WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.940 Join us on Now We Consume. Take in the knowledge. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.240 Take in the laughs. Indulge in the topics with 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.839 us. The Now We Consume podcast will take you 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.160 through the parts of your day you normally dread. 00:00:13.900 --> 00:00:16.559 Why suffer through the existential crisis of 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:20.120 life alone when you can do it with us? And now 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.079 we consume. This is not meant to be a conspiracy 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.140 episode or podcast, but we may cover some topics 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:26.399 that dance that line like a toddler dances on 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:28.699 their mother's last nerve. This podcast is rated 00:00:28.699 --> 00:00:32.820 I. Welcome to the Now We Consume podcast, everyone. 00:00:32.939 --> 00:00:35.759 I'm your host, Pip. Here tonight with me is my 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:41.179 co -host, Gibbles. Hi. Gibbs is stuck in plumbing 00:00:41.179 --> 00:00:45.399 hell tonight, so we will just have him here in 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:49.219 spirit. I did want to mention real quick, I got 00:00:49.219 --> 00:00:51.820 a letter from the IRS saying that I owe them 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:55.439 for emotional damages to the economy. Apparently, 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.070 they've been listening to the show. And my commentary 00:00:58.070 --> 00:01:01.350 is depressing the GDP. They're asking for $2 00:01:01.350 --> 00:01:05.010 ,500 in reparations. So I sent them a picture 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:07.909 of my empty wallet and a sad emoji. No reply 00:01:07.909 --> 00:01:12.629 yet. Is that why we lost the FCC guy? That's 00:01:12.629 --> 00:01:16.909 probably, yeah. Yeah, that's my thinking. So 00:01:16.909 --> 00:01:19.329 welcome to the show where we question everything 00:01:19.329 --> 00:01:24.560 except for my poor life choices. Why you made 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:29.739 that poor man's commit to buku? You know, it 00:01:29.739 --> 00:01:32.359 was either that or, you know, he gets escorted 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:36.180 out of certain stores for checking for a mouthfeel, 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:46.040 you know? Oh, my. Oh, yes, I went there. But, 00:01:46.060 --> 00:01:51.260 no, tonight we had one episode lined up. And 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:53.060 then we found out that Gibbs wasn't going to 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:54.640 be able to join us, and it was one that he was 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:59.659 really wanting to do with us. So we went back 00:01:59.659 --> 00:02:01.659 to the drawing board. We got this one dropped 00:02:01.659 --> 00:02:07.640 out, kind of like a spicy log to satisfy everyone's 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.300 interest, hopefully. And we're going to talk 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:16.319 tonight about the growing gap of hands -on capabilities. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.800 And the growing illusion of ownership, that you 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.240 actually do own the things that you think you 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.800 own. We've kind of touched on that a little bit 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.280 in some previous episodes, but kind of a little 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:33.599 bit of a deep dive on some of that. And just 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.719 for reference, take a look around wherever you're 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:40.479 at. Literally everything that you see, your heaters, 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:43.120 your air conditioners, your cars, the screens 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.060 that you're maybe watching or listening to the 00:02:45.060 --> 00:02:48.860 show on. They're all held together by literal 00:02:48.860 --> 00:02:53.120 threads of proprietary codes and a supply chain 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.719 that is kind of in a tailspin. We feel like we're 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:01.620 in control because we can click add to cart and 00:03:01.620 --> 00:03:06.159 then order. But what happens if that button is 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:13.860 never lit up? It's currently March of 26. We're 00:03:13.860 --> 00:03:15.960 living on borrowed time. At least that's what 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.060 it feels like. We've kind of traded our ability 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:22.379 to survive in the physical world for the convenience 00:03:22.379 --> 00:03:25.939 of the digital one. So we're going to kind of 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:29.080 see what's going on with things and kind of look 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:33.000 at some of the terrifying reality that we're 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.259 becoming guests in our own lives. Yeah. You remember 00:03:37.259 --> 00:03:40.840 when PlayStation and Xbox had that big debacle 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.800 back in the day where... xbox is like oh it's 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:45.740 gonna be all digital on the cloud and all that 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:51.199 and playstation's like huh cd friend they can 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.520 share and that was when everybody's like oh no 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.379 you know we we're not gonna have the ability 00:03:56.379 --> 00:04:01.180 to own anything anymore look what happened did 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:05.639 we learn something children i don't think we 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:09.960 did no it doesn't seem like it and the the video 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:11.719 game industry is probably one of the biggest 00:04:13.349 --> 00:04:15.969 spotlights of that whole you don't own what you 00:04:15.969 --> 00:04:18.829 buy kind of deal. Software in general, I think. 00:04:18.850 --> 00:04:20.970 But video games, I think, are kind of shining 00:04:20.970 --> 00:04:26.589 the warning siren. Yeah. If the servers go down, 00:04:26.709 --> 00:04:29.129 you don't have access to what you bought. And 00:04:29.129 --> 00:04:31.629 in some cases, people have spent hundreds or 00:04:31.629 --> 00:04:33.589 even thousands of dollars on some of those games. 00:04:34.110 --> 00:04:36.790 And once the servers go off, they have nothing 00:04:36.790 --> 00:04:39.509 to show for it. Yeah. Well, it's just like with 00:04:39.509 --> 00:04:42.689 the movies, too. Yeah. I took all my DVDs back 00:04:42.689 --> 00:04:45.029 in the day and had them converted at Walmart 00:04:45.029 --> 00:04:47.889 and they were uploaded to Vudu. And then all 00:04:47.889 --> 00:04:50.509 of a sudden, well, yeah, now everything's on 00:04:50.509 --> 00:04:55.129 Fandango. And if it wasn't for whatever streaming 00:04:55.129 --> 00:04:57.670 service it is at this point, I don't even remember 00:04:57.670 --> 00:05:00.009 anymore. That's terrible. Oh, yeah. Had they 00:05:00.009 --> 00:05:05.449 decided not to honor all those DVDs and everything 00:05:05.449 --> 00:05:09.790 that people have uploaded, oh, well, sucks to 00:05:09.790 --> 00:05:15.370 be you. Yeah. So it's not just on the software 00:05:15.370 --> 00:05:19.050 and entertainment side. We're losing skills, 00:05:19.329 --> 00:05:23.129 and it's kind of like a collective mechanical 00:05:23.129 --> 00:05:29.189 amnesia. Oh, yeah. I know. I feel like a lot 00:05:29.189 --> 00:05:31.730 of people listening can relate. The average person 00:05:31.730 --> 00:05:34.949 is more domesticated than at any point in history. 00:05:35.509 --> 00:05:38.889 If our GPS or the internet tutorials that we 00:05:38.889 --> 00:05:41.850 rely on go dark because of the current conflict 00:05:41.850 --> 00:05:46.069 in Iran, which let me segue real quick. Our president 00:05:46.069 --> 00:05:48.470 is now saying or threatening to use nukes, by 00:05:48.470 --> 00:05:50.470 the way, that happened yesterday. I don't know 00:05:50.470 --> 00:05:53.550 if y 'all heard that. The nuclear conversation 00:05:53.550 --> 00:05:56.529 has happened. So that's a thing we all might 00:05:56.529 --> 00:06:00.430 need to worry about. Well, we're going to talk 00:06:00.430 --> 00:06:05.589 about that probably next week. So, yeah, I do 00:06:05.589 --> 00:06:08.870 not like the talk of nukes. Nukes fascinate me 00:06:08.870 --> 00:06:11.250 because of the physics behind them. They terrify 00:06:11.250 --> 00:06:16.370 me on the world stage. But, yeah, we could lose 00:06:16.370 --> 00:06:17.930 the Internet because of the issues with Iran 00:06:17.930 --> 00:06:22.769 or just other bullshittery that happens. But 00:06:22.769 --> 00:06:25.829 if we lose the Internet, we don't just lose our 00:06:25.829 --> 00:06:28.810 way. We lose our ability to maintain our immediate 00:06:28.810 --> 00:06:32.160 environment. We all understand how interconnected 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.620 our lives are to the internet and how grossly 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:38.220 independent or dependent we all are on the internet. 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:44.439 So our intelligence is not really growing. It's 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.899 just becoming dependent on the availability of 00:06:47.899 --> 00:06:50.740 access to knowledge because knowledge retention 00:06:50.740 --> 00:06:55.600 is not there. Not like you don't need to. Exactly. 