Hello, I don't know. I need to see if there's sound coming. So if any of you can hear me, let me know Trying a new microphone with all this to see if we can get better audio quality Guess we are gonna see but let me know if you can hear me Quick. Yes thumbs up. We'll do yeah cool. Thank you, Dan Trying to keep the audio better so when we switch it to audio podcast, it's not as fucked up But I have to wear purple blue headphones These things are sexy though Sign sad about it. Does it sound better than usual or does it sound the same? Am I too loud? anything else You can think Alright All right, let's bring in the homie extra sensual Wasabi how you doing dude? All right. Oh weird. I can't hear my headphones. Hold on a second. I Can hear you. Yeah, it may be the mic isn't actually working like it should. Let me see. Can you still hear me? I can hear you fine Do you hear me better now? No, but I can hear you fine. Okay now. I can hear you through the headphones and everything, but hopefully the mic's good I got louder. Okay. Let me turn it down a bit Sorry, I'm trying to work out this new mic for the audio stuff. So when we do the audio quality Oh Jesus. Yeah, I'm going off trying to get it nice. I Don't know if it sounds better than normal to me What do you guys think is it better worse? Let's get it started and ask them before we I don't know Cuz I can turn it up and I can turn it down sometimes No, I did not get a haircut nor did I shave Full rough neck this week. Yeah It is a big vibrator. It's a big vibrator. It does look very very very phallic I would say but I mean it's a microphone. So that's just kind of how they're shaped It just got a fit in my mouth, buddy. All right, so it looks like everybody's saying it's good So we'll go with it and see how that is good. All right Today's topic you want to you want to say what it is? Yeah, I mean, we're gonna we're gonna bounce around a little bit like always but One of the things that we might start with is just sort of like we keep getting questions on You know, we talk a lot about on various shows And it's certainly a big thing on Instagram and other places of media of like How many different directions the scene is going that we don't like? Yeah, right? And you know, we've so we've spent a bunch of time Talking about like various effects and all that and then people keep suggesting well What if we talked about things that we could do or you know on that level or something lose truck Something constructive perhaps or something that like even someone who's not very connected or whatever on any level could accomplish right and so that like that resonated with me pretty good because it is it is better to talk about constructive things You know then it is to I mean it's important to like discuss the problem. So people know what's going on Right, but then it's like it can it can definitely seem insurmountable It does and right now is a really easy time for it to feel insurmountable when there's so many different Problems coming at cannabis in general for so many different directions as we see it Yeah, and so, you know, I kind of do this thing fairly often on the discord where I'll throw I'll throw out some questions for everybody to see what they want to hear talked about And you know, sometimes people come up with some pretty good some pretty good angles on things on top of that So we might delve into that too, but You know, yeah, how to how to change things where we're at, right? So I think maybe What what's really happening is that anytime, you know People really aren't adapted to fast change Yeah, right. So there's been a lot of changes happening really fast and I think it makes people's heads into some degree And it's happening fast enough that like, you know, I don't know if you think this way Matt But it's almost like every year or two is like a different scene Yeah, especially now where that like that maybe took like five or ten years For like things to like seem dramatically different on any level and it's great big strain changes and stuff like that Yeah, like strain, you know strains that got popular had a longer had a longer like runtime of popularity You know the laws change slower You know pricing and just you know, there's a lot of things that just seemed a little bit more stable And now everything's kind of rapid fire Yeah, right. There's rapid fire change and that makes people uncomfortable, right?  What is ethical? Yeah, what's for the for something that's been black market and illicit and clandestine for so long It's a different time kind of so what is okay and things that weren't okay before that would get you black listed May not be the same today. Yeah, so I mean and some of that is just some of that is just changing culture I mean, you know, I don't want to be like old man yells at cloud, you know or whatever because change is change but sometimes You know, there's different forces now than there used to be right You know and maybe the best way to put it in a nutshell is that like before all the forces Against us were pretty much in prohibition Yeah to a large degree, right? Yeah And I've even been giving this some some some thought because there's people that are getting roasted now for some of the people They're partnering with and stuff like that and they're fighting back and I even think to some degree like maybe the way That people fight back against those people like Matt even for somebody like you who like it used to be very effective to call Somebody out in the community. Yeah You know, I don't know if that's even the most effective path anymore Yeah, I don't think it is and it's hard sometimes for people who have a Past of doing that constantly, you know, you know one way to handle certain situations But I think now it really is a lot of beating your head against a wall Yeah, I mean people are throwing out the names and stuff like that that's going on and you know what it's really exposing is that you know, there's There's never been like this uber ethical time in weed.   Everyone wants to say they're in it for the plan Yeah, I mean that's a good thing to say. It's a good talking boy But what people are noticing is by people's associations now, right now you're starting to realize well like where do those ethics lie? Right and so there's and you know, and it's gone back I mean Matt Matt remembers even like when Colorado first went legal There was people in Colorado that should remain nameless that got into battles with buddies of ours About like well, you know go legal. That's the option And if you don't then you're unfair competition and it's not even snitching or ratting to like get you gone Yeah, because you're just untaxed. You're not paying the same dues I am like you're refusing to take the path and so that was like a massive split in the community That was a that was a very big turning point in the community when when it became possible to Snitch people out to med boards and not necessarily the police and at what point is Yeah, we're You know or doxing or they're just just just a variety of pressure tactics to get people off their back because a lot of times You know really what it boils down to is there's people that are making all kinds of choices about their own personal future and their friends, right? and in some cases like when they get exposed they don't want to be exposed because They feel like that might hurt their customer base sure Yeah, I heard seed sales potentially which could hurt their ability to partner with some of these people because they have to be useful To these bigger powers. Yeah and stuff like that, right? And so so there's an aspect now where it's like there's a lot of There's a lot of secret snitching. There's a lot of doxing. There's a lot of like through proxies or whatever and and how so Kind of what's happened is now is like the community has sort of lost the ability to police itself, right?  You can possibly imagine. Yeah, right? And so we're again, we're discussing issues now, but really what it boils down to is So I look at it and I I talk about it In my head like I think about this a lot, right where my whole life They've been telling me for in regards to cannabis that it's it's bad for you to have it You can't have it. You can't have it. You can't have it. You can't have it, right? Yeah, and we've all been fighting in this in this community like, you know, the overgrown overgrow was named Right for people that don't know the first real weed forum overgrow was named because the concept was overgrow the government Yes, like if too many people start growing and so many people start disobeying and people refuse to respect the law Then eventually they'll have to change the law so that people keep respect for other laws Yeah, so that was like the whole that was like the whole theory, right was like was You know was overgrow yeah, okay, and so now we have the that comes from Warner or not. I'm sorry Keys not Keys hawker Hoker, you know, one of my friends might chime in. I'm not sure it's old school.  Here's how we're gonna do it I'm giving away all the hemp plants before before 1996 when California actually passed Proposition 215, which was the first medical in the country And it was the first place to take it from totally illegal to like a path towards like like you can call it a gray area Do you remember when they used to push for like to get like hundreds of thousands of hippies to move to Wyoming? Yeah, because it was so lightly populated We could probably affect the vote and people were trying to figure out. Well, what state can we actually get some movement? Yeah, right. What state can we actually get something and now we've overgrown to the point where people are looking around at prices And how to survive and all the various things that are happening and then like maybe man We maybe we overgrew a bit too much. Yeah And so that aspect that price dive that worry that we talk about that's caused a lot of people to look around and and Choices are being made. Yeah Right. Yeah, people are mentioning certain choices right now. I mean when we're talking about choices You can go back to even the the roll-up of of how it worked And how the community reacted when we saw things like icy mag and heaven stairway get taken down He was mentioning shebang, you know, that was one of the people that got taken down for Um, I believe running icy mag and heaven stairway somewhere After that when that happened and was that 05? Somewhere, uh, icy mag was laid if a heaven stairway is right about 05 I mean heaven stairway that got like cannabis world and overgrown taken down Yeah, but it's all part of the same bust. It's all part of the same thing when that happened I got scared enough of the internet. I honestly didn't really start poking around again until Social media really came back on in the mid teens. Yeah I was scared off it for a while You know, it makes sense. I got scared off icy mag once the cops seized the servers. I and usually, uh, Yes, your bang is actually there there's paperwork right now and he's he's in trial So yeah, he did get busted. Unfortunately That he got busted with the server And and cops don't tend to give servers back when they take them either. So a lot of people need to keep that in mind But you know, so there's an aspect of You know, people are asking well, what can we do to change things positively? Yeah, right? Um, and you know, there's an aspect where there I'm not I'm not big on mentioning names on the show or whatever There's a bunch of comments going on but obviously like there's a lot of stuff going on recently On ig and and you know, people are talking about like associations that people are doing Yeah, right. Well, you know, you can you can vote with your wallet Yeah, they're gonna try to hide their work and off in different brands and different this and different that You can figure out who they are and you can not spend your money on them Yeah, right. They essentially need an enormous amount of consumer money to stay afloat Always they're all doing this because they think this is the best money play for themselves So the way to hurt them is to is to deny that money play Yeah, right is the you know, you can so, you know, maybe maybe I'll continue my thought or whatever So my whole life they can't have it. You can't have it. You can't have it, right? And now we're at this point where they're like, man, this thing's kind of cool I mean, we'll take it from here Yeah, so to me the fight hasn't changed really the fight has just shifted we used to fight for access and acceptance Yeah, right.  