00:02:06.000Russian media is now reporting a second person has died from this pneumonic plague.
00:02:12.000We're getting reports that six hospitals, I think maybe it might be five, but I've heard rumors, six hospitals are under a lockdown.
00:02:19.000Neighboring countries are running health screens at the border.
00:02:22.000This is blown up online, but it could just be a big nothing burger.
00:02:27.000Looking at some live feeds from the Irkutsk region, people are like, well, you see some people in hazmat suits, but they don't seem to be overreacting.
00:02:33.000Meanwhile, the U.S. is pissed because they're not overreacting.
00:02:41.000Well, the crazy thing about the story is that a woman wrote a book identifying basically this exact scenario that Yersinia pestis, pneumonic plague, would be there would be an outbreak from a biolab in Serbia, and within weeks, everybody's dead.
00:02:56.000Okay, I don't know, but this is a narrative nonfiction, right?
00:03:02.000I don't know that it's reasonable to actually expect everybody dies.
00:03:05.000But with an election around the corner, everybody's kind of like, you know, When we start getting these crazy reports, the government of Russia denying things and appearing to cover it up, people start speculating as to what may actually be going on.
00:03:20.000Plus, we've got new developments, of course, in the Cornell 7 case.
00:03:24.000I'm going to keep it a little light for the intro to the show because, you know, we'll give you fair warning.
00:03:28.000But apparently, now, one of the men who was accused, new information has been released that actually in November of that year, he had reported that he was assaulted by her.
00:03:40.000He had actually reported to them she assaulted him.
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00:08:30.000Russian media claims a second victim has died from a plague outbreak at Infection Zone Hospital as Kremlin scrambles to cover up the details.
00:08:41.000CBS, of course, reporting Russia plays down plague fears.
00:08:44.000And denies lab accident, says scientists died of pneumonia of unknown origin.
00:08:48.000And then, of course, my friends, we've got this from Les Wrong.
00:08:52.000How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lab leak in Siberia?
00:08:58.000Now, we don't know for sure how much of this is true.
00:09:00.000We know there are certain things that are true, some of it is rumored or innuendo.
00:09:04.000So far, we've heard local media said there was a lab breach at a biosecurity level three lab in Irkutsk.
00:09:10.000This woman died of pneumonic plague, but those reports were rescinded and deleted, and the government is now saying nothing happened.
00:09:20.000The FSB, this is the Russian FBI, was seen assisting in quarantine.
00:09:24.000Soviet era whistleblowers like Ken Alabet claim Irkutsk was a major bioweapon development facility.
00:09:30.000The quarantine has expanded to five hospitals in the area.
00:09:33.000I've heard, this may not be correct, but I've heard on X following this that another hospital was quarantined, but I could be wrong.
00:09:39.000The Russian government has switched to denial and cover up.
00:09:41.000Local news sources have deleted mentions of pneumonic plague.
00:09:45.000Now, here's what gets real crazy Annie Jacobson wrote a New York Times bestseller.
00:09:48.000She published it in July of 2026, in which she outlines A Yersinia pestis, pneumonic plague, the same bacteria breaching a biosecurity lab and causing a massive pandemic.
00:10:34.000Regular pneumonic plague is not that hard to deal with, but a weaponized one.
00:10:37.000If it was a lab, it's going to be seriously difficult.
00:10:40.000If it's only one infection, why quarantine five hospitals?
00:10:42.000If it wasn't a big deal, why is the Russian government involved?
00:10:46.000If it is a bioweapon, it could be bad.
00:10:48.000And then they cite Annie Jacobson's latest book, saying much of the world was dead within the first few weeks of the first infection.
00:10:54.000I asked AI if pneumonic plague is treatable with antibiotics, and it said, well, the death rate would still be between 8% and 30%, but that's them asking AI, so it's not really relevant to what we know.
00:11:05.000Soviet whistleblowers say they've successfully created recompetent plague with antibacterial resistance and much higher virulence.
00:12:06.000Well, aside from saying yes, all this is happening, he says we should stockpile pandemic proof PPE and install germicidal FAR UV and glycol misters in public spaces.
00:12:19.000Okay, so either this dude's nuts and is overreacting and he's getting a million views, 900,000 views in this post, or he's an MIT guy who's smart and right and we should panic, I guess?
00:12:35.000Well, panic didn't do us any good in COVID.
00:13:32.000Yesterday, I was like, this could be bad, but I was combing through it today.
00:13:35.000And, you know, even in a worst case scenario, you know, plague ink victims, you know, those of us who have played Plague Ink over the years know that if it kills you too quickly, then it can't spread.
00:13:46.000And it appears that these people are dying within like three days of exposure.
00:15:06.000And they tell us, like hypothetically, let's say one week from now we're sitting here at IRL and the latest report is, you know, death toll climbs to 1,000 as pneumonic plague spreads rapidly out of control, escapes the Siberia region.
00:15:34.000I think it depends where you're at in the country, right?
00:15:36.000There's certain parts of the country that might, but I'm telling you, I live out in the western United States, and where I live, there's a bunch of men, cows, and horses.
