Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Texas Rocked By Food Shortages, Cruz Falls For Democrat Trap -w Dan Turner

00:00:00.000 It seems like all hell is breaking loose in Texas.

00:00:29.000 but also in other parts of the country.

00:00:31.000 There is a winter storm slamming basically the entirety of the nation, and Texas is getting the worst of it.

00:00:37.000 Well, I shouldn't say maybe the worst of it, but Texas is underprepared for this.

00:00:43.000 And we're seeing now this severe winter weather hitting Texas.

00:00:45.000 A lot of people don't know the basic things that people in the Midwest know.

00:00:48.000 For instance, if you're experiencing freezing temperatures and you don't have heat, you need to turn your water on a little bit so that it stops the pipes from freezing and then bursting from the expansion.

00:00:58.000 This is resulting in water mains bursting.

00:01:01.000 It's resulting in, surprisingly, the power outages.

00:01:04.000 People, their food's spoiling.

00:01:05.000 And it was the craziest thing to me.

00:01:07.000 I'm hearing these stories about, well, the power goes out, refrigeration goes out, and then their food spoils.

00:01:11.000 I'm like, yo, put the food outside.

00:01:13.000 But I guess many of these people haven't lived in places that are this cold.

00:01:16.000 Texas wasn't prepared for this and things are getting bad.

00:01:19.000 These food shortages, however, are very, very serious.

00:01:22.000 And so there's a lot we have to talk about in that regard.

00:01:24.000 But for some reason, I guess the only thing that the mainstream media or the corporate press actually cares about is that Ted Cruz was taking a vacation.

00:01:33.000 Yeah, yeah, we all get it.

00:01:34.000 Bad optics.

00:01:35.000 Ted Cruz, you know, he's a federal-level representative.

00:01:38.000 He represents the state of Texas to the federal government.

00:01:40.000 I don't know what he would be doing right now, you know, on a local level, but as a person, he's still a leader and he could do better.

00:01:47.000 Ultimately, I think the bigger issue with Ted Cruz is that he just bent the knee and gave in to the outrage mob instead of just calling out someone like Cuomo and saying, shut up, I'm taking a vacation.

00:01:56.000 So we'll talk about this, but I think the big issue we're dealing with right now, the bigger story throughout all of this, A lot of people are talking about energy.

00:02:04.000 We've heard from Tucker Carlson, the renewables basically caused a large problem for Texas because they may be renewable, but they're unreliable.

00:02:12.000 And Texas wasn't prepared to deal with this, you know, essentially energy costs are skyrocketing.

00:02:18.000 The lines are freezing, but many on the left are saying it has nothing to do with wind.

00:02:22.000 It was the gas lines themselves freezing.

00:02:24.000 And I just got to tell you this, ultimately, Texas was just not prepared for this.

00:02:28.000 But we've got with us Dan Turner, who is a... How would you describe yourself?

00:02:32.000 What's your title?

00:02:35.000 Titles are very important to me, so please don't get it wrong.

00:02:39.000 Sir!

00:02:41.000 I started an organization, so technically I'm the founder of an organization called Power the Future, which is an advocacy group for American energy workers.

00:02:48.000 But I'm an energy expert, I'm not going to lie.

00:02:50.000 I don't think I'm a braggadocious person, although earlier I said how good I look for my age, so I guess I'm wrong, but energy is my niche.

00:03:00.000 How long have you been in the field?

00:03:02.000 Five years.

00:03:03.000 So we get to talk about, uh, what's really going on and if Tucker Carlson is correct, but we'll save it.

00:03:09.000 We'll get to it.

00:03:10.000 Cause I also want to debunk some of these ridiculous memes.

00:03:13.000 We've got some, some good, uh, irony coming up.

00:03:16.000 We also got Luke Rudkowski hanging out.

00:03:17.000 Well, Bill Gates is also speaking on this matter and whatever he says is gospel and we should always listen to him no matter what.

00:03:23.000 But that's because Bill Gates is a scientist, right?

00:03:25.000 Not only a scientist, he's like the Lord and Savior of our, he's like Captain Save a Planet.

00:03:30.000 Is Bill Gates a scientist?

00:03:32.000 He's not a medical scientist.

00:03:33.000 He's a computer scientist.

00:03:34.000 He's not a scientist.

00:03:35.000 No, he's not.

00:03:36.000 He's not.

00:03:36.000 He's a businessman.

00:03:38.000 I literally have a shirt that says Bill Gates is not a medical scientist.

00:03:38.000 I have a shirt.

00:03:41.000 It does really well.

00:03:42.000 I just also launched two new shirts that I'm super excited about.

00:03:46.000 And if you want to purchase them and support me, you can on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.

00:03:53.000 And I'm also really testing the limits on Instagram.

00:03:55.000 And if you want to see some pretty interesting memes, go to LukeWeAreChanged.

00:04:00.000 We got fact checked.

00:04:01.000 I also, as a side note, there's another big story I definitely want to talk about.

00:04:06.000 So I tweeted about the story from Time Magazine, the Shadow campaign, you know, whatever.

00:04:11.000 And I was being a little snarky and I said, they didn't say they rigged the election, they fortified it by changing the laws, blah blah blah.

00:04:17.000 And there's this thing on Twitter called Birdwatch, where regular users are prompted to fact-check the tweet.

00:04:24.000 I think out of all of them, there was only one that said it was potentially misleading.

00:04:27.000 But they all said I was correct. 0.86

00:04:29.000 I was just making a reference to a Time article.

00:04:31.000 So the Poynter Institute, which controls Facebook fact-checking, said this is a problem.

00:04:36.000 Because the fact-checker said, yeah, Tim Pool's right.

00:04:39.000 Time magazine said this.

00:04:40.000 The fact-checkers are like, no!

00:04:42.000 So they wrote a whole article saying it was a problem that when I was fact-checked, I was proven correct, when they want their narrative.

00:04:48.000 Yes.

00:04:48.000 So we also got Ian, however.

00:04:50.000 I'm just aghast at the story you just told.

00:04:53.000 Thank you for the throw over, Tim.

00:04:54.000 What's up, everybody?

00:04:55.000 Welcome to the show.

00:04:56.000 IanCrossland.net.

00:04:57.000 Get a mug.

00:04:58.000 Say hello.

00:04:59.000 Come check out my new website.

00:05:00.000 And Daniel, great to have you here.

00:05:01.000 I'm very excited to talk about maybe even carbon recapture technology, the future of reusing the carbon dioxide, turning it into graphene, depositing onto metals and things like that.

00:05:10.000 Interesting.

00:05:11.000 Bypass mining that way.

00:05:11.000 Yeah.

00:05:13.000 We also have Sour Patch Lids pressing all the buttons.

00:05:15.000 I am here in the corner laughing at these guys and pushing all the buttons.

00:05:17.000 I love my job.

00:05:18.000 What can I say?

00:05:18.000 It's a good job.

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00:05:40.000 But the site really is there because in the event that we get Purged or nuked or banned or whatever which is entirely possible This is where you will find us, but don't forget like share subscribe hit that notification bell and let's read the first story Texas is running out of food as weather crisis disrupts supply chain Texans running low on food are finding empty grocery store shelves Food pantries are running out of supplies and the freeze has wiped out substantial portions of the state's citrus and vegetable crops This is from Texas Tribune.

00:06:11.000 They say The state's week of weather hell started with a 133-car pileup outside of Fort Worth.

00:06:17.000 A winter storm unlike any Texas has ever seen quickly followed, and seven days later millions are without power and reliable water.

00:06:24.000 They go on to mention, here's a quote.

00:06:27.000 It was out of, uh, someone, uh, some are sorting, storing their remaining rations and coolers outside, and trips to the grocery store often do little to replenish pantries, saying, quote, it was out of meat, eggs, and almost all the milk before I left.

00:06:39.000 Crystal Porter, an Austin resident, said about her local Target, which she visited Monday, lines were wrapped around the store when we arrived.

00:06:46.000 Shelves were almost fully cleared for potatoes, meat, eggs, and some dairy.

00:06:50.000 Two days later, one of Porter's neighbors went to that same Target, and the store was completely out of food, with no sign of additional shipments arriving or employees restocking shelves.

00:07:01.000 Now, this is where emergencies get scary.

00:07:03.000 You know, we've had stories like this in the past.

00:07:05.000 There was one story about an algal bloom in Ohio, I think it was, and within an hour of the news breaking, all bottled water was gone.

00:07:14.000 Now the difference here with Texas is that, I mean, this has been going on for what, almost a week now?

00:07:18.000 Where the power's gone out, millions are without power, people are freezing, and now people don't have food.

00:07:23.000 So I guess, I'm curious, Dan, because, you know, you're the energy guy.

00:07:28.000 If you wanna just, let's just have a conversation.

00:07:29.000 Why is there no food?

00:07:30.000 What's going on?

00:07:31.000 There's no food because there's no energy.

00:07:33.000 I mean, energy does make the world go around.

00:07:35.000 You think of the amount of energy required to bring in via rail, via truck, to restock those shelves, right?

00:07:43.000 When the energy supply disappears, everything else will go with it.

00:07:46.000 And that's why I get very excited about energy.

00:07:49.000 I love this issue.

00:07:50.000 We were talking about it.

00:07:50.000 I can become a real geek on it.

00:07:53.000 But it literally is the foundation of all of our life.

00:07:56.000 We're all here because we were able to get here Somehow through energy, right?

00:08:00.000 We were able to get in our cars if you took public transportation, which I know of none of us.

00:08:03.000 I definitely didn't.

00:08:05.000 Right.

00:08:05.000 But people who are listening to us right now, people who are watching us right now, electricity from the very first thing you did this morning.

00:08:11.000 Think about it.

00:08:12.000 At least for me, the very first thing I did was turn off my my iPhone alarm energy.

00:08:17.000 The last thing I will do.

00:08:18.000 And when I set my alarm to make sure it's on, even though it's supposed to repeat, I always check.

00:08:22.000 I will turn off the light.

00:08:23.000 Well, let's get a little bit more specific.

00:08:26.000 They mentioned that food crops are failing.

00:08:29.000 Well, that's simply a lack of energy.

00:08:30.000 It's not the same kind of energy we're talking about when we're talking about fuels for vehicles, but cold weather is essentially energy levels going down.

00:08:37.000 Now their food is failing.

00:08:38.000 But also I think outside, so we'll definitely talk about the energy issues.

00:08:42.000 I think that's important because everyone wants to know what's going on with the electricity.

00:08:44.000 Yeah.

00:08:45.000 But it was ultimately, in a lot of ways, there was governmental failure here.

00:08:49.000 I mean, they didn't prepare properly for how to deal with winter weather.

00:08:53.000 And there are some jurisdictions bordering Texas where you can actually see, you know, it's in Arkansas, I think, they have this image where you can see the roads are plowed.

00:09:02.000 And then in Texas, it's just snow all over the streets.

00:09:04.000 Yeah, and that's the problem of government, right?

00:09:08.000 It doesn't always work.

00:09:09.000 I'm not a fan of government.

00:09:10.000 I'm not an anarchist, but I have deep skepticism of government.

00:09:14.000 I dislike government.

00:09:14.000 I don't trust government at all levels.

00:09:17.000 So that is clearly a huge government failure, right?

00:09:20.000 And the problem is we turn over so many of these You know who's not getting made fun of today?

00:09:24.000 We turn over entire swathes of our society because we assume government's going to be in charge of it

00:09:29.000 And then when government fails at their job, we say well now to whom do I turn you know, who's not?

00:09:34.000 Getting made fun of today all those preppers. Yeah, right all those people who are

00:09:39.000 I see and you brought it up. Not me He it's the craziest thing to me because I did a promo for

00:09:45.000 these food bins sometimes I did a promo earlier today on my main channel.

00:09:49.000 And it's funny how that's supposed to be like, I see these leftists, these tribalists saying like, haha, Tim's selling food bins.

00:09:55.000 And I'm like, is that supposed to make me upset?

00:09:56.000 I don't understand.

00:09:57.000 Am I supposed to be like, yes, people should not prepare for emergencies?

00:10:01.000 Am I going to mock somebody for buying a fire extinguisher?

00:10:04.000 People in Texas don't got food right now.

00:10:05.000 The people who listen to me do.

00:10:07.000 Yeah, I would even posit that a blizzard is a natural disaster.

00:10:11.000 I've never really thought of a heavy snow as a natural disaster, but it's like a hurricane or a tornado.

00:10:15.000 It's just completely devastating.

00:10:18.000 How many people died?

00:10:19.000 You said 40-some people have already died?

00:10:21.000 Yeah, last I saw, I think the number was 41. 37.

00:10:26.000 To say the government's not prepared is definitely an understatement here.

00:10:29.000 And what you were talking about here is, of course, Arkansas and Texas.

00:10:33.000 There's a viral photo going around of the same road.

00:10:36.000 And right on the border, you see in Arkansas, the roads plowed.

00:10:40.000 In Texas, snow everywhere.

00:10:42.000 And this is in part why a lot of trucks are not able to go to the supermarket.

00:10:47.000 You have to understand, major cities are extremely vulnerable because if the roads shut down, your food's not going to be getting to you, to your community, especially in very congested areas.

00:10:57.000 Texas did not invest in snow plows.

00:10:59.000 Arkansas did.

00:11:00.000 Arkansas is used to dealing with this, and this is another reason why, again, as I've been saying, you need to be personally responsible for yourself more than ever.

00:11:09.000 I've been selling those food buckets for years now, And people are like, where are you doing?

00:11:12.000 I'm like, no, you don't understand how vulnerable everything is in our society and how in a matter of seconds everything could be taken away and you're only responsible for yourself.

00:11:24.000 And what annoys me about our discourse is that then when we do have an election, we will hem and haw as to whether or not, as governor, will you allow this six-year-old girl to identify as a boy and play gymnastics?

00:11:24.000 Absolutely.

00:11:36.000 And you say, Can we talk about preparation for the next storm?

00:11:40.000 Can we talk about the electric grid?

00:11:42.000 Infrastructure?

00:11:44.000 Yeah, they're not sexy topics.

00:11:45.000 They're boring.

00:11:46.000 They're nerdy. 0.71

00:11:46.000 They put everyone to sleep. 0.71

00:11:48.000 But this is what government should be doing.

00:11:50.000 And instead we have these whole sessions about these little minute... And I don't mean to minimize the trauma of that six-year-old kid, but I'm saying that is not the role of government.

00:11:59.000 If government did its darn job, But it doesn't.

00:12:03.000 What Texas needed to do was, I don't know, buy salt, plows, issue notices to residents saying, in the event of winter weather, make sure you turn your water on. 0.73

00:12:13.000 I can't believe all of these videos I've seen.

00:12:14.000 It's crazy where the pipes burst.

00:12:16.000 And I'm like, it was a two second thing.

00:12:19.000 You walk over and you go, and you walk away.

00:12:21.000 Or even just a little bit, let it drip.

00:12:22.000 A little bit more than a drip.

00:12:24.000 They gotta put that in school curriculums.

00:12:25.000 You gotta teach little kids that.

00:12:26.000 I mean, I get Texas is not used to winter weather like this.

00:12:30.000 But we had forecasts.

00:12:31.000 We knew this was coming.

00:12:32.000 This is an absolute failure of government.

00:12:35.000 Now, on the energy front, we're hearing, you know, the wind turbine thing.

00:12:41.000 I love this one.

00:12:42.000 So, I saw a bunch of posts from conservatives saying that wind turbines froze, and this is the reason that the power essentially went out in Texas.

00:12:52.000 Then I saw people on the left saying, wind turbines operate in Antarctica, and the real problem was the gas lines.

00:13:00.000 We need a Green New Deal, and this proves it. 0.80

00:13:02.000 I think the craziest thing was Patrick Moore, who is one of the founders of Greenpeace.

00:13:06.000 He's no longer with the organization.

00:13:08.000 He basically said something to the effect of, climate catastrophists can't explain away this record winter cold.

00:13:15.000 And the weirdest thing is it's really hard to discuss when, you know, we have all of this fake news coming out.

00:13:22.000 So there's a video going viral of snow in, I guess, Saudi Arabia or something like that.

00:13:27.000 And they're like, oh, look at this.

00:13:29.000 There's camels and there's snow on them.

00:13:31.000 And yeah, apparently fact checkers are saying that's actually normal.

00:13:35.000 Sometimes it snows, especially in higher altitudes.

00:13:37.000 Like, what are you saying?

00:13:38.000 Deserts get cold.

00:13:40.000 For some reason, though, these people just believe these things without doing any fact-checking, but I want to pull up something that I'm absolutely thrilled to show all of you.

00:13:47.000 Over on Reddit's r slash facepalm, there's a post that is one of the most upvoted Reddit posts on the page, and it says, Sciense, S-I-E-N-S-E, making fun of Tucker Carlson, I suppose.

00:14:02.000 And it shows a Tucker Carlson quote.

00:14:03.000 He says, quote, it got cold last night and the windmills froze and as a result millions of Texans are freezing,

00:14:10.000 several have died.

00:14:11.000 And then underneath it is an image and it says, meanwhile in Antarctica.

00:14:15.000 And it's just a bunch of penguins standing around and there are a bunch of wind turbines and what appears to be a giant

00:14:20.000 glass structure of some sort with solar panels on it.

00:14:24.000 I love this.

00:14:25.000 This image, it appears on r slash facepalm.

00:14:29.000 So, I don't know if they're self-aware, and the facepalm is actually that the Antarctica thing is fake, or that we're supposed to make fun of Tucker Carlson.

00:14:40.000 I'm assuming they're making fun of Tucker Carlson by pointing out, there's actually wind turbines in Antarctica!

00:14:46.000 Here's the best part.

00:14:47.000 It's a fake image.

00:14:48.000 Wow.

00:14:49.000 It's so obviously fake, though.

00:14:51.000 There's a picture.

00:14:52.000 Look at these penguins, okay?

00:14:53.000 For those that can see this, for the people listening, I'll explain it to you.

00:14:57.000 There are some penguins.

00:14:58.000 They're standing around doing penguin stuff.

00:15:00.000 And then there's a wind turbine.

00:15:01.000 And standing right next to the wind turbine is a penguin, which stands, I believe, what?

00:15:05.000 What are they, about a foot and a half tall?

00:15:07.000 Scroll down a bit.

00:15:08.000 Scroll down.

00:15:08.000 Yeah, because you can't see.

00:15:09.000 It's behind your head.

00:15:10.000 Oh, I see.

00:15:10.000 I see.

00:15:11.000 So here's a little penguin.

00:15:11.000 Perfect.

00:15:11.000 There you go.

00:15:13.000 And they're about a foot and a half tall, I think.

00:15:15.000 Maybe a foot.

00:15:15.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:15:16.000 That's a good guess.

00:15:17.000 Yeah, about a foot and a half.

00:15:18.000 And standing next to this wind turbine.

00:15:20.000 And if you were to take this penguin, the wind turbine's like 15 feet tall.

00:15:25.000 I don't know if you've ever seen a wind turbine or turbine blades.

00:15:29.000 What are they, like 200 feet?

00:15:30.000 Something like that?

00:15:30.000 Oh, they're 50?

00:15:31.000 They're hundreds of feet.

00:15:31.000 No, no, no.

00:15:32.000 Oh, yeah.

00:15:33.000 They're hundreds of feet.

00:15:34.000 Huge.

00:15:35.000 Hundreds.

00:15:36.000 So I don't know how big these penguins are, man, but this would mean this penguin's like 20 feet tall.

00:15:40.000 But then there's a guy in the background, too, who, and this is the best part, the guy is standing next to penguins, and these penguins are half as tall as he is.

00:15:50.000 So these are like two and a half, three foot tall penguins.

00:15:52.000 Maybe, maybe, look, I'm not a penguin scientist, okay?

00:15:55.000 Maybe it's a GMO Monsanto penguin.

00:15:57.000 Maybe that's it.

