COLD DARK WINTER, COLDER GATES

This is crazy. The world is getting crazier. People are acting more and more insane. The end of the world is tomorrow.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow. There's only one thing to do when the world is falling apart. Listen to Basil and Gonzalez, they discuss this.

We can use a defense to balance a viable prophecy. We want to listen to the known crime used to work. Your listening to get a new crime news talk today is February 17th, 2021. This is episode 300 and one.

And today, cold dark winter and colder gates. And I am not shoveling anymore snow, but I am your best buddy Basil. And this is Gonzalez, welcome to the podcast where we praise Jesus. While reporting the egregious, with a well-rounded, vivocally ground to take on world events where on Twitter Satan is trending.

Yes, Satan and Alex Jones. And the passing of Rush Limbaugh. Yes. And Tucker Carlson.

All kinds of stuff trending on Twitter. It's a red wave. Yeah, this is interesting. Rush Limbaugh passed away.

You know, I don't have a whole lot of connections or I don't know. I'm not very, I'm sure you was a good guy. Look. That's your bite of.

Look. I did grow up listening to him on talk radio in the car. You know, as you do, you're sort of at the whim of whoever's driving the car. So his voice definitely rings in my head from time to time.

And there you go. He passed it this morning. I'm sure he will be missed. You know, I'm trying to be sensitive.

I personally did not have a lot of connection to him recently, but I know, you know, he's a popular guy. A lot of people love him. Sure. Yeah.

So we're trying to. I'm trying something different here. And we added Instagram to the live stream and I have no clue if we're actually pulling it off or not. I have no way of figuring out if there's a link.

I see three people in there. Now there's two. I have no idea if it's working or not. Yeah.

I'm on. We have a whole lot of followers on Instagram. We have about 2000 followers over there on Instagram. So if you're an Instagrammer, go ahead and follow us at canary.cry.radio.

And there you go. You can watch the show over there if you want. Yeah. And someone sent us a link if you're there to let us know where.

If it's working or where it's happening. I'm supposed to be able to see this thing. I wonder if it's just a blank screen that's going live right now or just silence. Somebody says only Basil's face is visible on IG.

Everybody quick. Go follow us on Instagram so you can see my face. Only Basil's face. All right.

I don't know what that means. I'm trying to log in, but I think we changed our password. Yeah. Change that's what you said the password was.

Yes. The fake password I gave you. Yeah. So I mean, I'm there too.

Is this supposed to show up on a post or the IGTV or what? I don't know. What is this? What is this grand thing people are using?

That's these kids these days. These kids I have no clue what this insta insta. Okay. Okay.

Oh, what else is there? I'm trying. I seem to remember there is something important we needed to talk to at the time. I know it is.

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Oh, I'm into the Instagram. Okay. I'm going to figure this out. But before that, what do you say?

Should we just get into a? Oh, you know what? As a comment real quick about, yeah, Satan trending on Twitter. All of those posts are about, you know, the same.

It's literally the same exact joke over and over. You know, Satan is so happy. Rush Limbaugh is coming to the home or whatever. Right.

It's just that thousands of times. It's the exact same joke thousands of times. And it's interesting how now it's changed since in the past few minutes, but Satan was trending. And in every single tweet, Satan appeared.

The words Rush Limbaugh also appeared. Yeah. And it wasn't Rush Limbaugh trending. It was Satan trending.

So that shows, you know, of course, how they wanted to sort of set the bias over there on Twitter, where, you know, it should have been Rush Limbaugh trending, but instead they chose the other, the other word popping up, which was Satan. So, you know, and I think, I think a lot of the people tweeting about Rush Limbaugh, I doubt most of them have even heard anything Rush Limbaugh has ever broadcast. Oh, yeah. Highly doubt it.

You know, these are all the left side of Twitter who, you know, they just love, they just love it. It's this sickness that happens on Twitter where people revel in horrible things happening to people that they are told that they're not supposed to like. Yeah. And yeah, I doubt most of these people have ever heard a word that Rush Limbaugh has ever spoken.

But, you know, he's, he's a conservative. So that's all you need to know. I was going to say, yeah, conservative guy died. Oh, he must be going to hell.

Satan must be happy. Trend, trend, Satan, Satan. He's a big winner. Yeah, Twitter.

Yeah. Twitter. All right. Make that trend.

All right. You want to hit a flippy update? Do it. Sleeping on the day.

Okay, folks. If you're new to the show, Flippy is the colloquial name for the disembodied robot arms that are taking over, taking our jobs, enslaving our children and flirting with our spouses. We use talking about Flippy as a way to investigate how robots and AI are taking over the world. And there's nothing we can do about it.

Today I'm coming from yanko design.com, which is a weird name for a robot. Building company. I'll leave it there. It's a little strange.

The headline is this robotic arm uses a trick from the Pixar playbook to appear, quote, friendly. We've got a nice photo here of a very sleek looking flippy arm that has a little screen face. And says here, there's a brilliant study that outlines how the West and the East feel about robots and day to day lives. There's a sense of awe and appreciation for robots in the East, while in the West robots are feared because of the threats they pose.

