Wrack Your Brain Episode 12

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Episode 12. This is a show about everything and nothing. Part politics, part satire, all bourbon. Join Dominick Leon and Charles Fuks as they muse about current events, social issues, and whatever surfaces from the depths of their minds. In this episode we tackle mansplaining and answer the question "what would it take to maintain current lifetsyle in a society collapse?" I also give out a tasy cocktail recipe. 

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Transcript

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ladies and gentlemen welcome to may 19 2022 i'm charles fuchs and i'm

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dominic leon and we're the hosts of rocky brain podcast now we are coming to you

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from our usual place my uh my office slash the rocker brand studios

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here in los angeles

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you know it's like a bunker and it's like an undisclosed location we are sipping some really really tasty

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drinks that i made if i don't say so myself um a little

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well okay uh we're uh we we're we're gonna take a

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very quick break because uh we just got started well i know we got started i'm not gonna i'm not gonna cut this

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completely just from from the moment that uh what about that we'll figure it out for the next time

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it's no but we did figure that for the last time so uh the reason i'm gonna take a quick uh quick break is because

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we were on tick tock live and we got disconnected for for a reason so technically we will be right back and we're back

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sorry about that uh you know how technology uh can technology can affect the old such as this guy over here i am

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old anyway as i was i was talking about uh i was going to give a quick uh quick uh i don't know what the word is an

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ingredient list for for this um a little bit of orange a little bit of raspberry

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a little bit of juniper flavoring if you know what i mean squeeze a lemon and a

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head of agave syrup and that is uh actually very very similar except it's

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replacing a um a clear flavorless

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it's replacing the juniper berry juice yes with with the juniper-less

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liquid juice anyway sure so tonight's topic

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is a continuation of one of the topics we touched on before

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all right so it's what what would we have to do in order to

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continue our lifestyle or to maintain our lifestyle in the case of a society

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collapse that's right all right i'll kick it off

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last time i think we we identified several elements right such as electricity

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fuel for the vehicle uh certain types of food right like food in general but like

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specifically the food that we eat today luxury items we already know like i mean

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as far as you and i are concerned we already know and and again we're always open to learning new things but as far as

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the normal things to do is you know you can't survive alone you have to do this with with people that you can trust

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around you because everybody has to play a part you don't want to be in a big city you want to be kind of rural but not too far

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away from civilization you want to have an abundance of different types of food

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that are readily available that are also replenishable and

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you want to establish communications however you can and that's but that's all the normal

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stuff in the societal college we're talking about what would we have to do to maintain our

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lifestyles now we both like drinking we both like cigars we both like hunting

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and you know so on and so forth so what will we have right now okay so there's there's like we can just go about with

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listing [ __ ] random word but the the best way to go about this is to be systematic not systemic

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systemic is a different thing um

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so and i'm i'm really skeptical about i wouldn't say i disbelieve it anyway

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all right so so you know we have to start with with the overall categories rights and and again it's it's more than just elements

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of necessity such as uh food shelter things like that it is specifically

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living in a modern middle class house uh with electricity with internet as much

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as we can and so on and so forth that's just that's just i don't say luxury but it's it's more

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than just necessities the bare necessities so let's start with food uh do you only

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eat food grown locally no what's something that you eat that's not

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grown locally uh meat a lot of meats you would think that they don't have

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cows in the state that we live in they do but for some reason they like to import to meet from other other areas

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okay so that's the wrong question right like so what am i out of the the fruits

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vegetables meat etc etc that you eat what could not be harvested from around here

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that's a good question what can i mean i don't think everything we eat can be harvested from around here

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tropical fruits delicious well but i mean they're not necessarily a necessity tropical fruit

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regular fruits yeah we're going to talk about this testy we're talking about things

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not changing a single thing from your day-to-day site from not gonna have to go to work so those you know obviously

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those things right supermarkets and pineapples yeah well pineapples i think is the only

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thing like [Music]

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well chocolate is not a fruit but the the cacao cacao

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despite his appearance of being a 60 year old man and despite being close to that in

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real age uh dominic is is the child of of this duo oh yeah

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anyway um i don't know if i called out my shirt this is a george washington

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with uh does he have a machine gun i can't even he has a machine gun does he have a machine gun

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no he's got an eagle on his arm oh he does have a machine there it's right over there on your belly

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abs

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there's something underneath there anyway okay so so yeah there are things that i i

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couldn't grow uh but by and large i i have a fledgling you know fruit and

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vegetable edible forest and so uh i have apples apples peaches don't tell

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everybody what you have pears yeah but we're in a disclosed location in a bunker

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and all of this is grown in the book peaches pears cherries

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persimmon and those those pineapple flavored strawberries i have uh pine berries yes that's right

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although i haven't harvested any i have strawberries i've i have a lot of things i've kale i do have kale and

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i'm going to give you my kale seeds uh here in a couple months once they what's the onion garlic i have onion garlic i have

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i have plenty of stuff plenty of stuff so but all of it

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i mean it kind of speaks for itself all of it is north america growable right yeah

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because it's growing in north america and it's growing that's right um do i have a a complete no not yet but

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hopefully before the society comes collapses all the different nuts they they did a study at mit

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saying that society would collapse and it's more filled with liberals oh of course but you know they're the ones

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that make all the decisions they're the ones that are smart aren't they no only the liberals are smart everyone

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else is just a dumbass according to them yeah correlation is not causation but they've

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been however they've come to the conclusion that society will collapse in 2040.

