SPEAKER_03: 0:25

Wowdy, Ben, how are you today?

SPEAKER_05: 0:27

Ah, Gene, better than I deserve. Yeah, you know, you keep saying that. People are gonna start believing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. I know you're doing worse than that. Anyway. Yeah. We got a few things to talk about here, and we're gonna go in backwards order because it's easier. How about that F-47, huh?

SPEAKER_03: 0:49

I I I started the video you're talking about, but I haven't finished it.

SPEAKER_05: 0:53

But yeah, it's any info about it?

SPEAKER_03: 0:55

Yeah, yeah, I have. Video is just a summary of all that.

SPEAKER_05: 0:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 0:58

It it's really interesting. The the like the computer that's running that has to be pretty beefy to handle the aerodynamic crap that they're doing.

SPEAKER_05: 1:08

Yeah.

unknown: 1:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09

Yeah, they're doing cool. The only thing they're not doing is flexible airframe. But other than that, they're doing everything else in this plane. It is really cool. The well, it's it's pretty too. I mean, it's not just cool in terms of its performance, but it looks nice, which is a big plus for airplanes.

SPEAKER_03: 1:29

We haven't heard if the final version's gonna have Canard yet or not, though.

SPEAKER_05: 1:32

So oh, yeah, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35

Well, I I suspect So we don't know if it's gonna be a homosexual airplane or not.

SPEAKER_05: 1:41

You mean Euro Trash airplane? Come on, get your language straight.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45

No, no, no. According to like HLC and others, you know, canards are gay.

SPEAKER_05: 1:49

They are gay. That's what I mean. European.

SPEAKER_03: 1:51

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05: 1:55

But yeah, it's anyone who hasn't watched anything on the on the F-47. There's a bunch of videos on YouTube now and other platforms you can check out, see it in action. I think a lot of this is promo material from Boeing, so it's only showing really cool stuff. But there are a couple of things.

SPEAKER_03: 2:12

Yeah, but there's a lot of cool stuff.

SPEAKER_05: 2:14

There is a lot of cool stuff, and there are a couple of like videos that people have shot of it flying over Nevada. So it's definitely fully up and running. We may see it flying over Iran shortly. I no, I don't think may happen. That's how we watch the uh F-117s.

SPEAKER_03: 2:32

Right, but do you think it's really they're gonna send the F-47 over there when it hasn't even gone through full Trump is all about what it it's all about appearance, baby.

SPEAKER_05: 2:44

So the first thing we're gonna do is knock everything out, then we'll fly some F-47.

SPEAKER_03: 2:49

So we're kind of like the F-22 never gets to do anything.

SPEAKER_05: 2:52

Yeah, yeah. We'll see. We'll see. This thing costs less than the F-22. That's the other thing that apparently is revolutionary. Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 3:02

And you know, it's gonna have the uh the same autonomous wingman that uh the F-35's getting.

SPEAKER_05: 3:10

Up to 10 autonomous drones to be uh flying with it.

SPEAKER_03: 3:14

Which is more than what the F-35 can handle.

SPEAKER_05: 3:16

Which is kind of literally what we do in video games usually, too. So that makes total sense. You know, if you're flying one, you might as well fly a bunch of them. Yeah, yeah. So I like it. Cool stuff. All right, from from the lighter topic, should we go to something a little not quite as light? We had another domestic terrorist get taken out in Minneapolis.

SPEAKER_03: 3:38

Yeah, I just I don't understand what prompted the shooting.

SPEAKER_05: 3:43

Well, what prompted the shooting was the guy there was a woman that was. He was wrestling with the cops, James wrestling with the cops.

SPEAKER_03: 3:52

You know, all which is cool, but the I don't know what prompted the shooting and the multiple, multiple shards, but they said they disarmed him.

SPEAKER_05: 4:01

Well, they they did disarm him, but he grabbed a gun that was dropped from the one of the ice agents in the shuffle.

SPEAKER_03: 4:08

See, that's that I didn't I couldn't tell from the footage because the footage we have is crap.

SPEAKER_05: 4:13

It is crap. We don't we don't have any any we have two angles that I've seen, uh-huh, and neither one of them show anything other than a gaggle of bodies all on top of each other fighting.

SPEAKER_02: 4:25

Right.

SPEAKER_05: 4:26

So but that that's the latest I heard is that his gun was taken from him literally seconds before the shooting, but he had reached and grabbed for a gun that had one of the officers had dropped.

SPEAKER_02: 4:41

Yeah, at that point, dude, you're I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_05: 4:45

Yeah, now I would certainly even go beyond that. At the point at which, while armed, you're pushing a federal agent back physically. You have committed to suicide, you have taken a suicidal action.

SPEAKER_02: 4:59

Well, I mean, death by cop is a thing, man.

SPEAKER_05: 5:02

It is, and that's the thing. You you gotta look at the stats, man. The number of people that choose to get killed by police instead of taking their own lives is pretty high. So I think this is another another very clear argument for what I've been saying for many, many years now. Reopen the asylums. We have a ton of people that need to be in white padded cells, not roaming the streets, certainly not walking around with handguns.

SPEAKER_02: 5:35

Yeah, do you want to bring back uh lobotomies as well? How about electricity?

SPEAKER_05: 5:40

Absolutely. Lobotomies work, okay? It's undeniable. We know the science. They totally work for people that have serious mental disorders.

SPEAKER_03: 5:50

Yeah, but you're lobotomized.

SPEAKER_05: 5:54

Well, I mean, would you would do you think this guy is better off being dead or lobotomized? I mean, people leave perfectly healthy lives after lobotomy.

SPEAKER_02: 6:10

I guess. They're just compliant.

SPEAKER_05: 6:13

Well, they they're alive.

SPEAKER_03: 6:16

I mean, you know, you know, you and I both would say, you know, I don't care really what goes on with my body as long as I keep my mind. If I'm losing my mind, then I'm, you know, that's when I'm gonna walk off into the woods.

SPEAKER_05: 6:32

But but you're trying to make an argument for a mind that is healthy to argue for a mind that's not healthy. So when somebody has a physical defect in their brain, which causes their behavior to be violent, and you know, for some people it may be less violent, for others more violent, but it's one where they are not thinking about their actions, they're acting without thinking.

SPEAKER_03: 7:00

Yeah, I think that the majority of the people like this guy that got shot are brainwashed. I don't think there's anything defective about them. I think that they have just fallen into a lunacy, right?

SPEAKER_05: 7:14

Yes, and they should be in the pad itself, absolutely. And then once so when do the re-education camps come in? What do you think we need Greenland for, man? Now I've been saying Alaska for penal colony. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's a subset of the population in this country right now, which is hell-bent on destruction of the country. And I don't I'm not so cold-blooded that I would argue that all these people just need to be killed. I don't I don't think that that's the solution that we want. We just need to get a train built to go up to Greenland, build some camps up there, and they can live out their days in cars, right? Yeah. Well, there, I mean, look at how many people we have. I I don't think we have enough passenger cars to be able to do it any other way. Gene's final solution. Yes, yes, that's that's very funny. But it's true. The reality is that you can't just assume that every generation of people born after the generation that actually had a revolution against England, is going to somehow have the same values, adhere to the same morals, and live their lives in the same way that the people that actually created the country would do. And so then you have a choice to make. Do you allow those future generations, whether they're imports from other countries or born here, as plenty of these morons are, do you allow them to then end the country? Because that is what they want. They want to end the country that was created in 1776, 249 years ago. So what do we what do we do in this scenario? Do you do you just watch and stand by as your kids don't have a chance to grow up in this country because it's been destroyed? Or do you actually fight back?

SPEAKER_02: 9:18

Oh, I'm all for fighting back.

SPEAKER_05: 9:22

Well, the way you fight back, especially when you're in power, is by getting Greenland and building some camps up there.

SPEAKER_03: 9:30

I think there are other ways to do that, sure.

SPEAKER_05: 9:33

Okay, name one.

SPEAKER_03: 9:36

Get rid of public education.

SPEAKER_05: 9:39

Get rid of public what is that gonna do to all the people in Minneapolis right now if you get rid of public education?

SPEAKER_03: 9:45

Well, the next generation won't be so indoctrinated.

SPEAKER_05: 9:50

Okay. The next generation. So you do think between now and then things are just fine?

SPEAKER_02: 9:56

No, I mean we're gonna have to have a civil war, obviously.

SPEAKER_05: 9:59

Okay. I choose the more bloodless way of doing this. Instead of civil war, we build a colony up in Greenland and ship those people up there.

SPEAKER_03: 10:12

Against their will.

SPEAKER_05: 10:14

Well, I don't really care if it's against their will or not. They're against the country. It's for the country's will.

SPEAKER_03: 10:20

Okay. Well I don't know, man. I I think people are entitled to their opinions. I think when they get violent and do things that are silly, like what happened here recently, then they're gonna pay the consequences.

SPEAKER_05: 10:38

So well, they are gonna pay the consequences. I it's just I think the consequences are better off being non-death. I mean, that would solve the problem. If you just killed off about a hundred thousand Minnesotans, it would solve the problem. I don't think that that's the optimal solution when you can just ship them out.

SPEAKER_03: 11:00

And but there's a cost to that, so what are they gonna be doing to justify?

SPEAKER_05: 11:05

They're gonna be making license plates, they're gonna be doing all kinds of activities up there. They're gonna have a lot of fun. They'll get to use their hands to dig for rocks. There's a lot of minerals up there. We need a labor force.

SPEAKER_02: 11:18

I mean, it it all just falls into the with their hands through the ice.

SPEAKER_05: 11:22

Well, shovels are expensive, dude. Okay, we have a lot of people to go through. I'm just gonna be nonviolent.

SPEAKER_03: 11:33

Nonviolent. So basically rurapente.

SPEAKER_05: 11:39

Where's that from? Oh my what? What? Star Trek Ten. Okay. I I remember yes. There you go. Except actually run better than that, because it wasn't run very well in Star Trek 10. No, it is it 10? Uh one of the Star Trek. Yeah, but I shouldn't know this off the top of my head. Yes, you should. I shouldn't. Uh no, it's not ten. Six?

SPEAKER_03: 12:08

Seven.

SPEAKER_05: 12:09

Seven.

SPEAKER_03: 12:09

There you go.

SPEAKER_05: 12:10

No? Yeah. The guards should not have their balls in their stomachs either.

SPEAKER_03: 12:15

Yeah, yeah. So six is the pissing me off.