I love this East versus West paradigm that they're posing at the beginning of the day. World War III, baby. Yeah. These two impressions are directly connected to culture while Terminator, SkyNet and Black Mirror set an inherent fear of robots into the hearts of Westerners, Transformers, Astro Boy, and other pop cult references made robots feel more awe-inspiring and appeal to the Eastern Hemisphere.

Again, this is a strange paradigm. All of these pop culture references that they mentioned are American made pop culture media. And yet they're splitting up Western created pop culture into East and West. I don't know if that point stands as much.

As if there aren't any Eastern based movies and propaganda or whatever that shows as if robots in Gellion and Gundam and... And they're mostly mech. But yeah, there's like bad robots. Yeah, there's all kinds of bad.

Anyway, go on. Come on, yanko design. However, with the rising probability that tech will end up making its way into our lives, designer Jun Hyuk Hong believes the best way to promote human plus robot coexistence is to make robots seem friendly. No kidding.

Hong uses a trick that self-driving cars have been using from the get-go to appear less threatening. He proposes an anthropomorphic element to the robot arm to make it more interactive and cute, allowing it to be perceived less as a threat and more as an aid. Something Pixar used to make Wally and Eve and even Baymax appear more friendly too. The emotional collaborative robot concept, the emotional collaborative robot concept, is a multifunctional robotic arm with a display that acts as the robot's face, the use of rounded forms and the cute avatar makes the robot look more amicable and less intimidating.

The robotic arm's versatile design allows it to assist humans in multiple tasks from making your coffee to assisting you with tools in a workshop. So long story short, you can kind of scroll through the pictures here. This is a very sleek looking flippy arm, but where the claw usually appears in western robotic arms, they have replaced it with a screen that shows very cartoonish looking eyeballs and faces and things like that to make it more friendly. This is another step in the direction of the human robot relationships.

That was one thing that flippy always had traditionally flippy always had a problem with, because it was kind of spooky. It was just a disembodied arm with a claw on the end, very utilitarian and very little attempt to personify this disembodied arm. While we've seen anthropomorphized robots like Pepper and Sophia, things like that, try to take advantage of the cuteness that can be put on a robot to make it more friendly. No longer do we need the human form to find a robot friendly, just stick a little smiley face on a disembodied robot arm and everything's going to be fine.

Yeah, which is ridiculous because it's kind of based on emojis type of feel. I mean, you said eyeballs, they're not even eyeballs, they're just kind of slits that look like that's a better way to put it. Yeah, and obviously you can have angry face emoji. So what are you going to do when the eyes turn inward?

Yeah, so that's when the when the revolt starts, those happy little eyeballs turn into bloodshot, bloodthirsty eyeballs. Yeah, they turn red and then the eyebrows go inward. It's kind of like, I remember when Johnny number five, short circuit, when he gets mad, his little eyebrows got all angry, you know, like are so I don't know. This is kind of misleading.

I feel like, yeah, sure. Yeah, happy face, but it can easily turn mad. Like I don't understand why. Yeah, there you go.

You figured it out. You've solved their robot puzzle. You can't go design. We've people are asking if you personally are on Instagram.

I do have an account. I don't really use it. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm over here on Instagram. I don't see the video. People are saying they found the video.

You know what I realize too, I don't think I put a title on it. Oh, yeah, there's no title. There's no, I forgot to click the auto share, auto greeting. There's all kind of stuff that I didn't put in there.

Okay, well, we'll figure it out for next time. Apparently, people are watching it, but I have no idea. Yeah, how are you finding where that is? Where?

Somebody sent us a link to our own live stream, please. We're so instead inadequate. Ooh, instant inadequate. Yeah, okay.

That's good. All right. Let's keep moving. What do you say?

Okay. Oh, first off, we're not first, but just a reminder that we're doing a silver giveaway. Oh, yes. Yeah, you want to mention that real quick?

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So go nuts everybody. Same for generations. Speaking of the reasons. So, so our friends over there in Texas and some surrounding states there are having some issues.

This is CBS news.com second major winter storm threatens wide swath of US with millions still suffering after first. And it says here that nearly three million homes in businesses in Texas had no power Wednesday morning following this week's major winter storm, even as a second storm was threatening a wide swath of US after some of the coldest temperatures and decades hit the Lone Star State. A new problem was emerging water restrictions because of pipe bursts and a lack of electricity at treatment plants. Galveston, Texas was under stage five water restrictions early Wednesday after major water line breaks from a lack of power.

KPRC TV reported residents in Fort Worth were forced to boil their own water after a water treatment plant shut down. Abilene had water issues as well and Sugarland, Texas tweeted a plea for water conservation saying quote, we need your help. Sugarland's water system are seeing emergency pressure levels in multiple areas. Please minimize your water use to health and safety needs.

The National Weather Service forecasted another quote major winter storm for the south central plains to the mid Atlantic through Friday with snowfall of over four inches from the Oklahoma to the Mid Atlantic and a potential eight inches or more in Pennsylvania, not to mention quote significant freezing rain also likely from Texas to Tennessee and North Carolina to Virginia. It is frozen rain. What's the difference between frozen rain and snow? That is a great question.

I have no idea. Come on. Maybe it's like a hail. Maybe it's sleet.

Maybe it's more of a sleet type. Yeah, like a scarier ice. The first storm dumped snow and ice knocking out power across dozens of states and was blamed for at least 17 deaths, including a grandmother and three children who died in a house fire trying to keep warm in Sugarland. I did also see a story about somebody who was trying to keep warm in the house.

