Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #227 - Texas Rocked By Food Shortages, Cruz Falls For Democrat Trap /w Dan Turner

Episode Date: February 19, 2021

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia invite energy expert Daniel Turner to discuss energy issues in Texas, including rolling blackouts and food supply issues, a doctored image of wind turbines of penguins with wind turbines in Antarctica, elitism, battery technology, living in pods, the Great Reset, gun restrictions, Chinese pollution, and much more.  Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems like all hell is breaking loose in Texas, but also in other parts of the country. There is a winter storm slamming basically the entirety of the nation, and Texas is getting the worst of it. Well, I shouldn't say maybe the worst of it, but Texas is underprepared for this. And we're seeing now this severe winter weather hitting Texas. A lot of people don't know the basic things that people in the Midwest know. 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. This is resulting in water mains

bursting. It's resulting in, surprisingly, the power outages, people, their food's spoiling. And it was the craziest thing to me. I'm hearing these stories about, well, the power goes out, refrigeration goes out, and then their food spoils. I'm like, yo, put the food outside. But I guess many of these people haven't lived in places that are this cold. Texas wasn't prepared for this, and things are getting bad. These food shortages, however, are very, very serious. And so there's a lot we have to talk about in that regard. 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.

Yeah, yeah, we all get it. Bad optics. Ted Cruz, you know, he's a federal level representative. He represents the state of Texas to the federal government. 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. 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. 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. We've heard from Tucker Carlson, the renewables basically caused a large problem for Texas because they may be renewable, but they're unreliable. And Texas wasn't prepared to deal with this, you know, essentially energy costs are skyrocketing. The lines are freezing. But many on the left are saying it has nothing to do with wind. It was the gas lines themselves freezing. And I just got to tell you this. Ultimately, Texas was just not prepared for this. But we've got with us Dan Turner, who is a – how would you describe yourself? I don't want to – what's your title? What do you do?

Titles are very important to me, so please don't get it wrong. Sir. 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. But I'm an energy expert. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. And I don't like – I don't think I'm an energy expert. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. And 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. How long have you been in the field? Five years? So we get to talk about what's really going on and if Tucker Carlson is correct.

But we'll save it. We'll get to it. Because I also want to debunk some of these ridiculous memes we've got some some good uh irony coming up we also got luke ridkowski 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 but that's because bill gates is a scientist right of not only a scientist he's like the lord and savior of our he's like captain save a planet is bill gates a scientist? He's not a medical scientist. He's a computer scientist. He's not a scientist.

No, he's not. He's not. He's a businessman. He's good at it. I literally have a shirt that says Bill Gates is not a medical scientist. It does really well. I just also launched two new shirts

that I'm super excited about. And if you want to purchase them and support me, you can on thebest political shirts.com and i'm also really testing the limits on instagram and if you want to see some uh pretty interesting memes go to luke we are changing we've got fact checked i also uh as a side note there's a there's another big story i definitely want to talk about so i tweeted about the story from time magazine the shadow campaign you know whatever 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. And there's a thing on Twitter called Birdwatch, where regular users are prompted to fact check the tweet. And I think out of all of them, there's only one that said it was potentially misleading. But they all said I was correct. I was just making a reference to a Time article. So the Poynter Institute, which controls Facebook fact-checking, said this is a problem because the fact-checker said, yeah, Tim Pool's right. Time magazine said this. The fact-checkers are like, no. 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. Yes. So we also got Ian, however. I'm just aghast at the story you just told.

Thank you for the throw over, Tim. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the show. IanCrossland.net. Get a mug. Say hello. Come check out my new website. And Daniel, great to have you here.

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. Interesting. Yeah. Bypass mining that way.

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And the freeze has wiped out substantial portions of the state's citrus and vegetable crops. This is from Texas Tribune. They say the state's week of weather health started with 133 car pileup outside of Fort Worth. A winter storm unlike any Texas has ever seen quickly followed. And seven days later, millions are without power and reliable water. They go on to mention here's a quote. It was out of someone. Some are sorting storing the 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. Crystal Porter, an Austin resident, said about her local Target, which she visited Monday. Lines were wrapped around the store when we arrived. Shelves were almost fully cleared for potatoes, meat, eggs, and some dairy. 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. Now, this is where emergencies get scary. You know, we've had stories like this in the past. 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. Now, the difference here with Texas is that, I mean, this has been going on for what, almost a week now, where the power's gone out, millions are without power, people are freezing,

and now people don't have food. So I guess I'm curious, Dan, because you're the energy guy. If you want to just, let's just have a conversation. Why is there no food? What's going on? There's no food because there's no energy. I mean energy does make the world go around. You think of the amount of energy required to bring in via rail, via truck, to restock those shelves, right? When the energy supply disappears, everything else will go with it. And that's why I get very excited about energy. I love this issue.

We were talking about it. I can become a real geek on it. But it literally is the foundation of all of our life. We're all here because we were able to get here somehow through energy, right? We were able to get in our cars if you took public transportation, which I know none of us, I definitely didn't, right? But people who are listening to us right now, people who are watching us right now. At electricity.

From the very first thing you did this morning, think about it. At least for me, the very first thing I did was turn off my iPhone alarm energy. The last thing I will do, and when I set my alarm to make sure it's on, even though it's supposed to repeat, I always check, I will turn off the light energy. Well, let's get a little bit more specific. They mentioned that food crops are failing. Well, that's simply a lack of energy. 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. Now their food is failing. But also I think – so we'll definitely talk about the energy issue because I think that's important because everyone wants to know what's going on with the electricity.

But it was ultimately – in a lot of ways, there was governmental failure here. I mean they didn't prepare properly for how to deal with winter weather. 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. And then in Texas, it's just snow all over the streets. Yeah. And that's the problem of government, right? It doesn't always work.

I'm not a fan of government. I'm not an anarchist, but I have deep skepticism of government. I dislike government. I don't trust government at all levels. So that is clearly a huge government failure, right? And the problem is we turn over so many of these things, our kids' education. We turn over entire swathes of our society because we assume government's going to be in charge of it. And then when government fails at their job, we say, well, now now to whom do i turn you know who's not getting made fun of today

all those preppers yeah right all those people who are saying i see and you brought it up not me it's the craziest thing to me because i did a promo for uh these food bins sometimes i did a promo earlier today on my main channel 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 and i'm like is that supposed to make me upset i don't understand yeah am i supposed to be like yes people should not prepare for emergencies well am i am i gonna mock somebody for buying a fire extinguisher people in texas don't got food right now that the people who listen to me do yeah i would even posit that the a blizzard is a natural disaster like this is I've never really thought of a heavy snow as a natural disaster, but it's like a hurricane or a tornado.

Yeah. It's just completely devastating. How many people died? You said 40. Some people have already died. Yeah. Last I saw, I think the number was 40, 41. Wow.

37. So yeah. To say the government's not prepared is definitely an understatement here. And what you were talking about here is, of course, Arkansas and Texas. There's a viral photo going around of the same road. And right on the border, you see in Arkansas, the roads plowed. In Texas, snow everywhere. And this is in part why a lot of trucks are not able to go to the supermarket. 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 texas did not invest in snow plows arkansas did 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 i've been selling those food buckets for years now and people are like where are you doing your free i'm like no you don't you don't understand like 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 absolutely and 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? And you say, can we talk about preparation for the next storm? Right? Can we talk about the electric grid? Can

we talk these aren't for structure? Yeah, they're not sexy topics. They're boring. They're nerdy. They put everyone to sleep. But this is what government should be doing. And instead, we have 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 if government did its darn job but it doesn't 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 i can't believe all of these videos i've seen it's crazy where the pipes burst and i'm like it was a two second thing you walk over and you go and you walk away or even just a

little bit of drip yeah a little bit more than a drip in school curriculums you got to teach little kids that i mean i get texas is not used to winter weather like this, but we had forecasts. We knew this was coming. This is an absolute failure of government, 100%. Now, on the energy front, we're hearing the wind turbine thing. I love this one. 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. Then I saw people on the left saying,

wind turbines operate in Antarctica, and the real problem was the gas lines. We need a Green New Deal, and this proves it. I think the craziest thing was Patrick Moore, who is one of the founders of Greenpeace. He's no longer with the organization. He basically said something to the effect of, climate catastrophists can't explain away this record winter cold.

And the weirdest thing is it's really hard to discuss when, you know, we have all of this fake news coming out. So there's a video going viral of snow in, I guess, Saudi Arabia or something like that. And they're like, oh, look at this. There's camels and there's snow on them. It's normal. And, yeah, apparently fact checkers are saying that's actually normal sometimes it snows especially in higher altitudes like what do you what are you saying like deserts get cold for some reason though these people just believe these things not doing any fact checking but i want i want to pull

up something that i'm absolutely thrilled to show all of you over on red Reddit's r slash facepalm, there's a post that is one of the most upvoted Reddit posts on the page. And it says science, S-I-E-N-S-E, making fun of Tucker Carlson, I suppose. And it's just a Tucker Carlson quote. He says, quote, it got cold last night and the windmills froze. And as a result, millions of Texans are freezing. Several have died. And then underneath it is an image. And it says, meanwhile, in Antarctica. And it has a bunch of penguins standing around. And there are a bunch of wind turbines.

And what appears to be a giant glass structure of some sort with solar panels on it. I love this. This image is, it appears on r slash facepalm. So I don't know if they're uh self-aware and the facepalm is actually that they're that the the antarctica thing is fake or that we're supposed to make fun of tucker carlson i'm assuming they're making fun of tucker carlson by pointing out there's actually wind turbines in antarctica here's the best part it's a fake image wow it's it's so obviously fake though there's there's a picture look at these penguins okay for those that can see this because i know there might be

for the people listening i'll explain to you there are some penguins they're standing around doing penguin stuff and then there's a wind turbine and standing right next to the wind turbine is a penguin which stands i believe what what about a foot and a half tall scroll down a bit scroll down yeah because you can't see it's behind your head oh i see, I see. I see. There you go. Perfect. So here's the little penguin. And they're about a foot and a half tall, I think. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe a foot. That's a good guess. Yeah, about a foot and a half. And standing next to this wind turbine,

and if you were to take this penguin, the wind turbine's like 15 feet tall. I don't know if you've ever seen a wind turbine or turbine blades. What are they, like 200 feet? Are they 50, something like that? No, no, no. They're hundreds of feet oh yeah there are hundreds of huge hundreds so i don't know how big these penguins are man but this would mean this penguin's like 20 feet tall but then there's a guy in the background too who and this is this is the best part the guy is

standing next to penguins and these penguins are half as tall as he is so these are like two and a half three foot tall penguins maybe maybe look i'm he is so these are like two and a half three foot tall penguins maybe maybe look i'm not a penguin scientist okay maybe it's a gmo monsanto penguin maybe that's it yeah was i supposed to brush up on my penguin yeah so so hold on let me let me let me go further so i i did a simple image search it was not hard to do. The image comes from some Italian architecture design event where they had an exhibit. And yes, someone was conceptualizing a plan for green energy in Antarctica. The image is not real. You need only Google search it and see it's a wallpaper that you can buy.