00:15:58.000 Was I supposed to brush up on my penguin knowledge?

00:16:02.000 So hold on, let me go further.

00:16:04.000 So I did a simple image search.

00:16:06.000 It was not hard to do.

00:16:08.000 The image comes from some Italian architecture design event where they had an exhibit.

00:16:17.000 And, uh, yes, someone was conceptualizing a plan for green energy in Antarctica.

00:16:22.000 The image is not real.

00:16:24.000 You need only Google search it and see it's a wallpaper that you can buy.

00:16:28.000 You know what I did?

00:16:29.000 I took the image, loaded it into Google image search, and this popped up.

00:16:33.000 They're sharing a fake image to mock Tucker Carlson, and they're saying facepalm as if Tucker is the one who was wrong.

00:16:39.000 Yeah.

00:16:40.000 Now, I did read a lot of what Tucker said, and I think he should have been more clear about what was causing the failure, but the point he was making is that these renewable energies are unreliable, and he's correct.

00:16:54.000 I actually made a whole segment a couple years ago advocating for the Green New Deal.

00:16:59.000 That was until AOC put out her critical race theory-laden garbage, which had nothing to do with the environment, for the most part.

00:17:04.000 And then I was like, okay, that I don't support.

00:17:07.000 But the idea of investing in new technologies, fusion, nuclear, wind, solar, that to me is a good thing if we're going to do it.

00:17:14.000 That's not what they're doing now.

00:17:17.000 So that being said, look, when I saw this, I know wind, solar, you know, these things are fantastic, but they're not reliable.

00:17:25.000 How do you store the energy when there's no wind and there's no sun, right?

00:17:28.000 So I don't know if, Dan, you want to opine on the whole matter of Texas and their energy shutdown.

00:17:33.000 Yeah, and to do that, I think we need to be careful.

00:17:36.000 I don't know what article you were reading, but we keep hearing that this is a once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-century storm.

00:17:43.000 That right there needs to be debunked.

00:17:45.000 That's a lie.

00:17:45.000 A storm like this was just as bad in 2011.

00:17:49.000 It was February 2nd.

00:17:50.000 It was the day after the Super Bowl.

00:17:51.000 Texas does get these types of storms.

00:17:53.000 It's not common.

00:17:54.000 Texas screwed up.

00:17:56.000 Maybe going back to the earlier conversation we were having, if you're the governor and you say, alright, this storm happens every 10 years.

00:18:01.000 Do I invest in X amount of dollars on snow plows for something that happens that I may not even be governor when it happens?

00:18:08.000 That's another question of government, right?

00:18:11.000 But these storms do happen.

00:18:13.000 Let's look at 2011.

00:18:15.000 When this storm happened in 2011, the wind capacity for the electric grid was 6%, right?

00:18:20.000 By 2015, because of their mandate, Rick Perry put in this law, by 2015 we have to be 25% wind.

00:18:24.000 And they did!

00:18:24.000 Rick Perry put in this law by 2015 we have to be 25% wind and they did so they

00:18:31.000 went from 6% in 2011 to 25% now same storm hit did the same amount of damage

00:18:39.000 But now the wind is not 6%.

00:18:40.000 It's not a sliver of the of the electric mix.

00:18:43.000 It is 25%.

00:18:44.000 And when that came offline, that is the Delta.

00:18:46.000 And when you compare apples to apples, people are like, what happened in California?

00:18:50.000 What happened?

00:18:50.000 Let's compare Texas to Texas.

00:18:52.000 And if you compare these two storms, Coal performed the same.

00:18:55.000 Nuclear performed the same.

00:18:56.000 Natural gas performed the same.

00:18:58.000 The delta is wind.

00:19:00.000 I don't oppose wind technology.

00:19:02.000 I don't oppose solar panels.

00:19:03.000 I agree with you.

00:19:04.000 We should invest in all of these.

00:19:06.000 But to deny that they have shortcomings is childish, and we can't allow children at this conversation.

00:19:13.000 Well, it was reported that even natural gas lines had frozen.

00:19:16.000 Yes, absolutely, they had.

00:19:18.000 And not only had they frozen, Really what had happened is that those Texans who have gas for heat, which is a small percentage, about 65% of Texans use electricity.

00:19:28.000 And again, if you're building a house, why am I going to invest in gas heat?

00:19:31.000 Because odds are I could go the whole winter and not use it once.

00:19:34.000 So I will use the HVAC.

00:19:36.000 And in the rare occasion that I need to heat up my home, electricity heat is very expensive.

00:19:41.000 I know.

00:19:41.000 Yeah, it's seriously expensive.

00:19:43.000 I live off the grid.

00:19:44.000 I only have electric heat.

00:19:45.000 And it is very expensive.

00:19:47.000 I wish I didn't have it.

00:19:49.000 But those people who do have gas heat, which is enough of a percentage, well, they all jacked up the thermostat.

00:19:55.000 So the natural gas pipelines that would have gone to the electrical plants were now deviated by magnitudes to people's homes.

00:20:04.000 Should Texas have been prepared for that?

00:20:05.000 Absolutely, they should have been prepared for that.

00:20:07.000 So there are lots of failures of government.

00:20:10.000 Failures on multiple levels, but to say that the thing was not wind turbine is just a lie.

00:20:15.000 Wind is the thing.

00:20:17.000 I would say, yes, we could reduce it even further and say they should have winterized the turbines beforehand.

00:20:23.000 I mean, so the thing about that image I shared with wind turbines in Antarctica is there are wind turbines in Antarctica.

00:20:31.000 I don't know.

00:20:31.000 I think New Zealand has three.

00:20:34.000 I don't know if there are other nations that have set up wind turbines in Antarctica.

00:20:39.000 There's two things to say though.

00:20:40.000 First, these turbines are built to be in Antarctica.

00:20:44.000 So, it's cold.

00:20:45.000 They know it's going to be cold.

00:20:46.000 They're built better.

00:20:47.000 They're designed for winter.

00:20:48.000 More importantly, Antarctica is a desert.

00:20:50.000 Which is another reason why this image is funny.

00:20:52.000 Where they're like, look at Antarctica!

00:20:53.000 It's a desert.

00:20:54.000 There's no water to freeze the turbine.

00:20:57.000 In Texas, it was extremely wet.

00:21:00.000 So, I think it's an interesting conversation.

00:21:03.000 I think they should have been prepared as a government, but it's also interesting to see, as soon as wind started to go down, the strain on the system became too much for the system to bear.

00:21:12.000 When you say natural gas, you're talking about methane.

00:21:14.000 Which I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, it's CH4, carbon, four hydrogens.

00:21:18.000 So when you say that natural gas is not methane, are you saying it is?

00:21:22.000 Um, natural... When they say natural gas, that's just a phrase for methane, as far as I know.

00:21:28.000 Um, it's a catch-all.

00:21:31.000 Oh, there's other gases in addition to methane?

00:21:33.000 Absolutely, multiple natural, yeah.

00:21:35.000 And just look at...

00:21:36.000 You've got propane, right?

00:21:37.000 That's used in your grill, right?

00:21:39.000 So, I don't know what the mix is that Texas is using.

00:21:43.000 Sorry, I was going off the mic.

00:21:44.000 I don't know what the mix is that Texas is using.

00:21:46.000 It is primarily methane, but it includes varying amounts of other alkanes, such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfide, or helium.

00:21:53.000 So, but I believe it is primarily methane.

00:21:55.000 When they freeze, is that actually the pipes that the gas is flowing through that froze?

00:22:01.000 Or is it the gas itself that... I mean, the gas is gas, so in order for it to freeze gas, it's gotta be super cold, I would imagine.

00:22:08.000 You'd have to liquefy it and then... But, so what's happening when the gas lines break?

00:22:15.000 It's probably... I gotta get my mechanical engineer hat.

00:22:19.000 It's probably an issue of the pumping station.

00:22:22.000 Right?

00:22:22.000 Because all pipelines need to have pumping stations to keep them going.

00:22:26.000 Water does.

00:22:27.000 Oil pipelines, right?

00:22:29.000 Keystone Pipeline wasn't just going to fill up oil in Alberta and have it get to Texas 1200 miles.

00:22:35.000 So it was probably those pumping stations, which is where the breakdowns were.

00:22:39.000 What's causing the pumping station?

00:22:40.000 Are they using coal to pump to create the heat?

00:22:43.000 Most pumping stations are run on fossil fuels, yeah.

00:22:45.000 And they probably literally froze because of the temperatures.

00:22:48.000 And so now you're not able to pump anything because of the freezing temperatures.

00:22:52.000 This is the biggest issue these people don't understand when they're like, Why don't we just do more solar?

00:22:58.000 Why don't we just do more wind?

00:22:59.000 I love that idea.

00:23:00.000 I do.

00:23:01.000 I love the idea.

00:23:02.000 I think fusion is probably better investment.

00:23:05.000 If we want to do green energy, just dump all that money into fusion research.

00:23:09.000 We could also build nuclear power plants.

00:23:11.000 The funny thing though is, we recently had some solar people come over here and were like, we want solar power.

00:23:16.000 We want to make sure that in the event there's some kind of emergency.

00:23:19.000 And so I'm talking to the solar guys and I said, you know, and it's a good idea to like, you know, get this because it's going to be cheaper in the long run, right?

00:23:25.000 And he was like, I mean, after 20 years?

00:23:28.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:29.000 And I was like, oh, because the cost of building the solar takes 20 years to recuperate.

00:23:34.000 And he was like, yeah, yeah.

00:23:36.000 So in the long run, it's great.

00:23:38.000 It can raise the property value.

00:23:41.000 And you have power in the event there's an outage.

00:23:42.000 That's really what it's about.

00:23:44.000 But the guys were on the level and they said, look man, The reason people get solar panels is because they can afford to.

00:23:50.000 It protects them from emergencies.

00:23:51.000 That's a good idea.

00:23:53.000 In terms of efficiency, delivering power in the long run, it's not something everyone's probably going to want or be able to do.

00:23:59.000 How would you respond to our Lord and Savior Bill Gates, who knows everything and does nothing wrong, when he says, The joy about the climate change argument is that everything is proof of climate change.

00:24:09.000 Whether it's hot or cold, it's climate change.

00:24:10.000 This is the statement that he came out with today.

00:24:12.000 And he also blamed this historic winter storm on climate change caused by humans.

00:24:17.000 What would be your response?

00:24:19.000 Well, the joy about the climate change argument is that everything is proof of climate change.

00:24:24.000 Right?

00:24:25.000 So whether it's hot or cold, it's climate change.

00:24:27.000 And so that's convenient for him.

00:24:30.000 If you just look at, I mean, I do this research for a living and it's not impossible to find

00:24:36.000 The Department of Energy has every electric grid, every hour, their electric mix.

00:24:41.000 You can go online and look at it right now, and if you just compare, which is what I did for the latest op-ed I wrote about it, which just came out a couple hours ago, if you compare Sunday at 8 o'clock to Monday at 8 o'clock, You can just see the electric mix, and I have photos of it.

00:24:57.000 I don't know if you can throw them up online somehow.

00:25:00.000 You can just compare the mix of electricity of what nuclear is producing now, what was it producing then, what coal is producing, what natural gas is producing, and what wind is producing.

00:25:11.000 Wind on Sunday was producing 8,000, roughly 8,000 megawatts of electricity.

00:25:17.000 That dropped to 600.

00:25:19.000 Right.

00:25:20.000 That is a huge difference.

00:25:22.000 I mean, like, like monster.

00:25:24.000 This is a 92 percent drop or something.

00:25:26.000 You cannot keep.

00:25:27.000 And so.

00:25:28.000 So we know we had a super chat come in that I think is interesting.

00:25:31.000 They mentioned that ERCOT, which does what it was at the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas Reliability.

00:25:36.000 They were saying basically that it's a trading market and the cost per unit skyrocketed.

00:25:42.000 The super chat says nine thousand dollars from where it was normally twenty five.

00:25:45.000 So people just weren't coming online.

00:25:47.000 It was just too expensive.

00:25:48.000 And so the system essentially just crippled itself.

00:25:51.000 Yeah.

00:25:52.000 And that's the other problem with the renewables is that they don't play fairly in the free market, right?

00:25:57.000 They don't.

00:25:58.000 And so when you go off of renewables because they're not working and you have to then jack up coal, you have to pump in more natural gas, you have these huge fluctuations.

00:26:07.000 The best example of that is Europe.

00:26:11.000 They pay four and five times what we do for their electric bill.

00:26:14.000 Why?

00:26:14.000 Because they're green.

00:26:15.000 I don't oppose being green, right?

00:26:17.000 But Europe chose to go green.

00:26:19.000 When they cannot maintain their grid, they have to burn coal like mad, and they have to buy it fast, and they have to buy natural gas, and they have to buy it from Vladimir Putin, and that's the price of the market.

00:26:29.000 And that's why...

00:26:30.000 There's a war going on because the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to offset the gas problem monopoly.

00:26:35.000 Oh boy.

00:26:36.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:37.000 That's another show that we definitely have to have, right?

00:26:40.000 I mean, these are the real problems when you talk about going green, quote-unquote.

00:26:45.000 Now, if we want to go green and decide that as a country, Let's have that honest debate.

00:26:51.000 But right now, as soon as you mention these things, well, you don't believe in climate change.

00:26:55.000 Well, I just want to say that the American people need to know their electric bill will multiply by a factor of four if we go green.

00:27:01.000 It will.

00:27:02.000 I was just going to say one last point.

00:27:05.000 Texas, so I was talking about 11 to 2021, right?

00:27:08.000 The 10-year difference of how Texas changed their electric mix.

00:27:12.000 They went to 25% renewable over the course of a decade.

00:27:16.000 Did their electric bill drop by 25%?

00:27:18.000 No, it went up probably close to about 30% their electric bill costs.

00:27:23.000 Why?

00:27:23.000 Inflation?

00:27:25.000 Part of it?

00:27:26.000 Maybe part of it inflation, but that is a huge drop for the number one oil and gas producer in the country.

00:27:32.000 Why can't the people of Texas say, well, wait a second, what are we getting for going renewable?

00:27:37.000 And who, and someone, and this is where I get a little crazy on this stuff, someone is making a boatload of money building all these windmills.

00:27:45.000 And I would like to know who's getting rich off it, because someone is.

00:27:48.000 I do think it's funny that we call them windmills.

00:27:50.000 Wind turbines.

00:27:51.000 No, but people do call them windmills.

00:27:53.000 Even I did.

00:27:53.000 Like they used to mill grand.

00:27:54.000 Yeah, right.

00:27:55.000 Now we just call them windmills because they look the same.

00:27:57.000 And the little thing, you know, from Inception at the end?

00:27:59.000 The little wind thing the kid has?

00:28:01.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:28:03.000 Or also, we have the floppy disk icon for saving things, and we haven't used those things in a decade.

00:28:08.000 Anyway, I'm sorry, man.

00:28:09.000 Continue.

00:28:10.000 No, no, no.

00:28:10.000 It's a great point.

00:28:11.000 I don't even think some people know what a floppy disk is.

00:28:14.000 Which is pretty funny.

00:28:16.000 Doom on seven disks or whatever.

00:28:17.000 But I just think that the people of Texas and now the American people, we're going to go green.

00:28:22.000 We're going to go 100% renewable by 2035, says President Biden.

00:28:27.000 100% electric generation renewable by 2035.

00:28:29.000 Where do we store that power?

00:28:31.000 Where does the cost come from?

00:28:32.000 Where does the land come from?

00:28:34.000 Some of these wind farms in Texas are 100,000 acres.

00:28:37.000 Yeah, you can't rely on- What we need to do is develop geothermal, tidal power, and gravity power, I believe.

00:28:44.000 Tidal and gravity are good.

00:28:45.000 Where do we do geothermal?

00:28:47.000 Well, you just drill.

00:28:48.000 But where?

00:28:48.000 Where particularly?

00:28:50.000 Honestly, I'd like to tap into volcanoes.

00:28:52.000 But that's- See, Iceland, it works because it's a big volcanic rock.

00:28:56.000 I don't know if you can go deep enough to get to the where it starts to get hot, boil water with the Earth's heat.

00:29:01.000 But I mean, it just it makes a lot of sense.

00:29:03.000 It's very common sense.

00:29:03.000 But I mean, that's to say that we're just going to be there without laying out the plan and explaining all the numbers, I think is so where.

00:29:09.000 So a lot of people need to people need to understand how we we create electrical current.

00:29:15.000 My understanding is we have these turbines.

00:29:17.000 They need to keep spinning to keep the current running, right, to keep to keep the current existing, I suppose.

00:29:23.000 So all day and night, What we basically do is we take coal, set it on fire, it creates water pressure, and the water pressure then spins a turbine.

00:29:33.000 As long as that turbine is spinning, we're generating an electrical current that people can use, right?

00:29:37.000 That's the gist of it.

00:29:39.000 Wind turbines are spinning because wind is hitting them.

00:29:44.000 When the wind stops, There's no power.

00:29:46.000 They have to store it somehow.

00:29:47.000 Right.

00:29:47.000 And so, we don't have that technology.

00:29:50.000 No.

00:29:50.000 Giant batteries.

00:29:51.000 This is the craziest thing to me.

00:29:52.000 I watched this really amazing educational mini-ish, like short film on energy return and energy invested.

00:29:58.000 And they were talking about why we love renewable energy, why we're so excited for them, and why they are nowhere near ready for implementation.

00:30:07.000 No.

00:30:07.000 And the main issue is, when the wind turbine stops spinning for any reason, the current stops as well.

00:30:13.000 And so it's amazing this idea that we can set up a bunch of turbines all over the place, but you would have to create a ridiculous amount of them in order to make sure you're always generating enough current to sustain life as it currently exists.

00:30:25.000 The problem is, it takes so much petroleum energy to make the wind turbines, it makes no sense.

00:30:32.000 No.

00:30:32.000 Until we get to the point where we can generate more efficiently, and store that energy.

00:30:38.000 These renewables that we know and love, and are excited about, do not have a high enough energy return on energy invested.

00:30:45.000 They talk about, it's really fascinating, why fracking became profitable.

00:30:49.000 And it was because the cost Well, fossil fuels had become so expensive, because it was getting harder and harder to actually find oil, that all of a sudden it became economically feasible to start fracking, a very expensive and dangerous process which nets fossil fuels.

00:31:04.000 But when you look at the energy returned from the energy you invest, these green energies just don't cut it, except Nuclear energy.

00:31:14.000 My understanding is it's the highest return?

00:31:16.000 I could be wrong, is that true?

00:31:18.000 I'm not positive, but I mean, that sounds, just knowing what I know about nuclear, it sounds absolutely right.

00:31:22.000 The way they explain it is something like, for every dollar you put in, you'll get $50 equivalent out, or something.

00:31:27.000 The easiest way to explain it.

00:31:28.000 The problem is, they won't let us build nuclear energy either!

00:31:31.000 We haven't built a nuclear... because meltdowns?

00:31:34.000 Because there were... What do we have?

00:31:35.000 Three meltdowns?

00:31:37.000 Everyone keeps talking about Three Mile Island, but no one can tell me what actually happened there.

00:31:42.000 Three Mile Island and Fukushima.

00:31:43.000 Fukushima was absolutely horrendous.

00:31:46.000 Chernobyl?

00:31:46.000 Melted into the ocean.

00:31:47.000 There's corium all through the ocean.

00:31:49.000 Fukushima's really, really bad.

00:31:50.000 The problem is...

00:31:53.000 You have these older reactors.

00:31:56.000 They were built.

00:31:57.000 I think some have been decommissioned.

00:31:59.000 There are problems.

00:32:00.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:32:01.000 The newer technologies, I guess there's a lot of excitement around thorium salt reactors.

00:32:05.000 I don't know a whole lot about it, so I'm not going to get too much into it.

00:32:08.000 But Fukushima was a major natural disaster.

