Okay. Hello and welcome to the Digital Freethought Radio R&W OZO Radio 103.9 LP FM here in Knoxville, Tennessee. We're recording this on Sunday morning, November 20th, 2022. I'm Larry Rhodes or Douter 5. And as usual, we have our co-host Wombat on the line with us. Hello Wombat. Hey, on the Wombat. Our guests today are the John Richards from Over the Sea in London Way, South of London. How the devil are you? Doing well. Devil is too, I guess. Dread Pirate Higgs from Western Canada. Welcome. How are you there? Digital Freethought Radio Hours, a talk radio show about atheism, free thought, rational thought, humanism and the sciences. And conversely, we'll also be talking about religion, religious faith, God's holy books and superstition. And if you get the feeling that you're the only non-believer in your town, well, you're just not. You're in Knoxville in the middle of the Bible Belt. We have a group of over a thousand of us. The Atheist Society of Knoxville or ASK. We'll tell you more about them after the mid-show break. So be sure to stick around. Wombat, what's our topic today? I was born an atheist and so were you two. But that's going to be a hot topic for a lot of people. It's going to probably involve a lot of semantics and clarification of what we mean by terms. But I think in the most common sensible sense, it's the most obvious thing in the world. And we'll get into it. But before we do, how about we throw it up to Rowan Dread Pirate Higgs for a weekly indication? Our newly Lord, who art in a calendar, al dente be thy noodles, thy blood be rum, thy sauce be yum with meat, as it is with vegetables. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our cussing, as we forgive those who cuss against us. And lead us not into key tourism, but deliver us some carbs, for thine are the meatballs and the sauces and the grog, whenever and ever. I love how it's just some carbs, because you do need some carbs. It's always good. I went to a birthday party last week, or yesterday, I went to a birthday party just yesterday, and had some fun eating some carbs. They did give me a box of pizza afterwards and I'll work that off later on this week. But it's good to have a little bit of treats now and then your, your brain loves it.   Why'd you do this to us? I doubt or five how you've been since last week. It's good to see you again. Oh, doing pretty well. We had our Thanksgiving yesterday. Nice. It was great doing a little early, because our kid is flying the coop next week for Parts Unknown. And we wanted to have it with her and her boyfriend before they left. Parts Unknown, what are they doing? Are they like motorcycle riding into the sunset? No, I should go and visit him at his, his location, which is like Europe. Oh, okay. Yeah. So we wanted to get together and have it before they left. So it was all good. Well, good. It's been very cold. So I have not been riding still playing games, of course. Okay, it's been very cold here too. I'm still playing disc golf. I don't care about the time change. I want to get outside. I love being outside with friends. But yes, it's not a fun time. It's not as fun, but yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. Unless if you have a really, really high tolerance for pain and being chilly. Dredd Pirate. Listen, I know it's bright and sunny in Canada right now. It's just nothing but like tropical winds and weather. Do you still have time to go outside at all? Well, it's, it's minus 14 out here. So is it we chilly? And that's Celsius, of course, not the Fahrenheit minus 14. But yeah, no, it's, it's pretty cold and we've got snow on the ground and it's, you know, it's not quite light. Of course, it's 706 a.m. Pacific Standard Time here. So yeah. Geez, I don't even have my breakfast in me yet. Oh man, man. Coffee.  Just like 14 degrees negative Celsius. And the lumberjack acts in your right hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, my blue walks in the back. Right. We stay sorry because we're that manly, we're that car. All right. I'm going to be the next victim for stereotyping, am I? All right, go for it. Go for it. I don't know. I'll save you and just asking, Jeremy, how are you? How are you? How are things? Everything's fine here. We don't have snow. I can't remember when I last saw snow, but I photographed it because it was on the, we've got a chalet in the garden, you know, one of these wooden structures and there was about that much snow on the roof and it was gone by 11 o'clock. So that's, I can't remember when it was last evidence we've got of any snow here. So don't believe all the lies put out by Hollywood about the weather in the UK. I do have a backdoor balcony and it was, it wasn't snowing, but there's frost on the ground right now. And my cat has the ability to open up doors and handles as he wants to, and I forgot to lock the deadbolt. So at night he comes up, he hangs on the door, he opens up the door to the back balcony hangs out there for a little bit says it's cold comes back in. And this morning he's like cuddled up next to me and I'm like, this is the cutest thing ever. Also, why is it 20 degrees in my house right now? So like that whole thing of like get off. What the hell's going on. It's super dry my lips are chapped I'm like everything's like super frigid and cold and my back doors is billowing in the wind I got stink bugs coming inside all night long so yeah I have a lot of cleaning up to do beyond that but The next thing is to teach the cat to shut the door. Right, right, right, some humility, some, some basic housekeeping would be good. Guys, the problem is is, you know, you can teach your cat a lot of things but you don't have to teach your cat to be an atheist. Isn't that great, because it's almost as if he was an atheist by default, and in very similar ways humanity has the same, I would say, privilege or opportunity to be born without religious dogma. And that's something that we shouldn't overlook think about how amazing it is right now that every human being that's born doesn't have to recite scripture out of the womb, or deal with the idea of well I'm the chosen people and those aren't the chosen people, or know exactly which God they have to worship in fact they don't have to worship any God. That's something that's ingrained in them it's taught to them it's indoctrinated to them while they're innocent and young. And I want to talk about that in a show like format where we discuss, is it actually true that all babies are born atheists. I have a beginning topic presents to us from Reddit. This is an ongoing conversation right now if you want to check it out. The title of the page is all babies are born atheists it's written by birdie dreamer and he says, or she says, every human born has been an atheist because we all have been born lacking in a God. No baby nor toddler can understand the concept of a God, let alone believe in it. It isn't something we know or understand instinctually we must be indoctrinated to believe and even then many of us still don't believe atheism exists in a time of innocence. And it's that innocence and purity that adults so often admire in toddlers and infants, as they coexist with their atheism atheism is innate and easy for children to understand. In fact requires no education at all. Atheism is simplicity with which religions can't compete atheists require no study, no rituals, no belief in the supernatural, we have only one condition for membership, a lack of belief in gods or gods. It's so simple and natural that all children are born atheists. I want to round table thought on what is what you guys think about that dread what do you think. Well, I'd have to push back against that just a wee bit because atheism isn't just disbelief in all gods. It's a lack of evidence to support or justify a belief in a God. And I'd further say that one can be atheistic to the Christian God, and not to the flying spaghetti monster. I mean it's just the way you look at it. So, we are all atheists we're all born atheists I agree with that, but we'll continue to be atheists in so far as we don't believe in all gods, we only believe in the gods that we dizzy a team to have enough evidence to justify the belief. Okay, okay, okay, I'm gonna have to marinate on that a little bit so you're saying, yes, you are born and you are born and atheists. And you, you could be presented with a God claim that's so mundane that you can believe it, but you would be atheistic to other gods at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm atheistic to the secret religion, because I don't have evidence to support a belief in those gods, but I could be a Christian and believe in my God. I see what you're saying. Yeah, because Christians, because I believe I have evidence that supports or justifies my belief in whatever God I happen to believe in, while being atheistic to all other gods because there is no evidence for them. So what you're saying is we're all atheists. It's not precisely what I'm saying. Yes, we all agree to, to at least the majority of gods that are out there except atheists are just one more God than most people. Correct. Yeah, atheists who claim their selves themselves to be atheists, I have just taken that one additional step to say they don't believe or have evidence for any gods. Right, right. It's not as foreign as a concept is basically what you're saying, like the term, not only are all babies it but most people are, and there's very few true pantheists out there that like leaving. In fact, I'd say there are no pantheists. No. Welcome to next week's show. Anyway. What do you think about the idea of all babies. That was really great and thoughtful take on that dread. I appreciate that. Yeah, since atheism means that you are without a belief in God or without God as far as beliefs go, then I would say it's true. You know, we're all born atheists. We have to be indoctrinated into a God belief before, you know, we believe before we're a theist as it were. And it's easier to prove because if you know there are people out there said no no no we were born believing in God. Then why did you have to tell your children about God and teach them about the religion. Right. I have a friend. I have a friend who I play tennis with, and he always brings up religion every single time, because he knows I'm an atheist.  He can't wait to start a family because he wants to teach all of them about God. And I keep asking him. I keep poking at that idea but like one, why do you have to teach your kids God, if God's real shouldn't one you already believe that we're not born atheists he told me that's my face. So like why do you have to go out of your way to teach your kids about God. It shouldn't that be evidentiary like shouldn't that be instilled in them. Don't they already have the right right so like what's this whole teaching thing what's this whole Bible school what's this whole church thing like what's going on there. There's a lot of disconnections. What else can you say. In fact, in fact it's it's it's not only teaching them about their God it's teaching them about the concept of faith. And, and if you, you know, consider the Hebrews 11 one where it says faith is the belief in things hope for an evidence of things unseen. Yeah, that really is something you have to teach people in order for them to believe in a God in the first place. So it's actually taking away any impetus towards rational thought and reason and evidence and experiment, taking all that away and just say hey we've got this whole new concept for you. It's faith. Right. Just take my word for it. Right.  