02/01/24 THIS WEEK IN PREPPING - PREPPING 2024

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[00:00:35] From the Frozen Tundra East Central Alberta, Canada streaming live on YouTube

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[00:00:45] Welcome back to the workshop where we create community,

[00:00:48] find freedom, promote preparedness and share success.

[00:00:52] I am Toolman Tim.

[00:00:54] Today is February the 1st, 2024.

[00:00:59] This is episode 421 of Workshop Radio.

[00:01:03] How are all my delinquents out there this fine evening?

[00:01:07] It was a balmy 10 degrees Celsius here today.

[00:01:10] We were actually sitting outdoors with the dogs for a little while.

[00:01:13] Oh, anyway, I can't convert that into freedom units that quick.

[00:01:17] I apologize, but just let me let you know that it's a heck of a lot warmer than it was recently.

[00:01:22] So let's open up with a rule to live by.

[00:01:25] I would put it into the magic machine

[00:01:29] that just randomly spits out a number for us.

[00:01:31] It was absolutely great.

[00:01:33] One step closer said 50.

[00:01:35] So there you go.

[00:01:36] It was 50 degrees here today, which is unheard of for the day before Groundhog Day.

[00:01:39] So there you go.

[00:01:40] All right, so we threw it into the randomizer.

[00:01:42] We pulled out a number and we got rule number 28.

[00:01:46] Make it easy to say yes when you ask for someone's help.

[00:01:51] So this is something I cannot exactly remember where I first heard it from.

[00:01:56] But I had it reinforced with myself

[00:02:00] through Jack Spearco and Nicole Sauce on multiple occasions.

[00:02:06] And my experience has been whenever I'm ready to make a big ask of somebody,

[00:02:12] especially somebody who is probably already really busy,

[00:02:15] or this works in the content creation end of things as well.

[00:02:18] If you're reaching up to someone else with a bigger audience

[00:02:21] who tends to have a large demand on their time,

[00:02:25] make it as easy as you possibly can for them to say yes.

[00:02:29] Don't don't worry about making it hard to say no.

[00:02:31] If they're going to say no, they're going to say no.

[00:02:32] Do as much work as you can ahead of time.

[00:02:34] So here's an example.

[00:02:36] You reach out to somebody and you're like, hey, I would I'm wondering

[00:02:39] if you would be willing to support or promote my podcast.

[00:02:44] This new episode, I got a incredible author coming on for an interview

[00:02:48] and I'd love to share it across the network.

[00:02:51] If that's all you ask, people might say yes, but they might say no.

[00:02:55] But more than likely they'll say yes

[00:02:57] and then not do it because they don't have the time or the energy.

[00:02:59] So what you do, you type up a blurb, a little, you know,

[00:03:02] two sentence blurb with the link and you say, hey, would you mind sharing this

[00:03:06] when you take the work out of an ask or the difficulty?

[00:03:10] Be very specific on what you're asking for.

[00:03:13] To me, that is the best way to get a yes out of somebody

[00:03:17] that you wouldn't necessarily think you would get a yes out of.

[00:03:21] So for me, rule number 28, make it easy to say yes

[00:03:24] when you ask for someone's help, simple as that.

[00:03:27] So I got one piece of news that I caught just before I went live

[00:03:30] this evening, a member, let's just say an honorary member

[00:03:35] of the workshop community.

[00:03:37] Mr. Redgreen.

[00:03:38] Nope, nothing happened to him.

[00:03:39] I just realized how bad that sounded as I was talking.

[00:03:42] So Steve Smith, the comedian that plays Redgreen is being inducted

[00:03:45] into the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame in a couple of weeks.

[00:03:49] Just wanted to show him out because what a great dude.

[00:03:52] He's one of the original handyman comes by honestly

[00:03:56] just a genuine down to earth kind of Canadian.

[00:03:58] And I hope I didn't scare anybody there.

[00:04:00] But what a good dude actually reached out on a couple of occasions

[00:04:04] trying to get him on the show.

[00:04:06] And it sounds like he just doesn't do a lot of interviews anymore at his age.

[00:04:10] So all right, let's slide in.

[00:04:13] I've got a short little I don't know if you want to call it

[00:04:15] Precious Metals Report or what you'd like to call it tonight.

[00:04:18] But so last week, we talked a little bit about the benefits

[00:04:22] of storing precious metals at home.

[00:04:26] As opposed to offsite at a, you know, a vault or something like that.

[00:04:31] And the topic came up.

[00:04:33] What about house fires?

[00:04:35] And I thought, you know, that's a darn good idea to look into

[00:04:38] because I hadn't really thought about it.

[00:04:40] And we've heard lots of stories

[00:04:42] about lots of different metals being able to melt.

[00:04:44] So here you go.

[00:04:45] This is an article from steamit.com.

[00:04:48] It says storing precious metals will gold and silver survive a house fire.

[00:04:53] And it says gold's melting point.

[00:04:55] So you guys got to bear with me tonight.

[00:04:58] These temperatures are in Celsius.

[00:05:00] So do the quick modifications in your head if you need to.

[00:05:03] Gold's melting point is 1064 Celsius, silver 961.8.

[00:05:09] Whereas the average house fire burns at around two thirds that 600 degrees Celsius.

[00:05:14] Now hang in there because that's not the only truth.

[00:05:18] The maximum temperature of a fully developed building fire will rarely

[00:05:23] exceed 982 degrees Celsius.

[00:05:26] So a little hotter than silver, a little colder than gold's melting point.

[00:05:32] So perhaps the better question they say is in what state would your

[00:05:36] willion be in and how easy would it be to find after a fire?

[00:05:39] Because we know unless perfect conditions happen, there's a really good

[00:05:45] chance that your silver or gold aren't going to turn into a liquid

[00:05:48] bullion and make a mess all over the place.

[00:05:53] So what kind of packaging are your coins in?

[00:05:56] Because they could melt, you know, if you keep them in those little plastic sleeves,

[00:06:00] you're going to be scraping and burning plastic off of gold and silver for,

[00:06:03] you know, a week of Sundays.

[00:06:05] While your gold and silver may still be quote unquote pure after a fire.

[00:06:10] If the bullion is damaged, then the time comes when the time comes to

[00:06:14] sell it, you may rely.

[00:06:15] You may end up receiving a little bit less money for it, which I get anyway.

[00:06:20] So how do you protect it in a fire like that?

[00:06:22] And I thought, well, good question, Tim.

[00:06:24] I bet this article is going to answer it for us.

[00:06:27] So it said a safe with a fire resistant rating will add further protection.

[00:06:32] Makes sense.

[00:06:33] However, there's a downside to fire resistant saves.

[00:06:35] They're much easier to break into.

[00:06:38] Don't know if you guys have ever seen them before or tried messing

[00:06:41] with them, but when I was in elementary school again, all these stupid stories.

[00:06:45] But I had a couple of buddies, AB man, J.

[00:06:48] Good to see you.

[00:06:48] I had a couple of buddies who decided to buy a fireproof safe and they're great.

[00:06:53] But they're made out of like some sort of poly plastic type material

[00:06:57] that would actually melt, but protect the contents.

[00:07:01] Well, you could drill into them.

[00:07:02] You could cut into them.

[00:07:03] You could break it open with a sledgehammer.

[00:07:05] It wasn't worth the whole lot, but it had that fire protection ability.

[00:07:09] So they said there's a downside to fire resistant saves.

[00:07:12] They're much easier to break into.

[00:07:13] They're made completely differently.

[00:07:16] They're more about insulation from heat than attack resistance.

[00:07:20] And again, most safes are just made to keep honest people out.

[00:07:23] Right? We know this.

[00:07:25] But the events in the back that are designed to let the heat out, which makes sense.

[00:07:30] So for the storage of gold and silver, consider an attack resistant first,

[00:07:34] fire rated second, but it's a bonus if you can get it.

[00:07:37] So in other words, most people end up losing their precious metals

[00:07:42] via theft as opposed to through fire.

[00:07:45] So if anybody was concerned about your silver and gold going up in flames

[00:07:49] in a house fire, I don't think it's really worth a whole lot of concern,

[00:07:54] to be honest, but I wanted to come back with an actual cited source

[00:07:57] so that I could share it with you guys.

[00:08:00] All right.

[00:08:01] So I actually had a follow up comment from the community

[00:08:04] on last week's episode when we were talking about the best places to buy

[00:08:09] silver and gold. And this came from Pixies, Pixie updates on YouTube.

[00:08:14] I'm not sure who they are, but if you're listening tonight, it was great having you in here.

[00:08:18] Said buying local or on a secondary market is dangerous due to widespread counterfeiting.

[00:08:24] If you're buying bars, the only way to go is a amp Swiss,

[00:08:29] the main dealer that gets them directly from the Mint is in New Jersey.

[00:08:34] So again, I have never I shouldn't say this.

[00:08:40] I I've bought silver privately at certain prepper events and that sort of thing,

[00:08:45] a place where folks are already vetted, you know, so you kind of

[00:08:51] everybody has a bit of an in. So I'm OK with that.

[00:08:53] I've looked at silver on Facebook Marketplace before, but I've never bought it.

[00:08:59] We thought about it.

[00:09:00] There's just too many chances shit could go wrong.

[00:09:03] Man, I'd love to have one of those little computers that just scan silver

[00:09:06] and tell you if it's good or bad, but you'd have to get burnt a lot of times

[00:09:09] for that to pay for itself.

[00:09:11] So anyway, if I ever buy something that I think might be a little bit sketchy,

[00:09:15] I take it into one of my local silver and gold shops and I say,

[00:09:18] hey, could you put this on the machine?

[00:09:20] Most places are really good about it because they know, you know what?

[00:09:23] Maybe maybe they'll sell it to me.

[00:09:25] Maybe they won't.

[00:09:26] But yes, that is a good point from the community there.

[00:09:28] Just take a minute and think.

[00:09:31] Is this too good to be true because of it is, you know, if you're online

[00:09:36] and there's a Wayne Gretzky rookie card that somebody is selling in gem mint

[00:09:40] condition and they want thirty five dollars for it.

[00:09:44] Well, I don't think I'm going to pull the trigger on that

[00:09:47] because it's probably a reprint or what I like is some of the old cards

[00:09:51] that got beat up real bad.

[00:09:52] Somebody takes some time and shaves off the side just a little bit.

[00:09:56] So yeah, you know, anyway.

[00:09:58] Just something to think about.

[00:09:59] What do we got?

[00:10:00] Let's take a look at the audience before we go into our sunshine prepper news

[00:10:04] from Willow this week.

[00:10:06] One step closer says I lost all my gold and guns in a tragic canoe accident.

[00:10:11] You know, that's been happening with guns across Canada the last few years

[00:10:15] ever since the Liberals got into power.

[00:10:17] I honestly think the solution would be to just stop getting into canoes.

[00:10:22] I think there seems to be something.

[00:10:24] I don't know what happens.

[00:10:26] People get stupid.

[00:10:27] I don't know if they're drinking.

[00:10:28] And I don't know why they take all their guns with them.

[00:10:30] I just don't get it.

[00:10:31] But folks just take their guns, they go out in a canoe and whoop, there they go.

[00:10:36] And B Man Jay says, I went fishing, lost all my guns when I flipped my boat.

[00:10:39] See, what are the chances of two folks in the same livestream

[00:10:44] having the same boat accident and losing their guns?

[00:10:47] I don't know. Just saying.

[00:10:48] What a weird situation to be in.

[00:10:50] And B Man Jay says you should buy gold off Team You.

[00:10:54] Just saying you're taking your life in your own hands when you do something like that.

[00:11:00] All right, so you guys know the story Willow Sunshine Prepper.

[00:11:05] We did an episode with Carrie, with Sean Mills, myself and Nicole Sauce.

[00:11:10] We did an accelerator to kind of look at the things that she was really good at

[00:11:14] and try to push her in the right direction of doing something great.

[00:11:17] She wanted to figure out a way to kind of monetize her sunshine.

[00:11:20] So this is what we came up with.

[00:11:22] And I challenged her. I said, here's the deal.

[00:11:25] If you can get me a segment every week for three months,

[00:11:29] I will play it on the show.

[00:11:31] And she turns out to be our smiling, overly bubbly, remote reporter.

[00:11:35] And she's turning out to be an incredible asset to the workshop.

[00:11:40] So let's bring up Willow and we will get her playing here.

[00:11:44] Give me a moment. And here is Willow's segment.

[00:11:48] Of course, I'm going to intro it.

[00:11:50] She's talking about the border crisis.

[00:11:51] We're not going to do it twice this week. She's going to cover it.

[00:11:54] I'm going to leave it alone. Here we go.

[00:11:59] Hello, welcome to today's Sunshine Prepper News.

[00:12:02] I will have the Sunshine Prepper here to spread a bit of positivity

[00:12:05] on the unavoidable doom and gloom.

[00:12:08] Please join me for a big deep breath and a nice long sigh

[00:12:11] before we hop into today's topic.