00:32:11.000 So we can now look at that situation and say, what can we do better to make sure this doesn't happen?

00:32:15.000 I think we can pour gold in the corium because right now, as far as I know about the nuclear core, it's circulating heat, but because it can't release its heat, it begins to get so hot that it melts down and then turns into liquid.

00:32:28.000 But if we can somehow put a superconductor into the corium and allow it, that would allow it to release its heat, then it wouldn't melt.

00:32:35.000 So if you poured gold into it, which is a superconductor, I would imagine then it would release its heat, it would harden, and then you could melt it, re-extract the gold.

00:32:43.000 Thorium salt reactors are liquid, so you don't have to worry about that.

00:32:46.000 Yeah, thorium apparently doesn't melt down.

00:32:48.000 Do you know anything about thorium?

00:32:49.000 No.

00:32:50.000 My understanding is that it's a liquid reactor, so there's no concern over a meltdown itself.

00:32:54.000 And that's the salt.

00:32:55.000 And then the salt is boiling, basically, which don't know enough

00:32:58.000 to get into it.

00:32:59.000 All I can really say is there are a lot of people asking why

00:33:02.000 we aren't doing building nuclear reactors because they are completely

00:33:06.000 carbon neutral.

00:33:07.000 I mean, well, not you got to use oil to build them. Right.

00:33:10.000 You know, you need that oil energy.

00:33:12.000 The other thing you need to realize, too, is that, you know, we operate

00:33:15.000 our vehicles.

00:33:19.000 We don't have electric excavators.

00:33:23.000 Do we have electric excavators?

00:33:24.000 No, and that's the biggest drawback.

00:33:26.000 Again, no problem with electric vehicles.

00:33:27.000 Drive whatever car you want.

00:33:29.000 The biggest problem with electric vehicles is the size of the battery proportionate to the size of the car.

00:33:35.000 The battery lasts only about 10 to 12 years, and it's extremely heavy, which is why there are no electric airplanes, and there won't be for any time soon.

00:33:43.000 The weight of the battery is insane.

00:33:45.000 There are.

00:33:47.000 And they can't carry people. 0.79

00:33:48.000 Well, there's one.

00:33:49.000 A guy flew around the world in the first solar-powered airplane, like, five years ago.

00:33:52.000 With his hands keying in his pants.

00:33:54.000 It took him, like, 12 days, or I don't know.

00:33:56.000 And they did create a solar-powered plane, or a drone, that can fly indefinitely.

00:34:00.000 Well, until the parts break.

00:34:02.000 Yeah, because it's a massive, ultra-lightweight glider.

00:34:05.000 Yeah, it was huge.

00:34:06.000 So make sure, people, you have your pedal... You ever see those gyro... What are they called?

00:34:11.000 Gyrocopters?

00:34:12.000 You pedal with your arms and your legs.

00:34:13.000 Yes.

00:34:14.000 Backup power.

00:34:15.000 And it still has an engine on it, though.

00:34:17.000 But there was a university where they actually created a fully human-powered flying machine.

00:34:21.000 It was as big as this airplane hanger, and the guy's pedaling like crazy, and he gets a few feet off the ground, and then he starts coming back down because, you know, he gets super tired.

00:34:30.000 But I want to ask a question.

00:34:33.000 What would you call it if someone called for, if there was a, let's say there was a high-profile public figure who came out and said, I will not wait, I demand that an action be taken which will result in the death of hundreds of millions of people.

00:34:49.000 What would, what do you call it when someone, when someone tries to enact a plan that would kill hundreds of millions of people?

00:34:55.000 Excessive?

00:34:56.000 Government?

00:34:58.000 Democide?

00:34:59.000 Isn't democide... Wait, what is democide?

00:34:59.000 Democide?

00:35:00.000 Democide is death by government.

00:35:03.000 It's the number one leading cause.

00:35:05.000 It's the number one leading cause of death in human history.

00:35:08.000 So I'm just trying to... What's the word for a person... Genocide, I think, is the word.

00:35:12.000 Is that it?

00:35:13.000 Are you sure?

00:35:14.000 You're saying Greta Thunberg called for genocide? 0.99

00:35:16.000 You're talking about killing hundreds of millions of people.

00:35:18.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, by taking a direct... Yeah, that would be genocide.

00:35:21.000 So you're saying that Greta Thunberg called for genocide? 0.81

00:35:23.000 Indirectly.

00:35:24.000 Because I didn't say that word, you did.

00:35:25.000 You see, I tricked you, Ian.

00:35:27.000 And I wouldn't even say she called for it.

00:35:28.000 Greta Thunberg said we will not wait till 2030, or should we do not want to wait till 2030 or 2022.

00:35:34.000 We want now a moratorium on fossil fuels.

00:35:36.000 The problem is people that are screaming about what their goal is, they need to scream about the plan.

00:35:40.000 I need to explain this, otherwise the genocide thing.

00:35:43.000 Greta Thunberg said we want a moratorium on oil now.

00:35:47.000 We want it done.

00:35:49.000 If we stop using oil, Our freight, the freight lines, our trains, the food delivery systems, transporting of emergency medicines, all of this just stops and immediately overnight you're gonna see riots in the street from starving people.

00:36:05.000 You remember what happened in Paris, in France, when Emmanuel Macron was like, We're going to put a tax on petrol, you know, because we're going green or whatever.

00:36:17.000 And then would they get like a year and a half of people rioting?

00:36:20.000 Because all of a sudden their gas bill was too high.

00:36:22.000 Because they were trying to tax them to go green.

00:36:25.000 People want to live, you know?

00:36:27.000 I was actually surprised to find out that people are fond of living.

00:36:31.000 Surprising, huh?

00:36:32.000 So when the government comes in and says, we're not just sacrificing your quality of life, we're restricting your ability to feed your family while we fly on private jets.

00:36:41.000 Yeah, you bring up a very important point because when you see the government's response to the climate crisis, it usually means hurting the average person, the middle class person, the low class working person. 0.55

00:36:53.000 They're the ones that are going to be paying for it as they literally flying around in their private jets and don't give a Darn. 0.68

00:36:59.000 And sometimes even profit off of this new idea or innovation that's a carbon tax, a tax on your breath, a tax on your CO2. 0.98

00:37:09.000 And I'm like, how more ridiculous could they get?

00:37:11.000 I could just see them sitting around in the table being like, we're just going to tax them for breathing this time. 0.97

00:37:15.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:37:16.000 You're forgetting the UK.

00:37:17.000 Yeah.

00:37:17.000 They're going to tax you?

00:37:18.000 And you're gonna need a license for it.

00:37:20.000 Exactly.

00:37:21.000 And it's just, like, if you think government licensing is going to solve anything, I demand you spend one week at the DMV.

00:37:29.000 Mandatory.

00:37:30.000 If you're ever going to advocate for such a policy.

00:37:32.000 Now, I will...

00:37:34.000 I want to finish this because, you know, just recently I made my RV off the grid.

00:37:41.000 I installed a lot of solar panels and I learned it doesn't matter how many solar panels you have if you don't have batteries in them that could actually save the power.

00:37:50.000 And when you're talking about the battery technology, it's not there.

00:37:53.000 And I was like, wait, how many pounds do these things weigh?

00:37:56.000 200 pounds?

00:37:57.000 And I was like, you have to factor in weight, especially if you're in an RV, and the battery technology, you know, you would think you would spend some innovation and some money and some investment and some technology looking into making that better, but it's not there yet.

00:38:10.000 Ian, educate Luke on new battery technology.

00:38:13.000 Well, I was just reading about graphene batteries.

00:38:15.000 Boom! 0.99

00:38:15.000 We're talking about superconductors. 0.99

00:38:19.000 I was actually just reading about condensing graphene, or carbon dioxide, into graphene.

00:38:25.000 And what you do is, let me, I'll read this, this is from digidesignnews.com, and the title is Researchers Develop Graphene from Carbon Dioxide.

00:38:36.000 It says that the project endeavors to synthesize graphene, specifically mimicking photosynthesis by turning carbon dioxide and oxygen, metal-based enzyme ribulose, biphosphate, carboxylase, oxygenase, And, um, you can find the carbon dioxide.

00:38:55.000 A little bit too in the weeds.

00:38:56.000 This is a really technical article, but ultimately we're going to have to advance our battery power.

00:39:01.000 We should.

00:39:02.000 We have to.

00:39:03.000 I want to contain lightning energy.

00:39:04.000 We should be using lightning as our power source.

00:39:06.000 The problem is we don't know the charge of lightning.

00:39:08.000 We've got to pound these batteries with it and just store it.

00:39:11.000 So the reason I shouted you out is graphene.

00:39:15.000 We are moving towards really great advancements in solid-state battery technologies, graphene-based battery technologies.

00:39:22.000 Here's the crazy thing.

00:39:23.000 We talked about this before.

00:39:23.000 I recently bought, I think I bought like five graphene composite batteries.

00:39:28.000 They use lithium ion technology, but there's like a lattice of graphene through it, which allows it to charge, like the whole thing, it's two and a half cell phone charges worth of power, charge up in about 10 to 15 minutes.

00:39:39.000 So normally you plug your phone and it takes 20-30 minutes.

00:39:42.000 Now it's half the time or even faster.

00:39:43.000 This is like the cutting edge.

00:39:44.000 This is like when we had like 32 kilobyte computer RAM stuff.

00:39:47.000 I mean in 10 years it's gonna be.

00:39:49.000 We're gonna be able to charge in like 2 seconds and we're gonna have days of power.

00:39:53.000 The big problem is batteries...

00:39:56.000 Man, they're particularly brutal.

00:39:58.000 I mean, if you get a punctured battery and it blows up on a phone, that's why they tell you on planes, you can't bring lithium-ion batteries onto planes.

00:40:05.000 And they're brutal for the environment, and lithium-ion batteries are primarily made of bauxite, and bauxite is mined, 90% of it, in the Congo by slave children. 1.00

00:40:14.000 And let's be honest about that.

00:40:16.000 Yeah.

00:40:16.000 Right?

00:40:17.000 And so we're all going to have electric vehicles.

00:40:19.000 Joe Biden has said that we're all going to have electric vehicles.

00:40:21.000 Well, how many more slave children do we need to employ? 1.00

00:40:24.000 Do you employ slave children?

00:40:26.000 I don't know what the proper term is.

00:40:28.000 These are just the real conversations we have to have about going green.

00:40:31.000 And also China having these rare earth minerals that they have a monopoly on, that they're also just yesterday threatened the United States about setting up an emporium where they won't be sending it to the United States.

00:40:41.000 But you know, they're not really rare.

00:40:44.000 They're called rare earths, but it's just that nobody is mining them properly.

00:40:48.000 We have them all in America.

00:40:49.000 Right, but China can do it, so we don't want to do the labor. 1.00

00:40:52.000 Absolutely.

00:40:52.000 So if you want it to be really green, you would allow us to mine them here.

00:40:56.000 It would be better for the environment.

00:40:57.000 We would have the right standards.

00:40:59.000 Can we just get some of these environmental leftists to admit we live in a neo-feudalist system?

00:41:06.000 Where people in Europe and the United States get to live off of the slave labor of the serfs in the Congo, mining the bauxite, and then in China, in the rare earths.

00:41:14.000 One of my most disliked people alive right now is a guy named Tom Steyer, who's a billionaire, big environmental cause funder.

00:41:24.000 He vehemently opposes coal in America, goes out of his way to try to shut down coal mines in America, does not want any more coal.

00:41:30.000 He made billions of dollars off of investments in coal in Indonesia and China.

00:41:34.000 So he'll be damned if a guy in West Virginia is gonna mine for coal, but a nine-year-old girl in Western China?

00:41:40.000 Totally cool, dude. 0.88

00:41:41.000 No, no, no, but don't you get it?

00:41:42.000 He's kicking the ladder down after he made it to the top of the mountain.

00:41:44.000 Absolutely.

00:41:45.000 He's like, you can't come up here, I'm rich!

00:41:46.000 You're right, it really is a feudal system to a certain extent.

00:41:49.000 Look at John Kerry on his private jet.

00:41:51.000 Leonardo DiCaprio on his private jet.

00:41:54.000 John Kerry flew in a private jet to pick up an environmentalism award.

00:41:58.000 That's like a fire truck on fire.

00:41:59.000 I'm sorry, I love that analogy.

00:42:00.000 And trust me, if I had married a rich heiress, I, too, would not sit in the middle seat between, like, the nursing mom and the girthy millennial.

00:42:10.000 Like, I would much rather be on a private jet flying to Iceland.

00:42:14.000 Yeah, I wouldn't be like Ted Cruz trying to get myself bumped up to first class, which he unsuccessfully did.

00:42:19.000 No, no, no, I heard he did get it.

00:42:21.000 That's the story that I heard right there.

00:42:21.000 I heard he did it.

00:42:23.000 But also, Bill Gates flew to the Paris Accords in his private jet.

00:42:26.000 So not many people know that.

00:42:28.000 The last big Google, pre-COVID, when Google had their big climate change summit in Sicily, and something like 147 private jets flew to it.

00:42:40.000 Prince Harry took one, and everyone, 147 private jets Flew to the climate change summit.

00:42:45.000 I guess you don't jet pool like a carpool?

00:42:48.000 Like, hey, Tim, I'll pick you up.

00:42:49.000 We'll fly the jet together.

00:42:50.000 Some do.

00:42:51.000 Some do.

00:42:51.000 It's fun.

00:42:52.000 I'll give you a ride anytime I private jet.

00:42:54.000 You know what the meeting was really about?

00:42:56.000 I really doubt they all sat down and looked at each other and said, man, this global warming is a bad thing.

00:42:59.000 We got to figure out how to save the planet.

00:43:01.000 What they really did was they said, we can't have all these poor people flying on planes. 1.00

00:43:06.000 How do we make sure that we can stay on our private planes?

00:43:08.000 I don't want to lose my private plane.

00:43:09.000 That's what it is.

00:43:10.000 You get everyone else a sacrifice so you don't have to.

00:43:12.000 Yes.

00:43:13.000 And that's where we are when it comes to a lot of these green decisions, right?

00:43:17.000 I just want to know who are the people that are going to die.

00:43:19.000 We know who are the people that are going to lose their job.

00:43:21.000 We talk about it.

00:43:22.000 Well, they'll get a green job in the future.

00:43:24.000 Okay.

00:43:24.000 If I'm a Keystone Pipeline worker, I've been now three weeks without a paycheck.

00:43:28.000 So when's my green job coming?

00:43:31.000 The future is green.

00:43:32.000 I wanted to expand a little on this battery conversation.

00:43:34.000 There's another article by Wired.

00:43:36.000 Are radioactive diamond batteries a cure for nuclear waste?

00:43:39.000 This is a good one you might want to pull up.

00:43:41.000 Looks simple.

00:43:41.000 Well, there was a big breakthrough recently on solid-state battery technology, which apparently would revolutionize everything.

00:43:48.000 It's like higher energy density.

00:43:50.000 This stuff takes the spent nuclear rods from nuclear power plants, which normally we have to store in, like, boxes that are just... We bury them.

00:43:57.000 For a thousand years.

00:43:58.000 Now you encase them in glass, and you use it as a heat source for electricity.

00:44:03.000 And they last a thousand years.

00:44:05.000 This came out August of 2020.

00:44:07.000 I mean, this is literally, here, we just need a president or a system that understands it and wants to push it.

00:44:11.000 It's political. 0.99

00:44:13.000 I just think they're ignorant. 1.00

00:44:13.000 That's the problem. 1.00

00:44:15.000 Look.

00:44:17.000 In the world of politics, these people are looking at what's gonna get them elected.

00:44:21.000 Nuclear is scary.

00:44:22.000 We've already seen the giant lizard breathing radioactive fire and blowing up buildings, and now people are scared that they're gonna, you know, grow a third eye or whatever, and they think nuclear energy is the apocalypse.

00:44:33.000 Nope.

00:44:33.000 My understanding is that nobody died in Three Mile Island.

00:44:36.000 No.

00:44:36.000 No one even got a cold.

00:44:38.000 Chernobyl, however, was...

00:44:40.000 Failures of the Communist Party.

00:44:42.000 And it was a look what happened with Chernobyl was a Complicated but political.

00:44:42.000 Absolutely.

00:44:47.000 It was war.

00:44:48.000 It was Cold War and the Soviets were rushing full speed.

00:44:51.000 They had a system where people would like When you live in under under under authoritarianism, you just say whatever you need to say to survive And so when they were having more and more problems that people are like, yeah, everything's fine.

00:45:02.000 Everything's fine And that's what they kept doing And then it got really bad, the whole thing went up, and there's a lot of problems there.

00:45:08.000 Don't get me wrong, that's scary.

00:45:09.000 That's a major crisis.

00:45:11.000 But hold on.

00:45:12.000 What's worse?

00:45:13.000 All of the nuclear energy disasters we've seen so far, or all of the oil spills, deep water horizon, the oil slicks and the damage that it's caused, the dead zones it creates in the oceans.

00:45:23.000 Look, I think fossil fuels are important, and I think the challenge right now is that we have 7.8 billion people.

00:45:30.000 We're trying to make sure they don't die because we want them to live, but while recognizing it takes a lot of energy to make sure these people are getting food, they're getting heat.

00:45:38.000 Some people don't have food or heat, and we actually try to subsidize that to help them because we don't want people to die.

00:45:45.000 But the problem now is you've got people saying, curtail the use of our most efficient form of energy so far.

00:45:51.000 Okay, well then all these people are going to die.

00:45:53.000 Yeah.

00:45:54.000 And that is the adult conversation we need to have.

00:45:57.000 There is no perfect fuel source.

00:45:58.000 I wish there was.

00:45:59.000 There is no perfect energy source.

00:46:00.000 I wish there were.

00:46:02.000 I'm not Plato, right?

00:46:03.000 It is not me versus this ideal.

00:46:05.000 We have to live in the reality, and the reality is everything has its drawbacks, but for the price point, for the efficiency, and for the quality of life we demand, and this is my biggest argument when it comes to the fossil fuel industry and getting rid of it, is that is where they want to sacrifice.

00:46:22.000 Cost doesn't matter.

00:46:23.000 Doesn't matter if we pay what Germany pays.

00:46:25.000 Efficiency doesn't matter.

00:46:26.000 Doesn't matter if we can't store the electricity.

00:46:28.000 That's why you hear authoritarians say, well, Kamala Harris was asked, should we talk about dietary regulations?

00:46:35.000 And she said, you know, I think we should have a conversation about that.

00:46:37.000 Let's talk about those cheeseburgers.

00:46:39.000 The government's going to regulate our food?

00:46:40.000 Of course they are!

00:46:42.000 Bill Gates also bought the most amount of farmland than anyone else in the United States, specifically because he wants everyone to eat fake Meat.

00:46:50.000 Live in the pod and eat the bugs!

00:46:52.000 Absolutely.

00:46:54.000 I will not live in the pod, I will not eat the bugs?

00:46:54.000 What is it?

00:46:57.000 There are these people... Do you know where that's from?

00:46:59.000 Is that a meme?

00:47:00.000 I will not live in the pod, I will not eat the bugs.

00:47:02.000 There are a class of people that think that they have the authority over us to determine the quality of life we want.

00:47:09.000 I think that is how you really get a revolution.

00:47:12.000 That is how you get bloodshed.

00:47:14.000 I would like to point out though, I actually think that the idea of having a pod is pretty cool.

00:47:19.000 Just as we're talking about in the middle of the woods, got my own little place, got my own little home.

00:47:25.000 That's what I'm doing.

00:47:26.000 Yeah, yeah, and the other thing too is, I see this meme, it's like, I will not live in the pot, I will not eat the bugs, and I'm kind of like, why is it bad to eat bugs?

00:47:33.000 Like, look, there's, what is it, like 85% of the planet eats bugs.

00:47:36.000 You don't have to eat bugs if you don't want to.