Yeah, so now we're kind of getting there Yeah, we've made we've made way faster Like expansion on access and and safety and the ability to use it And I think within a number of years a lot of these like piss testing for jobs will go away I think there was something announced today about that, right in the news I'm not sure actually but it's gonna go away. It's gonna go away soon because so many states are led making it legal It's just gonna you know, and then wide varieties of people are going to be able to start using it without penalty Yeah, it has something to do with jobs not being able to discriminate in legal states where there's medical cannabis And yeah, they're not allowed to discriminate against legal cannabis if I remember correctly So so here's the gig when as it shifts from like safety and freedom and access Right and the right to do so now it's going to shift to like who controls it who sells it to you like who You know like that really who controls it That's the fight and it probably will be a fight that we're battling but what people have to remember it's dark days right now and It's like a lot of people that are like deeply in the cannabis industry are hurting pretty bad Yeah, which is why I think it's causing some of these desperate moves Yes, right is that when it comes down to it, there's people that like they want to survive They want to make money and if they have to deal with the devil they will Right, but I would like to throw out there that um You know when it comes down to it that we are winning Right, it's just that the fight has shifted You know like we were fight, huh? Who's we that's winning? Well, I mean in the sense that like, you know imagine 15 years ago If you thought that like 38 or 40 states in in in America would allow recreational or medical camps Right like there's more access for more people now than ever before Yeah, right So we're not happy with the direction the scene is going But that's because our previous goal. We were all pretty united on We want this thing to be available and accessible and not get people in trouble And we want to be able to smoke and share weed Yeah And now it's gone into like this economic thing where People are like when you think about I don't want to say corporations because that's just like a group of people or whatever But when you think about big business say They're gonna want to control it They're gonna want to patent it. They're gonna want to make it look at all the recreational stuff going on It's not exactly legal It's more like highly regulated tightly taxed and controlled Yes, you know nothing Nothing Decriminalized about it. Yeah, I mean if I want to grow a bunch of vegetables or tomatoes or fruit or anything like that in my backyard I can do that. I can grow as many tomatoes as I want. I can cross tomatoes Every person on this on this thing that I I could send them tomato seeds Yeah, you can send them thousands of tomatoes. Yeah, we could all we could all trade and share and post pictures of our hybrids And are this and are that and everything else and it would be free.  Mm-hmm. What we have is like so what we have going on right now is that You know, if you have a six-plant limit for in your state You basically can't breed Yeah, you can't keep mom stock You can't have a normal amount of plants that a person even a hobbyist and this spirit to me this is where the the term legal legalization was bastardized and A lot of uneducated because like even when I was 15 even when I was 15 I knew that once corporations got their hands dug in deep enough to be able to take over immediately That's when they're going to flip the bill even as a 15 year old kid. I realized that's how the world works That's how corporations work. That's what happened But I did not expect them to push it under the guise of legalization because even today Any any average citizen who doesn't grow but smokes and if you ask them if weed is legal They're going to tell you yes 99% of the time going to tell you yes And they don't even know what's happening to the real grower side of the aspect that there's nothing legal about They're making it legal in the sense to possess or whatever, but you still have to go to approved stores And buy it from approved vendors And as we both know that invites corruption at all these different levels, you know, and so strangely And this might be like from a capitalist perspective This might be one of the first cases that I know of of this where it's like The legalization of something led to a massive drop in quality and a massive increase in price Yeah, I don't know about the massive increase in price with the drop in quality. That's a hard one You know, well, I mean there's think about how many people are buying like 70 and 80 dollar eighths Yeah Right and think about how expensive all that stuff is now Yeah, and I mean there's there's plenty of cheap too, but it's like the taxes I mean I saw that thing where you know, they broke down like how much an eighth is and like the farmer gets three bucks And the tax man gets 21 bucks And the and the and the dispo gets 20 bucks and then the Freckin, you know dispensary gets 40 bucks and you end up paying 80 bucks. Yeah You know, it's it's that that is preposterous. There's like three layers there. There's the government There's the distribution and there's the store And they're all You know pillaging because they can't I paid attention when I was a kid I watched that movie Robin Hood And I remember there was a sheriff of Nottingham and I remember they would Bug people for money and I kept that with me growing up and I was like, wow, this tax thing's a scam, isn't it? Like at some level at some level the way it works now This is we've all been conditioned to think that this is what we need to do and I agree to have society people need to pitch in But I mean I what I what I think has happened is like You know, it's it's one of those things where anytime they any kind of vice becomes more acceptable They want to give money to cops in schools Yes, obviously like they're just like, well, you know, here's funding for various groups Right, and so we're gonna tax the shit out of this vice or whatever it might be We're gonna have to ease the other voting half And you know, they they made taxes based probably on like a much higher pound price than people are getting Yeah in that regard so You know, so it's not really so that's really what's happened is like in the 215 era Anybody could grow whatever they wanted and if they had a medical card and they grew good enough weed They could walk into a medical dispensary and they could make a deal Yeah, and that allowed a wide variety of things to proliferate I mean one of the one of the aspects of the person that's getting shit talked a bunch this week Um, is that not only are people upset at like the the associations that he's making, right? Um, but he but you know a lot of the genetics that people you know He sold his genetics for high dollar and they were and there was nurse reaction And there was a lot of disease and viroid involved a lot of viroid Which we will be doing a show september 8th about the hop late and viroid and everything you'd ever want to know inside out We're gonna try to cover. Yeah, and because it's it's it's the new You know without all it takes is poor practices At a facility and especially at a nursery And not and a lack of care and spending on testing and you can nuke You can spend so many gardens and get infected Yeah, we've had friends who have lost whole collections time and time again Because of this virus because it's not really or viroid because it's not easy to clean And that's you know, that's that's a that's a that's a product to be honest of legalization But without proper regulation Yes You know, um, you know, I mean on a certain level it's like, uh You know using using razor blades on multiple plants is sort of like using tattoo needles on multiple customers Or junkies share needles. It's the same whatever whatever. It's it's the same gig It's like unless it's sterilized in between or use a fresh one for the next like it's it's gotta be kind of that kind of of Environment now. Yeah, because it's written it, you know, and so There's an important another reason To not forget to buy seeds.  So yeah, I mean, that's that's another thing is that Maybe one. I don't know my comments have totally frozen. I haven't seen my I haven't seen any new comments in a bit So if people are typing stuff in it's like for the last five minutes. It's just not done jack So I apologize if I'm not seeing anything um, but You know, there's it used to be that uh That's 215 era and sort of the grain market era Um allowed a lot of capitalistic activity allowed a lot of small businesses a lot a lot of garage size growers independent breeders You know various types, uh, you know pretty low bar to entry Yeah, you know and now that that's all getting now that that's all getting like, you know, legalized or whatever else It's barring entry to a lot of people. Yeah. Oh, wow. It just totally disappeared. I know I tried to turn it off and on But it didn't really work. It didn't really work now.  That's even We could we could stop it and I can edit this back in To the audio one. I mean it's a bummer enough to see people's comments Yeah, I'd like to see people's comments too. So I'm going to restart this and we'll resume Okay restart. I guess I'll see you in a second. See you in a sec


I'm going to take you guys through a carnivore diet day of eating based on the principles of nutrient density through high quality animal foods. They contain the highest amount of the most available forms of every single vitamin, mineral, element, and fatty acid our body needs. In addition to that, I'm going to follow some indigenous and native dieting principles that we used to consume raw, cooked, as well as fermented animal foods. First, let's get our grill lit up. So this is how I set up my grill every day. I turn the burners to off. I turn the gas on so the gas fills up in the line. I take the grate up and then I put some wood on top of the burners. You guys can see I put some old grates at the bottom to rest on the burners so I have somewhere to place the wood. You don't actually need those old grates to put wood on top of the burners. It just makes it a little easier. Then we turn the gas on. The only problem here, as with any grill, is when it's really windy outside is when you have an issue. It doesn't matter how cold it is, it doesn't matter how hot it is, the wind is the issue. While the grill is heating up, I'm going to grab my high meat, the fermented meat. It's actually outside airing out overnight. Oh man, that smells horrible.  Jesus Christ. So this meat has been fermenting for I think at least a month now and we're going to eat some of it. Generally, you don't want to air this out for a long period of time overnight as flies will lay eggs in the warmer months. But since it's winter outside and there were no flies, I decided to do it overnight. Doesn't that look good? I don't even recommend eating this inside to be honest.  I did a video on this, my God. As I did a video on this like two weeks ago, the smoking high meat with the sausage in my mouth, if any of you boys want to see that. But this is something else, man. This is otherworldly. I've never smelled anything this bad. At least, oh man, that's bad. That is so horrible. Let's eat it.   It's because of the high vitamin K2 content and the beneficial bacteria content. Last time I said, you know, the jar smelled and the meat didn't smell that bad itself. This time, this is absolutely ridiculously bad. This is like crazy. This is absolute insanity.  