3/26 4-3 Explorers and Settlers

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1:01Yeah, man. I'm going to do a show I'll be headlining at the backline on May 2nd, downtown Omaha, and then Lawrence Cans is comedy club April 16th. Rock, J-Hawk! Nice. April 16th through 18th. What's the comedy club in Lawrence? I think it's called the Lawrence comedy club. Okay. Cool. Yeah, I think it's fairly new. Yeah. Listener, we've on a few different stations now in Kansas, so head over to Lawrence and see our buddy, Austin Anderson. Do it. Jeff Ross just joined us, and Whitney Cummings later on this morning also steves on and his daughter Audrey is going to phone the program. And Todd read an email. 30 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This one was 30 minutes. The day after he did one that was 30 seconds. 30 seconds. And we all freaked out. From a website called the conversation, apparently the price of meth has been plunging

2:04it in New Zealand. And the price of meth. Did you look for meth down? When you're in New Zealand. Shocked me. No. I didn't even look for weed down there. And based on this article, I probably should have, but I'm fearful of asking a stranger for weed in a country where weed is not legal, right, because you could cause an international incident that way. That's true. No. Okay, they did an online survey of over 8800 people who use drugs and it shows the wholesale prices of illegal and harmful substances have fallen by 41%. This is particularly meth. Once adjusted for inflation declines are about 50%. A gram of meth cost an average of $563 in 2017 in New Zealand or here in New Zealand. What is it here? A gram of meth, $509. Now keep in mind, I think the New Zealand dollar, you could about split it in half. So you know, $280 for a gram of meth.

3:06Is that good for meth around here? Oh, people in red oak are going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And it now sells for $253, so about half that. So about $120, American dollars for a gram of meth. Trend is striking because retail prices, of illegal drugs often remain unchanged for years, for example, cannabis. A tinny. One to 1.5 grams. We would call that a tenor, typically cost between 20 and 25 bucks, and it's been that way for more than a couple of decades. But apparently the price of meth has been shifting because they think the drug cartels from Mexico are overloading the market right now. With meth? Australia's same thing. The shift can't be attributed to any changes in drug purity since the recent testing suggested purity levels often exceed 70%. 80% I guess

4:08is pretty good. Do you have any drugs besides heroin? You know, no, just spoon. Yeah, all the spoon. But I have not priced meth in the United States lately, but you know, $250. You have to rob so many more people to get your meth. That's a lot of copper tubing right there. We might be, we get the call in that. We have either meth heads or former meth heads or this program. So that happened idea of what it goes for right now. How would a cartel get drugs to Australia or New Zealand? Boat question. Boat, plain sharks. Yeah. Stop the sharks for a math. Any, any means necessary. How the boats find the island, Nick? I think you'd be crap about this. I think it's mind blowing that back in the day, like, before Radar's already think a plane could take off from like California and just find

5:12Hawaii in the ocean. It's because they're at this flat. It was a lot easier before it became round. Now it became round. It would easily land on airstrips that are way smaller than any of the white and islands. I hate landing on small airstrips. I do that freaks me out every time. But it's just a tiny little island in the middle of a gigantic ocean ocean. It's really not that tiny. But you could, it looks tiny for you. Yeah. We're at their charts though. The island was in a big map on the yoke. Yeah. As you're flying there, right? And they don't just grab some moron off the street, putting behind the plane and say, go for it. Go find Hawaii. And they had compasses then. They trained pilots. Yeah. What? Yeah. They got their little radar systems. Yeah. They have pretty sophisticated navigation systems that will point you right to that runway. But there's not like streets of the ocean. It's not a, oh, we're on I 80. I love that you're stick with this though. I like the bit. I like the bit. That's not a bit. Well, I realized

6:16that. That's general concern. Early birds always rise to the occasion for summer vacation planning because early gets you closer to the action. So don't feel it. Book your next vacation early on Verbo and save over $120. Rise and shine. Ever savings $141, select homes only. Say you're heading out of LA to Hawaii. They have a compass. And you would put your heading. You know, so you're heading probably a little southwest. And they, they know, they know ahead of time. Somebody says, oh, that would be this number. And then you just keep it on track. And then I didn't have to fly straight. But when it, I think it would be harder when there were no planes. It was just boats way back in the day. Yeah. Like, you're on the water. You know what I mean? Like so you could know every chart. Right. Yeah. Yeah. How did they do that? One of the head not as sophisticated navigation systems. But they were they looked at the sun and stars, right? I did. They had they had that fancy binocular that one one I binocular. A tell us gold out. Yeah.

7:23I love that. Welcome to the new world in the world. One art binocular. That's where the causes weiner. The one high binocular folds. I love that. Nick said arrow. He made quiver. Austin said one eye binocular. We need some people. And don't laugh at us. This is what happens when you talk every damn day. You say stupid stuff. No, but I would agree that it's a pretty amazing. I did the 1500s. Ferdinand but Jalen. Almost circumnavigated the growth. Where did he stop? I think he stopped when he got killed. That's generally that'll do it. I knew that was coming. Generally, those adventures and, you know, when people in loincloth stabbed him and ate him. That's where he stopped. Everything I know about him. I know from a doctor's souls commercial. Yeah. But I think Todd, you've said it before and I agree so much. Those guys had just jumped