Go ahead, John. You want. We've just, we've just commissioned some pull up banners, you know, things you have at events. And one of the slogans that we're putting on there is atheism is our birthright. Right. Yeah, I like it. I can't disagree with anything that's been said so far, except perhaps dread you know I do believe that spaghetti exists as to whether as to whether is a godly monster I have me doubts. But the thing is that I've got a couple of quotes here that I might throw in. Do you want them now or do you want them dispersed later throughout. Let's get the first one out. I love it. Let's get some quotes in your best English accent possible. That's what we all sign up for is the reason why you're on the show. I've been accused of sounding a bit mid Atlantic, you know, because really, yeah, depends who you speak to but I don't know. Oh, I totally hear it. Yes. Yeah. So for people who don't know mid Atlantic Frasier, if you ever seen that show Frasier that's kind of kind of close to it. It's only the, it's only the tone of the voice is not the accent. It's like you have this the voice that comes out of here. It's just a little bit drawn out. It's not the accent that's on top of it. It's two different things middle and two people just talk. I have the voice every morning. Yeah, before I have my first coffee. I don't, I don't sound like the Royals or the Nobles. So I'm, I'm not quite as posh as some people in my part of the world. So here's the first quote and it's Ricky Gervais. He said, basically, you deny one less God than I do. I don't believe in 2,999 God's and sorry, you don't believe in 2,999 God's and I don't believe in just one more. Right. Correct. That's it. You know, And the great thing is, it takes a comedian to really make the best concise quotes for this particular era. You know, I think Ricky Gervais is like a bastion of really great, concise, well made points on a lot of different things, including his point on science and this is just a little bit of a tangent, because like if you take all the holy books and believe them from history and you wait a thousand years on the same trend that we're on right now, you're going to end up with a thousand other new holy books that all say very rapidly different things completely diverges from each other. However, if you take all the science literature, every single science proof and document and piece of evidence and destroy it and remove it from human culture. If you take all the science literature, every thousand years are going to have the exact same science, the units might be made differently. The, the symbols might look different, but all the relationships are identical to the point where we be able to translate immediately. All the new discoveries that were made. That's that is a very telling thing. It's still equal MC squared. Right. And I did not phrase that properly as Ricky Gervais did but it's a very meaningful, concise point to be made that one group is randomly pulling things together anyone's looking at an objective thing and getting closer to it which is the truth. It's very interesting. I greatly admire comedians because they have to be such good communicators they only have a few minutes to get through to our brains and right and press article buttons. So they have to be very concise. Yes, tickle buttons. All right. You can tell you're a dad you can tell he's like recently. Anyway, I don't have, I don't have 13 kids like your tennis playing friend. Yeah, yeah, I hope he doesn't get a meter. Well, what can I say. Anyway, you should have two or three and then decide whether he wants to continue. Yeah, don't get them all at once. The weird thing is, while we can also learn religion. I think we learn a lot of other things besides that we learn our language, we learn our culture, we learn rules of reality like hey if I knock this off the table will it fall. Oh, yes it does if I fall off this chair will it hurt. Yes, I understand pain. I understand hunger thirst all that stuff rules of reality like homeostasis taking care of yourself how to treat other people cause an effect. But also nefarious things like hate. You can learn hate from your parents you can learn hate from your culture you can pick up a lot of bad impressions prejudices misogyny bigotry. A lot of those things like religion are taught to kids what do you think about that john. Well, you've hit another nail on the head there because of course what religions do is they divide us, they divide us into us and them, and then you demonize the them, and you're on the way to war and victimization and the final solution. It's all needless because there's no evidence for any God, apart from spaghetti. Thank you. We're the only religion with the God back guarantee if you don't, if you don't like pastivarianism. After 30 days, go back to your old God he'll likely take you back. Oh, man, I love it. So I want to throw up a quote quickly from a fancy role walrus a fancy rollers walrus, who says religion is like racism it's taught not natural. I'm white and I had a friend from school from five to nine at that age who was black and you know what I didn't know it until I was 24. I just sat there one day and thought hey my old friend Jacob was black. I never thought about that but as a kid I just made friends with him because he was cool. We pretended to be Yoshi's together. Yoshi's a character and Mario that comes in a lot of different colors. And he was the black Yoshi and I was the white Yoshi and skin color meant nothing to us. As years went by I would think about him from time to time, not that much as if it was so long ago but it wasn't until it recently hit me that he was black, because later in life some people are later in life. Some people of all colors have been around have made raise such a issue that it's always the first thing I noticed no matter what or how little I want to what you're taught in youth really does affect you but nothing is there when you begin with. And so I think it's true true point because when I was a kid, I never really considered like my skin color being an issue because I was being raised in California. I knew Mexicans I was getting better at being Spanish speaking person that I was, you know, being what a black person was supposed to be like I all these societal moles I was never experienced or exposed to. And it wasn't until I moved to Georgia that I realized, Oh, there's like boxes that you're supposed to be in.  And I realized, well, I'm still in high school and I am very very emotionally driven to fall into like a social structure. And I spent like a time trying to fit into boxes that I couldn't fit into was very distressing. And through that whole process and even inform my early adulthood would I realize, man, this is like something that I'm always thinking about. And like, there's a danger aspect to that. And what I'm aware of, I don't want to not recognize anymore like I don't want to consider like my race as something I don't have to think about because it's vitally important for me to be aware of that in certain circles in the states that I'm in. So it's just this constant dragging down that I never had to consider when I was a child. And I'm wondering why is that the case is that because of me. So it's because of the society that I'm in that I have to learn from it. And I learned some bad things from it and I learned some important bad things from it, but it's still bad things overall and I wonder why we have a culture still hold on to these really bad tenets and paradigms and we should get rid of them and stop teaching our kids that because you can live without it very effectively, like these things, religion and racism and hate.  Oh, you need is the surprisingly a good band surprising a good band at its time that are five what do you think. I know it's an artificial division that we impose on each other when it's not necessary at all of course right kids prove that every day.  We come in a variety of colors. Hey, that's it deal with it. It's kind of a good thing to john. To get back to the theme of atheism and whether we're born it. You've only got to look around the world. I mean once you come out of your parochial culture and look around the world you realize that if that if you're born into a different religion, you've got to accept that other people elsewhere are born into a different religion. One of you must be wrong. Right. And, and along that same lines, you can be born with different kinds of cultures that say women should wear her jobs and other cultures that say, actually, it's not a big deal if they do or they don't they can decide on their own. They don't want to. But for one culture it's absolutely imperative that they do. And for other ones, excuse my excuse my phone. The other culture it's like it's completely non issue. Like these society wall religion is just a cast of societal rules that people are meant to follow right, but that is entirely arbitrary, given the fact that we can live in this geo political culture that has many different kinds of cultures and we can see that it's happening throughout. If that's the case, why don't we just have the best system, why do we have all these other systems as well. And you had it in California when you were growing up, and you'll find wherever you look in the world, it's the least religious places that are the most benevolent. True true depth. Hey, I think we made it to the bottom of a half hour. I need to take a break. Stay tuned for the second half of the digital free thought radio hour on w ozio radio 103.9 LP FM here in Knoxville, Tennessee. We'll be right back after this short break. So I think. Welcome back to the second half of the digital free thought radio hour. I'm doubter five more on w ozio radio 103.9 LP FM here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Let's talk about the atheist society of Knoxville for just a second. ASK was founded in 2002. In our 20th year now and have over 1000 members. We do have weekly in person meetings every Tuesday evening in Knoxville's old city at Barley's taproom in pizzeria. Look for us inside at the high top tables or if it's pretty weather outside on the deck. We can also we also get together for Tuesday evening zoom meetings. If you'd like to join us via zoom, no matter where you live, email us for details that ask an atheist at Knoxville atheists.org, or let's chat se at gmail.com. You'll find us on Facebook meetup.com, or Knoxville atheists.org, which is their website. You can also just Google Knoxville atheists is just that simple. By the way, if you don't live in Knoxville, you can still go to meet up and do a search for an atheist group in your town. Don't find one. Right. One by where you want to pick up. Yo, everybody was born an atheist and so were you two. And isn't it a birthright? Isn't it an amazing thing that we can all appreciate. And when it all comes said and done. It's all basically atheists, at least to the majority of the guys that have been claimed to exist. There's not everyone who believes in all of them all at once. Doesn't that seem like it's commonsensical. Can't that seem like that's something we can all agree on. No, of course not because this is an internet show where we accept internet feedback, which means we're going to go into some contrary opinions. I'm going to throw it up to John Richards. You have the first say at this first contrary point comes from slimy slugs zero on Reddit who says, Well, I'd say all humans are born agnostics, not atheists. Babies don't know what God is being an atheist means to not believe in any sort of God. How can a baby do that if babies don't even understand the concept of God yet. No, we got John first and then we'll go straight to Larry. John, what do you think? Not the old atheism versus agnosticism conflict. These are two contentious words. It depends who you are, how you define them and being, you know, an active atheist, I define atheism as a lack of belief in what other people claim that they have as their foundation for their religion. I don't claim that I can eliminate the possibility of their being a God, because of course, the universe isn't a cookie jar using your American words. You can't you can't turn it upside down and empty it and say, Look, there's no God in here. So it's not possible to eliminate the possibility that there is a God. And that's what I mean by atheism. But agnosticism is overlapping. You can be both because agnosticism means you don't know. Right. And you're not sitting on the fence. You just don't have the data necessary to make a decision to jump either side. So there is a slight difference there, but it's not a big one. And just a slight correction when you say there's no metal fence you just lack the information to know what to jump either side the side that you're staying on is not believing. So like either believe it or you don't believe it and you're staying on the not believe side until you have knowledge. He was talking about agnosticism and you're using the word believe. Agnosticism is about knowledge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, atheism is about belief. I'm an agnostic atheist. Yes, I don't know, but I also don't believe that there are people that do believe and say they don't know. So it's just two different things you have to worry about knowledge versus believe. Correct. And that shows you how much belief is actually a choice. Even though they don't know, they've chosen to believe one thing at a time one thing at a time. Here, let me let me just make some quick clarification points between John Richard on the original question which was agnosticism atheists, atheism for friends of the show refers to a statement of belief.  