I'm not going to lie guys, that's pretty wild. That's pretty gnarly. We'll leave it at that for today. We'll just have a couple bites. Let me go grab another jar and see if it tastes different. So yeah, I mean, beneficial bacteria, vitamin K2 content.  I'm trying to honestly objectively figure out if we should be eating rotten animal foods. So here I have another jar. The first jar was fat. This jar is protein.  Flavor profile guys, very sour, sour, acidic, funky. Well, if you guys want to know more about high meat, check out my high meat video. Let's go curl up some steak. Okay guys, so today I'm going to have a bone-in chuck steak that I got from a local farm. This was 650 a pound bone-in, not the best price especially for chuck. I have a pound of yellow grass-fed beef fat. This is going to be my primary calories and nutritional source of fat-soluble vitamins.  What we'll do is we'll grill this stuff up and then we'll come back inside and we'll pan sear the beef brain. This is an amazing source of DHA, omega-3 cholesterol. Just before I go outside, I'm going to put this on a paper towel so it dries out so that when we come back inside to sear it, it's very easy to get a nice brown crust. You guys asked for some grilling ASMR, so we're going to do that today. Hopefully there's no trucks in the background. All right guys, we've got a nice beautiful amber crust, meat is still very rare on the inside. Look at that. Okay guys, normally I would throw the steak in the oven but I don't want the really loud background noise of the oven in this video. So we're just going to pan sear our beef brain and then we're going to eat it. Okay, I'm warming up my pan on high heat. I'm just going to put a bit of grass-fed beef tallow that I rendered myself in the pan. This is the beef brain that's been in paper tallow for about 10 minutes. As soon as the pan starts smoking, take the beef brain. Just want to move the beef brain a little bit so it gets an even crust. I just have the pan off the heat because it's a little too hot. Surface has to be super-duper dry. Pan has to be hot, preferably carbon steel or cast iron. Keep moving that beef brain around in the pan, making sure you get an even caramelization. The fat distribution on the bottom of the pan will dictate where the crust forms. So by moving the beef brain around in the pan, we're giving more variation and reducing the margin of error. Okay guys, so earlier we had that fermented meat and fat for the vitamin K2 and some beneficial bacteria. Now we have the beef brain we just fried for some DHA, Omega 3 fatty acids, cholesterol, amazing, amazing source of nutrition for the body. We have this yellow grass-fed beef fat. This is just overall fat-type of vitamin content, A, D, E, K2, small amounts of linoleic and linoleic acids that convert to Omega 3s and Omega 6s. And of course we have our chuck steak. This is going to be the bulk of our protein and of course the fat in this chuck steak is going to contain fat-soluble vitamins as well. We're getting minerals from every single one of these foods here today. Brain in particular also has very high levels of vitamin E and vitamin C as well as iodine. Truly a nutritionally complete meal. The only thing missing here would be some liver. But I usually eat liver once a week, usually half a pound to a pound of liver a week now. Here I just have some salt. This is Redmond salt.  I tasted a bunch of different salts and I actually changed my favorite salt from Celtic salt to Redmond's real salt. If you guys are concerned about prions in brain tissue, Crucible Diacob disease, Mad Cow disease, check out the brain video I did two days ago. But brain is my favorite part of the animal and I will be having it first. It also helps during your meal to eat the fat first.  This will gauge your fat appetite and it will help you reduce the volume of food you're eating.  I like putting salt on my meals after I cook them. I'm able to gauge the salt that way and not over salt the food. So this might seem like a lot of food guys, but this is the reason I titled the video Before and After Fasting. I think it's important to establish a base nutrient density in your diet before you start a fast and then after you fast, you want to consume very high nutrient dense foods. A lot of people think that you need to consume like broths and small amounts of fruit and small amounts of foods when you break up fast. No! Throughout all of evolutionary history, if humans went periods of time without eating, they would usually break their fast on large amounts of animal foods when they were successful in a hunt. And the reason you would eat a lot of food before and after fasting is you want your gut bacteria to be adjusted to the food so when you eat it after the fast, you don't get sick.  So you're effectively still getting nutrients throughout the fast. Now at this point, I can honestly say after having that fermented meat in the brain, I'm not hungry. If I was trying to lose weight, if I was trying to restrict my calories, I'm good. Save money, whatever it may be. I'm not hungry right now. I could probably be good for the rest of the day, but Frankie Boy feels like a little piggy piggy today, so we're going to eat some more. So this is just the yellow beef fat.  That's what I usually go by. So before I go into the flavor of this, I forgot to describe the beef brain.  Brain is very rich.  Whenever a food has a high cholesterol content, it carries certain properties. It's very viscous. It sticks to things. It has a very rich mouth feel. I really do enjoy the taste of brains and for me, as someone that's allergic to eggs that would love to eat a dozen egg yolks a day, I just use brains as a replacement for that. Overall flavor descriptors for brain, pretty mild taste, but very, very rich, super delicious, one of my favorite foods, especially with the pants here and the salt on it.  That was completely raw, though, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I normally do. But this beef fat, guys, when I take a bite of this beef fat, I literally think in my head, what the, like it's insane. It's like nutty, it's grassy, it's sweet, it's rich, it's delicious, and you don't even have to put salt on this.    When I eat this beef fat, I think, this is why I'm doing everything I do. Food quality ties into nutrient density, ties into happiness and healthiness, and it's crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy delicious. I can't express that enough. That being said, grass fed meat is five to ten times higher in various vitamins, minerals, fatty acids than grain fed meat is, but the nutrients are contained in the fat.    It is objectively more delicious than any meat product most people consume in their diet. Go to a farmer's market, local farm, find some grass fed meat, ask them for some fat. Now this idea of eating fat first to nausea and then moving on to protein, you only really have to do it once to gauge your appetite and then you can kind of go back and forth between.  Fat isn't necessarily always like tender, sometimes the fat is very tough and hard to chew and color is usually an indicator that it's grass fed. You guys might have seen like a week or two ago the super duper orange beef fat, obviously this beef fat isn't as orange as that animal was, but you still want it to be some hint of yellow or beige and if it's grass fed and it's not this color that could be due to oxidation or that it's not truly grass fed so when they store the meat for long periods of time in vacuum seals for like months the meat loses its nutrient content. Now some of you guys might be thinking oh this is why Franky Boy looked a little thick lately and that carnivore goes vegan video and hey what are you going to do now on to the Chuck steak and you know it's funny so I want to ask me on Instagram the other day Frank how do you make Chuck steak tender and I was like you can't it's not tender it's never gonna be tender you got to shoot the hell out of it if you cut it against the grain and leave it really rare it's pretty good like this is pretty much raw in the middle and I would say this is almost as tender as a ribeye actually if you cut it right I had some bone marrow yesterday and spreading bone marrow on steaks is one of my favorite things it's like spreading butter on steaks I would if I was not allergic to butter but having like pieces of fat with the steak like this is also pretty tasty guys this never gets old this diet never gets old it's unbelievable I've been enjoying meals for like seven years I don't have the best sense of taste or smell but you can really get like the strong mineral farmy flavor in the meat this isn't that gamey or grassy but you could definitely taste the difference that's the that's the cooking gradient it's completely raw on the inside and you know sometimes I always feel like oh I could go for like a medium rare steak pink steak but then I go to cook it pink and I really don't like it so anything past like red in the meat I just don't like you can really taste the variance from animal to animal that's why I always tell people who want to buy a whole cow or a side of beef just be really skeptical because one week I might get stuck with 10 pounds of meat I don't like but you don't want to be stuck with 600 pounds of meat you don't like I will probably finish all of this within an hour or so I'm just gonna watch some TV for a few minutes and finish eating I just figured there's no real point in showing you guys the rest of the meal again we got a really balanced fat soluble vitamin profile all the vitamins we need a plenty of B vitamins even vitamin C in the brand tissue and the raw meat we got some vitamin D3 assuming that the animal was getting some quality sunlight some quality pasture we got some vitamin E because these are high quality animal foods of course plenty of omega-3 fatty acids in the brain and the precursors little like and little enic acids in the fat all the minerals we need plenty of iodine in the brain tissue but thank you guys for watching please like subscribe and share the video if you can down below in the comments is my Amazon shop bunch of nutrient dense products in there from cod liver oil to vitamin D3 supplements patreon is a great way to get personalized question support Frank where do you get this where do you get your meat where do you get that I'm on Instagram guys I'm on Twitter I'm posting selfies I'm arguing with carnivore dieters posting pictures of indigenous people on Twitter stuff like that you guys do want to reach out to me for one-on-one consultations in regards to improving your overall health you can do so via my email frank a to fauna at gmail.com or on the website in the comments below Frank dash to fauna.com thanks again guys and enjoy the rest of your week


