Testing Normal

China is buying up farmland faster than anyone else, more censorship is being called for, and large malware findings are being released that could give anyone access to your phone without you knowing it. So much more is going on and we want to talk about it.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down.

The New York Times US to Accuse China of Microsoft Hacking

Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations

A "wobble" in the moon's orbit may lead to record floods on Earth

Microsoft Collaborated With Sanctioned Chinese Military Proxy To Build Operating System For Chinese Communist Party

Rand Paul just confronted Dr. Fauci over gain of function research and triggered him so bad that he started yelling

Bezos in SPACE! (BIG Moves for Crypto?)

How Washington power brokers gained from NSO’s spyware ambitions

WH's Psaki: If You're Banned On One Social Media Platform, You Should Be Banned On All Others!

The B Word

TIL:

TIL Norway hires Sherpas from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They have completed over 300 projects, and their pay for one summer, equals 30 years of work in Nepal.

TIL that some shark species have been known to reproduce via a virgin birth. Recently occurred with a hammerhead shark in captivity (the offspring are clones of the mother).

TIL: Up to 4.5 pounds of each 150-pound adult is bacteria

TIL When the USS West Virginia battleship was finally salvaged 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, a calendar was found in an air tight room where 3 trapped sailors had marked off 16 days until they died

TIL Dick Williams A Titanic Survivor who spent over 6 hours waist deep in freezing water - after rescue doctors wanted to amputate both his legs - he refused and went on to win the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920.

Shower Thoughts:

Typically The poorest people in the poorest countries are thin. The poorest people in the richest countries are fat.

It’s interesting You can eat nearly every animal on the planet. Most plants are indigestible and many are poisonous. Says something about vegetarian vs meat only diets

When you dream, your brain is simultaneously creating and experiencing a event

People are so bad with turn signals that even when we see them used, we're still not sure of their intentions.

Technically speaking, at the end of the day all boots were made for walking.

It won't be long before people use "the 20s, the 30s, the 40s" to describe the 2020s, the 2030s, and the 2040s.

If higher dimensions exist, then ghosts are probably higher dimensional beings doing lower dimensional science projects.

You know you're an adult if you remember your birth year rather than your age.

A couple weeks off and the world didn't stop. Record heat, continued weirdness in China, markets and crypto all over the news, and still nobody can figure out that we all have to live with each other. Lets chat about it, learn to disagree, learn to find commond ground, and most of all remember what its like to not take ourselves so seriously sometimes.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

TRUTH Behind John McAfee’s Death (Crypto Pioneer Knew TOO MUCH)

US Officials Warn What Communist China Is Preparing To Do, Ramifications For US: We're 'Too Late'
John McAfee's wife Janice McAfee says he didn't kill himself

John McAfee accused of $23 million securities fraud

The inside story of John McAfee's crypto promotions business
Anti-Aging Pill: US Military Testing Pill That Delays Aging

NDTV BJP MPs To Push Population Control Bills In Parliament This Session 10 hours ago

Biden to Sign Order Protecting Farmers' Right to Repair Tractors It's the first time a U.S.

Several tied to Haiti assassination plot were previously US law enforcement informants

TIL:

TIL That in east Africa, movies are often watched with a "VJ" or "video joker" who provides live narration over the movie for translation, contextualization or comedy purposes.

TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.

Shower Thoughts:

The part of The Ugly Duckling no one ever mentions is that, after a lifetime of bullying, the duckling grows into a swan, the undisputed biggest asshole of the bird kingdom.

The movie "Free Willy" is about freeing a captive Orca while using a captive Orca to play the Orca they're trying to free from captivity.

Superman probably wouldn’t be incredibly ripped because there isn’t really much that could give him a good work-out.

You could hear 1,000 jokes and not remember any of them when you wanted to retell one but remember every single one when you heard them told again.

Students going to law school are seen as bright and upstanding citizens, but lawyers are often ridiculed by society and considered by some to be evil.

Casually dipping chicken in egg has to be one of the most savage fucking things humans have ever done

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in Earth's history.

Mount Everest is both the highest cemetery and trashcan on the planet.