You know, I did take the the image loaded it into google image search and this popped up they're sharing a fake image to mock tucker carlson and they're saying facepalm as if tucker is the one who was wrong yeah now i still i i did read a lot of what tucker said and tucker was i think he should have been more clear about what was causing the failure but the point he was making is that these these renewable energies are unreliable and he's correct as i i actually made a whole segment a couple years ago advocating for the green new deal that was until aoc put out her critical race theory laden garbage which had nothing to do with the environment for the most part and then i was like okay that i don't support 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. That's not what they're doing now. So that being said, look, when I saw this, I know wind, solar, these things are fantastic, but they're not reliable. How do you store the energy when there's no wind and there's no sun, right? So I don't know if, Dan, you want to opine on the whole matter of Texas and their energy shutdown. Yeah, and to do that, I think we need to be careful. 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. That right there needs to be debunked.

That's a lie. A storm like this was just as bad in 2011. It was February 2nd. It was the day after the Super Bowl. Texas does get these types of storms. It's not common. And now maybe going back to the earlier conversation we were having,

if you're the governor and you say, all right, this storm happens every 10 years. 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? That's another question of government, right? But these storms do happen. Let's look at 2011.

When this storm happened in 2011, the wind capacity for the electric grid was 6%, right? By 2015, because of their mandate, Rick Perry put in this law, by 2015, we have to be 25% wind. And they did. So they went from 6% in 2011 to 25% now. Same storm hit, did the same amount of damage. But now the wind is not 6%. It's not a sliver of the electric mix. It is 25%. And when that came offline, that is the delta. And when you compare apples to apples, people are like, well, what happened in California? What happened?

Let's compare Texas to Texas. And if you compare these two storms coal performed the same nuclear performed the same natural gas performed the same the delta is wind i don't oppose wind technology i don't oppose solar panels i i agree with you we should invest in all of these but to to deny that they have shortcomings is childish and we can't allow children at this conversation. Well, it was reported that even natural gas lines had frozen. Yes, absolutely. They had. 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.

And again, if you're building a house, why am I going to invest in gas heat? Because odds are I could go the whole winter and not use it once. So I will use the HVAC. And on the rare occasion that I need to heat up my home, electricity heat is very expensive. I know. Yeah, that's seriously expensive. I live off the grid. I only have electric heat. And it is very expensive. I wish I didn't have it. But those people who do have gas heat which is a enough of a percentage well they all jacked up the thermostat so the natural gas pipelines that would have gone to the electrical plants or whatever were now deviated by magnitudes to

people's homes should texas have been prepared for that absolutely they should have been prepared for that so there are lots of failures of government, failures on multiple levels. But to say that the thing was not wind turbine is just a lie. Wind is the thing. I would say, yes, we could reduce it even further and say they should have winterized the turbines beforehand. I mean, so the thing about that image I shared with wind turbines in Antarctica is there are wind turbines in Antarctica. I don't know. I think New Zealand has three. I don't know if there are other nations that have set up wind turbines in Antarctica. There's two things to say, though.

First, these turbines are built to be in Antarctica. So it's cold. They know it's going to be cold. They're built better. They're designed for winter. More importantly, Antarctica is a desert, which is another reason why this image is funny, where they're like, look at Antarctica. It's a desert. There's no water to freeze the turbine.

In Texas, it was extremely wet. So I think it's an interesting conversation. 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 when you when you say natural gas you're talking about methane which i believe and correct me if i'm wrong it's ch4 carbon 4 hydrogens so when you say that natural gas is not methane are you saying it is um natural when they say natural gas that's that's just a phrase for methane as far as i know um it's it's it's it's a catch-all oh there's other gases and

absolutely in addition to multiple natural yeah and just look at you've got you've got propane right that's that's using your grill right so um i don't know what the mix is that texas is using sorry i was going off the mic i don't know what the mix is that texas is it is primarily methane but it includes varying amounts of other uhkanes, such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfide, or helium. But I believe it is primarily methane. When they freeze, is that actually the pipes that the gas is flowing through that froze? Or is it the gas itself that...

I mean, the gas is gas. So in order to freeze gas, it's got to be super cold, I would imagine. You'd have to liquefy it. And then, um, uh, but what, so what's happening when, when the gas lines break, it's probably, um,

I gotta get my mechanical engineer hat. It's probably an issue of the pumping station, right? Because all, all pipelines need to have pumping stations to keep them going. Water does oil pipelines, right? That's the Keystone pipeline.

Wasn't just going to fill up oil in Alberta and have it get to Texas 1,200 miles. So it was probably those pumping stations, which is where the breakdowns were. And what's causing the pumping stations? Are they using coal to pump, to create the heat? Most pumping stations are run on fossil fuels, yeah. And they probably literally froze because of the temperatures. And so now you're not able to pump anything because of the freezing temperatures. This is the biggest issue

these people don't understand when they're like, why don't we just do more solar? Why don't we just do more wind? I love that idea. I do. I love the idea. I think fusion is probably better investment for trying... If we want to do green energy, just dump all that money into fusion research. We could also build nuclear power plants.

The funny thing, though, is we recently had some solar people come over here and we're like we want solar power okay we want to make sure that in the event there's some kind of emergency and so i'm talking to the solar guys and i said you know and it's and it's a good idea to like you know get this because it's going to be cheaper in the long run right and he was like i mean after 20 years yeah exactly and i was was like, oh, because the cost of building the solar takes 20 years to recuperate. And he was like, yeah, yeah. So in the long run, it's great. It can raise the property value.

And you have power in the event there's an outage. That's really what it's about. But the guys were on the level, and they said, look, man, the reason people get solar panels is because they can afford to. It protects them from emergencies. That's a good idea. 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. How would you respond to our Lord and Savior Bill Gates, who knows everything and does nothing wrong when he says that only 13% of the outages are, quote, related to wind turbines. This is the statement that he came out with today. And he also blamed this historic winter storm on climate change caused by humans.

What would be your response? Well, the joy about the climate change argument is that everything is proof of climate change. So whether it's hot or cold, it's climate change. And so that's convenient for him. If you just look at, I mean, I do this research for a living and it's not impossible to find. The Department of Energy has every electric grid, every hour, their electric mix. 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. I don't know if you can throw them up online somehow. 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. Wind on Sunday was producing 8,000, roughly 8,000 megawatts of electricity. That dropped to 600. Wow. That is a huge difference. I mean, like monster distance.

Like a 92% drop or something like that? You cannot keep – So we just had a Super Chat come in that i think is interesting they mentioned that ercot which does what was it the electrical reliability council of texas reliability they were saying basically that it's a trading market and the cost per unit skyrocketed the super chat says nine thousand dollars from where it was normally 25 so people just weren't coming online it was just too expensive and so the system essentially just crippled itself yeah and and that's the other problem with the renewables is that it does,

they don't play fairly in the free market, right? They don't. 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. The best example of that is Europe. They pay four and five times what we do for their electric bill. Why? Because they're green. I don't oppose being green, right? But Europe chose to go green. 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. And that's why there's a war going on. Absolutely. Because of the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to offset the Gazprom monopoly.

Oh, boy. Yeah, absolutely. That's another show that we definitely have to have, right? I mean, these are the real problems when you talk about going green, quote unquote. Now, if we want to go green and decide that as a country, let's that honest debate but right now again as soon as you mention these things you are well you don't believe in climate change 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 it will texas how would you uh i was just going to say one last point texas so i was talking about 11 to 2021 right the 10- 10-year difference of how Texas changed their electric mix. They went to 25% renewable over the course of a decade.

Did their electric bill drop by 25%? No, it went up probably close to about 30% their electric bill costs. Why? Inflation, part of it. Maybe part of it inflation, but that is a huge drop for the number one oil and gas producer in the country what's what's why can't the people of texas say well wait a second what are we getting for going renewable and who then someone and this is where i get a little crazy on this stuff someone is making a boatload of money building all these windmills and i would like to know who's getting

rich off because someone is what why do you think i do think it's funny that we call them windmills wind turbines no but but people do call them windmills even i did like they used to mill grand yeah right now we just call them windmills because they look the same the little thing funny you know from inception to the end the little wind thing the kid has oh yeah yeah or also we have we have the floppy disk icon for saving things and like we haven't used those things in a decade anyway i'm sorry man continue no no it's a point. I don't even think some people know what a floppy disk is, which is pretty funny. Doom on seven disks or whatever.

But I just think that the people of Texas and now the American people, we're going to go green. We're going to go 100% renewable by 2035, says President Biden. 100% electric generation renewable by 2035. Where do we store that power? Where does the cost come from? Where does the cost come from?

Where does the land come from? Some of these wind farms in Texas are 100,000 acres. Yeah, you can't rely on... What we need to do is develop geothermal, tidal power, and gravity power, I believe. Tidal and gravity are good. Where do we do geothermal? Well, you just drill.

But where? You can't just drill. Honestly, I'd like to tap into volcanoes. But that's the Iceland that works because it's a big volcanic rock. I don't know if you can go deep enough to get to where it starts to get hot, boil water with the Earth's heat. But I mean, it makes a lot of sense. It's very common sense. But I mean, to say that we're just going to be there without laying out the plan and explaining all the numbers, I think is incompetent.

So a lot of people need to people need to understand how we we create electrical current yeah my understanding is we have these turbines they need to keep spinning to keep the current running right to keep to keep the current existing i suppose so all day and night what we basically do is we take coal set it on fire turns water it creates water pressure and the water pressure then spins a turbine as long as that turbine is spinning we're generating an electrical current that people can use right that's the gist of it wind turbines are being turned the turbines are spinning because wind is hitting them when the wind stops there's no power they have to store it somehow right and so we don't have that technology no giant batteries this is the

craziest thing i watched i watched this really amazing educational uh mini-ish like short film on energy return and energy invested and they're talking about why we love renewable energy why we're we're so excited for them and why they are nowhere near ready for for implementation no and the main issue is when the wind turbine stops spinning for any reason, the current stops as well. 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. The problem is it takes so much petroleum energy to make the wind turbines, it makes no sense. No. Until we get to the point where we can generate more efficiently and store that energy.

These renewables that we know and love and are excited about do not have a high enough energy return on energy invested. They talk about – this is really fascinating – why fracking became profitable. And it was because the cost, 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. But when you look at the energy returned from the energy you invest, these green energies just don't cut it except nuclear energy the most efficient my understanding is it's the highest return is that i could be wrong is that true i'm not positive but i mean that sounds just knowing what i know about nuclear it sounds

absolutely right the way they explain it is something like for every dollar you put in you'll get 50 equivalent out or something the easiest way to explain it the problem is they won't let us build nuclear energy either we haven't built a nuclear because meltdowns because they were what do we have with three meltdowns three everyone keeps talking about three mile island but no one can tell me chernobyl what actually happened there three mile island and and fukushima fukushima was now which was absolutely chernobyl melted into the ocean there's corium all through the ocean fukushima is really really bad the problem is with's corium all through the ocean. Fukushima's really, really bad. Yeah, it's pretty bad. The problem is with – so you have these older reactors. They were built.

We didn't – I think some have been decommissioned. There are problems. Don't get me wrong. The newer technologies, I guess there's a lot of excitement around thorium salt reactors. I don't know a whole lot about it, so I'm not going to get too much into it. But Fukushima was a major natural disaster. So we can now look at that situation and say say what can we do better to make sure this doesn't happen i think we can pour gold in the corium because right now as far as i know about

the nuclear core um 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 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 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 well thorium extract the gold thorium salt reactors are liquid so that you don't have to worry about that thorium apparently doesn't melt down do you know anything about thorium no my understanding is that it's a liquid reactor so there's no concern over a meltdown itself but that's the salt and then the

salt is is boiling basically which you don't know enough to get into it okay all i can really say is there are a lot of people asking why we aren't doing building nuclear reactors because they're completely carbon neutral i mean well not you got to use oil to build them right you know you need that oil energy the other thing people need to to build them right you know you need that oil energy the other thing people need to realize too is that you know we we operate our uh vehicles they're not all electric we don't have electric uh you know excavators do we have electric excavators no and that's the biggest drawback with again i don't no problem with electric vehicles drive whatever car you want um the biggest problem with electric vehicles. Drive whatever car you want. The biggest problem with electric vehicles is the size of the battery proportionate to the size of the car.

