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294: Zoom, Zoom, Big Boom Doom & Gloom - Them, Not U.S. · The Paul Truesdell Podcast

• Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 00:00 The new stealth bomber. Yes, is out. And it's pretty cool. Yes, it is. And of course, we know about that because of our military procurement portfolio. But I got a kick out of a lot of people were saying things like, oh, we need to have that because the Chinese military and they have so many nuclear weapons, and oh, we're so far behind. And we can't win a war with China Paul Truesdell, II 00:25 like, not true. Not at all. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 00:27 I'm getting sick of this, I really, really am getting sick of it's Paul Truesdell, II 00:31 just propaganda. I mean, since the end of the Cold War, there's been I don't know if it's conscious or whatever, but you've got the let's call them the second rate powers, Russia and China in particular. And they have done a good job of propaganda and the US has been has done a very good job of propaganda of making us look less capable than we actually are. Which I think is a bad thing. Because as Russia has figured out, NATO can dump 5% of their annual spending into helping an ally and that can literally destroy everything that they have. Or, let's say destroy their their prime fighting force in a couple of months with basically hand me downs and leftovers from the Cold War. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 01:19 Well, in this podcast, this is the Paul Truesdale podcast to Paul's in a pod. I'm Paul Truesdale. And joining me is none other than I don't know, Paul Truesdell, II 01:28 what is my name again, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 01:29 I think it might be a paltry. Everybody likes to call up to, let's just call up to Yeah, Paul Truesdell, II 01:36 it doesn't mean P one, your P two. Thing One Thing Two. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 01:40 Yeah. So for those of you who follow us, yeah, we know we've been doing this about once a month and we'll do a little bit more often. We have been busy. I haven't seen you for a bottle. About a week. Yeah, very, very Thanksgiving. It's been a day since Thanksgiving. I Paul Truesdell, II 01:53 think it was the week before this past one. So we drove to Kentucky. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 01:57 Yes, we spend time on that. That's about it. Paul Truesdell, II 02:02 Yeah, but but boy, is there been a lot going on in the past month. Got got Northrop Grumman's latest Marvel, which is pretty cool. If you do want to talk about that a little bit. Yeah, I was just gonna Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 02:17 say real quickly, we're going to drop in a disclaimer of real quickly, because we're gonna talk about companies, we're going to talk about a whole bunch of things, because what we do, so I'm gonna drop that in right now. And then we're going to continue but yeah, just so you folks know, I know, we should be doing more of these. We promised to do more. But we've been extremely busy. I've been traveling and going all over the green earth and to everybody down in Tampa and all of these gazillion new friends. I've been pregnant up down there will thank you. Thank you, thank you. But let's get started. 02:52 Due to our extensive holdings in our clients, you should assume that we have a position in all companies discussed and that a conflict of interest exists. By listening or reading or using this document, video, podcast or website in any manner. You understand the information presented is provided for informational purposes only and agreed to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Public and group informational items should never be considered professional advice. Nothing said written or otherwise communicated should be construed as an offer recommendation, or solicitation to buy or sell a security. And lastly, we do not provide tax legal or psychological advice. Let's now continue with the Paul Truesdale podcast to Paul's in a pod Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 03:51 so what we're going to do is we're going to talk about a hodgepodge of a bunch of different things. This is gonna be a typical shaggy dog. This is just two guys shooting the breeze. We've been doing this for a long time. We'll start off talking with the stealth and then we'll move into Russia. We'll move into Ukraine, we'll move into China, we'll move into Foxconn, we'll move into chip manufacturing. I don't know what else we're gonna move into. We'll just kind of Yeah, I think a lot of things Paul Truesdell, II 04:13 I think for this one, I mean, the ultimate Nexus is going to be based around China and you know, it's going to be a lot of it's a lot about China and manufacturing and and in that whole Nexus I think that's a big thing. We'll do that. There's just too much to Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 04:28 cover other we have your show notes in front of you. No, Paul Truesdell, II 04:30 I have nothing. Do I have it? I Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 04:31 guess no. He's gonna spit ball. Paul Truesdell, II 04:33 We're just gonna spit ball. Okay, so Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 04:34 off we go. Let's talk a little bit about zoom zoom. We got a new zoom zoom. Paul Truesdell, II 04:39 Yeah, so the I guess is yesterday, Northrop Grumman announced or revealed, let's say their new B 21. Writer. It's an intercontinental intercontinental strategic bomber. For those that don't really know about that history, the United States in the interview, like let's say what the 1950s, primarily 40s and 50s, we created this concept of the strategic bomber. It was based off of a lot of the stuff that happened with long range bombing and World War Two not really focused on Europe as much as it was primarily focused on Japan. And the B 21. Writer gets its name from that the the the nickname is the writer. And that comes from doodles writers during World War Two. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 05:31 It was a big deal if you get a chance to take a look at general Doolittle and doodles Raiders. It's a It's very cool. That was quite a flight though. Yes, it was. And it was amazing that they were able to pull that off over and over and over again. But they were it was it's a really good story. I'm not gonna get into it. But but for those of you if you read Fiddlesticks likes last name was a billy Doolittle. I don't remember it doesn't make any difference. You look at Doolittle original, the original flight. Yeah, and the flak and the everything they went through and pulled it off is really amazing. It really is, is a great story. Paul Truesdell, II 06:09 But the fact that they could do it then basically the entire war we bombed the absolute living, you know, what out of Japan, and that's one aspect of World War Two that people really don't talk about is the the impact of the strategic bombing. Obviously, in Japan, but also in, in Europe and in general. And then obviously, then how that has advanced over the years. But so since since the end, Jimmy, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 06:37 actually, Jimmy, I don't recall. Yes, yes, Jimmy, Jimmy Doolittle. Paul Truesdell, II 06:42 So since the conclusion of the Second World War, and then there was the nuclear race, right. So obviously, we enjoyed nuclear supremacy over everybody for a handful of years. And then the are fantastic, just just great, you know, dripping with sarcasm, if you can't tell partners in World War Two, primary partner, also known as the Soviet Union, Stalin and CO, they of course, immediately started stabbing us in the back. And we had all kinds of nightmare issues to deal with it turned into the Cold War. And basically, once they had the ability to do nuclear, to build nuclear weapons, and they had stolen the technology from the United States. Once that had happened, then we decided that we needed the ability to have the long range strategic bombing capabilities that were above and beyond the capacity of the day. And lots of money went into these fancy programs to do intercontinental bombing. Because, you know, the concept, I guess, at the time was that, you know, anywhere we stationed bombers anywhere away from the US could potentially be destroyed in a very quick strike. So we needed the ability to take, take a plane off from Louisiana, or Iowa or Idaho or Montana or someplace and reach the adversary wherever they were to be able to get into their airspace and drop some nasty stuff. Now, the real quickly, well, real quick. So the key though, is that this all predated the technology that ultimately became intercontinental ballistic missiles, or annalistic. missile technology really hadn't gotten to that point yet. So this stuff was as this was the America's first strike capability. And a lot of resources went into that. And then and that's really where the story starts. Well, I Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 08:45 was also gonna say that what's there was a key word here called strategic bombing. I want I want to talk about that for just a minute. Yeah, exactly. So let's take Germany let's take Dresden. Let's take World War Two, and we're talking about carpet bombing. We're talking about just destroying everything. Within multitudes of square miles is just we just, that's what happened. I mean, it's real. Yeah. Millions of millions of Germans died at the hands of allied forces, just carpet bombings, Germans did it well, this were just indiscriminate bombing Paul Truesdell, II 09:21 most of the deaths, both in Japan and then Germany, were not actually from the bombs, though. They were indirect. It's the destruction of supply lines, housing, you know, the problems of winter and hygiene and things like that. That's where the majority of that I agree. I just I just want to clarify that because one thing people think is that like, you know, in the modern day bombs and, and guns, and all these magical weapons are really dangerous. And I can tell you if you watch enough war footage, yeah, they're scary. But if, with a pretty good amount of luck, like it's actually not as dangerous as you think it is. Um, I've seen tons and tons of videos of guys holed up in basements and all kinds of things. And some, it's surprising how ineffective and artillery shell is, if you have a properly, properly defended area. It's the other downstream effects. It's a domino effect of losing or infrastructure, and all that stuff that really kills a lot of people, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 10:22 right. And that's what I want to make it real clear. Because we live in a meme based world, I deal with enough people that I quickly discharged them from having any contact with them when they can't think critical thinking is important. I think that the here I'm saying to you and to our listeners, that the word strategic bombing is designed to destroy morale, the economic ability to produce to transport material, it is designed to reduce the theater of operations for military operations very systematically, and not just on a carpet basis where everything is now I want to tie that to what the Russians are doing with their Scud missiles, and they're just throwing them in. And it's hitting, shopping centers, etc. Now, they're targeting high profile items like, like power installations, etc, Paul Truesdell, II 11:13 it's public infrastructure is what they're really trying to do. But one, they're malicious and nasty. So they don't have a problem, you know, hitting an apartment block, that's right next to a power generation facility, a thing that, you know, in the US would not be a tolerable item without extreme, extremely precise weapons, because we understand the effect that it has in the civilian population. But then the other thing is, is, a lot of their weapons are horrifically old and inaccurate and poorly maintained. And or being repurposed. So like two aspects of it that we've seen, one was a retooling of anti aircraft missiles that they have a lot of, to then attack ground targets. Specifically, I'm talking about the s 300. system, as well as using old Soviet era like 1960s, Soviet era, anti ship missiles, cruise missiles, to attack ground targets. Well, the problem is, is those targeting systems weren't designed for that they're designed to be out on the ocean. So when you put in a target for these systems for land based things, it's not the greatest, and you have what happened like three months ago or something, when they first started using this, where instead of hitting the tank, repair manufacturer, industrial area of the city, it hit a mall and killed 1000 people. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 12:45 Yeah, and I just want to give some context, because we're gonna run real quickly and some hardcore current details. But I think it's important to understand that terror bombing, we use, you know, terrorists and excetera, etc. That's what terror bombing is viewed today. But terror bombing years ago, was indiscriminate that it was that as well. But it was indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets, I want to use a context, let's say you have the villages, which is located a little bit in Marion County in Sumter County. And what's the other one down there? Lake County. So you know, we want to do terror bombing, we'll just start bombing the rest of the 55 plus communities in the villages. And we'll just call it a complete pool storm everywhere. Now, if I want to terrorize them, but not terrorize them. If I want to do strategic, I take out the water plant, I take out the power plant I take out bridges make their life miserable. Absolutely. And so now instead of them being so angry at the death, they're angry because of the inconvenience and they want this war to end. Paul Truesdell, II 13:46 Yeah. So now Now the problem though, with that is is that we learned in World War Two, particularly with Japan, and also Germany that and we also learned in what other conflicts Oh, Korea, and Vietnam, and Afghanistan, and Iraq, and multiple times in Iraq, and all kinds of other places throughout the world. One thing we figured out World War Two, they made, they did a lot of research, you know, after action analysis to try and figure out like, what did we do that worked and didn't how do we retool the military for the future? And you know, McNamara made the same mistake in Vietnam. He didn't they didn't listen to their own research, that terrible bombing doesn't work. It does not work against a population that is determined. It never does. Japan, I mean, we killed 10 times more people with strategic bombing, and terror bombing for lack of a better term. Of course, you know, it wasn't intentionally terror bombing, but it was in some cases, but it was, you know, the weapons just weren't as precise back then. So you couldn't go in and take out the power Station. But in the case of Japan, I mean, we I don't know that I don't have the numbers in front of me, of course. But, you know, I think the numbers we kill as many as 10 times the population of Japan using big let's call it carpet bombing and strategic bombing of different things than we did with nuclear weapons. Absolutely. People have this over emphasis on the effectiveness of nuclear weapons, and how it ended the war when I think I've mentioned it on this podcast before but, you know, the reality is, is all the research from the internal discussions among the Japanese leadership at the time, they the nuclear weapons did not deter them, did not, did not force them to the table. It was two front war, it was the Soviet Union to fight the war in Europe ending in the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan, at our behest, that forced them to the table to negotiate because they knew they could make us bleed, and they could survive our invasion. Maybe they wouldn't survive the war for beyond five or six years, but they could really make us pay, but in the earth, that is if the Russians also invaded them. At the same time, they knew they couldn't fight it, they didn't, they just didn't have the material resource. So it made sense to sue for peace. It was extremely painful for them. But the reality is, is, you know, most Japanese got off pretty pretty well. You know, the, one of the most disgusting human beings in history, the head of the Japanese biological weapons development. He, for example, took Korean because remember, Japan also occupied Korea. During World War Two, he took Koreans and did human testing on them. Some of those doodles writers that fell, their planes crashed, or they had to make emergency landings in Japan. They did human experiments on them and kept them alive to test sarin gas and, and all kinds of nasty stuff did. I can't remember the technical term for it. But you know, did surgery, brain surgeries on live people and just horrific some of the most horrific stuff you've ever seen? But we Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 17:15 may we may I can't talk about that, because that is restricted to only Germany, Hitler Nazi Paul Truesdell, II 17:20 Well, it happened in Japan. Now the thing is that every country by the way, yeah. The world wars in particular were horrific on for everybody. No, there's no, there are no saints in either of those. But the thing that's interesting that people don't talk about is that guy that ran that that that horrific, in particular the chemical weapons program years ago that they tested these these things on civilians, in particular these a Korean civilians. So if you don't really understand the context on why Japan and Korea have had this, let's call it what happened in history and animosity for each other, even though we're all kind of part of the same Alliance. Right? That's this is why that guy in particular that ran that program, yeah, we hired him. And he worked for the US chemical weapons development program after World War Two. So the thing is, is like Verner von Braun from her job. zactly so you know, people have a, let's call it rose colored glasses victory to the victors are the spoils the victory, if you win, you get to write the history. But point is that, you know, they got they sued for peace and got out of it. Even some of the worst people that shouldn't have the deserved Nuremberg style type of what was called prosecution, those types of people got off, and it's because they sued for peace, and they follow it and you know, some elements of their society were destructive, but the reality is, is, you know, 40 years later, they were the largest, the rival to our economy in the world, and Japan in 1980s. Was, was organized. And, you know, they were the high tech manufacturing hub of the world. And, and they were extremely influential and powerful. But so the point being is just the strategic bombing didn't reduce the morale the way people expected it to, and I'm sorry, not strategic, but the carpet bombing, and the total destruction. So that's why we evolved into this strategic bombing, where we got to take out these little things. And, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 19:28 you know, who in the United States was primarily behind that? And one person, and it happened to be a fellow name of general Billy Mitchell, Mitchell field is the airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And so, okay, Billy Mitchell, and that's the thing that he was extremely instrumental in the removal of the Air Force from the military from the army, create a separate air force, because one of his big things was he believed in strategic Jake, attack strategic warfare strategic bombing, where at the time the army was more along the lines of the old, you know, mass force, etc, the carpet bomb. And that's a big deal. Yeah, that's, again, I like to give context because I'm older, you're younger, you're well read, I'm more experienced, I guess but the reality that's a real thing, you got to sit down and know where some of these things come from. And we're really fortunate that just one or two people had enough influence to get that done. Now, with that being said, let's move forward in today's context, Paul Truesdell, II 20:37 really. So I want to add another another element of context, it's important is that strategic bombing is a tool. And it's, it's not a one size fits all tool. