Speaker 1: What's got a headache? My code Kenny Ship Katie has
Speaker 1: a headache. This is Behind the Bastards podcast about that.
Speaker 1: It's not a Corona headache. It's just a normal stress headache.
Speaker 1: Yeah you say that, but you've got that look in
Speaker 1: your eyes like the guy in the zombie movie who's
Speaker 1: hiding the bike. That's that's that's literally all of us
Speaker 1: right now. Actually, yeah, you think you're you think you're special.
Speaker 1: Back off, poise, don't look too closely at my headache.
Speaker 1: So this is our first Corona recorded quarantine episode of
Speaker 1: Behind the Bastards the Quarantine Bastards, and I figured we
Speaker 1: should do something a little special for it, y'all. So, oh,
Speaker 1: I just had my first cup of sip of coffee
Speaker 1: for the day. That's nice. That's lovely, Robert, Why did
Speaker 1: you not drink that before you started recording? We have
Speaker 1: a rule because we're professionals, gotta be fast. Speed is everything.
Speaker 1: M Now, let's very slowly discuss this old Prepper magazine
Speaker 1: from nine. Oh yeah, so yeah, I was given this
Speaker 1: mailed this by a fan, and I don't think they
Speaker 1: sent it weeks ago. So this was just a coincidence
Speaker 1: that it timed out well with the coronavirus. But it's
Speaker 1: called The Survivor by Kurt Saxon. Now Kurt's Saxon was
Speaker 1: a a fringe survivalist lunatic who uh wrote a book
Speaker 1: called The poor Man's James Bond and a number of
Speaker 1: other guides to making improvised weapons and uh and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. He's one of those Here's how to kill
Speaker 1: people with objects around you type dudes, a fake James Bond? Excellent.
Speaker 1: It's more like, here's how to booby trap everything that
Speaker 1: you own and kill people if you had so. It's
Speaker 1: more like a bad mgeiver. Yeah, here's how to be
Speaker 1: like a drunk, lonely mcgeiver in the woods. So like
Speaker 1: a like a light terrorist. Yes, it seems like what
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. We got a lot of time
Speaker 1: on our hands. I don't know if this is a
Speaker 1: responsible thing to put out in the world, but we
Speaker 1: are so. I want you to look at I want
Speaker 1: you to look at the beautiful copy of this. It
Speaker 1: is about it's enormous. It's about twice the size of
Speaker 1: a normal piece of paper. The book is it's handbound.
Speaker 1: Whoever made this clearly did it and like their garage
Speaker 1: and the front has a gorgeous an illustration that I
Speaker 1: can only describe as unhinged. It really is very lovingly made. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a it's like a very it's a warped
Speaker 1: fairy tale. It's a fat zine. Yeah, like Katie's description,
Speaker 1: made with love. It is definitely made with love. It
Speaker 1: it shows a man who looks like a young who's
Speaker 1: the guy from Greece? Greece guy Tommy, Tommy TRIVOLDI he
Speaker 1: looks like young John Travolta, got the hairy chest. I'm
Speaker 1: a phenomenon. He's hate he's clearly forging something, and he's
Speaker 1: forging something. What I love about this picture is that
Speaker 1: he's like clearly working on an active hot forge, right
Speaker 1: next to his daughter who's immediately left of the forge,
Speaker 1: playing with a doll spark. It's great, and he could
Speaker 1: do that and be a good parent. He can, of
Speaker 1: course he can. They live in some sort of home
Speaker 1: built house. There's what I have to assume is a
Speaker 1: bomb making chemistry set, either that or meth amphetamine in
Speaker 1: the in the right hand corner. And then his very
Speaker 1: quiet perspective warped wife standing in the background operating some
Speaker 1: sort of rudimentary lathe. Yeah, she's got her apron on.
Speaker 1: I think you're damn getting her face burned off. I
Speaker 1: have a feeling Kurt Saxon does not like it when
Speaker 1: women don't wear aprons. M I understand where you get
Speaker 1: that feeling from. Well, he's not going to shell out
Speaker 1: for her to buy another dress if she ruins it
Speaker 1: being stupid. Here's the thing about prepping, um, because I
Speaker 1: I do it myself. Unfortunately, you often wind up taking
Speaker 1: advice from lunatics who are light terrorists because they also
Speaker 1: know how to do a lot of really useful ship
Speaker 1: because they've been living alone in the mountains for thirty
Speaker 1: five years and they picked up some skills. UM. So
Speaker 1: I'm interested in the ratio. I'm going to predict right
Speaker 1: now that this magazine will be a mix of incredibly
Speaker 1: useful survival tips and absolute madness. And I'm really interested
Speaker 1: as to what that ratio is going to be, right
Speaker 1: and how how they relate to each other, because I
Speaker 1: imagine a lot of the useful things will be like, hey,
Speaker 1: did you know this, and here's what you do with it?
Speaker 1: A cross over there, page one has a has ah.
Speaker 1: What I would get I guess we would call an editorial. Uh,
Speaker 1: survival is looking out for number one, and I guess
Speaker 1: I should read a little bit from that to give
Speaker 1: you give us an idea of the tenor of this piece.
Speaker 1: Alarmists all around the country are promising disaster such a
Speaker 1: super inflation, famine for an invasion, the triumph of communism
Speaker 1: slash fascism. That classic. You guys remember when the communo
Speaker 1: fascists were were rolling in that red brown alliance. The
Speaker 1: dangers of one thing, nuclear war, etcetera. Unfortunately, it's essentially
Speaker 1: the same thing, so I don't have too much of
Speaker 1: an issue with that slash lump them in together. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they may all be right, even though their timing is wrong. Semicolon,
Speaker 1: we hope not exactly where I would use a semical.
Speaker 1: But you have only to compare this year's food prices
Speaker 1: over last year's, this year's rise and crime over last year's.
Speaker 1: These things affected directly prices going up. Yeah, that's it is.
Speaker 1: It is a little bit comforting to read the tone
Speaker 1: of certain imminent doom in this magazine and then be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this was fifty years ago, and we kept on limping
Speaker 1: for Just wait, buddy, just wait, maybe we'll get through this.
Speaker 1: M hmm. Yeah. There are two main reasons for this,
Speaker 1: which no political system can help. One is that the
Speaker 1: age of exploration and development and the Industrial Revolution is over.
Speaker 1: And the other is that the good crop weather worldwide
Speaker 1: is also over maybe for centuries. You guys remember how
Speaker 1: we weren't able to We can't grow crops anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the crop weather stopped. I'd almost forgotten with everything that's
Speaker 1: going on, But yeah, that's part of the problem. We
Speaker 1: don't have any crops. I mean, we actually do have
Speaker 1: a major problem with that because the Trump administration is
Speaker 1: not letting uh Mexican workers in on visas this year.
Speaker 1: The harvest crops, that's going to be an issue. But oh,
Speaker 1: Kurt Saxon, I couldn't have known that. How dare you
Speaker 1: make this relevant, Robert? How dare you? We're trying to
Speaker 1: escape here into the world of awful bastards, not remember
Speaker 1: the bastard reality that we live in. Why don't we
Speaker 1: escape into hearing what Kurt Saxon has to say about
Speaker 1: the Age of Exploration and Development. Yes, it began around
Speaker 1: fift and into around nineteen fifty. From the beginning of
Speaker 1: that period, the earth was explored, mapped, annex developed, and
Speaker 1: exploited with you. So far kurt Its resources, animal, vegetable
Speaker 1: and mineral were looted with little or no thought for
Speaker 1: future generations still on board. As national industries grew to
Speaker 1: take advantage of the impouring bounty from the hinterlands, living
Speaker 1: standards rows, enabling more people to survive and in turn
Speaker 1: to reproduce their kind human locusts spread over the earth,
Speaker 1: born only to exploit, rape, and destroy their own environment.
Speaker 1: Have more babies so we can clear more land. Have
Speaker 1: more babies so we can mind more coal and metals.
Speaker 1: Have more babies so we can keep the factories running.
Speaker 1: Have more babies so we can take more territory from
Speaker 1: the hated enemy. That's right, We've got a built in workforce.