The battery lasts only about 10 to 12 years, and it's extremely heavy. Watch this. Why there are no electric airplanes, and there won't be for any time soon. The weight of the battery is insane. There are, and they can't carry people. Well, there's one. A guy flew around the world in the first solar-powered airplane like five years ago. He was peeing in his pants.

It took him like 12 days. And they did create a solar-powered plane or a drone that can fly indefinitely. Well, until the parts break. Yeah, because it's a massive, ultra-lightweight glider. Yeah, it was huge. So make sure, people,

you have your pedal. You ever see those gyro... What are they called? Gyrocopters? You paddle with your arms and your pedal. You ever see those gyro, what are called gyrocopters? You paddle with your arms and your legs. Yes. Backup power. And it still has an engine on it, though.

But there was a university where they actually created a fully human-powered flying machine. It was as big as this airplane hangar. 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. But I want to ask a question what would you call it if someone called for if there was let's say there's 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

what would what do you call it when it when someone tries to enact a plan that would kill hundreds of millions of people? Excessive? Government? Government? Democide? Democide? Isn't it democide?

Wait, what is democide? Democide is death by government. It's the number one leading cause. It's the number one leading cause of death in human history. So I'm just trying to, what's the word for a person? Genocide, I think, is the word. Is that it? Are you sure?

You're saying Greta Thunberg called for genocide? You're talking about killing hundreds of millions of people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, by taking a direct- Yeah, that would be genocide. I would call that genocide. So you're saying that Greta Thunberg called for genocide? Indirectly. Because I didn't say that word.

You did. You see, I tricked you, Ian. And I wouldn't even say she called for it. Greta Thunberg said, we will not wait till 2030 or should we do not want to wait till 2030 or 2022 we want now a moratorium on fossil fuels people that are screaming about what their goal is i need to i need to scream about the plan i need to explain this otherwise the genocide thing great atuneberg said we want a moratorium on oil now we want it done if we stop using 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 going to see riots in the street from starving people. 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. And then would they get like a year and a half of people rioting? Because all of a sudden their gas bill was too high

because they were trying to tax them to go green. People want to live, you know? I was actually surprised to find out that people are fond of living. Yeah. Surprising, huh? So when the government comes in and says we're not just sacrificing your your quality of life we're restricting your ability to feed your family while we fly on private jets yeah exactly 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 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 and sometimes even profit off of this new you know idea or innovation that's a carbon tax a tax on your breath a tax on your co2 and i'm like how more ridiculous could they get i could just see them sitting around in the table being like, we're just going to tax them for breathing this time. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're forgetting the UK.

Yeah. They're going to tax you and you're going to need a license for it. Exactly. And it's just like, if you think government licensing is going to solve anything, I demand you spend one week at the DMV. Mandatory. If you're ever going to advocate for such a policy. Now, I will...

I want to finish this because, you know, just recently I made my RV to be... I made my RV off the grid. 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. And when you're talking about the battery technology, it's not there. And I was like, wait, how many pounds do these things weigh? 200 pounds? And I was like, you have to factor in weight, especially if you're in an RV.

And the battery technology, 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. Ian, and educate Luke on new battery technology. Well, I was just reading about graphene batteries. Boom! We're talking about superconductors. I was actually just reading about condensing carbon dioxide into graphene. And what you do is, I'll read this.

This is from digidesignnews.com, and the title is Researchers Develop Graphene from digi design news.com and the title is researchers develop graphene from carbon dioxide um it says that the project endeavors to synthesize graphene uh specifically mimicking photosynthesis by turning carbon dioxide and oxygen metal-based enzyme ribulose uh biphosphate carboxylase oxygenase and um you can find the carbon a little bit too in the weeds this is a really just confused this is a really technical article but ultimately we're gonna have to advance our battery power i wasn't yes we should we have to i want to contain lightning energy we should be using lightning as our power source the problem is we don't know the charge of lightning we've got to pound these batteries with it and just store it. So the reason I shouted you out is graphene.

Yeah. We are moving towards really great advancements in solid-state battery technologies, graphene-based battery technologies. Here's the crazy thing. We talked about this before. I recently bought – I think I bought like five graphene composite batteries. They use lithium-ion technology, but there's like a lattice of graphene through it, which allows it to charge it. Like the whole thing,

it's two and a half cell phone charges worth of power charge up in about 10 to 15 minutes. So normally you plug your phone and it takes 20, 30 minutes. Now it's half the time. This is like the cutting edge. This is like when we had like 32 kilobyte computer RAM stuff. I mean, in 10 years, it's going to be,

we're going to be able to charge in like two seconds and we're going to have days of power the the big problem is batteries man they're particularly brutal i mean when if you get a punctured battery and it blows up on a phone that's why they they tell you on planes you can't bring lithium lithium-ion batteries on the planes and they're brutal for the environment and lithium-ion batteries are primarily made of bauxite and bauxite is mined 90 of of it in the Congo by slave children. And let's be honest about that. Yeah.

Right. And so we're all going to have electric vehicles. Joe Biden has said that we're all going to have electric vehicles. Well, how many more slave children do we need to employ? Do you employ slave children? I don't know what the proper term is. These are just the real conversations we have to have about going green. And also China having these rare earth minerals that they have a monopoly on.

95%. 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. But you know they're not really rare. The U.S.

They're called rare earths, but it's just that nobody is mining them properly. We have them all in America. Right, but China can do it, so we don't want to do the labor. Absolutely. So if you want it to be really green, you would allow us to mining them properly. We have them all in America. Right. But China can do it, so we don't want to do the labor. Absolutely. So if you want it to be really green, you would allow us to mine them here.

It would be better for the environment. We would have great standards. Can we just get some of these environmental leftists to admit we live in a neo-feudalist system 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 in China in the United States get to live off of the slave labor of the serfs in the Congo

mining the bauxite and in China in the rare earths. One of my most disliked people alive right now is a guy named Tom Steyer, who's a billionaire, big environmental cause funder. 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. He made billions of dollars off of investments in coal in Indonesia and China. So he'll be damned if a guy in West Virginia is going to mine for coal. But a nine-year-old girl in Western China? Totally cool, dude. No, no, no.

But don't you get it? He's kicking the ladder down after he made it to the top of the mountain. Absolutely. He's like, you can't come up here. I'm rich. You're right. It really is a feudal system to a certain extent. Look at John Kerry on his private jet. at john carrey on his private jet leonardo dicaprio and his private jet john john carrey flew in a private jet to pick up

an environmentalism award and that's like a fire truck on fire i'm sorry i love that 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 like i would much rather be on a private jet flying to iceland yeah i wouldn't be like ted cruz trying to get myself bumped up to first class which he unsuccessfully did no no no i heard he did get it i heard he did it that's that's the story that i heard right there but also bill gates flew to the paris accords in his private jet yeah so not many people know that the last uh big Google pre-COVID when Google had their big climate change summit in Sicily and something like 147 private jets flew to it.

Prince Harry took one and everyone, 147 private jets flew to the climate change summit. I guess you don't jet pool like a carpool. Like, hey, Tim, I'll pick you up. We'll fly the jet together. Some do. Some do. It's fun. I'll give you a ride anytime my private you know what the meeting was really about i really doubt they all sat down and looked at each other and said man this global warming is a bad thing we got we got to figure out how to save the planet what they really did was

they said we can't have all these poor people flying on planes how do we make sure that we can stay on our private planes i don't want to lose my private plane yeah that's what it is you get everyone else a sacrifice so you don't have to. Yes. And that's where we all want to come to a lot of these green decisions, right? I just want to know who are the people that are going to die. We know who are the people that are going to lose their job. We talk about it.

Well, they'll get a green job in the future. Okay. If I'm a Keystone Pipeline worker, I've been now three weeks without a paycheck. So when's my green job coming? Ah, blah, blah, blah. The future is green. I wanted to expand a little on this battery conversation. There's another article by Wired.

Are radioactive diamond batteries a cure for nuclear waste? This is a good one you might want to pull up. Looks simple. There was a big breakthrough recently on solid state battery technology, which apparently would revolutionize everything. It's like higher energy density. So this stuff takes the spent nuclear rods from nuclear power plants, which normally we have to store in like boxes that are just in yucca for a thousand years. Now you encase them in glass and you use it as a heat source for electricity. And they last a thousand years. Yeah.

It came out August of 2020. I mean, this is literally here. We just need a president or a system that understands it and wants to push it. It's political. That's the problem. I just think they're ignorant. You, you, you, no one, look, in the world of politics, these people are looking at what's going to get them elected. Nuclear is scary.

We've already seen the giant lizard breathing radioactive fire and blowing up buildings and now people are scared that they're going to, you know, grow a third eye or whatever and they think nuclear energy is the apocalypse. My understanding is that nobody died in Three Mile Island. No. No one even got a cold.

Chernobyl, however, was failures of the Communist Party. Absolutely. And look, what happened with Chernobyl was complicated but political. It was war. It was Cold War, and the Soviets were rushing full speed. They had a system where people would like when you live in 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 everything's fine and that's what they kept doing and then we got

you know it got really bad the whole thing went up and there's a lot of problems there don't get me wrong that's scary that's a that's a major crisis. But hold on. What's worse? 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. Look, I think fossil fuels are important. And I think the challenge right now is that we have, you know, we're at 7.8 billion people. 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. Some people don't have food or heat.

You know, and we actually try to subsidize that to help them because we don't want people to die. But the problem now is you've got people saying curtail the use of our most efficient form of energy so far. OK, well, then all these people are going to die. Yeah. And that is the adult conversation we need to have. There is no perfect fuel source. I wish there was. There's no perfect energy source. I wish there were. But I'm not Plato, right? It is not me versus this ideal. 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.

Cost doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if we pay what Germany pays. Efficiency doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if we can't store the electricity. That's why you hear authoritarians say, well, Kamala Harris was asked, should we talk about dietary regulations? And she said, you know, I think we should have a conversation about that. Let's talk about those cheeseburgers. The government's going to regulate our food?

Of course they are. Yeah, Bill Gates said no more meat. No more meat. 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. Live in the pot and eat the bugs. Absolutely. What is it? I will not live in the pot.

I will not eat the bugs. There are these people. Do you know where that's from? Is that a meme? I will not live in the pot. I will not eat the bugs. There are a class of people that think that they

have the authority over us to determine the quality of life we want. And I think that that is how you really get a revolution. That is how you really get a revolution. That is how you get bloodshed. I would like to point out, though, I actually think that the idea of having a pod is pretty

cool. Just as we're talking about in the middle of the woods, got my own little place, got my own little home. That's what I'm doing. Yeah, yeah. And the other thing, too, is I see this meme. It's like, I will not live in the pod. I will not eat the bugs.

And I'm kind of like, why is it bad to eat bugs? Look, there's, what is it, like 85% of the planet eats bugs. You don't have to eat bugs if you don't want to. I think it's fair if you say, I don't want to eat bugs. I'll bet. That's cool. I don't eat bugs. But I'm also kind of like, food's food.

