All right, welcome to the canary in the podcast, the cage podcast.
I'm already got a word there.
Yeah, I know I kind of see me for the people Joe Biden for making mistakes.
I make just as many, but I don't shit my pants.
So you got Ron Morgan and my co-host Dave Havlicek.
We are here to entertain you, make you laugh and hopefully educate you a little bit.
First, we had a couple of announcements.
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Go ahead, Dave.
So last week we did a double Monero giveaway, one for the best idea of a
single board PC and then the other one was the best recipe for like a tincture.
Yeah.
Or elixir, etc.
So we had we had someone come in and actually he was the only one for both.
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The other announcement, we are now available on audio only for like you want to listen to the car.
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Yeah, but I mean, don't forget to watch podcasts.
You get to see us.
I mean, come on.
That's a bonus right there.
We have visual aids every once in a while.
Well, it's just, I mean, look at me.
I'm just I'm good to look at, I guess.
I don't know.
I'm not scaring anybody away, I guess.
So let's get started with what's going on in the news.
Holy shit.
What a crazy.
It's the last two days have been just fucking nuts.
How about it?
And you know, it's the election where they bring up abortion.
So abortion has been in the news a lot lately.
I didn't really, I didn't get to that one.
Oh, really?
Oh, God, you know, no, it's either black lives matters or abortion.
They're trying to scare people to vote for Democrat.
So as a man, I actually don't have a choice on abortion.
I really don't because I can't either force them into abortion.
I can't stop some of them from getting abortion.
So I don't have an opinion.
Well, but if you wanted to be a woman, then you could be.
Can I get pregnant?
Well, apparently.
That's true.
Oh, you know, I actually thought about joining the woman's sports
because I might dominate in that.
Right.
Like WNBA, man.
But yeah, while swimming, I'd lose no matter what.
I'd lose to a 12 year old girl.
No offense to 13 year old girls, but sure you beat me too.
But no, with abortion, though, it's like you got some states
or Arizona banned it completely.
But that's a that's a move towards Trump.
They're just there.
They've got a little secret thing going on.
But Trump did come out and go, that's too strict, guys.
So he can't play it right.
Right.
But in some states are doing long term abortions.
Long term abortions?
Oh, yeah.
Like birthday.
Well, it's I don't want to say a late term, late term, long term,
late term, long term.
Damn, man.
Whereas kind of where I'm going, it might be a long term thing here.
Because if you want me as a man to have an opinion, I want abortions
up to the age of 26 because that's where the brain's fully developed.
Yeah.
So I think we should have the right to abort our children up to 26
because you never know what you're going to get.
Right.
I mean, I'm not saying like your boss or your friends could abort you
because I know my friends were going to be a joke long time ago.
But yeah, no, it's it's just they they they're like, oh, the late term
abortions don't exist.
It's propaganda, but 10,000 babies a year get killed right before birth.
So from what I understand is that pretty much all those are like health
complication issues.
Um, yeah, maybe, maybe not personal choice.
Uh, I mean, who's well, okay.
So there, there are people that will get pregnant and then do a certain
genre of adult entertainment, let's say, and then get an abortion.
But that's got to be like less than 10 people.
No, I say it's 10,000 a year.
No, I mean, like 10,000 is a total number, but the people who are doing
it for personal reasons, they all they said the article is, it's an elective reason.
Okay.
What the hell does that mean?
Well, I mean, that could mean like the baby has Down syndrome.
True.
But you gotta love the Down syndrome kids though.
You can't afford that these days.
I mean, inflation.
Yeah.
With food costs.
Oh, Jesus.
That is true.
So I guess we're in favor of it.
It's a whole extra chromosome.
You can't afford that.
Oh, I do like that comic.
I don't remember his name though.
He is doing, he was on Saturday Night Live doing Down syndrome jokes.
Well, apparently he has a relative who has Down.
Oh, that's okay then.
Right.
Well, cause he goes like, he's like, yeah, yeah.
I, Shane Gillis, that's who it was.
He's like on Saturday Night Live, which is kind of, kind of like, I don't watch it,
but I caught the highlight of that one.
But he's like, yeah, my family, we have Down syndrome.
And he's like, I barely missed that G.
He's like, it almost got me.
But he brought up a good point.
No matter what's happening on earth or in the world or anywhere, they're happy.
That's true.
I mean, they don't, they don't care if Biden is screwing up the country or if
they're going to put Trump in jail.
They're happy.
So speaking of Trump going to jail.
Oh my goodness.
Oh dear God, I think they're going to do it.
Of course.
So the entire time they've been talking about this, I'm like, fucking do it.
Do it.
And he even Trump's like, Hey, I'll be your Nelson Mandela.
And I love that comment.
But here's the trick.
Oh, what is this guy's name?
I got to find him real quick.
Oh boy, not prepared.
No, I'm prepared.
It's all right here.
It's like, I got so much shit to talk about.
So we have, what is this?
Bernie Thompson, Democrat out of Mississippi.
He was part of the J6 committee.
Okay.
So we already know he's a piece of shit.
So he's introduced a law in the house.
Oh yeah, I did hear about this.
To ban anyone's Secret Service Protection, who was committed
estate or federal crime.
Right.
And this New York case with, um, oh, I, I, I, Dan Bonjir calls him a
Twinkie Eater.
I can't get that out of my head because I have an Alvin Bragg.
That one, he might get convicted of because of the judge.
Oh yeah.
That means terrible.
So they take his Secret Service away.
That's, that's a problem.
Um, because before, if you lock him up, the Secret Service could have said,
okay, every prisoner got to go.
Well, so look about this way though.
So a lot of these guys in prison, they're not against Trump.
Why would they be against Trump?
Okay.
Some of them might be because of his hard law and order kind of shit, but a lot
of them, like he's in rap music videos.
He, he's like a hero, even though he's a billionaire playboy, you know,
Oh, no, no, no, black people.
He's loving this guy.
I mean, like, not just black, but white criminals too.
Oh God, I was just racist.
Sorry about that.
Yeah.
But, um, no, think about it.
Like they're going to be his bodyguards.
No, and that's true.
But I mean, I'm thinking, you know, like night, the guards are shopping online,
buying whatever they buy.
Cameras are down.
Yeah.
But, but imagine like Trump's cellmate is his new bodyguard.
What are they going to do?
Now we're talking about like a reality TV show.
Like it's Oz.
Have you seen Oz?
Yes, I did.
How did that guy keep his hat like this on this side of his head?
I still want to know that.
At a B.C.
Yeah.
I did love Oz.
Love me some Oz.
But yeah, no, but if they do, if they do, this is, this, I'm done.
I'm done with the government, man.
I mean, I've always been done, but this is one step further.
We have got to really do something.
I mean, call your congressman, call your house members, call your senators.
This is bullshit.
He is an ex-president.
He deserves his life protected.
I mean, I don't want to pay for it, but I, so I'll offer them this deal.
Right.
You get rid of Trump's secret service.
As long as you get rid of Obama's and Bush's and whoever else is still alive.
Oh, Jimmy Carter's still alive.
Yeah.
Get rid of them all.
Yeah.
Done.
Fair, right?
And that's true.
But no, it's, but it's the government overreached right now because they're scared
to death of Trump is actually entertaining to me.
Oh yeah.
They're going to do it.
Like, I mean, they're definitely going to do something.
But here's the problem.
If they get him in jail and they get him off the ballot, because here's the problem.
We are, the Republicans have a one seat majority in the house.
And we talked about this last week and they, um, I was at Speaker Johnson, which at
this point it is a nickname for Dick.
And at this point, I said, Dick, or house major house, what leader Dick?
Um, although Trump is actually selling talking favorable about him.
So that's, that's his big, his biggest issue.
They're, well, there might be some little bit of, you know, shenanigans going on
with Trump and I don't know.
But still at this point, this guy's a piece of shit.
He's got to go and if they do remove Trump, who the hell are they going to put on?
So some, somebody they control.
Yeah.
So at that point we're going to start writing campaigns.
I mean, write me in, write Dave in, write your own stuff.
No, no, no, no, we're going to have, we're going to go to DC for the
libertarian convention and we're going to hopefully put Michael Rectonwald in there.
So vote for him.
He's going to be on the ballot in all 50 states.
Okay.
So if the libertarians do pick a good guy.