Speaker 1: The babies, the babies, more babies, babies. As you were
Speaker 1: reading that, I was like, I hope there's a third
Speaker 1: half more babies, And you did it, and then there
Speaker 1: was a fourth one. A lot of babies having suggestions here.
Speaker 1: I mean, Robert, I guess it's better than the usual
Speaker 1: dead baby talk on this. It is. It is, although
Speaker 1: I think that he would argue that, like Lana del Rey,
Speaker 1: these babies were born to die. Yeah, I also think
Speaker 1: we're only on the first page. We are only on
Speaker 1: the first page, so there's there's more time for dead babies.
Speaker 1: This this opinion column is continued on page two, but
Speaker 1: before we get to it, we have a couple of
Speaker 1: really useful, uh little little guides just on page one.
Speaker 1: How to cut bottles with electricity from a nineteen nineteen
Speaker 1: Popular Mechanics article, how to make a stationary windmill from
Speaker 1: a nineteen thirteen Popular Mechanics article, And how to irrigate
Speaker 1: with cans stationary windmill. Yeah, station every windmill so it
Speaker 1: doesn't move with the wind. It just is like a statue.
Speaker 1: Uh no, I figured it wasn't that. I think it
Speaker 1: yeah down the hill. I guess. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you can specified that a windmill stationary, like my windmill
Speaker 1: is not portable. My windmill stays where it is. I say,
Speaker 1: it runs regardless of the direction of the wind. That's
Speaker 1: probably what they're saying. Cody. Mills of this kind can
Speaker 1: be built of larger size in some localities have been
Speaker 1: used for pumping and cutting a bottle with electricity. You know,
Speaker 1: Actually that's so that's that's like a useful thing. For um,
Speaker 1: if you've got like a bunch of big glass bottles
Speaker 1: and you need to make cups because the society has collapsed,
Speaker 1: but you still need a good cup, and you've got
Speaker 1: extra electricity hanging around. Well, if you know how to
Speaker 1: make your own windmills. If you're reading The Survivor volume one,
Speaker 1: I think you're ready for this. I mean, honestly, though
Speaker 1: they jumped right into the heavy hitters in volume one,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. This isn't even like a remedial guide. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: there's so many pages there's this is so big. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go through the entirety of his column,
Speaker 1: but I do want to read the section where he
Speaker 1: starts about arming yourself and escaping society. That seems like
Speaker 1: that's the most important step, right, I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: not considering arming yourself and escaping society for the mountains, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Everybody is exactly exactly so uh, you may
Speaker 1: want to get a few acres and live cut off
Speaker 1: from everyone. This is fine if you're well armed and
Speaker 1: a professional woodcraft are already. However, this is too great
Speaker 1: a change for most people. The inexperienced dreamers simply cannot
Speaker 1: survive alone. Regardless of your choice town, commune, or small farm,
Speaker 1: you must choose an area about a hundred miles from
Speaker 1: any major population center. It must also be several miles
Speaker 1: off from an major highway. Refugees streaming out of New
Speaker 1: York or Los Angeles will clog the main highways and
Speaker 1: strip every home from miles each side of their route,
Speaker 1: like irresistible plagues of locusts. I'm guessing he's imagining those
Speaker 1: crowds as being a certain color. You probably have to
Speaker 1: use much of your imagination. No, no plagues of locusts.
Speaker 1: I've I've seen the cover of this. Yeah, he does
Speaker 1: say that he's going to focus on survival without savagery.
Speaker 1: So that's good. Okay, Oh Jesus, No matter how much
Speaker 1: you might think you can steal yourself against pitiful refugees,
Speaker 1: you must plan to live as far off their perspective
Speaker 1: roots as possible. Yeah, say, pitiful pitiful refugees. So next
Speaker 1: we have, uh, we have a guide to making a
Speaker 1: mouse trap, a guide to make popcorn cakes. So that's nice.
Speaker 1: How to make a house both dang right? Wait, how
Speaker 1: to make a houseboat? How to make a houseboat? Let's
Speaker 1: get into that. This is a short This is a
Speaker 1: very short guy to make. So it's he's he's taken
Speaker 1: a lot of different guides from popular mechanics, and this
Speaker 1: is about a page for paragraphs on the houseboats. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it was that simple in a very small time.
Speaker 1: Why aren't we all making houseboats? There's so much coast
Speaker 1: to California. You guys could be living in houseboats right now,
Speaker 1: free rent. We are dropping the ball. And if you
Speaker 1: make that stationary water wheel thing, then you'll have power exactly.
Speaker 1: We don't have to oh this, we're gonna live like
Speaker 1: very very dangerous kings. Well, and I have to say,
Speaker 1: you know what's better for uh your what's a better
Speaker 1: value for the funders of some more news than living
Speaker 1: in homemade house boats and generating your own power with
Speaker 1: a wheel. Honestly, I couldn't think of a second thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the next page will provide some more for us.
Speaker 1: But what was that game? It's like, what page are
Speaker 1: we on? We three? Oh my god, my god. Right
Speaker 1: next to how to make a house boat medicines like
Speaker 1: Granddad used to make, which is an advertisement for another
Speaker 1: two page book by Kurt sex. Oh my smart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you want to make the sign
Speaker 1: of medicines that your grandpa used to make. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: So it's ten dollars ninety six. Ten dollars. Kurt's charging
Speaker 1: you quite a bit for granddad. Ye self published to like,
Speaker 1: but like, if you're you're learning really valuable into I
Speaker 1: could shell out some bucks to learn how to make
Speaker 1: a houseboat. I know that's different. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: You've got the free four paragraph guide right here, Katie. Um,
Speaker 1: can we talk about this entry that says a homemade
Speaker 1: blow blowtorch? Oh? Absolutely, Wait where is that it's from?
Speaker 1: It's from Popular Mechanics. N wow, popular mechanic is really
Speaker 1: it requires no air and no pump. You have a blowtorch.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you blow without air or a pump,
Speaker 1: but I guess there's a way. Well yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: instead of forcing a small stream of gasoline into a
Speaker 1: heated burner, it converts the gasoline into gas in the
Speaker 1: chamber and blows a small jet of it through a
Speaker 1: very small hole in the the combustion chamber. There we go.
Speaker 1: Just it's just that simple, Thank you, And this is
Speaker 1: why we're all looking for things to do while quarantined.
Speaker 1: Make your own blow torch, following the guide this dangerously
Speaker 1: unhinged individual self published in his garage in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: And maybe do not follow that advice we just gave you.
Speaker 1: Follow all of it, every piece of get out of here.
Speaker 1: I do want to read a paragraph from medicines granddad
Speaker 1: used to make, because it's made me aware of something.
Speaker 1: So this is not This is not medicines that Kurt
Speaker 1: Saxon's granddad used to make. Uh. He included all of
Speaker 1: the medical preparations from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and
Speaker 1: Processes eighteen seventy two and the complete text of the
Speaker 1: Medical Students Manual of Chemistry from eighteen eighty nine. So
Speaker 1: he's just taking old books and republishing them with a
Speaker 1: little bit of work and then selling them for a
Speaker 1: huge amount of money. Yeah, just like he got a
Speaker 1: bunch of popular mechanics. I mean there's an element of
Speaker 1: that that's cool, because like there's a bunch of ship
Speaker 1: in here from like the eighteen hundreds that it's just
Speaker 1: like guides to life that that random people on the
Speaker 1: frontier figured out. But also like, Kurt, you're not coming
Speaker 1: up with this stuff. He's a he's a news aggregating website. Basically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do want to see. Yeah, he's BuzzFeed. He's like
Speaker 1: prepper BuzzFeed from the seventies. The sections from Dicks cover
Speaker 1: such medical preparations as bitters, aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, f
Speaker 1: factitious mineral waters, facious of those work, Sophie, would you
Speaker 1: look up factitious mineral waters to see if that's a
Speaker 1: thing or if this is nonsense? Old people medicine, they
Speaker 1: maybe they used to refer to mineral waters as factitious
Speaker 1: because people used to think they were fake. I don't know.