SPEAKER_05: 12:21

I thought it was six, but maybe it's seven. Whatever. Doesn't matter. The point is that it is not enough to try and guard this country from external threats. You have to guard it from internal threats. Right now we have a high concentration. Oh my god, you're saying I was right? Holy shit. Yeah. I'm not even a Surtrek guy. So you have to guard internal threats. Did you watch that Surtrek documentary I sent you?

SPEAKER_03: 12:58

No, I haven't yet.

SPEAKER_05: 12:59

It's actually interesting. I had not seen it before. It's got the bunch of stuff about Gene Roddenberry's alcoholism in there.

SPEAKER_02: 13:05

Woo-hoo.

SPEAKER_05: 13:06

Yeah. I I mean I kind of assumed, but I wasn't sure if that was the case.

SPEAKER_02: 13:11

Why would you assume that?

SPEAKER_05: 13:13

Dude. I I've seen plenty of photos of Gene sitting around with staff and he's always got a drink in his hand.

SPEAKER_02: 13:21

Well, you know, it was the 60s.

SPEAKER_05: 13:23

It was exactly. It's the kind of place where you first walk into your office at work and you pour yourself a tall one. You know, I had that when I had my office in Minnesota, I had liquor at work and didn't use it a whole lot, honestly, because I I I was always a social drinker. I never really drank loans, but it was there, it was always available. And I remember my one of my clients out there had just phased out liquor at work for their senior management about two years. So it would have been probably in the late 90s, they phased it up. Yeah, it was a very traditional company. They they had company cars for all their senior folks. Although with the caveat that it has to be an American car, very patriotic company, which I thought, which I thought was hilarious that they're making them drive American cars. But yeah, it it's it's a different time, for sure.

SPEAKER_03: 14:33

Yep. Anyway, so Minnesota, like, with this last incident, with the ice agent getting his finger bit off. Like what do you do with a rabbit dog? You put him down. It's time for the insurrection act at the very least. It's been time for a while. But the problem is the optics are gonna be really bad.

SPEAKER_05: 15:00

Well, I mean the only time the optics are gonna be good is after an ICE officer gets killed. If that's what we're waiting for, it will happen sooner or later. You know.

SPEAKER_02: 15:12

But maybe what's I think that may be what they're waiting on.

SPEAKER_05: 15:17

Well, that's stupid. They should have brought it in immediately. But it's between all the and and look, it's hard to say online what actually is happening, but I think we have sufficient footage from like surveillance videos to see the kinds of crowds that are building up, the kind of disorder that's happening. Yeah, one of my posts the next day was if we use proportionality and look at what people did on January 6th and the one-year sentences in prison they got as a result of that, how many years of prison sentences do thousands of Minnesotans deserve now?

SPEAKER_03: 16:02

Yeah. And I I would say that a lot of these people here are assaulting ICE officers and uh will end up with some sort of charges.

SPEAKER_05: 16:15

Well, they the only charges that'll stick are federal charges, because in Minnesota, all the DAs are gonna let them off immediately.

SPEAKER_02: 16:23

You don't think there's any portions of Minnesota that would uh Oh, there are, but this the but nothing's happening in those portions.

SPEAKER_05: 16:30

Like if you if you go out to you know western Minnesota, you go up north, but not too far north because Duluth's always been very liberal.

SPEAKER_02: 16:39

But if you I would not think Duluth would be liberal.

SPEAKER_05: 16:42

Yeah, it's well Duluth is remember, Duluth is the port for the Iron Range. It's it is historical 1950s Democrat-based farmer labor people, it's the iron workers up in Minnesota. And so the Duluth, well, that and the union. What do you call those dock workers? The the dock worker union, there's a name for it. It's not the Teamsters, it's like it's it's it's Teamsters are trucks, these are the dock worker guys, and there's another name like Teamsters for them as well. But it's it's definitely liberal. Well, if if you look at the voting maps in Minnesota, Hannepin County and Ramsey County, which is Minneapolis and St. Paul, always extremely liberal, Duluth extremely liberal, the the immediate areas just west of Duluth, the old Iron Range territory, pretty liberal, and then everything else is red. But the population of everything else is less than half the population of the metropolitan areas that are liberal. So I think that's a good thing. Right. I mean, but it's like Illinois.

SPEAKER_03: 17:58

If you take out Champagne and Chicago, Illinois is pretty red.

SPEAKER_05: 18:02

Yeah. But the the population density is so low in those places that they're in the minority, even though they have the majority of the property.

unknown: 18:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 18:15

And that's, you know, I mean, that was always the argument for making voting based on property ownership and not on uh just citizenship.

SPEAKER_03: 18:25

Okay. So do you want to go to Japan or Davo?

SPEAKER_05: 18:33

Well, are we done with Minneapolis? Well, that's what I'm asking. Okay, well, you briefly mentioned the finger incident. I mean, that is very disturbing that a guy has had his finger bitten off. It it would certainly make I think more people think twice about joining ice.

SPEAKER_03: 18:51

Well, to be clear, it's the tip of his finger.

SPEAKER_05: 18:54

I saw the jar that it was in.

SPEAKER_03: 18:56

Right, but it's just the tip. Like that first knuckle.

SPEAKER_05: 19:00

It's the first knuckle, dude. That's not the tip, that's the first joint. The tip would be like somebody bites. Might they be able to reattach it? It was in a jar, it didn't look like it was reattachable. It was probably in a jar so they could try to reattach it. But it it's I mean, this is some just crazy lunatic behavior that again just points to there being a lot of people that need to be in uh mental asylums for the rest of their lives.

SPEAKER_03: 19:29

Well, I mean, when you're in a fight and you know, you're on the ground, if you're getting your ass kicked, you're gonna if you're if you're really fighting, you're gonna claw, kick, bite, do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_05: 19:41

You will you will, but also what are you doing in that type of fight with a federal agent? I don't know. I mean, there's a if somebody bit a finger off of a uh criminal that just broke into their home, I'm all I mean, I think it's crazy behavior, but I'm all for it. I'm like, okay, do what you gotta do. You don't have a knife on you, I guess you use your teeth. But you know, the cops don't just go and beat the crap out of you, nor the ice agents. We see all these interactions, they all start off with commands to. To people to either leave or put their hands up or to drop to the ground or something. So by the time you're in a situation where you've got the finger of an IX agent near your mouth, you've had a lot of opportunities to stop what you're doing, get handcuffed, get put in the back of a vehicle, and then driven to jail. Like nobody gets hurt in that scenario.

SPEAKER_03: 20:52

And a lawyer's advice is always, you know, you're not going to beat the ride. You're you know beat it in court.

SPEAKER_05: 21:00

Exactly. And so in that scenario, and look, neither Ben nor I are big fans of cops. We've talked about that plenty of times. But I'm also not going to be out there getting the cop to be manhandling me for not cooperating. I I would much rather win.

SPEAKER_03: 21:19

Well, you're just adding additional charges.

SPEAKER_05: 21:22

Well, you're doing that and you're risking your life. Because I'll tell you what, after this finger biting incident, the next guy who's got his face next to one of the ice agents' hands is getting shot. He's just getting shot. That's it. Because you don't have to have another gun as a threat of a gun. You just have to have a threat. And if the threat happens to be teeth, that's justifiable. And I don't know how many people I have to explain this to on X as well. Everyone's like, well, but you know, he he didn't even have his gun already. It's not about the gun. Use of deadly force does not require the other person to have a firearm. Use of deadly force, especially in a situation during the course of carrying out legal orders, is authorized during a threat of any kind. It could be a vehicle that someone's trying to drive over you, or it could be teeth trying to bite off your finger. Those are all threats. And they will result in a discharge of a firearm by the agent. Perfectly lawfully. And because this is a federal agent and not a Minnesota policeman, there's not going to be a Minnesota court to convict them.

SPEAKER_03: 22:34

Well, but the federal charges, it'll be a federal court.

SPEAKER_05: 22:39

Federal court isn't going to convict ICE for self-defense.

SPEAKER_03: 22:43

No, no, no. I'm talking about the assaulter.

SPEAKER_05: 22:45

No, no, I'm talking about the police officer. I was referring to the Rodney King thing, to where, because that was a Minneapolis police agent, it was a Minnesota issue. He got charged, he got sued in Minnesota and ended up losing and being in prison now for doing exactly what he was taught in the police force to do when dealing with a violent, drugged-out thug. These people don't understand that there's a video that I posted just recently of a sculpture, which is a like a you know, moving sculpture. It's one of these sort of contraption things. And it the sculpture is of a of the whole thing is standing on one wooden leg, and it's got a motor in it that's rotating basically an arm with an axe, and about once every five seconds, the arm swings an axe to chop its own leg down. That's what's happening in Minnesota right now. You've got a bunch of people protesting the apprehension of rapists, pedophiles, crazy gang member drug sellers, and other criminals from their communities. It's insanity. It's hard to imagine what kind of a mental faculty breakdown you need to have to be protesting and violently protesting to prevent the apprehension of criminals from where you live. Because these criminals are not going to look at these people and say, Oh, hey, uh, you were at that protest uh to keep me safe and getting from getting picked up by the police. You're a cool dude. No, they're gonna rape, they're gonna steal, and they're gonna murder, just like they've always done, with no disregard at all for whether the person was trying to protest for them or against them. And these morons don't understand that.

SPEAKER_03: 25:02

Yeah. Well, and while we're on Minnesota, the fraud stuff, you know, we've got subpoenas uh out. Like I people say, you know, oh, nothing ever happens. Well, it sure seems like like the subpoenas that they're involved with, these are all RICO charges that they're looking at. That those those cases take a while to build. But like we could see a huge portion of the Democratic Party in Minnesota wrapped up in RICO charges by the end of this.

SPEAKER_05: 25:32

Well, and that's what a lot of people are posting as well, is just the idea that everything that they're letting happen in Minnesota is just to take the uh focus away from the criminality of the politicians there.

SPEAKER_00: 25:49

Yep.

SPEAKER_05: 25:51

So all right. I think we got Minnesota out of the way. So you got you got something a little more lighter here with the cherry trees?

SPEAKER_03: 26:01

Well, let's talk about Japan for a second.

SPEAKER_05: 26:03

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 26:05

So Japan just voted to dissolve its parliament. So they're gonna go into snap elections, and when they did, this is what's interesting. The parliament went out in a cheer of bonsai.

