKER_03: 53:52

Yeah, no, if we go into Iran, that's where they would strike. Uh-huh. But in just US military stuff, not civilians. Like, there are a lot of US civilians who live in Qatar.

SPEAKER_00: 54:02

When the military leaves, that's not a bad time for the civilians to start making plans because you don't want to be that guy that can't get a flight out.

SPEAKER_03: 54:11

Yeah, but uh also when you're making, you know,$750,000, a million dollars a year doing what would be paid$200,000 a year here, you kind of got to keep the job.

SPEAKER_00: 54:24

No good for you if you're dead. Eh, okay. You know, unlike if you just started doing it there, you maybe want to finish off your year. But if you've been there for five years, you got five million bucks you made. Yeah, you know, might be time to cash out.

SPEAKER_03: 54:38

Yeah, if you haven't spent it.

SPEAKER_00: 54:40

What are you gonna spend it on?

SPEAKER_03: 54:42

Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_00: 54:44

No, what are you gonna spend that much money on out there?

SPEAKER_03: 54:47

Anything and everything?

SPEAKER_00: 54:49

You're basically you're basically middle class at a million dollar salary out there.

SPEAKER_03: 54:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 54:54

You're not competing with the actual rich people, yeah. But also, it's not like the cost of living requires of you to spend a million dollars a year.

SPEAKER_03: 55:04

No, but you certainly could. Like you've got anything and everything you want in those countries. But that'd be stupid.

SPEAKER_00: 55:11

Then that'd be you're basically just you know, a waiter in expensive steakhouse. You're making a hundred and whatever K a year being a waiter, but then you're not like saving that up to go do something you really want to do. You're just gonna do that and spend all your money. That's crazy. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_03: 55:32

Alright, so ready to move on?

SPEAKER_00: 55:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 55:35

Alright, UK. It's fucked. Yeah. Did you see what happened?

SPEAKER_00: 55:43

Well, I mean, it's every day there's a story of UK being fucked.

SPEAKER_03: 55:47

No, but everything in your Lauren Southern got denied a visa. Yeah, and she's a Commonwealth citizen.

SPEAKER_00: 55:57

She's been denied going to Australia for three years now.

SPEAKER_03: 56:01

I mean, Lauren, okay, so here's the thing about it. But it's a peer nation, not the mother nation.

SPEAKER_00: 56:06

Lauren Southern, much like a lot of these young chicks that make a name on them for themselves on the right, got popular because she's hot, she's uh got long blonde hair, and she was willing to be the conservative man in the street at liberal protests. That's how she made her her name for herself. She was working for oh, who's that Canadian Jew?

SPEAKER_03: 56:34

Vice.

SPEAKER_00: 56:35

No.

SPEAKER_03: 56:36

Or Rebel. Rebel Media.

SPEAKER_00: 56:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 56:39

So that's where she was born out of ICE, but yes.

SPEAKER_00: 56:42

Out of ice?

SPEAKER_03: 56:43

Yeah, so the the founders of Vice.

SPEAKER_00: 56:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 56:47

Are the the main guy over at Rebel Media used to be at Vice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 56:51

And I can't remember his name.

SPEAKER_03: 56:53

I I know, I can picture his face.

SPEAKER_00: 56:55

She's, you know, she was cute, she's doing that kind of stuff. And then here's what always ends up happening to these chicks, all of them. They start believing in their own bullshit. They hear so many people praising what a good job they're doing, they start thinking that they're smart. And then they can go off and do whatever they want because they know better, and then people are gonna be interested. And that's never the case. Without having somebody actually planning what she's gonna be doing, she ends up doing stuff that no one really is interested in. So that's one thing that happened, which is why she's a pretty minor personality. The other thing that happened was she apparently now, in retrospect, both from reading her memoir and corroborating stories from a whole bunch of conservatives, was a complete slut for years, starting with rebel media, and for the next like five, six years, she basically fucked everybody. If they were conservative under 50, they've got a story of spending a night with Lauren Southern. Including the uh the the two boys out of I keep wanting to say Transylvania, but I that's not right. Romania. Uh oh, yeah, yeah. Those Tate brothers, right? Yeah. Fuck them. She fucked the guys on Alex Jones' staff, multiple guys. I mean, she like she got ran through big time.

SPEAKER_03: 58:28

I want to make a joke so bad, but I'm not going to.

SPEAKER_01: 58:31

Oh, you can you can feel free.

SPEAKER_03: 58:33

Um, nope, nope, no self-incrimination.

SPEAKER_00: 58:36

Okay. Oh shit. Well, there you go. She even fucked you. There you go.

SPEAKER_03: 58:39

She did not do not start that rumor.

SPEAKER_00: 58:41

So apparently Lauren Southern is Ben's ex.

SPEAKER_03: 58:45

No negative.

SPEAKER_00: 58:46

So she then all of a sudden realized she ran through everybody, or everybody ran through her. She's got religion, decided that she's gonna marry this Australian guy. I don't know whether she got pregnant first or whether they got married first, but either way, she sold herself as a trad wife. Like, yeah, I know I fucked all conservatives under 50, but I'm really deep down a trad wife. So they end up getting married, and then have a kid, and then he says, like a year after they were married, I think it's time we go back to Australia, because my parents want to spend more time with the kids and everything. And she's like, Well, what do you mean? He's like, Well, it's gonna be better for us to live there. And she's like, Well, I'm not moving to Australia. He's like, Well, yeah, you are. You're a thread wife, you're gonna do what I tell you. And she's like, fuck you and your your male insecurities. I'm gonna do what I want, and I'm gonna take your kid away from you. That's exactly what she did. And so she ends up getting divorced, keeps the kid in Canada, she's Canadian, husband goes back to Australia, and because of now, I don't want to say something that's wrong, so I don't recall the reason that she was banned from Australia, but she was actually banned from the whole country of Australia for stuff she did post-divorce. I don't know exactly what it was. Didn't get into those details. And then she decides that, okay, well, it's not enough that she's just stolen a kid from her husband. So she decides to write and tell all book, a memoir of all the Guys, that she's fucked. And then I'm sure that's not how she would have phrased it. You can you can pick up a copy, it's uh available. But in there she tells stories and and calls out names. And like I said, including multiple guys in the Alex Jones staff. It's just like she's like, oh, this is all in my past, this is all stuff that I did, you know, before. You know, she was doing what's his face, Tommy Robinson in the UK, doing another guy in Germany, and these are all like films or videos that she's done at the time. But but she seemed to not be able to stay out of bed with whoever she was working on, or with, rather, when she was working on something, she couldn't stay in a different bed than the person that she was working on the story with. So long story short, is while I I I definitely thought she was on the cuter side of the conservatives, I think the stunt that she pulled where she went in and said that she considers herself a man and got her driver's license changed to say male on it was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. Because Canada put that law in that basically says if you can tell a psychologist that you believe that you're the opposite sex, or gender, I guess, then they will sign on a little piece of paper that you can bring into DMV and get your sex changed and your driver's license. Which is which was always sex, by the way, not gender, but somehow believing that you have a different gender is forcing documents that actually identify your sex to now be changed to your your fake gender as well, which is weird. But anyway, it was a funny thing. I thought she was good in the period of time that she was doing that stuff, and we didn't know about any of the stuff happening in the background. But at this point, I just kind of see her as a typical girl on the whatever podcast.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:48

Well, maybe, but regardless, I thought it was interesting that the UK has gone to the extent of denying her injury.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:57

I think they've denied a lot more people than that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:59

I like I don't think yes, but she's just one of the more prominent.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:04

I guess. I mean, from yeah, I'm trying to try to think if I know off the top of my head who else they've done. But they've got big lists of people they denied.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:17

They got somebody but that's the point. That they're starting to like I I wonder if I could go to the UK still.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:22

Possibly not.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:23

Yeah. No. I know I can't go to Canada.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:26

So I know for a fact I cannot get a job with my old company back. That's for sure. Why? British Telecom.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:34

What'd you do?