All right.
So I was kind of going to go right my dog in.
No, no, my dog's really behind the libertarian candidate.
If it's a good one, if it's a good one, that's, that's the problem.
We do have some stinkers out there.
We had one.
We got the guy with the boot on the head.
You know, I mean, come on, man.
I mean, Jo Jorgenson.
Oh God.
Yeah, see, there you go.
Yeah.
Painted, we painted.
Hey, I'm going out there.
I'm doing my part.
Yeah.
When is that anyway?
Um, Memorial Day weekend.
Oh shit.
Okay.
You're going to be in DC on Memorial Day weekend.
You're going to storm the, storm the Capitol.
I'm not going anywhere near that shit.
I don't blame you, man.
I'm staying in the hotel and maybe I'll go to Chipotle, but that's about it.
Yeah.
That's probably a smart move.
So, um, heard Biden on the air today.
Oh, about what?
I mean, he said so many stupid fucking things.
Shrinkflation.
Oh, he's talking about that now.
Apparently that was a Super Bowl ad he did.
I didn't know he did a Super Bowl ad.
And he had like bags of chips and Oreos right there.
And he's not blaming inflation for cost being high.
He's blaming the corporations for a shrinkflation.
The corporations involved.
Jesus Christ, man.
Get rid of that fucking guy.
You know, if, if the corporations could sell you 75% less product, how come they
weren't doing that four years ago?
Right.
Or eight years ago.
Yeah.
No, I know.
It's ridiculous.
They're just trying to, just trying to get the word inflation out of our mouths.
Ridiculous.
No, but so Biden came out today or today or yesterday with his new tax proposal.
Do you see that?
Yes.
Oh, my campaign promise.
I will raise taxes for more years.
For what the fuck is that?
Do you know the details?
It's a Trump's, it's the Trump tax code that was written.
No, no, no, no.
That, that's, yes, that's happening, but that's not what he came out with just recently.
Oh, okay.
So it's going to be right now.
The capital gains tax is 10% or 15 or maybe it's 20 for a short term.
He wants it to go to 44.6%.
Jesus.
And he wants a 25% wealth tax.
Okay.
Has wealth tax.
Has any other president running for office ever said he's going to raise taxes?
I, I not in my life.
No, I know George Bush senior.
He lied about it.
Right.
But George Bush senior, he actually lost his second election because he ran on, I
will not raise taxes.
And he had to and he did.
And he explains to the American people and he lost the election to Bill Clinton.
Yeah, fuck him.
Fuck him too.
Stop raising taxes.
We pay enough.
Jesus.
25.
So, and it's, it's only on the rich, right?
So there's your caveat.
But, but think about it.
Does it matter?
Think about like Elon Musk, his worth, I don't know, 60 billion or something like
that.
Now 25% of that.
Okay.
Whatever the fuck that number is.
I'm not going to do the math.
Right.
But do you think Elon Musk has a bank account with $60 billion?
No, it's all tied up.
It's all in stock.
So he's going to have to sell that stock to get tax.
Yeah.
Who's going to buy it?
Yeah.
Oh, Black Rock, right?
Oh, Black Rock Vanguard.
I mean, what the fuck, dude?
This is communism.
Yeah.
No, we are in the communist states of America.
Hell, they ban TikTok now.
Yeah, they did that too.
Yep.
And stuck that in on the, that, that foreign, the foreign aid act.
Absolutely ridiculous.
And then, so the other thing today, they started going after crypto companies.
Oh, geez.
So, the big one that's hitting the news is called Samurai Wallets.
Okay.
Now, so they were a Bitcoin wallet and service, which would kind of add some
later privacy to your Bitcoin.
Oh, you can't have that.
So, yeah.
So like we talked about in a couple of episodes ago, Bitcoin is fully transparent.
Right.
And this is why I prefer Monero because Monero is fully private.
So these Samurai guys were like, well, let's do some funky shit to make the Bitcoin
private.
And it's not 100% foolproof, but it kind of works.
Okay.
And so the Bitcoin people would be like, oh, see Bitcoin can do privacy, man.
Well, guess what?
Now the two founders of Samurai Wallet were arrested today.
No.
Maybe it was yesterday for money laundering.
Because making your Bitcoin private is money laundering.
Oh, Jesus.
So, so like, I mean, I've been talking about Monero for years, man.
And privacy is not fucking optional.
It's not a debate.
Like you need to, to prioritize this.
Welcome to the communist states of America, guys.
I mean, if we don't put Trump in office and I'm a libertarian, I will not vote for
Trump because I will support the libertarian party.
As long as they put a good candidate up there, I want to see them get 15%.
I want to see them at a recognized party.
But the reality is I know what affects my household or I know what affects my wallet
and Trump's got to get in.
It's we have to do something.
It's just getting out of control.
And there's an old saying where, uh, like, uh, tyranny happens slowly at first
and then all at once.
Yeah.
And this is fucking speeding up, dude.
There's another quote I like.
The tree of freedom must be refreshed by the blood of patriots.
And no, patriots and, um, tyrants.
Oh, and tyrants.
Yeah.
Not just patriots.
Okay.
Got to get the tyrants in there.
Well, no, I'm a patriot.
Right.
But that means your blood is, well, I might die, but I'm going to fight the fight.
Well, that's why the tyrants blood has to be there too.
Okay.
Let's get them all in there.
Oh, Jesus.
So we got the Supreme court.
They're ruling on that case.
Um, can Trump have immunity?
Right.
Find this kind of funny because they've always been pushing.
Yes, he's got it.
He's got to lose that case.
They got the Supreme court's got to back this, but the time's returning right now.
Oh my God.
The questions they asked today.
Holy shit.
Uh, I forget which justice it was, but he was like, so how come Obama can get away
with murdering a US citizen?
Actually, two.
And one was a child.
Correct.
Yes.
And are we going to charge him all of a sudden that tight turn it went, uh, what?
No.
So they had a couple of all these bullshit arguments as to, well, that doesn't really
count and blah, blah, blah.
He's not Trump.
Yeah.
He's not Trump.
That's what it really is.
And you know, I, a lot of people don't know this, but Trump actually did the same thing.
Oh, you kill American citizens?
Yes.
Oh, so that, that kid, uh, his name was Al-Awlaki, something like that.
I can't pronounce it.
Sorry to the Arabian community.
Um, he had a sister, younger sister, and Trump did a drone strike on her.
Okay.
And like people don't know that.
But was she a terrorist though?
I mean, she was a child.
Oh, what?
Oh, it was an accident then.
Not accident, but collateral damage.
The same thing the kid, the original kid was.
Okay.
Really.
He was at the wedding party with the, with the real target.
Oh, yeah.
And I don't know who the real target was in the girl's strike, but it's all on Wikipedia.
How about we just stopped drone strikes?
How do we stop doing war?
How about we protect our own country and fund us?
Because I do know, okay, I got a question to ask you because I've never been, I'm not
for the Ukraine war.
I'm not.
I don't support it.
I don't want to fund it and I'm tired of funding it.
So is it as bad as we hear?
I don't, I don't follow it that much.
Um, so some, some videos popped up this week of the bars in Ukraine.
The bars, like the bars, people party in, drink and have a good time.
And a bunch of military aged men and women were just having a grand old time.
I thought they were out of military aged men and women over there.
Well, when those tourists, they could be tourists.
Would you go to Ukraine right now?
No.
But some people have like, they're not like, okay, do we know that this was in
the Ukraine?
First of all, yes.
No, no, I've got, I got tons of videos.
Well, how do we know those were in the Ukraine?
Like, have you been to Ukraine?
No.
Okay.
I mean, yeah, sure.
I mean, but the media, the media is actually talking about it.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't, I can't say for sure.
They're in Ukraine, but that's what they're promoting.
There's been enough eyes that somebody would have went on Google Maps and said,
Hey, even my right wing crazy podcasters are talking about it.
So they tend to cite their sources.
So I have to believe that it is.
And so this kind of goes back to a story I never talked about.
Before you go on, do we know it's Ukraine right now?
Yes.
Well,
So yeah, yeah, they always do that.
Always.
Well, okay.
So the reason I bring this up is, um, I belong to a Facebook group for
moonshiners.
Okay.
I, I just still liquor.
Yeah.
So what?