00:15:42.000And if you tell them to lock down, they didn't go for it last time.
00:16:17.000But as Tate pointed out the other day, what's scary about this is that reportedly a 28 year old woman who should not be dying of a bacterial infection, especially with antibiotics, died.
00:16:25.000Do we really think it's what they say it is, right?
00:16:29.000I mean, the real question here to me is is it really a pneumonic plague or is it a bioweapon?
00:17:27.000I know that there's an amoxicillin factory in Tennessee because a guy bought it.
00:17:33.000Plague is a very serious disease in people, particularly when the bacteria spreads through the bloodstream or infects the lungs, pneumonic plague.
00:17:39.000It has a case fatality ratio of 30% to 100% if left untreated.
00:18:11.000And I know a lot of people are going to be like, don't fall for it, don't fall for it.
00:18:14.000It's like, look, man, if I see people, like if I look, if I pull up X and there's Libby coughing and gagging on X being like, I think I got it.
00:20:36.000So immediately it was like pretty disarming.
00:20:38.000But it was juxtaposed to the videos you were seeing coming out of China and coming out of Italy or whatnot, where they're just carrying body bags around.
00:20:46.000And when I was in college and I was in Queens, New York, and they have like people in hazmat suits coming into like on the campus and stuff.
00:20:55.000So I'm thinking, like, oh, this is going to be, you know, an extinction, like a crazy event.
00:21:00.000And then, yeah, I remember I went home and I turned on the TV and it's the NBA game and all these people like have COVID and they seem fine.
00:24:55.000Yeah, I think I've seen this year more masks and more canes, specifically with younger, clearly neurodivergent people with ulterior disabilities.
00:25:06.000Sexual tendencies and they carry canes around like the penguin.
00:26:11.000There's an entire oblast in the eastern part of Siberia, which is the equivalent of like a state, and it's called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
00:26:18.000And it was the attempt to make an Israel before there was an Israel.
00:27:33.000Well, that's, that's, I mean, I guess now we have like, we have like Monroe, New York.
00:27:37.000That's like our version of, we've got that.
00:27:40.000Well, because I remember when the, uh, when the Russia Ukraine war was kicking off and everyone was like, Russia is this like brave anti Zionist state.
00:27:47.000And I was like, they might be more Zionist than the United States in many ways.
00:27:50.000Like they literally have a state just for Jewish people.
00:27:56.000And like the current, uh, the current prime minister of Russia is like, nothing about it was indicating like it's just like, Brave anti Zionist.
00:28:30.000But besides that, Besides that, Kansas City is good.
00:28:34.000I think Kansas City is pretty, it's just us in there, you know?
00:28:38.000Well, now there's going to be like a mix of like conservative Jewish people being like, you guys are anti Semites.
00:28:44.000And then, you know, liberal ones being, you know, like young Turks are going to, we actually like Tim Casno.
00:28:50.000I've had like six different episodes of the show where I get off and I have people accusing me of being an anti Semite and then people accusing me of being like a bloodthirsty Zionist.
00:28:58.000And I'm like, they have the exact same thing.
00:29:03.000Is it just how many times have you gone to the like you got you know that Domino's uh recently launched stuffed crust pizza?
00:29:09.000Okay, how many times have you gone in for a new Domino stuffed crust?
00:29:13.000True, and the guy's like, That'll be 1973, and you're a Zionist, you know?
00:29:19.000You, yeah, it's like never happened to me one time.
00:29:22.000I have never met a person in real life who's been like, You're anti Semitic or you're a Zionist, it's never happened.
00:29:28.000Well, I think the internet, it's like it's like internet gremlins, could be the middle ground as we all get really behind the Jewish autonomous oblast in Russia and say, I'm fully supportive of this.
00:32:01.000They say CDC is aware of and closely monitoring reports of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Russia that resulted in a death.
00:32:09.000We are working across the U.S. government to assess developments.
00:32:12.000While the circumstances of the reported case remain unconfirmed, plague is a serious bacterial disease that is treatable with antibiotics.
00:32:18.000Pneumonic plague can spread person to person through respiratory droplets.
00:32:22.000The droplets during close contact, which is why rapid identification and treatment of infected individuals, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:29.000This time, there's no indication of a broader threat to the U.S., but CDC and our interagency partners.
00:32:33.000Are prepared and will continue to monitor the situation.
00:32:36.000If Trump came out a week before the election and said the plague story is getting bad, so we're going to institute lockdowns, it's happening.
00:32:45.000I mean, what about all the mail in voting?
00:34:01.000Of all the wins, that's one that's going to last for a while because stitching USAID back together would take a lot.
00:34:07.000And the thing about USAID is it's like it has benefits that benefit the right globally.
00:34:11.000Like most of Trump's victories are domestic, primarily.
00:34:16.000But, you know, USAID, if you're British or if you're Brazilian or wherever, you name it, it's benefited you exponentially just getting the American boot off your neck.
00:34:25.000I mean, if you look through the 20th century, you look at who has been an impediment to a lot of these right wing projects globally, and it was the United States in many ways.
00:34:33.000I mean, Kissinger and others coming in.