How many headshots do you think will be in today's episode? It's like John Wick now, isn't it?  I'm Corbin. I'm Rick and today we're on to episode four. Zipping through this thing, we only got six episodes left. Yeah, I think there's not, I think, no, I think it's nine. Oh, okay, then yeah. Six episodes left. Lots of stuff happened, including the son and Tripathi's wife. That happened. Lots of people died. I'm expecting a big gang fight here soon. Well, a bigger one, because obviously they've just been kind of shooting back at each other kind of stuff like that. And we didn't really hear from the dad's lawyer. I wonder if that storyline got cut, like if it would just get, if it actually went away. I just find it hard to believe that that storyline went away. The dad, the lawyer one, I find that hard to believe that that just went away. I don't think, no, his sense of justice, I don't think that that case has gone away. Okay, but anyways, if you're watching this on YouTube, in fact, what? Sorry, I have a prediction. Okay. I think he's, I think that dad is going to press this case and I think Tripathi is going to see about the loyalty of the boys and tell them they've got to off their dad. Interesting. That's my prediction. You were saying something about YouTube. If this is on YouTube and we have not gotten permission yet, which it, you know, I don't know if and when, if it'll happen at all. But if it's on YouTube, the previous ones have been, I have to cut it up with just our reactions of some of the highlights from the episodes. So let's go and look, oh my God, kind of stuff like that. And then you'll obviously see our discussion at the end, but the video and the audio of the episode won't be here unless they've given us permission by this time. But if you see us and you're wondering, hey, why is it like that? That's why because they'll give us a copyright strike. Other channels have got their stuff taken down as well. It's not just us. Amazon just, they, I think they probably hired a new person and it got all crazy because they never used to do this. But if you'd like to see the full uncut version, head over to Petra. There's future episodes already up there, if you're seeing this on YouTube, and they're all full and uncut. So you get to see our entire episode reaction with the video and audio on Patreon. So go check that out and thank you to so much for our Patreon supporters. Today's episode is called virginity. Which I don't know who is in this episode. I think we've seen most of them already have sex. I think it, I think it pertains to what I was saying earlier. I think the boys were virgins. They haven't killed anybody yet.  I think so. I think they're gonna, I think they're gonna lose their virginity by killing their dad. You think that's gonna happen this episode? No. Yeah, come on. I don't think so. All right, here we go. Three, two, one. Wait for the theme song. Oh, hello. What if it wasn't the sun? Yeah, that's not the sun. It isn't. Who is that? Who is that though? Raja is what she said. Oh, that's the, that's the guy who didn't take the wallet. That's the guy who didn't take the wallet in the last episode. I think it's like they're made or something. That was good. That is not socially distancing. They're both very good. Okay. I was wondering where he was. Oh, they haven't told him yet. Oh, geez. You think they're like laxatives or something? Ah, you were right. That's why it's called virginity. Here it comes. Is that the guy from the other day? He just left him there? Oh. Oh, he's gonna make him off him just to see if they can. That's not at the head or the heart. Nope. He got a look.  You're crazy. Hey, don't put your hand in it. Gross. All right. Let me try to figure this out. Hold on. Sorry guys. We had some technical difficulties there, but that was, oh, that was a good ending. This show is so interesting because it's also not going where I think it's going all the time because they'll often time, at least in the first four episodes, they'll address something and then not address it again for multiple episodes. Right. Right. Like that friend who we thought was going to start the gang war and at the end of episode two, I mean, outside of some time in the third episode, we haven't heard of him. And the case. Yeah. And same thing with the case and the, and then now with what's his face, the wife sleeping with that, that who we thought was the son that have yet to, well, she addressed it with the dad a little bit, but they, they're taking their time, which I'm not mad at. It's just, it's just so different because you think that, oh, these things that they, they, you leave off on, they're going to start addressing them real fast and they just don't. Yeah. And it's also really interesting what they're doing with the, the, the two kids now. Because obviously you knew the, the, what's his name? The brute, the big guy? I don't remember. I just know him as Bron and Brain. Yeah. Bron, you knew he was, he wanted to be like a gangster since the beginning, like since the first time he was, he tried to help Muna, I believe his name is catch that kid. He wants to, he wants to be that guy, but you knew that the brains was probably not going to be about it, but it's also strange. It's, they aren't taking what I thought because I thought they'd have like some remorse with their dad about it and they seem to be going like almost head first into it. Yeah. Just into this world and they want to be part of the gangster world now. Yeah. And clearly the episode was called virginity because they lose their virginity with a kill. That's going to be their dad. Yeah. Well, I don't know what their dad's going to have any point now if he has no case. Yeah. Well, that's, we'll see. Yeah. That remains to be seen, but how about that gunshot? Oh, this, it was actually a comparison to the three episodes, a very tame episode until the very end. Yeah. There was just, because you just, you come to expect it now with this series is that, okay, we're going to get some gore, we're going to get some gore gore. And this episode, even though I thought it was a good episode, in comparison to the others, it was really tame. It was taking, it was taking its time. You know, there's not a lot of action happening here. And then right at the end, you're like, Oh, there it is. There's the, uh, yeah, but it also in that it was different. I didn't feel like it lost any steam in it. I felt like it's just chugging right along. Oh, yeah. It's, it's, yeah. But it's so interesting how they're doing it because, and I like it because it's, you know, it's like we said, it's a stereotypical, for the most part, gangster family simple story, for the most part, at least right now, right, right now it is. And the fact that they're kind of telling it a little differently and in a different, like at some, it's, it's quite interesting because like you think they're going to go full throttle with all the violence.  And then they just show somebody's guts falling out of their stomach. If this is not a show for somebody who doesn't like that. Yeah. If you don't like that, I feel like most of those people would hate this show. Just because it's, there's a lot and I love it. I It's great. Yeah. Yeah. It's really interesting what because now what, what's the son going to do?  Mm-hmm. It's very Shakespearean, I guess. It is very Shakespearean. The whole dissension in the family style thing, I guess. Tripathi's obviously not like Macbeth at all. He's not really, he's pretty, has his head on his shoulders style. I'm interested what's going to happen though. Because there's, there's so many different angles now. Like, because you got Tripathi's son who apparently might kill his father. You got that lawyer who is still gunning for his father. You got that hit the brother character that's, they didn't really address in this episode at all. And now that the two kids at the end, obviously, is he actually going to, because obviously that blood was not cleaned up by the time he got in there. So it's, or is it a test? Is it a different test? Did they send this cop? Is this cop in their pocketbook to another test to see if they'll, they'll do it or not? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, no, I can't wait to watch the rest. All right. Well, if, yeah, it's, it's what I didn't, if we didn't have to record because it takes obviously more time since we have to record it. And we can't just sit down for 10 hours because, you know, we got families and other things to do that we can't just sit down. But I would totally just binge watch this thing right now. Oh, absolutely. All right. Well, on to the next episode.


The Venetian Inn has been here since 1947 in Tawny Town and has been in the family for 75 years this June. Or a great-grandfather, my great-grandfather and Gatsparado, I guess had a vision of building a restaurant with motels, a service garage, and a gas station, a Phillips 66 gas station. That's the vision I guess they had here and over time it's just, now it's just a restaurant that's been here for 75 years of just Ozark food, Italian Ozark Italian food. Very proud Italian heritage here in Tawny Town. They migrated from Italy, my great-grandparents, both sides, came across and settled into Lake Village area and then moved to the Tawny Town area and just for the region of, as far as I know, of growing a grape. The seasons were ripe for a great crop. To me, the way I could say is they Ozarked what they could from Italy and I think that's where the fried chicken and the recipes just kind of tied together. We believe the recipes that we use today are still the recipes that have been used for generations, even beyond 1947. Okay, today we're going to start with a famous recipe. We've got some chicken that's been rinsed, thigh, legs and drums. We've got flour, salt, pepper and granulated garlic for the seasoning or the dry ingredients. Start with one cup of flour.  One cup of flour. I'll do, let's see, about one little over. A tablespoon of salt, a tablespoon of pepper, a little over. And I'm going to go two tablespoons of garlic. Mix it together and then for the wet ingredients, we just used milk, two cups of milk into another container. And we do a triple dip here at the Venetian Inn. We want to make sure the chicken, I'll dry it off. We'll take it and we pat it dry. It's just above room temperature. It hasn't been out long. I don't like to have it too cold, but we'll pat it dry. And then I'll do a dry coating. Hands, just kind of fluff it in. Get a good coating on it for your first. And then, of course, a milk wash. And then back in and then coat back in. And, of course, you can get fancy if you want. You can bring it in and coat it without using your hands. But what good is it if it's not coated on your fingers? And then milk and then this should be the last coating. I like to fluff it and then maybe a pat. Get it in there good. And then just knock the excess off.  When you're making fried chicken to me, a lot of people will go, well, it's so hard. It's time consuming. But to be honest with you, it's making memories.  You can sit here and tell a story or talk about family things or whatever and still be cooking food. And then when it's done, the memory isn't just of eating the chicken. The memory is sitting around talking with family, frying chicken. All right, we're here at the fryer. We're getting ready to fry. Again, we're going to start with a fresh, we use here at the restaurant, a clear frying vegetable oil. You can use any name brand. A really good meat thermometer. And I try to get the oil. I got to check it. Try to keep it around 300. Is where I like to, we're at 311, 315. About right in there. So I know I'm good and hot. And then I like to, when I put my chicken in, I like to kind of put it off to the side and kind of put it in. And then on the other pieces, I like to always drop away from you and keep plenty of room in there. The closer they get, they stick and then the crust falls off. So you want to make sure there's room enough in the pan. So if you're using a pan at home, give yourself some room. Don't rush it. Do not rush it. And then we use a timer and it depends. It runs anywhere from 13 to 15 minutes just the size of the bird you're using. The bigger the bird, the longer the time it takes to cook. But you always want to make sure when the timer goes off, before you really sit down and start eating, check the temperature. Make sure it's at 165 and above.  At 165, you've got that soft crust and above 165 where chicken is cooked. But above, you know, just a little bit above 165, it's a really soft crust, 180, 190. Right in there you start getting a darker, crispier crunch. It's just to your liking. Each family likes it different ways. Make sure you got a, yep, I'm showing 196.  In my chicken, there's the breast. I'm going to get that out and now I want to check it outside. That way we can not get any heat from the fryer. The internal is 170, 169 and 170 almost. 200, 180, 181. And that to me would be a perfect cook. If you like crunchy, I like it crunchy. So it's probably a little bit darker than other people would like, but this is mine the way I would like it. And I hope this recipe works out well for you. And if it does, great. If not, you got any questions, come by and see us here at the Tawny Town at the Venetian Inn where we'd be glad to even give you a bowl of spaghetti to go with it. And we appreciate all your time.