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did they say why and when did this when did they publish this that's a good question when they published it because if it was

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like 20 years ago they might have revised it by this point probably but that's the latest thing i saw i didn't

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see when it was done but they said by 2040. how accurate that is i don't know and you didn't see what it said would

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cause the collapse um government and some some kind of a collapse with government and yeah that's

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a society right right but i'm saying that's they didn't really or i didn't really read

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into too deep into the to the paper okay so

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bottom line is society might collapse in the next uh 24 years

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or 20 years i was 13 20 40 20 40. what are we in 2022 18 years

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yeah so okay that's plenty of time to grow my forest eventually i'm gonna have some nuts you

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know you know this guy likes the nuts oh i already have nuts well you know you like additional nuts

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you like extra nuts and you're not doing salty and warm you know i do like the nuts

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all right so yeah i mean i think we're gonna have to conceive that unless we're well no so so

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let's go back right because the answer we're trying to answer the question of what would it take okay but we would have some means

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of of essentially going south and acquiring fruits and vegetables that

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that don't grow in our in our area right uh no i take it back hold on i

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take it back uh although ultimately we that might be part of the solution but i get if i

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build a greenhouse yeah i can i can suddenly now grow things that are in much for much more because then the

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greenhouse would put it into a different zone exactly yeah that's right okay so that's what that's what it would take i

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think that's that's the greenhouse would be to have to be significantly larger than the average sized greenhouse yeah

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no this would have to be you know big enough to accommodate taller taller fruit trees right uh with with enough space for them

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to go up and wide but also with enough space on the ground essentially a biodome

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yeah but remember it wouldn't be like self-sustaining it would just be no no it would have to be maintained but i

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mean it was basically because again we're going to be putting in trees

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and those trees you know they have to be able to have the room to grow and yeah you know so it

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would have to be at least 25 depending on depending on the tree you know what

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i'm going to say ballpark 25 feet even if even if if a particular tree is

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capable of growing that tall i could always guide it and you know grow it in such a way to where it's right yeah wider

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versus taller so train it to go straight i mean of course like a bomb like kabasa that's an edible bonsai

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no you're not gonna say no but i will eat the [ __ ] out of a bonsai if i had to survive on it

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i will eat it i'll put some salt on it some nuts on it and it's gonna go in my

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mouth oh yes that's what someone said that's what he she they them

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he said fat chicken

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no i listen right xe and xim i believe it i believe what about it

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some people go by it remember back in the day when it was a

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clown but lived in the gutter

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[Music]

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tim curry is phenomenal the new one

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the basketball player basketball player

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[Laughter] and we're gonna survive a societal

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collapse yeah that's right i mean i'm always i'm already growing the food

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so you know i'm the brains you're the muscle and i'm a great shot

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i'm not bad myself no you're not actually you're a very good child all right so that's food i mean okay so

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grow what i grow now get more larger variety of what grows in my in my zone but also get a greenhouse

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okay but now here comes the comforts part cigars

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i think we've already established what we would have to do for food unless you want to go on with the meats

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part well i don't own any animals just yet right so it's either hunting or acquiring somehow

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i mean long term and and something that is more

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you know less likely to get us shot at would be to

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have pigs cows chickens

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but having those things on your property make you a target for other groups to try to infiltrate those

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areas well okay so we're not talking about security yet we're just talking about food so in order to continue to eat pork

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chicken beef and uh and occasionally lamb i would need goats chickens

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cows pigs and pigs okay um so that's the meat and the occasional

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squirrel that wants to run around you know all right but i don't need to squirrel now well i've shot a squirrel i

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haven't eaten it just yet kind of [ __ ] out of a squirrel okay

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so i think we've covered food we would need we would need for exotic stuff we'll need a greenhouse

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what about exotic i don't really exotic meats so that's no that's fine okay

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let's talk about security right security needs of their

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back current lifestyle okay because i don't i'm not i'm not you know

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sleeping outside with with the gun by my side you know protecting the house right

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no that would be that'd be stupid well that's today right that's with society because with police and you know state

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neighborhoods and all that was a societal collapse you can't necessarily trust police no they're walking for this

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they'll be police because there'll still be some sort of a government trying to regain control not with society

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like a full-blown society nothing else nothing that's it rise of violence end of government

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society government's [Music]

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there's actually this a small part of that that seems kind of enticing

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yeah there'd be less [ __ ] but it would be more more work in a sense right because like

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part of modern society is in to certain to a certain

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regard is uh our degree is a specialization right like we are not

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by and large even though i'm doing it a little bit we're not growing our own food we're not making our own clothes

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we're not et cetera et cetera we're just out there making money and then first you know what but maybe that's the problem with

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society maybe that's why it'll collapse we're going to grow we've been growing

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steadily slowly but subtly more comfortable and

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a lot less self-sustaining than than humanity used to be at some point in our existence

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and i think what he was self-sustaining i mean as an in every individual people used to make their own clothes people

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used to not be afraid of certain things you know as far as to work towards right as individuals right

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right well but that's that is the advantage of modern society is that we are not

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spending and that's why things have gotten better right like the quality of clothing is is is

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multi-faceted but but it's it's capitalism right but what does that mean that that they're they're they're