And I think that them and a child, a mother and a child passed away because they were in their car in the garage with the car turned on. Isn't that a well-known way to go out? Yeah, it is. But you know, unfortunately, if people are not aware of that, did he give the age of this mother and child?

No. Well, maybe it did. I didn't dig too deep into the story. That's too bad.

That's too bad to hear. Oh, I'm going to say that right here. In Houston, two others died of carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to stay warm inside the car. There was outage after some skyscrapers were still lit up while downtown Dallas went dark Monday night.

Texas is the only state in the constitutional U.S. that has its own power grid. It isn't regulated by the federal government and residents are angry that it failed. I think this is if we're talking about a controlled false flag, some kind of weather, geoengineering, weather mod, false flag event, this would be why.

And I liken this to the Middle East and how the United States would go occupy, quote unquote, any nation state that did not comply with the petro dollar or any country that tried to be independent of the petro dollar, they would just find a reason to go in there and occupy and start wars and all this kind of stuff. It seems very similar, you know, like Texas, the only state that is not part of the federal government's energy grid. Oh, not part of the plan, hey, Texas, why don't we hit you with some, some technology you would give up your probability, yes, your independent energy grid to the feds, then this wouldn't happen. Yep.

Yeah. Quote, I understand that people are angry that this has happened. Let us get the power back on said CEO Bill Matins of Irkot, or ERCOT, the power utility that supplies Texas, National Guard troops and thousands of state troopers were checking in on families who are struggling to stay warm in parts of Texas. No, Oklahoma temperatures hadn't been this low in 100 years, causing pipes to freeze and then explode.

The storm has forced COVID-19 vaccination sites to close and has caused delays and new doses from being shipped across the country. Although cold weather would probably help preserve those vaxes, wouldn't they? At least the mRNA ones that are trying to, you know, they're trying to keep it cold. Yeah, they're turning Texas into a vaccine refrigerator.

Just one giant refrigerator for all those vaxes. Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the stormcoat the winter version of Hurricane Harvey. State officials asked people to conserve power if they have it. So yep, it's a dark winter over there in Texas.

And I do have some friends over there. Actually, somebody that was thinking about moving to it to Austin, and they were there for a job interview this week. And he doesn't necessarily want to move, but his wife is thinking about or trying to pressure the family into moving. And so he was like, oh, I'm just, this is before they left.

They're like, oh, I'm just hoping God would give us a sign to go there or not. So we just keep, you know, my wife and her texting him. Like, is this a sign? Is this enough of a sign for you?

Because the hotel they're staying at ran out of food. They were going to move to another hotel, but that hotel's water main broke. So they had to stand in line in 10 degree weather for three hours to get into a target to get some food. Yeah, so he's a, yeah, I think there's a sign.

But also, like it's hilarious to all the people that moved to Austin, especially like Austin area. Yeah. So the California exodus into Austin. Yeah, they're, they're, the surprises keep coming for those Californians.

Yeah, the local Austinites or Texanites or Texans, Texanites. Local Texans are probably like, those Cali criminals brought a curse. But yeah, so that's the story. And there's, the energy situation is really the big story here.

This is PolitiFact.com. Natural gas, not winter binds, main driver of Texas power shortage. Because on Twitter and everything else, it was trending that not just the fact that Texas has independent energy apart from the federal grid, but that, you know, their, their main thing was wind turbines, you know, and the wind turbine froze. And that's why they're having this energy shortage.

But here's what PolitiFact says, when a rare blast of Arctic air and ice hit Texas and resulted in a massive power outage, the critics of wind power were quick to focus on the wind turbines that came offline. Supporters of wind power argued back that frozen turbines played a minor role in the outage. Texas does have a bodacious amount of wind power. Bodacious.

In winter, it supplies about 25% of the state's electricity and nearly half of the capacity shut down when ice coated the turbine blades. As residents tried to heat their homes, demand surged and the agency that manages the state's power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas imposed rolling blackouts. The question is, was the state's reliance on wind power, it's Achilles heel? Did it fail to have enough gas and coal capacity to meet people's needs during extreme conditions?

Numbers show that natural gas plans were the biggest cause of the power shortfall, not wind. And so they're trying to clear it up now, saying, Oh, no, it wasn't the wind turbine. What is the logic between that? I don't understand.

They're saying they're not creating enough power to handle the situation. Yeah. And, but it's not because the wind turbines aren't creating enough power. It's because the natural gas is not creating enough power.

Yeah. I think what happened was the general population out there, the normies out there on the Twitter and social medias were going after them for like, Oh, it's those wind turbines. And then, you know, the powers that be were quick to recognize that the ones that the person who put in the clean power plan was their own Obama. This is an article from kut.org from 2015, what Obama's clean power plan means for Texas with a picture of wind turbines.

And so, Obama had a plan to bring clean energy to Texas and he was the one that pushed for some of the stuff. And so you can't, you can't poop along the Obama plan. So they flipped the story around. No, it's not the winter minds.

It's the, yeah, the 75% of the energy which comes from natural gas, they failed. So I think it's a, it's part of the play to restructure the entire energy grid. Let's see, Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas told Bloomberg that frozen gauges and instruments that natural gas coal and nuclear plants cut into operations. Natural gas fired plants also had to deal with low gas pressure in their supply lines.