Arrest me.
Um, and there was a moonshiner he used from Ukraine and everyone's like, Oh,
dude, I mean, you okay?
What's, what's going on?
He's like, nah, maybe we're fine here.
We're, we're okay.
This was like six months ago.
And I'm like, well, maybe he's in a different part of Ukraine.
Maybe he's kind of, but then you got this story, then it kind of links to this
stuff.
And I get it.
You create the front line is that one area of Ukraine and there's tons of
Ukraine that are not currently under attack, but it was the age of the people in
the bar.
Right.
That's where kind of, you know, and yeah, it could be set up.
It could be, you know, fake who, that's been talking about this before.
Who knows?
Right.
But I don't know.
So I've been questioned that because this, you know, when the Ukraine war first
started, there, our media was lying to us and they got called out on it and they
got caught doing it.
Yeah.
We're the ghost of Kiev.
Or the, or the, the six guys on an island who were like flipping off the Russian
boat and say, we're going to, you know, we're going to fight you and they all died.
It was fake.
It was a fake story.
They had a sniper woman.
Remember that one?
So that's the thing.
I mean, I don't even know how bad it is over there.
Right.
You never know what's going on.
You know, and we keep sending money and Putin's, Putin's sitting back, go and send
weapons.
I'll just destroy them when they get here.
And he probably will.
And then the Congress came out today and said, oh, well, you know, we might not win
this war.
Then why don't we just send them 60 bills?
I know.
Well, because they needed to fill their campaign counter.
You know, they need their campaign coffers filled up before this.
Man, I'm getting tired of this.
And now they're indicting Trump again.
Which one is this one?
It's so he's not listed yet, but like Giuliani is all and he's, he Arizona is the
state that's doing all the false electors.
Yeah.
And Michigan's right behind them with another one.
Yeah.
You guys, like people don't know this.
Another thing, every single election, they have the slate of electors.
Yeah.
For each party.
Yeah.
And they each like submit who they want to win.
And then like one of them is certified.
This is just normal business.
I know.
But you still have what's that?
What's that lady in Stacey Abrams?
She lost the governor's election in Georgia.
She still thinks she's the governor.
Right.
She says I was stolen from me and nothing happens to her.
Why?
Cause she's got a D next to her name.
Jesus.
Oh, some more news out of New York.
This guy Dexter Taylor, you heard this one?
No.
So he was making his own homemade guns.
Oh.
And they don't like that in New York.
No, I don't like it in America.
So they busted on his door, arrested him, and he's in court.
And the judge said, don't bring up the Second Amendment in this court.
This is New York.
There is no Second Amendment here.
Oh, Jesus.
In court.
All right.
Another judge we got to remove from him.
I mean, how do you say that?
Even if you think it, how the fuck do you say that?
Oh, Lordy.
So speaking of New York, Trump has decided to start campaigning in New York.
Nice.
So I'm guessing that trial is going to end real quick because guess where he
went today?
Get him out.
He went to a construction site and all the unionized construction workers
were there and they were just loving him.
They loved them some Trump.
And one guy was being interviewed.
They're like, Hey, you know, you're here for the Trump rally.
He's like, I'm not going to miss this.
Trump's a great guy.
Yeah.
They're like, well, what about Joe Biden?
The guy goes, fuck Joe Biden.
Yes.
So we'll can can Trump win New York.
I doubt it.
I mean, dude, the construction work.
I mean, it was.
I understand.
But if you're from Chicago, you know how these people are.
Okay.
There was a city council meeting in Chicago, believe on the south side.
And they're like, you're giving all of this special treatment to the immigrants.
What about us?
No, the lady goes, if you don't fix this, we're going to turn
Chicago red.
No way.
I mean, they always say they always threaten this shit.
But there hasn't, you know, the last time Chicago had a Republican
mayor or non Democrat mayor.
I do not like 1932 or something.
Okay.
So they, so they have had one.
Yeah.
Before any of us were alive.
I don't know.
I mean, because you've got parts of New York that are Republican.
Yeah, of course.
And it's bad.
And so what I'm seeing is bad in New York right now.
I assume that's true.
With the other things, the colleges, I mean, even if the majority of New
York votes for Trump, why would Trump win New York?
Oh, who votes?
Well, okay.
So who counts the votes?
Okay.
True.
But the ballots have to exist.
And I go back.
I don't think so.
No, no, because it's technically, I'm going to make a prediction for the election.
Okay.
Oh, we got a prediction.
Dave.
Okay.
I predict that Joe Biden is going to win with 440 million votes and nobody's
going to do a goddamn thing about it.
Okay.
But we only have 330 million people in the country.
440 million votes.
I'm calling it.
All right.
I can't argue that.
That's solid logic.
So no, but it's so, okay.
So in 2022, I believe a red wave should have happened.
Right.
And it was voter fraud that kept it from happening.
I don't.
So no, I think they did a lot of self-sabotage there.
Okay.
No.
So here's my point to this.
So they wanted to keep control of Congress, but they lost the house.
Right.
What three states made them lose the house?
I don't remember.
New York, California and Oregon.
Okay.
States that they thought were safe, right, that were safely in the Democrat
party's pocket.
So they did no activity there.
Right.
And the Santas kicked out all the federal employees out of the voter, the voting
areas, whatever we call them.
And Florida had a red wave.
So to me, it looks like they were cheating in the areas they thought were
unsafe, but they needed them and they didn't pay attention to New York.
I mean, seriously, who would ever think New York, California and Oregon would
give the Republicans the house?
Well, I mean, those, like you said, they have red areas.
Yeah.
But they were, but they were against Democrat incumbents that lost.
Right.
Well, I'm pretty sure California, the area was at least purple.
Because it wasn't fucking like LA County or anything.
Or the Bay Area.
True.
I don't know.
I think that, well, because we know there was voter fraud here in Clark County.
There's always voter fraud, but it's just massive numbers.
Yeah.
I, well, so the Republicans really fucking dropped the ball in 2022.
True.
And they learned a lesson.
What did they do?
They started talking about abortion.
Hey, we're going to ban abortion and they just can't fucking shut up about it.
Yeah.
Dude, just shut the fuck up.
Well, but you don't have to campaign on it, even if you're going to do it.
Yeah.
But that's right after the Supreme Court kicked, uh,
wrote his way back to the States.
Why don't they just shut the fuck up?
Because they, they want to lose.
They want to, they don't want to be the leader.
They know it's a losing issue.
We've proven that Republicans, Republicans don't want to rule the house.
That's my point.
That's what I'm saying.
Like you're not going to see necessarily what you think you might see in, in the
presidential election.
That is true.
Yeah.
So who knows what's going to happen?
But man, I was actually looking for that video before you got here about that
construction worker.
I really wanted to play that, but, uh,
something to link maybe I'll stitch it in here.
Uh, don't even think I've got because I mean, it's, you know, it's hard to find
something on the internet.
Yeah.
Um, when Google and the overlords don't want to see it, but it was on some podcasts
this morning.
So that's where I saw that.
Um, what else do we want to talk about?
Oh, okay.
Um, have you heard about Australia?
Australia?
Australia.
You know, it's a country full of prison, full of prisoners.
Right.
Okay.
And they, they, they did the banning of the, well, the buybacking of guns.
Right.
So they're currently more guns in Australia than they were before the gun buyback,
but owned by less people.
Right.
So more, so less people own more guns.
Okay.
And guess what they're doing now?
Uh, Australia or the gun owners?
Australia.
I'm saying you got to take people's guns away before you do stupid shit.
Right.
And they're going after Elon Musk for free speech violations.
So, uh, what are they going to do?
He's an American citizen.
They're, they, they might be doing the kind of the whole Brazil thing, just
ban an X.
I saw the PM, uh, say like memes should be illegal.
He was like, they were making fun of me on Twitter.
They were, they were making edited photos of me and that, that's not a,
it's a dick.
Like go fuck yourself, man.
It's a free speech.
Yeah.
And what, what are the, one of the ladies in government, she's like, well, how
can Elon Musk do this?
This is ridiculous.
He can't be allowed to do this.
Yeah.
But you don't have an authority.
You took your citizens guns away.
That's why you can't do that for Twitter.
Twitter is an American company run by American citizen.
Well, Brazil, the Brazil's doing it.
