Three Equals Five

Apparently, some people get SAD during the winter months, but there’s a lot more than just less sunlight and colder weather to cause stress in modern society. Our guest Steve joins Mike, Jon, and Tom this episode as we discuss the holiday season, gift giving, seasonal affective disorder, Winter solstice, effect of diminished sunlight on human behavior, retreating to our caves and getting eaten by a bear, light cycles and exposure, light noise, the sleep and wake cycles, little to no night lighting outside limited candles until kerosene lanterns and then electric lights, Vitamin D generation capability among different genetic groups, the adaptability of humans and other species to environmental conditions, natural selection successive generations selecting for specific genotypes and expressing phenotypes, breeding within genus and species to produce viable offspring which pass down traits, shift work affecting sleep cycles and health, rapidly moving towards a dystopian state, having it way too easy, poor diet, the ease of relocation, the introduction of steam locomotives to Japan, discovering undiscovered tribes, mermaids and mermen, lack of physical exertion affecting sleep, riding grizzlies and tigers, social media circumventing natural pleasure-pain-stress system, spending most of your time inside being unnatural, the time required for someone to mentally and physically adjust after relocation, the natural culling process is effectively not present in modern society, adapting the environment to humans as opposed to humans adapting to the environment, concentrating genetic traits through relocation, genetic basis of liberal and conservative temperaments, the Moral Foundations Theory, movement from blue states to red states, nature versus nurture, relocating from where you were born is often encouraged now compared to the past, breeding communities of conservatives and liberals, rewards for dead bodies in Portland, liberals don’t breed, the effect of parents on the development of children, young liberals and old conservatives, and first world lack of hardships. 
 
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#SAD #Winter #LightCycles #Stress #Society 
 

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Opinions may vary as to whether this is the single most important topic we have ever discussed ... or maybe other descriptions are more appropriate. Rex Marshall starts us out getting us up to speed on some key aspects of Reynolds Wrap, then Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss an Alex Jones rap to go along with tin foil and his incredible prediction accuracy, local guy sporting some interesting headgear, an upcoming how-to video, not skimping on certain products, heavy duty vs other tin foil, working at Western Sizzlin as a bus boy, lack of steakhouse restaurant success in India, MIT tin foil hat study, tin foil hats amplifying government invasive abilities, just needing to believe the science, field expedient classical tin foil hat design, the effective mind control frequencies, improving helmet designs, not having access to a published study without going through the paywall, effectiveness of the Fez middle-eastern configuration versus the Centurion design, other uses for the Centurion design, a Faraday cage application, investigations into the effect of radiation on the human body, free radicals, high tension versus high power lines, early cell phones, advantage of heavy weapons squad over radio telephone operator duty, SCR536 hand held radio, going talkie while you go walkie, FCC regulation of radiation spectra, navigation aids, HAM radio band encrypted message restriction, the GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network system, ELF Extra Low Frequency submarine communication, not understanding why tin foil hats are not in more common use, brain scans, federal government listening to your phone calls and tracking you, helmet versus hat implementation, directed radiation attacks on US Embassies, opinions on Myth Busters, the purpose of a hat, displaying the dreams of individuals on screens, the dream imaging work of Kamitani Lab, CNBC explains the significance of AI brain scans, our robot overlords and whether they currently can gain usable information from our dreams. 
 
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#TinFoilHats #ReynoldsWrap #RF #Dreams #BrainScans #AI 
 
Reynolds Wrap Commercial - When You Cook Outdoors 
https://youtu.be/e7-WvmMmJN8 
 
On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study 
http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet 
 
The SCR-536 Handie-Talkie Was the Modern Walkie-Talkie’s Finicky Ancestor 
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-scr536-handietalkie-was-the-modern-walkietalkies-finicky-ancestor 
 
GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network system 
https://www.nap.edu/read/2046/chapter/4 
 
Havana Syndrome or a Case for Eliminating the Implausible 
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition/havana-syndrome-or-case-eliminating-implausible 
 
Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep 
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1234330 
 
Tomoyasu Horikawa 
https://bicr.atr.jp/~horikawa-t 
 
Kamitani Lab Dream Brain Imaging 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ATRDNI/videos 
 
Japanese Scientists Just Used AI to Read Minds 
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/japanese-scientists-use-artificial-intelligence-to-decode-thoughts.html 
 