That's why we're saying all babies are born atheists. Whereas agnosticism is a question of knowledge do you know if a God exists do you not know if that God exists if you know God exists you're agnostic, and you should be making a better noise than you are now because you should be a national geographic you should be in front of the president, but if you don't know that God exists, you're an agnostic and you can be both agnostic and an atheist similarly in the same way that you can be a Gnostic theist, you can be an agnostic atheist, and, and the question just becomes. It doesn't matter if someone calls themselves a agnostic it doesn't immediately mean that they're not an atheist because you can be both. So why do people pull up that distinction. Anyway, Larry, go ahead. I was just going to say that I disagree with John on a belief is not a choice you believe things because you're convinced they're true. Right now you may be convinced for bad reasons, or good reasons, but you can't just convince your you can't just make a choice to believe in like Santa Claus, or the tooth fairy. It's not a choice you're either convinced to believe something or not. Now you can do it without knowledge or with knowledge, but I don't believe it's a choice. I concur. Now you can choose whether or not you want to call yourself a believer or not, but you can't just make a decision to believe something that you don't believe in. That's another and the converse is true as well right. A person who has spent, you know, part of their life believing in some sort of a deity doesn't come to unbelief overnight doesn't wake up one day and say I don't believe in God. Yeah, they can try to tell themselves that but all my friends right. I'm going to decide not to believe. It's over a period of time that your beliefs change and you come to a point where you can say I no longer believe or I do believe but well, transitory. That's a particularly American view because you have this thing called deconstructing. I'm Canadian. It's still I have so many if you want to talk about Umbridge's John I have Umbridge with that as that's still North America. You're still part of us Mexico is part of us Brazil still part of us we're all. That's right. Because I don't have a Mac. I can still use a computer. Guys, we can we can make this topic. Another show, and I think it'd be worthwhile discovery to understand do we do we choose our beliefs because that's that's a heady topic it really is. But how about we go into another feedback session from another variant. This one I like to throw out to doubter five to tackle first. And it's the idea of let me see if I can read this quickly. Ah, how can we all be atheists if all religions come from different cultures it's that argument. Anyway, here we go. Dool Dougie says, if it's true that we're born atheists then why has every culture on earth, even under no contact created gods. It's certainly weird that every culture that has ever existed felt the pool to a higher power. Doubt or five first and then we go to John. Oh, so you're on mute my friend and me in there. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, most, most Eastern religions are not God religions, Buddhism Confucius and Taoism, Jainism. They don't believe in they believe in maybe souls and ancestor worship but they don't believe in God. And the cultures that he's talking about the ones that deal a poll to believe in a God, don't believe in the same guy. It's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's just very troubling that he would make that argument. Now what I feel is a large part of it is that we all grow up with higher powers in our parents. When parents are gone, you still have that feel that pull that tug that you need a higher power looking after you that takes the place of those, those parents and then we still call God, our father in heaven, you know, that type of thing. We're still following. So I think it's kind of transparent why we, why all the cultures would still look for a God, you know, a paradigm to stretch out to a super, right? Yeah, John, because you have to understand how computer works for simulation theory to make sense to you, but everyone understands how a family works because we're products of a family. So it's a supernatural family. And the church takes advantage of that.  Right. The hijack guardian angels are your big brothers and big sisters. The priest is your father. Great movie series brought by Marvel. Sorry, sorry. John riches left to get your feedback. It's not quite true that every culture has created a God. Anthropologists have studied indigenous people. And there are in Brazil, for example, there's the piranha, who not only have no religion, no God, but they don't have any numbers either. It's, you know, it's, it's a sweeping statement to claim that every culture is invented. Yeah, very true. It's very true. Particularly the ones that Christianity took over, or try to sell as a comparable model to why they're inferior and we're better. Yes, but if you look at the grand scheme of things, it's a ball face lie to say that every single culture has, if anything, even if that's true. That's accurate. It's only every culture that we know of, which introduces yourself to a black swan fallacy where it's like, there's no such things as black swans because I've never seen one. It's like, that's not a good argument to say that every case is as you say it because we haven't looked at the whole entire sample size yet. Right. I've never seen anyone vote Republicans like, okay. Mind you, I went to New Zealand where the black swans are supposed to exist and I didn't see any there either. Okay, Dredpire, what's up. Yeah, well I was going to say that while not all cultures may have religious beliefs. We all do have brains and our brains are hardwired for agency detection. That is something that is innate in our cognition or cognitive skills and abilities. A rustle in the breeze. Is it something that might eat me or is it the wind better think it's the thing that's going to eat me. And be wrong, then think it's the wind and be lunch. So it's just a part of how our brains work. So it's not a far stretch to consider that we may look at other things and believe that they have agency. Right. And my, you know, Dred, that's a really good point. It feeds me into this because you're talking about matters of evolution. And I also find that culture is a product of evolution as well. And so when I am born in a culture that is Christian or has evolved to be very Christian like how we are in the West. Then it's not a surprise to me that I could be born and believe that I'm a Christian over a period of time in the same way that people are born in more Islamic areas or evolved into more Islamic regions. I'm not starting to be Islamic or or Janus or or Confucianist, etc. And my point is, I when I say we're all born atheists and someone brings up, well, every culture comes up with a higher power. I'm like, so what, that's the product of the culture that was already pre existing that caused that people to to continue to foster that culture. However, we have seen in multiple instances even looking around the world that if you completely remove that, if you look at cultures who have no contact religion that you can you can have examples like that. Or you can have regions that get taken over by the more popular religion that also happens as well. The fact that these cultures exist with these higher powers is more of a product of like the history of how these cultures have, you know, generated in the first place. And the fact that we can come up with in our own mind state is evolutionary bias because it's what we tend to do when we look at the unknown, we tend to have to primarize it, or give it qualities that are beyond just a natural force. What do you think john. Well, it's, it's a product of being social animals. Every type of social animal needs a leader, even if it's only the fastest will be beast that leads the herd. And what what humans do, and possibly some chimpanzees is project that the leader into the sky, so that there is, you know, even even when your earthly body has gone, you've still got this father figure up there that you can rely on. It's, I also want to throw this out to before we get to the next topic. These, these ideas that we have of the afterlife and the structure of heaven are always very beneficial to the believer in the ego sense, like a holy father who loves his son. I'm a, I'm a guy. That means I got a dad which means my dad's powerful which means I'm powerful because I'm in the product of power. I like this this is going to be the story that I move on. Oh, and you mean the supernatural being who created the universe is my family member that's pretty awesome like my dad's awesome I have a cool that everyone wants that, but you never get the one where it's like reality as we know it is just a slaughterhouse and when we die you're you it's just your soul getting ready to be chopped up for a meal for some, you know, major feast down the road, because a lamb if you think about a lamb in a farm, they don't know anything outside of their farm in the same way like humans don't know anything outside of our planet or we were slowly developing but we've never been off our plan onto another planet in the same way that a lamb visits another slaughterhouse. And when the slimes get taken away it's sort of like when we die, and it just looks like our bodies stop working it's like well where our souls go where are, where is our mentality go where does Tyrone go after he dies. We always want to think of something really great and appeasing to us we never consider a more darker afterlife that could be just as valid, because we don't know where we're drawing these straws from. I find it just very telling that we always pick the most. Massaging yeah yeah yeah it's so biased. Nobody wants an evil teddy bear. No, it's an evil teddy bear we always want the best thing that works for us and so it's just so saccharine is so I'm saying it's just so telling the saccharine so telling me meant to appease us about the concept of death.  It's like it's not that bad of this concept it really isn't. I just wish we had more time to come to terms with death in a more mature and honest way than than lying to ourselves with these really clearly fleeting no foundational rules of reality that actually make us believe terrible things. That's a fairer for that spiel. Thank you. I was just going to say, I mean no more nowhere is it more glaring than in Western countries that that religion is largely due to our cultural upbringing.  But, you know, certainly, I've never ever seen and I put it to you guys. Have you ever seen a non Indian wearing a turban or identifying as a seek. I've seen examples but yeah I've seen that, but really. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, it's you can adopt the religion is all I'm saying. Larry. Yeah, well no but I'm, you know, the point was that it is culturally driven, right. Right, right, like my sister's Muslim. And so she, she wears a job and and she was born in St. Thomas. So like it that is not a common jump but like she adopted the culture and now she is, you know, over there. What do you think. Oh, you said white guy. No, I have no examples for white people but I've seen it.  