00:06:56.170 --> 00:06:59.050 It's now more important to know where to find 00:06:59.050 --> 00:07:01.430 the resource and the knowledge than it is to 00:07:01.430 --> 00:07:04.430 actually have the knowledge. And that's something 00:07:04.430 --> 00:07:06.670 that I think a lot of people are seeing in the 00:07:06.670 --> 00:07:09.430 workplace, in schools, and in day -to -day life. 00:07:09.990 --> 00:07:14.569 People can barely function unless they have their 00:07:14.569 --> 00:07:17.689 magic little information boxes with them. Yeah. 00:07:18.589 --> 00:07:22.970 I know you've seen it in your job. Yeah. Oh, 00:07:23.009 --> 00:07:27.740 yeah. My little job I do, fixing machines, watching 00:07:27.740 --> 00:07:30.939 so many people that seem to think they know what 00:07:30.939 --> 00:07:33.319 they're doing and break it that much harder. 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:39.300 Oh, yeah. Teachers. It's great when you're doing 00:07:39.300 --> 00:07:41.660 repair work and you're actually going out to 00:07:41.660 --> 00:07:45.160 fix a repair that was already done. Yeah. Yeah. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:49.120 I had one a couple weeks ago. The person's just 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.259 like, hey, this broke. Is this repairable? And 00:07:52.259 --> 00:07:55.930 takes a picture. Of the machine taken apart. 00:07:57.449 --> 00:08:00.370 To the point that are like, yeah, we're pointing 00:08:00.370 --> 00:08:04.829 at this part. However, I'm going, how did you 00:08:04.829 --> 00:08:08.550 get to that point without breaking into something 00:08:08.550 --> 00:08:12.279 that a you don't know anything about? Which, 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.100 I mean, all good on you for trying to figure 00:08:14.100 --> 00:08:16.360 out, but you're paying a monthly service. So 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:18.079 now you run the risk of the company going, you 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.060 know what? We're not going to let you pay the 00:08:20.060 --> 00:08:22.300 monthly service anymore because you decided to 00:08:22.300 --> 00:08:24.360 break in and break this. So until you pay for 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:29.579 what you broke, you're cut off. And then B, the 00:08:29.579 --> 00:08:32.039 thing they broke was just a spring, thankfully. 00:08:32.789 --> 00:08:35.409 They had to pull stuff out of the way. And because 00:08:35.409 --> 00:08:37.409 they didn't know what they were doing, they consequently 00:08:37.409 --> 00:08:39.470 broke the spring that they're like, oh, this 00:08:39.470 --> 00:08:42.350 must be the problem. And it's just like, you 00:08:42.350 --> 00:08:45.610 know, if you would have just left it alone, let 00:08:45.610 --> 00:08:49.149 me come in there and take care of it. Fine. You 00:08:49.149 --> 00:08:51.610 know, let me come in there and show you, hey, 00:08:51.730 --> 00:08:54.490 next time you go to do this, this is what you 00:08:54.490 --> 00:08:57.690 should do. And I've done that plenty of times 00:08:57.690 --> 00:09:02.309 as well. And the ones who listen do well. The 00:09:02.309 --> 00:09:04.090 ones who think, nah, screw you, I'm going to 00:09:04.090 --> 00:09:10.730 do what I want. Not so much. Yeah. It can be 00:09:10.730 --> 00:09:13.710 kind of fun if you're really into that kind of 00:09:13.710 --> 00:09:16.470 stuff and you like to solve the puzzles, you 00:09:16.470 --> 00:09:20.110 know, go doctor house on the equipment. But when 00:09:20.110 --> 00:09:24.470 you're spending more time trying to fix the fuck 00:09:24.470 --> 00:09:28.950 up, then it's not really worth it. Oh, yeah. 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.440 I had a few times in the last six months where 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.639 I was a chimpanzee with a wrench on a machine 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.899 because I was fixing someone's F up who thought 00:09:39.899 --> 00:09:43.639 they knew better than us, the tax. So I'm fixing 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:46.240 their screw up and then having to fix whatever 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.620 was wrong with the machine originally. Yeah. 00:09:50.220 --> 00:09:54.600 So I, I said that the intelligence isn't really 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:59.779 growing more and more. It seems like humans, 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:05.460 at all, uh, are becoming highly efficient biological 00:10:05.460 --> 00:10:08.259 peripherals to the devices that we depend so 00:10:08.259 --> 00:10:12.440 much on. And I, I, I have a couple of questions 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:14.399 that I, that I have written up for some of this, 00:10:14.419 --> 00:10:17.980 and this isn't just for you. This is for anybody 00:10:17.980 --> 00:10:21.919 that wants to chime in. Um, so by all means, 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.980 please hit us up on the socials, hit on discord 00:10:23.980 --> 00:10:28.080 or whatnot. Um, if the internet were to go dark 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.710 for a week, Do you guys have the physical manuals 00:10:33.710 --> 00:10:37.909 for the gear in your shop or your day -to -day 00:10:37.909 --> 00:10:42.830 lives or the actual skill sets that you need 00:10:42.830 --> 00:10:46.990 to be able to keep everything running? Or do 00:10:46.990 --> 00:10:51.009 you guys strictly depend on things like access 00:10:51.009 --> 00:10:57.909 to YouTube? It's my noggin. I took the time and 00:10:57.909 --> 00:11:02.240 learned. Yeah. I got my edge of mycation. Thank 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:07.240 you, military. Yep. And I know you and I both 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.059 have maker -type hobbies or even side deals. 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.419 If all of the pre -cut lumber and the proprietary 00:11:16.419 --> 00:11:20.059 bits stop shipping, what can you actually build 00:11:20.059 --> 00:11:25.340 from the dirt up? Right. I know I got some capabilities, 00:11:25.340 --> 00:11:28.720 like you said, that if I lose some gears, if 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.899 I lose certain things, I'm still able to keep 00:11:31.899 --> 00:11:37.220 running somewhat. Yeah. On my end, being able 00:11:37.220 --> 00:11:39.820 to do the woodworking that I do and some of the 00:11:39.820 --> 00:11:42.860 fabrication stuff, I think I would be reasonably 00:11:42.860 --> 00:11:49.340 okay. I would like to invest in something like 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:53.929 a filament maker for the 3D printing. but I would 00:11:53.929 --> 00:11:59.070 also like to get a better 3d printer. Um, just 00:11:59.070 --> 00:12:03.190 because I, yeah, I've, I've had my 3d printer 00:12:03.190 --> 00:12:06.429 since like 2017. It's, it's, it's got some miles 00:12:06.429 --> 00:12:09.710 on it, but it's a, it's a workhorse. Uh, but 00:12:09.710 --> 00:12:14.070 I, I think that most people that have those types 00:12:14.070 --> 00:12:16.309 of hobbies also have the ancillary skills to 00:12:16.309 --> 00:12:18.970 be able to support at least a portion of their 00:12:18.970 --> 00:12:23.179 work and could do, you know, a certain percentage 00:12:23.179 --> 00:12:26.360 of that type of kind of survival type work. So 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:32.620 that's just my opinion, at least. Yeah. But kind 00:12:32.620 --> 00:12:37.659 of talking about that, the, the just in time, 00:12:37.700 --> 00:12:42.080 I named it here, the suicide pact, our world 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:45.419 really runs on just in time inventory. And I 00:12:45.419 --> 00:12:48.320 know, you know, this most people that listen 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.220 kind of understand this. And we've talked about 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:56.379 that in the shows where we discuss like grocery 00:12:56.379 --> 00:12:59.860 stores, if there's a mass blackout and how most 00:12:59.860 --> 00:13:01.620 stores only have a couple days worth of inventory 00:13:01.620 --> 00:13:06.419 on hand. Yeah. Our system is designed for a world 00:13:06.419 --> 00:13:09.399 that never stops moving. And if all the gears 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.659 grind to a halt, then most people's day -to -day 00:13:13.659 --> 00:13:17.620 lives will also grind to a halt. Because most 00:13:17.620 --> 00:13:20.340 people rely on those just -in -time deliveries 00:13:20.340 --> 00:13:24.320 for their household, too. Not even just their 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.919 businesses, but their households. I know several 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:29.340 people that literally only keep a couple days' 00:13:29.539 --> 00:13:33.440 worth of food and supplies for their home, their 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.240 business, everything. And they just rely on things 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:40.399 to come when it's scheduled. How would your business 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:44.820 fare if you couldn't head out to do a repair 00:13:44.820 --> 00:13:48.519 until you got your... Stuff delivered. That happens 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:56.480 a lot. We have to. We have. Toner. Developer. 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:00.419 Certain types of parts that wear out. That are 00:14:00.419 --> 00:14:03.980 considered consumable. Those we keep on hand. 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:08.480 Fairly regularly. At least we try. Parts that. 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.610 They don't normally break. Those ones. are the 00:14:13.610 --> 00:14:16.629 ones that we have to order and you pray that 00:14:16.629 --> 00:14:19.250 they've been manufactured in the last six months 00:14:19.250 --> 00:14:21.789 because otherwise you get back orders and then 00:14:21.789 --> 00:14:25.350 you have to wait for them to show up yeah yeah 00:14:25.350 --> 00:14:28.250 i mean we all saw the the supply chain pinch 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:32.889 during covet oh yeah but um yeah during covet 00:14:32.889 --> 00:14:36.110 you know from what i was told by my co -workers 00:14:36.110 --> 00:14:38.230 what happened back you know at that point before 00:14:38.230 --> 00:14:43.769 i decide to join them in the fun trades um, they 00:14:43.769 --> 00:14:46.009 couldn't get toner or they couldn't get, um, 00:14:46.190 --> 00:14:48.570 you know, what toner they did get was all like 00:14:48.570 --> 00:14:54.009 off brand, you know, I almost call it black market 00:14:54.009 --> 00:14:56.210 type toner. Cause you know, they had to like, 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:58.950 you know, get stuff that either had to be mixed 00:14:58.950 --> 00:15:02.230 or poured in. And within two weeks they were 00:15:02.230 --> 00:15:03.809 going back to all the machines cause they were 00:15:03.809 --> 00:15:05.950 all jamming because the toner mix wasn't correct 00:15:05.950 --> 00:15:09.970 for that, that particular model. Yeah. Yeah. 00:15:10.049 --> 00:15:11.750 Hell I've, I've got a printer sitting over here 00:15:11.750 --> 00:15:16.620 that, won't take aftermarket ink. It's an HP 00:15:16.620 --> 00:15:20.120 printer, which is bullshit. I own the printer. 