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:36

I post on X and I routinely tell British politicians to go fuck themselves. I'm not gonna work for the state telephone company there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:48

Well, I'll I'll find out this year when I have to go over to Scotland.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:52

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that'll be interesting.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:56

Anyway, no, the UK is sliding down. I think the rules-based order is over, and that's very clear. We had German German troops land in Greenland today. Yep. And like another country, I can't remember who. Oh, yeah, yeah, France. Did you did you see the not that we're really worried about that? Yeah, really. And the Danes sent two troops. That that sounds about right. Two snowmobiles? It's hilarious. Yeah, yeah. Uh did you see the video I sent out about the it was one of the Icelandic countries, one one of their former generals talking about how the US couldn't fight them in the Arctic.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:38

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:40

That was a hilarious total bullshit take. Like, dude, you're total bullshit. You're you're insane if you think you can go up against the US military.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:48

It's literally colder in Minnesota than up there. Like Iceland is warmer than Minnesota because of the Gulf Stream.

unknown: 1:04:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:55

It's it's just crazy takes all the way around. My response to all those on X is just that single infograph showing the amount of money spent on NATO by each country. Where the US is like 80%. On that, not that much. It's probably like 71% is the US. And then every other NATO country combined is 29%. Yep. So, and then on the other one, when I started getting, I think I probably had half of the country of Denmark tweeting with me at some point, trying to correct my take. But I'm like, I I did the lookups, guys. You know, I I went into the CIA factbook. I know what you guys have. You have what was it? 67 tanks and 48 aircraft, military aircraft in your military. We have 22,600 tanks and 17,000 aircraft. I mean, it's not even in that it we're we're 68 times larger military than they are. The US has the three biggest air forces on the planet split between services. Like the Air Force is the biggest in the world, the Navy is the second biggest, and the the I guess it'd be the Army Air No Marines. Oh, Marines? Okay, they they're the third largest in the world, and then all the other countries start. I mean it's a joke. The whole thing is just a joke.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:31

It really is.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:32

I mean, seriously, we we could literally all of Europe in less time than it's gonna take for Iran to fall. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:43

Yeah, I mean, all of Europe combined.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:45

We're basically keeping Russia out of Ukraine with our pinky. Mm-hmm. Like zero troops. Well, I shouldn't say zero, very few troops on the ground, predominantly just intelligence information, and we're keeping Russia from coming in. And Russia could easily take over all of Europe. Not that they want to, they have zero interest in that. They've done it before, caused nothing but trouble.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:12

No, I it it's it's delusional takes. But here's the thing I don't think Trump's gonna take Greenland by force.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:17

No, I don't either. I think the people of Greenland are gonna be liberated and they will gladly accept I I don't think they're gonna be liberated, I think they're gonna be bought and paid for. That is called liberation.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:28

Yeah, I I think we're gonna offer Greenland a billion dollars or maybe a little more. Go give you know the Danes a little bit. Let's say we spend a total of a few hundred billion on Greenland. Cool. Yeah. Like that would move the needle for the Danes quite a bit, move the needle for the Greenlanders tremendously, and then we go dump 500 billion.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:51

If you do 56 billion, that literally makes every resident of Greenland the memories. Right, exactly. Everyone.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:58

So you give them 56 billion. Well, and hold on, hold on. That's not that's not every adult, that's every man, woman, and child.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:10

Absolutely, yeah. And sled dog. And the the like some of the takes that you get on X are from the Danish people, like, well, you know, when they realize just how bad the welfare system is in the United States, they'll they'll definitely know that they should stay as part of Denmark. It's like the welfare system. Are you kidding? These people are gonna be millionaires. What do you mean the welfare system? There won't be a single person on welfare, not like right now. We build a couple of casinos there, the Trump Tower, Greenland. It they're gonna be hand over fists in money.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:44

Look, here's the thing. We spend, let's say we set the budget at$500 billion for the entire project over 10 years.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:52

Yeah. And I think that's the building we need, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:55

We we build a few ski resorts, army bases, we post some people there, you know, we make it nice. We start getting our companies in there to start doing mineral exploration, everything else to pay it back. Yeah, it's a no-brainer. And Denmark would be a fool to say no to that. Not only because Denmark's entire point right now is well, you can have whatever bases you want, yeah, but we want to maintain sovereign control over it. Well, if you're not protecting it, how are you maintaining sovereign control over it? No. If we're gonna be the ones footing the bill for the protection of Greenland, we ought to control it and be able to earn from it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:34

The whole thing's so the not the onion. I was gonna say the onion, the Babylon B had a thing that they show, you know, the the task for leader for Europe in NATO is requesting emergency funds for NATO to be able to go protect Greenland from America.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:55

Well, and that's about right. People have said that if Trump tries to take Greenland, the world as we know it is over. Good.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:02

Well I'm all for that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:09

Well, what I would say is catch up. It's already over.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been over for a while. I mean the the only country that's been putting some money into NATO is Germany. And look, proportionally, I know some of the other like Poland proportionally is putting in more than some of the other countries, but that's proportionally not totally so Germany is can't keep electricity on in their own cities.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:40

Oh my god, what a debacle that was.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:43

So what they go about a week? Yep. And that's that's the main power of Europe right there. The anchor of Europe is Germany.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:01

Well, uh let me just say this. Electric grids are fragile things by design. The margin at which most electric grids operate is shockingly thin because electric loads are typically very predictable. Now, this was issues at substations that caused some of the blackouts. Yeah. What I would say is we have cities that are equally vulnerable here in the U.S. For instance, San Antonio. There are three transformers that feed into San Antonio that if you took out those three transformers with a 50 cal. Give people ideas, Jesus Christ, dude. The entire city of San Antonio would be in the dark for a very long time. Houston does not have that problem because Houston has generation actually inside San inside Houston with the refineries and everything else that could shut down operations and backfeed in an emergency.

SPEAKER_04: 1:12:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:01

There are different ways of doing it, but we have cities here in the US that only have a couple substations with some big transformers that you know it wouldn't take much to put them out.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:13

I get it, but I'm just saying they're actually experiencing it. Speaking of they've had issues on that as well. Yeah, the electric grids are definitely not as reliable in Europe, I think, as they are here either. Because we had what you think they're more reliable in Europe?