[00:12:17] All right. Did you know that when your brain is more oxygenated?

[00:12:21] It works better.

[00:12:22] Some of us spend a lot of time hunched over computers all day

[00:12:25] and we're not breathing at full capacity.

[00:12:28] So you should try it sometime. It's really good for you.

[00:12:30] All right. Today's topic has recently exploded in awareness in the USA

[00:12:34] and it has great potential to shake the boat for us a bit.

[00:12:38] It's the border crisis.

[00:12:40] Let's lay some groundwork first.

[00:12:42] There are two ways to get into pretty much any country.

[00:12:45] The first is through legal immigration.

[00:12:48] It has a ton of steps. It takes a while.

[00:12:50] Think of it like applying for a job.

[00:12:52] If you were an employer,

[00:12:53] you would want to make sure you are hiring a good fit.

[00:12:56] Similarly, nations allow people to apply to move over here

[00:12:59] and nations prefer people with skills and economic stability,

[00:13:04] people who would be a good fit.

[00:13:05] Please realize pretty much all countries do this.

[00:13:08] The second way to get in is through illegal migration.

[00:13:12] So not immigration, but migration and migration is pretty much

[00:13:15] when a chunk or a swath of a population relocates.

[00:13:20] It's kind of like think of one way bird migration

[00:13:22] and that's what's exploding down at the southern border.

[00:13:25] But who are these people coming across the border?

[00:13:28] The most unusual thing is recently many of these are single fighting age men

[00:13:33] from all over the place, including countries that we're in conflict with.

[00:13:38] And you know, they just get a free easy wave through the border

[00:13:41] for who knows how long until their asylum trial.

[00:13:45] It's almost like we thank them for breaking the law

[00:13:47] by spending our tax dollars on them.

[00:13:50] OK, now here's a brief history to get you caught up to where things are today,

[00:13:54] where the situation has involved to include our very own

[00:13:57] peaceful chugger protests that's headed to Texas.

[00:14:00] This is happening right now.

[00:14:02] So once upon a time, the border was a smaller problem, but still a problem.

[00:14:06] And then during the pandemic, Title 42 came into place

[00:14:09] to more quickly expel migrants at the border.

[00:14:11] This was not sunshine and rainbows.

[00:14:13] It was not a nice time for anyone.

[00:14:16] But it is legal.

[00:14:18] And then once that expired and the status quo of Title Eight has returned,

[00:14:22] which allows for a person entering illegally to claim asylum

[00:14:26] and then to be allowed into the country and given resources

[00:14:29] to help them get by until their court date.

[00:14:32] This is getting really crazy.

[00:14:34] So some counties in Texas started declaring this an invasion back in 2002.

[00:14:38] And by late 2023, 15 counties had joined in.

[00:14:42] Texas tried to get everyone's attention, but it fell on deaf ears

[00:14:45] until Governor Abbott got creative and started busing these migrants to sanctuary cities.

[00:14:50] These are places where there is a policy,

[00:14:52] whether written or unwritten, that discourages local law enforcement

[00:14:55] from reporting the immigration status of individuals unless it involves

[00:14:58] investigation of a serious crime.

[00:15:01] Sometimes entire counties or states have declared sanctuary status.

[00:15:05] But the most attention has been on Chicago and New York, who are running

[00:15:09] out of places to put people.

[00:15:10] You got New York temporarily pushing 4400 students out of their school

[00:15:14] so it could be used to house like 2000 migrants through a storm.

[00:15:18] Chicago is going broke spending on average $7000 a month per migrant.

[00:15:24] Colorado struggling to keep up with trash cleanup.

[00:15:26] This whole thing is a pretty good example of idealistic policy having

[00:15:31] painful unintended consequences.

[00:15:34] All of this brings us to the present

[00:15:35] where there exists more than ever before great potential of civil war.

[00:15:40] It almost seems unbelievable when I say it out loud.

[00:15:43] But if you look too close at what's going on,

[00:15:46] you can see it's a bit of a crisis for our Constitution.

[00:15:49] The federal government has jurisdiction over the border,

[00:15:52] but Texas has a responsibility to defend its borders.

[00:15:56] Texas is stopping Border Patrol from coming into a state park that you have

[00:16:01] to pay to enter because Border Patrol is under orders to remove

[00:16:05] the razor wire that Texas has been putting up.

[00:16:08] So like all this specific in the news spat about the border,

[00:16:12] they're arguing over like 13 miles that's in a private park.

[00:16:16] Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

[00:16:19] So the Supreme Court decided that Biden's jurisdiction of the border was

[00:16:24] constitutional and that Texas had to stand down.

[00:16:27] Well, Texas said no, bro.

[00:16:29] And so Biden then threatened to nationalize

[00:16:31] the Texas National Guard to bring them under his command.

[00:16:34] And at this point, perhaps with the encouragement of Trump,

[00:16:37] it seems that over 25 states are either pledged or actively sending

[00:16:41] their guards to Eagle Pass in Texas to stand with Texas.

[00:16:45] We have a state defying a Supreme Court order and then other states joining that state.

[00:16:53] It's kind of kind of precarious.

[00:16:55] I mean, on top of that, Border Patrol has been

[00:16:57] in general, preventing Texas from protecting its borders by removing razor wire.

[00:17:02] And in one case, they had even used a forklift to raise the wire and let

[00:17:06] more than 300 illegals cross the border.

[00:17:09] But what can the federal government really do about this predicament?

[00:17:14] They can't afford to come across as too weak or other states will start testing

[00:17:17] other boundaries, too.

[00:17:18] Will declaring the Texas Guard suddenly under control by the Fed work?

[00:17:23] This is Texas we're talking about.

[00:17:25] Well, so far, the Geriatric Administration's low blow solution is

[00:17:30] to start disrupting the amount of liquid natural gas that Texas can export

[00:17:35] all under the guise of climate change.

[00:17:37] This is an attempt to put a big economic ding in Texas's wallet.

[00:17:41] Also, Europe is in critical need of these resources.

[00:17:44] So the side effect of punishing Texas for its defiance is that we're leaving

[00:17:49] our allies stranded between a pickle and a hard place.

[00:17:52] Ever since someone someone blew up the Russian pipeline,

[00:17:55] Europe is really counting on the US to help them with energy.

[00:17:58] So now we've got our own peaceful

[00:18:01] chucker convoy headed to make sure that the people's voices are heard

[00:18:04] and that we don't want an open border.

[00:18:05] Hopefully it turns out better than the Canadian Chugger protest in 2022.

[00:18:09] There's a few other angles to what's going on here,

[00:18:11] but they require a larger tinfoil hat than I have available today.

[00:18:19] That was fun.

[00:18:20] You'll likely hear more about this story soon as it continues to unfold.

[00:18:25] But if you really want to get ahead of the gloom,

[00:18:28] my suggestion today is to buy backups.

[00:18:32] Two is one and one is none.

[00:18:33] You got to have a backup.

[00:18:35] If you can have a backup to your backup, that's even better.

[00:18:37] Just do whatever you reasonably can do today to help ensure your family's

[00:18:41] quality of life in a very volatile future.

[00:18:44] This is Willow, the Sunshine Preferral.

[00:18:48] Well, I got to say what I think we have here, folks,

[00:18:51] is a good old fashioned Mexican standoff.

[00:18:54] Isn't that what they called it?

[00:18:55] Yeah, poor yeah.

[00:18:56] Willow did a great job covering this story.

[00:18:59] Make sure you give her a subscribe.

[00:19:01] Her link to this video is in today's description.

[00:19:04] She's doing a great job putting these together and she is a busy

[00:19:08] individual, but she does a great job covering the news without the doom and gloom,

[00:19:12] even though and some of these are some deep subjects.

[00:19:15] So anyway, give her a follow as far as the Trucker Convoy.

[00:19:19] Good for you, US.

[00:19:20] I'm happy to see it happen.

[00:19:22] Now, I'm going to say the Trucker Convoy in Canada was not a total failure

[00:19:28] by any means.

[00:19:30] It was the catalyst that really started bringing a lot of the provinces to drop

[00:19:36] their COVID restrictions.

[00:19:38] It really was the tipping point that brought

[00:19:42] a semblance of sanity back to Canada.

[00:19:45] And I mean a very, very small semblance and yet they are going to make some

[00:19:51] examples out of a few of the folks.

[00:19:53] There's no doubt in my mind there's a few that are in

[00:19:57] that have basically been in jail since it started and they're getting ready to,

[00:20:00] I don't know, sentence them who knows?

[00:20:02] But it all ended up whether or not

[00:20:06] there's going to be one or two people who are going to go to jail over the entire

[00:20:09] thing, it most definitely pushed the right buttons and rattled the right chain.

[00:20:14] So let's leave it at that.

[00:20:15] Hey, folks, all right, let's remember our sponsor for this evening.

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[00:20:22] He is a literal phoenix rising who came back from

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[00:20:35] So give him a follow.

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[00:20:39] Stick him in your old ear holes and let him give you a verbal kick to the behind

[00:20:44] because we all deserve one and if we want to get good shit done,

[00:20:48] it sure as hell helps to have somebody who is a motivational speaker.

[00:20:54] So all right, let's get this going here next.

[00:20:57] And we have, all right, this is a good one.

[00:21:00] I've got some good stories for you tonight.

[00:21:01] We're going to kind of jump over them.

[00:21:03] I'll try not to land on any one of them too quickly because you know how it is.

[00:21:08] I try to do my best to share these stories.

[00:21:11] This is one that I've had my eye on for a little while in this section.

[00:21:14] Segment is called Stranger Than Fiction.

[00:21:17] This was probably the very first segment that I started in this podcast a

[00:21:22] couple of years ago.

[00:21:24] It's a lot of fun.

[00:21:25] Becky and I have done a couple of these entire episodes just on this kind of stuff.

[00:21:28] So anyway, if anybody's heard this story,

[00:21:30] it kind of follows suit with the theme that we're talking about this evening.

[00:21:35] And that would be immigration or the lack of proper immigration controls, perhaps.

[00:21:41] So here it is.

[00:21:42] This is a story from blog Tio and for those Americans,

[00:21:45] it's not to its Tio for Toronto, Ontario.

[00:21:47] So there you go.

[00:21:49] Title is staff from one airline continue to mysteriously disappear

[00:21:54] after landing in Toronto.

[00:21:55] Now, first off, there's nothing nefarious going on here.

[00:22:00] It just seems like that this one country's airlines,

[00:22:03] people have realized that it's a fairly slick way to get into the country

[00:22:07] and then disappear or do whatever it is that they do.

[00:22:10] So let me show you the highlights of this and we'll see what we can find out here.

[00:22:15] So this good on my radar, pardon the pun, of course,

[00:22:19] probably six months ago in 2023, at least seven of the airlines crew

[00:22:24] members disappeared after landing in Canada.

[00:22:27] So these are PIA, I believe.

[00:22:30] Let me back up just a little bit here.

[00:22:32] Flight crew members working for Pakistan

[00:22:34] international airlines continue to vanish after landing at Pearson International

[00:22:38] Airport, that's the biggest airport, at least in Toronto.

[00:22:42] And so what happens?

[00:22:44] They land, they get some downtime.

[00:22:47] They're like, hey, yeah, I'm just going to go to the bar, wink, wink.

[00:22:51] And then they never come back.

[00:22:52] So what's going on here?

[00:22:55] Seven of the airlines crew members disappeared in 2023.

[00:22:58] There's been a couple that have disappeared later on this year, early this year already.

[00:23:04] There's no failure on the part of the airline.

[00:23:06] So the airline says, as we've tried to put in the most stringent possible

[00:23:11] efforts to curtail it, here's the kicker and I see Sandy in here.

[00:23:15] I'm sure she'll understand.

[00:23:17] The laws of Canada are so liberal that those measures become counter effective.

[00:23:21] In other words, there's really not much they can do to keep them there,

[00:23:25] which it is what it is.

[00:23:27] According to Canada's immigration and refugee protection regulations,

[00:23:31] get this for you, Chris Dixon says disappeared.

[00:23:34] Yes, with quotation marks around it.

[00:23:36] According to Canada's immigration and refugee protection regulations,

[00:23:41] foreign nationals need not obtain a temporary resident visa if they seek

[00:23:46] to enter and remain in Canada as a flight crew member.

[00:23:50] So they don't need a whole lot of paperwork.

[00:23:53] They just basically need a job.

[00:23:54] They're like, hey, I want to be a flight attendant.

[00:23:57] Pakistani Airlines flies into Toronto.

[00:23:59] They're like, yep, we'll see in a few hours when the flight leaves

[00:24:02] and they just continue to disappear on multiple occasions.

[00:24:07] They have had to fly back short a crew member.

[00:24:10] The country doesn't want them to do it.

[00:24:12] Canada doesn't really care and they just continue to do it.

[00:24:17] It kind of blew me out of the water.