They're going after, they've already, they're, they're deep enough.
So actually Elon said, I could be wrong about the details, but I'm pretty sure
he said we're not shutting down.
We're just going to close our local offices out of Brazil because, because
Brazil can attack those offices.
True.
But if you take those offices out, you're on the internet.
They can't stop you.
But make them stop you.
No, I mean, Elon Musk is going to five and he also offered, was it
startling to all schools in Brazil?
Yeah.
So they can keep the internet.
Nice.
Yeah.
No, you don't musk.
I mean, I know you've got your issues with him, but no, I'm digging this guy.
I really am.
Well, so here's the thing.
Like if, if your jurisdiction bans Twitter or bans Tik Tok, we're banning Tik Tok.
Yeah, we mentioned, uh, that's why we had the dark web people.
Dark web.
You know, dark web.
So yeah, so we got to fight back somehow.
Speaking of fighting back, um, have you heard about the climate change shutdowns
that might be coming our way?
Fucking Biden.
Who's coming up with this shit?
By the Democrats.
It's not Biden.
No, Biden can't fight his way up his own bedroom.
Um, no, we all know Biden's not, Biden's not rolling this country.
It's, it's probably Obama.
I guess what do you think about that?
Actually, who do you think's pulling the public?
Sure he's got influence, but it's not, it's not one guy.
I don't think it's one, but it's a group.
But I do believe Obama's a part of that group.
And Hillary Clinton is too.
Sure.
So yeah, no, there, because they have to do something if they can't get Trump off
the ballot, cause he's going to win in a fair fight.
There, I mean, the numbers are there for him.
That's what it seems like.
Yeah.
But they, and they don't want him to win and they can't let him.
Right.
Of course.
So it's going to get crazy.
I mean, if he does, like they're all fucking done, right?
They're toast.
Because they've opened this floodgate of, Hey, now you can prosecute a past president.
Yeah.
Well, baby, not.
Well, I, I, I, he's already being prosecuted.
But I think the Supreme Court is going to roll in Trump's favor on that one.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
It was like the state courts have already opened the door.
That's true.
Tennessee, they can do, go after Biden.
Texas can go after Biden.
There's a lot to go for Biden on Jesus.
Texas, especially with the whole border shit.
Yeah.
But yeah.
But even like with, with Texas, I mean, in 2020, they filed a lawsuit against
election, electoral fraud and the Supreme Court was supposed to rule on it, but they
punted.
Yeah.
But you're, you're missing the whole, Texas has its own state courts.
They can sue Biden.
Yeah.
But arrest Biden.
He died him.
For state crimes.
There's nothing the feds can do about it.
Yeah.
You're right.
Because it was a Biden, when they took over their own borders and that one part.
Right.
Biden tried to stop.
That actually was a great showdown because Texas won.
They're like, you've got a week to open, to let our federal agents in and Texas is
like, nope.
It's like the protesters in New York at the colleges.
So the college in Dallas, Texas decided to show some solidarity.
No, holy fuck.
I wanted to get to that next because Abbott, Governor Abbott is a fucking moron.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So I didn't watch the videos or anything.
So like they're doing these protests in all these colleges.
Right.
And the cops came and arrested a bunch of the kids on the Austin.
Also, I saw the Dallas one.
And maybe I'm sure Austin was one too.
They're wherever.
Yeah.
So now I don't know what they were arrested for.
I guess it's trespassing or something.
But I mean, you're on a college campus.
It's public property.
True.
But but they were they were setting up tents for encampments.
Yeah.
So but the issue isn't any of that.
The issue is dumb fuck Abbott gets on Twitter and says anti-semitism will not be
tolerated in Texas.
Now, hey, guess what, dumb fuck?
That's a First Amendment issue.
You just nullified all those arrests.
You opened yourself up to a civil suit.
You're going to be paying millions of dollars to these college kids.
Oh, OK, because it's public property.
You have a right to protest.
Right.
But and I'm a protest.
I want everyone to protest, but you do it peacefully.
Of course.
And you don't stop somebody else who's not doesn't care about your 100 percent.
You let them be.
But guess what?
If a cop arrests you and says during the arrest, this is because you protested.
Civil lawsuit right there charges drop civil lawsuit.
But it's Texas.
Doesn't matter.
That's a federal suit.
OK.
Well, that's interesting.
That might that's borderline.
Another prediction you just did.
Wow, we're getting up with the predictions.
This is why you shut the fuck up, man.
Like it's not just it's not just a youth thing, right?
The cops need to shut the fuck up, too.
Yeah.
And and Governor Abbott is a member of the executive branch.
He's technically a cop in this situation.
The governor's.
Yes.
I did not know that.
Well, the executive, the cops are part of the executive.
Yeah, I agree.
No, I guess I never thought that far through.
Wow.
OK, we've been going over some crazy shit here today.
Well, it's been a crazy fucking week.
Oh, it's just going to get crazier.
Absolutely.
Yeah, because no, I do believe they are going to try to shut down on us.
So be prepared for that.
Maybe we should also how to prep for a shutdown.
That's a good idea.
You know, start a podcast about that.
I never thought about that.
So you got anything in the news?
So I've been a little.
I think I brought up the ones I wanted to bring.
Yeah, OK.
So yeah, we we just got to pay attention to people.
We have to fight.
I mean, call your congressman, call your senators, find out the number.
You can it's easy to find out, call and voice your concerns.
Whether you're at home in bed, walking down the street,
call them and let them know this is ridiculous.
Because at this point, I don't even know if the Democrats need that
extra seat in the house to roll the house with Dick in there.
Speaker, there.
Oh, there is one more I wanted to talk about.
Do you remember when Trump first got elected?
He put this guy in charge of the FCC, Ajit Pai.
No, Indian Indian guy.
OK, no.
And he comes on and says, I'm going to get rid of that neutrality.
Oh, yes.
And everyone went fucking blew their minds.
Yeah.
They're going to charge you to go to Amazon and charge you to extra
to go to Netflix and blah, blah, blah.
Right. Well, they removed that neutrality in 20.
I think it's 2016, like right for one of the first acts.
None of that should ever happen. Right.
You know, the Internet has done nothing but get faster, more coverage.
Now, prices did go up, but they went up less than inflation.
Yeah. So that's a win, right?
Yeah. And guess what happened today?
What they voted to put net neutrality back.
Now, now, why why would they do that at the same time as going after
crypto privacy at the same time as this tax shit?
Right. That's fucking fishy as shit because net neutrality
allows them to monitor network traffic to ensure compliance.
OK.
So they can go to your ISP and say, hey, we got to we got to make
sure you're in compliance with net neutrality.
So show us all of Ron's traffic.
Well, they can do a warrant to for it.
They won't. Oh, because they don't need to.
They don't need to. Yeah, bastards.
But if I was in Congress, I'd be protected.
Well, that's FISA. That's different.
Well, that's FISA. Yeah.
Because they're not spying on you.
They're just making sure that your traffic is in compliance,
that you're not being discriminated against.
Now, can they shut the Internet down?
Through this law, I'm not sure I didn't read through it.
But if they want to do it, they're going to find an excuse to do it.
Yeah, they will.
So actually, Trump got an endorsement today.
Yeah. OK. Bob Barr. Bob Barr. Wow.
I know the name.
So he was a Democrat.
He was a libertarian.
He actually ran on the libertarian ticket, I believe.
He might have been a presidential or vice president.
OK. Back in.
It was just like 90 something in the 90s, I believe.
But he was he was a top cop for Trump in the White House.
OK. And Trump always kind of blamed him
for all the shit that was going on that he refused to enforce.
But yet now he's endorsing Trump.
Well, who's he going to endorse?
Well, Biden, of course.
And oh, did you hear about the fight on this?
Well, the Secret Service had a little altercation this morning.
What the fuck was that about?
I haven't seen a lot on it yet, but basically it was Kamala Harris's
one of her Secret Service guys. Yeah. Kind of freaked out.
Yeah. So the dirt box was
talking about that was Jules and Kaptard and Jules Jules said,
maybe he that he got some of the shit that Kamala Harris is on
because he was kind of acting spacey and out of control.
And they had to handcuff the guy. Wow.
So we don't know what's going on.
And apparently the the and this is another problem.
The the head of the Secret Service, I believe, is a Biden appointed woman
who is concerning to what she might do with the Secret Service for Trump as well.