Welcome to the FeeCast, your weekly dose of economic thinking from your friends at the Foundation for Economic Education. My name is Richard Lawrence and we are here today with a larger panel than usual, which we'll get to in a moment. We've got Brittany Hunter, Dan Sanchez-Marie in March, and our special guest, Anna Jane Perrell, who has been on the FeeCast before and is coming fresh off of a successful seminar season. So I'm sure you're very energized at this very moment. We're very sleepy. Oh, yeah. No, it's been a very busy summer. We just finished up all of our seminars, which are, I mean, every week of the summer is we are in some city, somewhere in the country, teaching usually over 100 kids. We have entrepreneurship-themed camps. We have leadership-themed camps. We also have economics in your daily life, which is what we do at Fee. We love economics. We love applying it to everything. So yeah, we've finally wrapped up some in our season and I am so thankful. So it's good that you're with four others because that allows you to kind of play off of our energy. Yes. Give me some of your energy, yes. The children have taken it from me. We will direct it in that way. So the fun thing that we're able to announce today is that you are going to be joining us full-time on the FeeCast, which is extremely exciting. That news is, however, bittersweet. And that is because, Brittany, you are going to be relocating to DC and no longer on the FeeCast regularly. No. I will not be on the FeeCast regularly, but I'll pop in every now and then. I can't leave you guys to have all the fun by yourselves. So yeah, but it's been so much fun talking economics with you guys every week. So I will miss you. And you'll be writing for Fee.org quite a bit. Of course. Yeah. In fact, I learned so much from Fee that I wanted to be an entrepreneur. So starting my own writing business and going to branch out and see what happens. That's awesome. We're excited to see all the upcoming writing that you're going to have for us. And then eventually when the time comes for you to rejoin and guest appear. And so, Brittany, you are not the only thing that is being banned out of Atlanta these days. We're going to have a conversation today about other things that are being unceremoniously let go out of our lives banned without any type of real discussion, it seems. And this is all being brought about by, of course, we all know plastic straws. They are, it seems, all of a sudden no longer with us. And there are all kinds of other bans as well. And these are, this is an interesting approach to take when people disagree with something is to just say, all right, let's go to the government, let's go to the local city council and just say no more. It's all gone. Yeah. Well, we're definitely seeing this with Starbucks. They've vowed that in their stores globally by 2020 that they're going to eliminate straws and they're switching over to these weird adult sippy cup plastic lids. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Starbucks is based in Seattle and then Seattle recently banned straws and they, there was like a whole campaign straw less in Seattle. That is kind of clever. I do like that. However, that clever title comes with a $250 fine in Seattle for straw usage. So is it the person who uses the straw who's being found? No one seems to know that yet, which I think is going to be really interesting to see play out in court because Santa Barbara just banned straws, but they didn't only ban plastic straws, they banned the cardboard, the terrible, I think terrible cardboard straws that they're giving people these days. So like cylinders, they're just banning them like such a geometrical game. But it's just a $250 fine, which actually sounds pretty good compared to their $1,000 fine. That's outrageous. They've also added, it's an infraction per straw. So if I give you a straw and I give you a straw, that's $2,000 or six months of jail time, which is actually 12 months of jail time because it's two counts. Are we also outlawing straw bartering? So if I've got a bunch of straws and you have a goat, can I not trade you for the goat? It's not off the table. Yeah. So is the infraction the purchase of, it's literally just the exchange of currency for a straw? No, because they're not purchasing it. This is purchasing a drink and then saying, I want a straw. And it makes me wonder if they're going to start doing sting operations, like a cop going in there and saying, give me a straw. Yes, like with underage alcohol. Exactly. You know this. We've had that. That's what cops do. And so it's unclear as to how this is going to be enforced because it does sound like nothing's off the table. Well, the interesting thing is the difference between banning the straws versus alcohol restrictions are the alcohol restrictions are directly correlated to the breaking of a law. If you, as a server or bartender, serve somebody too much and that person gets into an accident or they drive under the influence, they're committing a crime. Or if you're serving a minor, technically they're committing a crime by consuming alcohol. In this case, there's no crime against drinking out of us. Drinking a drink out of with a straw. Sucking is now illegal. You cannot suck. So do your best. And of course, this is coming on the heels of many, many years. It seems of banning various things like plastic bags, even paper bags. I was up in Chicago a week ago and it's not a full ban, but I was at Whole Foods. I had my suitcase in hand. I'm buying groceries for a few days at Whole Foods. Before they even ring anything up at all, $0 for the total, but $0.14 for tax, for two paper bags. And so of course, that's not a ban, but this is sort of following in sort of a movement of various things that we don't like collectively being abolished by government. Yeah. And especially not just plastics, but single-use plastics, that that's like the big enemy. That's the whole idea here. And I feel like it happened super quick. I literally was on vacation this weekend and it's the first time I had heard about a stainless steel straw because my dad was talking about them and how amazing they are. And then I go into a coffee shop the next day and they're selling them and they don't have any other straws. And I'm just like, what is going on? Like this world, it came so quick. It did. I had to ask a friend earlier today. I was saying, what precipitated this? Why did it happen so very quickly? And it's being written about by many, many different outlets, including by Vox, not as we're banning plastic straws because we don't like plastic straws or necessarily even that it's going to save the ocean, but they're calling it a gateway ban. Yeah. Gateway plastic, gateway ban, basically saying, well, okay, if we can get straws taken out, then we can get the next single-use plastic thing banned. Not realizing these things are not all causing us damage. I mean, there are good things about plastic. So it's very outrageous. Well, and also in that article, I talk about how banning plastics is in vogue. And I thought that that word was interesting in vogue, but it really is kind of like a fat, like a fattish thing. Like eating cottage cheese in the 80s. This is health. This is what health is. Like, oh, this is we're saving the world by not having plastic. Yeah. It's interesting how many strong feelings people have about straws. I mean, there's people who are really concerned about the environmental implications of this. I think we all saw the picture of the turtle with the plastic straw and the snows. The tortoise. The tortoise. Which is sad, I feel, you know, badly for these animals. But it's funny because you have the people like your dad who are really into the metal straws, people who feel opinions about paper straws. Interestingly. I have opinions. You have opinions. McDonald's, similar to Starbucks, announced that they are going to switch over to paper straws in the UK and Ireland, UK and Ireland by next year. Okay, let's not break that news for the United States quite yet. I don't know if any of us could handle that. No, I would love it. Well, that's another debate. I love paper straws.  I don't understand. They really fall apart. They disintegrate. When you're drinking, we go down to Ted's just down the street. They have these for years. Do you drink or drink? Or do you hang out with them?  Come on. You have to hang out with them. You have to drink and drink. You don't hang out with your drink. That's the thing that's kind of infuriating about the statement that it's vogue-ish or invogue to ban plastic straws because are we seriously governing by fashion? Right. And it seems like the answer is yes. Right. But that's the big difference between cottage cheese being in fashion in the 80s.  It's like, oh, we have this fashion, oh, have you seen the latest thing we've banned? That's just ridiculous that infringing on someone else's rights shouldn't be a trend. Yeah. We used to talk about what efforts we could make as individuals towards environmentalism, reusing, you know, water bottles and recycling if you had a plastic device holding your soda cans together that you would cut that plastic piece up so that it doesn't end up in the wild inconveniencing mother nature and animals and stuff. And so we would just cut them up. There's steps that you can do to reduce your impact. Until we went from zero to a hundred all of a sudden with plastic straws. Yeah. They're going to city councils. We were talking about this earlier that the small city council bodies are getting together and urgency meeting, oh my goodness, what are we going to do, straws? But they're able to do a lot of damage, which also makes me think you can do a lot of good on a city council, but we're not seeing that. All these bans are happening at the city level. Has anyone ever sort of considered that, you know, of course because straws are no longer at Starbucks, they've been a market actor in getting rid of plastic straws at their stores? Has anyone ever considered that maybe because they're beginning to offer these flavored straws that there's like a flavored straw cartel that's beginning to actually get itself into the whole market almost by force? The paper straw industrial complex. Yes. They're here. Big flavor straw. Big straw. Out in Washington. Big straw. Yeah. Well now Starbucks is offering sippy cups, so it could be big sippy cup. They do look like sippy cups. So we're going to take a quick break real quick and we're going to get back and talk a little bit more about these ideas in depth right after that break. Hi, I'm Sean Malone, director of media for fee.org. Of course you already know about fees, incredible articles and written content, but did you know that you can also watch our fantastic videos and listen to our podcast at our website as well? Visit fee.org slash shows to get the latest content from the series you love, such as Out of Frame, Common Sense Soapbox, How We Thrive, the Words and Numbers podcast and of course, the FeeCast. Once again, that's fee.org slash shows for more great content like this. Thanks for watching. Welcome back to the FeeCast. We are talking about that most exciting of topics today and that is straws, plastic and otherwise. And the question that I have now is why are we as a society, as citizens, as a culture now banning straws? What is the impetus for this? Well, I think it stems from a concern for the impact that people may or may not be having on the planet. There's a lot of talk about climate change and I think if we think about our own behaviors, yeah, I probably throw away things that I could maybe take an extra step to recycle or to reuse, repurpose. And then, you know, there's a lot of stories about how much plastic is in the water. So I did a little digging before this episode and I found out that according to Time Magazine, there's estimates that we are releasing about 8 million metric tons each year into the ocean of plastic and microplastics. That's everything altogether. That's straws, it's bags, it's junk otherwise, it's the little plastic beads that are inside your exfoliator. Yes. Yes. That's all of it. There's a lot of concern about these patches in the ocean of concentrated plastic debris.  