(not so spooky) Podcast EP8

another rambling but good feel podcast,,,,

Feel free to send me a Treat for the holiday.

[Music] Yeah, welcome back to The Cog Speaks. Oh boy what a week. Hurricane week. I’m sure Mikey in Florida and Spud can attest to that one. Sorry guys, wet. I know you choose the live where you live. You can stop sending that crap back up here to Appalachistan. This seasonal work week, two days off for rain. Today’s a short day. ’S’all good. To be expected. Uh finances aren’t going to be hurt too badly. I’m not going to be real happy, but uh, bills will get paid. That’s all that matters right. The bills get paid. You keep the creditors off your ass and, umh umh. What a week. Tomorrow’s Halloween. Actually by the time this gets posted it will be “today is Halloween”. What is it about Halloween? I mean it’s people act like it’s some Satanic holiday around here and get all miffed that schools actually celebrate it. Come on guys you don’t know your history: but let me give you a little history lesson on Halloween. Back in the ninth century there was a Pope who dedicated November 1st, of the Julian calendar. Keep this in mind. We’ll come back to that. But he dedicated November 1st as all souls day or All Saints Day. I’m sorry. And he dedicated a chapel in St. Peters’ Basilica to all the saints. Well November 3rd- -er October 31st is the eve of that. And it was considered at that time all Hallow’s eve. Which was actually a bastardization of “all hallowed eve”. Which means “day before the saints day”. Saints were hallowed, as in like hallowed be thy name. This is a Christian holiday. Now there’s some vague very indiscriminate application of pagan religions to the same thing because there was Samhain which is ‘All souls night’, when supposedly the worlds or the alternate universes, whatever you want to call them, are closer together. This has nothing to do with the Julian calendar. Nothing. The Julian calendar is set day by day, date by date, month by month, whatever you want, to human standard. Now all souls night, Samhain. Those are not dictated by the Julian calendar at all. They’re dictated by moon phases. There are other religions that still use moon phases too. IE Muslims,,, Did I say that? But pagan religions go by astronomical events to determine special days. Not the Christians. The Christians always go by a Julian date. And therefore if you’re going by a dated holiday (stumble) or event as such as Halloween, it’s a Christian holiday. Hmm? There’s a lot of strife, a lot of misinformation still flying about. Good example being right now, over top of my shop, or in the yard of my workshop. We have a billboard that the bosses rent out or they lease the space to the billboard company. One of the signs on this billboard is about the sign of the beast, 666, and how it’s not, that’s not the sign of the beast, but it will be somebody dedicating Sunday as the day of the Sabbath and making it a law. Well, I’m not even going to get into the whole Rigamarole of that. But since that sign went up, at least once a week, some preacher, some evangelists, some die hard Biblethumper or whatever you want to call them, stops by the boss’s house and says “you need to take that down”. Well, first off, it’s not his damn business. It’s whoever is paying for that space to the sign company. It’s to keep it there. He has no say in the matter. But why would you want to get all up in arms about this shit? Especially when it comes to like the number of the beast and the day of the Sabbath and these are all interpretive, subjective, individually subjective at that, items. There’s more important shit in this world going on. It has a whole lot more of an impact on you personally. Well, it’s just taxes. Jesus!Legalized theft!!! But you don’t hear people complain about that. You know, death and taxes: It’s inevitable. Yes and no. Death absolutely. You ain’t getting ,uhm, you ain’t getting out of this world alive. Taxes, taxes we can work with. Look at Elon. That man pays less in taxes into personally than I do. His numbers may be higher. But then again, his income is a shit ton higher too. But percentage wise, uh uh, I think he’s paying one, two percent, maybe, if even. Plus, how much does he get back from the government itself, that we pay for, through government contracts and this that and the other. Yeah. Anyway, I’m getting off on a tangent.

(Laughter)

Let’s go back to Halloween. Kind of. You know, Dracula, you know, the history on Dracula. I got it. What was his name? Nathan (correction: Raymond) Ibrahim?((LINK: 

. )) I think it was. (he) just did a whole big spiel. He even wrote a book about Dracula. Um, and how Dracula was not the whole vampire thing and he was not the anti Christ. He was actually extraordinarily anti-Muslim. And he had very valid reasons to be. I was listening to that cast and going, Us hardcore Patriots: I’m not counting myself on that. I’m trying to get better about being hardcore. But I’m not one of those guys that looks like he’s on borderline steroid use, you know, with bumped up muscles and whatnot. I’m not there, and I don’t even know if I’m going there. But I’m just thinking, all of us, you know, we think we’re so badass. And yet looking listening to that podcast and what was going on and the wars that were going on. And these guys were fighting wars with swords and bows. And you might have the occasional fire arm, which would look a whole shit ton like a mortar today, not explosive, just very kinetic. And I’m thinking we wouldn’t last five minutes with these guys under their. What are we saying there? Their parameters. We wouldn’t last five minutes. And yet this whole Islam, Christian dichotomy, strife, Jesus! It’s been going on for a thousand years, 1400 years, something like that. And yet it goes in waves. The Muslims regroup and they start to infiltrate and the Christians push back and the Christians rise up again. And it’s just,,, What does it take? What is it going to take to bring this headbutting, the strife, this war? Because it is a war. It’s a fucking holy war. And it’s been going on over 1400 years. What does it take to bring this to an end? All right. I’m going to leave that there for a few minutes. All right. I’m just going to leave that that right there. We’re not even going to touch that because there’s just waaaay too many rabbit holes to fall down that way.

