Hey, guys. Welcome to the Found Records podcast. I am your host, Jessica Ville. Oh my gosh, that's so fancy. And I'm going to be talking about history. This is a history podcast, but it's not just a history podcast. This is a history podcast that talks about and highlights history that we keep getting wrong. It's one of my biggest pet peeves. Why do we do it? A lot of it's intentional, actually. I've noticed, especially as of late, there has been a lot of organizations, groups, websites that are fan-fictioning history to kind of claim a part of history, even if there is just no evidence to stand behind it. They'll just like cherry pick something that sort of seems like evidence, and they'll take it a yard wide and be like, yes, this is the new fact. And it's like, not quite. So my podcast is going to be just reinstating what historical things are true and what are not true. We're going to talk about conspiracy theories, things that were made up or altered throughout history. And we're just going to get the genuine truth. If you guys don't know, I do a lot of historical type content. I've done it for many years. I have a lot of background in history. And I am always looking for more. I'm always digging deep for original sources. And I definitely am very much propaganda proof, I would like to say. And that's simply because I look for original sources. I think that is really what makes it so easy for me to find what the truth is, is because I go down and look at old newspapers, old diary writings, old audio clips that back up something rather than an article, no matter who it's written by, .org or not, or .edu or not. I don't trust that as well as I do trusting actual physical evidence of the truth. So I am doing each episode with a lot of confidence that what I'm sharing with you guys is very factual and I have evidence that backs that up. I don't want to be an add on to the problem of us just not learning our history right. I think getting the right version of history is super important. Erasing it or doctoring it is incredibly dangerous in way too many ways in one. So that's what the found records podcast is about. I found the records. So let's go ahead and dive into our first episode here, which was very popularly requested. And that was the conspiracy centered around Marilyn Monroe and correcting her legacy. Now, before we get started, I want to remind you guys that I do have a book called When Shit Hits the Fan. It's on sale right now. If you like the World War II aesthetic or like the fallout aesthetic, this is what my book is modeled after. But inside is actually incredibly useful information for any disaster, natural disaster or war type scenario. It helps you get through anything that could happen. So it is honestly a lifesaver. It's got everything you can imagine from A to Z, formatted in a way that's super easy to access. So definitely consider picking it up on Amazon. Anyways, this first episode of the found records, that's so cool to say. I have my own podcast now. It's going to be centered around Marilyn Monroe. This was highly requested. It was more so requested because I just finished writing a biopic about a year ago called Becoming Her. It's the very first biopic of Marilyn Monroe that has been rated 100% historically accurate by many accredited historians that have centered their life around Marilyn Monroe. A lot of them I'm talking 40 to 50 years of researching Marilyn. So to get their approval has been everything. And I wrote Becoming Her with the intention of uncovering the raw and honest unbiased truth of her life because I knew that these biopics that were coming out of her were so painfully false. It's borderline. No, it's not even borderline, it is defamation. And I'm not a fan of the injustice that she's gone through. And so I took it upon my own hands and I wrote a film series that hopefully someday will get produced so we could actually meet Marilyn Monroe for the very first time. And I say that because she is borderline unrecognizable. Her life is unrecognizable when you actually know the truth. And you know what? I think it's actually so much more interesting. I'm surprised that Hollywood has decided to fictionalize and water her story down as if her real story is unimportant or uninteresting when it actually is significantly more interesting. And anyone who's read the script already who were you know accredited historians have said this was so great I couldn't put it down like a lot of them finished it within 24 hours which is crazy because it's like 400 pages so they were really enthused by it so I'm just very glad. And so I wanted to make a podcast episode centered around correcting a lot of the lies about her like my biopic someday will. The reason why the biopic is not public for reading or it's not even going to be published as a book is simply because it is 100% historically accurate so anyone could just take that and make their own movie. But then I would not have the control to make sure that she's fairly represented. So it was just it would be giving power to the wrong people. I rather be in control of getting that made the way it needs to. So let's go ahead and start off with a few conspiracy theories about Marilyn Monroe that I think need to finally be put to rest. So conspiracy theory number one is all about who Marilyn even is. She has been painted to be this highly abused victim who was incredibly alone and helpless and just this super used person in Hollywood. And although she has had moments in which she was feeling lonely or in which she was abused she wasn't a victim and Marilyn and Amy Green which was her photographer's wife has said Marilyn Monroe is not a victim. She has always lived life on her own terms and everything that has happened to her in her adulthood has been on her own terms and was her own decision which is quite beautiful because if you look at Marilyn's childhood there was a lot of things that were out of her control. She was definitely abused sexually specifically around the eight-year-old Mark when she went to a foster home that had a pastor. He lured her into his room and did some inappropriate actions with Marilyn at a very young age and when Marilyn came out to report him to the foster mother she was like don't you dare talk so poorly about this great man and that was definitely a very traumatic experience for her. But if you look at like biopics like blind they kind of taken the abuse that she really went through and overdid it and let it bleed into her Hollywood story when Marilyn actually didn't use her body or people didn't use her body in that way throughout her career. Marilyn has had moments in which she was approached by very big you know executives that wanted to abuse her sexually but she actually stood her ground in blonde they made her bend over and take it and it was absolutely disgusting and fictional. It's funny because the person that they had in the movie was named Mr. Z and I know what they're really saying Mr. Z is is Zannick, Mr. Zannick. Mr. Zannick was a Hollywood executive who kind of just made all of the decisions and he was the one for 20th Century Fox specifically and he was definitely an abuser of many models but he actually found Marilyn incredibly unattractive. He was the one that didn't approach Marilyn sexually he honestly thought she was ugly and he actually got Marilyn fired as soon as she was hired for a movie with 20th Century because he just thought this girl is way too unphotogenic like she's ruining all the pictures so there was a lot of films that were never released because they were deleted, they removed her scenes under Zannick's request. He just didn't find her pretty at all which is wild to think about because she's one of the most beautiful women known in film history now. Who actually did try to sexually assault her was another man and he went under the name of Mr. A and he, no wasn't Mr. A, no she was there to see Mr. A but there was another man, gosh I should reference my biopic for this but I don't have it in front of me right now but it was another executive she was there to see Mr. A but there was another man maybe I'll put an overlay if I remember the exact name of him. Anyways you know it doesn't negate the fact that there was a Hollywood executive that did try to have a sexual advancement and she was in his office she wasn't supposed to see him specifically she was there to see someone else and he started off by showing off his yacht photos and he's like I'm going to have a yacht party I really want you to come along in it and I want you to have some fun with me and she was like well I'd love to come to the yacht party with you and your wife she made sure to slip in your wife and he got really irritated eventually losing his patience because he's trying to insinuate that he's interested in a sexual affair to gain the position that she wanted it was a bit of a trade-off an indirect trade-off and Marilyn refused and she was like I can't do that sorry and she's like if you ever invite me to something that involves your wife I'll be there but she ended up bailing from that interview and of course she didn't get cast for what she was auditioning for. Marilyn has actually verbatim stated that it was very important to her that she didn't use her body like every other Hollywood star typically did it was very common practice then for women and she was very very very adamant to make sure that she wasn't a part of that equation and this is from her words