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individuals who who choose to specialize in the making of clothes and therefore they put more money into developing

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the technology that makes clothes right like other clothes right so the materials

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and and faster cheaper and all that [ __ ] so you're saying that part of the the preparation for societal collapse is to

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acquire as many clothes as you can or uh get or acquire the machinery

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to make the same i've got no i've got no interest in making my own clothes i can

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acquire as many clothes as i can right so okay that's the easier thing to talk about we would need to stock up

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right now on you know 100 years worth why we're not going to live 400 years

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yeah but you and i are not going to do that i'm only going to get what i need to get until once i get my breath yeah but what

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if you do go to 100 you don't want to live in raggedy clothes i am not i am too old to live another

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100 years fine 50 years worth of clothes right so i acquire as many clothes as i

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can now 50 years ago and i go ahead and start now getting the sandals and the black socks and the plain box of shorts

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and the white county top side did you want to start dressing like an old man yeah and i'll be the only one in my [ __ ]

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area still reading the newspaper on my front porch yeah i'm gonna be able to get off my i know but i'll have some say

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there'll be a hoarder somewhere in the neighborhood who's got old newspapers that i'll pull out and i'll read it and

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i'll just yell at people that get off my porch and get off my mind speaking of horse okay horns

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to hoarders but horn maybe i think of course um

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you know i would i would say that's probably an aspect of my life that may improve

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during apocalypse so i already told my wife i'm going to acquire a harem listen hey somebody has to do the the

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reestablishing of society and to create and you know new people

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i'll just be practicing for that how about that that's fine but if new people come out of it that's okay they have a

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hundred years worth of clothes more about them to wear well when they grow into it

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and you won't have to worry about the formula shortage because you can just make your own out of pine berries

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and kale i thought that was about to be a fat joke

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we don't fat shame on the show i thought um

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you're gonna like you just make your own and pointed me

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what the sleeveless sleeveless t-shirt i'm not gonna use the other name for for this type of uh stack of attire

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i i think i think our youtube algorithms would take us off yeah if you call it what we usually call it i don't i don't

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usually call that of i'm from new york you know what we call it in new york

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yes okay so

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let's talk about transportation would it take well i know i'm pretty

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sure i know what it would take because because gasoline degrades right like two years even with even with uh the

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chemical even with the preservative or whatever it's called for for it it'll it'll degrade within yeah but not diesel i

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think maybe three years tops but it'll still function to a degree it'll still kick the engine over but it just won't

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be it won't it won't function as well what are you doing how long okay oh he's not

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checking himself last pure gasoline up to six months

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before it begins to degrade let's see it's two-year gasoline

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uh more than two months is minor decrease in performance

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gas that's older than a year will cause clogged injectors so so i say maybe you know go acquire an

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electric vehicle make sure you have the means to charge it if you have solar panels we talked about that last year i

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keep it's funny because like i'm i'm thinking people like to talk [ __ ] about evs but

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if society collapses you know back in the in the 70s and 80s you could just grab the pump off the

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thing the nozzle and just start pumping gas you don't even need to tell the guy like hey five dollars on pump five or

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whatever the [ __ ] it was now unless you know how to work that system in that in that little room in

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the gas station you're not going to go you know you can't just pump your own gas i don't care how much gas is in those tanks unless you know how to work

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that system it's not going to happen so two things learn how to go get a part-time job at a

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gas station learn how the system works once you've got that down and quit the job because you've already cut it and uh

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get yourself an electric vehicle as a backup because this way if you've got solar panels or solar energy you'll have the

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means to to power up your ev but you can still at least

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figure out how to use the technology inside the gas station so you can get that from functioning the only other

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option is to actually get a pump functioning so you can siphon out that gasoline out of the tanks from

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underground and uh acquire it somehow uh

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well or and or not or well or not and or this is a really good

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treat you're very welcome so i need to come up with a name for that

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though i just made that up this is the charlie special now that's that's what happens after

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hours so okay the the alternative and and sort of definitive answer

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is to find out how to turn oil into gasoline and set up our own like kind of refinery

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i'm not interested in that hold on i'm not saying what we're actually going to do about this i'll talk about what it

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would make remember the question is what would it take to maintain our current lifestyle and that's

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that is the definitive answer find find oil and refine it and turn it to gasoline

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completely disagree i just need means to travel immediate travel not interested

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in you know the refining process is is a very complicated process and i'm not

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interested in that i want to know how can i get fuel to travel from a to b after two years there won't be any

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gasoline which is why you get the ev sun's not gonna run out

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okay but then you need replacement parts for for well replacement parts in general

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whether it's battery or whatever it is because you could even electric vehicles that's

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once a year go get another google cloud but it's my okay but again and use the

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old use the old vehicles that no longer function as barricades around your perimeter

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by the way the the the question right of what it takes to maintain also assumes unlimited resources now it

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would have to because like you know there's there are there are cost constraints so get yourself a part-time job at tesla

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go find out how that technology works once you got it down quit the job but keep the knowledge what make it

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yourself you're going to make your own electric field no but you can always acquire the parts you need from other evs and then you know implement them in

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the vehicle well part time with unlimited resources you just stockpile

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a lifetime's worth of electric vehicles how would you do that you buy electronic buy a lifetime supply

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electric advice you got that kind of money i what did i what did i say assuming what i said there's an assumption here

