WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:08.800 Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of The 2 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.160 Cajun Knight Live. I am your host, the Cajun Knight, 3 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:15.039 Jacob Mook. A lot of things to discuss on this evening. 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:17.280 I know, we always have so much to talk about. 5 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.239 We are gonna talk a little bit about what's going 6 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.600 on on the US soil. We are also gonna be 7 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:25.039 kind of branching out to talk about some of the 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.760 more interesting things about what's going on around the world, 9 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:31.879 some of them being the two thousand percent increase in 10 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.119 HIV cases in Russian soldiers ever since the start of 11 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:38.719 the Ukrainian offensive. 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Yeah, 41 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.280 that's a thing our Stechnia and let's go into it 42 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.360 now for radioactive WASP nests found in South Carolina's nuclear facility. 43 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.439 Wasps living around a Cold War era nuclear facility in 44 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:31.199 South Carolina had built at least four radioactive nests, raising 45 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:34.919 questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent 46 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.520 of environmental contamination. According to a report by The New 47 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:41.879 York Times last week, news broke the officials, I'm sorry 48 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:46.520 at the officials at the site in Savannah River Site 49 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.080 SRS near ak in South Carolina have found one radioactive 50 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.479 nest on July third. The discovery was documented in a 51 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.560 July twenty second report by the US Department of Energy, 52 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.000 which of course owns the site. The report said that 53 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.879 the nest was on a post near a tank used 54 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.400 to store a nuclear waste and that it quote was 55 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:13.960 probing one hundred thousand dBm per centimeter squared beta gamma. 56 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.840 I'm not gonna lie. I don't know if that's hell 57 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.680 a little bit or a lot of bit or whatever 58 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.840 the case was. But basically, this old tank that was 59 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.159 used to store nuclear waste was at least giving some 60 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:31.599 some readings on the Geiger counter. This contamination level is 61 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.400 greater than ten times the total contamination values listed in 62 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.439 federal regulations for areas that require contamination posting and monitoring. 63 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.439 The report said, oh, well, there you have it. Then, okay, wow, 64 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.159 still in it concluded that the radioactivity of the nest 65 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.639 was considered to be from on site legacy radioactive contamination, 66 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:56.560 not related to a loss of contamination control. I mean, okay, 67 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.319 that makes sense. It's not like they had unaccounted for 68 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.280 radio active waste or anything like that. But even still, 69 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.560 the fact that a WASP nest was able to be 70 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:10.479 built in form around a known radioactive source of waste. 71 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:12.479 This is again that we kind of brought it up 72 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:16.600 on the Cult of Conspiracy Live. But this is kind 73 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:19.360 of the beginning of a comic book series. It sounds like, 74 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:21.839 I don't know what would happen if one of these 75 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:23.879 stung you. I hope the report kind of talks about 76 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:28.000 it here, honestly. But The Times uncovered that three additional 77 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.759 radioactive nests had been found since July third discovery. The 78 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.839 US Department of Energy is managing the discovery for WASP 79 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:40.879 nests with very low levels of radioactive contamination. Edward DeShong, Yeah, 80 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.519 Edwin DeShong, manager of the Department of Energy Savannah River 81 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.560 Operations Office, said in an email statement to The Times, 82 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:53.240 the nests do not oppose a health risk to SRS workers, 83 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.439 the community or the environment. Well that and that just 84 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.480 make you feel better, okay. The SRS is a three 85 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.959 hundred ten square mile facility built in the nineteen fifties 86 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:08.040 to produce material for nuclear weapons, including plutonium and tritium okay, 87 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.639 a component of hydrogen bombs. The Times noted activity at 88 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.759 the SRS, which is located near the border with Georgia, 89 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.240 declined at the end of the Cold War. The Department 90 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.759 of Energy began cleaning up the site in nineteen ninety six, 91 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.160 a slow process that is currently estimated to be completed 92 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:33.360 by twenty sixty five. Wow, so they stopped using it. 93 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:36.480 I mean, like I said, it was I don't even 94 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.920 know what they really said when they made the site 95 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.160 like inactive by any means. But they started cleaning up 96 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.720 in ninety six, and they were expecting that it was 97 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.439 already going to take till twenty sixty five to complete 98 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.920 the cleanup. WHOA, that's crazy. According to the Department of Energy, 99 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.680 the site produced one hundred and sixty five million gallons 100 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:57.399 of radioactive liquid waste, which has been evaporated to thirty 101 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:01.920 four million gallons. The site has of fifty one waist tanks, 102 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.720 eight of which have been operationally closed, with the remaining 103 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.519 forty three in various states of closure or of the 104 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.279 closure process. Outside experts have been quick to point out 105 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.480 critical information missing from the Department of Aryangy's next report, 106 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.720 including the absolute level of radioactivity found in the nest, 107 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:23.240 the specific isotopes that were found, and the type of 108 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.120 wasps that built the nest. Some wasps build their nests 109 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:33.639 from mud, while others might use chewed up pulp from wood. Now, yeah, okay, 110 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.040 it's fair enough. I about to say the ones that 111 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.959 use mud, I know, like dirt dabbers, for instance, And 112 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.639 I don't know if that's like the official name of them. 113 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.680 They look like wasps, but they're black and they don't sting. 114 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:46.160 They just make like mud huts on your wall and 115 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.600 they're painting the butt to clean off. But yeah, most 116 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:51.279 of the ones that sting that I know have kind 117 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.319 of used chewed up pulp wood or something like that. 118 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.600 But anyway, all right. Timothy Musso, a biologist at the 119 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:01.560 University of South Carolina who studied organism and ecosystems in 120 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.800 radioactivity or radioactive regions, told The Times that the Department 121 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:11.199 of Energies explanation that the WASP gathering legacy contamination for 122 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:16.120 their homes is not unreasonable. There's some legacy radioactive contamination 123 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.839 sitting around in the mud, in the bottom of the legs, 124 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.040 or you know, here and there, he said. The main 125 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.319 concern relates to whether or not there are large areas 126 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.800 of significant contamination that have escaped surveillance in the past. 127 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.600 Musso said alternatively, this could indicate that there is some 128 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:37.439 new or old radioactive radioactive contamination that is coming to 129 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.519 the surface that was unexpected. The Department of Energy report 130 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.720 of the first WASP nests said that the nest was 131 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:49.759 sprayed to kill wasps, then bagged as radioactive waste. Okay, 132 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.720 that's I think that's fair. The ground and area around 133 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.199 where the nests had been did not have any further contamination. 134 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.360 That's at least what they said, we don't know, Okay, 135 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:04.199 fair enough. The DO report's first wasps, oh, I'm sorry 136 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:07.360 in a statement to the Aiken Standard, and that's the 137 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:10.680 local publication. Officials worked at the Department of energy site 138 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.560 noted that the wasps themselves pose little risk to the community. 139 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:18.319 They likely have lower contamination on them and generally don't 140 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.800 stray more than a few hundred yards from their nests. 141 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.040 That's also very fair. However, The Times pointed out a 142 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:27.920 report from twenty seventeen when officials at SRS found radioactive 143 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.079 bird droppings on the roof of a building at the site. 144 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:36.799 Birds can carry radioactive materials long distances. Muso said, Okay, 145 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:43.039 so according to the report, they pose no threat. However, again, 146 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.919 they didn't really specify the type of wasps. They didn't 147 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:51.279 specify the type of isotopes, they didn't specify levels of contamination. 148 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.519 They just said that it was negligible and it wasn't 149 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.799 anything to worry about. I feel like we need a 150 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:58.159 little more detail to feel more at ease about it. 151 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:02.559 But that being said, like there is a greater than 152 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.200 zero percent chance that somebody in South Carolina is gonna 153 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.120 get stung by a radioactive wasp. And this is how 154 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.399 Spider Man started, essentially, And I thought that was crazy 155 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.240 when that joke was made on the Cult Live. That's 156 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.279 also not like the craziest thing now knowing that this 157 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:23.919 is a real insect contamination. But anyway, Raven, you said 158 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.279 that there was also before we started shooting, you said 159 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.720 that there was also a little bit of precedence for 160 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.720 radioactive insects being used by humans for other purposes. So 161 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:36.600 there may be a little bit more of a correlation here. 162 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.559 I said, yeah, I dropped a link in the chat 163 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.600 kind of, but it pretty much it essentially is talking 164 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:47.279 about the screwworms. Screwworms have been around for quite a while, 165 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.720 Like nineteen thirty three is when they got brought over 166 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.000 to America, and then like nineteen sixty six is when 167 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.919 they got fully eradicated from America, but then had a 168 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.559 resurgence in nineteen seventy six and now we're battling it again. 169 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.559 Pretty Much, what they did was the US of Mexico 170 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.759 got with Panama and made the Wall of Flesh. And 171 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:15.720 what that is is they have a nuclear facility that 172 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:21.039 that breeds these flies that are alive, but they're dead inside. 173 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.279 So they're the males that can't reproduce with the females 174 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:29.759 because they've used radioactive nuclear waste and stuff to pretty 175 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:32.559 much sterilize them. And that was the one thing that 176 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:37.360 they could find that would be able to let them fly, 177 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.399 get dropped out of the planes, be able to like 178 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:46.399 mate quote unquote with females, and then essentially they die off. 179 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.159 So it's like a super slow process that took like 180 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.480 decades to eradicate. The first time, the wall of flesh 181 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.720 is failing because they only have one facility that's open, 182 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.799 and so it's that max capacity or right now. And 183 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.600 so the last like since twenty twenty three, I think 184 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:08.000 it is, is when it started to spread across UH 185 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.840 Central America again, and so Mexico and the US have 186 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.600 decided that they're going to make a facility, another nuclear 187 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:21.399 facility on the Texas Mexico border to try and reproduce 188 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.080 as many flies as possible, because at one point they 189 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.320 were using for one facility, it was seventy tons of 190 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.000 meat and it was like one hundred it was twelve 191 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:36.480 million gallons of blood to produce like two hundred million 192 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.919 flies because it has they have to be like living 193 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:43.399 in flesh, and so they've created like different stuff now, 194 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:49.080 but they all are nuclear radioactive flies that are flying around, 195 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.519 and it's like a slow process that happens. 196 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:53.840 So and I remember whenever you came on the Cult 197 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:58.000 and we talked about this the the negrew screwworm, right, 198 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.159 and they were using a flyworld. Yeah, that's a weird 199 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:02.960 one to say out loud too, that's a tongue twister 200 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:04.000 new world So. 201 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.960 Why why would they call it new worlds? Like, you know, 202 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.720 just the weird symbology of it, like why new world? 203 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.960 Like it's been around the same time. It really hasn't 204 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.759 mutated much. It has changed slightly where it's like a 205 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:23.000 variant that is getting in more is like adapting and 206 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:27.320 going into more like warm blooded things. They don't really have. 207 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.600 They don't really affect humans like most of the time. 208 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.960 They would rather go for horses and cows. That's why 209 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.720 for the last like two years, the shipments of horses 210 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:42.000 between Mexico and the US have like stalled. It wasn't 211 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.159 until like I think a month or two ago is 212 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:46.720 when they finally open it up again for them to trade. 213 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.879 But they have like a seven day quarantine now, so 214 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.200 it's it's still an issue and still gaining more of 215 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.200 an issue. But this kind of all ties in with 216 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.559 the conversation of Bill Gates's bugs as well and that 217 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:06.039 other company that they created what seven now seven types 218 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:10.759 of bioengineered bugs. So if this is like a radioactive bug, like, 219 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:16.440 I'm sure it's going to somehow be exploited or used 220 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.360 in some regard, because it seems to be for right now, 221 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.080 it seems to be like their positive net positives to 222 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:26.399 try and control things. But who knows at this point, 223 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.759 because then you get the super bugs like the ones 224 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:33.320 over in Africa, the mosquitoes that are now like even 225 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:34.159 more deadly. 226 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.320 So yeah, and I remember when we were talking about it, 227 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:39.799 they so Gates was trying to make it to where 228 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:44.320 vaccines were actually genetically inside of mosquitos, where whenever they 229 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:49.679 bite you you would get accidentally vaccinated. And originally the 230 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:53.519 whole the bioengineered mosquitos and things like that. It was 231 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:55.600 I remember they tried doing it in America as a 232 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.759 matter of fact, to where more male mosquitoes would be 233 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:02.679 born than female mosquitos because the other ones right right 234 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.519 right female excuse the one's a bite. So their theory 235 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:07.879 was if we could make it to where genetically they 236 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.440 are more prone to produce male larva, then we would 237 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:15.159 have a lot less mosquito bites, And that overall sounds great, 238 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.679 but that kind of backfired in a sense because you 239 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.879 just had more what's the way I'm looking, more more 240 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:27.000 prolific breeding happening within the mosquito population. It didn't drastically 241 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.519 increase or decrease. It kind of was seen as a 242 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.320 net wash, not mistaken. 243 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.639 Well, they haven't. So they released two different rounds of it. 244 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:40.399 They released it in Texas and in Florida, like twelve 245 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:43.159 million in one location, and I can't remember the amount 246 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.480 and the other location, and that's from I can't remember 247 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:52.600 the company it was. They haven't technically like I don't know. 248 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.360 I haven't read any reports of it being a success 249 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:00.399 or failure either way. But that company has also made 250 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.240 several other bugs that they've used in South America that 251 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.039 has been seen as a success in Brazil, if I remember, 252 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.399 it is the first location that they dropped them all, 253 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.200 and that's how they got approved to drop them here 254 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:18.320 in the US. It's trying to combat malaria is the 255 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.240 big game. The thing about the malaria talk is though, 256 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:25.240 so they have the malaria vaccine that they've come out with, 257 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:29.039 the two levels, the two different vaccines that Gates has 258 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:33.320 his hand in both, and that's a whole nother ordeal. 259 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.639 But it's like one of the number one killers in 260 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.639 the world. So why would they realistically, if they're in 261 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.360 game is to keep people sick and keep people in 262 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:47.000 the cycle of needing things and all that, then why 263 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:51.559 would they technically cure or kill off the mosquito population. 264 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.840 What they did was is they sprayed chemicals before the bioengineers. 265 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:02.360 They sprayed certain chemicals and as they mutated to the chemicals, 266 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.519 they became superbugs. So now we have the superbug population 267 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.639 and now we have the bioengineered ones. The bioengineer makes 268 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.279 more sense because they are they're actually taking out sequencing 269 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.840 of the like pretty much a Jurassic Park, which like 270 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.799 you know, some people don't know about, but they take 271 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.879 out the sequencing and then that way they can mutate 272 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:28.120 what they actually are passing on to the next party. 273 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.559 So like they say they have like ten boys and 274 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:35.639 they two girls, the next time they'll have only they 275 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:39.559 won't be able to reproduce or they'll have broken genes, 276 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.080 and so they'll end up being sterilized and then it 277 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:45.559 kind of like goes down the cheam like that. 278 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:49.639 So and maybe it had just hadn't been enough seasons 279 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.120 for lack of better words, to see if those results 280 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.080 will actually take hold in Florida and Texas. But as 281 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:57.879 far as I've done in my research ever since that episode, 282 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.279 it's kind of been seen as a net wash at 283 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:05.119 least as of this moment. So Royce, go ahead, brother, I. 284 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.240 Just have a quick question as far as the whole thing. 285 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:12.200 So I'm kind of understanding the concept about what's going on. Besides, 286 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.160 was it with these either with the losses or any 287 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.160 one of these creatures that have been. 288 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:18.880 Nuked? 