herself and her diary that I found which maybe I could put an overlay over the video here considering all of these circumstances I think we can confidently say that Marilyn did not eff her way to fame there was actually a scene in my biopic where Marilyn is crying in her apartment she's hungry she hasn't eaten and god knows how long there was a manager that she had named Johnny very early on and he was this short man that she would make fun of at times and he was actually unfortunately who introduced her to drugs you know the typical Hollywood drugs when she was 20 years old on the dot so she was very young his relationship with her was controversial because he was very helpful to her but he was also the reason why she passed away eventually so there's a love hate relationship with Johnny there that even Marilyn had herself but Johnny tried to marry her Johnny was in love with her and she's like I can't marry you for your money because Johnny was offering his money he was like I'll give you everything you want buy you anything you need but I want to be with you and Marilyn said no she's like I can't do that so you know going back to when I said she was starving in her apartment Johnny was there in her life at that point offering to feed her offering to buy her a car and anything she wanted and she declined respectfully and she was like I am not doing that so she chose to starve and there's a moment in the biopic which is verbatim something that she has said where she was laying in bed and she was looking up the ceiling and she just felt massive and she was just tired emotionally spiritually she was hungry she was thirsty she was just completely fallen apart and she felt like there is just a dark star that she was born on and this was her lowest point in her life and this was a point in her life in which she promised herself she would never go back to um we're kind of going to segue in here to uh this idea about norma gene versus Marilyn Monroe because this is something I definitely don't want to forget to mention so Marilyn Monroe's identity has a lot of conspiracy theory itself and her name as well a lot of people assume that Marilyn Monroe hated Marilyn Monroe and that was also shown in the blonde biopic as well another painful inaccuracy I actually got the privilege to look at Marilyn Monroe's therapy sessions um you know the the transcripts of that and that's where I learned that Marilyn actually didn't not did not hate Marilyn Monroe she hated norma gene um and we see this in her diary as well um norma gene to her which is her birth name was an ugly poor child who was insecure and depressed and hurt and weak that's how Marilyn saw her younger self and she wanted to run away from her younger self more than anything and she did um she chose her name obviously uh an executive helped her but she decided to change her name willingly and uh the the name change originally was for hollywood purposes because her name at the time when she was married to james was norma gene doherty and they you know he was like you know that's not a star's name we need a star's name so they went through a book of names and they decided on Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn loved it um Marilyn over the years as she got older um wanted so desperately to become this beloved beautiful talented woman in which she ended up becoming um and even though at times she would reference herself in third person like Marilyn Monroe the caricature um she still preferred the identity of Marilyn Monroe it was in fact very triggering if you called her norma gene it made her feel very funny and start remembering all of the trauma from her life so she was not a fan of being called that unless you were maybe her fostered parents she would allow it but she really did prefer Marilyn Monroe and we see that in her diary where she states that uh well you know let me not get ahead of myself let me go back to uh when she started becoming incredibly famous and that was when she did a photo that ended up on the very first playboy magazine history so this was the first issue and Marilyn Monroe was on that cover unfortunately a lot of people uh misunderstand that cover and assume that she you know uh used her body to get famous it actually is a contrary that photo was released against her consent completely unknowing by the time that photo was released she was um doing a lot of modeling she did a few movies a lot of movies she was cut out from unfortunately but she was starting to get a little known um and what really threw her into stardom was the um kelly photos where she has the red background as she is completely in the nude she took those photos um years prior before even really getting into the industry she wasn't in the industry quite yet she was more so doing very loose modeling at that time and she did it because she had her car repoed so you know in in pursuit of getting sixty dollars so she can get her car back um she agreed to do these red velvet photos that the photographer promised and swore that he would uh paint her to look a little bit different so she was unrecognizable and that it would only be a local release for a calendar so she was like a little hesitant and she made sure that it was very clear between her and the photographer that it would only be a local release and that she would be the old school photoshopped which is just painted over to look like a different person and he of course lied i mean it was a half truth um and of course when Hugh Hefner was in pursuit of uh nude models and nude photos for his uh playboy idea there came the offer of Marilyn Monroe's nude photos that were then exchanged and became the first issue of playboy with her name in big letters Marilyn Monroe in the nude um and this was completely against her consent when she found it she was mortified but she quickly came to terms with it um because a lot of girls at this time were kind of doing the same thing so it wasn't that she was the first one it's just that she was the most famous one um and she wasn't even that famous yet actually this photo is what made her truly famous because the studios at the time were asking her if she could deny that that that those photos were her and she was like well i'm not going to do that it's very obviously me like look at it it's me like i'm not going to go and lie to everybody so when she was interviewed and asked about the photos she said yep those are me and that's what basically um made her super famous i mean at least amongst the men and uh then she was asked shortly after to sing to the american troops which is a very popular moment in history where she wears this very very dark dress with a lot of sequins and she's performing in front of so so many american troops um in korea so after that she was just everywhere everyone wanted to hire her as you know the sexy kitten in every movie that they had lined up and she took a lot of job from a lot of other well respected and loved femme fatale of her time and she became the most sought-after actress because of those photos so um it's one of those bittersweet things where she didn't ask for it but she got what she wanted and that was to be famous Marilyn said that she wanted more than anything to be famous she wanted to be loved and owned by someone and if that meant the world then she would be happy and so she got what she wanted now let's go and debunk another conspiracy theory this one's a little bit more modern of a conspiracy theory but that is that Marilyn Monroe is mexican as a latina myself that would be really cool but i'm going to tell you that Marilyn is not in fact mexican where this conspiracy theory came from and started going like all over the internet to the point where like if you google it it's the first search like it's actually very dangerous how much information is false on google nowadays the conspiracy theory stemmed from people finding out that Marilyn's mother was born in mexico but let me stop you there before you get too excited Marilyn Marilyn's mother was born in mexico yes but under a technicality because Marilyn's grandmother had given birth to Gladys which is Marilyn's mother in mexico because she was there for work so her grandparents Marilyn's grandparents were artists and they had a job to do in mexico it just so happened that Marilyn's grandmother was pregnant gave birth in mexico and then shortly after she actually left mexico after the work was done and raised Marilyn's mother in california so Marilyn's mother is mexican by a technicality this doesn't make Marilyn mexican because Marilyn never applied for mexican citizenship so because Marilyn was born in california um she would have had to apply for the mexican citizenship which she would have been eligible for but because she never did this would mean that she is not even on a technicality mexican this would be imagine it as the equivalents of me having a child on a jamaican cruise ship vacation i have the child in jamaica my child would be jamaican in terms of like the paperwork but it doesn't mean that my child is jamaican just like dissent wise so the same applies to Marilyn's mother and being that Marilyn never got the technical citizenship that she would need to be technically classified as mexican she's just so far far removed from the concept of being one um she was an american who has irish and um dutch ancestry so very much white the next conspiracy theory is another modern one and that is that Marilyn was gay so we have