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what did i say the assumption is come on viewers tell me he doesn't remember come over i i said it twice

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unlimited what sources the ika the monies okay aka the money

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the societal collapse money is there now i'm talking about i'm not assuming unlimited

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so you buy 20 teslas yeah that's unrealistic though why

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if you're unlimited resources now because otherwise this answer to the question that we're trying to answer has

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to assume unlimited resources otherwise with our current finite it's the answer

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is no we won't maintain a current lifestyle and that is the reality that is the the realistic answer

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but we're trying to trying to answer what it would take okay uh so okay well speaking of charging the electric field

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start speaking of of maintaining electricity in the house right you also need

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a [ __ ] ton of of renewable electricity generation right

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whether it's solar wind turbines all of that [ __ ] and and you would need you know twice the

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amount if you do your house uses and i've seen also if people live by by rivers or streams there's these like

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smaller what do they call them hydroelectric hydroelectric things that you can put into that you know for the current and

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it just keeps powering up now i'm not saying those things are either cheap or readily available or

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even you have to with unlimited resources you have to get one on a much bigger scale for it to actually be

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functional to the degree that you would need it to be but i think with all those things combined

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with with when you went solar and with you know hydroelectric uh power you you'd be able to

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you know to maintain right so you have not only not only a diverse set

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of generating uh things right or objects or means of

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generation right like when electric water uh but you also you also have

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that to such a quantity that you're producing way more than you would need in a current in the current setting right and i mean with today's technology

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we can you know charge up batteries you know different there's different systems that people have in place where

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you can you know power up these battery systems to have these reserves you know and just because

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i would say in a societal collapse you wouldn't want to have just what you would need you would want more

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than what you need because you have to have that always readily available in case that you need it right away

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and it's always better to have more not needed needed and not have it well yeah i mean but the the what would

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happen now is it would all go into the grid and but i mean if you disconnect your

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your remember society collapses disconnect yourself from the grid and just

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you know keep all that power for what you need well don't feed anything back right just cut yourself off from it cut

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that take a [ __ ] prune shear cut that sunbitch right off well there would be i don't even i don't know i'd

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have to do more research i don't know if that would be necessary because there's there'd be no grid to speak of so there'd be nothing pulling your

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electricity imagine that society collapses and some [ __ ] control i'm from the power company and coming here

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to read your meter but like i don't and i don't know i

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don't know maybe maybe it it's it's not pulling from the house maybe it's just leaving that employment like now

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right so it might once once the grid goes down the electric grid

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it may not leave the house anyway right right but i don't know in any case

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sure maybe you maybe as an added uh security measure you you cut it you cut

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yourself loose from it and then you have oh well speak speaking of cutting loose right now you need dozens and dozens of

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house batteries well you need like the big car batteries that end up jerry

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daisy changed why are you daisy training buying several house batteries right now because that's how that system works

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have you not seen how people do that before all these other companies started doing these like for example tesla power

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power yeah right the way they used to do is they have car batteries

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and they put them like so for example in your house you could do it in your crawl space because it's big enough and so you know how the positive and the

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negative goes but you start to daisy chain them and eventually it turns into which is

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essentially what making it jam better yeah but why why would we do that instead of buying 20

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house batteries like power cell sure powerball let's just call power why would we do that stupid [ __ ] instead

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of buying 20 power walls you could do it all you can do whatever you want all right i understand that but again we're talking about on the repairing and

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preparing now for them with with unlimited resources better option is to get just as many

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powers

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[Music] you have unlimited resources that i don't know about right now i can acquire

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them uh yeah we'll acquire them with uh with our our our fans uh supporting us by the

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up to the point that we can't yell at the louder um okay so we talked about electricity we talked

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about vehicles about shelter i mean you would need essentially a replacement

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house you know like sheep sheetrock and and you know coming out here you know well

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there's some stuff to repair the house right i mean those things are are in my case i see those things that it

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with unlimited resources we could get yeah it's just a little bit is shed right or an extra garage or something

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right you see that's why you need a shed but in a case where let's say those

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resources are not available you know elected things to maintain a house or maintain your shelter and you

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really needed to do that the next best thing is to just you know go pillage another abandoned home if it's abandoned

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and it has the resources you need you just take it but again in a world where we have unlimited resources i'd say

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get all the wood get all the sheet rock and all the materials you would need to actually tackle but everything right

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that's the problem though like spackle stack goes like gasoline it's not going to last

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spackle if you don't use spackle it dries out and it will go bad

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you know it's not going to last a year it will dry out that bucket will be dry

31:23

as a brick and it'll last up to nine months after

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opening yeah it'll dry out after opening after opening once it gets air and once again the oxygen is it's a wrap right so

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you don't have to get big-ass buckets you get just a thousand of the little ones and

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i'm telling you but even even the one even if you don't open it it's still not gonna last

31:46

you know forever they constantly make new new you know new that new stuff because it's it's gonna dry out

31:53

this is the shelf life recommended no longer than 12 months from production date yeah because it's

31:59

going to dry so the you know what we're looking at is if your house has it needs repairs now

32:06

make them there and double up on those i guess you know add sheet rock to your walls

32:13

double the thickness you know you want to not only repair but you want to make sure that you're secure and safe

32:19

and another an added layer of something okay let's talk about security security with unlimited uh with unlimited

