This weekend we're joined by Patrick Barron, the great Austrian economist who knows more about the European Union and the Euro than many continental academics. He's also an expert on money and banking and has spoken before the European Parliament in Brussels. He was a professor of economics at the University of Iowa and a professor in the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. He'll really enjoy this interview. Patrick explains what's going on in the EU, how Germany in particular suffers from being yoked to the other Eurozone nations, and what the comeback of the Deutsche Mark might mean for Europe and for America. Could Germans reclaim their sovereign currency and challenge the US dollar? If you want to know how the ECB has wildly exceeded the bounds of its authority under the Master's Treaty, why the European Union and the Euro are doomed, and how Germany with its Bundesbank might provide a way out of the current mess, stay tuned. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Mises Weekends. I'm your host, Jeff Deist, and we're so happy to be speaking today with the great Austrian economist, Patrick Barron. Patrick, welcome to the show. Hello, Jeff. Glad to be on your show. Well, Patrick, we were just speaking off-mic about something very interesting and unusual from my perspective. You actually teach an introductory course in Austrian economics per se at the University of Iowa. Can you tell us a little bit about this? For instance, what are some of the readings you assign? Well, all the readings that I sign are all online. One of the great things about the Mises Institute is that you have access to PDF versions of all the great Austrian books. And so what I do is I don't require my students to buy any book. I have a list of probably 20 of them, and the website on your website where they can go to download the PDF version. And I will just assign them to read maybe a chapter, sometimes not even a chapter. Maybe sometimes it's just the introduction or a conclusion to one of the great books that you have on your website. And that way we can have access to all the great Austrian thinkers, and I can focus in on just particular topics of a book that may cover many, many Austrian topics. And that way we have access to just what all kinds of authors have to say about this. So that's how I teach the course. And I start out with teaching what probably is the hardest thing for students to wrap their mind around is that economic science is not a natural science, but it's a social science, and does not require the verification by empirical means. In fact, there's no way that empiricism can validate economic law. Economic law is based upon pure deduction. And if your maxims are correct and your deductive logic is correct, then your conclusions are correct. So then from there we go on to just all the great topics. What is the very nature of money? How does it arise in society? To the Austrian business cycle theory and prices, capital theory. You know, I hit all these in one semester. The other thing that I do at the university is I supervise a, I think they call it directed reading. I think that's what's called a directed reading in which students can sign up with me. And we do all this just through email. They read human action in its entirety in one semester. And I've broken human action into, I think it's into 20 sections, which corresponds to, I think it comes out to 15 pages each every third day or something like that. And if you do that, if you do that seven days a week for a semester, we will get through the entire book. And I have questions that I ask them and they respond by email and I correct their question, their answers. And it's just a great way for them to have a structured way of reading human action. Now, this is only for students who have actually taken my course. I wouldn't have anyone who hasn't. Even if you're an economics major, I don't have them jump right into human action. Well, Patrick, this sounds like a phenomenal course, your introductory course. Is this open to all undergrads or these econ majors necessarily? They're open to all undergrads. There is a prerequisite that they have to have taken a couple of the basic economic courses. I argued against this because in my opinion, anybody that said in college can take my course because I don't really require them to really understand anything about economics. In fact, sometimes I think it's better if they don't understand anything because your minds have not been washed by what's really the rest of just about the rest of the whole economic curriculum is Keynesian based. The actually the head of the economics department is Robert Solo's son, John Solo. And Robert Solo was one of the nation's most well-known Keynesian economists, Nobel Laureate. So it's all Keynesian based, but they have my introductory course. And you know, I get a lot of great students in there. And I tell you, I think this is key for young people is for everyone listening to this program who is leaning toward the Austrian school and all of our tenants is that if you start to introduce young people to Austrian economics early, then they really become immune to this brainwashing that is all the Keynesian brainwashing that they get through every other source. So I get these young people, I've had I've had seniors who are economic majors come up to me in sort of after the first couple of weeks of class or sometime in mid semester and say, you know what, I think everything that I've learned about economics up till now has been much nonsense.  And isn't this ridiculous what they're doing at the Fed? And, you know, they once your mind is open to this, then I think you become inoculated to this, to what I consider to be the great, you know, the great evil of economics, which is Keynesian economics, but it's definitely swept the world. Well, Patrick, I think we need to recruit you down here to Mises to teach a course for us in the very near future, because it sounds like a fantastic introduction. And I think that those young people are getting a great start, that they're not likely to find elsewhere. But when you talk about Keynesianism sweeping the world, of course, as we mentioned in the introduction, you are or have been an advisor to members of the European Parliament. I just wonder, when you're in Europe, when you're in Brussels, and you're talking with MEPs, do they seem to have any sense of understanding of what they're doing with the euro or Keynesianism versus Austrianism versus monetarism versus neoclassical? Is there any sense that the people you're dealing with over there really have an understanding, even of basic economics? Well, there are a few. If the European Parliament is a very large organization, I think there's well over 700 actually members to the European Parliament, and then all those members have pretty good-sized staff, and then there are staffs that