289 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:25.720 Essentially, what happens whenever those bugs get eaten by higher 290 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.839 life worm so those birds and those birds are eaten 291 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.200 by etcetera, etcetera. So it seems like that would be 292 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:35.519 a greater chance for it to be spread to us. 293 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:40.079 It would be through the eating of you know, with 294 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.680 the foul or whatever, as opposed to just getting stunks. 295 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.599 Like's what's stopping that necessarily from happening. 296 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.480 Right, So in the case with the New World screwworm, right, 297 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.680 they used radioactive flies to combat it and pretty much 298 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.799 eat the larva of the New World screwworm to kind 299 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.680 of keep it where it was. But once the larva itself, 300 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.480 which is that's how it works, right, So there'd be 301 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.319 like a cut or a sore on a cow. The 302 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.680 New World screw worm will embed itself in there and 303 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:12.200 lay its eggs in there. Their thought was that these 304 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.960 radioactive flies would come and kind of kill those and 305 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.960 then since they're radioactive, they're not gonna produce and die 306 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.400 and whatever else. But if a bird eats that fly, 307 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.079 or if a frog eats that fly, or whatever the 308 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:28.279 case is, the thought process was that the radioactivity of 309 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:31.319 these insects were so low and so negligible that we 310 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:35.519 wouldn't see the effects down the road in the ecosystem. Personally, 311 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.119 I don't agree with that. I don't know. Yes, they've 312 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.279 had it's been decades. They started doing this with the 313 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.319 New World screw worm in the fifties, and they've had 314 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.920 decades of testing to show that, like at least if 315 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:51.400 it is having some sort of a secondhand effect, it's 316 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.640 not something that we are seeing, at least not on 317 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.079 our end. I don't mean just in America, but like 318 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:03.119 right here, it's shown that Panama, Costa Rica, Nick Garagua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, 319 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.359 El Salvador, these countries had outbreaks of this, but we 320 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.240 haven't really seen an outbreak in twenty years. So I'm 321 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.480 with you. I don't think that it is something that 322 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:15.519 you could just say, oh, well, so the frogs might 323 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.279 get a little radioactive, but it's no big deal. It's like, no, 324 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.400 that's kind of a biggie because there's something else that's 325 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.440 gonna come and eat the frog, right, And there's something 326 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.079 else that's gonna come and eat that the circle of 327 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:29.440 life happens. I don't believe that introducing radioactive waste into 328 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:32.400 the circle of life and into the food chain is 329 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:36.720 a inherently okay thing to do. Raven, I know you 330 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:38.880 know a thing or two about this, so please weigh in. 331 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:41.079 Well, I'm actually going to read it. 332 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:42.039 I do. 333 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.279 I've actually read about this, but I it is a 334 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.720 very good question because I had the same similar question. 335 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:51.640 So it says that in a sterile fly production facility 336 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.599 this that they are injected with high energy gamma rays 337 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.160 that break down the DNA of the males, damaging their 338 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:03.559 sex chromosomes. According to the USDA, the results are the 339 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.440 flies are no longer able to lay fertilized eggs. The 340 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.880 amount of radiation the male flies are exposed to does 341 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:14.720 not pose a danger to animals. Or humans. But since 342 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:17.359 the female flies only mate one time in their short 343 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:22.920 twenty days lifespan, once populations are exposed to sterile males, 344 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.039 the population dies out over the course of months or years, 345 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.559 depending on the size of the outbreak. While it is 346 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.440 unclear how the dispersal would work in the US, it 347 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.640 is in the event of an outbreak let's see blah 348 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.599 blah blah. So pretty much what they're saying is is like, 349 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:43.839 it's not enough to actually impact us because they die. 350 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:47.599 So the screw worms, for example, they only mate for 351 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:50.440 one male. They don't go and mate a whole bunch 352 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:53.920 like mosquitoes do. They only mate one male and then 353 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.519 they die within thirteen to twenty days, so that life 354 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.440 cycle is dead. Then the male will die too, so 355 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.759 they're continuously dying off. So the broken sperm, the broken 356 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:05.720 sperm or whatever you want to call it, the you know, 357 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.079 is not able to actually fertilize any eggs, So then 358 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.799 that is going to be completely avoid of all radiation 359 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.559 gamma stuff, so they are not actually nothing is consuming 360 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:23.160 them unless they're consuming the ones the males that are exposed. 361 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:29.599 But it's so small it really shouldn't actually impact anything 362 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.279 unless they're eating, like unless they're a bat that's eating 363 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:36.359 like massive amounts, then potentially there probably could be a 364 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:38.960 conversation of this being a real issue. 365 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:43.799 Dude, a radioactive bat. Now we're getting radioactive batman. I'm 366 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:46.960 just saying, like it ooh, that's where COVID came from. 367 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.319 I don't know. Actually, I know for a fact it 368 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:53.359 came from a lab in Wuhan, not from bat meat. 369 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:55.319 I'm just saying. I'm just saying. It could be fun, 370 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.720 it could be cool. I don't know. Now, with all 371 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.640 of that being said, the radioactive wasp nests listen, we 372 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:03.440 don't know what's going to be the blowback from this 373 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:05.480 or what's going to be the fallout. I should say, 374 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:08.160 as of this moment, they're saying that it is localized, 375 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:10.319 it is nothing for anybody to worry about. But I 376 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:13.319 do find it to be interesting. We talked about on 377 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:16.519 another recent episode that there is a new type of 378 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:20.200 fungus that is eating radioactivity in Chernobyl as we speak, 379 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:24.279 and it's actually helping to repair the affected area. Now, 380 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:28.839 if nature finds a way, which it always does, and 381 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.720 we now have a real life potential for radioactive insects 382 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:34.880 to become a thing. Now, I'm not saying this is 383 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.519 the spark of something new. I'm not saying that either. 384 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:42.400 So what's to say that some other insect or some 385 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:45.920 other type of reptile whatever will be exposed to some 386 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:48.559 radioactive waste from one of these Cold War era sites 387 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.119 and we don't have bigger problems to worry about. So 388 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:55.160 I see this as kind of a potential microcosm for 389 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:59.279 something that we really do need to pay more attention towards. Anyway, 390 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:04.519 moving on, and we're still sticking in the Nation of America, 391 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.000 there are some things going on with Texas Democrats who 392 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.960 have decided to leave the state to avoid voting on 393 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.680 a certain thing, and they're facing some issues where they 394 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:18.640 have decided to take up residency for their little extended vacation. 395 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:21.519 Let's listen in here. This is NBC News for some 396 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:23.880 Texas Democrats in Illinois. 397 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:27.240 Tonight, a bomb threat at a Chicago area hotel, forcing 398 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:29.079 Texas Democrats to evacuate. 399 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:31.599 We were awakened to an alarm going off from the 400 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:35.160 hotel around seven thirty this morning over the loudspeaker saying 401 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:37.640 there's been a bomb threat made on this hotel. Please 402 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:38.920 evacuate immediately. 403 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:42.480 Representative John Busey is one of dozens of Democratic lawmakers 404 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:46.000 staying there after leaving Texas to stall a Republican plan 405 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:50.200 to redraw congressional districts. Police say four hundred people were 406 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:53.880 evacuated from the hotel as they scoured for an explosive device, 407 00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:57.440 but none was found. Authorities have not yet reported the 408 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.720 source of the threat, but Bucy blames the heated political 409 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.079 rhetorics surrounding their protest. 410 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:05.480 Real quick, I do want to point this out. This 411 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:09.200 dude standing next to Bucy, I forget his name, but 412 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:12.160 I remember hearing him speak more than a few times. 413 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.839 That dude, I don't actually think has like a functioning brain. 414 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:22.599 Like I think they found somebody who is mentally what's 415 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:29.480 the correct term impaired. He's mentally impaired to actually run 416 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:32.640 for his office, and he's based out of Chicago. The 417 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.160 guy is is I think he might be a barely 418 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.519 functioning human being. I think we might call him what 419 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:43.039 like a imbecile or an invalid. I don't know one 420 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:46.039 of those words. He's he's really dumb. But anyway, so 421 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:50.279 these Texas Democrats, which that sounds like a weird misnomer 422 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:53.519 in and of itself, but a lot of them have 423 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:56.640 decided to flee the state and they are taking up 424 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:02.559 residents in very heavily democratically ran cities, and that got 425 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:05.240 me thinking, wait, why what is making all of these 426 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:08.319 Democrats from Texas decide to like all take vacation at 427 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:12.319 the exact same time. WHOA, there's some things going on. 428 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:14.240 But let's listen in a little bit more. 429 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:17.359 Here est are you concerned for your safety? 430 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:20.440 We don't take the rhetoric of Ken Pax and Greg 431 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:23.960 Abbott lightly. They are sparking a fire and people and 432 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.440 zealous that support them. It's unacceptable. Are we afraid? We 433 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:30.559 are undeterred. We're undeterred, and we're going to continue in 434 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:31.599 our fight back. 435 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:34.920 At the Texas Capital without enough members present, business stood 436 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:38.599 still for a third straight day. Republican State Senator Brian 437 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:40.720 Hughes condemning the threat of violence. 438 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.480 That's horrible to think of someone resorting to violence for 439 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.920 anything like that, And so I hope everybody's okay, while. 440 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.400 Urging Democrats to return, what's your message to the Democrats 441 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:52.279 who have fled the state. 442 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.359 This is going to get done. The will of people 443 00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:56.880 is going to get done. A qure and break can 444 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.720 delay the process. It can temporarily swart the will of 445 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.359 the people, but we'll be back and tom. 446 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.839 Even after this bomb threat, Democrats tell me they are 447 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:08.680 committed to staying for the long haul. At least thirteen 448 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:11.359 more days to run out the clock on this special session. 449 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:13.880 Governor Rabbit can always call them back again. 450 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:19.759 Tom Okay. Now they have fled the state to avoid 451 00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:26.960 voting on redistricting certain areas of the state. The overarching 452 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:31.240 theme here is that Texas has been a red state 453 00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:34.839 for quite some time. It's not new news to anybody. 454 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:41.000 Texas is a very strong conservative red state. Democratic lawmakers 455 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:46.640 in the state are afraid of it being rezoned in redistrict, which, 456 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:51.799 for the record, the majority of the people want, and 457 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:53.960 I don't mean the citizens of Texas. I can't speak 458 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:56.319 on behalf of them, but the majority of the elected 459 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:59.960 officials who would be voting on this will get it approved. Now, 460 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.079 rezoning it means that it will become an even heavily 461 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:09.359 or a more heavy red state. They're basically trying to 462 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:13.160 topple the Democrat vote in the state as of this moment, 463 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:15.839 putting them to different zones, different counties, different cities, all 464 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:20.200 these things, different jurisdictions and precincts. So instead of voting 465 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:24.599 for this and trying to rally the people around them, 466 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:28.680 they decided to just up and leave the state for 467 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:34.160 fourteen days until the vote is no longer up for vote. 468 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:38.359 And what they don't understand is that what's about to happen, 469 00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:43.559 they are about to be subpoenaed, and if and when 470 00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:47.079 they do come home, they may be facing jail time 471 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:52.759 for evading their jobs. But let's watch a little bit 472 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.119 more here. This is from NBC ten in Boston, another 473 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.119 heavily blue city where Texas Democrats have fled to. Now, 474 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:02.319 I don't know anything about the bomb threat that was 475 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:04.640 called in. I don't know for a fact that that 476 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.880 had anything to do with the fact that the Democrats 477 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:09.920 are staying this specific ozell or if that was a 478 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:12.680 random act that just so happened to be at this place. 479 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:16.319 I'm not big on coincidences. That being said, I don't 480 00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:18.519 think that that was being done as a scare tactic 481 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:21.119 to make these dudes and ladies come back home. I 482 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:25.160 don't see that. But then whenever you see with this video, 483 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:28.039 things start to come a little bit more into focus. 484 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:30.799 Crats remain far from home tonight. 485 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:34.640 They are drawing attention to a Trump Trump backed redistricting 486 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:37.680 plan and gaining support from deep blue states like here 487 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.640 in Massachusetts. NBC ten political reporter Matt Pritchard is on it. 488 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.240 He's live from Beacon Hill with the latest map. What 489 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.079 can you tell us, well. 490 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.160 JC Glenn. Texas Dems are clear that they are working 491 00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:52.839 trying to shift a narrative that they fled their state, 492 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:56.039 even as penalties await them once they do return home. 493 00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.799 A Texas signed crowd when wait fight standing atop the 494 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:05.920 state House steps, legislators from thirty five states showing support 495 00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:08.680 for Texas Democrats who left Austin in the midst of 496 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:12.079 a Trump backed redistricting battle aimed at tipping the scales 497 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:15.279 in five congressional districts and keeping the House in GOP 498 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:16.960 hands come twenty twenty six. 499 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:19.599 This is the only tool we have to stop them 500 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:20.279 from doing something. 501 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:22.759 It's going to steal the voices of so many. 502 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:26.079 We are alerting the rest of the country what is 503 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:27.359 taking place in Texas. 504 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:30.680 They're absence, setting off alarm bells for Dems nationwide. 505 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:35.519 What's happening in Texas? Matters to the people of Massachusetts. 506 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:37.960 We have had a state senator in New Hampshire who 507 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:40.920 has said that he is going to file legislation during 508 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:43.880 the upcoming filing period to try to redistrict. 509 00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:46.160 But when it comes real quick, real quick, we're going 510 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:49.200 to get back to it. But you boy just said, 511 00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.480 this is the only tool we have to fight for 512 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:56.279 what we believe. See, you're telling me that the best 513 00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:58.960 way to do your job is to not show up 514 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:02.960 for work Like this isn't a strike. You're an elected official. 515 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.920 You don't get the option to strike like that. That 516 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:10.319 is asinine out loud. And I'm not saying that because 517 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.759 I am more right leaning than left leaning by any means. 518 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:15.119 I would feel the same way if it was a 519 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.559 bunch of Republicans that decide to just up and leave 520 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:21.759 instead of vote, even though they're in a Democrat ran state. 521 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:24.960 Like so, if you're not gonna stand and do the 522 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.839 one thing that you were elected to do, you don't 523 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.519 need that job anymore. That's just my opinion. I know 524 00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:35.440 I only speak on behalf of myself, But then the 525 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:40.000 other one saying that what happens in Texas matters to Massachusetts. 526 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:42.759 I think that might be the first time that that 527 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:47.200 sentence has ever been uttered by a human being ever. 528 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:50.799 I just it's funny to watch how these people rally 529 00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:53.759 around the cause that they actually don't care about. What 530 00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.720 do the people of Massachusetts care if Texas remains a 531 00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:01.160 red state? But all right, yeah, that's let's keep going. 532 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:05.119 Comes to Massachusetts. Republicans are quick to counter that rhetoric. 533 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:08.480 Governor Hanley talked about that this action by Republicans in 534 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:09.720 Texas would force her hand. 535 00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.839 You know, what is there left to do? They've gerrymandered 536 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:13.519 the entire. 537 00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:16.799 State in Texas, the House seeking a quorum for a 538 00:31:16.839 --> 00:31:20.200 third straight day, delaying the effort and leading Governor Greg 539 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:23.359 Gabbott and state leaders to issue civil arrest warrants for 540 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:27.160 those out of state and threatening outright removal from the legislature. 541 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:31.279 All elected members should be here representing their districts. 542 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:33.160 The people are on our side. 543 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:34.640 They see how rigged. 544 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:38.039 This is defiance echoed by DEM's here in New England. 545 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:41.119 They're right, what will happen to them will eventually happen 546 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:41.480 to us. 547 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.079 That balance of power in Congress should be decided by 548 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:45.200 the voters of this country. 549 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:50.279 Now you notice they cut it off right actually said 550 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.039 the power should be elected by the voters of this country. 