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:33

I think well, it it depends on what you mean. I think the Europeans operate a higher overall margin of error when it comes to available generation, but like the the they had a whole bunch of independent grids they had to tie together.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:48

Right. But we mostly had two.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:52

Three. Okay. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00: 1:12:54

Well, Texas, yes.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:56

So first of all, the our generation pools, like SPP and other ISOs, which I'll talk about in a second on a project I'm working on, you know, the the way the generation pools are tied together in the eastern and western grid is actually very similar to how the European grid is tied together. Now, if you remember when Spain and the Iberian Peninsula went dark because of the wind generation and issues there, and only having one feed in, that's where I would say the European grid is less reliable. We have more interconnects than they do. That's uh we have a more robust, not mesh network, fully meshed network, but we have more interconnections between critical points than the Europeans typically operate. But as far as generation load, you know, we don't get into special operating conditions inside ERCOT till we hit basically a 3% spending reserve, whereas Europe would hit those at you know 20%.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:04

Interesting.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:05

Well anyway, I started while we're talking about electric grids. I started work on a pretty cool project. Have you heard of Fermi America?

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:16

Yes. I think I saw a video of it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:18

Yeah, so they're building out an 11 gigawatt data center up near Amarillo, just across the border of Urcot into SPP.

SPEAKER_04: 1:14:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:28

And they are going to build up to 11 gigawatts of generation, including combined cycle natural gas and four AP 1000 reactors.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:38

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:39

Yep. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:41

What's the timeline?

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:43

12 years.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:47

So pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:51

I got them to I got them to pay for us to write a proposal.

SPEAKER_00: 1:14:55

That's always the best kind of proposal.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:57

Well, we have so much discovery we need to do. Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00: 1:15:00

Naturally. Absolutely. Hey, one last thing on the the uh the British entry thing. There was somebody else that was fairly well known that wasn't Lauren Southern that recently got denied entry for the same reason they're basically not letting anyone who is nasty on X enter the country. But also they just are going to, I guess February 25th, implementing a new law that will deny dual citizenship Britain's entry into the country without filling out some specific forms and ensuring that they use their passports. Yeah. And that's the right thing. I agree with it. I think anyone with dual citizenship needs to be treated differently from someone that has just a single citizenship.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:54

Do you disagree? I mean, if you have a passport of the country you're entering into and you use that passport, why would there be any questions?

SPEAKER_00: 1:16:06

Because you have more than one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:08

Why the fuck do you even know that?

SPEAKER_00: 1:16:11

I I'd say over 50% of my friends have more than one passport.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:14

Right. No, no, no. But the government. Why does the government need to know that?

SPEAKER_00: 1:16:19

I think the government is very interested in information like that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:25

All right. Let me re-im let me rephrase. Why would the passport control need to know that? A citizen, I have citizenship, I have a passport. Fuck off. Why are you doing it?

SPEAKER_00: 1:16:39

But because you're a citizenship, they can pass laws that apply to you as a citizen that can say some. Well, in fact, if they wanted to, and something I would love to see in this country, frankly, is a law that bans dual citizenship. Just outright. Like you cannot have it. You choose, choose one, American or non-American.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:59

I I I I would agree with that for us.

SPEAKER_00: 1:17:01

Yes. And I don't, I mean, the UK should do the same thing. I think every country ought to do that. This this globalist notion of a world citizen that walks around with five different countries' passports, and half my relatives I'm talking about right now.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:17

Yeah, I say this also passports. I say this also as someone who has a goal of getting a second US passport and at least one other country's passport.

SPEAKER_00: 1:17:28

There you go. There you go.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:31

Which by the way, you know how you end up with two US passports? I do. Okay, how would you do it?

SPEAKER_00: 1:17:37

But with two US passports, that's very easy. Yeah, you get two different passports if you're traveling to countries that are hostile to each other.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:45

Like if you well, it's easier than that. Like, let's say work was gonna take me to China. Yeah, China requires me to send my passport to their embassy to to put a visa in it. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00: 1:18:00

They require physical uh Yeah, but I mean when I did that, I just stood outside the embassy for a while and they let you in, dude the same day.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:07

No, no, you're shh so you send it to them and then you book an emergency trip to let's say Mexico, yeah, and you have the State Department go, oh, okay, and issue you a five-year passport.

SPEAKER_00: 1:18:19

Yeah. There you go. Yeah, you could do that. I mean, there's plenty of ways to do it. And like plenty of legal ways to do it, not even talking about all the illegal ways to do it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:30

Right. Well, I'm talking legal.

SPEAKER_00: 1:18:32

Yeah. But my point is that the idea of dual citizenship, I think, is contrary to the idea of citizenship in general. Agreed. Citizenship means that is your tie to an entity called a country.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:51

To be clear, I don't really care about having citizenship in any other country. I just want the fucking passport. So if the country ever decides to lock down, I still have a passport and can theoretically get out.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:01

That's the well if you're if you're aiming for one of them Scottish passports based on your last name, you might be shit out of lock come February 25th.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:09

No, so I can't get a Scottish one, but I could go buy one in the Caymans or something like that, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:15

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:16

Uh I could go to Italy and invest$100,000 or that much for Australia. Yeah, actually, Australia is one of the more expensive ones.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:24

Didn't used to be. It used to be very cheap, like$50 grand.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:27

Shit, what's the what's the the country in the Aegean right off of Turkey? Like uh Bulgaria? Cyprus. Cyprus is another one that is very interesting to me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:39

Yeah, that's where most Russians have citizenship.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:43

Well, what's it what's also interesting to me about Cyprus is they don't have extradition with the United States, even though they're an EU country. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:54

Well, they're also a country under siege. I mean, they they've been half the country was taken over by Turkey. Yeah. And they it's half Greek, half Turkish. Every year they try to pass some laws to kick the Turks out. It's uh it's interesting. There's a dude that I watched a lot of videos from on YouTube that basically did like a walking tour of the entire country.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:27

Well, it's not that big.

SPEAKER_00: 1:20:29

Well, it it's very pretty. And it'd be it wouldn't be a bad place to live if you had to live in Europe. And it's cheap. Yeah. Okay, okay. It's some things are cheap. Some things are more Like what? Sure. Okay. There's uh big tax and everything. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:00

But it's just cheaper than Greece.

SPEAKER_00: 1:21:03

I think it's cheaper than some parts of Greece. I think you can find much cheaper places in Greece when you're not near Big City.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:09

Well, mm it's cheaper than Athens. How about that?

SPEAKER_00: 1:21:12

Oh, for sure, for sure. If you're basically remote working through Starlink and you don't care where you live, you could really find some nice and cheap, like the combination of both locations. Usually it's going to be one or the other, but as long as you're don't have a requirement to be near an airport or a large town, you get some great deals.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:37

Yeah, see, that's my problem, is I need to be within reasonable driving distance of an international airport.

SPEAKER_00: 1:21:44

I hear you. Uh let's see what else we got. I know there's a couple things we hadn't talked about yet.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:53

Well, you had put uh Tim Waltz's speech in the uh in the show prep chat.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:59

I haven't just gotten to watch it, so you won't talk about it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:22:04

Oh, Tim Waltz. Minnesota and Jones. I don't know that we need to even need to watch it. But it's just it's it's the stereotypical Black Lives Matter playbook, basically, of every time you mention the domestic terrorist that hit an ice agent with a 4,000-pound moving vehicle.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:29

And caused internal bleeding.