00:47:38.000 I think it's fair if you say, I don't want to eat bugs, that's cool.

00:47:40.000 I don't eat bugs, but I'm also kind of like, food's food.

00:47:43.000 But like, lobsters are bugs.

00:47:45.000 Well, another thing we have to comprehend here is that Bill Gates invests his money into specifically creating fake meat.

00:47:56.000 He then goes on 60 Minutes and Anderson Cooper's like, wow!

00:48:00.000 This is such a great idea!

00:48:02.000 I love this idea!

00:48:04.000 As he's promoting fake meat.

00:48:06.000 The fake meat has no fat in it.

00:48:07.000 That's the problem.

00:48:08.000 There's a lot of problems surrounding this, especially genetically modified food, which Bill Gates has extensive ties to, especially to corporations like Monsanto that have a horrendous human rights record, that have a horrendous record of actively, knowingly hurting people and still doing it for profit.

00:48:24.000 I just think the idea that the second or third richest person in the world, whatever he is today, he's second or third, And a Vanderbilt heir sat down together and they talked about the sacrifices we have to make.

00:48:36.000 A millionaire and a billionaire deciding what we should not live with.

00:48:39.000 What sacrifices we're going to make.

00:48:41.000 And a republic is a well-armed populace contesting that vote.

00:48:44.000 Holy cow. 0.89

00:48:45.000 Like that's some scary stuff right there.

00:48:47.000 I don't want to be part of that world.

00:48:49.000 I'm like the Little Mermaid.

00:48:51.000 I don't want to be part of your world.

00:48:55.000 We talked about the Great Reset, and you're familiar with it, I'm sure.

00:48:58.000 Scary language.

00:48:59.000 A lot of people are wondering if they're doing it on purpose, and I'm like, listen, we don't need to ask whether they're doing it on purpose.

00:49:04.000 What they're doing is, in effect, creating the Great Reset they've talked about.

00:49:08.000 So you want to get conspiratorial?

00:49:09.000 Fine.

00:49:10.000 We don't have to be.

00:49:11.000 We can just say, I don't care what their intention is, the result is this Great Reset.

00:49:15.000 They're locking us down, they say it's for the pandemic.

00:49:17.000 Sure, this is what's happening.

00:49:19.000 Now, that being said, Part of me, you know, because we had Jack Murphy on the show, and I mentioned they want people to live kind of, you know, more in the country and more back to nature, like chopping, rolling up their sleeves and chopping their own lumber, and Jack was like, what's wrong with that?

00:49:35.000 So there's a part of this where it's like, listen, I believe in freedom.

00:49:38.000 If you wanna eat your burger with ketchup schlopped all over it or whatever you like on your burger, mayo, pickles, lettuce, you know, cheese or whatever, you go ahead and do it.

00:49:46.000 I, however, think there's a lot to be gained from regular people who are addicted to this system.

00:49:53.000 Getting out, learning how to work, going to the woods, actually learning how to raise chickens, raise meat, pig, cow, whatever, and just being responsible for themselves for once in their lives.

00:50:06.000 Too many Americans are gluttonous, living in big cities, demanding the government do the work or take the labor from other people to pay for them.

00:50:14.000 Yeah.

00:50:16.000 You're absolutely right.

00:50:19.000 I am born and raised in New York City.

00:50:20.000 I lived in D.C.

00:50:21.000 for a very, very long time.

00:50:22.000 I have a year now.

00:50:24.000 My fiancé and I got a little farm and we're doing this.

00:50:28.000 You got chickens?

00:50:29.000 Chickens, sheep, turkeys, peacock.

00:50:31.000 Aren't chickens awesome? 0.99

00:50:32.000 Yeah, they're fun.

00:50:32.000 I love them.

00:50:33.000 What do the peacocks do? 1.00

00:50:34.000 Make noise?

00:50:36.000 They make a lot of noise.

00:50:38.000 They are ultimately for profit.

00:50:40.000 Can you sell them?

00:50:41.000 We will.

00:50:42.000 We bought them as eggs and we will sell them.

00:50:45.000 We're the poorest people in town.

00:50:46.000 Really rich people will want them for their lawn to walk around and strut like Flannery O'Connor. 1.00

00:50:51.000 So we'll sell them to you at three years of age.

00:50:51.000 Amazing!

00:50:54.000 You do have peahens as well?

00:50:56.000 We have the females, yes. 1.00

00:50:58.000 And they lay eggs? 0.84

00:50:59.000 You eat the eggs?

00:51:00.000 They're not old enough yet to lay eggs.

00:51:03.000 Hopefully the eggs will be fertilized and we'll have more of them. 0.58

00:51:05.000 Do you have roosters for your chickens?

00:51:07.000 I have too many roosters.

00:51:09.000 Aren't they hilarious?

00:51:11.000 And they can be very mean.

00:51:13.000 I know, but it's funny.

00:51:14.000 There's roosters running at you and yelling at you.

00:51:17.000 I've got scrapes all over me.

00:51:18.000 But the point I was going to make is I was that DC feat, you know, like going to brunch and getting a reservation was the big thing.

00:51:26.000 And you didn't do manual labor.

00:51:28.000 And I have for the last year.

00:51:29.000 And this goes back to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who argued how it was man better.

00:51:33.000 But it goes back to Locke and Hobbes.

00:51:34.000 It goes back to Plato and Aristotle.

00:51:36.000 Where is mankind better situated?

00:51:38.000 And I have been thinking a lot about how I do feel like a better human being, because I have to make fence posts, and I have to mend things, and I get dirty, and I have to play with chicken feces, and it's gross, and it's work, and it's labor, and it's freezing cold, and you have a hangover, and you smoke too much the night before, and your lungs are killing you, but the animals need to eat, and they're in the barn, and they are hungry, and it does make you a better person.

00:52:05.000 I am a better person in the country.

00:52:06.000 I really am.

00:52:07.000 Isn't there a great feeling from eating your own homegrown eggs?

00:52:11.000 Yes.

00:52:11.000 It's very cool.

00:52:12.000 It's so amazing.

00:52:14.000 So when I lived in Miami, we had chickens, and I'd go out in the morning, I'd grab a couple of the eggs, bring them back in, and I would bake with that.

00:52:21.000 It was awesome.

00:52:22.000 I was like, this is so cool.

00:52:24.000 These things are at my yard like eating bugs, and then they poop these things out, and I put it in my pancakes.

00:52:28.000 It's great!

00:52:29.000 Now, I have a leg up, though, for anyone who's watching this show who's like, so I can start a farm.

00:52:33.000 My fiance is a legit Aussie outback cowboy who grew up on 25,000 acres, and he did this his whole life.

00:52:42.000 So I had some, I had help.

00:52:43.000 You're cheating.

00:52:44.000 He thinks this is a joke.

00:52:47.000 Like, you know, we have a couple of sheep and chickens.

00:52:49.000 Like this isn't, I had, you know, 5,000 head of cattle in my, on my, on my ranch.

00:52:55.000 Um, so, so I have a leg up, but still it's a great, it makes you a better person.

00:52:59.000 It's fun and it's exciting and it's different and you learn so much and you learn so much about life.

00:53:04.000 I lived on a pig farm this summer.

00:53:07.000 Very gratifying.

00:53:08.000 It smells a little bit, but I learned a lot of really interesting things about nature and how the world works that you would never understand in a big city.

00:53:16.000 And you know what we have is a couple of, sorry to interrupt you, we have all heritage breeds, which you talked a couple of times about.

00:53:23.000 GMOs right there are these breeds that that are dying and we're trying to we're doing our little part to save them because we have cross bred them so many times for meat for for large-breasted chicken for fattier pigs so we have all heritage breeds and they're not as pretty they're maybe not as tasty they're not as but they're but they're authentic and they're real and they're Yeah, the genetic splicing and the genetic kind of larger kind of organizations that are putting together these wild experiments are absolutely mind-boggling and scary to say the least.

00:54:01.000 My friend accidentally became a pig farmer. 0.99

00:54:04.000 Because the government said, kill all the pigs, right? 1.00

00:54:06.000 When COVID hit, they were like, well, you know, rather be safe than sorry, kill all of them. 0.99

00:54:10.000 He went to a local farm, picked them up illegally, and then brought them to his farm.

00:54:15.000 And then we learned like, oh yeah, these are, you know, specifically bred pigs just to get fat.

00:54:21.000 They're not to run around, they're not to live, they're just going to be sitting here and eating, and that's it.

00:54:25.000 Here's the question I have for your average rural living conservative.

00:54:29.000 Wouldn't you like for just once in their lives, these urban liberals, to understand why you need a weapon, why you need a gun, when you're out in the middle of nowhere and you've got some animals and you're worried about feral hogs, or you're worried about coyotes, and you've got to protect those you care about, not just your animals, but your family?

00:54:45.000 Wouldn't you want them to experience for once in their life why they have to chop lumber Why they have to go out and make sure they get enough wood for the stove because you're not going to have necessarily the propane delivery in time if the roads are slicked up.

00:54:57.000 Wouldn't you just want them to experience hard work?

00:55:00.000 The problem is, while I think it sounds good teaching people responsibility, getting them out to go, you know, actually learn how to survive and be responsible for themselves, the people who are orchestrating these big changes, the people who are calling for these changes, Don't want people to actually be free and independent.

00:55:17.000 Yeah.

00:55:17.000 They're advocating for taking away the weapons of these individuals.

00:55:20.000 And I know a lot of people say, Tim, the Second Amendment isn't about hunting and stuff like that.

00:55:23.000 I know, I know.

00:55:24.000 It's literally about securing a free state.

00:55:26.000 But one of the biggest reasons anybody would need to know how and be trained with a weapon is you've got to protect your home.

00:55:33.000 You live in the middle of nowhere where you don't got cops.

00:55:35.000 But more importantly, you hear the coyotes out in the back.

00:55:37.000 And what happens when they come for your chickens?

00:55:38.000 You pepper them up with some birdshot or something, scare them away or whatever it is you do.

00:55:42.000 Or even feral hogs.

00:55:43.000 When they come, they come in large droves, they come in large numbers, and a high-capacity magazine is something you're going to need.

00:55:49.000 Having a 10-round magazine sometimes won't suffice and will put you in danger.

00:55:53.000 You'll have to have a bunch of magazines.

00:55:54.000 Well, even then, reloading and loading takes a while, and during stressful situations, people mess that up.

00:56:00.000 So, again, it's nonsensical and it's going to hurt people on so many different levels.

00:56:04.000 And you bring up very important points.

00:56:06.000 I try to shame the coyotes into not doing it.

00:56:08.000 I give them bad reviews.

00:56:10.000 I tweet negative things at them.

00:56:11.000 Do you try to cancel them?

00:56:12.000 I do.

00:56:12.000 I say, like, shame on you.

00:56:14.000 And I take pictures and I tell them, you know, we're going to kick them out.

00:56:17.000 You're going to tell their boss on them.

00:56:19.000 But this all goes back to, I mean, it's just a great conversation, but I started my organization exactly for what you were talking about, that these urban elites, these people who were three generations removed from, oh, maybe my grandfather was a coal miner, or my great-grandfather, but now I am a true urbanite.

00:56:35.000 And I'm an urbanite.

00:56:36.000 I grew up in New York City.

00:56:38.000 et cetera, et cetera.

00:56:39.000 But they make decisions about the livelihood of people in towns.

00:56:43.000 Michael Bloomberg is going out of his way to close coal mines in America.

00:56:47.000 He is destroying small towns in Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico, Wyoming.

00:56:53.000 He wouldn't land one of his G6s in West Virginia because there's no Four Seasons there.

00:56:59.000 He wouldn't spend a second in Artesia, New Mexico.

00:57:02.000 But he will destroy their livelihood.

00:57:05.000 he will take away the only source of income they have and that is shameful. 1.00

00:57:09.000 Bloomberg is the guy who said to tax the poor because they're too stupid to spend their own money properly. 0.97

00:57:15.000 And in that same speech, which was with Christine Lagarde at some, you know, Bilderberg conference, he said, you know, the coal miners will find other things for them to do. 0.99

00:57:26.000 And I thought, we will find other things for them to do.

00:57:29.000 First of all, who the heck is we?

00:57:31.000 And what are these other things?

00:57:32.000 Do they get a choice?

00:57:33.000 It's like John Kerry talking about, well, they have a better choice now.

00:57:35.000 They'll become solar panel technicians.

00:57:38.000 Do I get a say in this new job?

00:57:41.000 Right?

00:57:41.000 What cast am I born into?

00:57:44.000 Was it Peter Doocy or Steve?

00:57:47.000 I don't know which one's the kid, which one's the dad.

00:57:48.000 The Fox News journalist.

00:57:49.000 He asked Jen Psaki, the Biden administration press secretary, A lot of people just lost jobs because Joe Biden ended the

00:57:56.000 Keystone Pipeline construction. It was like 10,000 good union jobs gone. When can they expect to

00:58:01.000 get these green jobs that Biden has promised? And her response was, can you prove to me they

00:58:06.000 can't get jobs? And he was like, what?

00:58:08.000 No, no, but Biden said there will be new green jobs. I'm asking when? I don't know what you're

00:58:13.000 talking about. It was entirely adversarial. The problem with this though is, you think somebody

00:58:19.000 who knows how to build an oil pipeline, that line of work, can just magically teleport to

00:58:23.000 a solar plant, a solar power, a solar panel factory and know what they're doing?

00:58:26.000 We've already said, though, that solar panels isn't the answer.

00:58:28.000 We need new battery tech.

00:58:30.000 And when you ask these politicians, what are you going to do?

00:58:32.000 They're like, I will find the best minds that will figure out how to do it.

00:58:37.000 But another thing we really need to discuss that that's not really talked about a lot, especially in American mainstream media, is the waste, is the pollution, is the utter crap that's being spewed by third world countries, countries like China, that pollute on massive levels, and there's no regulations, there's no Michael Bloomberg flying over there telling them what to do. 1.00

00:58:58.000 95% of the plastics in the ocean come from Southeast Asia.

00:59:01.000 70% of it comes specifically from China.

00:59:03.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:59:04.000 Greta Thunberg says we're the ones who gotta change and she doesn't go to China.

00:59:07.000 What do we do?

00:59:08.000 We ban straws.

00:59:10.000 Just think about the logic of this.

00:59:12.000 There is so much plastic in the Pacific Ocean that Washington DC has a straw ban.

00:59:17.000 And you say, well, what the heck does one have to do with the other?

00:59:20.000 Well, it feels good.

00:59:21.000 And we applaud this.

00:59:23.000 I was in Texas.

00:59:26.000 I think it was when I went on the Glenn Beck program.

00:59:29.000 And I was at some restaurant in the airport.

00:59:32.000 ordered an Arnold Palmer. I enjoyed all Arnold Palmer. You guys like ice tea and lemon? Lovely drink. Well, the waitress

00:59:38.000 came up to me and she was, it was it was kind of funny because

00:59:41.000 she handed me a paper straw, and she apologized. And I laughed.

00:59:45.000 She no, no, no, she legit. She like brought to me to pull the 1.00

00:59:48.000 paper. So I'm sorry. Yeah. And I looked at I started laughing and

00:59:51.000 I was like, I it's fine. And she goes, why did they ban straws?

00:59:56.000 And then she brought up your point.

00:59:57.000 I'm like, here's a waitress who knows that we are not.

01:00:00.000 And then I asked her about it.

01:00:01.000 I was like, that's a really good point.

01:00:03.000 And most people don't know that.

01:00:04.000 And she started talking to me about a bunch of political stuff.

01:00:06.000 And I'm like, how is it this waitress knows and understands the problem better than these politicians do? 1.00

01:00:12.000 That's the problem.

01:00:14.000 A regular person looks into it, researches it and says, well, what is banning straws going to do?

01:00:19.000 Did you ever see the video of the straw up the turtle's nose?

01:00:22.000 And these people find this turtle swimming in the water, and they pull it out, and it's stuck.

01:00:25.000 So they take pliers, and they go in, and they start to try and pull it out of the turtle, and it starts bleeding, and the turtle's screaming in pain.

01:00:31.000 It's a video on YouTube, I'm sure.

01:00:33.000 And they just work his face and basically commit surgery on this.

01:00:37.000 So plastic in the ocean is devastating.

01:00:39.000 No one's denying that, but we're not the ones who are...

01:00:45.000 doing it. But why is Greta Thunberg coming and speaking to Europeans and Americans saying,

01:00:49.000 how dare you? We must stop. It's like, okay, can we fly you to China so you can have a conversation

01:00:54.000 with what they're doing? Like, I'm not trying to, I mean, literally. China right now, as we are 0.88

01:00:59.000 speaking, is building more coal plants than all of Europe currently has active. And they promised

01:01:05.000 to stop. They lied.

01:01:07.000 Absolutely.

01:01:08.000 And they're never going to stop.

01:01:09.000 Why are they building coal plants? 0.62

01:01:10.000 Because it works.

01:01:11.000 You can say coal is bad.

01:01:13.000 You can say coal is good.

01:01:14.000 I am going to say coal works.

01:01:16.000 And China is serious.

01:01:18.000 They have a world to conquer.

01:01:20.000 They're not going to face what Texas is facing.

01:01:22.000 You think China is going to allow one of this Uyghur concentration camps making Nike sneakers to ever go dark? 1.00

01:01:30.000 They are serious.

01:01:31.000 And so they are building serious infrastructure.

01:01:34.000 The Chinese Communist Party will burn the entire plant to the ground before they see power. 0.66

01:01:41.000 Also, if you remember, they're the ones taking a lot of the plastic from the West. 0.88

01:01:41.000 Absolutely. 0.88

01:01:45.000 There was a big controversy between them and Canada recently as well, and a lot of people found out when they were taking the plastic to allegedly recycle it, and were being paid to recycle it, what they were doing?

01:01:55.000 They were throwing it in the water, and that's why we have this huge Island made of plastic that specifically came from China.

01:02:02.000 And what are they doing now?

01:02:03.000 They're not only polluting and throwing a lot of waste in the water.

01:02:06.000 They're also expanding their weather modification program, which of course they actively used.

01:02:16.000 They used it during their Olympics, but they're now making sure that they're going to be able to manipulate the environment to their own personal benefit, which is going to hurt a lot of countries surrounding them as well.

01:02:28.000 We saw a lot of tragic stories coming out of China ... specifically with them trying to stop rain during the ... Olympics causing massive flooding in other areas they're ... now expanding this to huge levels that we don't even know ... about don't even comprehend and the devastating effects ... from this will be far bigger than even some pollution ... according to some experts. 0.74

01:02:46.000 I think there's just cultural differences, though, between us.

01:02:48.000 You're right.

01:02:49.000 Cultural norms.

01:02:50.000 You know, I have so much respect for Joe Biden.

01:02:52.000 He didn't want to be a xenophobe like Trump was.

01:02:55.000 How dare Trump call out China for lying to the world about the coronavirus and igniting this massive pandemic?

01:03:02.000 It was bigoted of him because the only reason he did it was because it's China.

01:03:06.000 That's the only reason.

01:03:07.000 And China has so many vulnerabilities that if we were serious about freedom and the livelihood of our fellow mankind, we could cripple China. 0.89

01:03:18.000 They need to import 12 million barrels a day of oil.

01:03:20.000 You don't want to be racist there, buddy.

01:03:22.000 We can't talk about China like that.

01:03:24.000 Joe Biden says it's just cultural differences.

01:03:26.000 You know, we got to let them do their thing.

01:03:27.000 Right.

01:03:28.000 We could just stop.

01:03:29.000 Sending all of our jobs there, right? We could stop buying Nike sneakers. We could stop stop watching Disney, right?

01:03:36.000 Like we could easily end the China wrath, but we just choose not to because it's convenient. It's cheap 0.50

01:03:41.000 This is why this is why I was saying part of me just wants like a legitimate

01:03:46.000 Call for people to get back to nature to some degree and go out and tend to the chickens man

01:03:53.000 Chickens are hilarious.