00:34:37.000I mean, Rhodesia is a great example where this was something that, okay, it was contentious at the time, but I think they were vindicated when you look at how Zimbabwe, how affairs were conducted there following independence.
00:34:48.000And the United States was the one pushing for decolonization, not just in Rhodesia, but throughout Africa.
00:34:53.000And I believe we weighed in on the wrong side of things if you look at how the rest of the Cold War ended up playing out.
00:35:00.000So, yeah, as USAID collapses, I think it creates a lot of opportunity for people to do some cool things.
00:35:06.000Let's jump to this next story from the New York Post.
00:35:55.000One of the main guys reported at the time to the school that she had raped him, that she had sexually assaulted him by, well, the implication being inserting things into his body while he was incapacitated.
00:36:09.000I mean, this is a horrifying accusation.
00:36:32.000The problem right now is this frat bro, who was incapacitated and admittedly passed out, according to Jane Doe, said that he had things put inside his body without his consent while he was incapacitated, and the school did nothing.
00:36:46.000And now he was the one who got expelled, and they're threatening his life and they're attacking him.
00:37:07.000From the get go, I think pretty much anyone that's been paying attention to how these stories typically go over the last 20 years, we all kind of knew what direction it would go.
00:37:14.000So I was pleasantly shocked and surprised to see this twist in the story where usually the rape pokes, it breaks down and the story falls apart.
00:37:22.000In this case, now they're coming all the way around.
00:37:24.000They're saying, no, she raped us, actually.
00:37:59.000And this guy pointed that out in the email that he sent to the school when he said, after all, you received information that I was, you know, sodomized by her while I was incapacitated back in November.
00:38:14.000To alert me of my rights under these procedures as a survivor of this assault, the very fact that I had to bring this to your attention now in February confirms my worst fears that this process is roiled with gender discrimination.
00:38:27.000They need to file a federal lawsuit immediately because the state is already going after them.
00:38:36.000If you follow the actual story as to the timeline by the Jane Doe, it's clear that she chose.
00:38:44.000To engage in this drug fueled adult activity, even telling the DA when she swatted a guy's hand away, when she said no, they respected her wishes.
00:38:52.000Now, her claim is she doesn't remember how certain things happened.
00:39:32.000This guy is the only one who appears to be the victim because, according to her claims, he never did anything wrong and she's not accused him of rape.
00:39:43.000They can all go to prison for all I care.
00:39:45.000The other thing, too, is by according to Cornell health documents that they provide to the students about how to talk about sex and think about sex.
00:39:54.000And how consent is really the only boundary.
00:39:56.000And because she admitted that consent was followed the whole time, it doesn't look like anybody did anything wrong.
00:40:02.000They were all pursuing sex in the way that the school told them it was meant to be pursued, which is for pleasure and pleasure alone.
00:40:09.000And they undertook these things that the school had advocated for group sex, talking about your preferences during the encounter, multiple partners, and all the rest of it.
00:40:20.000So it does seem to me that to a certain extent, They were engaging in this activity in the way that they had been taught to engage in it and think about it.
00:41:07.000The problem is conservatives are not going to go out and protest for a male rape victim, and feminists are not going to go out and protest for a male rape victim.
00:41:16.000So, right now, the only story is this we don't, according to Jane Doe's testimony, we don't know how it ultimately came to be that she was with all seven guys.
00:41:26.000Because we know the initial elements of it, according to the official DA statement, was that it was consensual.
00:41:31.000Her argument is at some point later on, not including this guy, other men joined in, and she doesn't remember how that happened.
00:41:56.000And at the end of the day, what we're learning is that this is a political hit job of some kind because this went through the legal channels and the DA's office didn't pursue charges in either direction, right?
00:42:33.000Like, if we really want to boil things down, this is a morality problem in our country where we have places like Cornell saying it's okay to have these kind of parties, to do these kind of things, and they promote it.
00:42:47.000And this is one of the greatest fundamental challenges facing our nation today a morality problem.
00:42:54.000We have gone so far away from what is morally right and wrong that we got to have a recentering.
00:42:59.000And thank goodness there are some good students across the country who understand it, who are standing up for it and going, no, this is a morality problem.
00:43:16.000Morality, they would at least speak up for sexual mores coming back.
00:43:20.000You know, I mean, people talk about, you know, what do you say to your kids about this?
00:43:25.000And I saw all these reports about how parents should talk to their sons about not being sexual assaulters.
00:43:31.000And my thing was like, okay, I mean, it's a very similar message to the message that there's been all along in my house, but it's a don't have sex with a drunk girl, don't have sex with anybody outside of a loving and committed relationship because otherwise, You could get, you know, fired, arrested, and imprisoned on top of it being a moral issue, which we've already talked about.
00:43:53.000But this is a much more serious situation when you could be charged with a crime.
00:44:54.000It's like, I think they're framing it as this is a conversation around women's accountability.
00:44:59.000Like, if you conduct something and you're ashamed of it and then you change your mind, are you still responsible for that?
00:45:05.000Are you absolved of your responsibility?
00:45:07.000And I think that's ultimately what this is really coming down to.