work just directly for the European Parliament, not for any MEP. So there are a few, there aren't very many, but they're growing. The influence of Austrian economics among those who are getting elected to the members of the Parliament is growing because one of the interesting things that's happened over there is I've been a supporter or an advisor to members of the European Parliament who are members of the United Kingdom Independence Party, and they are calling for the United Kingdom to leave the EU. And there are anti-EU parties that are springing up and gaining ground all over Europe. I've predicted for many years now that the European Union is doomed, that it's a flawed organization, that it's anti-democratic, that it goes against everything that Western Europe has been working toward for hundreds of years, which is ruled by the consensus of the people and now they're reverting back to rule by an unelected bureaucratic elite, and the people just aren't standing for it. But so these people are finding that although it's difficult for them to get elected in their national parliament, they can get elected to the European Parliament because the national parties are sort of ignoring the European Parliament. It doesn't have a lot of power. The European Parliament doesn't have a lot of power, it's more of a consultative body, but it's a way for these parties to get their message out and to get their name in front of the public. So what's happening, for example, in England now is England, in England the United Kingdom Independence Party, the UKIP, has now gained a great number of seats in the European Parliament and now Nigel Farage, who is their leader, pretty much looks like he's going to get elected to the British Parliament. And this will be a great step forward for this movement in that now they're becoming more acceptable, you might say, they're becoming more mainstream. The concern that a lot of the more hardcore libertarians like myself have about becoming more mainstream, which is essential, is that you have to maintain your principles when you become more mainstream because the power, the demands that you adapt to the current welfare warfare state in the UK is going to be very, very powerful. So I just hope that Nigel and those others who start to get elected to the British Parliament can maintain their principles and start reforming the United Kingdom's political organization and and get their welfare state rolled back. This is the key, this to me, this is the key to all everything that's been happening in Europe. Collectivism has been rampant in Europe now for it's been gaining ground for 100 years. And I think finally the people are seeing that this coming to an end, the welfare state is unsustainable. In fact, the European Union itself, a lot of the attraction to belong to the European Union comes from these failed states who are perpetually indefinite because of their welfare payments. And they realize they can't, they really can't afford their own internal welfare payments. So they think, well, we'll join the European Union and the European, other nations in Europe will help us pay for our own welfare state or the European Central Bank will monetize our welfare payments for us. And, you know, okay, this papers over welfareism for a while, the collectivism for a while, but then it runs, it's the gamut, it's done. And I think that that's what we're seeing right now is the European Union is just becoming just a gigantic socialist organization which everybody wants to live at the expense of everybody else. And the people are sensing that this isn't, this just is not sustainable. In fact, economic law is showing that this just is not sustainable. So I see that the European Union, which started out with a very, I think a very laudable goal of just mainly being a free trade organization was quickly captured by what I call the Euro Federalists into being a political organization to expand the welfare state. And I see all this coming to an end now. Well, Pat, I had a discussion a couple of weeks ago with Andy Duncan, and we discussed the point that what the EU does in effect by yoking, let's say, Germany to Greece, it actually increases friction and nationalism between these countries and that decreases it. Oh, absolutely. And we know that free trade is one of the biggest things you can do for to promote peace and prosperity because you want to have the customers and you want people to supply you with the goods that they're making. And so you don't make war upon your supplier and you don't make war upon your customers. And this is the benefit of free trade. And my opinion has always been that there is absolutely nothing that the European Union can give a nation that the nation cannot itself obtain simply by declaring itself unilaterally to be a free trade nation. But with the European Union, we see that it's really a big transfer union as they call it over there, meaning you're transferring wealth from one country to another.  They don't really realize the mechanism how this is happening, but it is happening. So fortunately, you know, we have a country in Europe that is starting to stand up against these things, and that's Germany.  We can't just keep bailing you out. Well, then the Greeks resent us. They resent it. They're welfare, you know, they're really a nation of welfare queens. I hate to say that, but it's substantially what it is. And they know, I'm not trying to impugn the Greek character, but this is what the wages of socialism is. Everybody wants to be on welfare down there. And so the Germans are saying, no, you've got to get back to work and you've got to get your budget under control. Well, they just resent this. So, you know, Angela Merkel last year made a trip to Greece trying to show her support for the Greek government, for the Greek people, and they were paying swastikas on things, you know, and rioting because, you know, the German Chancellor was coming, trying to tell the Greeks what to do. Of course, there's a big deal. There's a history there, of course, of the German occupation, but I just hope that Europe can get over this. You know, it seems like in my lifetime, everything has revolved around the evil Germans from World War II, but we've got to get past that. You know, Germany is now a fully law-abiding, democratic, hard-working, stable nation, and it has a lot of things that can teach the rest of the world. In fact, Germany is probably the one nation that should be leading Europe, because it has adopted time-testered principles of it values sound money and hard work. And the rest of the country, the rest of Europe seems to be going the other way. They value paper money that is debased till the cows come home and getting everybody on some kind of a subsidy, you know, so that they're living the expense of everyone else. And Germany is the only country that really has its budget in order, and