[00:24:19] This feels like a developing story and that we'll find out more about it as time

[00:24:23] goes on, but it's shown up probably three times now over the last six months.

[00:24:29] And I said, you know what?

[00:24:29] I just want to share it so you guys know how easy it is.

[00:24:33] If you ever wanted to come to Canada for an extended vacation, there you go.

[00:24:36] All right, Chris Dixon, let's look at the community comments here.

[00:24:40] Said they basically become squatters in Canada and they can't be deported.

[00:24:44] Kind of how it works, isn't it?

[00:24:46] And one step closer says, did they have information that would put Hillary in jail?

[00:24:50] No, I think she'd be in favour of these folks.

[00:24:52] I'm pretty sure I think she would.

[00:24:53] So let's leave that one at that.

[00:24:56] How about our buddy, Elon Musk?

[00:24:59] Anybody here what he's been up to this week?

[00:25:00] This one's an interesting one.

[00:25:02] I don't know where everybody lands on this.

[00:25:06] I will give you my opinion because that's what I'm here to do.

[00:25:10] How implanted brain chips like Neuralink could change our lives.

[00:25:15] So this week, the very first Neuralink chip in plant, whatever you want to call it,

[00:25:20] was implanted in a willing, I use that word willing, a willing human participant

[00:25:24] for the very first time.

[00:25:26] This is an article from Time.

[00:25:28] Can you even can I even call them Time magazine anymore?

[00:25:31] Because I don't know.

[00:25:33] The only place I see magazines is at the check out at Walmart.

[00:25:36] And from what I understand, they just put them there until the end of the

[00:25:39] week and then they throw them out so I really don't have any idea.

[00:25:42] But let's slide in and see what we can come up with.

[00:25:44] OK, Elon Musk announced on Monday that the first human has received a brain

[00:25:50] implant through his Neuralink startup.

[00:25:53] Now, if we stopped right there, I'd be like, man, that gives me the heebie-jeebies.

[00:25:58] I don't love the idea of this kind of,

[00:26:01] you know, you hear about augmented reality where you wear glasses and stuff.

[00:26:05] Well, this is a legit version of augmented reality.

[00:26:10] So here's where

[00:26:12] when I read that headline, I thought, oh, shit, stay away from me.

[00:26:15] I have no interest in that.

[00:26:17] However, again, I'm a big believer that technology is amoral and things like

[00:26:23] guns, like bombs, like anything could be good or could be bad,

[00:26:29] depending on the hands they're put in and depending on the end use of the

[00:26:33] product. So keep that in mind as we trail along just a little bit further.

[00:26:40] Neuralink's current trial, named the Prime Study, is aimed at providing

[00:26:45] individuals with quadriplegia, the ability to control external devices with their

[00:26:50] thoughts. OK, right there.

[00:26:53] I'm cool with that.

[00:26:54] I have no problem because, number one, if somebody is quadriplegic,

[00:26:59] I mean, you go back 100, 200 years and they didn't even survive.

[00:27:05] So our modern medical system is keeping them alive longer anyhow.

[00:27:08] But if they're cognizant and have sound mind and they want to choose to try these

[00:27:12] experiments, I'm good with that.

[00:27:14] But here we go.

[00:27:16] I think at least in the immediate future, it's going to potentially revolutionise

[00:27:20] the way people with sensory or motor deficits might be able to interact

[00:27:23] with the environment and live more independently.

[00:27:26] I think that's kind of cool.

[00:27:27] I can dig that because, again,

[00:27:29] these are folks who could seriously use some independence.

[00:27:33] So these are called brain control interfaces.

[00:27:36] Sounds a little sketchy, doesn't it?

[00:27:37] So BCIs have already demonstrated the ability to help individuals to control

[00:27:42] technology with their thoughts, allowing paralyzed patients to control a robotic

[00:27:47] arm or move a cursor.

[00:27:49] One recent trial even allowed a person to control a video game in their mind.

[00:27:53] OK, so far so good.

[00:27:57] Hang on.

[00:27:58] The person and I like this.

[00:28:00] This is kind of interesting.

[00:28:01] The person is trained and the system is trained and the two work together.

[00:28:06] These repeatable patterns are often are being associated with actions,

[00:28:10] such as opening an app, clicking, maybe moving a cursor up and down.

[00:28:13] So basically this machine in my limited understanding

[00:28:17] watches your brain patterns and each time something moves or you're able to move

[00:28:22] it, it memorizes what those patterns look like.

[00:28:25] And eventually, once it sees those patterns enough, it knows, OK,

[00:28:29] I saw that brain pattern.

[00:28:30] So now let's move the cursor or the joystick to your wheelchair.

[00:28:35] Just a little bit ahead.

[00:28:37] OK, so far I'm OK with that.

[00:28:41] Now, this is where it gets into very weird territory.

[00:28:45] We have an issue in Canada right now.

[00:28:47] And if you guys have heard about this about made the medical assistance and

[00:28:50] dying, no matter where you stand on it, you guys know I'm a

[00:28:56] moral anarchist.

[00:28:57] And so I believe that if a person has,

[00:29:00] you know, if they're of sound mind again and they are in excruciating pain or

[00:29:06] whatever it happens to be, then they should have the right to be able to,

[00:29:10] you know, end their suffering on their terms.

[00:29:12] I'm good with that.

[00:29:13] But then they're getting into mental diseases and mental deficiencies.

[00:29:17] And anyway, just a crazy thing.

[00:29:20] So this is where this is this kind of gray area.

[00:29:23] Mood regulation.

[00:29:24] You're like, what?

[00:29:25] This took a weird turn really quick.

[00:29:26] We go from, hey, let's help folks out who are in a wheelchair to

[00:29:31] let's make people feel better now.

[00:29:34] Not really 1984, but maybe more like Adols Huxley's A Brave New World.

[00:29:38] I don't know.

[00:29:39] Musk has long maintained that neuro link could be used to help

[00:29:42] individuals regulate their mood and hormones.

[00:29:46] It's a breakthrough that could be a particular use for those with OCD

[00:29:49] or treatment resistant depression.

[00:29:52] Though throw this in there.

[00:29:54] More research is needed until it becomes a possibility.

[00:29:59] Where do you fall on that?

[00:30:00] I mean, I don't know.

[00:30:02] That's a tough one.

[00:30:03] And that's where you get into this really snaky kind of gray territory,

[00:30:07] isn't it? All right.

[00:30:09] Risk of implants, the brain stimulation, simulation that BCIs and TAL

[00:30:13] can trigger epileiform activity, a precursor to epilepsy or epileptic attacks.

[00:30:18] So again, folks who are going to take part in these trials need to know

[00:30:22] the risks of it, right?

[00:30:23] The body might try to reject the implant just like they try to reject,

[00:30:26] say, a transplanted liver or anything like that.

[00:30:31] Because of the high and still highly unknown risks associated with the implant,

[00:30:37] the process will only likely be undergone by someone who might stand to gain

[00:30:41] from the treatment like those with incurable medical conditions.

[00:30:45] The technology might be used to allow

[00:30:47] here, they always throw this at the end.

[00:30:50] You know, the most sketchy part of an article, they try to

[00:30:54] let's just say they slide you into it.

[00:30:56] So we start with, hey, let's help people in a wheelchair.

[00:30:59] Cool. All right.

[00:31:00] Next, we go on to, hey, let's let's make you feel better.

[00:31:04] OK. And then the very last paragraph,

[00:31:07] they say the technology might be used someday to allow companies to read our

[00:31:11] minds or users to offload their memories is not happening anytime soon.

[00:31:15] Somebody said though, the future is still wide open.

[00:31:19] So I don't know, what does everybody think about that?

[00:31:21] It, like I said, I'm OK with it helping other people.

[00:31:24] But then you get into this whole weird area.

[00:31:27] And again, if you're of sane mind, I don't care what you're doing.

[00:31:31] But wow, the technology is endless.

[00:31:34] Let's take a look at some of the comments we got while we were doing here.

[00:31:38] All right. Ellen Kerr says, going back to the previous article,

[00:31:42] sort of similar to what happened during a military exercise in Darwin,

[00:31:45] when North Northern Territory, Australia,

[00:31:48] we had two Pakistani Navy ships participating in one of the crew jump ship.

[00:31:52] Again, it doesn't surprise me.

[00:31:55] The exercise was then focused on finding the sailor.

[00:31:58] He was on the run for five days in saltwater crocodile territory.

[00:32:02] Pakistani Navy ships are no longer

[00:32:04] invited to participate in exercises in Australia anymore.

[00:32:07] I can't imagine why that blows me away.

[00:32:11] Off-grid Ping says, stay far away

[00:32:13] from that transhumanism anyone.

[00:32:16] And Off-grid Ping says, nothing great about this type of technology.

[00:32:19] While there may be small winds, it's pure evil.

[00:32:22] And again, I'm cool with that.

[00:32:24] I totally see where you're coming from it.

[00:32:26] I will politely disagree simply on the fact that, again, I'm

[00:32:31] I'm a technology agnostic because I just don't want that same kind

[00:32:37] of mindset to be turned around and used against folks who to impede our

[00:32:42] freedoms and put it that way.

[00:32:43] But I get it because I'm sure there are folks behind some of this stuff that

[00:32:48] don't necessarily have the most altruistic intentions.

[00:32:53] Let's put it that way. How's that sound?

[00:32:55] And B-Man J, of course, technology is great till Skynet takes over.

[00:32:59] We actually funny you mentioned that, but we actually have a little piece

[00:33:03] of Terminator news later on this evening.

[00:33:05] So there you go.

[00:33:06] How about next? What do we got next?

[00:33:07] This is a funny one.

[00:33:08] I thought you guys would appreciate this.

[00:33:10] I think we came up with a solution to eliminate our overuse of politicians

[00:33:17] or the fact that we just have too many of them.

[00:33:21] Here you go.

[00:33:22] Anybody see this new story from Newsweek?

[00:33:24] You ready? It's a good one.

[00:33:27] Missouri rule will change or Missouri rule change would allow

[00:33:30] senators to challenge each other to a duel.

[00:33:34] You, sir, are a scoundrel and I would like to challenge you to a duel.

[00:33:40] Can you imagine like this almost seems like, I don't know.

[00:33:44] You know how they say keep them distracted with bread and circuses?

[00:33:47] Well, this is most definitely one of the circuses, isn't it?

[00:33:51] Is it circuses or circus?

[00:33:53] Oh boy, I don't know. Anyway, anybody catch that sign this week?

[00:33:57] It was a restaurant in Toronto.

[00:34:00] They put up a sign to say due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to close

[00:34:04] this evening, however, spell check or somebody who didn't maybe know what

[00:34:09] they were doing wrote due to due to unforeseen circumcision.

[00:34:15] The restaurant will be closed this evening.

[00:34:17] I don't think there should ever be anything unforeseen about a circumcision,

[00:34:21] but you know, that's just me.

[00:34:24] Chris Dixon says, are you in control of why or how you feel better?

[00:34:29] Yes, I might expand on that just a little bit, because I think I'm not quite sure.

[00:34:35] I think we're coming back at that article before, but if you can expand on it,

[00:34:38] I'll definitely talk on it. So here we go.

[00:34:40] All right, a member of the Missouri Senate has proposed a rule change that if passed

[00:34:44] would allow senators to challenge each other to a duel.

[00:34:47] I'm not really sure why I need to say it in a Southern gentleman accent,

[00:34:51] but dual just needs to be senator Nick Schroer said he wants to adopt

[00:34:57] a rule change allowing state politicians to settle grievances through physicality.

[00:35:02] So it sounds to me like it's not just a duel,

[00:35:05] but it could be just a good old physical altercation.

[00:35:08] Now, here's what I think.

[00:35:10] If you guys have ever caught, I'm sure you haven't,

[00:35:12] but I'm sure it's the same in the states, the Canadian parliamentary channel,

[00:35:15] the most boring thing in the world, except when everybody gets bent out of shape

[00:35:20] and they start harassing each other and verbally accosting one another.

[00:35:24] But you know, what's the old saying by Mike Tyson?

[00:35:27] I well, there's a few things, but everybody has a plan to get punched in the mouth.

[00:35:31] And I really think that some people would just shut their fucking,

[00:35:35] you know, just shut their fucking face once or twice if they ended up having

[00:35:39] the ability to turn around and get into a duel because of it.

[00:35:43] So this is kind of funny.

[00:35:44] So if a senator's honor is impugned by another senator to the point

[00:35:49] that it is beyond repair and in order for the offended senator to gain

[00:35:53] satisfaction, such senator may rectify the perceived insult to the senator's

[00:35:58] honor by challenging the offending senator to a duel.

[00:36:02] There you go. I love it.

[00:36:04] The trusted representative known as the second of the offended senator shall

[00:36:09] send a written challenge to the offending senator.

[00:36:12] This is all like really particularly written.

[00:36:15] The two senators shall agree to the terms of the duel,

[00:36:17] including choice of weapons, which shall be witnessed and enforced by

[00:36:21] their respective seconds.