another community trying to claim Marilyn as well um Marilyn Monroe was definitely not gay and this is verbatim her words here in her private diary there's no reason for her to lie in her own diary you know um but the conspiracy theory comes from her diary actually they just omitted the second half of the paragraph so in the first half Marilyn talks about being sexually confused because early on in her um upbringing especially when she became of age you know 18, 19, 20 she was just very confused as to why she couldn't feel sexual attraction for the men that she knew and uh she just felt nothing and she was like well i find women beautiful so am i lesbian you know when especially at a time where um sexuality wasn't discussed you you do have these questions um you do wonder these things because we don't have anyone wiser to help us through these thoughts um and so Marilyn was just also just trying to understand herself at this age but it wasn't until she fell in love with uh this man he was a singer she didn't want to disclaim who he was so we don't know who he was but we do know he was a popular singer and she met him um during an audition that she felt like she bombed and uh they fell for each other he would sing to her all the time and play the piano for her and he was so romantic he was good looking according to Marilyn and when she had her first sexual experience with him she was like oh i understand sex now i get it this is amazing um so what it really took was just Marilyn falling in love and so maybe perhaps i would then classify Marilyn as more demisexual maybe um because Marilyn didn't really have casual encounters or an appetite for sex like a lot of people might have um but when it when love was involved when she could romanticize a person she very much enjoyed sex with them so um this is all Marilyn's words by the way not mine and um but but we don't want to label Marilyn either if she's not here to label herself so um that's why i would say that if i were to put a name on it i would say maybe demisexual but again she's not here to confirm that so as of now she's just straight um a lot of people also have uh made some conspiracy theories about her and Natasha Lytess which was her acting coach um Natasha was significantly older than Marilyn she was in her 40s when she was schooling Marilyn and Marilyn in her in her writings and her notes has expressed the discomfort that Natasha brought her there's a conspiracy theory that that they had an affair together that they loved each other they lived like husband and wife and people completely misunderstood and taken Marilyn out of context for the sake of making it seem like Marilyn was in love with this woman but um there has been findings that I found that in her diary she she expresses that Natasha made her uncomfortable Natasha was definitely interested in her on a sexual level um if not romantically as well and Marilyn had a conversation with Natasha at some point where she's just like could we just please act could we just work please like I why does it have to get weird so um obviously that's not verbatim she said it in the words that she chose but um that was what the point she was trying to get across the time and so um Natasha uh she would have loved if Marilyn loved her back but Marilyn absolutely did not look at her that way and that is confirmed in her diary as well and is also featured in my biopic becoming her where it is performed most of my biopic actually is performed word for word of what Marilyn said like I would say like 90 percent of my biopic becoming her is Marilyn Monroe's words exactly to the T like with even with the stutters involved as well so it was very important to me um so yeah that's another conspiracy theory that we can't keep continuing now the next conspiracy theory is centered around Marilyn's love life a lot of people assume that she was just you know going around town with every boy and ruining marriages and that's farthest from the truth Marilyn has only been with James Doherty which was her first husband and she divorced him because um she wanted to pursue her career in acting and he didn't support that um plus they were only married because she needed to get out of the foster system he was an adult and she was 16 so that needed to end um then it was uh Joe DiMaggio which was the baseball star that ended due to a couple instances of abuse uh that she was not going to tolerate it was only twice and that was enough for her so she divorced him then it was Arthur Miller well actually between James Doherty and uh Joe DiMaggio that was a secret lover the the singer that we don't know who who it is okay and then it was uh Arthur Miller um now that that one you know he Arthur Miller was in the middle of a divorce but he was still technically married so yeah that one's a little iffy um they divorced because Arthur's just it was just not compatible with Marilyn to be honest with you Arthur is a little bit too cold too logical Marilyn needed someone emotionally intelligent and Arthur was not that um she had an affair with Yves Montan which is an Italian French singer he was married that was a little messy um and Yves was very sweet and and suave and she bought into it and thought oh this is the guy who's gonna run away with me it was it was a mess um but they never were together in fact Yves then later when the rumors got out uh shitted on Marilyn it was she was very disappointed in that because it made he didn't take any accountability in the fact that he cheated on his wife as much as she cheated on Arthur anyways so those were the those were the sticky situations um but then after all of that she then uh started dating Joe DiMaggio again um shortly after being bailed from the mental institute that she was put in against her consent and um Joe at the time Joe at the time he definitely went to therapy and he wanted her back and he worked for it and Marilyn felt that they were more compatible a second time around because he got therapy therefore they were together um and they were planning to get married before she passed away so those were all of the um actual like situationships and relationships she was a part of which is not many i mean if you want to compare it to the average body count of women nowadays i would have to say she's a saint um not that there's anything even wrong with either or lifestyle i think it's no place for anyone to judge but it we do need to paint Marilyn fairly in the in the light that she wasn't um you know hyper sexual whatsoever or wasn't with all too many partners she can count all of them on two hands so a lot where that comes from is just the misunderstanding of her movie characters that she played which were more promiscuous sexual um man eaters um which were not a direct reflection of who she was at all so it's important to separate the art from the artist in this case scenario now the next conspiracy theory has to do with Marilyn Monroe and abortions this is something that has always been a conspiracy theory but it went full force when the movie blonde came out and now everyone believes that Marilyn had abortions which is heartbreaking if you know Marilyn because Marilyn wanted children more than anything at any time at any time the times that she got pregnant she wasn't even ready for it was only twice that she got pregnant the first time she wasn't ready for it the second time she was it was on purpose um but both times she wanted to see them through and she did unfortunately what Marilyn had was something called endometriosis which makes women infertile um and so her babies were miscarriages not abortions and it's really horrifying that blonde put this idea in their heads um i don't know for what maybe a pro abortion uh propaganda or something but you know considering Marilyn's personal personal beliefs in that it's just very unfair to force her into this pro abortion light when she would have never ever decided on one because more than anything she wanted the love of a child um family was incredibly important to her having a husband and a child was her end goal um aside from being considered the best actress which was also another personal end goal for her and so um i just wanted to make sure that i highlight that in this podcast that Marilyn had a endometriosis and she had miscarriages and only two of them um they were not abortions the next conspiracy theory is centered around Marilyn Monroe and JFK that one comes from just the fact that it makes a good story Marilyn and the president sounds cool you know imagine that it's a it's a fan fiction work that has existed even while she was alive and especially after she passed and that idea comes from the fact that she performed happy birthday mr president in a very seductive manner in a new dress and they assumed that she was trying to seduce the president um by surprise uh that performance was incredibly planned it wasn't even planned by her it was planned by her team the outfit was preapproved by the administration and Jackie Kennedy was very well aware of how that performance was going to go because Marilyn rehearsed it the i think it was the night before um she was rehearsed on stage at Madison Square Garden exactly how she planned it she got the okay and then she went and performed it for the birthday so it was not a surprise to literally anyone but the president um even Jackie Kennedy knew about it um and i think actually the president knew about it but i don't want to speak on that because