Speaker 1: This all sounds like stuff. Grandpa Simpson would prescribe fluid extracts,
Speaker 1: medicinal lessences, medicated syrups, oxymel elixirs, medicated waters, medicinal solutions, lotions, liniments, pills, ointments, salves, serrates,
Speaker 1: poultice is, plasters, garbls, caustics, rubefacians, Balsom's tonics, and a diet.
Speaker 1: It's diaphyretics, diuretics, electuaries, fomentations. I'll turn it. What are
Speaker 1: these things? I'm gonna be honest if you're trying to
Speaker 1: sell me medicine. You lost me at a lix, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna buy your stuff. So update, there's really
Speaker 1: nothing except I found one thing that's titled Drugs and
Speaker 1: Our Drinking Water, and I don't think it's related. So
Speaker 1: I think this person just made up a thing awesome
Speaker 1: or time ago. So next page, how to make make
Speaker 1: up a candy floss outfit. What's the candy flaws outfit?
Speaker 1: You know, it's how to make floss, it's how to
Speaker 1: it's a it's how to make a not candy like
Speaker 1: a costume. No, we would call it. Um. What's that
Speaker 1: ship they sell at the carnivals. It's the cotton candy,
Speaker 1: cotton candy. How to make a cotton candy machine. That's neat,
Speaker 1: I would go, yeah, I love. It's like an outfit.
Speaker 1: I love. I love their old old terminology for that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely it was an outfit. Yeah. So on that page
Speaker 1: we have had to make up a candy floss outfit
Speaker 1: catching insects with a vacuum cleaner and homemade blowtorch. And
Speaker 1: then right next I don't really I don't think that
Speaker 1: we need a big long description of how to catch
Speaker 1: a bug with a vacuum cleaner. No, that actually seems
Speaker 1: pretty simple. Yeah, that's straight title. The title is the explanation.
Speaker 1: You know what I think he's filling. You know what's
Speaker 1: amazing he gives us. He dedicates exactly as much paide
Speaker 1: space to making a houseboat as he does to catching
Speaker 1: insects with a vacuum cleaner. Well, now we know both.
Speaker 1: And then on the same page another ad for another
Speaker 1: Kurt Saxon book keeping score on our modern profits, psychic
Speaker 1: researcher and Bible expert levels on people who give the
Speaker 1: occult world a bad name? Do you think that he's
Speaker 1: publishing books just to promote his other books? I think so.
Speaker 1: I think that this is all he's got his whole
Speaker 1: media network. Like, this guy is kind of like a
Speaker 1: low tech Alex Jones who has like his own But
Speaker 1: actually some of this is really useful, um right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I imagine I might wind up digging this up
Speaker 1: to find out how to make a homemade blowtorch if
Speaker 1: things get a lot worse. I knew you were going
Speaker 1: to say blowtour techny. Hey, Robert, what else is really useful?
Speaker 1: The products and services that support this podcast yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. All right. We're going to go to products
Speaker 1: right after we get back. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: how to keep score on our modern profits. So I
Speaker 1: think we should all be excited about this. I'm stuck
Speaker 1: always and we're bad. We're back. We're talking about living
Speaker 1: in the mountains and forming a militia. Um, a militia
Speaker 1: in which we would all be colonels um. Everyone is
Speaker 1: a colonel in in my militia. So can I give
Speaker 1: a quick anecdote? Absolutely. I'd never said the word colonel
Speaker 1: out loud until I started auditioning for projects and I
Speaker 1: was reading something and I had to say the word colonel.
Speaker 1: But I just read it and said colonel. And that's
Speaker 1: my anecdote. I immediately knew my mistake. You can cut
Speaker 1: this out. It's done. No no, no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: we're all saying. Kurt Saxon has shared his emotional vulnerabilities
Speaker 1: with us. We should share ours with the listeners. Thanks guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for receiving me, Thank you for sharing, Thank you
Speaker 1: for opening up, Thank you for sharing. I missstook a
Speaker 1: wrench for channel locks once several years ago, and I
Speaker 1: very silly and all of the people who knew what
Speaker 1: they were doing with tools around me made a lot
Speaker 1: of fun of me. So everybody makes dumb mistakes. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry that you experienced that, Robert. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, they were all woodsmen and I
Speaker 1: wanted to be cool around them, But then I didn't
Speaker 1: know what channelocks were because I was a fool, And
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I still don't know what. I only
Speaker 1: have a vague idea, to be honest, Cody, do you
Speaker 1: want to say share a shameful and vulnerable moment? Or
Speaker 1: should we read about what Kurt Saxon has to say
Speaker 1: on modern profits. I've never been embarrassed once in my
Speaker 1: entire life. That makes sense, That actually makes complete sense.
Speaker 1: Modern profits promoted by trashy tabloids claimed to know the future.
Speaker 1: Aside from predicting natural disasters, they are very heavy on
Speaker 1: sweetness and light. Everything is going to turn out all right,
Speaker 1: God tells them. So too many people believe frauds like
Speaker 1: Gene Dixon. They don't prepare for rough times ahead because
Speaker 1: Jean says great things are in store for humanity. The
Speaker 1: fact that these things seldom come off as prophesized is
Speaker 1: forgotten as new prophecies come out. The author is the
Speaker 1: only one to collect and record four years of prophecies
Speaker 1: and the most popular of the most popular modern prophets,
Speaker 1: with their miserable scores, it is amazing that any of
Speaker 1: them stay in the limelight. If you were hooked on
Speaker 1: the modern prophets and there's someone who is, you owe
Speaker 1: it to yourself to read this. But oh, I think
Speaker 1: he's actually like busting, like talking about what liars psychics are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really hates this Genie Dixon woman, And yeah, there
Speaker 1: we go. I don't know. I went to one psychic
Speaker 1: that told me in a past life I've saved a
Speaker 1: lot of Jewish people during the Holocaust, and I tend
Speaker 1: to believe that that's true. That is a nice thing
Speaker 1: to believe. I feel like, can I share one other
Speaker 1: psychic story that might uh convince you this is the time?
Speaker 1: Do you think it? So? My good friend Nellie, who
Speaker 1: loves Hawai, goes every year. Okay, in her adult life,
Speaker 1: she has seen six different psychics who have all said
Speaker 1: that she used to be the ruler of a South
Speaker 1: Pacific island. Oh that's cool. Do what you will with that.
Speaker 1: That is a creepy coincidence. Either that or a lot
Speaker 1: of different psychics in Hawaii tell tourists to come in
Speaker 1: that they used to rule a South Pacific island. Well,
Speaker 1: she didn't go to all of her psychics were in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: She lives. And I'm also going to throw it out
Speaker 1: there that most people like Hawaii. Yeah, I'm not saying wrong, Well,
Speaker 1: but most people don't go every year of the I
Speaker 1: do wanna. While we're talking about California, I feel like
Speaker 1: I should note that the the address for Kurt Saxon's
Speaker 1: business is in Eureka, California, which I used to live
Speaker 1: next to, and nothing has ever made more sense to
Speaker 1: me in my entire life. That does make a lot. God, wait,
Speaker 1: have we done the fun thing where we just search
Speaker 1: words yet? Can we do that with the digital I
Speaker 1: kind of want to know who Gene Dixon is, But no,
Speaker 1: I don't think we can search words since that's a
Speaker 1: scan will include the link. You can read this all online.
Speaker 1: It's in a pdf. Uh oh god uh Touring in
Speaker 1: the Auto the land Cruiser. It's a guide to building
Speaker 1: your own RV and it is much longer than the
Speaker 1: guy to building a houseboat, which I feel like does it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there's a little guy to making a barrel
Speaker 1: boat too. That's goods. Wait, Robert, go to page thirty two.
Speaker 1: Go to page thirty two. Oh but the poor Man's
Speaker 1: James Bond is on the next page. Okay, do that first.