[00:36:22] The duel shall take place in the well of the Senate at the high hour of noon

[00:36:28] on the date agreed by the parties to the duel.

[00:36:30] What I would love to see is two senators dressed up in inflatable

[00:36:33] Tyrannosaurus Rex costumes and the first person to get knocked over gets fed

[00:36:38] to the fishes. I don't know. I think it would be a lot of fun now, wouldn't it?

[00:36:41] Yes.

[00:36:43] Thank you.

[00:36:44] Chris Dixon says give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

[00:36:47] Yes, that is true.

[00:36:48] Bman J says when does technology and business take human life?

[00:36:52] The hospital AI decides too much resources are being used to keep someone alive

[00:36:56] and AI pulls the plug.

[00:36:58] Yes, I don't disagree with you there at all.

[00:37:01] There we are one step closer.

[00:37:03] And I agree completely people are so rude because they don't fear getting

[00:37:07] punched 100 percent.

[00:37:10] I think some people would absolutely

[00:37:13] shut their mouth for a minute if they were afraid of getting a few teeth

[00:37:16] knocked out. Bman J, yes, bring back duals.

[00:37:20] Watch people become better when their life is on the line.

[00:37:22] Yep. I think it would just shut folks up just a little bit now, wouldn't it?

[00:37:26] Of course it would.

[00:37:27] All right, let's move on to the final

[00:37:29] news story in Stranger Than Fiction this week.

[00:37:32] So this is one.

[00:37:33] This one is probably the

[00:37:37] darkest story, maybe the one that has the most to do with prepping this

[00:37:41] evening. It kind of sucks.

[00:37:43] It was all over Reddit the last few days and

[00:37:46] it is what it is. But let's go over it just so we know that there is a

[00:37:50] it always seems to involve the Chinese. I'm sorry, I just it does right.

[00:37:54] So FBI director warns Chinese hackers aim to wreak havoc on US critical

[00:37:58] infrastructure. So this entire article written by NBC News comes out of a

[00:38:04] I don't know if it was a it was a Senate or a House committee,

[00:38:07] something like that.

[00:38:08] The guy was presenting kind of his findings about Chinese hackers in

[00:38:12] North America and mostly the States.

[00:38:15] FBI director warned about the growing threat of cyber attacks, Chinese cyber

[00:38:19] attacks against electrical grids and other infrastructure.

[00:38:23] Chinese hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation

[00:38:27] to wreak havoc and cause real world harm to American citizens and communities

[00:38:32] if or when China decides the time comes to strike.

[00:38:35] So here's the thing.

[00:38:36] They're kind of in there, you know, a ghost in the machine playing with

[00:38:40] the Cogs and the levers and all that shit.

[00:38:42] And they're just doing what hackers do, taking advantage of exploits,

[00:38:48] putting little packets here and there, you know, tracking software, that kind of stuff.

[00:38:52] There's been far too little public focus on Chinese hackers targeting critical

[00:38:56] infrastructure such as these are the ones that get a little scary.

[00:39:00] Water treatment plants, electrical grids, oil and natural gas pipelines.

[00:39:04] The Justice Department and FBI announced they had disabled this is so this

[00:39:07] is where the kind of metaphorical rubber meets the road here, folks.

[00:39:12] Chinese hacking operation that had

[00:39:14] infected hundreds of small office and home routers with botnet malware that

[00:39:19] targeted critical infrastructure.

[00:39:21] The Justice Department said the hackers known to the private sector is Volt

[00:39:24] Typhoon, it sounds like 17 year old boys in high school come up with that name.

[00:39:30] Use privately owned small routers that were

[00:39:32] infected with KV botnet malware to conceal further Chinese hacking

[00:39:36] activities against US and foreign victims.

[00:39:40] The malware enabled China.

[00:39:41] This is yeah, here it is right here, folks.

[00:39:44] The Volt Typhoon malware enabled China to hide among other things.

[00:39:49] Pre-operational reconnaissance, in other words, where checking things out

[00:39:55] ahead of time,

[00:39:57] network exploitation against critical infrastructure like our communications,

[00:40:01] energy, transportation, water sectors.

[00:40:04] Steps China was taking, in other words, to find and prepare to destroy or degrade

[00:40:08] the civilian critical infrastructure that keeps us safe and prosperous.

[00:40:16] The majority of the routers affected now here.

[00:40:18] OK, here is a place where we can all take a note.

[00:40:23] Routers affected by the hackers were vulnerable because they reached end

[00:40:26] of life status and can no longer be supported by their manufacturers.

[00:40:30] Security patches or other software updates.

[00:40:34] Interesting.

[00:40:35] Hey, so there you go.

[00:40:37] Real quick, you've got the FBI, the head of the FBI,

[00:40:42] testifying this week that Chinese hackers have infiltrated at least some known

[00:40:48] routers within the United States.

[00:40:50] They're doing pre-engagement reconnaissance to see, hey,

[00:40:56] what can we find out?

[00:40:57] What can we probe?

[00:40:58] Because again, it doesn't take taking down an entire grid.

[00:41:02] It just takes one notch in the grid to mess things up royally.

[00:41:06] So just something to be aware of.

[00:41:08] These are the type of reasons we prep.

[00:41:10] Hopefully we never ever have to deal with shit like this.

[00:41:12] I know personally these are the type of stories that Becky and I talk about.

[00:41:17] This is how it goes at home in the evening.

[00:41:19] She's like, honey, have you heard about this yet?

[00:41:20] And I'm like, I have not.

[00:41:23] Holy yeah.

[00:41:24] And then so I do some digging and then I in my mind I

[00:41:27] think it's going to be hard to believe, but I think I'm an optimist.

[00:41:31] I try to be an optimist.

[00:41:32] And so I typically tell Becky, yeah, it's either something to be worried about.

[00:41:36] It's either something not to be worried about like back in February of 2020,

[00:41:40] when Doc Bones was talking about this weird China Chinese flu thing that was

[00:41:44] coming around, that was something to pay attention to.

[00:41:48] So all right, here we go.

[00:41:51] Chris Dixon just said, I need to cover here.

[00:41:54] I will.

[00:41:55] You know what?

[00:41:56] This is really funny.

[00:41:57] I really should have covered this article.

[00:41:58] So let's take a look at what folks have to say here.

[00:42:01] And Dixon says you need to cover the telegraph article about how growing your

[00:42:04] own food has a five times larger carbon footprint than conventional procedures.

[00:42:08] Shake my head.

[00:42:10] Damn it.

[00:42:11] I read that article this week and it was so bad.

[00:42:13] Actually, I've got one for you that's going to be just about as good at

[00:42:17] the end here that was submitted to me through email.

[00:42:21] I just got to show it out, guys.

[00:42:22] This show has been taking off like crazy.

[00:42:24] I've been getting a ton of back door, back door action.

[00:42:28] Oh my God, Tim, that sounds awful.

[00:42:29] I've been getting all kinds of stuff from folks who have been sending it along like,

[00:42:32] hey, Tim, have you seen this or have you heard about this?

[00:42:34] Or here's my personal experience.

[00:42:36] So I know it's going to be a whole week away, but I will cover this article

[00:42:40] next week for you, Dixon.

[00:42:41] Absolutely.

[00:42:42] I think that's great.

[00:42:43] And I did.

[00:42:43] I did read that article this week.

[00:42:45] It just didn't quite make the cut.

[00:42:46] So that is the end of Stranger Than Fiction because my goodness isn't life.

[00:42:54] Sometimes stranger than something you could write up now, isn't it?

[00:42:57] Let's go back real quick and take a look at what the folks had to say about those

[00:43:00] last couple of articles.

[00:43:02] Jeff Stark, I like that.

[00:43:03] It looks like a blue moose in your your profile photo there.

[00:43:07] He said, is that the same FBI that swore Trump was a Russian asset?

[00:43:14] Touche, brother Touche.

[00:43:17] I mean, it's the same Ruby Ridge, you know, right?

[00:43:21] So there you go.

[00:43:21] I don't know.

[00:43:22] Anyway, yes, it is.

[00:43:24] Who knows?

[00:43:26] Just wanted to put it out there that they're actually talking.

[00:43:28] I mean, this is the same US government that had folks in it saying that aliens

[00:43:32] were 100 percent real and that we had them.

[00:43:34] I don't know. We'll see. Here we are.

[00:43:36] Move on.

[00:43:38] Ellen Curse says so many personal data breaches happening over the last few

[00:43:41] months as well, that is 100 percent true.

[00:43:44] I probably I know I've shared the story before, but our really only

[00:43:48] bookstore in Canada is known as Indigo.

[00:43:51] They own Indigo chapters, coals and a few other ones.

[00:43:56] They were a victim of, again, what do you want to call it?

[00:43:59] Like cyber hacking slash ransomware.

[00:44:03] And they I don't think they ever paid for it.

[00:44:06] They had to rebuild their customer database from scratch.

[00:44:09] They were doing handwritten receipts for an entire month last summer.

[00:44:13] So that tells you, holy crap.

[00:44:15] Anyway.

[00:44:18] Hey, Digger, good to see you in here.

[00:44:20] Just showed up a little bit late.

[00:44:22] We love having you either way.

[00:44:23] So there you go.

[00:44:24] That was stranger than fiction for this week.

[00:44:27] I've got some good little clips here coming up for you, though.

[00:44:30] So next we got workshop wasteland.

[00:44:33] And for those who are listening to the show for the very first time,

[00:44:35] this is probably one of my favorite segments because, you know,

[00:44:38] I'm kind of well, number one, it's my show and I get to talk about

[00:44:42] everything I want to talk about.

[00:44:43] And if people don't listen, that's on me.

[00:44:45] That's my responsibility.

[00:44:46] But folks around here seem to dig a little bit about dystopian and post apocalyptic

[00:44:50] books and movies and TV shows.

[00:44:53] So I always like to touch on things a bit.

[00:44:56] Becky and I haven't had a chance to watch this yet.

[00:44:58] And I don't think anybody else in here probably has either.

[00:45:01] But I'd love to know someone's thoughts on it because

[00:45:04] inverse dot com says Netflix just quietly released the best sci-fi dystopia

[00:45:10] of the year, hadn't heard of it.

[00:45:12] Looks interesting.

[00:45:15] They said Netflix has the habit of acquiring

[00:45:18] promising titles only to dump them into its catalog without a whiff of promotion.

[00:45:23] That is probably one of the biggest downfalls of streaming.

[00:45:27] I heard somebody say the other day that being Netflix famous is the weirdest

[00:45:30] thing in the world because for two weeks, the entire world wants to hear

[00:45:34] what you have to say.

[00:45:36] And then on day 15, nobody cares and you move on.

[00:45:39] It's like Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame on steroids.

[00:45:43] That's what it's like.

[00:45:44] All right, Netflix recent acquisitions,

[00:45:47] fewer more deserving of a platform than this new thriller called The Kitchen,

[00:45:51] cementing a vision of dystopian near future London alongside an unconventional

[00:45:56] tale of found family.

[00:45:58] Now, you had me at London.

[00:46:00] I've been a sucker for British films over the years.

[00:46:03] I don't know why I love the British slang.

[00:46:05] I love the British kind of ghetto areas.

[00:46:08] All of that.

[00:46:10] All right. And now this might be a weird one,

[00:46:13] but the guy writing the article says it's a blowcamp ask.

[00:46:17] Now you might say, well, who is that Neil Blowne camp?

[00:46:19] He did Chappy.

[00:46:21] He did all the movie with Matt Damon, which I can't remember.

[00:46:25] But what he has this ability of doing is these crazy South African

[00:46:33] urban decay movies.

[00:46:35] So this has that feel.

[00:46:36] So I'm really remotely kind of cautiously optimistic.

[00:46:40] Thank you, District 9.

[00:46:42] That's another one he did.

[00:46:43] Yep.

[00:46:44] Some days my mind works great in other days.

[00:46:46] I have so many things running around that the hamster gets tired and says,

[00:46:50] I'm hopping off Tim, you got this on your own today, baby.

[00:46:53] All right.

[00:46:54] The kitchen is a powder keg ready to explode a housing project on London's

[00:46:58] South Bank.

[00:46:59] The domain is one of the last bastions of resistance to the gentrification

[00:47:03] that's chewed up the city from the inside and spat out a sprawling

[00:47:08] Cubist monstrosity.

[00:47:09] Whoever wrote that, if it wasn't AI, they deserve a they must be getting paid

[00:47:14] by the syllable because that was a mouthful.

[00:47:16] So it sounds a little bit like dread, judge dread meets children of men,

[00:47:23] meets a whole bunch of other films.

[00:47:25] So it to me sounds like it'll be right up my alley.

[00:47:29] Haven't watched it yet.

[00:47:30] Just wanted to share with you guys that this was something new.

[00:47:32] That's as much as we're going to talk about that one.

[00:47:34] We got four things to touch on in workshop wasteland this evening.