But like lobsters are bugs. Yeah, big insects. Well, another thing we have to kind of comprehend here is that Bill Gates invests his money into specifically creating fake meat. He then goes on 60 Minutes, and Anderson Cooper's like, wow, this is such a great idea. I love this idea, as he's promoting fake meat. The fake meat has no fat in it. That's the problem. 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, knowing 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. A millionaire and a billionaire deciding what we should not live with.

What sacrifices we're going to make. And a republic is a well-armed populist contesting that vote. Holy cow. That's some scary stuff right there. I don't want to be part of that world. I'm like the Little Mermaid. I don't want to be part of that world. I'm like the little mermaid. I don't want to be part of your world. I want to – we talked about the Great Reset you're familiar with, I'm sure.

Yeah, yeah. Scary language. And 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. What they're doing is, in effect, creating the Great Reset they've talked about. So you want to get conspiratorial, you can find – we don't have to be. We can just say, I don't care what their intention is. The result is this great reset.

They're locking us down. They say it's for the pandemic. Sure, this is what's happening. 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 and jack was like what's wrong with that so there's a part of this where it's like listen i believe in freedom if you want to eat your burger with with ketchup slopped all over it or whatever you like on your burger mayo pickles lettuce you know cheese

or whatever you go ahead and do it i however think there's a lot to be gained from regular people who are addicted to this system, 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. 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. Yeah. You're absolutely right. I am born and raised in New York City. I lived in D.C. for a very, very long time. I have a year now. My fiancé and I got a little farm and we're doing that.

Chicken, sheep, turkeys, peacock. Aren't chickens awesome? I love them. Yeah, they're fun. What do the peacocks do? They make a lot of noise. They are ultimately for profit. Do you sell them?

We will. We bought them as eggs and we will sell them. We're the poorest people in town. Really rich people will want them for their lawn to walk around and strut like Flannery O'Connor. Amazing. So we'll sell them to you at three yearsut like Flannery O'Connor. Amazing. So we'll sell them to you at three years of age. You do have peahens as well.

We have the females, yes. And they lay eggs. You eat the eggs? They're not old enough yet to lay eggs. Well, I mean, hopefully the eggs will be fertilized and we'll have more of them. Do you have roosters for your chickens? I have too many roosters. Aren't they hilarious?

And they can be very mean. I know, but it's funny. Like, this rooster's running at you and, like, yelling at you. It got scrapes all over me. But the point I was going to make is I was that D.C. feat, you know, like going to brunch and getting a reservation was the big thing. And you didn't do manual labor. And I have for the last year. And this goes back to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

who argued how it was man better, but it goes back to Locke and Hobbes. It goes back to Plato, Aristotle. Where is mankind better situated? 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 you 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 and it does make you a better I am a better person in the country I really am great feeling from eating your own homegrown eggs yes it's very it's very so amazing i wouldn't 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 i would bake with that yeah it was um it was awesome i was like this is so cool like this these things are out in my yard like eating bugs yeah and they poop these things out and i put it my pancakes it's great now i have a leg up though for anyone who's watching this show who's like, so I can start a farm. My fiance is a legit Aussie outback cowboy who grew up on 25,000 acres and he did this his whole life. So I had some – I had help.

You're cheating. I had cheating. He thinks this is a joke. It's so easy. A couple of sheep and chickens. I had 5,000 head of cattle on my ranch. So I have a leg up. But still, it's a great...

It makes you a better person. It's fun and it's exciting and it's different. And you learn so much and you learn so much about life. I lived on a pig farm this summer. Very gratifying. It smelled 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. And you know, we have as a couple of, sorry to interrupt you, we have all heritage breeds, which you, who talked a couple of times about GMOs, right? There are these breeds 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 fun looking they're funny looking they're kind of ugly yeah the genetic people need to understand the genetic splicingicing 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. My friend accidentally became a pig farmer because the government said, kill all the pigs, right? When COVID hit, they were like, well, you know, rather be safe than sorry, kill all of them. He went to a local farm, picked them up illegally, and then brought them to his farm. And then we learned, like, oh, yeah, these are, you know, specifically bred pigs just to get fat.

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. Here's the question I have for your you know your average rural living conservative 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 got some animals and you're worried about feral hogs or you're worried about coyotes and you got to protect those you care about not just your animals but your family 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? Wouldn't you just want them to experience hard work? The problem is, well, I think it sounds good teaching people responsibility, getting them out to go 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. They're advocating for taking away the weapons of these individuals. And I know a lot of people say, Tim, the Second Amendment isn't about hunting and stuff like that. I know. I know. It's literally about securing a free state. 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. You live in the middle of nowhere where you don't got cops, but more importantly, you hear the coyotes out in the back. And what happens when they come for your chickens? You pepper them up with some birdshot or something, scare them away or whatever it is you do. Or even feral hogs, 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.

Having a 10-round magazine sometimes won't suffice and will put you in danger. You'll have to have a bunch of magazines. Well, even then, reloading and loading takes a while. And during stressful situations, people mess that up. So again, it's nonsensical and it's going to hurt people on so many different levels. And you bring up very important points. I try to shame the coyotes into not doing it. I give them bad reviews.

I tweet negative things at them. Do you try to cancel them? I do. I have to like shame on you and I take pictures and I tell them, you know, we're going to kick them out.

You're going to tell their boss on them. 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. And I'm an urbanite. I grew up in New York City, et cetera, et cetera. But they make decisions about the livelihood of people in towns. Michael Bloomberg is going out of his way to close coal mines in America. He is destroying small towns in Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico, Wyoming.

He wouldn't land one of his G6s in West Virginia because there's no Four Seasons there. He wouldn't spend a second in Artesia, New Mexico, but he will destroy their livelihood. He will take away the only source of income they have. And that is shameful bloomberg is the guy who said to tax the poor because they're too stupid to spend their own money properly and in that same speech which was with christine lagarde at some uh uh you know you know um bilderberg conference he said you know the coal miners will find other things for them to do the code and i thought we will find other things for them to do first of all all, who the heck is we? And what are these other things?

Do they get a choice? It's like John Kerry talking about, well, they have a better choice now. They'll become solar panel technicians. Do I get a say in this new job? Right? What am I? Well, did you see what? What cast am I born into?

Was it Peter Doocy or Steve? I don't know which one's the kid, which one's the dad. The Fox News journalist. He asked Jen Psaki, the Biden administration press secretary, a lot of people just lost jobs because Joe Biden ended the Keystone Pipeline construction. It was like 10,000 good union jobs gone. When can they expect to get these green jobs that Biden has promised? And her response was, can you prove to me they can't get jobs? And he was like, what?

No, no. But Biden said there will be new green jobs. I'm asking when. i don't know what you're talking about or like it was it was entirely adversarial the idea that the problem with this though is you think somebody who knows how to build an oil pipeline that line of work can just magically teleport to a solar plant a solar power a solar panel factory and know what they're doing we've already said though that solar panels isn't the answer we need new battery tech right and when you ask these politicians, what are you going to do? They're like, I will find the best minds that will figure out how to do it. 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. No. 95% of the plastics in the ocean come from Southeast Asia. 70% of it comes specifically from China.

Hold on. Hold on. Greta Thunberg says we're the ones who got to change and she doesn't go to China. What do we do? We ban straws. Just think about the logic of this right there is so much plastic in the pacific ocean that washington dc has a straw ban and you say well what the heck does one have to do with the other well it feels good and we

applaud this yeah and i was i was in i was in texas i was doing i think i was i think it was when i went on the glenn beck program and. And I was at some restaurant in the airport. I ordered an Arnold Palmer. I enjoyed Arnold Palmer. You guys like Arnold Palmer, right? Iced tea and lemonade. Lovely drink. Well, the waitress came up to me and she was, it was kind of funny because she handed me a paper straw and she apologized.

Gross. And I laughed. No, no, she legit, she like brought it to me and she pulled the paper straw and she goes, I'm sorry. Yeah. And I looked at it, I started laughing and I was like, it's fine. And she goes, why did they ban straws? No one knows.

And then she brought up your point. I'm like, here's a waitress who knows that we are not. And then I asked her about it. I was like, that's a really good point. Most people don't know that. And she started talking to me about a bunch of political stuff, and I'm like, how is it this waitress knows and understands the problem better than these politicians do i know that's the problem a regular person looks into it researches and says well what is banning straws gonna do did you ever see the video of the straw up the turtle's nose and these

people find this turtle swimming in the water and they pull it out and it's stuck so they take pliers and they go in they start to try and pull it out of the turtle and it starts bleeding and the turtle's screaming in pain it's a a video on YouTube, I'm sure. And they just work his face and basically commit surgery on this. So plastic in the ocean is devastating. Yeah, absolutely. No one's denying that. But we're not the ones who are doing it.

But why is Greta Thunberg coming and speaking to Europeans and Americans saying, how dare you? We must stop it's like okay can we fly you to china so you can have a conversation with what they're doing like i'm not trying to i mean literally china right now as we are speaking is building more coal plants than all of europe currently has active and they promised to stop they're they lied absolutely and they and they're never going to stop why are are they building coal plants? Because it works. You can say coal is bad. You can say coal is good.

I am going to say coal works. And China is serious. They have a world to conquer. They're not going to face what Texas is facing. You think China is going to allow one of this Uyghur concentration camps making Nike sneakers to ever go dark? They are serious. And so they are building serious infrastructure they these are the chinese communist party will burn the entire plant to the ground

before they they see power absolutely well also if you remember they're the ones taking a lot of the plastic from the west 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 they were throwing it in the water and that's why we have this huge island made of plastic that specifically came from china and what are they doing now they're not only polluting and throwing a lot of waste in the water they're also expanding their weather modification program, which, of course, they actively used. 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. 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.

I think there's just cultural differences, though, between us. You're right, you're right, you're right. Cultural norms. You know, I have so much respect for Joe Biden. He didn't want to be a xenophobe like Trump was. You know, how dare Trump call out China for not warning for for lying to the world about the coronavirus and igniting this massive pandemic? It was bigoted of him because the only reason he did it was because it's China.

Yeah, that's the only reason. And China has so many vulnerabilities that if we were serious about freedom and the livelihood of our fellow mankind, we could cripple China. They need to import 12 million barrels a day of oil. Whoa. You don't want to be racist there, buddy. You can't talk about China like that. Joe Biden says it's just cultural differences. We got to let them do their thing. Right.

We could just stop sending all of our jobs there right we could stop buying nike sneakers we could stop stop watching disney right like we could easily end the china wrath but we just choose not to because it's convenient it's cheap this is why this is why i was saying part of me just wants like a legitimate call for people to get back to nature to some degree go out and tend to the chickens, man. Chickens are hilarious. I don't understand how a person could look at a chicken and not laugh. It's like watching them do their thing is like, it's just hilarious to watch chickens

do their thing. And maybe this pandemic has showed us that you really can live anywhere, right? If we can work remotely, then get the heck... And I'm from Queens queens so anyone who's from queens you know get get the heck out of queens go go just a couple you know it's 60 70 miles and your life will change dramatically the air is better oh the people are nicer i had a hard time leaving la like i felt like i was failing like i failed in my life because i was leaving the mecca but it's just the day of decentralization is upon us.