i i don't remember um in this moment in time but i do know that it was completely pre-planned and calculated and it was more so to continue uh Marilyn's fame it was a fame move you know just to you know keep her name going keep her trending now Marilyn only met the president a couple of times and both of them were in complete public the first time was at a party which she barely spoke to him and she wrote this in her diary that it was just the most brief like nothing ever and the second time was uh the happy birthday mr president event they had an after party and she actually took Arthur Miller's father to that party um and it was because Arthur Miller's father was a huge fan huge fan of um the president so even though Marilyn and Arthur were divorced at the time she considered Arthur's father and his love for the president and took him to this event so she was with him the whole night um and she spoke to the president very briefly um with bobby kennedy and and that was that that was that it was like a short little meet and greet and that was that um now Marilyn was friends with a lady named pat who was part of the kennedys but um there is no evidence to back up that Marilyn ever hung out with um jfk or his brother in private um so because of the lack of evidence it's just unfair to assume that Marilyn had some sort of affair in any way shape or form with either of them exclusive theory is centered around Marilyn Monroe and her sense of religion a lot of people have her religion all sorts of confused um in many ways than one um a lot of people assume Marilyn Monroe was this like god-hating atheist and a lot of people also assume that Marilyn was this hyper religious person there's actually it's kind of interesting how there's two conspiracy theories on the complete opposite sides of the spectrum based off of some cherry picking that has been done and um so Marilyn Monroe's religion is pretty interesting because it fluctuated and changed a lot through her entire life and she has gone through a lot of different religions actually a lot of people don't know that Marilyn's religion fluctuated based on her environment to be honest with you she grew up with the christian faith and she had illustrations of her drawing god and that she would hold very dear and it wasn't until she was sexually assaulted by the pastor that she decided uh that god isn't real because why would a pastor do that to her so that's where uh that notion comes from so she went through her adulthood up until even filming gentlemen prefer blondes not believing in god but throughout that time and throughout her beginnings she definitely called out to god many times um i felt like she her and her relationship with god fluctuated um like she wanted to believe in him and then she didn't want to believe in him when he didn't answer her i feel like that was really the dynamic that i've that i've observed in her diary um she wanted to believe in him but she wasn't given enough to believe in him and um then when she married Arthur Miller she converted to Judaism and she took it very seriously she wanted to feel included in his family Arthur wasn't very pleased by her conversion um and it was an interesting dynamic there um then they divorced and Marilyn's practice kind of dwindled away a little bit and then by the end of her life she went back to atheism with Christian practices in the sense of like she celebrated Christmas as the last thing with Joe DiMaggio before her passing so she was kind of all over the place uh when it comes to religion and when it comes to her belief in a god or not um but she was never she's never said anything that was anti god in public which people keep repeating that she did um nor was she super super religious either um she was kind of just a bit a little bit of everywhere and lastly we want to talk about Marilyn Monroe's death this is the biggest conspiracy of all time and that is that Marilyn Monroe was murdered oh my gosh um this conspiracy theory goes way back it goes right back directly to the time of her death when this crazy conspiracy in that came out with an article talking about her being murdered um if you know Marilyn Monroe's drug history it started off when she was 20 years old introduced by her agent Johnny um and this drug use was something that she struggled throughout her whole life it's the reason why she deteriorated as a person um she just got less and less together because of these drugs um she would take it for insomnia she would take it for anxiety especially anxiety she was a very anxious person especially um on set and she would take it for um just to hyper up so she had a concoction in her bag at all times and uh her body became immune to these drugs throughout the decade long abuse um over a decade long abuse and uh throughout the year she would scale up and scale up especially on a drug specifically called nebutol um and she had three towards the time of her death she had 300 milligrams of nebutol uh prescribed to her and that was only one little part of the concoction which she would call a vitamin cocktail um she definitely had a horrible relationship with drugs that her peers have desperately tried to get her help uh for it's the reason why she was thrown in an immense insist to because she after Clark Gable's death um made some very strange remarks about not wanting to continue life though she was just expressing it she didn't actually mean it and in her diary she says I would never kill myself so she says that you know in her words I would never do that um but you know it's kind of one of those moments where uh people in her life took that very literally and when they called her back and she wasn't answering they freaked out this was specifically her screenwriter that went and requested that her doctor checked on her and they found her in her bed um just drugged out a little bit and they were like okay Maryland's fine she was just taking her drugs and sleeping sleeping it off then uh shortly after that she had an accidental overdose this was a pretty serious one um where she just mismeasured and it wasn't the first time she mismeasured but it was the biggest time she mismeasured to the point where uh the the doctor had to um help her vomit it all out and uh they had to put her uh with the with the nurse essentially to live with her to keep an eye on her so it doesn't happen again so the nurse could help uh with her prescriptions and make sure that she doesn't mismeasure again when you're very very used to these drugs you uh tend to go more and go further with them and take more and there's proof of this in her medical receipts that I found personally towards just I think it was I would say maybe 12 or 13 days before her passing in which she went to two different doctors in search for an inhuman amount of uh prescription she said that they weren't working anymore this was when she was already taken 300 milligrams of nemutol which was enough for a grown man she wanted more she wanted as much for a horse and she was like I can't feel them anymore I I need them stronger I need a sleep I have a movie that's very important we need to get it done I keep showing up late because I'm not getting enough sleep and my hours are all messed up I need you to prescribe me more and the doctor was like I'm not doing that are you no no I'm not doing that so she went to a different doctor that doctor prescribed her the crazy amount of it um and then uh you know mixed with the cocktail of other things that she had when she took them that is when she passed away and had an accidental overdose and um again it does come from the fact of drug abuse and a lot of people uh definitely have written conspiracy theories like oh there was no drugs found in her stomach her body was uh tempered with she was laying face down her door was locked all these like points being made but let me go down that list her door was locked because she slept naked like like ritually naked and she had a nurse in the house at the time so she locked her door when she went to bed of course it was locked from the inside yes because everyone locks her door from the inside especially if you're sleeping but naked and you have someone in the house um so they had to break her window to get into her room she was faced down because she was a stomach sleeper um as am I so that's pretty normal the bruising that you see in her photos is not that she was beaten or anything like that that that's called um pooling so basically during like the rigor mortis stage when it where like the body starts stiffening the body starts um all the blood starts going to one side of it um it'll look like bruising but that's just the blood pooling down into the face it's a process of of of death and it's a very ugly one so her face laying face down the blood was pooling to the surface of her face and it looked like bruises if you look at literally any dead body photos which I'm sure you can access on the internet you'll find them and you'll see that's a very common effect that happens after some time and that specific process if you want to look it up is specifically called liver mortis um if you want to look further into that um as well as uh the drugs not being found in her stomach so stomach acids uh can dissolve very quickly she definitely had that on an empty stomach considering that she had an addiction people who are addicted to prescriptions for such a long time can dissolve them abnormally fast more than the average person