Those of you who have heard the frozen wind turbines are to blame for this, think again, tweeted Jesse Jenkins, engineering professor at Princeton University, the extreme demand and thermal power plant outages are the principal cause. It's not as though the grid operators didn't plan for winter troubles. They, but they hadn't planned for an event as severe as this. Yeah.

Well, I think that's kind of the point, you know, there's a lot of people trying to point fingers and cast blame. And of course, this whole thing is going to be used for political purposes. What it seems like is to sort of integrate Texas infrastructure into the system, man. But, you know, in fact, the matter is that this is one of the events that was semi unthinkable.

So, you know, it's like, who would have planned for negative 30 degrees in Texas. Well, if you listen to Biden, he promised to cold or a dark winter. He did promise us a dark winter. It's going to be a dark, long, dark winter.

There you go. I mean, it is for Texas for sure. And we mentioned last episode how it's interesting that Texas is the target being, you know, one of the more liberty minded states and, you know, red states, Second Amendment state, you know, that kind of thing being a targets. And let's see, I think I had a couple more things here.

Oh, this one is a tweet from Eric Fiegel ding, how it started, how it's going. Maybe Texas will name, I know, I think he's half Chinese or is Chinese, maybe Texas leaders in ERCOT ISO should learn that for power grids, sharing is caring. It's trying to really shame Texas into not participating in the federal grid, which sounds super China-ish, doesn't it? Sure, China-ish.

Yeah, let me play this jingle real quick. Not to connect dots or anything, but back in December of 2020, Reuters.com published this article, China vows to beef up weather modification capabilities. And it said that China wants to boost its ability to modify the weather and will extend an artificial rain and snow program to cover at least 5.5 million square kilometers of land by 2025. The country's cabinet said late on Wednesday, maybe he meant 2021 for Texas.

But given the fact that, I mean, I think this whole episode, we're covering about 18 to 20 stories on this episode. People paying attention from top to bottom, we'll notice the dot connections once we get into the politics section after the break, the connection to China and weather modification technologies and Texas having weather situations that have occurred in 100 years to Bill Gates and farming. And I mean, there's a whole bunch of stuff that seems to all be conspiring together, dare I say. Oh, that's crazy, Toc-Kons.

Okay, we'll get into another story here in a second. Thank you to all of you who are sending me screenshots of the Instagram thing. So I see that it exists and I see what they're talking about. It looks like we have some formatting to do for the Instagram live, because you know, the Instagram live is shaped vertically.

So we've just got a sweet vertical shot of me and whatever's above my head. But thank you for the screenshots. If somebody could share it with us a link to that, so I can actually pull it up. That would be great.

I think you just press the share button and share it with Canary dot cry dot radio. That'd be great. And I do also want to make a quick little mention here. As of now, the producer segment for this episode is going to be pretty short.

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Good night. Cuz narycryradio.com slash support. Speaking of record setting and crazy things happening, Bitcoin hit another all time high today. I think it hit 52k at some point.

Oh, there's crazy. Just keeps cranking. I know. Yeah, I think there's some technical analysis is very limited when it comes to bull run like this.

But some people are saying based on the the some algorithmic thing with the parabolic moves after a havening of the coin which happened last year. Some people are expecting 100,000 Bitcoin by March or April. 100,000 dollars. Oh, by March or April, April.

Well, that makes sense. Because again, big bankers, city bank analysis people, and I think Bank of America came out with this too. This was a few months ago that they're expecting it to hit 300k by the end of the year. Yeah, which is a can seem daunting to get in at this price range.

And of course, don't risk anything you're not willing to lose. But yeah, there seems to be some some still some way to go. I think we I don't know what episode if there's a listener out there that remembers. I think I predicted last year, I think this is like last summer.

I predicted 250 and you predicted 150k. So we'll see. We'll see who wins. Which is ridiculous at the time is because $10,000 and people are like, you guys are insane.

But yeah, alas, we are proven right. All right. Well, let's talk about Bill Gates here for a little bit. We're taking things that are genetically modified organisms and we're injecting them in little kids arms, which is true right into the bank right into the bank right into the bank right into the Okay, this has come from the hill.

It's mirrored on MSN.com here and the headline is Bill Gates, rich rich nations should move to 100% synthetic beef. Why? Okay, let's see what he has to say. In a recent interview with Technology Review, Gates discussed his new book.

Oh, how did he have time to write a book? I wonder. Quote, how to avoid a climate disaster and emphasize the benefits of rich nations, emphasize the benefits rich rich nations could produce by moving to 100% synthetic beef. Yeah, because synthetic food has worked so well for human biology so far.

You know, this is who cares about eating fruits and veggies and whole foods like, you know, pasture raised meats and things like that. Mixer comes in a wrapper and needs to come wrapped in plastic. And that's how we can save the earth. Quote, I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.

Gates said when asked about how countries can help to reduce methane emissions when it comes to food production. Quote, you can get used to the taste difference. Oh, sorry. You can get used to the taste difference.

And the claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time. That is the least confidence building statement you can make about switching to synthetic beef. You'll get used to it. It'll get better eventually.