Interesting. So hold on tight.
It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Yeah. All right.
I think that's kind of all the news I got.
I mean, go through my notes here, but I think I got everything covered.
I thought this was going to take a whole lot longer.
It's so much shit to get through.
I know. Well, we kind of like go off.
Yeah, we kind of have fun doing it.
So because I mean, you guys, it's all fun and games.
We can't get not alive and we can't take this shit serious.
Yeah. What's going to happen is going to happen.
And we just got to hope and be prepared for it and ride the wave.
So what do you got for us today?
Yeah. So I'm going to talk about dark net markets.
So, you know, you got your I2P running, you got your Monero all set up.
Now, what are you going to do with this stuff? Right?
Well, you can buy and sell goods and services on the dark web.
So I kind of just wanted to go over some
some things you kind of want to think about when you're when you're interacting
with dark web markets, because it's not like you go on Amazon
and you tell them your name, your address and your credit card and ship me the product.
Because, you know, there could be bad people out there.
Right. You don't want to necessarily fully trust the person you're trading.
With. So just some generic
things to keep in mind. Use a password manager.
So OK, you don't want to have the same password everywhere, even on the clear net.
Right. So, you know, if someone hacks your Amazon,
they don't necessarily have your other accounts as well.
True. OK. So there's these things called password managers,
which you have one password for the manager and then it manages,
you know, your website passwords. Oh, OK.
So there's there's some popular for pay ones.
There's like LastPass, which I would recommend against.
OK. But they have like they're the probably the ones you've heard of the most.
Proton Mail has come out with airs. It's called ProtonPass.
OK. I haven't used it because I actually do my own self hosted,
which is called KeyPass XC. Oh, cool.
It has browser integration. Oh, it can do syncing across multiple devices.
You know, I have it on the phone as well as the laptop.
It stores your it will generate passwords up to any, you know, criteria you want.
Oh, nice. So, you know, you sometimes you have a website where it says,
oh, you can't use the apostrophe in your password.
Well, you can you can tell KeyPass, hey, don't give me an apostrophe.
Oh, OK. Random password.
And it'll store like various notes.
It'll it'll do history so you can get the last 10 passwords you've used.
Oh, no. OK. Yeah.
It's a great program. Check it out.
So when you're buying on the dark web, you're buying a product.
Do you buy products that get shipped to your house?
Or do you have like a P.O. box somewhere?
Well, yeah, I'm going to get to that a little bit.
See, I can jump in the gun. I'm still I'm still doing the general
yeah, advice.
So there's something called PGP, which is a encryption suite.
So it lets you send messages to each other encrypted.
Oh, OK. So it's a public private key setup.
So you would share your public key with everyone and then you keep your private key.
OK. So you encrypt things with the private key
and then people with your public key can can decrypt.
So you get most dark web markets are going to have some kind of PGP encryption
because you don't want necessarily even the operators of the market
to know what you're talking about. Right.
You just want the buyer and seller to communicate with each other directly.
Another thing is a lot of a lot of these places are custodial because they do escrow.
OK. So you don't just pay to the buyer or to the seller directly.
You would pay to the sites and the site would would wait for the product to arrive
and you to click Yes, I got it. OK. And then release the funds.
So for sites like that, you only want to have a small amount on there.
Right. OK. Because some of these places do exit scan
where they'll say, oh, we got a bunch of fun.
Let's just close the site down and steal it.
I think I heard it. Sorry if I do in that.
So never keep more on there than you're currently buying and selling with.
So do the Las Vegas rules.
What is that? Don't gamble more.
He got it because you will lose.
The other thing you want to do is on the dark web,
there's a there's a group of forums called the Dread forums.
And this is where you can come in and talk to other users, get advice,
find out which markets are trustworthy, which ones are not.
OK. But how do you trust the site that's telling you what's trustworthy?
Well, it's not a site. It's a bunch of people. OK. OK.
I mean, as far as we know, right, exactly.
They could be faking the whole.
They'll be in the Ukraine video.
So I'm trying to get you back.
I mean, you've got to ask these questions.
No, I know. This is your money and your identity we're talking about. OK.
But yeah, like go on Dread forums.
We can pop the link on the website in the chat room if you want to come by.
But now I mean, you might be covering this too.
We see the markets.
I mean, literally, you can buy anything you want.
I mean, is it does everything exist at the dark web for sale somewhere?
So unfortunately, most things on there right now are illegal.
And what I'm trying to do is actually get more legal products out there.
Right. Because, you know, sooner or later,
they're going to say that that thing you're selling that's legal.
Well, that's not legal anymore.
Right. So you want to have a way to still make a living for yourself.
Right.
That doesn't depend on the whims of Joe Biden.
So all these tick tock influencers can go sell shit on the dark web.
Right. Right. Right.
You got to make your money somehow. You got to eat.
Yeah. So. So yeah.
Just, you know, and the other thing is, right,
it's still virgin territory.
Like, you know, like I mentioned on the dark web.
Right. Right.
So if you have an idea that you want to sell things,
well, start selling them on the dark web.
Right. Don't don't wait.
You know, start doing it now. Right.
Yeah, it makes good sense.
But yeah, so like if you if you only want to buy,
so let me go a couple of things to help protect yourself for that.
If you're just a buyer. Yeah.
One is protect your identity. Right.
So you mentioned now, how do you want to ship the products?
So P O boxes and mail services, those are an option,
but you have to give your ID to use those things.
So traceable to the government is traceable to back to you.
And if you're only buying mundane things, you know,
it's probably not that big of a deal.
You know, you can cycle these things, right?
Like you can open one for a month, shut it down and then go to a different place.
Or you can ship it to your neighbor's house down the street.
Well, so here's the real good one.
The best thing to do is is find an unknown
or a vacant house nearby and ship it to that place.
I really did not know you.
Well, I mean, I love that you're thinking this way
because that that means, you know, I'm on the right track here.
So yeah, like, you know, learn your neighborhood.
Find out the houses where people may be on vacation a lot
or there's nobody living there at all and all the squatters are.
That's you know, spot houses, right?
And find out what time the mailman arrives, all that kind of shit
and, you know, wait for deliberate there and be a porch pirate.
And so you want to avoid places that are both too far away and too close to you.
Right. Right. So if it's too close, then they can pinpoint where you are.
But if it's too far, that means you have to drive.
And guess what? You're corresponding on you.
So if you drive, they're going to find you.
So do you leave your cell phone in the house?
Can you go steal the package?
Yes. Well, it's not stealing. It's your package.
True. But your trespass is to go get it.
Well, not really. It's on the porch.
I mean, you're allowed to go on someone's porch.
Oh, yeah. And the package has name that's not necessarily your name, but
is yours. Your package. OK.
It's your package.
So yeah, if ideally you want somewhere that is fairly close by,
but not super close and if you have public transit in your city,
that is a lot better because they can't track you getting on and off
as long as you pay with cash. Right.
Oh, here's my bus card.
Yeah. So so yeah, get on public transit, pay with cash.
Go get your package and come back home and.
OK.
So now one thing you might have happen to you when you go to pick up that package
instead of the package, you might see a letter that says your package couldn't
be delivered for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
This is a trap.
Do not go to the post office and turn that in.
Yeah. Your shit is gone.
OK. Just let it go.
Don't walk. Don't use that house again.
Don't use that cellar again.
Oh, yeah. Your package is gone. OK.
It reminds me of when a few police departments,
I probably back in the 90s, I think it was, they had a bunch of people
they had warrants on them. Yeah.
So they sent them a letter that said, hey, you want a free TV?
You want a free boat?
These dumbass go out.
Yeah. Yeah. You're arrested.
Don't don't. So yeah, if it's not your package, get the fuck out of there.
Yeah. Just burn it.
So so that's my advice for buyers.
It's fairly basic, fairly straightforward.
Now, there's obviously a lot more things you can do, depending on your
threat models and all that kind of shit.
So that's actually what our Monero challenge is going to be for this week.
Oh, shit. So pop into the chat room and tell us tips that you have.
Oh, nice.
And the best tip will win 0.01 XMR.
Yeah. So let's get on to if you want to sell on the dark web.
Oh, so this is a little more complicated, right?
Because you're kind of the business owner.