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 20:47 No, in fact, Russia so bad and need to get rid of everybody over there, those people are brainwashed. Paul Truesdell, II 20:52 Well. So in the applicate, it's how you apply the tool. So for example, in Iraq, it was extremely effective the US Air War in the first Gulf War in particular, but also the second Gulf War, are pieces of art, and Schwarzkopf, in particular, and how he organized and executed those plans, you know, is will forever be in the history books of the, you know, our generations military commanders, like it's just perfect, but the thing is, the people in Iraq, hated their government. So they didn't have this cultural camaraderie to support and defend the government. So particularly in the second Gulf War, when we went total destruction mode on them, and basically took everything out, they didn't have this, this fire in their belly to fight back. And because they didn't, then the strategic bombing worked. So again, it's it's, you have to apply it correctly. In the case of modern day, the modern Russo Ukrainian war, the Russians, there's no amount of strategic bombing they could do that would force the Ukrainians to capitulate. Because they view them, they view Russia as their mortal enemy. And Russia views Ukraine as its mortal enemy. And they're like, they will suffer through a cold winter, if that's what it takes. Now, thankfully, Ukraine has a tremendous amount of support from the west. And for us, it's a it's a cheap investment in the destruction of one of our strategic enemies. And it will give us good opportunities in the future. So, and at the same time, you know, we have all this investment in the equipment and supplies and plans that, you know, if not now, when, like, what's the point of even having in the first place if you don't use it? So, you know, it's an interesting thing to consider, because, you know, another, we had our own version of this. In World War Two, of course, we were we learned this lesson in the carpet bombing of Japan and Germany, it did not force them to the table. And in some cases, you know, absolute destructive bombing of cities made it worse to fight in because, and this is something of course, Russia is learning. Because, you know, if you're an advancing military, and you bomb the crap out of a city that is being heavily defended by your enemy, your enemy now doesn't have to worry about a civilian population, they're gone. And guess what, it's a lot harder to find people that are hiding in rubble. And they're using a very destroyed and let's call it artistic landscape, for ambushes and attacks and, and, and all that, than it is to have to worry like the guys who defended Mario pol and Ukraine, they had to worry about also protecting a city of 500,000 people. They didn't want to just, you know, snipe some Russians walk, trying to come down the city, from a civilian apartment block that had like children and old people in it. So they had to do things in more creative ways that may not have been as effective. They may have been able to kill a lot more Russians if they were willing to sacrifice the civilian population to the last person. So the thing is, is if you have a people that actually you know, has, let's say a stronger moral compass and or more responsibility to protect the civilian population, which to be fair is really the only point in fighting the war in the first place as you're doing to protect the people. You know, if you're going if you're not, if you're going to scorched earth, and you remove these these elements of the of the battle, the Ukrainians can in a modern context, the Ukrainians can say, Okay, well, there's no civilians here anymore. So this is great because we can turn this into we can Turn this into Mad Max if we want to. And we don't have a problem doing it. So that's a, that's that's the thing that like we learned more to that story, this total destruction thing actually removes leverage in some circumstances. And it's it's contextually a little bit different in Vietnam. Because Vietnam we dropped more bombs and more ordnance them so you know artillery and bombs then of world war two combined. And that yielded us a lot of results numerically like lots of lots of strategic stuff was blown up lots of soldiers killed and and all that sort of stuff but it didn't want us to war because they were a determined enemy that just kept coming. And so the thing is, is it's a tool that has to be applied properly and then the right under the right circumstances. And in the modern sense a strategic bombing force is extremely effective for attacking or preventing an attack, I guess, you know, as like as a strategic kind of Defense Threat type situation against more advanced countries. Because for example, can you imagine Do you think country like, I don't know, China? Do you think if we had the ability to go in and just destroy the Three Gorges Dam, largest dam in the world, there's about 100 million people downstream this thing that would die? Do you think they would press our buttons if we have the ability to go in with one plane and destroy and kill off 100 million people? Do you think the civilian population would be happy with the CCP over that? Yeah, probably not. Yeah, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 26:51 I mean, and we're not doing a history lesson. And we'll we'll pick up and start going through this thing real quickly. But I think the context is important. You know, I do too, which is why I wanted to, I wanted to add to that, and it wasn't taken away from it back in 1938. And the bombing of Barcelona. Nobody really talks about that. That's really when the Italians and the Germans went in, and they just carpet bombed Barcelona. I mean, there are places there that are historical landmarks from 1000 years ago, and it gone. Just he just mean, imagine Westminster Abbey, imagine all these different places in England that we all gone, right? Yep. But here's the thing. 1300 people 2000 wounded. That's nothing in today's comparison to the population. Now we're gonna give you another thing. Germany in the Netherlands was fighting the Dutch. And you know, they have this big thing about it, they got fed up, the Luftwaffe got fed up. So they started corporate bombing the Netherlands. Okay, you had about 900 people killed, give or take 30,000 Homeless Tesco sir, such a major event? Well, for context purposes, the Russians are losing as many as 900 soldiers in a day, 100 200 300 characters per day Paul Truesdell, II 28:09 compared to today. Those are like strategic applications of bombing, even though they were very indiscriminate. Right now for the for the period. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 28:16 So in 1977, the data that you have the sinkhole, the Geneva Convention in one of the things they have is article 51. And article 51, has been brought up against the United States in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, of course, and it's the indiscriminate attack on civilian, you know, blah, blah, blah, well, they've tried to apply it where you know, you've got this high profile person in a car, they're going down the road, he's got his family and think of the movie with Harrison Ford, I forgot the name of the movie, but clear and present danger and all the kids got killed, and everything has a violation of article 51. And all that. Okay, I'm going someplace with this. My point being is that you might have heard in recent months, NATO and in un the UN such a joke on where we bother with that thing. They oh, we need to do an article 51 on on Putin and Russia and everything else. Well, of course, you should. Of course, you should. But, of course, Russia Paul Truesdell, II 29:17 is going to respond by saying You and what army? Yes. Everybody's made it clear. We're not invading Russia. So this war in particular, I think, just add to your point is that, you know, the you don't see he'll tell people for tell what you're gonna do. Yeah, these these un rules and treaties and all these things, once again, had been proven to be useless. And it's just, it's it's politicking of the dumbest order. Because it's not effective at at anything, you know, is does Russia care about not killing civilians? No. You know, there have been people who tried to make that argument at all they, they've been really, you know, they've been really humane with their stuff. It's like really, really, you've got It's gross anyway. But so the point is, is just on a strategic standpoint for like global politics, it it, there's a risk, and it's this goes into the strategic bombing and the B 21. And how we're posturing going forward, there's a very important strategic risk. I think that if we were to rest on our laurels, and kind of sit back and enjoy the supremacy, in military capabilities that we in NATO currently have today, that things could get really ugly very quickly, because people understand that these stupid international norms and treaties and things actually don't mean anything when the bombs start dropping. No. And there needs to be the backing of that threat. That, you know, if North Korea decides to fling a, maybe not a nuke, but some conventional, you know, missiles into into South Korea that there's going to be a very, very, very painful response. And to that to those types of actions. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 30:59 my point, my point was this, I want to try to tie this when I was talking that I want to tie article 51, the Russians Ukrainians carpet bombing, strategic bombing, also into what's going on in China today with COVID. I want to tie it all together. Sure. Yes. Let me do it real quick. What is the purpose of article 51? It is don't penalize people who are civilians who are non military combatants. They're going to be injured, they're going to be hurt, some will die. That's, it's just part of life. But you don't go out and target them as a target. You don't give that? Absolutely. And so sometimes bombs fall in bad places. Okay. You know, Olly olly oxen free, you know, offsetting penalties. But strategic bombing is different from the old fashioned carpet bombing. The point is, what is the purpose is purpose protect civilians. Okay, I'm gonna come back to what you said about threatening. Now I'm going to tie it to China. What they're doing in China is, in my opinion, is a violation of article 51. Because this whole COVID thing is being used as a ruse to control people. And you're going to talk in a little bit about the powers to be in China, how the GDP related to now COVID And how GJ ping Bong is making money with all his other people, how he's altering the structure of government from being a communist party to a dictatorship, or he's going back to a Maoist type government, you're going to go through that. Yeah, but what they're doing in these concentration camps. Remember, Apple and others are making product there, but they're taking people and they're incinerated, and we're going to talk about literally are incineration of people. And I want to go back and tie. Yeah, doodles Raiders, we lost some of our guys who were experimented on same thing with our people that were captured by the Russians. And it comes down to the single human dignity. When do you say is enough is enough. And I'll give you one last thing and then we're going to run off we go really are talking about when I was a cop in Tampa years ago, we had a lady by the name of Vicki Vicki was about four foot two, I swear to God, I don't think she was taller than that. How she ever got hired, I'll never know. But that woman every time there was a domestic dispute, every one of us now a little bigger guy was one of the bigger cops down there. And I even to this day, I'm always amazed at that how I'm still one of the bigger guys, when she would have a domestic dispute. We all knew that if she got there first we're going to have a fight because she would be her Meek little self Oh, you shouldn't you know, Bobby, you know, leave, leave Mary Sue alone and blah, blah, blah. But then when I get there, then she starts threatening. If you don't do this, I'm going to put you in jail, you're going to you're going to wish all of a sudden she's big man on campus. Well guess what she's in fight where she said, it was me who had take the punches and get the guy on the ground because he eventually had enough for her lip. We used to say to her, stop threatening, you keep threatening you to the fight. And that's the thing you do not threaten unless you're willing to carry it out. And it's easier to walk up to somebody act like a goofball being friendly with them. And then when you have to punch them, you knock their teeth on their throat. You don't. You don't like Well, I'm just gonna slowly do I watch these things on TV, these cops? Oh, well, you know, these RAS a little bit. And they go from zero to 100 and shoot the person because they don't do anything in between. So there are a lot of people out there. We're in our government, Trump was one of them. shut your piehole and that's one thing I'll give credit for Biden. They're not they're not saying everything but they did say oh, no, we won't. We won't. We won't use nukes. If Russia use nukes. There are certain things it's like John Kerry, so lazy, don't boys and girls. You have the political aspect. You have the economic aspect and you have quite literally every single component of life when it comes to strategic development in the bomber. And thank God we have this new bomber coming out because it's going to be used sooner or later. So let's go to China. Paul Truesdell, II 35:19 Whilst some interesting stuff about the bomber, just just for just to kind of cover it, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 35:23 it's pretty close to that. Let's let's just rip the bomber in there, we'll go over to China. Yeah, Paul Truesdell, II 35:27 so obviously, you got the name, you got the kind of history of its purpose. Obviously, it's designed to carry conventional and nuclear weapons if necessary. So, you know, basically, the history of stealth bombers is, you know, fairly recent. Obviously, it started with like, What the f 117. That was the first major one, we use that one in Kosovo and Serbia and stuff like that, obviously, one of them got shot down, we used heavily in the first Gulf War than we developed. Around the same time we were developing the B one bomber, the B one Lancer wasn't really stealth, I guess it kind of was a little bit but not super. And, you know, that was just a demonstration of being able to have big fancy long range bombs, and in some, some amount of stealth technology, but anyway, and then they developed that platform, or at least that concept and rolled into the b two, which was the self the real stealth bomber, the problem is b two, we only really have about, we only have 20 of them. And they were horribly expensive. And you know, they were very ahead of their time. But at the same time, you know, a lot of r&d went into those planes, the stealth planes, and obviously, since then, you know, we have a lot of smaller more stealth planes and stuff, you know, effectively just has to do with mitigating your radar cross section, and dispersing radar so that you are shopping on radar as a smaller aircraft or too small to even be registered. And so for example, you know, some some of the more advanced stealth aircraft that we have, my understanding is that you know, they don't come up on radar systems or at least modern radar systems as a giant, you know, 40 foot wingspan aircraft, but they come up as like, you know, the biggest you can get them to come up on radar as is like the size of bird. So the problem is, is for radar system, you can't can't watch every bird. So you know, the Stealth is very, very important, especially in the in an age with, let's say very complicated, very advanced radar systems with computers that can analyze the data that comes in from them, and then try and pick out anomalies and stuff like that. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 37:59 And just so just so we know, I mean, stealth is something that's been going on since World War One and World War Two, the Germans I know here we go again. The Germans experimented Larry with paper wrapped wings instead of metal. Yeah. And it was they found that it was better to go putt, putt, putt, putt putt and be very dark and you can't read aren't you? Nothing? Paul Truesdell, II 38:23 Yeah, radar mitigation has been. It's been a an ongoing r&d thing from every serious Air Force since the beginning of airplanes. Yeah, as soon as we started getting radar, everybody's like, well, crap, how do we how do we become invisible to radar? Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 38:37 And so 1977 Our first stealth of this generation went into effect. Okay. In 2000, Russia, that's a big spread in years. And then 11 years later, 2011, which is only 11 years ago, the China made their first one. So you know, everybody who says oh my gosh, they're so yeah, they may be catching up to us what we did 30 years ago, but this thing that came out today has been in development for what I think seven years. These those those other, listen, Russia today. Their r&d is so in a toilet because of Paul Truesdell, II 39:12 Yeah, it's pathetic. And those stealth aircraft that the Chinese and the Russians have developed are the best way to describe them as let's call it artisanal. Very, very handmade. Effectively, it's propaganda. The mass produced models that I've seen an engineer at a company in the US that makes a stealth aircraft would laugh, probably to the point of them like bleeding out of an orifice, because it's so funny to them, because you have like exposed bolts and rivets and it's not proper stealth. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 39:49 And always remember that a lot of people and I'm one of those who has screamed for years that the Chinese are just stealing every piece of technology we have but one of the ways to To mitigate damages, let them take the things that we want them to take. And oh, yeah, you, you build stealthy thing and it generates a code 17 455 on the radar screen and exactly zero in on that. And so this weird anomaly radar thing comes I'm obviously I'm not giving things for real because we're not going to do that. But Paul Truesdell, II 40:22 that assumes they're just as capable as we are in manufacturing, which is not the case. So it's worse. So yeah, so the so this is the stealth technology, and the B 21 is just interesting. It's, you know, there's very little known about it. But the little bit of information we do have is that, you know, obviously, it builds on 50 years of r&d on design and coatings and the material science and all that stuff that goes into to developing these aircraft. They got the contract for this, I guess, in 2015. And Northrop Grumman. They, I guess, yeah, so since 2015, they have the contract for it. It's one of the fastest developed aircraft out there. And I think this just kind of proves that like giving one company that's really good at a third certain thing, who has a lot of experience, who's motivated versus this, you know, F 35. You know, let's involve every partner country in the world and, you know, designed by committee thing. Now, it's a fantastic aircraft, like the F 35. Contrary to a lot of propaganda ism is an amazing aircraft and a platform. But the issue is, is that, you know, it should be because it's been 25 years in development versus this, you know, you have about seven. So it's pretty, pretty impressive. It has a, you know, parent carrying payload payload capacity, very similar to the b two bomber as my understanding. And but the big one is that it is an intercontinental strategic bomber, that has a 6000 mile range. So for something that has a tremendous carrying capacity and stealth and has that range is amazingly impressive. Obviously, the things they harped on on their their little announcement was how it's got a modular system, so it'll be upgraded and modified for the missions and the the technologies that are yet to come. It's a totally digital platform. So obviously, heavy, heavy, heavy technology as far as the inside, you know, the, the actual mechanics and the in the interface between other aircraft and the, in the weapons and all that sort of stuff. So that's kind of cool. But what's interesting is, from a strategic standpoint, this coincides on the same exact day that we have removed our permanent F 15 force from Japan. And so going forward, this is the first time I think, since World War Two that we don't have a permanent Air Force in Japan. And there's two reasons for this one is very simple that Chinese missile technology, and range is at a point where it is dangerous. If something cooks off over there for us to have a permanent stationed Air Force there, there's not a lot would be able to stop it because they would just rain so many missiles and that it would overwhelm any air defense capabilities that we have, regardless of how good it is which Ukraine has proven that is extremely good. But you know, the reality is, is if you have if you have 1000, anti as anti missile anti aircraft launchers, and they fling 1001 missiles, you're probably going to at least take one hit. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 43:54 quick little sidebar at the crypto sidebar when if you literally think about going from Portugal, granted understand the whole thing though, but you literally go from Portugal all the way over to South Korea. It's a continuous landmass. Yes, I mean, I don't care what anybody says. The Chinese want to redo the Silk Road and all that and it's never going to really succeed. But to some degree, but where are we? We have this dumb neighbor to the north of us where you know, they're just kind of like a almost like a very strong strategic partner of ours called Canada. And we have Mexico below us and all the other islands. We have such a such a unique geographic, we have big water in between, you get some distance so you people have to understand it. We we pulled our and this is where I go, I hate I just hate the media. Oh, we pulled our planes out because we fear them. No, it's a strategic move. Paul Truesdell, II 44:49 But it also has to do with these planes because because the thing they emphasized about these planes is like the B one and the b two. They do not have to be stationed in theater or, or and then be 50 twos. So B twos we have, I think like 20, B ones less than that. And then B 50 twos operational, I guess they're called B 52 H's. We have like 75 or something. So our current strategic bombing force is one not very stealthy, except for the Beatitudes, really. And we really just don't have a ton of them. And the majority of them obviously, because the b 52, H is old 60 plus 70 years old. So the B 21. Coming under budget ahead of schedule, having all the capabilities that they desired and then some and having you know, this, this, you know, grand experience of Northrop Grumman on you know, being being poured into this project is impressive. And the timing is perfect, because I guess the first test flights were in March so they've been flying them around and it's funny you take a look at the pictures of of the unveiled what it looks like? Well, you take a take a look at the pictures. And the way the kind of the main hole of the of the aircraft looks like it literally looks like a flying saucer. So it's funny, like all these people out there, like, you know, it's our tinfoil saying that we got aliens coming around. It's like, it wouldn't be surprised me that for the past couple of years, they've been flying prototypes of these things. And people think like, oh, man, there's flying saucers around, of course, the old military industrial complex troll of the population. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 46:38 yeah, some of our pilots are some of our military pilots who have now made money in the in the public world going I was flying this thing like, Zip Zap Zemba. We've never seen anything like that. Yeah, that was ours. Or is Elon need no basis you didn't even know bucko. Paul Truesdell, II 46:53 Of course. The other thing that's funny is a lot of those are like, they're like, weird lens anomalies, of course, or their or their radar anomalies and things. And of course, if you're flying a super advanced aircraft, and an anomaly keeps coming up for some reason or another. It's got to be spooky, because especially if you don't know about it like that problem. It's like, Oh, what is that? You know, I'm in the best thing that exists. What the heck was that? But at the same time, it's also useful to cloak certain projects and things. I want Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 47:24 to go back, you were talking about the B 52. I want to add a couple thing. It's called a strata force FOB a fortress. And so that agents so I caught that. But literally, the first flight for that thing was April 15 19 5270 years Paul Truesdell, II 47:39 ago, literally created to be our strategic bombing backbone. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 47:46 Yeah. And they built over almost 750 of the thing. 744 To be supposed to be very precise. I know that for a fact. And there's like, 74 Stone service. Yeah, and but here's the thing. There's there I remember. So I'm gonna do something personal when I bought back in 19, moves at 95, I think we I bought that big white Mercedes, the S class, I bought the big S class with 320. Mercedes and I had the old German engine and got talked to that and everything. And the whole idea even back then bigger and better, you know, metal going back into the 60s and 50, you know, bigger cars, you know, they're safer, because what's happened now cars are made out of plastic, they have crushed components, they have all these different things. Yeah, bigger is not necessarily better. And so you may have a tank that can squash a car, but you might have a better chance of surviving with a modern car that some semi tank from years ago, because the way they're designed to move it, etc, sometimes you're going to die no matter what. So that is the whole world of combat in for clients, we're going to be talking a lot about the development of modern warfare, how we're going to make how we make money on warfare is changed. Everything from a simple drone and a hand grenade. Paul Truesdell, II 49:03 It's to go back to something I think I've said on this podcast before, but I'll say it again, it's warfare. Like most things in life, it's rock, paper, scissors. For every advantage you have over something else, there's something else that can take you out just as easily as you're able to take out that other thing. So it's about managing your risk, and having the right tools for the job that are available at the right time. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 49:29 It's also about staying current is about having course, highly educated, not necessarily highly educated back up. It's not about education. It's about having people who can connect the dots who create who can remix things, based upon because there's nothing new everything's a remix. It's about it's about continually progressing. That's where we have the advantage. We have had that advantage for a long, long time. That's the reason why Germans have been hated. Let's be honest about it. You have people who have the ability to do things that other people just can't do. And so when they lose a war, they're going to pay a deep price because you want to you want to dilate the knowledge base, or take it back home with you. All right. Well, you did. Paul Truesdell, II 50:11 Yeah. I mean, modern military system is based on, you know, at least half of it is based off of, let's call it very innovative, mechanical engineering from from from Germans, whether we're talking about rockets, or jet engines, or tank design and all kinds of stuff. Like, there's so many things that are like bedrock pieces people, people don't consider. Yeah, it's like one crazy guy who played with rockets a little too much. And then one thing led to another and all sudden, yeah, we got intercontinental ballistic missiles, and we're sending rockets to, to outside of the solar system. It's like, it's like, dang, that's, that's a that's a heck of a series of domino effects. If you go back, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 50:52 you know, like you and I like to watch. Oh, by the way, I met a lady. This week from Wisconsin, Amanda, if you're listening, I want to say hi to you. So you can send me an email and and acknowledge that. She's a fellow cheese head from 100 100,000 years ago, but she likes to watch a gold rush. We were talking about that, for the same reasons that we watch it. It's like, Paul Truesdell, II 51:14 so you can get the five minutes of content. And if I visit Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 51:16 content, yeah. We're gonna have to learn about a trommel, again for the 550 1000s. But it goes to go back to Parker snoball. He's not exactly a likable guy, a kid. He's a he's a, he's interesting. But his conveyor belt system, he he put the money into things, where these other tards just, okay, he's invested in his operation very, very strategically. Exactly. So, you know, when you watch television shows, when you watch the news, don't just take it for entertainment, or for gospel, you know, figure it out, look at what's going on. So let's keep on going here. Paul Truesdell, II 51:57 Well, so yeah, the B 21 is a very impressive aircraft, at least based on everything we've been told. It has a radar cross section that Northrop and the Air Force claim is invisible for modern anti air systems. And based on what we're seeing in Ukraine, the the the vontade, amazing Russian air defense technologies that China has largely adopted and copied, are largely incapable at doing what they need to do. They're good. But it requires a lot of very clever application of the tool. Ukrainians are better at it than the Russians are. And even then, their technology is really not as as amazing as the propaganda that they kind of made everybody think it was. And the systems that we've been sending to Ukraine are, were historically anyway, in the past couple of years, not viewed as as capable as the Russians. And as turned out, that is not true. I mean, some of the systems that we are the Germans have sent over, are literally 100% kill ratio of the targets that they're going after. Yeah, it is a they're statistically anyways, for now, much more capable than what the Russians have. And we just downplayed it, which I guess is probably a good thing to do. But we have real world experience now. So I think we know I think we know taking all this data at face value. Barring any unknown unknowns, here, we are air defense systems and our knowledge and capabilities is probably for air defense capabilities, anyway, are probably some of the probably the best in the world right now. And if this thing is not detectable by our own systems, then it's probably I would say, I would have a high amount of confidence that it is going to be very effective against any potential adversary, or at the very least, that's what we want him to think. So that's an impressive thing. We will never know for sure, because just like the b two bomber, we're not going to know anything about it for generations to come. So we'll just take them at their at their at their word. And if one guy ever gets shot down, I guess we'll know what the circumstances are around that. But so but the thing that's most important about it is it's ahead of schedule, it's under budget. And for Northrop, this is a fantastic opportunity for them, because with our strategic bombing force, like I said, we have a few dozen b one and B twos, and then only a few more dozen than that of these B 52 H's that are you know very, very ancient at this point. The B 21 is supposed to be the new backbone of the US bombing force, right strategic bombing force and the plan Based on what I've seen online and from interviews and budgetary requests and things, is that the US Air Force wants to procure as many as 200 of these. That's a lot. So that is more than double our current strategic bombing force. And combined, obviously, not just one plane. So that is a very interesting opportunity, obviously, for Northrop. They're delivering, obviously. And it's it looks like it's a very capable system. So I would say for anybody out there, get used to hearing and seeing the B 21. Because it is it's it's the future of of our of our strategic bombing backbone. Now, the interesting part, of course, is that, you know, as I mentioned earlier, with the FF teens being pulled out of Japan and stuff like that, it kind of just shows you that there's a dramatic strategy shift ongoing with how to deal with China, and Russia and others. And a lot of that has to do with Korea and Japan rearming in a significant way. I believe next, this coming year, Japan will be potentially the third largest military spender in the world behind the US and China. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 56:16 Just so much for that the militarization of Japan from after World War Two. Paul Truesdell, II 56:20 Well, the reality is, is we don't want to keep footing the bill for everything, and we don't have enough people. Well, it's not that we don't have enough people. We don't want to have a military of that size, we don't make the money to justify spending more than we currently spend. So and we want to put our resources and other things. So I am being Japan's had a, let's call it an awakening moment. And they have their rekindling that a more positive, I guess, relationship with Korea. And obviously, they all are working with Taiwan and the Philippines has been peeled off as an ally of China. And they're working more in our little Alliance. And then obviously, you have Australia in the area. So 57:03 let me jump in there. Paul Truesdell, II 57:04 This is a big deal. We Asia, you've got, you know, this conglomeration that this alliance is forming. That's like, of course, people say it's like a US puppet Alliance. And yes, yes, it is. It has our backing where you have South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Australia and Taiwan that are this buffer against China. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 57:23 Right? And why want to say something like that. And that is a lot of people don't realize that we had a real problem with the Philippines up until fairly recently. They were canceling contracts with our Paul Truesdell, II 57:36 yeah, there's just a game being played, oh, we're gonna buy Russia, we're gonna buy Chinese or we're gonna buy us an airplane everybody against each other. And when this Ukraine war started, that game basically ended and they realized that they needed the US because this other stuff was crap. And that these other countries don't have the force projection to actually defend them if they got on our wrong side. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 57:58 Well, there's other things that we have to talk about, like, for example, Latvia, Lithuania, we have Norway, we have Sweden, you know, countries that have actually very strong a cultural identity in men and women who are not going down without a fight and are willing to invade. There's a growing sentiment among them that if Russia keeps this up, and well, the old was it. St. Petersburg is not what what's the city? What's the place right nearby there? Paul Truesdell, II 58:30 St. Petersburg is what he calls a piece to one two dozen miles from the border of Finland. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 58:36 Yeah, I mean, so I mean, they can be overrun, like instantaneously, a Gazprom and everything else is up there. But when I'm when I'm going to is that Russia has that Russia has Ukraine. Russia has Poland is not happy with them. Okay, Poland, which is I think they're itching for a fight to reason to get involved in a fight. You have India which is fed up with China and the Mongolian the steps and everything else over there. Now you have the Pacific Rim. You know, it is an interesting world in which we live in and not understanding this will cause a person to talk stupid, but more importantly to miss opportunities to invest. So I'm gonna take a quick break right here. 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Paul Truesdell, II 1:00:12 But I think something else that's important to consider is that this alliance while is kind of new, and some of it's not super up to standard or up to par to actually deal with a real fight from China, potentially, it doesn't matter. Because China's facing such economic and demographic headwinds, that it's not really about preparing for a real fight. It's not a Cold War type situation, like people were thinking a few years ago, it's more along the lines of just making sure they don't do anything dumb. Where, you know, during the Cold War, everybody legitimately thought man working breakout overnight, and it would be, you know, world war three, or with China, I don't think anybody thinks that that's a serious potentiality as much as it's just making sure that they know they can't bully anybody, and they can't make any two rash decisions. There are no opportunities for them to to do any military adventurism or create a conflict where, let's say, they know they may lose, but for the purposes of domestic political stuff, they may want to create a Patriotic War to cover over other problems, if that makes sense. It's kind of a similar problem that we're seeing. Well, we've seen develop, and is still now a very big question as to how it ends with Russia and Ukraine. Because Russia has been obviously desperately, desperately desperately trying to drag anybody else into the war. They flung a missile into Poland and NATO basically said, Oh, it was x, it was Ukraine accidentally doing it. Wrong. You know, some people may disagree with me on that. But that's the position I'm taking based on what I've seen. You've got Russian propaganda continually saying, Oh, we're not fighting Ukraine anymore. We beat those terrible Nazi demon pedophile Satan worshippers. By the way, I'm putting all those pejoratives together, but it is it every single one of those have been used at one point or another as Russian propaganda for why the war is taking place. It's been very funny to watch like, it evolved from, you know, oh, they're NATO puppets. Now. They're Nazis. Now. They're, now they're they're pedophiles. And they're sacrificing children. Now they're Satanists. Just anyways, it's very, it's very funny and how, how ridiculous the propaganda gets, we'll Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:02:56 jump in on that. I want to I want to give some context. This is what I'm on. The one turn is political. But this is what concerns me with Trump. Alex Jones, you sit back and you look at who is who is regurgitating the Russian propaganda. As if it's just gospel when they just twisted. Paul Truesdell, II 1:03:17 Well, you've also got Alex Jones, right. Alex Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:03:19 Jones had even Tucker Carlson. I'm sorry. Yeah. So Paul Truesdell, II 1:03:22 this is the case. Yeah. Well, some of these people fall for very unusual people, but a Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:03:28 very lost half our audience by saying that, well, Paul Truesdell, II 1:03:31 it doesn't matter. I mean, the the Tucker Carlson one is it's about his guests, right? He he says a lot of dumb stuff. And whatever. He's just, he's a, he's a carnival barker. But the thing is, like he has guests on, like, I'm trying to remember the guy's name. He's got a goofy name, I think his name is Darren Beattie. And this guy runs a political like website or something and he's very pro Russia. And he they're like, he's like always making excuses for what, you know, whatever. Then, you know, he he's had other guests, but this guy's like, I think a recurring guest. Obviously, you've got Alex Jones, Alex Jones recently had Kanye West, also known as he or the are we going to go back to Prince the artist formerly known as Kanye West or whatever, whatever. I'm calling him Kanye West because I'm not. I'm not falling for any of this stuff. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:04:22 I'm gonna call it ha this stupid charade. But the he does get he doesn't know how to make attention. Yeah, Paul Truesdell, II 1:04:30 well, I don't think that's gonna last for much longer but he he went on Alex Jones for whatever reason, but the best part is, is he you know, he's been doing the rounds at like different podcasts and things and you know, we're not going to discuss like, the the game that he's playing here. It's dumb. But he he has two people. Two or three people on his payroll now are supposedly on his payroll. I guess they're part of his part of his posse. Who are they're just trolls. You got this This this like, I think Hispanic kid who? He's pretty young, and he is supposedly a white nationalist, terror inspiration just I guess people people think he's like a terrorist terror Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:05:16 inspiration is just an interesting word to Paul Truesdell, II 1:05:20 by the name of Nick or Nicholas winters. I guess he was involved in Trump stuff years ago and now he's a white supremacist racist that works for a black anti semitic rapper who is going to run for president. If you can explain that whole situation to me. I would I'd be I'd be. I'd love it. But then you also have former I guess, Breitbart writer and let's call it political provocateur. Milo Yiannopoulos, who is a reformed he's a formed homosexual who is a born again, Christian is also working with Kanye West. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:06:10 He Milo Milo is no headrow and got God as He relates to Justin Bieber. Paul Truesdell, II 1:06:17 I, I don't think Justin Bieber is a reformed homosexual. So he's complicated. He's more complicated. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:06:26 We lost the other half of our audience, Paul Truesdell, II 1:06:28 but like, but these are the creatures that are coming out right. And you know, Alex Jones recently lost his lawsuits and you know, he's like, what, $1.5 trillion in debt or something. So what he's not gonna pay he's never gonna pay. It's just but it's a meme number. But so, Alex Jones to repair his credibility. What does he do he has these morons on and how Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:06:48 to prep your carrier for credibility with that. Well, you don't know that's right here we're with Trump just for you because that's the best part is Paul Truesdell, II 1:06:55 last week or the week of Thanksgiving. Trump apparently has the has this gaggle of morons to dinner. The day of or the day before the day after Thanksgiving? I remember which. And then that makes a big show. And Trump has been has been trying to like run cover and make excuses for why he met with these people. The whole point the American embrace Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:07:20 it this is the problem with Trump just embrace it. Yeah, I know these people I talked to him whatever. Paul Truesdell, II 1:07:25 So I don't even I don't even remember what my point was in mentioning all of this but you've got this clown show going on. And I you know, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:07:34 we were talking about propaganda and how you know, oh, yes, propaganda Paul Truesdell, II 1:07:37 so you've got all of these people that was the point I brought this up for is when the when that when the gaggle of clowns was on Alex Jones Alex Jones is of course unabashedly pro Russia. He's pro America freedom 1776 will rise again. Whatever but at the same time, he's pro Putin and pro Russia it makes no sense Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:07:57 why can't keep this I have a scorecard and why scorecard looks like a child who's blind with with Tourette's and it's all over I can't connect the dots Paul Truesdell, II 1:08:06 and do it and obviously, then those people were on Alex Jones Show Kanye and his The only thing I can describe it as it's like, it's like he's gathered a gaggle of trolls and it's just like what who can i Who BahnCard who can I assemble into my into my clown car that will bring the most attention? Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:08:29 Yeah, the car comes out from the you know, the the three ring circus they just keep coming out Keep going. Paul Truesdell, II 1:08:35 I mean, I think I figure like, if they can prevent people from fighting, if they could bring together like, some like, like Black Hebrew Israelites, and they can get Richard Spencer in there because you know, he's he's the big media demon white national sky. And let's see, like some, like some UFO occultus And maybe some like really wacky, like, I get Bigfoot and like, like some really wacky Squatch that's that's a little too mainstream. Okay. Now I'm thinking like some really wacky, like, like, like Christian, like, offshoots. So like Westboro church, yeah. Westboro Baptist Church. That's exactly what I was thinking. I don't know. Are those guys still around? Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:09:25 I think the old man I think the kid got in jail. I don't know. I haven't gone but yeah, Paul Truesdell, II 1:09:30 plenty of them. Were okay. Well, if they were still around, maybe you could add those guys in there. I don't know. I mean, I don't know what's going on. But the only thing I can say is that they were his his gaggle of clowns that were on. If you haven't seen the clips, please go look at the clips, because it's not really about what said because what he's saying is just like crazy stuff to get attention. And then Alex Jones is like, doesn't know what to do with it and he doesn't have the fortitude to basically tell him to leave and then the show I'm because he is himself a provocateur. But you got to see how Kanye is dressed. See what most people don't understand that this weird persona that most people don't understand this persona that Kanye comes out with. And I had never seen it in full force. But apparently he does this at like concerts and stuff. And it's the funniest thing ever. He he's in a puffy jacket zipped up. Now he's in size indoors, he's in a studio. He's got a like, like, like, really, the only way I can describe this not a ski mask. It's like the darkest pantyhose you've ever seen over his face. And he's but then he's got sunglasses on top or underneath or something. The thing so he's like, look, you know, and then I don't think he had a hat on. But anyway, maybe he did. But then he also has on the table. He has like a you know, like a like a, like a fishing net, like small but it's bright orange. And he's like waving it around occasion. I don't know what the hell's going on. But then you then he's got like some of his gaggle of clowns there, and they're just making provocative statement one provocative statement after another. And the so like, it's just a clown show. And but the best part about it is, is that um, they that apparently a line of discussion goes into about how much everybody loves Russia and Putin and everything. So my point, the only the only thing I can see here is that this is like, the weirdest psyop ever, where it's just about creating chaos. Because none of this makes any sense. What you Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:11:42 know your note here one is, what's that TV show where they're in Alaska? They're like, they're like the village people up in Alaska. But wait, there's one of the things like that. What's her name is like Jersey Shore? So sneaky cookie or where her New Jersey Shore you where do they come up with these people? But here's the thing, these are these people there? These are the kinds of people now that are then morphing themselves into Alex Jones or Paul Trump and politics are actually listen these people Yeah, yes. You're listening these people? Well, the the the Alaska thank God for the dark deep state bureaucratic stuff. Paul Truesdell, II 1:12:19 Yeah, anybody who does not have an appreciation for the sanity of the people in the deep or the steady state out there. If you're listening to this, I'm sure you are, you know, NSA gathering technology people. I appreciate I appreciate your hard work, because the more naive version of myself cursed you and was mad about how we're not following the Constitution. Now I understand in the modern world, that's just not possible. I Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:12:47 will do the same thing to all of you in the FBI, CIA, NSA and everywhere else that are non political, who truly at times hate your political appointees, but you keep doing your job in defense of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were true Americans. Thank you very much, because we are putting some of the dumbest among us in office on TV, and God, we're gonna live my mortality because this is just I'm just tired of this. Well, this Paul Truesdell, II 1:13:17 is just entertaining of this pie. Yeah, I get it. It's gone. It's gone from like, in big data got you. It's gone from an incoherent spectacle. Where like, you know, the the latter part of the Trump stuff where like, things just stopped making sense. Well, Milo, they talked about him being Secretary of State I remember that or no, no, no spokesperson will spokes whole Yeah. So yeah, that has really scary connotations. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:13:44 Well, one of his spokes holes now governor, so Paul Truesdell, II 1:13:47 yes, yes. bucklebury. So yeah. But some of this just makes such little sense at this point. That it's it's nothing but pure entertainment, at least in my view. And you know, a lot of people are getting upset about it, but I wish people wouldn't I wish people would just laugh at it. Because like, This is so crazy. Some of the stuff that's going on is so crazy. That it should just be met with like, why condemn it? Just laugh at it? Well, it's It's so dumb. It can't be taken seriously. Well, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:14:20 here's the here's the thing. I'm propaganda that nobody will pay attention to. Nobody pays attention. Now. You and I haven't talked about this. But I've been tracking in the last couple of weeks. Have you been tracking the number of Russians killed by Ukrainians? Yeah, Russia short answer. Paul Truesdell, II 1:14:35 It's It's pretty. It's pretty bad. It's Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:14:37 no it's not. No, no, you're wrong. You're absolutely wrong. So Oh, Paul Truesdell, II 1:14:41 I forgot I forgot Hold on. Another Russian propaganda point. I forgot. The Ukrainian necromancer is are out there raising them from the dead. Okay, forgot about that. So here's the thing. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:14:51 And if you challenge you to do this, I challenge everyone who's listening to this. If you can still find the articles from about two and a half, three months So go look at the number of Russians killed and wounded. And then I want you to tell everybody what the ratio is on that general war ratio of wounded to kill. But you know what's going on now? Even our US government, everybody's using the word 100,000. Russians are casualties. Combination of injured and dead. Yes. No, no chance in the world. Here's what they did. They're lowering the number of Russians injured and killed. And I know the reason why. Because they don't want sympathy for the Russians. Because it is a they are getting Paul Truesdell, II 1:15:31 yeah, there's an aspect of that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, the explain that. Yeah. So I set it up, you run with it? Yeah. So to explain the term casualty historically means it's a metric for injured and killed. Casualty simply means you are no longer capable of fighting. You're not You're not useful. You're a liability, you've gone from an asset to liability. So in warfare, obviously, you want to keep as many people on the battlefield and be being assets as possible. For example, like certain evolutions and ammunition and weapons technologies, have leaned more towards it. For the purposes of like the US, we switched from utilizing 308 caliber 30 out six than 308 caliber of so 30 caliber bullets for the average infantry men using, I guess, what are technically called Battle Rifles, to utilizing carbon caliber weapons primarily, in the current context, it's the 556 M 16, M for AR 15. Platform, Stoner weapons. In the thing, the benefit there, the benefits were that a we could carry more ammunition. But the other thing was is, oh, the complaint was, well, these bullets don't put a dime size hole through like a 30 caliber does. But that doesn't matter, because it actually is better for those people are injured. Because it creates more logistical problems of trying to save people and whatever. Of course, that goes on the idea that your A, you care about your fellow soldier and stuff, and some militaries don't, that whatever it takes them out of the fight is all the point. But the Russian, the Russian leave behind is unbelievable. We won't get into that. But but so for the purposes of creating casualties, some technologies have been for the purposes of hey, maybe we don't have to, like, kill every guy that gets shot. But you know, they're injured, that makes them no longer able to fight takes them off the battlefield. In a certain way, you can see that as you may, in other ways, not so much. But anyway, the Russians obviously copy that technology. And they in 1974, they switched to the AK 74, which is a 5.45 caliber. So we use 5.56, they use 5.45. Before that, we both use 30 caliber bullets. So you can kind of see how it's a it's a copycat one following the other anyway, so the technology and the purposes there. So the point in mentioning that is that casualty is not just killing people, it's taking them out of the fight for whatever reason possible. And that's also part of the idea behind utilizing things like chemical weapons and we're we're to and we're one really we're we're to chemical weapons weren't really used. But were were one in particular, the idea there was a if we can injure these people without having to actually like fling bullets or bombs or artillery out, and that would be cool. Turns out, that's a lot more complicated. And we're one I think most of the people that deployed chemical weapons ended up killing or injuring more of their own people, the enemy, and basically volatile compounds, or let's just say volatile compounds are bitch. Like, every, every, every chemist will tell you that. It's like, they're amazing, but at the same time, how do you harness them? And how do you use them safely? We're still working on that anyway. So point is, is just casualties, an important metric to consider, because in a military that cares about its people, and has a sense of responsibility for their own soldiers. You know, we at least in the US, we have the, you know, the Western military tradition, in general, we have the concept of no man left behind. And that creates a strain on your resources and your supply lines and all that. So the point is, is that the Ukrainians have a lot of casualties, there's no question about it. But they don't really have the deaths. You know, their casualty to death ratio seems to be sick between six and 10. To one. They like I think, according to the Ukrainians, you know, they probably have, you know, legitimately somewhere around 10,000 actual deaths. But the Russians, on the other hand, there casualty to death ratio, maybe a lot closer together than people would like to acknowledge. And Ukrainians, maybe it's combination of like you Your military tradition, what battlefield commanders are allowing people to do. And then also, let's call it the lethality of some of the weapons and, and defensive capabilities of and it's also just the basic thing of like, you know, attacker versus defender defenders can can withstand, or if their infrastructure and logistics are good, and they definitely can get people to hospitals, where if you're out in the field, and you're 500 miles from a solid hospital, like, you know, you get super messed up here, you're probably not going to survive. So anyways, there's a lot of factors in play. But the reality is, is, you know, I trust the Ukrainian numbers, because they're the ones fighting the war. And they've been pretty honest about their numbers so far, in a way that's been verifiable. As of this week, the Russian deaths are, according to the Ukrainians are up to 90,000. And, you know, if, if they have a three times casualty rate, which I think is probably closer to reality than anything more than that, you know, that's 90 100 180,000, you know, to two to 270,000 dead or injured Russians on top of that 90,000. That's their entire professional military at before the war started. So when people look at these videos of these pathetic Russian conscripts, and the the mercenaries are Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:21:36 Mongoloids, and there's a bunch of Eliott longer Russian midgets, and fat TARS, and it's your drunken hobos and criminals, it Paul Truesdell, II 1:21:46 looks like the Soviet army from World War Two, it's just they're scraping the bottom of the barrel to get people in there, because what's left of their professional military are being used as rear guard. Let's call them that rear guard. They call them barrier troops. And basically barrier troops are the guys that sit back and say, Oh, you are retreating. Okay, well, then I kill you. And I've seen videos of exactly this. I've seen videos of Russians executing the conscripts who retreated or refused to fight or whatever, like that's happening. So the thing is, I believe what you said is probably accurate, that there's a downplaying of these Russian casualties to deuce, the potential sympathy factor. Because the thing is, the Russian state doesn't care. They don't care that they're, they're slaughtering their own population, but to try and slaughter an enemy population, like they don't care, but I want to build, you know, these elites are sitting back, you know, they're playing, they're playing chess with other people's lives and are in the Russians case, they're probably playing tic tac toe. But anyway, they're, they don't really they don't care. And the problem is in the West, people would feel really bad if, you know, NATO munitions are being used to kill off literally an entire generation of Russian people. But the problem is, is like czar simply gonna stop the war? No. Like, it's gotta, it's gotta go on. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:23:15 Yeah, well, I want to prove to you that the propaganda goes both ways. And that propaganda of dumbing down the Russian losses is real and unproven right now. Oh, it's definitely real. Yeah. Because and that was something that I don't think, excuse me, I don't think anybody really understands that. You can't believe ABC, NBC, CBS, you can't believe government statistics. Because it's all designed. Everything is designed to be crafted in a way to sell a message. It is sales, its sales, propaganda, everything else. So in July, in July of this year, the director of the CIA said that their best estimates and they're pretty good at this have 15,000 Russians have been killed and 45,000 have been injured. Okay, now, let's go with that. Now, just the other day, they said, Well, 100,000 Ukrainians have been killed and injured, and about 100,000 Russians as well killed an injury Paul Truesdell, II 1:24:09 that was then pulled back. And that was the Europeans that said that, right. And that was pulled back. And they basically apologize that basically, they they interpreted the information that they were given by their people improperly, but the number one out there. That's right, you know it, but but they preach the lie was for the React of the retraction. Exactly. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:24:29 And so when you go to Google, I challenge everybody, just go to Google and search and you'll see every article for the next 20 pages will say 100 100. And as well, yes. Okay. So, so point made a follow my logic on this. If we take 15,000 Russians killed in July, and now we ramped it up to 100,000. Okay, which is what we're thinking more along those lines, right. I mean, that's minimum. Yeah, Paul Truesdell, II 1:24:59 it's been accelerating pretty dramatically with the introduction of conscripts and the winter weather and the logistical problems that Russia is having, like it's getting pretty ugly. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:25:09 Okay, so but then using typical ratios that we know, okay, so if we use the ratios that everybody says war, blah, blah, blah, there should only be 55,000, and Russians dead all together if we use the traditional metrics, which means that if we go from 15 to 55, in August, September, October, November, the point being is we've got 120 days where the Ukrainians are killing, at the very least, at the very least 458 Russians every single day. And that's pretty accurate. I think, okay, if they're killing that many every day, understand that we lost 2456 soldiers in the entire Afghan war theater Paul Truesdell, II 1:25:59 when we say when we say loss we're talking about we're not talking about casualties obviously casualties some days you know, maybe guys won't catch so much shrapnel and other days it's really ugly because you know, you hit a camp it's, it's it's a it's a it's a yo yo usually but Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:26:15 our our anti Bush, we hate Republican, Democratic and if you don't like it, I don't care because you got the other side, you got the Alex Jones nuts and everybody else. And the Trump's little pity party, Twitter operation. You got both sides of the sink. But the point being, you know, you had this drumbeat, it was like, ABC evening, whatever it was with Ted Koppel and and during Jimmy Carter, they, you know, day 700 of the Iran hostage crisis, just rim. You know, Ronald Reagan benefited from Ted Koppel as much as anybody else. Oh, because you know, ABC, nobody talks about that stuff. ABC. For those of you don't know this, had a guy went to Ted Koppel. And they would just prayed out that one guy who had the white rag on his face, and it says drumbeat that thing, they made that a thing. And so the news is doing the same thing, nonstop. We had idiots that would bang drugged gallon drums and do their whistles and everything here in Ocala, Florida, at a corner of State Road 220/7 Avenue. And as soon as Obama got elected, they all disappeared, and we're gone. You know, y'all y'all gotta just take a moment or two and look at the facts. You haven't quit believe in all the crap Ola that they're sending to you. But the Russians going back to this, the Russians are getting their asses handled to the point where it's like a pride. It's like a boxing match. When it goes time time. Let the guy go in the corner, recover for a minute, because you're gonna kill this guy. Paul Truesdell, II 1:27:51 So so that's that's actively being tried right now. What is it? I think we us whatever, spoke with the Russians in the past week and basically tried to set up some some circumstances for a peace talk case talks. And the thing is, is our position just like the Ukrainian is the same as the Ukrainians that we don't respect your annexation or, or theft of Ukrainian territory. You have to leave. It's that simple. You leave the war's over in Russia is responses? Well, of that those are those are those are not terms that we're willing to agree to. It it's just a joke. Like, there was some crying from one of the Russian like, foreign LFOs Lavrov foreign minister or somebody like that, about how, you know, basically they were there, for lack of a better term, they were just just bitching about how the US saw where they will we won't. The US and other European countries won't recognize Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk as his proper Russian territory. It's like well, Captain Obvious captain obvious when when have when has the West but particularly the US ever recognized anybody else's theft of land? That's just not a thing we do. Mean ever. So it's just silly. But yeah, the the casualties and the deaths in particular, as ugly as ugly I've elevated business over there. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:29:28 I'll give you a couple of one quick thing and then I want to go and talk about Western China, eastern China and QR codes and tie all this together. One of the problems with the Russians is we don't know necessarily who they are and being killed but we do know that they all have cell phones and a lot of the Ukrainians have picked up and said, a yo mama, is this your boy. And and how many reports have we seen where mama doesn't really care about her kid being dead, but mama wants to get the cell phone back. Oh, can you send me that Thirza cell phone, Paul Truesdell, II 1:30:01 I've seen that at least once. That's disturbing. Yeah. So just as a quick rundown for anybody who doesn't know, or whatever, in Ukraine, you would think in a modern war, one of the first things you would do is take out your enemy's ability to have a power infrastructure and run daily living, at least make it painful from the beginning, right? Like we did in Iraq, take out the power grid, take out their communication capability, and then go in, remove the government be done. Now, Russia's plan was to do harassment attacks. And then as most people call it, the thunder run to Kyiv. And basically go in and use your magical, super, super ninja Special Forces to go in and take out Zelinsky and the other people in the government, you know why now, we now have information that shows how, you know they basically were leveraging the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Russian whatever you call it, under the under basically under the Russian banner, patriarchate or whatever they call it. They were leveraging that to the hilt, utilizing the churches as points of infiltration and intelligence gathering and funneling money around. That, of course, got a bunch of controversy in recent days because you know, you've got your you've got your Donald Trump juniors and your other Republican. Let's call them clown car. People are very mad because those Alinsky is banning the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It's like he's banning Christianity and is going full stall, and he's gonna force them to do atheism. It's like, Nah, it's just about, they're not banning. They're not banning it. Like you would think they're carefully trying to weed out people who are effectively just intelligence operatives for Russia, and they've had enough time to be able to observe how information is being passed. It's like it's obvious what's going on. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:32:02 churches have always been a hotbed for radicalism forever, or infiltration Paul Truesdell, II 1:32:06 or passing of messages or, worse, worse, like, it's, it totally makes sense to me, you go Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:32:12 back to the Middle Ages and everything else, you know, the, you know, get a robe on somebody and your embassy your emissaries and everything else. And of course, ambassadors there also, don't don't kill the priests from the Holy See and all that Yeah, well, but they're also Paul Truesdell, II 1:32:24 viewed as like, you know, untouchables you know, culturally so you know, it's it makes sense but, but people also don't understand like there's a there's a Christian orthodoxy schism going on and has been since 2014. Between the, in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church between, basically this new branch of basically Ukrainian, Russian, Ukrainian born Christian orthodoxy, and then the Russian, the Russian patriarch, and all that, of course, another thing and I've told several people this and some people think I'm joking, but totally legitimate. Just go to some Google's the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, is this guy by the name of KORAIL. He was this for real? Yes. So he's like the pope of Russian Orthodoxy. Yep. Yeah. He, for one was a KGB agent during the Soviet Union. No, yeah. Real. Yeah, shocker. Right Shaka Shaka. And then, in recent years, since the fall of the Soviet Union, he became a very, very wealthy cigarette and an alcohol salesman. And by salesmen, I mean, like, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:33:51 warlord, for lack of a better term was the standard New York sidewalk being arrested by NYPD he was this Paul Truesdell, II 1:33:59 guy was was importing foreign cigarettes and tobacco products and alcohol under the guise of the church, and I'm paying taxes and all that sort of stuff and then reselling it. And yeah, so he called them holy smokes, probably, here you go, that would be a good one. He is a billionaire, of course, or at least was before the war. And he has his own mega yacht, headed the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. These are the people. These are the people that people like Donald Trump Jr. are defending. Just Just remember that. So people don't know what's going on. And people who if they don't know what's going on, they need to shut their mouth and recognize their own ignorance. And if they do know what's going on, they are subversives who, let's just say should not have the influence that they have. So anyway, so you got that going on. Yeah, I don't even remember where I was going with this because this is like this entire conflict has opened so many rabbit holes I just keep getting distracted with like, you know, I'm like a dog my head turned sideways. I'm like, what? Well, we have How is that even possible? Why didn't I know Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:35:15 we have a the way we manage money here is we have a virtual war room and we also have a physical war we track things out, we draw dark gray, connect the dots, it's no different than a any kind of investigation for those of you guys and gals from years ago. I don't know what they do today. But you know, the old school before technology, you know, if you want to see something to give you a good example of American Gangster when they had the pictures of everybody in your string. I used to do all that stuff years ago. And to this day, I do that. Not that but we do a digitally and we draw our diagrams. I can't we cannot connect the dots. It looks like again, Paul Truesdell, II 1:35:55 connect him but you seem insane when you see the connections that you've come up with? No. And it's some of it is just so unbelievable. It's like wow, okay. I need to think about this for a while like, Am I losing my mind? Nope. that the information is there. So yeah, back to what I was saying that so the they didn't take out the infrastructure in the country. They just were incompetent to say the least. Because they had this amazing this overwhelming hubris that they would be able to infiltrate, execute the politicians literally, like we have killed us and stuff, you know that, you know, they the these some of these Russian influenced Orthodox churches in in the recaptured territories? Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:36:37 You talked about the munitions and everything? Paul Truesdell, II 1:36:39 Well, no, they found evidence because of people's phones and, and what went on. Because a lot of these people were like collaborators with the Russians when they invaded. And in largely, that's why the Russians had been able to capture the territory that they have still have left. Is, is or did in the beginning is because of collaborators who basically like just, you know, gave wrong information, didn't call up the police and security services and all that sort of stuff. So, you know, it's it wasn't because of their expert fighting or, or amazing, amazing strategy. It was purely about traders. For the most part, and it's interesting, because the, in some of these territories, particularly in the northeast of the country, that have been recaptured. They have been able to prove because of digital communications, really, these some of these, let's call them infiltrators, and, and subversives inside of these, some of these Orthodox churches, they provided lists of people who they viewed as dissidents among their churchgoing population, that the Russian soldiers then went and rounded up and executed and put them in and buried them in the forest. Praise the Lord praise. So people don't. People in the West don't really understand how gross some of this is. And you know, to Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:38:06 get the the priests minister, Rabbi, or whatever, and they claim Oh, oh, you can't do that. Yeah, Paul Truesdell, II 1:38:11 yeah. In Ukraine, it's like almost entirely, like, Russian Orthodox. Like, influenced, or, I guess they call it Ukrainian Orthodox, under the Russian whatever. But yeah, so anyways, in Ukraine, it's about I think it's like seven 8000 churches are under the Ukrainian led Ukrainian Orthodox. And then it's about 12,000 churches that are under the Russian led Ukrainian Orthodox, are not led, but influenced. So there's, there's a, there's a schism there. And it's been going on for a few years. And, and some of it has been used for propaganda. But anyway, so back, back back a couple of minutes I mentioned they didn't take out the infrastructure. So because of this, everybody can still use their cell phones. And part of this is kind of a necessity because the Russian communications networks are so bad, and their technology is so poor. And they're jamming and amazing electronic warfare capability effectively blinded their own capabilities for communications and cause a mess to occur. So they were relying back in a lot of places on just traditional like cell phones and hoping that like encryption and things would would help them of course, the problem is, is you have a war zone with cell phones What is your average dummy infantry men do? They call home they talk to mama, they they call their girlfriends or wives? They call their brothers stuff like that. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:39:46 Listen, that might allow me to triangulate and to do what again? Paul Truesdell, II 1:39:51 Oh, target. But the other thing is, is it's also very useful for propaganda. The Ukrainians have known this and they just let them do it because It's better to get the information than to be in the dark and just like banning them. I know kind of like social media, interesting. There's a corollary, we could go down another day, it's always a good idea to know it's better to know what your enemy is doing, then mute them, and then have an absolutely no idea what's going on. So, in this case, they've been they've been using some of these phone calls, they intercept and record because they're on their own cell tower infrastructure and stuff. And of course, also, I'm sure there's a lot of hacking and stuff like that going on. They have some of these recordings, and some of them have gone around social media and stuff and have become pretty popular. But yeah, so you have things like what you talked about earlier, you know, people talking about all kinds of crazy stuff. They call mom back home because the soldier got captured. And she's more interested in the phone because Grandpa bought the phone for the grandson and, and hey, that was expensive. And basically what are you what are you doing? You know, Grandma and Grandpa are upset, like, where's your where's your iPhone? It's like they don't care. These capture, they don't that doesn't cross their mind. You've got people talking, calling back talking about, you know, the atrocities that the Russians are committing against their own troops. All of that very disturbing stuff about the rape within the Russian military and the Chechens raping the Russian soldiers and the Russian soldiers doing stuff to other people and all kinds of other gross things. There's even been a couple of videos that have come out from drones and things. There's a video of some Russians walking through Of course, this is like this goes back to like the you have a cell phone network in a war zone like this is seems like a bad idea. Unless people have good self control. But it was a video of Russians walking through a very shitty looking camp to be to be honest. And they like poke us like filming like what's going on with like two or three of his buddies and they walk by a tent and they poke in and it's like it's two Russians sodomizing each other. And they just kind of like, look over, like, what are you looking at? And they just keep going. It's just gross. Then there's that other super famous video. I think I showed it to you a couple months ago of the same activity going on and a bombed out building. Yeah. flies over him and drops a grenade on him. And I was like, wow, that's one hell of a way to go out. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:42:18 Yeah. So buddies blow up together. Paul Truesdell, II 1:42:22 Yeah. But but the best part about it was not really that like the individual aspect of it, whatever, who cares. But it's the propaganda value of it. It's like, look, these guys are so incompetent, they can't keep their stuff together in the war zone. And they're so dumb, they got bombed by a drone, like, just come on, guys, like get your stuff together. So there's a lot of intercepted phone calls. And there's a lot of stuff and it really helps give context to what's actually going on on the ground. And the Ukrainians will release these at times when it's advantageous for propaganda purposes, of course. But yeah, so there's a lot of things going on in this war zone that we've never seen before. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:43:02 We're gonna take a quick break, we're gonna give a quick shout out to our sponsor fixed costs financial, we'll be right back right after this. And I'm gonna talk a little bit about how well you're not gonna believe this, but Putin has taken out a contract to kill Mel Gibson and QR codes, dog tags, and Tokyo rose. I'll tie all that together when we get back. 1:43:24 The Paul Truesdale podcast is sponsored by fixed cost financial, a registered investment advisor in home the fixed cost investing. Six cost financial is a real alternative to the conflicts of interest, opaque costs and unexpected fees found in a sea of sameness. The approach is simple, fair and transparent. You only pay for what you need to know always know you're paying a fixed cost financial, it's investing in advice done better. Visit fixed cost financial.com. That's fixed cost financial.com. You'll be glad you did. Let's now continue with the Paul Truesdale podcast to Paul's in a pod Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:44:08 so I don't know if you heard this but Putin took a contract out on Mel Gibson. Do you know why? Paul Truesdell, II 1:44:13 I know he, according to British propaganda, pooped his pants and fell down the stairs the other day, but I don't know about Mel Gibson. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:44:20 Yeah, because the Russian invasion was based upon Braveheart and Mad Max just That's good. I was saving that for a Paul Truesdell, II 1:44:30 unfortunately the Russian military today looks like Mad Max. Yes. In the beginning, they looked very professional. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:44:36 Yes. So So Tokyo Rose is the name given to a number of women who spoke English and they were Japanese in World War Two. And they would just I have radio stations that just played American music until the guy's you know to surrender and whenever they got dog tags, they would just go out and talk to people and just it just tried to do Just destroy everybody's San Francisco Chronicle. Yeah, psyops, San Francisco Chronicle called Tokyo rose the Matahari of radio and if you get a chance, or you can go to Wikipedia and take a look at that it's really interesting. One of the people that was sent to prison an American, her name was iveragh, Iv a to Gauri to Koya. And so she was a disc jockey, and she became one of them. And they want to wound up getting her, they arrested her when she tried to get back into us. She was the seventh person in US history to be convicted of treason, eventually paroled in 1956, after serving more than 20 years, and she was given a pardon. So it is what it is, I don't know, some things like that. I don't understand. There's just a really interesting history about that. But I said, I'd come back and talk about QR codes and dog tags, you know, these these Russians, they can't identify these people. They don't have things like basic fundamental identification on themselves. Although they have their driver's license, they have their passports. Yeah, that's the thing in the beginning, it's very passport. So so that's the thing in the beginning, no dog tags. They got our phones and our passports. I mean, what? And then I want to move. Yeah, discussion into QR codes in China. So you know, where I'm going with that. So what is with that? Paul Truesdell, II 1:46:23 Well, real quick, the thing that's weird is in the beginning of the war, I remember seeing a lot of pictures of you know, the things that everybody was kind of analyzing, trying to figure out, like, what in the what in the EFF is going on? Like, like, seriously, like, some of this is just again, it some of the let's the clown activity that we talked about domestically, clown car, it the only thing that is is like, of any similarity is the clown stuff going on with the Russians. And that's why I think, I mean, that's not why but there's lots of other evidence, but it's part of the reason why in hindsight, it's like, okay, this kind of makes sense. I understand the Russian kind of propaganda ops a lot better now. Because man, like their brains work totally differently from ours. They they they're just not rational people. By comparison. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:47:15 They have an oversized reptilian brain. Paul Truesdell, II 1:47:17 Yeah, that there's, there's something else going on there. I think I think anyway, so charged the amygdala, I don't know. And I think under under undersized, are you? Sure. So, the but the passports thing, one of the things we saw a lot of was it was kind of like the what is the 911 hijackers and their magical passports that didn't burn up? That's a joke. For those of you who think I'm a lunatic, it's a joke. But that actually did happen. Supposedly, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:47:49 believe it or nice of New York found a driver's license, Paul Truesdell, II 1:47:52 the chief of police found and then handed off the passport or driver's license or something like that for one of the hijackers and handed it to a an unknown. Police officer. Of course, this was what was his name? Was that Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:48:06 Kirk or one of those clown isn't Bernard Kirk? Because that was one of them. I Paul Truesdell, II 1:48:10 don't know anymore. Well, anyways, he's the one who went to jail for bribery. So yeah, some parts of the story or some parts of some anecdotes about that story really make you go. That's really weird. Really aids the let's, let's say the conspiracy element to all of this, because, you know, it really helps. Again, going back to the magical clown car. It really helps people like Alex Jones say that it was it was holograms and lasers. It's like, you're insane. Yeah, holograms took out a building. That's first time in history anyway. Lunatic Asylum. Aside from that, so yeah, the passports on Russian soldiers. That was weird. I thought that was very strange. I asked some people that had more information. And everybody's response was I have absolutely no idea why Russian soldiers have their passports on them. But you know, there were things like, of course, Russian vehicles and being, let's say having limited ammunition, but making sure to take like their parade uniforms and stuff like that. Because, you know, they thought they were going to be marching through keys within a couple of weeks. You also, of course, had a few Russians like higher ranking Russians, who scheduled dinner reservations in Kyiv before they invaded, if you know about that, Oh, yeah. So there's a lot of weird stuff that happened like that. So yeah. Anyway, so yeah, there's a lot of weird stuff and yeah, identifying people in this conflicts has been hard to say the least because you know, Ukrainians are Ukrainians, you know, your your your mental model for Russians or Russians, but then you've also got like, you know, Russia is a massive I'm sure with a lot of ethnic groups, and you know, you got Chechens. Well, you know, that's different. You can identify in a church and dying in Ukraine based on uniform and context. And what they look like is pretty easy. If you've got some like very far Eastern people, that's kind of easy to identify. There's not a lot of those in Ukrainian military. But yeah, there's just a lot of weird stuff that goes on there. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:50:26 So we got dog tags, and dog tags are important. I'm not sure what they're doing right now, I'm not going to get into that. But you got digital data, you have all sorts of QR code type things, etc. In the United States, QR codes are beginning now. I mean, it's very sincerely beginning to be understood and recognized. I've done a lot of the event management and event engagement. And when people hand out business cards, mine says my name Paul Truesdale, says nothing else on it. And when people like what goes on, I'll send that person my contact card. Very simple. Sure. Or I'll have a QR code and it goes to a page on our website, where has all my contact information explains who I am, what to do, and how to get ahold of me and not going to waste time with people or deadbeats, real simple stuff. QR codes, phones. Okay, so we talked about technology, we talked about things, the stealth bomber, we talked about all sorts of things. Were talking about strategic and carpet bombing. And just I mean, we really, really went through it. Now let's go to China. Let's move into China phones, COVID lockdowns, Western China, eastern China, and how if you think everything should be digital, that you should get rid of the physical currency of a country that everything's Kumbaya, that your medical records are always going to be accurate, and nobody's going to screw with you. Don't go to China, don't go to China. Paul Truesdell, II 1:52:01 Yeah, so I guess I guess we'll roll on to like China and how they've handled COVID. And that sort of stuff. Obviously, China has been viewed for by a lot of people, especially among kind of like your big, your big government types as Oh, they're they've done such a great job managing COVID Well, the problem is, of course, they don't trust our vaccine, the Russian vaccine doesn't really work. Chinese vaccine definitely doesn't work. And our vaccines are questionable these days. Anyways, if you if you if you even agree that they worked in the first place, which is, again, questionable, and Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:52:37 another another day, we've already talked about this. So for all of you who want to talk about or you're looking for us to now go into the the HIPAA law, the history of COVID, and virus, and we're not gonna do that we're gonna we're gonna focus on just weren't talking about life, liberty and pursuit of happiness when it comes to activities that you need to look at it differently. Fair enough. Paul Truesdell, II 1:52:57 Yeah, I'm just, I'm just covering the bases here for, you know, at least in the West, whether your whatever your opinion on the topic is, the Western vaccines at least have some amount of efficacy. Not going to debate it is what it is. But the Chinese vaccine may have had some efficacy in the beginning. But definitely, they haven't figured there, they've lost it, it basically doesn't work now, against the modern strains. So the reason they've had such a, let's call it a fantastic success dealing with a COVID is because of their lockdown policies, they recognize the case, they lock everybody down this person could could have even potentially had contact with and then keep it from spreading, which is, of course, how everybody in the West wanted to handle it. And, yeah, that didn't work out so well. So we're now at a point where, you know, China, China's big issue is they don't have any herd immunity to this at all, or at least a very minimal amount. And they would basically have to go through COVID From the beginning to get some amount of herd immunity. Well, the problem is, is even with less deadly strain, and it being a little bit more watered down and that sort of stuff, you're still dealing with potentially hundreds of 1000s or millions of people dying from this, because it is effectively starting from scratch again, and obviously the Chinese medical, not obviously people actually don't know this. The Chinese medical system is horrific. It's it's draconian and very, very backward. No, they don't have universal health care, like people think it's just it's terrible. Anybody who's lived in China will tell you that. Say the so the one of the ways they've been able to manage the the lockdowns and whatever is they've basically made it a rule that you basically can't go anywhere without your phone. And the reason you can't is because You have to have this app on your phone. That is COVID QR code basically. So your identity is tied to this app. I think it's through one of the like, the social networks, I don't remember which one. But it's got a it's got a cute, you've got a section you can go to it's tied with your identity, it tracks you everywhere you go, uploads it to the CCP, the CCP meeting the Chinese Communist Party, you know, people tracker cloud or something. And then you've got this QR code. And this QR code is the screen around the QR code is can potentially be one of three colors, it can be green, which means you are clear to go and do whatever you want to do. It's yellow, where there's a certain amount of restriction. That restriction may be that you can't leave your neighborhood or something like that. And then there's red, where you're locked down, you can't go anywhere, you can't do anything. When your QR code changes, status, then you basically get a little grace period to be able to get back to where you're supposed to be. Right. Right. Pretty, pretty simple system. But the thing is, what is the point of the QR code? That's one thing I don't think a lot of people have seen. You guys, if you're more interested in this, go look at YouTube, go find some YouTubers who have been in China, who have, I'm sure there's some probably some pretty good articles, the mainstream media has not covered this. Because a lot of these types of things are conspiracy theories in the West, people talked about oh, no, they want to do XY and Z, they want to, they want to control you and track you everywhere you go. But the reality is in China, it is a reality. That is how it has been done, they have used COVID very effectively, to be able to completely control the population. So in China, you've got this QR code thing on your phone and your status as to where you can go and what your what your travel restrictions are. You know, that's that's the thing. But your QR code is us to give you access to anything, basically, to get into your apartment building, to get into the gas station, to go to the grocery store, to go to your doctor's office to get into your office building, to do literally anything to get your kids from preschool, to be able to go on the metro or to public transportation, anything and everything you do requires they have retrofitted of at least Western China and most of the big cities and stuff. Every single thing like this has these QR codes scanning, basically smart devices everywhere to let people in or out. And then on top of it, you also have COVID testing regimens that have been in place. So I think on average, every three days you have to go get a PCR test. So there's COVID testing facilities everywhere. They're like these little police booths. There's there's millions of these things everywhere. And the thing I think is important to remember is, for years, the West in particular, have been complaining to no effect about the version of the I just lost so far version, something anyways, the far western province of China where the wiggers the Muslim minority, kind of like Turkic people that are kind of like a mix between Turkic and Chinese people. And they're mostly Muslim Jinyang something like that province, something like that. Anyways, and the Chinese have started basically putting in building concentration camps. In some cases, these concentration camps are or are these these facilities in some cases are literally surrounded by farms that are in fenced. And they I'm not joking. It is like they're playing like a history simulator. Some of these things are literally literally have cotton fields around them and they forced them to go out like slave labor like It's like pre US Civil War with their slaves to go pick cotton. It's very weird. Anyway, they did this to subjugate and control. The weird people who were viewed as they view they view them as sub humans because they're they're not Han Chinese, but then on top of it because they're a Muslim. They viewed them as potentially very subversive. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:59:39 Right? And immediately we have a lot of Trumper type people who like well, they're Muslims are bad so whatever how I feel that's That's stupid, you know, but but we need to bring that up because that is a really damn problem. Paul Truesdell, II 1:59:51 Yeah, among certain people. I'm sure that's, that's, that's their take on it. But anyway, so the Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 1:59:56 so live in the Tamir Mason is the is See, it's way worse. Yeah, I can spell it. I can't say it. It's x INJIANG Paul Truesdell, II 2:00:08 as a Jin Jin Yang, Jr, shinjang or something like that. Yeah. So you've got this going on this, this has been going on for years. And one of the things they implemented in those regions was lots of, let's call them funnels. They implemented these QR code scanning things, they made it illegal for you to travel anywhere without your phone. So you could scan your QR code. And if you were viewed as subversive, you know, your the joke online for years has been your Chinese social credit score. If it was too low, you know, you couldn't go and do things. And and it wasn't exactly like that. But basically, if they identified you, as somebody who was subversive, or said something bad on Chinese on social media, or something like that, they would then tell you, Oh, well, now you can't leave your neighborhood. And like you tried to get on a bus that went outside your neighborhood, and your QR code wouldn't scan. And if you were caught, outside of these areas that were where you're restricted on allowed to be, they would arrest you and send you to one of these big, they call them reeducation camps, where they would do all kinds of stuff to quote unquote, rehabilitate you into being a proper Chinese person. And of course, things that they would do in these facilities where they would force feed you alcohol, force feed you pig products, pig fat, and pork and things like that, of course, both of those things being according to let's call it more traditional Muslim, religious followers being haram, being bad against religious practices. So they're humiliation rituals, of course. But the other crazy stories, obviously, there's the utilization of them as slave labor for economic gain. But the other thing that there was some other stuff that was just wacky was they called them like the iron suits, where they would strap basically like a suit of armor on these people that was really heavy. And they would basically, if you were bad, and you didn't reeducate properly, oh, they would force you to read Xishan pings comic via his like his like little propaganda book. They would force you to like learn and recite and write papers about how great the CCP is and how Mao is the greatest deity and he's the greatest man to ever live and stuff like that. Total Park propaganda brainwashing operation, but it's not just like with small population. I mean, they did. They did this and we're doing and are doing this with hundreds of 1000s of people. And Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:02:55 repeated hundreds of 1000s. We're talking to people that are in these gulags. That's what they Paul Truesdell, II 2:03:01 are. And they're not like gulags, like like Russia, like oh, you're gonna go break rocks until your real concentration camps, but they are legitimate, like concentration camps. And, you know, there's they, they also, you know, the more extreme elements of these stories are that you know, Chinese prisons are well known for organ trafficking. So you go to jail free because you're a bad person in China and they cut your let's call them redundant organs out for the purposes of black market stuff, but also, you know, because a CCP member needs a you know, a party member needs needs a new kidney or something so, obviously there's also even more extreme versions of this where they're like ah, yeah, we're going to sentence you to death because you know, you're you're terrible propagandists and and they harvest you know, your heart and stuff for for high ranking people. There's gross stuff Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:03:50 in there thing is we are not going to talk about it. But the the the incineration, Paul Truesdell, II 2:03:57 well, yeah, then there's then there's the straight up disappearing of people. And a lot of these facilities have facilities to cremate people, obviously, on today's environment due to logistics and sanitation stuff, there's really not a real good reason to have these types of facilities at a prison. I don't think I don't know of any old people home anywhere in the US that has an onsite incinerator for the purposes of cremating anybody. That's a secondary service that the person dies, they, they send them the get they, they get sent, the state looks at them, they determine if it was a reasonable cause of death and all that sort of stuff. Was there any foul play and then they pass them off to a funeral home and then they they're bury them or incinerate them and separately, right. And we have a dedicated process and there's all these procedures and everything. We don't have people that go to prison that just disappear. So or if they do they have escaped Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:05:00 They're, they're getting rid of they're, they're getting rid of their own wallets. That's that's a real thing in life. And so you track that sort of thing and the wiggers, the population is going down. Yeah, here's the thing. Like, for example, if you go to Wikipedia, Wikipedia has a whole thing about the wiggers. Okay, they do. But they only say that there's this one paragraph, and it's very, very poorly written. It says there is reports of mental torture, slave labor, massive displacement, sterilization, separation from children. But But activists are criticized, because they can't prove the genocide. But in the end, the UN won't call it genocide. That's it. That's all. That's all there is to it. Nobody really digs into this. I find it appalling. I just do. Paul Truesdell, II 2:05:51 Yeah, well, of course, both sides have to, you know, have their have their say about how it works, whatever. You know, it's going on you there's where there's tons of smoke, and where there's smoke, there's fire. There's plenty of interviews that people have been through these facilities, they can't all be propaganda. So it is what it is. So the point and in this, in bringing this up, is that this all was like the trial run for how they're going to implement this across the entire country. So no, this isn't just this, they knew they could get away with it, do targeting specifically these ethnic minorities, and whatever. Well, now nobody cares, because now everybody is subject to these rules. It's not just the wiggers. And now you have the entire country that is subject to this crap. So now, you know, you, you, you go from your apartment, to work. And you know, you leave your apartment building, you got to scan your code, otherwise you can't leave. And then you know, you go get on a bus, you got to scan it to get on the bus. And then you take the you know, you go to the bus to the metro, and maybe you take that for a couple blocks. And you know, you got to scan to get on the metro get in and get out. And then you know, you got to scan to get into your office building. And then you know, maybe your your division has a separate scanning place, because, you know, they separate you based on you know, the different areas, you all work or live or something. And then you know, you leave so you got to scan the building, leave and then you got to go to you go to a restaurant, you scan to go into the restaurant, oh, I want to go get a coffee on the way back to work from lunchtime, no, I gotta go scan there and go scan, go scan and go scan. So now they know everywhere you've been all day, every day down to the foot, not just because of where your cell phones been, or, or whose cell phone you've been nearby, but also because of every building or very transportation method or any that stuff that you've scanned to go into. So it's important to understand this because it's pretty dystopian, in the view of most people in the West. And the Chinese have just taken this because it's like, well, we got to do because COVID So you know, that's just how it goes. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:07:53 and so you had a lot of people for example, let's talk about what what, what kicked it off there. They're not protesting the government. They're protesting COVID in the procedures and Joshua Bingbing GN Yeah, yeah, I can't stand saying his name. So the bottom line are protesting that and he's basically reinstituted the bigger than life, Maoist type approach to government. He's, he's the big man on campus. But tell us a bit about what Paul Truesdell, II 2:08:23 the so so the thing that has been going on in China is, is they're continuing to have lockdowns, lock downs are proceeding. Oh, no, you went through this market area, and you were within a couple of feet of somebody that may also have COVID. So then what happens is, is you're going home or doing whatever you're doing all sudden, your QR code goes from yellow, because you know, you couldn't leave your neighborhood to begin with, because there was a scare going on. Now it's red, and you've got like, you know, an hour or two to get home and lock yourself in, because you're not gonna be able to leave your apartment for like, two weeks, three weeks. I've a couple of podcasts and things I follow. The guy talked about how, like a friend of his in Beijing or Shanghai, had been locked in his apartment for like, 56 days. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:09:14 We're talking they're not getting UberEATS Paul Truesdell, II 2:09:16 yeah, there's, there's a, well, some people are able to get stuff. But the problem is, is a lot of people aren't especially people who don't have resources to do so. So you know, you also have a situation going on where, you know, oh crap, my code turned of red. I'm going to have to run home. Well, I gotta go get my kids from daycare. And I need to stock up on groceries and other things I might need for the next, you know, potentially two to 468 weeks. But I have to do that in two hours, like so. There's tons of videos of this happening, where an entire zone of a city goes under what they call soft lockdown because they didn't lock down the whole city. They're just locked down you know a section of the city. Well It creates a run on every store that exists is everybody's like the shelves and the places like literally empty as everybody's trying to gather as much stuff as they can, because, you know, otherwise they're gonna starve. And there's been a lot of cases of exactly that happening where people literally just starve to death and nobody cares because like, you know, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:10:17 okay, so we have people that are locked down in high rises, they starve to death, we know that for a fact, some people who go nuts, so close out the windows, because they're gonna play lots of suicide, and then you have mental illness, and they start a fire. And so so Paul Truesdell, II 2:10:32 we're jumping ahead, but the so then you you're dealing with, so now that you kind of understand how the issues are going on here. And the lock downs have kind of intensified because there's been some more additional breakouts in the past couple months. And it's just the whole situation is a mess. So now you're dealing with worker disputes, that's where the that's where the current situation in China originated, is worker disputes. These worker disputes are primarily with at least the ones that got publicized, or with Foxconn and some other major technology, assemblers and manufacturers. So that's going on, it largely went around how they handled COVID policies, that's kind of interesting, there's a lot of stuff you could talk about there, but we'll just kind of gloss over it for now. Basically, the companies or people that have come in to basically monitor the companies are implementing COVID policies. The same thing as any other place, but the policies work differently, because all these people are working and living so close together, a lot of these facilities have on site living accommodations, kind of like company towns, and, you know, you may work in a facility and live in a dorm with like, you know, 810 1516 other people. That problem is obviously that if you are in very close proximity to other people, somebody gets COVID, then, you know, everybody gets locked down, some of these facilities are over provisioned for capacity, because you have all these different shifts for work. And so, if an entire living quarter is locked down, you know, some of these rooms may be over capacity due to the multi shift and kind of like, like some of the old school Navy ships where they didn't exactly have enough bed capacity for every single person. So, you know, you're on for 12 and off for 12. And, you know, so you shirt, you literally share a bed with somebody because you know, you're never going to be in the same place at the same time. Submarines. Yeah. So, you know, some of the stuff is taken to that extreme. And some of these less, less, less nice, let's say, manufacturing companies, well, there was a worker dispute because there are some people that got COVID. And at least the rumor is, I never saw any good evidence for it. But the people that work there, believe it and that's all that really matters, is there was some people who were locked in an apartment, or living quarters, because somebody had COVID, and whatever. And they were locked in there for like two weeks, and basically, a bunch of people died. Then there was also some anger about some more draconian policies having to do with how they handled COVID stuff. And of course, China thinks still, that COVID is on like, every surface in the early days of COVID, like people thought that because of certain studies came out. So you know, people who did more disinfection than was necessary and things like that. We learned it doesn't really live that long on surfaces, and it's very difficult to transmit, so not a big deal. China still like disinfects their streets and goes crazy. Well, so overreaction from potential COVID These these, let's call them COVID, medical people would come into these apartments, and they would basically take everybody's possessions and destroy them or burn them. And of course, a lot of these people were working these facilities under these types of terrible conditions are let's call them poor, Western Chinese people who come into these cities to make a bunch of money. You know, in two or three years, they make as much money as they could make in a lifetime, way out west. So they work in these conditions, they save a lot of their money and then they go back and they acquire some resources and they go back home. Well, because people's stuff was being destroyed and being stolen from them and the lockdown conditions and potential risk of death, as well as there was some pay disputes. There was basically like a, like a Chinese factory equivalent of a mass walkout a couple of weeks ago, where literally 10s of 1000s of people said screw this I'm going home, and they tried to keep them there but they overwhelmed the police force and capabilities. And they literally just took their stuff got their possessions in their bags and they lit We'll just start walking down these like giant highways out of these giant manufacturing facilities back home. And there were videos of people like hitching rides on like, you know, truck that was dragging a bunch of chickens down the highway and people hanging onto the back of like, you know, trucks and vehicles and vans and things. So basically the worker force in a lot of these places like just literally walked out Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:15:22 like, but the big thing is they're going west, generally speaking, they're going more rural in the QR code enforcement of being able to do anything is not to say it's Paul Truesdell, II 2:15:30 a lot less the more rural, the less sophisticated you get. And so that's important, because I don't know the exact numbers, but China is basically 5050 Half the population, it seems based on some old numbers that I remember reading them, it may be worse now, but it's like half the population lives in the coastal cities where most of the manufacturing and all the major jobs are and, you know, the glass covered high rises and the very dense housing and, and you know, where the real business of the country really happens? Obviously, that's creeping West. But, you know, the major metros is the simple way to put it. And then about half the population lives in less sophisticated, less high tech. Some of them have pretty big cities, but they're just like less industrialized to say. So there's that. And so the further west you go, especially for the more rural people that would work under the more kind of slave like conditions, at least factories, these, some of these people are really rural, like we're talking, you know, we still use out houses type of URL. And so for these people like, yeah, they're not going back anywhere where they need to scan their QR code. So it's, it becomes harder to enforce things on these. So yeah, as you had that happen. These factories then went and recruited new people, and they filled them up. And then there wasn't there was another worker dispute that happened a couple of weeks later, this turned into a riot. And these people were mad, not over conditions. But they're mad overpay, because apparently the in order to get all these new people to come work, you know, to assemble your iPhones and your Android phones and your computers and stuff like that Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:17:07 in there. Let me stop you there. If this is an important point, which we're not making any kind of prognostication, recommendation or forecast. But remember what he just said, the assembly of your iPhone, your iPad, your all all technology stuff, especially apple. Remember, when you have worker discontent? That could be a problem? Paul Truesdell, II 2:17:28 Absolutely. Yeah. So Foxconn, knowing the value of problematic situation of not being able to do this stuff, they went out and they offered much better salaries and pay to some of these people to get good workers back, not really to come back because the people that left basically disappeared from what I heard, but to get new workers to come in and run those roles. Well, then the problem was, is they apparently management like effectively lied on paper, like on advertisement, they said they would pay them these things, but they're actually just only willing to pay them what the old people got paid. So then, apparently, there was enough discontent about that, that they then rioted, and there was some videos of them, like, you know, breaking stuff and destroying things and fighting with the police and stuff well, so while that was happening, there was a livestream, or video or something that didn't get censored because it was on a weekend. And the thing is, is the Chinese have this horrific censorship regime with their Great Firewall of China. And basically, their internet is very different from ours, because it's connected, but not really, it's, it's weird, but lots of heavy censorship on all the platforms. Stuff that makes the censorship and, and stuff that Twitter and Facebook and people like that have done. It makes that stuff look tame by comparison. So but just like anything else, you know, less people work on the weekends, right. And the issue here is that there was a live stream that stayed up for way a little more time than it normally would. And it was a bit it was a live stream video of some of it was some of the protests. And that got people excited. And then there was also something that made people really mad. And this is a thing that there's I've heard lots of stories about this. And there's been some videos that have come out. But there was this one that really got amplified really quickly and it resonated with people. And it was a video of an apartment block that was under COVID lockdown read QR code lockdown can't leave. And in some of these cases, if they don't have the QR code, like scanning capabilities, what do they have? They have people that come by and literally like, put bars over the windows and the door and you can't leave like like literally welding them into the to the buildings. Well, either somebody went crazy, or somebody had an accident, one, you know, no way to prove it. And one of these big apartment blocks catches on fire. And again, there's been multiple cases of things like this happening like you know, somebody has a heart attack or a kid gets sick or something they can't get them to the hospital fires things like that. This is Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:20:04 as simple as somebody's cooking and they or they they're smoking and they just pass out no food at what bedside some fire kitchen starts on fire. No fire it done. Yeah, but Paul Truesdell, II 2:20:13 in this particular case there, it's caught on video or live stream, I think. And it got amplified well beyond these other incidents that like we know about. And this one was an apartment building full people burning alive, basically everybody died. And they're the vid the live stream is a woman crying as she's filming us are live streaming this. And there's just just the worst, most horrific screams of people dying. Like they're freaking out. And of course people in the higher up portions of the building much likely, much like 911 people were jumping out of the buildings, you know, committing suicide and stuff. So it's really gross stuff. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:20:59 It just for the record, I had an opportunity as a law enforcement officer in Tampa, where I had a traffic fatality where a dump truck hit a car on the Courtney Campbell Causeway and killed two people, four people rather, the two in front died immediately the two in the back were burned up and I had to I had to watch it. And a fire extinguisher. When you talk about by the way, you can see I got goosebumps. It just it is it is it's horrible. It's horrible. I mean, yeah, birth ain't pretty. Death ain't pretty. And sometimes life in between a pretty so I can only imagine what that's like. Yeah, so I can't imagine I would I've been there. Well, but Paul Truesdell, II 2:21:41 one or two people is a lot different from the entire building full of people Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:21:44 that are locked in welded in that there's no it's so it's insane. Government could Sub Sub Sub survive that in the press? No. Except for in China. Well, in Russia Paul Truesdell, II 2:21:59 and even in China. Like it's it's they're having issues right? So so this got amplified in the middle of these worker protests. And they basically the protesters got even more mad and, and like you said earlier that is 100% true. They're not necessarily mad at the government. But they're mad at like the policy and G Jinping in some cases. In some cases, they're, Oh, we love G but he bad policy, we need this 10 In other cases, there were some people that were protesting and saying, you know, GE should resign whatever. But because one of those people are walking dead. Yeah. And that's the thing is, like, there's I don't have a full picture as to the outcome of all this in the follow up on like, how this is progressing or not. But the utilization of these QR codes, you know, they're they're using those not just for COVID anymore, they're using them for crowd control. So now you know, protesters that go to an area to go protest, they're turning their codes red, and you know, they have a limited amount of time to get back home. Then they basically permanently like forced them to stay in their homes because they're methodically going through much like the our government did with like the January six people, and they're going through and identifying every single person that was in these protests, and they're hunting them down, and they're dragging them off to prisons, there are some videos of police, you know, brutally beating people and doing stuff. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:23:26 Yeah, actually, I was gonna bring that up, you beat me to the punch, but that's something I always like to relate things locally. You know, for all of you who who are all upset about the January 6 event, the overtake of the Capitol, and all that kind of stuff. And I'm not gonna get in I'm not gonna get into it. You know, you know, I'm just not going to get into it. The thing that you need to understand that technology is is what it is and Okay, so these these people go home and it is just very methodical your federal agents are going to very methodically round one after another after another. They're going to go in with overwhelming superior force not going to be like local cops where one guy goes in Okay, Bob, you know, you're threatened the governor, we got to take in No, this is gonna be you know, overwhelming force is a big show. And then because there's so many and then you coordinate with the public relations and this is a shutdown. So in China, it's a little bit different. All those people that raise hold the cane, distribute are brought up about the wiggers and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, we're just gonna we're gonna do a little rendition on under kind of gone, they're gonna send him to come by and, and then up and you become, you know, cornmeal for the cotton fields. Paul Truesdell, II 2:24:45 Yeah. And so, you know, across China, now, they have, they probably have facilities for 10 million people for COVID camps now or more. So you know, this is this is very rapidly approaching like I'm like a modern let's call them let's call it a modern Germany type situation. And you know, what are the extremes of this? I don't know. But it is it's happening before our eyes. And a lot of people for a lot of time for the past couple of years have been kind of like well that's just what they have to do no BS, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:25:19 but there's a handstand the bear thing is let's go back that Alex Jones things we talked about that several hour back you know, you get rattled you get these nutjobs like Alex Jones Okay, and like, Oh, they've got all these internment camps are going on here in the US murder was all Yeah, so you get people ain't no way. I am so sick and tired of hearing Alex Jones and they're gonna lock everybody up and all this stuff. And then right before your very eyes, it is going on? Paul Truesdell, II 2:25:45 Yeah, but at the same time, what does Alex Jones have on? He's got Kanye West. And he's got his gaggle of clowns. And what are these gaggle of clowns and Kanye West now known for? Oh, what are they? They're now being known for Holocaust denial. Because some of them actually are for Holocaust deniers. Well, that's damn convenient for propaganda purposes isn't very China running a modern liberal holocaust against their own people and ethnic minorities. That's the other thing is taught. I listen to a lot of podcasts. And I don't really know a ton of people but but there's a lot of people doing a lot of good, like open source work about China. There's a there's a handful of guys and women who used to live in China who got out like around the time COVID, stuff started getting really crazy. And they've been doing a lot of good work doing YouTube videos and podcasts and things. And it's really baffling. Because in the West, everybody thinks, oh, well, China's Han Chinese and everybody's the same. That's like, that's, that's make believe Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:26:48 there's like saying everybody in the US is a white Anglo Saxon, Protestant or Catholic. No, Paul Truesdell, II 2:26:53 no, that's like saying, it's is very similar to saying that, well, the United States is a white country. It's like, what does that even mean? You've got, you've got you've never husband got British, you've got you've got your kind of like founding stock of the country. Right? Your Anglo Protestants, right. But, you know, since since the founding of the country, we have slaves from Africa, we have the natives. There's segments of natives, and even them don't get along very well. You know, we fight like cats and dogs, they do too. Or at least they used to write, um, you know, you got your Central Americans, South Americans, you got your different groups of South Americans, some of them do Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:27:30 the Comanche fault. Yeah, here, Paul Truesdell, II 2:27:32 you've got you've got different Indian tribes, native Native American Indian tribes. Obviously, you know, fast forward to the middle of the 19th century, you've got some Chinese immigrants who built railroads and stuff like that. You've got Irish immigrants, Scottish immigrants, Jeremy tons of German immigrants, I mean, so many German immigrants to the point that in World War Two, they were one of the calculations that was being done was trying to figure out if we would even be able to intervene to help Britain in World War Two, because there were so many Germans in the United States. I think it was like 70% of the population could trace part of their interests, ancestry to Germany. Yeah, you. Look, let me jump in. And of course, now in modern context, you've got, you know, people from damn near every country that live in the United States, it's always been kind of a melting, melting hodgepodge group. But the point is, is like, you just take that you just take the quote, unquote, white people, whatever that means, and you say, Oh, we have one racial group, we are white. Obviously, not true, but like just take take it for face value. And then what we do is we then over propaganda, over a period of time, we then propagandize and say, well, the Native Americans were white too. Oh, well, sore, sore Hispanics, and Central and South Americans that are they're basically white too. So what you do you then kind of bull call these people who are almost exactly the, or at least, culturally the same into the an ethnic group, as so that's basically what they've done is in China, it's a country of hundreds of unique ethnic groups. And of course, when Mao got in and, you know, I'm, I'm speaking very loosely here, people that have understand more of this could probably add more information. But on a very surface overview, when when Mao got into power and kind of took over the country, they shredded the historical culture of China, literally destroyed, burned, blue up monuments, especially religious stuff, Buddhist stuff, traditional Chinese religions, things like that. Wipe this stuff out. There's even areas in China that they have, or had, what people believe based on scans like satellite scans of things that look like pyramids, which would make sense based on the advancement of their culture and the different types of roles and other podcasts that will go on. Oh, yeah, and Again, this is purely hypothetical, because we don't know. But there's areas where there's believed to be like a lot of really ancient, like architecture and pyramids and things like that, potentially. And Mao's military people they just went in, and they would like, cover the thing and dirt and build trees and like, cover it up. So it disappeared. So because the only thing that could exist is wouldn't Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:30:22 be a place in Ohio like that, would there be? Paul Truesdell, II 2:30:24 No, but but the the point is, is that they there is no culture, there is no greater thing than the Chinese Communist Party. And that was the point it was to wipe out anything in the history, the only thing that's there as the modern day government, and they basically did the same thing with in bite by doing all of that, that then translates into what they've done with the ethnic population. So now you have, you know, you can go to different areas of China and tell like, Yeah, I mean, they're all Asian, they're all like, they look Chinese, but there's like, there's a gradient, like, they look like you, you look slightly different. Like, you don't all look the same. Like there's there's a, you know, it's no different than go look at like, I mean, even a country that's fairly close together, go look at people in like Eastern Germany and northern Germany in Western Germany, or, or England, right. Or British Isles, really, you know, Scottish and Irish, and Welsh and English and Eastern English versus Western English, north south, you know, everybody, they all look a little bit different. It's just, it's how things work out. Point is, in China, China is a massive country, with, like I said, potentially hundreds of ethnic, different ethnic groups, their individual identities were completely scraped off the face of the earth, because of Mao's Cultural Revolution and everything they did. And so because of that, everybody's Han Chinese, whatever the whatever that means. And the people that didn't conform got the boot. And one of the last groups of people to get the boot were the Mongolians in, in Chinese Mongolia, which if you look at an old map an overlay and see, there's a like, roughly half of what Mongolia was probably the most of the population of Mongolian people are actually trapped in China. Mongolia, the country today is actually fairly lightly populated. And but they do retain their own culture. There are interesting, very, very interesting people. But uh, yeah, so you know, and then the other ones, they've, they've been able to stamp those out their, their ethnic individuality out pretty, pretty well. But then the last one to really be a major problem for China were the Uyghurs. And, you know, for, you know, that's they, they tested their modern kind of population control policies, and then not even tested, they develop them to deal with them. And they were so effective by utilizing smartphones and surveillance, and the modern police state, that when COVID came around, that was a great excuse to then expand it to the entire country. And now, you know, it's, it's, it's a dystopian hellscape there's no other way to describe it. It's, it's terrible. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:33:07 You know, I, we're going to wrap up on this. We've been doing this for quite a while. Just a real quick item here. For those of you who are not familiar with the Paul Truesdale podcast to Paul's in a pod. We're on all of the podcast networks, and we've got some cool things are coming up. But the reality in life is the overwhelming majority of people who talk about things in my opinion on your alphabet, lamestream media, your your talking heads, your influencers, and I can go on for hours on this stuff. They don't dig into the details. They don't dig deep. And we did that. In this podcast, we've we've gone deep, I would hope you would say so. And but look at how we connect with things. And you've got to look at things from a propaganda standpoint, there's no such thing as news. So just isn't. Everybody's got an opinion on it. But you should be concerned about that phone that you have, you should be concerned about QR codes, you should be concerned about the long reach of big brother who can take you away in the middle of night and off you go. There's been movies Jodie Foster, you know, oh, you're you're an Arab. You're Muslim. Whoa, we're going to take you to a secret spot and terrorize you and figure, you know, our country is the most pain out there. Paul Truesdell, II 2:34:27 What's the what's the one about NSA and what's his name? Will Smith as an enemy of the state? Yeah, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:34:36 that that goes way back. Well, how about Paul Truesdell, II 2:34:37 I mean, obviously, that's an exaggeration of the things that are capable back then. But it shows you Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:34:43 like how well Sandra Bullock and Miller Dennis Miller. Yeah, you know, but the point is, like so many of those things that you sit back and go, Holy crap, Ebola was at a river where they just get getting us conditioned for it. Oh, Uh, I mean, Paul Truesdell, II 2:35:01 maybe but at the same time, like, you know, it's this dystopian kind of terror movies are interesting. But But the other aspect to it is like in the US, people for years have viewed people who talk about these things as crazy. They're Kooks, they're conspiracy theorists or whack jobs, whatever. And a lot of them are a lot of them are crazy to say it's the ones that make the news but are Wackadoodle. But the thing is, is like the discussion of these things, is potential outcomes of the consequences of the utilization of certain technologies and things are important to talk about, because it helps people prevent those scary outcomes from happening. It helps create systems and protocols where these things can't be abused like this. You know, regardless of you know, the scientific nature or, or political nature of like, COVID, there's a lot of aspects of the, it's called the compliance or, on the other side of it, the lack of compliance of COVID restrictions and rules and regulations and fighting that happened politically, that, you know, I'm glad we live in a country where some people, regardless of how crazy they seem, or actually were, did basically say, No, we're not doing this, given the middle finger, and you know, the government can go away. And if I want to get sick, I want to get sick. Like, because obviously the other end of it is obvious. I mean, it's in front of us, it's here, taking advantage of that situation and using it for the total control, the total, the literal total command and control of the entire population of a country of over a billion people. Yeah, like, it is not a conspiracy theory that that's a thing that can happen. It's it's in front of you. And in a lot of politicians look really, really dumb. After having criticized people for criticized for questioning the science, or, or being conspiracy theorists. And now, months or years later, they're giving statements about how they support the Chinese population, their protests in the draconian policies, the Chinese government's like, really, meanwhile, you guys were proposing things that were, you know, some people that say not all, but some people were proposing things that were, you know, just a few, a few steps shy of what the Chinese government ended up doing. And at the same time, I will also kind of give as much as I do have criticisms. But I will give some credit to Apple, and others who were smart to get ahead of this idea of using your phones to track COVID and all that stuff, in making sure to implement it at least as far as we know, in a way that is privacy conscious and opt in only. Because in places like China, it's mandatory. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:37:51 Yeah. But see, here's the thing I know where there's a couple things I want to go go out. But here's the thing. We were talking earlier, and we're getting a cup of coffee before we went to the studio, you got your phone, they're tracking you, you go out of your apartment complex, you go your store in China, you walk by somebody who has been identified as having COVID, and actually having COVID, potentially, potentially. And then what happens, do you because you walk by, you get you get locked down, you get locked down. And here's the thing, I'm going with this, you know, all these people who are screaming about Twitter, and free speech, and YouTube and free speech, and then you have all these people who lost their banking privileges, because they questioned COVID stuff. You you sit back and you go, well, they there are risks to the government, their risk to the public. I mean, it was, it was so close to the same stuff is going on in China is called a slippery slope. Paul Truesdell, II 2:38:51 Absolutely. And that nobody discussed the China has proven that to be the case. I mean, China always had a draconian style government under the Communist Party. But in recent years, things have become much more relaxed, much more. I hate to use the word liberalized, because it's not really what it was. But let's say um, you had a lot more latitude as an individual. It's not really liberal in the, in the real sense of that word. Not like the West anyway. But but you know, things were kind of easing the crazy policies of Mao and stuff were slowly kind of melting out, because it turns out, you know, people actually like to run businesses and do things and do and do stuff that's not, you know, everything being commanded and controlled by the government. But then, you know, with GE in particular, you have this this perversion back to the worst of the mouse policies. And, you know, they obviously, implemented things untested them and whatever. And you're right, it's still very slow for Israel. They're very quickly returning to a very modern version of you know, the 1960s You know, the war sort of 50s and 60s, the worst of the Maoist hellscape that existed, the number of you imagined killed is just unbelievable. I mean, but it was also, but also shows, I mean, you know, a lot of this is not this evil genius stuff that people think it is. A lot of it is just, you know, one consequence falling another following another and a lot of it is just stupidity. I mean, the classic one is in, is in, under Mao. They, they can't under the name, what they call it, but basically, they viewed birds as pests. And so they they made it a mandate that you had to go out, each person in China had to go out and capture or live birds while it was flies and birds and there was one other one. But they had to go out and capture kill these bugs and whatever. But not only that, you had to keep them and you had to prove them to the local person. Otherwise, you'd get in trouble. Right? You know, Mao wanted to industrialize. So what did they do, they went out and gathered up all the farm equipment, and they melted that crappy pig iron stuff into exports, nobody wanted. And then they because China doesn't have a lot of domestic metal resources, like like other places do, what happened, they didn't have the ability to manufacture their own farm tools. And then people starve to death because they made a famine because they melted down all their tools. Like so many stupid things like this, that people you know, there is there is a there is a value to even the most insane criticism against the government against policies and things like that, you have to be worried about that slippery slope. And you can't have this this cult of personality and craziness that you get with things that we've seen in the past couple years, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:41:46 you and I have a friend who's also a client. And we don't say that very often. 99.9% of our clients are not friends or clients. But we have a couple of people here in Ocala and Tampa. And one of our literally good friends has a phrase in his and he says people, they're the worse. And one of the things that I have done recently, and I'm going to give a little quick little thing bubble wrap up. When I have zero tolerance for stupid people anymore. I'm done. You know that we've talked about it extensively. When we talk to somebody about what we do, let's say with fixed costs, financial or anything else. So take for example, the law firm all y'all Yeah, well, my lawyer does the same thing. Well, whatever. You just get that point where you just done, you know, technology. Oh, yeah. My son's a programmer, too. And was he do well, he I don't know, whatever. You get tired of that? Paul Truesdell, II 2:42:41 Yeah, well, it's willful stupidity versus ignorance, right? You can't expect everybody to know everything. But at the same time, you have a lot of people who do who just have this knee jerk reaction because they there something about their own insecurity or, or an inferiority complex or something kicks in and they just that stupid, I have no other Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:43:02 way about it. I have no problem with people who are ignorant people. Ignorance means you don't know something. Yeah, absolutely. I have a problem with stupid, stupid is, you know what you should do? Or what you shouldn't do? And you do the opposite. Paul Truesdell, II 2:43:15 You know, you don't know something, but you cover it. Yeah. With, you know, effectively insecurity. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:43:21 So I used to have several networking groups that I was involved in, and I won't name names, but like one was in the West Shore area of Tampa. Used if you said, Oh, you don't have your mask on? Well, no, I don't want I'm not doing that. Because it doesn't work. Oh, you're going to give everybody infected away. MIT. We're all going to we're in the hallway. We're in a mask. But when we get into the dining room, we're all taking it off to eat and we're closer together. Are you are you Hi, and then will you? Here's where it used to be. Or are you vaccinated? No, I'm not vaccinated because I've already had it I believe in herd immunity. Oh, you're a What was that thing they call a spreader. You're a secret super, super, super spreader beak. That's okay. Stop. Don't do that. You don't know how about Paul Truesdell, II 2:44:06 what happened to in the US we had this thing called medical privacy. Right? How come like it was one day everybody decided that you can violate your medical privacy because magic the HIPAA Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:44:21 laws don't apply. But you don't here's what I've seen. This is important. And the point I want to make is especially a lot of young women, women in their 20s and 30s. Were the worst absolute worst. Sorry, I don't care if you don't like it, but during COVID They would literally scream I can't believe they'd have the seventh grade Chicken Little the world's going to end response. If you didn't have a mask on and or are you You said look, it doesn't work that way. Do the research. today. You know what you're saying? Or you say to somebody well, did you get vaccinate? Yeah I had to for work you I had to travel on planes I had people going like, Yeah, I had to. And it's it's a whole different responses like, are you gonna get boosted again? And over overwhelming response? Yes. Paul Truesdell, II 2:45:11 Oh no. And the reason for it is go with it. But yeah, there's been this big shift. But let's analyze that for a second, the reason there's been a shift is very simple. Because before people believe the experts that it was going to magically stop the thing. And then there's some people out there, who looked at it and analyze it and said, based on previous things, it's unlikely that's actually going to happen. It mutates too quickly. They can't manufacturing fast enough, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:45:40 it'll follow natural progression of all viruses. So it's conventionally dilutes. Paul Truesdell, II 2:45:44 So you have a period of ugliness, then you have, you know, this this normalization, you get some some percentage of herd immunity, and then it starts to die down. Is it going to ever permanently go away? Probably not. But you know, the likelihood is it's going to be very uneventful beyond certain people, certain medical conditions. So cold and flu continue to be a thing. Yes. So so it should be. That's the course the problem, though, is is that scary intermediate period, that initial phase in the intermediate period where you're getting to herd immunity, and it's scary, like nobody wants to die from a terrible variant of this, or especially people with complications. So you know, if you have a medical condition and you want to wear masks, because you you're worried about getting sick, that's one thing. But but making it a universal policy, especially in a day and age, where it's, it's in the herd, and most people have a herd immunity against most of the strains and all that stuff that's done. The but yeah, so the reason you had this reaction that's shifted over time is because people realize that even the even most people now who will maybe not most, but a large, a large percentage of them, who have had one, or many of the vaccines have had COVID, even though they had the vaccine, it's blatantly obvious, the vaccine was just not as effective, they Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:47:06 say, but if you hadn't had it, it would have been worse than ever. And then her neighbor who didn't have it didn't get the vaccine get hit at once and is doing just fine and dandy. Paul Truesdell, II 2:47:15 Yeah. Reality is, was the initial assessment was was accurate. It's not the can't manufacture and update it fast enough to catch up with the strains. Like that's just not how viral evolution works. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:47:27 But it's a good moneymaker for. Yeah, well, that's Paul Truesdell, II 2:47:30 a subject for another day. But the point is, is that is that that absolutely affected people's opinion on it. They're like, well, maybe the experts weren't, didn't really know everything. Yeah, well, maybe. And then, you know, now everybody, not everybody, but most people kind of agree that like, hey, well, we did the best we could, okay, whatever. Of course, nobody will go back and criticize anything. And much like what we talked about many, many, many segments ago. You know, when, when, when McNamara came up with his magic plan to, oh, well, if we just dropping off bombs, and you know, that, that will kill enough people or injure enough people, and then we'll magically be able to win Vietnam. Turns out that that assessment from World War Two was a little more accurate. It's just going to create resilience against against an angry unified enemy who was desperate to survive or whatever. So you know, sometimes the number crunching and the very logical thing is not the most is not going to be your outcome. So Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:48:36 so what we do here ladies and young boys and girls, as we wrap up, we just call it the where we see it, we try to use unemotional facts and figures. We put it in a way that's a little bit humorous. Sometimes we put in some history lessons there. We kind of go deep. We went deep today. Oh, I say was time to get out of here. What do you want to do? Done? Paul Truesdell, II 2:48:53 Yeah, let's let's and let's shorten them up for the next one and kind of get on a better routine, like you're talking Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:48:58 about, you know what I did, though, I had a friend tell me that he goes for walks, long walks. He's taken my advice for you know, getting out and loves our podcasts because he's out our walk. And he's like, I love it. So I guess it's Paul Truesdell, II 2:49:11 hard to find a good podcast this long. This is actually like interesting. Listen to you guys. Like Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is pretty good at that. But he only releases an episode like once every six months we do better than that. Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:49:24 You don't like Hey, I met a couple of CPAs I want to say it real quick. I've met a couple of CPAs have a gentleman near my agent, his son and I walked out of my office I told you this I left my wallet in my drawer and I was going to pick up lunch and I went to my wallet and I had such a sinking sour feeling because I didn't have my my wallet like holy crap I never do that. Now I wasn't carrying my gun but I did it for a reason. And I oh my god and he said add Don't worry but I'll get it said I should get anyways I invited you. He pulled out his credit card and give it to the gal sure she comes back and his card got. So you got a guy like me and a guy like him? And he goes, what? And the people next to us started laughing? And she goes, we've had a lot of that. Are you from out of town? Because we get a lot of Vegas? No, I live here she goes, I don't know, it just came back to Klein. So son says, I got a card on me. So he paid us so I gotta, I gotta I gotta take care of them. At some point in time, the folks next to us were laughing. And and they said, This is that was great to watch. He said the two old guys can't pay their bill. And they said, we've been traveling all across the country and half the places we go get declined during this time of the year. And I said, Okay, why they said, Oh, credit cards, whatever their algorithms are. And I thought Paul Truesdell, II 2:50:45 I seen machine learning fraud detection is the bane. It's good, but it's terrible. The same time, I saw something we do remember when Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:50:55 my American Express got the client and I called you to see what the hell's going on. And I had a pull up, there's Fargo card. There's tons Paul Truesdell, II 2:51:01 of weird stuff like that. What that's something else we should talk about. We should we should do an entire episode about machine learning and stuff. Because there's a lot of anecdotes, I could drag another Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF 2:51:10 but you know, we're really orcs. My ask is that, you know, guy like me, I've got a lines of credit in the hundreds of 1000s of dollars and you pull out your card and it declines at $1.42 soda pop and Chip thing someplace, you know, I'm obviously exaggerating, but it's just like, Okay, I don't get it. What what frickin algorithm came up with that one? Oh, yeah. 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