00:47:47.500or something like the competency crisis
00:47:50.400that's hit psyops you know that sort of shit but um a thought occurred to me that i didn't get to
00:47:56.760talk about on the last episode because we we like to explore every angle to the conspiracy and i
00:48:01.800think we've settled on we've settled on ones that we like that don't involve they're actually being
00:48:06.380aliens but uh the one that i was thinking of and this will lead us into our next story
00:48:11.660is that alien disclosure could be used as like a like a form of cocaine for nerds and scientists
00:48:23.800there was like it's this idea that like why would they be disclosing all this stuff
00:48:28.500why would they be pumping out this news and it's to like you know bewitch the masses and whatnot
00:48:35.520I'm like, well, let's think of this from a completely cynical power perspective of the government. Maybe they let's speculate that maybe they decided that whenever aliens are in the news and alien technology is being discussed, it has the unintended or intended consequence of getting all of our scientists to start thinking new, exciting things.
00:49:00.880so like this is just me coming up with bullshit of course but it's like
00:49:05.100maybe the government figured out like hey every time we start talking alien disclosure
00:49:09.240all of our labs are a twitter with these dorks who are start talking to each other about you
00:49:15.760know they just heard that oh uh you know how do alien craft work oh it's gravity manipulation
00:49:21.160huh maybe maybe we should try something with gravity manipulation or maybe that inspires
00:49:25.120some young students to look into that it's like it's almost like a it's parallel to pop culture
00:49:30.760it's used like pop culture but it's legitimized for the government so it's like it's a way for
00:49:35.680governments to supercharge their their science sector to come up with new ideas that's interesting
00:49:42.720just like how we we were speculating that you know a lot of these tests these these craft
00:49:49.440sightings like the white pills could be sort of wink and nudge messages to governments around the
00:49:55.740world i look at the technology we have we're not saying we have it but look this is an american
00:49:59.540territory and it can go real fast and go underwater that's kind of fucking insane that's
00:50:05.540never existed before so like this could be like a strange test done by the government to
00:50:12.040have to to cause something else geopolitically it's not kooky i think the underlying
00:50:18.540principle you'd have to prove that it wasn't happening in terms of like as a as a function
00:50:24.480you know what i mean like obviously this being in the news is going to cause a buzz in those labs
00:50:30.200so whether or not the primary purpose of the project blue beam is to get the labs buzzing i
00:50:37.160don't think so but i'm sure it comes up in the in the in the focus groups i'm sure they've noticed
00:50:44.360it was just one idea that crossed my mind about why let's think of reasons why this might happen
00:50:50.360well here's a reason and maybe it is that maybe like once you think of like that i'm like yeah
00:50:54.440that would probably happen and anyway and that was leading into the next story that maybe this
00:51:01.740is with a purpose which was the development of this lk99 uh miracle material they're calling
00:51:08.600you've heard about this right a lot of people have been chattering about this i have not been
00:51:14.460up to date on all the superconductor news apparently there's a lot of people who are
00:51:19.900buzzing about this but then also anti-buzzing about it saying you know don't get too excited
00:51:25.420yet because they've been following these stories forever and i haven't so i had no idea what was
00:51:30.960going on completely out of the loop but i know you're more of a techno tech minded guy the
00:51:37.080tantalizing thing about superconductors is we do have them right we've had them for i think since
00:51:43.580the 1950s but they require extremely expensive materials they require very low temperatures and
00:51:52.520very high pressures to operate but when they operate they do just like crazy things and one
00:51:57.540of the things i want to touch on is they do you can actually there's theories that you could use
00:52:02.460them to affect gravity there's a lot of things that you can do with superconductors right aside
00:52:07.020from just conducting with zero resistance which is the the primary definition of it as far as i
00:52:11.480knows it allows something to conduct with essentially zero resistance resistance is when
00:52:16.540when current passes through a conductor and doesn't create heat or otherwise lose energy
00:52:21.980through interaction with material so that is like you think of that you could for example
00:52:26.700transmit power over long distances through cables and there was no power lost um or like like even
00:52:32.800anyways i don't want to get into a whole technical i'll explain like what i had read was they're like
00:52:37.060oh energy transfer goes through wires like copper and normally the electrons passing through
00:52:44.260are knocking against each other and there's energy loss however if you can cool it um
00:52:51.500these conductors then the energy passes very very fast you just need to have them brought down to a
00:52:57.980low enough temperature for it to happen which is impractical for most purposes you can't just have
00:53:03.260all this like liquid nitrogen but mri machines are famous for using them like the particle
00:53:08.200accelerators use it there's applications for it that we already use it and and so the thing is
00:53:12.740and this is the reason why i think it's more of a news story than it might otherwise be or maybe
00:53:18.660not maybe it's less of a news story it's less important but the point is there's those three
00:53:22.340things that i mentioned the cost or rarity of the materials the temperature and the pressure
00:53:26.580when people talk previously up until this week talk about room temperature superconductors
00:53:31.240They're talking about something that's the technological equivalent of cold fusion, like it's it's civilizational, it's going to change everything into the future. And while we're talking about is eliminating one of those three problems, like if we could have something that operated at room temperature, but still required high temperatures and expensive materials, that would already be earth shattering.
00:53:52.020but to my understanding what the koreans claim they've built is something that operates at room
00:53:58.060temperature at ambient pressure and uses like basic coop rates in in like normal lab shit like
00:54:04.840you could reproduce this in like a low-level university lab and that's part of the reason
00:54:09.720or you should be able to you should be able to which is what has been happening and they've had
00:54:14.500some difficulty replicating it and that's kind of and a lot of false positives and people saying
00:54:19.220we've replicated it and it's like all right show us your notes and then uh crickets yeah so there's
00:54:24.400even some people on twitch in labs who are doing it and like live streaming it and that's you know
00:54:29.880this is the article i'm reading yahoo news it says lk99 that's what's known as excitement rises
00:54:36.120over possibly over possibly revolutionary miracle material but there's still no good reason to
00:54:41.400believe it exists so it was created by koreans we like koreans okay well everything koreans make
00:54:50.020is fake so it's kind of lines up true then it was verified by another country china i don't know
00:54:58.040you know if it was japan now you have my attention yeah if it was what's another good one what's
00:55:06.100another good asian country it might just be japan it's just japan singapore no say if singapore
00:55:13.680came up with something or like if singapore told me that they stole it and that it worked i'd
00:55:19.440believe it yeah they found it in one of their markets um so like they had they said it was
00:55:25.360confirmed but then there's all these labs across the world in india switzerland in america you
00:55:30.940can't replicate it so everyone's like hold off and out and apparently this there's been claims
00:55:36.360over the decades that this miracle material has been found because everyone knows kind of what
00:55:42.440to look for they know what they want to find and so and part of the application of it is because
00:55:48.040you know it's out oh it's a new type of superconductor what does that mean um it can
00:55:52.020revolutionize energy transfer it could you know some you had mentioned cold fusion but
00:55:57.140one of the the thing that keeps getting brought up in our circles is new types of trains
00:56:04.160like oh you can have like a mag train of some kind i don't know what that is but
00:56:10.520what i hear when i hear that what i assume is some kind of fancy train that you that doesn't
00:56:16.480go on a track and it uses magnetism and just flies around like a rail gun or something also
00:56:22.200how you can make really low hanging fruit yeah but yeah like there's it's kind of like with
00:56:27.340with transistors if you imagine when transistors were invented they're like oh we can make a
00:56:33.060a telegraph that can transmit more than four characters per minute we might even be able to
00:56:38.92050 characters per minute and then a generation later we have the fucking internet and dealing
00:56:43.740with 5g and our entire universe revolves around digital communications so that's that's the kind
00:56:50.060of thing it's like the equivalent of an improved telegraph would be oh trains but they float and
00:56:55.400go a little faster i mean like no we're going to be living in orbital rings and talking to our
00:57:01.000aunts and uncles in the lagrange points in 50 years it's like they used to think you just send
00:57:05.740an extra couple characters flash forward to now it's like i have a ball cancer they haven't
00:57:10.080discovered yet what from all this stuff that's beamed into human iq globally has dropped by 25
00:57:18.760and half of us no longer have testicles what is happening everyone is dumber but our minds
00:57:24.620have never been more weaponized we have they made us retarded but we have telekinetic powers
00:57:29.260okay but yeah so i i'm reading this and everyone's like this is going to change everything we tend
00:57:37.760to there's very few things that get our side of things excited but this was one of them
00:57:42.420um and then there's a guy on twitter andrew coat he's superconducting magna engineer chiming in
00:57:48.200uh this could be very big news and overnight revolutionize all of electronics and energy
00:57:52.820it might not and he goes through like all the the graphs and data points here uh but like you
00:57:59.020had said you know when people say this will revolutionize if if it were to come to pass
00:58:03.380like that is how you need to think about it you need to think of like think of how insane things
00:58:08.140can get like how does that also change politics how does that change trade how does that change
00:58:12.780transportation but you know in our scene everything comes back to trains and i want to
00:58:19.200say something right now this is a bit of a tangent i want to hear what you say about this
00:58:23.040because this was a contentious issue in our chat over the past few weeks oh no there's a very strong
00:58:31.960train contingent in our in our scene right now right uh and friend of the show member of the
01:01:44.100And I, and largely like, first of all, the rail kind of built the West, like you, the U S as it exists, part of the building blocks of the original nation was a rail system because you can't take a covered wagon back and forth with fucking coal to the cities. You need rail. Now, after the internal combustion engine, sure. Now there's a competition and there's a place for cars and trucks and there's a place for rail.