SPEAKER_01: 26:19

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03: 26:21

Okay. Interesting. Why did they do that? Any thoughts?

SPEAKER_05: 26:27

I mean, it's kind of a it's uh I think it's a cheer for patriotism in Japan, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02: 26:33

Oh, I mean, it's also you know, kamikazes.

SPEAKER_05: 26:36

So yeah, but that that word existed way before kamikazes.

unknown: 26:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 26:41

And then they're also gifting the U.S. 250 cherry trees for our 250th birthday.

SPEAKER_05: 26:47

Yeah, which how oh how long ago did they give us the original cherry trees in DC? Uh it was in the 1800s, I believe. Okay, so it's probably for the 100th anniversary or not even something like that, yeah. Yeah. So bansai in Japanese means to live 10,000 years. Yeah. And apparently it was a blessing for the emperor.

SPEAKER_03: 27:10

So well, but that's part of what I think is interesting is you know the relationship to the empire. Like, is Japan gonna return to its imperial ways?

SPEAKER_05: 27:21

It doesn't really have an empire, so hard for it to become one. They I don't think they've recovered from their economic slump of 30 years ago.

SPEAKER_03: 27:31

Well, no, I mean the their birth rate decline is a big problem for them. However, Japan has the military force it needs to be a regional hegemon in the Asia Pacific.

SPEAKER_05: 27:43

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03: 27:45

They have the second strongest Navy. Disagree. They have a working rail gun on one of their destroyers.

SPEAKER_05: 27:56

Ooh, yes, Japanese high-tech wins the day. I think that if the US leaves Pacific, which it's never gonna do, but if the US left the Pacific and Japan tried to flex that muscle again, China would literally have a coalition of countries happily supporting them in a fight against Japan.

SPEAKER_03: 28:19

I I don't know. I think the Vietnamese are getting pretty pissy about China's trying to hold back their economic development.

SPEAKER_05: 28:28

And everybody still has long memories of what happened when Japan was running wild during World War II. Obviously, yeah. The Japanese seeing everybody else as subhuman is legendary. Like they make the Nazis look normal.

SPEAKER_03: 28:49

Let's let's be clear. All Asians are extremely racist against all other Asians.

SPEAKER_05: 28:55

Yes, but the Japanese in particular see all the other, especially Asian groups, as being subhuman. And that attitude was pretty evident even when I was in Japan multiple times in the late 90s. And I don't think it's changed a whole lot since then. I still watch enough people that are in Japan. The Japanese culture has always been of exceptionalism. And and I think that has to be the case because Japan has never had the population to support a military action based on numbers. So they've had to always rely on superior technique, superior weapons, superior training, and you know, basically, Japan has had a lot more of the special forces type mentality. And incidentally, the kamikaze were an exact example of that. Kamikaze pilots weren't like farmer peasants that they got and then forced into a plane and then pointed in a direction. These were trained pilots, these were some of the non-agrarian people in the country that were very civilized and cultured. They just had a profound love for their country, they were the ultimate patriots that they were willing to risk, well, not even risk, but guarantee thinking of their own life for the glory of the country. So while that can work against an agrarian Chinese population, it it is not gonna work against modern China.

SPEAKER_03: 30:47

I think you think more highly of China than China China.

SPEAKER_05: 30:52

I do think more highly of China, and uh, this is something I've talked about. I think the average American has been so propagandized by anti-Chinese propaganda that they think that China literally is like a village with a bunch of people picking rice, and that's the whole country. That that is not China has more skyscrapers than the US. China has more billionaires than the US.

SPEAKER_03: 31:15

And a lot of them are empty.

SPEAKER_05: 31:18

Some of them are empty, but plenty of them are not empty. China has more billionaires than the US. China has it it manufactures way more products than the US. What China doesn't have is consumers, and the key thing that I think we all agree on that China lacks is the sort of entrepreneurial mentality that lets you create new things, new products, new services.

SPEAKER_03: 31:44

Oh, they're great at copying, but they're great at copying.

SPEAKER_05: 31:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 31:47

By the way, did you hear about the rare earth mineral refining facility that blew up in China?

SPEAKER_05: 31:52

I did not know.

SPEAKER_03: 31:53

Yeah, what the largest rare earth refining facility blew up.

SPEAKER_05: 31:58

Which uh which materials was it refining?

SPEAKER_03: 32:00

I don't remember. I'd have to go back and find the article.

SPEAKER_05: 32:03

Do you remember what it was called?

SPEAKER_03: 32:05

Oh god. No. Keep talking while I look at it.

SPEAKER_05: 32:09

Well, I mean, I was just curious. Uh see what's in there. So the thing about China is they they have people numbers, they play the long game, and they in a lot of ways I think they're underestimated. And and here's the thing.

SPEAKER_03: 32:27

Like, let's say that when Trump took the it's it's the Balto Steel Group factory under criticism. Death toll rises, eighty-four people injured, nine killed, one missing person left.

SPEAKER_05: 32:45

That's not that many dead.

SPEAKER_03: 32:48

No, but these aren't anyway. It's one of their largest plants.

SPEAKER_05: 32:54

It's also the world's largest steel producer. Yeah. Yep. So world's largest steel producer, company founded in 2016.

SPEAKER_03: 33:04

Well, that's because we stopped building steel product.

SPEAKER_05: 33:07

Pretty impressive. Yeah. Two years ago they made 132 million metric tons of steel. And remember, China does not China does not actually have very many mining areas for steel. So they're importing bauxite.

SPEAKER_03: 33:26

Iron ore. Yeah. No, not bauxite. Bauxite is aluminum, dude.

SPEAKER_05: 33:30

Oh, you're right. You're right. Yeah, so it's iron ore. At least these guys. But they're importing plenty of bauxite too. But they're importing this stuff and then turning it into commercial steel and then selling it back a lot of times to the countries that they imported the original material from. It's so I'm not a fan of China. I'm certainly not a fan of you know Chinese Communist Party. But I think that there are a lot of a lot of misconceptions about what China's capabilities are. People don't seem to see a much difference between China and North Korea. You know, North Korea talks the big talk, but everything we see actually happening there is a failure. And we know that from North Koreans that have escaped, and then talk about what they were working on, what they did. Like we've we I've watched an interview with a guy that used to be Kim's bodyguard. Like he was one of the guys in his fleet of people that was protecting his car. And you know, that whole country is just it's all image. It's like 99% image, 1% reality. So not a whole lot there. But anyway, let's let's move on. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about this one.

SPEAKER_03: 34:52

So Davo, the American contingent to me went in there and basically announced the end of globalism and the end of the rules-based order. And hey, you're either with us or you're not going to get anything from us.

SPEAKER_05: 35:09

Yeah, I think it was a very good Davos.

SPEAKER_03: 35:12

Yeah. And, you know, it looks like we've got a deal on Greenland out of it. It's pretty interesting. The Board of Peace that Trump announced and got quite a few countries signing on. And I think that will only grow. And Putin has even talked about wanting to join it. Interestingly enough, the France and the UK declined saying it would undermine the UN. Well, hello, what do you think the fucking Trump is doing? He just pulled us out of 67 different UN agencies.

SPEAKER_05: 35:44

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03: 35:45

And we're officially out of the WHO now.

SPEAKER_05: 35:47

Oh, that was so awesome. Yeah. Yeah, we need to get out of the World Monetary Fund and a couple more, but we're definitely making strides in the right direction. Victor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, did a video that was extremely complimentary to Trump.

SPEAKER_03: 36:05

Oh, him and Ruto were both.

SPEAKER_05: 36:07

And talking about how the UN and Europe overall has completely missed the boat for the last 30 years.

SPEAKER_02: 36:15

Yup.

SPEAKER_05: 36:17

So I think that's a that's a good sign. There's a little too many Arabs on that board of peace, but I think that'll get balanced out a little bit more over time. But I mean you've got to do that.

SPEAKER_03: 36:31

Yeah, you you've got just to, you know, and Trump is the chairman for life, obviously. Right, but it's for life. It's not even when he leaves, right? So he's the chairman for life.

SPEAKER_05: 36:44

Well, a piece, that's what it's called.

SPEAKER_03: 36:46

Right. So it'll be interesting to see if this organization actually does something, or it's just his Clinton foundation. I think if they can if by the way, it's a billion-dollar price tag to join.

SPEAKER_05: 36:59

To get in, yeah, yeah. So that's why you have a lot of Arabs in there.

SPEAKER_03: 37:03

Right. But the countries that joined, you know, you've got Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and it's interesting that UAE joined as well. Oh, Mongolia joined. That's that's Ubekistan, Mongolia, Jordan, yeah, Bahrain, Morocco, Argentina. Let's see, where else?

SPEAKER_05: 37:25

Armenia.

SPEAKER_03: 37:26

Armenia, Azerbaijan, which Armenia and Azerbaijan on there is pretty interesting. Yeah. Dude, there I remember Hungary and Indonesia.

SPEAKER_05: 37:36

There was and way before the 70s, but I'm just remembering personally in the 70s all the jokes about the Azerbaijanis and the Armenians and how they're like everybody else kind of sees them as pretty much the same thing, but they are you know mortal enemies to each other until Trump stepped in. Like they've literally been fighting each other about as long as Jews and Arabs. Oh yeah, I know. So it's it's pretty crazy. Yeah, I think that there are gonna be two things that need to happen to make this successful, like long term. One is Russia needs to get into it, and and two is China needs to get into it. And if be if he can get both of those countries in, the UN is irrelevant. And the only people that'll be left in the UN are Europe and Africa.

SPEAKER_03: 38:24

Yeah, and the interesting thing is the only veto power resides with the chairman.

SPEAKER_05: 38:29

Mm-hmm. Yeah, which is the way it should be.

SPEAKER_03: 38:32

Yeah. So no UN Security Council and all that.

SPEAKER_05: 38:37

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_03: 38:38

I I I think Trump is gonna slowly pull us out of the UN. I think getting these 67, getting a secondary organization that can have some functions of the UN, like, yeah, that's what he's doing.

SPEAKER_05: 38:50

I think they'll have way more functions in the UN. Like what? Well, I look if they can get people who are frustrated with the UN and have been in this, they're gonna be willing to do things while the UN is debating. Like I get like Mellier can probably agree to a military action that involves his country's troops immediately. He doesn't have to have the UN blue helmets in there. Right. So I think this is good. What's his name? Both well, uh we talked about Putin said he's in for a billion. He does have one kind of outstanding item, which is the there has to be within one year of this thing ramping up, there has to be a solution for the Palestinians. And he's not saying what the solution is, but he this like that's a big part of it is this has to solve that problem once and for all.