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.460 Why can't I use whatever ink I want? It won't 00:15:23.460 --> 00:15:26.740 work unless I use HP brand ink. That's bullshit. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:32.480 That's not what I want to use in my printer. 00:15:33.700 --> 00:15:45.740 Yeah. So... I put down the for how long feel. 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.659 We currently have Operation Epic Fury entering 00:15:51.659 --> 00:15:54.320 week two, just about to enter into week three. 00:15:54.899 --> 00:15:58.379 So the just -in -time shipments are starting 00:15:58.379 --> 00:16:04.840 to become never. Yeah. We've optimized for efficiency, 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.919 but we've sacrificed resilience. The issues in 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.379 the Strait of Hormuz. are starting to impact 00:16:11.379 --> 00:16:15.639 oil and that's going to impact a lot of things 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.179 via the ripple effect. So a lot of industries 00:16:19.179 --> 00:16:22.860 are going to start kind of reining in a lot of 00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:26.480 shipping things. Yes. Because I mean, diesel's 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.820 already flown way high in my area. It went from 00:16:29.820 --> 00:16:33.620 three 69 to five 45 in the course of a week and 00:16:33.620 --> 00:16:37.279 a half. Yeah. Absolutely disgusting how fast 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.299 that went. Yeah, I can't even imagine what it 00:16:39.299 --> 00:16:41.139 is out in California. It's probably $10 a gallon 00:16:41.139 --> 00:16:46.600 out there. Yeah, no. No, thank you. And then 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.600 you've got all of the trade jobs that are going 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:51.580 to start feeling the effect because they rely 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:57.620 on things that get shipped. Yeah. So we have 00:16:57.620 --> 00:17:01.539 this conflict in Iran that is going to cause 00:17:01.539 --> 00:17:04.369 an effect here. Because of what's going on there. 00:17:04.710 --> 00:17:07.529 And it's just going to start going back and forth. 00:17:07.569 --> 00:17:10.170 And impacting everything else. And like I said. 00:17:10.289 --> 00:17:14.190 Go ahead. I was going to say prices are going 00:17:14.190 --> 00:17:17.650 to go up. Again. And they won't go back down. 00:17:17.769 --> 00:17:20.049 Because there will be some other excuse. That 00:17:20.049 --> 00:17:22.289 these stupid ass companies will come up with. 00:17:22.589 --> 00:17:25.670 And everybody knows it. Everybody in the government 00:17:25.670 --> 00:17:28.910 knows it. But because corporations are considered 00:17:28.910 --> 00:17:33.690 people too. They can sit there and lobby and 00:17:33.690 --> 00:17:36.970 all that stuff, and there's not a damn thing 00:17:36.970 --> 00:17:42.450 we can do about it. Yeah. Yeah, that's painful. 00:17:43.349 --> 00:17:48.009 And I feel bad for the people that do that independent, 00:17:48.490 --> 00:17:55.190 because that's their livelihood. Yeah. But when 00:17:55.190 --> 00:17:58.829 the parts stop coming, the people that click 00:17:58.829 --> 00:18:01.869 buy now, We'll be at the mercy of the makers, 00:18:02.049 --> 00:18:04.509 the people like us that know how to actually 00:18:04.509 --> 00:18:08.450 make shit. Yeah. That's something that I don't 00:18:08.450 --> 00:18:13.950 really think the population at large really understands 00:18:13.950 --> 00:18:18.069 or appreciates. Yeah, because the U .S., we've 00:18:18.069 --> 00:18:22.269 sent so much stuff overseas. If the trades all 00:18:22.269 --> 00:18:25.089 of a sudden, the trading partners just decide, 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:26.569 you know what, screw you. We're not trading with 00:18:26.569 --> 00:18:32.119 you no more. We have no way. to restart half 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:35.460 the stuff we need to keep things going efficiently 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:42.799 let alone at all yeah yeah it's uh just like 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.920 when we were talking about um like the the blackout 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:50.640 situation trying to do a full cold start we would 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.200 be years because the amount of parts we need 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.900 we don't have we don't make we don't keep the 00:18:56.900 --> 00:18:59.480 u .s wouldn't exist anymore at that point Yeah. 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.000 So, and, and that's just another example of the 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.619 just in time stuff, because we would rely on 00:19:05.619 --> 00:19:07.359 other countries to supply us with those parts. 00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:09.940 And not a lot of countries are real happy with 00:19:09.940 --> 00:19:14.279 us right now. No. So we might not get those parts 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:21.420 for a while, if ever. Yeah. So, uh, you want 00:19:21.420 --> 00:19:25.420 to take this next section here? Do I have to 00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:26.940 wait? Let me, let me go back to the questions. 00:19:27.019 --> 00:19:31.700 Cause I, I know I had these. Yeah, section three, 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.599 but let me do these. So the war in Iran just 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.839 pushed gas to a new high. I know it went up in 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:42.039 my area again. At what point, at what price point 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:45.299 does it become illegal for a regular person to 00:19:45.299 --> 00:19:48.519 become self -sufficient? When does the cost of 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:53.140 the wrench exceed the value of the repair? And 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:54.839 this is going to take us into the next section. 00:19:57.099 --> 00:20:00.839 Do you think, and this is kind of the way I wanted 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.220 to word this, do you think that there's going 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:05.599 to be anything if things start to get too out 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:09.720 of hand to where state, local, or even federal 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:12.480 governments will begin to limit our abilities 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:19.880 to do repairs? Hmm. Well, with the cost of gas, 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:25.880 I'm not sure how that correlates, but... To me, 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.160 it's just all about how much the government's 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:34.180 lobbied by who. When you've got John Deere and 00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:36.960 Apple and everyone like that really fighting 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:41.240 to keep us to where we're not supposed to be 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.519 able to repair our own stuff. Yet, they can't 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:48.359 void your warranty. Yeah. Which is hilarious. 00:20:49.099 --> 00:20:53.759 Oh, yeah. Unless you get it wet. Yeah. Oh yeah. 00:20:54.339 --> 00:20:57.920 Don't get it wet. Yeah. And then this one, if 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.920 the supply chain were to snap tonight, which 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.220 of your essential tools is the first one to become 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:11.680 a 50 pound paperweight? Hmm. Well, once my filament 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:14.339 runs out, it'd be my a 3d printer. That's for 00:21:14.339 --> 00:21:17.759 damn sure. Yeah. Yeah. That's that filament. 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:20.400 That's worthless. That's kind of why I want to 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.019 get a filament maker. Yeah. I mean, soda bottles 00:21:24.019 --> 00:21:28.339 make for great filament, so. Yeah. And you can 00:21:28.339 --> 00:21:31.940 make PLA out of some pretty easy stuff. Yeah. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:38.240 No more Japan, great. Yeah. All my snackies. 00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:42.420 Yeah, right? You want to take section three here? 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.900 Oh, for the pivot three? No, on the main notes. 00:21:47.299 --> 00:21:50.819 Oh, that one. Oh, right, right. I see it now. 00:21:51.789 --> 00:21:56.650 So in 2026, we are now on track to generate 75 00:21:56.650 --> 00:22:00.210 million metric tons of e -waste this year alone. 00:22:00.470 --> 00:22:06.170 Oh, yeah. This is 30 % increase since 2022. But 00:22:06.170 --> 00:22:10.569 the dystopian kicker is. We are landfilling over 00:22:10.569 --> 00:22:13.730 $62 .5 billion worth of gold and rare earth elements 00:22:13.730 --> 00:22:17.210 annually because of parts pairing. Also because 00:22:17.210 --> 00:22:19.930 you've got companies that go out and sue recyclers 00:22:19.930 --> 00:22:22.970 that take it upon themselves to take said parts 00:22:22.970 --> 00:22:26.690 and recycle it. Uh -huh. And I want to say that 00:22:26.690 --> 00:22:33.930 number one more time. $62 .5 billion with a B 00:22:33.930 --> 00:22:41.519 worth of gold and rare earth. I don't know that 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.279 person. That's getting put into the landfills. 00:22:47.140 --> 00:22:51.359 Yeah. It's disgusting. I'm wondering how long 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.940 it's going to be before we have people going 00:22:53.940 --> 00:23:00.700 to landfills to become like gold diggers. Right. 