01:02:09.680I'll give you an example because this comes up all the time where it's like public transit is only good for cities, but it's not good in ruralities.
01:02:16.940But the thing is, most of our own province where we live, the northern part of it is serviced at distance only by rail.
01:02:24.720If you want to go to anywhere north of Nipissing, there's no roads.
01:02:30.340There's fire routes and logging roads, which are not traversable by a family car.
01:02:33.820If you want to go up there, you have to put your car on a fucking sleeper and send it up and then get it off the train.
01:02:41.480And then you can drive around up in Hudson's Bay.
01:02:43.460But if you live in Hudson's Bay, all the cars there got there by rail and you can't drive out of that place.
01:02:50.360So, and again, that works because it's so fucking far and the land is all muskeg and trash.
01:11:34.000that and that in itself is almost one of to me as racist as it sounds is one of the reasons why i
01:11:39.980think it's not real is like how many patents does like south korea is not even that big
01:11:43.980and like per head how many patents do they even file it's not that many it's mostly in the states
01:11:49.060in europe so the fact like for them to patent anything important is the kind of rare for them
01:11:56.300to patent like the next transistor eh it honestly just seems like reach blue beam take your pick
01:12:04.940the fact that's not coming out of mit is suspicious yeah right or like los alamos or
01:12:11.180where wherever you know yeah like imagine india saying they discovered it no one would believe it
01:12:17.660people here's here's one for you and this is we've already kind of said this but to bring it home
01:12:22.580The guy at the congressional hearing talking about how they're doing material science studies of all these craft, and all of the other leaks that we've had aside from that are all saying that the alien craft are using different types of gravity manipulation, and all of it comes back to what? Material science. It's not magic. They have specific material science that allows them to manipulate EM waves in different fundamental fields in ways that we don't know how.
01:12:48.040and that's all this is that's what a superconductor is it's material science so like i guess my point
01:12:54.760is are you telling me that koreans with no you know uap program came up with this and the americans
01:13:02.860who have been studying alien material science since before my parents were born have never
01:13:08.320like fuck off yeah fuck off i bet you anything if super if room temperature superconductors
01:13:14.600are real the koreans didn't come up with them they were found by americans in alien ships in
01:13:22.0001970 and this is their way of releasing them is through the koreans as through some kind of
01:13:27.400cultural self-immolation i don't know i don't know why koreans but aside from it's a client
01:13:31.760i do not expect that take to come from you i like it what i don't know like justifying aliens like
01:13:39.300we're back to saying aliens are real i like this i like this this crazy aliens are for sure real i
01:13:43.600just don't believe any of the shit the government's saying but aliens are definitely real yeah um
01:13:49.820we're gonna move on to the next thing because we had we could talk about this next thing for a while
01:13:53.960but i wanted to lead into it with this uh paper that i found and i'm just gonna briefly go over
01:14:02.320a couple of interesting things i found in it um it's about language and the title is cultural
01:14:10.020thought patterns in intercultural education by robert b kaplan from the university of southern
01:14:16.340california so in short what this uh paper is about it's about uh esl it's about people who learn
01:14:24.800english and what they found was that um i shall read the beginning here just to give it a brief
01:14:30.820intro the teaching and reading of the teaching of reading and composition to foreign students
01:14:36.820does differ from the teaching of reading and comprehension to american students and cultural
01:14:41.540differences in the nature of rhetoric supply the key difference in the teaching approach
01:14:48.020language teachers particularly teachers in english as a second language are latecomers
01:14:52.180in the area of international education and i'm just gonna stop quoting it there basically it's
01:14:58.020a paper about how we teach english to non-english speakers and the problems we run into and the
01:15:05.460main focus of this paper is kind of how like an asian person or a slavic person or whoever
01:15:11.540structures their paragraphs or even if you teach them the language very well
01:15:15.900the the way information flows out of them and the way information flows in their mind
01:15:22.400is inherently different um and i'm just going to read a couple things here that i found interesting
01:15:27.380um he says here the english language and its related thought patterns have evolved out of
01:15:34.420the anglo-european cultural pattern the expected sequence of thought in english is essentially a
01:15:40.460platonic aristotelian sequence descended from the philosophers of ancient greece and shaped
01:15:45.840subsequently by roman medieval european and later western thinkers is not a better nor a worse
01:15:51.640system than any other but it is different and what he's saying there is like the language is
01:15:56.920representative of the thought pattern and that and we've discussed this now and again before on the
01:16:02.680show that when you learn another language like if you learn russian you're not just learning
01:16:07.620the speech you're not just learning the grammar you're actually learning an entire different way
01:16:12.640of thinking a different way of approaching the world and people will sometimes laugh like oh
01:16:17.220you know eskimos have a thousand words for fish and no word for whatever but it's like yeah but
01:16:22.140that's kind of the point of it the point of like how they structure their sentences how they
01:16:26.700structure their paragraphs kind of it it's a different way to decode information and to view
01:16:33.440the world he says the thought patterns which speakers and readers of english appear to expect
01:16:39.420as an integral part of their communication is a sequence that is dominantly linear in its
01:16:44.160development an english expository paragraph usually begins with a topic statement and then
01:16:49.700by a series of subdivisions that topic statement each supported by an example and illustrations
01:16:54.540proceeds to develop the central idea um it's got a thing here it says uh some oriental writing on
01:17:02.780the other hand is marked by what may be called an approach by indirection in this kind of writing
01:17:08.280the development of the paragraph may be said to be turning and turning in a widening gyre the
01:17:13.860circles or gyres turn around the subject and show it from a variety of tangential views but the
01:17:18.820subject is never looked at directly things are developed in terms of what they are not rather
01:17:23.760in terms of what they are again such a development in a modern english paragraph would strike the
01:17:29.280english reader as awkward and unnecessarily indirect he's got a few examples here i won't
01:17:34.160go into the examples but just to flash forward ahead later on in the in the um the piece he's
01:17:39.920got a page 15 for people who find this thing cultural thought patterns and intercultural
01:17:45.040education he's got like a series of pictograms here that shows like english versus semitic
01:17:51.920versus oriental versus romance versus russian different types of language and english is
01:17:56.640just an arrow pointing down semitic is like a left to right zigzag going down oriental is like
01:18:03.520a spiral going inward romance it's like a weird map it goes down and across and russian's kind
01:18:10.080of the same and and uh the russian example he gave was like the way they write their paragraphs
01:18:15.120is like you know they'll start with two small sentences and then like one giant run-on sentence
01:18:21.040at the end that where all the stuff is it's sort of this like meandering way of talking but he says
01:18:27.000this is actually indicative of how these different cultural mindsets approach the world and approach
01:18:32.960truth itself and he's only using this in the framework of how you would teach English to them
01:18:37.940you know it's like saying like oh we we don't teach English we just teach them grammar and
01:18:41.840hope them be good at it and we think they're doing it wrong when we ask them to write an essay
01:18:46.540because all these arabic guys are coming up these weird fucked up essays that don't flow together
01:18:52.340properly but that that's the utilitarian approach to it but i think hidden within that is um a real
01:19:00.240a fundamental racist truth um that could be viewed linguistically but it's like you know that's
01:19:06.260the the difference in the worldview and the culture is so deep in people and i don't think
01:19:11.460you can unlearn that and this is something that um i don't know if you've approached this
01:19:15.440but me and my wife we've discussed about like um our our son or our children learning a second
01:19:22.760language have you talked about this with your wife yes a little bit where did you land on that
01:19:28.340did you decide whether or not you're like going because in canada there's like french as a second
01:19:33.140language but what did you just well it's it's different it's different for us because um like
01:19:39.920that we it's hong kong versus canada right but the native language of hong kong is cantonese
01:19:44.640which is essentially a dead language unless the chinese government falls like they're in the
01:19:48.260active process of killing off all these languages um and my wife doesn't even really speak it that
01:19:52.480much so and we're canadian so there's no point a lot of europeans will make fun of us westerners
01:19:59.100because we only speak english i will often tell them i took how many years of french did we take
01:20:04.320in school serious french uh like what 10 years we stopped in grade nine right so that's nine
01:20:12.520years of learning french right yeah i do not speak french no one i know speaks french you don't speak