Speaker 1: Do that first. Take a look. Take a look at
Speaker 1: the illustration for the cover of The poor Man's James Bond,
Speaker 1: and I E. Cody, I'm gonna need you to describe
Speaker 1: that for me. Is what makes him poor? The fact
Speaker 1: that he's got eyeglasses on. Yeah, I don't know. So.
Speaker 1: The picture of the cover of The poor Man's James
Speaker 1: Bond features like a dude who looks like a nerdy
Speaker 1: engineer with big coke bottle glasses and like almost a
Speaker 1: like a like a very nerdy seventies combed part uh.
Speaker 1: And he's sitting with a shotgun that is easily two
Speaker 1: ft taller than him um and appears to have some
Speaker 1: like a home built for grip on it. And then
Speaker 1: there's a beautiful young woman sitting in his lap with
Speaker 1: a beer, and he has an entire handle of whiskey
Speaker 1: and is surrounded by piles of shotgun shells and explosives.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read. I'm gonna read the text. The poor
Speaker 1: Man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in the field
Speaker 1: of books on improvised weaponry and do it yourself mayhem.
Speaker 1: It gives full and simple instructions for making tear gas, explosives, firearms, silence.
Speaker 1: There's poisons, zip guns, grenades, knockout drops, flamethrowers, in a
Speaker 1: wide variety of weapons. It also tells you how to
Speaker 1: buy most of the needed chemicals from your grocery and
Speaker 1: garden store. Includes fireworks and explosives like granddad used to make.
Speaker 1: He really likes his granddad seems like a like like
Speaker 1: a trooper. Yeah. This book has hundreds of formulas and
Speaker 1: processes for making fireworks, blasting compounds, gunpowder, nitro gun, cotton, etcetera.
Speaker 1: The material was gleaned from formularies written from eighteen seventy
Speaker 1: two to nineteen oh seven, plus George W. Weingart's classic
Speaker 1: on fireworks Pyro Technique. This is the simplest and most
Speaker 1: comprehensive book on actually making fireworks. It is heavily illustrated
Speaker 1: and how to make roman candles, shellcases, fuses, colored fires, explosives, powders, rockets, mortars, firecrackers, torpedoes, etcetera,
Speaker 1: plus the complete texts of explosives, matches and fireworks from
Speaker 1: Joseph Riley nineteen thirty eight. So it's yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: more coalating all these old guides to just like help
Speaker 1: people make tear gas and grenades. Thank you, Kurt, could
Speaker 1: you really quickly the very first sentence of that again,
Speaker 1: the poor Man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in
Speaker 1: the field of books on there we go. Okay, I
Speaker 1: really wish it was like book like books. I wish
Speaker 1: it was books on improv. And there was just I thought,
Speaker 1: just like a page on like yes ending and stuff,
Speaker 1: and like we all thought, Dell Close is the is
Speaker 1: the Grandfather Been? But no, no, no, no, it's the
Speaker 1: poor Man's James Bond. This is this is like a
Speaker 1: whole book on how to do an improv version of
Speaker 1: James Bond at U c B basically not a popular tone.
Speaker 1: And I have my gun the truth, A guide to
Speaker 1: making a thresher, a guide to making a handmade drive press,
Speaker 1: and then how to raise cucumber on a trellis, yeah,
Speaker 1: how to make I mean he's covering all the bases
Speaker 1: I don't see the problem. Maybe cucumber is part of
Speaker 1: the tear gass recipe. I don't know. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a guidance on the next page, and how to
Speaker 1: make alkaline water drinkable because in the past they knew
Speaker 1: that alkaline water was a bad thing to drink and
Speaker 1: you needed to to filter it right, and now we
Speaker 1: just sell it for forty dollar aga cancer. Yeah, that's cool,
Speaker 1: all right, Sophie. What was the page you wanted me on?
Speaker 1: So it's probably not going to be the same page,
Speaker 1: So just look for how to make see through mirrors. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's past the enterprise. M hmm, okay, so
Speaker 1: past the poor Man's Armorer. How to make a basic
Speaker 1: crossbow plus aero sling, how to make an arrow catapult
Speaker 1: a simple but lethal toy, and and improving the eleven
Speaker 1: shot shotgun. Yeah, I think it goes up to twelve. Yes, Katie,
Speaker 1: it's simple. It's clearly a child using the arrow thrower
Speaker 1: that is a simple but lethal toy. The Coming the
Speaker 1: coming age of steam your basic steam engine. God, there's
Speaker 1: so much in here, black powder, how to make boomerangs? Right?
Speaker 1: Could I turn my houseboat into a steam engine? Is
Speaker 1: there an entry about the question is can you afford
Speaker 1: not to turn your houseboat into a steam engine. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I can't not in times like where
Speaker 1: do I get a train tracks? You probably make it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he teaches He teaches us how to make imitation gold
Speaker 1: and silver. It's like a page and a half on it.
Speaker 1: What were you looking at? Oh yeah, that's what we're
Speaker 1: about to say, Cody, Um, I was going past the
Speaker 1: the past or the future is our past with a
Speaker 1: big picture of the U. S. S. Enterprise. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're at the front page thirteen for me. You'll it's
Speaker 1: got the Enterprise on it. You can't miss it. I'm
Speaker 1: way past that. It is before how to make imitation
Speaker 1: gold and Silver. Yeah. I haven't run into that one yet.
Speaker 1: Maybe our books are different, but maybe maybe have a
Speaker 1: specially Oh here we go, Oh no, here it is.
Speaker 1: It's right. It's the page before burglar Proofing your Home,
Speaker 1: the poor Man's Way, and Simple Protection against Mugger's We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to come back to that because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess it's murdering. Oh my god. Our future lies in
Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, yeah, okay, barring a nuclear war, with
Speaker 1: the soon to be starving Russians. America's irreversible collapse should
Speaker 1: be apparent to anyone by nineteen eighty. By then it
Speaker 1: will be too late for city dwellers to go back
Speaker 1: to the land. All they will find is will be armies,
Speaker 1: will be armed survivors, treating them like improvident, ignorant refugees.
Speaker 1: They will be you, guys, remember when that happened, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it now. You were reading it and
Speaker 1: it painted a picture of a memory Jesus Christ. The
Speaker 1: world cities will perish, but there need not be another
Speaker 1: dark ages. Instead, we can go from our survival homesteads
Speaker 1: onto the stars. It's just that easy. You build a
Speaker 1: good enough steve and you can get displaced. I imagine
Speaker 1: it like by volume gonna have how to build a
Speaker 1: spaceship at some point in here, right, because otherwise he's
Speaker 1: definitely skipping a few steps. We might learn that we
Speaker 1: better fake gold. We better, guys. There is a letter's suggestion,
Speaker 1: and the first sentence lets me know it's gonna be special.
Speaker 1: Dear Mr Saxon, congratulations on issue one. I got my
Speaker 1: copy yesterday as soon as I rob a whino of
Speaker 1: six bucks I'll send you the money for a year subscription.
Speaker 1: If they ever banned books, If they ever banned books,
Speaker 1: which they eventually will do, yours will be the first.
Speaker 1: That's something to be proud of. Seems free enterprise is
Speaker 1: a dangerous thing. It's available for free. We're reading there
Speaker 1: right now. It says Rob a whin o like that's printed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it says Rob oh win. Oh yes, take them take
Speaker 1: six dollars from a whin Oh. Yeah. I mean though,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to shame you for your wine. No,
Speaker 1: we're all drunk today. Yeah. Wait, so the person wrote
Speaker 1: a letter about publications they got. Yeah, I'm guessing this
Speaker 1: is another edition of it. Yeah, I'm going to guess.
Speaker 1: That's why. The only complaint I have is of the
Speaker 1: poor Man's James Bond. You didn't have a section on
Speaker 1: establishing a new identity. A few paragraphs would have done.
Speaker 1: This is the popular rage. Visit a graveyard, take along
Speaker 1: a pencil and paper. You won't need any flowers because
Speaker 1: you're not going to pay respects to the dead, but
Speaker 1: a wreath will be provided good cover as you move
Speaker 1: from grave to grave. The best identity is of a
Speaker 1: kid born about the same time as you, but died
Speaker 1: about a year later. The younger the better, because there
Speaker 1: will only be two records, the birth and of death
Speaker 1: copied down about three names recording date of birth and
Speaker 1: of complete name and the name of parents have listed.