[00:47:38] Jeff Stark says Tim show, and that's why I'm here.

[00:47:41] Winky face.

[00:47:43] Yes, that's for everybody in the audio.

[00:47:45] In case you didn't know, I'm going to translate emojis from now on as well.

[00:47:49] All right. This is a good one here.

[00:47:51] Now you might OK.

[00:47:52] Hang on. Is that really Glenn from Walking Dead and Bella from Twilight?

[00:47:58] Yep, it is.

[00:47:59] Love Me is a surprisingly gentle vision of the apocalypse.

[00:48:04] Here's yet another one.

[00:48:05] This one premiered at Sundance Film Festival this week.

[00:48:09] This is also from inverse.com.

[00:48:11] They said I'm not going to go deep into this.

[00:48:14] Actually, you know what?

[00:48:15] Let's forgo the article and I'm just going to give you an overview of it.

[00:48:18] If you guys it, I don't even know where to start with it.

[00:48:22] But there was a movie called Her a few years ago that had Joaquin Phoenix in it.

[00:48:27] And then this has a bit of that.

[00:48:30] The world is ended.

[00:48:32] Apparently, Glenn from the Walking Dead is all of human knowledge in a piece of software.

[00:48:40] And Bella is a satellite.

[00:48:43] I don't know.

[00:48:44] It sounds messed up, but they fall in love.

[00:48:47] And then eventually they become real people.

[00:48:49] I don't know.

[00:48:49] A weird story.

[00:48:51] It's probably way more esoteric than most folks out there would care to watch.

[00:48:55] I'm sure mama and I will watch this at some time.

[00:48:59] I will give you my thoughts on it so that you don't have to watch it.

[00:49:02] But it is it's different.

[00:49:04] It's a bit like Wally meets her.

[00:49:09] Meets.

[00:49:10] I don't even know where to go with it.

[00:49:12] Just, you know, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

[00:49:15] It's going to be a messed up one.

[00:49:17] Let's move on to something more fun.

[00:49:19] How about Terminator 7 folks?

[00:49:21] Yeah. Did you know there's been six Terminator movies?

[00:49:24] Two that are good.

[00:49:25] One that was OK, a TV show that was all right, a book that was OK.

[00:49:29] You know how it is, right?

[00:49:30] But two absolute stinkers.

[00:49:32] The last two were actually backup.

[00:49:34] The last three were so bad I don't even want to pretend like they happened.

[00:49:38] Now, this is not super great news, but it's something and I was kind of excited.

[00:49:42] James Cameron has announced he's currently working on a script for Terminator 7.

[00:49:47] Now, I was really excited when James Cameron announced a few years ago

[00:49:51] that he was working on a script for Terminator 6

[00:49:55] until I watched Terminator 6 and realized

[00:49:58] even James Cameron couldn't save that franchise.

[00:50:02] Do we need another one? No.

[00:50:04] Will I still go and watch it?

[00:50:06] Yep, I will. Simple as that.

[00:50:09] That's my problem. I don't know what it is.

[00:50:11] You know, there you go.

[00:50:12] So even with the promising news, their setbacks as Cameron himself has admitted

[00:50:16] he's taking his time.

[00:50:17] Cameron has been somewhat vocal about the franchise he helped create.

[00:50:21] And this is kind of cool.

[00:50:22] I like this part and you guys, you know, this is where we talked about it earlier.

[00:50:28] Cameron has been somewhat vocal about the franchise and his plan for resurrecting

[00:50:31] the Diering series is through the exploration of artificial intelligence

[00:50:35] in the modern context, along with the hint that he was still working on the script.

[00:50:40] Cameron also made it clear he was waiting for more developments

[00:50:43] in modern AI to help inform his story.

[00:50:46] Will we ever see one?

[00:50:48] I don't know.

[00:50:49] It would sure, man, between Terminator Salvation, Terminator Genesis

[00:50:54] and whatever the hell Terminator 6 was called.

[00:50:57] Terminator 6 goes woke, goes broke.

[00:51:00] And there you go.

[00:51:01] No, it was it was like a soft reboot Terminator 6 was.

[00:51:05] It was kind of similar to the latest trilogy of Star Wars movie.

[00:51:10] It just didn't work.

[00:51:11] Where they go with it? I don't know.

[00:51:13] But I thought I'd share that little tidbit of news.

[00:51:15] It might anybody out there who's a post apocalyptic fanboy for,

[00:51:19] you know, aging Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[00:51:21] This might be something up your alley.

[00:51:23] And finally, couldn't leave workshop wasteland without an update on 28 years

[00:51:28] later because holy cow, I'm excited.

[00:51:31] I know, I know, I know, Tim, don't get so damn excited.

[00:51:35] You're an incurable optimist.

[00:51:36] You're going to pay for this when the movie comes out and it's awful.

[00:51:39] We're all going to throw tomatoes at you and tell you how bad it.

[00:51:41] Anyway, there you go.

[00:51:43] Zombie sequel 28 days later, lands at Sony.

[00:51:46] This is from the Hollywood Reporter.

[00:51:47] They put it up for bid.

[00:51:49] They spent a few days throwing a whole bunch of money around like Hollywood does.

[00:51:53] And eventually Sony got the rights.

[00:51:55] The other part of the story is that Sillian Murphy or Killian Murphy,

[00:51:58] I forget, I apologize to nobody

[00:52:01] whose career was launched thanks to the original movie is also returning as

[00:52:05] an executive producer.

[00:52:06] However, the Openheimer star could also possibly act in the project.

[00:52:12] Although details are being quarantined.

[00:52:14] Mwah, I think a dad wrote this article

[00:52:17] because that was definitely a dad joke right there.

[00:52:19] But we go from

[00:52:22] a possible Terminator 7 that maybe nobody ever wants to a 28 years later

[00:52:28] sequel who brings back the original writer, the original author,

[00:52:31] the original director and possibly the original star.

[00:52:36] What could go wrong in today's modern cinematic landscape?

[00:52:41] Absolutely nothing.

[00:52:42] Everybody, everything will be fine.

[00:52:44] I promise.

[00:52:45] Yeah, that's it from Workshop Wasteland this week, folks.

[00:52:47] Wasn't that much?

[00:52:49] Hope you're enjoying it.

[00:52:50] I got a good one for you.

[00:52:52] So last week's I ended up clipping

[00:52:55] my segment of I read it from the internet

[00:52:58] and I want to tell you some fun stuff.

[00:52:59] So I don't know if you guys remember the article last week,

[00:53:02] but it was about a guy who had, I think he was a bit autistic maybe.

[00:53:07] And he said that his mother stole all his perhaps and sold them.

[00:53:11] I ended up clipping that it became

[00:53:15] not that big of a deal, but it caught some traction on YouTube and on TikTok.

[00:53:21] And afterwards, I thought, oh,

[00:53:24] I really hope my mom doesn't see that because she might think I was telling

[00:53:28] stories about her.

[00:53:29] However, a lot of folks were like, your mom really did that or really?

[00:53:34] That's the case.

[00:53:34] Anyway, I guess I should have been slightly more careful with the 60 seconds.

[00:53:39] I chose to chop out of last week's episode.

[00:53:41] However, I read it on the internet is our weekly segment where I pick

[00:53:47] the top trending article from Reddit from last week in our preppers that is

[00:53:53] pertinent to us. This is a good one, guys.

[00:53:55] This is titled A Prep Saved My Family Today.

[00:54:00] And this is from Antropic Principle.

[00:54:02] That's the user.

[00:54:03] Got to give credit.

[00:54:04] I want to make sure that people know this.

[00:54:05] So I read it on the internet.

[00:54:07] A prep saved my family today.

[00:54:09] I'm a contractor.

[00:54:10] I use a fold down extendable gorilla ladder on job sites.

[00:54:13] A tool of my a lot of my tools,

[00:54:16] I will leave on jobs in the evenings and weekends, but not my ladder or a

[00:54:20] compressor. He sounds like how I treat my impact driver said today.

[00:54:25] Now, see if you can figure out.

[00:54:27] I want you guys to see if you can guess where this story is going before

[00:54:30] we get there. You don't have to type it.

[00:54:31] You can if you want.

[00:54:33] Today, I ran to get tortilla chips.

[00:54:35] Probably would have been faster if you drove, but that's his first mistake

[00:54:38] before the big game on my way home.

[00:54:40] I get a phone call for my wife.

[00:54:42] She'd taken the kiddos and the dog for a walk during the walk.

[00:54:46] The dog got away from her and ran on to a frozen beaver pond with lots of

[00:54:50] cat tails.

[00:54:51] The ice cat breaking and the dog got stuck where she couldn't be seen.

[00:54:56] She was in distress and my wife needed my help.

[00:54:59] I get there immediately.

[00:55:00] I find my wife. Oh man, this is crazy.

[00:55:02] Anyway, I found my wife went looking for the dog,

[00:55:05] found it and went through the ice neck deep with the dog.

[00:55:09] She pushed the dog out of the water onto the cat tail island and managed to

[00:55:13] get herself out of the water and onto the island as well.

[00:55:16] Her phone was submerged.

[00:55:17] Her and the dog are wet and stuck 14 feet from the beaver dam.

[00:55:20] Ooh, I got my ladder.

[00:55:22] I extended it as far as I could.

[00:55:23] I climbed across the dam as close as I could get to them.

[00:55:26] I let the ladder fall.

[00:55:28] It landed in the cat tails next to them and was just long enough to span the

[00:55:33] little ice cat tail island to the dam.

[00:55:35] I walked across first and I carried the dog back to the beaver dam.

[00:55:40] Then I went back and helped my frozen wet wife across the ladder.

[00:55:43] Everyone's fine and warm.

[00:55:45] Dog seems to have a little PTSD and she's very clingy.

[00:55:49] Some lessons were learned, but all is well.

[00:55:51] Take away. It's the little things,

[00:55:53] the ones you think I probably won't use or need that.

[00:55:56] The things that once you need and don't have,

[00:55:59] you might just be calling the fire department.

[00:56:02] Well, what do you think about that?

[00:56:04] My first thoughts were, buddy,

[00:56:07] you saved your dog before you saved your wife.

[00:56:10] Somebody's going to be in the dog house this week.

[00:56:13] However, I got to say it was a pretty ingenious use of a folding ladder.

[00:56:17] I liked it. I'm glad he figured it out.

[00:56:19] I love these are the true prepping stories, right?

[00:56:22] These are the things that it's about a mindset because again,

[00:56:27] he didn't panic. He grabbed something that worked.

[00:56:30] He turned it into a solution and he moved on.

[00:56:33] Lots of folks could have had a whole bunch of stuff around

[00:56:35] and ended up being panicked, so panicked that they can't figure it out.

[00:56:40] Remember training that kind of stuff?

[00:56:42] The dude was used to using the ladder.

[00:56:43] He made the right choice, even if he did save his dog first.

[00:56:46] I don't know. Yeah.

[00:56:48] Yeah.

[00:56:50] Number two, and I love my dogs to death,

[00:56:53] but I think the lady probably panicked a bit and she wanted to save her dog

[00:56:58] and she ended up putting herself into a much worse situation.

[00:57:01] If she'd give us some thought for just a little while,

[00:57:03] maybe she would not have ended up neck deep into ice, you know,

[00:57:09] frigid water, but whatever. You know what? It worked out great.

[00:57:12] The dude got to use something that he always brought home.

[00:57:15] That's like the prepper equivalent of always making sure your gas tank's

[00:57:18] full before you go home at night.

[00:57:19] Last night I got back from Wainwright with Charlotte,

[00:57:22] took her to volleyball practice, her and her friend.

[00:57:24] We dropped a friend off and she was like, well, where we going?

[00:57:28] I thought we were heading home.

[00:57:28] I said, nope, not before we don't go,

[00:57:30] not before we don't go to the gas station and gas up.

[00:57:33] So I did. Half a tank is empty.

[00:57:36] So there you go.

[00:57:38] Couple of thoughts from the reddit community last this week.

[00:57:42] Somebody said, glad you guys are OK.

[00:57:43] And I like this.

[00:57:45] Our sponsor Joel would have been a big fan of this.

[00:57:47] He said dog training is prepping as well.

[00:57:50] They'll never be a day or a circumstance where I do not reward my dogs for coming when

[00:57:54] I call them also something else I hadn't thought of.

[00:57:56] Front paw, front paw attached due clause are also helpful for situations like this

[00:58:02] as well. Dogs have a much easier time pulling themselves out of water onto ice

[00:58:06] when they have them intact.

[00:58:08] A lot of breeders remove them just in case they ever get torn or injured.

[00:58:12] But they have a function.

[00:58:13] I learned something new today

[00:58:16] because we've had our due clause removed on a few of our Chihuahuas because being.

[00:58:21] You know, the majority indoor dogs, they tend to grow into their paw really quick.

[00:58:26] And we thought we were doing them a favor,

[00:58:28] not that I think a Chihuahua could probably pull themselves out of an icy bath.