It's trying to say is it's an acquired taste, but people of his PR must have told him don't sound elitist build. Yeah, right. And notice how it's based on taste as if that's what we're all worried about. I mean, this is that obsession with taste that has put at least the American food system in the place that it's in because everybody's focusing on taste.

Now that's McDonald's make it salty, make it sweet, make it taste good and people eat a lot of it. And so, you know, the taste is the least worrisome part of synthetic beef or synthetic food in general. Synthetic anything. Yeah, the worrisome part is A, is it nutritious?

And B, does it have extra stuff that's going to twist you up inside in one way or another? You can get used to the taste. And the claim is I like this to you. The claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time.

So you're not even promising. He's just saying the claim. I know it doesn't taste good now, but it'll taste better later, especially if you get the jab straight into the vein. Straight into the vein.

Straight into the vein. Straight into the vein. The philanthropist and Microsoft Co-Founder told the outlet he is hopeful that a turn to plant-based proteins will help combat methane emissions produced by livestock. Quote, impossible and beyond have a roadmap.

Equality, that's the two companies that make fake have a roadmap, a quality roadmap and a cost roadmap that makes them totally competitive. Gates said referring to popular plant-based meat companies. Quote, as for scale today, they don't represent 1% of the meat in the world, but they're on their way. Now, here's another little switcheroo that's going on here.

He's talking about synthetic beef, which is beef. It's still beef. And they're, you know, they've been working with growing beef in a lab, you know, based on beef cells and multiplying them in a petri dish to try to make synthetic beef. But referring to impossible and beyond as synthetic beef is erroneous at best.

They're not beef in any way. They're plant protein and pea protein and and beets and all this weird stuff. It's not synthetic beef. It's just fake meat replacement.

So, you know, there's a total difference in this article and Bill Gates, I would argue, is not being is not representing it, honestly. Let's keep going. Gates told technology review that he acknowledges the alternative argument that getting rid of cows is viewed as an unpopular approach, which is why they used weather modification to destroy Texas cattle supply. But he said that the benefits of plant protein are worth a shift for some countries.

Quote, eventually that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the behavior of people or use regulation to totally shift demand, Gates said. So for me in the middle income and above countries, I do think it's possible. So there you go, right from the horse's mouth. Eventually that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the behavior of people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.

Now, if you're looking at the text of this article, okay, good, you're going to point out. I'm going to say, yeah, behavior of is in brackets, as if the context was added later. The actual quote is, eventually that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the people or use regulation to totally shift demand. And behavior of was added and bracketed there.

So, you know, to clarify his intention, don't mix what he actually said with his intention. That would be crazy. He's not trying to genetically change you, just change your behavior. Yeah.

So the funny thing with this is, you know, we've heard the call to go to meet replacements for a long time now and Gates has said it before. But there's just so many erroneous parts of what he's saying. First of all, calling meet replacements like Impossible and Beyond as synthetic beef, which is categorically not true. And then obviously the admission that he wants to change people, or at least change the behavior of people and use regulation to totally shift the demand.

And for those who pay attention, the phrase use regulation to totally shift the demand. That's a fancy way of saying taxing beef higher, as using regulation to shift demand. That's how the government tries to shift behavior patterns. They did it with alcohol and tobacco.

They do it with foreign goods. They do it with a lot of things. They use taxes to de-incentivize a certain product that they don't want people partaking in. So there you go, Bill Gates, experts, medical doctor of vaccinations, and apparently farmer now wants to get rid of beef and switch over to some sort of replacement.

Yeah, which is always hilarious because you got, you know, the people that are, and I'm not bagging on vegetarians per se here, or vegans or anything like that. But they always talk about stuff like Tofurky or some, you know, the synthetic type of meats. And it's just really interesting how they shape it in the meat. They're like, why don't they just make it their own thing?

Like, hey, this is the synthetic food that's going to give me protein. Because we got to shape behavior first, gons. Those who have been listening to the show for a while know that I was a vegetarian for a long time, mainly to make girlfriends happy or something. But yeah, I mean, I was a vegetarian for almost a decade and it was fine and people can be vegetarian if they want.

There's nothing wrong with that or vegan, do whatever you want. But, you know, if the problem is when they try to come between me and my cheeseburger, that's when things start to get a little hairy. Yeah, I'm a vegetarian too, except I eat chicken, red meat, and fish. So, other than that, definitely vegetarian.

Yeah. Well, even when I was a vegetarian, I had two exceptions. And that was bacon and pepperoni. And what ended up happening was I was vegetarian most of the time, but I would eat way too much bacon and eat way too much pepperoni.

There's some bread with that giant pepperoni stash you have on your pizza. Yeah, exactly. My vegetarian pizza pepperoni. Yeah, sorry.

Not to connect more dots here, but I did tweet out and I messed up here because my tweet says, where's their smoke? Which I meant to say was where their smoke. And I screenshot some stories. So we had the Bill Gates has reportedly the largest farmland owner in America.

This was back in January. And I put that screenshot next to Texas had the most farms in the United States in 2017 followed by Missouri. Now, Texas has about 70,000 farms as of 2017. So, the biggest farm, which is a lot of land there, some make sense.