SPEAKER_00: 1:22:31

Yeah. It's referred to as a a mother with young children trying to leave and following directions. It's shit like that. And it's like the whole damn speech is that way. And he's basically telling people that ICE are criminals, ICE are Trump's personal SS army, and we cannot let them get away with it because we need to keep the citizens of Minnesota safe.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:58

So a liberal friend of mine literally gave me that line. She was just trying to get away. She was just doing this. They executed her. They called her a bitch. They did da da da da. It's like if I got hit with a car, I'd probably be saying the same damn thing. Yeah. And he got hit by the car. Yeah. And I mean, that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00: 1:23:19

Well, in the first episode, thank God for ice. I mean, like down the road.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:24

Cell phone footage, he got hit way harder than we realized. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:23:27

Yeah. And we saw his feet slide on the ice.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:30

Yep. And here's the other thing. Whether knowingly or otherwise, she hit him with a car. She was looking right at him when she did it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:23:40

Absolutely. He had a smile on her face.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:42

Yeah. The other line that this same liberal friend of mine talked about was they're violating people's, you know, uh constitutional rights because they're not getting warrants. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00: 1:23:53

First of all, those are people.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:54

Hold on. Aliens. Hold on. First of all, they're not getting what the left has referred to as judicial warrants. But here's the thing: immigration isn't controlled by the judiciary. No. It is controlled by the executive. And they absolutely have warrants for this. And they don't have to be able to do that. There is no such thing as a need for a judicial warrant in this case.

SPEAKER_00: 1:24:18

This is why they can force you to boot up your laptop when you're crossing the border. Because they they have rights that none of the police in the country have, because you are considered to be outside of the country unless you're legally in the country.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:36

Yep. And here's the thing. If you're within 125 miles of a border, which is bullshit. 75% of the US population lives in that.

SPEAKER_00: 1:24:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:48

The ICE can do whatever the hell they want. And I I agree that it's bullshit, but it's the reality. And here's the other thing. They, you know, they don't have to have judicial warrants. And when you say, oh, we're not giving them their due process. Yeah. Well, what due process? Do we have to have a trial for every person we're kicking out of the country that we can document and do? No. We have a hearing process. We have internal executive functions not going to the judiciary because the judiciary is way too backed up. So yeah, no, they can have their process, and the process can be we found you, we figured out you're illegally here, we're deporting you. Done. There's your process.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25:36

Exactly. Yeah. No, that's exactly right.

SPEAKER_03: 1:25:39

I don't know if you heard my dog barking, but apparently he's outside. No.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25:42

All right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:25:44

Um, I have to keep a window open in my office right now because so you can hear him? No, because they want the heat on high enough downstairs that it's making my office very hot, even though the AC is on in my office. That's crazy. Well, I've only got one unit, it's a split thermostat, so it fights itself a lot. It's stupid.

SPEAKER_00: 1:26:06

That is kind of dumb.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:08

If you're ever building a house, don't let them ever talk you into that.

SPEAKER_00: 1:26:14

Yeah, I should have.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:16

When they were on sale.

SPEAKER_00: 1:26:17

I picked one up.

SPEAKER_01: 1:26:20

Yep, I should have done that.

SPEAKER_00: 1:26:21

You should have. You're the one who told me about it. Oh shit. Did you see the minimum wage went up in about half the country? Nope. Yep. 19 states just jacked up their minimum wage. It's all over the place, obviously. There's no standard. But the highest one now is$20.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:39

Where?

SPEAKER_00: 1:26:40

They're all on the East Coast. It's like New York or something, or one of those. Vermont. One of those.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:49

Why would we want kids to end up?

SPEAKER_00: 1:26:51

And what they're saying, which I I actually believe, is that it is irrelevant because if you drive by a Burger King or a McDonald's, they're both offering$25 an hour right now. Why? Because that's what you need to pay in those states to find somebody willing to work.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:11

That's insane.

SPEAKER_00: 1:27:12

Because they've made the gap by increasing the minimum wage, they've made the gap between the workers and the sitting on welfare that much bigger.

SPEAKER_05: 1:27:23

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00: 1:27:26

Well, let's say that you're you know you're a restaurant owner and you're mandated now to pay basically forty bucks or forty thousand dollars a year to your most basic employee that does very little. You're gonna be inclined to make your better quality people just work harder and maybe even pay them more than your minimum wage because that is gonna get you a better productivity than having$40,000 a year employees that are basically drooling out of the corners of their mouths. Like this is the only job they can get is a minimum wage job. The higher you rank up the minimum wage, the more pressure you put on business owners to go the other direction, which is to use quality of talent over raw numbers of talent. Like if minimum wage was five dollars an hour right now, there would be a lot of businesses that would say, Well, I could hire another guy for$25 an hour, but maybe I'll just hire three guys for five bucks, five dollars an hour, and that'll be good enough. Like, yeah, they're gonna suck, they're gonna work a lot slower, they're gonna do uh worse quality, but for three of those guys, it's gonna do more total output than one high quality employee. So the only thing minimum wage does is remove that option. It basically says that any employee you hire it's gonna you're gonna pay them as though they're a higher quality of employee. So if you don't want to hire somebody that would normally be working for five dollars an hour because that's too low a quality, then you just don't hire anybody at all, and you make up for it by having higher productivity from higher quality employees. You you make those guys work faster, you do the uh the Roy Kroc thing where you're like timing people for how quickly they make a burger. A Ray Kroc. I I don't know who that is, but okay. Founder of McDonald's. Well, founder, I say founder, the guy that took an independent restaurant called McDonald's and then turned it into a chain. Cool. So it's a Milton Friedman has a good video talking about the question of minimum wage. Somebody asked him back in the 80s, like, what if you raise the minimum wage from three dollars to five dollars an hour? What would be the impact of that? And he kind of goes through and explains why that's a bad idea.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:27

It's inherently inflationary.

SPEAKER_00: 1:30:30

Well, it could be for sure, yeah. And I mean it is. It is inflationary, but it is.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:36

It's not inflationary of the monetary supply, but it's inflationary of the prices.

SPEAKER_00: 1:30:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:41

Because now you're in you've changed a key input into the production of goods that then makes everything more expensive.

SPEAKER_00: 1:30:48

Well, and and the other thing that it does is it makes you the rest the business owner, and if we're talking about fast food restaurants, do things like create self-ordering kiosks. And now you don't have to hire those three people that would normally.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:05

Which are fucking annoying.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31:07

What you mean the people are the boards? The kiosk. The kiosk, yeah. Then now, you know, okay, by raising that minimum wage, you've eliminated three jobs. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:20

Well, you could argue you've made an additional job by creating the industry that makes the kiosk and services.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31:26

In China, absolutely totally agree with that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:28

Yeah, you you congratulations, you've moved a fast food worker to China.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:32

Essentially. So while we're kind of talking about inflation and everything, holy crap, the price of silver.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31:38

Yes, yes, and that was predicted. I didn't we talk about that about a month ago. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:45

But you know, when silver is, you know, peaked previously at over$90 an ounce. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00: 1:32:00

Yeah. The projections I've seen is it's gonna hit 60.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:05

Yeah, yeah. And now a lot of people are like, oh my god, the the US dollar and this, that, and the other. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. Yes, but what you have to realize is right now gold and silver and all these data centers that I'm talking about working on and working with right now, all the AI data centers are buying up tremendous amounts of silver and gold to be used in this.

SPEAKER_00: 1:32:30

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, as like the as an industrial usage is driving a lot.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:36

Yeah. So that's gonna make the price go up.

