In this episode of the TimCast, we're joined by Drew Miller of Fortitude Ridge Ranch and Ian Crosland of the Anti-Communist and Counter-revolutionary movement. We discuss the recent financial collapse, the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, and the growing possibility that the apocalypse is coming sooner than we think.
00:00:43.000Especially when Joe Biden, for once, wakes up at 9 a.m.
00:00:46.000to talk to the American people about just what's going on, saying, don't worry, everything's under control.
00:00:53.000Of course, now, most people don't think anything is under control, and it's actually causing a lot of fear, so we'll talk about that.
00:00:58.000Plus, we got a bunch of other stories, too.
00:00:59.000We made a bit of news on Friday, I guess, because Steve Bannon criticized Elon Musk, and then every outlet in the world decided to write it up.
00:01:06.000And then Matt Gaetz took a clip of it, and then Elon Musk himself essentially just called
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00:02:23.000Don't forget to also smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and in light of the fact that we are talking about all of these different apocalyptic scenarios, we are being joined by Drew Miller of Fortitude Ridge.
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00:04:51.000The federal government took control of Silicon Valley banks, a top bank in the tech sector, on March 10th, after its share price rapidly plummeted.
00:04:58.000New York regulators announced on March 12th that they have taken control of Signature Bank, known for real estate lending and serving clients tied to the cryptocurrency industry.
00:05:32.000But there's no bailouts, they don't care about the people who live there.
00:05:35.000But when millionaires and billionaires in Silicon Valley have their woke tech sector threatened, he comes out on TV and says, at 9 in the morning of all times, Joe Biden waking up at 9am saying, we're gonna take care of this, nothing to worry about.
00:05:51.000I hate to go on a show with as many viewers as this and be like, the end is nigh, or something like that, but Joe Biden has to come out and say this.
00:06:02.000Because if he doesn't, there's a run on the banks.
00:06:05.000And if people go on TV and say anything other than, everything is a-okay, then there's a run on the banks.
00:06:10.000So that's the default position of every personality in media, whether it's true or not, I don't know, is to come out and pretend like everything's gonna be fine.
00:06:18.000It doesn't make any sense because your banks insure for $250,000 per account.
00:06:36.000So for Silicon Valley Bank, he's just helping out big tech companies and rich investors in big tech companies because normal people Who had deposits at Silicon Valley Bank have nothing to worry about.
00:06:49.000Most people don't have $250,000 sitting in a checking or a bank account.
00:07:29.000Well, I was listening to a Space today.
00:07:32.000Most of the day I was listening to Spaces and just trying to wrap my head around what's going on.
00:07:36.000And from what I can gather is the biggest worry is contagion to other banks.
00:07:41.000So we've got two of the biggest bank failures in American history happening over the course of the past weekend.
00:07:49.000I am of the opinion that if the government's going to bail everyone out, or bail the banks out, because the government has basically taken responsibility for any failures in the banking industry.
00:08:09.000They've bailed out Everybody, every time that there's been any kind of... The rich elites.
00:08:20.000I mean, to be fair, they printed a lot of money, and whenever the government prints money and it goes to the people, it ends up with the big banks and the big corporations anyways, because everyone gets that money and they spend it.
00:08:34.000It's not like people go and they sit on it when they get, if you get 500 bucks from the government, if the government, when the government, you know, was passing out cash, people didn't sit on that and it wasn't enough money to change anyone's life or that they're gonna invest with it anyways.
00:08:49.000So that money just ends up in the big corporations' hands anyways, because people spend it.
00:08:53.000So they're just gonna continue to print money, because that's what they have to do.
00:08:58.000So when they get together again, when the Fed gets together again, instead of doing 50 basis points, it's likely they're gonna do 25, it's possible they're gonna do zero, and then they'll see what happens.
00:09:09.000I don't know what's gonna happen between now and then, obviously, but they're gonna take the break off the raising of rates, because they can't have the rate, I can't keep, Keep raising interest rates the way that they are with this kind of monetary situation in the US.
00:09:27.000Or they want to provoke loans to the banks, basically.
00:09:30.000So Bannon asked me on Friday, Steve Bannon, why it's a Ponzi scheme, this economic system that we're in, and I gave him like a half answer.
00:09:37.000I said that it's because we're borrowing money from our banks, our institutions, our government is borrowing money from the Federal Reserve and then promising to pay them back with interest.
00:09:44.000The only way to get that interest is to borrow more money from them at interest to pay back the interest, which now we owe interest on the new borrow, so we have to borrow more to pay back the interest on the interest.
00:09:54.000And the real Ponzi is when what happens is that money goes to the banks, then the banks loan out to the common American for mortgages, and then they have to pay the interest.
00:10:04.000They push the interest down to the small guy.
00:10:07.000And so all this whole system is banked off these 40-year interest payments by American people, constantly paying more than they borrowed to fund this Federal Reserve usury.
00:10:16.000Well, I mean, it's sort of to fund that, but remember, when you are getting a mortgage, you're getting a house, too.
00:10:26.000It's technically owned by the bank until you pay them back.
00:10:28.000Well, yeah, but you get to live in the house.
00:10:31.000It's not a one-sided operation, is what I'm saying.
00:10:34.000I understand what you're saying, that it's frustrating that you have to pay more than what you're borrowing, but that's why the banks are in business.
00:10:42.000So that way, they'll lend you the money, you pay them more than they actually lended you.
00:10:51.000A lot of people, they don't like international war and things like that.
00:10:54.000A lot of people, they don't like the petrodollar, they don't like imperialism, they don't like big bank bailouts.
00:11:01.000But I believe, for the most part, not completely, but for the most part, these are the evil things that these evil people do that does have a positive effect for a lot of people in this country.
00:11:11.000military is setting up military bases in foreign countries and pointing guns at people and saying, use the U.S.
00:11:15.000dollar or else, it creates demand for our currency and then we don't have to do as much work.
00:11:19.000And if the petrodollar collapses, then we're going to have to go back to chopping wood and raising chickens on our own and actually producing things in our country, something most Americans aren't prepared for and don't want to do.
00:11:30.000Most Americans that are young now, they're just demanding free stuff.
00:11:35.000Ken Klippenstein today was tweeting about forgiving student loans.
00:11:43.000Because they're talking about bailing out banks?
00:11:45.000The banks that, if you bail out a bank, you're bailing out a bank because people had money that they put into the bank.
00:11:52.000So that's completely and totally isolated from, like, The situation with student loans where people didn't have money, they borrowed money, they got an education, ostensibly, and then they're asking to be forgiven for that borrowing money?
00:12:07.000Well you're the one, you're getting the forgiveness for the education, or for the borrowing money, and you get to walk away with the education!
00:13:06.000And now we're seeing... It's like that cartoon where the holes are popping up in the hole and the cartoon character is putting his fingers and then his toes and his eye or whatever.
00:13:19.000If you want to sit in your lounge chair and watch sports and order nachos and drink beer and not have to worry about anything, you want the bailouts.