Caregiver and caretaker are synonyms despite giver and taker being antonyms

Doing your own research is actually doing research of other peoples research

Oregon is passing some weird laws these days, recall elections in California are looming while they want to pay for all the past rent, and Kamala Harris has what appears to be only servants of color while serving mostly white people at her tea party. So... nothing much new.
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One more step before controversial Oregon bill becomes law, banning 'love letters' during home sales

Sperm Can Survive in Space; Humans Could Reproduce on Mars

When Will the Recall Election Take Place? It's Becoming a Big Point of Contention

California to Pay off all Past Due Rent Accrued During COVID, Giving Renters Clean Slate

Bitcoin dives as China widens crackdown on crypto mining

 Vice President Kamala Harris revives tradition of hosting all female US Senators for dinners

HUGE DEVELOPMENT: NSA Reveals in FOIA Response that the FBI Involved in "Improper Surveillance" of 16,000 Americans

Lights go off. At midnight on June 20th Shanghai time, all bitcoin and other crypto mining facilities in Sichuan will be collectively powered off. I'm keen to follow the migration to their new locations.

TIL Poland sent the US a birthday card with 5.5 million signatures to mark the 150th anniversary of the US in 1926.

TIL the opening crawl to Star Wars begins with a storybook-esque narration ("A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....") because George Lucas first imagined his films as stories being told by an ancient race of immortals. The immortals were written out for early films, but this vestige remained.

TIL:

TIL of the Heart Attack Grill restaurant in Las Vegas, which serves high fat/sugar food. Customers wear hospital gowns, waitresses are dressed as nurses, and customers over 350lb in weight eat for free. There is in fact a history of people dying there from cardiac arrest.

TIL over half of all phone calls we receive now are SPAM

TIL that almost 50% of biosolids (human feces) in the U.S. are used as fertilizers for agriculture. In Asia it is almost 90%, mainly for rice production.

Shower Thoughts:

A cyber security student who can hack the the University's database and give themselves full marks probably deserves full marks

Burger flipping is a thing where if you do it as a job its seen as a failure but if you do it recreationally it's a mark of success in life.

Lincoln will have lived closer to the detonation of the first nuclear bomb, than people born after 2025.

Antibiotics sound like something you take to keep yourself from turning into a robot.

We do not have a good grasp on just how much humanity can progress in a lifetime. In a single one, we went from the first flying machines to putting a man on the moon, and in the next lifetime, we went from room-sized computers to ones we carry in our pocket that are incomprehensibly faster.

A coma is a free trial of the afterlife, and when it expires you either pay for the full version or you go back to life

If you choke on a piece of meat it's an animal's last chance at revenge

World leaders meet, cryptocurrency is making weird moves again and lots of excitement and fear surround that, and we are still talking about Covid stuff. Lets all hang out again and chat about this crazy planet.
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Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk for addiction to opioids and ultraviolet rays

How Bitcoin Has Fueled Ransomware Attacks

Biden Spends The Weekend Trying To Persuade G-7 Leaders To Push Back On China

JUST IN - IRS chief Commissioner Charles Rettig asks US Congress for authority to regulate cryptocurrencies like #Bitcoin at Senate finance panel hearing.

TIL:

TIL that unlike terrestrial mammals, whales do not have a connected mouth and respiratory system. They do not and cannot breathe through their mouths.

TIL that a disproportionate amount of motorcyclists are infected with the cat parasite, Toxoplasmosis.

TIL: Japan's modern pacifist constitution was written by Americans.

TIL about the April Fool’s Day prank in 1980 by the BBC who reported that Big Ben was going to change to a digital clock. Some people were so shocked by the announcement that they phoned in to complain.

TIL the reporter who exposed ties between the CIA and the crack epidemic in California was found dead, with two shots to his head. It was ruled a suicide

Shower Thoughts:

Interplanetary travel will have seasonal price fluctuations during specific times due to proximity between the two planets.

People are more upset walking across dirty floors barefoot than walking in actual dirt barefoot.

Most people think they are unlucky only because they are blissfully unaware of all their good luck where they narrowly missed many misfortunes.

Every happy person wants a thousand things, every sick person wants just one 

Ideology let’s us experience life without contradictions 

Elementary schoolers who have no control over their transportation are punished more for being late than college students who own cars.

We often clean our homes when people are coming over so we can maintain the facade of a clean house that we’ve seen from going to other people’s homes who clean their house to maintain the facade of having a clean house.