Speaker 1: Then go down to the local courthouse and ask for
Speaker 1: a copy of the birth and death certificates of the deceased.
Speaker 1: The birth certificate will enable you to get a Social
Speaker 1: Security car, driver's license, etcetera. The death certificate gives cause
Speaker 1: of death and related items. A new identification is a
Speaker 1: necessary survival object since it gives a person the benefit
Speaker 1: of two people. Finally, you can get a po box
Speaker 1: for receiving through the mail certain things which you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to deliver to the front porch. Well. Um, so
Speaker 1: I was looking through volume two to see if that
Speaker 1: advice was heated, and he was like, okay, and volume two,
Speaker 1: I'll do a whole section on stealing an identity. But
Speaker 1: they seem to have laid it out pretty well. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: the more you say, how we're gonna skip another dark
Speaker 1: age and go straight from our homesteads to the stars.
Speaker 1: In volume two there's a several page spread uh titled
Speaker 1: Preview of Life incoming dark age. So he gave up
Speaker 1: that dream pretty quickly. I mean, thank god he's got
Speaker 1: that information. I'd like to imagine he spent all of
Speaker 1: his time learning how to reading old popular science and
Speaker 1: learning how to make blowtorches, and he just knew nothing
Speaker 1: about space and assumed it was like traveling to the
Speaker 1: town over. Then he read a book and was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I thought he said to build a really
Speaker 1: tall ladder. Oh this is so much harder than building
Speaker 1: a houseboat. This is going to take at least paragraphs.
Speaker 1: I don't have that kind of time to take a
Speaker 1: few more volumes. Buddy, oh Man, h good, good, Christ
Speaker 1: in Heaven. This book is amazing. Um yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to find there is a review of the movie Taxi
Speaker 1: Driver in here there ish wait, come out. I found
Speaker 1: Sophie's I found Sophie's things first, Well, well we will
Speaker 1: find the Taxi Driver review. How to make I think,
Speaker 1: what year did this come out? Again? Okay, much later
Speaker 1: than I thought. How to make C through Mirrors. The
Speaker 1: FBI used the C through mirror in the House on Street.
Speaker 1: I guess that's a movie. Most guys who learned to
Speaker 1: make these mirrors claim they want them for surveillance of
Speaker 1: America's enemies like the FBI and CIA. When you learn
Speaker 1: to make such a spy mirror, you will probably run
Speaker 1: right out and buy a motel and a roll of film.
Speaker 1: I don't care what kind of sicky you are, as
Speaker 1: long as you send me some of the prints a window, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was really worth the way. Yeah yeah, And he's
Speaker 1: he's just joking about how you should use it to
Speaker 1: take pictures of people in their hotels. I think this
Speaker 1: Kurt Saxon is a good dude. I think he's a
Speaker 1: really good dude. Canceled hashtag canceled. This survivalist from the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies who is certainly dead from inhaling his own
Speaker 1: feels still out there. Man, he's still surviving. He's in
Speaker 1: space mine now right, Oh my god. Okay, so Sophie
Speaker 1: is telling me that it is time for another ad break.
Speaker 1: And after that ad break, we're going to start talking
Speaker 1: about what Kurt Saxon thought of the movie Taxi I
Speaker 1: What an easy thing to guess. Yes, I love shooting sets.
Speaker 1: Like we're back and we are still talking Kurt Saxon.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna get to that Taxi Driver review. But
Speaker 1: while I was I was running towards it, I found,
Speaker 1: in addition to some guides on making your own ammunition,
Speaker 1: which I am going to bookmark. Uh A, what I
Speaker 1: think is another op ed by Kurt Saxon. This is
Speaker 1: a long magazine, so he has a few extra and
Speaker 1: there's a little cute little picture of a newsboy extra.
Speaker 1: Kurt Saxon warns when politicians banned guns, bombers will ban politicians. Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel like this might double as his review of
Speaker 1: taxi driver. Ah, it's so timely. It's timely. Though many
Speaker 1: of your number, and possibly dear politician, I should say,
Speaker 1: is how it starts. Many of your number, impossibly yourself,
Speaker 1: have been raising alarms against the private ownership of handguns
Speaker 1: propagandist site pitiful example such as the four year old
Speaker 1: boy who shoot him elf and the six year old
Speaker 1: who shoots his sister. Actually a man who lets his
Speaker 1: children get it his guns deserves to have his line
Speaker 1: die out. Jesus Christ, Urt, that's not the take to Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. And then there are the minorities brawling
Speaker 1: their way through the ghettos and barrios on a Saturday night,
Speaker 1: shooting each other in quarrels over their females and dope, Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go, he said, female female America, that are
Speaker 1: the Republicans want to bring us back to Well, you
Speaker 1: can talk like this, I think it is. You know, Katie,
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you say that because I have my
Speaker 1: questions about Kurt, and I wonder if because there's this
Speaker 1: there's this chunk of the right, like the what I
Speaker 1: will call the dangerous right um who like went all
Speaker 1: in for Trump because like it was really has all
Speaker 1: was all about racism. And then there's the chunk who
Speaker 1: are like fundamentally anti authoritarian and even though they are
Speaker 1: super racist often although not always were Like, no, Trump
Speaker 1: is bad because he's an authoritarian and I hate the government,
Speaker 1: Like you don't understand, I don't care if he's like
Speaker 1: hates the people I hate. I hate the government most
Speaker 1: and I kind of think Kurt Saxon would be in that.
Speaker 1: I hate the government more than anything else. But I
Speaker 1: really don't seems to have some racism, sexism, Oh, tons
Speaker 1: of it, tons of it. Yeah, what's a matter of Yeah,
Speaker 1: which one sort of wins out? Yeah, He's one where
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know if he would have ever
Speaker 1: supported a presidential candidate. But maybe yeah, if any if anyone,
Speaker 1: it would be Trump, of all people, if anyone, it
Speaker 1: would be Trump. Yeah. Yeah, Okay, that's about all that
Speaker 1: I think we need to read. Oh wait, no, he
Speaker 1: talks about Sarahan. Sarahan. We gotta talk about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It may be the real So still like threatening politicians,
Speaker 1: it may be a real belief among those of you
Speaker 1: who are most sheltered that guns can be banned and
Speaker 1: that lying then lying politicians won't be shot by disappointed constituents.
Speaker 1: Not so, and worse than not so. First, guns can
Speaker 1: be banned by law, but then private illicit gun factories
Speaker 1: will flourish, and worse than guns there are their alternatives
Speaker 1: will make any public appearance by a liberal politico a
Speaker 1: great show for a TV audience as he and anyone
Speaker 1: else on the platform is blown to bits by a
Speaker 1: casually thrown bomb. Bombs are easy to make, their components
Speaker 1: are cheap and easier to get than our guns. Moreover,
Speaker 1: the chances for escape by the bomber due to the
Speaker 1: panic and confusion, are much greater than hetty used a gun.
Speaker 1: Make guns hard to get to any degree, and the
Speaker 1: dissident will choose bombs and even be glad you helped
Speaker 1: him make that choice. If Sirrahn had thrown an easily made,
Speaker 1: black padded bomb at Bobby Kennedy, he would be partying
Speaker 1: with his accomplice. Now. If Brimmer had thrown a bomb
Speaker 1: at Wallace, he too would probably be free, and Wallace
Speaker 1: would now be edging toward the presidency. Books on bomb
Speaker 1: making and improvised weaponries such as My Own poor Man
Speaker 1: James Bond are sold all over the country and numbers
Speaker 1: directly proportionate to the growing threat of gun confiscation. In fact,
Speaker 1: all books on grilla warfare and military science are gaining interest.