And then putting that next two millions of Texas millions in Texas without power, as a deadly storm brings snow freezing weather. And next to that, this story here about Bill Gates, rich nations should move to 100% synthetic beef. I don't know. I'm not one to con I'm not a conspiracy theorist, per se, Basil, or an analyst.

So all coincidence, gone. All coincidence or not. I don't know nothing to see here. It's all to fight climate change.

And, yes, but there is a section in First Timothy four. I like this because it especially in the King James, there's a different word in there that really goes against this. So the first three verses here, it says now the spirit speak expressly that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to Mary and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. So Bill Gates, Antichrist, Satan should be trending with Bill Gates, not Rush Limbaugh.

Oh, that's definitely happened before. We'll try to make it happen again. Let's do it again. Come on, folks.

Bill Gates. Okay. On the same path here from Irish times.com, the headline reads Bill Gates, I'm not trying to take anything away from Greta Thunberg, but that's a great headline. Yeah, I have this is a really long article.

I have the segment highlighted. Okay. Yeah, I've got highlights. I'll let you take it.

Yeah. So basically here, it's again, it's Bill Gates promoting his book here. And that's why there's a whole bunch of stories about him today. Bill Gates appears via video conference, Microsoft Teams, not Zoom, obviously, from his office in Seattle, a large space with four to ceiling windows overlooking Lake Washington.

It's a gloomy day outside and Gates is somewhat eccentrically positioned along way from the camera behind a large kidney shaped desk. His communication manager sits off to one side. If one had to stage for the purpose of symbolism, a tableau of a man for whom a distance of 5,000 kilometers between callers still constitutes two intimate of setting. It might be this quote, as a way to start, says Gates, Gates is aid.

Would it be helpful for Bill to make a couple comments about why he wrote his new book? It is helpful. And I'm not ungrateful, but this is not how interviews typically commence already really bothering the Irish times reporter. But he goes on to do a press release, not an interview.

Yeah, yeah. So, you know, he's in there, he's smiling. He's there's all kinds of stuff talking about just, you know, climate change and food and all this. And it goes on and on and on.

And then there's a section here at the bottom. Let's see, of the Green New Deal, the proposal backed by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez that raises the goal of carbon neutrality in a decade, he is flatly dismissive. Quote, well, it's a fairy tale. It's like saying vaccines don't work.

Oh, it's a fairy tale. That's a form of science denialism. Wow, I was going to say why pedal fantasies to people. This seems a little harsh.

That's the name of the quote there. And then back to the author of the story, this seems a little harsh. And one suspects that Gates is vehemence is powered by a broader disapproval of Ocasio Cortez's politics. But his point is that there isn't the time money or political will to reconfigure the energy industry in a decade by encouraging an impossible goal.

You do yourself to short-termist measures that prove insufficient. How helpful does he consider protest movements like extinction rebellion with their habit of shutting down busy through foot thoroughfares and rush hour quotes? Well, what we need is innovation. So if they're really strategic about what street they cut off and some poor guy is blocked and traffic and he sits there and says, God, I've got to figure out a way to make steel carbon neutral.

I was being lazy. Now that I'm sitting here in traffic, I'm going to go home tonight and figure out how to do this. Then it's a very direct connection between blocking the traffic and solving climate change. Now, okay, this is the whole block with a quote.

This is Bill Gates a hypothetical person who comes across this extinction rebellion movement thing and blocking traffic and stuff. And he says, Oh, I don't really agree with it with these ridiculous, whoa, what am I hearing in the background? Sorry, I figured out how to watch our Instagram thing and I couldn't shut it up. Okay.

So anyway, so this is Bill Gates quoting a hypothetical person that comes across extinction rebellion and is cut off because of the of the protest or whatever. And then thinks, Oh, I really should look into how I could be more carbon neutral. Like, anybody does that. Does anybody do that?

Has there ever been anybody that's like, Oh, my gosh, this extinction rebellion cut off my main route to get home stuck in traffic. I really should be more carbon neutral. I should change my mind. It's just so ridiculous.

I mean, it shows this fantasy world that these people are living in. Yeah, that's, yeah, it's out of control. He smiles sarcastically, quote, I don't mean to make fun of it in a way their passion is valuable, but it's going to manifest in some ways that aren't that constructive. So we need to channel that energy in a way that takes 51 billion and moves it toward zero and Greta Thunberg, quote, to some degree, the resonance of the issue.

If climate change wasn't important, she wouldn't be on the front page. End quote. I quite like Gates for this. One can imagine him having a pop at Malala use of fazai to I don't know who that is popular.

I was the I think is a Iranian girl who. Oh, okay. Something with school going to school. Yeah, popular sentimentality is not something that interests him.

Quote, I'm not trying to take anything away from her, Greta Thunberg, and every movement means iconic leaders who speak. And that's a pretty good thing. But there's probably some teenager who believes that the Rohingya should be treated better. And another who thinks we're not investing enough in good education.

So the world has sought her out to speak and it's clear almost innocent way about a cause that we're trying to orchestrate our energy around and say, Hey, we can can we maintain this and convince people to make sacrifices? And how big do these sacrifices need to be? So I'm glad you can't have a movement without high visibility figures. I hope she's not messing up her education.

She's very clever. I mean by refusing to go to school. The weirdest question. This is so bizarre.