it doesn't have a budget deficit, unbelievably enough. And I think it should be leading Europe, but I think it can only lead Europe if it just adopts free trade and actually gets out of the European Union, because the European Union is stacked against it. It's just a majority rule at the top level, and Germany gets one vote right along with, Greece gets a vote, Italy gets a vote, France, Luxembourg, Spain, all these countries that are in terrible shape have one vote, and they just keep out voting Germany, both at the European commission level and at the European central bank level. Well, Patrick, tell me this, how do Eurozone member states central banks work in the age of the Euro? In other words, what's the role of the Bundesbank today when you've got the European central bank controlling the Euro? Well, it's very interesting that, you know, there's a European central bank that then each nation still has its own national central bank that mainly is a conduit for holding either, they call it, start to credits or start to deficit, and start, S-T-A-R-T-2, I don't forget what it stands for, but it's an acronym which really means, this is how the Euros are settled from one country to another. So when the Greeks buys, let's say someone in Greece buys a BMW from Germany, it pays Euros, it pays it with a check, a Euro-denominated check on a Greek bank. Well, that check goes to BMW and BMW deposits it in, you know, whatever its local German bank is, the German bank deposits that check with the European central bank. Well, the European central bank will then just give the German bank a start to a credit, and it debits the Greek bank for that amount. But it never actually settles that transaction with anything of value. So Germany is holding huge start to credits. I haven't checked in the last couple of months, but at one time, I think it was past the Nazis in the European Monetary Union had start, had were holding in effect an overdraft account at the European central bank. A few had very small either debits or credit accounts at the European central bank, and then Germany had a huge credit balance at the European central bank. So what was happening is this is a backdoor way for wealth to be transferred from Germany down to Greece, because the Greeks were not really giving up anything of value when they bought this BMW. Now you can see what happens in Germany. The export industries in Germany such as automobiles, heavy equipment, they all think they're the ones that are they're fully employed because as the European central bank just keeps expanding credit to these deficit countries, they're buying heavy equipment automobiles from Germany. So the German export industry thinks that this is a great deal, but it's causing inflation in Germany. German inflation is starting to creep up. It has been creeping up for a number of years. And if you're not really working for an export industry or some business that is very close to an export industry, you're not really doing that well in Germany. Some earlier this year, there was your report that the average Spaniard had quite a bit more assets of wealth than the average German. And yet Germany is working very hard. It's country is in very good shape. But from a wealth standpoint, the wealth is being drained out of Germany through this funny mechanism of how the European central bank settles its account. So it's kind of a convoluted system. You have to be, I think you have to be kind of steeped in bank and banking mechanics as I am to understand it. But just say here in America, if, you know, if I wrote a check to buy a car at a local dealership and my check is drawn on, let's say, the bank in Philadelphia, which is where my permanent home is. And of course, the local dealer deposits is here in an Iowa city bank, then the Iowa city bank takes that check, you know, through the Fed will wind up getting real assets back from the Philadelphia bank and it will get real money. This doesn't happen in Europe. Well, what happened in Europe is the Philadelphia bank would just run a big overdraft and the Fed would just credit the account for in dollars for the bank in Iowa city. And you can see this is inflationary. So the bank, at that point, the Fed would have created money out of thin air. And this is exactly what the European central bank is doing is creating money out of thin air when it fails to really settle these start to credit. So this is a back way that the European central bank is buy that one of the many back ways the European central bank is violating this charter, which the master's charter, which was which was adopted by in treaty form in the early 90s, which really established European central bank is very clear that the European central bank is not to do this. They are not to print money. They're not to buy sovereign debt. They're not to hold. They're not to hold any debt of any institution yet they're doing exactly that. So, you know, and Germany again keeps getting outvoted at the board, the European central bank for all these new high saluting names that the European central bank comes up with on how they're going to stimulate the European economy. But it's nothing more than printing money. Germany understands this and they vote against it, but they're outvoted. You know, they're outvoted. They'll be the loan, the loan may vote in the whole, in the whole European central bank board. And yet they're the only country that's really has its housing order. So, here's Germany. We've sort of gotten back, you know, on the issue of Germany, but here is Germany, which is really the only country over there, one of the few that it has its housing order that understands what's going on. It has its, it doesn't run a big budget deficit, has a very stable economy, and yet it has tied its economy to this terrible thing called the Euro, and we, and there are these other inflationists in the, in the, in the continent who are members of the European central bank who are inflating the Euro. The Germans would never do this. The Germans would never inflate the Deutsche Mark to this extent. So, I have been calling on, you know, writing articles saying that it's time for Germany to scrap the Euro and go back onto the Deutsche Mark. Well, Patrick, behind the scenes among individuals, do physical Deutsche Marks still circulate in Germany? I don't believe they do. I think, I think they've all been swapped up. I haven't, I haven't been over there in quite a while, but I don't, I don't believe that they, that they are circulating is possible, of course. But does Brussels really understand the impossibility of maintaining one currency among all the Eurozone members while they each have the ability to create sovereign debt on their own? It would be akin to all 50 U.S. states having a central bank, it seems to me. Right, you know, yeah, that's a good, that's a good analogy is, is that, you know, the state of