Let’s talk about something that Spud brought up. The fact that I don’t badmouth the Republicans so much. Why? Why do I not badmouth the Republicans? 

I don’t care. 

They don’t represent me. The Democrats don’t represent me. Libertarians (pause) around 2008 did and not long after that, they no longer did. And of course, you don’t see very many libertarians in office, at least not at the federal level. You might see it scattered about in the United States and locals, maybe even in state, but I don’t know. But I don’t go by the large L libertarian. I’m an anarchist. I don’t believe we should have the level of government we have. We just,,, it’s overbearing, but in comments to Spud. I mentioned that we need to come up with a currency. And this this thought line came about because of Robert Gorer’s straight line logic. He did a three piece article, not not to be blunt, just a weak or two back. And anyway, if you can’t I’ll link them in the comments or enough, the transcript. But if you can, go back and look at them. And right now, there’s a bunch of stuff going through Congress to one. It’s kind of back and forth. One is saying that we can’t that they’re not going to do the whole digital currency thing. And the other one is saying that they’re going to come up with a private form of digital currency. It’s like hold on a second. But there’s one thing that keeps popping up and I’m catching it in my feeds. I’m catching it in articles here and there. This whole digital ID thing. You know, I don’t like the way our IDs are, you know, going with the whole true ID, whatever federal brat where you have to have this ID. If you want to get on an airplane, you have to have this ID. If you’re going to go to a federal court or to go on to a base or any federal installation, you have to have this ID or you ain’t getting there. Okay. What the fuck? We have illegals in this nation who are getting supported in multiple ways. We have illegals with CDL’s driving trucks on our national highways with no repercussions. That can’t read the damn language. And yet a civilian who was born and raised here has all the legal rights and all the obligations of a civilian. Can’t go on a federal base. Can’t get into a federal court. Can’t get on a Frellin’ airplane . Okay. We got a problem. Second off, you start doing this whole digital currency thing. And all it’s going to take is one person to get upset with you in a position of power, in one person in a position of power, get upset with you and they can erase you. They can delete all of your financials. Good, bad, indifferent GONE. Bye. You don’t exist anymore. You can’t buy groceries. This bothers me. Robert Heinlein said that when a society is failing, ID becomes mandatory. We also remember this from Nazi Germany. Papers, please, or whatever the hell that was they said. That’s tyranny. And I don’t like seeing this in our country. And it’s growing year by year by year and never any pushback. It’s a ratchet. It’s one click, one click, one click. Never any let up. Never any let up. The pressure keeps rising. Yeah, I’m gonna to stop on that; blood pressure starting to go up. I will tell you this and I’ve thought about it frequently. The day digital ID becomes mandatory. The day we go to a digital currency and a dollar bill. It’s just like turn ‘em in. We’ll turn them, you know, you turn them in for some ratio, 100 to one, whatever. And it the currency, the digital currency, you have to have an eBT card. That’s the day I load a pack and I walk off stage. Don’t look back. That’s the day I’m done. I’ll just fade into the woodwork. Can’t trace somebody without a signal. And I won’t have a signal. But that’s a dark thought and it’s not a dark thought I want to talk about too much. I just. That’s my line in the sand. When that happens, I’m gone. Bye. See you. I’m not even going to fight about it. All I can do right now is what I’m doing. Blow on the horn. Call your reps. If it has anything to do with digital currency or digital ID, tell them. “No”. Get in their faces. Be in noise about it. I am. I’m just trying to spread the word you guys to. Oh. Damn, now I’m in a bad mood.

All right. Yeah, I hit the pause button there for the record while I went off and chilled out. Uhm,Talking about my diet. Talking about. Vlad the impeller and hard,,, Our gentlemen warriors, whatever you want to call them from that day and age. And I got the thinking back in Civil War era, Now (you ) see pictures of these guys. They’re lean. Not a bit of fat on them. In fact, they’ll probably be two thirds of our weight. And yet these boys, they work their asses off. And I’m not just talking in the military. I’m talking even when they weren’t fighting, they were working and they were working their asses off. And I, well, I don’t personally know, but I have seen (people) working with mules, all plowing fields, which is how these boys did it because we didn’t have any industry at that time. I didn’t need these work, man. That’s that’s wow. Thats’s get your dirt get dirt under your nails and it’s a fight. And you’re dealing with something with a mind of its own on the other end of the tool. Anybody who’s worked with a mule will tell you, a mule is,,, they will work their asses off. They will go all day long, but the minute they say they’re done, you ain’t changing their mind; They’re done. The only way to get them to do anything at that point is to show,, them take them out of harness and start walking them back to the shed because that’s the only place they want to be. And that’s the only way you’re going to get them to do anything. Hmm. Sounds like some people I know. Yeah. Me. Yes, B. I know, I’m that mule. Hard headed. Stubborn,,,

Well, I’m going to call it on that it’s happy Halloween everybody. I don’t know how you celebrate it. If you even celebrate it: you may may not. Enjoy the day. If you got kids, get them out. Have fun.

Y’all have a good weekend. C’ya!. [Music]