00:23:01.180 --> 00:23:04.059 Like gold painters like they do on YouTube and 00:23:04.059 --> 00:23:07.980 shit. Looking for these gold and rare earth deposits 00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:12.569 in landfills. Right. What kills me is when I 00:23:12.569 --> 00:23:16.430 lived down south in Maryland, it wasn't even 00:23:16.430 --> 00:23:19.049 on her. I'd take my television if it was broke 00:23:19.049 --> 00:23:22.329 and I wasn't able to fix any more toast or whatever. 00:23:22.769 --> 00:23:25.390 I'd take it to the landfill. And they had a recycling 00:23:25.390 --> 00:23:28.269 center right next door. So if it was something 00:23:28.269 --> 00:23:30.309 that could be recycled, they'd have you put it 00:23:30.309 --> 00:23:32.569 into the green bin. And if it couldn't be, they'd 00:23:32.569 --> 00:23:34.329 put it into a separate bin. But that's where 00:23:34.329 --> 00:23:36.509 they would take it, break it down, and get it 00:23:36.509 --> 00:23:40.099 for the material. Yeah. Up north here, you don't 00:23:40.099 --> 00:23:42.559 see that anywhere. It drives me nuts. I'm like, 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:47.160 twice a year we get the collection for electronics 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:50.339 and stuff like that or tires. But the rest of 00:23:50.339 --> 00:23:53.519 the year, it's sitting in just piles. It's like, 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.839 why are we not taking the time to rip this stuff 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.460 apart and get the metals out of them? Right. 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:05.980 Because there's a lot of studies and there's 00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:09.849 a lot of... videos and whatnot that have come 00:24:09.849 --> 00:24:13.329 out saying that it's not worth it. But at the 00:24:13.329 --> 00:24:17.390 same time, there's been just as many now with 00:24:17.390 --> 00:24:19.329 the price of precious metals that has gone up 00:24:19.329 --> 00:24:21.089 over the past year. That's saying it actually 00:24:21.089 --> 00:24:24.009 is worth it to do it now. Yeah. If you do it 00:24:24.009 --> 00:24:26.170 correctly, it is worth it. Yeah. Well, you've 00:24:26.170 --> 00:24:28.009 got companies in California that sit there and 00:24:28.009 --> 00:24:30.750 like recycle stuff and they're pulling out the 00:24:30.750 --> 00:24:33.170 precious metals at PCs, cell phones and stuff 00:24:33.170 --> 00:24:36.380 like that. And if they're making it work, you 00:24:36.380 --> 00:24:37.960 know, how can we sit there and say that it's 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:46.259 not worth it? Yeah. It's, uh, it's, it's something 00:24:46.259 --> 00:24:55.559 that needs, uh, looked at again. And, uh, you 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:59.819 good? Yeah. My discord also decided to restart 00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:02.799 on me. Oh, okay. All right. That was strange. 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:09.440 So yeah, there's a lot that needs to happen that 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:14.720 I don't think anyone is really looking at because 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.220 it's trash, it's recycling, it's stuff that has 00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:22.259 been looked at for years that I don't think anyone 00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:25.440 has really taken the time to look at again. Some 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:27.579 people are with the cost of some of these rare 00:25:27.579 --> 00:25:29.079 metals that have been going up, like I said, 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.539 but not enough and not the right people. Yeah. 00:25:36.430 --> 00:25:42.549 So go ahead and continue on. Okay, I'll put that 00:25:42.549 --> 00:25:47.529 back up there. Even with right -to -repair laws 00:25:47.529 --> 00:25:50.630 in states like Oregon, manufacturers are using 00:25:50.630 --> 00:25:53.390 software to serialize components. If you swap 00:25:53.390 --> 00:25:56.829 a genuine battery or screen, the device rejects 00:25:56.829 --> 00:26:03.130 the organ transplant. Yes, that is fairly true 00:26:03.130 --> 00:26:06.779 depending on where you are. unfortunately yeah 00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:10.079 um i know new york was supposed to be working 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.460 on a right to repair or yeah i think that was 00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:18.759 them and it almost got all the way through but 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.059 then somebody decided to put their sticky little 00:26:22.059 --> 00:26:24.819 fingers into it and basically make it worthless 00:26:24.819 --> 00:26:28.079 which that's when you just want to go okay which 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:30.099 politician was it and how much are they getting 00:26:30.099 --> 00:26:33.990 paid because at that point you need to go ahead 00:26:33.990 --> 00:26:38.089 and just get them kicked out of office. Absolutely. 00:26:38.670 --> 00:26:40.650 Because you're not working for your constituents. 00:26:40.730 --> 00:26:44.250 You're being paid under the table, essentially. 00:26:46.569 --> 00:26:49.190 And if Supreme Court doesn't want to say that's 00:26:49.190 --> 00:26:54.309 illegal, I'm sorry. To me, that's illegal. Yeah, 00:26:54.349 --> 00:27:00.799 and it's something that's been... talked about 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:04.619 for long enough that enough people have gotten 00:27:04.619 --> 00:27:09.039 behind it. There's been enough support in Congress 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:12.880 that we've had enough people that are farmers 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.819 go to Congress to do things like right to repair 00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:19.380 because of companies like John Deere. Yeah. They've 00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:23.839 had to eat so many repair bills because John 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:27.200 Deere is, sorry, a big enough piece of shit when 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:28.980 it comes to repairing the stuff that you buy 00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:31.990 from them. And we talked about that back in our 00:27:31.990 --> 00:27:37.289 right to repair episode. Right. Yeah. It's dumb. 00:27:38.809 --> 00:27:45.109 Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it goes all the way into 00:27:45.109 --> 00:27:47.069 food for Christ's sake. Oh yeah. You can't even 00:27:47.069 --> 00:27:49.730 be a farmer without, you know, fearing that you 00:27:49.730 --> 00:27:53.289 go and you go plant crops and all of a sudden, 00:27:53.309 --> 00:27:55.349 you know, your neighbor who's using the, the 00:27:55.349 --> 00:27:58.579 gene stuff. You know, that they paid for and 00:27:58.579 --> 00:28:00.819 it also ends up on your soil and you accidentally 00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:03.900 used what came off their land and not even realize 00:28:03.900 --> 00:28:07.220 it. Guess what? You're getting sued. Yeah. For 00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:10.579 copyright infringement of all things. Random, 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.140 random tidbit. I just found out farmers are not 00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:17.140 allowed to use the stuff that they harvest as 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:20.460 as replant for the crops. They have to buy new 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:23.000 seed. They're not allowed to replant what they 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.730 harvest. Why the hell? Is that even a thing? 00:28:27.750 --> 00:28:30.289 Oh, that's for all the guys that are using, like, 00:28:30.390 --> 00:28:33.069 what is that, Osantis or whatever that company 00:28:33.069 --> 00:28:36.369 is that makes all the corn and everything. Monsanto. 00:28:36.470 --> 00:28:39.650 Yeah, Monsanto. They make that part of their 00:28:39.650 --> 00:28:43.130 contract where you can't. Yeah, you're renting 00:28:43.130 --> 00:28:45.750 the seeds. You're not actually. You're not purchasing 00:28:45.750 --> 00:28:48.289 the rights to keep growing it. That's why if 00:28:48.289 --> 00:28:50.829 you're going to do that stuff, you don't go with 00:28:50.829 --> 00:28:54.769 companies like that. You just buy your corn seed 00:28:54.769 --> 00:29:00.170 and then give them the middle finger. Yeah. But 00:29:00.170 --> 00:29:02.069 then you run the risk of having everything destroyed 00:29:02.069 --> 00:29:04.410 by the pests that they've genetically modified 00:29:04.410 --> 00:29:07.210 to attack those kinds of crops and not their 00:29:07.210 --> 00:29:11.579 own genetically modified crops. No, I'm not wearing 00:29:11.579 --> 00:29:14.019 a tinfoil hat. My God, I've watched this shit 00:29:14.019 --> 00:29:19.200 happen over the years. Or like I said, they'll 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:21.519 just sue that farmer that's not using their stuff 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.299 because then they'll just say, hey, that corn's 00:29:24.299 --> 00:29:26.279 ended up in their field. They should have known 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.720 that it wasn't theirs. Yep. Yeah, because the 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.819 natural corn grows like four or five foot high. 00:29:33.059 --> 00:29:37.400 The weird corn grows nine foot high. Right. So 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:43.220 they have to go pull those stocks. God forbid. 00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:45.500 They look the same. They taste the same, but 00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:48.819 one's got a different genetic diversity to it. 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:51.359 So you can't eat that one. Well, how the hell? 00:29:51.619 --> 00:29:59.059 It's the same with people, okay? Right. Some 00:29:59.059 --> 00:30:01.039 people would like to say they can't claim everybody, 00:30:01.099 --> 00:30:04.799 but it's like that stupid brother in the closet. 