00:14:52.000The only ones who are getting bailed out are the ones who are beyond $250,000.
00:14:56.000So there were big tech companies that this bank invested in.
00:15:00.000And people invested money in these companies and this bank did too.
00:15:03.000So we're bailing out a bank because their huge big payoffs didn't work for them and they failed.
00:15:09.000And it's back just like we did in 2008.
00:15:11.000We invested in tons of taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street firms Who had huge investments in derivatives, making billions of dollars of profits for the people working in those Wall Street banks of zero value to American citizens.
00:15:27.000But, you know, Goldman Sachs, the treasurer, the Secretary of Treasury at that time, was a former Goldman Sachs CEO.
00:15:35.000And Federal Reserve people, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms, and the government and the Federal Reserve, full of people from Wall Street, bailed out Wall Street at the expense of the rest of the citizens.
00:15:47.000You know, the too-big-to-fail argument.
00:15:50.000And that's what's going on here the same way.
00:15:52.000In this case, you're bailing out banks that did bad investments in tech companies, and tech companies that make big donations to people from both political parties.
00:16:00.000That's who's getting bailed out. This is not to help low-income people with $250,000 bank money
00:16:08.000in there. This is just people at the bank making big investments that are getting bailed out from
00:16:12.000this, not normal citizens. Let's talk about bad investments.
00:16:16.000BuzzFeed says most of cash and cash equivalents held at SVB. This is from Yahoo Finance.
00:16:25.000BuzzFeed Inc., Reuters actually, said on Monday that most of its cash and equivalents were held at Silicon Valley Bank, which was shut down.
00:16:31.000Startup focus under SVB last week failed.
00:16:34.000Shares in BuzzFeed were down 8.6% at $1.17 in extended trading Monday.
00:16:42.000It's like, well, I mean, like, it's down 8%, which is really bad, but they're only at $1.17 per share anyway, which is just really bad.
00:16:49.000The company, which has been grappling with a tough advertising market amid concerns over a slowing economy, also reported a 27% decline in ad revenue to $50 million in the quarter ending December 31st.
00:17:01.000It expects first quarter overall revenue to range from $61 million to $67 million.
00:17:06.000They reported a revenue of $91.6 million for the same period that last year.
00:17:12.000Because, you know, I'm not trying to be a dick, but that BuzzFeed goes with it.
00:17:16.000But I guess what some people in the super chat are saying is that even with FDIC insurance, it's going to take months before depositors can start getting access to their funding.
00:17:25.000So that means even one of the craziest stories I saw, because someone mentioned this last week, Etsy sellers didn't get paid.
00:17:32.000Now my understanding is if you're a seller on Etsy, you, like, I make, you know, a doily or something, and then someone buys it, and they use this marketplace, and then I send it out.
00:17:45.000But the fact is, the people bought a product, Etsy held the money, and the Etsy sellers didn't get paid.
00:17:52.000And then what may happen is even with the National Deposit Bank from the FDIC for these companies, BuzzFeed's funds might be jammed up and their employees might not get paid.
00:18:01.000This is going literally to have a ripple effect.
00:18:05.000Now I also want to address this thing real quick too.
00:18:08.000BuzzFeed saying that their revenues are dropping due to a tough advertising market.
00:18:14.000I can confirm that is a fact, because I've talked about it here.
00:18:21.000With the banking industry getting hit this bad, I can also tell you, like, our revenue is down.
00:18:27.000Not to the point where I'm crying about it or anything, because we do well enough, but that's why I'm like, hey everybody, become a member!
00:18:32.000So that we can continue paying our staff and continue funding these projects and everything like that.
00:18:37.000Uh, because the market seems like it's headed towards a very, very serious downturn.
00:18:41.000This is interesting because BuzzFeed's reporting their ad revenue is down, is projected to be $61 to $67 million, down from $91.
00:18:47.000That's basically what I was saying, like 40, 30, 30 to 40 percent drop-off.
00:18:53.000But that, right now, should be increasing, not decreasing, which suggests this year is gonna get really, really bad for media.
00:19:01.000And when media gets hit, it's because the base of the economy, the grassroots, already got hit.
00:19:09.000We're effectively a canary in a coal mine.
00:19:11.000When small mom-and-pop shops stop their $100 budget per month for their little grocery store or diner, And then we, it all of like, let's say there's a hundred thousand small businesses across the country, just hypothetically, that are buying a small amount of advertising.
00:19:28.000It all trickles up into a handful of small media personalities who then all yell, our revenue dropped dramatically.
00:19:35.000Basically telling you that at the individual granular level, revenues are dropping and spending is dropping, which means The next step is going to be serious economic downturn.
00:19:45.000With the banks collapsing, with BuzzFeed even complaining about it, not that I care if BuzzFeed collapses to be completely honest, it would suck if people lost their jobs, but I don't know if these are jobs worth saving.
00:19:54.000That being said, it will have a contagious ripple effect.
00:19:57.000So the question is, how do you feel about the current state of things?
00:20:01.000Because I gotta be honest, I have absolutely, maybe, maybe, I don't want to pull a Bill Maher here, but I personally have no problem myself with having to go and chop wood and then forage for food.
00:20:14.000Literally, we ate chives fresh off the ground.
00:20:16.000We go out in the backyard, we grab chives out of the ground and eat them.
00:21:04.000I mean, but it's like, if you don't know how to do things, and you don't have a place to go, and you don't have some savings, and some food, and some stuff handled, Things are gonna be really horrible for you.
00:21:19.000Like, I mean, the estimates that you hear, after the first year, it's something like 10%.
00:21:25.000If the US, like the dollar, collapsed.
00:21:28.000Something like 10% of the population will make it.
00:21:56.000But SVB's money's jammed up, so let's see if they move in quick enough.
00:22:00.000And if they don't, The crazy thing is if the individual can't get their money, let's say it takes three months, that means they're not buying cheeseburgers, that means local mom and pop shop diner, they're not selling cheeseburgers, they ain't buying ads.
00:22:11.000They're not paying their employees, their employees ain't buying cheeseburgers, and it cycles through, it ripples through.
00:22:16.000Yeah, but you just can't have this continue.
00:22:18.000You can't keep bailing out firms and they make bad investments in derivatives and spend billions and waste it and then we bail them out and now SVP has made bad tech investments, they've lost money, now we're bailing out.
00:23:05.000If you take a look at Silicon Valley Bank's mission statement stuff, boy, did they invest a lot in diversity, equity, occlusion, and access, they call it.
00:23:16.000They put an extra A at the end of there.
00:23:19.000And apparently their chief risk officer was laid off and they didn't refill the position, but they did hire an LGBTQ advocate for seminars.
00:23:27.000And so everyone's like, what was your priority?
00:23:31.000Why would that be a surprise to anybody that a Silicon Valley bank prioritized their religion over the function of their business?
00:24:31.000Diversity will focus exclusively on one race of people.