SPEAKER_00: 1:32:41

Now, technically speaking, silver was just in the slump for a long period of time because it dropped in price significantly when we shifted to digital photography. Because the previous highest industrial use of silver was actually the photographic industry.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:57

Yeah, yeah. But right now, all right, so in the furthest I can go back right now on Google is January 27th of 2012. It was at$33 an ounce. Yep. It got as low as oh, tell me the all-time low. All-time low of eight of twelve dollars an ounce in 2020.

SPEAKER_01: 1:33:20

Yep, there you go.

SPEAKER_03: 1:33:22

And then it's done nothing but a fairly steady climb, and here in the last few months is just really starting in January of 23.

SPEAKER_00: 1:33:32

The big dip in silver happened in 1980, and then again in 2011. So both of those were significant. 2011 one was the one I was referring to with the basically elimination of non-digital photography. Silver was a lot less utilized. I can't remember what the peak usage of silver was in 1980 that they switched off of, but it was obviously something. Silver was trading for$35 in 1980. 1980 dollars are about two and a half X. So it'd be equivalent to about a$90 silver right now.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:11

So back at parity.

SPEAKER_00: 1:34:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:14

In um 1980. Yeah, yeah. Here's the interesting thing though. These data centers are building their own power plants. These data centers are building their own water treatment plants for the water cooling that they're doing. Yep. It is it is really astonishing what they are doing at some of these large specific purpose data centers.

SPEAKER_01: 1:34:38

Yeah. It's wild.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:44

So anyway, uh I never thought I'd work in a data center again, but you know, here we go.

SPEAKER_00: 1:34:49

Yeah, it's loud and annoying and cold.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:52

Well, luckily I'm on the power and other side of things.

SPEAKER_00: 1:34:56

Well, that's why yeah, I wouldn't consider you working in a data center. You're working on data centers. Not in data. There you go. But I've spent plenty of time in them, I'm sure you have as well. Um, yes. You know, the the constant droning noise. Uh-huh. All the blinky lights, the cold temperature around you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35:18

Or if you walk down the hot aisle, the very hot temperature.

SPEAKER_00: 1:35:24

That's a good point. You never sit in that aisle. You always sit in the cold aisle.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35:27

No, you you you you do not want to sit in the hot aisle, and heaven help you if you have to do something in the hot aisle that's complicated.

SPEAKER_00: 1:35:34

Yeah. Oh god. Yeah, like tracing cables that seem to go nowhere.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35:41

Which, by the way, I always appreciate when like some of the best rack designs I've ever seen literally take all the connectors that are gonna go into the servers and route them around the sides of the rack to the front.

SPEAKER_01: 1:35:56

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35:57

So it's just a patch cable between you and there. Right. So you can uh plug and unplug anything without having to go back around the other side.

SPEAKER_01: 1:36:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:05

That that is the way to do it, people, for the love of God.

SPEAKER_00: 1:36:08

Yeah, there's very, very clean, pretty data centers. There's also total rat-ness.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:15

I've never been in a ratness data center, like even e-rooms and power plants, which are basically the data center at the power plant. You know, they're they're always pretty well cable managed and taken care of.

SPEAKER_00: 1:36:29

Yeah, you go into a small business that grew from five to a hundred million quickly, you'll see some ratness, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:36

Well, but that's not really a data center, that's just a server room.

SPEAKER_00: 1:36:39

Okay, yeah, fair enough. I'm well, yeah, I was referring to server rooms. I guess not data centers particular. Yeah. Yeah, data centers, even the smaller ones, they they tend to have been planning things a little better. Well, you have to. But server rooms, though.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:54

Well, I'm working on my my my my network closet here at the house. I got a little 5U rack of put things together a little bit better, drilling holes and cable managing better.

SPEAKER_00: 1:37:06

You gotta figure out after the show when I'm gonna drive out there because I I've got I got all those monitors I gotta bring, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:37:16

Well, we should set up a meetup at the same time.

SPEAKER_00: 1:37:19

I mean, sure. That's fine. I'm not college station meetup. I don't know that anyone lives in college station that listens to this, but okay, sure. You don't even listen to this show. So respect others? Come on, man. Uh I don't know. Josh might still listen. Does he? Well, how's he doing? I haven't talked to him in years.

SPEAKER_03: 1:37:43

I haven't talked to him in a hot minute either. Yeah. So don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 1:37:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:37:48

Hopefully, well.

SPEAKER_00: 1:37:50

Yeah, hopefully. All right. Anything else we got? I'm scrolling through here. What was the Elon Musk thing you sent? Some objective reality, something.

SPEAKER_03: 1:38:07

Oh, just it's a CNN clip from the Obama years where they're doing ride-along with ICE and doing more deportations that we're doing now.

SPEAKER_00: 1:38:18

From Clinton and Bush and Obama, they all deported large numbers of people, and no one bitched about it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:38:25

It's just well, like Clinton was 12.5 million deportations, zero protests. Bush, 10.3 million deportations, zero protests. Obama, five point three million, zero protest. Trump, two million over five hundred protests. Yeah. Slash riots. Yeah, it's it's yeah, really.

SPEAKER_00: 1:38:44

It's nuts. So I had one other thing I saw here. Mark Carney, Canadian, politician of some type. Is Prime Minister. Is that what he is now? So he's talking about how he believes that progress is being made with partnerships with China as part of the New World Order. I'm sure you've seen the videos, the graphs.

SPEAKER_03: 1:39:06

Guess what's gonna happen to him?

SPEAKER_00: 1:39:08

I mean, I don't think we're allowed to say, but okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:39:13

I I'm just telling you, like, I'm I'm telling you, the the new Neo Monroe doctrine is going to be enforced. Oh, yeah. Like Canada, you don't have to be super nice or friendly to us, but you can't be allies with China. You can't be influenced by China.

SPEAKER_00: 1:39:30

Or England, which is really the main enemy of the United States, always has been.

SPEAKER_03: 1:39:33

Oh, yeah, yeah. Norse Nexus, baby.

SPEAKER_00: 1:39:37

Yeah, and that's something that the more rhetoric comes out of the UK about shutting down X and banning people that post on X from traveling into the UK, and you know, if they they'd love it if that was true for all of Europe as well. Yeah, the more it makes people remember the history of this country, and their biggest enemy in multiple wars, I might add, has been the United Kingdom. Yeah. So, you know, does nothing says it can't become an enemy again.

SPEAKER_03: 1:40:17

There was a post on X Today that Well, as it becomes the Israeli Islamic Republic of the United Kingdom, exactly, it will be.

SPEAKER_00: 1:40:26

So there's a post from I think Alexander Dugan on X Today that basically said It was Alexander Dugan. So Alexander Dugan is a right wing conservative Russian author of No, Gene.

SPEAKER_03: 1:40:43

He's Putin's Putin's writer. He he's the one who's Rabbi. Yes. He's the one influencing Putin to have this nationalistic trait. That's right. And so on. Yeah. Whose daughter's car was bombed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:40:57

Blown up by Ukrainians. Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 1:40:59

Yeah. Well, and when I said who's to get nicely, you were being facetious.