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:10.130 You have to recognize him, too. Yeah. fresh though 00:30:10.130 --> 00:30:14.269 they may be anyways keep moving on so you know 00:30:14.269 --> 00:30:18.390 i mean we've already mentioned john deer lock 00:30:18.390 --> 00:30:22.089 the lockouts uh farmers in midwest fighting software 00:30:22.089 --> 00:30:25.450 firewalls yeah i mean that's the same with your 00:30:25.450 --> 00:30:28.029 cell phones that's with just about anything you 00:30:28.029 --> 00:30:32.029 have i mean hell the 3d printer i got They just 00:30:32.029 --> 00:30:34.410 recently, as of last year, made it to where you 00:30:34.410 --> 00:30:36.630 can't even use off -brand software because they 00:30:36.630 --> 00:30:40.049 updated their equipment or through firmware to 00:30:40.049 --> 00:30:43.609 where you can only use theirs. And when enough 00:30:43.609 --> 00:30:46.309 people had a hissy fit about it, they're just 00:30:46.309 --> 00:30:48.329 like, well, then don't update the firmware and 00:30:48.329 --> 00:30:54.549 you can still use the other stuff. Yeah. So it's 00:30:54.549 --> 00:30:56.990 stuff like that where I don't understand how 00:30:56.990 --> 00:31:00.210 that's not considered a monopoly. yeah you know 00:31:00.210 --> 00:31:03.109 apple having their own app store and then telling 00:31:03.109 --> 00:31:05.329 everybody well you can only use our parts and 00:31:05.329 --> 00:31:07.849 it has to be registered through us and you should 00:31:07.849 --> 00:31:10.970 only have to use our company to repair a product 00:31:10.970 --> 00:31:14.750 that 20 years ago you could crack open with a 00:31:14.750 --> 00:31:16.849 screwdriver and just be like hey need a new battery 00:31:16.849 --> 00:31:20.210 because you know we all remember radio shack 00:31:20.210 --> 00:31:22.230 that are old enough you could walk into a radio 00:31:22.230 --> 00:31:24.490 shack get a cell phone battery because the one 00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:27.160 you had stopped charging so well Threw the next 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:28.900 cell phone battery in and walked out and you 00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:33.259 were good to go. Yeah. Yeah, back in the good 00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:37.119 old days, you know? Yeah. Back when you had a 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:42.279 cell phone that could crush a skull. Right. And 00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:46.039 most of those stores are just gone now and it's 00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:51.640 sad. Yeah. So. Well, Radio Shack messed up once 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:54.640 they got away from their core market, which was... 00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:00.539 DIY repairs. Yes. Yeah, it was fun back in the 00:32:00.539 --> 00:32:06.259 day. Yeah. Ah, so now you have the maker underworld. 00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:12.380 Yes. The new elite. Yes, we as makers will claim 00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:16.539 the overworld as our own. Yeah, until Congress 00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:18.900 decides to make all that shit illegal. Right. 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:26.420 You could make a gun with it. Yeah, and I know 00:32:26.420 --> 00:32:31.079 we talked about that pretty recently, but so 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:35.920 as the hands -on gap widens, there is a new class 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.579 in society forming. We as makers will become 00:32:40.579 --> 00:32:43.400 the overlords of society when everything falls 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:48.240 apart. Talking from the workshop perspective, 00:32:48.460 --> 00:32:52.390 using a laser engraver, or a wood shop will no 00:32:52.390 --> 00:32:55.390 longer just be a hobby. It's going to be a form 00:32:55.390 --> 00:32:58.390 of guerrilla maintenance. And that's kind of 00:32:58.390 --> 00:33:00.329 what I was kind of leaning into with the whole, 00:33:00.470 --> 00:33:03.170 do you think it'll ever be illegal to do your 00:33:03.170 --> 00:33:07.549 own repairs? At some point, I think the supply 00:33:07.549 --> 00:33:11.369 chain, this is theoretical. If the supply chain 00:33:11.369 --> 00:33:14.730 gets that bad, you know, will, will there come 00:33:14.730 --> 00:33:18.150 a time when. doing those repairs because the 00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:21.329 government is hoarding down supplies you know 00:33:21.329 --> 00:33:23.849 you should be turning this in like back during 00:33:23.849 --> 00:33:26.829 the war you know give your your gold silver copper 00:33:26.829 --> 00:33:29.029 you know give it to the military for for the 00:33:29.029 --> 00:33:33.269 good of the war effort that kind of stuff uh 00:33:33.269 --> 00:33:36.309 so while the rest of the world waits for a corporate 00:33:36.309 --> 00:33:39.829 technician who won't be coming the makers are 00:33:39.829 --> 00:33:43.230 going to be pirating their own reality and yeah 00:33:43.230 --> 00:33:46.579 just like how uh back in the day when farmers 00:33:46.579 --> 00:33:48.740 would lose their house to the bank, they would 00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:50.980 all attend the auction and they would let the 00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:55.019 farmer buy back their house and bully any of 00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:58.480 the big builders out of the auction. Yeah. It's 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.180 right in the kick of the butt. And that's the 00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:03.240 way it should be done. Yeah. I fully support 00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:06.680 that. Yeah. We'll just kind of turn into Cuba 00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:08.559 when it comes to repairing and keeping things 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:14.269 running. yes uh cuba for all their faults have 00:34:14.269 --> 00:34:16.389 a very resilient society because they've been 00:34:16.389 --> 00:34:20.429 forced to yeah the fact that they've got cars 00:34:20.429 --> 00:34:23.730 you know that are considerably kissed yeah they're 00:34:23.730 --> 00:34:26.929 like historic in our country that run just as 00:34:26.929 --> 00:34:30.090 good as they did back in the day yeah because 00:34:30.090 --> 00:34:32.750 they had no choice but to keep them running yeah 00:34:32.750 --> 00:34:38.760 so um Let me backtrack for just a second because 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:41.840 we got to talking about the whole John Deere 00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:49.360 locks out all their shit, right? If a farmer's 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:55.059 tractor is locked down during a famine, like 00:34:55.059 --> 00:34:58.599 food stocks are like not available in stores 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:03.139 and he's got a field full of food, but he's been 00:35:03.139 --> 00:35:04.760 told, hey, you're not allowed to harvest this. 00:35:06.359 --> 00:35:10.019 If that farmer gets help and hacks the code on 00:35:10.019 --> 00:35:13.699 his tractor so that he can use it, will he be 00:35:13.699 --> 00:35:17.300 viewed as a hero or a digital pirate in the eyes 00:35:17.300 --> 00:35:20.300 of the system? In the eyes of the system, it's 00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:24.239 going to be both. Yeah. Because you're still 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:25.860 going to have people that are using the system 00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:28.300 that are going to be like, you know, yeah, you 00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:29.820 shouldn't have done that. But you know what? 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:34.219 He's feeding people. Yeah. And are the people. 00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:36.840 that he's feeding going to be the same ones coming 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:41.500 after him? No. Yeah. I don't think he would be 00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:44.239 able to be found at that point. Miraculously. 00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:49.400 He'll, he'll learn how to fly out the window 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:55.780 like Putin's friends. Oh God. Yes. But no, it's, 00:35:55.780 --> 00:35:59.679 it's things like that, that if, you know, if 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.360 things get bad enough, you're going to see things 00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.440 like that happening. because national emergencies 00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:11.739 will start locking down things and systems that 00:36:11.739 --> 00:36:15.360 we depend on. And they could inadvertently lock 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.400 down things like farm equipment. It's not something 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.239 that people think about, but as I was kind of 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:24.699 looking over the research for this, it was something 00:36:24.699 --> 00:36:29.340 that came up because there's a lot of like auxiliary 00:36:29.340 --> 00:36:32.260 and ancillary systems that are tied in with each 00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:35.340 other. that during a national emergency could 00:36:35.340 --> 00:36:37.300 be locked down. I'm not saying they would be, 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:39.840 but they could be, and it would be kind of like 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:43.780 an oversight deal. So if this stuff gets locked 00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:45.719 down and these people don't have access to their 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:47.599 own equipment to use it the way they're supposed 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:56.300 to, they have to find a workaround. Yeah. It's 00:36:56.300 --> 00:36:58.239 one of those things, especially in that situation 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.320 where You're hard -pressed to find somebody that's 00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.420 going to go after them unless it's specifically 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:06.300 the people from the company itself that are paid 00:37:06.300 --> 00:37:09.340 enough to actually give a shit. Otherwise, your 00:37:09.340 --> 00:37:12.139 low -level employees are not going to care. No. 00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:14.059 Especially because they're going to be benefiting 00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:17.659 from it. Right. Your low -level government institutions 00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:20.980 aren't going to care. People that directly benefit 00:37:20.980 --> 00:37:23.800 from that farmer jailbreaking the equipment, 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:26.809 they don't give a shit. All they're going to 00:37:26.809 --> 00:37:29.530 see is some corporate, you know, snozz coming 00:37:29.530 --> 00:37:32.130 in and everybody's just going to be like, yeah, 00:37:32.269 --> 00:37:37.409 no F off. You know, there, and there's no reason 00:37:37.409 --> 00:37:39.190 they're doing, should be doing this and getting 00:37:39.190 --> 00:37:43.829 away with it. None whatsoever. No, there is nothing 00:37:43.829 --> 00:37:46.989 on that machine that needs that kind of proprietary 00:37:46.989 --> 00:37:50.710 safety. No, nothing. It's literally situations 00:37:50.710 --> 00:37:55.429 like that, that will create more and more. marvin 00:37:55.429 --> 00:37:58.809 haymeyer's out in society long live the killdozer 00:37:58.809 --> 00:38:02.429 yeah if the government actually enforced their 00:38:02.429 --> 00:38:05.610 monopoly rules we wouldn't be in this situation 00:38:05.610 --> 00:38:09.210 yeah yeah because god forbid we enforce the laws 00:38:09.210 --> 00:38:11.329 we have on the books no we got to come up with 00:38:11.329 --> 00:38:15.429 new ones or just ignore the ones we have it's 00:38:15.429 --> 00:38:18.429 either we enforce the ones we got or no excuse 00:38:18.429 --> 00:38:20.789 me well i'm saying that wrong it's either we're 00:38:20.789 --> 00:38:24.210 not enforcing the ones we've got And then you 00:38:24.210 --> 00:38:26.130 also got the other side that was like, no, we're 00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:27.289 not going to enforce it, but we're going to make 00:38:27.289 --> 00:38:29.630 more new rules. And we're going to make certain 00:38:29.630 --> 00:38:36.730 effects you, but no one else. Yeah. So a question 00:38:36.730 --> 00:38:40.289 comes up. How long can a society function when 00:38:40.289 --> 00:38:43.550 only 1 % of the population understands how things 00:38:43.550 --> 00:38:45.670 like the plumbing, the power, and the engines 00:38:45.670 --> 00:38:51.789 actually work? When the electricity goes off? 00:38:52.829 --> 00:39:00.989 Not long. The moment there's no internet? Yeah, 00:39:01.070 --> 00:39:04.250 that's when your backyard mechanic suddenly becomes 00:39:04.250 --> 00:39:08.769 king. Yeah. The dude that knows how to fix everything? 00:39:09.010 --> 00:39:18.469 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Coffin, steel. There's a 00:39:18.469 --> 00:39:21.090 lot you can do with that. Dude, raw materials 00:39:21.090 --> 00:39:23.699 will suddenly be worth equivalent to like gold 00:39:23.699 --> 00:39:30.119 and silver at that point yeah um i know i had 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:34.079 a hot wire car but that's just me do you think 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.320 under the right circumstances um unauthorized 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:40.460 repairs could ever be classified as a threat 00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:48.780 to national security that i can't see unless 00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:51.000 you've got a just full -on corrupt government 00:39:51.610 --> 00:39:54.110 At that point, I'd say then it could. But right 00:39:54.110 --> 00:39:56.690 now, even with the people we have in office right 00:39:56.690 --> 00:40:03.070 now, no. No way. Nobody in office right now is 00:40:03.070 --> 00:40:07.570 that stupid. Even our blonde -haired hero in 00:40:07.570 --> 00:40:12.789 office, even he ain't that silly. I say that 00:40:12.789 --> 00:40:16.090 very, very lightly. Very tongue -in -cheek. Yes, 00:40:16.869 --> 00:40:25.630 I have a sense of humor. You do? I drink that 00:40:25.630 --> 00:40:31.110 haterade equally. Oh, yes. Is there a point where 00:40:31.110 --> 00:40:35.269 a 3D printer could become a printing press for 00:40:35.269 --> 00:40:42.409 sedition? Depends on who you ask. I had to put 00:40:42.409 --> 00:40:43.849 that one in there just because of some of the 00:40:43.849 --> 00:40:46.610 laws that have been getting looked at. Yeah. 00:40:47.309 --> 00:40:49.230 If they pass some of the laws that they want, 00:40:49.349 --> 00:40:51.739 it could. potentially be looked like at that 00:40:51.739 --> 00:40:55.079 way i guess i think it's absolutely dumb yeah 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.739 same here i mean it comes down to who's using 00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:03.380 it for what purpose and it always will yeah yeah 00:41:03.380 --> 00:41:05.739 to me it comes it's not even a gun issue just 00:41:05.739 --> 00:41:08.500 like a lot of these gun issues that democrats 00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:10.860 and everybody keeps coming up with and i'm sorry 00:41:10.860 --> 00:41:13.539 it's mostly democrats that keep doing it not 00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:17.420 always but a lot of them do it's They're trying 00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:19.619 to create a boogeyman for some reason. And to 00:41:19.619 --> 00:41:23.760 me, it smells like it's definitely not passing 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:25.679 the smell test when it comes to them saying, 00:41:25.820 --> 00:41:29.000 oh, it's a gun issue. It, to me, is coming across 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:32.039 as there's corporate bigwigs that have gotten 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:35.800 enough of a scent of this could totally screw 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:39.599 us that we need to do something about it now. 00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:43.380 And let's create a boogeyman scenario so that 00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:47.780 way. people won't have access to something and 00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:49.659 we're still going to be dependent on these companies. 00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:54.159 I mean, come on. You watch enough YouTube videos. 00:41:54.219 --> 00:41:56.719 You see it all the time. Somebody's got a freaking 00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:59.719 time clock thing that needs repaired, but the 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:01.900 company that repairs it said, hey, guess what? 00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:04.019 You're going to have to spend $100 on something 00:42:04.019 --> 00:42:07.059 because we don't make just the gear. We make 00:42:07.059 --> 00:42:10.579 this whole mechanism. Even though we could just 00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:13.119 give you the gear for like a buck. We're going 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:14.539 to make you pay a hundred bucks for this one 00:42:14.539 --> 00:42:17.119 mechanism. So what's the guy do? He 3d prints 00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:19.639 it. He measures, you know, what was left of inside 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.760 the machine 3d prints it. And guess what? For 00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.460 like a buck, he's got the new gear and gave the 00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:28.980 middle finger to that company. Yeah. So why not 00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:31.280 fricking try to figure out a way to make that, 00:42:31.300 --> 00:42:36.320 that kind of stuff illegal? Yeah. Do you think 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.760 it's maybe something to do with. Either taxes 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.099 or the ability to draw some sort of a profit 00:42:45.099 --> 00:42:49.539 off of the parts that are being 3D printed? Not 00:42:49.539 --> 00:42:51.480 necessarily, because if you make enough money, 00:42:51.539 --> 00:42:54.739 unless you're physically going to locations to 00:42:54.739 --> 00:42:58.440 pass money under the table, at some point, if 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.340 you're doing business with a bank, you're going 00:43:01.340 --> 00:43:02.860 to have to account for where that money comes 00:43:02.860 --> 00:43:06.559 from. Even criminals with the IRS have to file 00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:10.019 taxes showing how much stuff they stole during 00:43:10.019 --> 00:43:13.780 the year. It is an IRS tax code. If you steal 00:43:13.780 --> 00:43:16.059 something, you're supposed to account for it. 00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:18.920 Isn't that usually what criminals get hit with 00:43:18.920 --> 00:43:21.880 is tax stuff when those warrants get served? 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.639 Yeah, like tax evasion and stuff. Yeah. I have 00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:28.619 this feeling that's really what it's for. But 00:43:28.619 --> 00:43:32.159 if they actually took the time to do that. That 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:34.300 would totally throw the government for a loop. 00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:39.039 It'd be hilarious. You know, I'm charging you 00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:40.579 for tax evasion. What are you talking about? 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:44.340 I got my tax forms right here from last year. 00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:47.199 I totally put down, I stole that Toyota Celica. 00:43:47.739 --> 00:43:50.840 Nice. And I totally made a profit off of it. 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:59.760 Here you go. Yeah, that's... I feel like if... 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.579 if 3d printers had a way to show what they were 00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:05.079 making, which I, I don't want this to ever happen, 00:44:05.139 --> 00:44:10.380 that some of the stuff would kind of cool down 00:44:10.380 --> 00:44:16.099 as far as the legislation side, because I don't 00:44:16.099 --> 00:44:19.059 want any more eyes being put on what I'm doing 00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:23.179 in my own home. Right. I don't see it. They're, 00:44:23.179 --> 00:44:26.000 they're going to find ways to try to get their 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:29.690 fingers in your house. Yeah. I mean, Again, you 00:44:29.690 --> 00:44:31.690 have... Well, they already tried to put their 00:44:31.690 --> 00:44:33.670 fingers in my back door and I screamed really 00:44:33.670 --> 00:44:37.230 loud when they did that. Was that the van in 00:44:37.230 --> 00:44:40.030 the white suit? It was. And he got donkey kicked. 