01:20:22.620french so we've had imagine learning a language for nine years and not being able to speak it
01:20:29.880that's the experience many canadians have like a federal idiosyncrasy of canada though like the
01:20:35.160truth is you would learn to speak french if you lived on the border with french-speaking people
01:20:39.280and there were people in the borderland of our province that speak both languages because they
01:20:43.720live in the borderland but i mean the distance from here to quebec is farther than the distance
01:20:49.440across germany so like i think this i think the scale the europeans and and and also i i like the
01:20:57.820idea of being like oh we're so culturally you know erudite fine but also um is it really effective
01:21:05.920for you to have to know nine languages just to talk to people technically within a two-hour range
01:21:12.160of your home i think it's better to have a language a great language like english that's
01:21:16.540spoken across an entire continent i think that's just a strong empire so i think it kind of sucks
01:21:21.580to have to learn that many languages also counterpoint to that there's a an incalculable
01:21:29.440amount of white virgins who learned japanese by sheer will alone you know they never met a japanese
01:21:36.360person it's just they're they were not reproduced they were that's a different sort of thing uh but
01:21:43.940but you are right um but that's something i discussed with my wife like you know she's
01:21:49.420she had this idea in her head that she wanted our son to learn latin and you know maybe we're being
01:21:54.840a couple of me learns about it you know but one thing that became apparent to me and i've known a
01:22:00.940lot of europeans um you know eastern europeans who who learned how to speak english no one in
01:22:08.080particular when i was growing up and the thing that they would complain about is that the more
01:22:12.760time they spoke english they would get better at english they were never perfect at it but the
01:22:18.640better they got english the worse they would get in their native tongue and they get made fun of
01:22:21.880by their friends for it as well so it seems like you always occupy this middle ground where
01:22:26.640you can become the more competent you become a more language like no one's really fluent in all
01:22:31.940these languages they can't be i don't and that's another funny thing too because like the the
01:22:36.320you're talking about foreign languages spoken by like immigrant groups in uh monoculture or what
01:22:43.540ought to be a monoculture and so you have them kind of choose it picking and choosing where it's
01:22:47.580like if the if those people like if markham was its own country and within that country chinese
01:22:53.920was the language and outside of it english was the language you wouldn't have that problem
01:22:57.700but and you probably probably the people what i'm saying is like the people that had to go and
01:23:03.360work in markham who were english would speak shitty chinese but they wouldn't get made fun of
01:23:08.960because well you're not from here you know what i mean but the fact that you're trying to make
01:23:13.220everybody integrate is where you get these problems where it's like oh you don't speak
01:23:16.540english enough to be one of us but you don't speak chinese well enough to be one of them
01:23:19.500like you shouldn't the real story is you just shouldn't be here yeah i would also say that i
01:23:25.280think the the commonality here is that most of the people we hear this from are europeans and
01:23:30.220the argument being made here is that the european languages generally wouldn't be so different that
01:23:36.480it wouldn't be like oh i'm i'm an english speaker and i'm just gonna learn cantonese
01:23:40.000yeah that would that would be like i don't know don't bother unless you're a diplomat i guess also
01:24:15.360say that about our faust our your faust big boy he'll break he'll break me and you over his knee
01:24:22.820like bane at once will you will he's seven and a half feet tall i told me the other day you can
01:24:29.320take these two lips and kiss my ass maybe these like his lips or your your lips oh i said that
01:24:35.860wrong uh shit you take your own lips take those take your two lips and kiss my ass fuck not with
01:24:42.800my lips oh no i've ruined it now yeah you can take these two cheeks and fuck them ah shit i
01:24:49.920said that well what was it supposed to be all right so that that leads gracefully into our
01:24:58.700next topic which is a book that i read and we could spend a lot of time on this um i liked this
01:25:05.880book it's a book by an individual who's a bit contentious in our scene especially for those
01:25:12.960who are into geopolitics but he's a well-known name peter zyhan and this is his first book he
01:25:21.080just has another one out right now i didn't get around to it um from what i hear i might like it
01:25:27.280a bit less than this one because i quite liked this one called disunited nations
01:25:32.420and so this was published a few years ago so obviously he's probably got to update some
01:25:38.860theories he's he's in these geopolitical circles he's in the interviews and he's got a podcast
01:25:44.900and i think you'd find him interesting if you haven't really heard of him before but
01:25:50.740he he's very hawkish on china peter zane yeah i've heard of him
01:25:57.440he's been very he's been predicting the fall of china for quite some time and by fall of china
01:26:06.920i mean complete and utter collapse of china so he's been kind of in the news because he says oh
01:26:12.880within five years china is going to be complete rubble and it'll be a refugee crisis and he said
01:26:18.740that 10 years ago so um i my feeling is he makes those predictions for the same reason anyone does
01:26:25.120because it gets him in the press whether or not he truly believes that but you know go into this
01:26:29.940book knowing that he's made some hard predictions that have not come true however my position on
01:26:37.020the hit specifically his china predictions have been like his predictions have been wrong
01:26:42.340but his data inputs and his logic and reasoning seem sound to me so for example um and actually
01:26:52.020he spends quite a bit of this book being anti-china so the purpose of the book this united
01:26:55.920nations just to give you a brief overview and then we'll get into the details it's that um
01:27:01.780the current world order he calls it the order is controlled by america and by the order we mean
01:27:09.200uh general trade security and economic security um is assured by america there can there most
01:27:19.040likely will be an eventuality where America retreats from its global security position
01:27:24.340and its economic stewardship and will thrust the world into a multipolar state.
01:27:32.240Every country basically has three paths to choose from. Number one, you kind of glom on to a country
01:27:38.000where this isn't a big deal. So in the case of Mexico, you obviously partner with the United
01:27:42.440States. The Japanese, for example, have decided that that's the way to go. And they cut a deal
01:27:46.960with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The Japanese are the only country to pull that off so far,
01:27:50.940and they are now part of the inner circle of the American strategic network.
01:27:55.400Second, you can find a way to go it alone. Maybe you don't need the allies. Maybe what you need
01:28:01.580is close, and you can do kind of a neo-imperial system. I can see the French doing this. I can
01:28:06.240see the Turks doing this. Option three is you just figure out how to go without.
01:28:11.920and it'll be a very disjointed chaotic world and this book seeks to answer like what will happen
01:28:19.540let and he spends the entire book looking at specific core areas and power players in the
01:28:25.240world goes to brazilia goes to japan saudi arabia britain france and says if america were to
01:28:31.540retreat from its position still be america still exists not collapse but stop you know holding up
01:28:37.700global trade what would happen and what would happen and what's the likelihood that these
01:28:43.860nations would not only survive but thrive and he goes into great detail and what i found was
01:28:48.960even if people disagree on his conclusions i think they're great conversation starters because he
01:28:57.360makes some pretty bold predictions but he also explains them and i will also say that a lot of
01:29:04.360people in our scene specifically have taken issue with him because um he according to him he's a
01:29:14.220jared diamond gun germs and steel sort of guy when it comes to issues of race and ethnicity
01:29:20.000what that means is that he subscribes to a belief that certain ethnicities are the way they are
01:29:27.940because of environmental and geographic limitations and the claim made by jared diamond which was
01:29:35.340roundly debunked if people want to look this up debunked by a guy that a lot of people might know
01:29:41.360alt hype look up he's got a video debunking guns germs and steel you know that book they he claims
01:29:47.620that um you know why doesn't africa have domesticated animals like the west and he said
01:29:52.760Well, it must be that there's there's no domesticable animals there, right?
01:29:58.260You know, all the animals that can be domesticated were domesticated, which is false.
01:30:03.160Now, Jared Diamond's core argument about the prevalence of domesticable crops and animals, if it were true, could explain why Eurasia was ahead of Africa and the Americas.
01:30:14.360His core argument only argues why Eurasia was ahead of everywhere else.
01:30:18.840It does not argue for Europe being ahead of India and China.
01:30:21.900Jared does offer some explanations for that at the end, but those are tacked on.
01:30:27.56090% of the book is about domesticable crops and animals and about arable land.
01:30:32.740Variations which are not only do not explain Europe shooting past India and China,
01:30:37.700but are in fact a mark against his core argument since Europe was clearly inferior to India and China in this regard.
01:30:45.800You know, a bunch of white guys went to Africa and domesticated a bunch of animals just for fun.