SPEAKER_00: 1:41:03

I guess. Yes. Anyway. So he was he was saying that if the UK keeps this up, their their very warmongering strategy, then there will absolutely be nukes flying, and they'll be going to the UK, not the Ukraine. And of course, I then had to respond to that and said that if the UK keeps up what they're doing with the US, it's not just going to be Russian nukes that are flying to the UK. That'd be awesome if we bombed the shit out of them.

SPEAKER_03: 1:41:34

Well, here's the thing. I I think I think it's interesting because I do think a I I I don't know why, because I think all the narrative is so against it. I think the best way out of this n this bullshit new world order is really a Russo-American alliance against the Chinese and socialist Europe.

SPEAKER_00: 1:42:03

Yeah, but literally every country knows that and it'll do everything they can to prevent it from happening. I I understand. Because they they know full well that if Russia and the US, the two most Christian countries in the world, team up, that the rest of the world will absolutely be under a brand new world order, and it's not going to be one where they can get away with the shit they're currently doing. Either politically or religiously.

SPEAKER_03: 1:42:35

Well, I I think it would be very interesting, but of course, all my liberal friends tell me I'm insane for thinking that Russia is in a lot of ways a more conservative country than we are.

SPEAKER_00: 1:42:45

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:42:46

Like I I've said that you know Russia is not the USSR and that we are two ships that have passed each other in the night going the wrong way.

SPEAKER_00: 1:42:55

Yeah. People make this they they fail to make a distinction between a geographic piece of territory and the political expression from that territory. Like, for example, when we say Iran, I don't think either you or I mean the people of Iran. We mean the current political government of Iran and what they're doing, and we're using the term Iran for that. When the revolution is finally successful in Iran and they're and they have a new leadership, whether that's uh bringing the prince back or whether it's democratically, whatever it is, we will still refer to that geographic area as Iran, but their politics will be completely different. And then and this somehow what what I just described is never applied to the USSR versus Russia. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:44:03

Let me let me ask you something, Gene. Of the leaders, of the leaders of the USSR, how many were born in Russia?

SPEAKER_00: 1:44:13

Like Russia, Russia properly? I think it was less than half.

SPEAKER_03: 1:44:17

I think it was about a no Vladimir Lenin, born in now what is Yugoslavia.

SPEAKER_00: 1:44:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:44:24

Joseph Stalin, born in Georgia, yeah. Who's next? Nah, Khrushchev was in uh Karlovgy or whatever it is, but basically Ukraine. Yep. Right.

SPEAKER_00: 1:44:37

Part of you what was Belarus or Ukraine, one of those, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:44:41

Yeah, yeah. And the anyway, and then Brezhnev was Ukrainian.

SPEAKER_01: 1:44:48

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:44:50

And I think let's just point out, none of the leaders of the USSR were Russian.

SPEAKER_00: 1:44:56

Well, I I think Kendrop was Russian.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:00

Well, I'm talking in the major league. I think okay.

SPEAKER_00: 1:45:03

Yeah, I mean, from certainly from the pre-1980s Russia, yeah, I think you're absolutely right. Like, none of them were Russian. Yeah. That is true. But it's not to say that nobody in their cabinet was Russian. I mean, like, I I understand what you're saying. Your point is that people are saying it's all Russia's fault. Russia was doing this, but the actual people running the country weren't born in Russia.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:29

Because it wasn't Russia, it was the USSR.

SPEAKER_00: 1:45:31

Exactly. It was the well, well, it was both, right? It was the Republic of Russia within the USSR.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:37

Right. But my my point is the USSR, yeah, what we think of as the Russians, yeah, right, from the 1980s and the Cold War. Right. Not the same thing. In fact, they went out of their way to make sure the leader of the Communist Party in the USSR was not Russian. Right. To because Russia was the biggest, most powerful state inside the USSR.

unknown: 1:45:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:59

And it's that whole equity thing, right?

SPEAKER_00: 1:46:02

I I don't think it was actually that. I think it was more ruthlessness. Like people outside of Russia were a little more ruthless than the ones inside Russia, so they could push their way up to the top. It's like it's kind of like the way the mob is organized. It's not based on you know who's most qualified, it's based on who survived and killed off their competit competitors. I think that's a big part of it. The the other thing is it's actually even more complicated than what you just described because when you think of Russia right now, you're thinking of the country Russia. The Russian Federation. And before that, yeah, the Russian Federation. And before that, you know, the Russia was one of the uh states within the USSR. But before that, the entire territory of what was the USSR was the empire of Russia.

SPEAKER_03: 1:46:57

Well, the Empire.

SPEAKER_00: 1:46:58

Yeah, the Russian Empire. Right.

SPEAKER_03: 1:47:00

So they were still the it's like hold on, hold on. It's it's like the it's like it's like, you know, the the the King of England is technically the empire of da-da-da-da-da, right? But they lost their empire same as Russia ended up doing. But it would that was the thing, is this was a commonwealth of countries. So, yes, it was the Russian Empire, but Georgia was still a separate and distinct country just under the same czar.

SPEAKER_00: 1:47:28

Well, but that's the thing, is under the same czar means it's the same country. It's not a good thing.

SPEAKER_03: 1:47:33

Well, that's like that's like saying 1950s United Kingdom and the Queen Elizabeth, Empress is Elizabeth, you know, India, Australia, Canada, etc., were all one country country with the UK.

SPEAKER_00: 1:47:54

Because the UK was a constitutional monarchy for 400 years, 350, whatever it is. Whereas Russia had serfs, which is you know half a step above a slave, up until 1916. So the the Georgian, I don't even know what it was referred to, but it certainly wasn't referred to as a country. I don't know if it was a district or a territory or whatever it is, certainly would have had like a the point is they had their own laws and some self-governance in yes, in the same way that you like when you have a king in any country in in medieval Europe, they would have like uh dukes and barons and earls and all these different distinct levels of how big of a territory you're you're controlling, and that was the same thing there. So when they won territory through conquest, they would usually install somebody that was a relative of the Tsar, maybe a third cousin, but somebody, over that territory, and then that person would end up intermarrying, and you know, you you got all kinds of cross-pollination going on.

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:13

This is part of the reason why I think Europe's so fucked is that the the aristocracy inbreds so much.

SPEAKER_00: 1:49:19

Oh, absolutely. And I think that's true of all aristocracy. I don't think that's exclusive to Europe. I think the Asian aristocracy did that too. You know, how many people are related to Genghis Khan?

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:30

The the only aristocracy in in the world that is not actually fairly inbred is that of the US and Canada.

SPEAKER_00: 1:49:40

And what who would you refer to as aristocracy?

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:43

Well, because our aristocracy flips over so much.

SPEAKER_00: 1:49:47

Now, what about that that video that I'm sure you've seen of the girl that did a project that tied every single president of the United States except for one to be related to each other?

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 1:50:01

And Obama was one of the ones that was related.

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:04

Oh, yeah. Yeah, Bush and Obama.

SPEAKER_00: 1:50:06

Or I don't remember who the one exception was, but I bet you it'd be Trump at this point.

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:12

Well, I think that means this was done before Trump. Yeah, it was. Yeah. I mean, this is like six degrees of separation, though, right? Exactly. So how how closely are we talking about? I'm talking about first cousin marrying first cousin repeatedly over and over and over.

SPEAKER_00: 1:50:29

I'm sure you've seen that photo of pre-I guess it would have been pre-World War I of Tsar Nicholas, the whoever was it, was it Edward, whoever was in the UK as the king of England, and the the the German, what was his name?