[00:58:32] Anyhow, they would just lay on their back, accept a lot in life and say,

[00:58:36] dad, save me or I'm going down.

[00:58:40] And one more here said, dude, listen, I'm super proud of you.

[00:58:43] You did amazing.

[00:58:44] But next time you should call emergency services first.

[00:58:46] And explain what's going on before you yourself go on the ladder.

[00:58:50] In case you all get stuck or at least your nearest neighbors, someone should know.

[00:58:55] I agree.

[00:58:56] He probably should have sent someone to call 911.

[00:58:59] But I can also tell you that my ass wouldn't be standing by waiting for

[00:59:02] someone else to come and save my dog and my wife.

[00:59:05] But he did give one more update and said

[00:59:07] neighbors had come to watch the show.

[00:59:08] Everyone was quite ready to call the fire department if need be.

[00:59:12] There you go.

[00:59:12] I thought that was a feel good story where a dog got saved and a wife was last.

[00:59:18] I mean, that's awful.

[00:59:19] I can't even imagine.

[00:59:21] There you go.

[00:59:22] So.

[00:59:23] All right. Next, where I got next for you?

[00:59:25] Guess what, folks?

[00:59:26] It's time for Cookbook of the Collapse.

[00:59:28] I like this one.

[00:59:29] This one's become a really fun one.

[00:59:31] And guess what?

[00:59:31] This today I have our very first submission from the community.

[00:59:37] The first three or four were

[00:59:39] from myself and my extended family.

[00:59:42] I've had a bunch of people reach out, keep sending them because this one comes

[00:59:46] from Jim Tubbs of Soho Stables Woodcraft.

[00:59:49] He sent me two, so I've got two from him, but I'm only going to share one tonight.

[00:59:53] And again, folks ask, what is the requirement for Cookbook of the Collapse?

[00:59:57] Well, a few things.

[00:59:58] Once we hit 100 recipes, I'm going to put them together.

[01:00:01] We're going to make a community cookbook.

[01:00:02] It's going to be fun.

[01:00:03] Number two.

[01:00:04] I would like them to be something that we can

[01:00:09] that could be made from your preps.

[01:00:11] That's the next thing.

[01:00:12] So this one simple, you'll like it.

[01:00:15] From Jim, flour or tortillas?

[01:00:18] Simple. I like it.

[01:00:19] A cup of all purpose flour, a cup of warm water, a third of a cup of vegetable oil,

[01:00:24] teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of baking powder.

[01:00:27] Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl.

[01:00:29] Add the water, the vegetable oil to the dry ingredients.

[01:00:32] Mix until it forms a smooth dough.

[01:00:35] Turn the dough out onto a well floured surface.

[01:00:37] Divide the dough into 15 equal parts.

[01:00:40] I've never made these quite.

[01:00:41] I like this anyway, form each ball,

[01:00:44] form each into a ball flatten with your palm, coat the pieces in flour and let

[01:00:48] them rest under a towel for half hour to two hours.

[01:00:52] The dough is ready when it can be rolled out without shrinking back.

[01:00:56] Heat a dry pan over medium heat.

[01:00:58] Roll the dough into thin rounds.

[01:00:59] Cook the tortillas in a pan for one minute each side and serve.

[01:01:03] This is the best part.

[01:01:05] Serve with your favorite taco or fajita ingredients.

[01:01:07] You can also make larger shells for wraps or burritos,

[01:01:10] and the shells can be deep fried for

[01:01:12] chips or whole and then topped with cinnamon sugar for a delicious treat.

[01:01:17] You can also freeze the shells or

[01:01:19] doughs prior to cooking or after.

[01:01:22] How simple is that?

[01:01:23] How great would some freeze dried hamburger

[01:01:27] and some homemade tortillas from a five gallon bucket that you stored five years

[01:01:32] ago taste when the grocery stores don't have any food?

[01:01:36] I love it.

[01:01:37] Also, what a great skill to learn ahead of time in case there ever was something

[01:01:42] bad happen. This is the type of stuff that I've taught my girls over the years.

[01:01:47] How to cook and this is one we're going to try out.

[01:01:51] I love it. We will talk a little bit more about dry good storage here tonight

[01:01:55] because Becky and I have decided to complete what we started last winter.

[01:02:00] So we'll talk about that.

[01:02:01] But thanks, Jim.

[01:02:02] I really appreciate it.

[01:02:03] So check him out.

[01:02:04] Jim Tubbs at Saw Horse Stables Woodcraft.

[01:02:07] Also, you're like Tim, you spoke too fast.

[01:02:09] I couldn't get the recipe.

[01:02:10] It's in the notes tonight.

[01:02:11] So if you want the recipe, you can copy and paste it from wherever you happen

[01:02:15] to be one step closer says fry the dough from flour tortilla to make

[01:02:22] a soap of pilas, a nice treat with honey.

[01:02:25] I'm sure I absolutely butchered that.

[01:02:27] I apologize, but that sounds really good.

[01:02:30] I like that. I know carb heavy, but here's the deal.

[01:02:34] Post collapse, if you're living off your preps, there's a good chance

[01:02:38] you're going to have quite a bit of carbs.

[01:02:39] That's one of the main reasons that I've been going balls to the wall

[01:02:42] with the freeze dryer is I want to add protein to it.

[01:02:45] So then our only deficiency will be fat.

[01:02:47] And I got a lot of that to spare.

[01:02:49] So we're OK for a little while.

[01:02:51] All right, next is this week in the workshop, folks.

[01:02:54] I like this segment is where I get to slow down just a little

[01:02:58] and share with you exactly what I've been up to this week.

[01:03:02] And there's a few.

[01:03:04] The reason I do it is twofold.

[01:03:06] Number one, hopefully to inspire other folks to try things that they might

[01:03:09] be slightly adverse to trying.

[01:03:11] But number two, to give me a bit of accountability so that you're like,

[01:03:17] oh, yeah, Tim didn't do much this week.

[01:03:19] Did he? Lazy bastard.

[01:03:21] So there you go.

[01:03:22] I spent two days working on punch lists up at the daycare in Lloyd Minster.

[01:03:27] Got a ton done.

[01:03:29] Let's see. I fixed some loose taps.

[01:03:31] I hung a new blind.

[01:03:32] I run some new network cables.

[01:03:33] I changed it a couple of automatic locks.

[01:03:36] I hung some cork boards and I fixed a wobbly table.

[01:03:38] I had a hell of a time.

[01:03:39] It was so much fun.

[01:03:40] I went in as getting ready to hang a cork board and the little kid said,

[01:03:44] Tim, how are you?

[01:03:46] Can you fix our table?

[01:03:47] We were dancing on it and we made it wobbly.

[01:03:50] So I got to do that.

[01:03:51] That's probably my favorite part of going to the daycare is hanging out with the kids.

[01:03:54] They crack me up.

[01:03:55] I'm glad that I can leave them there and go home after an hour or two.

[01:03:58] But you know, here's one for you.

[01:04:00] Always check the clearance racks at Home Depot.

[01:04:03] I was up there last week or early this week.

[01:04:07] And I always take that route toward the back because they don't put them

[01:04:11] in obvious places.

[01:04:11] They usually have them on the back end aisle facing the opposite direction of the

[01:04:15] store. Well, I went in and I managed to find either five or six padlocks.

[01:04:22] Three of them were smart keys.

[01:04:24] And if you've heard me recommend smart keys before,

[01:04:26] I like them because anybody can rekey them if you have the master key.

[01:04:31] I hadn't seen padlocks that were re-keyable using the smart key.

[01:04:34] So I picked those up 10 bucks a piece, regular price, $40.

[01:04:36] And then I also picked up three, what I call combination padlocks.

[01:04:41] They look like a key lock, but underneath they have that the dial.

[01:04:45] Super easy again to rekey.

[01:04:47] Got three of those regular 40 bucks on for 10.

[01:04:51] So don't ever leave Home Depot or Lowe's, even though we don't have them

[01:04:55] anymore without going by the clearance rack, you might find something.

[01:04:59] How about we had a massive freezing at a rental that I didn't catch for almost a week.

[01:05:03] So I was checking on an empty rental.

[01:05:06] I did before the deep freeze and then I'd forgotten that the person hadn't moved in yet.

[01:05:12] And I went over to check on it one day,

[01:05:14] opened the door and it sounded like somebody had left the basement tap running.

[01:05:19] We ended up having four breaks in the pipes, didn't do a stitch of damage to the house.

[01:05:24] Thank God.

[01:05:25] It was all in a crawl space and in the basement.

[01:05:28] That's just a cement floor.

[01:05:29] So I'm sure the water bill will be a little bit high.

[01:05:32] Thank goodness we didn't have a serious issue there.

[01:05:36] I spent the whole day Saturday replumbing the entire basement,

[01:05:40] which really sucked because you only had two places to access the pipes.

[01:05:45] One was maybe a 12 by 18 panel behind the shower, which was cool.

[01:05:51] The other one was a hole smaller than my head.

[01:05:54] Now I do have a big head, I know, that had been pounded through the concrete.

[01:05:57] So any new pipe I wanted to run through there,

[01:06:00] I had to fish from one end to the other moving right along.

[01:06:03] However, it was an excuse to buy a new tool.

[01:06:05] And if you don't have one of these and you have to cut copper pipe on any amount

[01:06:09] of time, you should get one.

[01:06:12] I should have brought it downstairs.

[01:06:13] It looks like a C clamp that fits onto the pipe and it's spring loaded.

[01:06:17] So you don't have to tighten anything as you turn it.

[01:06:19] It applies the pressure for you.

[01:06:22] Why? I said the same thing I said when I bought an electric pen tester.

[01:06:25] Why didn't I buy this years ago?

[01:06:28] I don't know.

[01:06:29] Ask ask the other Tim that didn't spend enough money on something that he should

[01:06:33] have, but life changer. There you go.

[01:06:35] I picked up a Canadian military sleep system.

[01:06:38] I can't wait to show it off.

[01:06:39] I'll probably do a little bit of a video on it and it would.

[01:06:44] Yeah, it's cool.

[01:06:45] So my buddy that has the military surplus store right next to our daycare.

[01:06:51] What an awesome dude.

[01:06:52] It's called Luke approved named after his,

[01:06:55] you know, his recently passed away dog.

[01:06:58] He had him for 100 bucks.

[01:06:59] I looked online just to buy them at any other kind of surplus place was like $300.

[01:07:06] The only thing was is that the outer layer,

[01:07:08] they had a cut in them that showed that they were taking out of stock.

[01:07:11] So his grandmother stitched them all up and they're perfect.

[01:07:14] Loved it anyway.

[01:07:16] So I will show that off at some point in the future.

[01:07:19] I'm going to take it with me.

[01:07:20] It'll work perfect with my tent, my truck tent.

[01:07:24] Dave H, good to see you in here.

[01:07:25] Said you can use an old bike inner tube to wrap around burst pipes.

[01:07:30] I've done it before and it did work for the most part.

[01:07:34] So yeah, I like that.

[01:07:35] Thank you for the tip, brother. Always appreciate it.

[01:07:39] Would we freeze dry this week?

[01:07:40] Hamburger stewing beef, strawberries and mixed fruit.

[01:07:43] Mixed fruit took longer than I figured because there was whole strawberries

[01:07:46] in them. It's been running for about 36 hours now.

[01:07:49] Now, if you guys remember last winter, Becky and I did a bunch of dry goods canning

[01:07:55] in five gallon buckets with the screw down lids, the gamma seal lids and mylar bags.

[01:08:02] Well, we got about halfway through it and then life got in the way like life does.

[01:08:06] So we ended up with about a, you know, half a year supply of dry goods,

[01:08:11] which would have been good

[01:08:12] if it were evenly spread out.

[01:08:15] But what you ended up having was, say, lots of flour, but no rice, no beans or whatever.

[01:08:20] So we ended up deciding that we need to finish it before I head south just for peace of mind.

[01:08:26] And so we picked up a bunch more buckets.

[01:08:28] We got some more bags coming and we've been gradually picking up the last of the dry stuff.

[01:08:32] So when we're done,

[01:08:35] we should be close to a year supply of dry goods for the family, I think.

[01:08:40] So, you know, and folks say, well, you shouldn't talk about this stuff.

[01:08:44] Tim, well, I have to, you know, it's it's what I do.

[01:08:48] I want folks to be motivated.

[01:08:49] It doesn't mean here's the thing.

[01:08:52] At one time when I was living on my own on the second floor of the Second Avenue

[01:08:56] apartment when I didn't have a pot to piss in, I started prepping by having

[01:09:02] some jars of strawberry jam and mustard pickles.

[01:09:04] I don't even eat mustard pickles.

[01:09:06] What's wrong with you, Tim?

[01:09:07] And I thought I was prepped.

[01:09:09] But you know what?

[01:09:09] I was more prepped than I was the day before.