Iowa had a central bank, and you could, instead of Iowa being forced to either balance its budget or keep its deficit in line so it can actually sell its debt, you can, you know, honestly in the market. If, if Iowa just had a bank that could monetize the, the state of Iowa's budget, well, if that happened, you know, you, all the states of the union would have horrible huge budget deficits because the pressure would be so much, so great to just monetize their debt. I, I think they know exactly what they're doing. I think they just can't stop it. I think once you, once you create an institution that can print money, it will print money. This is one of my maxims, you know, if the organization can print money, even if it's in violation of its charter, they'll figure out a way to say, well, no, what we're doing really isn't in violation of our charter, you know. Well, it is, but they're just rationalizing what they're doing. So I think they know what they're doing, but I think the political pressures to print money are so great that they're just going to keep doing it. I am very pessimistic that the European central bank can't reform itself. I don't believe it will ever reform itself.  Now, my prediction is if they did this, there are a lot of, initially, there are some smaller countries that would then just become Deutsche Mark nations. They would just start using the Deutsche Mark, and this would be the end of the euro, because then you would just be left, the euro would be left with just a bunch of deficit countries. The euro would be quickly inflated to oblivion, and what could happen, which I think would be a good thing, would be that it'd be possible that all of Europe could become a Deutsche Mark region, because the Bundesbank is more responsible. The Bundesbank would not inflate the Deutsche Mark to the extent that the European central bank would inflate the euro, and I think that it'd be very likely that all of Europe, instead of becoming a European monetary union, we become a Deutsche Mark monetary union, and this would actually put pressure on our own Fed to stop inflating the dollar, because then the Deutsche Mark could actually become the premier world's reserve currency. It's really all up to Germany just to take, to do what it has a perfect right to do, which is to get out of this organization, reinstate their own currency, and run their currency the way they want to. It's a non-corrosive act. It's an act of rational self-interest, and I think the benefit to the world, it could take a long time, but the benefit to the world would be tremendous. Well, Patrick, I certainly hope that that could be accomplished without war, but we are running out of time. I want to ask you one final question before we let you go. One final post-mortem on the recent Scottish independence referendum was the result, at least in part, due to the failure of the Yes campaign to deal with the currency issue. Well, I think there's no doubt about that. Yeah. What I saw happening over there was there is an emotional level. Again, people understand that there's really no longer a big benefit to belonging to these super national organizations, whether it's the United Kingdom or whether it's the European Union. Things are not going well. They've lost control of their country. They've lost control of their borders. They've lost control of their money. They're squabbling constantly over who owns what resources in the North Sea, and so there was an emotional level that let's just become independent. We, Scots, we joined the United Kingdom in 1707 voluntarily. We'll leave the United Kingdom voluntarily. This is a good thing, so there was an emotional level. But then they really never talked about, okay, how will we govern ourselves? What will be our method of governance? I think they did that on purpose because when you start bringing those issues up, well, now the Yes members start to start to fragmentize about, well, some are saying, well, we should have our own Scottish currency. Others say, I don't know. We should join the European monetary union. There are a few libertarians who are saying, look, just scrap legal tender laws and allow the people to use whatever currency they want and we'll become a free banking organization like we were 200 years ago, which was the Scots really led the way on the benefits of free banking. So I think that and a lot of the other issues they never addressed would Scotland continue to be a member of NATO. What about the NATO bases that are in Scotland? Who would actually own the North Sea oil? What will we do if anything about the Scottish share of the United Kingdom's government debt? These are all tough questions, very tough questions. And they never, I think they purposely avoided those to say, well, let's just get independent first and then we'll think about these things. They just didn't do the hard work necessary to win over people that they really had a plan. And I think the closer the election got, a lot of people went to the polling booths and said, you know, I'm not really sure what's going to happen. Things aren't really well right now, but let's don't jump out of the frying pan and ride into the fire. Let's have a better plan for what we're going to do. And I think some of these other independent, I hope it has a beneficial effect on some of these other independence movements in the rest of Europe, such as in Catalonia, because I see the same thing happening in Catalonia. I was just there last year and there's a big independence movement there, but I don't see that they have a plan for what they're going to do once they're independent. And I think you really have to tell the people, you know, this is our plan. And they haven't really done that. Patrick Barron, thank you so much for your time and for a fascinating interview. Ladies and gentlemen, have a great weekend.


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But anyway, that's about it. I hope you enjoyed the video, and I hope to see you next- Ah, god damn it, I did the outro first again. You'd think after over a thousand videos, I'd finally, you know, get a bit better, but no, you'd be wrong. Anyway, hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin, and today we're playing BitLife. Well, probably a lot of BitLives. Oof, okay. Well, what we're gonna be doing today, we're gonna be speedrunning as many lives as we can. That's a weird sentence.  Again, weird sentence. We're gonna be more focused on trying to kill them off as early as possible in their life by just making the stupidest decisions we possibly can. Okay, the first one's name is Die Young, but don't worry, they're from Germany, so it's The Young. Die's life. Oh, vaccination. The first trial. Okay, bite her. Do not let me get vaccinated.  