can as you can see 300 milligrams of nebutol went right through her system so that's how fast that these drugs are dissolving in her system so of course after hours of of the drug sitting in her stomach acid even after death um yeah it's no surprise that it dissolved in the stomach of an addict and so you know you know there's also the conspiracy theories of oh Marilyn's body was tampered with or it was missing for six hours I actually found all of the timestamps of her body uh Joe DiMaggio was actually there for the majority of the process up into the few up until the funeral so he was looking out for her best interest I mean he was who Marilyn was going to remarry again so it was very important that she was taken care of um there's no evidence showing any form of sexual abuse after death that's such a disgusting conspiracy theory and that where that comes from is really again painting Marilyn in this victim mentality um because it makes her story seem a lot more sad than it actually is people love to overplay her as this like uh as this victim as this wounded lamb but she really truly was not there were moments of weakness in her life as anyone else but she was a very resilient strong person who was very much in control of herself um sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst um there's many moments where she had the opportunity to get off of these drugs and unfortunately as you can see she chose not to and this is what happened because of that but at the end of the day everything that happened to Marilyn in her adulthood was for the most part entirely up to her and she was very proud of that um and it was it was a personality trait you could not shake her from what Marilyn says goes so those are the so those are the conspiracy theories I've done um a few more in depth with evidence TikToks if you want to check them out on my TikTok page specifically about Marilyn's death as well if you want like more details on it but uh yeah so those are the most common things of Marilyn and I hope that you guys learned something in this podcast episode and in the next episode I don't know exactly which one I'm going to do next but I do know that I will be covering further topics of misunderstandings like I'd really love to talk about Betty Boop and the misunderstanding of her history a lot of people nowadays are actually getting her history wrong um after believing it's been corrected it actually has been corrected incorrectly and um I will get into that in a future episode but if you have any suggestions of what you'd like to see uh talked about in a future episode drop them down below and let me know and make sure you check out the somber hour over on somber studios which is my second podcast that's all horror related um it hasn't come out yet if you're seeing this first episode I'm sure but um it will be coming out incredibly soon and we're going to be talking all things horror movies lower and scary stories so it's over on somber studios a youtube channel and the podcast name is the somber hour so thank you guys so much for watching and listening and I'll see you guys in episode two


Explain the social me the Steve Carlton thing. That's the Steve Carlton Steve the you and I don't like preening on social media which a lot of people do like a lot of people like constant self-congratulations on social media and you and I are not fans of it and you say it's cuz Al Franken and Conan used to just like Al Franken hobble you it's so weird that people get in people getting so much trouble now for being for bussing balls but yeah thank god these motherfuckers were just mean and condescending to me and they was like Conan Conan and Smigle actually Odin Kirk was really nice I mean by the way Conan and those guys right they're not like you fucking they weren't they weren't they weren't fucking deliverance thing they weren't deliverance they were just like you know putting me in my place at the time but one of the great stories that helped my career out was Al Franken pulls me to the side because I had had a really good show the Michael Jordan show Michael Jordan when he hosted sorry when he hosted SNL so Michael Jordan with musical guests public enemy the oh my god what a show it was the season premiere in 1991 anyway and I had a really good show and then the next week I had a bad show and one of the reasons I had a bad show is because I was again it's the same thing about being really funny getting too cocky and trying to find that place again but Al Franken told me this story about a this picture Steve Carlton probably the best left-handed pitcher in the history of baseball in a second Randy Johnson would be number one Steve Carlton number two right uh so Steve Carlton would only pitch if this guy Tim McArthur would catch him that was the deal if Carlton pitches McArthur catches him so you know the game isn't just physical the game's mental baseball right and they found that some hitters if they let them get a hit early in the game they wouldn't try as hard later in the game so there were certain guys they would let get on base is like this is the store this guy easy fastball let him get on base and we don't got to worry about that guy later he's so selfish he's just going to be like I got mine whatever happens happens and frankens like that's what happened with you you got yours at the Michael Jordan show and then next week you're just too cocky and relaxed and you got to have that hunger every night so Al Franken kind of saved my life wow so I go I go hard yeah that's why that's why I don't know and the thing that I like about you is you try like you during the press you were saying that you had like me or you told me you had a mirror and microphone stand set up in your house for years before bring the pain which is like that makes sense yeah that you were actually practicing I practice all the time yeah yeah it's not like easy or fluid or yeah I have an SNL question if you stand shape you don't have to get in shape oh hello thank you slide me what baby


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Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder striking 1% of our older population and is the 14th leading cause of death in the United States. We don't really know what causes it, but we do know that people with a smoking history only appear to have about half the risk. Of course, smoking is hugely damaging to health. Any benefit derived from a reduction in the risk of Parkinson's is far outweighed by the increased risk of cancer, heart, and lung disease. So this shouldn't stop us from evaluating tobacco components for possible neuroprotective effects, and nicotine may fit the bill. If nicotine is the agent responsible for the neuroprotective effects, is there any way to get the benefit without the risks? Well, where does nicotine come from? The tobacco plant. Any other plants have nicotine? Well, tobacco is a nightshade. That means tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and peppers are all in the same family. And guess what? They all contain nicotine as well. That's why you can't tell if someone's a smoker just by looking for the presence of nicotine in their toenail clippings, because non-smokers grow out some nicotine into their nails as well. It's in our daily diet. But how much? The amount we average in our diet is hundreds of times less than we get from a single cigarette. So though we've known for 15 years that there's nicotine in ketchup, it was dismissed as insignificant. But then we learned that even just one or two puffs of a cigarette could saturate half of our brain's nicotine receptors, so it doesn't take much. Then we learned that even just exposure to secondhand smoke may lower the risk of Parkinson's, and there's not much nicotine in that. In fact, one would only be exposed to like three micrograms of nicotine working in some smoky restaurant, but that's on the same order as what one might get eating food at a non-smoking restaurant. So the contribution of dietary nicotine intake, just eating some healthy vegetables, may be significant. So researchers decided to put it to the test. Looking at nightshade consumption, in general, they may be found a lower risk compared to other vegetables, but different nightshades have different amounts of nicotine. They found none in eggplant, only a little in potatoes, not common tomatoes, but the most in bell peppers. And so when that was taken into account, a much stronger picture emerged. They found that more peppers meant more protection. And as we might expect, the effects of eating nicotine-containing foods was mainly evident in non-smokers, as the nicotine from smoke would presumably blot out any dietary effect. So this could explain why protective associations have been found for Parkinson's and the consumption of tomatoes, and a tomato and pepper-rich Mediterranean diet. Might nightshade vegetables also help with treating Parkinson's? Well, results from trials of nicotine gum and patches has been patchy. So maybe nicotine only helps prevent it in the first place, or maybe it's not the nicotine at all, but some other phytochemical and the tobacco and pepper family? They conclude that their findings will need to be reproduced to help establish cause and effect before considering dietary interventions to prevent Parkinson's disease. But when the dietary intervention is like eat more yummy healthy dishes like stuffed peppers with tomato sauce, I don't see the reason we have to wait.