Speaker 1: So he's just he's he's literally saying, if you pass
Speaker 1: gun control, I people will kill you with bombs and
Speaker 1: I Am going to provide them with the guides to
Speaker 1: do it. And the fact that it's like a terrorist thread,
Speaker 1: it's it's it does a little bit right. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we really got into the terrorism part of this, uh
Speaker 1: little publication. We sure did. Right after how We're going
Speaker 1: to get to the stars by home from um I
Speaker 1: really quickly. I have to have to read this. Uh
Speaker 1: so you mentioned improving the eleventh shot shotgun earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do want to know how you would improve the
Speaker 1: eleventh shot? That seems perfect. What's better than a left eleven?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure I'll tell us. But I
Speaker 1: think that the very first sentence of this uh section
Speaker 1: is a perfect microcosm of this entire, entire thing, and
Speaker 1: so improving the eleven shot shotgun. They all laughed when
Speaker 1: I demonstrated my notorious eleven shot shotgun, and then it
Speaker 1: goes on. They all laughed at my homemade shot. But
Speaker 1: then I had a shotgun, and then he explains how
Speaker 1: to improve it. And I'm sure it's some good advice,
Speaker 1: but I I bet he knows how to improve a shotgun.
Speaker 1: So it's about sweat proof. Oh okay, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: be shooting so many people, right, You're gonna get sweaty.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. That makes sense. I like practicality. So
Speaker 1: Atlan Atlin is his his publishing company, Atlans first and
Speaker 1: maybe last movie review taxi Driver. In my third issue,
Speaker 1: James Allen asked for a description of the device the
Speaker 1: taxi driver used to snap the gun out of his
Speaker 1: sleeve and onto his hand. I watched the making of
Speaker 1: his device carefully and I'm still uncertain how he did it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he had an arrangement built of odds and ends, and
Speaker 1: it had a track away down his arm on which
Speaker 1: the gun carriage was on rollers. When he snapped his
Speaker 1: arm to the firing position, the carriage would rattle considerably
Speaker 1: in the gun would slide into his hands. It was noisy,
Speaker 1: and it reminded of putting a cointed a coke machine
Speaker 1: and waiting for it to finally finish its grumbling and
Speaker 1: shoot the bottle out. Any police officer I know is
Speaker 1: faster on the draw, and I think such a device
Speaker 1: would only give the wear a false sense of security.
Speaker 1: Travis the taxi driver is an x marine in Vietnam vette.
Speaker 1: He can't sleep, and whether he is haunted by war
Speaker 1: memories or intestinal parasites picked up in New York or
Speaker 1: Vietnam is not made clear. Anyway, Travis supplies for night
Speaker 1: taxi duty in New York City. So the first third
Speaker 1: of this review is just him arguing with like a
Speaker 1: specific point of like a gun delivery device that uh,
Speaker 1: Travis Bickle put like builds for himself. So that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he knows how to write reviews. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. It gets into it here a little bit.
Speaker 1: Travis develops a protective interest in Iris, a twelve and
Speaker 1: a half year old hookier played by Jodie Foster. She's
Speaker 1: hardly a turn on, since anyone would identify with her
Speaker 1: her role as the cute little connut is playing alongside
Speaker 1: Christopher Connolly in the TV series Paper. She's not hot
Speaker 1: because of her role in a TV series, not because
Speaker 1: she's still in a half I like, I like how
Speaker 1: he uh is saying he takes on the role of protector. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's one way to describe that anyway in text. Oh buddy,
Speaker 1: I I love Yeah, all of these and it's the
Speaker 1: same thing with like um, like I'm have a degree
Speaker 1: of interest in like some of the three D printing
Speaker 1: gun stuff, but like the the the organization that started
Speaker 1: really doing it, Defense Distributed. It was like headed by
Speaker 1: this capitalist um, anarcho capitalist, I think is how he
Speaker 1: identified dude Cody Wilson, who turned out to be a pedophile. UM.
Speaker 1: Like all of these like friend people turn out to
Speaker 1: be like all the Adam Offan guy, one of the
Speaker 1: big Adam Offant guys they just arrested. UM. The like it.
Speaker 1: It came out weeks after the arrest that like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and they found child porn on his computer. Also, like,
Speaker 1: these guys are always plicking pedophiles, and that's how a pedophile,
Speaker 1: like no one else is, Like Jodie Foster is not
Speaker 1: hot in this movie when she's twelve, Like no one
Speaker 1: else thinks of that, does Kurt and the guy who
Speaker 1: shot Reagan, except for he had the opposite conclusion. We
Speaker 1: don't make enough of that that the guy who shot
Speaker 1: Reagan was trying to impress a teenager. We really don't.
Speaker 1: We really don't. Anyway, we certainly can if you want.
Speaker 1: The upshot of the movie is that Travis raids the
Speaker 1: house Iris works in and kills everyone but her while
Speaker 1: stage hands stand off camera slashing buckets of orange paint
Speaker 1: on everyone. Travis survives and gets his name in the
Speaker 1: papers as a hero. Iris goes back to school in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Don't be upset, I've told you the plot. If you've
Speaker 1: seen the movie, you'll thank me for showing you that
Speaker 1: it had a plot in the first place. The message
Speaker 1: I got from taxi drivers that most New Yorkers are
Speaker 1: not fit to survive. Travis shows that casually Gunning Down
Speaker 1: Travis shows that casually gunning down New Yorkers is a
Speaker 1: public service, good target practice, and has its rewards. It's
Speaker 1: a kind of recruiting film for vigilantes, but it probably
Speaker 1: won't inspire much zeal And good folks to go there
Speaker 1: and help the peace Corps. Fever has largely died out
Speaker 1: in our land. Go see it, but leave the old
Speaker 1: folks at home. Kurt, Baby, you got the movie all wrong.
Speaker 1: I think he missed some point. I want him to
Speaker 1: write reviews for every movie that's ever been made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want his review of like the English Patient, The
Speaker 1: Man with the Man who Went Up and Dylan came
Speaker 1: down a mountain. Yeah, it's just gonna be like four
Speaker 1: paragraphs of him complaining that there are no twelve and
Speaker 1: a half year olds and the ones there are are
Speaker 1: don't enough. Kurt Saxon apprecia, where's the buckets of blood? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really makes me wonder about what kind of patient are
Speaker 1: we talking about here? Now? Yes, yes, it does, Cody
Speaker 1: uh now. And of course, now there's yet another column
Speaker 1: by Kurt Saxon, and this one actually does strike home
Speaker 1: as a result of the the current situation we're in.
Speaker 1: You can't change the channel. A while back, I saw
Speaker 1: a funny and tragic cartoon in a magazine and showed
Speaker 1: a car pulled over to the side of the road.
Speaker 1: A harried and exhausted mother was inside, flanked by some
Speaker 1: miserable children who plainly didn't like the situation at all.
Speaker 1: The father was outside, trying to pump up a flat tire.
Speaker 1: Well hard at work to save their vacation. The father
Speaker 1: was saying, but kids, this is real, this is life.
Speaker 1: We can't change the channel. The cartoons showed the absurdity
Speaker 1: of the children's confusion between reality and TV. I got
Speaker 1: a charge out of it because it paralleled the American
Speaker 1: adults confusion between real world conditions and here entertainment. So
Speaker 1: he's talking about how like, yeah, I don't know, that's
Speaker 1: something that like I've heard people express variations of on
Speaker 1: Twitter as a result of this whole situation. It's like
Speaker 1: it's a bad movie that you can't turn off. Like
Speaker 1: we put on some sort of low rent Netflix contagion
Speaker 1: series and uh, it just keeps auto playing. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: surreality that we're in. I can Yeah, the remote control
Speaker 1: is broken and it's right next to and of course
Speaker 1: it's right next to a guide on how to make
Speaker 1: the super still, she includes this which includes this paragraph
Speaker 1: for the real poop on alcohol for its own sake,
Speaker 1: for the real, for the real one. What we read that? Such,
Speaker 1: it's one more time for the real poop on alcohol
Speaker 1: for its own sake. Get Granddad's wonderful Book of Chemistry Alcohol.
Speaker 1: Metree starts on page one nine. Oh my god, so
Speaker 1: want to get something else? You don't want the real
Speaker 1: poop on alcohol. He's trying to keep it light, to
Speaker 1: have words like ship in them. No, I mean the real.