Yes, one of the DJs under station is a white person who has is a seat. Where's the turban and all that. Okay. And very nice guy. But my point is there are outliers. There are people who adopt religions who aren't born in society, but that doesn't belay your basic assumption that people are born into religion and generally is controlled by the really rather region you were born in. Right. And that doesn't impact whether you're not you're born in atheists, like we live in these two realities where they're both compatible like you're born in atheists and you might be born a culture that's religious and guess what you're probably going to become that religions, or that cultures religion. That's a shame, because your birthright is your atheism, and you shouldn't rest on it, but you should understand that that's a good position to have, when everyone else around you is following a dogma that may not necessarily be scientifically or reasonably based. John, what do you what you got before. Well, this is a an issue which has been rumbling along for hundreds of years. And it's not just whether people are born atheists or theists of whatever flavor, but also whether they are born into a political party. Yes. And, and I've got a quote here from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera that was popular in the Victorian era, in which one of the characters sings a song that goes. I often think it's comical fall la la, how nature always does contrive fall la la that every boy and every gal that's born into the world alive is either a little liberal, or else a little conservative. Nice. They were poking fun right in this country at that time. And that is true. It's absolutely true, because if you were to look at like a heat map of population density across the United States of America at least the areas where there are the most people the most diverse people living with each other. And we're talking like millions of people living like in the same town or whatever like nearby the same area. Those tend to be the bluest areas, because it's the people that have access to most likely the highest education really good pay cultural mixtures different very little in the way of like well this guy is this guy I'm this personal identity is broken down. It's just people existing with each other in a very harmony state, whereas the ones or it's just like, well there's a person there's a person across like this entire state. Those tend to be the red estates because they have the least access to different cultures, least access to different new ideas, and those tend to be very conservative. That's not a rural. It is. Exactly. I was just going to make that point. People who live in a city meet all sorts of other different types of people.  So we'll be conservative to make sure that isn't the case whereas ones were like very considerate of the plights of other people, because they see them on a regular basis and they're like, we need to come up with system to help people like. Can we come up with something that like improve their liberties and stuff like that. I'm not saying one. Actually, I'm saying one's better than the other but I'm also saying it is a product both in both cases of culture, it is a product of culture and we are impacted by that in many different ways. I read, I got a question for you or anonymous and she says, even though it's technically right to call newborns atheists, I don't really like where this is going. The absence of something because of capabilities does not mean that it's a good state or something that should be pursued. What do you think about that. Yeah, we're born atheists but that's not necessarily a good thing because you shouldn't think of that as a good state because you lack the capability of believing in God. And it shouldn't be something that should be pursued. Atheism may not necessarily be something to be pursued. Oh, I'm just excited. I mean that's a pretty hard statement to make. I mean, that's a broad claim and I don't see what support she might have for making it in the first place. It's a non sequitur. It's gone ahead. I can't hold it. This person obviously thinks that atheism is a thing. It's because it ends in ism, and she thinks it's an ideology. It isn't. We don't have any doctrine. We don't wish to impose anything on anybody. Right, right. It's not something you pursue. It's just a state of being lacking, you know, the belief in a God. It's like when you move that what's left behind this or the shape that's left behind is. When you take off your clothes, you're naked. That's that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And sometimes it's good to pursue being naked but not. There's no rituals, no taboos. We live, we live in a wonderful peaceful condition where we can do pretty much what we like. And if you have standards, it is something that is worth getting rid of if you can be shown otherwise. My biggest complaint about the Bible is God shows up all the time helping people left and right in person as a dove. A flaming bush drops angels down left and right, always willing to cause miracles left and right. But since the time of the Bible is very the world's champion at hide and seek. Even to the point where the devil is willing to like go and be like, hey, you want to just come down and like harass some of your followers a little bit. Do you want to try that together? It's like, I haven't done that in years. Okay, fine. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. These guys, the devil and God, they know each other exists, but God doesn't like the devil, right, even though he invites him to heaven for beddings. If God gave us the same level of evidence that the devil had where it's like, just let us know you exist. That immediately cures atheism. Immediately, I would be not an atheist anymore. Maybe I wouldn't be a Christian, but I wouldn't be an atheist. I definitely would know that a God exists. Now the question just becomes whether or not I worship that being and follow its tenets. That is a completely different question whether or not I believe, but you can be punished for lack of. You can be punished explicitly in the Bible for not believing in that God.  Because then you would get rid of the atheists. And now it's a question of on the tenets of the obvious rules that you hand delivered us. Now we know whether we should follow them or not. And based on that decision making, then you would be able to have better grounds to punish us if we don't follow that. That's all we're asking for. Just give us the same evidence the devil had. What do you think? Yeah, who was it on the road to Damascus and, you know, Jesus appeared to him. Give us the same evidence, you know, appear to us. It should be the easiest thing in the world for a day to do. Yeah, have a Twitter account. That's a discussion. We'd be really. I've been asked off very frequently. What kind of evidence would you believe? And I'm with Matt Dilla, Huntie on this one. He says that God would know. I mean, if God is all knowing, he would know the evidence that I would need to be convinced. And he's not giving it to me. Either he doesn't exist or he doesn't want me to know he exists. Or he made a way where you can't be convinced in which case that's not my problem anymore. That's God's problem, right? Yeah, God wants to convince me and he made me invincible. He would know how to do it. And he hasn't done it yet. That tells me one of three things. Either he doesn't care, he can't do it or he made me so I can't be convinced. So like, not my problem either way in all three of those categories. Let's move forward with our lives. A blue tick wouldn't do it. No, and it only costs eight bucks a month apparently. In fact, I think I think he almost actually took that program away. You know, not for free. So like, come on guys, what's going on? Just make a Twitter account. Dred, do you have anything else to add on that question or the idea of atheism is not something that should be pursued? No, not really. I mean, I agree completely with John. You know, yeah, there's really not much to say about it. I think there's a silly question actually. Okay, we got five minutes left in the show. How and we had more comments but you know what it's always good that we keep it easy on Larry's part because I don't want to do extra editing. So how about we just do a roundtable things we'd like to plug. For me, you can check out. Oh, go ahead, Larry. Oh, we're just gonna say it's not so much for the, I'm sorry, the extra editing is that I hate to cut anything. There's just so much quality content. What do I cut? Alright, so you won't cut anything because we're going to end a little early today or we're ending exactly on time. And so I would say if you like this topic that we're having this open discussion, feel free to check out atheism on our slash atheism and look for the topic all babies are born atheists where this conversation is ongoing as we speak. And for more my content, check it out on let's chat on YouTube. And feel free to check in and other shows will leave a comment will be happy to go over over next week show. In fact, I know we didn't do it in the last couple of episodes we will do it in the next episode so thank you so much for all your attention to time. Alright, where can we find your stuff that well I have a YouTube channel mind pirate. Of course YouTube has given us all handles now so all you have to do is check out YouTube at mind pirate, and you will find me there I live stream this particular video at 7am Pacific Standard Time, and I also when I'm available hop on for global atheism review at 11am Pacific Standard Time, where I joined john Richards and other guests and talking topics of religious nature. I just found out about this handle thing yeah I want to do yeah let's chat that's that's all my video that's awesome. Yeah. Okay, great. That are five or we'll wait for you john Richards. Tell me about the land of chaos. It's settling down. We, we've had a prime minister now who's lasted a whole three weeks. My, my stuff is on free thought channel on YouTube. And as dread said, one of the shows that we do is global atheist news review or I'm renaming it views on the news. It's a wonderful panel, including you tie and you dread of wise and witty people who give their opinions about the things that have happened over the previous seven days, as reported in global atheist news itself. And there's some hairy stuff this week to talk about the, the, the leaders of, I think it's Afghanistan have. Yeah, the Taliban have now specified that. They're now chopping off hands, and, and other forms of torture and execution are back. They've decided that they want to enforce Sharia law once more. So what you're going to say about that later on today. And there's, if you look at the clips of what's going on in Iran at the moment. There's so many women not wearing their hijab. There's a video of this guy who gives it gives a fist bump to them as they're walking down the street, they accept the fist bump and he turns his hand over, and there's a sweet, and then they take the sweet, and it's all happening. So, that was, that was the most pleasant way that story could have ended. I was expecting many, many terrible things. Something bad. I was like, no, oh, candy. That's great. I hope they got it. I hope they got a cookie. Yes. Or biscuit. Yeah, my content can be found at digital free thought.com. Be sure to click on the blog button for a radio show archives, atheists songs and many articles on the subject. My YouTube channel handle is at doubter five. You can find my book atheism what's it all about on Amazon. And if you're having trouble recovering from religion there's help for you at recovering from religion.org. Check it out. I'm sure they have some way that will leave your problem some of your problems anyway, and there are a lot of problems from leaving religion.  The time to worry about it is when they prove that heavens and hells and souls are real. Until then, don't sweat it. Enjoy your life. We'll see you next Wednesday night at seven o'clock here on WZO radio. 