[01:09:11] And that's how we gradually moved to these things so you can go from a few jars

[01:09:15] of pickles to, you know, a few dozen five gallon buckets full of dry food.

[01:09:21] Right? That's what happens.

[01:09:22] We just work toward it and only if we can make it work in our life too.

[01:09:25] Don't ever put yourself behind today for something that may or may not happen

[01:09:29] in the future. Right? All right.

[01:09:32] I went to a restaurant supply store this week.

[01:09:35] I didn't buy anything but I priced some stuff and I was actually quite

[01:09:37] impressed with the prices because in the past I found restaurant supply places

[01:09:41] tend to be a little bit higher priced.

[01:09:43] I started demolishing a bathroom over at the rental I've been working on.

[01:09:47] It's coming.

[01:09:48] It's taken me longer than I planned, but I'm shooting to have this rental done.

[01:09:52] This is my last rental renovation

[01:09:56] until fall we're going to start working on my son's place.

[01:09:59] But I got it done.

[01:10:00] I finally got our sewer line snaked and only took 12 days

[01:10:03] and about 17 phone calls between the insurance company and a bunch of guys

[01:10:07] who kept saying they were going to come and then they didn't.

[01:10:10] Kevin Humovich here in town, what an awesome dude.

[01:10:13] I know you'll probably never hear this, but if anybody local from provost is

[01:10:17] listening to this, he is the best guy to get a steamer into Snake A sewer line.

[01:10:22] He did went above and beyond cleaning up the mess that was down there.

[01:10:25] It was just I want to tell you when somebody takes pride in their job,

[01:10:28] you got to respect them for it.

[01:10:30] I love it.

[01:10:32] Also, guess what?

[01:10:33] No, my biggest accomplishment of recent times.

[01:10:36] I haven't talked about it a lot on the podcast.

[01:10:39] If you're in the camp hope group, which is an offshoot of the workshop

[01:10:43] that you was ex started where we encourage each other to lose weight,

[01:10:47] get healthy, quit smoking, whatever it happens to be.

[01:10:49] If you want an invite, let me know.

[01:10:52] Well, last Sunday I ran my first five K.

[01:10:55] So when I came home from

[01:10:58] Camden, Tennessee, Suffer Alliance Festival last October.

[01:11:03] Yeah, you know, walking a half an hour

[01:11:06] would wear me right out running for 30 seconds was enough to say,

[01:11:11] oh, this old body's hurting.

[01:11:13] And I did.

[01:11:15] I just started randomly working a little more.

[01:11:17] I actually had started before I went hurt my foot, blah, blah, blah.

[01:11:21] Excuse, excuse and didn't keep going.

[01:11:23] But I enjoyed it.

[01:11:24] I realized I started liking it.

[01:11:26] So I started taking this coach to five K.

[01:11:28] So basically sedentary to running a five K program.

[01:11:32] It takes eight weeks to do.

[01:11:34] I took nine weeks to do it, I think,

[01:11:36] because I paid attention to my body if my

[01:11:39] you know, if my quads were starting to hurt, I would take an extra day off

[01:11:42] because the last thing I wanted to do was hurt myself like last time.

[01:11:46] And now I'm running 30 minutes three times.

[01:11:49] So going forward and I'm going to tell you guys this to keep me accountable.

[01:11:54] But, you know, Monday and Wednesday, I'm running 30 minutes.

[01:11:57] And then each Saturday I'm adding five more minutes to it.

[01:12:00] So the goal is to work my way up to an hour.

[01:12:03] Isn't that insane? I couldn't even imagine.

[01:12:05] I feel better, got more energy, don't get winded.

[01:12:10] Hell yeah, could I still use to lose some weight?

[01:12:13] Yeah, I could.

[01:12:14] But I want to tell you this old guy running around that track,

[01:12:17] however many times it takes to get there.

[01:12:19] I love it.

[01:12:20] I go early in the morning and it's quiet, except if the old folks are there.

[01:12:24] I fit right in anyway.

[01:12:25] So there you go.

[01:12:27] I would we have for content this week, we did the wheel of MRE, which was a huge hit.

[01:12:31] Everybody seemed to love it.

[01:12:32] Alice had a ball with me.

[01:12:33] If you haven't seen it yet, we actually bought a spinning wheel where we put all

[01:12:37] the different MREs on it and we get to randomly pick which one we're going to eat.

[01:12:41] I did a review on the Chamberback

[01:12:44] and we did an awesome live stream with Kyle and Joe called Slap the Mead

[01:12:48] around and if you haven't caught that, do yourself a favor.

[01:12:51] Take a minute and give it a listen if you have time this week because man,

[01:12:55] that was I learned a ton about butchery.

[01:12:58] Yeah, I guess so.

[01:12:59] Also, Kyle is applying for survivor.

[01:13:03] So if anybody out there from CBS is listening, you need to hire him.

[01:13:07] Bring him on. He'll be an asset.

[01:13:10] All right, next next sponsor is this a sponsor?

[01:13:13] I don't know if you guys notice tonight in the YouTube comments,

[01:13:17] I pinned the link if you're looking for a way to support the workshop or

[01:13:20] actually the better way to position this is value for value exchange because I'm

[01:13:25] a big fan of value for value exchange.

[01:13:27] So I launched the Patreon because a lot of folks are like, hey,

[01:13:29] I don't like patches or I'd like some exclusive content.

[01:13:32] So guess what? That's what we did.

[01:13:34] And so far this month, we had an in-person interview with Joel Salatin,

[01:13:38] which was the big kicker.

[01:13:40] I decided to put that on there and a new show called Outside the Box that

[01:13:44] Alice and I are doing where we go to places like Chinese grocery stores

[01:13:48] and pick up some exotic food to ourselves and test it out and see if it'd be a

[01:13:52] viable prep. Anyway, five bucks a month

[01:13:55] for Patreon if you're interested.

[01:13:57] But more than that, I wanted to thank the folks that have subscribed so far.

[01:14:00] So we got Byron, we got Jeff, we got Bob, we got Roja, we got Brad and Ryan

[01:14:05] in some crazy name, Lady Name Becky.

[01:14:07] So thank you guys.

[01:14:09] Thanks for putting your money where your mouth is.

[01:14:11] But thank you for supporting the cool shit that I get to do.

[01:14:13] And hopefully you enjoy it over there.

[01:14:15] They also get typically ahead of time, the review videos.

[01:14:19] But the only guarantee I give is that they'll be ad free.

[01:14:22] So I upload them there so you don't have to watch them with YouTube ads as well.

[01:14:25] But anyway, thanks guys for the love and the support.

[01:14:27] Picked up a new member just today.

[01:14:30] So all right, how about this?

[01:14:33] Repairiness, I don't think we've done a repair in a segment on this week

[01:14:37] in prepping it and for those who are new because there's been quite a few

[01:14:40] new listeners recently, if you don't know what repairiness is,

[01:14:44] it's the air to home maintenance when help isn't around the corner.

[01:14:46] It was my term that I coined.

[01:14:48] I really should, you know, copyrighted or not.

[01:14:51] I'm just kidding. Anyway, so in Telegram this week, LOLK said they had a question

[01:14:56] about 10 year smoke detectors and they wanted to know if they were dangerous

[01:15:01] because they have a lithium battery in them.

[01:15:04] And I just wanted to say hell, no, they're not dangerous at all

[01:15:06] because I use them all the time.

[01:15:08] And then I thought, Tim,

[01:15:10] you know, pull your hackles back and do some actual reading and see what you find out.

[01:15:15] So what did I find out exactly?

[01:15:17] Because I have always been a proponent of 10 year smoke detectors.

[01:15:21] I tend to put them in to all of my

[01:15:26] rentals when I when one wears out, I put it on the roof.

[01:15:30] I use those double sided 3M Velcro strips that work great.

[01:15:33] And then with a Sharpie, I write the year in the month that I installed it

[01:15:36] and I put it up because it gives me peace of mind.

[01:15:40] All right.

[01:15:42] So what are the thoughts?

[01:15:43] Well, I did some digging and I found this study from the government of Connecticut,

[01:15:48] which is a really odd place to be doing a study on smoke detectors.

[01:15:53] Anyway, there is a ton of anecdotal evidence.

[01:15:57] And by anecdotal, I mean personal stories from folks who have had them

[01:16:01] who have said they don't last anywhere near 10 years.

[01:16:03] And in this study, they say the same thing.

[01:16:06] Not a majority, but a not insignificant amount of them did not last the full 10 years

[01:16:11] for the batteries.

[01:16:13] However, that tends to be the biggest concern is the fault sense of security they give you.

[01:16:19] Now, how do we solve that?

[01:16:21] Well, by doing regular smoke detector tests as well.

[01:16:25] So if you're like me, you just burn your toast and you know your smoke

[01:16:27] detectors working.

[01:16:28] But if you're like a sensible person who knows how to properly

[01:16:31] toast bread, then you just go around once every two or three months,

[01:16:35] push the test button, drive your Chihuahua's nuts,

[01:16:39] scare your kids half to death because you didn't warn them.

[01:16:41] And then you know, hey, I'm good for another two to three months.

[01:16:44] So if you're worried about lithium,

[01:16:46] there were very, very limited situations where one did catch fire or a couple

[01:16:52] did catch fire. So if that's an issue for you,

[01:16:54] there's also a company that has 10 year alkaline batteries

[01:16:59] built into smoke detectors as well.

[01:17:02] So something to think about.

[01:17:03] I still 100 percent believe that the 10 year smoke detectors are worth both

[01:17:08] the cost and the benefit of having them.

[01:17:13] However, they're not without their negatives.

[01:17:15] Test them on a regular basis.

[01:17:17] Keep an eye on them because everything fails.

[01:17:19] Anything with a battery.

[01:17:21] The other thing I found out is they don't like 100 percent humidity and they

[01:17:25] also don't like to be below four degrees Celsius or above

[01:17:29] 35 degrees Celsius.

[01:17:31] So really hot, really cold or really damp going to shorten the life immensely.

[01:17:36] So I hope that helps.

[01:17:38] And like I said, if a person is nervous about having a lithium battery strapped

[01:17:42] to their roof in their home, it doesn't seem like it should be that big of a

[01:17:45] deal. But if it is, you can buy alkaline alternatives.

[01:17:48] And that's this company here that I ended up finding.

[01:17:51] I believe this is what LOL shared in Telegram.

[01:17:54] It's a company called Universal Security Instruments and they have

[01:18:00] Duracell alkaline 10 year batteries.

[01:18:02] I thought it was kind of cool.

[01:18:04] I'm going to guess that you pay a premium for them.

[01:18:07] But if anybody was interested, I wanted to share it with you.

[01:18:10] So there you go.

[01:18:11] I like that one.

[01:18:13] This one was shared in the Telegram group as well.

[01:18:17] It's now time for the community.

[01:18:19] Sorry, the Creator Spotlight.

[01:18:21] This is where I share with you guys.

[01:18:22] Somebody that tickles my fancy.

[01:18:24] It could be an author, it could be a audio book or in this case, it could be a YouTube

[01:18:29] channel and if you haven't seen this guy, I'm sure you probably have.

[01:18:32] It's Jerry Rigg everything and he has eight point four million subscribers.

[01:18:37] Not that I need to promote him at all.

[01:18:41] But his link is in the description.

[01:18:43] Turns out that he just did a bunker build as well.

[01:18:46] It was quite a bit cheaper than some of the bigger bunker builds you've

[01:18:50] seen, try to say that bigger bunker build five times fast.

[01:18:53] So if anybody's interested, he has an entire playlist

[01:18:56] that started about two months ago building this bunker.

[01:18:58] So check it out.

[01:18:59] Obviously I won't play it because I don't want to, you know, steal his content.

[01:19:03] But there it is.

[01:19:03] He did quite an interesting bunker build.

[01:19:07] Yeah. All right.

[01:19:09] What do we got next?

[01:19:10] Well, Tim, let's dig into the community nail bag.

[01:19:14] Did you say nail bag?

[01:19:15] I did. Tim, you don't need to say that every time you do this.

[01:19:18] But I think I do.

[01:19:19] Here we are. So the nail bag, what is the nail bag?

[01:19:21] Well, it's really just a funny way to say

[01:19:23] mail bag because this is the workshop and we carry around a nail bag with us,

[01:19:26] isn't it? So what do you have for us this week, Tim?

[01:19:29] Well, I'm glad you asked.

[01:19:31] So this one came from Robin via email.

[01:19:33] She's a recent follower and really appreciate the support she's been

[01:19:37] sending me sent me.

[01:19:39] I got to tell you this, guys.

[01:19:42] I'm an optimist, but I also am a skeptic.

[01:19:45] So when I get articles that have a really interesting title to them,

[01:19:51] my bullshit meter goes off.

[01:19:54] Now, hang in there.

[01:19:55] I'm not calling anyone a bullshit spreader.

[01:19:58] But this was a really funny article that when I seen it,

[01:20:01] I thought because it was a screenshot.