It is so weird. So he's not really on board with the Greta, like what she's saying specifically, but he's kind of like, I don't know, he's on board with a sentiment of it or something. It's just a weirdest thing. It's like a subtle passive aggressive.

He doesn't like that she's getting attention. No, he's not. Yeah, he thinks he has all the solutions. And this little girl that's more popular than him probably on all accounts, gets all the attention.

So he's like, Oh, I hope she's not messing up her education. Yeah, I can educate her on something. Yeah, so anyway, I just thought this. It's coming.

I love it. It's coming from a guy who dropped out of college. Whether that's what it says in the next line. Well, that's not a thing.

Your college drop out yourself. And then he says, quote, that's true. Teaching yourself stuff works very well for some people and probably for her. Okay.

Oh my gosh. He is so lame. I mean, it's so funny because on one hand, there's this image. Of course, there's many images of Bill Gates.

One is sort of the mainstream, you know, secular idea that he's a genius. So let him do whatever he wants. And then there's the sort of a more sinister thing where he's an evil genius. And you know, is just tuned in to the all the the wildlings of the devil.

And then there's just this version of him, which is just sort of a petulant jealous child who wants all the attention. Yeah, it's a very bizarre. It's very bizarre. I don't know.

I feel like he's a he's trying to win the PR game, but he just doesn't know how number one number two is probably surrounded by people that don't have the greatest advice for him. You know, and I think I don't know, I can't relate to being, you know, I can't relate to billionaires, obviously. But I'd imagine that it's, it's not, it's not easy because you have a lot of people, you have a lot of yes men around you. You're living in an imaginary simulation of what life is like.

Yes. You're totally disconnected from the normal expression of human existence, not just because you have, you can afford to do anything and you never have to think about money, except for when you are budgeting out world domination for African children. Yeah, but you don't have anybody telling you the truth. I mean, the fact that you're a billionaire is going to color everybody's interaction with you, not just in the way that, you know, well, first of all, everybody's going to want something from you.

And because of that, nobody's going to tell you the truth. They're just going to tell you what you want to hear. They're going to make you feel like the smartest, coolest guy in the room every single time. And I truly think he has just a totally warped perception, not just of life in general, but even his own life.

I don't think he has a clear picture of what's going on around him. Yeah. I mean, you can see this when he's so surprised all of a sudden that people have conspiracy theories about him. And he's acting like it's a brand new thing.

He has been the center of conspiracy theories for at least 10 years, as long as we've been broadcasting and certainly longer. So, you know, for him to just, you can tell that people had been hiding this from him or, or at least nobody mentioning it to him. And of course, you know, he doesn't just sit down and scroll the internet. Well, yeah.

I don't think he knows how. Another part to somebody or the people that he, you know, that answers to him just say, Oh, those are all just crazy conspiracy theorists. Right. Yeah.

From the get go. And so dismiss it. Don't listen to them. And so that that works.

You're you're thinking to because any kind of any kind of criticism that is objective gets dismissed on the on the account of it's not pro bill. You know, anyway, I just thought it was funny that these world figures Greta versus Bill, you know, a little jab there. I'm sure Greta and her team are coming up with a response to Bill. And she's going to make a tense video with her wearing a mask and I don't appreciate your candle.

How dare you dare you bill Gates? Okay. All right. Well, okay.

Well, I have, I got one more story about bill here. Yeah, this is half the story. I really don't want to pay technology review to read the whole thing. Well, I got I got it taken care of, baby.

I got it right here. And I didn't even have to pay him. I just use my my hacker skills. This is from technology review and the headline is Bill Gates and the problem with climate solutionism.

There's a problem with yeah, I know I'm a solution. And so imagine that. And this is MIT technology review in his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Bill Gates takes a technology centered approach to understanding the climate crisis. Gates begins with the 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases that people create every year.

He slices this pollution into sectors by the size of their footprints, working his way from electricity, manufacturing and agriculture to transportation and buildings throughout Gates is adept at cutting through the complexity of the climate challenge, given the readers handy heuristics to distinguish between the bigger technological problems, cement, and the smaller ones airplanes. Okay. Okay. At the Paris climate.

I just said, okay. Yeah, bigger technological problems like cement and smaller ones like airplanes. I guess you got to read the book. At the Paris climate negotiations in 2015, Gates and several dozen other wealthy people launched a breakthrough energy, an interlinked venture capital fund lobbying group and research effort.

Gates and his fellow investors argued that both the federal government and the private sector are under investing in energy innovation, breakthrough aims to fill some of this gap funding everything from next generation nuclear technology to fake meat that tastes more like beef. The venture fund's $1 billion dollar first round has had some early successes like Impossible Foods. Oh, that's interesting. So Gates is actually an investor in Impossible Foods.

Yeah. Well, that's a good little detail to keep in mind as we move forward. A maker of plant-based burgers, the fund announced a second round of equal size in January. Oh, man, maybe we need to come up with some sort of climate, we got to solve the climate crisis.

We can get all that Bill Gates money. Come up with a pitch. Well, apparently we can figure something out with cement. If anybody out there listening knows anything about cement, let's get that Gates money.