32:25

resources well you can't borrow your windows but you would bulletproof the glass but it wouldn't be smart

32:32

it wouldn't be smart let's say you had to escape your house fast but if you have bar windows then you're limiting

32:38

your your you know you're stopping but it is more secure right but if you have bulletproof glass

32:45

it's equally as secure nobody can shoot through the glass if they're bulletproof but if you had to get out of the window

32:50

let's say the house on fire you just barge yourself in bulletproof glass

32:56

okay wrap the grab glass and some sort of reinforced um

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like brick how about how about this bulletproof glass but you also have

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storm window like the storm doors so like people have in oklahoma and

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there's a lot of people even in florida that have this for hurricane the hurricane shutters that roll down like

33:20

one of the businesses right that's on the window but i'm talking about lightning like that and the facade five

33:25

five six or even oh it'll come and go through it right so if you're talking about reinforcing that i mean

33:30

you would have to is it is it possible i guess anything's possible but

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like what about putting like a layer of metal in in behind the brick

33:41

right yeah it would have to be yeah it would it didn't and it wouldn't even have to be significantly thick because it has to go

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through brick then through metal then through sheetrock potentially some of the wood in between

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so i mean inch not even

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not even that and so you would basically need to redo the entire exterior of the house have

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them have them not the exterior i would do that in the interior you have well it's remember you behind the brick you

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have unlimited resources so gut the walls put your layer of steel behind that wall

34:18

and then redo all your walls again i i don't i don't know how they would do it in my mind i guess they were removing the

34:24

brick from the outside and then putting the metal behind it now that's too much work you do everything from the inside because it's easier to replace sheetrock

34:30

than it is to replace the entire brick facade okay so the point is you you you layer you add additional layer and

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however much that's going to cost right and i would say in a two-story home you want your first floor to be the most

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secure unless you have places around your home that are easily

34:48

accessible but people are climbing up or you know etcetera i mean if if money if

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money doesn't doesn't matter then you you do the whole house and you put bulletproof class in there you get [ __ ] tony montana the [ __ ] out of the

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house and make sure this is [ __ ] nobody's coming around here you know people stepping the wrong thing

35:06

lights are turning on the machine guns are coming out of staircases [ __ ] it just tony montana the whole house though

35:13

yeah any room like a drone anything all right so so we talk about food we

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talk about shelter we talked about transportation talk about clothing

35:25

okay here's a necessity wiping your house with toilet paper

35:31

i'd barely use toilet paper i yeah i know you barely need yourself i use a bidet

35:38

okay so yeah you can put up a day but i i really do

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[Music] no no yes okay uh and so we're gonna pause and

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we're back and we're back don't worry i'll keep both of them in

36:06

okay so uh we talked about what happened okay so let's now talk about like things that

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you won't die without but life would be somewhat uncomfortable with that cigars

36:19

nicotine pipe tobacco nicotine right so

36:24

oh uh alcohol alcohol caffeine coffee so i couldn't i couldn't bring my

36:31

i can't grow my own no well i take it back right now i'm not really yeah greenhouse the greenhouse coffee beans

36:37

yep chocolate right uh my cacao cacao pots did a couple of balloons and you got it

36:43

all worked out that don't speak about yourself i wasn't speaking about them but the

36:49

further south you go they're easy to find all right so you mean cheap labor

36:56

that was racist no why don't you say in general labor is

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cheaper in south america that is that's fat wow okay wow that's back wow

37:10

that's fact okay uh let's see what else alcohol okay let's let's talk about

37:16

tobacco right so i'm not gonna learn how to roll a cigar so i basically need a lifetime's worth of cigars get a

37:21

part-time job not a cigar part-time part-time job stuff okay so no

37:29

no no okay so i get i get a lifetime supply of cigars but then i would also need a

37:35

lifetime supply of of either poveta packs or or basically like i need something to keep

37:41

them humanoid yeah i need like a industrial sized humidor

37:46

that'll stay moist why there's nothing wrong with the word moist um there had to be a child okay so

37:56

he would say he would keep the cigars too moist to inappropriate to an appropriate amount okay um

38:03

i wonder if i wonder if you know gets moist fat people

38:08

that is true i wonder if uh nicotine if it vapes if vapes will

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last for you know 13 30 years that's actually a good i don't know i think these

38:19

i think these would agree i definitely think that any kind of um

38:25

because you know air gets into this thing it's designed to oh yeah like forget forget well not forget but

38:31

like let's say we were to vacuum seal it put a moisture moisture absorber and an oxygen absorber

38:38

or put them in vacuum vacuum sealed packs what did i just say so we're going to paint exactly what you said yeah i'm

38:44

just repeating this smart thing that you just said i okay so

38:49

i was working the yard today i think you're gonna split oh you know where you go no

38:56

you don't know where my math has been that's true i have no clue probably on [ __ ]

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big ones too listen we don't discriminate you you little cock's big [ __ ] no i'm not a

39:08

family some i i i would my hypothesis is that the more

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attractive and passable male to female uh transgenders have smaller penises

39:20

i have no interest in even knowing again you know you want to hang out just

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dm me i don't discriminate i do leave me alone

39:33

um even discriminates within within the gay the gay cis cisgendered

39:39

population now is that thing gay says gender that's just an oxymoron no what

39:44

do you mean cisgender is is you know i don't know absolutely this gender means you were you were the you know what i'm