00:45:10.000If you take the thousand foot view, is this really a debate over New York's consent laws or is this a debate over responsibility, accountability, et cetera?
00:45:19.000Should women be allowed to do whatever they want?
00:45:21.000And then if they change their mind, they can.
00:45:26.000That seems to be what's going on here because that's fundamentally, as I see it, what their argument is.
00:45:31.000And I think that kind of gets at something that I do agree with their terms.
00:45:34.000I'm like, yeah, actually, I do think women do like bear slightly less responsibility for some things, which is why a marriage is such a useful institution because I think it keeps femininity in check.
00:45:45.000And then, likewise, that can keep certain aspects of masculinity in check.
00:45:48.000Yes, women don't like making decisions.
00:45:50.000Women don't like being held accountable for a lot of their decisions.
00:45:53.000And it's like that's part of their nature.
00:45:55.000And like, there's just, there's traits to women.
00:45:57.000Also, listen to what you're saying, right?
00:45:59.000Listen to what you're saying and then compare it with what the women's rights activists have been saying all along, which is we want.
00:46:09.000Well, you can't have equality under the law if you refuse to be accountable.
00:46:12.000And if you can't be accountable, feminists, then you can't have equality under the law and your entire program is completely destroyed and none of us can ever own property or vote again.
00:47:09.000Well, and so I think the new method, the new meta going forward, For young men attending parties, is drink like an alarming amount.
00:47:19.000So, like, you know, you would, you know, send a breathalyzer off the charts because then you aren't, you can't consent to anything because you're an ERU.
00:47:46.000And it's like, check back again later.
00:47:48.000You're not, you're legally not drunk right now.
00:47:50.000You're going to have to get a few drinks, step outside, sit in the car, get drunk, do not sober up, and then get back in there.
00:47:55.000We're going to breathalyze you and make sure no one's blood alcohol content is falling into the sober range.
00:48:01.000That's ultimately how men are going to carry themselves going forward because apparently that's the only way to insulate yourself from stray charge.
00:48:07.000But I think it still wouldn't work because I guess it depends on how this goes.
00:48:11.000Well, it depends on how this goes, but he hasn't brought a suit or anything.
00:48:16.000Two years ago, and you already have Kathy Hochul demanding that a lobby put in place to close the voluntary intoxication loophole.
00:48:23.000I'm sure that she doesn't mean that for men, she wants to make it illegal for women who are drunk or high to be able to consent to sex, which completely removes any autonomy or agency that women have.
00:48:39.000I mean, if you're getting drunk, you can still make decisions, right?
00:48:53.000I mean, I carry myself very conservatively when it comes to sexuality, but that doesn't actually solve the problem, which is what we're discussing right now.
00:48:59.000Is like, okay, but even in this instance where people are engaging behavior that we don't like or we would say is not how we would carry ourselves, there's still a debate here to have.
00:49:08.000Like, this is still a culture war debate, which is back to the larger issue, which is, again, women's accountability, women's responsibility.
00:49:13.000So it's like you can simultaneously say, I can't really, really relate to the Cornell 7 here, but also understand that the debate is not over.
00:49:22.000Is what they did, you know, is their sexuality ethical or whatever?
00:49:25.000The debate is completely separate from that.
00:49:27.000The debate is about, you know, women's accountability.
00:49:55.000Well, because I see some conservatives and they're using that as like an off ramp to not approach the issue, which there's no, well, it's, they shouldn't be doing that anyway.
00:50:01.000And it's like, Yeah, but that's it's happened.
00:50:13.000So, it's not like violations of sexual mores are new, but I do think that attempting to absolve yourself of responsibility for actions that you willingly undertook while voluntarily intoxicated is absolutely irresponsible and should not be tolerated.
00:51:18.000So they had like frats, but it was like just guys hanging out in an apartment doing like homework together.
00:51:22.000But fraternities are this male only institution.
00:51:26.000If you look at like historically speaking, a lot of companies and ideas and whatever kind of came out of fraternities.
00:51:33.000The men that once they leave school, they still have all this commonality with their fellow brothers and whatnot.
00:51:40.000I think that's primarily why fraternities are so hated and why they're so like.
00:51:44.000Um, it looked down upon by approved regime approved culture is because they're like one of the last things that is not just like an exclusively male space, but like has a degree of masculinity to it.
00:51:57.000Um, and you'll see this like anytime there's a male only space, it's immediately on the chopping block.
00:52:01.000But sororities, no problem, unless it's the man cave, because then you're being relegated to some side place, and yeah, like if your masculinity is being tolerated and caged, yeah, if you're allowed to be there, if it's like.
00:52:15.000An effeminate thing that's male only, that's great.
00:52:17.000Like a pride parade or a man cave or a pup play.
00:52:50.000I got about 20 best friends that we go ride motorcycles for two weeks a year, dirt bikes, and one up each other on these giant cliffs, top of these mountains.
00:52:59.000You ride up 30 feet of dirt and hit a 20 foot cliff and see if you can make it to the top, and most of the time somebody breaks their ankle.
00:53:17.000Institution are these frats, which are not a healthy environment for men to get together and do that, and they lead to other problems.