01:30:51.060it's just that africans just decided not to you know and it's very hard to domestic you can
01:30:56.260domesticate nearly anything it's just whether you do it or not like look at what fucking arabs did
01:31:00.860with camels camels are not easy to domesticate fuck off horses are not easy to domesticate
01:31:06.560so that's that's peter zion's mission although in the book he makes allusions that he's aware
01:31:13.760of ethnicity and he's aware of ethnic conflict like for example we'll get into this later but
01:31:19.020he says that you know in this disunited world france could return to sort of a geopolitical
01:31:26.420dominance um because the eu might very well crumble but he points to that the intra-ethnic
01:31:32.440conflict in france will probably tear it apart it's like he's aware of it like he's aware of
01:31:37.240the migration crisis but my issue is he does not apply that criticism even handily another one
01:31:46.060just just to get a couple off the top to let people know where i'm coming from like
01:31:49.960one thing he says is that the main thrust of the book is that if america retreats from its
01:31:57.300security position it'll still largely be the most dominant nation in the world and it's and the
01:32:04.140reason we think this is happening is because america has been withdrawing its troops in huge
01:32:10.360numbers over the past decade or so and he says well if that continues then that's gonna have
01:32:15.060ramifications but he says you know america is still going to have the best militaries and so
01:32:20.000he says you know it could still militarily accomplish its interests with its military
01:32:24.660or with its information intelligence infrastructure with its special forces with anything so it could
01:32:30.680still strike out wherever the fuck it wants it just wouldn't be in his words like setting the
01:32:36.200stage for everyone to be able to participate in this sort of liberal democratic capitalist system
01:32:44.280it'll just fall to you know winner takes all whatever old rivalries re-emerge and and then
01:32:50.200trade becomes a lot more complicated and you know decoupling from the dollar all that becomes a lot
01:32:54.740more complicated but one thing he had said was that america will still be there but he says
01:33:01.460he's also predicting russia will collapse that russia is on the verge of collapsing it always
01:33:06.460has been the kgb basically overthrew the other factions within the soviet ruling coalition
01:33:11.780within the Communist Party. And so Andropov, Chermir, and Gorbachev were all heirs to that
01:33:16.740legacy, and Putin is the inheritor of that legacy. Now you combine that concentration of power with
01:33:24.580the collapse of the educational system in the Soviet system around 1986, with the country's
01:33:29.300demographic collapse, and it means that the total elite throughout the entire Russian system is only
01:33:34.100about 130 people, and Putin has had 23 years to basically purge it down to the people that he
01:33:40.580feels he can trust. So if Putin were to slip in the shower and fall into some duct tape and sit
01:33:45.260in a chair and throw himself into a pool, we probably wouldn't have any serious policy changes
01:33:51.000because everybody who's left is more or less on the same page. Okay, so with an elite that is that
01:33:55.860concentrated and that small, the capacity to manage the entire system is limited. Now, this isn't quite
01:34:02.840as bad as it is in China. I mean, China's a one-man show now. And even if Xi Jinping were the smartest
01:34:07.060person on the planet he still wouldn't be able to micromanage everything in the system and that's
01:34:12.180why we're seeing the policy ossification and cracks forming throughout the entire chinese system
01:34:17.060that's not that bad in russia but putin has had to reach out to manage this system by
01:34:22.340aligning with other factions at one point there was a bunch of technocrats like the former fine
01:34:26.740minister finance minister akudrin but more reliably he's partnered with organized crime
01:34:34.020This is one of the reasons why the Russians have proven to be so troubled in cyberspace
01:34:37.860until very recently. So you've got this combination concentration of power, which urges
01:34:44.680corruption, that is partnered with organized crime, which loves corruption. And as a result,
01:34:50.300the whole system is cracking apart. And one of the reasons he cites is that Russia internally
01:34:57.400has a lot of intra-ethnic conflict it's not a homogenous nation it's not really it's not
01:35:03.780united in any way internally ethnically and it's all it's on the brink of collapse and it probably
01:35:09.240will to which i would say well if you can say that about russia you can say that about america
01:35:13.900like what what screams intra-ethnic conflict more than the united states of america like everyone
01:35:20.700in the world fucking knows that right so to say that that's going to for sure destroy russia
01:35:27.340but not have any impact whatsoever on america i don't buy it um so you know when he's predicting
01:35:33.720the downfall of russia and china i don't see that however uh with china makes a few good points i
01:35:40.560was wondering if you wanted to even jump in here when i talked about china because it's the stuff
01:35:46.640you had talked about where he says like look um talk about the declining birth rate in america
01:35:52.440fucking everything up well there's also declining birth rate in china that's a big problem that a
01:35:58.320lot of people don't talk about we've never had a country die for demographic reasons it's just
01:36:03.200never happened because we've never i mean remember this started with industrialization and urbanization
01:36:08.880that is historically speaking a relatively recent uh development um but what we do know
01:36:15.600is that when you run out of people uh who are age 20 and under you actually get faster growth for a
01:36:20.800while, because all the money you spend on your children, you're spending on consumption and
01:36:24.660investment. And then when you run out of people aged 40 and under, you then start seeing the
01:36:30.900explosion in labor costs. And China has now been in that environment for 20 years. So the cost of
01:36:36.840labor in China has gone up by a factor of almost 15 since the year 2000, which again, historically
01:36:41.560unprecedented. We're now in an environment where there is not a single manufacturing subsector
01:36:47.460where china is competitive uh they have the advantage of the sunk industrial plant and
01:36:53.000obviously a robust subsidy system but in a head-to-head competition with anyone unless
01:36:57.860those subsidies like get really out of control uh the chinese lose on both quality and speed
01:37:02.760this is only going to get worse because now we're in an environment where they're running out of
01:37:06.840people age 50 and under and that means it's eating into their skilled labor as well he says
01:37:14.460a point he makes here is that while China was creating a lot of credit and a lot of debt to
01:37:22.100finance their growth, there's a difference between good debt and bad debt. Good debt can be paid
01:37:27.160back. Bad debt is just a liability. And that actually, that's kind of what happened in America
01:37:31.180in the financial crisis. So he said, you know, the amount of Chinese debt that's gone bad over
01:37:35.960the past few decades is 8.5 trillion. And they don't really seem interested in innovation or
01:37:42.440traditional traditional laws of economics um he says in china there's a big problem and you let
01:37:47.840me know if this is true he says like it's more common in china for people to buy investment
01:37:52.400properties so like a lot of the problems we have in america where it's like oh it's all the real
01:37:56.800estate market it's all speculative like that's like five times worse in china um and it's all
01:38:03.420bought through credit does does that sound like something you you witnessed when you lived in
01:38:08.080that area yeah absolutely absolutely yeah he says you know there's uh china's got an over demand
01:38:14.580and like an entirely hollow economy um he says the problem with china is that okay so the question
01:38:23.080is the question on everyone's mind is who can replace america and there's a lot of third world
01:38:28.280ists out there who say china can replace america you know has the biggest economy you hear that
01:38:32.860all the time china's this huge juggernaut of an economy and he says well here's the problem it's
01:38:38.300that uh america's consumer driven market is a massive production sink for the whole world
01:38:45.200and if you remove the american market from the world all other nations don't even they can't
01:38:51.800even produce that much like there's not enough people buying it so he's like in china their
01:38:55.760consumer market isn't that good so the question is not just what they can produce can they buy
01:39:00.320because america buys america buys a lot of shit that props up a lot of this manufacturing sector
01:39:05.180if america stops the chinese people aren't actually consuming all the world's stuff so
01:39:10.860like they wouldn't be a big power player for trade and they wouldn't be that sort of like
01:39:15.720economic sink to hold up all this global production um and also he said like you know
01:39:22.900if america retreated like the big problem he mentioned with china and i think this is true
01:39:28.280because the last couple of things I mentioned, they are true, right?
01:39:31.080Okay, here's another thing that's true.
01:39:33.160He says, you know, the land in China isn't that great.
01:39:37.020The way it's laid out with its capital city so far from each other,
01:39:40.700like it doesn't really make a lot of sense to move resources between each other.
01:39:45.560He says, one of the things, what America promises the world with the order,
01:39:52.000because that's what we're talking about, the order.