00:44:41.090 --> 00:44:45.550 I bet he did. I'm trying to think what... I just 00:44:45.550 --> 00:44:49.949 saw a video from Colin Noir where he was talking 00:44:49.949 --> 00:44:53.309 about a state that was trying to pass a law to 00:44:53.309 --> 00:44:57.940 where... Basically, they wanted it to where you 00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:01.360 couldn't carry a 10 mag magazine, anything higher 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:04.500 than that. They want it to where you have to 00:45:04.500 --> 00:45:07.820 get permission from the local PD to even have 00:45:07.820 --> 00:45:10.000 these weapons that you've already bought legally 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.139 and got background checks for. And then they 00:45:12.139 --> 00:45:13.760 also want to be able to come in your home anytime 00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.780 they want to be able to inspect your weapons 00:45:16.780 --> 00:45:21.000 to make sure they're safe in a secure manner. 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:24.650 I want to say Virginia. But I might be confusing 00:45:24.650 --> 00:45:26.889 that with all the other stuff that Virginia is 00:45:26.889 --> 00:45:30.590 doing lately. Which, let me segue real quick. 00:45:30.829 --> 00:45:36.050 How the hell did a foreign -born person get elected 00:45:36.050 --> 00:45:38.329 to a position to where they can now make laws 00:45:38.329 --> 00:45:42.409 to what Americans can do with firearms? Right. 00:45:42.849 --> 00:45:46.750 I'm not sure how that works. That shouldn't happen. 00:45:46.769 --> 00:45:50.630 I thought... No. Just the fact that somebody 00:45:50.630 --> 00:45:53.670 even suggesting that they should be doing that, 00:45:53.730 --> 00:45:55.969 they should be slapped and thrown out of their 00:45:55.969 --> 00:45:58.309 own government. Because that is, to me, that's 00:45:58.309 --> 00:46:01.889 against the Constitution. A, like you said, you're 00:46:01.889 --> 00:46:03.849 violating the Second Amendment. It is infringement. 00:46:03.869 --> 00:46:08.170 And then you're talking about, oh, and you can 00:46:08.170 --> 00:46:10.130 come in my house anytime you want? No, that's 00:46:10.130 --> 00:46:12.469 a violation of the Fourth Amendment. You're violating 00:46:12.469 --> 00:46:17.760 two amendments with one law. I'd tell our officer 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:19.679 to shove it up his ass, and I'd be like, and 00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:23.340 if you arrest me, be prepared to lose your retirement, 00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:26.760 your income, your police department's income, 00:46:26.980 --> 00:46:29.320 and the town's income, because I'm going to take 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:32.739 everything. I will not settle. I will take everything. 00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:38.420 This town will be renamed to Pipville. Yes. Yeah. 00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:48.469 It'll be North Gibbles. Yeah, it's... God. Yeah, 00:46:48.590 --> 00:46:53.010 but that's Japan. Oh, yeah. I saw that comment. 00:46:53.250 --> 00:46:56.329 Sorry. Other random Zoidberg thought, did you 00:46:56.329 --> 00:47:00.650 see High Point made an AR -15? It actually looks 00:47:00.650 --> 00:47:03.849 kind of cool. Yeah. The reviews on it are nice. 00:47:05.130 --> 00:47:09.429 Anyways. I just wish I had the bunnies. They're 00:47:09.429 --> 00:47:15.000 cheap. It's like sub $500. I have to eat. Groceries 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:21.119 are, like, sub - $500 anymore for a week. Hot 00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:29.579 dogs and mac and cheese. All right, $100. I'm 00:47:29.579 --> 00:47:33.679 going to have to go on that new Second Amendment 00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:37.880 diet. Oh, God. What were you just use your second 00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:42.739 amendment privileges to obtain food? No fricking 00:47:42.739 --> 00:47:45.219 use my second amendment privileges by removing 00:47:45.219 --> 00:47:48.059 food from my life so I can afford my guns. Oh 00:47:48.059 --> 00:47:54.239 yeah. All right. So this is the last portion 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.360 of the notes and it was a lot of theoretical 00:47:56.360 --> 00:48:03.460 stuff. So a national emergency. forces a blackout 00:48:03.460 --> 00:48:07.719 in your area for a minimum of 14 days so let's 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:09.360 say that there's something going on they need 00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:12.880 to if you have like a fuel powered power plant 00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:17.800 in your area they need to redirect the fuel for 00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:20.519 like war effort type stuff for disaster recovery 00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:22.619 or something or there's just a major natural 00:48:22.619 --> 00:48:24.420 disaster and they shut off the power plant to 00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:27.539 prevent wildfires that's something that happens 00:48:27.539 --> 00:48:31.599 yeah so They announced there will be no government 00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:35.360 assistance during this time outside of 911 services, 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:42.179 which will be severely delayed. What steps have 00:48:42.179 --> 00:48:44.880 you already taken as far as everything we've 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.960 already talked about tonight to ensure that you're 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:52.039 getting through that situation? Well, I bring 00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:56.139 out all my ammo. Bring out all my guns, set myself 00:48:56.139 --> 00:48:59.139 up, and wait for the dumbasses to show up to 00:48:59.139 --> 00:49:02.639 my front door. They're going to resupply you 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:04.539 right at your door. They are the new Amazon. 00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:09.099 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Anybody shows up at my house 00:49:09.099 --> 00:49:11.800 in their cars and stuff, I'm going to have gas. 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.199 I'm going to have metal resources. If they have 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:17.420 food in those vehicles or water, I don't have 00:49:17.420 --> 00:49:19.340 to use my water out of the ground. I'll just 00:49:19.340 --> 00:49:22.980 use what they got. That's all that'll be. Oh, 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:27.619 yeah. It was something that came up when I was 00:49:27.619 --> 00:49:31.099 doing some of the research, and it was just like, 00:49:31.139 --> 00:49:35.539 there again, you've got the people who can manage 00:49:35.539 --> 00:49:37.900 repairs, who already have tools and supplies 00:49:37.900 --> 00:49:41.219 on hand, who don't reply on just -in -time delivery, 00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:43.800 who already have the knowledge and don't have 00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:48.719 to rely on YouTube and whatnot. So these are 00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:50.380 the people who are going to become their own 00:49:50.380 --> 00:49:54.360 miniature commercial hubs. For their, their neighborhoods, 00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:56.460 possibly their cities, their towns or whatever. 00:49:56.739 --> 00:49:58.980 And there's going to be a bunch of little hubs 00:49:58.980 --> 00:50:01.539 all spread out because these are going to be 00:50:01.539 --> 00:50:05.579 the new centers of commerce. Yeah. For that duration. 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.840 It'll just be like it was before. Yeah. You'll 00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:11.420 have your blacksmiths, you'll have, you know, 00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:13.780 people that know how to do certain things. And 00:50:13.780 --> 00:50:15.800 those are where everybody will congregate because 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:17.980 when they need something taken care of. Yeah. 00:50:18.039 --> 00:50:21.179 It's right there. Now. In two weeks, there may 00:50:21.179 --> 00:50:25.199 not be a ton of activity. But if it goes... We 00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:27.300 all saw what happened the last time the government 00:50:27.300 --> 00:50:30.840 said, we're just going to do two weeks. That 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:33.960 was a very long two weeks. It lasted for, what, 00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:41.139 36 months? Yeah. But we still had power. We did. 00:50:41.260 --> 00:50:43.860 We saw electricity and we saw the internet. I 00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:46.300 think the U .S. would look very different if 00:50:46.300 --> 00:50:49.139 we did not have power during that time. well 00:50:49.139 --> 00:50:52.300 there was a study i it was a long time ago i 00:50:52.300 --> 00:50:55.059 saw it where they talked about what would happen 00:50:55.059 --> 00:50:58.079 it was after the new york blackouts where like 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:01.159 a good portion of the area went dark for like 00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:04.320 a few days and they were talking like i think 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.360 it was like maybe two weeks tops where if there 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:10.500 was no electricity it would be absolute mayhem 00:51:10.500 --> 00:51:15.340 within a few days yeah yeah but that's what i'm 00:51:15.340 --> 00:51:18.110 saying like two weeks tops yeah like people would 00:51:18.110 --> 00:51:20.070 lose their absolute minds after you know just 00:51:20.070 --> 00:51:23.670 