00:24:35.000Who in the audience would disagree with me, 1 if you disagree, 20 if you agree, that SVB was likely investing in companies based on diversity and not based on the function of their business?
00:24:47.000I haven't been able to look at the books, but they said as such on their website.
00:24:50.000Yeah, they had an A rating with an AESG score.
00:24:53.000I'm gonna tell you this, I don't want to give anybody advice, but I...
00:24:58.000I'm thinking about investing my money in stocks from companies that have the lowest possible ESG score and getting all of my money out of anything with a high ESG score.
00:25:19.000If a company is focusing their efforts on environmental social governance, that is not a functioning business.
00:25:25.000Everything that's for if you're focusing on social issues and right now essentially what happens is ESG is social issues being shoved into into businesses and bureaucracies and stuff like that you see the social issues in In schools and stuff, and that's part of why test scores are so, are going, go down every year.
00:25:50.000You spend more money every year and test scores keep going down every year.
00:25:54.000It, it, it's essentially supplanting the purpose for every single thing that it touches.
00:26:01.000So if it's schools, it, it's, it, it corrupts them and they, and you, and it stops, you stop churning out kids that know anything.
00:26:08.000There's a there's a comic from Stone Toss.
00:26:11.000I know the left really hates Stone Toss, but it's an advertising agency.
00:26:15.000And then the the advertising guy is market is he's got a burger restaurant clients.
00:26:20.000And he's like, here's our proposed ad campaign.
00:26:21.000And it's a white person and a black person making out.
00:26:24.000And the guy's like, how is this going to sell cheeseburgers?
00:26:53.000There's an argument I've heard people talking today that there are people that believe that this is actually going to be a decoupling event.
00:27:00.000So the reason that Bitcoin in the markets responded positively once Biden started talking, I guess, is because everyone essentially assumed, or the markets assumed, that There was going to be a slowing to the raising of interest rates.
00:27:16.000And so people are like, well, we can, you know, get cheap money or make, you know, continue to invest in things and stuff.
00:27:24.000You know, the biggest crime that I'd see out of this whole thing with this SVB is the execs.
00:27:59.000Back in 2008 when they did this, they did the same thing.
00:28:02.000They weren't just bailing out the Wall Street firms like the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.
00:28:07.000They basically negotiated the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America.
00:28:11.000Part of the deal was millions of dollars in bonuses to these Merrill Lynch execs so they wouldn't leave the company and they could get the deal done.
00:28:21.000You couldn't list all the illegal things going on negotiated by Federal Reserve U.S.
00:28:26.000Treasury Department officials, many of them former Golden and Sachs employees, they did it openly.
00:28:31.000They got millions and nothing was, it was approved.
00:28:34.000It was your taxpayer dollars helped finance that.
00:28:37.000So it's happened before, it's going to keep on happening.
00:28:41.000Biden tweeted this out eight hours ago, the management of both these banks will be fired if a bank taken over by the FDIC, the people running, if a bank is taken over by the FDIC, the people running that bank shouldn't work there anymore.
00:28:52.000He doesn't talk about the stock that they sold of the defunct company right before the company was announced that it was defunct.
00:29:00.000I mean, the five execs selling stock in the two months leading up to the collapse is an indication that they knew there was a collapse coming, which that deserves an investigation, in my opinion.
00:29:09.000Joe Biden doesn't know what should happen with a bank.
00:29:11.000all the management's gonna be fired and that the people running the bank
00:29:15.000shouldn't work there anymore those are his words. Joe Biden doesn't know what
00:29:19.000should happen with a bank. The president is in no position to make a call
00:29:24.000about what should or should not happen with a bank. If you want to have
00:29:29.000investigations or something fine but Joe Biden is in no position to be making
00:31:06.000You kind of want to see what the actual repercussions are going to be and how it's going to go through
00:31:11.000The fog of war is the position, and they're moving so quickly in the fog of war, acting like they know what's happening, and people are just like, I don't know, so I can't say no.
00:31:20.000I don't have any pushback right now because I don't have the facts, and people are scared, so they're moving quickly.
00:31:25.000I want to pull up this tweet here, and just really quickly point out that Someone removed one of the plugs from the cameras and it's not in the room.
00:31:34.000So we're just like, like Phil's camera died, but they're all plugged in.
00:31:57.000The two-year Treasury yield is now on track for one of its biggest two-day drops in history.
00:32:03.000The yield is down over 100 basis points from its high last week.
00:32:08.000Bond markets are moving quicker than what we saw in 2008.
00:32:13.000Bonds think the system just collapsed.
00:32:17.000I certainly hope not, but in the event that they do, I suppose the question is, what happens if the market actually does collapse and this assessment is correct?
00:32:28.000If all of a sudden you wake up in the morning, your bank is telling you, hey, you can't take money out just yet, hey, we're not so sure what's gonna happen, or outright, this ripples through all these other banks.
00:32:39.000I gotta tell you, I looked at a bunch of bank stocks, I looked at the stocks for some of the banks that we use, and they're all very, very, very down.
00:33:00.000Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Worse than 2008?
00:33:16.000Then what does that mean for the average person in terms of their ability to get a job, their ability to find food, or what?
00:33:22.000Well, I think the 2008 threat and this threat to the average citizens and average banks are grossly exaggerated.
00:33:28.000I mean, if you're a small bank, a normal bank, you're not affected by things going on in Wall Street.
00:33:33.000You're not investing in derivatives or high-tech companies.
00:33:36.000Your banks aren't going to fail because you don't have investments in that.
00:33:38.000Your investments are in mortgages, traditional stuff.
00:34:43.000So every time you bail out a big Silicon Valley bank or a Wall Street big firm, which you wouldn't do for a mid-size or small company or bank, whenever you bail them out, citizens everywhere else, not just in the U.S., but around the world, since we've got the dollar, they pay for that.
00:36:55.000It's not like there are people pulling the strings that are trying to bankrupt other people so they can buy up the assets, or at least not all the time.
00:37:05.000I know that has happened in history, but still.
00:37:09.000The consolidation happens because if you have a lot of money and everybody loses money, you still have a lot of money, so there's a bunch of opportunities to buy stuff up.
00:37:19.000That's what happens any time there's any kind of financial crisis or whatever.
00:37:24.000Rich people get richer because they have funds to capitalize on the marginal businesses going under.
00:37:33.000Let me ask you guys a question though.
00:37:34.000So, Tim Katz Corporation has more than $250,000, and that's the only amount that's insured.
00:38:03.000But the money in the bank that we need to pay the employees until revenue comes in, because it comes in, we don't just have money.
00:38:12.000Our customers, our members, they will, you know, pay 10 bucks.
00:38:18.000Advertisers will pay a monthly thing or once a month.
00:38:21.000For those three to four weeks, if we have no money, what happens?
00:38:24.000We just tell all of our employees, don't worry about it, we tell our utilities?
00:38:28.000So this is the question, when I'm looking at these tweets about people lining up outside of Silicon Valley Bank, and you show up one day, I want people to think about this, you show up to your bank, because you're a regular working class person, and they're like, you have no money.