01:03:54.000 I don't understand how a person could look at a chicken and not laugh.

01:03:57.000 It's like watching them do their thing.

01:03:59.000 It's just hilarious to watch chickens do their thing.

01:04:01.000 And maybe this pandemic has showed us that you really can live anywhere, right?

01:04:07.000 If we can work remotely, Then get the heck, and I'm from Queens, so anyone who's from Queens, you know, get the heck out of Queens. 1.00

01:04:15.000 Go just a couple, you know, it's 60, 70 miles, and your life will change dramatically.

01:04:20.000 The air is better.

01:04:21.000 The people are nicer.

01:04:23.000 I had a hard time leaving LA.

01:04:24.000 Like, I felt like I was failing.

01:04:26.000 Like, I failed in my life because I was leaving the Mecca. 1.00

01:04:29.000 But it's just the day of decentralization is upon us.

01:04:33.000 So we have out here a city, a city of cardinals. 1.00

01:04:38.000 I've never seen so many cardinals.

01:04:41.000 So it snowed recently.

01:04:43.000 Everything is white. 0.99

01:04:44.000 I look in the tree, and there's red spots all over the tree, and I was like, damn! 0.98

01:04:48.000 Living in the city, you see one, and you go, hey, look, a cardinal! 0.98

01:04:51.000 Oh, man!

01:04:52.000 Out here, it's like, oh, the cardinals won't go away!

01:04:52.000 Exactly.

01:04:54.000 Yeah, and you see bluebirds, and you see different flowers, and you hear different sounds.

01:04:59.000 And if people got away from these cities, Rolled up their sleeves, did a little bit of hard work, their lives would improve, and it would cut off the supply line to these corrupt companies like Disney praising the paramilitaries in Xinjiang. 0.97

01:05:15.000 It would cut off NBA and these other companies.

01:05:17.000 It's like, I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode, Just Don't Look.

01:05:20.000 You know, the trios of horror when the advertisements come to life, just don't look.

01:05:24.000 I gotta tell you, man, if I had a choice between watching the Super Bowl and watching a chicken walk around, I'd pick the chicken.

01:05:29.000 I'm not kidding.

01:05:30.000 It's funny.

01:05:31.000 It's just like, it's hilarious. 1.00

01:05:32.000 They're like so dumb. 0.99

01:05:33.000 I caught myself staring out the window this morning at the snow falling for like 10 minutes. 0.99

01:05:39.000 I was just standing there looking outside and it was like Betsy was sitting next to me, the cat, and it was like she was watching outside too.

01:05:45.000 And I realized it's like TV.

01:05:47.000 We're watching, it's like better than TV in a lot of ways.

01:05:50.000 It is TV for cats.

01:05:52.000 People are a lot happier and healthier living out in the wild, living out in nature.

01:05:57.000 There's no crazy crackheads.

01:05:58.000 There's no pollution.

01:05:59.000 There's no stress.

01:06:00.000 There's no guy beating you over the head with a baseball bat, which just, there's a viral video going around in New York City right now.

01:06:06.000 There's no Cuomo putting sick people into your nursing homes and killing your parents.

01:06:10.000 Threatening assembly members that they're going to be destroyed if they don't say nice things about That particular response.

01:06:17.000 I mean, I lived in the city too, growing up, and I hate it.

01:06:21.000 I'm so happy I'm not there anymore.

01:06:22.000 And I'm telling you, like, you feel stuck in there.

01:06:25.000 I mean, I felt stuck.

01:06:26.000 I was like, I can't leave New York City.

01:06:27.000 If you can't make it in New York City, you can't make it anywhere.

01:06:30.000 I love the city.

01:06:31.000 I love the nightlife.

01:06:32.000 I love being able to go out and then COVID happened.

01:06:35.000 And then I'm like, this is an absolute police state tyrannical Hell hole.

01:06:40.000 That's the epitome of the worst elements of communism mixed in with Big Brother literally stomping you in the face with its boot every single chance and opportunity that they get.

01:06:50.000 There's New York City inspection officers literally running around with binoculars trying to look through your windows to make sure that you're not socially distancing enough.

01:06:59.000 There's people rummaging through your trash, even before COVID, making sure you recycled correctly.

01:07:04.000 Meanwhile, the whole recycling whole agenda is a scam, anyway.

01:07:08.000 How about, you know, Jack Murphy telling us that he was, like, lifting weights in his front yard with his kids, and the neighbors called the cops on him?

01:07:14.000 Three times.

01:07:15.000 The Karens.

01:07:16.000 Why would any... You know what, man?

01:07:18.000 I don't like the authoritarians telling people to live in the pod in a city that smells like sour milk.

01:07:24.000 There's a way out, okay?

01:07:26.000 If you don't want to live in the pod, you don't want to eat the bugs.

01:07:28.000 You move out to the middle of nowhere.

01:07:30.000 Life is probably in some ways harder, but life is more fulfilling.

01:07:35.000 I saw a meme the other day where it was... I think we mentioned on the show, it's Bob from The Incredibles.

01:07:40.000 He's a superhero, right?

01:07:41.000 But now later in his life, he's an insurance adjuster or something and it's like...

01:07:44.000 The meme was me at work contemplating my worthless, my pointless existence or whatever, my purposeless existence.

01:07:49.000 And I'm like, bro, your life is only purposeless because you are living in a concrete block stacked on top of other concrete blocks in a city that smells like sour milk.

01:07:58.000 And if you go out and get away from this, not only, here's the thing, here's the pitch to the environmentalists.

01:08:04.000 You want to save the planet?

01:08:05.000 You want less carbon emissions?

01:08:08.000 Advocate for people to go out and do some hard work on their own.

01:08:10.000 Stop relying on fossil fuels for energy and use a little human power.

01:08:15.000 Chop that wood yourself.

01:08:16.000 Or relocate your headquarters rather than on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where the Sierra Club is.

01:08:23.000 Go out into the country.

01:08:24.000 Open a headquarters in rural Ohio if you really care about the earth.

01:08:29.000 But look at where these groups are located.

01:08:30.000 They're located in New York, they're located in DC, San Francisco.

01:08:33.000 And the bigger problem I have with a lot of the elites of this country is that they push 0.99

01:08:38.000 this lifestyle through their policies, through their political giving, but when the crap 0.98

01:08:45.000 They jumped on their jet and flew to the Hamptons. 0.97

01:08:45.000 What did they do? 0.97

01:08:47.000 They flew to the Bahamas.

01:08:48.000 They flew to Cancun.

01:08:50.000 That's the problem with the Ted Cruz thing.

01:08:52.000 It's not that he left.

01:08:53.000 It's that people don't like that he had a choice.

01:08:56.000 I am stuck here, but I have the choice to leave.

01:08:59.000 And if we're all in this together, well, you can't say that.

01:09:01.000 Remember that meme that said, uh, celebrities spell out hope on their yachts?

01:09:07.000 It's true.

01:09:08.000 We're not all in this together.

01:09:09.000 If you are pushing these policies, but you have a $40 million beach house in the Hamptons.

01:09:14.000 And then you also live by a different set of rules that don't apply to anyone else but you.

01:09:19.000 They get to scoot around.

01:09:21.000 They get to go to restaurants.

01:09:22.000 They get to go get their haircuts.

01:09:24.000 Meanwhile, you can't go outside.

01:09:25.000 You can't even meet your family.

01:09:26.000 You can!

01:09:28.000 If you have enough money if you're in the club in the cities 0.68

01:09:31.000 We can walk outside right now no masks on and no one cares In fact, you can walk outside here shoot a gun. Nobody

01:09:37.000 cares You live in the middle of nowhere you get more space and I

01:09:39.000 have to i've talked to my friends about this When I said I was leaving new york city, they're like, why

01:09:43.000 would you leave new york? And I said listen The closer you are jammed to other people your personal

01:09:48.000 Bubble of your like your freedom gets compressed compressed You can't even play music in your New York apartment because you've got four neighbors complaining with a loud noise.

01:09:58.000 You move out to the suburbs, now you can play music in your house and your neighbors mostly don't care, but six in the morning you want to go outside and maybe target shoot or something?

01:10:07.000 You can't do that in the suburbs!

01:10:08.000 You move out to the country, you can't.

01:10:10.000 Yeah.

01:10:10.000 And you can go outside with a 50 BMG semi-auto and just unload as long as you got appropriate backstop

01:10:15.000 And you know you're at you know properly acting and I think it's funny when these I see all these posts like we had

01:10:20.000 this Thing happen with Laura Bobert. She had she was doing a

01:10:23.000 zoom call Laura Lauren. Sorry Lauren But she was she had the guns behind her and all these like 1.00

01:10:28.000 leftists are like what is she doing with guns? 1.00

01:10:30.000 I'm like why do you care she lives in the middle of nowhere?

01:10:34.000 Yeah, why would I want to live in a city where I have these Karen's screaming at me about me doing something like 0.76

01:10:41.000 You know just like just something innocuous working out in your backyard working out in your front yard

01:10:46.000 I'm gonna call the police Okay, look man. 0.83

01:10:48.000 I'm gonna go to the middle of nowhere where I can go outside in Mid-morning buck naked scream and just fire some guns.

01:10:55.000 It's like a different whatever you want the internet man.

01:10:58.000 It isn't oh Different world.

01:10:59.000 When I was a kid, when I was 7, 8, 9, I was taught that you needed to be in a big city to have access to technology and people.

01:11:06.000 And in the country you're isolated.

01:11:07.000 And it is completely different now.

01:11:09.000 You go to the country of high-speed internet, you start an empire.

01:11:14.000 This is one of the reasons why New York City is going to collapse.

01:11:17.000 A lot of people aren't coming back because they're realizing they don't need to come back.

01:11:21.000 Everything that they used to do at the office, you know, at their workspace, they could do online.

01:11:27.000 Businesses are realizing this.

01:11:28.000 They're not even asking people to come back.

01:11:30.000 And that's why a major swap of real estate in New York City is going to be redesigned to be apartment buildings rather than office buildings.

01:11:38.000 Who's going to live there when there's no jobs?

01:11:40.000 Oh, well, it's funny because de Blasio's like we're gonna buy up these old buildings now They've been like you shut you destroyed the city.

01:11:46.000 Yeah, and then he buys it up.

01:11:47.000 It's like Robocop, you know the evil Yeah, watch the original Robocop.

01:11:53.000 It's extremely eye-opening and I'm always a proud New Yorker.

01:11:58.000 I love New York.

01:11:59.000 I mean always consider New York home You get this little swagger when and I my accent comes back when I go back to Queens when I order pizza, you know but there is a there is a Deep anger in that city.

01:12:13.000 And pre-COVID.

01:12:14.000 People are stressed, unsatisfied, not making enough money.

01:12:19.000 They're paying $4,500 a month in rent for a room that's smaller than this.

01:12:23.000 I've heard it's the brake dust from all the cars is so fine.

01:12:26.000 The particulates that they go through the alveoli in your lungs.

01:12:29.000 It's not even like the carbon dioxide emissions.

01:12:31.000 It's the brake dust.

01:12:32.000 And it causes hypertension.

01:12:33.000 High stress, high blood pressure, and that leads to a lot of the stress that people feel in cities.

01:12:38.000 A couple of months after the start of the pandemic, when the lockdowns were in full swing, I went out to the middle of nowhere in this rural area, and I was at a small little restaurant, and somebody noticed me, and they were like, are you Tim Pool?

01:12:50.000 And he's like, oh, wow.

01:12:50.000 And I was like, yeah.

01:12:51.000 And he's like, nice to meet you.

01:12:52.000 And he's like, hey, you mind if I introduce you to some people?

01:12:54.000 I'm like, yeah, of course.

01:12:55.000 We started talking and I was like, so how are you guys holding up in the pandemic with all the lockdowns and stuff?

01:12:59.000 And they're like, it hasn't affected us at all.

01:13:00.000 And I was like, no.

01:13:02.000 Like we were just hanging out, having a beer the other day and like wondering what it must be like in these cities where your lives are destroyed.

01:13:07.000 And he's like, for us, nothing changed at all.

01:13:10.000 The only difference was now they want you to wear a mask, I guess.

01:13:13.000 But for the most part, nothing else changed.

01:13:15.000 No, it was funny for a while.

01:13:18.000 Every weekend, different friends, you know, from D.C.

01:13:21.000 would say, hey, do you mind if, you know, we come out for the weekend and say hello?

01:13:24.000 And then finally, after like two months, Andrew was like, are we running a bed and breakfast?

01:13:28.000 Like, what is going on?

01:13:29.000 Like every weekend we have these house guests, but I feel bad for them.

01:13:32.000 You know, they they can't go outside.

01:13:34.000 It's in lockdown mode.

01:13:35.000 There's National Guard patrolling the streets.

01:13:38.000 So it was like, yeah, we'll give you a little bit of refuge.

01:13:40.000 I think I think if some of these city people Got to taste the joy of responsibility in taking care of your animals and your family.

01:13:48.000 They would be addicted to it instantly.

01:13:50.000 Meaningful work.

01:13:52.000 Meaningful work rather than just empty button pushing that they usually do in the city.

01:13:56.000 And the joy of seeing your dog run without a leash.

01:14:00.000 Yeah, is a is a pleasure. Like I took my dogs, you know, to the

01:14:03.000 city in the dog park and we play with the other dogs. But to see

01:14:06.000 my dog doesn't really know what Alicia is now. And and I will

01:14:09.000 not put him or her I've two dogs on one again to see them just

01:14:13.000 run and play and get dirty and my dogs are happy.

01:14:18.000 Everyone's happy.

01:14:19.000 I'm happy.

01:14:22.000 People talk about they need purpose in their lives.

01:14:26.000 Purpose doesn't need to be you becoming the king and taking over and leading your civilization to conquest.

01:14:32.000 It could be you living for someone other than yourself.

01:14:36.000 And when you have animals to take care of that also help sustain you, chickens laying eggs for instance, or if you're raising cattle for meat or something, You have to take care of them because they're ultimately going to take care of you.

01:14:47.000 That's your responsibility.

01:14:48.000 You wake up in the morning and you've got something, some problem or some threat or some storm or whatever.

01:14:53.000 You have, you have purpose.

01:14:54.000 If I don't do this, bad things will happen.

01:14:57.000 I must take action.

01:14:58.000 And that's lost for people in the city because it's, it's almost like we beat the game.

01:15:03.000 You know, like, you know, humans have beat the game.

01:15:05.000 You live in the city.

01:15:06.000 What do these people do?

01:15:07.000 Let's be real.

01:15:09.000 There are people who live in New York who write articles about Brad Pitt and they make $50,000 a year and complain and they hate their lives and they're like, we need a union because I don't get paid enough!

01:15:24.000 Dude, you realize that, like, there are people who build things and do back-breaking manual labor, making 15 bucks an hour, and you're getting double or triple what they get paid to write garbage articles?

01:15:35.000 These people have the cushiest, do-nothing jobs on the planet.

01:15:35.000 Yeah.

01:15:39.000 And that's one of the biggest problems, is making this country fall apart.

01:15:41.000 These media outlets have no idea, half the time, what to write about.

01:15:45.000 Because, well, you gotta write about news.

01:15:47.000 I'll give you a really good example of what happens with video games.

01:15:50.000 Normally, a video game comes out.

01:15:52.000 We'll call it Ian's Quest.

01:15:53.000 And you know, Ian is a noble knight with a sword, and he's going to fight a dragon.

01:15:56.000 And so they write an article.

01:15:57.000 Ian's Quest is a new game that does X, Y, and Z. It's fun.

01:15:59.000 Here are the controls.

01:16:00.000 Whatever.

01:16:01.000 Then they write some guides to that.

01:16:03.000 Okay, great.

01:16:04.000 They wrote ten articles when the game came out.

01:16:06.000 The next day, there's no new game.

01:16:07.000 What do they do?

01:16:08.000 What do they write about?

01:16:09.000 Well, what happened was they figured it out.

01:16:11.000 Politics.

01:16:13.000 Well, can we complain about the game for some reason?

01:16:15.000 Oh, someone noticed that one of the dragons actually looks like, uh, like he might be, uh, a misogynist.

01:16:23.000 Yeah.

01:16:24.000 So the game is bigoted.

01:16:25.000 All of a sudden now, they start writing articles that we're desperately trying to find anything to be. 0.97

01:16:32.000 They're getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to write about this garbage.

01:16:37.000 Meanwhile, you got some dude who's like in Montana cattle ranching because he's trying to make sure people in his community have enough food and he has no idea what you're talking about. 0.99

01:16:44.000 And here are these people getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to write about nonsense.

01:16:47.000 Not only off of that, but they're also living off of the backs of illegal immigrants that they're benefiting off of when they're paid low wage work. 0.99

01:16:55.000 That they're serving them, they're cooking their food, they're giving them their food, they're cleaning after them, and they're hypocritically talking about the plight of immigrants, calling for more immigrants, as of course they're benefiting from it. 1.00

01:17:08.000 Sorry, go ahead.

01:17:09.000 No, I was going to say, the dude in Montana is healthier, he's probably hotter, right?

01:17:13.000 I mean, he's stronger, you know?

01:17:15.000 And it's like, for those of us on this persuasion, and for chicks, Who would you rather get with?

01:17:21.000 The dude in Montana who's like, like herding his cows, or like the Buzzfeed, 7 Things You Didn't Know About Geyser Crystal Water.

01:17:28.000 The low-T guy.

01:17:32.000 To each their own.

01:17:33.000 To each their own.

01:17:34.000 You know, I guess there's a lot of women... You know the answer to that question. 1.00

01:17:36.000 That's correct, yes.

01:17:37.000 You know, it's funny because, but I'll tell you this.

01:17:40.000 The one thing that really angers the left is pointing out the issues that are affecting cities.

01:17:46.000 Like they really, really get mad at me.

01:17:49.000 And so I've done several segments talking about women not finding relationships, not getting married, and complaining about it. 0.86

01:17:56.000 And so there's been several studies, and it's been left-wing publications or right-wing publications, but the one thing that really drives them insane and makes them really want to come after me is when I point out these articles where it's like 30-year-old woman says, I can't get a boyfriend or something.

01:18:09.000 And so they try to, you know, it's just, they don't like that as a conversation.

01:18:14.000 For some reason, that particular conversation really, really gets to them.

01:18:19.000 I don't exactly know why.

01:18:20.000 If you live in a city, and you're a, you know, a woman past 30 who's working, and you chose to do those things, I got no beef. 1.00

01:18:20.000 Why it is. 1.00

01:18:27.000 Like, more power to you, man.

01:18:28.000 I'm all about the freedom.

01:18:28.000 Congratulations.

01:18:29.000 If you're now upset that you can't find a real relationship, well, I'm not ragging on you.

01:18:34.000 I mean, I guess life is tough, you know?

01:18:36.000 But they write these articles, but that really, really strikes a chord.

01:18:39.000 It really does.

01:18:40.000 It, it, it, just like a, the one thing that really gets them mad.

01:18:43.000 I don't, I don't, maybe it's because it really is an issue.

01:18:45.000 Maybe because they really don't like it.

01:18:46.000 I don't know.

01:18:48.000 It is weird that when you look at the city and there are millions of people who are alone and lonely, and you interact with thousands of them every week, but the relationships are getting worse, right?

01:19:00.000 The marriage rates are plummeting, the divorce rates are skyrocketing, so how are all these people, especially a city like DC where I lived for 15 years, 17 years, how do all these people who are between 24 and 34 and single Not find love.

01:19:17.000 I think it's the internet, to be honest.

01:19:19.000 Probably.

01:19:19.000 You know, it's changed the way we used to communicate, we used to discover people, we used to bump into each other and then find common bonds.

01:19:26.000 So I, you know... People cyberstalk also, which is a big problem.

01:19:30.000 I meet this guy Ian, he's awesome, but before I have the first date, I find old tweets.