SPEAKER_03: 39:55

The other thing Putin wanted was to, hey, America, unfreeze a billion dollars worth of sanctioned money so we can pay you for it.

SPEAKER_05: 40:02

Well, yeah, that well that's what he said. It's like, look, you already have the money. What we're saying is we're gonna give up the the rights to it, like formally say this this money that was sanctioned is money that that will be paid. And Trump has got to like that because that takes money away from Europe. Right now, Europe has been slowly spending that money. Uh, without really being legally allowed to, but they're spending it anyway. They're literally using it to pay Germany and France and other countries for the military that they're sending to Ukraine. And so Europe is gonna have to pony up the money that they stole to Trump, which is hilarious. So I think it's a smart move on Putin's part. Because he knows that Russia would never get that money back, no matter what. You know, once that money is frozen, it's gone. It's like Iranian money has been frozen for 38 years. So it's it ain't gonna happen, obviously, for Russia either. But if you can use that frozen money for something else, that's good. So that's essentially what he's doing.

SPEAKER_03: 41:11

Yeah, and did you watch Elon Musk's talk at uh Tavo?

SPEAKER_05: 41:15

I watched a little bit of it. I didn't know.

SPEAKER_03: 41:18

I thought it was really funny when he was joking about the board of peace. He's they made the joke, a piece of Venezuela, a piece of green ones.

SPEAKER_05: 41:25

That's that is typical Musk, yes. Yeah, he got troller of the year in one of the publications. You know, the like the biggest troll. Which well deserved. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, the guy definitely is trolling with the best of him there. Let's see. Oh, did you see this thing about Texas taxpayer funds being used to pay for the uh Muslim Brotherhood?

SPEAKER_03: 41:56

Yeah, I did, but that's really not that new. I mean, we've had the Ghoulinists and the Harmony Science Academies be part of that. Now that's what organizations are.

SPEAKER_05: 42:07

But what's new is now we've got Pen Ken Paxson.

SPEAKER_03: 42:11

Going after it, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 42:12

Well, not just going after it, but blocked it.

SPEAKER_03: 42:15

Yeah. Yeah. He needs to go after the Ghoulinists now, too, though.

SPEAKER_05: 42:21

Yeah. I mean, there's a bunch of groups in Texas that he needs to go after. But he's also running for Senate, so you know. I don't know how much time he's got. That's the other thing. Now you had sent me this video of John LeFebre from Davos. I that video didn't really stand out to me. What did you like about it? You said this is probably the best takeaway from Davos.

SPEAKER_03: 42:48

Oh, it's just about ending the current economic order and how that's going to shift.

SPEAKER_05: 42:53

Yeah. Yeah, and it was refreshing to see people actually talking about the failure of the last 30 years of.

SPEAKER_03: 43:02

Well, just think of the interaction between Marcaruta and the Finnish guy, where the Finnish guy says, Yes, we can absolutely defend Europe without the Americans. Oh, and then 11 minutes later, oh no, I didn't really say that.

SPEAKER_05: 43:15

Yeah, oh, that was that is such a stereotypical politician thing. That's the kind of thing I expect uh Gavin Newsom to do. Say something and literally within 10 minutes, oh, I never said that. I don't know. You're you're quoting you're misquoting me. That's not what I said. You literally watch the video of him saying that.

SPEAKER_03: 43:33

Yeah. Well, and you know, I I'm really interested to see what the excuse me. And you're right on me getting sick. We didn't do this on Thursday because I had to help with the sick kids, and yeah. Anyway, you know, it'll be interesting to see what the finalized deal is, but everything that's come out in the subsequent days is there will be pockets of Greenland that we basically have sovereignty over. Yeah, and which we can add uh and we can add additional for in perpetuity, and this doesn't go away.

SPEAKER_05: 44:11

Yeah, and I mean mineral thing, but yes, but I I still think that this could have gotten a lot better. I think if they if they were so worried about the the Greenlanders who they've been mistreating, and I I hope you've seen the articles about the sterilization, yeah, the forcing the literal genocide, the literal genocide of the population of Greenland that Denmark was doing in the 60s and 70s, even they were involuntarily inserting IUDs into 10-year-old girls, to the tune of half of the it's a low number of population, right? Remember that. But they were saying that roughly 50% of the entire fertile population, which is women aged from you know 13 to 35, half of those women were incapable of pregnancy thanks to policies of Denmark. If that's not a genocide, I don't know what is. I mean, that to me is stuff that ought to be prosecuted. If you're going to talk about international law, that's the kind of shit that international law has to handle. Because you've got people that, with no consent, were literally made sterile because they were forced into this, and a lot of them at an age where they certainly could not have made a decision on their own by a foreign European government, a colonial government that was taking the the Native Americans that lived there, and yes, they are Native Americans because it's part of North America. These are native North Americans that were being sterilized. So I think honestly, I think Trump gave up. I think he he could have gone for a lot more, he should have pushed for a lot more. We should have had the whole damn island. And this this seemed like a very it was a compromise very much in the favor of the Europeans.

SPEAKER_03: 46:11

Well, it's not done yet, and if they don't give him what he wants, remember the promises, okay, we're pulling out of NATO and taking it. So I don't know, we'll see.

SPEAKER_05: 46:23

Yeah, and I I I kind of hope that they fuck him so that we can fuck him back. That would be that would be good. Too much fuckery. There's a lot of fuckery, but you know, it's like the old saying from another great movie I need to rewatch, haven't seen for a while. Is yeah, there's three kinds of people in the world. There's dicks, there's pussies, and there's assholes. I'm not gonna say the whole speech, but it is a great speech in that movie. It is, it is that that talks about exactly what the three types of people are and why you still need the the assholes. Alright, what else we got here? Uh Canada. Canada looks like is gonna lose Alberta at the very least. They've had a vote, they voted to leave. So that's a good thing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 47:43

Did they actually have the vote?

SPEAKER_05: 47:44

They did. They had the vote.

SPEAKER_02: 47:46

What was the percentage?

SPEAKER_05: 47:48

I don't remember. But I I saw a post saying now we just have to figure out the details.

SPEAKER_03: 47:57

So they've endorsed the referendum, and the referendum's gonna happen, but it's gonna be in October.

SPEAKER_05: 48:03

But what were people standing in line for? To sign uh to sign the petition for then it was my my bad. That was a misunderstanding. I thought they were waiting in line for the votes. Because uh I saw a lot of like victory type messages with from Alberta.

SPEAKER_03: 48:17

So I guess because they got enough to do the vote.

SPEAKER_05: 48:20

The victory is they now have it on the official ballot. Okay. Uh-huh. Well, good. Well, that's progress. That's a step in the right direction. Uh, god damn, if we could trade them Minnesota for Alberta, that would be such a win.

SPEAKER_03: 48:32

They don't want Minnesota.

SPEAKER_05: 48:33

I know, but we don't want it either. So let's get rid of Minnesota, give them to Alberta. Speaking of Midwestern states, did you see the video or or read at least about the governor of Wisconsin saying that the Wisconsin is basically fucked. Their agriculture heavily relies on illegal aliens. He's fully admitted it. And that with the current operations of ICE, he thinks that there will be a very significant portion of crops in Wisconsin that are not harvested. So I I guess the cheese isn't gonna flow. The cheese must flow.

SPEAKER_03: 49:18

Who who uh eats Wisconsin cheese?

SPEAKER_05: 49:21

Like most people. If you buy orange colored cheese, it's usually from Wisconsin. What do you eat? French cheese?

SPEAKER_03: 49:31

Uh I mean, I like some blue cheeses and lots of different things and you know, good, sharp cheddar, but that's made all over the place, not just Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_05: 49:41

Usually Wisconsin. Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_03: 49:44

Yeah, there are lots of dairies all over the place.

SPEAKER_05: 49:47

There are. There are definitely plenty of dairies. Actually, uh I like some of the Tillamook cheese products better than Wisconsin cheese stuff. If you eat if you eat any craft foods products, that's all Wisconsin cheese.

SPEAKER_03: 50:01

I don't.

SPEAKER_05: 50:02

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_03: 50:04

Well, you know, and you saw the story I put in a little earlier on the the was it Wall Street one where so the Trump administration has shown evidence now for multiple states paying for illegal health care, dentist appointments, all that with federal money, Democratic states. One one of the admin reps said that you know that we're looking for the states to pay back this money. California owes over a billion dollars, New York owes$30 million, Illinois 30 million, Minnesota$12 billion million, Oregon five, Washington is two, District of Columbia is two, Colorado owes 1.5. So it totaling over$1.4 billion of what they can prove right now.

SPEAKER_05: 51:04

And of course, Newsom immediately said California pays more than a billion dollars into the Treasury, more than it receives from the federal government, so fuck off.

SPEAKER_03: 51:16

Okay. And again, insurrection act. So no, I think it's all coming crashing down around the Democrats. And you know, if they can get a lot of this investigation stuff wrapped up so that it comes out as like an October surprise for the midterms, it might seriously impact what happens.

SPEAKER_05: 51:38

I will say that while looking at the news through the rose-colored glasses of conservatism, there's a lot of good things happening and a lot of craziness on the left. However, if we look at the the House of Representatives, they there was absolutely a 50-50 split to have a defunding of ICE bill go through. I don't know if you saw that or not. And it was here, let me get to it right here. House of Republicans narrowly defeated by zero votes a a war. Oh war powers resolution. So that's not it. Sorry. That was 215 to 215. That's that's about as narrow a defeat as you can have. That means that it was the vice president stepping in that was a very good thing.

SPEAKER_03: 52:31

Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not how the House works. But the vice president is over the Senate.

SPEAKER_05: 52:38

Okay, so how is 215 to 215 a loss?

SPEAKER_03: 52:42

Because they're not in a majority to proceed.

SPEAKER_05: 52:44

Oh, it was so 50 is on the down vote, and 51 would be needed for an upvote. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 52:50

There are no tiebreakers in that.

SPEAKER_05: 52:52

That is crazy. But the the number of Republicans in the House is obviously more than 215. So this is the clear indication of the Rhino count. And it's about 35, I think, Republicans that voted with the Democrats on this.

SPEAKER_03: 53:09

I don't know the numbers well enough to tell you.