39:50

going to just say this i have no idea i'm going to explain it to you cisgendered means please mansplaining to

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me just because i'm a man listen here to all you men

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mansplaining uh uh cisgendered liberals just just people who who

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who again you know the theme when we're whenever we're talking about the liberals right the theme seems to be

40:15

they took a good idea and took it to an extreme right yeah mansplaining is a thing what is mansplaining it is a a

40:22

someone who identifies as a man having a conversation with someone who identifies as a woman

40:28

uh trying to educate the the man trying to educate the woman about a particular

40:35

subject when when the woman is the is a subject

40:40

matter expert on that particular topic okay it is not whenever a man is explaining anything to

40:47

a woman because the man could very well be an expert and the woman could be a

40:52

novice that's just an expert explaining something to a novice it doesn't matter what the gender is i get that but

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i i hate doing this but in defense of women especially the liberals

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whoa are you about to defend i don't think in 12 episodes you've ever defended a little bro

41:12

you know what i need i need like a god i know this is like a balloon yeah and confetti or whatever you know so time

41:18

out i'm gonna defend liberals on this one so [ __ ] listen up and listen clear

41:23

when we have when we actually have a studio we have a sound effect generator you know oh like trumpet

41:31

the the whole concept of mansplaining the only reason i get it is because

41:39

it comes with a condescending tone yes behind it that's when i get cigar you're

41:45

being condescending with the blame and it's especially obnoxious yes when you're explaining it to somebody in a

41:51

condescending way and they're like i have a phd in this [ __ ] and you're like some [ __ ] and you're trying to find it on youtube exactly don't [ __ ]

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exactly that part yeah that is mansplaining

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all you're trying to do is educate people it's not mansplaining it's just trying to i guess spread knowledge but

42:09

certain people like to take that to an unnecessary level and say oh you're a man explaining it to me

42:14

because i'm a man and i'm explaining something you're going to go like that's not god that's not bad

42:20

just like just like liberals have recently i think we just agreed on something we've agreed with yeah

42:28

right um so i defended a liberal and now i have a weird taste in my mouth

42:35

yeah you've gone for this funny smell now i'm starting to get moist

42:40

okay uh there was another thing i was gonna say oh yeah i know the the the liberals also recently and i i've

42:46

actually been saying this for years that that the the left the progressive hardcore left

42:51

are trying to to change the the definition of racism and they successfully had two years ago webster's

42:57

definition changed right we haven't talked about this yet and we have here's some time but

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uh and we can we can always come back to prepping but somehow we always end up back in

43:09

politics and socialism so i believe it was two years ago webster's socialism

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nice social issues and that's so awesome okay there's a difference in socialism okay um don't you have the poster of aoc

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i've been up in your room in my bathroom actually

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she she just got engaged actually today yesterday and that's fine as far as my poster is concerned she's she's single

43:36

she's mixing a drink on a post on the poster i have with her in my bathroom from back from her birthday today yeah

43:41

right behind my shirt so i can figure in my mirror before we

43:47

forget the definition of racism okay i'm going to give you the quick we don't have to talk about a lot but here's the new definition of racism

43:54

there is a power structure component and i and i apologize to to my viewers if

44:00

our viewers if i'm not doing the definition definition of justice but

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um there's a power structure element to it so

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you know going back to like what people say about like you can't be real black person can't be racist against a white person because black people supposedly

44:17

have no no power in society i agree but that's part of the new definition of racism and with that

44:24

definition with the webster's definition of racism you in fact a black person could not be

44:32

uh racist against a wise person so again i've been saying for years they're trying to change the definition of racism when when you and i when you you

44:39

you know you and i were going for school if you really look at racism the definition of racism it has nothing to

44:45

do with black people being racist towards white people it just

44:51

you being an [ __ ] towards the opposite race so so no matter which way it's going so here so here's the

44:57

definition that that you and i grew up with and i'm a product of the new york city public public school system

45:02

you can't get any more uh liberal than that so so here's what i grew up

45:08

understanding racism to be a uh typically typically

45:15

almost always or almost exclusively negative stereotypes and beliefs

45:21

about a particular race usually manifesting a mistreatment of

45:26

that of that race right it has to be all of those if i punch you if i come up to

45:31

and punch you is that racism well i don't know let's ask some questions i see it as if if your intention was

45:38

just to punch me and the race had nothing to do with it that was just one man punching another man that's right so let's ask us some

45:44

questions are we of the same race okay probably not racist human race are we are we of of different races okay

45:51

different ethnicities did i punch you i have my dog here remember uh did i punch you because because with

45:57

your dog really is you're gonna name yes um are you you know like okay so i'm i'm when you're someone puerto rican did i

46:04

punch you because you're poor puerto rican okay that that might be racism but punching is reported right but i'm important

46:09

because you're an [ __ ] but if you didn't know me are you gonna if you want to punch me you're gonna stop before you punch me and say hey by the way

46:16

what what definition if i cut you because you're an [ __ ] that's not racism i don't care if we're different we're just fighting because

46:22

it's just one of us right okay so the same reason

46:28

and i have the same the same view on like for example like domestic you know you know i can't even

46:33

say the word dv and the gay community if it's two women yeah it is

46:40

but one is going to be the aggressor the other one is not going to be the aggressor a lot of people are going to

46:46

see it was two women fighting or it's two men fighting you know no matter how people look at it