551 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:54.119 You mean the. 552 00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:58.680 Ones that elected these officials to hold that position. I 553 00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:02.559 agree with that, intimate, random white lady from Massachusetts, but 554 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:04.920 I'm also going to throw out that if you elected 555 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.359 a person to do a job and they just decided 556 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:11.240 to not show up as a way to protect their 557 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:15.000 what like, they're not going to protect anything. And even 558 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.000 if they were to stay out of the state long 559 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:20.039 enough to where this vote goes away, that doesn't mean 560 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.359 that it's not going to be put up again for 561 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:26.640 another vote. Given another month or six or whatever the case, like, 562 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:29.200 this isn't going to go away by any means. So 563 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.200 for a bunch of Texas lawmakers to abandon their post 564 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:35.519 rather than you know, do the one job that they 565 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:39.079 were elected to do, I find that to be cowardice, 566 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:43.119 just speaking on behalf of myself. And again, if this 567 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.240 was the roles were reversed and it was a bunch 568 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:48.680 of Republicans that were fleeing instead of voting and doing 569 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:51.079 the thing that they were elected to do, I would 570 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:54.319 have the same kind of critique That is, that is ridiculous, 571 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:57.920 And now they may be facing legal action if they 572 00:32:57.960 --> 00:32:58.680 return home. 573 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.480 A question that I asked Texas deems was how long 574 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:03.720 they could keep this up. They said they are taking 575 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:05.920 it day by day and they certainly feel like this 576 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:09.319 is a worthwhile exercise. Again though, once they get home, 577 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:13.039 they realize this map may ultimately pass on Beacon Hill. 578 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.559 Yeah all right, all right, So anyway, if anybody wants 579 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:20.720 to weigh in on this, please feel free this. This 580 00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.200 is mind blowing that you have elected officials that are 581 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:28.839 running from their job that they were elected to do. 582 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:30.480 Please royce. 583 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:33.920 So I basically have a kind of a question. So 584 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.119 on one hand, they're saying this, this is their only option, 585 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:41.599 obviously that they realize that the vote could be brought 586 00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:46.119 up again. However, could this be a hey when in doubt, 587 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:50.119 Like they're trying to basically send a message to anyone 588 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:53.519 that to do this. So it's not necessarily just about 589 00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:55.960 this one issue, but it's like, hey, if you guys 590 00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:57.799 don't or have an issue that you don't want to 591 00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:01.119 vote on whatever, you can use us as a precedent. 592 00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:04.039 So could that be a reason why they're doing it? 593 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:08.239 So not necessarily just for this case, but call it 594 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:12.559 in this case democrats, you know, countrywide. 595 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:14.400 I could see that for sure, they're trying to like 596 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.880 start a precedence or at least have that conversation. But 597 00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:21.199 then let's take that a step further. So the next 598 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:24.360 time that the state of Kansas decides that they want 599 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:28.599 to vote on any hot button issue doesn't have to 600 00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.639 necessarily be for redooning and rezoning and redistricting. It could 601 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.760 be for the legalization of a certain substance or you know, 602 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:42.199 the legalization of I don't know, prostitution. It doesn't matter abortion, 603 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.880 It could be anything, could be anything. So if you 604 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.599 have a faction of the elected officials that know that 605 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:53.639 their voice won't be heard, instead of going in and voting, 606 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.320 they will just not show up as a way to 607 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.960 prevent the vote from happening. And if that's the case, 608 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.440 and if this goes on unchecked, how will any laws 609 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.559 get passed in this country moving forward from this point on? 610 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.039 Unless so, unless they want it to go their way, 611 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:13.159 because because if it's so, then no problem, and God 612 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:16.360 forbid a republic game or or whomever gets six or 613 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:18.599 the day oh well, hey, you know, let's let's ye know, 614 00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:19.679 subpoena whatever. 615 00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:21.239 All that's fun, jazz and bullshit. 616 00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:24.239 But this is the thing, right, It's majority rule. That's 617 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:27.159 how democracy runs. So if the majority wants one thing 618 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.280 and the minority doesn't, then that's just kind of how 619 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:34.000 the cookie crumbles. And if all these elected officials don't 620 00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:37.639 like the Texas being a red state, why don't they 621 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:41.480 permanently move to Chicago and to Boston and to these places. 622 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.440 See that's the other thing. In America, we do have 623 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.639 the freedom of travel, and you can just pick up 624 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.320 all of your belongings and move to another state and 625 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.360 claim a new home of address, right, a new home 626 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:56.159 of residency, and run for an elected official position in 627 00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:59.360 that spot. You don't have to stay in Texas. This 628 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.960 is this is mind blowing that this has actually happened 629 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:05.360 by grown adults. And I think you're right. If this 630 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.519 does happen unchecked, this will set a very bad precedence 631 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:12.320 because I could see this going even to a federal level. 632 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:14.880 How do we know that we won't have half of 633 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.960 Congress not show up because they know that they're gonna 634 00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:20.880 lose on whatever vote is about to be proposed. So 635 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.320 instead of trying to make deals happen and have a 636 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.559 little give and take and come to a common ground 637 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:27.719 and do what's better for the for the good of 638 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.840 the American people, which I understand that no political official 639 00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:33.440 cares about the American people. I get that, but just 640 00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:36.679 out loud on a hypothetical what's supposed to be versus 641 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:40.320 what is right. If that's the case, they could just 642 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:43.599 not show up for however long until the vote is 643 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:45.920 supposed to pass, and if they're not there to vote 644 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:50.119 for it, the vote can't pass and boom, mission mission accomplished. 645 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:55.079 That that's mind blowing, Raven, what you got. 646 00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:57.239 So? 647 00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:01.519 Like, is this because we are having such a narcissistic 648 00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:05.320 tendencies in our society now? Like it's that word gets 649 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:07.960 thrown around a lot, but like isn't that kind of 650 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:12.039 inherently a trade of Like, well, since it's not gonna 651 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:13.920 go my way, I'm just gonna like make sure an 652 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.920 avoid actively avoid all things. Like where does it end? 653 00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:20.840 How does this like why is this even being allowed 654 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:24.760 to be something that's happening at all? Like this is 655 00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:27.599 not how any of this works, Like think about Rome, 656 00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:31.280 think about all the arguments, Like look at the Vatican, 657 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:34.239 for example, when they have to vote in a new pope, 658 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:37.440 how many days they deliberate and fight and argue and 659 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.920 you know, kiss each other's ass to try to find 660 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:43.760 who they want. I don't understand how this is even 661 00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.159 how things are gotten to this point, and how it's 662 00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:47.519 just allowed to keep happening. 663 00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:51.239 I don't understand it either. I to my knowledge, I'm 664 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:53.920 sure something like this has happened before in American history. 665 00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:56.559 I just can't recall one off the top of my head. 666 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:01.599 But even still, it's this is a sin actually school 667 00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:04.199 yard tactics of well, looks like we're losing the game. Well, 668 00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:06.440 you know what, I'm taking my ball and I'm going home. 669 00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:10.000 Nobody's winning this game. That's essentially what they're doing on 670 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:15.079 a large, very important scale. I really do hope that 671 00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:19.960 Governor Abbott stands by wow, Okay, bad phrasing, but for 672 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.159 lack of a better word, stands by his word and 673 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:26.239 has these people see jail time for abandoning their posts. 674 00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:31.159 That's that's negligence, which is a criminal offense when done 675 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:34.840 to this scale. So we will see how it shakes out. 676 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:38.920 I don't know, they'll probably return. I hope that they 677 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:41.679 return and vote on this and just face the music, 678 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.880 and that this whole show of action of these people 679 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.679 just gets blown under the rug of like, well, that 680 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:50.000 was really dumb. You had, you had your moment, you 681 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.519 had your little hissy fit there, blue boy, all right, 682 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.440 time to come home and do your job. I know, 683 00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:57.400 it's a wild concept to do the job that you 684 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:01.480 were hired to do. It's it's mind blowing these days, Royce. Please. 685 00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:06.239 So one of the things it seems like the Democrats 686 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.039 try to I don't want to say fight for the minority, 687 00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.400 because you know, they're just trying to get votes. However, 688 00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:14.760 could they also try to see it as like they 689 00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:18.280 think that the minority should be the majority and could 690 00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:21.519 be listened to. So therefore, even though they are currently 691 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:27.400 in the minority of what America wants, for example, they 692 00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:29.920 are like, all right, well, we really don't give a 693 00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.719 shit because you guys oppose us, and we we have 694 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:38.360 our desires and wants and what we say goes and 695 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:39.599 you just have to deal with it. 696 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.519 I understand the premise of this, right, and that's the 697 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:47.199 Democrats are definitely no longer the party of the minority 698 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:51.519 that was their platform for decades, right, the marginalized groups, 699 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:54.280 the ones who don't really have as much of a 700 00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:57.960 voice as the majority. So if all the minority groups 701 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.880 will rally together, they can be heard on a larger scale, 702 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:03.519 and they could be used to fight against the majority narrative, 703 00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:07.400 and especially in cases where the majority ostracizes and passes 704 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.280 legislation to belittle and undermine the minority. I understand this 705 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.320 one hundred percent and I get that, but that's not 706 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.599 the case here as far as that conversation goes, the 707 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:23.320 quote unquote minority groups that might have a conversation like 708 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:29.039 this in Texas, all these elected officials were of the 709 00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:33.719 Caucasian persuasion, and they were all they weren't a part 710 00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:38.360 of any of the alphabet people minority groups, the LGBTQ, 711 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:44.239 ELEMENTO P plus exclamation point, asterist community. So it's not 712 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.760 like they're even representing those minority groups. From what I 713 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:51.199 can tell here, it is Democrats that are afraid of 714 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:56.559 losing whatever foothold they have developed in Texas, and so 715 00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:59.960 rather than trying to fight for their turf, so to speak, 716 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:03.719 they decided to avoid the problem altogether and just leave 717 00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:08.559 until the vote is over, which is mind blowing. Still, 718 00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:12.920 it's yeah, Tony, you, being the Texas resident of the conversation, 719 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:13.719 please weigh in. 720 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:17.920 Yeah, I didn't I wasn't paying attention to this, honestly, 721 00:41:18.039 --> 00:41:21.039 But I think this happened in Wisconsin in twenty eleven, 722 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:22.760 and I could have sworn it to happened a few 723 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.079 other times since then, and it's usually Democrats trying to 724 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.519 prevent a quorum. I guess I can understand the flip 725 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:32.920 side of the argument that you need a quorum of 726 00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:36.760 enough people to vote for anything, otherwise a minority in 727 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:41.559 a legislature can get together kind of in secret or 728 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:46.239 surreptitiously and override a majority opinion. So this whole quorum 729 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:49.079 idea goes back pretty far in history, and like farther 730 00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:52.119 back than the Declaration of Independence. And I think even 731 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.039 at the Declaration of Independence, they really wanted to get 732 00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:00.239 it at least fifty six or fifty eight legislators together, 733 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:02.400 and they felt like they had a critical number and 734 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.719 it couldn't be less than that, otherwise it would not 735 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:10.000 be legitimate. But that also reminds me that there's lots 736 00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:15.760 of other ways for minorities to subvert the democratic process. 737 00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:19.360 And by minorities, I mean of my minority in a legislature. 738 00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.239 So Philip bustering is one way to pulld up votes 739 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:27.360 and just prevent anything from getting passed. And another way, 740 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:29.960 this isn't so much to prevent stuff from getting it passed, 741 00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:34.199 but yeah it is. But the House Speaker, for example, 742 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.119 can assign a law to a committee where it's just 743 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:40.400 gonna take forever to get the law written, and then 744 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.760 it never gets passed because it's not the speaker's priority. 745 00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:48.639 And another thing, now this isn't so much about preventing 746 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:54.519 laws from getting passed, but Congressmen often avoid responsibility for 747 00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:59.320 their votes by you know, voting according to acclamation or 748 00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.920 voting on something called tellers where they don't even record 749 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:04.920 their votes. They just say, oh, well the eyes have. 750 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:06.400 It or something right. 751 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:09.440 And Thomas Massey has tried to say no, for this 752 00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:13.840 Cares Act, we're gonna have a roll call vote instead 753 00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:16.800 of just everyone saying, well, we all passed it together. 754 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.559 I'm not gonna, you know, take responsibility for voting yes 755 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.679 and putting my name on it just to prove by acclamation. 756 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:27.760 So I know that's kind of a couple of tangents, 757 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.840 but this is kind of what's wrong with democracy in general. 758 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:36.280 There's no perfect system, obviously, but yeah, this kind of 759 00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:37.719 thing is almost to be expected. 760 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:42.320 I agree, if I'm not mistaken, Senator Barack Obama voted 761 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:44.880 he was only like a junior senator for like less 762 00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.599 than two years before he was nominated for the presidency, 763 00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:50.039 and I think the last time I looked at the 764 00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:52.599 statistics had been a few years, So forgive me if 765 00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:54.480 I'm a little off on the numbers here, but like 766 00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:57.679 somewhere around eighty five percent of the votes that he 767 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:03.199 cast as a member of the Senate were present, not 768 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:07.079 yay or nay, but like here, like he was present 769 00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.280 for role call. So yeah, one hundred percent. There's there's 770 00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.039 other ways that you can go about doing this without 771 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:17.239 looking like spoiled brats about it. And again, out out 772 00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:20.480 of Texas, of all places, you wouldn't expect people to 773 00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:26.360 be so spineless and afraid of what's inevitably to come. 774 00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:30.000 I don't know. We will see what happens. As of now, 775 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:32.559 they're saying that they may face legal action when they 776 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:35.199 get home unless they come home quickly. I don't know. 777 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:38.519 Well, one other thing, I grew up in California, and 778 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:40.639 that's where I spent most of my life. I would 779 00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:47.039 say that Texas is California, but thirty years behind approximately 780 00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:49.639 because California was a Republican state when I was born. 781 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:53.880 California voted sixty one to thirty nine against gay marriage 782 00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:58.800 in two thousand. But just the way things are going, 783 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:03.400 everything Kathulhu swims slowly, but he swims to the left. 784 00:45:03.679 --> 00:45:07.000 So Texas is gonna be purple and then blewe someday. 785 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:11.679 In my opinion, good Cthulhu reference dog. He doesn't give 786 00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:13.679 a shout out as much as he should, but yeah, 787 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:18.760 good things. I hope that that doesn't happen, although, especially 788 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:21.639 with the way that the past few elections have taken place, 789 00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:24.880 Texas is looking more and more like it's about to 790 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:28.280 become purple, or, for lack of better words, just a 791 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:31.599 swing state overall. Maybe not on the state level, but 792 00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:34.400 in federal elections and things like that. It's looking more 793 00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:36.079 and more like it's going to become a swing state 794 00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:39.239 here in the next definitely, I would say the next 795 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.280 three presidential elections, if not the very next one. We 796 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:45.559 will see what happens. But that's the thing. If this 797 00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:50.840 rezoning law happens, the redistricting law happens, maybe not. They're 798 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.199 trying to do what they can to prevent that. But 799 00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:57.199 like you said, California traditionally was a red state up 800 00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.079 until two thousand and four. Mistaken it's kind of when 801 00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:04.480 it went hard to the other direction. I mean, yeah, 802 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:08.440 you've always had your your big cities, right, La is 803 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:13.920 always going to be blue, Sacramento, name your whatever state 804 00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:17.719 you currently reside in, the big city thereof is going 805 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:21.159 to be blue. That's pretty much a mathematical certainty, with 806 00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:25.960 some very few exceptions. But the state overall isn't ran 807 00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:28.920 by a big city or two or three or four. 808 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.880 But they're trying to make it so. And yeah, we 809 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:34.880 will see. Right now, they've only been gone for a 810 00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:38.519 few days. This vote has fourteen days to pass, and 811 00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:42.079 as of this moment, the Texas political officials are all 812 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:44.400 acting like they're willing to stay out of the state 813 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:47.280 for two weeks as a way to prevent the vote 814 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:50.199 from passing. And even if they are successful with that, 815 00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:53.960 and even if they don't face legal retribution, there is 816 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:57.639 literally nothing preventing this vote for coming up again in 817 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.400 six months or next month for that matter. There's nothing 818 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:04.280 stopping that at all. Yeah, they'll have to restart the 819 00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.199 process of submitting it and getting it to the floor 820 00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:11.239 and all these things, but it's also prolonging the inevitable 821 00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:15.960 if the people really do want this. So anyway, I 822 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:19.559 will keep everybody posted as more things about that transpire. 