00:38:42.000You're a small business who maybe isn't even one of these big woke tech companies or whatever, and you've got a million bucks, and you need, and you're a business that, you know, you've got a decent profit margin, let's say you're doing 10%, 20% per month, you spend $500,000, you make, say, $600,000, that money goes into emergency rainy day funds, potential investments, then you have your employees that are the bulk of those costs, and then one day, your paychecks bounce.
00:39:46.000I want to say some words just before I make the statement.
00:39:52.000Max Keiser and Stacey Herbert because I was thinking today we were talking if we had a part of our balance sheet in Bitcoin Bitcoin went up and Bitcoin has a different stability and a lot of companies transferred some of their balance sheet into Bitcoin.
00:40:08.000And so if we were like, we use primarily USD for all our liquid transactions, but then we store some of the value in Bitcoin and actually pay some employees in Bitcoin.
00:40:17.000All those employees, that money they get in Bitcoin is worth substantially more right now than it would have been when they received it.
00:40:23.000So I'm thinking like, I don't know if the intention with all this collapse is to push us into, like that person was saying, central bank digital currencies or something like that, but it certainly has me looking at my crypto being like, it's up.
00:40:35.000It does have the intention of bank consolidation, centralization of currency, and then I think they're going to want to try and track it.
00:40:43.000Well, I mean, if you use a CBDC, they automatically can track it.
00:41:23.000And I don't know if that's true, but everyone's laughing, being like all their money's gone or whatever.
00:41:28.000Either way, It's probably a scary weekend because even with Joe Biden coming out being like, don't worry, we're going to pay everybody to get access to their deposits or whatever.
00:41:37.000How long do you have to wait and where is the money?
00:41:41.000Again, the message should be, you don't have to worry if you've got less than $250,000.
00:41:46.000There's no need to do a run on the bank.
00:44:08.000And then I went, ha ha, no, she's joking.
00:44:11.000So the way I see it is, all signs are indicative of systemic collapse, whether the bond market is correct or not in the previous segment, that it's going to collapse, whether the banking thing, two of the biggest collapse in history happening back to back.
00:44:26.000And they're seeming, like one's in California, one's in New York.
00:44:31.000All I gotta tell you is hyperpolarization, hyperinflation, maybe not hyperinflation, but inflation's ridiculously high, now banking collapses, and people on TV saying psychotic extremist things.
00:44:47.000Drew, you're the expert, I guess, or you're the one selling a product.
00:44:50.000Do you think we're on the verge of some kind of major collapse?
00:44:53.000And should people, I don't want to say be worried, but should they be prepared?
00:44:57.000I don't think a banking collapse is coming.
00:44:59.000But what about, I mean beyond that, I mean, when you're looking at the weaponization of government, when you're looking at people on TV calling for murder, whether to joke or not, we're seeing violence in the streets, we're seeing 150 far leftists storm a government facility in Georgia and burn it up, then you've got the January 6th stuff where they're saying the FBI was destroying evidence.
00:45:17.000It doesn't feel like this system, whether it's financial or political, exists anymore.
00:45:25.000Well, we track 50, we call them threats or trigger events that could lead to a collapse, but you're only talking about one of them, and that's, you know, something like a financial collapse or something that really triggers a civil war.
00:45:36.000If there's a banking collapse, that doesn't mean there's loss of law and order.
00:45:40.000But if people start doing civil unrest and law enforcement goes, then you've got a collapse where you worry about the things we worry about, which is people going out looting, stealing, killing, and it's not safe to live here.
00:46:12.000I've got a bunch of stuff on the bird floor, but let's talk about the electric grid first.
00:46:16.000What about the grid has you worried about?
00:46:17.000It's been vulnerable and we've known about it for decades and the government has done nothing to fix it.
00:46:22.000It's vulnerable not just from the physical, you know, terrorist attacks you've heard about in recent months, it's vulnerable from natural causes.
00:46:29.000Solar flares, electromagnetic pulse from a solar flare can take down the grid.
00:46:34.000The reason why I said we'll talk about this one first is because you've heard the stories that are going around where extremists are attacking substations.
00:47:14.000On the morning of April 16, 2013, a team of gunmen using rifles opened fire on the Metcalf transmission substation, severely damaging 17 Transformers.
00:49:04.000Open source, it was intelligence agencies, but they published open source saying that the Russians helped North Korea develop their nuclear weapons for maximum EMP effect.
00:49:13.000Because North Korea is never going to build, you know, a first-strike capability on our huge nuclear system.
00:49:19.000But they only need one or two inaccurate, high-in-the-atmosphere explosions over the U.S., and the grid is down for over a year.
00:49:26.000And in that time, according to a congressional study, you know, led by a former CIA director, a former Navy Admiral, Their estimate was that when this happens, you could lose 90% of the U.S.
00:49:55.000I mean, 90% of Americans are in cities or suburbs that'll have no municipal water system.
00:50:00.000And you'll die in that 90 years, either from starving to death or from people going out stealing for food and marijuana.
00:50:07.000Everybody who comes here, they're like, I had to drive up a strange winding mountain road to get here.
00:50:12.000We're elevated several hundred feet, like we're up a mountain and we have well water and two local water sources.
00:50:21.000Now, for the new place we're setting up, we actually have a ton of backup power, and here we have miniature solar here.
00:50:27.000So we have this big, massive battery, and then we have a bunch of really small batteries that are portable, and then they have solar panels that you actually have to physically lay out and position properly.
00:50:38.000At the new property we're setting up, we have installed professional solar with a ridiculous amount of backup batteries.
00:50:45.000So the amount of power generated from the sun exceeds the amount that the batteries drain.
00:50:52.000So as long as you're operating through the day, only at night does it power down, but then it immediately goes back to full as soon as the sun comes up.
00:51:01.000I'd probably be comfortable if I use one of the streams to create a water wheel power generator of some source or just a bike, some kind of way to get power, because you are half correct.
00:51:11.000We wouldn't lose water because we're not on municipal water, but we need electricity for our pump.
00:51:17.000But, worst case scenario is we do what they did in the olden days, and we either carry bales of water up the hill, which we can do, or we build a pump, or dig a well, or something.
00:51:28.000I think, uh, that me and the people here, we've been reading so much about this stuff non-stop for the past three or four years, five years, heck, ten years, that, uh, Look, we've been saying on this show, get chickens.
00:51:42.000Get some small goats, some, what, the Nigerian dwarf goats or whatever?
00:51:57.000If these people who are attacking the power substations succeed, because we've been seeing reports of it all over the country, or North Korea fires an EMP, what you're saying makes the most sense.
00:52:23.000How many days until they start eating each other and drinking each other's blood?
00:52:28.000And again, the marauder threat is something you've got to be prepared for, because if you can't defend your preparations and your facilities, the people who aren't prepared, which is the vast majority, will come and take your supplies and your solar systems and all that.
00:52:40.000But I'm just mentioning a couple threats.