I see my mom is gonna be an obstacle in this battle. Oh, I was like, yes, I did it, but no, it's the pet died. I'm suffering from depression, and I'm five years old. I can see why it was clearly my fault, my mother and father divorced. Mom has been trying to get the almond that I stuck in my nose out for 34 minutes, and I guess she just had enough. I have pneumonia, this is great news. What is up with my mom? She's had so many children, look at this. Like, I was literally playing as the seed last time, and I didn't get off to this good of a start. I have syphilis, and I can't afford treatment. Someone's making fun of me. Rumble with her. Rumble and tumble. I have pneumonia, I'm weakened. Let's bite, yeah, her face, that's our tooth. Bite her tooth, yes. I have anxiety, oh my God.  They're depressed, they have a cold, they have pneumonia. They have anxiety. I am nine years old, and I'm about to commit a burglary. Hi, burglary, what is this? All right, fine.  I got caught. That's a weird sentence.  Headache and extreme sensitivity to light. Additionally, you have a bad fever. I'll make you feel better. Your concern goes up a lot, no surprise there. Hope it goes away. Your get-up-and-go has got up and went. God, this person's having a tough life. Hope it goes away.  It's clear they're here for a bad time, not a long time. They want to go into nursing. I mean, they probably want to figure themselves out to actually heal themselves. No, you're going into dance. Their health is at 6%, and they are 18 years old. Oh God, my depression was cured. And so was my anxiety. I've had that since I was like four. I'm gonna rumble with my brother.  Okay, pound his throat, perfect. I damaged his spine. Wait, by giving him the Heimlich maneuver? You pounded your big brother. That sounded wrong, one second, hold on.  Then you gave him the Heimlich maneuver, damaging his spine. So it's the Heimlich maneuver that actually hurt him. I guess it seemed like he was choking because he got punched in the throat. Let's attack him again. The relationship is empty, I wonder why. All right, roundhouse kick, his throat. The cops got called on me. I have no money, a public defender. Get me out of there, oh God. You know what, I'll just take a year in prison. That's not too bad. All right, Martin Young, I'm out of prison and I'm ready to rumble. Time to bite his neck. I'm really into vampire stuff now. He died from his injury. Attend his funeral, now skip the funeral. Did I just get away with that? Oh no, I did not get away with that. Well, I'm in extremely poor health now. The depression is kicked in, I'm 5% health and I'm in prison. Wait, a public defender got me, not guilty. What kind of magic did you pull? My teeth marks were on him. You know what, never mind, I'm happy to be free. My health is literally at zero, though. I'm gonna continue down this violent path and attack my other brother now. He died from his injuries. Jesus, and Dai Young is making sure everyone else dies young. Manslaughter, how is that manslaughter? Name a preyster named Nasty Lara. Keeps farting until everyone knew that it was you. Her name is Nasty. I mean, it's obviously her. Rumble with her. Oh, I got you on a damage that Dai Young is doing. You bump into a fellow prisoner named Fat Ranja who was busted for Grand Elvado. I don't know why, but I'm gonna lunge at her.  Yes, we'll go for the throat again, elbow or throat. I got the damage. Dai Young should go into MMA.  Oh, look at this lamb, attack her too. I missed and she attacked me with a brick. She shattered your forehead. How is it that lamb of all people fought back?   Everyone's terrified of me. Oh, look at all mosquito bites down here. I'm gonna attack her for her name alone. Yank her tooth. Yes, I killed someone.  She died from her injuries. Did she write her own little death blurb there? Or what, just bragging about a six pack in the middle of it? Why am I not getting in trouble for this? Another death, you punched Isabelle's jaw. She died from her injuries. Why are the guards not doing anything? I'm just continuing to attack people. This person's 73, bite her throat. She died from her injuries. Why is no one stopping me? I'm just going down the list. I wanna be the only person in here. Stanky's always not dead as well. Why is this one called the bike? She's in the prison for conspiracy. Attack the bike. Your prison sentence has been extended by two years. It's about time. I have nearly killed everyone in the prison. Look at this, there's five people left. Oh, I finally died. How there was two people left in the prison. How many people did she kill? Do I get to find that out? I don't think I do.  Killed so many people. And for some reason was treated very leniently. Despite all she did. But I guess on a positive side, she did single-handedly solve the overcrowding of the prison in Germany. So there you go. This person's name is premature death. They're from Canada. Let's serve premature as life.  Yes.  I am eight and a bully just attacked me. I fought back and I bruised his brain. Wait, call me Kevin. How will you attack your classmate? Call me.  His throat. Deliver an uppercut to your classmate. Call me his throat. Then you clocked him and he's, I'll be nice, stop it. Why would you say that? I just joined the army and immediately deserted it. And now I'm on the run. Can I call a hit man on myself? That would be cool. No, I can't. That would help me a lot. I could go to a witch doctor. That might be a good idea. I seek a last resort. The witch doctor has offered you a red and white mushroom. Try it, why not? Oh, I don't have any money. Hold on, let me commit some crime to get some money for the witch doctor. All right, rob a priest. Oh no, oh no. Leave me alone, leave me alone. Okay, I'm out of there. Great, I got enough I think if that mushroom's still on sale, you took it. But it made me really upset. Do you have anything to fix this? Another red and white mushroom. Try it again. Okay, that made me even more upset. Now I'm depressed. Thank you. Oh God, I got caught for desertion.  Resist arrest.  Oh, steroids, sir. Yes, sir. And I've been released from prison with 0% held 0% happiness. How do I get some money again to get that witch doctor? I wanna eat more of those mushrooms. I think that's a good way to die. Okay, I stole everything from a pimp's house. Again, a good way to die. Okay, $11,000. Perfect, you know what? I might even get some risky surgery as well while I'm at it. Give me, what do I go for? A tummy tuck. And go with the bad reputation doctor. It was botched. Yes, nice one, doc. You're the best. I got the old mediocre ribbon too. Start Max's life. No, Max doesn't really work. Minimum is better. Minimum life. That's perfect. My happiness is plummeting. I did just release the family dog. Can I release the family, baby? Rumble with my sister. Go for it. Roundhouse kicker Skull at age four. She attacked you with a dildo. She's four, what the? She snapped my spine. I'm pretty sure I would be dead. She's attacked you with an ice pick. How am I alive? Our relationship is still really good somehow even though I keep attacking her. She stabbed my skull. I'm still fine. Well, I'm not fine.  