This is the audio version of Episode 501, which was recorded as a video. For the video visit Paul Truesdell on Facebook or visit Paul Truesdell dot com. 

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Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening. Welcome to the Paul Truesdell podcast. My name is Paul Truesdell. It is not Sam farsen. Sam farston has his own podcast in East pajibes, Illinois, so we're not going to talk about that. I'll use my own name. Hey, I'm using a logo shirt. I got a polo shirt that I picked up. Hey, look at that kind of cool. We're doing this both by video and audio. Today I'm drinking my coffee also out of my my fancy corporate mug. On the other side, we got our original family crest lion there. This is episode 501, and I was thinking about, what should we talk about today? And I thought about it a little bit, something came to mind. I thought I would, oh, talk a little bit about something has been bugging me for a long, long time. So let's get into this. And so this is what we're going to do. So what's been bugging me for a long time has been this whole business of climate panic. Go ahead and put the word climate panic, not change, not warming, not cooling, but panic. So let me repeat this. The business of climate panic is a business. No fans or buts about it. Now today, just so you know, in the background, I've got the windows open. Cars may honk their horns. I don't care. I'm not going to do this super professionally. The windows are open and the setting has got the it is what it is. In the background, I've got the greatest hits from Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship plane, and life is good. Weather today in Florida is absolutely phenomenal. So I became suspicious more than a few years ago when I started reading and listening closely to people back in the 1970s explain how the federal government well the level of money that we were spending taxpayer moneys. It just didn't add up. And people well, they were happy to share their projects. They're excited. They were even thankful for getting money back in the 60s and 70s. But I started noticing things were changing. And for example, people who were involved in Wildlife and Parks and zoology, they're always very appreciative. But I noticed something that was happening, and basically it was that these climate programs, those people were mean, they were nasty, and well, suddenly the mood changed. Faces got tight when you started asking about questions. You know, I thought we were getting warmer. I thought we were getting cooler. I thought we needed to recycle. Now we don't need to recycle and and etc. I noticed, you know, eyes would start darting around, and lips would purse, and browsing would furrow, okay. These are all telltale signs that someone is getting ready for, well, a fist fight. I used to pay attention to that years ago, when I had to do police work. Okay, back in the 670s and the early 80s, you know, you could feel the resentment come through the television screen. You could feel it come through the magazines and newspapers back in the day and even on radio. You know, that really told me a lot. And looking at the telltale signs of people means a lot to me. You have verbal and nonverbal communications, and when people get really defensive, to the degree that all these climate panic soothsayers get about how they're spending their money now it's our tax dollars, okay? And well, it seemed to me that people rarely get upset if they're fully transparent and they're coming clean about everything that they're doing. It's kind of like Jesse Jackson in the rainbow coalition, if you question them years ago, oh god. I mean they were going to come after you, like, like, unbelievable. So it is what it is, what it is coffee sip. Now, let's back up a little bit in time and we got Captain green, or what was his name, Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green jeans, yeah, Al Gore. He is a former United States Senator. If you don't know that, he was also vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton. He ran for president United States. He lost to George Bush in 2000 thank God. And he has leveraged a real silly PowerPoint movie, got himself a, I think a Nobel Prize for that, into billionaire status, got rid of his wife, had just massive properties and flies all around the green earth. And you couple that with the fact that he's on the board of directors of companies like Apple. I. Well, he didn't just stumble into the topic when he made an inconvenient truth that was his little PowerPoint movie back in 2006 See, he'd been circling this issue for a lot of years, and I've always found that interesting, because back then, climate talk had already shifted several times. Look, when I was a youngster, there was a fellow by name of Leonard Nimoy. You might remember him. He was Spock. He was on the TV show Star Trek, which the sidekick to Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner. I love William Shatner. He hosted a television show called In Search of might remember that those of you who are my age or older might remember that younger folks won't remember Leonard Nimoy in any way, shape or form, but I digress. So I'll never forget one episode where Nimoy was warning about an incoming, oncoming Ice Age, not global warming, global freezing. It was one of those holy cow Batman moments for me. I remember sitting there going, I'm terrified, meaning, I don't want to live in the cold anymore. Here's Spock, right? Spock, he's telling us that the world's going to turn into a block of ice. And so I went to the library. That's when you know you had to go to the library. You didn't have the interwebs on your phone instantaneously. I do like to have fun with words. So I went to the library. I did a little bit of reading, and hell no, I'm not gonna I'm tired of the cold. I was ready for a change. Anyways, instead of going back to I was going to go to Dallas, going back home, but then I decided, you know, I saw a lot of opportunity, things happening in Tampa, Orlando and Charlotte, and we settled on on Tampa for a whole bunch of good reasons. I had a lot of godfathers and contacts down here. So that's actually one of the reasons I left Wisconsin moved to Florida, and in fact, it was a super huge reason, also the girls in parkas versus the girls in bikinis, I gotta tell you, there's no choice. Hello, Tampa, clear water in Daytona. It just kind of is what it is. I figured, if we're going to freeze, I might as well start somewhere warm, and then we'll figure it out from there. Okay. Well, then somewhere along the line, the message flipped. Suddenly, we weren't freezing. We were melting. The new line was global warming. I remember people joking, you know, back in the 1980s that if you use hairspray, pretty soon we'd get endless heat coming in. I mean, look, if you kept using hairspray, you could golf into November, because we were destroying the ozone. Okay, you remember a thing called Aqua net? Well, back in the day, my mother, back in the 50s and 60s, at least, even into the 40s and 30s. But she would, if she was alive today, she would say the same thing, I miss my Aqua net. She used to use it religiously back in the 60s and 70s. That was all. You know, the days when ladies had those beehive hairdos. Everything was all. He went to the hair salon on a real regular basis get your your hairdo done, kind of like Marge Simpson, sometimes reality is just as good as the cartoon. But when it came to the ozone scare, suddenly she was well told, and everybody her age that hairspray was punching holes. Now think about this. Hairspray was punching holes in the sky, and those holes would lead to laser beam radiation that would kill all life on Earth.

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Now for you, those of you who are younger, you might think, and oh, he's just making this up. No, folks, I'm not. I live this stuff. They literally said that the Aqua net hairspray would literally destroy the ozone and we'd all just fry. S...