00:52:44.000And I'm not sure which one is the worst, but the one that right now is sounding the most alarm bells for us is H5N1 avian flu, because it mutated last year.
00:53:30.000I'm sure the most conspiracy-minded individuals are thinking that it was all intentional, but I've got to say, guys, if you think that they took bird flu and then did gain-of-function research to make it transmissible among mammals, I have to say, you're completely right.
00:53:45.000From science.org, controversial experiments that could make bird flu more risky poised to resume.
00:53:51.000Two gain-of-function projects halted more than four years ago have passed new U.S.
00:54:28.000I just don't want your bloggers to take my head off for defending them, but this is why the government says... You're going to take your head off no matter what.
00:57:24.000It could be 50% it's gonna happen this year, 75%, CDC cannot know that.
00:57:31.000So why are they announcing it's low risk to humans when you cannot know that risk?
00:57:36.000Without going into great detail, let me just say I think the people who watch this show, I think myself personally, I'm pretty sure the other people in the room, have very little faith in the CDC for a variety of reasons.
00:57:45.000Yeah, the CDC wants to prevent panic, one, which is why they'll say don't worry about it.
00:57:49.000Secondly, when it comes to COVID, the way they handle COVID, they did not talk about prophylactic measures.
00:57:53.000They never really talked about prevention.
00:57:55.000They talked about how to deal with it once it already hits.
00:57:58.000I don't want to inject the thing or do the thing.
00:58:32.000So let me just say about all of this, I don't think anyone is going to give us an honest assessment of what this is and what might happen, but I will say, I do believe, based on what we've already seen, Well, I should say this.
00:58:49.000The news has reported the gain-of-function research to make bird flu transmissible among mammals happened a decade ago.
00:59:12.000And bad guys can take it out of a lab very easily.
00:59:14.000They should not be doing these things.
00:59:16.000We've been warning people, our members, we've been putting on our newsletter, you need to be prepared because there's so many ways this could happen.
00:59:23.000If I were Putin, you know, a ruthless guy, not doing well in the Ukraine war, and the U.S.
00:59:28.000and West European providing so much support, If he releases, clandestinely so you can't even punish him for it, he releases a virus like avian flu, human-human transmissible over here, we are not going to be supporting Ukraine.
00:59:41.000We're going to be struggling to survive, losing tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people over here.
01:00:08.000The only thing you can do is you have to stay away from people until the virus plays out.
01:00:13.000Now here's, this is the bad news, good news.
01:00:15.000The good news is when you have a virus this lethal, It's going to kill people, 60% lethal, it's going to kill people so massively, people are going to immediately isolate for long periods of time and the virus will die out fairly quickly.
01:00:30.000The virus is, it's not good for a virus to have super high lethality because you end up killing off your virus.
01:01:07.000And the government is not going to tell people, hey, you need to have a lot of guns, and by the way, assault rifles and those high capacity magazines, that's what you need.
01:01:15.000well and defend against marauders and i don't don't uh...
01:01:18.000misinterpret he said assault rifle high-capacity magazines were talking
01:01:22.000fully automatic select fire with a hundred round drums or something and he
01:01:25.000said yeah was with an ass so multiple as i'm more than what you want
01:01:29.000to mention something like a standard semi-auto standard capacity we're talking
01:01:33.000about a air fifteen with thirty round magazines
01:01:35.000that's not what he said he said well you can even by those in colorado
01:02:02.000You know, we'll build big towers, and then we'll have on them just sentry turrets that, you know, sweep left and right, and then at a certain time, they will go into, you know, full defense mode, and if you, uh, you know, bring it, you know.
01:02:20.000I'd just use, you know, people with weapons is the low-cost, smart way to do that.
01:02:24.000But you need a lot of people to defend yourself in a collapse, and you need assault rifles and high-capacity clips, because there could be marauder groups that have 50, 100 people in them.
01:02:46.000There's not enough food to keep them going.
01:02:47.000They're going to have to go out and get it.
01:02:49.000And they're going to send out scouting parties who come back to the prisons because the prisons are fortified and armed, and you're not breaking in, and they can control.
01:03:22.000I thought they automatically opened it.
01:03:23.000But it doesn't matter when the system breaks.
01:03:27.000Someone's going to go in from the outside and they're going to have friends and family who are in prison and they are going to take that whole place over and it is a fortress.
01:04:53.000I'm saying we're going to go outside one day and there's going to be some dude with suspenders and a flannel shirt and a handlebar mustache, and we're going to hear the chickens squawking, and we're going to walk outside with a, you know, lever action rifle and be like, hey!
01:05:05.000And there's going to be some New York hipster being like, I'm so hungry!
01:05:08.000And he's going to try and run away with the chicken.
01:05:10.000You know, you get to that point, honestly, it's, I mean, it gets really, it's, the ugliness The level of ugliness that happens with the type of scenario that we're talking about, we can't really actually articulate it properly on YouTube, because you'll get booted.
01:05:25.000Like, someone coming on your- if you've got chickens, and there's someone messing around with your chickens, and you're three months into a global collapse, shoot on sight!
01:05:46.000I understand The Last of Us is fictional, but if you want to understand what will happen when the collapse happens, There are no good guys.
01:05:56.000I don't want to spoil it because it literally just came out last night and people are gonna be like don't spoil it but
01:06:00.000Watch what the good guys do there are no good guys. That's the point. Yeah, you will be like my god
01:06:08.000Because when it comes to protecting those yourself and those you care about the guy who comes onto your property
01:06:15.000for chickens He's he's he's got he he pulls up in his truck and he's got
01:06:19.000a starving 10 year old daughter and he says don't worry, honey
01:06:21.000I'm getting you food And then him and his brother and his son are like, we have to do this or we die.
01:06:27.000And then they sneak around your property and then you're in your house going, I see people outside with guns.
01:06:36.000There's no good guys, there's no bad guys there.
01:06:37.000I'm not going to die, and if I have to kill you to do it, that's what these people are thinking.
01:06:41.000Look, you can tell the serious people by the ones that have, like, people impaled on spikes in their yard.
01:06:48.000Like, that's, it gets real, real brutal, real, real fast.
01:06:52.000Have you seen, uh, I think, what is it, uh, either it's, I think this was in Yellowstone, actually.
01:06:58.000In Yellowstone, it might have been a flashback, or it might have been 1883.
01:07:02.000I think it was Yellowstone, they catch cattle thieves, and he kills them, and then one guy who's mortally injured, he puts a rope around his neck, and then pulls him, hoists him up to hang him, and they write in blood, cattle thieves.
01:07:16.000It was like, anybody who sees this knows what happens.
01:07:20.000It's crazy to think that back in the day, they would kill a group of men, Mercilessly, like, and brutally, and then leave their rotting corpses for everyone to see, for taking cattle.
01:07:34.000Because taking the cattle meant you die in the winter.
01:08:52.000And then the next night it started again in London and it spread all over the United Kingdom, all the major cities.