01:39:53.380it's that not only will we provide you know the the standardized dollar we're also going to
01:39:59.860provide all the maritime trade routes maritime security physical security um access to open
01:40:06.360markets that's a big one that america promises then the floating global currency that i discussed
01:40:11.220china not only can't provide all that i don't think it wants to you see what i'm saying like
01:40:18.200you have to like we talked about last episode about turbo america or maybe a couple episodes
01:40:23.500ago turbo america this book seeks to answer like what is turbo america how does turbo america
01:40:29.780function what are the actual what what what are the dimensions to its power and once you break
01:40:35.600down those dimensions like i just did that's okay what could step into that place and the problem
01:40:41.300with china and i think this is true and it may correct me if i'm wrong but like china has a
01:40:46.820terrible relationship with the rest of the world China has a terrible relationship with its
01:40:51.520neighbors and China doesn't seem to be interested in having relationships that would put in a
01:40:58.000dominant position because America no matter what you think about America a lot of people think the
01:41:03.640world hates America they don't really you know they might talk shit about America they might
01:41:09.740make fun of America but there's more countries that are reliant on what America offers in terms
01:41:16.220of like the global open marketplace for trade than anything else right you know they like that
01:41:22.400they would rather that not go but i think and he makes a point in the book that america can
01:41:27.380accomplish this because it was a relatively new nation there's not really a lot of people that
01:41:31.020have ancient animosity towards america there's a lot of nations that have an ancient animosity
01:41:36.920towards china and in my opinion this is why you know true unity between china and russia can't
01:41:43.180really exist like it comes down to china kind of believing that's the best and believing that
01:41:48.760every other nation is beneath them so it's like they're not a country that could even set up
01:41:55.380an infrastructure like america has does that sound like it makes any sense yeah that makes sense all
01:42:01.220right and on in terms of what the order is so he says america formed a new world order called the
01:42:09.620order through the Bretton Woods trade alliances to defeat the Soviet Union after World War II
01:42:15.020and after the fall of the Soviet Union George H.W. Bush kind of tried to redirect the momentum of
01:42:22.740this trade system which wasn't really taken up by any subsequent president because it was
01:42:27.480essentially an imperialist system and subsequent presidents didn't want to engage in imperialist
01:42:32.820projects they kind of just let it falter and wade they didn't want to continue that sort of
01:42:37.800imperialistic economic project which was designed to be against like one enemy so the order which
01:42:45.880is essentially america's economic system stopped demanding anything of its beneficiaries because
01:42:52.940the idea was that for people to be a part of this american system there were certain things that
01:42:59.940america would provide to entice them one was the trade routes the other was that in his words
01:43:05.920america would bleed for its member states so if you were within the american sphere of influence
01:43:11.100you could count on america to send its young men to fight for you now this doesn't sound very good
01:43:16.780to american young men but that explains all these fucking wars like why are we going to war here or
01:43:22.720there it's it's for this system it's because you actually need america needs to be seen to sacrifice
01:43:30.680to maintain this system so that other countries don't need to and then they will participate in
01:43:36.880it and essentially become vassal states but that is the trade-off and he points to 9-11 as one of
01:43:44.660the main reasons why america started retreating from this because when america actually did call
01:43:49.480on its member states to go fight for them no one really did canada did a few others did but there
01:43:55.340was way more pushback from countries that it thought would be on its side i think and there's
01:44:01.120a lot more ambivalence towards that that that one time america really wanted to just be a gangster
01:44:07.180for a minute and then they said okay well fuck this um that's kind of the argument he's making
01:44:12.320here and the other problem with the order was that it wasn't really set up to benefit americans
01:44:21.360it was set up to kind of benefit american business but the effect of this new world
01:44:27.840economic order was the hollowing out of american industry so that's why like this order even though
01:44:34.680america turbo america is in charge that's why americans aren't very happy and we'll get into
01:44:40.060this when we talk about uh the economic and the federal bank and the global credit market
01:44:44.660and next few um next few episodes but you know it's this idea that americans generally didn't
01:44:51.580if it is an imperialist project americans didn't really benefit any way other than
01:44:56.640additional trade be being that economic sink for the rest of the world so we get all these like
01:45:02.240imports but you also lose your job and become you know it doesn't feel very good living in the
01:45:08.500center of the empire for a lot of people and the way america can do this is like what it's promising
01:45:14.260is if with us in charge you can pursue economic self-interest and america is very good at finding
01:45:21.560forces and groups within these nations and trying to appeal to them we talked about in the previous
01:45:28.020episode about how you know elites deal with other elites like you could actually get get japan on
01:45:33.840board by saying like okay you can get rich from doing this but you can't talk to the people you
01:45:38.400have to talk to like business owners and the titans of industry um and when he says that
01:45:45.320america will like retreat from the system there's going to be a lot of you know shocks that hit the
01:45:51.700rest of the world and he says that you know the imposition of the american order as we know it
01:45:55.640meant more nations could be reliant on food imports which tripled population growth you know
01:46:02.180that changes that population growth goes into reverse if you this is another thing he said
01:46:06.720about china like if you look at china um and again correct me if i'm wrong there's an immense amount
01:46:12.660of food imports that go into china that china at some point i don't know when it happened but
01:46:18.560i think they import most of their rice don't they we talked about this before they're massive uh net
01:46:25.420food importers rice i don't know about rice because they have a whole system for that but
01:46:30.000they import most of their soy and pork they're like the world's world's largest uh consumer of
01:46:35.060pork so like globally they're just sucking up all the pork on the planet yeah he says like one fifth
01:46:41.520of all agriculture is internationally traded but four fifths are reliant on petroleum derived
01:46:47.480inputs so now we're talking about the petroleum market we're talking about the oil market we're
01:46:51.700talking about like not just food trade but this entire very multi-faceted you know complex system
01:46:58.020where you know we'll get into this a bit later or maybe we won't but i'll just talk about now but
01:47:01.780like an entity like saudi arabia becomes a lot more complicated in a multipolar world like
01:47:09.060where do you think saudi arabia fits where do you think the oil markets start to go there's
01:47:13.220relative balance within this status quo last episode we talked about this idea of status quo
01:47:18.900and politics among nations by morgenthal but you know the turbo america status quo once you upset
01:47:24.740the status quo pop you're going to see a lot of famine um and it's not going to happen tomorrow
01:47:31.060but it'll happen by degrees uh but he said like in this chaotic world like the america that you
01:47:38.740might see the america that he's predicting and again some people might disagree with this but
01:47:42.900it's a good conversation starter he said you'll see the rise of dollar diplomacy and the dollar
01:47:48.740diplomacy will step in to replace the military as the military as the troops start coming home as
01:47:53.940the bases start to close dollar diplomacy where american state actors are working through business
01:48:00.020to maintain trade dependency while the american military he uses this phrase used more kinetically
01:48:06.420to fulfill american interests rather than maintain world order so um you'll start to see like and we
01:48:13.720actually kind of see this now when people talk about these you know tech companies who are in
01:48:18.120bed with the cia who are in bed with like basically the government or state actors like that's going
01:48:23.440to be the norm like you're going to just see international business as a front for american
01:48:28.900state interests um which again like raytheon and all these other companies and blackrock
01:48:35.740like what is blackrock as as as an organization it's it's so it's so intertwined with the federal
01:48:42.900reserve and the government it's like it's but that's going to be the model for everything going
01:48:47.480forward um which is really just you know the elites operating with a different configuration
01:48:54.420but essentially the same thing the point he makes on the military front though when i said he can
01:48:59.720behave more kinetically he said america's special forces number around 70 000 even if america removes
01:49:07.120its investment from the world it still has the power to reach anywhere especially if it has
01:49:12.980global interests uh so what you see here what he's kind of getting at is you'll still see
01:49:18.160an American hegemony, but with no responsibility to world security.
01:49:25.880He makes a point here, and this will be, people could talk about this forever, but it's like,
01:49:31.280any disruption to global supply lines, which will be expected in this sort of eventuality,
01:49:37.360encourages companies to put more factories in NAFTA zones, since it requires less investment,
01:49:43.900and disruption encourages capital flows into the american system so it could come to pass that
01:49:49.340america seeks out global trade disruptions using its this new from a military which is just to like
01:49:55.340reach out and assassinate or reach out and do like a flash invasion you know not have you know
01:50:01.180military bases ever but just like go in and get out the special forces i don't know if we'll have
01:50:06.620time to go through every country because like i said he dedicates an entire chapter to every country
01:50:13.100uh and every country that matters um even canada gets a mention um it's not looking good for canada
01:50:20.860in this system by the way and it mainly comes back to that canada's pretty poor relationship
01:50:28.620with america will become very real like canada will have to like kind of nut up and say like why
01:50:35.820why does america need to put up with canada being so shitty and being so difficult towards it if if
01:50:42.460And we talked about this on a previous episode, where if you look at Canadian provinces, each Canadian province has stronger trade with America than it does with each other.
01:50:54.020The population is stretched out, basically hugging the American border for warmth.
01:50:59.560and because of the way that Canada was formed as a co-dominium of Anglos in
01:51:05.200Ontario and Quebecois and Quebec you have made the decision very early on in
01:51:11.440your process that the provinces have immense power vis-a-vis the central
01:51:16.420government that means you didn't get your first trade deal until about three
01:51:20.780years ago when I say trade deal not with another country within Canada so
01:51:25.420internal barriers to trade remain immense and almost every providence in the canadian system
01:51:30.160as this graphic shows has a greater an economic relationship south with the united states than it
01:51:36.040does with their own co-nationals and in that sort of environment canada is always going to be
01:51:41.860incredibly exposed to international trends especially as involves the elephant next door
01:51:48.740so if you look at canadian trade and capital flows they're all pointing down into america
01:51:55.100it's not very lateral it's not very horizontal at all and a lot of canadians have remarked on this
01:52:00.660like there's not a lot of inter-province you know unity or strength or trade so that gets very real
01:52:07.360very fast when it comes down to why does canada need to fucking exist at all maybe it's maybe it's
01:52:12.340just alberta exists as a vassal state of you know america anyway there's all kinds of speculative
01:52:16.460stuff you could do one thing he says about japan though i'm gonna kind of just run through these
01:52:21.660points because i think the points themselves are interesting and maybe they are conversation
01:52:26.580starters he says the geography of japan forces the residents into tightly uh concentrated urban
01:52:34.180areas that limit demographic expansion this is something people know about you know japan they
01:52:38.680that's why they tend to build up that's why they have different living situations there however
01:52:43.300what's interesting though is that these urban areas are also independently power generating
01:52:49.460And Japan overall is the most advanced for automation and technological independence, because that's a big thing he talks about, like how when the chips are down, can your nation actually generate its own energy, generate its own everything?
01:53:03.720Japan is in a better position than China is.
01:53:06.700and he makes a prediction that if once everything goes to shit japan is in a better position to
01:53:13.340project power and influence through the entire asian region which would not be historically
01:53:18.740unprecedented by the way um right now their biggest rival is china but if he is indeed
01:53:24.840predicting that china is going to fall i don't really believe it but if it is then like japan
02:01:13.040Someone's going to end up taking over Syria.