Speaker 1: That was a term people did use back then, for
Speaker 1: like scoop. Yeah, okay, the scoop use scoop, but people
Speaker 1: did not use How did poop become synonymous with scoop
Speaker 1: back then? I don't know. It was like an old
Speaker 1: timey thing. I remember of Bloom County cartoons from around
Speaker 1: this same period of time using that phrase. I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, bloom County is a great combat Oh, here
Speaker 1: we go. There's yet another book about how to make
Speaker 1: your own alcohol, which I get now that we're all
Speaker 1: in quarantine. Bar drinks and booze like Granddad used to
Speaker 1: make by cut Saxon eight dollars. If you're tired, if
Speaker 1: you're tired of paying a dollar for a nickels worth
Speaker 1: of booze, you want to make your own. Anyone can
Speaker 1: do it, and millions do. Once you learn to make
Speaker 1: it for yourself, you can make it to sell. Most
Speaker 1: commers know you cannot, Kurt, you absolutely cannot legally do that.
Speaker 1: Is that his bootlegging. I don't think that's a concern.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a concern of his either. Cody,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's got a guide to making champagne.
Speaker 1: It's not champagne unless it's just sparkling wine if you're
Speaker 1: not making in the Champagne region France. Kurt Saxon, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's got this guy disarming the letter bomb. He teaches
Speaker 1: you how to disarmed letter bombs. I know on the
Speaker 1: same page. Yes, Granddad's sky to boots. It very makes sense.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I'm not gonna laugh at that. At
Speaker 1: various times of the year, probably during full moons, letter
Speaker 1: bombers go into their act too cowardly to confront that
Speaker 1: you just were making guides to bombs. Kurt Saxon, You
Speaker 1: don't get to call letter bombers cowardly. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be defending letter bombers here, Kurt. Let's be fair.
Speaker 1: He wrote that other article during a full moon. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: As there is status among criminals, there's also status among
Speaker 1: political fanatics and those who use violence to register protests.
Speaker 1: Among any prison population, the lowest group includes child molesters
Speaker 1: and all those who use helpless children to work out
Speaker 1: their pathetic fantasies. The letter bomber has the same status.
Speaker 1: You can't get any lower. In fact, I see a similarity.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that all child molesters are letter bombers,
Speaker 1: but all letter bombers would have the same degree of
Speaker 1: social inadequacy. Curt, Buddy, Kurt, something going on again. You
Speaker 1: just told us how to make bombs. You you have
Speaker 1: repeatedly been telling us how to make bombs. Throughout this
Speaker 1: how to make bombs. The parts of this that are
Speaker 1: not about going to space or taxi driver are about
Speaker 1: or liquor, are about bomb making. Skipping to space. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really really wanting to figure out where the uh the
Speaker 1: space guide comes in this. Oh, this is wholesome. How
Speaker 1: to lay out a sundial? That's nice? Yeah, that that's
Speaker 1: potentially useful stake your claim. Some of this stuff deserves
Speaker 1: to be in a different book. He's just mixing his
Speaker 1: branding a lot. Yeah, it's this mix of like, here's
Speaker 1: useful old timey survivor survival tools, I cold from, you know,
Speaker 1: our ancestors wisdom, and then here's how to make a
Speaker 1: bomb homemade liquor and Jodie Foster wasn't hot enough and
Speaker 1: taxi driver. To Katie's point, it does seem like it's
Speaker 1: like if we're equating, it's somebody where you find out
Speaker 1: who they are in real life that has like a
Speaker 1: very popular social media page and you're like, wait, what yeah,
Speaker 1: very like mixed, very mixed content here. Yeah. Yeah, depending
Speaker 1: on the day, I guess depending on the moon phase. Sure, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a politics and politicians, and I think we're
Speaker 1: getting this might answer our question as to what Kurt
Speaker 1: Saxon would have done in two thousand sixteen if he hadn't.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to guess here killed himself in a
Speaker 1: distilling accident. I mean it could have been his house.
Speaker 1: Pope could have sunk, Yeah, his house pote could have
Speaker 1: sun his steam engine could have gone off, His steam
Speaker 1: powered spaceship might not have made it up into the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Or maybe he's that guy that died launching himself in
Speaker 1: his homemade rocket. I'm gonna bet you, I'm gonna bet you.
Speaker 1: Kurt Saxon was a real big influence on that fella.
Speaker 1: The liberal is so insecure in his real value that
Speaker 1: he must reduce the value of all so that he
Speaker 1: looks better by comparison. Hence the idealistic social programs that fail,
Speaker 1: along with the roads that go nowhere, in the damns
Speaker 1: that break, in the publicly subsidized industries which loot the
Speaker 1: wage earners. It doesn't really matter if the dummy is
Speaker 1: ignorant or actually stupid, whether he calls himself a liberal,
Speaker 1: conservative or a moderate. They are all political pigs, wanting
Speaker 1: only to get up to the public trough and stay there.
Speaker 1: They all plead ignorance in one way or another. They
Speaker 1: all need the support of the American people, as if
Speaker 1: that support will somehow put the stamp of validity on
Speaker 1: their incompetent efforts towards a better life for all. That's
Speaker 1: why they all say, even if you don't vote for me,
Speaker 1: vote they know your vote is a vote for their
Speaker 1: own way of life. It ensures that if they lose
Speaker 1: this election, they'll still have a goal to shoot for
Speaker 1: next time. It's a vote to keep those places at
Speaker 1: the public trough available for creeps who have nothing to
Speaker 1: sell but themselves. And since they have nothing to sell
Speaker 1: but themselves, the accent is on personality and agreeableness. They
Speaker 1: parade out there and usually pretty wives and homely children,
Speaker 1: and read speeches written by others. Most such speeches are
Speaker 1: written by Madison Avenue types, whose work sound like commercials
Speaker 1: written for kitty shows. Vote for Captain Monster, more sugar
Speaker 1: to the spoonful. Okay, the first sentence really really like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Survivalists don't involve themselves in national politics at all. They
Speaker 1: don't want to be dependent on either big business or
Speaker 1: labor unions, the tweedled or tweedled dumb of our political system.
Speaker 1: They know that, as part of an intelligent minority, that
Speaker 1: our votes will be canceled several to one by the ignorant.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I I don't think he would have voted,
Speaker 1: but you're right. If he was going to vote, Trump
Speaker 1: would have been the guy to get him on there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, he would have been. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have voted, but I think
Speaker 1: he would have been pretty into the idea. I think
Speaker 1: the first person he ever voted for would have been
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, yeah, if at all, Yeah, yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I also kind of think he might have been the
Speaker 1: uh you know, the very first things Alex Jones said
Speaker 1: about Trump's campaign before he got on board was that
Speaker 1: like Trump was mobbed up and this was all a
Speaker 1: conspiracy to like, uh infiltrate and take over the liberty
Speaker 1: movements and and you know, the dissident right, and um,
Speaker 1: I think Kurt Saxon might have started like that and
Speaker 1: stayed on that course. But I really don't know. But
Speaker 1: what I do know is that we have another letter section,
Speaker 1: and I found one that is just amazing. This is
Speaker 1: our bore Lea from California. Dear Kurt, I have made
Speaker 1: two batches of your acroleine tear gas is described that
Speaker 1: the poor man's James Bond, and neither has retained its potency.
Speaker 1: Am I doing something wrong? It's fantastic stuff when it's fresh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't. But they don't know because they've never
Speaker 1: made it right. He's saying he's made it and he
Speaker 1: has tested it and it's fantastic stuff. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: loses a bit of oomph after a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, nothing nothing, you know. Look, if
Speaker 1: you want forever perfect tear gas like I've never heard before,
Speaker 1: saved it, saved it for this, saved it for the
Speaker 1: tear gas part. And then yeah, like how do cane chairs?