Guard dogs probably think they're doing a great job as the strangers they bark at on the street never enter the house

Tinfoil hats don't work because modern tinfoil is made from aluminum not tin

A total solar eclipse is the natural version of the DVD waiting screen hitting the corner of the screen

Most people think they are unlucky only because they are blissfully unaware of all their good luck where they narrowly missed many misfortunes.

It's the historical Memorial Day (Decoration Day) and we are here to talk about it, share memories and thoughts, and of course cover some of the absurd things going on in our world this week.
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12 Surprising Facts About Memorial Day

Ryanair CEO says Belarus plane grounding was 'state-sponsored piracy'

In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

At least 88 politicians have been killed in Mexico since September

Killer Drone 'Hunted Down' a Human Target Without Being Told To: UN

Diabetes vaccine shows promise in early trial, helps to preserve body’s insulin in certain patients

Memorial Day 2021: Facts, Meaning & Traditions - HISTORY

The Government's Emergency Powers Myth, by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Irrigators Set Up Encampment Next To Klamath Project Headgates

Farmers buy land, make camp by shut Oregon irrigation canal

TIL:

"The improper storage of pistachio products in bulk containers has been known to start fires. Because of their high fat and low water contents, the nuts and especially kernels are prone to self-heating and spontaneous combustion when stored with the oil-soaked fiber/fibrous materials"

TIL that a million dollars bills laid end to end is almost 97 miles. A trillion dollar bills laid end to end is almost 97 million miles, further than it is to the sun

TIL that in addition to having eyes of an extraordinary violet/blue color, Elizabeth Taylor also had a genetic mutation at the FOXC2 gene which caused her to have an extra set of eyelashes. Double eyelashes are medically referred to as "distichiasis."

TIL a Japanese man noticed food disappearing in his fridge so he set up a security camera and found out there was a homeless woman living in the top compartment of his closet and been there for more than a year.

TIL that veterinarians kill themselves at rates 2.5 to 3.5 times the general population, due in part to online trolling and threats from pet owners who blame them for the death of a pet, and easy access to lethal medicines

TIL that Fermilab used to clean its particle accelerators with a ferret named Felicia, who would run through the tubes with cleaning supplies attached and be rewarded with hamburger meat

Shower Thoughts:

The fact that lucid dreaming is hard to master is probably good, otherwise it would have turned into an unhealthy coping mechanism

If humans had gills and were primarily aquatic they would still go to the beach for vacation.

How wildly inaccurate is the term whoever smelt it dealt it?!

100 years, that is how long someone have to be dead before its considered archeology and not grave robbing .

“Let sit for 2 minutes” is possibly the most ignored instruction among microwave users

In sci-fi, an exoplanet is all one nation, speaking one language only, while people on earth speaks thousands of languages.

Being bar staff is literally just serving people poison until you've poisoned them too much, then you chuck them out on the street.

Oregon has some interesting things going on regarding continued conditional lockdowns while pushing for COVID shots. We had a discussion about this and how it affects our rights in a free society and wanted to bring it to this episode along with some other interesting things going on this week.
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Scientists partially restore blind man's vision using breakthrough gene therapy

One step closer to nasal spray drug delivery for Parkinson's disease

Why I use the NRA as a case study for how nonprofits shouldn’t operate

Oregon businesses likely will need to review COVID-19 vaccination cards for maskless entry by customers

MIT Researchers Admit Anti-Maskers Are More Scientifically Rigorous

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 174, No 3

The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.

Independent Sage expert who warned against reopening is race adviser with no medical qualification

COVID Fraud – Lawyers & Medical Experts start legal proceedings against W.H.O and World Leaders for ‘Crimes against Humanity’

Musk, Twitter, and a tweet. My theory about how one man just may have ended everything. : Superstonk

TIL:

TIL: Dandelions are called "pissenlit" in French, which means "piss the bed" because the tea made from their roots is a powerful diuretic

TIL that the US is a rice producing country and is one of the top rice exporters in the world.

TIL Ford developed a project for a nuclear powered car in the 50s, although it was thought nuclear cars would soon replace gasoline cars it was never actually produced, only scale models exist.

TIL when Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs first opened in 1916, the owner hired people to dress as doctors and eat hot dogs outside his shop, to convince people his hot dogs were healthy.