01:08:58.000People were killed defending their businesses.
01:09:01.000It was a collapse going on, loss of law and order, widespread, and there was no trigger event.
01:09:07.000So after the next election, Ray Dalio, you know, perhaps one of the smartest men alive in the U.S.
01:09:12.000today, the founder, CEO of Bridgewater, the most biggest, most successful hedge fund, He's estimated we've got a 30% of civil war, civil unrest, massive violence after our next presidential election because we are so divided and so split that any possible issue in that election or people just not wanting to accept the result, you could have violence break out and it can spiral out of control.
01:09:38.000I know this is something that viewers of the show hear all the time, but really, you need to purchase firearms, ammunition, and get training.
01:09:47.000You need to know how to use firearms and ammunition, how to load magazines.
01:09:54.000How to clear stoppages, malfunctions, and stuff like that.
01:09:58.000When you go to a firearms class, they're not teaching you safety stuff.
01:10:33.000When you go to a range and someone's giving instruction and the first thing someone does is pick up the gun and put their hand over the- Yeah.
01:10:53.000I have seen people, I mean, there's viral videos of this, where a guy's in a range, you can look the video up, and then he's like, he shoots and then he takes the gun and then he like waves it around and they tackle him.
01:11:15.000They'll leave and they'll end up going to the areas all around New York City if they can get out.
01:11:20.000I don't know if you can call it civil war, but it will be, if a collapse happens in the first three days, the entire New York metro will be riots, ransacking, shootings, murders.
01:11:31.000I think a lot of people will be trapped in their houses.
01:11:33.000And then after a half a day when they're desperately thirsty and there's no water, one person's going to be like, we need to find water, man.
01:11:40.000There ain't going to be any water anywhere.
01:11:42.000So they're going to go outside and then someone's going to walk up, shoot them and take whatever they can.
01:13:14.000If the power grid goes down, like I said, it's something around 10% of the population will survive after a year.
01:13:21.000Because, I mean, a bunch of people that are, you know, a significant portion of the population is going to die just because they don't get the medication that they need.
01:14:15.000But just the knowledge of its existence means that in the event of a collapse, we could eventually start trying to work out how this thing had been done.
01:14:23.000Whereas thousands of years ago, before the discovery of Well, that's the good side.
01:14:29.000The bad side is when the grid's down and you're back to the 1800s, most Americans can't survive in the 1800s.
01:14:54.000My point is that something is so basic, as taking a rock, heating it up, and making metals, that's been done for thousands of years, the average person has no comprehension of.
01:15:05.000We know it exists, so we can maybe after a few years figure it out.
01:15:09.000But my point is like, I think the people who watch this show, The people who are aware of this already are likely the people who would survive.
01:15:20.000We're talking about 10% of the population, and when the power goes out, I'm willing to bet that it's 95% of people who watch shows like this.
01:15:26.000Well, you gotta have a lot of people to do this.
01:15:28.000If you're gonna survive in a remote area with marauders around, you have to have a lot of guards on duty at once.
01:15:33.000And I don't mean two guards, that's not a lot of guards.
01:15:36.000If you've got, you know, 30 people and you're hiding out in some rural area, and you got two guards on duty at night, that means the two of us can take you out.
01:15:44.000Because all we do is we watch you clandestinely.
01:16:29.000But a typical person, he says, oh, I'm going to build a little house somewhere and my family will come and we'll survive.
01:16:36.000You might survive the first month or two, but after the easy targets are gone and marauders are going elsewhere and everyone's left New York City and they're all out in the rural areas looking for food, they'll get you.
01:16:48.000So I was this past weekend hanging out at the casino, and the conversation of The Last of Us comes up, the TV show.
01:16:56.000And this one guy, it was one of the funniest things ever.
01:17:05.000And then I mention that the Mushroom Kingdom people, like Toad, are cordyceps-infected humans, because the fungus is growing out of their head, it's a joke.
01:17:13.000And then some guy's like, hey, have you seen The Last of Us?
01:18:24.000Because I think that would be absurd to say 100% of the Timcast audience will make it.
01:18:27.000I don't know, but a large proportion, a large portion.
01:18:30.000Because so many of these people who watch have already said, I've moved away from cities, I've gotten chickens, I've tried to be more self-sufficient and more self-sustainable.
01:18:37.000That's the kind of attitude you need if you're going to make it.
01:18:39.000Now, if you really want to guarantee you make it, you just go full prepper.
01:18:42.000Because the preppers are going to be the one who are laughing in the end.
01:18:57.000In New York, what's your water supply?
01:18:59.000If you know where to look, there's actually a creek that goes under the city, and there's this video where a guy hops over like a six-foot wall into a space between a building, and he says they've preserved this stream that used to be here.
01:19:18.000No, most people are going to be thirsty.
01:19:21.000And when all the water's gone, and so first of all, the water pumps aren't going to work.
01:19:25.000A lot of the water pressure comes naturally because the water comes from an elevated source.
01:19:30.000So I think up to like, I think New York has a few stories of water pressure, interestingly.
01:19:34.000But all that's going to fail because it requires systems and maintenance, and one water main breaks, nobody's paying attention to it, no one's working on it.
01:22:02.000A good thing that's trying to be done is that documentary talked about grid down power up.
01:22:06.000It's not just a documentary about how bad and vulnerable electric system.
01:22:10.000David Tice, a producer of it, He talks, so he's got a movement going to try to get people to pressure the politicians and the utility companies to harden our electric grid.
01:22:24.000Some billions of dollars, but compared to the consequences, it's cheap to harden it.
01:22:29.000So grid down, power up is all about trying to get that done, to get people to fix one of our biggest vulnerabilities, our God, our electric system.
01:22:37.000As for pandemics, you can't stop H5N1 natural mutations I think our intelligence community probably has been successful in stopping a lot of terrorists doing it.
01:22:48.000And I'm not going to get into details.
01:23:43.000I'll tell you, when, and I know everybody's heard me say it a couple times, but when I started promoting safeandreadymeals.com, emergency food stuff, this was right at the beginning of the pandemic, the market's collapsing, and a whole bunch of corporate press, leftist publications, started making fun of the idea.
01:23:59.000How stupid are you to buy emergency food?
01:24:28.000They didn't list that this was Fort Hood Ranch, West Virginia.
01:24:31.000Prepping is recognized as being good, but still the government isn't coming out saying H5N1 is a threat, you need to be prepared, and one of the reasons they don't want to do it is they don't want people buying guns, which you absolutely have to have, and especially military-capable guns with large clips, because you've got to deal with marauder threats.
01:24:51.000So they're not being honest, but even the left recognizing that you do need to be prepared.
01:24:56.000It was funny when the pandemic was starting and a bunch of liberals were lining up outside of gun stores and there was a viral video of a guy.
01:25:03.000He said, he was saying something like, stop coming to me and getting mad that I can't sell you a gun.
01:25:44.000But it's been a long time that a lot of people have been talking about the possibility of Significant consequences or some kind of collapse or whatever.