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If you think the Food Pyramid is a healthy diet guide, think again (also - you might wanna turn down the volume for the first few seconds of this one). Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss food, the thing Tom has been more wrong about than anything else in his life, food as poison, itchy boxer shorts, unusual thirst, hypoglycemia versus hyperglycemia, slightly elevated blood sugar level, Mountain Dew, Richard K Bernstein, enrolling in medical school at middle age, Wikipedia is a dangerous source of information, everything is an energy exchange, paleo and caveman diets, natural versus processed foods, essential proteins and fats, traditional diet of the Inuit, Weston A Price, dental cavities and general tooth decay, teething of children in non-modernized communities, apparently germs don’t exist and 5G causes Covid-19, Sir Isaac Newton , Albert Einstein is a rank amateur, general quackery, some people must hate ducks, lobotomies were actually a thing, John Harvey Kellogg, eating cereal and sexually transmitted diseases, Ancel Keys, fats versus carbohydrates versus sugars versus proteins, the sugar industry and other corporate food lobbies, disposal income and diet and smoking, the food pyramid is based on industry lobby influence and not consumer health, ketosis is your natural state, most calories are burned just keeping your body going, resting metabolic energy requirements, 3500 kcal per lb of fat takes a lots of physical activity to burn off, you can take what Tom says as medical advice, don’t trust large organizations, Fat Fiction documentary, genesis and development of the Food Pyramid, TV dinners, health guidelines for adults and children, cholesterol is not the problem, fuel cleaner for your blood, onions and garlic and alcohol, eating fat and drinking beer lowers your blood sugar level, following the food pyramid will make you gain weight, FDA fundamental conflict of interest between food industry and citizen health, eat fat, eat healthy, fast food calorie counts, and Jon is not close to being a health nut. 
 
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#Food #BigGovernment #CorporateLobbies #FoodPyramid #Fat #Carbohydrate #Diet #Diabetes #HeartDisease 
 
Fat Fiction - How the Food Pyramid was Created 
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI 
 
Richard K Bernstein - How he Fundamentally Changed the Practice of Medical 
http://www.diabetes-book.com/bernstein-life-with-diabetes 
 
A Tribute to Richard K Bernstein MD FACE FACN FCCWS 
https://www.diabetesincontrol.com/a-tribute-to-richard-k-bernstein-md-face-facn-fccws-on-his-83rd-birthday 
 
Wikipedia Co-Founder: I no longer trust the website I created 
https://youtu.be/l0P4Cf0UCwU 
 
Who was Weston A Price? 
https://paleoleap.com/the-work-of-the-weston-a-price-foundation 
 
Dr John Kellogg - Inventing Cereal and Some Other Stuff 
https://www.history.com/news/dr-john-kellogg-cereal-wellness-wacky-sanitarium-treatments 
 
Long-term Trends in Diabetes 
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_trends.pdf 
 
Ancel Keys 
https://mndaily.com/233704/news/ft-keys/ 
 
Records found in dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice 
https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/12/unearthed-data-challenge-dietary-advice 
 
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084 
 

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Why do 3 non drug users want to legalize drugs? Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss drugs, the war on drugs, legalizing drugs, declaring war on - and victory over - inanimate objects, bodily autonomy, distribution to children, age of emancipation, spontaneous combustion, significant mental disability and involuntary commitment, OxyContin prescriptions for headaches, Chinese legislation relations to US legislation, genesis and development of drug control laws, Coca-Cola containing opium and cocaine, snake oil salesmen, difference between health supplements and drugs, taxation of import3d drugs, Controlled Substances Act (CSA), consumer protection and the nanny state, radium radiation melting off women’s faces, Richard Nixon administration, government power and control, Jimmy Carter administration attempt at marijuana legalization, federal legal nexus within state legislation, prohibition as a failed experiment, federal student aid, big daddy government giving us money, the government’s money, federal drug offense incarceration rate, stacked criminal charges, laws creating crime, degenerates smoking and drinking at local bars, definition of a drug, carbohydrates and sugar are drugs, self-medication, bad relationship breakups, positive feedback to a negative station, rat park study and mice utopia, opioids are addictive, physicians overprescribing, chronic pain sufferers, medical school is rote memorization following flow paths, Jimmy and grass and mowing and blah blah blah, government accountability and responsibility, communion wine, rum ration fur trench war solders, medicating active duty personnel, Viking berserkers and Wehrmacht methamphetamine, hallucinogen treatment for PTSD/shellshock, pain management and the shift in medical care, chronic pain treatment options, the opioid crisis, physician kickbacks for excessive prescriptions, holistic and eastern medicine versus acute and western medicine, osteopathy v homeopathy v chiropracty v standard western medicine, healthy lifestyle choices, obesity, gunshot wounds, mental health of the nation, community led versus federal government solutions, going to Mexico for medical treatment, and whether Mike is Xenophobic. 