46:52

and i that that's just my i don't care if if listen

46:58

this is a problem in in the gay community where uh people who identify more as either

47:04

queer or or twinks or whatever in the gay community seem to be more loud and more boisterous

47:12

you know forget about the flamboyant aspect of it and that rubs a lot of people in the gay community the wrong

47:17

way now if that escalates to a point where now these two people are going to fight

47:23

and one of them gets their ass completely handed to them

47:28

i don't see them and not pleasurable what i'm saying is that they're fighting and one of them

47:34

clearly beats the [ __ ] out of the other one well i don't see it as a

47:39

like oh that's abuse or that's [ __ ] no that's a man with a guy and he's told you to stop

47:45

because you're too big yeah i have all right but here's here's here's

47:52

ultimately where we landed right so the the definition of racism has officially been changed as of as a year or two ago

47:59

which is crazy right so so uh for example when when one more example when uh there have been

48:06

situations where republican-led state legislatures have enacted

48:11

voter id laws and have at the same time closed a statistically significant number of the

48:18

dmvs okay well where are those dmvs closed usually in poorer neighborhoods

48:23

who lives typically in poorer neighborhoods there's not there's no there's no value associated with that right or like societal

48:30

sort of social value associated with scrap to it but there is an overlap between between uh

48:35

people of color black black communities and and uh lower social economic but people they still know how to get an id

48:41

well no i know that but hear me out right so so uh of of the black or hispanic or whatever

48:47

it doesn't mean they don't know how to get it but solvent so what voter idols were enacted uh dmvs were closed and

48:54

therefore it was more difficult for black people to for among others to to

48:59

obtain an id state id okay well those have gone to uh it's just been more

49:05

inconvenient but not more difficult i think there's a difference between still well no i mean literally they've

49:11

had the closest dmv in some of those cases was like 100 miles that's more than inconvenient that's practically

49:18

practically impossible making it as hard as you can possibly and and those vote those

49:25

the the there's two elements of that so my understanding is those well three elements actually one

49:32

if done with the intent with the actual expressed intent of decreasing the ability of some people

49:39

to vote i don't care what the race is that is it's the definition of disenfranchisement

49:45

meaning denying people the right to vote which is anti-democratic right so that's one

49:51

two um those laws have

49:57

disproportionately affected black communities okay three uh and and if i'm not mistaken with this

50:03

third one is that those uh the state legislatures have been told hey look you can't do this because it's affecting

50:09

uh people because you're disenfranchising now here's the fourth thought well not the same the voter id laws but closing the

50:16

enemies right the the impact of of causing people to not be able to vote

50:23

right okay which is ridiculous because if you think about it the majority of of black people vote

50:30

democrat so you would [Music] maybe so but okay but you've hit it on the

50:35

head right if you're a republican state legislature and you're like i don't want people to vote republi i don't want

50:41

people to vote democrat and you believe what you just said and you close and you make voter

50:46

registration and you close the indies you're you're black and white you're doing it to

50:52

reduce people from voting democrat right which is in itself anti-democratic right

50:57

yes right like look if people are gonna vote democrat they're gonna go democrat that's that's what a democracy is you

51:03

vote how you vote right okay now here's the fourth thousand those laws and here's where we get to

51:10

where you and i are going to disagree with the left people right because no problem

51:15

you shouldn't deny people the ability to vote right okay here's where we're going to disagree with the lefties those laws

51:20

have been called racist laws why because they affect black people or

51:26

have been shown to affect black people more than black people well okay

51:32

i'm not defending disenfranchisement and i'm not defending republicans who are trying to

51:38

control the vote toward republicans but just because something disproportionately affects black people

51:44

does not make it racist right racist is a very specific thing it's negative

51:49

stereotypes and beliefs about a particular group and negatively treating them right

51:55

something that that even if it's intentionally impacting a particular group if it

52:01

doesn't have the negative stereotype or belief is not racism is it wrong is it disney it's sure like we're not talking

52:07

about whether it's wrong or right we're talking about the definition how to define it because words have meaning okay

52:13

words matter the words matter and facts matter so so here's what i wanted to get to before before the end of the episode

52:20

i'm going to say something very controversial it goes back to you really it goes back to what we were talking

52:26

about aoc dan crenshaw reminded me what did he do

52:31

do you know exactly no his name was that he was the navy seal navy seal officer enlisted uh i believe he's an

52:38

officer okay not not doesn't matter so much but here's here's here's my here's

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my statement

52:50

somebody who spent three or four years and you know it's subjective right so i'm not talking about the specific

52:55

amount of time but just hear me out somebody who spent three or four years in the military

53:04

and let's let's let's let's further qualify they spent three or four years of active duty in the military and they were combat arms let's say they were an

53:09

infantryman let's say they were an infantry team leader okay e5 he was he was an officer he was okay but that's

53:16

beside the point because here's where we go with this there's a lot of a lot of people would say oh you know like if you were in the

53:22

military like it gives you an advantage it gives you some experience that like

53:28

like some people would say qualifies you for public service in a way like oh if you're in the military you know what you're talking about you should you

53:34

should go into politics some people would say that i disagree with it but yes okay well here's where i'm going who would

53:42

some certain military experience yeah yes gives you that perspective maybe you you

53:48

worked on on strategy at the pentagon for several years right as as a you know lieutenant colonel or whatever or as an