SPEAKER_05: 53:12

Well, yeah, I mean, somewhere in that range, that maybe a little bit, maybe a little less than that. But either way, it was a extremely close vote for something that shouldn't really be an issue right now. I mean, like it is it's we're done. We've moved on.

SPEAKER_03: 53:32

Okay, but they're wanting to limit what he can do there.

SPEAKER_05: 53:35

Yeah. So they're trying to backstab him in the back to prevent him from being successful. It's it's nuts. Let's see. Uh what else? So France sees a Russian oil tanker. Macron wearing mirrored glasses because his boyfriend, I mean wife, punched him in the face. Did you see that, by the way?

SPEAKER_03: 54:00

Now that's what the rumor is, but I haven't seen any substantiation of it.

SPEAKER_05: 54:05

I saw the video of him getting punched.

SPEAKER_04: 54:08

You saw an AI generated video?

SPEAKER_05: 54:10

No, I did not see an AI generated video. So this happened on the on the plane right before he was getting off the plane in Davos, where we see him, somebody else got off the plane in front of him, probably security, and then we see him yelling at somebody facing towards the front of the plane, and all of a sudden we see his wife, presumably, belt him right in the face, which kind of pushed him back a little bit, and then he quickly turned to the left looking at the camera and realized that like people that can see what's going on through the open door, and then he quickly scurred off to the front of the plane. So, yes, this absolutely happened. There's no guesswork here. There's a non-AI video clip that is coming directly from media. Okay, I thought I posted it, but yeah. Yeah, it it is pretty damn funny.

SPEAKER_03: 55:09

Well, the fact that he wore those glasses was hilarious, but oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 55:13

Indoors wearing mirrored glasses. Hmm, I wonder if he's got a black eye or not.

SPEAKER_03: 55:18

Yeah, so Larry Fink and BlackRock are now taking the position that avoiding mass migration would be better positioned for the future. So think has come around, I think. Yeah, I don't trust that fucker, but no, but it's interesting that he's coming around.

SPEAKER_05: 55:36

If the bad guys have a position, it's it's better to have the bad guys have the right position, at least. Did you also hear all this BlackRock conspiracy talk about them paying for rain seating and cloud seating and all this shit?

SPEAKER_03: 55:51

No.

SPEAKER_05: 55:51

That was going on. There was a number of people, including, I think. Oh, who's the guy that does all the undercover interviews? The old uh oh god, damn, I'm blinking out on his name. You know, the guy that that that's got all the undercover shit where they tape people, uh I forget his name. Anyway, he was talking about that. I don't A, I wouldn't be surprised, and B, I don't think that's a a thing. It doesn't really matter because you can with the amount of money that BlackRock invests, you can find them involved in every industry from pornography to military defense to overthrowing governments to you name it, trying to get money Trump. Yeah, exactly. Assassinating Charlie Kirk, like all that you can find sometime into BlackRock because they're so damn big. They've got money and everything. So I don't think that's a thing.

SPEAKER_03: 56:48

So last show we talked about the gun culture in Poland. Yeah, that's you were questioning whether or not it was a thing.

SPEAKER_05: 56:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 56:57

So in 2022, the figure was 10,000 new gun licenses were issued in 2022.

SPEAKER_05: 57:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 57:06

In 2025, that figure jumped to 34,000 a year.

SPEAKER_05: 57:11

Well, that's good. So it's a lot more interest. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 57:14

Yep. So the or two years later, so that's 2022. But by 2025, sorry, I'm getting the numbers wrong. You know, they're they're they've they've they're they're moving in the right direction. They don't have a ton of guns. That's like 1.2 per every hundred. They're you know, they're not a huge You know, since the Soviets had conquered them and stuff like that, they've lost a lot of that. But like this article I sent you kind of shows that the anecdotal evidence I have from some of my Polish coworkers seems to be real.

SPEAKER_05: 57:55

No, no, it's definitely real. I actually I asked Grak about it, and apparently uh Poland is one of the European countries where gun ownership is growing faster than anywhere else. So that's a great thing. I mean, Poland's got a lot of things they're doing right, they're not taking in all the Muslims. That's Hungary. Yeah, and Hungary. You know, the growth in gun ownership, that's a great thing. And I've said this before, like, out of the old European, East European countries, Poland is notably one of the countries that was an empire. You know, it was the the Polish Lithuanian Empire held a lot of territory, including most of Germany. So they have a long history that I think people are proud of. And they're not like a country that's always been conquered, you know what I mean? Or people that have always been conquered. Now, the other country, interestingly, is Hungary. Because again, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a very sizable empire, and also of the countries that it held or territories it held, was a large swath of Germany. So I think that there's a certain amount of national pride and patriotism that these countries have, which is why they're able to stand up to the rest of Europe and their idiotic ideas about importing Muslims to take over and you know make Europe Muslim again. Which incidentally, I I thought that would be a hilarious slogan for the for the Muslims in Europe, is just to say make mu make Europe Muslim again, you know, kind of in a MAGO kind of way. Because that's what happened in the late seventh century, or the I guess it'd be the eighth century, seventh and eighth century, but late seventh century and early eighth century, where uh uh Islam finished taking over all of North Africa and then spread its way into the Iberian Peninsula, taking over Spain and Portugal, and making its way into France, while on the other side the um the the Muslim Ottoman Empire was pushing up through Eastern Europe. So it's not the first time that there's been an Islamic invasion in Europe, it's just that last time there seemed to be a lot more pushback than there is today.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:35

So you want to talk about the elephant in the room? Which one? Snomageddon two point oh, uh yeah, I guess we

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:47

Could.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:49

So yeah, we're we're looking at Tuesday morning having a low of nine and a high of twenty-eight.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:56

Yeah, which is unusual for here.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:58

It's that'd be a warm day in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:01

Right. Well, it's not here. And people have to realize like Texas is one of two states that puts the hot water heater in the attic sometimes, right? That's where mine is. That's where mine is too. And you know, I'm lucky that I've got PECs piping, so very unlikely to have an issue. But, you know, it's gonna be cold. We're gonna be getting quite a bit of ice overnight here. I'm looking at the ERCOT real-time prices right now, and the highest generation cost right now is up in northeast Texas, and one power plant is getting sixteen hundred and four dollars a megawatt right now.

SPEAKER_05: 1:01:40

Whoa, because of some of the forced applications.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:44

Right. So system-wide prices are more around the two, three hundred range right now, system-wide edge.

SPEAKER_05: 1:01:50

Normal prices, what Ben? Like on a normal day?

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:54

Normal spring, fall day, anywhere from$15 to$30 a megawatt.

SPEAKER_05: 1:02:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:02

And we we are seeing some, and this is something to watch for. And you know, you and I started really talking, Gene, because of Yuri, for those who don't know. So we've got, you know, we had some planned outages that fortunately, you know, that happens, but we saw a spike today of 23,000 megawatts of forced outages. So what people have to understand is power plants tripping off can be because of a boiler tube leak or, you know, lots of different things. But when we get into the conditions that we're getting into now, so most of the power plants in Texas are open-air power plants, meaning there is no superstructure around the power plant. It's just open to the weather. And what ends up happening is you have pressure transmitters, things like that, that end up freezing up because we normally are having to deal with heat, not cold.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:57

Right.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:58

So as a result, these pressure transmitters they require constant maintenance. There's extra staff that's going to be on. They're going to be literally building temporary uh protections around the most critical. Exactly. Like that is literally the strategy here in Texas. So, you know, the the thing to watch, two things to watch, and you can do this from the ERCOT website, ERCOT.com, is the operating reserves, and then watch the trend right below it. You can go and see generation outages and watch that orange line of forced outages. And if that forced outage line continues to go up and spike, that's where we may be getting into issues.

SPEAKER_05: 1:03:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:41

Texas doesn't have an issue from a grid stability problem until we get down to 3,000 megawatts of spinning reserve. So we're at 15,000 megawatts of spinning reserve right now. So we're we're good based off of demand.

SPEAKER_05: 1:03:54

Yeah, and we're down because we were at 20 earlier today.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:57

Right. But look at the generation outages, though. It's also gone up. So as this comes in, you know, weather causes issues. It will be interesting to see what we have learned from Yuri and making sure that there aren't the rolling blackouts that we had before.

SPEAKER_05: 1:04:19

Yeah. And now the rolling blackouts that you're referring to, these are different from the weather-related blackouts due to power lines getting iced over and things like that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:28

Correct. It's when you get down to certain like we we and we've I've told the story before back when we were doing Surgey and Speaks and everything, and we started doing this. Literally during URI, Texas came within 90 seconds of going into a statewide blackout and having a Black Start event, which would have taken us months to recover from fully. It would have been a civilization-changing event. Almost like some books. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so what that was all about is we had gas compressor stations that were not listed as critical load that were getting dropped off, causing gas line issues. And when a gas power plant doesn't have enough pressure, they can't run. So we had that happen. But the reason why we almost tripped off the entire grid was because of frequency response. So if the grid gets too stressed, you start getting frequency issues. And if you get too out of phase, you can really cause some major problems. So that would have tripped us. So hopefully the gas compressor stations have learned their lessons. The gas compressor stations should have had backup power, but because of their green initiatives, we're using solar and batteries for their backup power. Well, it got so cold during URI, which it was colder than this. It got so cold during URI that, you know, at my old power company, we could not discharge our batteries because the heaters around those batteries couldn't keep up. So we couldn't use the batteries. We were out of reactive capacity. And that's the other thing that isn't a public thing on the ERCOT website that I wish they would is the reactive capacity, the fax devices, the capacitor banks, the things like that, because that really helped stabilize a lot of that voltage shift. But we had done so much just keeping the grid up during URI that they had basically discharged everything that they had and they didn't have enough generation online to take that away from the consumer and replenish it. So we came really close during URI. I don't think we're gonna have something similar here. I think most outages, like all the outages we've seen, is pyrons breaking from icing and stuff like that, local distribution stuff. The grid has been stable so far. So just keeping an eye on it, though.

SPEAKER_05: 1:06:51

Yeah, and that's a very good point. And I think we're on the southern edge of this storm, which is a massive storm. I mean, it's it's going across three-quarters of a country. It's an insanely strong storm. But there are places and I've already watched videos online of full ice over conditions on roads, you know, watching semi spin-outs and things like that. And you know, I I just hope everybody just you know stay safe. Don't don't travel unless you have to. And if you have to make sure you bring extra warm weather clothes and you know you mean cold weather clothes. Yeah, what did I say? Warm? Yeah, cold weather clothes. Warm clothes for cold weather is what I meant in my head. Yeah, bring and and really what you oughta have is some thermal ponchos. So hopefully you bought those when you had the opportunity on on Amazon two years ago when I was selling them. But yeah, it's and Ben, you you've got yours, right? Well, yeah, and but uh glove box, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:59

But like I I keep stuff in my truck, and you know, like for instance, the big bathtub in the master bedroom is full of water right now.