Speaker 1: It's just like Ron Swanson plus terrorism, that's actually really
Speaker 1: good touchstone for this. Yeah, Ron, if Ron Swanson was
Speaker 1: a tear Alex Jones, Yeah, like if that show wasn't
Speaker 1: so tweet, would be like, all right, let's get real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get real. Run like dies in a shootout with
Speaker 1: the a t M. Because he's been manufacturing a legal
Speaker 1: sought off shotguns and giving them to the area and
Speaker 1: nations giving advice and how to improve his eleven shot
Speaker 1: shotgun because they all laughed, they all laughed, a very
Speaker 1: different shot. Yeah, we got boomerangs and how to make them.
Speaker 1: Survival ammunition by Clyde Barrow. So that's probably great. Anyone
Speaker 1: preparing for survival in these uncertain times should be ensured,
Speaker 1: should be sure that he will have adequate ammunition for
Speaker 1: any guns he might own. Okay, that's that's that's fair. Uh.
Speaker 1: I was wanting something crazy to be in here, but
Speaker 1: this is just a pretty basic guide to reloading am
Speaker 1: Good for you, Clyde Barrow. I'm sure you won't murder anybody. Uh.
Speaker 1: Survival ammunition and how to make boomerangs is on the
Speaker 1: same page as how to make hayne chairs. It's just
Speaker 1: as it's incredible. It's such constant whiplash survivalist whiplash. Oh
Speaker 1: and here's a column called now, Who's Stupid Dad? By
Speaker 1: Mark Rittenhower. Ever since my feah, you have to say
Speaker 1: it right, Robert, Now, this is like the subtext of
Speaker 1: the entire thing. Who Ever. Since I first brought up
Speaker 1: the subject of survival, my father had scornfully rejected anything
Speaker 1: I had to say. He was one of those it
Speaker 1: can't and won't happen here attitude. He reminded me of
Speaker 1: the brass in the US High Command prior to Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 1: December seven. That evening I sat, as I sat reading
Speaker 1: my latest issue of The Survivor in my room, my
Speaker 1: younger brother Jeff, who was a carbon copy of the
Speaker 1: old man, stuck his head through the door. What you're doing?
Speaker 1: He demanded to get out Himmler. I barked his name,
Speaker 1: or no, he's calling him behind Rick Hibler, his little brother.
Speaker 1: He stuck out his tongue at me, don't have to
Speaker 1: laying aside the paper. I got up and went for him, turning.
Speaker 1: He fled for the stairs, closing the door. I locked
Speaker 1: it and then sat down and resumed reading. Presently, I
Speaker 1: heard heavy footsteps on the stairs, and my father's voice demanded,
Speaker 1: are you reading that idiotic paper again? Clubbing cluttering up
Speaker 1: your mind with that survival rubbish. I didn't reply answer me.
Speaker 1: He demanded open that door. This instant came a second demand. Again.
Speaker 1: I paid no attention, muttering about worthless whelps and other things.
Speaker 1: He stomped away and went back downstairs. He the runt,
Speaker 1: and my mother would all agree how impudent, disrespectful and
Speaker 1: no good I was, and how I ought to be
Speaker 1: punished Jesus Christ. So this is just like a kid,
Speaker 1: a small child reading the Survivor. Okay, what actually happens
Speaker 1: that kid calling his little brother Hmmler and in and
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a very healthy family. Oh, the power
Speaker 1: goes out in their town and he has an a
Speaker 1: MFM radio and flashlights uh. And so he's able to
Speaker 1: find out what's happening. Uh oh, yeap, yep. This goes
Speaker 1: on for pages and pages. I think we get the idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we sure do. Okay, I'll be a disaster profiteer, also
Speaker 1: interpreting baby talk. Planning to profit from a disaster will
Speaker 1: give you an edge over those who simply plan to
Speaker 1: survive it. Thanks Kurt, that's thank you, Kurt Saxon. How
Speaker 1: to how to price gouge gunbelievable? Yeah this this he's
Speaker 1: a good guy. Oh, here's another letters section. Let's see
Speaker 1: if we can find another guy who's absolutely committing horrible crimes.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed your book The Poor Man James Bond.
Speaker 1: In your poison section, you should list a different source
Speaker 1: of nicotine soul Fate Blackly forty has been outlawed for
Speaker 1: two years thanks to your book. My mother and grandfather
Speaker 1: mother consider me in need of counseling or psychiatric help.
Speaker 1: So far, I have used your hydro cloric slash aluminum
Speaker 1: smoke bomb in the local walk in movie twice, in
Speaker 1: the school gym once. I also got detention on the
Speaker 1: second day of school for igniting some stuff in class.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot j L. Missouri. He only got detention.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, says Kurt. He does. Hey, your book on poison.
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff in your poison book is illegal.
Speaker 1: Seed update your poison book. Also, my grandma thinks I'm
Speaker 1: crazy because I've set off bombs in school. Wow, Kurt special.
Speaker 1: This has been very special. And I think we all
Speaker 1: learned a lot from Kurt Saxon. Um, We've learned about ourselves.
Speaker 1: We've learned about Kurt, We've learned about taxi driver, We've
Speaker 1: learned what Kurt Saxon thinks about certain twelve and a
Speaker 1: half year olds. Um. A lot of information here from
Speaker 1: Kurt Saxon. Not a lot of good time prizing information. No. No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say accurate information either, not all of it,
Speaker 1: Not all of it. I mean that houseboat guide looks bulletproof. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How to make a monorail slid. How to make a
Speaker 1: miniature stage amazing. Vote is also a floating tomb. Speaking
Speaker 1: of floating tombs, do you want to plug your social media?
Speaker 1: The floating tomb of our society? Very appropriate? Amazing, I'm
Speaker 1: Katie stole on all the social media's Katie with a
Speaker 1: why that is um and We've got other shows. We
Speaker 1: co host a show with Robert called Worst Year Ever.
Speaker 1: You should check that out if you don't. And we
Speaker 1: also have our own podcast, even More News. You should
Speaker 1: check that out if you don't. Do you want to
Speaker 1: say the other things? Absolutely? We also have a YouTube
Speaker 1: show called some More News. And me personally has Twitter
Speaker 1: dot com and that is Dr Mr Cody with d
Speaker 1: R and m I S t R and A C
Speaker 1: O d Y. We speak good on Mike's Good We
Speaker 1: do good job, guys. We do good English speak on
Speaker 1: Mike's dot com. Also, before Robert does his plugs, Jamie
Speaker 1: Loftus says hi to everyone. Hello, Jamie Hi, Jamie Hi,
Speaker 1: Jamie um. Also, Robert has a new show. It's called
Speaker 1: The Women's War. Look out for it. Our trailer launched,
Speaker 1: uh when this comes out last week. So that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's out episode one March. It's it's very exciting. It
Speaker 1: is very exciting. You can follow Robert at I Right
Speaker 1: Okay on Twitter. You can follow us on Twitter and
Speaker 1: Instagram at Bastard's pod. Uh. You can wash your hands,
Speaker 1: and you can avoid the coronavirus by staying indoors and
Speaker 1: reading through back issues of The Survivalist and learning how
Speaker 1: you two can make tear gas that works really well
Speaker 1: initially but quickly loses its potency and then go to space.
Speaker 1: That's all we ask. Yeah, if I can't think of
Speaker 1: anything better to do in quarantine an experiment with making
Speaker 1: your own tear guests. So get on that. Get on it.
Speaker 1: It's all available online for free. It has not been
Speaker 1: banned as Kurt may have thought it would be. There
Speaker 1: were definitely legal issues with some of his books that
Speaker 1: I think contributed to Paladin Press shutting down. But I
Speaker 1: I will we will do a whole episode on Paladin
Speaker 1: Press because it's amazing. Es. This is some good stuff. Also,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for some peaceful content, I post a
Speaker 1: photo of Anderson every single day on my Twitter. Does
Speaker 1: why underscores? Opie underscore why not? Uncommonly more than one.
Speaker 1: So there are true, many, many, many photos of Anderson. Yea.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's like Fizzy, only other living entity in my room.
Speaker 1: You guys, there's like forty pages on how to make
Speaker 1: puppets and puppets shows. And we're done. I know we're done.
Speaker 1: That is what we're on. How it's starting