Hi everybody. So, yeah, let's start this new weekly inframitting. The first topic that I want to cover is According to Paul, we can move the meeting times midi time at 430 UTC. I mean, that's the time that where most of the people are available. So, I hope we will have more people next week. So, the second topic is regarding the migration from ACS to AKS. Most of the services that we need on now, we're running on AKS. The only one that we did not migrate is repo.azure, which is an NGENIX proxy cache. We put that service in place three years ago because you had a lot of time out issues with architecture, but those issues things have begun now. So, I'm just wondering if we can just stop that service. So, we don't have to migrate that service. And we can just update every mention of that repo.azure or repo.azure in Seattle.org. So, that's one of the topics. I don't know if you have any inputs on this. Could we just hop it over before it's going to get shut off and see how it goes for the next week or so? Yes. So, because we still have two weeks before ACS is done, we can just update all the repository by the end of the week. And so, if there is anything wrong, we can still deploy the service in the new cluster. The next topic is also regarding Fastly. So, I contacted the support Fastly and they told me that normally they should support us, but I was supposed to contact someone else. So, my support ticket is still open as long as I don't have any news from the people working on the OSS board. So, I mean, I hope that we will have positive answer. But until now, for them, they thought that they were supporting Jenkins already, but I cannot find any mention of that in the infrastructure or either from Taylor. So, to me, I don't know if someone else just, someone else is sponsored on the off of Jenkins. I mean, I have no idea what's the current status there. So, in the past, I had a play around and some Jenkins-CI.org has been created in Fastly because I wasn't able to create it. So, I was messing around with Jenkins.io and then I tried a service on Jenkins-CI.org that said another Fastly customer has got this configured. So, it has been configured at some point on the dash CI.org domain. Yep. So, that's basically what I'm looking for.  It says yes, vserver and we'll just know. My point is just who is using, who is, I mean, who are you sponsoring? Because it's definitely not Jenkins projects. So, anyway, so this thing is pending right now. There is another topic where I would like to have more inputs, which is the Google Analytics. So, the CDF folks asked more people on the Google Analytics account. So, until today, only, so, yeah, until recently, it was only Kazuki, Tyler, Alisa and me who have access to them to the Google Analytics account. Now, we also have a leg and I have to add Ulrich and Alex as a small board member. So, for them, it's pretty obvious and it's satisfying. The question that I have in a list, one of the CDFs asked me to add more people is what would be the rule to remove people and what would be the rules to use Jenkins data because right now we don't have any like data policy, like you have access to the monitoring, you have access to the analytics, you have access to whatever and you can do basically what you want to do with it because, for example, the only thing that we have in place right now is a contributor license agreement, which only cover the codes that you're providing to the projects. So, I don't know what would be the next step regarding that project. Yeah, I don't know if you have any inputs on this. Yeah, I would firstly like to understand what exactly CDF needs in terms of data because access to analytics is quite wide, especially since we have a number of services connected there. So, I assume that I have it, but for me, if you could set up a kind of data policy, it would be nice. Probably it's something to raise to Daniel because Daniel is a security officer, he might provide some feedback in terms of what would be security conditions for grant and conditional access. Thank you. So, yeah, I don't think there is need to do it in hardware and if CDF wants any specific data, they can just specify the request and we can probably publish data. Okay, I'll do that for now. The other topic, the next topic is regarding the Azure functions. So, I spent some time this morning to understand how it was configured in the past, how it was configured, how it's working and the thing is right now it's not really transparent because either you have access to the Azure account and you can debug things or you don't have access and then it's quite difficult to understand what's happening and so I'm just wondering what are your feedback on this topic. The main reason what I'm asking is because we have several open ticket open issues regarding the incremental service and it's open since beginning of December and yeah, we have, I mean, it would be nice to move this forward. So, do we have any alternatives to using Azure functions? Are people interested to work on this? I don't know if you have any inputs. I don't have strong opinion. Yeah, I joked about the Jinx file runner somewhere in the IRC. I don't have a strong opinion about that because yeah, still you would need to run them from somewhere. Well, the main problem that I have right now with the Azure function is that to access the logs or whatever you need to access the Azure accounts and we are quite respective on who can access the Azure accounts. So, I granted read on the access to Jesse so he can debug, I mean, he has access to the logs but he cannot change anything and each time you need to change something on those functions, you need someone with right permission of the accounts. Yeah, one question about that is is it possible to resolve it on the Jenkins side because if we hit such issue on our infrastructure, maybe it's something which impacts other Jenkins users? So, the function doesn't work even from the Azure portal. So, from the Azure portal, some destiny doesn't work. It was just easier to debug from there but the error log is, I mean, really unclear. Like, I think I updated some data that was working on this morning and I couldn't find any information regarding that. So, maybe we should either organize a session where we only work on that, like with a shared screen. So, I can plan this for the next week and next week. That's an amazing kind of a list. Okay, if you could find someone who would be willing to help us, I mean, from Microsoft or from basically, whoever has some experience with it. I mean, I can have a fiddle with it. I don't think it'll take much. Okay. Well, I've had a poker. I've played with it before. I've ran it locally. It's quite easy to run. Okay. My point, personally, I mean, I don't want to set up an environment for that. So, if you already have everything in place, that would be easier. Yeah, I've already got it locally. Okay. So, I'll bring you later. Regarding the automated release, there is nothing new yet. I'm still the same. We are waiting for a digital inputs. So, we cannot move that project at the moment. And finally, I'm still regarding the automated release. Last Friday, I tried to run my neural bits. I have a Docker container, but for some reason I have five of the tutorials right now, so it's not working. So, I should try to find some time by the end of the week to make it working. But I already have a shot ready and a Docker container. So, I guess it's a matter of time to identify what's wrong right now. But my plan is to replace neural brain by neural bits in the new automated release process. Otherwise, this is pretty old for the last two weeks. So, I don't know if you have any topics that we want to discuss right now. For me, one question was about the Jenkins server brain. So, the last bot meeting, we agreed to have it. So, we lost you, right? The only thing that we hear from you was the last meeting you agreed. And that's it. Tyler's archive to repository. Sorry. Tyler's archive to the green repository. Okay. Is my audio working now? Yes, it's working. Yeah. So, Tyler archived the depositories. We also approved the immediate shutdown. Okay. So, basically, you can shut down when you feel it's convenient. So, basically what I did right now is I removed the Dennis record. So, just arrived nowhere. Now is this. And the question that I have is regarding the database, should I just delete the database? Do you think it contains valuable information? Should I need a backup of that database? I personally would just delete it. Yeah. So, it follows configuration as code. Yes. So, the database is used for tracking updates or something like that, if I recall correctly. Yeah. So, we can recreate it. So, the database was used to just to query the data. Okay. So, otherwise, then I would just delete the database. And so, I already started working in the deprovisioning, but I'm not done yet. Any other topics? Nope. Then, thanks for your time.