So we have out here a city, a city of cardinals. I've never seen so many cardinals. So it snowed recently. Everything is white. I look in the tree and there's red spots all over the tree. And I was like, damn. Living in the city, you see one and you go, hey, look, a cardinal. Oh, man. Exactly. Out here, it's hey, look, a cardinal. Oh, man.

Exactly. Out here, it's like, oh, the cardinals won't go away. Yeah. And you see bluebirds and you see different flowers and you hear different sounds. 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 jinjang it would cut off nba and these other companies it's like it's i'm reminded of that simpsons episode just don't look you know the trios of horror when the advertisements

come to life just don't look i i gotta tell you man if i had a choice between watching the super bowl and watching a chicken walk around i picked the chicken i'm not kidding it's funny it's just like it's hilarious like so dumb i caught myself staring out the window this morning at the snow falling for like 10 minutes 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 and i realized it's like tv like we're watching it's like better than TV in a lot of ways. It is TV for cats. People are a lot happier and healthier living out in the wild, living out in nature. There's no crazy crackheads. There's no pollution.

There's no stress. There's no guy beating you over the head with a baseball bat. There's a Vyra video going around in New York City right now. There's no Cuomo putting sick people into your nursing homes and killing your parents. Threatening assembly members that they're going to be destroyed if they don't say nice things about that particular response yeah it's i mean i lived in the city too growing up and uh i hate it i'm so happy i'm not there anymore and i'm telling you like you feel stuck in there i mean i felt stuck i was like i can't leave new york city if you can't make it in new york city you can't make it anywhere yeah i i love the can't make it anywhere. I love the city.

I love the nightlife. I love being able to go out. And then COVID happened. And then I'm like, this is an absolute police state tyrannical hellhole. 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. 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. There's people rummaging through your trash, even before COVID, making sure you recycled correctly. Meanwhile, the whole recycling agenda is a scam anyway. How about Jack Murphy telling us that he was lifting weights in his front yard with his kids kids and the neighbors called the cops on him. Three times.

The Karens. Why would any, you know what, man? I don't like the authoritarians telling people to live in the pod in a city that smells like sour milk. Yeah. There's a way out. Okay? If you don't want to live in the pod, you don't want to eat the bugs, you move out to the middle of nowhere. Life is probably in some ways harder but life is more fulfilling i saw a meme the other day

where it was uh i think we mentioned on the show it's it's bob from the incredibles he's a superhero right but now later in his life he's an insurance adjuster or something and it's like the meme was me at work contemplating my worth my pointless existence or whatever my purposeless existence 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. And if you go out and get away from this, not only, here's the thing. Here's the pitch to the environmentalists. You want to save the planet?

You want less carbon emissions? Advocate for people to go out and do some hard work on their own. Stop relying on fossil fuels for your energy and use a little human power. Chop that wood yourself. Or relocate your headquarters rather than on the lower east side of Manhattan where the Sierra Club is. Go out into the country. Open a headquarters in rural Ohio if you really care about the earth. But look at where these groups are located. They're located in New York, they're located in D.C., San Francisco.

And the bigger problem I have with a lot of the elites of this country is that they push this lifestyle through their policies, through their political giving. But when the crap hit the fan, what did they do? They jumped on their jet and flew to the Hamptons. They flew to the Bahamas. They flew to Cancun. That's the problem with the Ted Cruz thing. It's not that he left. It's that people don't like that he had a choice. I am

stuck here, but I have the choice to leave. And if we're all in this together, well, you can't say that. Remember that meme that said celebrities spell out hope on their yachts? It's true. We're not all in this together. If you are pushing these policies, but you have a $40 million beach house in the hamper. It's true.

And then you also live by a different set of rules that don't apply to anyone else but you. They get to scoot around. They get to go to restaurants. They get to go get their haircuts. Meanwhile, you can't go outside. You can't even meet your family. You can't lift weights with your friend. You can.

If you have enough money. If you're in the club. Not in the cities. We can walk outside right now enough money. If you're in the club. Not in the cities. We can walk outside right now and no masks on and no one cares. In fact, you can walk outside here and shoot a gun.

Nobody cares. You live in the middle of nowhere. You get more space. And I've talked to my friends about this. When I said I was leaving New York City, they're like, why would you leave New York? And I said, listen,

the closer you are jammed to other people, your personal bubble of 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. 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.

You can't do that in the suburbs. You move out to the country. You can't. You move out to the country and you can go outside with a 50 bmg semi-auto and just unload as long as you got appropriate backstop 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 this thing happen with uh laura bobert she had a she was doing a zoom call lauren sorry lauren she was she had the guns behind her and all these like leftists are like what is she doing with guns i I'm like, why do you care? She lives in the middle of nowhere.

Frontville, Colorado. I know where that is. Why would I want to live in a city where I have these Karens screaming at me about me doing something innocuous? Working out in your backyard. Working out in your front yard. Like, I'm going to call the police. Okay, look, man. I'm going to go to the middle of nowhere where I can go outside in mid-morning, buck naked,

scream, and just fire some guns. It's like a different world since the internet, man. It is a different world. 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. And in the country, you're isolated. And it is completely different now.

You go to the country of high-speed internet, you start an empire. This is one of the reasons why new york city is going to collapse a lot of people aren't coming back because they're realizing they don't need to come back everything that they used to do at the office you know at their workspace they could do online businesses are realizing this they're not even asking people to come back and that's why a major swap of of real estate in new york city is going to be redesigned to be apartment buildings rather than office buildings who's going to live there when there's no jobs yeah 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 yeah and then he buys it up it's like robocop you know the evil that's the plot line yeah watch the original robocop it's extremely RoboCop, you know, the evil government. That's the plot line, yeah.

Watch the original RoboCop. It's extremely eye-opening. And you're right. Who's going to want to live there? I am always a proud New Yorker. I love New York. I mean, I'll always consider New York home. You get this little swagger when my accent comes back when I go back to Queens, when I order pizza, you know. But there is a deep anger in that city and pre-covid yeah people

are are and you can't have unsatisfied not making enough money yeah they're paying 4500 a month in rent for a room that's smaller than i've heard it's the brake dust from all the cars is so fine the particulates that they go through the avioli on your lungs it's not even like the carbon dioxide emissions it's the brake dust and it causes hypertension high stress high blood pressure and that leads to a lot of the stress that people feel a couple of a couple of months after the start of the pandemic with the lockdowns were in full swing i was 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 and i was like yeah and he's like oh wow nice to meet you and he's like hey you mind if i introduce you Tim Pool? And I was like, yeah. And he's like, oh, wow.

And he's like, nice to meet you. And he's like, hey, you mind if I introduce you to some people? I'm like, yeah, of course. We started talking and I was like, so how are you guys holding up in the pandemic with all the lockdowns and stuff? And they were like, it hasn't affected us at all. And I was like, no. 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. And he's like, for us, nothing changed at all. The only difference was now they want you to wear a mask, I guess. But like, for us, nothing changed at all. The only difference was, now they want you to wear a mask, I guess. But for the most part, nothing else changed. Nothing changed. No, it was funny for a while. Every weekend, different friends from DC would say, hey, do you mind if we come out for the weekend

and say hello? And then finally, after like two months, Andrew was like, are we running a bed and breakfast? Like, what is going on? Like, every weekend we have these house guests, but I feel bad for them. They can't go outside. It's in lockdown mode. There's National Guard patrolling the streets.

It was like, yeah, we'll give you a little bit of refuge. I think if some of these city people got to taste the joy of responsibility in taking care of your animals and your family, they would be addicted to it instantly. There's a joyful work, meaningful work, rather than just empty button pushing

that they usually do in the city. And the joy of seeing your dog run without a leash is a pleasure. Like I took my dogs to the city in the dog park and would play with the other dogs. But to see my dog doesn't really know what a leash is now. And I will not put him or her, I have two dogs, on one again.

To see them just run and play and get dirty. And my dogs are happy. Everyone's happy. I'm happy. People talk about they need purpose in their lives. Purpose doesn't need to be you becoming the king and taking over and leading your civilization to you know conquest it could be you living for someone other than yourself and when you have animals to take care of that also help sustain you chickens laying eggs for instance or if you're gonna if you're raising you know cattle for meat or something you have to take care of them because

they're ultimately going to take care of you that's your responsibility you wake up in the morning and you've got something some problem or some threat or some storm or whatever you have you have purpose if i don't do this bad things will happen i must take action and that's lost for people in the city because it's it's almost like we beat the game you know like you know humans have beat the game you live in the city what do these people do let's be. 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. It's like, dude, you realize that there are people who build things and do back-breaking manual labor making $15 an, and you're getting double or triple what they get paid to write garbage articles? These people have the cushiest do-nothing jobs on the planet.

And that's one of the biggest problems is making this country fall apart. These media outlets have no idea, have the time to know what to write about. Because, well, you've got to write about news. I'll give you a really good example of what happens with video games. Normally, a video game comes out. We'll call it Ian's Quest. And, you know, Ian is a noble knight with a sword, and he's going to write about news. I'll give you a really good example of what happens with video games. Normally a video game comes out and we'll call it Ian's quest. And you know, Ian is a noble knight with a sword and he's going to fight a dragon. And so they write an article. Ian's quest is a new game that is X, Y, and Z. It's fun. Here are the controls, whatever. Then they write some, some guides to that. Okay, great. They wrote 10 articles when the game came out the next day,

there's no new game. What do they do? What do they write about? Well, what happened was they figured it out. Politics. Can we complain about the game for some reason? Oh, someone noticed that one of the dragons actually looks like he might be a misogynist. Yeah. So the game is bigoted. All of a sudden now, they start writing articles that we're desperately trying to find anything to be. They're getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to write about this garbage.

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. And here are these people getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to write about nonsense. 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 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. Sorry, go ahead. No, I was going to say, the dude in Montana is healthier.

He's probably hotter, right? I No, I was going to say the dude in Montana is healthier. He's probably hotter, right? I mean, he's stronger. And it's like, for those of us on this persuasion and for chicks, who would you rather get with? The dude in Montana who's like herding his cows or like the BuzzFeed. Seven things you didn't know about Geyser Crystal Water. The low-key guy. Look, look, look. Hey, man.

Hey. To each their own. To each their own know i guess there's there's a lot of you know the answer to that question that's correct yes you know it's funny because but i'll tell you this the one thing that really angers the left is pointing out the the the issues that are affecting cities like they really really get mad at me and so i've done several segments talking about women not finding relationships not getting married and complaining about it 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. And so they try to, you know, it's just, they don't like that as a conversation. For some reason, that particular conversation really, really gets to them. I don't exactly know why. If you live in a city and you're a woman past 30 who's working, you chose to do those things,

I got no beef. More power to you, man. I'm all about the freedom. Congratulations. If you're now upset that you can't find a real relationship well i'm not ragging on you i mean i guess life is tough you know but they write these articles but that really really strikes a chord it really does it it just like a the one thing that really gets them mad i don't know i don't maybe it's because it really is an issue maybe because they really don't like it i don't know i 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? 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 were between 24 and 34 and single not find love? I think it's the internet, to be honest. Probably. 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. So I, you know. People cyberstalk also, which is a big problem.

I meet this guy, Ian. He's awesome. But before I have the first date, I find old tweets. Oh, my God. And I don't believe this. Oh, my gosh. You like third eye blind? I can't go out with Ian.

It's part of why I didn't research you. I don't ask who's coming on the show because I don't want to stalk you before you get here. Well, you know what? That is like the most mature thing I have ever heard because other people will be like, well, let me find out every detail. And that's awesome. And I hope people do that in their dating life too and be pleasantly surprised. Ian, do you like Third Eye Blind?