00:53:23.000So, but we do absolutely need more opportunities for men to get together.
00:53:29.000Yeah, I mean, it's kind of one of those things where it's like, look, if you're someone and you agree with what we're saying, but you do have like hesitations or criticisms of fraternities, you have to understand that like it has nothing to do with the fraternity.
00:53:42.000It's just, it's almost like a cliche, but they're going, you know, the fraternity is just in the way.
00:53:46.000They're coming after all male only spaces.
00:53:48.000So, okay, yeah, it's the fraternity first.
00:53:50.000Then it's going to be like the golf club or, I mean, they already go after the golf club.
00:53:54.000But like, you know, they're going to really, you know, comb through and make sure there's no male only spaces.
00:54:00.000And the only time there will be male only spaces, once again, like regime approved, you know, like wholesome chungus, black rifle coffee kind of stuff.
00:54:08.000And it's like, I can't live like that.
00:54:40.000Anytime there's like this overcompensation, like a masculine veneer, basically it's just masculine branding on an otherwise innocuous product.
00:56:52.000One of the old apartments I moved into, like some guy, I guess he used to live there, and he had like bro glow type stuff being delivered to me, and he just never canceled the thing.
00:57:02.000So I'd be collecting these weird, different facial things that he would put on his face.
00:58:20.000But the male to male transsexual stuff is just so irritating.
00:58:23.000And it's a lot of it's on the conservative media, too, where it's trying to make yourself feel better.
00:58:27.000And people will shadow box and chest beat about issues that everyone agrees on.
00:58:33.000Like a great example is these people wear shirts around, and it's like, you know, blank, blank your local pedophile.
00:58:39.000And it's like, yeah, dude, everyone agrees with that, but they're acting like it's this like edgy, you know, like tough guy thing to do.
00:58:45.000And I'm like, there's no one out here is like pro, like it's just, but it's like, it's safe, edgy.
00:58:51.000It's like, I'm doing this tough guy routine, but he would never say that about like, I don't know, illegal immigration or, you know, issues that are much higher salience that maybe we should be a little more radical on.
00:59:01.000If we really wanted to fix that, all that, right, we'd go back in time to the 1980s when, uh, When young men couldn't say everything that they thought, because if you said it, somebody's going to beat your, you know what, in the parking lot or out behind the football or the track, right?
00:59:17.000But we don't allow kids to do that anymore.
00:59:18.000We don't allow kids to just get involved and go, hey, you know, and it was done, right?
00:59:22.000I grew up in an era where if somebody said something you didn't like, you took reproach with it and you might have a little wrestling match out in the grass, right?
00:59:31.000You might hit each other, but guess what?
00:59:37.000And I promise the next time you thought that you could say that offensive thing about his sister or his mom or his neighbor or his cat, guess what?
01:00:25.000Where now you'll have guys, and I know this for like, you'll meet these guys that have done a few tours, and they again, they just look normal looking guys, button up shirt, you know, whatever.
01:00:34.000And then you meet these guys that are like, big beard and like the shirt on.
01:00:36.000It's like tactical armor man, gun guy.
01:00:40.000And he's like, you know, a middle manager and he's right, didn't join the military.
01:00:44.000And he's like, he's like, he's like trying to be like he's a salesman or yeah.
01:00:48.000And they and they put like the it's like a fake veteran.
01:00:50.000And I'm like, it's so annoying because then you meet these guys that are actually, you know, you meet someone that I met a guy and he had like 30 confirmed K's, I don't know what you can say on YouTube.
01:01:00.000And he was just like the most ordinary, normal, like he was kind of nerdy actually.
01:01:41.000And so the worst thing is, first of all, anybody who's got a septic system knows the worst thing is when city folk come by and they're just like dumping the contents of their purse in the toilet and flushing.
01:01:50.000And you're like, yeah, okay, you just destroyed everything.
01:01:52.000And they're like, what do you mean it's toilet?
01:01:54.000And it's pretty crazy that people in cities dump literally random stuff down the toilet.
01:01:57.000I heard there's alligators down there.
01:02:02.000But we, you know, back at our old studio, because we had so many guests all the time, it was a common thing that people would flush wipes and they don't break down, they get stuck.
01:02:14.000And then we had to call the company to come out and get a big stick and stick it in a pipe.
01:05:17.000And I was like, well, you know, we wipe.
01:05:20.000She was like, oh, like it was shocking to her.
01:05:25.000And then the thing I always hear is like, someone says, Imagine you're like walking down the street and a bird craps and it like lands on your arm.
01:05:31.000So you take a piece of toilet paper and wipe it off and go, I'm good.
01:05:38.000I mean, there's various, like, there's the Aka tribe in the Congo basin and in Central Africa.
01:05:43.000And it was like 2010, they had a bunch of a research group go out and they're asking them, they're basically it was linguists and they were trying to determine which words did they just not have like a definition for and which ones did they do.
01:05:54.000Well, they didn't have a word for masturbate.
01:05:56.000And so they were like drilling down on these guys.
01:06:10.000And pornography and masturbation together.
01:06:13.000The Aka and Gundu tribes of the Congo Basin are the inverse of the Cornell, where it's like the complete opposite, where they're just like, what?