823 00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:26.400 Now as we're talking about the United States and political conversations, 824 00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:30.239 I thought it was interesting that Superman star Dean Kin 825 00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.039 has now said that he has joined ICE. This is 826 00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:38.159 a Newsweek article, but it's interesting. Nonetheless, let's talk about 827 00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:41.320 it here. Actor Dean Kin, known for his role as 828 00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:44.400 Clark Kent in Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman, 829 00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:50.440 says he has joined the Immigration and Customs Enforcement AKA ICE. 830 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.800 But some critics are saying he is above the maximum 831 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:58.119 recruitment age. Yes, that's what we need to be critiquing 832 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.480 about this, not the fact that Superman, a well known 833 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.039 Hollywood guy, is becoming an ICE agent that we need 834 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.639 to get mad about his age. But all right, dope, 835 00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:13.079 why it matters? Cane start alongside Terry Hatcher, we talked 836 00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.960 about that the show Lewis and Clark New avengerans a 837 00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.760 Superman in the nineteen nineties. He was also the host 838 00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:21.239 of Ripley's Believe It or Not. I used to love 839 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:25.719 that show. Last week, Trump the Yeah, President Donald Trump's 840 00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:28.519 administration launched an ICE campaign to help carry out its 841 00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:32.960 detention and deportation of migrants. The program promised a robust 842 00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:37.320 package of incentives, including a fifty thousand dollars signing bonus 843 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:41.320 and retirement benefits. Not bad, your country is calling you 844 00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:44.960 to serve at ICE, Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nome 845 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:48.880 said in a press release on July twenty ninth, continuing 846 00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:51.440 the quote, your country needs dedicated men and women of 847 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:53.760 ICE to get the worst of the worst criminals out 848 00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:56.119 of our country. This is a defining moment in our 849 00:48:56.199 --> 00:48:59.800 nation's history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have 850 00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:03.159 no ever been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland. 851 00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:08.079 And again, I'm not anti ICE by any means, but 852 00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:11.480 the campaign promises that we were told was that he 853 00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:14.119 was going to be going after the hardened criminals, not 854 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.400 the people actually working at a job that were punching 855 00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:20.320 a clock that we're gonna get picked up from their job. 856 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:21.760 As a matter of fact, he said he was gonna 857 00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:25.599 specifically not do that, but whatever. Anyway. On Tuesday, Kane 858 00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:28.679 said on x and Instagram that he joined ICE and 859 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.360 encouraged his followers to do the same. I wonder if he, 860 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:35.960 like you know, forwent the fifty thousand dollars signing bonus. 861 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:39.079 I don't know his financial standings, but I just had 862 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:41.400 this weird feeling that fifty k wasn't like that much 863 00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:44.559 of an incentive for him. I'm also wondering if because 864 00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:46.679 he's a I don't know, if you want to call 865 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:49.400 him a B tier, C tier or even D or 866 00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.400 E tier celebrity, maybe he's getting some sort of like 867 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:55.360 endorsement deal out of it. Will he actually be like, 868 00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:58.400 you know, carrying a badge and going through the academy 869 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:00.360 and all of these things, or is it going to 870 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:02.599 be more like a Steven Sagall being a New Orleans 871 00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:07.519 police police officer thing, which, for the record, is a 872 00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:11.480 real thing. It wasn't just for TV. They actually deputized 873 00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:15.480 Stephen Segall and followed him with cameras as he did 874 00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:18.880 police things in the city of New Orleans. But I 875 00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:21.800 don't know. Maybe Dean Kin is like actually trying to 876 00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:24.679 become a legitimate field agent. I don't know. Let's see, 877 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:27.480 this is a direct quote from his X and Instagram. 878 00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:29.800 Hey everybody, Dean Kin here For those who don't know, 879 00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:33.199 I am a sworn law enforcement officer as well as 880 00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:36.159 being a filmmaker, and I felt it was important to 881 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.119 join with our first responders to help secure the safety 882 00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:42.440 of all Americans, not just talk about it. The fifty 883 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.960 nine year old began his one minute and thirty two 884 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:49.800 second video, so I joined up. He's fifty nine and 885 00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:54.639 he's deciding to strap up for the cause. Wow. Since 886 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:58.000 President Trump took the office, ICE has arrested hundreds of 887 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:02.480 thousands of criminals, including terrorists, murderers, pedophiles, MS thirteen, gang members, 888 00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:05.480 drug traffickers, you name it. Very dangerous people who are 889 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:08.719 no longer on the streets. Cain added that people who 890 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.239 sign up will receive great benefits and can get to 891 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.199 work right away. If you want to help save America, 892 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.880 ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing 893 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:21.039 them from america streets. He concluded the clip I like that, 894 00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:25.280 I voted for that, okay. At the time of the publication, 895 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:29.159 the actors expost racked up over eighty two thousand views, 896 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:33.159 five thousand likes, and three hundred and fourteen comments on Instagram. 897 00:51:33.159 --> 00:51:35.440 The views are hidden, though it had an additional two 898 00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:38.280 thousand likes and three hundred and eight comments. I think 899 00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:39.800 this might be the video. Let's see if we could 900 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:40.119 play it. 901 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:43.679 Hey, everybody, Dean Kine here And for those who don't know, 902 00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:47.840 I am a sworn law enforcement officer as well as 903 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:50.639 being a filmmaker. I felt it was important to join 904 00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:54.519 with our first responders to help secure the safety of 905 00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.840 all Americans, not just talk about it. So I joined up, 906 00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:02.800 And here's your opportunity to join ICE. You can earn 907 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:05.199 lots of great benefits and pay. 908 00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:05.800 Yeah. 909 00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:10.079 Since President Trump took office, ICE has arrested hundreds of 910 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:16.039 thousands of criminals, including terrorists, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, ms thirteen, 911 00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:21.239 gang members, drug traffickers, you name it, very dangerous people 912 00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.559 who are no longer on the streets. You can defend 913 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:28.639 your homeland and get great benefits like a fifty thousand 914 00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:33.119 dollars signing bonus. Think about that student loan repayment, legally 915 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:39.400 enhanced retirement benefits, and special pay for those in the 916 00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:43.360 field operations and law enforcement roles. I don't get that 917 00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.880 special pay, but you also don't need an undergraduate degree. 918 00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:48.719 You can get to work right away. So if you 919 00:52:48.760 --> 00:52:51.760 want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst 920 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:56.280 of the worst and removing them from America's streets. 921 00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:57.880 I like that. 922 00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:01.000 I voted for that. They need your help. We need 923 00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:04.360 your help to protect our homeland and our families. 924 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:05.840 So check into it. 925 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.400 As I said, and joined today if it's something that 926 00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:13.360 tickles your fancy, because we can use you. 927 00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:16.119 You know, I'm not necessarily, like I said, I'm not 928 00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:18.679 against ICE by any means. I think they're doing great work. 929 00:53:18.960 --> 00:53:21.599 I may not like the way they're going about it currently, 930 00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:24.039 but overall, I am a very big supporter of ICE. 931 00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:28.760 That being said, I being a content creator and I 932 00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:30.440 hate the fact that I have to use that term. 933 00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:34.719 It's very cringe worthy. I get it. I know an 934 00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:38.119 ad read when I hear one that was that was 935 00:53:38.159 --> 00:53:43.239 an ad read one hundred percent. But okay, so yeah, 936 00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:46.480 just thought it was worthy to bring up here. Dean Kine, 937 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:51.280 former Superman and former Ripley's Believe It or Not host, 938 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.679 is now an ICE agent. Like you say, he doesn't 939 00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:56.199 get the special field pay though, so you know, hey, 940 00:53:56.280 --> 00:54:00.000 take that for what it's worth. Okay, moving on. While 941 00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.800 we were talking about legal things, I thought it was 942 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:04.920 a good time to bring up the fact that Army 943 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.920 soldiers tackled a sergeant accused of opening fire at Fort Stewart. 944 00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:13.559 Five were wounded. This is a speech, or at least 945 00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:16.679 a statement that was given by Brigadier General John Loubas 946 00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:21.599 from the third Infantry Commanding General. Yeah, long story short, 947 00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:25.599 this guy opened fire and an army base. The dude 948 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:29.239 was a logistics guy at that and he just lost 949 00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:31.519 his mind, I suppose, and decided he wanted to just 950 00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:35.320 take some guys out. He didn't actually kill anybody. Five 951 00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.960 were wounded, but they're all expected to make full recoveries. 952 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:43.920 And that insert or joke about army shooting being dog shit, 953 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.719 you know whatever, whatever. Now may not be the time 954 00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:49.559 for jokes, but I mean dark humors how we make 955 00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:52.719 through the hard times. Anyway, let's hear straight from the 956 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:57.360 General himself about this tragedy and the events that unfolded. 957 00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:04.119 At forts to Shortly before eleven o'clock, an active duty 958 00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:08.400 soldier assigned to Fort Stewart, Georgia, shot and wounded five 959 00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:09.559 of his fellow. 960 00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:11.119 Soldiers here on Fort Stewart. 961 00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:16.079 Thankfully, all are in stable condition and all are expected 962 00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:19.719 to recover. The alleged shooter is in custody. We have 963 00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:23.719 re established security. I have lifted all lockdown measures on 964 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:26.400 Fort Stewart and there is currently no threat to the 965 00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:30.280 local community. I'd like to recognize and thank our Army 966 00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.679 law enforcement and medical personnel, and our partners from local, state, 967 00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:38.880 and federal law enforcement and emergency services for their quick 968 00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:42.280 response and support. I would also like to thank the 969 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:47.199 brave soldiers who immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers, 970 00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:51.679 without a doubt, prevented further casualties. Our wounded soldiers were 971 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:55.280 initially evacuated to Win Army Community Hospital right here on 972 00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:59.679 Fort Stewart. All arrived in stable condition, and three of 973 00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:05.400 the five required surgical intervention. Two have been transported to 974 00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:09.920 Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Georgia for additional care. We have 975 00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:15.400 identified the alleged shooter as Sergeant Cornelius Radford, an automated 976 00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:20.400 logistics sergeant assigned to second Brigade Combat Team. Sergeant Radford 977 00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:24.480 has not previously deployed to combat. Sergeant Radford has been 978 00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:28.639 interviewed by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and is currently 979 00:56:28.639 --> 00:56:32.480 in pre trial confinement awaiting a charging decision by the 980 00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:37.360 Office of the Special Trial Council. Right now, our primary 981 00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:40.039 focus is first on caring for our injured soldiers and 982 00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:45.079 their families, and also supporting the soldiers of the Spartan Brigade. 983 00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:47.639 All of the families of the victims have been notified 984 00:56:47.800 --> 00:56:50.519 and we're wrapping our arms around them and ensuring we 985 00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:54.119 provide them all the support that we can. Before I 986 00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:56.039 take questions, I want to remind you that this is 987 00:56:56.039 --> 00:57:00.320 an ongoing investigation and we're still gathering questions. Ladies and 988 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:01.639 gentlemen on now take your questions. 989 00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:06.000 General Louis. Can you give us what unit he was 990 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:08.440 assigned to and how long you're searching your army. 991 00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:14.239 Yeah, he is assigned to one of our sustainment units 992 00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.840 here in second Brigade Combat Team at Fort Stewart, and 993 00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:21.039 I will have to confirm how long he served. 994 00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:24.000 With us, Yes, Sir, respond him with the associated press 995 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:25.039 as best you can know. 996 00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:27.519 And it's so early. Can you walk us through here. 997 00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:31.920 This happened, what happened in the shooting, and where the victims. 998 00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.079 Subordinates of the sergeants or where they eat people over 999 00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:36.800 him and ran? Yeah, right right now. 1000 00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:39.559 It's premature and we're gathering a lot of the information. 1001 00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:43.079 What we know is the soldier the shooting occurred at 1002 00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:46.360 the soldier's place of work. It did involve his co workers. 1003 00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:49.519 We're still not certain about the motivations, but again, he's 1004 00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:53.199 been interviewed by Army investigators and we believe will gain 1005 00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:55.239 more information here shortly. 1006 00:57:56.679 --> 00:57:59.239 Do you know this is any kind of training exercise 1007 00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:03.719 or they any brand n No, ma'am. 1008 00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:05.599 We don't have any reason to believe it had anything 1009 00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:08.760 do with with a training event. Other than that, I 1010 00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:11.239 can't state the motivations for the soldier. 1011 00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:15.639 Okay, real quick, that was I understand that the press 1012 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:20.440 has to ask the hard hitting questions. Do we believe 1013 00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:25.320 that the automated logistics sergeant did this as a training 1014 00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:31.639 accident or any type of thing and arrange? But what No, 1015 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:37.800 clearly not, and he involved his coworkers. This probably took 1016 00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:41.800 place in his office like they were probably in the 1017 00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:48.199 bullpen of cubicles. But sure, all right, anyway, anyway, with 1018 00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:50.440 that being breaking news, I felt like it was only 1019 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:53.280 right that we bring that up so and you could 1020 00:58:53.320 --> 00:58:56.360 find more reports. Are still conducting their investigation, but essentially, 1021 00:58:56.400 --> 00:59:00.519 homeboy walked in open fire. He got at least five 1022 00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:04.280 rounds and five individuals before someone else in the office 1023 00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:07.320 came up and tackled him. I did not see any 1024 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:10.559 pictures of him after the fact. I personally would like 1025 00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:14.639 to believe that hopefully he had a broken jaw and 1026 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:17.320 a couple of broken ribs when they finally got cuffs 1027 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:19.960 on him. I don't know that for a fact, but 1028 00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:25.320 old Cornelius spelled with a Q, I might add, Yeah, anyway, 1029 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:30.599 let's see here, there's at least Cornelius Radford, excuse me. 1030 00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:33.360 The suspect has been identified as twenty eight year old 1031 00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:38.559 Cornelius Radford, a US Army active duty automated logistics sergeant 1032 00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:42.960 from Jacksonville, Florida, who was assigned to the installation. Army 1033 00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:46.679 officials said Radford allegedly used a personal handgun in the 1034 00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:50.199 shooting and was tackled by soldiers before being taken into custody. 1035 00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:54.159 He has not deployed to combat, So before anybody gives 1036 00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:58.559 some crazy PTSD situation as to what happened here, that 1037 00:59:58.679 --> 01:00:01.119 is obviously not what took Now, I understand that that 1038 01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:04.119 doesn't Combat is not the only place where PTSD comes from. 1039 01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.880 I understand that, However, I also have a hard time 1040 01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:12.280 believe that he's going to get the insanity case from 1041 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:14.760 this in any way shape and form. I mean, look 1042 01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:18.960 at this guy, he was clearly the turd of his unit, right, 1043 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.960 I mean, without any other knowing anything else about him. 1044 01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:24.800 Just looking at this guy and saying that he was 1045 01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:28.039 active duty army, I could tell that he was obviously 1046 01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:31.239 the shit bag of his group, you know, before hearing 1047 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:35.440 anything else. But yep, So anyway, more information about that 1048 01:00:35.559 --> 01:00:37.840 is going to be coming out in the upcoming days. 1049 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:40.920 I am sure that every news publication is going to 1050 01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:44.840 be speaking on it. Thankfully, none of the five victims 1051 01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:48.639 of this atrocity were in any kind of critical care. 1052 01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:51.079 The surgery was probably to just remove the bullets and 1053 01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:53.559 stop the bleeding, but all of them are expected to 1054 01:00:53.559 --> 01:00:56.000 make full recoveries at this time, and I thought it 1055 01:00:56.039 --> 01:00:59.119 was worth bringing up here on the cage night now 1056 01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:02.920 to put things on to a slightly lighter note. Is 1057 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:06.039 it a Rolling Stone article? I don't know if anybody's 1058 01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:08.280 heard this yet or not. I just discovered this today 1059 01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:12.880 my damn self, But apparently we now have the first 1060 01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:19.960 derogatory term for an AI driven robot. Because we needed that, 1061 01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:24.840 the public needed some type of a slur to call 1062 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:30.960 Tesla's new robotics and things clanker is the term the 1063 01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:34.800 old dirty clankers are gonna take over and things like that. 1064 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.960 So the Rolling Stone is speaking on it. How clanker 1065 01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:42.280 became the Internet's new favorite slur. New derogatory phrases are 1066 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:46.159 popping up online thanks to a cultural pushback against AI. 1067 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:52.480 Praise be to Jesus am I right, So clanker, wireback, cogsucker, 1068 01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:56.840 I like that one too. People are feeling the escapable 1069 01:01:56.880 --> 01:02:01.440 inevitability of AI developments, the encrow of the digital into 1070 01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:06.719 everything from entertainment to work, and their answer slurs. Now, 1071 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:10.519 I understand that the robots are not going to be 1072 01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:14.199 offended by these slurs being thrown out in things. However, 1073 01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.400 I think that's just great. Clanker or wireback, that's a 1074 01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:23.400 good one. Cogsucker might be my other favorite. Honestly, I 1075 01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:26.920 think that one goes harder than clanker personally. But yeah, no, 1076 01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:32.239 clanker is about the most non ominous, g rated one 1077 01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:34.719 that you can come up with. However, if any of 1078 01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:37.119 you have slurs that you would like to start calling 1079 01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:39.679 the AI robots, I would love to hear them. I 1080 01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:42.280 would love to hear them, and I think that there's 1081 01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:45.280 no shortage of inspiration when it comes to this, right, 1082 01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:49.320 So yeah, just everyone's clear here, clanker. 