TIL Certain oak tree populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns, only to rain them down excessively the following year, known as a "mast" year. The year preceding the mast year is thought to starve off the mammal populations feeding on the acorns.

Shower Thoughts:

When you can't remember something, but remember it later, your brain knew the answer but wouldn’t tell itself

Maybe someone really did go to Steven Hawking’s party, but he just couldn’t tell anyone to preserve the timeline

The only difference between a fine and a bribe is legality.

Botox is a performance-enhancing drug for poker players

Old TV static was a lot scarier for horror movies than "HDMI 1 not connected"

The average pet in the Western world has a better life than the average human 200 years ago

During an earthquake a coffin turns into a maraca.

Missiles in Israel, Covid tests checked by non-medically trained, masks not required and required, and a canceled trip. This is a clown world we live in at times and the logic is missing from things we are told to follow. Let’s talk about it.
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Oregon businesses likely will need to review COVID-19 vaccination cards for maskless entry by customers

The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.

AP's top editor calls for probe into Israeli airstrike

Pro-Palestine Italian port workers refuse to load arms shipment destined for Israel

A pigeon survived an 8,000-mile journey from Oregon to Australia. Authorities plan to kill it.

TIL:

TIL that at the age of 17, Steven Spielberg directed a sci-fi film called "Firelight". The budget was $500, and it was shown at a local cinema, with 500 people coming, and tickets costing a dollar each. However, one person paid $2, so the movie made $1, making it Spielberg's first commercial success

TIL that the north star is 4000 times brighter than our sun. The light we see when we look at the north star was generated in the year 1587, and it has been traveling through space for 434 years to reach us.

TIL: More than 60 billion chickens are killed for consumption annually and in 1950, the average American consumed 20 pounds of chicken per year, but 92.2 pounds in 2017.

TIL Texas didn’t have safety regulations on natural gas until after a school blew up and killed hundreds of children. Nobody was held accountable, but they passed strict regulations afterwards. It was so bad that even Hitler sent a letter of condolence.

TIL Florida is second to Alaska for highest number of breeding pairs of Bald Eagles in the US. Hawaii is the only state where you can’t find Bald Eagles.

TIL that ransom payments made to kidnappers to secure the release of your kidnapped child are tax-deductible in the US.

Shower Thoughts:

Until trains were invented in 1804, every human who ever lived that experienced a speed upwards of 56 mph, was falling to their death.

The generation that created the internet is the generation that is the most out of touch with the internet.

The more pixelated something looks, the less pixels it has.

We are so worried about spreading germs but we will drink directly from a can that's been manufactured, shipped, and handled by gas station employees.

No person has ever saved a life before, only delayed a person's death.

It's mother's day and our 100th episode. We have some very special returning guests that will be joining the conversation and having a blast discussing some fun and weird things.
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Hospital Food Is Never Great, But For Some Patients It Means Death

Hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air

Snout clout: Larger noses equal larger penises, according to study

TIL:

TIL that the Mississippi river was once five miles wide and whales swam up it from the gulf of Mexico. The remains of these whales have been found in Michigan.

Shower Thoughts:

If parallel worlds really exist, then every movie is based on a true story

You can't incorrectly colour in a picture of a chameleon

People who are bad at spelling probably have more secure passwords.

Santa Claus knows exactly where all the evil people are in the world, but doesn't do anything about it.

Jello starts out as a fun, innocent treat for kids, then it goes through crazy college party years, and eventually ends up in hospitals andc old folks homes.

We are more worried about the rise of artificial intelligence than the decrease of real intelligence

It has to be very tricky to handcuff a person with one arm.

The fact that the word dyslexic is so hard to spell is such a fuck you…

People will swim in the ocean, even though there are definitely many corpses in it. People will not swim in a pool with a corpse in it. Humans all have a corpse:water ratio that is acceptable for them to swim in.