02:01:14.880Now, that conflict can work in the short term, but he makes a good point.
02:01:18.300The problem with any competition is that there's eventually a winner, and he envisions a world where Iran becomes effectively the Islamic center of power for the Islamic world.
02:01:33.100But for the Middle East writ large, if you if you eliminate the administrative staff in Doha and the special forces in Syria, we're already gone.
02:01:45.320Troops in Iraq or there's a few there in an advisory role, but if you're talking in hundreds, we don't have anyone in Saudi Arabia.
02:01:51.800We don't have anyone in all those supply lines we had to get stuff into Iraq or into Afghanistan.
02:01:56.800Those are all closed down. So the Fifth Fleet is no longer hanging out in Bahrain.
02:02:01.560the French typically now have more ships in the Persian Gulf than we do. We're done. That's good
02:02:07.380and bad. For us, we're obviously like, who do we wish a revolution? We don't care. That's exciting
02:02:12.000after 15 years of crap in the Middle East. But if you're anyone else, this is a bit of a problem
02:02:18.120because the Iranians and the Saudis have some very strong opinions about who should be in charge in
02:02:22.740that part of the world. And if the United States is not there keeping them separate or picking sides,
02:02:27.100i expect this to boil up into another crisis on a scale relatively roughly similar to that of the
02:02:33.860ukraine war um because saudi arabia the way he lays out the book like saudi arabia is very
02:02:39.160powerful saudi arabia is not even really a country if you think about it saudi arabia is the house of
02:02:44.220saad saudi arabia is just this one royal family right and so they don't really function like a
02:02:50.540nation they don't have the same considerations of the nation and he's like it's a kingdom yeah
02:02:54.520But Saudi Arabia probably won't fall for that reason.
02:02:57.040They don't operate like a country because half their population is like they import all their labor.
02:05:40.920You could just turn off that spigot pretty easily.
02:05:43.180but i'm like you have no idea if if the islamic world were to have like a core civilizational
02:05:49.540area and it was able to kind of get a shit order that's the that's the actual death of europe
02:05:55.740it's right next door and there's a lot of them and they've got they've got systems in place that
02:06:02.540most people don't even think like they're not this like annoying thing that only conservatives care
02:06:08.060about and guess what they're not going to save the west from homosexuality you're fucking dreaming
02:06:13.480they're they're going to take over we're kind of lucky right now that they're so in chaos and
02:06:19.740decentralized right now but that can change and he's he's looking forward to a future where that
02:06:24.320does change you know that's why america america to this day that's why they're so worried about
02:06:29.820gaddafi that's why they're so worried about these people who might unify that region um and so and
02:06:37.260And that's, you know, like we talk about Turkey, you know, Turkey is not even taken seriously.
02:06:41.700But, you know, if we're back to a multipolar world, we're back to a world where Constantinople matters.
02:06:47.800We're back to a world where the thing that made Turkey and the Ottoman Empire so relevant for so long was its geographic area, was its area.
02:06:59.860There's a lot geographically beneficial to that.
02:07:02.880And so if that becomes relevant again, then that whole, you know, they're holding a lot of keys in this new world order.
02:07:11.300If you don't have America kind of keeping them down, because that's what America, like I'll admit, we can all admit that America right now is keeping a lot of these countries down.
02:07:20.180They have an interest in keeping chaotic and we might look at that as imperialistic and evil.
02:07:24.940you know sure i bet if you were them you would think the same way but you know imagine a world
02:07:30.940where that changes where now you know the saudis are you know they got they got new friends they're
02:07:38.740not even talking to anyone else anymore and they have they have the house of sad have all the
02:07:42.960fucking all the free i don't know i don't know what degeneracy they're into over there in the
02:07:49.080house of sad but it's being supplied by someone over on their side of things you know
02:07:53.040um sorry i misspoke it's it wasn't this means the wahhabists um that the house of sad um they
02:08:02.740it's the wahhabi religion that's the one that is yeah it doesn't really matter that much i mean all
02:08:08.400islam should be wiped from the face of the earth permanently i don't really to which it doesn't
02:08:13.720really matter which one yeah like he makes a claim here is like the saudis would have an easier time
02:08:19.360of turning Muslims to do their will than Iran,
02:08:47.120he makes a point he says saudis they don't care if they win the middle east as long as iran loses
02:08:53.980it he describes the saudis as civilizational arsonists i like that phrase there yeah like
02:09:02.440i just say he says resetting the world order resets history to regional trade powers where
02:09:08.000the turks may once again gain control especially when viewed in the context of europe but the
02:09:14.020middle east uh where it'll be it'll have influence in europe but it will be a superpower within the
02:09:19.620middle east um and it's historical relevance as a trade hub for both land and sea will become
02:09:26.940relevant once again and turkey maybe i won't go too much on it but he said uh the reason turkey
02:09:33.840matters he says it's a rare a rare occasion where an empire was left to its own devices after being
02:09:39.980shattered so after the ottoman empire shattered um you know it wasn't like decimated like germany
02:09:47.260and it wasn't like brainwashed and the status quo wasn't inflicted on them it was kind of left to
02:09:53.100its own devices and so you had this sort of turkish nationalism emerge uh right after world war one
02:09:59.500and they can kind of develop on its own beyond prying eyes um and that's where you get the the
02:10:04.780conflict between the secularists and the anatolians which you won't get into right now
02:10:08.860but he says like you know in this world turkey could make a play for the balkans within their
02:10:14.380sphere of influence that's an easy one it could carry right on through ukraine if it wanted to
02:10:20.140if we do see the retreat of russia um and that what you might see is that that that turkish
02:10:29.180you know nationalism doing to them what it did to germany leading up to world war one that you
02:10:34.860might see a rebirth because like we talked before remember how powerful that german nationalism was
02:10:40.380look look at what a proper nationalist movement can accomplish and maybe the only nationalist
02:10:46.540movements that i see happening anymore realistically like we're trying to get our own things going here
02:10:51.580but it seems like the the ones that seem just about there are in turkey the only like real
02:10:57.340nationalist things are like in the islamic world how did that happen you know uh anyway i won't go
02:11:04.460into too too much and we gotta get going now um one thing he does end on and i think this is
02:11:10.140interesting he says the next theater of the war on terror so keep an eye out for this maybe he's
02:11:15.820wrong so the next theater of the war on terror will be uh the sahel in africa he says it's a
02:11:23.340collection of countries that are hotbeds for terrorism and fractured governments he's predicting
02:11:28.940that america will ally with france and conduct a new sort of uh theater in the war on terror and
02:11:34.880it's going to be in africa this time so we'll see we'll see if that happens actually let me just
02:11:40.700actually we'll end on canada let me just read this part he says the american attitude towards
02:11:46.160canada is in the process of shifting under the order canada had held a special position
02:11:51.280in global affairs it sits it sits astride the icb icbm flight paths from the soviet union to
02:11:58.660the United States. That would have enabled the Canadians to be security free riders during the
02:12:03.800Cold War. To their credit, they were not. They openly and willingly participated in all aspects
02:12:10.840of North American security policy, but that doesn't mean they didn't use that leverage at all.
02:12:15.560They deflected it into other realms. Economically, the Canadians proved adept at eking out
02:12:21.600concessions from the Americans in trade relations, most notably in agriculture, finance, manufacturing,
02:12:27.860and services. Strategically, the Canadians played middlemen between Americans and pretty much
02:12:33.300everyone else. With most U.S. foreign policy made by a single person, few aside from the Canadians
02:12:38.800held a reliable inn. Such top-level access meant Canadians wielded amazingly outsized influence in
02:12:45.480a world of global interconnectedness. No more. The Americans' Cold War mentality is gone.
02:12:51.920Washington no longer sees value in engaging the world's many countries multilaterally.
02:12:57.760So while the need for an American whisperer might be higher, the Americans have become mildly offended that anyone might play that role at all.
02:13:05.640More to the point, the Americans no longer fear a Soviet nuclear assault, so there's no longer leverage to be gained from being on the missile flight paths.
02:13:14.320Any regard to the Canadians once commanded, any leverage they might have wielded is dust in the wind.