Right. You have to maintain all this secrecy and privacy and shit.
Excuse me.
So what you kind of want to do is actually know where all the post offices
in your area are, as well as UPS stores, FedEx stores, DHL, all that shit.
Right. Know where they are by heart.
And put them in a document somewhere and randomize them where you want to ship out from.
Now, post offices have security cameras.
Yes. Do UPS stores and FedEx stores.
Oh, everything does.
Okay.
So this is actually one of the silver linings of COVID because now wearing
a mask in public is suddenly OK.
Right. So what you want to do is you want to put your COVID mask on.
You want to get a hoodie or a baseball cap, some sunglasses.
And, you know, like try to disguise your identity.
Right. Now, do you run zigzag into the post office?
That's suspicious. You don't know.
Oh, that is suspicious.
OK. Just walk normally. OK.
Leave your phone at home.
Do not your your Apple Watch.
All these devices are spying on you, right?
Leave it all at home.
That's why you memorize where these places are.
And don't take your refrigerator with you because they're spying on you too.
They are.
So, yeah, like I said, masks, sunglasses, hat,
you know, whatever you feel will prevent you from being on a camera.
So another thing you want to do is actually when you're when you're packing,
when you're buying, packing, when you're handing things in at the post office,
do not touch things with your fingers. Oh, OK.
So because fingerprints are in the system, they can take them off the box.
You don't know who you're selling to, right?
So the person you're selling to could be the one fingerprinting that box.
So there's a couple ways to do that.
Obviously, when you're at home, just put some put some thin gloves on.
Well, you wear COVID gloves, too.
Yeah. I mean, if you had the mask on, you could do the whole thing like I'm afraid.
I'm scared of everything. Yeah, you can.
There are not many people doing that.
What about putting super glue on your finger?
That's another option.
You can put glue on your fingertips.
Clear tape is a good one. Oh, OK.
But so here's one in Vegas that is very interesting.
So Vegas has a lot of magic shows, right? Yes.
And one of the things magicians have is called a fake thumb tip.
Oh, so if you go down to a magic store, you buy a bunch of fake tips.
Yeah. You can just put those on your finger and nobody even knows.
See, I thought you were going to say when those little smoke bombs
and after you get the package, then just throw the smoke bomb around your run out.
In fact, these fingertips are actually so cool
that I've been wearing them the whole time and you didn't even notice.
Holy shit. Yeah.
I don't know. The cameras probably can't even pick it up.
But yeah, too much.
Yeah. So go down to a magic store.
They sell them on Amazon and other, you know, but again, the Internet tracks you.
If you have a local magic shop, get some fake fingertips, man.
Nobody watches your fingers. Yeah.
So these are great for avoiding, you know,
because you bring in props. Of course, man. Of course.
So let's talk about packaging.
Even looks like a thumb. Look at that. Yeah.
I guess you can't see that.
So for small packages, bubble bubble envelopes are the best.
Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah.
Because, you know, there's less manipulation.
You can do it. You do it easily with gloves on.
You can write right on top of them.
For larger packages, you're going to have to use boxes, obviously.
But what you can do is
get some boxes that are branded.
So like a Apple box or an Amazon box, you know, logos and shit on them
because then it looks like the packages are coming from those companies.
Or you're doing a return.
Yeah, as opposed to some guy sending packages with duct tape wrap.
Right. Exactly.
So and, you know, remove the original labels very carefully
so that's not scratched and scraped up.
Like make it look like a new box. OK.
Because then that's much less suspicious for anybody putzing around.
I mean, is it like the government or the feds or the cops?
Are they are they seriously like after these people for doing this?
Well, not necessarily, but yet.
If you if you become a big name in this, you're a target, right?
You're putting. But I like to do this stuff just to practice, right?
To practice good security measures. OK.
Right. Because make it happen.
Right. Because, you know, just because I'm buying something on Amazon
or selling something on eBay, no one's going to go after me for that.
But in the case that I do need to do something, I have those skills practiced.
Right. And I don't have to like go down to check list.
I think I'm second nature to you. Yeah.
No, that's actually one of my advice.
So another thing is check your laws for what is allowed to be shipped
because a lot of times you go to you go to ship something
and they'll say, oh, does it have this?
Does it have that?
And these questions catch you off guard. Right.
So like no ahead of time.
What's in those questions?
What's legal to ship? What's not legal to ship?
So give you an example.
In the USA, you cannot ship alcohol without a license. Right.
Now FedEx and UPS won't even take it at all, unless you're like a big retailer.
Now UPS or post office will do it if you have that license.
But you have some regular jerk off.
They don't have or you tell us a lava lamp. Right.
So like now, when you when you if you were to ship a bottle with liquid in it,
right, all they they can tell there's liquid in it, right?
It's lost around the lava lamp.
And yeah, so you can say it's a lava lamp or it's olive oil.
Bottle of water.
Now, don't break any laws. OK, don't ship alcohol. But.
Well, no, I have that.
See, don't.
Well, no, no, no, it's but but technically,
technically, it was not drinkable alcohol because I'm not sure.
See, that's the thing is you got to check your local laws and well, I can
what counts, what doesn't because it's all complicated.
Because you actually reminded of a story I got to tell in a second.
But I used to buy I buy a lot of stuff at auctions.
And I would buy those Jim Beam collector bottles.
Yeah. And they're more if the seal's still on there.
Right. Well, the seals seal still on there.
The liquor's still in there. Yeah.
But they're like 30 years old.
So no one's really going to drink it.
Yeah. Well, I mean, like I said, they don't they don't really check.
Right. But, you know, you just don't want to take the risk.
Yeah. So the last thing I want to talk about for selling is
if you're doing shipping labels rather than writing on the on the envelope or
box, do not print them with your printer.
Because every printer,
you ever notice how you only print black and white, but it always complains
it's out of yellow ink.
So it's because printers secretly put patterns of yellow ink on every
piece of paper they print that uniquely identifies your printer.
Man, people don't know this stuff.
No, I know that you that each printer does put a secret code on.
I've actually heard that before.
So don't print things out of your own printer because that can be traced back to you.
What I what I would suggest is know the address you're sending to
then tell the worker at the office and they'll print the label or let them
slap a label on their fingerprints on it.
And then, you know, like whatever fits your threat model, again,
like I can't give you advice for every particular instance.
You got to think ahead of time and say, you know, what what risks do I have
to worry about and prepare for those?
But there are some good practice sites you can use.
Now, these aren't on the dark web.
OK, so these all these all sell legal things, but they are mirrored after
dark web sites. OK.
So the one I like to use is moneromarket.io. OK.
So it's all Monero buyers and sellers uses escrow.
You know, like buying sell things with Monero, right?
It's beautiful.
So another site is called monerica.com.
OK. And what they do is actually they index a bunch of sites that deal
with Monero, whether that's, you know, markets or VPNs, you know,
whatever you're looking for.
If you want to buy it with Monero, check Monerica.
So you use Monero on those websites, not on the dark web.
You can't you do use it on the dark web.
No, no, but this is the site that are off the dark web.
Correct. So you still use crypto.
I mean, because there's got to be some cryptocurrency that their websites
don't allow or they allow them all.
Or do they even care?
Well, it depends on what website like each website has to decide for itself.
OK. But I like to stick to only Monero ones because, you know, Monero is the
only thing that's money. Right. You trust me.
Yeah. Like I said, you know, all these tips I gave you use them on legal sites,
even Amazon, right?
Just take it for a spin, send an Amazon product to an abandoned house one day
and just get into practice.
Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much what I got.
So so you might have a kind of funny story that happened to me.
Oh, God, I don't know, 15 years ago.
So I buy a lot of shit on auctions and less more, less now, because I used
to sell antiques and stuff and I do the eBay stuff.
I always had a booth.
So I'm on an auction site.
It's back right in Chicago, matter of fact.
And I was on an auction site, online auction out of Oregon.
And I had, you know, I had my shit ready that I knew I wanted to bid on.
And I didn't really go through their whole list of stuff they were selling.
So I'm one of my items were coming up.
So I'm kind of watching the auction and guys like, well, we have glass fire grenades.
How do you say no to glass fire grenades?
I mean, you you you can't go, oh, I don't want those.
I mean, do you know what they are?
No, but it's I want them anyway.
I know.