01:09:11.000The bar tab of the 1787 farewell party for George Washington is still intact.
01:09:16.000The founding fathers drank 54 bottles of Madeira, as I said, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of porter, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 of beer, 7 bowls of alcoholic punch.
01:10:19.000Yeah, I'll do a grog on the rocks, please.
01:10:21.000The British Royal Navy gave sailors a daily rum ration.
01:10:24.000Diluting it with water and adding lime helped preserve the water and prevent scurvy.
01:10:28.000They're penning these unbelievable letters, going to the intricacies of linguistics of Southeast Asia and whatnot.
01:10:36.000And then you remember they're also hammered the entire time.
01:10:40.000Their tolerance must have been really high.
01:10:42.000You know what's most admirable, I think, about many of these East India Trading Company guys was how many people they slew just to get black peppercorn for their steak.
01:11:35.000I thought you were going to say you had the Zoomer problem of when you try to order food, you realize you're broke and don't own anything, so you don't eat.
01:14:45.000But the thing that I hate is when you have Tom Holland, whose little viral clip about how American food. Sucks compared to British food, went viral again recently.
01:14:54.000And he was saying, What's American food?
01:17:48.000I do like rich people that do behave a little more like that versus like Warren Buffett, where he's like, I was watching a video and he's in the McDonald's drive thru and he's like, I got to get the McMuffin instead of the biscuit because the market's down today.
01:18:42.000Like, I became a socialist for five seconds.
01:18:44.000I'm like, we should take your money and give it to me.
01:18:46.000Here's the thing that people don't realize is that, you know, I was thinking about the state because I was watching something, I was watching some video about work and like the future of work and socialism and stuff.
01:18:57.000Elon is doing exactly as you describe.
01:19:02.000And then, if you go to him and you're like, let's say there's like teenage Elon and you're like, hey, if you had a trillion dollars, what would you do?
01:19:07.000He'd be like, oh man, I'd build a rocket ship to Mars.
01:20:49.000Oh, and like boomers, when they die and they're like, I'm not giving money to my kids, they donate their entire estate to like a trust, which just gets laundered to like other people through these bogus charities.
01:21:50.000Find one and befriend them slowly over time and then teach them how to use bows and arrows and then arm them, be the bowyer of a chimp tribe and see if they win the war.
01:21:58.000See if you can like evolve another heavy pool.
01:22:01.000Uh, the Qatara Depression in Egypt, this is like a this has been you know looked at before.
01:22:06.000It's the Qatara Depression, it's a giant portion of the Sahara that's actually below sea level.
01:22:10.000There's only like a 30 mile strip you would need to like get rid of.
01:22:13.000And you could flood the entire region with water.
01:22:16.000And people are like, oh, it'll like destroy the climate.
01:22:45.000Maybe get two trucks and like have them pull it Europe further north or something.
01:22:49.000What I would do if I was Elon is I would build a gigantic pipeline from the ocean to the middle of the Sahara and then just start pumping ocean water just right in there.
01:26:01.000Well, they've built the first portion of it, and yeah, they're like suspending a stadium in it, and apparently they're going to use that for one of the games.
01:26:07.000Atlantropa, also referred to as Panropa, a gigantic engineering and colonization idea from German architect.
01:26:14.000Herman Sorgel proposed to include several hydroelectric dams at key points in the Mediterranean, such as the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bosphorus, to cause a sea level drop to reclaim land.
01:26:26.000Yeah, the line was put on pause until at least after 2030.
01:26:32.000Yeah, you know, the thing is if you dammed the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bosphorus and closed up the Mediterranean, it would dry up and then people could walk.
01:26:40.000Like Africa and Europe would become one place.
01:27:22.000I always think like, because they keep reclaiming land, and I'm like, what if you bought oceanfront property and then they just like built more land and now you're not in the oceanfront?
01:27:30.000I'd be so worried if I bought oceanfront property, that would be the number one.
01:27:33.000I'm like, what if they reclaim land and then I'm not in the ocean anymore?
01:27:36.000That would dominate my personal Vietnam for me.
01:27:39.000Well, actually, think about it the other way you could buy inland property and then when climate change causes the Great Flood, then you've got oceanfront property.
01:28:49.000So, what's crazy about this is that we've talked to Ben Davidson, the space weather guy.
01:28:53.000The Adam and Eve theory is a conspiracy theory that was actually first put forth by, I think it was the CIA, where they said every 6,500 years, the earth will tilt 90 degrees, causing a great flood, wiping out all of civilization, restarting it basically.
01:29:08.000And that's like the Adam and Eve story is that after this great flood, only a few people remain and then they start rebuilding.
01:29:14.000And so we are, according to mainstream science, overdue for a pole shift.
01:29:25.000And right now, they say, well, it's not likely going to happen, but we are like 100,000 years past the point at which it should happen on average.
01:30:34.000And now, mainstream reporting, oh, actually, it happens all the time.
01:30:39.000Now, if this tilt does happen, you know, I bring this story up because, you know, Tate's mentioning if, like, you buy beachfront property, but then they reclaim land, now you're just a regular town, the models showing an axis shift would flood the world.