01:19:35.000 And they're like, oh my god, and I don't believe this, and oh my gosh, you like third eye blind, I can't go out with Ian.

01:19:40.000 It's part of why I didn't research you.

01:19:42.000 I don't ask who's coming on the show because I don't want to stalk you before you get here.

01:19:46.000 Well, you know what?

01:19:47.000 That is like the most mature thing I have ever heard because other people be like, well, let me find out every detail and that's awesome, you know, and I hope people do that in their dating life too and be pleasantly surprised.

01:19:58.000 Ian, do you like Third Eye Blind?

01:20:00.000 I love Third Eye Blind.

01:20:01.000 Oh, no.

01:20:02.000 London.

01:20:03.000 Play London by Third Eye Blind.

01:20:04.000 No, no, no, no.

01:20:05.000 That's a great song.

01:20:07.000 No, they're alright.

01:20:07.000 No, I didn't say that name.

01:20:08.000 I don't know.

01:20:09.000 Is Third Eye Blind bad or something?

01:20:11.000 The guy was totally into heroin when he wrote that first album.

01:20:13.000 I don't know why it was the first one that popped into my head.

01:20:16.000 Uh, Semi-Charmed Life.

01:20:19.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:20:19.000 That's about coming down from heroin, I believe.

01:20:21.000 Wow, crazy.

01:20:22.000 So here's what I want to point out, going back to the conversation about energy and all that.

01:20:26.000 I have this article from almost two years ago now.

01:20:28.000 It's from Yahoo News.

01:20:30.000 Actually, it's from the National Review.

01:20:31.000 AOC's chief of staff admits the Green New Deal is not about climate change.

01:20:36.000 This is important context.

01:20:37.000 I know it's an old story.

01:20:38.000 But considering the conversation happening around Texas right now, so for those of you that are watching, if you get someone who says, see, AOC says, this is why we need a Green New Deal.

01:20:46.000 OK.

01:20:46.000 All right.

01:20:47.000 That's the argument.

01:20:48.000 Show them this clip.

01:20:50.000 Here's what we have.

01:20:51.000 Sycat Chakrabarty, AOC's former chief of staff, said that addressing climate change was not Ocasio-Cortez's top priority in proposing the Green New Deal during a meeting with Washington Governor Jay Inslee.

01:21:00.000 Quote, the interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at

01:21:05.000 all. This is what Chakrabarti said to Inslee's climate director, Sam Ricketts. He said, do you

01:21:11.000 guys think of it as a climate thing?

01:21:13.000 Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.

01:21:17.000 The Green New Deal proposed earlier this year by Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey would transition the U.S. 0.94

01:21:22.000 economy entirely away from fossil fuels within 10 years, while simultaneously providing a federal jobs and healthcare guarantee.

01:21:28.000 It would also, according to its proponents, advance social, economic, racial, regional, and gender-based justice and equality in cooperative and public ownership.

01:21:37.000 All told, the proposal will cost up to $93 trillion in new government spending over 10 years, yada yada, we get it.

01:21:43.000 Okay, to put it simply, let me ask you a question.

01:21:46.000 A rhetorical question.

01:21:49.000 I'll just reframe it actually.

01:21:50.000 If someone came to me and said, do you think we should allocate taxpayer funds towards investing in new energy technologies in an effort to offset carbon emissions?

01:22:01.000 I would say, yes.

01:22:04.000 So, all of a sudden, you say yes, they say, boom, you support the Green New Deal.

01:22:08.000 Okay, that sounds good to me.

01:22:09.000 And that's what they asked people.

01:22:11.000 What they did not ask them was the actual contents of the Green New Deal.

01:22:15.000 Do you support the largest transfer of power and economic control to the government in order to ensure racial and gender-based equity and guaranteed housing and healthcare?

01:22:30.000 That has nothing to do with the environment.

01:22:33.000 That's going to dramatically drop the amount of people who agree with that.

01:22:38.000 Last point, Chakrabarti said it was about changing the economy.

01:22:42.000 It's a new deal with green just jammed in there to use environmentalism as a manipulation. 0.84

01:22:48.000 Because when I read that bill, I was looking for a legitimate resolution that said, we're going to allocate X amount of funds towards fusion.

01:22:54.000 We're going to allocate X amount of funds towards nuclear development, which I knew they would never do.

01:22:58.000 And we're going to allocate X amount of funds towards carbon capture.

01:23:00.000 And I'd be like, let's, let's technology.

01:23:02.000 It's awesome, man.

01:23:02.000 Let's fund technology.

01:23:03.000 They didn't.

01:23:04.000 They said, we're going to guarantee healthcare to people of color.

01:23:07.000 And I'm like, okay.

01:23:07.000 How about the line, we're going to guarantee income for those unwilling to work?

01:23:11.000 You must have read that and said, wow.

01:23:13.000 And they had to remove that in panic and then try and deny it. 1.00

01:23:17.000 Just imagine the stupidity of someone who says, we are going to get all fossil fuels in 10 years. 1.00

01:23:23.000 Someone who says that just literally doesn't know how the world works. 1.00

01:23:26.000 It just doesn't understand how the world works.

01:23:28.000 Anytime you say, would you support this outcome? 1.00

01:23:31.000 That's moronic. 0.99

01:23:32.000 Would you support Daniel winning the race? 0.99

01:23:35.000 Well, in that case, let me take any means necessary to make it happen.

01:23:38.000 Thank you.

01:23:39.000 That's basically the Green New Deal. 0.99

01:23:40.000 So they kill the three of them, and then I win. 0.99

01:23:42.000 Well, then automatically you will win. 0.99

01:23:44.000 So Daniel, look around the room.

01:23:46.000 Is there anything in this room that was created without fossil fuels?

01:23:50.000 It's not possible.

01:23:51.000 Or if it doesn't contain a fossil fuel, it was only created at a price point that you could afford to put it in this room because fossil fuel made it, right?

01:24:01.000 The wood that was milled, you could afford to buy because the trees were harvested, they were transported, they were cut, they were brought to your home depot, all at a price point you could afford.

01:24:14.000 And that's what's beautiful about the free market system.

01:24:17.000 It takes the most amount of goods and lowers it to the lowest cost imaginable.

01:24:21.000 And just on a quick little note, right?

01:24:24.000 So not to be political, but the last four years, Trump is an oil guy, Trump is an oil guy, he supports big oil.

01:24:29.000 Boy, for a guy who supports big oil, oil prices were pretty damn low, right?

01:24:35.000 The oil companies want to make profit off of volume.

01:24:39.000 Oil was at, even before COVID, oil prices were low because they were producing more of it.

01:24:44.000 The industry, the free market, wants to produce more things at a lower price point because more people can buy it.

01:24:50.000 So let's Let's talk about price point.

01:24:52.000 And that's good.

01:24:53.000 There's this story from way back when.

01:24:55.000 One man's nearly impossible quest to make a toaster from scratch.

01:25:00.000 Now what does it mean from scratch?

01:25:01.000 I'm not talking about, and they mention this in the article, a guy going to Radio Shack or Home Depot or whatever to buy components saying I need some wire, I need some metal.

01:25:09.000 No, no, no.

01:25:09.000 He literally wanted to make every single part of it, the springs, everything from the ground up.

01:25:14.000 Guess what?

01:25:14.000 He could not do it.

01:25:16.000 The one thing he couldn't do was plastic.

01:25:18.000 I watched this video on it.

01:25:19.000 He couldn't do plastic, so he ended up mining the plastic.

01:25:23.000 He went and found some and then melted it down.

01:25:24.000 And all in all, the toaster worked for, I think, about 20 seconds before it broke.

01:25:28.000 Toasters cost, what, 10 bucks?

01:25:30.000 For the average person working at McDonald's, takes about an hour.

01:25:34.000 Well, after taxes, about an hour and a half, two hours.

01:25:36.000 And then you get a toaster this guy could not make.

01:25:39.000 The fact that we have this massive industry All of it, 190-something percent fueled by fossil fuels means that you can have these things people cannot make on their own.

01:25:52.000 So the interesting thing about it was plastics.

01:25:54.000 So he couldn't make it if he wanted to.

01:25:57.000 He could do the metal, he could do everything else, but he couldn't actually make the plastic, which is funny because fossil fuel based for the most part, petrochemicals and things like that.

01:26:04.000 Think about, you brought this up before the show, ham sandwiches.

01:26:06.000 Yeah.

01:26:07.000 You want to tell the ham sandwich story?

01:26:08.000 Yeah, it was similar to that, and I have to find, I don't remember where I read it, but it was a guy who, it was, I forget where it was, a guy who wanted to make a ham sandwich, same idea though.

01:26:18.000 Every component he wanted to make, he wanted to grow the wheat.

01:26:21.000 to make the bread.

01:26:22.000 He wanted to grow the pig to make the ham.

01:26:24.000 It took him years and it cost him, I think the price point was like $1,000, where he laughed and said, I can go to the store and buy this ham sandwich for $4 or I could make it on my own and it's $1,000 and years to make it happen.

01:26:37.000 Again, the beauty of the free market.

01:26:39.000 I recently made with some friends from scratch some General Tso's chicken.

01:26:44.000 Oh! 0.60

01:26:45.000 And I was looking at the ingredients and I was like, the amount of things that had to be pulled together to make this would have been like the Manhattan Project.

01:26:55.000 Like 2,000 years ago, if you gave them that recipe, they'd be like, what?

01:26:59.000 We have to get all of these things to make this?

01:27:01.000 That's not possible.

01:27:03.000 And what amazes me about the AOCs of the world, of the haughtiness sometimes of our elite, is The average person in America right now, the average person has the greatest quality of life in the history of mankind.

01:27:17.000 You find people who don't make an awful lot of money who will say things like, oh, you know, I really like craft beer and I like to get my craft beer from this place.

01:27:24.000 A generation ago, we all drank, our parents, my parents, your grandparents, they drank Schlitz, right?

01:27:32.000 Because that's what was available.

01:27:33.000 And now it's like...

01:27:34.000 You ragging on Schlitz?

01:27:35.000 No, I'm just saying there were four or five brands and that was it.

01:27:39.000 And now we find people who, because we have created such prosperity and that comes from

01:27:45.000 an abundance of energy.

01:27:47.000 To go back to the very first question, why is there a food shortage in Texas?

01:27:50.000 There's an energy shortage.

01:27:51.000 Where is there the most poverty in the world where there's no energy?

01:27:54.000 Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia.

01:27:56.000 Where is there the most pollution and despair and the worst quality of life?

01:28:01.000 The same countries.

01:28:02.000 Energy gives us prosperity.

01:28:04.000 It gives us And if Americans are willing to compromise their quality of life for the environment, then I'm not going to stop them from doing it.

01:28:12.000 But they need to know that is what is on the line.

01:28:14.000 And to say we're going to have a Green New Deal, but we're going to continue with all of this, is just a lie.

01:28:19.000 There's a balance, because I went to South America to Iquitos in northeast Peru, which is like the last big city before you get into the jungle. 0.93

01:28:26.000 And Honda basically got their tentacles in Iquitos and started selling them these tuk-tuks, these like three-wheel cars, and basically brand them all Honda.

01:28:34.000 And they use Like gas engines all of them.

01:28:37.000 So there's like thousands tens and hundreds of thousands of these just pouring black smoke into the air It smells disgusting.

01:28:45.000 It's also considered the dirtiest city on the planet That's because it's just all running off gas with no carbon capture taken into consideration.

01:28:53.000 So there's about we need to learn how to use it and Absolutely, we need a balance.

01:28:59.000 And I would argue that we have allowed ourselves to have this binary mentality.

01:29:05.000 We either love the earth or we want to pollute it with fossil fuels.

01:29:08.000 And I think they go hand in hand.

01:29:09.000 I look at this country, which is a very big fossil fuel consumer, and our air, our water quality.

01:29:16.000 We are not a dirty country.

01:29:17.000 Could we be cleaner?

01:29:18.000 Of course we could be cleaner.

01:29:19.000 I don't want to become this city in Peru, did you say?

01:29:22.000 Yeah, Iquitos.

01:29:23.000 I don't want to become that, but we're not there.

01:29:26.000 And so, like we said with the straw ban, we are chastising ourselves and compromising our quality of life for the sins committed by other countries, for the pollution created by China, for the pollution created by Indonesia and India. 0.98

01:29:40.000 When are we going to stand up and say, you know what, we don't throw... I grew up in Rockaway, as I was saying earlier, on the beach.

01:29:47.000 I've been to lots of different beaches in this country.

01:29:49.000 I've never seen plastic strewn all over the place.

01:29:53.000 We don't pollute our oceans in America.

01:29:55.000 Why are we culpable?

01:29:57.000 Because Greta Thunberg, you pronounce it differently than I do, tells us, well, it's our fault there's plastic in the ocean.

01:30:02.000 Thunberg.

01:30:03.000 Yeah, I think the H is silent.

01:30:04.000 I'm pretty sure.

01:30:05.000 I'm tired of us having to compromise our quality of life for the sins committed by other countries, because there are countries committing great sins against the environment.

01:30:15.000 We're going to find out that the carbon dioxide in the air is valuable, like a natural resource to reuse, and the plastic in the ocean is insanely valuable when you can melt it down or break it down with fungus and bacteria to turn it into sugar and reuse it.

01:30:27.000 It's going to be worth its weight in gold.

01:30:29.000 So if China wants to throw it into the ocean so that we can recapture it, I'm totally into it.

01:30:33.000 Just give us 10 or 15 years.

01:30:35.000 Carbon capture technology, converting the carbon in the air to graphene, like you were mentioning, I think is going to become lucrative.

01:30:40.000 And I think then we're going to have an inverse problem where it's like, too much carbon is being taken!

01:30:44.000 And the plants will be suffering.

01:30:45.000 So we're going to need to balance out that.

01:30:47.000 It's true.

01:30:47.000 We can't mine it all out of the air.

01:30:49.000 Graphene has long been hailed as this wonder material that's going to revolutionize everything.

01:30:53.000 Superconductor materials, what is it, like you crisscross it, it becomes a superconductor?

01:30:57.000 Oh yeah, you twist it.

01:30:59.000 Something like that, we were talking about it.

01:31:01.000 And there's a lot of amazing properties, it's like super strong.

01:31:05.000 Well, you need carbon for that.

01:31:07.000 And you mentioned this earlier in the show that they're going to capture it from the air to make graphene.

01:31:11.000 Graphene is pure carbon.

01:31:12.000 So you get the carbon dioxide out of the air and you put it on palladium, apparently, the same metal that you use for cold fusion, the palladium.

01:31:18.000 It's incredible metal, by the way.

01:31:20.000 And I didn't get through the article about the process.

01:31:22.000 I mentioned the article earlier.

01:31:23.000 It's going to be funny.

01:31:25.000 In 50 to 100 years when they're like, you know, global cooling catastrophe because too much carbon is being extracted by these graphene manufacturing plants.

01:31:32.000 I'm sure they'll find something to be... You know, there's articles going back to the 70s, obviously, for the global cooling.

01:31:38.000 My favorite article of all, which is recirculated a lot, is the UN report of 1989 saying we had 10 years to fix climate change.

01:31:46.000 And if not, the Maldives would be underwater within 30 years.

01:31:49.000 What about the 70s, the global cooling crisis?

01:31:50.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:31:51.000 You know but I again I also think like I said earlier I don't like well I don't like I don't trust the press and I also don't like government and I my whole life I've been told between killer bees and swine flu and bird flu and this pandemic everything's gonna kill me every five seconds we're always told we're gonna This whole like slow death thing is driving, I think is a fear thing because we're coming out of the last ice age right now.

01:32:12.000 That's the research shows.

01:32:14.000 We're in a, what is it called?

01:32:15.000 A glaciation period where everything's melting.

01:32:17.000 All the ice caps are going to melt back to normal.

01:32:19.000 We're out of the ice age.

01:32:21.000 And the real fear is an asteroid impact and a massive global flood, not a slow raise in the sea level.

01:32:28.000 It doesn't happen like that.

01:32:29.000 It happens in jolts and jerks.

01:32:31.000 So we got to prevent and be prepared for that kind of thing.

01:32:33.000 Well, we need to understand a lot of things.

01:32:36.000 It's not always, you know, so strongly on one side that there's going to be a solution on.

01:32:43.000 You know, there are some legitimate issues that we do need to take care of, especially with the environment, especially with China, especially with other third world developing countries, especially things that we could also do better and we should strive to do better, but we're not going to be doing better when we're going to be punishing people for living their lives.

01:32:59.000 And doing it radically, and listening to people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that literally said the world will end in 12 years if climate change is not addressed.

01:33:07.000 And I called my organization Power of the Future for a reason, because I do believe our future is better and brighter and has fewer emissions, etc, etc.

01:33:16.000 But the geniuses who are thinking about this and the conversations we're having, the people who are going to laboratories and factories and experimenting, You know who's not crippling their energy?

01:33:26.000 China!

01:33:26.000 That's right.

01:33:27.000 Look at the coal plants they're building.

01:33:28.000 now we are crippling our future. Those people have to drive, they have to turn on lights,

01:33:33.000 they have to run big machines. So let's not punish ourselves now for the hope of a better

01:33:38.000 tomorrow.

01:33:39.000 You know who's not crippling their energy?

01:33:40.000 China.

01:33:41.000 That's right.

01:33:42.000 Look at the coal plants they're building. Nor is Russia. If anything, Russia is laughing

01:33:47.000 So what you're saying is that Greta Thunberg is working for the Russians to hurt America?

01:33:52.000 I am saying that this is Newtonian, and there is always an opposite effect.

01:33:58.000 And by punishing American fossil fuels, other people are going to prosper.

01:34:02.000 Look, there are only certain, with geology as such, that only certain countries have oil and gas.

01:34:08.000 I wish they were all America and Canada, because we're great.

01:34:10.000 But the other ones are the Saudis, the Omanis, the Yemenis, the Russians.

01:34:14.000 They're not the Venezuelans, they're not the greatest regimes on earth.

01:34:17.000 I heard a really horrifying point.

01:34:20.000 The Iranians? 0.99

01:34:21.000 I don't remember who said it, it may have been Mike Cernovich, he said something like,

01:34:24.000 or someone said, if you think the Middle East is destabilized now, wait until we discontinue

01:34:30.000 use of fossil fuels and then see what happens.

01:34:33.000 What little is helping to stabilize that area is the desire for profit and industry and

01:34:38.000 the access to this resource.

01:34:40.000 Once no one cares about that anymore, then fighting is going to be for just unfettered, uncontrolled.

01:34:46.000 Although, like you said, that pipeline is all about moving fossil fuels.

01:34:50.000 So if we didn't need it, we may not have to fight over that area.

01:34:52.000 Fighting would be very different, I'd imagine.

01:34:55.000 Yeah, they don't want to pay the high prices to Russia anymore.

01:34:58.000 So they want this pipeline built and it's resulting in chaos.

01:35:01.000 I've been thinking about if we were to melt all the ice, the countries that would massively profit are Canada, Russia.

01:35:07.000 I don't know how it is.

01:35:08.000 China is super far north up. 0.91

01:35:11.000 China? 0.73

01:35:11.000 No, no. 0.73

01:35:12.000 Russia is to the north. 0.74

01:35:13.000 And we almost bought it, right?

01:35:15.000 It's Russia. 0.81

01:35:15.000 Russia will be massive. 0.81

01:35:16.000 Make massive amounts of money when all that ice is gone.

01:35:20.000 And Siberia and up there.

01:35:21.000 And they already want to start drilling.

01:35:23.000 And so there's now plant.

01:35:24.000 Canada and Greenland is going to be fascinating with no ice.

01:35:28.000 And we almost bought it, right?

01:35:29.000 Our last president tried to buy it for, I forget.

01:35:32.000 He wanted to put that casino in there.

01:35:34.000 I forget the price tag.

01:35:36.000 It wasn't much.