01:25:55.000I know there was a bunch of people that bought their first firearm in 2020 during the summer of love and stuff.
01:26:48.000Or, or they have buckshot with a slug behind it.
01:26:52.000So one other thing, I agree with your two, but the third we use is the 12-gauge pump also, because especially if you're in your house or close quarters, and if you're not a good shot, and most people you're going to be scared, you know, it's a lot easier to hit with a 12-gauge when you're shooting that than an AR.
01:28:14.000Holds 25 shotgun shells, two mag tubes, and it can switch between the two.
01:28:19.000Actually, I don't want to give anyone any advice on any of this stuff.
01:28:22.000I'm gonna tell you, I have one of these and the reason I think it's really good is not only can it hold 12 shells per magazine tube, The ability to switch between the two, you got 12 in each and then one round ready to go, is that you can put an all one side bird, one side buck.
01:28:58.000So you know I've got like a there's a local shop and I bought a mil spec 556 air 15 and it's nice and then Crowder got me the sig m400 and uh it's just substantially better.
01:29:12.000You know earlier I was kind of like Tim uh so you're smiling but like I think I know that you want the best for people but I I get concerned about the fantasy of this because I play a lot of video games.
01:29:24.000I have my whole life like, oh, yeah, survival games and even like a genre now.
01:29:40.000So let's make that happen kind of thing.
01:29:42.000I get what you're saying, but I think that we are, at the very least, the fact that we bring up the low survivability rate, the realistic scenario of 1 in 10 people making it more than a year, I think at least we're looking at it in a fairly sober kind of way.
01:30:00.000Because it's not like we're like, oh man, everything's going to be great and it'll be cool.
01:30:04.000We are talking about a death rate of 90%.
01:32:55.000100 people plus at every location with arms, they're not going to bother us.
01:32:58.000Because again, if you get shot in a collapse, you know, there's no mass units, there's no helicopter evaluation, there's no hospitals, you're going to die.
01:33:06.000We have clinics, the marauders aren't going to have that.
01:33:10.000People don't understand infection is so insanely serious that you get shot.
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01:33:51.000Rather seriously and You know I will say this take care of yourself first and foremost But if you have the means the capability and you like what we do then I would ask you to become a member so that we can keep doing this as well because If it does get really bad in the coming months in terms of financial crisis.
01:34:07.000Well, then that's us, but you know what?
01:34:10.000I'm not going to be somebody who's going to tell you to prioritize us over anything you have to do.
01:34:14.000So make sure your money is going to taking care of yourself, your friends, your family.
01:34:17.000And then if you actually have the capability and want to support us, then by all means do so.
01:36:16.000We were running a line out into a mic in, so that extra 6 dBs was really difficult to deal with, and just keeping the right distance from the microphone.
01:36:24.000It worked sometimes, but it won't happen again.
01:36:26.000It needed to be pulled out or something.
01:36:48.000We have guests sometimes that just land perfectly in the news cycle.
01:36:52.000So we have Drew Miller, he, the CEO of a disaster preparedness recreational facility, basically like a prepper company, if I'm being a little bit crass.
01:37:01.000And scheduled to come on a day, literally the first day for news, after major banking collapses and everyone's worried the financial system's going to implode.
01:37:08.000And they're like, did you plan this guy to be here and talk about this stuff?
01:37:11.000And it's like, oh, it just sort of happens, I guess.
01:37:15.000But also, I mean, look, to be honest, the H5N1 stuff, that was, we were talking about that a month ago, you know, and we're still here talking about this breaking update on it.
01:37:50.000But people will come and try and sabotage it.
01:37:53.000So what we're going to do is, we were at first advised to do a paywalled thing so that, you know, weirdos who want to sabotage you won't want to pay to get in.
01:38:03.000And then we're like, yeah, but that means like our regular members who can't afford it aren't able to come in.
01:38:08.000So the idea is going to be, if you're a member for at least six months of the website, if you already have that in your track record or whatever, you're instantly in the call-in suite.
01:38:18.000So we have like, as soon as you're a member, you get access to the basic lounge.
01:38:22.000After six months, the door opens for the VIP lounge where you can ask to do call-ins and talk on the show, or If you're signing up as a new member, it's $25 to instantly get access to that room because we didn't want to make it just paywalled, but we didn't want to have it so there was no gate because then people will come in and screw with us.
01:38:43.000And then we're going to do an elite membership club thing that we're trying to figure out where it's like $100 a month for a VIP room where we'll figure something out.
01:38:54.000That just seems like a good idea because the $100 a month one is going to be more like a club with more perks and benefits than just the lower tier rooms.
01:39:00.000Like maybe even access to the club at the new coffee shop we're building.
01:39:04.000Something all-inclusive and community building and like something like that.
01:41:53.000Yeah, I think it's still worth your time.
01:41:56.000I mean, it does get a little too grindy where it's just constantly doing the...
01:42:02.000Daily grind and stuff like that, but destiny I like destiny one better because the PvP was all slide shotguns
01:42:08.000You would just slide and then boom shotgun and you'd take them out and then in destiny 2 they're like we're gonna
01:42:13.000Like nerfed it. Yeah nerf the shotguns and make it more about your primary and then it's like
01:42:19.000Let's play overwatch now. There's and you can carry have three guns. Yes, apparently the other one
01:42:24.000You can only have two or something like that. You know, it's at three
01:42:26.000I never guess anyone light special and it didn't make sense in part one why something was special and why something was
01:42:32.000primary But now they've kind of figured that out. Yeah, and now
01:42:35.000heavy weapon ammo and stuff I don't know. I haven't played part two in a while. But you
01:42:38.000know destiny was a really good game It sucks because in the beginning, there were fun things people discovered, and they got rid of it all.
01:42:45.000Like, you used to be able to go through walls using the sparrow.
01:42:48.000Yeah, and there were parts of the game world they had made that they didn't open, and we would go into these discontinued areas that, like, didn't get released.
01:43:44.000John Rich is, though, so we should definitely look into that.
01:43:48.000One thing I'm really interested in, though, is all local stuff.
01:43:51.000So there are some local banks that are just West Virginia banks that I'm really interested in, and we are working with one.
01:43:56.000I would much rather see all of the money... Here's what I'm saying.
01:44:00.000When y'all give money to TimCast.com as a member, That money doesn't just, like, go into pockets.
01:44:07.000It gets spent in West Virginia and MAGA country.
01:44:11.000It means that the people who live out here are going to the grocery store where there's a guy waving a little Trump flag and they're handing him the $10 for the pack of beer.
01:44:19.000That guy now has money to buy other things.
01:44:21.000Basically, I want to build up local economy out here where the people are better.
01:44:26.000And I mentioned being in the casino because I go there all the time.
01:44:29.000And a guy asked, he's like, you from around here?
01:44:31.000And I'm like, no, I'm from Chicago, but I live here now.