01:30:54.000The water is going to wash everything away.
01:33:11.000But Tate, what would happen if like the flood happens, but it's also a zombie apocalypse?
01:33:14.000So, like, you're stranded on this like Appalachian mountain when all of a sudden like a boat full of zombies are coming and they're all like steering towards you and the guy's like pulling the motor and you're like, what do you do?
01:36:26.000There was this Islamic group in Birmingham trying to shut down a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail where John Cleese was going to be speaking afterwards.
01:37:15.000Everything he's saying on Twitter is like perfectly sensible, and it's stuff that probably like 70 80% of the English people are thinking because John Cleese is kind of like one of these avatars of the Englishman, kind of like you know, America.
01:37:28.000You may look at someone like Trump as like, well, this guy's kind of an avatar of America.
01:37:33.000John Cleese is absolutely like an avatar of England.
01:37:36.000A lot of those people that kind of embody that English, like Jeremy Clarkson, the same thing he comes out and he just says very normal, conventional things that are radical because we're in a really awful time, but he's saying nothing that is.
01:37:47.000Unordinary or wouldn't be considered common sense, but yeah, John Cleese, especially he's 86 and he's still going hard.
01:37:52.000He's like, Come get me, I don't care, I'm trying to save the country.
01:40:48.000You know, the best thing in the world is when you go to a Chinese food restaurant and you order like General So's and it's crispy and delicious.
01:40:54.000But when you order it, it's soggy and gross.
01:40:57.000But that's why you order it and then you just pick it up.
01:41:27.000You know, we could just stop thinking and became members of Timcast and agreed with everything it said all the time and never questioned anything ever.
01:41:57.000This has happened for the last 150 years in our country.
01:42:00.000And thank goodness for Elon Musk and Twitter, we might not ever have a chance.
01:42:04.000When you think about all the anxiety that people bring on, keeping up with politics, so while the future's looking grim or while there's a real fight happening here, whatever really stresses people out, North Koreans aren't worried.
01:42:14.000They're like, hey, Kim Jong un, he's doing a bang up job.
01:42:22.000And okay, we may look at them and say, well, they're suffering.
01:42:24.000You know, it's like Plato's cave or whatever.
01:42:26.000But when you think about how they're feeling, they're like, he's crushing.
01:42:29.000Like, we got, we're lucky that we have the best supreme leader ever because these, you know, morons down south, who knows what they're doing.
01:42:36.000There might be something, maybe there is a point.
01:42:38.000Like, maybe it would be awesome if we're just like locked away, just watching Trump TV all day and like, he's crushing Iran.
01:44:07.000And if they were repeating what they saw on TV, then you were like, you couldn't tell if they were an NPC or not.
01:44:14.000Now they're just saying, you know, walking around saying nonsense things.
01:44:17.000And, you know, you're like, okay, I don't know what you're listening to, but your brain is jello.
01:44:21.000Well, as I understand it, because I wasn't alive, obviously, but as I understand it, the things, the way the world used to work is that people were comfortable not knowing things.
01:44:29.000And now people, like, are under the impression that they should have an answer for everything or be expected to know everything.
01:44:35.000And it puts a lot of pressure where I would like to watch these street interviews.
01:44:39.000Like, you can go look at the BBC's catalog, and they would go talk to people about, you know, how do you feel about how the prime minister is doing or whatever.
01:45:36.000And it seems like when you really, yeah, people are curious about stuff that's out of their control, but how things work.
01:45:44.000You know, how the world is, like, you know, botany and zoology.
01:45:48.000And these are all things that have died off.
01:45:50.000And I think people have lost a bit of like whimsy and curiosity about how the world is, about different people, not like psychologically, but like groups.
01:45:58.000It's just about like discovering and thinking about new ideas.
01:46:01.000Yeah, it's just, I think, and again, I think I'm guilty of this.
01:46:04.000And you could maybe ascribe it to social media or something, but, you know, the amount of access to information that we have would, you know, if someone were alive, you know, someone from like the 1890s were alive now.
01:46:15.000They wouldn't be looking up lottery numbers.
01:46:17.000They'd be on Wikipedia reading about a rock.
01:46:19.000And they're like, oh my gosh, this rock, you have all the information on granite now.
01:46:24.000They would be combing through stuff that we would think is really banal, but they just had this intense level of curiosity about the world, almost like a child that would just have lost.
01:46:32.000So we were having this conversation before where you said something like Jehovah's Witness believe only some people have souls or whatever.
01:46:37.000Yeah, people are like, oh no, they only believe 144,000 are sure going to know God.
01:47:32.000Helena Blavatsky wrote that many people are effectively soulless because the higher soul is dormant or severed and that personal immortality is rare.
01:47:41.000Not the same thing as blah, blah, blah.
01:47:54.000Wait, Tate, you got to do a man in the street?
01:47:56.000Where you put, you get red stickers, like a little red dot, and you stick it to someone's forehead and then hold the mirror up and see how they react.