I love Third Eye Blind. Oh, no. London. Play London by Third Eye Blind. No, no, no, no. That's a great song. No, I didn't say that. No, they're all right.

I don't know. Is that bad? Is Third Eye Blind bad or something? The guy was heavily into heroin when he wrote that first album. I don't know why it was the first one that popped into my head.

Semi-Charmed Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's about coming down from heroin, I believe. Wow, crazy. So here's what I want to point out going back to the conversation about energy and all that.

I have this article from a couple, almost two years ago now. Oh, yeah. It's from Yahoo News. Actually, it's from the National Review. AOC's chief of staff admits

the Green New Deal is not about climate change. This is important context. I know it's an old story, 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.

Okay, all right. That's the argument. Show them this clip. Here's what we have. 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. Quote, the interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate

thing at all. This is what Chakrabarty said to Inslee's climate director, Sam Ricketts. He said, do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how do you change the entire economy thing? The Green New Deal proposed earlier this year by Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey would transition the U.S. economy entirely away from fossil fuels within 10 years, while simultaneously providing a federal jobs and health care guarantee. It would also, according to its proponents, advance social, economic, racial, regional and gender based justice and equality in cooperative and public ownership. All told, all told, the proposal will cost up to ninety three trillion dollars in new

government spending over 10 years. Yet we get it. OK, put it simply. Let me ask you a question, a rhetorical question. I'll just reframe it. Actually, 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? I would say yes.

If someone said so, all of a sudden you say yes, they say, boom, you support the Green New Deal. OK, that sounds good to me. And that's what they asked people. What they did not ask them was the actual contents of the green new deal do you support the largest transfer of power to the government economic power and economic control to the government in order to ensure racial uh you know racial and gender-based equity and guaranteed housing and health care that has nothing to do with the environment. That's going to dramatically drop the amount of people who agree with that.

Last point, Chakrabarty said it was about changing the economy. It's a new deal with green just jammed in there to use environmentalism as a manipulation. 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. We're going to allocate X amount of funds towards nuclear development, which I knew they would never do. And we're going to allocate X amount of funds towards carbon capture. And I'd be like, let's technology. It's awesome, man.

Let's fund technology. They didn't. They said we're going to guarantee health care to people of color. And I'm like, okay. How about the line? We're going to guarantee income for those unwilling to work. You must have read that and said, wow. And they had to remove that in panic and then try and deny it. Just imagine the stupidity of someone who says we are going to get all fossil fuels in 10 years.

Someone who says that just literally doesn't know how the world works. Right. It just doesn't understand how the world works. Anytime you say like, would you support this outcome? That's moronic. Like, would you support this outcome that's moronic like would you support daniel winning the race yeah sure well in that case let me take any means necessary to make it happen thank you that's basically the green new deal so they kill the three of them and then i win automatically you will win so so daniel look look around the room

is there anything in this room that was created without fossil fuels? It's not possible. 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. 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. And that's what's beautiful about the free market system. It takes the most amount of goods and lowers it to the lowest cost imaginable.

And just on a quick little note, right, not to be political, but the last four years, Trump is an oil guy. Trump is an oil guy. He supports big oil. Boy, for a guy who supports big oil oil prices were pretty damn low right the oil companies want to make profit off of volume they were oil was at even before covid oil prices were low because they were producing more of it the industry the free market wants to produce more things at a lower price point because more people can buy it so let's talk about price point.

And that's good. There's this story from way back when. One man's nearly impossible quest to make a toaster from scratch. Now, what does it mean from scratch? I'm not talking about, and they mentioned this in the article, a guy going to Radio Shack or Home Depot or whatever as you buy components, saying, I need some wire, I need some metal. No, no, no.

He literally wanted to make every single part of it, the springs, everything from the ground up. Guess what? He could not do it. The one thing he couldn't do was plastic. I watched this video on it. He couldn't do plastic, so he ended up mining the plastic. He went and found some and then melted it down. And all in all, the toaster worked for, I think, about 20 seconds before it broke. Toasters cost, what, 10 bucks? For the average person working at mcdonald's takes about an hour well after taxes about an hour and a half two hours and then you get a toaster this guy could not make 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. Not only, so the interesting thing about it was plastics. So he couldn't make it if he wanted to. He could do the metal, he could do everything else, but he couldn't actually make the plastic, which is funny because, you know, fossil fuel-based for the most part, petrochemicals and things like that. Think about, you brought this up before the show, ham sandwiches. Yeah.

You want to tell the ham sandwich story? 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. Every component he wanted to make. He wanted to grow the wheat to make the bread. He wanted to grow the pig to make the ham. 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.

Again, the beauty of the free market. I recently made with some friends from scratch some General Tso's chicken. Oh. 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 one of the manhattan project like 2 000 years ago there if you gave them that recipe they'd be like what we have to get all of these things to make this that's not possible and and what amazes me about the aocs of the world of of the haughtiness sometimes of our elite is the average person in america right now the average person in America right now,

the average person has the greatest quality of life in the history of mankind. 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. A generation ago, we all drank, our parents, my parents, your grandparents,

they drank Schlitz, right? Because that's what was available. And now it's like – You're ragging on Schlitz? No, I'm just saying there were four or five brands and that was it. And now we find people who – because we have created such prosperity and that comes from an abundance of energy. To go back to the very first question, why is there a food shortage in Texas? There's an energy shortage.

Where is there the most poverty in the world where there's no energy? Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia. Where is there the most pollution and despair and the worst quality of life? The same countries. Energy gives us prosperity. 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. But they need to know that is what is on the line. 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. 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. And Honda basically got their tentacles in Iquitos and started selling them these tukuk-tuks, these three-wheel cars, and basically brand them all Honda.

And they use gas engines, all of them. So there's thousands, tens, and hundreds of thousands of these just pouring black smoke into the air. It smells disgusting. 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 so there's about we need to learn how to reuse it absolutely we need a balance and and and i would argue that we have allowed ourselves to have this binary mentality we either love the earth or we want to pollute it with fossil fuels and i think

they go hand in hand i look at this country which is a very big fossil fuel consumer, and our air, our water quality, we are not a dirty country. Could we be cleaner? Of course we could be cleaner, right? I don't want to become this city in Peru, did you say? Yeah, Iquitos. I don't want to become that, but we're not there. 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. 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. I've been to lots of different beaches in this country.

I've never seen plastic strewn all over the place. We don't pollute our oceans in America. Why are we culpable? Because Greta Thunberg, you pronounce it differently than I do, tells us, well, it's our fault there's plastic in the ocean. Thunberg. Yeah, I think the H is silent. I'm pretty sure it's Thunberg. 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 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 it's going to be worth its weight in gold so if china wants to throw it into the ocean so that we can recapture it, I'm totally into it. Just give us 10 or 15 years. Carbon capture technology, converting the carbon in the air to graphene, like you were

mentioning, I think is going to become lucrative. And I think then we're going to have an inverse problem where it's like, too much carbon is being taken. And the plants will be suffering. So we're going to need to balance out that. It's true. We can't mine it all out of the air. Graphene has long been hailed as this wonder material that's going to revolutionize everything. Superconductor materials. What is it? Like you can't mine it all out of the air graphene has long been hailed as this wonder

material that's going to revolutionize everything superconductor materials what is it like you crisscross it becomes a superconductor oh yeah yeah so twist it something like that like we were talking about it and there's a lot of amazing properties it's like super strong well you need carbon for that and if you you mentioned this earlier in the show that what they're going to capture it from the air to make graphene graphene is pure carbon so you get the carbon dioxide out of the air and you put it on palladium apparently the same metal that used for cold fusion the palladium it's incredible metal by the way um and i didn't get through the article but the process i mentioned the article earlier 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. I'm sure they'll find something to be, you know, there's articles going back to the 70s, obviously, for the global cooling. 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. And if not, the Maldives would be underwater within 30 years. What about the 70s, the global cooling crisis? Yeah, exactly.

You know, but again, I also think, like I 70s, the global cooling crisis? Yeah, exactly. But again, I also think, like I said earlier, I don't trust the press and I also don't like government. And my whole life I've been told between killer bees and swine flu and bird flu and this pandemic, everything's going to kill me every five seconds. We're always told we're going to die. This whole slow death thing, I think, is a fear thing because we're coming out of the last ice age right now. That's the research shows. We're in a what is it called? A glaciation period where everything's melting. All the ice caps are going to melt back to normal. We're out of the ice

age. And the real fear is an asteroid impact and a massive global flood. Not a slow raise in the sea level. It doesn't happen like that. It happens in jolts and jerks. So we got to prevent and be prepared for that kind of thing. Well, we need to understand a lot of things. It's not always, you know, so strongly on one side that there's going to be a solution on. 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 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. And I called my organization Power the Future for a reason because I do believe our future is better and brighter and has fewer emissions, etc., etc. 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 are using conventional energy.

And if we cripple our conventional energy now, we are crippling our future. Those people have to drive. They have to turn on lights. They have to run big machines. So let's not punish ourselves now for the hope of a better tomorrow. You know who's not crippling their energy? China. That's right.

Look at the coal plants they're building. Nor is Russia. If anything, Russia is laughing itself silly. So what you're saying is that Greta Thunberg is working for the Russians to hurt America? I am saying that this is Newtonian, and there is always an opposite effect. And by punishing American

fossil fuels, other people are going to prosper. Look, there are only certain, with geology as such, that only certain countries have oil and gas. And I wish they were all America and Canada, because we're great. But the other ones are the Saudis, the Omanis, the Yemenis, the Russians. They're not the Venezuelans. They're not the greatest regimes on Earth. I heard a really horrifying point. The Iranians. I don't remember who said it. It may have been Mike Cernovich. He said something

like, or someone said, if you think the Middle East is destabilized now, wait until we discontinue use of fossil fuels and then see what happens what little is helping to stabilize that area is the desire for for profit and industry and the access to this resource once no one cares about that anymore then fighting is going to be for just just on unfettered uncontrolled yeah although like you said that pipeline is all about moving moving fossil fuels so if we didn't need, we may not have to fight over that area. It would be very different, I'd imagine. Yeah.

Yeah, they don't want to pay the high prices to Russia anymore. So they want this pipeline built, and it's resulting in chaos. I've been thinking about if we were to melt all the ice, the countries that would massively profit are Canada, Russia. I don't know how – is China super far north up? China? No, no.ussia is to the north yeah russia it's russia will be russia make massive amounts of money when all that well then all that ice is gone in siberia and up there and they already they already want to start

drilling and so there's now plan you know canada and greenland is going to be fascinating with no ice and we almost bought it right our last president tried to buy it for... He wanted to put that casino in there and, you know... I forget the price tag. It wasn't much. You know, we all could have done a GoFundMe and... Who owns Greenland? Is it Denmark? Oh my gosh. Wow.

Yeah, it's funny because Denmark's like pretty tiny, like in Europe. But they have Greenland. It's massive. It's a whole lot of ice though you know i i do i will say this um the ice on greenland is ice that is not displacing water so they say when that melts it will change the salinity levels the flow and potentially the water the ocean levels themselves 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 well my question is like why are these ultra elites buying beachfront properties no no but this is it's funny but like i 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 like i don't know who who was, bought Florida beachfront property. And he said, how is that possible that you have these people saying all this is going to happen? And they just made a 30-year investment on waterfront property. He said, 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. Why is that? But just to finish this, the argument from the left is just simply because people don't care. And that's a problem. 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. Well, AOC two years ago said we had 10 years.