01:35:36.000 We all could have done a GoFundMe.

01:35:40.000 Who owns Greenland?

01:35:40.000 Is it Denmark?

01:35:42.000 Oh my gosh.

01:35:44.000 Wow.

01:35:45.000 It's funny because Denmark's pretty tiny, like in Europe.

01:35:48.000 But they have Greenland.

01:35:50.000 It's massive.

01:35:51.000 It's a whole lot of ice, though.

01:35:52.000 You know, I will say this.

01:35:55.000 The ice on Greenland is ice that is not displacing water.

01:35:58.000 So they say when that melts, it will change the salinity levels, the flow, and potentially the water, the ocean levels themselves.

01:36:05.000 Yeah, it melts on the inside and then it breaks and floods and causes like a dead zone of lack of salt water, all this fresh water.

01:36:12.000 My question is, like, why are these ultra elites buying beachfront properties?

01:36:16.000 No, but it's funny, but someone sent me a video where a guy said that he could debunk climate change with one simple fact, and then he brought up that some global elite, I don't know who it was, bought Florida beachfront property, and he said, how is that possible?

01:36:34.000 That you have these people saying all this is going to happen, and they just made a 30-year investment on waterfront property.

01:36:42.000 There's another video someone sent me where a guy talks about how if this was true, no bank would issue a loan to anyone buying or building on beachfronts, but they don't care.

01:36:52.000 Why is that?

01:36:54.000 Just to finish this, the argument from the left is just simply because people don't care, and that's a problem.

01:36:59.000 Or they don't believe because even as you have now called him our Lord and Savior Bill Gates in his CNN interview on Sunday said, you know, we have 30 years to fix this problem.

01:37:08.000 Well AOC two years ago said we had 10 years at the presidential debates, the Democrat primaries.

01:37:16.000 Andrew Yang said we have no time.

01:37:19.000 It's already here.

01:37:20.000 We should start moving people to higher ground.

01:37:22.000 Remember that line?

01:37:24.000 The Floridians were like, oh boy, pack your bags, kids.

01:37:27.000 I guess, you know, we're moving somewhere, right?

01:37:29.000 So they know that this timeline is a joke.

01:37:31.000 Bill Gates says 30 years, AOC says 8.

01:37:34.000 The legitimate scientists, though, not the politicians, not the politicos or the people trying to make money, will tell you it's a lot longer than that, right?

01:37:41.000 So there's a meteorologist who frequently would debunk AOC saying, Climate change and carbon emissions, they're serious problems.

01:37:48.000 We need to solve for these problems.

01:37:50.000 10 years?

01:37:51.000 That's not true.

01:37:52.000 These people are just, you know, pushing, trying to push you and scare you.

01:37:55.000 And what's going to happen in, say, it's 50 years?

01:37:57.000 Are we going to be as warm as we were in the 1640s when England had very prosperous vineyards?

01:38:04.000 Right?

01:38:05.000 Are we going to be warmer?

01:38:06.000 Well, we were warmer during the height of the Renaissance.

01:38:10.000 Were we all dying?

01:38:11.000 Were we all underwater?

01:38:12.000 You know what I mean?

01:38:13.000 Like we came out of the Black Plague?

01:38:14.000 So yeah, I don't know what the consequences of global warming are.

01:38:18.000 I just hear it's catastrophe.

01:38:20.000 All I know is that beneath the permafrost of Greenland are an awful lot of trees.

01:38:25.000 And all I know is that when you go through the sands of Saudi Arabia, there's an awful lot of seashells.

01:38:30.000 That's ocean sand from the last global flood.

01:38:34.000 So we had nothing to do with that.

01:38:36.000 I think it's very hard to think that we have something to do with what's happening now.

01:38:40.000 Well, that being said, let's jump over to Super Chats.

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01:39:01.000 We got a full bonus episode with James O'Keefe.

01:39:03.000 It's a whole lot of fun.

01:39:04.000 But let's read them Super Chats. 0.81

01:39:06.000 Whoa, it looks like, uh... You know, YouTube changed the way they did superchats, and now I can't see the time of when these were posted.

01:39:06.000 Alright, let's see.

01:39:12.000 It's kind of annoying.

01:39:13.000 So it's a bummer.

01:39:14.000 So we've got, let's see... Control-Alt-Right.

01:39:18.000 Oh, what's that about?

01:39:18.000 He says, I'm superchatting while plowing snow in yet another PA snowstorm.

01:39:23.000 Tim, tell me, do you shovel snow, or do you make Ian do it?

01:39:27.000 We have a beautiful neighbor that has taken the burden.

01:39:30.000 Yes.

01:39:30.000 Well, I have to shovel snow out of my RV roof today.

01:39:34.000 Not fun.

01:39:34.000 I have to do that every time.

01:39:35.000 And if you want to see Luke shoveling snow off his RV, you can go to my Instagram.

01:39:38.000 Wait, does your neighbor have a plow or something?

01:39:41.000 Yeah, he rides around on it.

01:39:42.000 He loves it.

01:39:43.000 No, no, it's a truck.

01:39:44.000 It's a big truck.

01:39:45.000 But still, what a great neighbor.

01:39:48.000 It costs money.

01:39:49.000 Someone bake that guy a cake. 1.00

01:39:51.000 We were going to buy four wheelers.

01:39:53.000 He loves doing it so much.

01:39:56.000 Oh, he's getting paid.

01:39:58.000 I'd prefer cake.

01:39:59.000 Oh, he's getting paid.

01:40:01.000 That's why it's done every day.

01:40:02.000 It's awesome.

01:40:03.000 community is it you gotta tell him to do my roof just cuz says Luke just bought a bunch of your merchant merchandise post more pictures of your puppy much love from Louisiana thank you so much the puppy's doing really well she was having a really fun day running around all the snow today I'm gonna post a video on my Instagram later look we are change one year one year spurts one other ones little Ernie G says, instead of learn to code, learn to grow.

01:40:28.000 There should be classes to teach people to survive in worse conditions, build, grow, and survival.

01:40:32.000 Yes.

01:40:32.000 Definitely.

01:40:34.000 I taught some of the courses.

01:40:35.000 Do you ever look at like the education curriculum of our grandparents when they learned how to do things like shop and- Shoot?

01:40:41.000 Yes.

01:40:41.000 Gun club in school.

01:40:42.000 They learned how to do stuff.

01:40:44.000 So I love that comment.

01:40:46.000 Home Ec was awesome.

01:40:47.000 Yeah.

01:40:48.000 All right, and shop.

01:40:49.000 Christos Marinos.

01:40:52.000 Christos Marinos says, third super chat, the charm.

01:40:55.000 Want to partner on whistleblower.org.

01:40:59.000 Had the idea for a while ago.

01:41:01.000 Acquire the perfect brand.

01:41:02.000 DMed Ian on Instagram.

01:41:03.000 There you go.

01:41:04.000 What was it?

01:41:05.000 So did we!

01:41:05.000 Partner on whistleblower org. I guess they they need to do in thanks for messaging me Jennifer Reem says Texan here

01:41:12.000 We don't think about putting the food from the fridge outside, but did put beer and wine outside to chill

01:41:21.000 It's one of the great things about living out in the wilderness is you can put stuff on your front porch and just leave it there.

01:41:21.000 Smart move.

01:41:26.000 Or the back porch.

01:41:27.000 Cody McPherson says, In Kansas, our governor, Laura, issued an emergency because natural gas companies raised the price of gas over 100 times the regular.

01:41:36.000 My small town I live in had a bill of $10 million for only 6 days.

01:41:40.000 Typical bill is $1.6 million for an entire year.

01:41:43.000 Wow.

01:41:44.000 That's crazy.

01:41:46.000 Justin Bookman says, the reaction to Limbaugh reminds me when TotalBiscuit died. 0.98

01:41:51.000 Those games journalists were disgusting.

01:41:53.000 By the way, I'm starting a podcast called The Eye of Buckeye soon, talking about Ohio regional news.

01:41:57.000 Thanks for the inspiration.

01:41:58.000 Hey, right on, man.

01:41:59.000 I love that.

01:42:00.000 What up, Ohio?

01:42:01.000 I'm from Cuyahoga Falls.

01:42:02.000 Oh, yeah.

01:42:03.000 Shout out, Northeast Ohio.

01:42:05.000 Grim Pickens says, I'm a trucker.

01:42:07.000 I deliver groceries to Walmart stores across M-O-K-S-I-A-N-E-O-K.

01:42:12.000 We have spent more days parked because of weather than moving the last two weeks.

01:42:16.000 Wow.

01:42:16.000 People don't understand how fragile the supply chain is.

01:42:18.000 Oh, I learned.

01:42:19.000 Because I got UPS deliveries coming.

01:42:21.000 We got a fondue kit.

01:42:22.000 Okay.

01:42:23.000 Yeah, what happened with that?

01:42:23.000 I saw you post that they were mistaken about the tracking number.

01:42:27.000 No, they told me that they were like, your package is out for delivery.

01:42:30.000 And then it's like severe weather delay.

01:42:32.000 So I called, can we just go pick it up?

01:42:33.000 Because the UPS thing is only a few miles away.

01:42:35.000 And they're like, actually, it was never out for delivery.

01:42:37.000 And it's not actually here.

01:42:39.000 And I was like, what?

01:42:42.000 Okay, let's talk.

01:42:43.000 You put cheese in it.

01:42:43.000 It's a little thing.

01:42:46.000 I had Gruyere fondue in the town of Gruyere in Switzerland.

01:42:50.000 I never felt more gay in my life.

01:42:54.000 I've made it now.

01:42:55.000 Now I'm allowed back in New York.

01:42:57.000 I didn't vote for Hillary, but I'm allowed.

01:43:01.000 You walk back in and they're like, you didn't vote for Hillary, did you?

01:43:03.000 But I did have Gruyere fondue.

01:43:05.000 I'm a fan of Gruyere.

01:43:07.000 Right this way, sir.

01:43:09.000 Delicious.

01:43:10.000 After you.

01:43:11.000 Deplorable pirate captain Gunbeard says, the electrical grade copper green energy requires cannot economically be made from recycled copper.

01:43:18.000 Green energy requires mining lots of copper ore that uses lots of oil.

01:43:22.000 Chile actually reconverted their entire economy to become a mining economy.

01:43:25.000 It's like the third largest mining country in the world.

01:43:28.000 They have a lot of natural resources.

01:43:29.000 Huge copper mines.

01:43:30.000 Them in Australia.

01:43:31.000 Beautiful country.

01:43:32.000 You only find copper mines around volcanic area, right?

01:43:35.000 That's part of it.

01:43:35.000 So the Ring of Fire countries, that's why Alaska has a huge copper mine that we can't open.

01:43:40.000 They've been fighting it for 17 years.

01:43:41.000 But copper is only found where the same place as volcanic activity.

01:43:45.000 Wow.

01:43:46.000 All right.

01:43:47.000 We have a serious one here from Kroop.

01:43:48.000 He says, a Pasco County, Florida, police officer and close friend lost his life yesterday in the line of duty.

01:43:53.000 He is survived by his wife, newborn child, and five-year-old daughters.

01:43:57.000 His GoFundMe is named, quote, Deputy Michael Magli and Family, Pinellas County, or Pinellas County, however you pronounce it, and it's Michael M-A-G-L-I and Family.

01:44:07.000 If you guys want to check that out, Kroop, I'm sorry for your loss and my condolences to the family.

01:44:13.000 Acme Products says, ERCOT operates a trading market for electricity.

01:44:17.000 What happened in Texas was a stock market crash.

01:44:20.000 Distributors aren't coming online because electric is $9,000 per unit, when it's usually $25.

01:44:25.000 This isn't only weather, this is Enron stuff.

01:44:29.000 Wow.

01:44:30.000 Oh, so they spiked the price to make money off this catastrophe?

01:44:33.000 Or did the prices went crazy because they lost capacity and demand went through the roof and then they couldn't operate?

01:44:40.000 Not entirely sure.

01:44:40.000 Cause 25% of the electric grid is made from wind, which wasn't working.

01:44:44.000 So they had to make up for it somewhere.

01:44:46.000 Right.

01:44:46.000 Or they had to just continue to cut.

01:44:48.000 And so they cut off millions of people and you either just keep cutting or you add on capacity.

01:44:54.000 And if you're going to add on capacity, you have to buy it from someone.

01:44:56.000 Oh, so they're, they're importing it to pay.

01:44:58.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:45:00.000 So this is a, I think it'd be being spiked by foreign markets.

01:45:02.000 No, I don't know.

01:45:03.000 It's spiked by it's by just by, by the own demand of the yeah.

01:45:07.000 Absolutely.

01:45:07.000 So we have ScroggGCW says, Tim, you cannot run water when it's cold if the power goes off.

01:45:13.000 That runs your well pump.

01:45:14.000 This is why I have a propane power generator.

01:45:17.000 Now, that's true for a lot of people.

01:45:18.000 If you live in an area without a water tower and there's no natural water pressure and you rely on an individual pump.

01:45:23.000 But I think people in the cities where this is happening have water tower pressure, don't they?

01:45:27.000 Yeah, when I grew up in Queens, I mean, we didn't have blackouts back then, right?

01:45:34.000 We had a better electric grid.

01:45:35.000 You don't want to run the water full blast.

01:45:37.000 You just have it a little bit more than a drip.

01:45:39.000 Yeah, that's what I did before.

01:45:40.000 And then the water moves so it can't freeze in the pipes.

01:45:43.000 If the water stops, then it freezes, and then you're in trouble.

01:45:46.000 So we did this in Chicago.

01:45:48.000 All the old buildings, they would tell you in the winter, keep the water on a drip, or a little bit more than a drip.

01:45:52.000 A little bit more.

01:45:53.000 It can't just be a drip.

01:45:55.000 Publius the Good says, I built a green building years ago with geothermal cooling.

01:45:59.000 That's awesome.

01:46:00.000 The bills in those apartments were less than 50 bucks a month.

01:46:04.000 This would be the best for Texas.

01:46:05.000 Essentially, you cool water by circulating it through the bedrock to cool it.

01:46:09.000 That's awesome.

01:46:10.000 There's also this really cool video I watched about anthills.

01:46:13.000 There are these anthills that are built like a tower that funnels heat out of the colony and straight up and out.

01:46:19.000 Have you ever seen solar updraft towers?

01:46:22.000 Incredible technology.

01:46:23.000 They built a giant circular tower.

01:46:25.000 At the base, there's these turbine generators, and then they build large circular tarps around for like a mile around the tower.

01:46:31.000 Underneath, not only does the sun hit the tarp and then cause water to condense underneath, so in the desert, for instance, it'll start to grow grass, but the hot air down there starts rushing towards the center tower, turning the turbines going up the tower.

01:46:45.000 It's incredible just re- they're just super expensive to build.

01:46:48.000 Did you guys know that before the invention of air conditioning we couldn't build buildings above like eight floors?

01:46:53.000 Because the heat in the building would rise to the point where the top floors would just be too hot for humans to want to be in.

01:47:00.000 They'd open the windows and try and get air to circulate.

01:47:03.000 They then invented air conditioners.

01:47:04.000 All of a sudden, now, they could keep the building cold.

01:47:07.000 I watched this documentary.

01:47:08.000 They said, the technology to build bigger than eight stories has existed since ancient times, but it wasn't a part of our engineering, our culture.

01:47:08.000 It was fascinating.

01:47:17.000 So now, modern buildings are built in such a way that heat is funneled out of the building, not into the floors, and colder air is brought in.

01:47:26.000 So we actually have much more efficient architecture where we don't need to waste so much energy on air conditioning.

01:47:31.000 It's crazy.

01:47:32.000 AC is a fascinating technology, but takes a lot of juice. 0.99

01:47:36.000 Daniel Bundrick says all they would have to do to fix the supply problem in Texas is can the stupid anti price gouging 0.96

01:47:42.000 laws There would be a backlog in the highways of their if there 0.97

01:47:46.000 were no limit to what you could make The black metal says Texan here people need to adapt to all

01:47:52.000 situations and help others not depend on government ever Because when government fails, more chaos ensues.

01:47:59.000 Prepare before, help others after.

01:48:01.000 Amen.

01:48:02.000 Good point.

01:48:03.000 Caleb Davis says, geothermal isn't worth or effective in electricity generation.

01:48:07.000 The largest plant in the world only makes 1.5 megawatts for the large land area it uses.

01:48:13.000 Well, I don't know.

01:48:14.000 I don't know too much about it.

01:48:15.000 I can tell you this.

01:48:16.000 I went to Iceland once and I was talking to a bunch of people there explaining to me how Iceland went from being this really awful place to live, where people were always covered in grime from like coal mining or whatever it is they were mining, just like really crappy industrial labor for very little return.

01:48:30.000 And then geothermal came and they set up these geothermal plants and now they have an abundance of energy.

01:48:34.000 I think they even export some of it.

01:48:37.000 So now you've got people living really, really well.

01:48:40.000 And Iceland is a really comfortable and beautiful place.

01:48:44.000 Karasu Macha says, hydroelectric thorium and geothermal are the trinity of clean, reliable energy.

01:48:50.000 Fusion would be the king, but I feel geothermal doesn't get enough attention.

01:48:55.000 Ooh, contradictory superchats right there.

01:48:56.000 It's so funny how drastic information can be from person to person.

01:49:00.000 From one superchat says it's useless, to the next person that says it's the holy grail of energy.

01:49:04.000 And they may both be right in different circumstances.

01:49:08.000 Kevin says, natural gas lines generally freeze because of the presence of liquid or vapor water in the lines.

01:49:14.000 This is caused by a pressure drop in the gas lines, which in turn drops the temperature of the line.

01:49:19.000 Interesting.

01:49:19.000 Thank you.

01:49:21.000 Answered our question.

01:49:22.000 Yeah.

01:49:24.000 Okay.

01:49:25.000 Hydro Hydro says, Luke, go learn something from Thomas Sowell.

01:49:28.000 You don't even understand economics, but hate the rich.

01:49:31.000 I don't hate the rich.

01:49:33.000 I like Thomas Sowell.

01:49:34.000 He's awesome.

01:49:35.000 I follow him and I retweet a lot of his memes.

01:49:38.000 And not all problems are because of rich people.

01:49:40.000 It's a small club of rich people that really do create a lot of bad problems.

01:49:45.000 But yeah, if you're doing well for yourself and you're an entrepreneur, more to you.

01:49:48.000 And we need more of that.

01:49:49.000 All right, we got some hate.

01:49:50.000 You ready?

01:49:51.000 Oh boy.

01:49:51.000 boy michael cook says calling yourself an expert with only five

01:49:55.000 years in the field is evident of a lack of self-awareness i'm a twenty two-year-old

01:49:59.000 uni dropout and i am more of an expert than this guy similar blackout

01:50:02.000 happened in south australia twenty sixteen

01:50:05.000 yet and you know what they did as a result they got rid of malcolm turnbull who was the prime minister

01:50:10.000 Because the people of Melbourne said, remember I'm engaged to an Aussie, the people of Victoria and Melbourne said, this isn't the third world.

01:50:19.000 Why we have blackouts?

01:50:21.000 Because the previous Prime Minister said, we're going to start going green.

01:50:25.000 So that was the consequence.

01:50:27.000 Maybe Texas will make the same decision.

01:50:28.000 What did you do?

01:50:29.000 So you spent the last five years working in energy?

01:50:33.000 No, working in energy advocacy, and I had to become an expert to do this job well.

01:50:36.000 What did you do before that, leading up to it?

01:50:38.000 I've always been an advocate for different issues.

01:50:43.000 Like I said, I lived in D.C.

01:50:44.000 for a long, long time.

01:50:45.000 Never ran for office or anything.

01:50:47.000 But I've always wanted to fight for the underdog.

01:50:51.000 I've done it for multiple.

01:50:53.000 I did it for free speech.

01:50:54.000 I did it for religious liberties.