53:54

officer doing planning on strategy and geopolitic analysis all that [ __ ] okay maybe you could you have a strong

54:00

argument there if you were an e5 team leader in the infantry

54:05

no offense but here's the here's the controversial thing trend

54:10

in my realm i'm not i'm not treading lightly [ __ ] i'm not controlling you don't tread lightly [ __ ] that [ __ ]

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i i learned from the best if you were an e5 team how about arms active duty

54:23

you are just as qualified or lack thereof to go into public service as a bartender or a farmer

54:30

yeah i agree with that holy [ __ ] i agree with that and there's a reason why because we

54:37

don't know [Music] the job you have in life doesn't determine your level of education

54:44

or level of competency level of competency to actually do the job

54:50

now the reason i i agree when you say some people you know because obviously

54:57

there are people that we both know that you know they go into the army i don't care if you're in for four years you're

55:02

fair for 20 years there are people that are in the military for 20 years and they are complete dumbasses

55:09

from start to finish it's like this person never [ __ ] understood the level of common sense for 20 years even

55:16

if they're decent some people spend a career in the military even you forget four or five years they spent a career

55:22

only being exposed to what what what would be called a military tactical level and then they develop a bias

55:31

and there's institutionalization and we talked about that at one point as well you know that's what certain people can

55:36

develop a a an open mind but again the job you have a bartender could be a

55:42

member of paul you know could be a politician just as much a parliament

55:53

but um you know it's a it's a level of competency that you have now listen i don't like auc i'm not a fan of aoc but

56:01

do i know afc's background on whether or not she's competent to do the job a lot of us love to criticize her and

56:08

love to talk [ __ ] because we look at her and what she looks like and what she says and some of the [ __ ] she looks

56:13

fine i don't think she looks fine at all but that's my own opinion but what her

56:18

educational background is and her competency level is whether or not she looks ridiculous at doing what she's doing is one thing but

56:25

is she doing it because she believes in what she's doing and doing it to a level of listen she didn't get to where she is

56:31

by accident or by pure [ __ ] you know and she hasn't been able to stay where she is because she doesn't

56:37

know well so so so okay her whether her intellectual

56:44

[Music]

56:51

but that being said some people would say if you only have a bachelor's degree excuse me if you only have a bachelor's degree

56:57

and you're a bartender shouldn't be going to politics okay you could say the same thing about you've been a farmer for for 25 years no

57:04

look do you know farming cool could you do farming legislation probably but here's what about everything else but

57:10

just because if you have a bachelor's degree in your bartender

57:15

could potentially because again we don't know your competency level but that that doesn't mean that a person that was a

57:22

strategic commander in the military has any more competency than a person that has a bachelor's degree with the

57:27

bartender right but because our level of understanding for what you're doing has to be for that specific thing

57:34

right so part of the argument is that at least the strategic whatever has been exposed to like a geopolitical analysis

57:41

the problem is today that people are so one-sided they're either we know and they're not willing to play the

57:48

bipartisan game because they're so locked into what they're doing the term

57:53

multi-parties because we don't just have two parties we have lots of parties we have lots of problems multiple parties

57:59

are bypassing multi-parts i'm not going to say multi-partisan because libertarians are not represented the

58:04

constitutionalists are not represented the federal reserve but the

58:10

majority of the united states recognizes democrat or republicans they they recognize all

58:15

them they just don't believe anybody stands a shot and that's that's another time and that's that's how to address that and we'll address that in the next

58:21

episode so we're not going to just you know we're not going to be here okay um so in in the time left right that's the

58:27

reality short period of time right so let's let's make an analogy

58:32

somebody that's a janitor in a hospital okay

58:38

are they are they well versed in health care in general as a as a practice we don't know no a

58:44

janitor a janitor what do they know about health care what does the janitor in the hospital know about health care but you know

58:50

about we don't know we don't know that and i'm going to tell you why because let's say

58:57

in the [Music] 50s and 60s the very few and far between black folks

59:04

that actually were educated in many things and that there's actually a movie with this which is a true story

59:10

and i i just can't remember the name of it this no no there's a black guy who went to mit who's an engineer and couldn't

59:17

get a job and the only job he could get to get his foot in the door okay so was a janitor at a public high school fine

59:23

fair somebody who has only done janitorial work in their career no education

59:30

and has has worked in a hospital all they know dude all they know how to do is push them out sure like they they

59:36

don't know about medicine they don't treat a patient just because they've seen them do something doesn't mean they understand what they're doing that's

59:41

right okay so it's the same thing if you're if you're you know team leader or

59:47

you know whatever if you're at the tactical level in the military you're you know tactical stuff in the

59:53

military that doesn't give you the perspective to talk about the strategy and legislation

1:00:06

to his point there are soldiers and there are strategists within the military and just because

1:00:12

you're the soldier completing this you know whatever it is the strategy is doesn't mean that you

1:00:17

have a better understanding of the strategy and there's always the monday morning quarterback that's going to say we should have done it this way we

1:00:23

should have gone into this village that way but hindsight is always 20 20. these people had to actually sit down and

1:00:28

figure this [ __ ] out beforehand and that takes a level of skill that you might not have but you're better at the

1:00:34

trigger than they are that's the only difference and that's why some people are just not

1:00:39

built for certain things that's right you got thinkers and you got doers

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