02:13:19.700so you know and also on top of that we've talked about before that canada hasn't been very
02:13:26.840polite to america and america has frequently been irritated by canadians gestures and trade
02:13:33.580relationships with china to almost exclusively to spite america we talked about that a few episodes
02:13:39.880back so you know there might be more one-sided deals between america and canada in this world
02:13:48.200so anyway we didn't get to everything we might revisit some of this in the future because i think
02:13:53.340there's some south american stuff that's interesting to talk about but what did you
02:13:57.040think about all that generally it's pretty cool i kind of agree with your take with uh peter
02:14:02.540peter zayan that a lot of the time it seems like what he's saying makes sense it's hard to poke
02:14:08.620holes in it unless you really get into the weeds but obviously he doesn't have a really great track
02:14:13.100record on on some of his predictions but it seems believable i mean all of it tracks yeah like i
02:14:18.920find that if you read the book if you read his work i don't denounce him a lot of people like
02:14:23.140just hand wave him away i'm like well like you should have the wherewithal to pick through it
02:14:28.080like there might be some stuff you agree with might be some stuff but you'll have a reason why
02:14:31.780you disagree with it it won't just be that i don't like him because i don't think he's i think he's
02:14:36.080much of a lib like well no he he might have a lower resolution view in some areas and his
02:14:44.000predictive power might be off but like i said like with the china thing or the russian thing i'm like
02:14:49.200he's dealing with facts i just think that his um his view on the role of ethnicity
02:14:56.560and the power of this internal civilization like the idea that china would just fall apart
02:15:03.040economically just doesn't track with me it's too ancient it's been through too much shit
02:15:06.580it just seems that it's a different beast um and it hasn't been overrun with
02:15:13.200black rapists yet right you know like they'll figure it out like i think the fact that russia
02:15:20.140has kind of figured it out and unprecedented things keep happening in russia perhaps
02:15:26.880unprecedented things will continue to happen in russia that's my take so and if those things
02:20:39.240after what i saw during covid thank you ice age farmer by the way we should come back but uh he
02:20:44.540did do the chicken little thing a little too hard i think he got he got got with that so he had to
02:20:48.760he had to save face and go away um because the world is supposedly supposed to be over according
02:20:52.880to him yeah and the problem you know we don't need to we could spend a lot of time on covid too
02:20:59.200but i i we talked about this on the show where i'm like our side you know the the let's say the
02:21:06.020conspiracy side we were more right than everybody but we weren't 100 correct about things and i
02:21:13.200think where we went wrong is where we overshot the predictions and we didn't need to we didn't
02:21:19.380need to say billions are gonna die like all all we needed to say was the truth which was it's
02:21:24.320untested there's probably going to be a lot of people that are going to die and but once you
02:21:29.120start giving hard numbers that's just a trap door you're making for yourself we don't need to
02:21:34.160no and like i mean like look at look yesterday i mean it doesn't matter you know how how many you
02:21:39.300know the whole millions must die two more weeks conspiracy hard how many times i've heard that
02:21:43.400but like you know lebron james kid just you know 18 year old kids the famous 18 year old kids
02:21:48.400falling down having cardiac arrest the uh the merc i don't was merc there was a there was a
02:21:52.980report came out and it was thousands of vaccine injuries and these are from pfizer themselves like
02:21:59.000it's yeah we didn't have to make the predictions overall like we the the the royal we as far as
02:22:05.980conspiracy guys um no because honestly i'm not i'm not backing down from this but the paranormies
02:22:11.620we were pretty on the nose from the beginning as far as calling how it went and how it was going
02:22:16.220to go down um i don't recall honestly i don't recall ever saying millions were going to die
02:22:20.560but uh did say we did say we had no idea what's going to happen you know and we still don't we
02:22:26.020still don't know what's going to happen with that vaccine even if like who's to say that they didn't
02:22:30.600do multiple batches of all kinds of things you know they could have been they could have tested
02:22:35.120they could have beta tested 800 different vaccines and just told you it was a Pfizer vaccine told you
02:22:40.040it was the mRNA yeah and one thing that has troubled me it's that on our side of things
02:22:46.320let's call it you know the conspiracy right whatever you want to call it um I'm afraid that
02:22:51.800So this narrative that we've been carrying on for years is just at this point going to be taken by the mainstream. Like you see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Like mainstream people basically admitting that everything that we admit we're saying about the lockdowns, about the COVID vaccine, untestedness. So we're kind of losing that narrative. It really fell into our lap. Everyone called us crazy.
02:23:13.320now a new generation of people are just they're kind of taking that from us and pretending that
02:23:18.120it was theirs the whole time and that's that bothers me um because for the long time we could
02:23:23.400say like look i think you know i don't not to get in all kinds of internet drama telegram drama but
02:23:28.660you get called a schizo enough i'm like well the schizos again were more correct but you know the
02:23:35.880people are just gonna you know the our words end up coming out of charlie kirk's mouth eventually
02:23:40.340and i'm not prepared for that we didn't have a contingency plan for when our correctness just
02:23:45.000kind of gets parroted and we're robbed of that credibility which i find you know troubling
02:23:49.760yeah i see well they jumped on it now that now that it's over and safe to talk about right because
02:23:55.940at the beginning the only people who were really correct that were publicly speaking about it were
02:24:00.160like us uh ramsey paul and you know anglin um lauren witzke like that's that's not company you
02:24:11.760want to be like you know you want to be associated with normally right i mean all of them yeah you
02:24:16.040know and then regular people like i you would lose family members over this like a lot of people
02:24:20.960forget like how up in arms and frothing of the mouth individuals were during the peak of this
02:24:26.120thing if you were to imply that you know it was it's just a flu or something like that like you
02:24:31.800you could lose your job there was real dire social consequences so anyone who did speak up
02:24:37.380unless they kind of had enough capital on their side to weather that storm if you're just a
02:24:42.360regular person like you're putting a lot on the line for that yeah man people lost family members
02:24:48.340divorces happen uh kids don't speak to their parents anymore uh people have died without
02:24:54.660saying goodbye it's crazy like how how this thing just divided so many people and whether or not we
02:25:00.700were completely right about everything um what personally i know i was right about was watching
02:25:06.620this thing from the unfold from the beginning and we called it the next 9-11 but bigger it was it
02:25:13.300which is what it was i mean they there was a huge uh you know uh big scary thing right the big virus
02:25:19.840big scary thing big you know terrorism act scary thing virus and then a huge transfer of money
02:25:24.360just like every other time like trillions of dollars trillions must transfer
02:25:28.600and again i think on some level people are starting to understand that like i started
02:25:35.400noticing that they were accepting the lab leak theory which again you could lose your job at
02:25:39.720one point for implying that but that's almost the least interesting part of this like the real
02:25:44.100conspiracy like you had said is a yeah kind of the government overreach but it's also the wealth
02:25:48.880transfer but it's also all this other stuff that's going on and you can kind of just like you said
02:25:53.500point to the patriot act like this is this is that and you hate that so you should also hate this
02:25:58.260why is this so hard yeah it's it's crazy they have this legislation printed up ready to go
02:26:07.740and i'm talking like legislation doesn't just happen i don't know if these people know this
02:26:12.220like legislation isn't an email or a text you know what i mean legislation is what was the
02:26:17.320one that pelosi said that uh we have to i know you're i know you're canadian so you don't care
02:26:21.700enough probably to know this oh no our entire lives are american politics up here oh okay so
02:26:26.960oh good so you'll know more about this than me um the one the bill is like we have to sign it
02:26:31.760before we can read it was it like 800 pages or something like that yeah like things that probably
02:26:37.580make sense to them but because they've been in that sort of strata for so long like that comment
02:26:42.860would make sense to uh who's that guy who just his brain broke on tv oh mitch mcconnell yeah
02:28:13.720uh chef died as well drowned well the clinton's another one of those things like covid where
02:28:20.180you're you're seen as kooky for bringing it up and it's like oh you know her emails but i'm like
02:28:25.260no have you actually looked at the stuff she's accused of have you looked at the evidence like
02:28:30.560same thing with that comet pizza stuff or like the um the john podesta stuff like okay there was
02:28:36.720like oh the guy went to comet pizza there's nothing there but i'm like did you read the
02:28:41.000emails did you did you actually look at the stuff and a lot of people don't actually look at the
02:28:45.880source material because anyone who does says okay that's kind of fucked up and why would someone say
02:28:50.580that um so it's just people like it's a almost like a cognitohazard for them it's you can't
02:28:56.600touch it and covid is this another cognitohazard where people they need to x that out of their
02:29:02.320memory and now you're an asshole if you bring it up you're ruining the party and that's i don't know
02:29:07.860what to do about that yeah people don't want to talk about it uh yesterday speaking of covid and
02:29:14.180stuff there was i went to the deli to get some roast beef for my my uh sandwiches for lunch
02:29:20.440and the guy was talking through a mask and it's bad enough that he's probably armenian or iranian
02:29:25.520or something i can't understand him as it is but he's wearing a mask and the guy behind him i was
02:29:30.600like i was like can you tell me what he's saying because he's wearing a mask and i can't fucking
02:29:33.500understand him yeah you still see people like that and the guy behind him was like the guy who's like
02:29:38.600yeah he's like you know the guy went back he's like he's like that i was like dude i'm so sick
02:29:42.180and tired he's like yeah me too and like for half a second i thought i got somebody to engage
02:29:46.520i was wrong he was like yeah he's like he's like but you know what i like to let everybody do what
02:29:51.920they want to do and it doesn't bother me i'm gonna go back to work and shut up now basically
02:29:54.980that's what he did yeah i am i'm not a type of guy who has an opinion about things right
02:29:59.700that's what people like i don't know maybe i'm too hostile to centrists but um the idea that
02:30:06.100you're like well i just like bill burr would always do this the community's like oh what do
02:30:09.800i know what why am i having an opinion i'm like like right it that the lack of confidence as a
02:30:15.280man to just say oh who cares who cares about anything i'm like well you know you're allowed
02:30:19.020to have an opinion on things that's the thing is we haven't been allowed to have an opinion for so
02:30:23.640long do we can get into we can do a whole mr uh men's rights stuff if you want to no we're doing
02:30:29.280paranormal so the clinton's whack people their chef died the obama's chef drowned which why the
02:30:37.180chefs why chefs i don't know man i don't know what it is about it's a bad time to be a chef
02:30:41.660for uh i guess the biden chef doesn't you know don't quit dude they're trusted with cooking
02:30:46.120human meat so they gotta go you know what i'm going with that i like you know i like that no i'm
02:30:51.400i i i can't i can't not because i don't know enough but dimes like you were saying about
02:30:57.680in the dark here well that's fine though we do that occasionally around here uh you were talking
02:31:01.860about the pizzagate and the podesta and the comet ping pong pizza stuff i was talking to somebody
02:31:06.400about that about two days ago and even if you don't get like all deep conspiratorial where you
02:31:13.260want to talk about the heavy breathing uh musical act and you want to talk about james oliphantus
02:31:18.340name phonetically in french is i love children and you know like those guys jamais land font is
02:31:24.180like whoa that means his name literally means i love children in french yeah it's weird you know
02:31:29.600but even if you don't approach people with that stuff like you know even if you don't try to weird
02:31:33.680them out and you're just like well what do you think about that they don't they don't care they
02:31:38.000think it's they think you're stupid for even knowing about it yeah i always try and challenge
02:31:43.400i apply this to a lot of the things that we might believe in i'm going to the source of the issue so
02:31:49.120i think a lot of people who are into the same stuff we're into are tempted to lead with the
02:31:53.860most exciting juicy details which will sound crazy to people but sometimes you need to teach people
02:31:59.320how to think you need to walk them through the logical process so you can go to them and say
02:32:03.740they probably heard about comet ping but they know that there's a crazy conspiracy going around so
02:32:08.720you gotta break through that ice wall so you would say okay you know the united states of america the
02:32:14.440largest empire the most wealthy the wealth most well connected ever and the world has ever known
02:32:20.420Would it stand to reason that somewhere in that bureaucracy, somewhere in that state machinery, there exists one or more fixers because America and even if the politicians are fine, there's politicians and statesmen and power brokers in America that deal with people all over the world, Russians, Saudis, weird Japanese guys, African warlords.