So what they are is they're an old timey fire extinguisher.
OK, so there's something burning.
You go this glass ball out or something.
You know, it's got a chemical that literally just puts fire out, which is gone.
Wow.
And I didn't properly check if it can be shipped or not.
And I never have to not get the item.
Yeah. Yeah, that's I mean, the auction house is cool about it.
They're like, we didn't know we couldn't ship them either.
Right. Right. Right.
Well, that's the thing is when they when when the post office says,
oh, do you have any of this and that in your box?
No. Yeah.
It's like they can't open it up.
It's a post office.
They need to warrants. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
They know that's the other advantage is the post office over like that.
FedEx could just open your shit.
And that's why UPS will always open the package because you typically ensure it.
Yes. And they want to verify that it's in there.
But they're actually.
So the post office needs a warrant to open your package.
So it's kind of like what I call the Vegas search.
They they say they're searching for weapons.
Yeah. Have you ever been to a bar or a concert venue?
We get searched. No, not in Vegas.
Oh, dear God. Yeah. No.
I mean, it was I mean, even like vamp down the road, they would search you.
House of Blues.
Wow. There's a lot of places.
Well, hell, even Fremont Street's been doing it.
Which is a big issue with me, but I'm not going to get into that.
I got searched at House of Blues in Chicago, but it was just a wand.
It wasn't like. Oh, no, no.
They can't count or anything.
It's funny, the vamped one, the old guy would on the girls, he come a little
bit rubbed the hand down their asses.
Wow. It was like he just touched my ass.
And we were watching him. He was doing that.
But here's the thing.
So we got to make sure the same place.
It can't be.
It you can't have. We can't have weapons in here.
OK. So what the fuck are you checking the ankles?
They serve the shoulders.
Of course, they get the ass if you're a girl, of course, because you never know
what's in there, but they never go down past the waist.
And I'm like, well, you're searching the ankles.
So I always call that the Vegas experience search because.
They're not searching for fucking weapons.
They're searching for alcohol.
If some fucking psycho like rolled up and got out of his car with an AR 15,
like just, you know, in his hands, what are they going to do?
Well, they're going to do nothing.
Well, you're going to walk right in there and shoot as many people as you want.
So vamped does this and Fremont Street.
I'm sure there's other ones, these ones I know.
So they search you before you come in, but in VAMP, they have an outdoor patio.
Right. So they can just hand you a backpack or Fremont Street.
They're like, Oh, no, we got to search your.
So I'm on Fremont Street.
My I went through and I despise it, but I wanted to see the band.
And I'm like, oh, Fremont Street.
So I they've been doing this is before COVID, but they still do it now.
I haven't been there within the last year.
So it's well, they do it on New Year's Eve.
And they also do it during special event concerts.
Oh, they're not doing it for that.
OK, yeah, they're not doing it for the fucking band that does all the 80s.
It drives me crazy.
You know, it's it's now we're going to a long road here.
So my wife's like, why don't you like?
Kind of keep him in the name of this band.
It's they're always on Fremont Street.
And the guy does a really good job.
He is they're not a bad band, but he's shown off like it's his own song.
And I'm like, he's so involved.
Yeah. As a comic, I can't go up and tell somebody else's joke.
Why the fuck is he?
You know, seeing their song, but seeing it in.
In honor of the band, I don't know.
It was just the way he acted.
Cover songs.
Well, I know, but it was the way he was acting.
I know my wife.
She rolls her eyes at me, too.
Or the Keith Urban guide that we saw at Arizona and Charlie's cover All Lounge.
They didn't search us there, but.
This dude was Keith.
I think it was Keith Urban, the dude had a strip button
and a button down here, he's showing off his chest and his balls.
They're like, he's a stripper.
He's a fucking stripper.
I'm like, he's not even looking like Keith Urban.
And all the older ladies were going, even the younger guy,
but he like painted, he would give them like the lays and stuff.
So it was just.
We saw a queen tribute band at the Brooklyn Bowl.
Valentine's Day a couple years ago.
It's nice. It's a nice venue.
OK.
Now, I think they wanted us on the way in, but there's no touching anything.
So getting back to Freemont Street.
Yeah, getting back to Freemont Street.
This was before COVID.
Yeah.
I went through the metal detector and my wife went through after me.
I'm like, what the fuck is my wife?
I look back.
The fucking security guard is elbow deep in her purse.
And I go, get your fucking hand on my wife's purse.
He's the one we're allowed to do this.
Like, you can't stick your hand in there.
And so we got a journal.
I ended up whatever.
But it was just pissed me off.
But I'm like, stop saying this for weapons.
Right.
Because you have a four foot fence
that I'm walking into a contained area of a four foot fence
with hundreds of people walking by the other side.
Yeah. I can get a weapon in here.
I mean, I was.
It's all it's all theater.
I know. What's all it look for alcohol?
It's, you know, it's
or I mean, some people actually there was a concert here at the racetrack.
The dude went in a few days before the concert
and buried bottles of vodka.
He went in and dug him up like a squirrel.
Yeah. And then one day this back in Chicago,
I was going to a kid rock concert.
The dude dropped his thumb down the front of my pants.
And I'm like, really?
But so there was a kid rocking leather skinner.
But I was there a month before for a system of it down
and another band and they just like barely patted us down.
And I'm like, what?
So heavy metal guys and rednecks.
You do you go up the rednecks? Come on.
But no, I because I actually wanted to to do a challenge with Fremont Street.
Go on. How many?
I'll bet you I can see at least 25 weapons.
I'm not I mean, I'll do it if you want.
But I don't know how to approach them because I'm like,
because you're not admit you're not doing it for weapons because you're not.
You have to say they have to lie.
I mean, otherwise no one will stand for it.
Yeah. But why are we standing for it now?
Because people are because people don't like guns.
Well, it's not even afraid of the Vegas.
We had the whole fucking shooting thing.
Oh, I don't know.
But that guy wasn't even in the concert venue.
Right. He was across the fucking streets.
He didn't even shoot the guns.
That's getting into a whole other thing.
Oh, I gotta tell you something afterwards.
Well, I can tell you that it's not a big deal.
So I listen to Litterbox.
Yeah. And you know, Mindy Robinson.
Yes. They know her.
Yeah. They were talking about her on the podcast and I'm like,
oh, it can't be the same girl.
And then they go, well, she used to live here in LA and now she lives in Vegas.
I'm like, oh, they go and she's really opinionated.
I go, that is her.
So I thought that was kind of cool.
So but yeah, no, I just have an I have an issue with
public property being managed by a private property, a private company.
And then private company rights, Trump, are public rights, even though tax
dollars built this house or this sidewalk or this building, because it's managed
by a private company, we have to follow their law and not private property,
not public property law, which to me is a problem.
But again, apparently that's all over the country.
Can't do anything about it.
What do you got for for the teaching moment?
Oh, guns.
And I didn't even plan this.
So my sense can be quick and short.
It's, you know, you know, some people that prep a very small percentage
of preppers owns guns, small percentage.
Right?
Yeah.
Because, you know, but it's, it's important to have some for home protection.
And just, I mean, it's just, they're just good to have.
But if you, if you don't like guns or you're scared of guns, but you want one,
don't go out and buy one until you take a, take a class, learn how to use it.
Find the gun that fits in your hand.
Find them the right gun for home protection.
You know, do you need a long gun?
Do you need a handgun?
Do you like the pistol, the revolver?
Look into all that stuff, people, because the worst thing to do is put a gun
in somebody's hand that doesn't know how to use it.
We are very pro gun here, canary in the cage.
But the reality is don't own a gun unless, unless, unless, unless you know how to use it.
If you don't know how to use it, I'm fairly confident every city and state in
this country, you can go somewhere and you can get training on how to use it.
You can rent the gun and go in their gun range.
You can't rent the gun and go out.
Well, no, do you know the door here in Vegas?
We have the gun store.
Have you, have you been to the gun store?
Yeah.
Well, yes, Dave, I have been to the guns.
No, we just so you know, we had a little incident.
I had to leave the podcast studio.
Yeah.
My garage.
And it is best I can.
Yeah.
But yeah, a gun store on Tropicana near Eastern.
Yeah.
Like they have anything you want to shoot and they will teach you how to use it,
teach you proper gun safety.
So, you know, you might be afraid at first, but go, go fire Tommy gun.