Why are my parents not intervening? This is like a fight in a Steven Seagal movie except if it were real, my guy would be Steven Seagal. He's doing absolutely nothing. He's winded just from standing up. Yes, minimum life is dead. At age three, the parents did not intervene. Now that's an exotic name. Last name is to die. First name, Destiny. Destiny is to die. I like it. I killed someone. I'm age six and I killed someone. Great start to life. And now someone's bullying me. Why would you do that? I just killed someone.  Why do you keep trying to bully me?  Look, you're dead now. Why do you keep doing this? Everyone who tries to pick on me, I killed them.  Just had bottom and the throat. I'm becoming a priest. I lack qualifications. Why? I killed three people. Is that it? All right, escort it is. That was second on my list. They laughed at my resume. Why? Because I killed three people? Let's jump right into crime. Oh, wait, no, I need money to do crime. Hold on. I got anxiety now. Just thinking about doing crime. Okay. Hitman, please. I want my stepfather killed. Ah, it turns out he didn't want. My discounted price is six grand. Okay, I'll save up. All right, I have 30 grand.  I hope that inflation hasn't kicked in because I have just enough. Now you want 6,900. This is what I offered you ages ago. He pulled off the hit using a, okay. Why is that the weapon of choice today? Yes, this is perfect.  Tell him a deal is a deal. I'm sure he'll understand.  He just assaulted me and almost killed me. I'm 3% health. Wait, I just got 345,000 pounds because my dad died.  Skip that funeral. Let's get spending that money to the casino it is. It's as easy as that. I just won. Nope, I'm done. I'm quitting while I'm ahead. If my dad had that much money, my mom must have similar money as well. Where's that Hitman? Billy the Kid, where are you? I want the discounted raise again. Jesus, you're your subman for one man at that price. How could I resist killing my mother?  Skip that funeral. Look at all this money. What's a good way to die when you have 600,000 pounds? One night stand and now I have a fever. Not a bad idea, if you ask me. Just chug some water. Should be fine. You're pregnant. Just name it. I is to die. Can I call a Hitman on the baby? I didn't really want it. I just wanted the STDs to come with it.  Well, that's where you draw the line. Kill the father then. That's the next best thing. Hire the Hitman. Well, it worked. It is time to vaccinate your son. I, no, maybe drugs is the answer. Let's go to call me's disco. The bouncer won't let you into the club because of my looks.  Okay, no club will allow me in because of my looks. Okay, maybe STDs are the answer. You don't have energy and you have a mild fever. Perfect. Just drink a smoothie. It'll sort itself out. Yes! Yes! Okay, STDs kills destinies to die. I mean, it was kind of a destiny after all. Continue as your child. I mean, he's not vaccinated. This is getting dark. You have a lot of money. I, let's see what you can do with it. Kiss. Yes, kiss with tongue. Give me your diseases. Oh, my teacher just called me delicate. Scuffle with him. Backhand is scull. Yeah, perfect. You've been expelled. Perfect. This has got to be a good start. Okay, I'm 18. I'm unvaccinated. I'm ready for a night on the town. I need disease. How can I mingle with people? Oh, my God. The looks issue runs in the family. They won't allow me in any nightclub again. Like, sure I don't have looks, but I have money. Let me in. Oh, a hookup. Perfect. Give me disease. You begin being.  It doesn't bother me. No, baby girl.  You is to die. Not very creative. They're getting less creative as I go on. All right.  Let's see. My father by atomic wedgie. There's no way that's gonna work. He called the police on me. 36 years in prison. Wait, I'm not vaccinated. This is perfect. I've got diarrhea. This could be a good sign of things to come. You've received some mail from your daughter. You returned to send it. Oh, my God. Look at this. Happiness, health, looks, it's all rock bottom smart. It's somewhat there, but it's not gonna help in this situation. A brawny inmate named Robin is trying to force you to get a tattoo of his face on your back on clean needles. Do what he wants. I could easily die here by just attacking any of these people, but I just wanna see, does disease get me in the end? Oh, parole board. I've been released after 26 years.  I'm gonna buy the helicopter. I don't have a pilot license. A one hour lesson is fine. You crashed your training aircraft. What a way to go. After all that, this was 26 years in prison. Just a horrible, horrible experience. Everyone picking on him, bullying him, attacking him. He gets out, takes one flight lesson and crashes. That is fantastic.  All right. Well, hey there friends. How's it going? My name is Kevin. All the way around again. I think we're gonna end it there. I hope you enjoyed the video. I really appreciate you folks watching. It means a lot to me. This was fun. If you have any more bit life ideas, please shoot them my way. I love playing bit life. I don't know what it is. It's so addictive and it's so fun. It's just wacky. I appreciate you watching as always. If you wanna check out more of my stuff, you can subscribe by post every day. I also stream over on Twitch. There's a link for that in the description. But yeah, that's about it. Other than that, I'll just say thanks for watching and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


Today, millions of people worldwide practice how to drop, cover and hold on in recognition of the Great Shakeout Drill. This is a mandatory evacuation drill. I'm John Goodell here in Santa Monica at the Great Shakeout Drill, where the response phase has just commenced. Now let's go to San Diego to my colleague, Brian May. Thanks John, we're here at the San Diego Natural History Museum for the final stop on our Great Shakeout earthquake tour. Thousands of Californians up and down the state have experienced firsthand what a 7.0 earthquake feels like in our earthquake simulator. And this morning, at exactly 10.20 on 10.20, we joined the largest earthquake drill in the world by participating in drop, cover and hold on. You've got to lower your center of gravity so that you don't fall over. You've got to cover your head to protect yourself from the flying debris and then you've got to hold on because that shaking can be very, very jarring. The San Diego Natural History Museum also participated by evacuating the museum and passing out important information to our youngest Californians. For more information on what to do before, during and after an earthquake, you can download the My Shake app on your mobile device. For all of us at Cal OES, I'm Brian May. Thanks for watching.