SPEAKER_05: 1:08:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:07

I've got that full of water, we've got a bunch of bottled water, but you know, uh flushing toilet flushing toilets, right? And if we have to, I've got water filtration where we can drink it, right? So that's that's probably 30, 40 gallons of water sitting there. So we've got water, we've got food storage. I keep MREs and you know, some freeze-dried food and stuff like that around anyway, but we also bought a bunch of groceries. And I have a natural gas stove. And by the way, if the power's out, you can light it with a you know lighter or match. Yeah. It shocked me during URE how many people didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05: 1:08:44

I know, I know, that's crazy. I I totally agree.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:46

Um which, you know, if if that if the power were out, I've got a generator, I've got, you know, five, five full propane tanks plus gas and that I can run the generator on and backfeed.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:01

I only have one tank that's actually full. I have got two tanks, but I realize one of them's empty right now. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:07

I I I filled a I filled it all up so I can backfeed the house if I need to. Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:13

Yeah, it it's hopefully it's gonna be good for everybody. But you know, aside from us here that aren't used to the cold weather, there are plenty of places that do get regular cold weather, but they don't get the ice and the snow is supposed to dump over the ice. So they're getting rain today, they're getting sleet, they're getting frozen, frozen rain, so where it's it freezes as soon as it touches something. And then the next two or three days is supposed to be a snowfall. And I I've been through that, I think, twice in my life and when I was living in Minnesota, to where we had like an inch of ice followed by three or four inches of snow. It is absolutely just dangerous as hell to be on the roads in those conditions because you think that what you're seeing is something that you're used to, which is it's driving on some fluffy snow, but your your car is actually melting a thin layer of ice into water underneath, and you're just sliding all over the place. I think I told uh told you about one incident. The one that got me to sell my my Subaru WX STI, uh, which was an awesome fun car, but there was a point where I was on the highway and I was being an idiot, and there's a guy in the left lane going about 50, and I thought he was going too damn slow, and it was one of these snowy, icy conditions, and so I started accelerating to on the right lane to get past him, except that my rate of acceleration was extremely slow. Like I was barely going faster than him. Clearly, my tires were all it's a four-wheel drive vehicle, but all four tires were spinning out basically trying to accelerate. And then I realized that there was a car in the right lane ahead of me that I probably would not have time to get in front of this guy and then swerve left in front of him before I came upon this car. And so I thought, okay, well, the safe thing for me, I guess, is just to back off and start slowing down, and I did that, and nothing happened. I literally had a four-wheel lockup in a fairly modern car at 50 plus miles an hour on the highway, and I could see myself getting closer and closer to the car in the right lane in front of me, and there's that car in the left lane right next to me, and my wheels weren't making no difference, my tires weren't gripping the road at all because it's all ice, so I could neither slow down nor speed up nor turn. And so I was just watching myself in slow motion coming up to the car in front of me, not being able to swerve or do anything about it. It was just gonna be, you know, tailgator crash. And amazingly, by uh random luck, I came up to the point where I couldn't see this guy's license plate, at which point my car's speed matched his speed, and for about five seconds we were going about the same speed, and then I started slowing down, and uh that we never made contact, but I was so close to his back end that I could not see his license plate. I mean, I I think there was so much adrenaline pumping in the at that point in time that you know I I I don't know how the hell I didn't fall asleep immediately after.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:43

Here's the problem. So it's about to start raining here, and we're about to drop before the freeze point. So at midnight we're gonna be at 30 degrees with a 90% chance of precipitation. Yep. And we're gonna continue to drop from midnight till 11 p.m. tomorrow down to 20 degrees. Then on Monday, we're gonna continue to drop to a low of 16 and a whopping high of 30. And then Tuesday, we're gonna have a low in the morning of 13 and then warm up to 40. So a lot of it's gonna start melting. But the problem is that's a very short window, and then it's gonna drop again, and we're gonna be back uh down in like 20 at 22. Yeah. So we're gonna have a few days of not, you know, just don't plan on going anywhere.

SPEAKER_05: 1:13:38

Yeah, yeah, exactly. So hopefully everybody's got enough stuff. Food, water, everything else. I've got about 70 gallons of distilled water sitting here, so I'm in good shape. I do have to refill, renew my dessert section of my MREs. Somehow that seems to disappear.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:59

That's that's the section that gets eaten first.

SPEAKER_05: 1:14:01

That's the section that gets eaten. That you know, you're supposed to test the MRE quality like every six months. So that's the ones that get tested. And they have some damn fine dessert MREs in Mountain House.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:20

Yeah, but they're expensive.

SPEAKER_05: 1:14:22

They're damn fine though. They're they're literally the kind of stuff you could eat normally without thinking that it's an MRE. You know, Oreo crumble and cherry cheesecake and stuff. It's so good. Anyway, but yeah, I'm just, you know, hopefully everyone will be okay. I know we have a lot of listeners in the US. We got some out of the country as well, but for the people in the US, the the storm is a coming, and make sure that you've got what you need to get through it helping.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:55

On a personal note, I've got stuff to pull a separate circuit for my computer and my networking equipment. I keep tripping off up here every fairly randomly.

SPEAKER_05: 1:15:07

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:08

Yeah. I don't know if it's just the fridge I have up here. Like, there's a lot of load up here. So, you know, I I'm thinking it's on load, but I'm gonna add a separate circuit just for my computers and the networking closet.

SPEAKER_05: 1:15:22

It's not a bad idea.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:23

Yeah, just gotta do it. It's gonna be a pain in the butt. So but anyway, my speaking of my new computer is being assembled.

SPEAKER_05: 1:15:32

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:34

It's moved to assembly.

SPEAKER_05: 1:15:35

So that's very good.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:37

But I'm not gonna get to do jack shit with it because by the time it gets here, I'm gonna be heading to Guam.

SPEAKER_05: 1:15:42

Oh, is that scheduled for that time? Man, you should have paid for uh faster shipping.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:47

Well, I may call and see if I can change it. So the estimated ship date is the 27th.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:55

Which is fine. But so it'll uh it'll get here, but like the the week of the fifth is when I'm flying out. Okay. I don't want to give exact dates, but the week of the fifth is when I'm flying out. And and I'll I'll talk to you about it, the exact dates. But and I should be, or is it the fifth? No, sorry, the week of the second, and I was looking at January, and then I'll come back sometime the week of the ninth.

SPEAKER_05: 1:16:25

Yeah, I'll look forward to hearing all about that trip. Never been there.

SPEAKER_02: 1:16:30

Nor have I.

SPEAKER_05: 1:16:31

Mm-hmm. Yep. All I've seen is what I've seen from like satellite photos and stuff, but I don't think.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:38

I'll try to make sure the island doesn't tip over while I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_05: 1:16:40

I don't even think well, it could. I don't even think I know anyone that's been there. So you'll be the first.

SPEAKER_02: 1:16:48

That's supposed to be beautiful.

SPEAKER_05: 1:16:50

Yeah, yeah. So that'll be cool. Now, we have a bunch of other stuff that since we kind of moved our show back, we didn't talk about. So you were You had a poster from what's his face about venting online leading to divorce from Crowder.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:22

Yeah. Did you watch it?

SPEAKER_05: 1:17:23

Yeah, yeah. I watched the video.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:25

Yeah, it was really good. Basically, the whole thing is all these TikTok women complaining about their husbands and everything, but you never see the man doing the same thing.

SPEAKER_05: 1:17:34

Right. Yeah, it's 'cause Well, for a number of reasons. One is men don't need to have an audience, unlike women. But also I think men don't have the fairy princess complex the way that American women do.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:55

Oh, and he had some he had some pretty funny examples of you know their complaints.

SPEAKER_05: 1:18:03

Oh, there there's they're complaining in order to get head nods from other women. This has not even anything to do with reality. This is more about you know, like performative complaining. Because the most of the stuff that I've caught not because I'm looking for it, but because I accidentally had a video start after I finished watching another video and something auto-started, so occasionally you'll watch these videos of women complaining about something men are doing wrong or whatever. Most of them are things that even just thirty or forty years ago, the people would have shaken their heads and said, Yeah, she might need a lobotomy. Because they're not real problems, they're invented problems. Yeah, agreed. And I what I started saying the reason to complain. Yeah, is that I blame Disney for a lot of this in Disney and bad parenting. For and bad parenting involves letting your kids watch Disney. It is creating this completely artificial idea that every little girl is a princess. Which is utter bullshit. It's setting them up in life to fail and feel miserable. Because 99.99999% of them will never be a princess. And treating your daughter as though she is a princess is failing your daughter later in life, is making sure your daughter never has a good relationship with a man, is making sure that everything that she compares to you will be an absolute failure. Because that's what happens. Girls will compare every male relationship they have to their relationship with their father. And if you treat her like a princess, because she's your daughter, you're basically making a Karen. You're making a Karen at best and uh a rabid, crazy, feminist lesbian at worst.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:22

Yeah, I certainly do not treat my daughter like a princess.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20:25

No. So treat them like what they are.

unknown: 1:20:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20:31

Cinderella.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Above two stories above that, there's two things I wanted to talk about was the new oil discovery in Texas.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20:44

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:45

But that's uh pretty big deal. Deal.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20:47

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:49

Yeah. So new geological survey finding out in the Permian another major oil field with an estimated 1.6 billion barrels. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:21:02

The Permian keeps delivering, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:05

Yep. Just when we thought it was slowing down. And then beyond that, did you see did you watch the Bustamante video under it about Venezuela saving the US? America's back. That getting the gold and the oil out of Venezuela is really gonna really gonna move the needle.

SPEAKER_05: 1:21:25

He is the official spokesman for the CIA, so that's good to hear.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:29

And here's the other thing. I mean, the CIA agent as well. You're never out of the CIA. You remember the you remember the Canadian video I sent you where it was basically Alberta saying, hey, you've screwed us now. They don't need our oil anymore because of all your regulations and everything. Venezuela's gonna be cheaper and we're chemistry-wise the same.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:50

So the interesting thing is I can see that pushing the Alberta vote to secede from Canada harder than anything else. Hey, our our wealth is about to go away.