It's about the size of Texas according to these estimates. Wow. And the visuals are compelling. When you see the visuals like satellite images, it's just garbage floating there. Well speaking of visuals, like statistics don't necessarily have purchase on the human heart, but images do and videos do and there was one particular viral video of a turtle with a straw lodged in its nostril. And how much of that do you think plays into the moral panic over straws? So I was thinking that, and again, I said this happened at least from my perspective super quickly. I just found out about it this weekend. When you really think about it, I feel like this happened in response to criticism I've heard of what's called selectivism where you basically just tweet about something you hate or you post it on Facebook or whatever. I think that people are at least now self-aware that that's not enough. So now we're going to take action and this is one of the few ways. We can't solve access to water and developing countries as an individual. That's how it feels. It feels like we can't solve these incredible problems. But if I can be like, yeah, no straws. I can just not use a straw. I can support policy that doesn't use straws. Being small, I think makes people feel good. It makes them feel like they're doing something in a climate where you might be upset who the president is or who's in Congress and you can't do anything about that because the midterm elections aren't told about that. People are just so tense about everything. The world is such a sucky place right now. Literally I see memes about the world's burning down every day. And I think that this little, let's grasp our little straws and let's try to grow like we can change something. And I think maybe because it's visual and because it's something that a change that you can see in just people walking around, it's like, oh, I don't see people with straws walking around like I used to. I've done something. I've made some sort of a change. But then again, what kind of change? How much of a change and is it actually to the good? And what you talk about how quickly it happened also really interests me too is just the psychology of it. It was the same thing with me that I barely heard about it for the first time. And already it was a done deal. Like already, okay, straws are on the way out. Like this thing that was just part of our lives that you just take for granted, then no more straws. It makes me wonder too. Oh, sorry. It makes me wonder what meaning are people missing in their lives? And it is so important to have a purpose, to have a higher meaning. But when your main purpose is taking my straw away or not just not letting me choose whether or not I would like to use the straw, I think that's problematic. I think its marginality contributed to the snowball effect. It's a marginal difference in our lives, but it affects so many of us, like you said. You see people with straws all the time and now all of a sudden they're gone. And it's a minor inconvenience and we all think about it. We all interact with this object so frequently that I think that's what contributed to the snowball effect. That it's like, okay, this is something we can all really, truly grasp literally, figuratively, and save the world. And I wonder if it's because of the inconvenience that people like it. I think there's sort of a puritanical aspect to certain schools of environmentalism where it's like, if you're suffering, then that is a sign of virtue. Suffering for the earth. Yeah. Sacrifice. Sacrifice. Or, you know, go back to like the 80s and 90s or even just like Birkitt's ugly clothing, unfashionable clothing because it's cool to worry more about the environmentalist thing at a friend's rather than cotton because it's cool. It's funny. It becomes more of a fashionable thing. Yeah. Veganism based on resource management too is like, oh, I'm making my life harder and not as fun so that I can do something good. Because of all the cow farts, right? Yeah. That's pretty much it. I don't want to tell anybody to stop trying to be cool, stop trying to be fashionable, but don't tell me how to be fashionable or cool or whether or not I should use a straw. Maybe empower me to make my own choice. You can tell me about how straws can have a negative impact on the environment and maybe I will then choose differently and it'll be more powerful because I've decided for myself and more likely to stick to it in that case. It'll be real. It'll be, you know, Bostia talks about this with false philanthropy and forcing other people to give to the poor, right? If the person they're stealing that money from to give to the poor has no feelings towards the poor, you're not creating a moral person. You're just creating a bitter person by stealing from them. And again, speaking to how quickly it happened, it used to be that when we would have these moral panics, it would take a while for it to build up and it would have to be like a huge portion of the population who got swept in, up in it before something was banned, before like a drug was banned or but but it seemed like, again, we follow the news. Like I follow the news quite a lot as an editor and yet I didn't even it didn't get on my radar. And so just thinking of the average person, the average person has no even opinion one way or the other about this hasn't even thought about it. But already it has been enough of a groundswell just among a certain elite that that it's actually happening. It's actually being banned. And even the corporate policies that Starbucks is phasing it out and that kind of thing. I think a lot of this is because news travels so quickly too. When you're when you can tweet something you're angry about and then hashtag environmentalism and then everybody's following you like it can happen. But again, it doesn't have to travel that quickly throughout everyone. All it has to do is just a few people. Yeah, right. A few people with power. Yeah. And there are a few things to unpack here, right? So there's the dynamic of Starbucks actually making this decision autonomously, maybe getting ahead of a regulation that they sensed was on the way and leading leading that charge, right? And then having these sippy cup kind of holders or tops rather for the cup, they had a little while actually to consider it, you know, they were able to figure out how to procure these sippy cup type tops. So there's the market sort of leading in that way. There's also the local aspect of Santa Monica and other local towns who are deciding to do this through law through regulation, which we're obviously criticizing. But it goes to your point about people feel, you know, without power on the national level. So they're going to the local level and doing something they think they actually have some sort of say in. And I think your point about sort of social media also is great because we're so divided right now. It almost seems to me like, you know, the crowd that went out and said we need to ban these straws didn't care one way or the other what anyone else had to say. They wanted to do it. We're so divided now that there's no sense listening to anyone with opposing opinion. And that's dangerous. Doubling down on what could potentially be miss or not factual just because you want to be so committed to something. And we're saying that I think on all sides of the aisle. Well, it's populism, right? It's governing by fad. It's basically whenever you get a bunch of people together who tend to have a similar grievance, in this case it might be something about the environment. They come together, they speak in one sort of voice of the mob, and they get something done whether or not it's been deliberated on properly. Well, and that's the frustrating part. I think for me, I want to, A, celebrate the beauty of the internet, right, that we could come together. And this could happen so quickly. We want that. We want the spread of information to happen. It's when it informs us, it becomes dangerous when it affects how we govern people because that's taking away people's rights, putting them in jail for six months for having a straw. I'm totally fine with people being outraged about straws as people, but not when they have authority over decisions. Straw shaming should be allowed. Yeah, I agree. I think that's an important point. A podcast that we, another podcast, Words and Numbers, this week's episode talks about what, whenever someone says there ought to be a law, what that means, the fact that every law is enforced at the barrel of a gun, and every law to be enforced, you have to be willing to incarcerate, to cage someone. Then if they're not willing to be caged over that infraction, ultimately, to kill them. And it's important to remember that, that whenever you say that, whenever you say, oh, you can't sell straws, or you can't offer straws, to back that up, that means. Literal imprisonment, like the real threat of violence. Yeah, yeah. That very worst case, extreme. Peer pressure really should be the way that we go about these things. That's how I feel. Exactly, instead of resorting to regulation as the first method of action, as the first resort, it should be the final result, or resort rather, when things are bad, people aren't making maybe the right decisions, we're making ethical lapses, moral lapses, that that then should be maybe the metric by which we evaluate whether we should take some sort of other action, other than straw shaming. Yeah. At least a presumption of liberty. I would have it where banning is off the table, but at least don't have it be the first resort. Dan would ban banning. Before we achieve the total banishment of banning, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back after these messages. Oh, boy, you know, starting out in the music business or just any business, you have to have the carrot dangling. You have to know what your goals are. I think if anybody goes in without a goal, you're pretty much doomed. This is a family business. My daughters, my son-in-law, my brother. We can't walk away from this. This is not something we're going to walk away from. This is something we pass on.  