[01:20:04] You know how you see screenshots on Twitter, Instagram and you're like,

[01:20:06] there's no way that's a real article.

[01:20:08] Well, let me tell you, folks,

[01:20:11] there was a way that this is a real article and it blew me out of the water.

[01:20:14] All right.

[01:20:15] This is from the cool down.

[01:20:18] That is the cool down dot com had never heard of them before.

[01:20:21] I honestly thought it looked like it was a satire site.

[01:20:26] I did some digging.

[01:20:27] It doesn't appear they're a satire site, at least I hope not.

[01:20:30] And if they are, I guess the jokes on me, but I couldn't find it.

[01:20:33] Disturbing report reveals horrifying

[01:20:35] effects of Texas border wall proof that border barriers are death traps.

[01:20:40] We are only fearful that this will become a more common story.

[01:20:43] So.

[01:20:45] This was the headline of the article.

[01:20:49] Over 100 frogs, snakes and spiders

[01:20:52] and more were burned alive last summer after raging wildfire slept through,

[01:20:57] swept through southern Texas.

[01:20:59] These creatures likely could have escaped if not

[01:21:02] obstructed by a long stretch of concrete border wall.

[01:21:07] OK, so they when I looked at this, that the article didn't say how many.

[01:21:12] And then you scroll down, it's like about 100 creatures.

[01:21:14] Now is that an awful thing?

[01:21:16] Sure.

[01:21:18] Do creatures get killed in wire fire wildfires all the time?

[01:21:23] Also sure.

[01:21:24] Hang in there, though.

[01:21:26] Are you ready for this?

[01:21:27] This is where this article takes a left turn.

[01:21:30] While the concrete.

[01:21:32] I don't know how you can read this and not be blown away.

[01:21:36] While the concrete border wall is believed to have stopped the fire

[01:21:39] from spreading into the city of Granado.

[01:21:43] As Hidalgo County Fire Marshal told my RGV,

[01:21:48] it's also believed to kept over 100 animals from escaping according to the guardian.

[01:21:52] The animals killed included frogs,

[01:21:54] cane toads, tarantula spiders and a cuckoo.

[01:21:57] Is it awful?

[01:21:59] Yes.

[01:22:01] However, how do you read this and position this article as 100 little

[01:22:06] creatures died when the real story is it actually managed to keep the city from

[01:22:12] burning down or at least catching fire?

[01:22:15] I thought this was a bullshit article.

[01:22:17] It's not that kind of blew me out of the water.

[01:22:19] Jeremy says there's more than that many snakes in any block in Houston.

[01:22:25] So to follow up, Robin sent me her real world experience about this.

[01:22:30] And this is the only bit that I'm going to talk about the border wall this

[01:22:33] evening because we've already dealt with it.

[01:22:34] But she said, hey, I just wanted to they said I just wanted to add some first hand

[01:22:39] experience. My husband and I owned a deer camp near the Texas border.

[01:22:43] We loved going there, hiking the property and enjoying the quiet country life.

[01:22:48] Late night stargazing and campfires.

[01:22:50] That actually sounds like a lot of fun.

[01:22:53] Then the border opened wide up.

[01:22:55] Someone tried to break into our home to prevent that from happening again.

[01:22:59] I had to do something that I said I would never do.

[01:23:01] I had to start buying and leaving food and water out for the illegals.

[01:23:05] We would arrive at our camp to see the food had been eaten, but thankfully

[01:23:08] the illegals had eaten and moved on.

[01:23:11] These were the gutter ways, the people that didn't want to make contact with

[01:23:15] Border Patrol, we were pulled over more once by Border Patrol and worn

[01:23:19] to get off the road for our own safety.

[01:23:22] If someone passed us at a high rate of speed because there was a chase

[01:23:25] happening, we had heard stories of innocent people being killed by these

[01:23:29] high speed chases. We saw Texas DPS performing these chases.

[01:23:34] Anyway, after our neighbors had gotten broken into numerous times

[01:23:37] and never felt safe on our property again, I could no longer hike and enjoy our camp.

[01:23:42] We traveled our trails and slept with a gun within reach.

[01:23:45] We finally just give up our property,

[01:23:47] give up that our property would ever be safe or a quiet country home that we

[01:23:51] enjoyed, we sadly sold out.

[01:23:54] Isn't that a sin?

[01:23:56] So that was the real life story.

[01:23:58] And it kind of followed up with the as Chris Dixon says, spin it, baby, spin it.

[01:24:03] And that's exactly what they did.

[01:24:04] I this is one of the worst cases of news spin I've ever seen and it blew me out

[01:24:10] of the water. So pay attention.

[01:24:12] Read to the bottom of if you're going to share an image,

[01:24:16] read to the bottom like Robin did and let you know because holy cow.

[01:24:21] I can't even imagine.

[01:24:22] So thank you, Robin, for sharing that.

[01:24:24] I wanted you guys to get an up close because

[01:24:27] it's pretty hard to be a North American and be any further away from the Texas

[01:24:30] border crisis than East Central Alberta.

[01:24:33] I mean, I guess you could go to like none of it or the Arctic Ocean,

[01:24:36] but I'm pretty damn close to being that far.

[01:24:39] So it was nice or refreshing to hear a real world experience,

[01:24:43] not that it's good or bad, just sucks.

[01:24:46] So there you go.

[01:24:47] How about this?

[01:24:48] Reach into the community nail bag one more time.

[01:24:50] And this came from last week's episode

[01:24:55] when I was speaking with the night when we were talking about slapping the meat

[01:24:59] around and I asked the boys, I said, is self-reliance a myth?

[01:25:04] And I was kind of leading them on a little bit because I really didn't believe

[01:25:07] that it was a myth.

[01:25:08] But what I believed was absolute self-reliance might not be an attainable

[01:25:12] goal for most folks.

[01:25:14] And so Starfleet Command responded on YouTube and they said,

[01:25:19] replicator self-reliance is almost impossible, except without a replicator.

[01:25:26] Get a replicator.

[01:25:27] You'll never run out of anything.

[01:25:28] A phaser and a cloak is helpful too.

[01:25:30] I really appreciated that comment.

[01:25:32] I don't know why I'm a Trekkie.

[01:25:34] I thought it was hilarious.

[01:25:35] I'm not sure if they're busting my balls or just being funny.

[01:25:37] Doesn't really matter.

[01:25:38] Either way, I enjoyed that comment.

[01:25:41] This one comes from Daniel over on Telegram.

[01:25:43] He said, hey, Tim, what are you using for audio editing for your podcast?

[01:25:47] And where do you host?

[01:25:48] Well, that's easy.

[01:25:49] I use audible for editing.

[01:25:50] Actually, I don't edit really most nights as you guys will know.

[01:25:53] You hear it with all the foibles included, including sometimes when I forget

[01:25:57] to turn audio up or down, should I edit a little bit perhaps?

[01:26:01] But I kind of like the live the live radio.

[01:26:04] You get the, you know, the mem rex experience right then and there.

[01:26:08] So anyway, yeah, so I do use, I said, audible audacity.

[01:26:12] Oh my God.

[01:26:13] Audacity is freeware on Windows.

[01:26:16] I don't know if it's available on other systems or not, but it's perfect.

[01:26:21] It's just difficult enough that it doesn't take that long to learn,

[01:26:24] but it's simple enough that it doesn't take that long to learn.

[01:26:27] So give it a shot.

[01:26:28] And then I, where do I host?

[01:26:29] Well, it's now Spotify.

[01:26:31] It used to be anchor, but they merged or changed the name,

[01:26:34] but it's Spotify for podcasts.

[01:26:36] I now have 421 episodes up there.

[01:26:39] I also, yes, two is one, one is none.

[01:26:42] Three is a guarantee.

[01:26:43] I keep hard copies on my computer of every episode,

[01:26:47] but they haven't cut me off yet.

[01:26:48] So I don't know where they stop you from uploading, but they've been really good to

[01:26:52] me so far. All right. What's next?

[01:26:56] Last question from the community.

[01:26:59] And this comes from a hard-ass Jackson channel, 1697 one.

[01:27:05] What a name. I love YouTube user names, don't you?

[01:27:08] And this was in regards to inverter generators.

[01:27:11] And I thought this was important enough to answer on the show.

[01:27:15] And they said, hey, do inverter generators also give off carbon monoxide?

[01:27:20] Yep. Yes, they do just in case you're wondering.

[01:27:23] So I thought, you know, I wanted to chuckle a little bit.

[01:27:25] I was like, oh, why would you chuckle at that?

[01:27:27] It's not there's no such thing as a stupid question at all.

[01:27:29] That's the type of thing that a lot of people are like.

[01:27:32] I never thought to ask that question.

[01:27:34] And you know what? Somebody that might save somebody's life someday.

[01:27:37] The fact that hard-ass Jackson channel, 1697 one was willing to ask that question.

[01:27:42] So if anybody's out there thinking I'll get an inverter generator

[01:27:45] because the fumes will be less or I can run it in an enclosed space

[01:27:48] without proper ventilation or a carbon monoxide detector,

[01:27:52] you cannot you need to treat it just like any other, you know, gas burning device.

[01:27:59] Simple as that. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed that.

[01:28:02] And I love this, guys.

[01:28:03] We actually included some of the mailbag,

[01:28:06] mailbag in earlier segments of the show, so it wouldn't be super long at the very end.

[01:28:12] But I hope you guys enjoyed that.

[01:28:14] I know I did. I, yeah, I love putting these episodes together.

[01:28:18] I try to keep into about 90 minutes because that seems to be, you know,

[01:28:21] I had an old pastor who taught me in college.

[01:28:23] He said, remember this, Tim, he said,

[01:28:25] the mind can only absorb what the ass can endure and thinking back on it.

[01:28:30] That's kind of a funny saying, but he's right.

[01:28:32] If you keep people down, it doesn't matter how enthralled and how entertaining

[01:28:35] you might be or how ravishingly good looking like myself,

[01:28:39] eventually people are going to get tired of your voice, aren't they?

[01:28:41] So anyway, so what's coming up this week, folks?

[01:28:44] Well, tomorrow is Groundhog Day.

[01:28:47] We're not actually going to do anything special this year.

[01:28:49] We we've celebrated Groundhog Day for the last three or four years as a workshop.

[01:28:53] I'm going to be on the road.

[01:28:54] My daughter is going to a really big provincial wide volleyball tournament,

[01:28:58] which I'm excited for Charlotte.

[01:29:00] And we're going to kind of use it as a mini, not really vacation.

[01:29:03] I don't know what you'd call it, but this Sunday evening,

[01:29:06] we have EMT Dawn coming back on.

[01:29:09] And if you guys, he's this will be his third appearance.

[01:29:11] He's my brother from another mother.

[01:29:13] He has some stories to share, but

[01:29:16] I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag.

[01:29:18] But what he wants to talk about Sunday evening is going to be deep.

[01:29:22] It's going to be from the heart and it's going to be what he's been

[01:29:26] dealing with recently.

[01:29:27] And I didn't ask him to come on.

[01:29:28] He reached out to me and he of his own volition and wanted to come on.

[01:29:32] So

[01:29:33] make sure you're here, guys.

[01:29:34] Market 6 p.m.

[01:29:36] Mountain Time.

[01:29:36] We'll be on live tomorrow.

[01:29:39] There is a brand new episode of the

[01:29:42] Lincwens-Gully Chronicles.

[01:29:43] It'll be episode seven.

[01:29:45] And I hate to say it, but there's only going to be one more episode before

[01:29:49] I get back down to Tennessee.

[01:29:51] There'll be episode eight.

[01:29:52] And that's where it'll end until I get you guys some new footage.

[01:29:55] So enjoy it.

[01:29:56] And in the meantime, Alice and I will be putting up the wheel of MREs until we

[01:30:00] run into MREs to eat because we've been having a hell of a time with it.

[01:30:03] And it's a great way to get my daughter involved.

[01:30:05] So, folks, you know, I love you.

[01:30:08] I think you guys, the craziest bunch of delinquents this side of the nut house,

[01:30:11] aren't we? So anyway, thanks for coming in.

[01:30:14] Thanks for making this one of the highlights of the week.

[01:30:17] Every single week.

[01:30:18] Get out there and do absolutely everything you can to make

[01:30:24] the world your bitch.

[01:30:26] Now, really build your empire, folks.

[01:30:29] Do it, do it, do it.

[01:30:31] And with that, what do I say?

[01:30:34] As always, stay happy, stay healthy and have a great week.

[01:30:39] And as we close, Darkwing Dave just said, if you didn't know,

[01:30:43] Steve Smith is being inducted into the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame

[01:30:47] as a writer and performer.

[01:30:49] I opened the show with that news and Darkwing Dave take it away.

[01:30:53] I think it's perfect that we close with honors to Mr. Red Green.

[01:30:59] So take easy, guys.

[01:31:00] And as always, once again, stay happy, stay healthy and have a great week.