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Does warming up actually improve your cycling performance? And if so, what is the most effective warm-up strategy? How long should your warm-up be and what intensity should it be done at? This is what we'll be focusing on today, as well as addressing warming up in hot and cool conditions and whether or not stretching is beneficial to include in your warm-up routine or not. At the end of the video, I'll be going over what an optimal warm-up routine should look like and situations in which a warm-up is critical and others in which a warm-up may actually hurt your performance. Welcome back to another video. My name is Dylan and for weekly science-based coaching videos just like this one, be sure to subscribe. The question of what is the most effective warm-up is one that I've gotten a lot and it's a good question too. At the start of any race, you'll probably see everything from riders just standing around waiting for the start to riders getting on the trainer an hour and a half beforehand and doing multiple sprints to get ready. Do I want to start warming up? No, man. I'm just going to shock on a monster on the starting line. Not to be fine. Plus, I need a good excuse for why I got dropped in the first five minutes. When it comes to warm-ups, what's the best approach?  Let's first address the question of whether or not warm-ups in general are effective at improving cycling performance. This study on the effect of warm-up on cycling time trial performance had subjects perform a three-kilometer time trial after no warm-up, an easy warm-up, or a hard warm-up. What they found was that subjects performed significantly better after a warm-up regardless of whether it was hard or easy, with a performance enhancement on the order of 2-3%. And these findings have been confirmed in the literature. This meta-analysis on the effects of warming up on physical performance found 32 high-quality studies and of these studies 79% showed a performance improvement with a warm-up. They also found little evidence to suggest that warming up is detrimental to sports performance. Those are the results we probably expected and probably intuitively already knew. Most people feel better after they've gotten some time to pedal around. But what is the most effective warm-up strategy? Is a longer or harder warm-up more effective or are you just wearing yourself out by doing this? This study on warm-up intensity on performance in sprint cycling had subjects perform a one-minute sprint after an easy, moderate, or hard warm-up. Interestingly, they found no difference in power between the three warm-up intensities. This may lead one to the conclusion that what you do during your warm-up doesn't matter that much as long as you're getting in some kind of warm-up. However, other studies come to different conclusions. This study had a similar setup testing the effect of warm-up intensity on sprint cycling performance. They found that power decreased with an increased warm-up intensity.  Each warm-up was only six minutes long. The moderate warm-up was six minutes at 40% of peak aerobic power. And the heavy and severe warm-up was the same, but with a one-minute effort at 80 or 110% of peak aerobic power respectively, followed by a 10-minute recovery period before the actual test started. Now, while this does provide some valuable insight, these studies aren't really investigating what cyclists typically do during a warm-up. For that, we turn to this study which tested the effects of a traditional and experimental warm-up on 30-second sprint performance. The traditional warm-up began with 20 minutes of cycling with a gradual, intensity increase of 60% to 95% of maximal heart rate, then four sprints were performed at 8-minute intervals. The experimental warm-up was shorter with less high intensity, intensity increase from 60% to 70% of maximal heart rate over 15 minutes, then just one sprint was performed. What they found was that peak power and total work was greater when subjects did the shorter and easier experimental warm-up. And this isn't just one study showing these kinds of results. This study on the effects of warm-up on severe, intensity cycling performance found that while a moderate and heavy warm-up improved performance, doing sprints was about as effective as doing no warm-up at all in terms of power production in a five-minute test. What this all boils down to is this. While warm-ups are important, it's easy to overdo it. When it comes to warm-ups, a less-is-more approach is often the most effective strategy. Stick around to the end of the video if you want to see me go over what your warm-up should look like in different cycling situations. Spoiler alert, just start every ride as hard as you can go, especially if it's a casual group ride. The warm-up is a perfect opportunity to drop riders who aren't ready. Remember, a drop is a drop. Now, let's talk about temperature and how that affects your warm-up. As it turns out, there is an optimal temperature for exercise. This study on the effect of temperature on prolonged cycling performance tested performance at a variety of temperatures from 3 degrees to 30 degrees Celsius. They demonstrated that there is a clear effect of temperature on exercise capacity, which appears to follow an inverted U relationship, meaning that there is an optimal temperature for performance. Both too cold and too hot had a negative impact on time to exhaustion, and the temperature at which subjects performed the best was around 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This is part of why a warm-up is effective, because you're quite literally warming or raising the temperature of your muscles. This study tested this by looking at how muscle temperature affected sprint performance. They had subjects complete a 15 minute warm-up followed by 30 minutes of rest before a 30 second sprint test. During the 30 minute rest period, subjects were either normal, insulated, or heated pants. Muscle temperature was higher in the group with the heated pants, and this resulted in a 9% increase in peak and relative power output. And this review article concludes that the majority of the effects of warm-up have been attributed to temperature related mechanisms. This gets tricky when we're talking about warming up in different conditions. There's different things to keep in mind when warming up for a cold race versus warming up for a hot race. As we've seen, raising the temperature of your muscles is beneficial, but letting your body get too hot like when it's already hot outside can actually be detrimental to performance. In this study on the effects of heat stress on exercise performance in elite cyclists, they took cyclists from the Australian national team and had them complete a 30 minute time trial at 32 degrees and 23 degrees Celsius. What they found was that mean power decreased by 6.5% when subjects rode in the heat. It's also important to note that as the test went on, the power during the hot condition dropped lower and lower while power during the control trial stayed more steady. So the solution here is to bag the warm-up? Well, not exactly. A warm-up is still beneficial, but you may need to employ some special tactics in order to keep cool. For example, in this study on the effect of cooling vests on 5K performance, they took competitive runners and had them run two 5Ks at 32 degrees Celsius, one while wearing just a t-shirt during the warm-up, and one while wearing an ice vest during the warm-up. What they found was that the 5K run time was significantly lower by 13 seconds when subjects wore the ice vest with a faster pace, most evident during the last two thirds of the run. In hot conditions, you may want to do a slightly shorter warm-up to not let your body temperature rise quite as much before your race or workout. Staying cool using ice vests, dousing yourself with cold water, or filling a sock with ice and putting it on the back of your neck can be helpful too. If conditions are cool, remember that the main reason you're doing your warm-up is to warm yourself up. So help yourself out by being well dressed and wait as long as possible before you take your jacket and knee warmers off on the starting line. Now let's talk about stretching. Many people include some sort of stretching as part of their warm-up routine, and if you look around at the starting line of any cycling event, you'll probably see quite a few people doing the old quad stretch. Is this actually doing anything for you, or even worse, could it be hurting your performance? This study on stretching's effects on cycling efficiency had subjects perform tests at 85% of VO2 max until exhaustion, with and without pre-exercise stretching. The results showed that stretching before the test actually decreased time to exhaustion. They concluded that a preceding stretching routine significantly decreases exercise efficiency and time to exhaustion during heavy intensity. That's interesting, and goes against everything my gym teacher taught me. What could be the reason for this? The study explains that stretching changes the viscoelastic properties of the muscle tendon unit by decreasing its stiffness, and that a relatively stiffer muscle tendon unit reportedly has a greater capacity for force production, owing to improved force velocity and length tension relationships, and to a better initial transmission of force. Basically, a stiffer muscle can produce more force, and stretching reduces the stiffness of the muscle, thereby reducing the amount of force the muscle can produce. As always, though, we don't want to rely on just one study when coming to its conclusion. This 2012 meta-analysis looked at 104 different studies, and came to the conclusion that results clearly show that static stretching before exercise has significant and practically relevant negative acute effects on maximal muscle strength and explosive muscular performance, and these findings are universal, regardless of subjects age, gender, or training status. The advice here, although somewhat surprising, is simple. Do not stretch before a hard workout or race. At best, it won't help you, but more likely than not, it may actually hurt your performance. Finally, let's discuss what a proper warm-up should look like and what kinds of cycling events you do and do not want to warm up for. A warm-up doesn't need to be long. In fact, it's probably better if it isn't. At most, you want 30 minutes, but most of the time, 20 minutes should be sufficient. A warm-up also doesn't have to be complicated with ramp-ups and multiple sprint efforts. Keep most of your warm-up at zone 2 endurance pace, and then do 1 or 2 opener efforts, not 4 or 5. These efforts should be relatively short at 30 seconds to 2 minutes, and you should give a good solid effort, but not be near max pace. Do these based on feel. As far as what kinds of events you do and do not want to warm up for, in general, the shorter the event, the more important the warm-up becomes. For short races like short track mountain biking or crit road racing or cyclocross racing, a warm-up is extremely important and can have a huge impact on your performance. For races like these, you want to make sure that you get to the event with plenty of time to get ready and warm up, and you also want to be sitting on the starting line, not warming up for as little time as possible. I know that's easier said than done. This goes for short high-intensity rides too. A warm-up is important for making sure that you get the most out of that workout. For longer events, you can shorten your warm-up, and for ultra endurance events, you may actually be better off not warming up at all. This is because a huge limiting factor at events like these is your glycogen levels or amount of stored carbohydrates. You are depleting these levels during the warm-up, even if it's just a little bit of depletion, you're going to want as much glycogen as possible for the event. However, the biggest factor to determine whether or not you should be warming up before a longer event is how hard the start is going to be. The harder the start of the races, and the more important the start is, the more important the warm-up becomes. Dude, you skipped over my advice. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to give it a like. If you want to stay up to date on my training and racing, be sure to follow me on Instagram. I also announce when I post new videos on there. And finally, if you haven't subscribed yet, be sure to do that. Thanks, and I'll see you in the next one.