It's just, can you figure out how to go under it, around it, over it? That makes for a longevity of a business. You can't give up. You just don't let yourself give up. Watch Mama Gold Tone and more documentaries about women in business in our How We Thrive series at fee.org slash shows. And we're back to the FeeCast. We are today grasping at straws, talking about various regulations and mental models that we can use to evaluate this latest scourge on our environment, which is the plastic straw, and all of the costs associated with that. Of course, at the Foundation for Economic Education, we like to talk about economics, seeing things through the economic lens. And so my question to open up this segment is, what are the costs for actually pursuing bands on certain things such as straws? Well, for one thing, you have to remember that even if you put something into a landfill, that yes, there's a cost to that. But there's also a cost to recycling, for example. Or there's a cost to the sippy cup. I've heard, I don't know for a fact, that the sippy cup uses more plastic than the straw. And you hear that a lot. You hear that, or like, OK, well, the alternative that we've adopted actually has a greater environmental impact than people realize. You mean the sippy cup Starbucks came out with, like the same, the top uses more plastic? We believe that that's a straw. Allegedly, the internet says that that's the case. We have not tested it in our labs yet, Mary Ann. She would be the first person to know. But on that note, if you look at steel straws or whatever metal they're going to make it out of, and we talk about something more than environmental cost, we talk about actual cost, look at the tariff war we're in right now, what's with metals. We don't know how much those straws are going to be cost to produce later on. And the steel straw could be made into a shiv. I mean, think of the children. I think of the children. Well, I think there's probably a short answer to your question that's kind of annoying, which is there are the costs that we know about and the costs that we don't know about. Because when you make a policy, there's going to be consequences. And we maybe don't know what those consequences are. There's an interesting article on the feed website about plastic bags. And it's by Brian Kaplan. It's called How Are Tencent Grocery Bags Creating a Surplus. And it's all about the California policy about charging 10 cents for plastic bags and how that led to a surplus of them wanting to stock these bags. And so in the end, there were more bags than they had intended. More plastic bags as an unintended consequence of trying to lower the number of plastic bags. Which is funny, because that's already an item that gets recycled often. With straws, I'm not reusing them twice.  Like it's always reused. Yeah, the recycling is there. It's happening. My in-laws always get annoyed when I mention to them the costs of recycling. And so we have a partner group we work with from time to time called Perk. And they focus on environmental issues. And they talk about how when you look at recycling, it actually sometimes is more wasteful to recycle things such as paper, such as plastic bottles. Because we use water and other resources. Exactly. We got a strip. We got to bleach the paper. We've got to take the plastic label off of whatever. The only thing that apparently is worth recycling and is not more costly to recycle than it is to extract new. Is it cans? Is an aluminum can. Yeah, I heard about that. Interesting. And so everything has a cost. When you think you're doing a good job putting all of your paper into the recycling bin, that doesn't come without any kind of impact to our pocketbooks or resources that we have available. And to the extent that we have property rights and we have markets, costs tend to be internalized, owning a landfill, you have to pay the cost for having that straw. And so that should be translated into the market. But when it's virtue signaling, then it's not really about the cost. It's just about the appearance. Wait, can you go back to the point you were trying to? When you were saying that the cost is internalized, can you explain that more? So for example, that someone who's operating a landfill, they have to maintain the landfill. And so when they fill it up with things, with straws, they have to pay for the upkeep of the landfill. And that land could be used for other things. So there are people bidding for the land. And so the prices are how we allocate scarce resources. And prices create a tug of war for resources. And so that's how we normally determine whether something is wasteful or not. But once it becomes like a moral crusade, then you don't have the very subtle price mechanisms telling entrepreneurs whether it's wasteful or not. It's just a moral panic that, OK, well, whether I am following the crowd on this moral panic, that tells whether it's wasteful or not. So you're basically saying we would know whether or not straws are taking up too much space based on how much they cost for us to just use them. So it might be reflected in this example, like Starbucks, their drink might increase if it's going to be a straw-based drink, something like that. Whereas now we've got this external actor, which is morality or values distorting that very simple price mechanism, right? I mean, that's. Well, it's a certain kind of morality and value. It's a very sort of superficial and very sort of. One step above slacktivism is kind of what I'm picturing is like, oh, I can reach for a straw, and that's about it. So for example, in a private market, people would have to pay for their trash service. And it wouldn't necessarily be free. It wouldn't necessarily be subsidized for the government. So if you generate a lot of trash, and you would have to pay more for that trash service, and that's how the cost would reach you. Oh, go ahead. You could even extend this to littering.  Or I could just pay you and say, oh, my bad. Here's $10. Well, I think you're pointing out something, let's say. Because there are certain communities where the government is charging you for more trash rather than just letting you throw out whatever trash. And I think that that speaks to another kind of a way to think about solutions to this problem that are not outright bans. Because I mean, I think that sometimes we, from our perspective, we are a little bit utopian in that, no government, no regulations, let's just all do whatever. But let's talk about all of the gray areas in between that might be, as economists, we truly want to study not what's good and bad, but what's better. How can we improve on this process? Or how can we improve on the incentives? And I think the market is a great signal for that, because what will Starbucks, for example, had every right to ban their own straws. And maybe if I was a hardcore environmentalist, I would buy two drinks a day from Starbucks because I want to support their efforts. But if I'm not, and I see McDonald's is still selling my straws, I'm voting with my dollar. So in a lot of ways, the solutions are private enterprises taking these steps towards whatever moral or whatever you want to call it that they believe in. It gets a little murky when you look at facts, OK, is this really damaging? But the market does wonders when it comes to private charity all the time. To your point, Anna Jane, about economists. Economists really aren't tasked with determining what's good or bad. They're tasked with the science of studying how people act. And I think to your point, instead of resorting to a full on ban, some of the things that economists might suggest is, or one of the things, rather, is adjusting the incentives. So I mean, obviously, we want to preserve individual choice as much as we can, which is why outright bans or regulation can be sometimes unattractive to us. But I think that if we don't want to do a ban, let's try to maybe think about, or let's talk about the mechanism that's involved in one of my thinking, like, vice taxes, for example. Right, syntaxes, yes. Yeah, we can use. That's still a regulation, right? But it might be better than a ban. So let's talk about the different ways we can. If you are invested in a government entity trying to enforce something, there are still better ways to do it than a ban, right? There are better ways to do it than, to me, any regulation that preserves as much individual choice as possible is always going to be better. Because that puts the onus on the individual to make the right decision, instead of being told the only decision that he or she can make. Better in the sense of less bad. Yes, yeah, that's exactly. Well, I think there's also an important point to be made about the impact of economic development and how that correlates with the environment. We've talked about this on the FICAS before, the environmental coups in its curve, which, graphically, if you look at it, on the y-axis is environmental degradation, on the x-axis is per capita income. And it's basically an upside-down smiley face. When you have low income, there's more environmental degradation. When you have higher per capita income, up to a certain point, you have more. But then, past this turning point, your impact on the environment starts to decrease the higher your per capita income goes. And to the extent that these regulations impoverish people, then it keeps them from traveling along that Kuznetz curve. And it keeps them from getting to a point in their life where they value a luxury good, like environmental cleanliness. And I think we've seen evidence of this. So if you look at the four countries that produce the most plastic in the oceans, you're looking at China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Those countries altogether produce more plastic waste in the ocean compared to all other countries combined. And we see these as developing nations. If we can get them past this turning point on the Kuznetz curve, we would probably see their environmental degradation decrease. Well, and so our main lesson to hope to avoid so many of the unintended consequences that you've been talking about is to preserve choice as much as possible through policy. Because we have public policy, whether someone likes it or not, put the onus on the individual. And so instead of resorting to a ban as the first course of action, actually begin to understand why people act. Think through the economic lens, understand the incentives. And maybe then we can accomplish things a lot more effectively and a lot less costly. So we've finished beating up these strawmen here. We do have one final thing we want to be sure to do. And given that this is Brittany's final fee cast as a regular, I'm going to pass it over to you. Yeah, so just to pass the proverbial baton or torch, I'm going to hand or pass my mug over to you to symbolize, I was going to say, the regime change? I don't know. It's somewhat of a regime change, yeah. But welcome to the fee cast. I expect great things from you. Oh, thank you very much. Honor my memory. It is, though you be tiny, it is a large shadow that I am living in. I'm very excited to be here. I think I love talking to you guys. You know that. If only there was a straw in my drink. But yeah. We'll work on it for next time if we can find one. So thank you, everyone. Thank you for watching the fee cast. We'll see you next week.