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:52

The well it'd be the Austrian Hungarian Empire, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:50:56

I don't know. It was the the Pre-War I. Yeah, pre-World War I. What the hell is the the Austrian dude or the uh German dude's either name or title? Franz uh Franz Joseph Duke Ferdinand or I can't remember who whoever that so the head of Germany, the head of England, and the head of Russia were all related. They not only were they related, they had the photo that is in in museums in all three countries of them as 14-year-old boys wearing identical clothes and playing with each other because they were literally cousins that were sent off to the same summer camp. Okay, like they were not just relatives, they were actual childhood friends. And so this idea that there would be a world war was seen as impossible by everybody because you cannot have your relatives that you grew up with that are your friends, they're going to go and battle against you. That was the plan. This is why they intermarried is to prevent World War One from ever happening. It didn't work out.

SPEAKER_03: 1:52:14

I think World War I was planned, but that's me.

SPEAKER_00: 1:52:17

But that's another long conversation. It doesn't matter. Maybe whether it was planned or not, I'm just saying the intent was that you have so much direct connection between leaders of all these European countries that it becomes impossible for them to go to war.

SPEAKER_03: 1:52:34

Sure. I I get the idea, but have you have you ever read Tragedy and Hope by Carol Quigley? No. You should. So Carol Quigley was the guy who got Clinton to be a Rhodes scholar. Oh. And so he is the architect on the US side of MA. And Tragedy and Hope is his book. So and it there's a lot of history in it. There's a lot of things. I disagree with a lot of his conclusions. He was a major globalist who said if we interconnect the global economy to the extent, very similar idea to you know, intermarrying, that there will never be anything but proxy wars in the future.

SPEAKER_02: 1:53:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:53:20

Until you've drained the West of its money and now we have to pull it all back.

SPEAKER_00: 1:53:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:53:25

And you guarantee through citizens trap. I can't speak. Yeah. Thus cities. I why can't I not say that right now? Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_00: 1:53:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:53:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:53:35

Yeah. The and I I think this is the problem that we have with China right now is that the America is so reliant on China that we can threaten, we can even do sanctions or not, what do you call them? Increase tariffs. But what we can't do, we can't allow to happen is a cessation of traffic between China and America.

SPEAKER_03: 1:54:00

I think we can get there though. And here's the thing: yes, we are a nation in decline, but what the rate on Maduro and Venezuela showed is yeah, we're a nation in decline, but our military isn't.

SPEAKER_05: 1:54:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:54:14

And there that has never happened in history.

SPEAKER_00: 1:54:17

Well, that's only because all the fatties just gotten run out of the military.

SPEAKER_03: 1:54:22

Okay. I'm just telling you that at the top tier level of our military, yeah, there is no equivalent anywhere else in the world.

SPEAKER_00: 1:54:32

Well, according to a video I watched, the Ukrainian military could take out the US military because they've had so much better training from a real war.

SPEAKER_05: 1:54:40

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 1:54:41

And in that video, it shows that there's actually more Ukrainian full-time military right now than the US military.

unknown: 1:54:48

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 1:54:50

Yeah, that was my impression as well. It's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_03: 1:54:53

But yeah, and this is this is right up there with the Icelandic nations saying, oh, you can't fight us in the Arctic. We'll kick your ass.

SPEAKER_00: 1:55:02

We know all about the cold. Yeah, you live on an island with thermo-generated energy because you're on top of a volcano, so it doesn't get cold. And you got the Gulf Stream passing right by you. So no. This is why Greenland is so much worse than Iceland to actually live on, is because there is no impact from the Gulf Stream on Greenland, but there is on Iceland.

SPEAKER_03: 1:55:31

It just means more violent weather because of the temperature disparities, but yes.

SPEAKER_00: 1:55:36

Well, I don't know what you mean by violent weather, but it means that the water is less warm.

SPEAKER_03: 1:55:45

Well, no, what I'm saying is the warm water coming up and then the cold of the Arctic landmass there ends up generating wind speeds up to category four hurricanes pretty regularly and cross Greenland. Like they do have some pretty gnarly weather, dude.

SPEAKER_00: 1:56:01

Well, they they do have yeah, I don't think they have good weather there, but it's also fucking cold year round there. Like it's perma ice. So the only places that don't have massive sheets of ice are right on the coast because they're right next to water.

SPEAKER_03: 1:56:23

Right. Nanuk and so on.

SPEAKER_00: 1:56:25

Whereas the entire country of Iceland goes ice free because the volcanoes.

SPEAKER_03: 1:56:31

Which is ironic.

unknown: 1:56:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:56:33

Well it's we'll call Iceland, Iceland, and Greenland, Greenland. Well, it's all marketing, right? Uh-huh. It's like Iceland was actually less icy than Sweden and Norway. Uh-huh. But Greenland is just one giant sheet of ice.

SPEAKER_02: 1:56:52

Yeah, I just call it Viking logic.

SPEAKER_00: 1:56:56

I think that's a funny thing, but I don't think Greenland is actually called green for the color green. I think it's called Greenland for one of the early discoverers of Greenland.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:05

Right. I it's a joke. It's a historical joke.

SPEAKER_00: 1:57:08

Yeah. Just like Iceland is called for the last name of the discoverer of Iceland.

unknown: 1:57:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:15

Anyway. Eric the Ice. Well, it's okay. It'll be the next protectorate of the United States. And I think that's what we should do.

SPEAKER_01: 1:57:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:22

Is make it a protectorate. Give it the status of Puerto Rico.

SPEAKER_01: 1:57:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:26

Boom. Done. You don't get a congressman, you don't get to vote for president.

unknown: 1:57:31

Done.

SPEAKER_00: 1:57:32

I think that that's not a bad thing. I mean, like, you know, there the You don't have to pay federal income taxes. Yeah. Yeah, there's there's some benefits to be had for sure. People like that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:46

But I also think that But one of the things I'd say is in this treaty, I would make damn sure the local government will not impede mining activity.

SPEAKER_00: 1:57:57

Yes. Yes, exactly. In fact, why don't you just make Greenland like the make charter it as a company instead of a uh state? As long as Denmark gets out and they don't get their cut of the rare earths and the oil and the Greenland Mining Corporation owns the charter to that territory, and they're the ones that build private cities and everything else. There's stuff like that in a lot of sci-fi and video games. Where private mining can be a good thing.

SPEAKER_03: 1:58:30

And then we can start dropping nukes on Greenland again to clear out the ice.

SPEAKER_00: 1:58:35

That that has been proposed by a lot of people, yes. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03: 1:58:38

Well, you know, we actually did drop nukes on Greenland.

SPEAKER_00: 1:58:41

Did we? I'm not aware.

SPEAKER_03: 1:58:43

Yeah. It was I think. No, it was uh I think it was a B-52 during the Cold War, accidentally dropped nukes over Greenland.

SPEAKER_00: 1:58:54

Did they go off?

SPEAKER_03: 1:58:55

No, no, no, they didn't dead.

unknown: 1:58:57

Dead.

SPEAKER_03: 1:58:58

Yeah, they had to be rec found and recovered. Okay, okay. But no, the the joke is we dropped nukes on Greenland.