02:32:45.080they're all coming and going. But would it make sense that there's certain people in the
02:32:49.020government who are tasked with making uncomfortably powerful men happy? And it's not that you don't
02:32:55.260like it, but when that sheik comes through, he's got to have a 14-year-old boy. And we need a guy
02:33:01.720who's in charge of making that guy happy because we need that oil deal. We need whatever the deal
02:33:05.720is to go through, and we must satisfy those insane, wretched appetites. Would it make sense
02:33:11.860that there's at least one person in the entire American state apparatus that is tasked with doing
02:33:16.660that sort of dirty work. Knowing what you do know about America, knowing about the CIA,
02:33:21.280knowing about everything. They'd say, yes, statistically, it's almost impossible that
02:33:24.740there's not. It's like, okay, so I've already gotten you through that wall of saying, not only
02:33:30.360is this possible, it's probable that something like this has happened. And you know, they're
02:33:35.680dealing with the cartels, dealing with all kinds of... So you've got people on the same wavelength
02:33:40.820now and then you can break down the details of comic ping pong can talk about like the language
02:33:45.700that they're using and it's difficult because a lot of this sort of thing no one wants to look at
02:33:50.160it no one wants to look at child sex trafficking it's disgusting i don't like having this knowledge
02:33:56.160regular people don't um and if you stare too long into that abyss you know tears back into you so
02:34:01.800you know it's difficult to you know make people even it's not that they don't care it's that they
02:34:07.840they almost can't care because that would mean a whole bunch of houses of cards are falling down
02:34:13.080it exactly and it's it's something that nobody wants to look at it's like when you
02:34:17.320nobody wants nobody wants no normal person wants child drag shows but when you talk about it to
02:34:23.680normal people they don't want to talk about it because it's uncomfortable just like this
02:34:27.720everybody knows everybody if you go to vegas if you go i've done this personally we went to vegas
02:34:33.300for my buddy's bachelor party when i was living in california and we walked up one of us walked
02:34:37.480we got a bottle service table and private,
03:23:55.260Well, because I'm also thinking, like, if this were true, then there would be, like, old wives' tales and urban myths about apple poisoning.
03:24:01.660Like, that would be in the zeitgeist a lot more, I think.
03:52:59.340Okay, they fall into the category of—unfortunately, they have way too many letters to be in the category, but they should have four letters in their name because only four-letter name bands can be that pretentious.
03:54:53.380so here's here's a question about this andrew wk thing um what's the point like what would be the
03:54:59.780point of creating a fake artist to do all this stuff who has like some sort of a strange uh
03:55:07.580split personality changes his entire um all of his you know all like halfway through his career
03:55:13.840just like changes it all up right i mean oh no go ahead i was gonna say there's two layers to this
03:55:20.280And it's kind of what I was talking about before that I genuinely think that this, you know, fractal of a conspiracy, because that is what it is like, like a house of mirrors of conspiracies, which is why I find it so engaging.
03:55:33.500I do think it is what he said it was, which is this sort of a new type of strange ritual, like a ritual in the sense that is certain phrases repeated.
03:55:44.720It has he's trying to, like, jailbreak certain ideas into people's minds, either him or the cabal that runs him or the whatever group is involved in this.
03:55:54.740I think it is genuinely trying to feed something into the popular culture that introduces these Thelemic ideas about, you know, do what they will, almost like a Luciferian hedonism, you know, with a shellac of positivity.
03:56:11.060i i do think that is what it is um it's whether or not that is being forwarded by this one insane
03:56:18.740man or if it's a group of people i actually i think everything is true and not true and that's
03:56:24.140also like the thing itself is i keep using the word cognitohazard it's like it's this thing that
03:56:29.620magnetizes you once you're aware of it it draws you in and it makes you question like what it
03:56:34.600you're just trapped in it now it's almost like this it's like a new type of meme a new type of
03:56:40.28021st century meme like a conspiracy within a conspiracy but i think the goal is to introduce
03:56:46.320these like esoteric ideas to people okay and aether i think i cut you off there sorry no i
03:56:52.200was just gonna say almost like the same thing pretty much just i think whether he is like a
03:56:56.640person or just like it's an entity doing the thing i think though this is something that is
03:57:03.040pretty much standard in the music industry and maybe the you know the masks so to speak slipped
03:57:07.700on him right like if i get his his particular situation became more obvious to people whereas
03:57:13.440other people who probably experience the same thing aren't like caught you know in that in that
03:57:18.740way or and or this is you know part of the marketing ploy yeah and also the conspiracy is
03:57:24.640the conspiracy right precisely if you think of like conspiracy theories as a lot of people know
03:57:29.860them that's a very 20th century idea like there's a conspiracy there's a mystery and you uncover the
03:57:35.080mystery and there's a bad guy and you reveal the truth the evolved conspiracy that we were just
03:57:40.600talking about this episode is the more layers you peel back the more europe like the idea of you
03:57:46.700uncovering the conspiracy is part of the conspiracy it's increasingly difficult to stand outside of
03:57:52.880the psyop is the idea like it keeps the complexity of the conspiracies keep evolving into these other
03:57:59.480types of meta narratives and there's more mirrors in the house of mirrors so i think that's what
03:58:03.780i found so fascinating about this it's like there is no answers just this sort of um
03:58:09.760like a like a homeostasis like a whirlpool of ideas that's just always drawing things in
03:58:15.580and once you're in it you can never really escape it and that's a very 21st century sort of thing
03:58:20.660um it's not it's not a comfortable thing it's it's not something it's something that's still
03:58:24.820kind of changing and it's only you know weirdos like us who give a shit about it
03:58:29.120i know that that might not be like a thrilling answer for people but that is
03:58:36.300why i brought it to the pros yeah well i mean we do we do what we can to expose the fake and
03:58:45.100the gay around here as much as possible uh it seems that like the um yeah he was he was one
03:58:52.800of those again the early aughts there was a lot of esoteric stuff being put out in a lot of
03:58:57.960different spheres right music wise um conspiracy stuff was starting to kick off really big in the
03:59:03.620early aughts it was more of the wild west internet for sure and uh oh wow how this just rolls into
03:59:10.560another topic really quickly uh and a lot of stuff happened like youtube right youtube was the big
03:59:16.340place where you could set all the conspiracy stuff until you couldn't anymore right and then they
03:59:20.720right and then and we talked about that we talked about how at least in my experience um and i'm
03:59:28.540an internet dork and have been for a long time um back in high school and stuff like that and um
03:59:34.420it was very clear to me that the the new technology and the new internet spaces always seem to be
03:59:41.540dominated by fringe ideas first first and foremost and even places like like library and odyssey like
03:59:49.980Whenever there's a new platform, the first people across the finish line tend to be the conspiracy people.
03:59:55.720Like the first video you're going to get is going to be a moon landing video.