This is crazy. What's up money geeks? Mr. V here. Welcome to a new video guys. So into this video I want to take a quick look at why Nikola model skyrocketed over 100% for the day. You know I've talked about Nikola model year on the channel where we said it was maybe the next Tesla or the next competition to Tesla. So, but again this is a company that hasn't manufactured a single car. Everything they have right now is either what I call prototypes or what I just call proof of concept. They haven't actually manufactured a car that people can drive and feel comfortable in. But today the stocks just went crazy open. You just went straight up and closed the day at over 100% returns, which is kind of crazy. So I want to take a look at why that happened and also if you're new to the channel we talk about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So if there's something that interests you definitely need to go ahead and hit that subscribe button. And also I'm going to hook up the video where I talked about Nikola models with Vector IQ merger. So they went from Vector IQ and they merged with Nikola model and changed their ticker symbol to NKLA. So I'm going to hook that video up here so you can definitely go check it out. So let's jump on, check out the news and see why their stocks went up 100%. All right guys, so if we actually pull out ticker symbol NKLA, so I'm actually in Weibo right now. So this is the news that actually pushed that stock to go over. So they currently have an investor by I think right here so we can see, we can just highlight and read it. So this investor IVECO, so has actually kind of like a joint venture with Nikola models and to kind of manufacture their fuel cell class eight trucks in 2023. And so they have a new plan, they want to kind of set up a new plan in maybe Phoenix, Arizona, which is nice for them because right now Nikola's models, they, like I said, they have a concept. So being able to create a partnership with a company like this that would help them go to production, it's a really good move. And this company, I think they're actually investing about $250 million into Nikola models for 7.11% of the company, so that's not too bad. And for the way the cash is actually broken down so it's not like you just give them 250, they give them a hundred million dollar cash and then a hundred million dollars in services, whatever that means, I don't really know. And then the other 50 million too, just over time they'll give the other 50 million. So but the commitment to Nikola models is 250 million. So based on that information, that's why the price of Nikola models actually went up over a hundred percent today. So I had about 10 shares of Nikola model there but when it just came out and I just bought it because it's like, I mean, I did that video which I told you guys I was gonna buy some and I wasn't really anticipating anything right now because if I knew it was gonna be this crazy I would have bought a ton. So I just bought it because like hey, if 10 shares at under, I think about them under $28. And so if it goes up like Tesla, my 10 shares, if it goes to $800 or $1000 a share, that's $10,000 for me spending less than 150 bucks. So that was my goal. But the thing just went crazy today. So got up to about $74, $75 which is crazy. So that is the main reason why this stock actually skyrocketed today. But so questions that you have to ask yourself as an investor is, is this company comparable to Tesla? Again, they don't have any assets yet. They don't have any trucks or anything that they've actually manufactured. So all this right now is just laying the groundwork. And they have about $4 billion worth of commitment from people to order trucks from them. So making a commitment is one thing but actually following through and paying the price is another. But if you guys notice it's a more easy concept of marketing, most people, if you look at Tesla, they pre-sell before they go manufacture. There was this company that makes phone called OnePlus. They do the exact same thing, pre-sell before they manufacture. So there you go guys. That is the reason why Nikola Motors went crazy today. So if we pull up the chart for Nikola Motors today, we'll see that it actually just went crazy. So we opened up today at about $30 something and it thinks just went crazy all the way to about $73. That's where it actually closed today. So this is insane growth guys up to $73. So if you look right here, that's over 103% for the day. Is it gonna keep going up? I have no idea. Maybe if they get more and more investors, that's just what the price is probably gonna keep going up. So yeah, question of the day guys. What do you think about Nikola Motors? Do you think that they have a chance at maybe even competing with Tesla or is it just getting blown out of proportion? And again, if you are an investor, I would say approach this with caution. Then throw your life savings at this. And again, if you invest, make sure that you have a stop loss and take profit so that most importantly stop loss so that you don't lose all your initial investment. So definitely just approach it with caution. And as always guys, like, share, subscribe. YouTube tells me that 90% of you guys watching haven't already subscribed. So go ahead and hit that subscribe button. And the notification bell. And as always, stay motivated guys.


I'd like to discuss a very relevant thing with you. So there is all often debate whether Virat Kohli's waiter or Sachin Tendulkar is better. The image of Sachin Tendulkar's has been taken from Creative Commons license 3.0 and Virat Kohli's image is from Pixar Bay. Usually people say that Virat has scored 13,848 runs, but Sachin has scored 18,426 runs. But then people often argue that average or the batting average or the mean of all the scores by Virat, which also means that the number of runs he scores per innings is 58.7, whereas for Sachin it is 44.8. But Virat hasn't finished his career yet. So it's always debatable who is going to be better. So whenever you come into such arguments, always remember that there are different parameters that you look at when you want to compare between the datasets or performances. Important to note that arithmetic mean is just a fancy term for the word average. We usually come across the word average, but we are looking at arithmetic mean and these words are used interchangeably. There are different kinds of mean that we need to study and in this particular video we'll be looking at arithmetic mean. But why do we study arithmetic mean? What is the point of understanding arithmetic mean and how is it useful in real life? So why do we study arithmetic mean? So let's say there is a student called Manohar and Manohar is concerned about his marks say in English and then in math I'll use different color for math and let's use say this color for history. So I'll be just taking three subjects and Manohar term one. So this one signifies Manohar's performance in these three subjects in term one and then Manohar's performance in the second term. Let's just create a nice quick table to write down marks that he got in term one and term two. So in English let's say he scored 65 out of 100 in term one. In math Manohar scored say 72 out of 100 and in history he was in that grade. So he scored say 57. So let's see after term one how his performance improved or was there any improvement at all. So let's say Manohar scored 73 in English. In math he scored say 75 and in history his performance actually dipped. So he could just score 40 and now the question is did Manohar really improve his performance? It's quite clear that in term two in English his marks were better. In maths also his marks were better but in history his performance was a little down. There is a parameter which is called arithmetic mean and in such scenarios what we could do is we can find arithmetic mean of all the marks that he got and look at the performance overall. So this is a measure of overall performance you could say and what we do is that we total all the marks and we divide the number of papers or number of exams that he gave. So let's say this is mean and let's go for another color. So let's write the mean for Manohar in term one and term two. I just quickly revise how we can find out mean. So arithmetic mean is basically found by a total score and in the denominator how many attempts were there to get that score or in this case attempts is basically the papers so total papers or total attempts I will just write it as general so total attempts. So to find the mean score of Manohar in term one we will add all the scores and divided by three because there were three papers. So for term one the mean term one mean is 65 plus 72 plus 57 divided by three and this comes out to be 194 divided by three which is 64.67. So let's just write this mean here 64.67. Manohar scored 64.67 marks on an average in each paper. This also means if Manohar appears for any other exam like say Hindi or French whatever his expected score is going to be 64.67. So out of 100 he is scoring 64.67. Now let's see what is the performance of Manohar in term two. Let's just add all the numbers that we have for term two. So for term two the mean for Manohar's marks is 73 plus 75 plus 40 divided by three. Again this three refers to three papers that he appeared for and this comes out to be 188 divided by three. It appeared as if Manohar was improving because he improved in English, he improved in math as well. So for two subjects he did improve but overall his performance actually dipped and this comes out to be 62.67. Let's write this mean here. So in fact his performance dipped in the term two that's what the marks suggest here. After finding out mean we get the idea whether there is a performance dip or performance improvement in this case and mean actually is a measure of calculating the performance when there is a varied data set that is available to us.


Everyone, Basel Chapman here for the 11 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network, update cars. Unbelievable. C.A.R. is a symbol for Avis budget. It is up 212% at up 363 points at 535. That's amazing. They must have pulled some kind of a Tesla plan or say an electric vehicle, something other. Anyway, here we go. The Dow itself is up 83 points at 35,998. Will it make an all-time high today? Are we going to be watching that very closely? We were expecting the 35,900 for subscribers to my opening call. Will be somewhat of a resistance area. But if there's a close above 36,130, that is going to be a really good action this week. Meantime, the S&P has made an all-time high as well. Here we go. S&P SPX.X. And what we're looking at is the S&P is up 16 and 46,38 at an all-time high. We're looking at the QQQ, QQQ is up sharply at 389.04, all-time high. We're looking at the IWM as it turned around again. Yes, it's at an all-time high at 234.85 high, it's made an all-time high. We're looking at gold. Gold is putting back a little bit. It's down just four points. You're looking at the dollar trying to hold in the upper ranges. It is up 16 ticks at 9,405, the 9,405 has been kind to it so far. You're looking at the TLT bonds. Bonds are up now a little bit more, up 70 cents and 147.14. We're also looking at Crude Oil. Crude Oil is struggling a little bit here. It's actually down 75 cents at 83.30. Will it be able to break to a new high of 85.42 in the continuous contract? Or is it going to plunge under 82.42 over the next day or two? My thinking is there's a potential for an arch turn around right here. You're looking at Bitcoin. Bitcoin itself is trading up 2,080 at 63,695, all-time high with 68,030. We're looking at this to say this is probably the trading vehicle that's taking the place of gold for a little while until there's economic distress with the financials like the XLF pulling back really sharply. My guess is that Bitcoin will still maintain its lead in the trading aspect rather than as gold used to be. So with that, I'm going to hand you over to you've got Larry Persevento coming up, trade what you see. Then you've got Thinkorswim, Kevin Hengs, he's got a lot to talk about Kevin in a show today. You've got Steve Rhodes, Dave White, and I'll be back with Tom O'Brien later So, check out my opening form with Dave, and you said I hope you have a great day. The hour is up 69.