Taliban retaliation, night vision, Google saving money sending people home, weird unknown sonar attacks, and so much more. Join us again for an entertaining time of real and raw conversations. Stick around for the TIL and Shower Thoughts :-)
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Taliban Overrun Afghan Base, Capture Troops as US, NATO Forces Exit

The Army's New Night-Vision Goggles Are Next Level

Google is saving $1 billion per year as a result of employees working from home

Senate Intel Committee investigating Havana syndrome attacks on US soil

Texas Sues Biden for Ignoring COVID-19 Rules at the Southern Border

BREAKING: 2020 Census Results Change Electoral College, House Seats

OHA changes mask guidance for non-contact sports following runner's collapse

Senate Intel Leaders: Mystery 'Havana Syndrome' Attacks on US Officials Increasing

TIL:

TIL about FBI agent Robert Hanssen. He was tasked to find a mole within the FBI after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with the KGB since 1979.

TIL Two guys honored their dead friends dying wish by using his ashes as fish bait and caught an enormous 180lb Carp in his memory

TIL that because of genetic limitations, roses cannot be blue.

TIL Samuel Clemons got his pen name of "Mark Twain" from when he worked with steamboats; it was the measurement of a river depth of 12 feet, which was a safe depth for the boats.

TIL eating polar bear liver can kill you, the human body can't handle the amount of vitamin A in their livers.

Shower Thoughts:

Room-temperature water tastes warm, but room-temperature food tastes cold

It's likely the human race will only ever refer to the dinosaurs as ending "65 million years ago"

There must be millions of dead potted plants in empty office buildings all over the world.

We forget about dreams when we enter reality, but we also forget about reality when we enter dreams.

“You guys are going to kill it!” is a bad way to reassure new parents

If the average person was sent back to the 1200s with nothing but their wits, they wouldn't be able to build anything more advanced than what societies then had.

Prosthetics will one day be so advanced that people will cut off their own limbs just to have them.

The biggest miracle of Stonehenge is that for thousands of years nobody who saw it said "Hey, let's knock that thing down for fun"

There's a certain sequence of actions you could do to become a billionaire in less than a week. You just don't know which actions.

Being a suicidal ghost must be super frustrating.

Well, we thought we were going to talk about a random bobcat attack and instead did a pivot to discussing My Little Pony fans, monkey testing, shots being fired at the National Guard, a crazy knock-out, and removing Maxine Waters from congress. Still some good discussion, Facebook blocking the stream for a song we didn’t play, and complaints about getting too much sun. You know… a normal week for us.
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Watch YouTuber Jake Paul Win With A First-Round Knockout Blow, In Just His Third Pro Fight

First-ever human-monkey hybrid created in ‘chimera’ embryo experiment

Trump calls Afghanistan withdrawal 'a wonderful and positive thing to do' and criticizes Biden's timeline

Impeach and remove Maxine Waters

Shots Fired at National Guard Troops in Minneapolis; 2 Injured

Suspected FedEx shooter was part of My Little Pony 'brony' subculture

I Am Legend (2007) Ending vs Alternate Ending

Two die after Tesla 'on auto-pilot with no one driving' crashes

TIL:

TIL Spiders Eat Up to 800 Million Tons of Prey Each Year, nearly twice the amount by weight of meat humans consume each year.

TIL that Spanish scientists have developed a 3D bioprinter which can print sheets of functional human skin for use in research or even transplants

TIL of Basenji dogs, a dog breed that doesn't bark.

TIL that Facebook conducted a study where they intentionally manipulated almost 700,000 users’ emotions without their knowledge or permission

TIL According to a survey, 43% of American Cardiologists are overweight to obese.

TIL about Dina Sanichar the true inspiration behind'The Jungle Book'. Found by some hunters in a cave in Bulanshahr, India, Dina was a feral child raised by wolves. Forced to live in a human society for 20 years: couldn't learn how to walk or talk but got addicted to smoking and died of tuberculosis

Shower Thoughts:

One of the greatest luxuries in life is the ability to sleep in without setting an alarm.

In the near future “automatic” or “manual” will refer to a car’s steering and not its transmission.

The Amish claim to use no electricity and yet they used their brain to come up with that rule

We really take for granted how much our tongue by itself doesn’t get bitten more often

Already rich people seem to get lots of things for free while the people who aren't rich or are poor and are in actual need dont.

A lot of people want kids, but don't want to be parents.

Batteries are pre-paid electricity

"Short" is used for both vertical and horizontal scale, but "long" and "tall" are only used for one

The age old question "Would you rather fight one hundred duck sized horses or one horse sized duck?" is an easy question. According to the square cube law, the horse sized duck would have its legs broken from the immense weight.