Howdy y'all, welcome on back to the channel. I'm starting it off here at the Casa doing a little just arrow flinging.  I'm talking about first cold front. First strong cold front coming into Texas here for for the early fall. It's going to be deer season here in a couple weeks. Gotta stay sharp on that. It's currently elk season. I've been getting picks from my buddies out in the woods, getting elk. But when those cold fronts start hitting, my entire outdoor tangle juices start flowing. Just get a little lucky here in one time, is it?   It's breezy today, but our highs are in the 80s. Lows are going to get into the 50s the next couple of days, y'all, and I am excited to see what we're dealing with here.  And I feel like I've made enough mistakes throughout the last like five years of bow hunting that I'm starting to be okay. Like I'm starting to get some confidence in it. So, of course, that'll probably all change. First little four point I see walking out. When I'm sitting in a tree, I'm probably going to freak out, get the shakes. That's why I love to do it in the first place. But what I want to do today is just take the boat out on the water and first of all, just get it wet because it's disgusting right now. Do a little cleanup and then just tackle organization. Just kind of get the line stretched a little bit because I do have a tournament this weekend. I'm leaving tomorrow for it to start official practice and all that. I don't know what they're going to be doing in this tournament, but I'm just hoping with this cold front, it's going to be top water city, baby. Just having a good time, catching some fish on top. As far as today goes, 20 mile an hour winds, I think it's spinners, cranks, stuff like that. Mainly we just need to get that silver bullet wet and get it ready for the derp. So, let's hop in the boat and let's get on the water. I have to do me a quick stop at the Buckeys. Put nitro fuel in here, ethanol free, $4 a gallon for the derp for good luck keeping that murk running hot and always get my def here. You guys aren't familiar Buckeys, big gas station here in Texas. They have def pumps for your def, no more filling up with jugs and I just talked to my derp partners. They just dropped their boat off at the lake and they said that it is still like really hot down there. It's like 100 degrees so the cold front hasn't hit out in East Texas yet, but it's coming. She's purring and the wind is just absolutely ripping.  I literally had to just let that flush out for a minute or two, so now it's good. Let's take a little joy ride in the waves and then we'll get settled in, get a few lures tied on, see what needs to be re-strung and all that good stuff and catch a bass or two. Hold on to your butts, this is going to be a little gnarly. It's completely shifted from when I left the house. Got 80 degree water temps, you know that's going to drop into the 70s over the course of the next few days with these nights being in the 50s. Oh my, and just bait, bait on top of bait, look at the side scan unit. Look at them all out there, my gosh, well that ain't good. I had no idea this thing even took batteries. What'd dad got? Okay, I'm on the Garmin website, says flash is red when I push the button. That means the foot pedal is not connected to the trolling motor. Update, I'm going to try it update again. And this friends is exactly why I wanted to come out of here and float the boat because stuff like that can happen. This could have taken me, I don't even know if it's going to work, but it could have taken me out of the first day of the practice. I'm hoping this update works. To be honest with you, that Garmin trolling motor, I love the power of it. I love how quiet it is, but it's giving me some troubles. So this next boat, I'm getting them in Kota, keeping the Garmin electronics because I do like those. Everything's going to be the same pretty much. I'm going to have a 15 inch instead of the 12 right there. I think it's a 12. And then just have the same size up front. And another thing that I'm going to do different on the next boat is I'm going to have a separate transducer for live scoping for more like staying still spot locked. Live scoping instead of just using the foot pedal or sometimes when I'm crappie fishing and even bass fishing where I just, I want that. So I'm going to have to figure out a setup.  So we're back in the game. There's a lot of shad, a lot of shad moving. Can I get an amen? A lot of shad in this shallow water. You can see a couple of birds working the shoreline as well as the aerial divers.  Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That was a large mouth right there. Just absolutely drilling that shad. If I could get this thing undone. I'm here, Margaret. He probably got his fill on that one. That was a good size. Gizzard shad. I'm just going to hold down here. I'm not sure if the camera picked that one up or not, but it was, just blew up on it. Didn't get the greatest, the greatest pop on it. But God, I think that was a different fish.  Holy cow. That's a good one too, man. And it's not a low light hour, you know? We're 130 right now. So that just tells me these fish are fish pretty fired up. This little pressure change. I've got a crosswind and I've got a bunch of trebles on this thing. That's our hound topwater walking bait. So what I can also do is pick up a frog. Frog's going to be weedless. There's like a couple little, oh gosh freaking hit it. God, he blew up on it. Y'all are just, they're shy on it. They're just shy on it. That's three blow ups. I'll take this dart, six inch, get a little tungsten putty on there and whip that through there. See if they react to it. Minnow style bait will get it done. It's a little one. That's not the same one. It's what's living. You are living in there, reaching that thing through there. I'll take that putty off. I haven't even showed you guys this putty yet. It's pretty cool. Feeding mode is middle of the day to eat. Oh my gosh, big bass just blew up right there. Holy cow. Saucy, that ought to do her. Hammered, hammered right there. Short striking it.  