1083 01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:52.239 We need to get like a list going of what 1084 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:55.039 AI slurs we can we can come up with. I 1085 01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:57.280 guess we need to decide which ones are which and 1086 01:02:57.320 --> 01:02:59.440 then pick slurs for it. 1087 01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:02.320 Yeah, because at what point do we just say which 1088 01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:05.320 one is just for AI on a computer, which one 1089 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:08.599 is for the robotics, which one are for the automation 1090 01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:12.360 things or the manufacturers of these robotics. There's there's so 1091 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:13.400 many ways to go. 1092 01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:16.719 Oil guzzler, oil. 1093 01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:20.840 Guzzler, I like it, or well, not all of them 1094 01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:25.119 take oil, but maybe like a data guzzler. It doesn't sound, 1095 01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:28.079 it doesn't see, it's gotta be catchy, it's got a roll, right, 1096 01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:31.639 I like oil guzzler. That's pretty good. I don't know. 1097 01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:35.599 I don't know what I know. 1098 01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:35.880 I said. 1099 01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:36.960 I definitely have to think about that. 1100 01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:37.199 Now. 1101 01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:40.400 That's gonna be funny. This is gonna be a thing 1102 01:03:40.440 --> 01:03:43.960 that consumes hours out of my day. Like realistically, y'all, 1103 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:46.519 I have not been shy about my hatred of AI 1104 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:50.920 and my not fear I would say, very healthy skepticism 1105 01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:54.119 of the robots and the AI that is taking over 1106 01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:58.199 so many industries and so many jobs. But man, I 1107 01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:02.400 like wireback. That's pretty that's pretty solid. Gearback. That might 1108 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:05.480 be another one too. I don't know. God, there's a lot, 1109 01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:09.840 all right, So homework for everybody. We need more slurs 1110 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:14.039 for AI robots. And it's okay because they're not living entities, right, 1111 01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:17.320 they don't have sentients allegedly, right, so it's okay to 1112 01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:20.599 call them bad things. I'm good with this, all right. 1113 01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:23.679 And for anybody out there listening, it's gonna say, well, 1114 01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:26.719 how do you know that's mean? The robots have feelings. 1115 01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:30.840 That's kind of the point then, So I like it. 1116 01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:32.639 I like this a lot. We're gonna we're gonna I'm 1117 01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:35.719 actually gonna put that out on the Culture Conspiracy as well. Uh, 1118 01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:37.920 we're gonna do that probably the next live I want 1119 01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:43.320 to hear people's AI robotics slurs. I love this, okay. Now, 1120 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:48.400 sticking on the American Conversation and the Tech Conversation, we 1121 01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:51.679 talked about this a couple of weeks ago, where China 1122 01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:54.440 and Russia had plans to build a nuclear power station 1123 01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:58.199 on the Moon and it was planned for twenty thirty five. Right, 1124 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:01.159 the nuclear reactor, word power rese an exploration of the 1125 01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:04.920 Moon's South Pole as part of the International Lunar Research 1126 01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:10.360 Station Project. Now, because America can simply not be outdone 1127 01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:16.599 by anyone ever, because that's just preposterous, NASA is aiming 1128 01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:19.599 to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by twenty thirty, 1129 01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:23.440 five years before China and Russia's plans are to come 1130 01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:27.960 through to fruition. Interim NASA Chief Sean Duffy will announce 1131 01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:32.599 the ambitious goal this week. According to Politico, NASA is 1132 01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:35.159 accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon. 1133 01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:37.519 For several years now, the agency has been working to 1134 01:05:37.639 --> 01:05:40.960 get a forty kilowatt fission system ready for launch on 1135 01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:44.320 the Moon or to the Moon by the early twenty thirties, 1136 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:47.440 but Interim NASA Chief Sean Duffy is about to announce 1137 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:50.880 a more ambitious path via a directive set to be 1138 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:55.239 released this week. According to Politica, the reactor directive orders 1139 01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:59.280 the agency to solicit industry proposals for a one hundred 1140 01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:03.559 kilowatt nuclear reactor to launch by twenty thirty, a key 1141 01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:07.800 consideration for astronauts return to the lunar surface. Political report 1142 01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:12.599 on this Monday, August fourth, so all right, I'm still 1143 01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:15.000 not in grants that I am not an expert in 1144 01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:20.440 engineering or nuclear or anything like this. Okay, although I 1145 01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:27.239 understand the concept of how nuclear fission produces power. Right, 1146 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.320 this thing gets really really hot, you make steam with 1147 01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:35.719 that heat. The steam pushes through turbans, which spins them, 1148 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:41.039 creating electricity. Like, I know, I'm oversimplifying by a large spectrum, 1149 01:06:41.039 --> 01:06:44.760 but that is the over under of how this takes place. 1150 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.280 I can put these pieces together in my mind. I 1151 01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:51.840 got you, So I guess my question is how are 1152 01:06:51.840 --> 01:06:57.159 you supposed to create steam in a vacuum? That doesn't 1153 01:06:57.199 --> 01:07:01.000 make sense to me. Now, perhaps it is a completely 1154 01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:04.639 enclosed system, right, But the only time I've seen an 1155 01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:07.679 enclosed system like that be effective is like you could say, 1156 01:07:07.719 --> 01:07:11.199 like the radiator in your car, But you're not producing steam, right, 1157 01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:15.280 that's a coolant and it's okay to maintain its fluidity 1158 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:19.880 because of our atmosphere in our environment in space, how 1159 01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:23.679 are you supposed to create enough heat? Because heat has 1160 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:27.320 to pass through a medium in order to be effective. 1161 01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:31.039 The medium that we have on Earth would be our air. 1162 01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:36.320 Steam has to be produced at a certain pressure point. Right, 1163 01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.119 Water boils off at two hundred and twelve degrees fahrenheit, 1164 01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:42.079 and depending on what your atmospheric pressure is, depending on 1165 01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:44.920 how far away you are from sea level, depends on 1166 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:48.079 how much that fahrenheit has to be. How many jewels 1167 01:07:48.119 --> 01:07:51.079 of energy is needed to heat the water to a 1168 01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:53.559 point of going through the phase change from its liquid 1169 01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:57.559 to gaseous state. How are you doing that in a 1170 01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:02.440 vacuum with no air. I don't know, Raven, I saw 1171 01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:04.039 your hand raised. Please weigh in. 1172 01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:10.239 I'm just curious to us to how America thinks that 1173 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:13.639 they're going to beach China considering as of right now, 1174 01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:18.359 China holds the record for the longest time being able 1175 01:08:18.520 --> 01:08:22.640 to create energy in stabilized enough, which is like ten 1176 01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:28.399 point nine seconds long. It's working. They're operating outside of 1177 01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.479 everyone else. So I'm just confused as how they're going 1178 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.039 to beat them, considering we haven't even been able to 1179 01:08:34.119 --> 01:08:38.600 stabilize long enough here on Earth to just it doesn't 1180 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.199 make any sense to me, because they've been struggling to 1181 01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.760 be beating them quote unquote anyways, because China stepped away 1182 01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:48.840 from everybody because Germany and it's like twenty five countries 1183 01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:51.880 are working together, and was like nope, I'm doing it 1184 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:55.560 on my own, and then we are the first and 1185 01:08:55.720 --> 01:08:57.920 have done it longer than anyone else so far. 1186 01:08:58.119 --> 01:09:01.640 So when you say stabilizing, what do you mean by that? 1187 01:09:02.239 --> 01:09:04.239 Like, it was stabilizing the fusion. So they were trying 1188 01:09:04.279 --> 01:09:06.680 to get it to where it was going to cycle 1189 01:09:06.760 --> 01:09:09.720 fast enough to be able to create energy and like 1190 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:12.279 be able to sustain it for a certain amount of 1191 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:15.439 time without it blowing up or anything. And so when 1192 01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:18.000 they did it, they got it to like I think 1193 01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:21.880 America had it at like eight point nine seconds or something, 1194 01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:24.279 and then China came in and did like ten point 1195 01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:27.119 nine or something like that. It was when they were 1196 01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:29.960 doing the fusion reactor, they were like creating the energy, 1197 01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:32.520 you know, trying to stabilize it long enough to generate 1198 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:37.119 massive amounts of power, and so they weren't. They still 1199 01:09:37.119 --> 01:09:40.119 haven't been able to get it to actually go very 1200 01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:42.920 long without it like trying to melt down everything. 1201 01:09:43.079 --> 01:09:48.159 So I haven't heard about this, but okay, that being said, 1202 01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:49.479 China is also. 1203 01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:53.520 There's like a really good YouTube guy that's actually like 1204 01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:56.039 a physicist that breaks it down and like shows the 1205 01:09:56.079 --> 01:09:58.479 components of it and explains how they do it and 1206 01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:01.520 all this stuff because it like, yeah, it was like 1207 01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:03.680 really high tech, and he's like, let me make it 1208 01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:06.520 really simple, and I'm like, yes, do that. So he 1209 01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:10.000 kind of explained like they've been this has been going 1210 01:10:10.039 --> 01:10:13.159 on for like seven or eight years now. They've been 1211 01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:17.720 like actively working towards trying to get it because if 1212 01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:20.960 they can get it to stabilize long enough, it can 1213 01:10:21.239 --> 01:10:25.279 actually generated enough power for the entire world. And so 1214 01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:27.640 that was the whole fight to the race of the 1215 01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:28.560 energy war. 1216 01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:33.039 And I mean, and just going off of let's just 1217 01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:36.840 assume that China didn't steal the plans and improve upon 1218 01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:38.479 them in some sort of way to get it to 1219 01:10:38.520 --> 01:10:40.119 that point. I don't know that for a fact. I 1220 01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:42.600 know China does that a lot with like military tech. 1221 01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:44.880 I don't know how they've done it with the nuclear 1222 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:48.319 power tech. Maybe they haven't. Maybe they really did develop 1223 01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:52.000 this completely organically on their own. Let's assume that that's accurate. 1224 01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:54.760 I still have no idea how you're supposed to create 1225 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:58.399 steam on the moon. That sounds preposterous to me. And 1226 01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:02.520 again I'm not a fit. I don't know. Maybe maybe 1227 01:11:02.560 --> 01:11:05.239 the people in the International Space Station can totally boil 1228 01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:08.039 water in the vacuum of space. I don't know, but 1229 01:11:09.319 --> 01:11:11.119 it just I don't understand how any of this is 1230 01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:14.199 actually supposed to happen, or is this just international flexing 1231 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:18.520 on something that's impossible. I don't know, Tony. I see 1232 01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:21.079 you unmuted brother. You know way more about nuclear things 1233 01:11:21.079 --> 01:11:22.159 than I do. Please weigh in. 1234 01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:25.760 Yeah. I looked this up a little while ago. 1235 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:29.880 They're gonna use thermoelectric generators, which are like thermo couples, 1236 01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.199 which I had heard of, and the ones i'd heard 1237 01:11:33.239 --> 01:11:36.960 of could only make a few watts. But apparently they 1238 01:11:37.039 --> 01:11:40.279 got better ones that can make kilowatts now, so no 1239 01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:43.199 steam required, because I think that would have been an 1240 01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:46.880 insurmountable obstacle for them. They just heat up one side 1241 01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:49.680 of a thermo couple and you know, the heat transfer 1242 01:11:49.720 --> 01:11:53.159 goes to the bolt side and you can get some 1243 01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:54.000 some amps. 1244 01:11:53.720 --> 01:11:54.159 Out of that. 1245 01:11:54.920 --> 01:11:55.159 Yeah. 1246 01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:57.520 I mean I've done that to scale, I mean to 1247 01:11:57.520 --> 01:11:59.680 a smaller scale in industry. When I was an instrument 1248 01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:02.560 sech these thermal couples all the time. But like like 1249 01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.560 you said, we're talking about very small voltage. I mean, 1250 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:10.479 even if you were to upscale that, I how are 1251 01:12:10.479 --> 01:12:14.439 you doing that? So you're talking about using the nuclear power, 1252 01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:18.279 which you don't need oxygen for that. I understand this. 1253 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:23.520 So they're using the heat from the nuclear fission to 1254 01:12:23.520 --> 01:12:25.840 transfer the heat from one side of the thermal couple 1255 01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:29.319 to the other, which is then going to produce enough 1256 01:12:29.399 --> 01:12:30.840 voltage to power a lab. 1257 01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:36.000 Yeah, that's exactly how it works. It's like having you. 1258 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:38.880 Know, thousands of thermo couples and series and all of 1259 01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:41.880 those milli vaults just kind of add up. 1260 01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:45.279 You get a voltage and an antbridge. The way a 1261 01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:46.840 thermal couple works. 1262 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:51.319 Is you have two metals and two metal wires, let's say, 1263 01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:54.800 and you connect connect them together on one end somewhere 1264 01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:56.840 where it's cold, and connect them together at the other 1265 01:12:57.000 --> 01:13:02.279 end where it's hot, and that will create circuit loop 1266 01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:05.840 with a voltage on it. And in the process of that, 1267 01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:09.560 here's the weird thing in the physics. The temperature on 1268 01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:11.399 the hot side will go down a little bit and 1269 01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:13.239 the temperature on the cold side will go up. The 1270 01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:17.560 wire will just conduct the temperature through. That is the 1271 01:13:17.600 --> 01:13:20.840 wildest thing. But you need that temperature difference and you 1272 01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:23.920 need to maintain it so the fission reactor will stay it. 1273 01:13:24.479 --> 01:13:27.880 I think two hundred or three hundred celsius or something, 1274 01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:30.399 and then the cold side is gonna be cold, which 1275 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:33.680 on the Moon could be you know, really really cold, 1276 01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:37.800 negative one hundred c or something and a bing bout 1277 01:13:37.800 --> 01:13:39.279 of boom, you got some volts and ams. 1278 01:13:40.279 --> 01:13:43.399 I'm with you, I'm I'm picturing it in my mind 1279 01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:45.560 of how that would go, and yes, in theory, that 1280 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:50.439 would work. But dude, the metal historicity itself, like you 1281 01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:54.479 might get it for a year or two before you're 1282 01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:57.000 gonna have to send a whole team out there just 1283 01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:01.000 to replace thermo couples left, right and center, because even 1284 01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:03.640 just maintaining it in some way, shape or form, over 1285 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:06.720 time that metal is going to snap that. So you're 1286 01:14:06.760 --> 01:14:11.439 gonna have constant teams out there because they can't reproduce 1287 01:14:11.479 --> 01:14:14.520 the components to repair this on the moon. So they 1288 01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:17.199 are now going to have to fund hypothetically, and even 1289 01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:19.600 if America was to do this, China, Russia, America, doesn't 1290 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:22.920 matter a name. Country that's trying to make this happen 1291 01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:25.880 on the Moon is going to, if not every six 1292 01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:30.399 months every year, send up a repair team just to 1293 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:33.760 maintain and bring materials to make these repairs so that 1294 01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:35.560 they could run a lab on the dark side of 1295 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:38.760 the Moon. That just doesn't sound feasible. 1296 01:14:39.960 --> 01:14:42.159 I don't Yeah, I don't know if they think they 1297 01:14:42.199 --> 01:14:45.239 can protect it from meteors or something, because those things 1298 01:14:45.279 --> 01:14:47.359 are hitting the Moon all the time. And yeah, I 1299 01:14:47.359 --> 01:14:49.560 guess we'll just have to find out the hard way. 1300 01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:52.439 That's the other thing all the on the moon. Dude, 1301 01:14:52.600 --> 01:14:55.319 one meteor hits the Moon at this nuclear reactor. We 1302 01:14:55.439 --> 01:14:57.920 just had a bomb go off on the Moon like that. 1303 01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:01.199 That's a real possibility, or even worse Chernobyl situation. 1304 01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:05.039 Uh huh, No, there's a bit of a tangent. But 1305 01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:08.279 there's a lot of uranium two thirty six on the Moon. 1306 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:11.640 I just learned this kind of recently, and it shouldn't 1307 01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:20.239 be there. Uranium two thirty six has a half light 1308 01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:22.199 of half live of twenty any two thirty five has 1309 01:15:22.199 --> 01:15:24.399 a half life of seven hundred million years, and uranium 1310 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:27.600 two thirty eight has half light of four hundred four 1311 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:31.520 point four billion years. So two thirty five and two 1312 01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:35.359 thirty eight are the only isotopes found on Earth. Uh, 1313 01:15:35.439 --> 01:15:39.880 you know, all the other less stable ones cracked and 1314 01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:46.119 disappeared eons ago. But somehow there's this other isotope on 1315 01:15:46.159 --> 01:15:48.640 the Moon that shouldn't be there. I wonder if it 1316 01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:50.479 got there through meteor or something. 1317 01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:54.840 Now, that's fascinating. I haven't heard that either. Is it 1318 01:15:55.079 --> 01:15:57.920 abundant or is it seen in like certain spots on 1319 01:15:57.960 --> 01:15:58.279 the Moon. 1320 01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:02.640 I think it's scattered everywhere from from what I saw 1321 01:16:02.760 --> 01:16:04.640 it was on the Wi Files if you've ever heard 1322 01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:05.000 of them. 1323 01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:07.800 Oh, I love the Wi Files. I love that show. 1324 01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:11.319 Yeah, and there's also this xenon on isotope C not 1325 01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:13.720 ninety one on Mars that shouldn't be there either. That 1326 01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:17.479 normally only comes about as a result of nuclear explosions. 1327 01:16:18.039 --> 01:16:21.000 So some people think that Mars had a civilization. 1328 01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:24.079 Okay, so yeah, I'm gonna have to watch that episode 1329 01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:26.239 of the Wi Files. Now, I've heard a lot of 1330 01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:30.520 you know, me being the professional conspiracy the arsenal that 1331 01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:32.560 I've heard a lot of things about Mars having his 1332 01:16:32.680 --> 01:16:36.199 civilization on their surface at one point in time. There's 1333 01:16:36.239 --> 01:16:38.359 a lot of argument as to how they got ice 1334 01:16:38.479 --> 01:16:42.359 at the caps, how and why they're covered in rust? 1335 01:16:42.439 --> 01:16:45.800 Why are they so iron rich as a planet. I 1336 01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:48.880 haven't heard about the xenon that if not mistaken as 1337 01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:51.960 a noble gas and You're right, that doesn't just that 1338 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:55.960 doesn't just happen in nature on its own, however, I 1339 01:16:55.960 --> 01:16:58.640 mean we're talking about on Earth, maybe another planet that 1340 01:16:58.680 --> 01:17:02.359 happens natrally. I don't know that that I've heard the conversation, 1341 01:17:02.920 --> 01:17:05.920 and I don't inherently disagree or agree with it. It's 1342 01:17:05.960 --> 01:17:08.359 more just into the realm of hypotheticals to say that 1343 01:17:08.359 --> 01:17:11.039 Mars had a civilization and they nuke themselves to oblivion. 