8:27on a ship in the, in the 1400s and said, let's see what's out there. Yeah, it's wild. Biggest balls of any dude you've ever seen. I mean, that's, that was insane. Giant balls. That's insane. Because in general, the majority population thought the world was flat too. But they had no idea what, what, what they were looking for or what they were going to run into. They're just hoping for the best. No, any of those explorers like John Wesley Powell, the first guy to go down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He didn't know it was out there. When he stopped, was he killed? Yeah. Yeah. I believe. Yeah. Yeah. It didn't score the right. I believe. No, he might have fallen off. I'm not sure of the face of John Wesley Powell. And then Lewis and Clark, they didn't know where the hell they were going. No. They had died. Yeah. They ended up in Oregon and the winter and just got battered. There would have rather been in North Dakota in the winter than getting battered by storms when they finally reached the mouth of the Columbia River. So those explorers back in the day, they were the rock stars. We're in a lot of date of a very cool like showing Lewis and Clark

9:30going to delay the land. I think they went there. Some friendly ones. Right. Yeah. They got some help on that. Sacaja wheel was kind of their main guide. But I think, yeah, they were nice to the natives and they generally helped them. Otherwise, you know, they would have been dead somewhere along. Yeah. Yeah. They were the nice ones. But they're like the people after us won't be so nice. Yeah. Oh, we weren't so nice either. I know. I know. The white man wasn't nice either for that matter. No, that's what I mean. Oh, those guys, they were the nice ones. They're like, oh, these white people are great. Yeah. Yeah. We're just out here discovering flowers. That's all we care about. They're all plants and trees. Yeah. Right. You're right. You're right. Awesome. Lewis and Clark told none of the natives to go back where they came from. Oh, no. Yeah. And I think the people, the people that headed west and for on the prairie, you know, in the wagon train, especially they were a close second to those early. Especially when they left, they left the east where there was civilization. I mean,

10:31for the time period. Yeah. And they opt on it and just said, no, we're going to go. Yeah. Let's see what's out there. They want that. Oh, it's not you were going to end up at your destination with less people than you left with. Well, I've talked about this with you guys before. Not necessarily. I don't know how many other generations your families go back, but probably about the same number of zeros. No, no, I mean, go back to the United States. Go back to the United States. You know, I always imagined my family was here. I believe 1600s probably and they just stayed. You know, they didn't they figure where we're not going to go any further than, you know, Central P and they said, well, that's too far. But we had a great fun of drumming in the Civil War. Right. But but Todd's family came after the Civil War, right? Yeah. And but they also still had to go the whole way to North Dakota. Well, they originally settled somewhere in southern South Dakota and then, you know, Skate. Either way, they to leave these coasts and come the whole way to South Dakota. Push. I mean, I don't know if you go back, if you have any genealogy in your family, but how far does it go back? I really don't know. Okay,

11:34how about you? My great is on my mom's side, my great grandparents met on coming like on the boat to America for a year or so. I don't know. 1932. Yeah, because sometime around the okay show. Oh, show was a period where there were trains. Yeah. But I mean, Austin, you remember how far? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I've I've done ancestry.com for a while. Like on one side of the tree, all the way like I got to the 1500s in the US. No, no, that was like Scotland. Okay. How far do you when do they get come to the US? When did the first Austin Anderson show up on the US? I think probably maybe the 1700s. Okay. So they don't know. There was like a group like in my family tree. I got I'm like related to Elijah Craig, who's got a great bourbon. Do you have as most of your family settled in Nebraska? Did they stop here and when somebody died? Yeah, they they stop in Nebraska. Yeah, I believe so. Or do you have family in because we talked about their other Joneses on the shows. Those are Nebraska now, but Heather's always her family is actually from West Virginia. So they just somehow they ended up here. It was like Virginia. Okay,

12:38Kentucky. Yeah. And then I don't know here working on the railroads. Tyler is your family stopping in central PA. Is that like the settlers version of losing interest in the backswing? Pretty much. I'm sure I was also far enough. But it's also a period of time when nobody really lived where you guys live. Did your family work in the mines? I don't really know what they did. He had a grandfather to try to collect coal one time. Yeah, he did. So obviously he's flattened by a train. He didn't work. But I do have a great I mentioned before a bunch of times. My one grandfather was a drummer boy in the Civil War. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I mean that that always freaks me out because it's one of them. And eighty. Yeah, he's the only one without a gun. He's like, do I hit it and bullet shoot out? No, no, not at all. It was a vibe where I wouldn't be here. It was convenient for people coming from Europe to settle on the East Coast. Oh, yeah. That's why we have the original 13 colonies because they'd already traveled a long ways. And this looks pretty nice. Well, they really didn't know. But then any further.

13:42And then the government's like, there's gold on the other side. We got to get these people over there to kill all these Indians and buffalo. Savages. Your history professors right here. The savages are taking the gold that is rightly ours because we stepped foot on here a few minutes ago. Todd, why did Magellan stop? I still love that question. Oh, well, they killed him in the Philippines. Yeah. Go see Austin if you're in Lawrence coming up. When is that date? April 16th, 18th. And the backline this week? May 2nd. May 2nd. And with Whitney Cummings, if you're going to go see Whitney. Yeah. Oh, bye. Take it. Go see, uh, go see, uh, Austin. Yeah. And leave after Austin. She's calling an hour. No, no, no, no, I love it. I was joking. I was joking with Austin off the air. And sometimes it opens up for people and he goes home quickly to tell that story. Oh, yeah, I was just saying that like, uh, like all friends or people come out to my shows. But you're opening up for somebody big, right? And I feel like I should stay to the end to

14:43greet them. But most times I just leave. And then they'll send me a text after the show. Like, where are you? I'm like, I'm at home. Did you take Tracy Morgan's fruit basket once? Would he left? Oh, um, yeah. He was, he was, he has edible arrangements. He was yelling at all these college kids. He was just being the biggest jerk. I'd been worked with them a few times. But I was like, before I left, I looked through the crack of his green room. He had this beautiful fruit basket. And I just pulled off the fruit off and ate it. It was just sticks. Back y'all should see you soon, brother. Thanks guys. Love back.