See if I can just bring one up. This is a gar. He got it. Oh, he done got it. He's going to take off with that one now. That's a big boy. That is a big boy. Oh, he running. He running out to the deeps. Might have ourselves a world record where I might have just lost me a contender. Chase him out here. This gar is about five feet long. He ought to be letting it go about right now, but he's just hanging on. Really wants it. Oh my gosh, we got a shark. Go. I don't really know how I'm supposed to land you. Do anything with you. Really, I just thought it'd be fun to watch you eat it. A little pressure on him. Let's see what we got here. He's so big. I'm scared to put pressure. He's probably at the line in his mouth. He's going to break it. He's going to the shallows to eat it.  He's got it. It's actually down there. Oh my gosh. Look at him. He's like a dolphin. We done got us a guard, man. Oh my. Oh, he's so big. He's just side hooked. Come here, bud. I just want to take a look at you. Folks at home want to see you. He's going into the dirt. Oh my gosh. Hey, I prefer to get my lure back if you don't mind. Oh, there you go. I think the line is in his mouth and it is. Yeah, look at that. Oh, near goodness.  Got a decent size net on board. It's just like, what an interesting little vlog this has become. Here it comes. Got you here in open water chasing you down. Gosh, this thing is way bigger than I was expecting. Just an absolute Mando. Oh, we broke it finally. I am surprised the line lasted that long. That was a fun experiment. Well, it's just a, it's a popping mix school over here.  Oh my chasing me. Oh, we got on all up in here. I'd ought to get the bass going as well. Shad fest. Oh no, about hooked me. Popping me again. Popping me. So fun. Look at, look at the, look at the tenacity. Love to see it. The midday tenacity. Really hate to see what these things are going to do when it starts really cooling off. Look at that. Why buy him? Why buy him? Oh, we got it. Chasing some little shad here. Right. Third species of the day. But there's brushy tops back in here. And you know what we just saw around the corner was bass blowing up in the brushy tops. So I got a feeling if we get this over the right bit of brush, it's going to be goner. I'm just going to go ahead and do it. Get that frog on him. Get up in that buck nasty. Oh golly. Just had a large mouth sucking under right there. I watched him not even a splash. It's like he just got the tail. Oh my gosh. Holy cow. That bass just caught me off guard. I was about to reel in my bait. It's about to reel in my bait. He just exploded on it. They're definitely preferring the topies. My gosh. It's just four, four I've missed on top though. So much brush in here. There has to be a bass. Spotted bass. I caught one of you out here in a while. Can't resist. Good spotted bass. Can't resist a little finesse jig. Yeah, buddy. On that tree, buddy. That jig. Like you got that false spirit. Good one. Just got that jig pinned on you. Nice bass. Let him go. Beautiful. Love to see that on that little juicy jig. It's at five, sixteenths. Just perfect little light flipping setup. Light flipping, dragging around docks. It's usually in my junk fishing arsenal. I did not intend to get in the zone here. Out of the lake I was just kind of wanting to get some gear figured out and see what the fish are doing. Just get an idea. But man, it seems like, you know, they put those little timetables and stuff online or on apps and, you know, they used to be in magazines. You can just look it up like the best times to fish. And right now we're coming off this full moon. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. But usually the fishing is more tough during the full moon. They'll feed it that night and they'll feed it on the shad early and late and kind of be lazy during the day. But we're coming off that full moon and the pressure is just changing a lot. So I can just tell I fish this lake so much and it just seems like these fish are biting. Like I need to be in a good spot where there's some big ones. Just getting midday topwater bites, you know, one, two, three o'clock in the afternoon. It's pretty exciting. Excited for the fall of topwater. Gonna pop in checking my baby boa right before dinner time. And it's gonna be time to rig up all of our tackle for the tournament. Well, how are we doing in here? Doing pretty good. You know, got the family dinner on the table and taking care of two kids. Keenwa. Felt accomplished today.  What'd you do? I took care of two kids today. I'm just kidding. I could just survive the day. I feel like we're good. Luckily we've got some neighbors and friends that are dropping off food every night. Yeah, we got some soup, black bean soup. I made some cornbread and this is like a Keenwa salad. Heck yeah. My last healthy meal before we go to a tournament and eat beef and drink whiskey the whole time. I did get you some death waters though. You did? Yeah, I thought about it.  I have a new appreciation for Mom's more than one because both bringing her to school and picking her up. I was like five minutes late, which I'm never late. I'm always at least like 10 minutes early. You were that mom? I was that mom. Was she waiting there? Lip quivering? Like where's my mommy? She wasn't the last one. She was second to last. So we'll try harder on Thursday. There was another mom. There was another mom. They probably had three. It's a whole new ball game folks and our little boy over here, you know, just quiet as a mouse. Maybe he'll sleep tonight. Doing good buddy? Need a little camo blanket? Climb? What did you learn at school today? I learned the letter B. You learned the letter B? And beans and bears. And baby bin. And baby bin. That's right. Do I get a treat for that? Cool. I get one for dad. I get a treat for dad too. We have both games. Save one for me? I know. You love sugar just like your daddy. What's your favorite color today? Pink. Pink. It's pink today. Got you. Nice work here. Painting the castle. Looking good. Oh, I love you too. We've got some sorting to do. Wormies, jigglies and wigglies. See what all we need to take. But judging on what I experienced today, top order man. We're gonna bring some frogs, big shad stuff. Gonna be probably a good shad explosions happening. I'm gonna sign off right here guys. Thanks as always for hanging with me on today's vlog. And the next thing we got is the dirt. So I'm off to the rodeo. Thank you guys for tuning in. May God bless you and Godspeed in the great outdoors.