1344 01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:13.600 But yeah, no, I'm with you on that though. If 1345 01:17:13.640 --> 01:17:15.880 Mars or not Mars, I'm sorry. If the Moon has 1346 01:17:16.399 --> 01:17:22.119 this abundantly readily available radioactive isotope, that's not the source 1347 01:17:22.159 --> 01:17:24.840 of Like where would they get the radiation from? How 1348 01:17:24.880 --> 01:17:27.039 would they have a reactor? Like they could source that 1349 01:17:27.079 --> 01:17:31.840 one locally. I get that. The expensive metals that are 1350 01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:35.000 gonna try to withstand that type of heat and that 1351 01:17:35.079 --> 01:17:39.199 type of strain for any actual amount of time. Anybody 1352 01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:41.760 who works in metal urge you'll know. I mean, yeah, 1353 01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:43.640 you can find ink and nel, you can find monail, 1354 01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:47.039 you can find even the high grade, super expensive metals 1355 01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:50.119 to work those thermal couples. It's gonna have to be 1356 01:17:50.279 --> 01:17:54.239 a yearly, if not every six months, maybe even more 1357 01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:56.960 frequent than that to go up there and bring the 1358 01:17:57.079 --> 01:18:01.479 materials just to make repairs on one of ten thousand 1359 01:18:01.520 --> 01:18:03.680 thermal couples that are in series with each other. That 1360 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:06.840 I mean, yes, that's a better that's a more of 1361 01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:11.000 a reasonable explanation than making steam on the moon. That's fascinating, 1362 01:18:11.039 --> 01:18:15.640 But oh my god, that sounds like a logistical nightmare 1363 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:19.199 and a drain on whatever country is the guy the 1364 01:18:19.239 --> 01:18:21.680 people to do it. Their tax dollars are going to 1365 01:18:21.720 --> 01:18:25.840 be like solely wrapped up in this raven. Please weigh in. 1366 01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:30.479 Well, since we're on the topic of space, I have 1367 01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:34.119 like two things that I just was reading about recently. 1368 01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:38.319 I don't know if you've heard about this, but there 1369 01:18:38.479 --> 01:18:42.319 was two massive black holes that merged together. 1370 01:18:42.760 --> 01:18:45.119 I have heard about this, but let's talk about it. 1371 01:18:46.479 --> 01:18:47.000 So that. 1372 01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:53.279 The report was just released July thirteenth that was talking 1373 01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:56.399 about the cosmic collision of the two massive black holes. 1374 01:18:56.479 --> 01:19:02.000 Approximately one and forty times the massive our Sun combined 1375 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:04.239 together to form a new black hole that's two hundred 1376 01:19:04.239 --> 01:19:09.159 and twenty five times more mass than the Sun. And 1377 01:19:09.199 --> 01:19:13.680 apparently when these two converge together, why it's so different 1378 01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:16.199 is because the black holes appear to be spinning very 1379 01:19:16.279 --> 01:19:20.319 rapidly near the limit that allowed is pretty much surpassing 1380 01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:25.159 Einstein's theory of general relativity, and there is like the 1381 01:19:25.319 --> 01:19:28.119 really really smart people you know are going over this 1382 01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:30.960 and pretty much just like questioning. It's put these two 1383 01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:33.920 black holes merging has put everything we thought we knew 1384 01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:38.279 about black holes into like just we just don't understand 1385 01:19:38.279 --> 01:19:40.239 it now at this point, like they're questioning so many 1386 01:19:40.279 --> 01:19:44.960 different things. It's because the biggest black hole you can 1387 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:49.000 get from a supernova super nova is maybe a few 1388 01:19:49.039 --> 01:19:51.600 dozen times the mass of the Sun, but this is 1389 01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:54.960 one hundred one and forty times solar masses. Of the 1390 01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:57.720 two of them is above the limit both of them 1391 01:19:57.880 --> 01:20:01.960 before they converged, and so this is like it's it's 1392 01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:04.399 a whole new record, and people are trying to understand 1393 01:20:04.399 --> 01:20:07.920 what it means and why they're moving and flattening. They're 1394 01:20:07.960 --> 01:20:12.079 flattening down when they converge. They're like changing time and 1395 01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:15.840 space in and of itself. Because we know that black 1396 01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:19.279 holes the time is different from the beginning to the 1397 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:23.279 middle to the end. Time ceases to exist the way 1398 01:20:23.319 --> 01:20:25.479 that we understand, and so now that two of them 1399 01:20:25.479 --> 01:20:30.239 have converged together, it's a huge issue pretty. 1400 01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:33.520 Much, how far away is this from us? 1401 01:20:34.920 --> 01:20:39.399 Let's see, uh, because. 1402 01:20:39.199 --> 01:20:41.600 I heard about it just kind of but I don't 1403 01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:44.000 know if it's is it in our galaxy or is 1404 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:44.359 it in. 1405 01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:47.640 Yeah, so we can see it, so it is doesn't 1406 01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:51.159 need a GW two three one one two three for 1407 01:20:51.239 --> 01:20:52.840 people that want to look it up. And it was 1408 01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:59.119 picked up during the fourth observing run of the Ligo Virgo. 1409 01:20:59.760 --> 01:21:03.600 What it is, it's the LVK network, which includes the 1410 01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:07.000 observation so we can see it. It's detected in Italy 1411 01:21:07.079 --> 01:21:10.399 and Japan, so they can see this. It's like at 1412 01:21:10.439 --> 01:21:14.199 least where we can actually observe what's going on. It's 1413 01:21:14.239 --> 01:21:19.399 the most massive black hole binary we've observed through gravitational waves, 1414 01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:23.000 and it represents a challenge to our understanding what black 1415 01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:27.039 hole formation means. So we can observe it, and like 1416 01:21:27.079 --> 01:21:30.000 you can actually watch the videos of it and what 1417 01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:32.239 they were able to see, and it's it's really kind 1418 01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:35.159 of mind blowing to see the two of them come together. 1419 01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:38.159 And then the other thing about we're talking about planets 1420 01:21:38.359 --> 01:21:42.520 is the girl that's like twenty two twenty five, I 1421 01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:45.640 can't remember exactly she's going to be the first person 1422 01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:47.479 to go to Mars and never leave. 1423 01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:49.039 Yeah, I remember that. 1424 01:21:49.359 --> 01:21:52.319 Signed up again, she signed up in all of that stuff, 1425 01:21:52.319 --> 01:21:54.039 and she's going to give up her life to go 1426 01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:57.079 to Mars and stuff. And so, speaking of like putting 1427 01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:00.239 things on planets, I'm curious to see if they're going 1428 01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:02.239 to have a weight list of people that want to 1429 01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:06.680 run this said, you know center, if they actually make it. 1430 01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:09.640 But it reminds me of that movie when when the 1431 01:22:09.640 --> 01:22:13.199 Moon got blown apart like in half. If a nuclear 1432 01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:15.720 bomb would to go off on it, and wonder what 1433 01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:19.640 it would do to our actual solar system, to. 1434 01:22:19.640 --> 01:22:23.920 The solar system. Who knows to us on Earth that 1435 01:22:23.960 --> 01:22:26.680 will screw up a lot of our biome because the 1436 01:22:26.720 --> 01:22:29.279 Moon is an integral part to our circle of life, 1437 01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:32.000 not just in tidal waves or how plants grow, but 1438 01:22:32.880 --> 01:22:37.399 how even animals move. It's that is terrifying as a thought, 1439 01:22:37.439 --> 01:22:40.880 which is why I don't understand why they think building 1440 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:43.479 a nuclear reactor. And it's all on the dark side 1441 01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:46.399 of the moon. None of it is what we would 1442 01:22:46.399 --> 01:22:48.760 be able to observe with a telescope. They are all 1443 01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:52.560 talking about doing this on the opposite side, and we 1444 01:22:52.640 --> 01:22:56.359 have no idea how many times the Moon gets hit 1445 01:22:56.479 --> 01:22:59.560 by outside things. We see all the craters and it 1446 01:22:59.600 --> 01:23:02.000 gets hit all the time. I don't know if the 1447 01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:04.279 dark side gets hit more often than the light side. 1448 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:08.520 I kind of think so. But that even being said, 1449 01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:13.359 you're one piece of space trash away from potentially having 1450 01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:17.159 either a a nuclear explosion on the Moon or b 1451 01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:22.600 ruining the nuclear reactor and the entire planet being so 1452 01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:26.920 for lack of better words, infected or as I say, 1453 01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:31.680 contaminated by a nuclear radioactive waste, that nobody will be 1454 01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:35.479 able to go there again. Which I know that some 1455 01:23:35.520 --> 01:23:38.079 people think that humans haven't been back to the Moon, 1456 01:23:38.079 --> 01:23:41.079 and maybe there's more reasons to that than we originally thought. 1457 01:23:41.119 --> 01:23:44.880 But yeah, I don't I don't see any of this 1458 01:23:44.960 --> 01:23:47.960 as a positive. I think it's like a cool science experiment. 1459 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:52.439 But man, they are going about it with some fervor 1460 01:23:52.479 --> 01:23:56.720 behind it, and the Moon by twenty thirty that's even 1461 01:23:56.800 --> 01:24:00.680 assuming the next administration will continue the funding for this price. Now, 1462 01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.520 China and Russia, their administrations as of this moment, are 1463 01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:07.640 at no risk of losing their power, so them having 1464 01:24:07.640 --> 01:24:10.960 a goal set for twenty thirty five, it's a very 1465 01:24:11.039 --> 01:24:13.840 viable talking point to say that Ji and Putin will 1466 01:24:13.880 --> 01:24:17.199 both be in charge in twenty thirty five. I don't 1467 01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:20.199 necessarily think that so, but I don't also necessarily think 1468 01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:23.239 false either. It's that it could go either way. But 1469 01:24:23.319 --> 01:24:26.399 I know for a fact that the Trump administration won't 1470 01:24:26.399 --> 01:24:30.560 be there in twenty thirty or even five years from now. 1471 01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:33.039 So well, yeah, it's twenty thirty, I should say the 1472 01:24:33.079 --> 01:24:37.039 next election, if the Democrats win, they could pull the 1473 01:24:37.079 --> 01:24:40.239 funding for this and all of these this funding and 1474 01:24:40.319 --> 01:24:43.000 science and all that was for nothing, go ahead, Raven. 1475 01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:46.600 So I started looking at videos and I dropped on 1476 01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:48.920 a chat. I haven't actually watched all the way three, 1477 01:24:48.960 --> 01:24:50.600 but I was looking at videos because it's been a 1478 01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:54.239 long time since I watched what the progression of fusion 1479 01:24:54.520 --> 01:24:57.680 energy war is. It looks like they've stabilized it three 1480 01:24:57.720 --> 01:25:02.000 times so far from different countries. So and but it's 1481 01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:03.840 not very long though that that's the thing, Like. 1482 01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:04.359 They can. 1483 01:25:05.880 --> 01:25:08.520 Here, So how are they going to have to stabilize 1484 01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:12.199 it there, let alone get all of the material up 1485 01:25:12.239 --> 01:25:16.319 there and account for it. Like we're like, you know, 1486 01:25:16.520 --> 01:25:18.720 simpletons when it comes to this stuff, compared to these 1487 01:25:19.239 --> 01:25:22.920 genius people like I don't understand how they're going to 1488 01:25:23.039 --> 01:25:26.279 have the material to be able to withstand this long 1489 01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:29.319 term and everything else, Like, why not try to at 1490 01:25:29.399 --> 01:25:34.439 least establish fusion here to support all of the world 1491 01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:37.720 instead of building more of those massive nuclear because like 1492 01:25:37.840 --> 01:25:41.520 China right now is like really pushing for condominance over 1493 01:25:41.760 --> 01:25:47.279 energy because they're building that massive reactor, that nuclear program 1494 01:25:47.399 --> 01:25:50.199 that they have going on to so they're just dumping 1495 01:25:50.319 --> 01:25:56.199 billions and billions into into fusion, into the into nuclear 1496 01:25:56.600 --> 01:26:00.159 and now into this. Like, I just don't understand why 1497 01:26:00.239 --> 01:26:02.520 they need to feel the need to do it on 1498 01:26:02.560 --> 01:26:05.600 the dark side of the moon when it has no 1499 01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:09.760 real effect here on us, considering we could build it 1500 01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:12.600 here and actually have fusion for everyone here. 1501 01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:16.119 I honestly don't know. China's got a hard enough time 1502 01:26:16.199 --> 01:26:20.000 feeding their people without worry about producing power for their people. 1503 01:26:20.239 --> 01:26:22.960 But you know what, let's watch at least a little 1504 01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:25.039 bit of this. It's a ten minute video. We're not 1505 01:26:25.039 --> 01:26:27.119 gonna watch all of that, but let's pick up at 1506 01:26:27.199 --> 01:26:31.079 the tokomac and maybe that'll shed some light on One of 1507 01:26:31.159 --> 01:26:33.520 these newer programs. 1508 01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:38.119 Is within a device called tocomac. A tocomac apparatus has 1509 01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:42.039 a toidly shaped chamber in which magnetic solid fields create 1510 01:26:42.159 --> 01:26:46.079 and confine the plasma. These magnetic fields are produced by 1511 01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:51.119 refrigeration appliances to the adherents called superconducting magnets. The nearly 1512 01:26:51.159 --> 01:26:54.520 absolute zero a few degrees above minus two hundred and 1513 01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:58.680 seventy three zero point one five degrees celsius inside the 1514 01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:03.640 tocomac are hydrogen isotopes like deuterium and tritium, heated until 1515 01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:08.000 they turn to plasma. Thereafter, magnetic fields are arranged so 1516 01:27:08.039 --> 01:27:10.880 the plasma is confined long enough so that the two 1517 01:27:10.960 --> 01:27:14.840 nuclei as the particles collide, will fuse and create energy. 1518 01:27:15.760 --> 01:27:20.039 This is a very difficult job to achieve with machine building, 1519 01:27:20.560 --> 01:27:25.079 and that's where ITER proves to be an absolutely important mission. 1520 01:27:25.960 --> 01:27:29.920 The ITER tokomag is the largest and most complex fusion 1521 01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:33.720 device ever designed and built. More than a million pieces 1522 01:27:33.880 --> 01:27:37.800 and ten million different components must fit together with the 1523 01:27:37.960 --> 01:27:43.720 tightest tolerances. Clearly, it shows ITER to be an international venture. 1524 01:27:44.199 --> 01:27:47.359 Components come from several parts of the world. In total, 1525 01:27:47.640 --> 01:27:51.560 thirty five nations are involved with building and running ITER, 1526 01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:55.279 so it is one of the most significant international collaborations 1527 01:27:55.279 --> 01:27:59.680 of countries acting together in history. The idea for building 1528 01:27:59.720 --> 01:28:04.600 ITER began in the nineteen eighties when Mikhail Gorbachev, representing 1529 01:28:04.600 --> 01:28:08.640 the Soviet Union, and US President Ronald Reagan proposed an 1530 01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:12.920 international fusion initiative. In this era, as the Cold War 1531 01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:15.239 was coming to a close, the two leaders saw new 1532 01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:18.880 energy for all of humanity in nineteen eighty six. The 1533 01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:22.600 counterpart to the formal launch of the ITER project was 1534 01:28:22.640 --> 01:28:26.319 those subsequent years, as more states joined in, including members 1535 01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:30.239 of the European Union, Japan, China, India, South Korea, and 1536 01:28:30.359 --> 01:28:34.479 of course Russia. It is at this moment that ITER, 1537 01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:36.960 with the choice of the best location in France and 1538 01:28:37.000 --> 01:28:41.880 the necessary infrastructure, began construction in twenty ten. Since then, 1539 01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:46.279 thousands of scientists, engineers and construction workers have applied their 1540 01:28:46.319 --> 01:28:50.600 efforts to implement the project. The very technicality of a 1541 01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:55.000 Tokomac meant it was designed to overawe the user. The 1542 01:28:55.079 --> 01:28:57.800 sum of its parts, from the superconducting magnets to the 1543 01:28:57.800 --> 01:29:02.119 cooling system, calls for sophistical to technology and fine engineering. 1544 01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:06.720 For example, the cryostats, the largest thing less steel vacuum 1545 01:29:06.760 --> 01:29:10.359 chamber ever built in the world, was fabricated in India, 1546 01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:13.319 pre assembled and then shipped to France, where it was 1547 01:29:13.359 --> 01:29:14.279 finally assembled. 1548 01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:19.399 Now that's interesting as well. So I didn't know about 1549 01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:24.159 this new way to make nuclear power happen. But they 1550 01:29:24.239 --> 01:29:28.439 need negative two hundred and seventy degrees celsius, which is 1551 01:29:28.560 --> 01:29:32.840 super cold. You may not need as much effort to 1552 01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:36.840 get it that cold in space and the vacuum chamber itself. 1553 01:29:37.439 --> 01:29:39.119 I mean, you're not gonna be able to just use 1554 01:29:39.159 --> 01:29:41.359 space as vacuum for that purpose because it has to 1555 01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:45.479 be enclosed. I understand this, But that's interesting. I wonder 1556 01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:50.039 if the Moon might provide a better environment to make 1557 01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:56.680 newer forms of fission or fusion work in that regard. 1558 01:29:56.760 --> 01:30:02.159 That's very interesting. Okay. I mean I do want to 1559 01:30:02.199 --> 01:30:04.159 watch this later on, but I don't want to spend 1560 01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:09.039 ten minutes of this episode watching this video. But wow, Okay, Raven, 1561 01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:12.840 thank you for bringing that to our attention. Okay, Well, 1562 01:30:14.159 --> 01:30:18.840 speaking of international things, Trump has now imposed another twenty 1563 01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:21.560 five percent tariff on India. We're not going to spend 1564 01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:23.119 too much time on it, but we do have a 1565 01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:24.279 quick clip to talk about it. 1566 01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:27.760 Let's go today, President Trump imposed an additional twenty five 1567 01:30:27.760 --> 01:30:31.239 percent tariff on India. The additional tariff follows Trump's previous 1568 01:30:31.279 --> 01:30:34.760 twenty five percent tariff on Indian imports. The White House 1569 01:30:34.800 --> 01:30:38.680 calls the new tariff a necessary and appropriate punishment for 1570 01:30:38.760 --> 01:30:42.760 India's imports of Russian oil. This action is the president's 1571 01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:45.800 first use of so called secondary sanctions on countries the 1572 01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:48.800 US says are fueling Moscow's war machine. 1573 01:30:50.039 --> 01:30:51.840 Yeah, we kind of knew that one was going to come. 1574 01:30:52.479 --> 01:30:55.359 I also don't believe that Mody is that concerned with 1575 01:30:55.439 --> 01:30:58.119 it as of this moment. Trump's doing this whole tariff thing, 1576 01:30:58.199 --> 01:31:01.439 and all right, cool. So now India's under fifty percent tariffs, 1577 01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:07.079 which honestly, tariffs are kind of a second cousin to 1578 01:31:07.199 --> 01:31:10.920 embargoes when used in this manner. I see what you're 1579 01:31:10.960 --> 01:31:15.159 trying to do, Donald jay I get it. But India's 1580 01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:18.239 got more than enough buyers of their goods, and they 1581 01:31:18.600 --> 01:31:21.359 don't have an issue buying Russian oil. They're going to 1582 01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:25.279 do what's best for their people, regardless of America's opinion 1583 01:31:25.319 --> 01:31:27.720 on it. So I have a feeling that we're gonna 1584 01:31:27.720 --> 01:31:30.399 see those tariffs climb even higher in the following weeks. 1585 01:31:30.479 --> 01:31:32.760 I don't know that for a fact. It just wouldn't 1586 01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:36.560 shock me. But moving on here, we do have something 1587 01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:39.279 else that's going on in DC, and Trump gave a 1588 01:31:39.319 --> 01:31:43.680 statement that honestly kinda makes me uneasy. Let me know 1589 01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:45.680 what y'all think about this. I'm gonna turn the volume 1590 01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:48.319 down because there's not a lot of talking until the 1591 01:31:48.399 --> 01:31:52.479 very end here. So for anybody who doesn't know, doose 1592 01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:59.039 employee was assaulted and fueled Trump's threats to federalize DC. 1593 01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:06.119 Word Coorchristine, also known as quote unquote big Balls Online 1594 01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:09.960 that's his online alias, was nearly carjacked by a group 1595 01:32:10.000 --> 01:32:14.640 of teens, according to a Washington Metro police report. Yeah, 1596 01:32:14.720 --> 01:32:17.880 he was getting into his car and like ten teenagers 1597 01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:22.079 basically surrounded him. Beat the absolute dog shit out of 1598 01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:24.640 this boy. Look at him. This is the guy. This 1599 01:32:24.680 --> 01:32:28.079 is an old big balls himself here. After the incident, 1600 01:32:28.119 --> 01:32:32.079 President Donald Trump posted a photo reportedly of a bloodied 1601 01:32:32.479 --> 01:32:36.399 courtisine Chorstein. I don't know what you mean. Reportedly, you 1602 01:32:36.399 --> 01:32:38.600 can look at it and see that, Yeah, he's bleeding 1603 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:41.399 like crazy. And this is when Trump made the claim 1604 01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:42.920 that he wants to federalize DC. 1605 01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:45.439 I don't like a young man who was beat up 1606 01:32:45.479 --> 01:32:48.600 by a bunch of thugs in DC. And neither they're 1607 01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:50.960 going to straighten their act out in the terms of 1608 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:53.239 government and in terms of protection, and we're gonna have 1609 01:32:53.239 --> 01:32:55.800 to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to 1610 01:32:55.800 --> 01:32:56.279 be run. 1611 01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:00.880 I don't like that. I don't like federaling a city, 1612 01:33:00.960 --> 01:33:03.399 even if it is Washington, d C. I understand that 1613 01:33:03.479 --> 01:33:07.439 it's its own thing, it's the District of Columbia. I 1614 01:33:07.800 --> 01:33:12.319 really just don't like federal things being interwoven into people's 1615 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.000 lives any more than they already are. But yeah, so, 1616 01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:18.840 and there's still there's this big conversation happening, and this 1617 01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:21.079 is kind of breaking news. It only happened a few 1618 01:33:21.079 --> 01:33:25.159 hours ago as of time recording, so I don't know 1619 01:33:25.279 --> 01:33:29.159 if this attack was because your boy is a member 1620 01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:34.359 of the Doge Committee, or more than likely because DC 1621 01:33:34.760 --> 01:33:40.800 is a cesspool of underprivileged youths doing gang violence. I 1622 01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:43.199 remember when I lived in southeast d C, which is 1623 01:33:43.399 --> 01:33:45.840 at the time not a nice area of the city. 1624 01:33:45.840 --> 01:33:49.560 That's where I was stationed. You couldn't go three blocks 1625 01:33:49.600 --> 01:33:52.800 away from our barracks to the local store without the 1626 01:33:52.840 --> 01:33:54.840 possibility of getting jumped. As a matter of fact, me 1627 01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:56.640 and a buddy of mine almost did one day. We 1628 01:33:56.680 --> 01:34:01.600 almost got robbed. Now, thankfully the uh, the youths for 1629 01:34:01.720 --> 01:34:04.800 lack of better words, thought better of their actions before 1630 01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:07.079 they did it. But yeah, it was a little bit 1631 01:34:07.119 --> 01:34:09.399 of a situation. We even laughed about it, like, I 1632 01:34:09.399 --> 01:34:11.199 don't know how they thought that was gonna go, but 1633 01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:14.600 like we were ready or so, we thought these dudes 1634 01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:17.199 probably had guns or something like that. We weren't armed 1635 01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:19.960 at the moment, you know, we we were Marines, but 1636 01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:23.960 we were also in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC. 1637 01:34:24.159 --> 01:34:27.079 You can't just carry a weapon there. So yeah, it's 1638 01:34:27.119 --> 01:34:29.640 crazy how the places with the strictest gun laws also 1639 01:34:29.840 --> 01:34:32.359 have very high crime rates. But that's taught for another 1640 01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:35.000 day anyway. Yeah, I don't know if this had anything 1641 01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:37.039 to do with the fact that he is a Doze employee. 