SPEAKER_05: 1:22:03

Alberta has been feeling pretty fucked for a long time because they're they are the powerhouse, the financial driver of the Canadian economy. And they're also the most heavily taxed, and the regulations keep increasing because of the you know, save the people. Well, and they're equalization payments. Oh, yeah, yeah. Exactly. So I think that the Alberta population is pretty damn primed to leave Canada. Now, I have no idea how Canadian law would treat a province declaring independence. Like I well, the Beckers set it up.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:47

So the the Québecois set it up where if you do vote for this, there is a process of exiting.

SPEAKER_05: 1:22:54

Okay. So what would be interesting is what would happen's never had the votes to do it, but they couldn't.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:01

They've never passed a vote, yes.

SPEAKER_05: 1:23:03

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:04

So I think as soon as the first province breaks away from Canada, Canada will it will no longer exist the way we know it. Now, here's the interesting thing. What happens to Alberta? Does it stay an independent country or does it come under the U.S. a la, Puerto Rico, Guam?

SPEAKER_05: 1:23:22

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:22

U.S. Virgin Islands. Like, I think that's what's going to happen.

SPEAKER_05: 1:23:25

I think most again, judging mostly from watching videos. So I don't know. I don't live up there, but from watching videos, it seems like they want to do what Texas did. They want to have that, hey, we were our own country thing and immediately start the process for becoming a US territory. Because you want the U.S. protection for multiple things, none the least of which is to prevent Canada from using force to reclaim you.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:53

Yeah. Well, but the Canadian military, dude. That's a joke.

SPEAKER_05: 1:23:57

Well, what you think the Albert military is any different?

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:01

Uh yeah. By the way, did you see the Canadians? They had they did an evaluation of the Griffin and compared it to the F-35, and then they had to come back and go, Yeah, no, we would still like the F-35.

SPEAKER_05: 1:24:16

Really? No, I the last I heard was they were going for the Griffin. Okay.

SPEAKER_04: 1:24:19

Yeah, yeah, but they did an evaluation of it. Then they went, uh oops.

SPEAKER_05: 1:24:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:24:26

It's fucking hilarious. Like wasted all that time, money, and pissed us off. We should just add a you know zero to the price tag.

SPEAKER_05: 1:24:33

I know, right? Or just having sales tariff on it to where it costs them even more money. The you know, you are well aware I've been trolling Europeans quite a bit on uh X. Yes, yes, yeah. It's it's a bit of it's been fun to the tune of about 200 messages a day.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:51

And which speaks to your employment status.

SPEAKER_05: 1:24:56

Hey, you know, I mean, I'm I'm looking, man. I'm I'm out there trying to find something. But I will say this that the Europeans are just retarded because they they without humor, they genuinely think that they have an equal standing to the United States in a number of things. Like the number of people saying, well, you know, Europe's just gonna start boycotting American products, and and a lot of countries already have, and in fact, Canada has, and the US tourism industry is pretty much dead because of the boycotts that are currently happening already, and the rest of U.S. industry is about to die. And I'm like, you guys are such more. It's like, hey, you realize that with a stroke of a pen and an executive order, the export of operating systems from Apple, Google, and Microsoft could be banned for your country. Right? I mean, you literally have nothing to run your country on. We have that control, we have that power, we have that ability. It is insanity how these people think that that they have some kind of leverage against the US. It's like the European, uh, the number of European trade ships is ten times as much as American ships. Yes, but the number of American military ships is a hundred times more than what you have.

unknown: 1:26:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:26:26

It's just hilarious.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:27

And here's the thing China may have more ships than the U.S. in their Navy, but they don't have the blue water fleet. Like when you look at the tonnage, it's astonishing. You know, they've got a lot of coastal patrol boats, cool, fine, but that's these are European people talking.

SPEAKER_05: 1:26:43

Like people who Denmark has 80 shipping vessels. That's more than half the United States total fleet.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:52

Yes. We only have 47 Jones Act vessels.

SPEAKER_05: 1:26:58

So but we have over a thousand military ships.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:02

Yeah, yeah. But here's the thing, Gene. It's the elites in Europe that have that view, not the people. I think the people are getting really fed up.

SPEAKER_05: 1:27:12

There's a ton of people posting on X. I mean, I don't think these are just elites posting on X that I'm trolling. I think there's a lot of people that have bought hook, line, and sinker into the European Union and think that by being EU member states, that giving up their sovereignty as a nation, they've now gotten parity or even above parity with the United States. Like they really think the EU is like a bigger brother of the United States.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:41

Yeah, well, they're not.

SPEAKER_05: 1:27:43

They're insane.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:44

Yeah, so have you been paying attention? The reason why I say this is have you been paying to the internationalization of the Amelia memes now?

SPEAKER_05: 1:27:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the German one I watched, I'd be seeing the British one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:58

The UK, there's a French one. That one. There's a French one, and there's an Italian one.

SPEAKER_01: 1:28:05

Oh, okay. All right.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:06

So I I think I I think there are a lot of countries that are getting the the average everyday person is getting really fucking tired of the migrants and the consequences. Like there's a new one out right now of Amelia that's Ice UK and them chipping out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the the the government propagandists screwed up.

SPEAKER_05: 1:28:33

Yeah, for people that don't know, Amelia is a created character by the British government to propagandize people on the dangers of being Islamophobic and anti-immigrant.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:50

Right. Don't don't join radical right-wing groups. Anyway, I just sent it to you, this new one that's bring ice. Amelia says you'll bring ice to Britain. No more cousin America.

SPEAKER_05: 1:29:02

That's the one thing I never understood. It's like, why are you a purple haired chick did the spokesperson?

SPEAKER_03: 1:29:08

Because the the the the propagandist piece from the UK was that. So they just literally took that character and ran with it.

SPEAKER_05: 1:29:16

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it makes sense, but how did the the British think that an a purple-haired chick is going to be selling anything to the average person? I mean, that seems weird, but whatever.

SPEAKER_00: 1:29:33

The German one looks a little better. I haven't seen the Italian one yet. I'll take a look at that. It looks like Hawaii's gun control law is gonna get struck down.

SPEAKER_05: 1:29:50

Yeah, and that's Hawaii, I think, has some of the most aggressive anti-gun laws out there. So they they should get struck down. I don't know. I it I don't understand Hawaii. I really don't. It's a it was the first place attacked by Japan, and yet the biggest property owners in Hawaii are Japanese. It's a I just it doesn't feel like it's part of America in a lot of ways.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:29

They would like to think that they're not.

SPEAKER_05: 1:30:31

I kind of get that impression, yeah. Yeah, what'd you what'd you have on Malay here?

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:38

This is just something breaking. I haven't seen verification of it, but coming across the Twitter transom is President Malay is uh preparing a formal complaint against WHO director Tedros before the International Criminal Court. He is accusing WHO leadership against crimes against humanity during COVID-19 lockdown, so on. And apparently Malay has already withdrawn Argentina from WHO following Trump.

SPEAKER_05: 1:31:09

Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:10

Like I think Argentina is gonna be a good ally.

SPEAKER_05: 1:31:12

Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, Malays, and they paid back their loans very quickly, too. That's the other thing that was a lot of people were saying, oh, they'll never do that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:23

And let's look at the growth story in both Argentina and here in the US. Like we hit a 5.6% growth rate and down to like 2%, 2.0 something percent inflation. Compare in that's in one year.

SPEAKER_05: 1:31:40

It's it's a huge change. Trump has been effective this this time around, unlike his first term, I think he's been tremendously effective.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:49

Well, think about the number of regulations he's cut. He's cut over a hundred regulations for every new regulation that's gone in. I haven't heard that, but he talked about it in his speech at Dava. Yeah. It's huge.

SPEAKER_05: 1:32:03

Tremendous well, okay, okay. To be fair, there's a lot of things that Trump says, which once you look into them, the details don't match up with. Okay. So he has he has absolutely cut a ton of them. Is it 100 to? Probably not.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:20

Okay, what he is doing around data centers alone is huge. Yeah. So for people who don't know, my group is currently working on two major data center projects. One out in an undisclosed area of Virginia, one that's rather large in North Texas. And, you know, the one in North Texas is going to be building out 11 gigawatts of generation. And the Trump administration is basically giving them a path to really cut regulations. And this is where a lot of these regulations are getting cut. So when I first saw that they were going to be building four AP 1000 reactors, said, oh, well, this project will never happen. The Trump administration is getting the NRC to basically fucking just green light the project. It's a proven reactor design. No more bullshit. Let them build it.

SPEAKER_05: 1:33:17

Yeah, which is awesome. Yeah. No, and there's it's undeniable that Trump in this term has done about as much as I could imagine he has fulfilled most of the I think expectations that people had. And in as much as I get why people want to see the Epstein files, I also said now for the last six months that they will never come out, and I'm sticking to it. And I know some people think that that alone invalidates everything else that Trump has done. I'm not one of those people.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:06

I'm not either. And, you know, like if we go back to Davos, like Trump didn't go there to negotiate. He go went there. I won't say, you know, some people said, oh, he dictated surrender terms to the globalists. No, no, no. He dictated terms to the globalists. If y'all want to go over there, France and UK and North Sea Nexus, do your thing to steal Adam Curry's term, fine. But we're serious about the Neo Monroe doctrine, and this is what we're going to do.

SPEAKER_05: 1:34:40

Yeah. I think this is what America needs, even if a swath of American population doesn't understand this because they need lobotomies. But I'm very happy that Trump is doing this stuff.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:55

Well, and Trump basically said during his speech, you know, hey, we're not going to use force in Greenland, but we're going to use our power. And we've got a lot of soft power. We haven't been willing to yield wield that, hey, Europe, we will. Yep. You know, France, do you want me to put a hundred percent tariff on everything you send here? Because we consume more French goods than anyone else in the world. The French farmer is dependent upon the U.S. economy.

SPEAKER_05: 1:35:23

Everybody in most of the world is dependent upon the U.S. economy. That's the thing, is people say, well, you don't actually make anything. You guys just buy everything from other countries. Yeah, and where do you think other countries are gonna be if we stop buying their stuff? I mean, do we need French cheese? No, we don't. We can we have Wisconsin cheese. Ben's gonna get used to eating it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35:50

Ah, don't make me. I don't I don't really like French cheese though either, so it's okay.