a few days to a couple weeks yep and you wouldn't 00:51:23.670 --> 00:51:25.449 be able to get control of it immediately until 00:51:25.449 --> 00:51:27.730 you got the power back on even then god only 00:51:27.730 --> 00:51:32.130 knows what happens yeah your bigger cities quickly 00:51:32.130 --> 00:51:36.769 resort to gang violence gang control overlords 00:51:36.769 --> 00:51:40.289 yeah and just go play the division that's that's 00:51:40.289 --> 00:51:43.130 exactly what happens well and it's and it's because 00:51:43.130 --> 00:51:47.030 of the just in time mentality for the economy 00:51:47.030 --> 00:51:50.710 yeah you don't have power well you can't go buy 00:51:50.710 --> 00:51:53.769 food because all your money is now digital yep 00:51:53.769 --> 00:51:57.150 and nobody has paper money really anymore i have 00:51:57.150 --> 00:52:01.530 a little but even i'm guilty of it yeah but nobody 00:52:01.530 --> 00:52:05.789 has you know natural resources to trade so in 00:52:05.789 --> 00:52:08.369 the city where there's a lot of them where you 00:52:08.369 --> 00:52:10.750 almost might say it's a food desert you'd have 00:52:10.750 --> 00:52:14.730 the city having to mass exodus To find places 00:52:14.730 --> 00:52:17.409 to get food and resources and everything. And 00:52:17.409 --> 00:52:19.010 people out in the country ain't going to have 00:52:19.010 --> 00:52:22.429 it. Or the people that do. They're not going 00:52:22.429 --> 00:52:24.289 to give it up. At least not willingly. Well, 00:52:24.309 --> 00:52:26.949 that's what I meant by that. Not having it. They're 00:52:26.949 --> 00:52:29.250 just not going to put up with that type of shit. 00:52:29.369 --> 00:52:30.510 They're just going to be like, well, it sucks 00:52:30.510 --> 00:52:34.070 to be you. Yeah. And ammo is going to be flying. 00:52:34.590 --> 00:52:43.489 Oh, yeah. Quickly. So. The. The hands -on gap 00:52:43.489 --> 00:52:47.630 is kind of the ultimate tool of control. If you 00:52:47.630 --> 00:52:50.010 can't fix your world, you can't rebel against 00:52:50.010 --> 00:52:53.690 it. You're kind of tethered to the system for 00:52:53.690 --> 00:52:57.389 your very survival. Maybe it's by design. Maybe 00:52:57.389 --> 00:52:59.210 it's just the natural path of progression and 00:52:59.210 --> 00:53:03.309 abundance. Many people still take great satisfaction 00:53:03.309 --> 00:53:06.289 in being able to repair what they own or just 00:53:06.289 --> 00:53:08.150 in earning side income, repairing things for 00:53:08.150 --> 00:53:12.639 others. We have advocated many times on this 00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:14.599 show and will probably continue to do so for 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.500 the entire duration of this show. Learn your 00:53:17.500 --> 00:53:20.340 craft, acquire resources of knowledge and tools, 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:23.960 and invest in yourself for the long term. Knowledge 00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:27.360 is power. It's really one of the best sayings 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.360 out there. If you don't have to rely on others, 00:53:30.539 --> 00:53:34.960 you can do literally everything you need. Yeah. 00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:39.880 Taking the time to learn how to grow a few crops. 00:53:40.460 --> 00:53:42.300 Take the time to learn how to repair something 00:53:42.300 --> 00:53:45.440 that you figured you're absolutely going to need. 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:48.500 And no, not your cell phone. Take the time to 00:53:48.500 --> 00:53:53.659 learn how a pump works. Or figure out, gee, when 00:53:53.659 --> 00:53:56.099 I'm taking water and I'm running through a system, 00:53:56.139 --> 00:53:58.900 how could you make that work where you're trying 00:53:58.900 --> 00:54:01.059 to make water travel up without electricity, 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:04.820 without any mechanical means? There's ways to 00:54:04.820 --> 00:54:07.280 do it. Yeah. How would you make pressure for 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:09.500 something? There's actually ways to do it without 00:54:09.500 --> 00:54:12.840 any mechanical hardware, just tubes. Yep. And 00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.039 you can create a pressurized system for water. 00:54:15.219 --> 00:54:17.980 Yep. So the fact that you can do that shows that, 00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:19.800 you know, if people take the time to learn, you 00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:23.960 can do anything. And there are some very good 00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:29.119 resources out there. There are many books that 00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:31.519 are dedicated to showing people how to survive 00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.079 in situations without some of those resources 00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:37.380 like power and electric electricity, the internet. 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:40.820 Yeah. So they're not very expensive. They're 00:54:40.820 --> 00:54:43.780 worth having around. If nothing else, just for 00:54:43.780 --> 00:54:47.039 the fact of learning things for yourself. I, 00:54:47.139 --> 00:54:50.360 I like learning new shit just for the sake of 00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:53.440 learning it. But that's just the kind of tism 00:54:53.440 --> 00:55:00.500 I have. So. That and expensive cardboard. So 00:55:00.500 --> 00:55:04.320 to kind of close everything out, you know, everything 00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.159 is fine today. The lights are on, the water's 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:09.820 running, but that's only because the system still 00:55:09.820 --> 00:55:13.079 works. The day may come where our precious Amazon 00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:16.300 packages stop showing up and a trip to the hardware 00:55:16.300 --> 00:55:20.760 store is no longer even an option. Those are 00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:23.119 the days that we never want to see, but we have 00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:25.539 to keep it at the back of our mind that, yeah, 00:55:25.739 --> 00:55:34.119 it really could happen. So. Yeah, unfortunately. 00:55:35.380 --> 00:55:41.539 Yeah. People have managed to get by through life 00:55:41.539 --> 00:55:45.420 without a lot of our modern conveniences for 00:55:45.420 --> 00:55:48.099 a very long time. It's only been in the last. 00:55:50.579 --> 00:55:53.340 70 plus years, what we'll call a hundred years 00:55:53.340 --> 00:55:57.880 that we've had a lot of the really modern technology 00:55:57.880 --> 00:56:02.380 that we take for granted. And humanity has been 00:56:02.380 --> 00:56:05.460 around for a lot longer than that. So it can 00:56:05.460 --> 00:56:08.539 be done. No, it's not glorious. No, it's not 00:56:08.539 --> 00:56:12.739 convenient, but we can survive if we have to. 00:56:16.579 --> 00:56:21.539 So take that into consideration. Do some learning 00:56:21.539 --> 00:56:25.980 for yourself, for others, for your family. Or 00:56:25.980 --> 00:56:28.780 don't. Or don't. And just be a statistic at a 00:56:28.780 --> 00:56:30.940 body on the ground in a resupply position for 00:56:30.940 --> 00:56:35.840 somebody else. That's right. I could always use 00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:41.699 some more fat for my soap. Hell yeah. Just like 00:56:41.699 --> 00:56:43.880 on, oh God, what was that movie? Fight Club. 00:56:45.019 --> 00:56:51.329 Yeah. Making the soap. Going to the liposuction 00:56:51.329 --> 00:56:55.869 clinic. Get some soap. Yep. You render the fat, 00:56:55.969 --> 00:56:57.530 and then you can also make high -grade explosives. 00:56:58.070 --> 00:57:03.969 Yeah. Just don't drink it. They lipo that fat 00:57:03.969 --> 00:57:06.150 out of Marlon Brando's ass. Don't suck on that 00:57:06.150 --> 00:57:14.309 stuff. Ew. Ew. Oh, yeah. Candles. Obscure movie 00:57:14.309 --> 00:57:24.139 reference. That's my ass day. Anyways. No, no, 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:29.880 no, no. Oh, no. No, no. Marlon Brando no here. 00:57:31.699 --> 00:57:33.599 So, I think that's going to do it for us tonight. 00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:37.599 I hope you guys enjoyed the show. If you have 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:39.420 any questions, comments, concerns, feedback, 00:57:39.579 --> 00:57:42.940 you want to tell us to stop doing the show, just 00:57:42.940 --> 00:57:47.329 hop on our Discord. Share it with us. Get on 00:57:47.329 --> 00:57:49.070 the social. Tell us that you hate us. Tell us 00:57:49.070 --> 00:57:52.349 you love us. I don't know. I could use some love. 00:57:52.969 --> 00:58:00.349 Yes. We would love to hear from the listeners. 00:58:02.289 --> 00:58:05.349 Some show topics. We would love to hear if you 00:58:05.349 --> 00:58:09.699 guys have any thoughts on show topics. We're 00:58:09.699 --> 00:58:11.440 quickly burning through the topic list that we 00:58:11.440 --> 00:58:13.019 had. We have a live show coming up at the end 00:58:13.019 --> 00:58:15.460 of the summer, so we're trying to keep that one 00:58:15.460 --> 00:58:20.079 on the books, but life keeps lifing, and we're 00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:24.340 coming up on some decisions to make on some other 00:58:24.340 --> 00:58:27.480 shit. And we're really not trying to get a lifetime 00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:30.699 supply of mail to make things work. You know, 00:58:31.099 --> 00:58:37.730 we might have to go down that route. We could 00:58:37.730 --> 00:58:41.909 stream on Twitch and, you know, do the thing. 00:58:42.030 --> 00:58:45.090 Well, if we do that, maybe we can get a sponsorship 00:58:45.090 --> 00:58:49.929 from Miracle Whip or something. Hellmans. Hellmans. 00:58:52.329 --> 00:58:53.730 Oh, as long as it's not great. Tell them we're 00:58:53.730 --> 00:58:58.809 going to make a. It'll be curdling before you 00:58:58.809 --> 00:59:03.550 get a chance to do anything. Just tell the sponsors 00:59:03.550 --> 00:59:07.550 we're making a very chunky salad. Oh, it's so 00:59:07.550 --> 00:59:18.329 chunky. Oh, God, no. Oh, all right, folks. After 00:59:18.329 --> 00:59:21.929 our shit. Yeah. With that, we'll go ahead and 00:59:21.929 --> 00:59:25.389 wrap it up. So thanks again for listening. We 00:59:25.389 --> 00:59:28.469 love you all. And we'll see you all next time.