1642 01:34:37.079 --> 01:34:41.279 I don't think so. Off the rip, however, it's not 1643 01:34:41.319 --> 01:34:43.720 a good look for DC, and now it's got Trump 1644 01:34:43.720 --> 01:34:47.159 talking about federalizing the city. It's not a good sign. 1645 01:34:47.319 --> 01:34:51.119 Not a good sign at all all. Right, Now, as 1646 01:34:51.119 --> 01:34:53.560 we're kind of getting towards the end of the episode, 1647 01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:56.079 let's shift gears a little bit to something that is 1648 01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:59.199 a little bit more comical. Here. This is a report 1649 01:34:59.199 --> 01:35:01.920 from the Moscow Times. Now I understand there is going 1650 01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:03.920 to be some that say that this is or is 1651 01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:07.920 not credible sources. There was another one from the Ukrainian Times. 1652 01:35:07.960 --> 01:35:12.720 This report comes from multiple outside sources that are not 1653 01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:17.439 involved in the Russia Ukraine conflict. But apparently Russia's war 1654 01:35:17.439 --> 01:35:22.399 against Ukraine has seen an explosion in HIV rates. Let's 1655 01:35:22.399 --> 01:35:26.039 talk about it here. Russia's HIV statistics and dynamics were 1656 01:35:26.079 --> 01:35:29.439 far from encouraging long before the full scale invasion of Ukraine, 1657 01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:32.600 but the war has dramatically worse in the situation. In 1658 01:35:32.640 --> 01:35:35.199 the first year of the war, according to Defense Ministry data, 1659 01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:39.560 the recorded incident of HIV among military personnel soared by 1660 01:35:39.600 --> 01:35:43.640 more than forty times. The demographic and economic losses Russia 1661 01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:45.960 will suffer as a result of this outbreak will have 1662 01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:50.199 repercussions for decades and may ultimately even exceed the damage 1663 01:35:50.239 --> 01:35:53.800 it has sustained from its invasion of Ukraine. The number 1664 01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:56.159 of people living with HIV in Russia passed the one 1665 01:35:56.239 --> 01:35:59.840 million mark back in twenty sixteen. That's almost one percent 1666 01:35:59.880 --> 01:36:02.840 of the population to or about one point five to 1667 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:06.000 two percent of working age people, and does not include 1668 01:36:06.000 --> 01:36:08.840 those who simply did not get tested. Even at that 1669 01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:12.439 stage the epidemic could still have been brought under control. 1670 01:36:12.800 --> 01:36:16.439 There is a vast accumulated experience of fighting HIV around 1671 01:36:16.479 --> 01:36:20.000 the world. Had there been the political will, it would 1672 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:22.279 have been enough to increase the Health Ministry's budget for 1673 01:36:22.319 --> 01:36:26.239 tackling the bread of HIV and to introduce proven methods 1674 01:36:26.520 --> 01:36:30.159 of prevention instead of relying on outdated and harmful ideas 1675 01:36:30.479 --> 01:36:34.800 about family life and quote unquote moral staples. Now don't 1676 01:36:35.199 --> 01:36:39.159 I don't know what the Russian ideas of family life 1677 01:36:39.199 --> 01:36:43.840 and moral staples are, but I don't necessarily think that 1678 01:36:43.880 --> 01:36:48.000 those are harmful. They might be again, maybe they're telling 1679 01:36:48.000 --> 01:36:51.239 their people to do some horrendous things to themselves and 1680 01:36:51.279 --> 01:36:53.840 calling it moral. I just have a hard time seeing that. 1681 01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:57.359 They're probably talking about like abstinence or things like that. 1682 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:00.239 I don't know. I don't know. But the HIV spread 1683 01:37:00.439 --> 01:37:05.439 is not just from intercourse or things like that. It's 1684 01:37:05.479 --> 01:37:08.560 also being fueled by a lot of drug use as 1685 01:37:08.600 --> 01:37:11.199 a matter of fact, on the front which and it's 1686 01:37:11.239 --> 01:37:13.399 not just on the Russian side. I understand the Ukrainians 1687 01:37:13.439 --> 01:37:16.319 are doing a lot of this as well. But you'll 1688 01:37:16.319 --> 01:37:18.159 have that whenever you have people who didn't want to 1689 01:37:18.159 --> 01:37:19.960 fight that are forced to the front. Look at Vietnam. 1690 01:37:20.399 --> 01:37:22.720 How many of our soldiers came back from Vietnam after 1691 01:37:22.760 --> 01:37:25.520 being drafted to go there, came back strung out on 1692 01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:28.479 all types of drugs because you find yourself in hell 1693 01:37:28.680 --> 01:37:32.319 that you didn't volunteer yourself to go to, and you're 1694 01:37:32.359 --> 01:37:34.640 willing to do whatever it takes to get your mind 1695 01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:38.800 off it for a bit, including injecting or shooting up 1696 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:41.840 or smoking or whatever the case would be, of some 1697 01:37:41.880 --> 01:37:45.239 sort of a list substance. And not all conditions in 1698 01:37:45.279 --> 01:37:47.920 the trench warfare that the Russians and Ukrainians have found 1699 01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:51.640 themselves in are the most hygienic, So needle sharing has 1700 01:37:51.680 --> 01:37:53.960 become more of the reason for this epidemic, but let's 1701 01:37:54.039 --> 01:38:00.880 keep talking about it here. Modern antra anti retrovenal retroviral 1702 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:05.479 Jesus therapy ART, which is prescribed to every person newly 1703 01:38:05.520 --> 01:38:07.600 diagnosed with the HIV for the rest of their life, 1704 01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:10.239 is not cheap. Even before the war, only a few 1705 01:38:10.239 --> 01:38:12.960 wealthy regions could afford to fully finance it for all 1706 01:38:13.000 --> 01:38:15.640 who needed it. The health ministry tried to switch to 1707 01:38:15.760 --> 01:38:19.399 cheaper domestic generics of Western drugs to cut costs but 1708 01:38:19.640 --> 01:38:23.920 HIV organizations were already reporting disruptions in the availability of 1709 01:38:24.039 --> 01:38:28.079 essential drugs even before the war. Now, wartime priorities have 1710 01:38:28.199 --> 01:38:32.159 exacerbated the problem. The proportion of HIV patients receiving treatment 1711 01:38:32.199 --> 01:38:34.720 has now fallen below fifty percent in Russia for the 1712 01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:38.600 first time in many years. The wartime wave of repression 1713 01:38:38.840 --> 01:38:42.119 against civil society proved to be the final nail in 1714 01:38:42.159 --> 01:38:44.920 the coffin of Russia's already weak system of assistance for 1715 01:38:44.960 --> 01:38:48.800 people living with HIV. The Elton John Foundation, the world's 1716 01:38:48.880 --> 01:38:51.920 largest sponsor of NGO's working in the field of HIV, 1717 01:38:52.479 --> 01:38:59.560 was declared and quote unquote undesirable organization, forcing Russian organizations 1718 01:38:59.600 --> 01:39:02.960 to stop any cooperation with it. Yeah, Russia decided that 1719 01:39:03.000 --> 01:39:08.840 the Elton John found Nation was one of those undesirable organizations. Fair, okay. 1720 01:39:10.600 --> 01:39:16.279 This The designation of LGBTQ plus element of PQRSTUV Excavation 1721 01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:21.399 point Asterisk people as an extremist movement quote unquote has 1722 01:39:21.439 --> 01:39:24.800 further increased the cross stigma around both the gay community 1723 01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:28.279 and the issue of HIV. Yeah, HIV is no longer 1724 01:39:28.359 --> 01:39:30.439 just a gay thing, by the way, I know. It 1725 01:39:30.479 --> 01:39:33.039 was seen as that in the eighties. But that is 1726 01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:37.399 way more often than not these days really got nothing 1727 01:39:37.439 --> 01:39:41.079 to do with the gay community, and it hasn't for 1728 01:39:41.119 --> 01:39:43.640 the better part of two decades, I might add. But 1729 01:39:43.720 --> 01:39:46.800 all right, However, the greatest impact has been caused by 1730 01:39:46.800 --> 01:39:50.039 the war itself. Epidemiologists say that the risk of HIV 1731 01:39:50.159 --> 01:39:53.439 spreading at the front increased with blood transfusions and the 1732 01:39:53.479 --> 01:39:59.439 reusing of syringes infield hospitals. Right, that's that's what it is. 1733 01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:04.399 Syringe and bad blood transfusions at the front. Clearly, that's 1734 01:40:04.479 --> 01:40:07.560 the dirty needles that we're talking about. Sure, people who 1735 01:40:07.600 --> 01:40:11.319 take ART every day are no longer infectious, but when 1736 01:40:11.359 --> 01:40:14.319 soldiers are living in trenches in conditions of round the 1737 01:40:14.359 --> 01:40:18.640 clock shelling, the uninterrupted supply of administration of ART is 1738 01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:22.640 hardly realistic. Meanwhile, irregular treatment is even worse than no 1739 01:40:22.720 --> 01:40:25.119 treatment at all, since it can cause the virus to 1740 01:40:25.159 --> 01:40:28.960 become drug resistant and get passed on in that new mutation. 1741 01:40:29.720 --> 01:40:32.119 The problem is so grave that it has been officially 1742 01:40:32.119 --> 01:40:35.720 acknowledged even by Defense Ministry doctors. The number of new 1743 01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:39.680 HIV cases detected in the armed forces grew fivefold from 1744 01:40:39.720 --> 01:40:42.199 the first quarter of twenty twenty two to the fall 1745 01:40:42.319 --> 01:40:45.039 of the same year. By the end of twenty twenty two, 1746 01:40:45.159 --> 01:40:48.680 it increased by thirteen times, and by the beginning of 1747 01:40:48.680 --> 01:40:53.039 twenty twenty three, peak growth was recorded at more than fortyfold. 1748 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:55.520 By the end of the same year, the HIV detection 1749 01:40:55.640 --> 01:40:58.640 rate among military personnel was about twenty times higher than 1750 01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:01.319 before the war. Y'all that was in twenty twenty three. 1751 01:41:01.880 --> 01:41:06.840 The statistics right now are exponentially worse. Such high transmission 1752 01:41:06.880 --> 01:41:08.760 rates can be explained by the fact that HIV is 1753 01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:12.920 not just passed on in war through wounds and their treatment. 1754 01:41:13.199 --> 01:41:18.199 The two more traditional transmission transmission channels unprotecting sexual contact 1755 01:41:18.279 --> 01:41:21.560 including sex with workers or with sex workers, I should say, 1756 01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:25.520 and sharing needles to inject drugs have not disappeared. On 1757 01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:30.039 the contrary, according to independent journalists, both are thriving in 1758 01:41:30.079 --> 01:41:32.720 an army of men who are earning decent money and 1759 01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:35.399 live every day as if it was their last. And 1760 01:41:35.479 --> 01:41:37.359 I get that, you know you're going to have You're 1761 01:41:37.399 --> 01:41:42.760 going to have sex, work and drugs anywhere where that 1762 01:41:42.920 --> 01:41:45.960 type of warfare is being done again, we only need 1763 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:49.359 look at Vietnam. But anyway, despite the surge of HIV 1764 01:41:49.520 --> 01:41:52.399 cases in the Russian armed forces. Testing positive for the 1765 01:41:52.479 --> 01:41:56.560 disease is still officially cause for being declared unfit to 1766 01:41:56.640 --> 01:41:59.880 serve in the military. At the conscription stage, this rule 1767 01:41:59.880 --> 01:42:03.119 is generally followed. There have been reports of draftees buying 1768 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:07.479 fake certificates for positive HIV and hepatitis tests in order 1769 01:42:07.520 --> 01:42:09.840 to avoid being sent to the front. Yeah, I'll bet 1770 01:42:09.880 --> 01:42:13.479 there have been at the front itself. However, these rules 1771 01:42:13.520 --> 01:42:17.159 are no longer so closely observed. Independent media and social 1772 01:42:17.159 --> 01:42:19.479 media are full of stories of commanders on the ground 1773 01:42:19.479 --> 01:42:21.800 refusing to let soldiers leave the front no matter what 1774 01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:24.960 conditions they are in, because manpower is in short supply. Yeah, 1775 01:42:24.960 --> 01:42:26.760 that's happening on both sides. By the way, that's not 1776 01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:30.760 just a Russian problem by any means. Worst of all, 1777 01:42:31.159 --> 01:42:34.239 no epidemiologists is prepared to say that the explosion of 1778 01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:37.479 new HIV cases is confined to the military and that 1779 01:42:37.560 --> 01:42:41.119 it is caused by army specific factors. The dynamics among 1780 01:42:41.199 --> 01:42:43.479 the rest of the population could be just as bad. 1781 01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:46.640 The rise may have been spotted because military personnel, along 1782 01:42:46.680 --> 01:42:51.279 with pregnant women, migrants, and professionals including pilots and chefs, 1783 01:42:51.600 --> 01:42:55.760 who are subject to mandatory HIV testing. One Russian publication 1784 01:42:55.880 --> 01:42:59.880 reported that in fourteen Russian regions, the proportion of pregnant 1785 01:42:59.880 --> 01:43:03.479 women testing positive for HIV is now regularly more than 1786 01:43:03.479 --> 01:43:07.439 one percent. That, according to the World Health Organization standards, 1787 01:43:07.520 --> 01:43:11.880 is another symptom of the transition to a generalized HIV 1788 01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:15.800 epidemic when there is no longer any point in talking 1789 01:43:15.840 --> 01:43:22.520 about at risk groups quote unquote in that particular country. Wow, 1790 01:43:22.560 --> 01:43:25.399 just so we're clear here, here's some other statistics for people. 1791 01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:29.000 Russia has been among the top five countries in terms 1792 01:43:29.039 --> 01:43:32.159 of HIV cases since twenty twenty two, accounting for a 1793 01:43:32.239 --> 01:43:35.439 three point nine percent of the one point five million 1794 01:43:35.520 --> 01:43:40.000 new infections worldwide. Only South Africa, which is fourteen percent 1795 01:43:40.039 --> 01:43:43.640 of all new cases, Mozambique six point five percent of 1796 01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:47.399 all new cases, Nigeria at fourteen point nine percent, in 1797 01:43:47.399 --> 01:43:51.520 India at four point two percent have more new cases, 1798 01:43:51.560 --> 01:43:55.279 and the latter two have significantly larger populations than Russia. 1799 01:43:55.840 --> 01:44:00.239 That is that is pretty pretty insane. So, yeah, there's 1800 01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:03.159 things going on at the Ukrainian Russian front, and I 1801 01:44:03.199 --> 01:44:06.119 know that people are hearing right now that they may 1802 01:44:06.159 --> 01:44:09.760 be coming to the table for a ceasefire conversation. This 1803 01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:12.239 might be the final thing. I just I don't see it. 1804 01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:17.199 I don't see it as of this moment. Realistically, Russia 1805 01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:20.840 is still making their forward advance into a few regions 1806 01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:23.560 as we speak. They just launched a massive three prong 1807 01:44:23.600 --> 01:44:27.920 offensive in the past two weeks. They gained some ground, 1808 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:32.960 not a lot, but they are still gaining ground. So 1809 01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:34.960 and it was at the cost of a lot of 1810 01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:39.239 lives and a lot of equipment, thousands of pieces of equipment, 1811 01:44:39.239 --> 01:44:40.920 I might add, And we don't even want to talk 1812 01:44:40.960 --> 01:44:43.319 about the death toll, or we should just say the 1813 01:44:43.960 --> 01:44:47.920 Kia not well, I guess for lack of Let's call 1814 01:44:47.960 --> 01:44:50.760 them casualties, because a lot of these guys are not 1815 01:44:50.840 --> 01:44:52.560 going to return to the front, but they still have 1816 01:44:52.680 --> 01:44:55.720 their lives. Some reports are saying that it's even over 1817 01:44:55.800 --> 01:44:58.079 a million for the Russian side, and it's not like 1818 01:44:58.119 --> 01:45:01.279 the Ukrainian side is much better. It's but not by 1819 01:45:01.359 --> 01:45:05.560 leaps and bounds. So now we have HIV that is 1820 01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:09.560 making people battlefield casualties, allegedly if they're allowed to lead 1821 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:12.359 the front. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to bring 1822 01:45:12.439 --> 01:45:17.680 up this one was actually dropped by raven STI epidemic 1823 01:45:17.760 --> 01:45:22.000 slows as new syphilis gonerhea cases fall in the United States, 1824 01:45:22.039 --> 01:45:26.159 the CDC says, well, hey, that makes me happy. Rates 1825 01:45:26.159 --> 01:45:29.840 of sexually transmitted infections appear to be leveling off after 1826 01:45:29.960 --> 01:45:32.319 decades of growth in the United States. According to the 1827 01:45:32.399 --> 01:45:36.680 latest statistic from the CDC, STIs remain at record levels, 1828 01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:40.239 but new cases of chamytee and sephius could finally be stabilizing, 1829 01:45:40.279 --> 01:45:43.119 while cases of goneriea have declined for two years in 1830 01:45:43.159 --> 01:45:47.880 a row. Large discrepancies in STIs persist for certain populations, 1831 01:45:48.119 --> 01:45:51.840 with adolescents, gay men, and black individuals bearing much of 1832 01:45:51.880 --> 01:45:55.000 the burden. Well, that doesn't make me happy, but the 1833 01:45:55.039 --> 01:45:58.720 fact that these levels are leveling off and are reducing 1834 01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:03.560 in certain cases, that really does make me happy. Let's see. Overall, 1835 01:46:03.680 --> 01:46:06.840 the total number of STIs decreased by one point eight 1836 01:46:06.960 --> 01:46:11.680 percent between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. We 1837 01:46:11.720 --> 01:46:13.359 can read this one here. It says more than two 1838 01:46:13.399 --> 01:46:16.279 point four million cases of chlamydia, goneriea, and syphalis were 1839 01:46:16.279 --> 01:46:19.680 reported last year, the vast majority one point six million, 1840 01:46:19.720 --> 01:46:22.840 where chlamydia followed by gonnoia six hundred thousand and syphilis 1841 01:46:23.199 --> 01:46:27.359 a little over two hundred thousand. Wow, there's a direct 1842 01:46:27.439 --> 01:46:30.359 quote from Bradley Stoner, a doctor and the director of 1843 01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:34.479 the Division of STD Prevention at the National Center for 1844 01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:39.560 HIV Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention at the CDC. 1845 01:46:39.880 --> 01:46:43.479 Good God, the moniker on that guy's door. We are 1846 01:46:43.600 --> 01:46:47.039 at the infection point in the epidemic. This report is 1847 01:46:47.119 --> 01:46:49.840 encouraging in a number of areas, but it also shows 1848 01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:51.960 that we have a lot of work to do. We 1849 01:46:52.000 --> 01:46:54.159 still have a lot of STIs in the United States, 1850 01:46:54.199 --> 01:47:00.359 and they're not equally distributed. Okay, the way that word 1851 01:47:00.359 --> 01:47:02.600 it was weird. Does he want them equally distributed or 1852 01:47:02.680 --> 01:47:06.600 he wants them just eradicated as a whole. Okay, the 1853 01:47:06.720 --> 01:47:10.359 data confirms discrepancies and disease burdens. Stoner noted rates of 1854 01:47:10.439 --> 01:47:13.479 SCIS are not equally distributed, with certain groups including gay 1855 01:47:13.479 --> 01:47:16.920 and bisexual men, black people, and young adults age fifteen 1856 01:47:16.960 --> 01:47:22.439 to twenty four disproportionately affected. That's not new. I don't 1857 01:47:22.520 --> 01:47:25.680 like that. But that's also not like new information. But anyway, 1858 01:47:25.880 --> 01:47:29.239 all right, now, let's kind of take things to a 1859 01:47:29.359 --> 01:47:32.079 lighter note, shall we, as are still talking about crazy 1860 01:47:32.079 --> 01:47:34.399 things in the sexual realm. This is an article from 1861 01:47:34.439 --> 01:47:37.960 the BBC. A tie woman was arrested for blackmailing monks 1862 01:47:38.000 --> 01:47:42.960 with thousands of videos after sex. Yeah, so that's a 1863 01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:45.680 thing with Buddhist monks. A lot of them are supposed 1864 01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:48.720 to abstain from sex, but there was more than a 1865 01:47:48.720 --> 01:47:53.039 handful of them, about a thousand that were hiring a 1866 01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:57.159 tie lady of the evening. I'm gonna try to keep 1867 01:47:57.159 --> 01:47:59.840 it as respectful as I can. She was then black 1868 01:48:00.039 --> 01:48:03.199 mailing these dudes and extorting millions from them. Let's read 1869 01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:05.159 it in here, ty. Police have arrested a woman who 1870 01:48:05.159 --> 01:48:08.439 allegedly had sexual relations with monks and then use photos 1871 01:48:08.479 --> 01:48:11.159 in videos of the acts to extort money from them. 1872 01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:15.239 The woman, who police are calling Miss Golf, had sex 1873 01:48:15.279 --> 01:48:17.880 with at least nine months. Police said at a press 1874 01:48:17.880 --> 01:48:22.159 conference on Tuesday, they believe she received around three hundred 1875 01:48:22.199 --> 01:48:27.079 and eighty five million bot which is almost twelve million 1876 01:48:27.199 --> 01:48:31.640 dollars over the past three years. Investigators who searched her 1877 01:48:31.680 --> 01:48:35.920 house found more than eighty thousand photos in videos used 1878 01:48:35.960 --> 01:48:40.840 to blackmail the monks. The police spokesperson said this scandal 1879 01:48:40.920 --> 01:48:44.239 is the latest to rock Thailand's much revered Buddhist institution, 1880 01:48:44.640 --> 01:48:47.039 which in recent years has been plagued with allegations of 1881 01:48:47.079 --> 01:48:51.600 monks engaging in sexual offenses and drug trafficking. Police said 1882 01:48:51.600 --> 01:48:54.199 the first case sorry the case first came to their 1883 01:48:54.199 --> 01:48:57.520 attention in mid June when they learned that an abbot 1884 01:48:57.560 --> 01:49:00.239 in Bangkok had suddenly left the monk hood after being 1885 01:49:00.279 --> 01:49:01.479 extorted by a woman. 1886 01:49:02.159 --> 01:49:02.640 Wow. 1887 01:49:03.079 --> 01:49:08.039 Miss Golf quote unquote had a relationship with the monk 1888 01:49:08.079 --> 01:49:10.520 in May of twenty twenty four. Police said. She later 1889 01:49:10.560 --> 01:49:13.640 claimed to have his baby and demanded child support of 1890 01:49:13.760 --> 01:49:18.199 more than seven million bots. They added. Authorities then discovered 1891 01:49:18.439 --> 01:49:21.479 that other monks had similarly transferred money to Miss Golf, 1892 01:49:21.640 --> 01:49:26.279 which police called her modus operandi orm O, her standard 1893 01:49:26.319 --> 01:49:30.199 going procedure, if you will. Police added, they found that 1894 01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:32.920 nearly all of the money has been withdrawn and some 1895 01:49:32.960 --> 01:49:36.960 of it had been used for online gambling. Bro if 1896 01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:41.840 that is, oh man, oh, the jokes right themselves. That's hilarious. 1897 01:49:42.399 --> 01:49:45.600 When investigators searched Miss Golf's house earlier this month, they 1898 01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:48.479 seized her phones and found more than eighty thousand photos 1899 01:49:48.479 --> 01:49:51.079 and videos that she had used to blackmail the monks. 1900 01:49:51.319 --> 01:49:55.119 She was facing multiple charges including extortion, money laundering, and 1901 01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:58.800 receiving stolen goods. Police have also opened a hotline for 1902 01:49:58.880 --> 01:50:05.119 people to report misbehaving monks quote unquote, uh wow. The 1903 01:50:05.159 --> 01:50:08.920 scandal has prompted the Sunga Supreme Council, the governing body 1904 01:50:08.920 --> 01:50:12.319 for Thai Buddhism, to say it will form a special 1905 01:50:12.359 --> 01:50:16.079 committee to review monastic regulations. The government is also pushing 1906 01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:19.159 for harsher penalties, including fines in jail time, for monks 1907 01:50:19.199 --> 01:50:24.680 who breached the monastic code. Whoa can you imagine if 1908 01:50:24.720 --> 01:50:27.560 they did that? For just religious leaders around the world, 1909 01:50:28.039 --> 01:50:30.199 if you were to step outside of the oath that 1910 01:50:30.279 --> 01:50:33.960 you took as a religious figure, you could face actual 1911 01:50:34.079 --> 01:50:36.800 jail time. Now, I'm not talking about for things that 1912 01:50:37.159 --> 01:50:41.239 are obviously illegal, like you know, pedophilia or something horrible 1913 01:50:41.319 --> 01:50:45.560 like that, but that is a crazy precedence to set. 1914 01:50:45.600 --> 01:50:49.680 I'm not against it, but damn okay. This week, Thailand's 1915 01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:56.760 King vijar longcorn v Jai raw Longcorn Yeah, revoked a 1916 01:50:56.880 --> 01:51:00.880 royal command he had issued in June conferring higher titles 1917 01:51:00.920 --> 01:51:05.199 to eighty one monks. He cited the recent cases of misconduct, 1918 01:51:05.319 --> 01:51:09.359 which he said have quote caused Buddhists to suffer greatly 1919 01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:15.479 in their minds end quote. Yeah. In Thailand, there where 1920 01:51:15.520 --> 01:51:18.640 more than ninety percent of the population identify as Buddhists. 1921 01:51:18.760 --> 01:51:22.359 Monks are highly revered. Many time men also choose to 1922 01:51:22.399 --> 01:51:28.239 temporarily ordain as monks to accumulate good karma. Okay, but 1923 01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:30.960 the Buddhist institution has been plagued by scandals in the 1924 01:51:31.000 --> 01:51:35.359 recent past. You'll have that with people who temporarily do things, 1925 01:51:35.840 --> 01:51:40.720 you know, instead of taking a lifelong goal and take 1926 01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:43.319 the discipline to achieve that lifelong goal, and they just 1927 01:51:43.359 --> 01:51:45.680 do it for a season of their life. You'll you'll 1928 01:51:45.680 --> 01:51:48.399 have some scandals that will come up as a portion 1929 01:51:48.479 --> 01:51:51.760 of that. Where a Paul Suk Paul, I'm sure I'm 1930 01:51:51.800 --> 01:51:55.239 butchering that pronunciation, a jet setting monk known for his 1931 01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:59.479 lavish lifestyle, made international headlines in twenty seventeen when he 1932 01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:03.039 was charged with sex offenses, fraud, and money laundering. And 1933 01:52:03.079 --> 01:52:05.439 in twenty twenty two, a temple in the northern province 1934 01:52:05.479 --> 01:52:09.520 of Pechabun was left without any monks after all four 1935 01:52:09.560 --> 01:52:12.159 of its monks were arrested in a drug raid and 1936 01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:13.600 were disrobed. 1937 01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:15.039 Wow. 1938 01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:18.840 So yeah, as we're talking last week about the Thailand 1939 01:52:19.000 --> 01:52:23.720 Cambodia Conversation, found it interesting that they arrested a woman 1940 01:52:23.760 --> 01:52:28.159 for blackmailing monks with eighty thousand pictures in videos and 1941 01:52:28.239 --> 01:52:31.520 got a little under twelve million dollars eleven point nine 1942 01:52:31.640 --> 01:52:35.279 million dollars US in extorting these dudes over the past 1943 01:52:35.319 --> 01:52:36.000 couple of years. 