3/27 App 1 Explorers and Settlers

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1:00And 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. A gram? A gram of meth, now keep in mind, I think the New Zealand dollar, you could have bought split in half. So, you know, $280. Okay. For a gram of meth. Is that good for meth around here or you met that shit? Oh, no, the people in red oak are going, oh, whoa, what the hell? What are you paying that for? And it now sells for $253. So about half that. So about 120 American dollars for a gram of meth. Trying to striking because retail prices of illegal drugs often remain unchanged

2:01for 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 are often exceed 70%. 80% I guess is pretty good. You see more drugs here? Also, I know you're just quit drinking, but do you do any drugs besides heroin? No, just spoon. Yeah. All the spoon. Just the spoon. But I have not priced a 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.

3:02We might be, we get the call in that. We have either meth heads or former meth heads or this is program. So that's an idea of what it goes for right now. Right. How would a cartel get drugs to Australia or New Zealand? Boat. Boat, clean. Sharks. Yeah. Stop the sharks full of meth. Any, any means necessary. How the boats find the island, Nick? Yeah. Yeah. You're one of them. All right. Think you'd be crap about this. I think it's mind blowing that back in the day, like before radars or anything, a plane could take off from like California and just find Hawaii in the ocean. It's because they're at this flat. Well, it was a lot easier before it became round. That would be came round. It would easily land on airstrips that are way smaller than any of the Hawaiian islands. I hate landing on small airstrips. Yeah. I do. That freaks me out every time.

4:03Oh, but it's just a tiny little island in the middle of a gigantic ocean. Yeah. It's really not that tiny. But you could. It looks tiny for you. Yeah. Yeah. We're at their charts though. The island. Yeah. Those are the big map on the yoke. Yeah. 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. Yeah. They've got the little ground systems. Yeah. Yeah. They have pretty sophisticated navigation systems that'll point you right to that runway. But there's not like streets of the ocean. It's not like, oh, we're on I 80. I love that you're stick with this though. I like the bit. I like the bit. It's not a bit. Wow. I realize that. That's general concern. Say you're heading out of L.A. to Hawaii. They have a compass. And you would put your heading. You know, so you're heading probably a little south west. And they they know they know ahead of time. Somebody says, oh, that would be this number.

5:04And then you just keep it on track. And then I didn't have to fly straight. But when 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? 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. The sun and stars, right? I did. They had that fancy binocular that one one eye binocular. That's what's called out. Yeah. I love that. Welcome to the new world. The word. The one art binocular. That's what it calls us weiner. The one eye binocular. I love that. Nick said arrow sleeper. He meant quiver. Right. 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.

6:05Ferdinand Magellan. Almost circumnavigated the growth. Ferdinand stopped. I think he stopped if 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. But I think Todd, you've said it before and I agree so much. Those guys had just jumped on 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 of the population thought the world was flat too. But they had no idea 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

7:08through the Grand Canyon. He didn't know it was out there. When he stopped, was he killed? Yeah. I believe it. Yeah. It didn't kill him, right? I believe he, no, he might have fallen off. I'm not sure of the fate 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 in 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 going to delay in the land. I think what there's some friendly ones, right? Yeah. They got some help. Oh, that's Sakajuiya 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, you weren't so nice either. I know. The white man wasn't nice either for that matter.

8:08No, that's what I mean. Oh, yeah. They were nice ones. Oh, these white people are great. Yeah. Yeah, we're just out here discovering flowers. That's all we care about. Plants and trees. You're right. You're right, Austin. 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 on the prairie, you know, on the wagon train, especially they were a close second to those early. When they left, they left the east where there was civilization. Right. I mean, for the time period. And they hopped on it and just said, no, we're going to go. Yeah, let's see what's out there. They want that. Oh, 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 in this show. I don't know how many generations your families go back, but probably about the same number of zeros. No, no. I mean, go back to the United States. You go back to the United States.

9:08You know, I always imagine my family was here. I believe 1600s probably. And they just stayed. You know, they didn't figure where we're not going to go any further than, you know, central PA. And they said, well, that's too far. But I find it drumming in the Civil War. Right. But Todd's family came after the Civil War, right? Yeah, he did. 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, scary. Either way, they had to leave these coasts and come the whole way to South Dakota. Push. 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, how about you? You don't know. My great, my mom's side, my great grandparents met on coming, like on the boat to America for what year was that? I don't know. 1932. Yeah. Probably sometime around then. Okay. Oh, so it was a period where there were trains. Yeah. But I mean, Austin, you remember how far your ancestors go back? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

10:08Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So they don't know. There was like a group like in my family tree. I got, I'm like really 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. Did they stop in Nebraska? Yeah. I believe so. Or do you have family in? Because we talked. Well, they were other Joneses on the show. So there's a 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. Kentucky. 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 all show period of time when nobody really lived where you guys lived.

11:09Yeah. Did your family work in the mines? I don't really know what they did. He had a grandfather who tried to collect coal one time. Yeah. And so obviously he's flattened by a train. He didn't work. But I do have a great, like I mentioned before, a bunch of times. My one grandfather was a drummer boy in the Civil War. Oh, wow. Yeah, so that always freaks me out because it's one of them players. And he's the only one without a gun. He's the only one without a gun. He's the only one without a gun. He's the only one without a gun. Think this job, they're like, do I hit it and bullet shoot out? No, not at all. It was the vibe or I wouldn't be here. Yeah. 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. colonies because, you know, they'd already traveled a long ways and this looks pretty nice. Well, and they really didn't know what then any further, and 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 buffaloes. Oh yeah, the savages, your history professors right here, the savages are taking the

12:10gold that is rightly ours because we stepped foot on here a few minutes ago. God, why did Magellan stop, has to love that question. Oh, well, they killed him in the Philippines. Yeah, dude.