At the presidential debates, the Democrat primaries, Andrew Yang said, we have no time. It's already here. We should start moving people to higher ground. Remember that line? The Floridians were like, oh boy, pack your bags, kids. I guess we're moving somewhere, right? So they know that this timeline is a joke

bill gates says 30 years aoc says eight 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 so there's a meteorologist who frequently would debunk aoc saying climate climate change and carbon emissions they're serious problems yeah we need to solve for these problems 10 years that's not true. These people are just trying to push you and scare you. And what's going to happen in, say, it's 50 years? Are we going to be as warm as we were in the 1640s when England had very prosperous vineyards?

Are we going to be warmer? Well, we were warmer during the height of the Renaissance. Were we all dying? Were we all underwater? You know what I mean? We came out of the height of the Renaissance. Were we all dying? Were we all underwater? You know what I mean? Like we came out of the Black Plague. And so, yeah, I don't know what the consequences of global warming are. I just hear it's catastrophe.

All I know is that beneath the permafrost of Greenland are an awful lot of trees. And all I know is that when you go through the sands of Saudi Arabia, there's an awful lot of seashells. Right? I mean, that's ocean sand from the last global. Yes. So we had nothing to do with that. I think it's very hard to think that we have something to do with what's happening now. Well, that being said, let's jump over to Super Chats.

If you have not already smashed that like button, give a little tap, help out the show. Don't forget to share this podcast. If you really do like it, that's the best thing you can do. It's seriously the only real way to grow a show is if people are advocating for it and uh hit that like button subscribe notification bell and go to timcast.com become a member to get access to exclusive members only content we got a full bonus episode with james o'keefe it's a whole lot of fun but let's read them super chats all right let's see whoa it looks like uh you know youtube changed the way they did super chats and now i can't see the time of when these were posted it's kind of annoying so it's a bummer so we've got let's see

can uh control alt right oh what's that about he says i'm super chatting while plowing snow and yet another pa snowstorm tim tell me do you shovel snow or do you make ian do it we have a beautiful neighbor that has taken the burden yes well i had to shovel snow out of my RV roof today Not fun and I have to do that every time And if you want to see Luke

shoveling snow off his RV you can go to my Instagram Wait Does your neighbor have a plow or something that he's doing Yeah He rides around on it

He loves it No no He has a truck It's a big truck But still But what a great neighbor Yeah It costs money

Someone bake that guy a cake We were going to buy four wheelers. Or just pay him. He loves doing it so much. He's getting paid. I'd prefer cake. Oh, he's getting paid. That's why it's done every day.

It's awesome. Community is it. You got to tell him to do my roof. Just Cuz says, Luke, just bought a bunch of your 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 going to post a video on my Instagram later. Her ears are perking up. Luke, we are changing. One ear's perked up. Just one. The other one's a little...

Ernie G says, instead of learn to code, learn to grow. There should be classes to teach people to survive in worse conditions, build, grow, and survival. Yes, definitely. I taught survival courses. Do you ever look at the education curriculum of our grandparents when they learned how to do things like shop? Shoot. Yes. They learned how to do stuff.

I love that comment. Home Ec was awesome. Yeah. And shop. That was the first time I cooked anything. It was in sixth grade or something crystals marino says third super chat the charm want a partner on whistleblower def uh def org had the idea for a while ago acquire the perfect brand dm'd ian on instagram oh there you go what was it uh partner on whistleblower.org i guess they they dm in. Thanks for messaging me. Jennifer Reem says, Texan here.

We don't think about putting the food from the fridge outside, but did put beer and wine outside to chill. Priorities. So did we. There you go. Nailed it.

Smart move. 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. Or the back porch. 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. My small town I live in had a bill of $10 million for only six days. Typical bill is $1.6 million for an entire year. Wow. That's crazy.

Justin Bookman says, The reaction to Limbaugh reminds me when Total Biscuit died. Those games journalists were disgusting. By the way, I'm starting a podcast called The Eye of Buckeye soon, talking about Ohio regional news. Thanks for the inspiration. Hey, right on, man. I love that.

What up, Ohio? I'm from Cuyahoga Falls. Oh, yeah. Shout out Northeast Ohio. Grim Pickens says, I'm a trucker. I deliver groceries to Walmart stores across M-O-K-S-i-a-n-e-o-k we have spent more days parked because of weather than moving the last two weeks wow people don't understand how fragile the supply chain is oh i learned because i got ups deliveries coming we got a fondue kit

okay yeah what happened with that i saw you post that they were mistaken about the tracking number no they told me that they were like your package is out for delivery delivery. And then it's a severe weather delay. So I called and said, can we just go pick it up? Because the UPS thing is only a few miles away. And they're like, actually, it was never out for delivery, and it's not actually here. And I was like, what? But it's a fondue kit. It's a little thing.

You put cheese in it. I had Gruyere fondue in the town of Gruyere in Switzerland. I never felt more gay in my life. I've made it now. Now I'm allowed back in New York. I didn't vote for Hillary, but I'm allowed. I love it.

You walk back in and they're like, you didn't vote for Hillary. But I did have Gruyere fondue. In the town of Gruyere. Right this way, sir. Delicious. Deplorable pirate captain gunbeard says the electrical grade copper green energy requires cannot economically be made from recycled copper green energy requires mining lots of copper ore that uses lots of oil chile actually reconverted

their entire economy to become a mining economy it's like the third largest mining country in the world they have a lot of natural resources yep yeah then in australia beautiful country you only find copper mines around volcanic area right that's part of it so the ring of fire countries that's why alaska has a huge copper mine that we can't open they've been fighting it for 17 years but but copper is only found where the same place as volcanic activity wow and all right we have a serious one here from croup he says a pasco county florida police officer and close friend lost his life yesterday in the line of duty. He is survived by his wife, newborn child and five year old daughters. His GoFundMe is named, quote, Deputy Michael Magli and family, Pinellas County or Pinellas County, however you pronounce it. And that's Michael M-A-G-L-I and family. If you guys want to check that out, Krupp, I'm sorry for your loss and my condolences to the family acne product says ercot operates a trading market for electricity what happened in texas was a stock market crash distributors aren't coming online because electric is nine thousand dollars per unit when it's usually 25 this isn't only weather this is enron stuff

wow oh so they spiked the price to make money off this catastrophe? Or the prices went crazy because they lost capacity and demand went through the roof and then they couldn't operate? Not entirely sure. Because 25% of the electric grid is made from wind, which wasn't working. So they had to make up for it somewhere. Right. Or they had to just continue to cut. And so they cut off millions of people and you either just keep cutting or you add on capacity.

And if you're going to add on capacity, you have to buy it from someone. Oh, so they're importing it to pay. Yeah, absolutely. And they could be being spiked by foreign markets. No, no, no. It's spiked by the own demand. Yeah, absolutely. So we have Scrog GCW says, Tim, you cannot run water when it's cold.

If the power goes off, that runs your well pump. This is why I have a propane power generator. Now, that's true for a lot of people. If you live in an area without a water tower and there's no natural water pressure and you rely on an individual pump. But I think people in the cities where this is happening have water tower pressure. Yeah. When I grew up in Queens, a water. I mean, I don't think we

didn't have blackouts back then right we had a better electric grid you don't want to run the water full blast you just have it a little bit more than a drip yeah and then the water moves so it can't freeze in the pipes if the water stops then it freezes and then you're in trouble so we did this in chicago they 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. A little bit more. It can't just be a drip. Publius the Good says, I built a green building years ago with geothermal cooling.

That's awesome. The bills in those apartments were less than 50 bucks a month. This would be the best for Texas. Essentially, you cool water by circulating it through the bedrock to cool it. That's awesome. There's also this really cool video I watched about anthills. There are these anthills that are built like a tower that funnels heat out of the colony and straight up and out.

Have you ever seen solar updraft towers? Incredible technology. They built a giant circular tower. At the base, there's these turbine generators, and then they build large circular tarps around for like a mile around the tower. Underneath 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 it's incredible just re they're just super expensive to build did you guys know that before the invention of air

conditioning we couldn't build buildings above like eight floors? 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. They'd open the windows and try and get air to circulate. They then invented air conditioners. All of a sudden now, they could keep the building cold. I watched this documentary. It was fascinating. 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. 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. So we actually have much more efficient architecture where we don't need to waste so much energy on air conditioning. It's crazy. AC is a fascinating technology, but it takes a lot of juice.

Daniel Bundrick says, all they would have to do to fix the supply problem in Texas is can the stupid anti-price gouging laws. There would be a backlog in the highways if there were no limit to what you could make. The Black Metal says, Texxan here people need to adapt to all situations and help others not depend on government ever because when government fails more chaos ensure uh and sort ensues prepare before help others after amen yep good point caleb davis says geothermal isn't worth or effective in electricity generation the largest plant in the world only makes 1.5 megawatts for the land, large land area it uses. Well, I don't know. I don't know too much about it. I can tell you this. 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. And then geothermal came. And they set up these geothermal plants, and now they have an abundance of energy. I think they even export some of it. So now you've got people living really, really well, and Iceland is a really comfortable and beautiful place. Karasu Macha says,

Hydroelectric thorium and geothermal are the trinity of clean, reliable energy. Fusion would be the king, but I feel geothermal doesn't get enough attention oh contradictory it's so funny how how how drastic information can be from person to person from one super chats is useless to the next person that says it's the holy grail of energy and they may both be right in different circumstances yeah kevin says natural gas lines generally freeze because of the presence of liquid or vapor water in the lines this is caused by a pressure drop in the gas lines which in turn drops the temperature of the line interesting thank you answered my answered our question yeah okay hydro hydro says luke go learn something from thomas sowell you don't even understand

economics but hate the rich i don't hate the rich there's i like thomas so well he's awesome i follow him and i i retweet a lot of his memes and not all problems are because of rich people it's a small club of rich people that really do create a lot of bad problems but uh yeah if you're doing well for yourself and you're an entrepreneur more to you and we need more of that all right we got some hate you ready oh boy michael cook says calling yourself an expert with only five years in the field is evident of a lack of self-awareness i'm a 22 year old uni dropout and i am more of an expert than this guy similar blackout happened in south australia 2016 yeah and you know what they did as a result they got rid of malcolm turnbull who was the prime minister because the people of

melbourne said remember i'm engaged to a nazi the people of of victoria and melbourne said this isn't the third world why why we have blackouts because the previous prime minister said we're going to start going green so that was the consequence maybe then maybe texas will make the same decision what did you do you so you spent last five years working in energy no working in energy advocacy and i had to become an expert to do this job well what did you do before that leading up to it um i've always been advocate for different issues you know i've always been i've like i said i lived in dc for a long long time never ran for office or anything um but i've always wanted to fight for the underdog all right we got i've done it for multiple...

I've did it for free speech. I did it for religious liberties. I've done it for lots of different causes, but this one I started on my own because there was a need for it. We have a comment, Super Chat, from Tyler Chaney. He says, Look into liquid fuel thorium reactors.

The U.S. built a prototype in the 50s with none of the waste, meltdown, or security issues as conventional reactors. It worked perfectly, and they never built another. Also check out Flibe Energy. Have you heard of that? Flibe? How do you spell it? F-L-I-B-E. No idea.