What's up my friends, Ryan Van Duzer here with a little video about all the gear I used on the Baja Divide. Now this is specific to that route, but I'm thinking 90% of this stuff would be good for essentially any bike packing trip. If you want to watch my videos, I made an entire series, I will link those below. Please like and subscribe and share them and let's get into it. Okay now, pay attention, I'm only going to do this once. Did you get all that? Did you take notes? It was too fast, just replay this video in slow motion. Thanks for watching my video, please like and subscribe, see you later. Just kidding. I've broken this gear list down into segments, we're going to start with clothing. Just a heads up, I will have a list of everything I talk about in the description down below of this video so you can go back and find everything. Let's get started with riding shirts. I always bring two Merino wool riding shirts and these ones are made by one of my favorite companies called Shower's Pass. Why do I love Merino wool? Because it doesn't stink like a lot of that plasticky, synthetic material. You can wear this for days on end and you're not going to offend anybody with your stench, which is important. One pair of riding shorts. These ones are made by another bolder brand called Eleven Pine. My buddy Jeff started this company not long ago. The material is really nice and my favorite part is you can zip up the side of the shorts so you can make them tight and then you can make them loose. One pair of padded liners and these are crucial.   One pair of lightweight long pants and these are really great because when the sun goes down in Baja it gets pretty chilly. So you put these on after your day of riding so you can hang out and camp and be comfortable. They're also very good for keeping bugs and mosquitoes from going to town on your bare legs. One long sleeve wool base layer again to keep you warm at night time. These are also great to sleep in. A buff. I usually wear these like this to keep sun off my neck while I'm riding. If you come upon a stream it's great to take these off, dip them in the stream, put them back on and it just keeps you nice and cool. And at night time I put them up to here when I'm in camp so I can look like Rambo. Warm sleeves. I love these because they keep sun off my arms, protects me. I don't need to wear sunscreen when I have these on and again you can drip water on them and it keeps your arms nice and cool. A lightweight down jacket. These things weigh almost nothing but they add a lot of warmth for night time and as an added bodice when you get ready for bed you take off your jacket, you crunch it all up like this and make a little pillow and it's really nice to sleep on. Well I know you're probably thinking right now, well Ryan what about socks? Well let's talk about socks. Again, merino wool. These ones are smart wool, they're great, they don't stink like crazy like those plasticky synthetic socks and at night time they're nice and cozy and warm. I bring two pairs of these. Riding shoes. These ones are flat, as you will see there is no SPD, I'm not clipping into my pedals.  Comfy. Comfy. And they don't smell bad either because of the wool socks. Sandals. These are really nice for the end of the day you take off your hot shoes and you put these on. Make sure they're fairly thick though, I have learned the hard way on my first Baja trip. I had really thin sandals and there's so many thorns on the ground that goes right through and it pokes you in the foot and it hurts. Gloves. These are really nice, there's a little bit of padding so it gives your hands a break. Like I said Baja is so rough it's like a little bit of suspension right here.  I have scars. I learned the hard way. Helmet. Duh. Sunglasses. The sun is so bright and powerful you really want to protect those ojos.  Underwear. I only bring one pair of underwear because I only wear these at night time after I take off my riding shorts and I'm a boxer briefs kind of guy. What kind of guy or gal are you? So here it all is and it packs down really nice and small and it doesn't weigh much and that is key because you don't have a lot of room on your bike to bring five pairs of this and six pairs of that. You can easily wash clothes in streams or if you stay in a hotel every few days you can wash stuff in the sink or however you want to do it. Yeah, that's all I got to say about that. Let's move on. Yay camping gear. Camping gear is a lot of fun and this one right here is, can you take a guess? It's a bag of beans. Just kidding. It is my tent. It's a new tent. It's the big Agnes fly creek and it is specific to bike packing. You'll see the poles fold down really nice so you can put this on your handlebars. Even if you have drop bars you can put this between the two drops. This tent is plenty big. This is the two person one. Even though I'm only one person I like to have a little extra room. It only weighs about three pounds. It's really easy to put up and take down and it seems pretty durable. I've used this about 30 nights and it's in tip top condition. It's nice. This bag right here is waterproof too. That is cool. You're going to see that brands are specifically making camping gear geared toward bike packers. Check out this sleeping pad. It is tiny and it weighs nothing. It is the Thermarest Neo Air Uber Lite. Uber and Uber and German Mitsupa Dupa Extra Lite. Actually I don't think it means that. But this thing is great. Unfortunately because it is so light it's pretty thin and I popped this on my first night out in Baja. Luckily it has a patch kit so I patched it back up. What's that? You want to see this all blown up? Okay. Here it is. I feel like if I put a string on it it would just float in the air like a balloon. This thing is really light but it's also pretty darn comfortable. Ole!  These are great and they are wet wipes and I've never traveled with wet wipes before I met John and Mira and John taught me about this. So wet wipes are great because at the end of the day if you don't have water to jump into you can wipe all the salty stuff off, do this, do that, get yourself pretty clean and then you save those in the next morning when you wake up and you have to do a little duty or a dookie or whatever you call it in your country you can use this as toilet paper. Pretty good idea huh? Thanks John and Mira. I miss Mira. You're so cute. You are so cute. This is my sleeping bag and it's actually not a sleeping bag. It's technically a quilt. It doesn't zip up and something like this is great for Baja where it's fairly warm. This one goes down to 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 0 degrees Celsius and it packs down really really small and I will show you what it looks like. Check it out. It's tiny. It's freaking tiny and it doesn't weigh much. I don't know exactly how much it weighs but it's not much. Look into the light. This is really cool. It's a loosey light. It's solar powered and this is great to have around camp. You can hang it up in trees or something and it's a nice lantern and when you're done you just squeeze it down and it packs quite nicely. Headlamps are also nice for just making food, spreading out beans, making that perfect burrito. You see this thing right here? This is the Garmin inReach and I'm not showing it to you in real life because I was borrowing it from a friend and I had to give it back but I can't believe I haven't traveled with one of these before. So if you have a family member or a friend who's really worried about you when you go on these adventures, this is great because these work anywhere in the world even when there's no cell phone reception and you can send them a little message every night that says, hey, I had a great day, I'm A-OK, you don't need to worry about me.  I'm not even that little anymore but she still worries. She's a mama. Also, if you really do get yourself into some trouble, there is an SOS button on this thing. You push it and it alerts the local authorities and they come and save you. It's pretty incredible. They're expensive and there's a monthly fee you have to pay but hey, safety first, right? I put all of my toiletries into a little bag like this. Things that I always have on hand, sunscreen, this is essential. I've been profaned for when those legs and those butts get sore, obviously a toothbrush because I know you're going to be doing a lot of making out when you're on a bike packing trip and some neo spore in if you happen to get a cut or something. Here it is. You were wondering when it was going to show up and here it is. My shaver. I've been using an electric shaver pretty much every day ever since I started getting little bits of facial hair when I was like 13 or 14 years old. I just like having a smooth face. It's easier to put sunscreen on and I don't know the brand. People always ask me what the brand is. It looks like it's a brawn. I buy whatever's cheapest at Target. Here's another funny item. It's a butter knife and it's kind of like my good luck butter knife. I've been traveling with one of these ever since I started bike touring over 10 years ago. The reason why I like these as opposed to a Leatherman is that it's nice and long. You can put it in the jar of peanut butter or beans and it's just a lot easier to spread.  This is my absolute favorite multi-tool. It's made by Crank Brothers. It has all the Allen keys you'll ever need. Has a Phillips head and it has a chain tool in case you break your chain. CO2 cartridges. You pretty much have to ride tubeless in Baja because there's just so many thorns. If you had tubes in there you'd get flats every single day. That sealant in there really does a great job.  So you need one of these to fill it right away. If you're out of CO2 cartridges or for some reason it's not working I always bring an extra tube. This will at least get you hopefully to the next bike shop where you can get things taken care of. You can pull this tube right back out of there and go back to tubeless. Tire levers. Can you see what this is?  