01:50:56.000 I've done it for lots of different causes, but this one I started on my own because there was a need for it.

01:51:01.000 We have a comment, super chat, from Tyler Chaney says, look into liquid fuel thorium reactors.

01:51:07.000 The U.S.

01:51:08.000 built a prototype in the 50s with none of the waste, meltdown, or security issues as conventional reactors.

01:51:13.000 It worked perfectly and they never built another.

01:51:16.000 Also check out, what is it, Flybenergy?

01:51:19.000 Have you heard of that?

01:51:19.000 Flibe?

01:51:20.000 Flibe?

01:51:20.000 How do you spell it?

01:51:21.000 F-L-I-B-E. 0.99

01:51:24.000 No idea.

01:51:24.000 Interesting.

01:51:24.000 No.

01:51:26.000 I'm afraid to Google things that I don't recognize.

01:51:29.000 It could be a trick.

01:51:29.000 Right, right.

01:51:31.000 Now we're getting all these lefties being like, Tim Pool actually said it.

01:51:34.000 He said, Flibe on air.

01:51:35.000 Yeah, right.

01:51:36.000 JMaxx says, freedom is paramount.

01:51:38.000 If you want to live in a pod, live in a pond.

01:51:40.000 I personally love fried crickets with peanut oil and smoked paprika, but I'll be damned if I'll make my standard the standard.

01:51:46.000 Crickets are super tasty, though.

01:51:48.000 Crunch.

01:51:48.000 I'm saying.

01:51:49.000 No, I agree.

01:51:49.000 That's exactly it.

01:51:50.000 When people are like, I will not live in the pod.

01:51:52.000 I will not eat bugs.

01:51:52.000 I'm like, imagine you had a pod in the middle of the woods.

01:51:55.000 And I don't mean a pod is like a tiny little box where you're jammed.

01:51:58.000 I mean like a nice little relaxing, a van even.

01:52:01.000 You know, you got enough space to lay back.

01:52:03.000 You're playing your video games.

01:52:03.000 You got your little TV.

01:52:04.000 You can see the stars.

01:52:06.000 And you got some chocolate covered crickets.

01:52:09.000 I think people, I think people would not have the opinions on eating bugs if they just grew up eating them.

01:52:15.000 And a lot of people in the world do and don't care.

01:52:18.000 I mean, one of the cool things about America is there are still parts of the country where people eat squirrel and possum and other things and don't think twice about it.

01:52:18.000 Yeah.

01:52:27.000 And, you know, pigeon.

01:52:29.000 You know what always confused me is Fear Factor.

01:52:31.000 You guys ever watch Fear Factor?

01:52:32.000 I love that show.

01:52:33.000 The old ones were gross.

01:52:34.000 Yeah, but like, they'd be like, they would do the eating something challenge, and they'd be like, we're gonna make you eat food!

01:52:43.000 Food, food.

01:52:44.000 Dude, I love that show.

01:52:45.000 But there's the point.

01:52:46.000 They would tell people the fear challenge was they were going to make you eat some animal part, and I'm like, but that's just food!

01:52:52.000 Exactly.

01:52:52.000 I've had a bunch of weird... There was a, like, cow tongue.

01:52:56.000 You ever eat cow tongue?

01:52:57.000 It's pretty common.

01:52:58.000 I like tongue.

01:52:59.000 Now, Fear Factor did get canceled because I think it was Bull Emissions. 1.00

01:53:05.000 And some dude chugged it.

01:53:06.000 He was like, I'm winning!

01:53:07.000 And he just chugged it.

01:53:07.000 He knew that was when the show went too far, Joe was saying.

01:53:09.000 He was like, I knew this.

01:53:11.000 Dude, I love that show.

01:53:13.000 That was my introduction to Joe Rogan.

01:53:15.000 And I loved it so much because you'd see people in fear, like literally in panic, and he would inspire them.

01:53:22.000 Help them overcome their fears and it was like he was just some dude like some jabroni from the Bronx or wherever he's I don't know where he's from. 0.98

01:53:29.000 Boston.

01:53:30.000 But he was so like loving to these people in their weakest moments that I had so much respect for that guy.

01:53:37.000 I liked it when it was fear like you have to put your hand in here.

01:53:40.000 I'm not telling you what it is when it was just gross out factor.

01:53:43.000 Yeah, right, but when it was genuinely like I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to put on you But we are gonna put an animal or like jump from a moving vehicle to another moving vehicle You can do it.

01:53:54.000 He's like you can and he was really give them like inspiration It's just like they're gonna make you eat something.

01:54:01.000 You're not gonna get hurt You know I mean, I'm gonna put your hand in something an animal on you.

01:54:04.000 You're not gonna get hurt All right, we got this big one from Geraldo Olivares.

01:54:07.000 Thanks for the super chat from Texas came to the ranch because it had it had power

01:54:12.000 City Texans seem not to be prepared to self-reliant work in ong with many between us and wind 0.99

01:54:18.000 They prefer wind because it's heavily subsidized. There was a power dispatch issue wind isn't scalable

01:54:24.000 We're not against wind but realize its issues and resources nuclear is the future. You're here, sir

01:54:29.000 Thank you for the batteries man Cuz sometimes it's super windy and you would charge the

01:54:33.000 hell out of those batteries and then because the wind doesn't always blow

01:54:37.000 Yeah.

01:54:38.000 And the sun doesn't always shine.

01:54:39.000 And as he said, no one's opposed to it, but you have to realize it has limitations.

01:54:44.000 So let's be adults and acknowledge the limitations.

01:54:46.000 This is an interesting one. Denny Stevenson says, quote, a theory of natural philosophy written in 1763 by Joseph Boscovich

01:54:55.000 was Nikola Tesla's favorite book. It explains the aether in detail. We need to go back to aether technology, i.e. Tesla

01:55:02.000 Tower. Watch Adapt 2030 latest vid.

01:55:05.000 Well, I don't know anything about that, but I love those kind of conversations about like lost technologies or like

01:55:10.000 new mysterious, you know, forms of energy and stuff.

01:55:13.000 And Tesla is always a fun subject.

01:55:14.000 Yeah, it's having the Earth's magnetic field would be interesting.

01:55:17.000 The energy generated by the core spinning.

01:55:19.000 The core of the Earth.

01:55:23.000 God Emperor says, Tim, they do not want people becoming self-sufficient.

01:55:27.000 They want us in the cities and being controlled.

01:55:30.000 They are just not very good at anything.

01:55:31.000 That's actually a really good point.

01:55:33.000 Yeah, pretty much.

01:55:34.000 Yeah, I think that's true.

01:55:35.000 Don't you stuck?

01:55:38.000 Lori from Arizona says truck drivers far outnumber the members of Congress.

01:55:42.000 We could do far more damage to this country in a much shorter time than any person in Congress.

01:55:46.000 I wish all 2 million would agree to stop until the BS in this country ends.

01:55:50.000 I am one myself.

01:55:51.000 MAGA.

01:55:52.000 Yeah, people don't realize the power they have.

01:55:54.000 You could literally be like, I will not buy from this store anymore.

01:55:57.000 And that's it.

01:55:58.000 There's the change.

01:56:00.000 Until self-driving trucks replace them, which is happening very soon.

01:56:04.000 Yup. 0.96

01:56:05.000 Ethan Wiley says, the wind industry doesn't employ people that thump you with the green deal crap. 0.88

01:56:10.000 We are majority diesel truck money and USA loving Americans. 0.79

01:56:14.000 We don't see many soy boys out here. 1.00

01:56:16.000 Can't handle 70 hour weeks would be my guess.

01:56:20.000 I mean, I absolutely assume that.

01:56:23.000 The people who are building infrastructure, I don't care if it's wind or otherwise, not going to be frail little soy boy. 1.00

01:56:29.000 That's the funny thing about these people.

01:56:31.000 They're not the ones doing the work, but they claim to be the proletariat. 0.96

01:56:33.000 Yeah.

01:56:34.000 It's like these college-educated kids coming out saying that they're the working class.

01:56:37.000 Like, dude, you're not. 0.96

01:56:38.000 You're writing about Brad Pitt's junk for BuzzFeed. 0.84

01:56:41.000 You know what I mean? 0.96

01:56:41.000 I did a little study on FLiBe, that technology they called it earlier. 0.96

01:56:44.000 It's Lithium Fluoride Beryllium.

01:56:47.000 So the Fluoride Lithium Beryllium, F-L-I-B-E.

01:56:50.000 And it's served in making molten salt reactors.

01:56:54.000 It really looks like thorium might end up becoming the holy...

01:56:58.000 It's been people been talking about for like 15 years and I think it's just going over people's heads.

01:57:02.000 So no one's really seized this element, but sounds incredible.

01:57:06.000 If you can melt salt and store heat with it.

01:57:08.000 Andre Lopez says, this is why I want to buy some land, buy a tiny home trailer for 65K and just live happily with my GF.

01:57:14.000 I just watched a video of some dude who made a concrete dome and it was like five grand for this dome.

01:57:20.000 It's not particularly big, but it's big enough.

01:57:22.000 And it was amazing.

01:57:24.000 It took him like only a couple, I think it only took him like a day.

01:57:27.000 It was, it uses inflatable.

01:57:28.000 Yep.

01:57:29.000 And then you, you put a mesh over it and then you spray it with concrete.

01:57:32.000 Then you put wiring, concrete, wiring, concrete, boom.

01:57:36.000 Then you gotta like, you know, put in the insulation and make it look pretty.

01:57:39.000 And that guy is happier in his home than any of these like defeat liberals

01:57:43.000 in the city are in their- Yeah, but you know, van life has become extremely popular.

01:57:49.000 A lot of young people are like, dude, living in a van by the beach is way more fun than living in a concrete cubicle in New York City that smells like sour milk.

01:57:59.000 This channel was originally called The Van Chan.

01:58:02.000 Day one.

01:58:03.000 What channel?

01:58:04.000 This, TimCastIRL, the first episode was the van video.

01:58:07.000 But this wasn't the van channel.

01:58:08.000 Yeah, you called it, well you mentioned, you were like, I think I built the van chan, dude.

01:58:11.000 No.

01:58:12.000 No, no, no.

01:58:12.000 This was... TeamGuest IRL was supposed to be a general vlog.

01:58:15.000 The first video was you, like, pimping out your van.

01:58:17.000 Like, showing everyone your van.

01:58:18.000 But the channel wasn't about the van.

01:58:20.000 Oh, I thought this was the van show.

01:58:21.000 No, no.

01:58:21.000 I built a van and I was like, I'm gonna do a van video and show everyone my van.

01:58:25.000 And it got like a hundred and some thousand views overnight.

01:58:27.000 Like, everybody was like, the van!

01:58:28.000 But then I was like, you know, lockdown.

01:58:31.000 What are we gonna do?

01:58:32.000 It's really hard to do a vlog.

01:58:33.000 So it became more of a show.

01:58:35.000 Here we are, almost a million subscribers.

01:58:37.000 We are really close to a million, so if you haven't subscribed, make sure you subscribe and tell your friends to subscribe because we are seriously close to breaking a million.

01:58:43.000 And then I'm just gonna, I'm gonna love it when Google is forced to give me another gold medal or whatever award.

01:58:51.000 Melissa K says, I love hearing you talk about self-sufficiency and rural living.

01:58:55.000 Should check out Rooted, new docuseries from Justin Rhodes, amazing homesteading resource.

01:59:01.000 Interesting.

01:59:02.000 Matthew Maddox says, pea fowl is old world turkey.

01:59:06.000 Use them for meat! 1.00

01:59:07.000 So, you mentioned the peacocks.

01:59:09.000 Yeah, I mean, I guess when they can no longer lay, I guess, you know, you could stew it.

01:59:15.000 It'd be tough and gamey, but right now we're using them for the eggs, so I don't wanna kill my hens.

01:59:20.000 When I lived in Miami, there was one farm, I guess, that had peacocks, and they just had no, they didn't care.

01:59:27.000 They were walking around on the roads, doing whatever, and it was like you just slowed down, wait for them to pass, and sometimes they'd scream at you and run at you, and I'm like, don't you gotta close your fence or something?

01:59:36.000 They didn't care.

01:59:36.000 The people who live there, they're chickens walking all over the place just doing whatever they want.

01:59:40.000 That's the crazy thing to me. 0.91

01:59:41.000 I'm like, aren't they gonna get killed?

01:59:42.000 They're like, roosters protect them.

01:59:44.000 Like, coyote won't fight the rooster?

01:59:44.000 I'm like, really?

01:59:45.000 Like, no, they don't wanna get in a fight.

01:59:47.000 Roosters are there, the chickens are good.

01:59:48.000 I'm like, oh, okay.

01:59:50.000 Crazy.

01:59:51.000 I guess.

01:59:51.000 I don't know.

01:59:52.000 Or I suppose you still need something to deal with, you know, wild animals.

01:59:55.000 But I guess people used to get dogs for it.

01:59:58.000 My dogs, yeah, will keep out the wild animals.

02:00:01.000 The other day there was a fox on the other side of the fence that was teasing it and so for fun I threw the dog on the other side of the fence and chased the fox.

02:00:09.000 And I would never kill the fox because foxes are beautiful and it really, you know, they are, that's where, again, Living in the country you learn the expression clever like

02:00:16.000 a fox is a real thing. They are smart little animals they are crafty and they are and they like to tease dogs

02:00:22.000 when they know a dog is behind behind a fence and It was pretty funny to see a fox. Are they in tail line or

02:00:27.000 or Feline or are they one of the others?

02:00:31.000 Do they have their own... Foxes?

02:00:33.000 They're probably canine.

02:00:34.000 They're not cats.

02:00:35.000 They're probably... I mean, if they're either... Are they either-or?

02:00:38.000 Or are they just a whole different breed? 0.72

02:00:40.000 But they're not... I don't think they're feline.

02:00:42.000 Mr. Ruckus says, $5 to hear Lydia say, Hi Dave Ruckus, please.

02:00:46.000 Hi Dave Ruckus.

02:00:47.000 Thank you for your $5.

02:00:48.000 We really appreciate it.

02:00:50.000 You, Juwon, says, hello, Tim.

02:00:52.000 This is your follower from South Korea.

02:00:54.000 I wonder when did you visit Korea before?

02:00:56.000 South Korea is now politically deeply divided and you should look into how China penetrates into Korea now.

02:01:01.000 Sad face.

02:01:02.000 We were there.

02:01:04.000 Yeah.

02:01:04.000 It was so awesome.

02:01:05.000 We went to the hostel.

02:01:06.000 We were at a hostel.

02:01:07.000 Yeah.

02:01:07.000 That's what I prefer to say.

02:01:08.000 Yeah.

02:01:10.000 I'm like, we've got to go to the hostel.

02:01:11.000 And it's, it's a great way to meet people and explore and find like-minded individuals who have this kind of energy for, for adventure.

02:01:19.000 Remember we got that crazy spicy thing at that restaurant or whatever?

02:01:22.000 There's a lot of that.

02:01:24.000 When we sat down in a restaurant in South Korea, everything's, you know, I'm like, what?

02:01:31.000 I'm like, just give me anything.

02:01:33.000 And yeah, I was like, whatever, surprise me.

02:01:36.000 And I don't know if that was a good decision to make.

02:01:38.000 We went to one place that I can't remember exactly what it was, but we got, we were like, yeah, spicy.

02:01:43.000 It was like the spiciest thing.

02:01:43.000 And we regretted it.

02:01:45.000 I started making farm animal noises.

02:01:47.000 You remember that?

02:01:48.000 I was like, I don't mean to be rude, but there's a language barrier.

02:01:54.000 Hey, I have no language barrier.

02:01:57.000 I have sign language and noises that make sure I can communicate with everyone.

02:02:03.000 It's a big skill I learned.

02:02:04.000 Foxes are canines, also called canids, as well as wolves and jackals.

02:02:10.000 And Luke, you should get one.

02:02:11.000 Brian, Brian Omar says pigeon soup is really good.

02:02:14.000 In Puerto Rico, we say it can resuscitate the dead.

02:02:17.000 Oh boy.

02:02:18.000 What was the, what was it, what was the pigeon that, uh, that we drove to extinction?

02:02:22.000 Do you know what I'm talking about?

02:02:23.000 Uh, passenger pigeon.

02:02:24.000 Passenger pigeons?

02:02:24.000 Yeah.

02:02:25.000 Yeah, because people, there were so many of them.

02:02:26.000 I think so.

02:02:27.000 That people in America would just, like, throw it in a net, catch them all, and then eat them, and then eventually they're all gone.

02:02:30.000 Oh.

02:02:31.000 Good job, everyone.

02:02:31.000 Yep.

02:02:32.000 Wiped them out.

02:02:33.000 Alright, we'll just do a couple more here.

02:02:33.000 Nice job.

02:02:36.000 Bell's Nickel says, Tim, four wells and circulate water for geothermal, or a pit with tubing will lower your heating and cooling by half.

02:02:45.000 Yeah, that's amazing.

02:02:45.000 Geothermal technology for home heating and cooling.

02:02:48.000 That's cool stuff.

02:02:49.000 You run, basically you have like an outer layer of your house with glass walls, and then so you run the water underneath, the air cools, but then the sunlight heats it so it rises and then pushes the air in a circular pattern.

02:03:00.000 Have you guys seen the new solar capture technology where it's this chemical that's a closed system that can catch and release solar energy?

02:03:08.000 So, it's a liquid that, when sunlight hits it, it, like, essentially absorbs some of those photons, like, whatever, however it works, I'm not entirely sure.

02:03:17.000 Cool.

02:03:17.000 and like the liquid changes color, and then they can use an electrical current

02:03:20.000 to release that energy, like a light current or whatever will release a ton of that energy out,

02:03:24.000 and in the form of heat.

02:03:26.000 And so there's a lot of theories about the applications.

02:03:28.000 You could have these, like, you could have like tubes on the top of your house

02:03:33.000 full of the fluid, absorbing solar energy, but then they circulate into the house

02:03:39.000 where it releases the heat in the basement, raising the heat up.

02:03:42.000 So basically it takes the heat from outside on the roof and puts it underneath and then raises the heat.

02:03:46.000 We're transferring from an electronic organization to a photonic one,

02:03:50.000 and it sounds like you're involving chromatics to store heat.

02:03:53.000 I'll see you next time.

02:03:55.000 Austin S. says, someone tell Ian that methane is one carbon, not four.

02:03:59.000 No, no.

02:03:59.000 One carbon, four hydrogens.

02:04:01.000 Dom, what's up?

02:04:03.000 You got... CH4.

02:04:03.000 CH4.

02:04:03.000 That's what I meant to say.

02:04:05.000 I just said it quickly right here.

02:04:06.000 Thank you.

02:04:07.000 All right.

02:04:07.000 We'll just do this one last one.

02:04:08.000 Any name says... Ever talk about all the lithium in Bolivia and what superpowers are going to fight for it?

02:04:16.000 Wow.

02:04:16.000 There's lithium in Bolivia?

02:04:17.000 Oh, I don't know.

02:04:18.000 I did not know but I mean I'm sure look at China's controlling the cobalt mines of the Congo, right?

02:04:24.000 If there's lithium in Bolivia then there's a Chinese camp nearby getting ready to conquer it. 1.00

02:04:31.000 That's what people need to be paying attention to, man. 0.99

02:04:33.000 You know, there's so much dumb stuff happening in this country. 0.94

02:04:36.000 And what really worries me is Joe Biden placating defending China. 0.96

02:04:40.000 And then you see the distractions we get from these commissions on the Capitol riot and impeachment.

02:04:47.000 Meanwhile, China, what are they doing?

02:04:48.000 They're romping around the planet, oil exploration in these other countries.

02:04:52.000 Has me worried, man.

02:04:53.000 But that being said, Dan, thanks for hanging out.

02:04:56.000 It was awesome.

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02:05:30.000 Yeah, but Dan, do you want to shout out any social media or any website or anything?

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