Hi, I'm Anthony. This is my dog Rosie. We're from Hayden, Alabama. You're watching Trucker Josh and his dog Weasel and TJ Good morning everybody we got to bring this steel up north So we're in a little town second it called Villisca, Iowa on Highway 71 US Highway 71 We're on this highway and in this middle of nowhere because I 29 is closed the entire interstate is closed So all traffic has to go around the back roads So we get to see some scenic little small towns that we would usually never see so I like it I'm excited, but we ended up stopping here And like I was telling you at the end of yesterday's vlog I was very lucky because I pulled in here with four minutes left I had no idea where to stop I was using trucker path, but trucker path didn't even register this as a truck stop If you're wondering what trucker path is it's an app try it out They don't sponsor me or anything but I like using the app because it shows you where all the truck stops are and where you can park and Very often drivers update it to whether or not there's spots there or not It also tells you if scales are open, you know when you go past it You you punch in whether it's open or not and the next drivers can see you know like oh five minutes ago Somebody said it was closed or oh just now somebody said it's open So you know whether or not you can make your decisions thereafter But anyways, I'm gonna get on the road here and hey, it is hot as you know what out there hot Whoo Let's go north America's too hot for us man. We got to go back to Canada. I'm melting It's not even summer yet as this coffee cup travel plaza That we've stopped at quite a few times. It's a little place structure here Little picnic tables. It's really really nice super nice drivers lounge up in the building over there They also have a coffee cup bark park just for weasels Just for you diesel and some jobs man to say they're allowed in there I guess it is technically made for them, isn't it? It's a bark park not a weasel park But we're gonna make it a weasel park today. Let's go check it out I've been doing a lot more idling than I'd like to but it's just so hot outside. You got to keep this cab cool We don't want to roast the weasel now. Do we let's go check it out. Go check it out. Come on Let's get on the grass. That pavement is probably really hot on your paws. Come on Come here, bud. Look at that. They even got a water pump over there Whoop close this back up again. There we go. I Know we're not gonna get much done because you're just gonna be sniffing everything We never really get much running done or anything done when we take diesels at the dog park Because there's so many smells of other dogs here.  Look at that. Even though we bring our own everywhere One diesel run many new smells. He can't focus on anything but that Someone didn't clean up their dogs poop. They already provide you with poop bags people. Come on More there more there more there diesel leave it alone. I don't know why people don't pick it up Oh, no, there's another one coming. Maybe not. Oh, yeah, they're coming in here Okay diesel it's time for us to go Well, how is that buddy? How is that? We didn't stay out there too long. It's so hot out. It's like 34 degrees out there right now but South Dakota. Oh, I keep saying how Good these bugs are that are splatting on to my windshield. It means that summer is here. I Think we've passed the point of wow. This is nice. It reminds me that summer is coming to the point where it's just Okay, I can't see where I'm going Crazy the camera doesn't really pick it up much. I'm sure I'll check it out later, but It's insane. We're getting close to no. We're already in North Dakota. We're getting close to Fargo, North Dakota right now We are getting slammed by a wall of bugs the time is 10 after 10 at night Still got quite a bit of sunlight up there. We are getting closer to the Canadian border. The Canadian border is about three hours ahead of us And then from there This load is just being brought to our yard near Winnipeg Gonna drop it there tomorrow and on Sunday.  That's already sitting there waiting for me tarped And we're taking that first drop is in Saskatoon I think I got a drop after that in Calgary and then we end off in Surrey, BC. I think And then from there we have a load Taking us right back to Minnesota So next week is all planned out for me. I like that. We're just going through some construction here It is that season the season of bugs and construction You guys see how many bugs are on that window? It's hard to tell now, right? Still not complaining them. It's still better than snow Well, we stopped here for fuel in Fargo, North Dakota, and We got the bugs mostly off Didn't spend too much time on it though. I Just want to get going. We're gonna try to make it up to Pembina, North Dakota, which is right at the border I don't think we'll even make it there very close anyway We'll see I might just stop in Grand Forks Spend the night there. I won't make it over the border tonight yet I don't want to stay in Fargo here either because that leaves a little bit too much to do tomorrow yet And I just bought a coffee. So I don't want to go to bed yet Still have two and a half hours available to me on my E-Log clock. And it's about 251 kilometers to Pembina from here. I Don't think I'm gonna quite make it We'll see I want to push it further yet.  What a long day Well, we made it to the rest area not quite at Pembina So we're half an hour from Pembina and the Canadian border as far as we could make it yesterday But our 10 hours are up now. So I'm gonna start tomorrow's vlog. Thanks for watching today It's just a day of driving across the boring planes pretty much, but I'm glad you were here It made it a little bit more exciting I'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell. It's a new video almost every day Hello, everyone. It's Ciaran from Trillac, BC, Canada. You are watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on TJV


Snow falling from the sky. It's gonna be a good day diesel Right Chevy. It's gonna be a good day Fresh blanket of snow Always means it's gonna be a good day. Unless if you're on the highway right now, then it's not always such a good day Just finished our live stream And it's time to take the boys Outside you guys ready you ready for this it's gonna be intense Hey, we don't got a little bit of a happy tale going on there Come on. Let's go They only want to go on this side of the car So it's a little bit of a I don't know how to explain it chillier cooler You sort of just feel it in your bones. Just a little bit hmm Winter is one day closer. You can just Feel it doesn't mean it has to be a bad day though. It's gonna be a good day Look at us a bit of backyard. We got a fence. We got electricity You know, you never realize how much you depend on your electricity until you lose it Last night or the night before Woke up in the middle of the night and we had no power I woke up because it was so silent because we usually have the fan going all night And the fan wasn't on the power was off. It was only on for about two hours But man, like how long is it gonna take for this house? To completely freeze right or food to go bad in the fridge or the freezer We really really rely on electricity a lot Probably way too much. Well, we just had a visitor on our doorstep What did they leave? I think it was Santa's little helpers. Oh Boy Look what we got Chris and Tanya brought us drinks. What do you look like white hot chocolate? Candy and got my coffee with the two espresso but looks at it That's awesome Thanks, you know the way to our hearts friends forever well Actually, there are cousins so they're family forever. We're stuck with them either way So just to show you the kind of people that they are not only do they just bring us Tim's Unannounced exactly when we needed it It's also Chris's birthday today, and he brought us a gift of Tim's That's really nice. So it's like birthday Tim's except it's Reverse birthday Tim's I should let you guys know also that they do make YouTube videos also not as many As we do here on this channel, but maybe one day they will and we keep Pushing them along a little bit. Maybe they will It's called rock rocking kettle acres I'll leave the link down below in the description Make sure I got the name right sometimes I get it mixed up, but we'll put the link down below in the description They make videos. They're the people who have the goats Cousin Chris and Tanya and he said super duper. He sent us a video in the drive-thru He said super duper when he picked it up for us nailed it Super duper So this is what I was kind of talking about yesterday I just printed this off the internet. What is the macaroni kid? Winnipeg dot macaroni kid comm they have this challenge your 101 family fun roadside attractions in Manitoba a daily trippers guide You know how I like stopping at all these funny monuments and everything right they have a hundred and one of them Just in Manitoba, you got like the Dominion City world's largest sturgeon Elm Creek world's largest fire hydrant, you know, there's a St. Francis Xavier There's the white horse st. Malo whitetail deer All over there's Emerson Holland Larivierre Lundar all the way up to Church Hill, Manitoba 101 landmarks and roadside attractions now the point of this Challenge is to get to know your own province better or if you're from out of province After this whole virus thing is over to get to know Manitoba better Now obviously we can't go and see all of these all at once right now because of restrictions and stuff But we can start and go and see the ones closer by the point of it is To get a picture of yourself Standing beside the landmark or the roadside attraction and at the end you compile them all together all a hundred and one Now like I said because the current restrictions I don't think we can go all the way up to Church Hill right now The only way up there is either by plane or by train So this is gonna take a while. It's