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#Drugs #WarOnDrugs #DrugLegalization #NannyState #CommerceClause 

Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know 

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/dietary-supplements 

Nixon’s Presidential Approval Ratings (Tom wants you to know he wasn’t correct on this) 

https://historyinpieces.com/research/nixon-approval-ratings 

Cheech and Chong’s Cannabis Company 

https://hightimes.com/news/eighth-icon-rebrands-as-cheech-and-chongs-cannabis-company 

Gonzalez v Raich (2004) - State Legalization of Marijuana 

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/e-lessons/gonzalez-v-raich-2004 

The Commerce Clause - Common Interpretation 

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/article-i/clauses/752 

Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure 

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa157.pdf 

Transcript: Definition of a Drug 

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/fda-drug-info-rounds-video/transcript-definition-drug-april-2017 

Rat Park Study 

https://library.onu.edu/c.php?g=835268&p=6028188 

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Cryptocurrency is a digital Messiah that will free humanity from all suffering and usher in a global nirvanic state. Or it’s a hyped up widespread fraud luring all into servitude for cyber-spawned overlords. Possibly something else. Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss pork products, bacon as a currency, blockchain basics, compelling oratory, never being a better time to buy gold, Legos and Duplos, the legality of non-government issued currencies, cooperative hog farming in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Stamps, channeling the Akashic records, counterfeiting digital and physical currency, Skynet and self-driving vehicles, minting our own digital money, welcoming our robot overlords, cryptocurrency and Communists not liking it, whether the dollar is a global digital currency, cellphones in the South Sudan, Servitude 2.0, agreed upon value of money versus a value proposition over time, political unrest and general dystopia in Venezuela, the government generating digital currency, repurposing nuclear generators from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, myCurrency from Jon, whether cell phone access is sufficient to provide access to a finical institution, the effect of cryptocurrency on freedom and stability and security, resilience of distributed cryptocurrency system relative to natural disasters and military attacks, fractional currency and lending, financial panics and runs on banks, Lard Coin and Bacon Bits, historical average inflation rate and he time value of money, minor monetary inflation is a good thing and deflation is a very bad thing from a macroeconomic basis, finite availability and how cryptocurrencies are generated, Tom’s theory of economics and the conversion of energy sources into endorphins, money is a battery, the dominant energy source utilized in the United States is solar, money is a tool, the United States foundation was built upon the rejection of unfair taxation, government control of cryptocurrency, money as a weapon to destabilize governments, efficiency and effectiveness of government, local versus national government responsiveness, potential cryptocurrency downsides, and we accept donations of fiat currency. 
 
#Cryptocurrency #Blockchain #Communism #Economics #Money #FiatCurrency 
 
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy 
https://youtu.be/OrPxEmOV0YI 
https://riosmauricio.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Basic-Economics-5th-Edition-Thomas-Sowell.pdf 
 
History of The Federal Reserve System 
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/federal-reserve-history 
 
What is Legal Tender? 
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages/legal-tender.aspx 
 
Fractional Lending - An Explanation and History 
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/finance/fractional-banking 
 
A History of Legal Tender: Money, Postage Stamps, and Fractional Currency 
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/books/1869histlegaltender/historyoflegaltender.pdf 
 
What is Capital? 
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/finance/capital 
 
The Monetary Value of Coupons
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26838/why-are-coupons-worth-1100th-cent 
 
What is Fiat Currency? 
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp 
 

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Some would say we’re either currently living in a state of mass hysteria or we’re screaming full speed ahead to get there. Mike, John, and Tom discuss who defines mass hysteria and how they define it, definitions changing, nuns spontaneously meowing and then not stopping for months, the meow game, school children in Le Roy New York exhibiting muscle spasms and tics, APA being different than APA, Scientology and other cults, rational behavior being highly subjective, whether groupthink is a type of irrational behavior, the German people and the rise of the Nazi Party, Adolph Hitler writing Mein Kampf for propaganda, irrational behavior and groupthink in the face of accurate conflicting information, vaxxers and anti-vaxxers wanting different results that may be both rational and irrational, social media pulling individuals into a dopamine response feedback loop and how that generates groupthink, flip-flops and boots and changing opinions, politicians following the polls, the populist movement and the rule of the crowd, the wisdom of the crowd, pure democracy can be chaos, the traditional nuclear family is communism in practice, socialism and pure democracy can work in smaller groups, communism and socialism and pure democracy not working at larger scales, the internet being available for the public good, lack of citizen involvement in the legislative process, posting memes on Facebook to get everyone on your side and generate mass hysteria, the Infrastructure Bill requiring new vehicles to monitor, track, and report your location in real-time to the government, cell phone monitoring, boiling frogs, Anthony Bourdain eating iguana, Mothers Against Drunk Driving founder quitting due to mission and scope creep, H1N1 virus affecting more young healthy immune systems than COVID-19, people being scared and wanting the government to tell them what to do, how lockdowns were untested idea of 14 year old child, sometimes Alex Jones is correct, pro-mask/shutdown being emotional response stance and anti-mask/shutdown stance being thinking response stance, adoption of all ideas in a group to be accepted by that group, effects of irrational behaviors and beliefs on freedoms and rights, risk management versus groupthink fear response, dancing in the street nonstop until you die of heart failure because hot blood, is there any real problem with flat earthers or others with irrational beliefs unless they harm others, wrongthink and cancel culture and thoughts being violence, the need for toleration of hate speech, riots and social media, Trump flipping the term fake news back onto Democrats, and how hysteria is subjective.