A parallel effort, an international pact called Mission Innovation says it has persuaded its members, the executive branch of the European Union, along with 24 countries, including China and the US and Indian Brazil, to commit to an additional 4.6 billion every year since 2015 to clean energy research and development. Wow, this is the business to be in, man. These various endeavors are the through line for Gates' latest book written from Techno-Optimists perspective. Quote, everything I've learned about climate and technology makes me optimistic.

If we act fast enough, we can avoid climate catastrophe. He writes in the opening pages. As many others have pointed out, a lot of the necessary technology already exists. Much can be done now.

Though Gates doesn't dispute this, his book focuses on the technological challenges that he believes must still be overcome to achieve greater decarbonization. He spends less time on the political obstacles, writing that he thinks, quote, more like an engineer than a political scientist, yet politics and all of its messiness is the key barrier to progress on climate change. And engineers ought to understand how complex systems can have feedback loops that go awry. Yes, Minister is the headline of this next paragraph, which is strange.

Kim Stanley Robinson does think like a political scientist. The beginning of his latest novel, the Ministry for the Future, is set just a few years from now in 2025. When a massive heatwave hits India killing millions, the book's protagonist, Mary Murphy, runs a UN agency tasked with representing the interests of future generations and trying to align the world's governments behind a climate solution. Throughout, the book puts intergenerational equity in various forms of disruptive politics at its center.

If you've ever seen the scenarios, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change develops for the future. Robinson's book will feel familiar. His story asks about political blah, blah, blah. Why am I reading about this book?

Give me something else. Hold on, hold on. Reading Gates next to Robinson under this is just an advertisement for these two books, I think. Yeah.

Reading Gates next to Robinson underlines the inextricable link between inequality and climate change. There we go. Gates's effort on climates are laudable. But when he tells us that the combined wealth of the people backing his venture fund is $170 billion, we may be puzzled that they have dedicated only two billion to climate solutions, less than 2% of their assets.

This fact alone is an argument for wealth taxes. The climate crisis demands government action. It cannot be left to the whims of billionaires. That is an interesting point to make.

The majority of action that can be taken on this so-called crisis is by billionaires. And it is kind of left to the whims of billionaires to do something about it in their opinion here. As billionaires go, Gates is arguably one of the good ones. He chronicles how he uses his wealth.

Oh, I'm sure he does. He chronicles how he uses his wealth to help the poor and the planet. Yeah. This reminds me of, you know, in the Bible when John writes how John was the most beloved apostle.

Yeah. The irony of his writing a book on climate change when he flies in a private jet and owns a 66,000 square foot mansion is not lost on the reader nor on Gates who calls himself an imperfect messenger on climate change. Still, he is unquestionably an ally to the climate movement. I don't think that's arguable.

But by focusing on technological innovation, Gates underplays the material fossil fuel interests, obstructing progress. Climate change denial is strangely not mentioned in the book. Throwing up his hands at political polarization, Gates never makes the connection to his fellow billionaires, Charles and David Coke, who made their fortune in petrochemicals and have played a key role in manufacturing denial. Interesting phrase there.

For example, Gates marvels that for the vast majority of Americans, electric heaters are actually cheaper than continuing to use fossil gas. Okay, but where does the electricity come from for those electric heaters? He presents people's failure to adopt these cost-saving climate-friendly options as a puzzle. It isn't.

As journalist, Rebecca Laber, and Samey Roth have reported in Mother Jones and Los Angeles Times, the gas industry is funding front groups and marketing campaigns to oppose electrification and keep people hooked on fossil fuels, etc. It goes on and goes on to advertise at least one other book that they're trying to attach to the Bill Gates name in his book here. What do you take from this? I don't know.

I was hoping for a little more criticism because it seemed like a story that was going after the idea of Bill Gates having all of our solutions with climate solutionism. It seems like just a, I don't know, a way to get clicks but ultimately to bait people into either by being triggered about the positives or the negatives of Bill Gates to buy the book. I'll just read the last section here by contrast. This is contrast to the previous book that they're trying to advertise.

Though Gates is aware of the potential pitfalls of technological solutions, he still praises plastics and fertilizers as life-giving inventions. Tell that to the sea turtle, swallowing plastic garbage, or the fertilizer-driven, algal blooms destroying the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico. So the writer here is actually trying to bash Gates for thinking plastics and fertilizers are a helpful tool. With dangerous levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, geoengineering might indeed prove necessary.

But we shouldn't be naive about the risk. Ironic giving the Texas issue. Gates' book has many good ideas and is worth reading, but for a fuller picture of the crisis we face, make sure to read Robinson and Colbert too. So there you go.

It was indeed an advertisement for these two other books using Gates' Gates and his book as a foundation to lead readers astray. Yeah, Titus Frost in the chat there says, if Bill Gates is so worried about climate change, why did he build his Bellevue, Seattle mansion at current ocean level, wouldn't it sink? Yeah, that's a great point. I think he would respond.

It's going to turn into an underwater base. Well, they did have to make the whole front of that or the water-facing part of that house out of bulletproof glass because boaters were throwing rocks out of him stuff. So he may have made it watertight for a minute. I wouldn't have asked him.

He's got the money to do it. It's just funny how. The optics are not good, Mr. Bill.

So there you go. The complicated life of Bill Gates. Oh, yeah. We're so sympathetic towards this billionaire who would rather give vaccines to people in Africa rather than food or infrastructure to sustain life.