SPEAKER_05: 1:36:01

Okay. Would you like the Danish cheese? Is that what you're saying? You're a big one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:05

I've never had the Danish cheese.

SPEAKER_05: 1:36:07

Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:10

I had some nice smoked cheddar last night.

SPEAKER_05: 1:36:12

Oh, cheddar from.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:17

My aunt and uncle. Tommy and Linda, the ones that hosted Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00: 1:36:21

Yeah, yeah. So it was very good. Yep.

SPEAKER_05: 1:36:29

Well, you know, I I think I think there's gonna be a lot of a lot of faffo stuff happening in Europe, not necessarily in the the same faffo way that the idiots in Minnesota are seeing, but nonetheless there's gonna be Europeans that think that the US is just you know a regular country that they're gonna find out a thing or two.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:56

So I've gotta drop this in because this is just too fucking funny.

SPEAKER_04: 1:36:59

And I want you to describe what it is. Because somebody's a bigger troll than you, Gene.

SPEAKER_05: 1:37:05

No way. All right, let me see here.

SPEAKER_00: 1:37:10

Play it back or look at it. Too soon?

SPEAKER_05: 1:37:21

It's still loading. Okay. Uh oh, and my god.

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So this guy goes to Domino's and he takes a picture and he says, I just went to Domino's to get my food and saw this. And it literally says, and Frank as the name up there, and the status is in the oven. Someone is that's that's a that's a good one.

SPEAKER_05: 1:37:44

Yeah, that's that is definitely very trolley. Absolutely. No, it is funny. I would totally do something like that too. But that that is the fact that they actually took a photo of the Acer monitor in the pizza place, that's what really makes it you know a great troll because it's it's clearly not fake. It's it's not a AI generated thing. Which would still be funny if somebody did an AI generated version of that. But the fact that this is real and it looks very real about Domino's Pizza. Yeah. Because they do. I mean, somebody knew that one of their statuses is in the oven. So you you could say, what's the name on the order, and Frank? I thought you get a kick. Oh, god damn. That is too that is too funny. It's next level. It really is. No, that that's that is funny. See, now that's funny, and it's so much better than just the Jews did it, you know, that Candace Owen studs. It's like that just stupidity. I didn't I didn't uh have a comment though. We didn't have any items about the the gayest party bus ever last week. What was that? Well, you you've seen videos of it, I'm sure. It's like Andrew Tate, uh Nick Fuentes. Who else was in it? Uh that Somali dude or not Somali, he's uh the the fresh and fit dude. Yeah. All those guys. You've you saw that video, right? They're they're in party van. I don't know how you didn't see it. They're in a party van in Miami. Um I have a job. Oh, that's probably what it is. They're in a party van in Hawaii, or in in Hawaii, in uh Miami, and they're like you've got basically these five guys that are anti-Semitic, and they're all getting ready to go party in nightclubs, and they're playing Ye's song about how great Hitler is, and giving the Nazi salutes, and they're recording all this because they're all influencers, right? And so they do that, then they go into the nightclub, get a private table, the champagne, you know, thing, and and they get the nightclub to play this Heil Hitler song. And so they're they're recording themselves playing this. So, and they definitely made a lot of the news because you know, it's not every day you hear stuff like that, or you see these guys so blatantly out there. So, next thing that happens the next day, the owner of the club finds out about this. Here's it, and then promptly bans them from all the clubs that he has. And likely fires the person that let him change the music. The mayor of Miami Beach finds out about him and basically says if they show up to Miami Beach again and do this, they will be arrested. For what?

SPEAKER_03: 1:41:04

And then the For what? For being the the they will win that law so they will get out of it.

SPEAKER_05: 1:41:13

What? There's a new law in Florida. You can't be anti-Semitic. And then promptly after that. Yeah, well, first amendment. Let me get some damn headline, dude. Just just hold off. First Amendment. And then the the hospitality industry of America bans all of them across the country from their clubs. I mean these guys basically created a video cell phone that got them banned from going to clubs across the entire country. Which I thought, yeah, total cell phone. I thought this was hilarious. And here's the punchline that I was trying to get to. It's like all five of these guys keep talking about how Jews run the world. Well, if Jews run the world, would you not consider the fact that you're gonna have consequences from being blatantly anti-Jewish like this? This is a perfect example of fuck around and find out. It's like, dude, you you if you're out there trying to promote this idea that the Jews run everything, and then you do stuff that clearly Jews aren't gonna like, why are you surprised when that has consequences? It makes no sense. It makes sense. It's like pick one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:42:35

Pick one. And speak speaking of, you know, there's been a little bit of a flame war going on about the whole uh Nick Fuentes being Jewish. And you know what I'll say is CSV, leave me out of it. Whatever you have between you and Gene, whatever. I I think I I think the gist of it is pretty much everybody has Ashkenazi Jew in any DNA taste test they do.

SPEAKER_05: 1:43:02

So it's Jews run all the DNA tests, obviously, inserting Jewish blood into everybody.

SPEAKER_03: 1:43:07

Like it it's it we're all mutts, it all doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_05: 1:43:11

Like no, no, I I don't know. The funny part about it is is that is the fact that you have people well it again, it's going back to that that awesome video from the first season of Chappelle Show about the the black uh KKK members. Yeah, I mean that's that's that's what makes this funny with Nick Fuentes. Like, he's already not white, he's Mexican. Mexican is a mix of European, typically Spanish or Portuguese with Native American descendants. Categorically makes him non-white if you look at the the way that racial laws existed on the books for many years, he would be considered not white. He's got curly hair and brown eyes, clearly not white. And then on top of this, you find out that his dad took a DNA test and found out that he had Jewish blood. Another hit, and then apparently the last name Fuentes, back in from Spain, was a historically Jewish name. So it's like, dude, I mean, all he is at this point is just a self-hating Jew. He's he's not a white supremacist, he's just a self-hating Jew. And and the fact that there are people it is common, I totally agree. And with people following him, it kind of invalidates you know what they're what they're arguing for. Just saying. And as far as his Catholicism, too, now you've had a number of Catholics basically, you know, not just distance themselves from him, but saying his understanding and interpretation of Catholicism is not consistent with the Vatican.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:02

Yeah, well, that that's one of my big problems with the Catholicism is that the Vatican controls everything.

SPEAKER_05: 1:45:08

Right, but that's part of the so the nature of Catholicism. Like you saying that is one thing, but him talking about how he wants a America to be a Catholic monocracy theocracy. Like a yeah, like a monarchy, like a theocratic monarchy is what he wants in America.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:27

So you know what's funny? You want to hear something funny? What? So I had a cashew friend in in in college. Do you know what a cashew is?

SPEAKER_05: 1:45:38

I I've had those notes, sure.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:40

No, no, no. His dad was Catholic and his mom was a Jew.

SPEAKER_05: 1:45:44

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:45

So he called himself a catch.

SPEAKER_05: 1:45:47

Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_04: 1:45:48

Anyway, uh, I'll send you a picture of something we did.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:53

So I had several Jewish friends in college, and like one of my roommates pretty progressive, you oh I I haven't ever told you about my roommate Scott and Bora then. No, you didn't. I'm making that. Yeah, yeah. But one of the times when Scott went back to New York, we got some cardboard and we made a three-layer bunk over his bed and put a bunch of old shoes in the corner and labeled his bathroom the gas chamber.

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That's probably appropriate.

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It was funny. It was funny.

SPEAKER_05: 1:46:28

We all played pranks on each other. Yeah. Well, and and that's the way it should be. You know, ultimately, it's like the the thing when you're around people that have a general world view similar to yours, what men at least do, I can't speak for women out there, what women went what men do is they constantly are ribbing each other and poking each other at the things that actually make them different. You know, you're you're the short guy, you're the fat guy, you're the whatever guy. You know, you you're all on the same side, on the same sports team, but you're constantly poking fun at each other. That is natural male behavior, and and that's the way it should be, which is very different from behavior of people to point out how others are as a general group. Like I think something you and I have both talked about is that we consider people on a sort of a meritorious level. We look at what has the person done, who does what does he believe, what does he think. In evaluating them, we don't look at the color of their skin, their religion, their whatever. We don't look at the generalities, we look at the specifics of the individual. And that's something that I think works best for most people, not everyone does that. And that then also allows you to make fun of the generalities because you're not actually using those generalities as a difference for pointing somebody out. Like if if you make a Polish joke, it's not because you actually think Polish people are stupid. Right? It's because it just happens to be one of the differences between you and somebody else that's just like you. And I think this is this is where the problem lies with the uh the cancel culture and liberalism is they can't tell the difference between those two things. They can't tell the difference between somebody who genuinely believes in group identity and somebody who doesn't believe in group identity but is making jokes about it. Like one of them is an actual racist, hint, it's the liberal. The other one is not a racist, but they're saying something that is funny because it's racist.

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:10

Well, and here's the thing you know, and I'm equal opportunity, like I will make fun of anyone anywhere anytime over anything, and I think that's the way it should be. Because if you can't fucking laugh at yourself and everyone else, like yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:49:27

Yeah, and I I've I've said for a long time I didn't come up with this, I I stole it from somebody else, but yeah, I treat everybody alike just like shit, and then I leave it up to you to change my mind about how I should treat you. Like the people that actually demonstrate that they are not shit will be treated like not shit. Everybody else, I don't really care about. So that's why that's why I tell you the biggest compliment that I can possibly give you is being a friend with you.

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:59

Well, and giving you shit. Like, that goes with the territory. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05: 1:50:08

So yeah, I it's uh I think we solved racism right there. That's all good. We got it. What else? We got anything else? Or do we fly through all these nice and quick?

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:20

I think we've well, not nice and quick. We're two hours.

SPEAKER_05: 1:50:23

Are we? I didn't even know that's what time we wasn't paying attention when we started. Yeah, right at it. Okay, cool. All right. Well, hopefully everyone stays warm. Hopefully, I stay warm and don't experience uh power outage here. I do have a generator just in case, but only one tank of gas. So that may be an issue.

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:43

Just alter do you have electric or gas heat?

SPEAKER_05: 1:50:47

Gas heat.

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:48

All right, so just remember, you know, a minimum load and just have enough to have your air handling unit work, and yeah, you'll be fine.

SPEAKER_05: 1:51:00

Oh, yeah, it'll be fine. I mean, dude, I survived last time with seven days with no power, but it's it's not fun. That's for sure. All right, Ben, we'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_04: 1:51:12

See you, Gene.