gonna be a long-term thing. Maybe we'll do one Excursion a week just on the weekend We'll start off close to home and hopefully by the time we get to the attractions that are further away from home Restrictions have eased up and we can go and see those But for today, we're gonna cross to off our list because they're pretty much right here There's the cow the Holstein they call it the cow in Le Broquerie and the 1931 Rolls-Royce in Steinbeck So while we're up there wrong will obviously make like a weekend out of it or something and we'll go on one of those polar bear tours and Show you guys the polar bears in the northern part of our province That'll be for like next year after all of these lockdowns and everything are over obviously But you know, there's a hundred and one of these things so it'll take us a while to get there Diesel good thing. I took you along for this one. Look at that sunset though Man that would look a lot better if my truck was clean Tell you what So this is our number one landmark that we are Crossing off our list of 101 Manitoba attractions Oh roadside attractions Le Broquerie 1883 to 1983 There it is Gotta make sure I get myself eat with it. I'm sure diesel's gonna want a picture with it too since it's a cow This one was an easy one because Le Broquerie is maybe like 10 10 or so kilometers from Steinbeck See to come and see this Be interesting to see all the other ones Around the province. I think we'll save the ones time back for tomorrow as you can tell My natural lighting is disappearing on me All right, buddy. I know you want to come see the cow. Come on Come on, but careful when you jump out of there, man.  Okay It gets cold real fast when the sun disappears now. I think we're gonna head home from here and do the car tomorrow Gotta save something for tomorrow, right? we don't want to Cross off all the ones really close We don't want to cross off all the really close ones too quickly because then we can't go any further I think we're restricted from going up to northern Manitoba right now But most of the attractions are all in southern Manitoba, so it should be all right So we'll try to put that link down below in the description Uh, or you can just google 101 family fun roadside attractions in Manitoba It's a challenge to explore our province So this was actually sent to us or suggested to us by Tanya after we visited this center of canada sign That is one of the attractions we can actually cross that off our list already too. So that's been crossed off The La Broquerie Holstein has been Crossed off tomorrow the steinback. What is it 1933? Uh, what is it? Steinback steinback 1931 Rolls-Royce Another attraction we can just go and Grab a picture there and It'll already be three. So we're now at 98 I had to count on my hands Right 98 left Later cow Nice meeting you I've always seen it here. I've never actually stopped to go look at it They took it down for a while. Was it last year the year before? I think they had to redo it like repainted or something I thought of that as we were driving up. I was like, oh shoot. I hope they put it back up So La Broquerie is a small french community In the southeast of Manitoba just down the road from steinback. Like I said like a five minute drive from steinback Not too far away at all I'm not sure how often we're going to be able to get out and do these I can't go every day. I would love to do a new one every day like for 101 days or something But that's a lot of gas driving around and a lot of time I can't be uh Running around like that and plus, you know Like I said before We'll have to wait a little while to do the ones further north and then after that I don't know once we explore all of Manitoba. Hopefully by that time they'll let us into the next province for a visit Or maybe even down to north dakota. Maybe we'll do north dakota next. I don't know We'll see what happens. We got a lot to get done here first. So I think it'll work out perfectly Okay, I've got to show you this before we go home though I got to show you this christmas tree these guys light up this tree all the way to the top every year I don't know how they get all the way up there I've never actually seen them do it, but they figure it out. Check this out here I'm gonna pull in here. They leave them up there all summer. I think that's the trick. I saw them there in the summer But still I don't care. Look at that That is awesome Now that is christmas done, right? Look at that all the way to the top Well done well done looks like those trees are leaning a little bit this way as well I got that problem with my trees in our backyard as well.  You can go and sit there and just hang out under the christmas tree You see that? That's cool Definitely need to take this thing to the wash. I'm waiting for uh, monday Tomorrow because then they have the the employees in there that shammy it down for me They don't work on the weekends and sunday today, so definitely won't have any employees in there today Did you just fart? What I was gonna say is general frank Is cooking up something for dinner Oh, he's cooking. He's taking the credit for it anyways He's just been eating the broccoli He likes broccoli so does diesel but it gives him gas apparently He gives everybody gas It's gonna be a stinky household tonight So it's uh chicken broccoli. What is for supper? Chicken broccoli casserole Delicious One of these uh one of these nights. I'm gonna have to make a supper but my options Well because I only have like one or two things I can make You could make anything you just need a recipe But then I have to look at the instructions and that's forbidden My brother-in-law is a fantastic chef Makes delicious meals and I can't cook anything to save my life Well, I'm good at breakfasts. I like breakfasts Scallop potatoes it is tomorrow night Apparently she likes my scallop potatoes. I'm like a whole video about it Chef Josh tune in for a whole bunch of cheffery And cookery. I don't know. We'll see I do need to make something but I am more of a breakfast person. I really like making uh Eggs bacon sausage whole bacon You seem to follow me everywhere I go Ha no no no barking. That's not how the game works The game works is you run and I chase you Diesel, what do you think? She looks awfully busy. She smells awfully good So this is the before You open the magic door you put it inside for 35 minutes and voila supper 35 minutes I'm gonna wait right here. It's the magic box All right, we should go through here and check off the ones we've been to now I think on the first page here I'm through.  Oh, yeah, the center of canada. Where would that be in that being uh Well, oh center of canada sign tashé She just said it's dinner time. She better not be messing with me. Here's the finished product Dun dun dun dun That looks delicious. This is one of my all-time favorites chicken broccoli casserole, and I totally forgot what this actually was Every single time I make it and I tell him what I'm making he doesn't understand until he sees the finished product until I smell it Or that all of a sudden the smell hit it when she was about halfway done and I started sniffing around like a dog I know what that is All right guys, I gotta I gotta put you away. I gotta enjoy this This is this is private time. This is just for me and you Just for us I'll talk to you after I'll tell you how good it was. I'll tell you every little detail You know, you could just give me a bite. I'll tell them every detail. I think that's a good deal fair deal I'm pretty descriptive Well, it looks like everybody's coming in from their final Their final outside And I've got to tell you there are no words that can express how good The meal was There are no words And with that I will leave you Till tomorrow I hope you do subscribe tomorrow Will be a fun day I'll see you then hit that like button.


Everybody Matt here for late in sports cards ripping 2022 panini select football hobby six box half case break number one pick your team All right, let's get this going. We have Andrew L Raiders Anthony P. Bucks mr. Z or mr. G Chargers Blair B Washington Christopher C Bengals Dane B Cardinals Daniel C Eagles Dylan J Titans Drew B Panthers Colts Jack M chiefs Jacob H Giants Jeff M Packers Jeffery H Jets Joe H Ravens Jonathan G Jags Dolphins Rams Kyle M Falcons Steelers Niners Paul N Cowboys Peter B Lyons Rodolfo C Vikings Ryan B St. Seahawks Shelby H Texans Steven C Patriots Thomas M Bears Tony Y Bills Wayne P Broncos and young one C Browns here we go. Good luck First look at 2022 panini select football hobby Let's start hot here I'll have a I'll have selecting stock for personals here in a bit guys. I just Late start today. I'm outcastle has a vertigo That's no joke either. I've had I've had it one time in my life other than you know I George Pickens rookie Sweet level gonna go through this first box a little bit slowly here just to get familiar with the layout here Patrick Mahomes sensations and rookie silver. It's Alex Kappa of my beloved Cincinnati Bengals We're in the white. Yeah, I think that's the case on Nick more than just him It's up Austin.  