SPEAKER_00: 1:59:04

Yeah. Well, I know that in in the core part of Greenland, they say the ice sheet is about 1.8 kilometers thick. A lot of ice, man. Oh, yeah, we can get rid of it. Yeah. Well, I know there's been talk of like painting it black and just having having more ice melting on the top layers every year so that after a hundred years we do get down to the ground. We don't have that long. Well, however long it is, I don't know. But but there's been definitely proposals to do that. I think Greenland would be a wonderful place for data centers.

SPEAKER_03: 1:59:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:59:44

So that there you melt the whole damn nation within five years of Bitcoin mining.

SPEAKER_03: 1:59:49

Yeah, so in 1993, US Air Force declassified disclosed strategic bombers routinely flew over Greenland with nuclear weapons during most of the 1960s, and it was discovered was discovered Denmark banned this, so this is part of the problem. Uh after in 1957, we accidentally dropped da da da da da da.

SPEAKER_00: 2:00:12

Interesting. Yeah, I was not aware of that at all.

SPEAKER_03: 2:00:15

Yeah, fat electricians got an episode on it, but of course he does. Dude, that dude is so fucking funny. No, but this is this actually goes to the exact point of why we need sovereignty over this. Yeah. So as soon as Denmark found out that we were flying nukes over their territory, right? They told us not to. Yeah. Fuck you. Like, we should have never given Greenland back to them after War. No, definitely not. Like we we should have just said, uh no, no, no. We we had to protect it. I do need to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00: 2:00:48

We should have been a lot more harsh in the land lease deals and just kept all that land. It's like, hey, you gave up 80% of the land of all your countries, France. I guess we're making cheese now. We'll call it New Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_03: 2:01:02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00: 2:01:03

It's yeah, because that cheese curdsy. Yeah. Yeah. French. French curds. Yeah. I wonder if they if the new Wisconsin cheese would cost more than the old Wisconsin cheese.

SPEAKER_03: 2:01:16

Come on, that was pretty close. That wasn't a bad little accent.

SPEAKER_00: 2:01:20

No, no, no. No, that's that's good. That's good.

SPEAKER_03: 2:01:23

Oh man. No, I I think we're both on the same page that shocker. It kind of is at times. Thank you. But I I think it's I I I just I think it's it's time that America enters its empire phase, and I think we're there. Yeah. Like what's going on with Venezuela? The amount of oil that we're getting sent from Venezuela, the deals that we're making down there, this is tremendous. And our refining capacity is built for that crude. So you saw the video I sent about Canada, right? Yeah, Canada's fucked.

SPEAKER_00: 2:02:03

Yeah, totally. Like if we really get this, that was a very good analysis of Canadian economy based on the uh the cost of the uh exploration and everything else and transport.

SPEAKER_03: 2:02:16

And here's what it comes down to. If we really do get this Venezuelan crude, Canada's screwed because they're not going to be able to compete. And it it it it's it's it's going to help America export.

SPEAKER_00: 2:02:30

We don't have these memories because you were born later, but I distinctly remember, like in my early 20s, driving to Canada and buying shit at Canadian Walmart for literally like 65 cents on the dollar. It was absurdly cheap to buy stuff in Canada. I mean, you wouldn't go to Canada just for that, but I would go camping in northern Minnesota and then we would drive do a day trip from the campsite up across the border, and then shit, dude. I I I took my ex-wife to Canada before she had a US citizenship. Like the Canadian border used to be so ridiculously open that there was no questions asked. You just drove through.

SPEAKER_03: 2:03:20

The only time I ever crossed the Canadian border was on a uh trip to go drink with a buddy of mine who was going off to Iraq because the drinking age in Vancouver was 17. Right. So we crossed the border and went and did that. That was in like 2004, 2005.

SPEAKER_00: 2:03:39

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 2:03:40

No, 2000 it was before I went to AM, so it had to be spring of 2004.

SPEAKER_00: 2:03:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 2:03:48

But in the 90s, it was just like Yeah, I mean, all you had to have was a birth certificate to get back in the US.

SPEAKER_00: 2:03:55

You you literally didn't need anything back in the 90s. Literally nothing. You didn't need to show your driver's license. You your plates on your car being US plates was sufficient proof that you were coming home. And crossing into Canada, the only thing they would ask you is, do you have any guns? And you would be like, No. Okay, welcome to Canada, eh?

SPEAKER_03: 2:04:19

So enjoy the cheese. So I'm gonna tell a story. So on that trip, I was driving when we crossed the border. Yeah. And I you might have noticed, Gene, I'm a little bit of a smart ass. A little bit.

SPEAKER_00: 2:04:34

We bet.

SPEAKER_03: 2:04:35

Yeah, yeah. So we go to cross the border, and the Canadian mounting goes, Oh, hey there, oh hi, you know, and starts asking questions. Oh, yeah, we're just gonna have to do this, that, and the other. Okay, you got any contraband? Well, like, what do you mean? Oh, drugs, and I jokingly say that my buddy, I won't give his name out right now, yeah, he's got an eight-ball of coke up his ass.

SPEAKER_00: 2:04:59

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03: 2:05:02

The Canadians do not have a sense of humor, contrary to popular belief. Anyway, so we had this whole ordeal, and they were literally cavity searching, and he's screaming, he was joking, he was joking. I'm going, I was joking, I was joking. Just a smart ass. Yeah. Needless to say, I for that trip.

SPEAKER_00: 2:05:27

You what? You got cut out for a sec.

SPEAKER_03: 2:05:29

I I had to pay for some beer for that trip.

SPEAKER_00: 2:05:31

Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, that's the least you gotta do, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03: 2:05:34

But anyway, he ended up not getting searched, and it was just it was funny. It it it it ended up as a scary moment that turned out to be a hilarious story.

SPEAKER_00: 2:05:44

That's a story to tell later, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03: 2:05:47

Yeah. Well, and it just, you know, who's the asshole? Yeah, easy answer. Yeah. That's usually the case.

SPEAKER_01: 2:05:57

Well, I got nothing else, Ben.

SPEAKER_03: 2:05:59

Well, and we're at right at two hours, so perfect.

SPEAKER_00: 2:06:02

All right, guys, hopefully you enjoyed the show. Now remember, we don't ever really beg for money, but if you chose so choose, there is a link to sign up on our site to do a donation monthly. There's a number of different levels, top level of which gives you access to our full catalog of every episode since we started. And Ben, I was gonna mention to you, I think what I'm gonna do is take the episodes that we did on Surgine and then shove them into the back catalog. Okay. And I'm just gonna delete Surgine because I I've been paying it for three years of inactivity and I'm kind of getting sick of paying for it. I don't blame you. But I don't want to lose those early episodes we were doing together before it was official.

SPEAKER_03: 2:06:43

And what I would say is, you know, download your back catalog and just save it, dude.

SPEAKER_00: 2:06:48

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 2:06:49

And you know, don't don't lose the domain. You can always go back to it.

SPEAKER_00: 2:06:53

Oh, yeah, for sure. No, I've I use that domain for other stuff too. So yeah. But it's I just yeah, I'd not been inclined to put anything else out. And frankly, if I did decide to just do a one off solo episode or something, I'd sooner dump it on here with an actual listening audience rather than on there with you know everybody's unsubscribed to it already. So that's the deal on that, and we will see y'all in a week.