You fill it up with one of these bad boys and the sealant will coagulate or something around it creating a seal. Coagulate. I haven't used that word in a long time and I'm glad I just did. One extra bottle of tire sealant. You're going to want this. If you happen to get a flat and you lose a lot of your sealant you're going to want to add some more in. This stuff I'm pretty sure it's magic. You want to know how many flats I've gotten in Baja due to thorns? Zero. And it's all because of this. I did get a flat once but that's because I slammed into a rock really hard and it broke the seal and I lost all of the air at once. Lube. Not that kind of lube. This is for your chain. This is a dry lube which is what you need in Baja. Your chain is going to get caked with dust over and over and over throughout the day so you're going to use this a lot so put it in a place on your bike that's easy to get to. Don't forget me. I know I was just ripping on Leathermans but I do bring one. I don't use these for spreading peanut butter or beans. I use it for pretty much everything else. It is nice to have a knife blade or pliers or anything else in here in a pinch. You absolutely need a good pump. This one is my favorite. It's the Lezine and it kind of acts as a floor pump. You put this down. You put your foot here and you can pump like crazy. Those teeny little pumps just take forever. I really like it even though it's bigger. I do like it. And you want one of these not only if you get a flat but because you're probably going to be playing with your air pressure quite a bit in Baja. Some days you're going to be on some rows that are just washboard and really rough and you're going to want to take some pressure out of your tires so you have a smoother ride. And you might hit a road every now and then like pavement. You pump it back up so they're nice and hard. This is key. Also, I always wrap my pumps with lots of duct tape. Duct tape comes in very handy as you all know. So where are you going to put all of that stuff that I've been talking about in the bike bags? And this one is the frame bag and this to me is the MVP. This is where I put all of my stuff that I need throughout the day and it's easy access because it's right under you right there. This one was made custom for me by my good friend Jenny. But they sell these at any bike shop pretty much. Make sure that it fits snug and you can fit a lot of good stuff in there. This little sucker right here is really awesome. It goes right behind your stem on your top bar and I usually put stuff that I get into all the time like sunscreen or some bars. I also put my little camera in here. It opens up really easily. It's magnetic and I can just slap it shut. You all know I love my town. I love my Boulder, Colorado and I love repping companies from here. This is another one. It's called Green Guru and not only is it from here the company, but they make this stuff here and it's all upcycled fabrics that they make into really cool bike gear. This bag goes on my handlebars again. Really easy to get at and this little guy right here goes in the back of the bike under the seat. This is where I put all my little bike tools, the multi-tool and the CO2 cartridges. Here is another made in Boulder product by my buddy Chris. It's called the Slap Bag. This goes on your handlebars and it opens up. You can put again, you can put bars or sunscreen and it just slaps shut nice and easy and yes this is still very dusty from Baja. So my bike packing setup with the Trek 1120 is a little bit unique. It's really the only design out there that's like this. Most bikes you're going to have some sort of a seat pack off the back of your seat post. The Trek has a rear rack where you can put in little bags so they kind of act as paniers and so I have these little dry bags that I put all of my stuff in, usually my nighttime camping stuff in these little Sea to Summit dry bags. Now let's get into the exciting world of water bottle cages and it might not seem like an important item on your bike. You just go to a shop and buy a water bottle cage, but you really want strong ones and these are the strongest ones that I have found. They are called Widefoot and they are made in the USA and they come in lots of fun colors. They hold really big water bottles. This is a 64 ounce clean canteen and they use these foil straps which are great for everything. You really want to have as many extra straps like this as you can just in case you need to strap something down. I really love these clean canteen water bottles. These are 64 ounces each. I have three of them on my bike at all times that can usually last me a day to two days depending on how hot it is and how much I'm drinking and I love that they are metal because they are just bomb proof. I don't like plastic. Plastics are just filling up our landfills so I try to buy stuff that lasts a really long time and you see this? This is about seven pesos. It's 20 pesos to the dollar and this is about how much it costs to fill up all three of those water bottles with purified water. There's no need to be buying plastic bottles in Baja. Pretty much every single tienda all over Baja has a little station where you can refill your water. Keep the plastic out of the landfills. There might be a time where you run out of water and you're not near civilization to get a refill so I always bring some way to purify water and hopefully you're near some stream or body of water to do that. I like iodine because it is small and easy to pack. You do have to wait about 30 minutes before you drink the water but it does purify it and make it safe for consumption. This little thing right here might be my favorite new addition to my bike packing setup. It is the Wahoo Roam and it is a GPS bike computer and it goes on my handlebars and what I did is I downloaded all of the Baja Divide maps to this thing and it gave me turn for turn directions the entire time. On my first trip to Baja, years ago I didn't have this and I got lost all the time. This is going to be on my handlebars all the time now no matter what I'm doing.  Which I don't know if that's a good thing. But it's interesting and it's really easy to use too. As you know I love documenting my adventures and sharing them with all of you. To do that I need to bring quite a bit of camera equipment. For the average bike packer a cell phone is enough but I'm going to give you a list of what I bring to make the videos look so purty. Check it out this is my drone and it's pretty small. This is the DJI Mavic Air. It folds down pretty small and I love this because it really gives the viewer a great idea of just the expanse of Baja or wherever I'm traveling. Unfortunately the batteries on drones don't last very long. In my case the Mavic Air can stay up for about 12 to 15 minutes depending on the wind conditions so I always bring four batteries total. The other one is in the drone. I also bring extra blades for the drone. If you break a blade the drone is not going to go in the air so you need to have extras just in case. This little guy right here is the Sony RX100 Mark 7. It is the newest in this lineup. And for how small it is the quality is really quite incredible. I can zoom into things and get you those pretty shots of flowers or cactus or whatever I want to show you. Maybe a chupacabra. What's really important here is this little external ceramonic microphone. This is key because otherwise the audio on this is pretty bad but this is my main camera in Baja. This little workhorse right here is the Sony FDRX3000 and it has been my go to POV point of view camera for the past three years. I love it because the image stabilization is really quite incredible. You'll notice I put a little beard on it right here. This is to reduce the wind noise. But this is usually on my head right here on my helmet getting those nice shots. Sony has not updated this in about three years so I imagine I'm going to be going to GoPro here pretty soon. It's unfortunate because I really loved this camera. So goodbye my friend. I get questions all the time about how I charge up batteries for my cameras. Do I have a solar power setup? And I do not. I just bring a ton of little batteries. These batteries work both in the RX100 and the action cam. So whenever I get to a hotel every three to four days I just charge like crazy. Build them all back up and then I'm good for a while. Tiny little tripod. These are really good to set up if you want to get shots of you riding past the camera back and forth. And just as a reminder I made a video last year about how I make my videos while I'm on an adventure. I will link that below. I film a ton out there so I always bring lots and lots of extra SD cards. It is very rare that I travel with my computer or external hard drive so I don't back anything up which is a little bit dangerous. These are my backups. So this I treat like the holy grail. I keep this with me at all times very close. If anything were to happen to this little container of SD cards you would not be watching any videos. I just hope that never happens. Okay that was really long thanks for hanging with me. I'm sure I forgot some things but it doesn't really matter. You got the gist of it and here's the most important thing. There is no right way. There is no perfect gear for bikepacking. The point is just to get out your door and to go on an adventure. I do realize that a lot of my gear is very expensive but you don't need the most expensive stuff. When I first started doing this I just patched together whatever I had and you know what? I was just fine and you will be too. The point is to just get out there and sleep under the stars and ride your bike and make new friends. Thank you so much for watching this video. Please like and subscribe if you want to watch this series. It's really a lot of fun. I will link that below and whew I lost all my air. Have a great day everybody and I will see you down the road.