#MassHysteria #APA #Cults #Scientology #Nazi #Communism #Socialism #Democracy #MADD #COVID-19 #H1N1 #Dopamine #FlatEarth #AlexJones

Le Roy, New York Teens, Tics, and Mass Hysteria
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of-teen-tics-in-le-roy-n-y

Mein Kampf
https://archive.org/details/AdolfHitlersMeinKampf-CompleteAudioBookMp3
https://archive.org/details/meinkampf035176mbp

Creeping Mission and Scope of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/aug/6/20020806-035702-2222r/
https://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/05/28/madd-founder-dont-lower-the-legal-bac-limit

The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea
https://www.aier.org/article/the-2006-origins-of-the-lockdown-idea/

Mass Hysterias Will Never Go Away (Flat Earthers and Sonic Attacks)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/market-bubbles-and-sonic-attacks-mass-hysterias-will-never-go-away/

ACLU: Freedom of Expression
https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression-aclu-position-paper

The Rape of the Mind
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11521295

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You eat clones and genetically modified organisms ... and frog. Well, at least, if you’ve eaten an apple, you’ve almost certainly eaten a clone and if you’ve eaten a strawberry in the last so many years, odds are you’ve ingested a genetically modified organism that’s part frog DNA. John, Mike, and Tom discuss Monsanto being the devil, cloning animals, vertical versus horizontal genetic transfer, ethics of breeding Bulldogs, Chihuahuas, Pugs, and other designer breeds, why people are scared of genetic engineering, whether or not apple orchards were intentionally destroyed due to prohibition, silk worms and boring worms and your corn becoming GMO, Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, frog DNA being spliced into strawberries, Tahitian Treat, vaping, and antifreeze, relative risk of GMO potential negatives to positives, Chestnut blight and Banana extinction, postharvest physiology and waste and logistics, cheap available nitrogen and the Haber process, Elon Musk and GMOs feeding the world, food control as a weapon, vulnerabilities of crop homogenization, antibiotics and natural adaptation, aspirin origins, recycling GMOs over time to address vulnerabilities, the FDA, EPA, and USDA regulation of GMOs, vegan anti-vaxxers, Germany dominating the EU and European food, off-label Reynold Wrap usage, global population increasing and decreasing, cheap available energy supporting agricultural production, food deserts, Irish potato blight and famine, increased herbicide usage with GMOs, saving the Bald Eagle from extinction results in children dying from malaria, the fragility of systems with GMOs, designer human babies and cloning your dog, unintended affects of GMOs in the ecosystem, giant GMO salmon in the Atlantic Ocean, bunnies and predator-prey relationships, tiny giraffes, and Total Farming.

#GMO #DNA #Monsanto #Farming #Food #Frogs #Strawberries #Bananas #Bt #Bacillusthuringiensis #Corn #Soybeans #Cotton #SupplyChain #Salmon

Gene Patenting
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02905-9
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/testing/genepatents/
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-patent-landscape-of-genetically-modified-organisms/

Did Prohibition Really Destroy Apple Orchards?
https://montezumaorchard.org/2021/01/14/burn-them-a-myth-of-cider-orchards-and-prohibition/
https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/the_apple_in_north_america

DNA Extraction - Silk Worms and Boring Worms and Your Corn
https://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/7f79e74ec2cd/3

GMO Crops Over Time
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption/

Banana Extinction
https://fruitworldmedia.com/index.php/featured/banana-disaster-example-history-repeating/

GMOs and World Hunger
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/biotechnology-solution-hunger
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674000/