01:48:06.000They would put a sticker on an elephant's head, put a mirror in front of it, and the elephant would then reach up with its trunk and then pull the sticker off, signifying that it recognized in a reflection that it was itself.
01:48:36.000I wouldn't, you know, if this is what turned out to be true, that some people, like only some people had souls, like, I can believe it.
01:48:42.000It is like a philosophical, because as a Christian, you know, I believe that, you know, all of us are made in the image of God and everyone has the capability to know their maker, et cetera.
01:48:51.000But it is challenged when you, and I'm not even being like mean or facetious, when you see these, like, some people and their response to these questions, and they just quite literally cannot articulate anything about the world or themselves or anything.
01:49:03.000And they're just like, how does this person like function?
01:49:08.000This was a big thing during COVID with the idea of the NPC, the non playing character, non player character, or however you describe it.
01:49:14.000So, the funny thing is, when all these memers were like, you know, non playing characters, NPCs, making reference to like the innkeeper from a video game, it's like, welcome to your first philosophy lesson.
01:49:27.000College freshmen who studied this stuff lens a long time ago, but people were just now discovering it because they were alluding to video games.
01:50:42.000Yeah, I mean, I hate the idea that there would be this NPC.
01:50:47.000We've talked about this before because I don't like it.
01:50:50.000Like, I want to believe that everyone is made in the image of God, that everyone has the opportunity for salvation and has a soul and all of that stuff.
01:50:58.000But it is hard to believe that sometimes.
01:51:00.000I suppose, like, in the Christian tradition, maybe Calvinism creates room for this way of thinking.
01:51:10.000Like, again, when you just meet, and I'm not talking about, like, People that are just politically unsophisticated.
01:51:15.000I'm talking about like there's a probably 20, 30% proportion of the population that just cannot articulate anything about the world or themselves.
01:51:24.000They have zero self awareness, zero like understanding of how emotions work.
01:51:27.000They just completely operate off of impulse, super high time preference.
01:51:31.000And I'm like, there's no way this person is like an autonomous being.
01:51:35.000Like they're just completely at the behest of external factors.
01:51:39.000Don't you think if you, when you start to, when you do start to engage in learning, that you get a little more light?
01:51:45.000A little more excitement about it, you want to do it more.
01:51:47.000But the opposite happens if you don't engage in it.
01:51:51.000You become, you receive, I look at it as light.
01:51:54.000Like you receive a little more light, you act on it, you get excited about it, you learn a little more, you receive a little more light, things become illuminated.
01:52:01.000But the opposite happens if you don't pursue those things, you become a little darker and your world becomes a little smaller and you become less.
01:52:08.000I believe that we were sent here by an eternal creator and that good things have light surrounding them and they lead to more light.
01:54:19.000And then I was like, I should probably avoid these like open meat shops in Brazil and just like go with some fresh fruit and stuff and eat healthy.
01:54:29.000So I went, I was like, next time I eat, I'm just going to do the fresh fruit acai bowl with like the granola.
01:54:46.000And then, you know, the next time I went to eat, so it's like the next day, I was like, I'm just going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do fruit until I'm feeling better.
01:56:26.000They had like a 40 year window where they were responsible in between women's emancipation and then like true modernity.
01:56:32.000And then now we're back to how it was before, which is they have less responsibility than men, but they don't have any overseer with the husband or the father.
01:56:40.000And like, how can you argue that a woman should be president if there's every chance that she doesn't even believe she's responsible for her own actions?
01:56:48.000Like, that really, that, like, it's so maddening.
01:57:05.000Brown Bear says Going back to the book about the Russian plague, wasn't there also a Netflix series that came out right before COVID that basically predicted the whole thing?
01:57:13.000You're talking about Utopia on Amazon.
01:57:16.000And if you don't know about Utopia, go watch the show.
01:57:20.000It got canceled because it reflected COVID too well.
01:57:49.000The best part is the show is about a group of people who believe there's a comic book where someone has placed clues in the book about what the plan of the global elites are.
01:57:58.000And if you can find this comic book, Utopia, it'll tell you what their next phase of the plan is going to be.
01:58:03.000In our world, there's a TV show that some people believe contains clues about the plans of the elite.
02:09:16.000So, my question was regardless of the mortality rate of this illness, I have a greater concern that allowing our civilization to be brought to heal every time one of these, a nation declares that there's a leak or an outbreak of something.
02:09:33.000Do you think submitting to a lockdown is only teaching the powers that be that using this method of control can be utilized every time they need to push something ahead or get us to fall in line?
02:09:48.000And it's just simply setting up for future generations that this is a lockstep and.
02:09:55.000Just like back in the, I guess you could say the World War II era or after the World War II era of how they had like sirens going off telling people, oh, watch out for the bomb.
02:10:04.000And it just put a fear in people's minds throughout that whole generation.
02:10:37.000I'd be curious to see how the continentals respond if there's a virus with similar threat levels as COVID.
02:10:44.000I imagine a lot of them, because they have slightly different dynamics than the American left, I think a lot of them are a bit more pragmatic.
02:10:50.000I mean, the Swedes infamously didn't lock down at all, but even I could imagine the Germans, certainly the Italians, probably not bothering this go around.