Interesting. I'm afraid to Google things that I don't recognize. Right, right. Now we're getting all these lefties being like, Tim Pool actually said it. He said fly by hair. Yeah, right. Jay Max says, freedom is paramount.

If you want to live in a pod, live in a pond. I personally love fried crickets with peanut oil and smoked paprika, but I'll be damned if I'll make my standard the standard. Crickets are super tasty, though. I'm saying. No, I agree. That's exactly it. When people are like, I will not live in the pod.

I will not eat bugs. I'm like, imagine you had a pod in the middle of the woods. And I don't mean a pod is like a tiny little box where you're jammed. I mean like a nice little relaxing, a van even. You know, you got enough space to lay back. You got your little TV. You're playing your video games. You can see the stars.

And you got some chocolate-covered crickets. I think people would not have the opinions on eating bugs if they just grew up eating them and a lot of people in the world do and don't care yeah you know 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 and don't think twice about it and yeah you know a pigeon so you know what you know what i always confuse me is fear factor you guys are watching fear factor that show the old ones are gross 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 horse sperm food food food that's a dude i love that show but this is the point 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. Exactly. I've had a bunch of weird. There was like cow tongue. You ever eat cow tongue? It's pretty common. I like tongue.

Now, Fear Factor did get canceled because I think it was bull emissions. Oh. Yeah. And some dude chugged it. He's like, I'm winning. And he just chugged it. He knew that was when the show went too far, Joe was saying. He was like, I knew this. Dude, I love that show. He knew that was when the show went too far, Joe was saying. He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew this.

Dude, I love that show. That was my introduction to Joe Rogan. And I loved it so much because you'd see people in fear, like literally in panic. And he would inspire them and like help them overcome their fears. And it was like, he was just some dude, like some jabroni from the Bronx or wherever. I don't know where he's from. Boston. But he was so

like loving to these people in their weakest moments that i i had so much respect for that guy i liked it when it was fear like you have to put your hand in here i'm not telling you what it is when it was just gross out factor yeah right 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 going to put an animal or like jump from a moving vehicle to another moving vehicle you're not gonna you can I'm going to put on you, but we are going to put an animal on you. Or like jump from a moving vehicle to another moving vehicle. You're not going to get hurt. You can do it. And he's like, you can.

And he was really give them like inspiration. Man, that was such a good. It's just like they're going to make you eat something. You're not going to get hurt. You know what I mean? They're going to put your hand in something, an animal on you. You're not going to get hurt. All right.

We got this big one from Geraldo Oliveres. Thanks for the super chat. From Texas. Came to the ranch because it had power. City Texans seem not to be prepared to self-reliant. Work in ONG with many between us and wind.

They prefer wind because it's heavily subsidized. There was a power dispatch issue. Wind isn't scalable. We're not against wind, but realize it's issues and resources. Nuclear is the future.

You're here, sir. Thank you for the super chat. I just need batteries, man, because sometimes it's super windy and you would charge the hell out of those batteries. And then, because the wind doesn't always blow. Yeah. And the sun doesn't always shine. And as he said, no one's opposed to it, but you have to

realize it has limitations. So let's be adults and acknowledge the limitations. This is an interesting one. Denny Stevenson says, quote, a theory of natural philosophy written in 1763 by Joseph Boscovich was Nikola Tesla's favorite book. It explains the aether in detail. We need to go back to aether technology, i.e. Tesla Tower. Watch Adapt 2030 latest vid.

Well, I don't know anything about that, but I love those kind of conversations about like lost technologies or like new mysterious you know forms of energy and stuff and tesla is always a fun subject yeah it's having the earth's magnetic field would be interesting the energy generated by the core spinning the core of the earth god emperor says tim they they do not want people becoming self-sufficient they want us in the cities and being controlled they are just not very good at anything. That's actually a really good point. Yeah, pretty much. I think that's true. Don't you stuck? Lori from

Arizona says truck drivers far outnumber the members of Congress. We could do far more damage to this country in a much shorter time than any person in Congress. I wish all two million would agree to stop until the BS in this country ends. I am one myself. MAGA. Yeah, people don't realize the power they have.

You could literally be like, I will not buy from this store anymore. And that's it. Yeah. There's the change. Until self-driving trucks replace them, which is happening very soon. Yep. Ethan Wiley says, The wind industry doesn't employ people that thump you with the green deal crap.

We are majority diesel truck money and usa loving americans we don't see many soy boys out here can't handle 70 hour weeks would be my guess i mean i absolutely assume that the people who are building infrastructure i don't care if it's wind or otherwise not gonna be frail little soy boy that's the funny thing about these people they're not the ones doing the work but they claim to be frail little soy boy that's the funny thing about these people they're not the ones doing the work but they claim to be the proletariat yeah it's like these these college educated kids coming out saying that they're the working class like dude you're not you're writing about brad pitt's junk for buzzfeed you know i mean i did a little study on flib

that technology they call it earlier it's lithium fluoride uh beryllium so the fluoride lithium beryllium f-l-i-b-e and it's it's uh served in making molten salt reactors it really looks like thorium might end up becoming the holy like the it's been people been talking about for like 15 years and i think it's just going over people's heads so no one's really seized this element but sounds incredible if you can melt salt and store heat with it 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 i just watched a video of some dude who made a concrete dome and it was like five grand for this dome it's not particularly big but it's big enough and it was amazing it took him like only a couple i think it took him like a day

it was it uses inflatable yep and then you you put you put uh mesh over it then you spray it with concrete then you put wiring concrete wiring concrete boom then you gotta like you know put in the insulation and make it look pretty and that guy is happier in his home than any of these like feet liberals in the city are in their yeah but you know van life has becoming has become extremely popular yeah a lot of young people are like dude living in a van by the beach is way more fun than living in a in a concrete cubicle in new york city that you know smells like sour milk this channel was originally called the van chan day one what channel this timcast irl the first episode was the van but this wasn't the channel yeah you called it well you mentioned you were like i think i built the van chan dude

no no no this was timcast RL was a was it was supposed to be general a general vlog the first video was you like pimping out your van like showing everyone your van but the channel wasn't about the van i thought this was the van no no i just we i built a van and i was like i'm gonna do a van video and show everyone my van and it got like a hundred and some thousand views overnight like everybody was like the van but then i was like you know lockdown what are we going to do it's really hard to do a vlog so it became more of a show here we are almost a million subscribers we are really close to a million so if you haven't subscribed make sure

you subscribe and tell your friends subscribe because we are seriously close to breaking a million and then i'm just gonna i'm gonna love it when google is forced to give me uh another gold medal or whatever award. Melissa K says, I love hearing you talk about self-sufficiency and rural living. Should check out rooted new docu-series from Justin Rhodes, amazing homesteading resource. Interesting. Matthew Maddox says,

pea fowl is old world Turkey. Use them for meat. So you mentioned the peacocks. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I guess when they can no longer lay i guess you know you could stew it and it'll be tough and gamey but right now we're using them for the eggs

so i don't want to kill my my hands when i when i lived in miami there was a uh one farm i guess that had peacocks and they just had no they didn't care they like 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 got to close your fence or something? They didn't care. The people who live there, they're chickens walking all over the place just doing whatever they want. That's the crazy thing to me.

I'm like, aren't they going to get killed? Roosters protect them. I'm like, really? A coyote won't fight the rooster? Like, no, they don't want to get into a fight. Roosters are there. The chickens are good. I'm like, oh, okay.

Crazy. I guess. I don't know. Or I suppose you still need something to deal with you know wild animals but uh i guess people used to get dogs for it well my dogs yeah we'll keep out the wild animals yeah 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 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 side of the fence and chase the fox. 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 a fox is a real thing. They are smart little animals. They are crafty

and they are, and they like to tease dogs when they know a dog is behind a fence and it was pretty funny to see the fox turn tail. Are they canine

or feline? Or are they one or the other? Do they have their own? Foxes? They're probably canine. They're not Or are they one or the other? Do they have their own? Foxes? They're probably canine. They're not cats. They're probably, I mean, if they're either, are they either or or are they just a whole different breed?

But they're not, I don't think they're feline. Mr. Ruckus says, five bucks to hear Lydia say, hi, Dave Ruckus, please. Hi, Dave Ruckus. Thank you for your $5. We really appreciate it. Yu Juwan says hello tim this is your follower from south korea i wonder when did you visit korea before south korea is now politically deeply divided and you should look into how china penetrates into korea now sad face

we were there yeah it was so awesome it was we went to the house we were at a hostel yeah that's what i preferred to say yeah i was like we were staying like we got to go to the hostel 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 remember we got that crazy spicy thing at that restaurant or whatever yeah there's a lot of that we went there when when we sat down in in in a restaurant in south korea everything's you know i'm like what i'm like just give me anything and yeah i was like whatever surprised me and i don't know if that was a good decision to me we went to one place that i can't remember exactly what it was but we got we were like yeah spicy and we regretted it was like the spiciest thing i started making farm animal noises where you remember that i was like give me give me was like, I don't mean to be rude,

but there's a language barrier which is, hey, I have no language barrier. I have sign language and noises that make sure I can communicate with everyone. That's a big skill I learned. Foxes are canines. Yes. Also called canids, as well as wolves

and jackals. And Luke, you should get one. Brian Omar says, pigeon soup is really good. In Puerto Rico, we say it can resuscitate the dead. Oh, boy. What was the pigeon that we drove to extinction? Do you know what I'm talking about? Passenger pigeons.

Passenger pigeons. Yeah. Because there were so many of them that people in America would just throw in a net, catch them all, and then eat them, and then eventually they're all gone. Oh. Yeah. Good job, everyone. Wiped them out. Nice job them out all right we'll just do a couple more here bell uh bells nickel says tim for wells and circulate water for geothermal or a pit with tubing will lower your heating and cooling by half yeah that's amazing

geothermal technology for home heating and cooling that's that's cool stuff you run basically you have like an outer layer of your house with glass walls's cool stuff 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 have you guys circular pattern 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 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.

And like the liquid changes color and then they can use an electrical current to release that energy, like a light current or whatever will release a ton of that energy out and in the form of heat. And so there's a lot of theories about the applications. You could have these,

like you could have like tubes on the top of your house full of the fluid absorbing solar energy. But then they circulate into the house where it releases the heat in the basement, raising the heat up. So it basically takes the heat from outside on the roof and puts it underneath and then raises the heat. We're transferring from an electronic organization to a photonic one. And it sounds like you're involving chromatics to store heat. Austin S says, someone tell Ian that methane is one carbon,

not four. No, no. One carbon, four hydrogens. Dog, what's up? CH4, CH4. That's what I meant to say. I just said it quickly earlier. Thank you. All right, we'll just do this one last one. They're paying attention, this audience. Ever talk about all the lithium in Bolivia and what superpowers are going to fight for it? Wow.

There's lithium in Bolivia? Oh, I don't know. I did not know. But I mean, I'm sure. Look, China is controlling the cobalt mines of the Congo, right? If there's lithium in Bolivia, then there's a Chinese camp nearby getting ready to conquer it. That's what people need to be paying attention to, man. You know, there's so much dumb stuff happening in this country.

And what really worries me is Joe Biden placating defending China. And then you see the distractions we get from these commissions on the Capitol riot and impeachment. Meanwhile, China, what are they doing? They're romping around the planet. Oil exploration in these other countries has me worried, man. But that being said, Dan, what are they doing? They're romping around the planet, oil exploration in these other countries. Has me worried, man. With that being said, Dan, thanks for hanging out.

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