Postharvest Physiology and Logistics
https://postharvest.ucdavis.edu

Nitrogen and The Haber Process
https://youtu.be/o1_D4FscMnU
https://www.instituteformindfulagriculture.org/writings-1/2016/3/24/the-haber-bosch-process-1

Did Rome Salt Carthage?
https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/5-imperialism-rome/

The Aspirin Story
https://www.aspirin-foundation.com/history/the-aspirin-story/

Irish Potato Famine GMO Solution
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/genetically-engineered-potato-resist-great-hunger-blight

Bt Corn and Increased Herbicide Usage
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/gmos-and-pesticides/

Genetically Modified Salmon Head to US Dinner Plates
https://apnews.com/article/whole-foods-market-inc-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-technology-a4ef4f24801f62ac65918e4560d7eb8a

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Well, apparently Rittenhouse is actually innocent, though you’d probably never have thought so from the majority of reporting to date. Join us as we discuss what happened, what people said happened, what people want to happen, and how this does and may - or may not - affect all sorts of social, cultural, and legal stuff.

#Rittenhouse #2A #SelfDefense #Constitution

Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero - he’s a gun-toting, cop-loving product of white privilege who thinks a piece of property matters more than the life of a Black man
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-greene-rittenhouse-verdict-20211119-yddg2fgr6rhx7cyffrm3gblg3m-story.html

Free Travel Across State Lines
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/salpal/the-right-to-travel-and-national-quarantines-coronavirus-tests-the-limits/

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Following up on our cheerful Total War discussion, we ramble through more light fare. We discuss the US going to war with China to defend Taiwan, not being big fans of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chairman Mao and Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin vying for top spots as mass murderers, the intentional starvation of Ukrainians by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Holodomor, Chairman Mao brainwashing and radicalizing the populace and Recep Erdogan attempting the same in Turkey, the repeating sequence of communist states forming and the powerful few within the state subjugating the people, methods of controlling the population, teaching children to be agents of the state against their parents, crazy and evil on all sides of the political spectrum, current state of media broadcasting a particular political viewpoint without countering viewpoints presented, Joe Rogan and Ivermectin and a warping narrative, the reframing of information and events by media, pharmacist not filling medical doctor drug prescription due to media, how to search for online information in a specific date range to observe information reframing, autism and anti vaccine movement, correlation versus causation, increase in autism and ADHD diagnoses, little boys and their performance in the modern educational system, government inefficiency and ineptness, Kudzu being introduced by the government to stop erosion and completely failing, cobra farming, killing poor innocent sparrows, mass starvation in China during the Great Leap Forward, god kings not being around so much anymore, and roughly 50% of the population being of below average intelligence. 
 
Ivermectin History 
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/ivermectin-mectizan.html 
 
Kudzu 
https://www.timesnews.net/living/outdoors/out-of-control---what-to-do-about-kudzu/article_28cb1a1c-e362-5b40-ab0c-2a3789f9466a.html 
 
Cobra Farming 
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ 
 
Sparrow Famine 
http://knowledgeglue.com/sparrow-famine-the-relatively-unknown-ecological-disaster-that-killed-more-than-20-million-people/ 
 

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John, Mike, and Tom are back together cheerfully talking about a more light subject matter. We discuss radiation exposure, people as nuclear test subjects, 2 time atomic blast survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, death from blast wave, pooping your pants, waging total war, nuclear war, duck and cover, fallout shelters, cold war, armor survivability in Europe against Soviet onslaught, existential threats, North Korea attacking South Korea, emergency alert system, Hawaii ballistic missile alert error, threat fight or flight reaction, limited war, Andre the Giant crushing your skull, winning the Vietnam War, public support for war, door kickers dying, differences in armed conflicts from WW1 to Afghanistan, Jane Fonda being traitorous treasonous scum, the French, Boko Haram, French Revolution, Church of Reason, Maximilien Robespierre getting what he deserved, nation building, Japan’s non aircraft carrier floating landing strip on top of a big boat, Germany and Japan won WW2, Great Britain lost WW2, Russia versus Germany was where the heaviest WW2 fighting was, declaring war, lend-lease program, Napoleon’s march to Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, American Civil War still deadlier than any other for the United States, what is a casualty, shell shock, total WW2 death count, Battle of the Somme, pollock jokes, Polish guerrilla and sniper tactics in WW2, Native Americans fighting and beating US troops, the Hawthorn Redoubt mine explosion, and Lemmiwinks.
 
Emergency Alert System 
https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system 
 
Jane “Hanoi Jane” Fonda calling for American servicemen to be executed 
https://youtu.be/JnFVFz9d6vU?t=83 
 
Battle of the Somme Hawthorn Ridge Mine 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8YfJmwY5Uo 
 

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