1944 01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:36.800 Wow. 1945 01:52:37.800 --> 01:52:39.880 Moving forward here, We're not going to spend too much 1946 01:52:39.920 --> 01:52:42.239 time on these things, but we did. We do need 1947 01:52:42.279 --> 01:52:45.000 to talk a little bit about this here. The US 1948 01:52:45.079 --> 01:52:49.600 and Europe are condemning Iranian intelligence threats on Western soil. 1949 01:52:50.079 --> 01:52:52.880 So apparently, the United States and thirteen allied countries have 1950 01:52:52.920 --> 01:52:56.560 accused Iran of plotting to kill, kidnap, and intimidate individuals 1951 01:52:56.600 --> 01:53:00.279 in Europe and North America, citing violations of sovereignty and 1952 01:53:00.399 --> 01:53:04.680 links to international criminal networks. This is a direct quote here. 1953 01:53:05.000 --> 01:53:09.359 These services are increasingly collaborating with international criminal organizations to 1954 01:53:09.479 --> 01:53:14.359 target journalists, descend dissidents, Jewish citizens, and current and former officials, 1955 01:53:14.640 --> 01:53:16.560 the US State Department said in a joint statement with 1956 01:53:16.640 --> 01:53:21.560 European countries. They include the United Kingdom, Albania, Australia or 1957 01:53:21.600 --> 01:53:26.840 I'm sorry Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, 1958 01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:31.159 the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. The governments called on Iranian 1959 01:53:31.199 --> 01:53:34.520 authorities to immediately halt the activities and pledged to work 1960 01:53:34.560 --> 01:53:38.560 together to prevent further threats. On Monday, of Belgian lawmaker 1961 01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:43.920 of Iranian descent, Daria Safai, said the European Countries police 1962 01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:48.119 warned her of an Iranian plot to abduct her via 1963 01:53:48.199 --> 01:53:54.319 Turkey after she backed labeling the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group. Wow, 1964 01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:57.159 and this is not without its precedents, right, we just 1965 01:53:57.199 --> 01:53:59.119 talked about this a couple of weeks ago. They found 1966 01:53:59.560 --> 01:54:05.720 Iranian spies in Cyprus that we're also trying to We 1967 01:54:05.760 --> 01:54:07.680 don't know if they were just gaining intelligence for a 1968 01:54:07.720 --> 01:54:11.000 military operation or if they were trying to plan and attack. 1969 01:54:11.760 --> 01:54:13.960 Last we heard they were still trying to ascertain the 1970 01:54:14.039 --> 01:54:17.760 over under on the details. That being said, we know 1971 01:54:17.880 --> 01:54:22.000 that Iran Iran has spies all over the earth. That's 1972 01:54:22.039 --> 01:54:24.600 not a secret to anybody. But all these countries are 1973 01:54:24.600 --> 01:54:26.720 basically saying, yo, we know what you're doing and you 1974 01:54:26.800 --> 01:54:30.760 need to stop. And for the record, this isn't un 1975 01:54:30.960 --> 01:54:37.000 terroristic of them. To the links to the international criminal networks, Yeah, 1976 01:54:37.000 --> 01:54:38.760 I think you can only find and Tony, you brought 1977 01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:41.000 this up last time. There's only like one or two 1978 01:54:41.760 --> 01:54:46.840 Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organizations that are not directly connected to Iran. 1979 01:54:47.479 --> 01:54:52.000 So to say that these terrorist organizations are involved with 1980 01:54:52.359 --> 01:54:58.520 the targeting of journalists, dissidents, Jewish citizens, and former and 1981 01:54:58.600 --> 01:55:02.000 current officials, that's not new. That's kind of terrorist one 1982 01:55:02.119 --> 01:55:04.840 oh one. So with all of that, these countries are 1983 01:55:04.880 --> 01:55:08.600 coming together and telling Iran to stop. Now that being said, 1984 01:55:08.640 --> 01:55:11.159 this is an article from Al Jazeera. A man was 1985 01:55:11.239 --> 01:55:16.399 arrested for spying for Iran before possible attacks in Germany. 1986 01:55:16.880 --> 01:55:20.960 Iran's embassy in Berlin swiftly rejects allegations. After a man 1987 01:55:21.039 --> 01:55:24.439 is arrested in a neighbor in neighboring Denmark, a danish 1988 01:55:24.439 --> 01:55:27.000 Man has been arrested on suspicion of spying in Germany 1989 01:55:27.039 --> 01:55:30.600 on behalf of Iran, on an allegation swiftly denied by 1990 01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:34.159 the embassy. German prosecutors on Tuesday said the man, identified 1991 01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:38.520 only as Ali s under German privacy laws, was suspected 1992 01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:42.600 of conducting the surveillance in preparation of further intelligence activities 1993 01:55:42.600 --> 01:55:49.760 in Germany, possibly including terrorist attacks on Jewish targets. I'm 1994 01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:52.960 not you know, Germany doesn't have like a really big 1995 01:55:53.039 --> 01:55:57.479 Jewish population, right, like they have some, but there's not 1996 01:55:57.600 --> 01:56:03.800 a lot of them anymore, for you know, reasons, you know, 1997 01:56:04.079 --> 01:56:08.279 read a history book at some point. But okay, for 1998 01:56:08.520 --> 01:56:13.439 intelligence activities in Germany, and yes, possibly an attack, probably 1999 01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:16.680 just spy operations. I don't know, Tony your thoughts. 2000 01:56:18.199 --> 01:56:21.760 I'm gonna say the Sony she has split is pretty important. 2001 01:56:21.840 --> 01:56:26.600 And al Qaeda and ISIS are definitely not affiliated with 2002 01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:30.800 Iran in any way. Hesbal as their main I guess 2003 01:56:30.840 --> 01:56:34.800 you could call terrorists militia, and they have had some 2004 01:56:34.960 --> 01:56:40.520 relations with Hamas but not much, and the same thing 2005 01:56:40.560 --> 01:56:46.880 with the hu Thies. But yeah, Iran, I guess I 2006 01:56:46.920 --> 01:56:50.880 don't consider them the chief state sponsor of terrorism. I 2007 01:56:50.920 --> 01:56:53.399 would think something like Saudi Arabia would be. 2008 01:56:54.000 --> 01:56:54.399 How not. 2009 01:56:54.760 --> 01:56:56.960 I mean, even if, yeah, you're right about the Sunni 2010 01:56:56.960 --> 01:56:58.880 and she has split, I'm with you one hundred percent, 2011 01:56:58.960 --> 01:57:01.640 But at that point it's also enemy of my enemy, right. 2012 01:57:03.359 --> 01:57:06.640 Well, I think personally I think the Sonis are a 2013 01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:09.159 bigger problem than the Shia. But that's just a matter 2014 01:57:09.199 --> 01:57:10.119 of personal opinion. 2015 01:57:10.159 --> 01:57:14.079 I guess on what grounds I'm not trying to necessarily 2016 01:57:14.119 --> 01:57:16.600 like straw Man or steel Man, you hear, but go 2017 01:57:16.800 --> 01:57:17.760 deeper on that if you could. 2018 01:57:18.840 --> 01:57:22.640 The soonis well, that's that's al Qaeda, that's Osama bin Laden. 2019 01:57:23.479 --> 01:57:27.600 Those are the only America the only enemy America has 2020 01:57:27.600 --> 01:57:29.560 really had over there. In my opinion, that. 2021 01:57:29.760 --> 01:57:33.439 The Iranians kicked America out in nineteen seventy nine and 2022 01:57:33.479 --> 01:57:37.319 we haven't had an embassy there since. But al Qaida 2023 01:57:37.600 --> 01:57:40.960 they're the only ones who really struck over here. And 2024 01:57:41.319 --> 01:57:44.840 Faisal Shazade I think was soon he actually I don't 2025 01:57:44.880 --> 01:57:46.720 know this. This gets into a lot of you know, 2026 01:57:46.840 --> 01:57:50.560 one on one by one events and people and fair 2027 01:57:51.560 --> 01:57:58.119 ye who But I'd say they're pretty much all soony. 2028 01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:01.359 I mean, that's our biggest problem. 2029 01:58:01.720 --> 01:58:03.359 I get that. But even still, you look at the 2030 01:58:03.399 --> 01:58:07.079 most brotherhood hamas, the Houthis. I mean, I'm not saying 2031 01:58:07.119 --> 01:58:10.560 they're like all lead like they they're getting their orders 2032 01:58:10.600 --> 01:58:13.279 from a rambin any means. But they're being funded, they're 2033 01:58:13.319 --> 01:58:17.880 being armed. I don't think they're being trained necessarily. If 2034 01:58:17.880 --> 01:58:22.439 they are, it's it's piss poor training at best. But yeah, 2035 01:58:22.439 --> 01:58:24.239 I mean you're right there is at least some sort 2036 01:58:24.239 --> 01:58:26.359 of a breakdown between But I mean that's not just 2037 01:58:26.359 --> 01:58:29.800 of terrorist cells. That's a breakdown of the Islamic religion 2038 01:58:29.840 --> 01:58:31.960 as a whole, from the Sunni and the si I, 2039 01:58:32.199 --> 01:58:36.760 to the to the Kurds, to the Drus, to the Alawad, 2040 01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:40.239 to the the Basque to you there, there's I'm with 2041 01:58:40.319 --> 01:58:43.960 you there. There's levels to that for sure. But most 2042 01:58:43.960 --> 01:58:47.279 of the terrorist organizations that are going after Israel anyway, 2043 01:58:48.079 --> 01:58:50.279 I think have pretty decent connections to Iran. 2044 01:58:52.039 --> 01:58:53.920 Oh yeah, I think I agree with you on that. 2045 01:58:54.039 --> 01:58:57.640 And the Shia allied part of the world never tires 2046 01:58:57.640 --> 01:59:01.039 of pointing out that why doesn't al Qaida ever attack Israel? 2047 01:59:01.119 --> 01:59:06.159 Why does an isis separate attack Israel. So that is 2048 01:59:06.760 --> 01:59:09.000 kind of something. 2049 01:59:08.640 --> 01:59:15.760 That the Iran people should definitely want America to to 2050 01:59:15.840 --> 01:59:18.359 change its opinion on. They want to say, hey, you know, America, 2051 01:59:18.399 --> 01:59:22.159 we're more friendly to you than than the al kind 2052 01:59:22.159 --> 01:59:25.720 of Isis Israel axis, which you know, maybe partly in 2053 01:59:25.760 --> 01:59:29.319 their imagination, but that's how they portray it. 2054 01:59:29.840 --> 01:59:31.520 I mean, there's probably something to be said for that, 2055 01:59:31.680 --> 01:59:35.359 for sure. And in the same spirit of Iran trying 2056 01:59:35.399 --> 01:59:39.720 to you know, not necessarily change their tomb, but being 2057 01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:43.039 about this kind of conversation here, they're also kind of 2058 01:59:43.079 --> 01:59:48.720 cleaning House internally, Iran says spy was executed for passing 2059 01:59:48.840 --> 01:59:53.880 nuclear secrets to Moussad so. Iran said it has executed 2060 01:59:53.920 --> 01:59:57.000 a man caught working as a spy for Israel's Mussad 2061 01:59:57.119 --> 02:00:01.319 intelligence agency, accusing him of passing one secrets, including information 2062 02:00:01.399 --> 02:00:05.560 about an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed in Israel's 2063 02:00:05.640 --> 02:00:09.279 recent attacks. This is from Newsweek, by the way, long 2064 02:00:09.319 --> 02:00:13.640 story short, why it matters here. The reported execution reflects 2065 02:00:13.640 --> 02:00:18.199 Iran's intensifying efforts to root out suspected espionage following the 2066 02:00:18.359 --> 02:00:21.239 twelve Day War in June. If we're gonna really call 2067 02:00:21.279 --> 02:00:24.039 it a war, wow, twelve day bombing, but all right, 2068 02:00:24.640 --> 02:00:29.239 which saw Israel and US strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Amir Hatami, 2069 02:00:29.439 --> 02:00:32.960 the commander in chief of Iran's military, warned on Sunday 2070 02:00:32.960 --> 02:00:36.840 that threats from Israel persisted in that Iranian forces were 2071 02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:42.920 ready for operations. Iranian state media reported Iran executed three 2072 02:00:42.960 --> 02:00:46.600 men charged with spying for Israel on June twenty fourth, 2073 02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:49.760 as part of a sweeping crackdown. Human rights groups have 2074 02:00:49.880 --> 02:00:52.760 condemned a wave of hundreds of arrests and warned that 2075 02:00:52.800 --> 02:00:55.880 the government is using the June conflict as a pretext 2076 02:00:55.920 --> 02:01:00.960 to escalate repression. Rights groups have also cited concerns over confessions. 2077 02:01:01.039 --> 02:01:04.119 I mean again, you'll kind of have that what to know. 2078 02:01:04.279 --> 02:01:07.920 The Iranian news agency s n N or Student News 2079 02:01:07.960 --> 02:01:13.600 Network That's yeah Okay, reported that a man named ruseb 2080 02:01:13.880 --> 02:01:18.199 Vedi had been found guilty of espionage and intelligence cooperation 2081 02:01:18.439 --> 02:01:22.279 in favor of the Zionist regime and was hanged on 2082 02:01:22.359 --> 02:01:27.680 August fifth. According to the case documents of rusbe Vedi's statements, 2083 02:01:28.000 --> 02:01:30.840 the man was fully aware of his cooperation with Mussad 2084 02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:36.239 spy terrorist service and deliberately collaborated with the Zionist enemy. 2085 02:01:36.600 --> 02:01:40.159 The S and M reported, according to an unofficial translation 2086 02:01:40.479 --> 02:01:43.840 of its report, I love that the defendant was an 2087 02:01:43.920 --> 02:01:46.920 act was active in one of the country's important and 2088 02:01:46.960 --> 02:01:50.119 sensitive organizations, and given the level of access he had 2089 02:01:50.479 --> 02:01:54.560 had become an attractive subject for the Zionist regime's spy service. 2090 02:01:54.840 --> 02:01:57.119 It said. This is the report. By the way. The 2091 02:01:57.159 --> 02:02:00.560 news agency did not elaborate on which organization he was 2092 02:02:00.680 --> 02:02:04.800 working for, but said he had traveled to Vienna five times, 2093 02:02:04.840 --> 02:02:08.439 including for training where he met Mussad agents in the 2094 02:02:08.479 --> 02:02:13.159 course of his extensive cooperation with the Zionist regime. Quote unquote, 2095 02:02:13.359 --> 02:02:18.640 the man quote provided information to Mussad spy service about 2096 02:02:18.720 --> 02:02:22.039 one of our country's nuclear scientists who was martyred in 2097 02:02:22.119 --> 02:02:27.039 the recent Israel Israeli aggressions and m reported, So is 2098 02:02:27.119 --> 02:02:30.920 that what they hung him for? For acknowledging that Israel 2099 02:02:31.039 --> 02:02:33.399 in fact did kill a nuclear scientist of one of 2100 02:02:33.399 --> 02:02:37.119 the bombs. Because I thought that we kind of knew that, 2101 02:02:37.159 --> 02:02:39.920 we knew that it wasn't a massive loss of life 2102 02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:43.520 when the bombs were hitting the nuclear sites. There were 2103 02:02:43.560 --> 02:02:45.520 some there were some like scientists that were on site 2104 02:02:45.560 --> 02:02:48.239 that day that died and things like that. So if 2105 02:02:48.239 --> 02:02:50.199 this guy just confirmed the name of one of the 2106 02:02:50.199 --> 02:02:52.840 scientists that died, was that enough for him to be 2107 02:02:52.920 --> 02:02:57.239 publicly hung. I don't know. I don't know. I know 2108 02:02:57.399 --> 02:03:01.640 Roan does things a little on some might say the 2109 02:03:01.680 --> 02:03:04.920 extremist side. Vadi had been placed under surveillance after he 2110 02:03:05.000 --> 02:03:07.439 returned from one of his trips abroad and was arrested 2111 02:03:07.720 --> 02:03:10.800 quote when his connections and cooperation with the Zionist enemy 2112 02:03:10.920 --> 02:03:13.800 were discovered. As an In said, they love just throwing 2113 02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:17.840 out that Z word, don't they. That's a whole thing. Anyway, 2114 02:03:18.439 --> 02:03:21.199 Moving on, here we could go to the next topic 2115 02:03:21.239 --> 02:03:27.439 of conversation. Sudan accuses the UAE of funding Colombian mercenaries 2116 02:03:27.479 --> 02:03:32.079 to fight alongside the RSF in a civil war. This 2117 02:03:32.119 --> 02:03:34.039 is kind of an interesting one here, so this is 2118 02:03:34.039 --> 02:03:39.079 from Cayo Sorry, Cairo Associated Press. Sudan has accused the 2119 02:03:39.199 --> 02:03:43.439 UAE of sending Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the Parliamentary 2120 02:03:43.640 --> 02:03:48.000 Rapid Support Forces against the military in the country's civil war. 2121 02:03:48.399 --> 02:03:50.680 The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday that the 2122 02:03:50.720 --> 02:03:56.119 Sudanese government has irrefutable evidence confirming mercenaries from Colombia and 2123 02:03:56.199 --> 02:04:01.159 some neighboring African countries were sponsored and financed by Maraudi authorities. 2124 02:04:01.760 --> 02:04:05.359 The statement didn't share the evidence or name the neighboring countries. 2125 02:04:05.800 --> 02:04:08.000 So they got the proof. We're not going to talk 2126 02:04:08.000 --> 02:04:11.119 about the proof, but we got it anyway. Is a 2127 02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:15.560 direct quote here from the Foreign Ministry. This unprecedented phenomenon 2128 02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:18.399 poses a serious threat to peace and security in the 2129 02:04:18.439 --> 02:04:22.479 region and across the continent. The Foreign Ministry set asserting 2130 02:04:22.520 --> 02:04:26.399 that hundreds of thousands of mercenaries were hired from across 2131 02:04:26.439 --> 02:04:30.159 the African continent, and an email statement to the Associated Press. 2132 02:04:30.199 --> 02:04:34.960 The UAE's Foreign Ministry said the government categorically rejects the 2133 02:04:35.000 --> 02:04:39.399 allegations and denied involvement in the war by backing armed groups. 2134 02:04:39.880 --> 02:04:43.680 The UAE emphasizes that these claims are merely attempts to 2135 02:04:43.800 --> 02:04:47.920 derail the peace process and evade moral, legal and humanitarian 2136 02:04:48.000 --> 02:04:50.960 obligations to end the conflict and paid the way for 2137 02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:54.840 a transitional process that reflects the aspirations of the Sudanese 2138 02:04:54.880 --> 02:05:00.000 people for security, stability and development. There is no immediate 2139 02:05:00.199 --> 02:05:04.319 response by Colombia. The four of the civil war in 2140 02:05:04.399 --> 02:05:07.039 Sudan erupted in April and twenty twenty three in the 2141 02:05:07.119 --> 02:05:11.880 Khartoum in Khartoum, rather before spreading across the country following 2142 02:05:11.920 --> 02:05:15.840 simmering tensions between RSF and the army. The fighting has 2143 02:05:15.920 --> 02:05:19.800 killed over forty thousand people, displaced as many as twelve million, 2144 02:05:20.199 --> 02:05:23.119 and pushed many to the brink of famine, which is 2145 02:05:23.199 --> 02:05:26.399 nothing new for Sudan. Let's be honest. They use hunger 2146 02:05:26.560 --> 02:05:30.680 as a weapon, and they have for a very long time, 2147 02:05:31.239 --> 02:05:34.800 you know, anyone Sudan has long accused the UAE of 2148 02:05:34.840 --> 02:05:38.079 being involved in the war by supplying the RSF with weapons, 2149 02:05:38.119 --> 02:05:41.079 but the Gulf country has denied that claim. In November, 2150 02:05:41.159 --> 02:05:45.199 an Amnesty International report armored vehicle manufactured by the UAE 2151 02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:49.000 and equipped with French defense systems had been captured by 2152 02:05:49.000 --> 02:05:53.000 the Sudanese military. A spokesperson for the Imorati government said 2153 02:05:53.079 --> 02:05:56.000 at the time that the UAE was the target of 2154 02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:00.760 a coordinated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining our foreign policy, 2155 02:06:01.079 --> 02:06:04.920 regional role, and humanitarian efforts. Sudan's army and the RSF 2156 02:06:04.960 --> 02:06:08.000 both have been accused of committing atrocities like ethnic cleansing, 2157 02:06:08.439 --> 02:06:12.960 extra judicial killings, and sexual violence against civilians, including children. 2158 02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:16.319 Once again, this is nothing new for Sudan. That's kind 2159 02:06:16.319 --> 02:06:18.479 of how they have done war for quite some time. 2160 02:06:18.560 --> 02:06:23.239 It's disgusting, but okay, that's the thing that's happening right now. 2161 02:06:23.960 --> 02:06:28.039 So while that was a very dark conversation, let's try 2162 02:06:28.039 --> 02:06:32.319 to end this on a lighter note, shall we. And 2163 02:06:32.359 --> 02:06:34.479 this is also gonna kind of be dark in another regard, 2164 02:06:34.560 --> 02:06:36.880 but I think it's also kind of funny and also 2165 02:06:36.960 --> 02:06:40.319 kind of dark. Let's go dark humor, can we do that? Everybody? 2166 02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:42.520 Let's go a little dark humor. This are from ABC 2167 02:06:42.640 --> 02:06:47.439 News Denmark. Zoo is asking people to donate their pets 2168 02:06:47.920 --> 02:06:53.920 to feed their predators. Yeah, Denmark Zoo is asking the 2169 02:06:53.960 --> 02:06:58.079 public to donate their pets, particularly chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs, 2170 02:06:58.399 --> 02:07:01.279 so that they can feed them to the zoo's predators. 2171 02:07:01.800 --> 02:07:04.119 Is a direct quote here. In zoos, we have a 2172 02:07:04.159 --> 02:07:08.039 responsibility to imitate the natural food chain of the animals 2173 02:07:08.079 --> 02:07:11.960 in terms of both animal welfare and professional integrity, the 2174 02:07:12.359 --> 02:07:16.239 Alborg Zoo said in a statement last Thursday. The request 2175 02:07:16.439 --> 02:07:20.600 created a backlash online, with many disagreeing with the practice, 2176 02:07:20.880 --> 02:07:22.880 but the zoo said the purpose of the program is 2177 02:07:22.920 --> 02:07:26.079 to make sure nothing goes to waste and to ensure 2178 02:07:26.159 --> 02:07:30.560 natural behavior, nutrition and wellbeing of our predators. According to 2179 02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:34.000 the zoo's website, the zoo also said they would accept 2180 02:07:34.039 --> 02:07:38.840 horses which they euthanize and slaughter for the food, though 2181 02:07:38.960 --> 02:07:42.960 they said that the zoo needs The zoo's needs vary 2182 02:07:43.039 --> 02:07:46.000 throughout the year and there might be a waiting list. 2183 02:07:47.560 --> 02:07:49.920 There might be a waiting list, so listen. They're talking 2184 02:07:49.960 --> 02:07:55.960 about rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens and depending on the predator. 2185 02:07:56.239 --> 02:07:58.640 I can at least understand the thought process here. But 2186 02:07:58.720 --> 02:08:00.760 while you're in, if you got any horse laying around 2187 02:08:00.960 --> 02:08:03.399 that you just need to get put down, bro, donate 2188 02:08:03.439 --> 02:08:06.319 it to the zoo. They got a spot for it, 2189 02:08:06.399 --> 02:08:08.239 but you may need to hold off for a bit. 2190 02:08:08.279 --> 02:08:10.159 They may be a waiting list for people trying to 2191 02:08:10.199 --> 02:08:14.039 offload their old horses. Good God. The zoo also said 2192 02:08:14.079 --> 02:08:16.319 they would have said that one okay. So for horses. 2193 02:08:16.439 --> 02:08:19.399 Alboorg Zoos said it receives the horses as a donation 2194 02:08:19.920 --> 02:08:22.479 and the owner of the horse can obtain a tax 2195 02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:25.199 deduction for the value of the horse, according to the 2196 02:08:25.279 --> 02:08:28.600 zoo's website. The zoo also said that they will accept chickens, 2197 02:08:28.680 --> 02:08:32.319 rabbits and guinea pig on weekdays between ten am and 2198 02:08:32.359 --> 02:08:37.319 one pm, but no more than four at a time. Bro, 2199 02:08:37.600 --> 02:08:43.800 What there's that many people in Denmark that have chickens, 2200 02:08:43.840 --> 02:08:47.079 rabbits and guinea pigs that they only can donate four 2201 02:08:47.119 --> 02:08:49.520 of them at a time. And then also are they 2202 02:08:49.560 --> 02:08:54.159 getting tax right offs for this? I mean bunny farms themselves. 2203 02:08:54.319 --> 02:08:57.319 You have a turnaround time because whenever I was looking 2204 02:08:57.359 --> 02:09:03.640 into doing subsistence farming, rabbits are the number one best 2205 02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:06.159 bang for buck as far as the amount of feed 2206 02:09:06.239 --> 02:09:08.880 and care and water they require versus the amount of 2207 02:09:08.920 --> 02:09:12.039 protein that you can get on a repeatable timeframe. I 2208 02:09:12.079 --> 02:09:14.079 want to say it's like six to eight weeks from 2209 02:09:14.079 --> 02:09:15.880 the time that the rabbits are born to the time 2210 02:09:15.920 --> 02:09:19.079 you can harvest them for their meat. So you get 2211 02:09:19.479 --> 02:09:22.880 a good few breeding stock rabbits and you can slaughter 2212 02:09:22.960 --> 02:09:25.199 the rest and you can feed yourself pretty decently off 2213 02:09:25.199 --> 02:09:27.239 of them. Although they don't have a high fat content, 2214 02:09:27.279 --> 02:09:30.159 it's very lean meat. I personally love the taste of rabbit. 2215 02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:32.680 But anyway, I don't know about guinea pigs, and I 2216 02:09:32.760 --> 02:09:35.880 don't know about the chickens and the gestation period for them, 2217 02:09:36.520 --> 02:09:39.279 but no more than four animals at a time, and 2218 02:09:39.319 --> 02:09:42.079 you can donate them week days between ten am and 2219 02:09:42.199 --> 02:09:43.279 one pm. 2220 02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:44.000 Wow. 2221 02:09:44.640 --> 02:09:46.880 ABC News has reached out to the zoo for comment. 2222 02:09:47.279 --> 02:09:50.319 The practice is not unheard of in Denmark, and in 2223 02:09:50.399 --> 02:09:54.359 twenty fourteen the Copenhagen Zoo garnered attention on social media 2224 02:09:54.399 --> 02:09:56.920 when it killed a healthy giraffe and fed it to 2225 02:09:57.000 --> 02:10:03.039 their predators, whoa Four lions, including two cubs, were also 2226 02:10:03.199 --> 02:10:06.439 euthanized several weeks later to make room for a new 2227 02:10:06.560 --> 02:10:10.960 male lion. In the Danish zoo, the lions were euthanized, 2228 02:10:11.039 --> 02:10:14.920 not for being for not being able to defend themselves 2229 02:10:15.000 --> 02:10:18.800 against him. So they were bringing in a new male 2230 02:10:19.359 --> 02:10:21.479 and they knew that these four lions and two cubs 2231 02:10:21.520 --> 02:10:23.840 weren't gonna be able to like defend themselves, and this 2232 02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:28.199 male lion was gonna just destroy them, so they just 2233 02:10:28.239 --> 02:10:31.399 took them out early. You know, it's more humane that way, 2234 02:10:31.439 --> 02:10:35.399 I suppose. So you made room for one lion by 2235 02:10:35.479 --> 02:10:40.439 killing four. Okay, that's a that's a thing in Copenhagen. 2236 02:10:40.520 --> 02:10:41.520 Wow. Uh. 2237 02:10:41.680 --> 02:10:43.840 If you have an animal that has to leave here 2238 02:10:43.880 --> 02:10:46.880 for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us. 2239 02:10:47.079 --> 02:10:50.439 The zoo said the animals are gently euthanized by trained 2240 02:10:50.520 --> 02:10:54.279 staff and are afterwards used as fodder. That is a 2241 02:10:54.319 --> 02:10:59.520 direct quote. Oo wow. Okay, Like I said, we're gonna 2242 02:10:59.600 --> 02:11:02.199 end that on a darker note, but also kind of 2243 02:11:02.479 --> 02:11:06.640 a humorous note. Good God, Almighty Denmark is getting wild 2244 02:11:06.720 --> 02:11:12.000 with it, okay. Good. Members of the Cajun Night Retinue, 2245 02:11:12.000 --> 02:11:13.720 we kind of went all over the board with the 2246 02:11:13.760 --> 02:11:19.359 conversations tonight. We stuck primarily in the Nation of America, 2247 02:11:19.680 --> 02:11:21.880 but then we went international. There's a lot of things 2248 02:11:21.920 --> 02:11:24.279 going on, and I think we all kind of learned 2249 02:11:24.279 --> 02:11:26.760 a little something tonight, and I appreciate everybody for joining 2250 02:11:26.800 --> 02:11:31.640 in the conversation and adding in your own flavor to it. Again, 2251 02:11:31.720 --> 02:11:34.680 for anybody who is listening to this, anytime that you 2252 02:11:34.880 --> 02:11:37.760 might be listening to this, it gets posted on Thursdays. However, 2253 02:11:37.800 --> 02:11:40.720 we do shoot this every Wednesday night at nine pm 2254 02:11:40.760 --> 02:11:44.560 Central at Patreon Caju to Night on Patreon the links 2255 02:11:44.600 --> 02:11:46.880 in the description below. And I would like to see 2256 02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:51.279 this community grow to even further and bigger heights in spaces. 2257 02:11:51.800 --> 02:11:53.920 I want this to be a larger community where we 2258 02:11:54.000 --> 02:11:57.600 have more people chiming in, throwing in their opinions, growing 2259 02:11:57.640 --> 02:12:01.399 it and sharing this information. This is fun. I absolutely 2260 02:12:01.640 --> 02:12:05.680 love our Wednesday night conversations. Once again, everybody, thank you 2261 02:12:05.720 --> 02:12:08.439 so much for joining me on this excursion. My name 2262 02:12:08.479 --> 02:12:11.159 is Jacob Mook. I am the Cajun Night and as always, 2263 02:12:11.760 --> 02:12:12.359 God bless