That's the new neon icons insert Christian Watson rookie Silver. That's not bad Packers still available for the next break DJ Moore. That is the field level Field levels are horizontal this year Hmm Aaron Williams Christian McCaffrey That's a Kenyon Green rookie Silver and Matt Juden Joe Burrow Go right Can we get a burrow cut out for in here? Mods sauce Gardner Josh Allen snapshots. Love that insert and a redemption that is Washington nice rookie signature memorabilia prism Sam Howell Congrats commanders. Not bad Nice start to the day here quarterback auto. Yeah, take that All right. Here we go. Tegan Quatoriano. That's a name Rolls right out the time black one-of-one here first box and Robinson. It's a rookie sweet level Mac Jones Call this insert out correctly phenomenon Cold strange rookie Silver. So phenomenon doesn't say Rich said if I pull a black one-of-one in the first box, he's buying everybody panda today. I Think that's what I heard a panda. No pandas. We're gonna get that many pandas Justin Herbert Silver miles Garrett. We'll pick up the pace a little bit as we go here as first box on release day Yeah, I want to see a star cave to I'm gonna pull one Neon icon Silver Aidan Hutchinson. That's actually pretty cool looking with color. Yeah Derek Carr Silver and Brian Robinson field level rookie Thanks, Tony. You're 92 Tony Congrats Zach There's a Konwu relative on taste Smith. I Could barely see the keyboard to type There it is starcade. There you go Brock Purdy rookie. What? Nice SSP rookie insert for the Niners. That's a boom. Wow. I need to get familiar with the soundboard I was gonna hit the boom button numbered that is 10 of 10. Oh my god Box number one. That's huge. We'll mag this one and then I need to take a picture of it to send a lane Breeze Hall neon icons rookie insert Breeze Hall, why is it Bryce Echler and Fryer move That's right any other requests How about a visionary next and then we'll cap it off with a Multiverse there's Desmond Ritter rookie She goes on a con quo Rookie Silver All right one more pack here I'll grab a picture of that Purdy Tyler Smith and chiefs Super Bowl auto Harrison Butcher On card kicker Super Bowl. That's right I am a fan. He's got a leg. He's got a leg All right, well Let me grab a quick picture here. Give me one second I'm gonna get that over the lane so he can get it on Instagram and then we'll uh keep rolling go with box number two Garrett Wilson neon icons and to 99 Bears rookie jumbo jersey auto. Willis Jones, Jr. Bailey Zappie Rashid Shahi And that is white chase clay pool. That one's low numbered. I think yep three of 35 Pittman silver Najee Harris and Cooper cup silver Fryer move Heineke and to 99 jets rookie Jersey Silver Garrett Wilson Garrett Wilson rookie Silver that one is a concourse level and right on there's Daniel Jones tricolor The one James and Patrick Mahomes silver Jonathan Taylor tricolor Justin Jefferson there's foreman Arnoldy rookie Silver and JC Horn So DeMar Hamlin rookie tricolor There you go. Nice one bills And to 25 cowboys that is tie dye die cut auto Cooper rush It's Derek Stingley The DeMar Hamlin tricolor was uh seven of 249 Yeah, the uh It's one zebra per case It's Kenneth Walker rookie sensations jack sandborn rookie silver. This is white rookie Joshua Azadu Azudu 35 Brandon IU that is silver concourse Yon icons Dak Prescott D hop It's a Curtis Martin field level Tua Stefan digs Cameron Jordan silver and DeMar Hamlin rookie field level the Caparsons Russell Wilson that is silver sweet level Jason Kelsey Drake Jackson. There's Dak Neon icons and Josh Allen's sweet level silver it's uh Frankie Lovoo Louvoo rookie field level Kyron Williams Stavonte Smith phenomenon And a redemption That is Lions rookie signatures gold prism to 10 Jameson Williams There you go. Congrats lions with a gold rookie auto to 10 Hot start here. Let's keep it going today. Trey Henderson As we have spots left in our second break Cardinals Browns Broncos Packers and Chiefs five to go in that break It's a taekwon Thornton rookie tricolor and Jamar Chase That is silver concourse Daniel Jones Let's get the next one filled up. Here's a link for it Getting Cardinals Browns Broncos Packers and Chiefs There's de hop neon icons silver Tom Brady silver that is uh club level Naden Hutchinson Lions to 10 that is gold patch Amon Ross st. Brown There you go. Nice gold two golds in this one Sorry, that was a Justin Herbert silver and rookie orange to 49 Derek Stingley jr Malcolm Rodriguez trust in ebner rookie silver Yep Wait one second Patrick Mahomes sensations Devin Lloyd rookie silver It's a concourse and Jalen Hertz field level group per cup tricolor seyquan barkley George Pickens, that's rookie Sweet level and matt ryan silver Dobbins Yeah, here's a link for the live stream on that set on the uh two channel Force is over there right now ripping Fyderian Mathis and our zebra That's a falcon. That is michael vic Zebra There you go. Nice michael vic zebra Case hit Garrett wilson neon icon silver rookie insert and christian watson rookie silver uh club level Swift joe burrow sauce And danion pierce that is rookie blue So to 199 You go texans And to 35 dolphins This is make sure you get the right color Anyway, tyreek hill auto that is that Looks teal to me, but I want to make sure I call it out right here 2 of 35 on the tyreek. There's geno smith I guess blue josh alan silver deck desmond ridder rookie and That is rookie blue to 149 fyderian mathis Kate otten rookie silver and aj terrell Lawrence chrysalave neon icons rookie courtland sutton silver Yeah, I'm looking at the checklist. I don't see that color Listed and I don't see one with that numbering Oh, it's called light blue. All right drake jackson jason kelsey tricolor trevor penning rookie silver Wondale robinson. There's justin herbert sensations other courtland Sutton silver This is to 25 Sparks tie-dye patch brishan gary. So packers cam taylor britt rookie silver and Malcolm rodriguez Yeah As we have cardinals browns broncos packers and chiefs five left in the next break. Let's get it filled alvin cook Kenan alan silver Sorry, that was a rookie isaac pacheco field level there's a mod sauce gardener and nagi harris phenomenon insert erin donnell silver and terrell edmunds desmond ridder rookie eckler And 75 that is panthers rookie jersey auto blue Matt corral trevor lorenz Tricolor and to 299 texans silver auto rex burkehead john tay williams jonathan taylor silver and rock purdy rookie That one is club level and mathis red rookie danie gray That's niners color match to 149 Donovan wilson silver and snoop connor backstin hill and That is red brian burns 49 i'm sure i'm calling out the right there's erin rogers sweet level Yeah, sweet level cavon tibodeau rookie silver and derrick young it's tyreek davante adams tricolor tj watt silver jerry judy and drake london Cardinals browns packers and chiefs four to go in the next break. Let's get it filled John tay ingram This is seahawks to 199 rookie auto silver kenneth walker Nice one seattle robert woods alani woods and nazi harris That's a cool one That's a snapshot. So it's right there on the card jerry alexander silver and jonathan taylor alante taylor tyler smith and This is vikings gold to 10 justin jefferson Very nice. That is sweet level gold And this is broncos super bowl auto neil smith go denver second super bowl auto cameron thomas mixing rossil wilson silver that's um concourse level It's purple to 75 isekiel eliot dak prescott silver breeze hall rookie field level jordan davis And field level bary sanders ployed calvin austin rookie silver alani woods chrysalave rookie silver and mike williams We'll do a hit recap at the end as always Sheed shahid And neon icons rookie bailey zappy rookie silver kyle phillips And bailey zappy rookie There's a matt corral And cowboys to 25 rookie jumbo patch tie-dye jake furgusson go cowboys bobby wagon yeah Heineke de hop sensations christian harris rookie silver and justin tucker trade lance patrick sertan silver rookie trail bernard All right one box to go. I'll tell you why davin cook neon icons and jamal williams silver There's uh chrysalave Traylon berks naji harris and Steelers to 75 that is rookie jersey auto blue george pickens the black ink. I haven't seen an xrc yet. As i mentioned before there is a checklist for the xrc Cards but not for the xrc autos. So if we pull an xrc um mystery auto redemption that would be random between all the spots on the uh xrc checklist dj watt tricolor aj brown silver and jalen herks Jerome ford Tyree kill sensations and desham watson. That is silver sweet level Damion pierce and to 25 That is niners Sparks patch tie-dye christian mcathry javante williams silver tom radie Tremac duffy brock purdy neon icons rookie insert de marvin leal rookie silver and arod field level shalom watson This is joe burrow That is maroon should be to 149. Yep 149 And panthers to 99 auto blue brian burns Go panthers rookie phenomenon easy e rookie silver marge jackson and blue rookie tyler linderbaum That is to 199 rookie silver malik willis That is rookie silver concourse level and luke fordner mon raw saint brown silver phenomenon cam acre silver and derrick stingley rookie field level jack jones and drake london rookie blue Go nice when falcons. That's to 199 joe burrow sweet level Traylon berks rookie silver And last pack to do a hip recap at the end josh alan Tri-color davis mills traylon berks rookie sweet level samir white rookie silver and james conard All right. Give me just a second here. We'll do a recap. Hey gary. How's it going? As we have just the browns and packers two to go in the next one So we had a gold justin jefferson 10 for the vikings Zebra michael vick falcons relics we had christian mccaffrey patch tydeye to 25 Niners uh cowboys rookie jumbo tydeye or jumbo patch tydeye jake berguson to 25 um Packers patch tydeye to 25 or shan gary Lions that is patch gold to 10 a mon raw saint brown lots of nice color in this Um jets rookie jersey garret wilson that was silver to 99 and panthers rookie jumbo jersey silver to 99 matt corral Steelers rookie jersey auto blue george pickens to 75 Panthers rookie jersey auto blue matt corral to 75 um That is bears rookie jersey auto silver vilas jones jr. That is to 99 Panthers auto blue brian burns to 99 brownco's neil smith super bowl auto um seahawks rookie auto silver kenneth walker to 199 Texans silver auto rex burkehead to two 99 dolphins that is tyrie kill light blue auto to 35 two of 35 um cowboys tydeye die cut auto to 25 cooper rush Chief super bowl auto harrison butker and then we had lions rookie signatures gold prism jamison williams commanders rookie signature memorabilia prism sam howell and Niners rookie starcade that is to 10 brock purdy That is 10 of 10 That'll do it for the break good stuff great start to the break or a great start to the day Thanks everybody number two is up next