01:45:05.000Joshua Carlisle says, PBD podcast pulled up FDIC balance sheet showing they only have enough to cover 1.26 of the 9.9 trillion in deposits countrywide.
01:45:43.000There's no way I can pull out all the cash.
01:45:46.000But I'm hearing tons of people being like, yup, went out and pulled up the max.
01:45:49.000And I've also heard from some people saying they tried to and weren't able.
01:45:52.000I don't want to name who those people are, but, you know, some prominent people.
01:45:56.000You know, the other reason why I don't think there's any likelihood of a bank run in depression analogies don't work is, you know, most people don't use cash.
01:46:15.000We ought to be assuring people, don't worry, you don't need to take your money out, your bank money's insured, but we again shouldn't be bailing out the people who've got huge amounts of money invested in bad investments, and now we're going to pay the price to save them.
01:46:29.000Did you know that you can buy a 55-gallon drum of 5.56 ammo?
01:47:35.000We've got a lot of work going on at the new property for the new headquarters, and we're trying to get a bunch of infrastructure built like internet, but the materials are all in short supply, so it's taking forever.
01:47:47.000It really has been crazy over the past couple of years.
01:48:24.000The thing is, you cannot compute a probability, just like we cannot compute a probability of H5N1 naturally mutating into human-human transmissible.
01:49:12.000So you need to be watching out for him.
01:49:13.000And if you watch out for a black swan, you can be prepared for it and you can survive if it's a collapse, or you can make money as Nassim Taleb does as an investor.
01:49:22.000How much of like the H5N1 is hysteria?
01:49:26.000Because I just got the last three years of people telling me COVID was going to kill me.
01:49:30.000And it's like, I'm so burnt out on that.
01:49:32.000A completely different COVID-19 from day one.
01:49:35.000There was a Harvard medical in our in our Fortran newsletter when it first came out we said this is not the collapse from a pandemic we've been worrying about.
01:49:43.000This is not it because there was a Harvard medical studies early out saying The lethality of this is way below 1%.
01:49:51.000Way below 1%, you don't need to worry about it.
01:49:54.000It's not going to stop people from going to work, unless the government makes you do it.
01:49:59.000This is 60% lethal with H5N1 amongst humans.
01:50:03.000Now when the virus mutates, that could change.
01:50:06.000But it doesn't need to be, anything double-digit is what we say, that's going to stop you from going to work.
01:50:12.000Because policemen, for example, if there's even a low 20% probability avian flu variant, if you go to work, it's not just a 20% chance you'll die, it's a chance you're going to bring that virus home now.
01:50:24.000If you've got a couple kids, one of them will die.
01:50:28.000Of the 60% of people that die, 99.99% are obese or something like that?
01:50:33.000No, it's just, that's the total count.
01:50:35.000We haven't had many human-human fatalities from avian flu, so it's a complete census of the deaths, and it's a 60% lethality rate.
01:50:41.000Now, it could be a little bit lower if they've completely missed some cases.
01:50:46.000His point about police officers and stuff like that is extremely important.
01:50:51.000People forget that whatever the situation is that's going on that's causing civil unrest, if it's bad enough where cops decide, I'm staying home to protect my family, That's the line where everything just falls to shit.
01:51:10.000You can have society limping along if you have people that are still going out and trying to keep society functioning properly.
01:51:21.000Once people start saying, no, I'm not going to do my job, And you're talking about the infrastructure jobs like police, fire, etc., and EMS.
01:51:29.000Once those people decide, I'm staying home to protect my family, that's when all bets are off.
01:52:17.000Your question, how many times does someone have to lie to you before you consider them a liar?
01:52:21.000Yeah, we worked together on putting it together.
01:52:25.000I gave them a bunch of bullet points and ideas.
01:52:27.000They wrote up like a bunch, they like framed it out for their video style and then I came back and then, you know, we went back and forth on writing out a script.
01:53:11.000So if you've got military or law enforcement officer experience, and especially if you also have some construction skills, because we do a lot of building, just go to our website, 14ranch.com, email me, manager at 14ranch.com.
01:53:33.000We're opening more franchise locations in New York, not New York City, well out of New York City, a couple hours outside to the north and a little bit west we'll be opening New York there.
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01:54:15.000Why it is that I can go out into West Virginia and be more likely to meet someone who knows a little bit about politics than New York City.
01:54:23.000In New York City, they'll believe fake things.
01:54:26.000In West Virginia, they will believe correct things.
01:55:02.000Legama Thagayan says, as a doctor, I understand the rationale for gain-of-function research and I support it.
01:55:08.000It should be done on a sinkable floating platform in the ocean, hermetically sealed from the outside with a skeleton crew of workers who live there, not in a huge city like Wuhan.
01:57:59.000That's not the level of conversation we want to have.
01:58:01.000Then, after six months of being a member at TimCast.com, you instantly upgrade to the VIP lounge where you can go into voice chat.
01:58:08.000And we use voice chat for call-ins on the show.
01:58:11.000Or, if you sign up at TimCast.com for $25, you go into the VIP lounge.
01:58:15.000We wanted to make sure that there was a way to gate out people who would exploit the system and harass and cause problems, but we didn't want to make it pay-oriented because then some people wouldn't be able to get in.
01:58:27.000So some people can pay, some people can just wait, and that's probably the best way to do it.
01:58:32.000And then I think, obviously, if you're a $25 member for 10 months, then you just downgrade back to $10 or whatever and you're in the VIP lounge anyway.
01:58:39.000So, you can just sort of pass the gate or whatever.
01:58:42.000I don't know, we're trying to figure it out, man.
01:59:53.000So the real answer is, look man, you make a decision for yourself, I ain't gonna tell you what to do, I'll tell you what I'll do.
01:59:57.000You know, move out of cities, get some chickens, get some emergency food, because if in the end nothing happens, I got some food and I got some chickens.
02:00:51.000Daniel says, I know Discord chat is already in development, but would it be possible to use Gilded instead?
02:00:56.000Pretty much the same thing from my limited look.
02:00:58.000But we heard that the censorship is actually worse.
02:01:01.000All right, everybody, but we're getting to it, and we will hopefully have it set up.
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02:01:22.000It's an interesting business model we have.
02:01:26.000And then we hope that some people like the show enough that they're going to pay ten bucks a month for the after show, and that funds everything.
02:01:32.000But if at any point that doesn't work, I don't know.
02:01:35.000The model seems to be working for now, but with ad rates dropping, it's like we're trying to find other ways to generate revenue to keep the company growing, expanding, because I want to win a culture war.
02:01:45.000So we got the coffee shop, we got a bunch of stuff we're working on.
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02:01:57.000Drew, do you want to shout anything out?
02:01:59.000Again, we just appreciate your interest in Fortitude Ranch.
02:02:02.000We're looking for ranch managers in some areas.
02:02:05.000We're expanding with franchising, and if you don't do Fortitude Ranch, that's fine, but do get your weapon as you've been advised, and be prepared, because collapse could happen tomorrow, not just from H5N1 or electric system, but almost any cause.