It's fun as well.
Well, there's also the gun shop on Blue Diamond does something very similar.
Okay.
But also, if you come to Vegas, you could actually drive a tank over a car.
It's like 1200 bucks.
Yeah.
But you're driving a tank over a car.
So, I mean, yeah.
So, but again, getting back to the gun thing, learn how to use them.
Because feel safe with them, feel comfortable with them.
Because if you ever need it and you don't feel comfortable with it,
someone's going to take it away from you.
Right.
It's the same thing with dark net markets, right?
Yeah.
You want to practice good things now.
And then when you need them, they'll be there for you.
And if you follow Dave's advice, he bought the fake fingers.
Every time he touched your gun, use the fake fingers.
Keep your fingerprints off guns.
These are these are hard to use with a gun, but no, I know.
No, so funny story.
I use strivers.
So I've moved around the country a bit and every time I moved to a new city,
I would drive for Lyft and I was in Denver and I was driving for Lyft.
So I could learn the city and I was giving this guy a ride and he goes,
Oh, can you stop at 7-Eleven?
I'm like, yeah, it's fine.
He goes, Oh, do you mind holding my gun?
Yeah.
Because it's a gun free zone.
I go, you can put it on the seat.
I'm not touching it.
I'm not putting my fingerprints on your gun.
Yeah.
Get the fuck out of here.
In Colorado, they're they're kind of pro gun there too.
I actually know.
You used to be.
Well, I know the Californians are moving there.
Oh, dear God.
But yeah, so, um, yeah, just feel comfortable with them and,
and don't always use it because of the, the reality is I don't know if you,
if you're going to see this in the video now,
but I had to leave here for a second because there was a guy at the door
and he was being rude to my wife and we have a no solicitor sign.
And guess what I didn't do?
I didn't grab my gun.
I went out there and I talked to him and I addressed him.
You do not want to use your gun illegally and know your state laws because if you
use your gun outside of your house in some states, in most states,
you will be the one getting arrested.
Right.
So know your guns and know how to use them.
And just for fun, have a shotgun.
Don't, but a shotgun is not necessary for home protection because it's
to be along and everything.
It can be taken away from you.
But if you rack that thing, that is the scariest sound on earth is what they said.
Cause they would have to talk.
What's the scariest sound on earth?
They're like, the rack, you have a shotgun.
Everyone knows what it is and you run, especially if you live in a small town
and you're fishing on some ladies pond and she just rocks all that show.
That shit hurts.
Stings a little bit.
But yeah, no, guns are good.
I mean, as long as you're, you're safe with them and you know what to do and
have some ammo, have enough ammo for you for a comfortable.
Yeah.
You ever read these, these articles where it's like, man with a thousand rounds
in his house.
It's like, why is it so short?
Only they were you just out of the range or something.
Yeah.
No, but there is, you know, it was stuck up on ammo.
It's not, it's not, well, the expensive right now.
I haven't checked in a while, but yeah, check the prices because it fluctuates.
I mean, back in the good old days, you'd get like 10 cents a round for 553 or 553, right?
223.
And 557.
557.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I can look into my toolbox and show you.
But now it's like 30 cents, 35 cents.
Yeah.
But you know, just, just track it and then find what prices are good for you.
Yeah.
And it is, it's far to happen.
And there is, there are safe online places you can buy them from too.
There was a guy in Peru, he literally had a garage full of ammo and he let us
come in and shop, but he was more of an online retailer.
So, and get to know this, the gun community is a good community.
It really is.
People are nice.
They'll help you out.
They'll show you tricks.
And it's just good to have one, especially nowadays with, you know, what's
going on.
Oh, and when you, when you're storing that ammo, if you're in a wet climate,
you better get some proper storage boxes.
Because here in the desert, like that shit lasts forever.
But, you know, if you're in Florida or something, it, oh yeah, the ammo, the
water will seep in there.
It'll ruin your gunpowder.
Oh, oh, I haven't died.
This is actually what I was going to do in the future.
You can make your own gunpowder.
Did you know that?
Yeah.
Well, I know, I know you can do it.
But I haven't looked into how or how you did it.
I was going to kind of look, I don't know either, but this guy told me that and I
was going to look kind of look it up and kind of talk about it a little bit.
Um, cause you just like magnesium and salt, Peter or something.
It's salt Peter.
Yeah.
So you don't get hard.
Yeah.
Okay.
There's a bullet like, like, go.
You never heard of salt Peter?
Yeah.
It's big.
They put salt Peter to the, the military was caught putting salt Peter in the food
of the soldiers.
Like back in the, I think the 50s are 60s.
So keep them calm and, you know, they didn't go Greek on anybody.
I think that's part of gunpowder.
It could be.
I don't know.
I'll look it up.
We'll find out cause I, not that I'll ever make my own gunpowder.
Yeah.
You might.
When I'm, when I, when I'm, I like to cook and I don't always follow the recipe
the way it's laid out.
So,
Well, gunpowder, you probably want to follow the recipe.
Yeah.
So, you know, stay safe.
Um, be confident with your gun.
I'm trying to think what else, but yeah, it's, it's, it's just something good to
have, uh, especially if you, you know, cause they'll be here in Vegas.
I mean, we were told, you know, cops have told us if somebody knocks on your door
and you're not expecting them, don't open it.
Um, because you don't know what it is.
They're, they're, they'll rush the, the, the rush your door.
Um, so it actually, another trick and what I did here when I bought this house,
I put a speakeasy style peephole in.
So it's the little door I open up.
Um, so I can actually see the person and I, you know, it's, it's, I can actually
have a conversation with them without even opening my doors.
So it's, it's kind of smart to even do that as well.
Um, and you can scare people.
You can open up.
What's the password?
They close it real quick when they don't answer.
They'll, they'll talk about that story with the grandkids.
I went to this house one day.
I don't know what it was.
It wasn't the green door, but you always talk about the green door before I just,
I was in the parking lot, the green door.
He was okay.
Here the green door is a, it's a sex club.
It's the best way to describe that.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Swingers sex club.
So the green door, it's, it's on the east side of Vegas, just past the strip on
Sahara and there's a new venue that opened up.
It's like a restaurant music venue.
Um, they're trying to do like old school music, like Vegas style music.
Yeah.
And I was looking at their food menu.
They had like drink a green door pot roast.
I'm like, that's the most disgusting thing on the menu.
I mean, the green door is in the parking lot.
So I kind of get it, but are you going to eat that?
I mean, cause let's just say the green door probably has sticky floors.
I don't know.
I've been there, but I'm just going to make, they probably mop, but every night
it's supposed to remind you of like the roast beef flaps that you see at the green
door.
I don't know.
Oh, Lordy.
Goodbye.
You too.
We got to go.
Um, yeah, no, but yeah, it was just, it was weird.
I guess I thought it was a weird way to word food.
Yeah.
Um, especially being that close to the green door.
Um, I think I got all my stories out, all my news articles I want to talk about.
Um, I think we went over an hour.
Do you know what you want to do next week?
Or are you, are you still not preparing?
Well, no, I mean, I'll prepare a couple of days before I, I mean, because, you know,
a lot of times I kind of like to give them a sneak peek.
I know, but like the gun, I wouldn't have said last because we're going to do guns.
The reason I did the gun story today is because of Australia.
To me, that's important.
If your government's going to gun grab, they got a second plan.
There's a plan B after the gun grab.
So I kind of want to bring that up to show you that, you know, the, the, the one
thing about our second amendment, it is to protect ourselves from the government.
And it's literally written that way.
So that's why I brought that up for, I mean, cause I've talked about food
and often stuff.
But I, so I wanted to, I wanted something top, you know, top goal, at least.
And that's kind of why I did the airs.
So next week I'm going to talk about situational awareness, which is something.
It's a phrase thrown around a lot, but you very rarely do people explain what
exactly you're supposed to do.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, I got a bunch of tips for that.
So that's actually really important because, you know, when I lived in Chicago,
walking down the street, I lived in, in Chicago proper and walking down the street,
you have to pay attention.
Stay off your phone.
Well, don't, don't, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Make him tune in next week.
Yeah.
If you want to know what to do, see us next week.
Um, I, so I think we are done.
All right, people.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening.
Um, and enjoy the week.
Good bye.