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Speaker 1: Listening to KLRN Radio, where liberty and reason still reign.

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Speaker 2: Doom! And just like that, here I am. Welcome to

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Sunday Night with Alan Ray. I am your humble host,

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Alan Ray. Jeff got home on time to press the

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big shiny button. He barely made it, but that’s fine.

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We’re good. We’re good. He made it. Always good to

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have him there. Gives me some comfort knowing that if

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things really head south, somebody knows what they’re doing. Welcome.

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Here I am. It is Sunday Night with Alan Ray. Look,

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I don’t have the answers. If you come here looking

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for answers, I don’t have them. At this point in

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time in my life, I don’t think I want the answers. Honestly,

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I’m at a point where I do not want to

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be held responsible for this, waves my hand at the planet,

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this mess.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: No, I don’t want someone brushing my tombstone off 200

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premieres from now and saying, there he is, great, great grandkids,

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the man responsible for all of this. No. No, that’s

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not why I do this show. I’m a poet. I’m

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a reporter. I’m an asker of questions. Mongo only pawn

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in game of life. Exactly. All I do is I

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simply look around this giant blue ghetto rock that I’m

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stuck on with all of you miscreants. And I ask

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one simple question.

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Speaker 3: What in the wide, wide world of sports is going

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on here?

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Speaker 2: I have no idea. I really don’t. And I don’t know,

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like I said, I don’t know if I want to,

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but that’s okay. That’s okay. Welcome to the show. Oh, wow.

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And Jeff was telling me back before, you know, backstage,

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I guess you would call it before I came on

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the show, that, wow, the Nor’eastern hitting the East Coast

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is just crazy. And it’s one of the things I’m

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going to talk about right up front. And the reason

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I move this up front will be obvious here in

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just a little bit. Let’s kill that. Let’s press the

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right buttons. Oh, there you go. Tens of thousands of

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people are, we’re out of power. A lot of them

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have power back on, but as of 7 40 PM Sunday,

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and there’s still 800 customers just in the Boston, Massachusetts

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area alone that are out of power, but there were

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probably tens of thousands and rain and, you know, all

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the fun stuff coming down. And that’s tough. That’s a

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really rough way to go through a weekend. And I

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hope that they were prepared. You know, we spent a

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good portion of last week’s show discussing cold weather emergency preps.

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And I made kind of a personal vow to myself

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that this weekend I would go a step further.

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Speaker 1: And I did.

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Speaker 2: I went a step further. And I actually did some testing,

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some prepping, some testing to figure out, you know, where I,

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where I sat with my emergency prep with my emergency power.

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Let’s face it. I’ve talked about this before. I’m going

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to tell you again, I don’t trust the Michigan power grid. Um,

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almost every single year since Grinch has been governor, our

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wonderful governor of Michigan. Um, I the power companies have

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gone to the government. It’s supposed to be a nonpartisan

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board for the government. And that’s a bunch of crap.

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That’s a bunch of crap. They’re all Democrats. Every one

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of them. And they’ve gone to them with their hand.

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I go, we need more money. If we don’t get

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more money, we can’t fix the grid. And every year

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the grid just gets worse and worse. And every year

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they tear out a whole bunch of prime farmland. They’re

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building these solar hellscapes all over the place. And I’m

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not against solar and you’re going to find out how

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much not against solar I am here in just a second.

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But I don’t trust the power grid. And here’s the

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I guess this is a wonderful thing. After almost 37

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years of marriage, my wife is on the same page.

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In fact, she’s the one who found this battery backup

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that we’re about to talk about. We put it through

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the test this weekend. It was a combined effort between

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my wife and I. She wanted to run the dehydrator

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and dehydrate apple slices, cinnamon apple slices. Oh, my God.

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The house smelled like you were living in a giant

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apple pie all weekend. It was so good. But anyways,

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she wanted to do that. And I wanted to do

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some testing on solar. And so what we did was

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we hooked up the dehydrator. We’ve got a really big dehydrator.

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It’s it’s massive. It’s cool. It was given to us

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by my mother-in-law as a Christmas present, which God bless her.

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just it’s huge. And it averages it peaks out about

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600 watts. I thought it was like 500 watts. But

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the 500 watts is kind of the average wattage. of

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where it lives while it’s running, you know, it’ll run

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it to me. It seems like it runs more often

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than it don’t run. It’ll run for a while. Then

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it’ll drop down and just even idle it or still

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burns 38 Watts, but it jumps up to about 600

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to average this thing, it was probably about 500 watts average.

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I figured it was like 300 or 400 watts average.

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I was wrong. It was about 500. It’s a 600

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watt listed dehydrator. And those cinnamon apples, by the way, oh,

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they were so good. I kept sneaking them. There’s not

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that many of them left, I don’t think, between the

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two of us. But anyways, so let’s get into the test.

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Hopefully you don’t get bored with this. I’m meaning for

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this to be something you can kind of base your

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preps on in the future. And this is a little

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bit kind of extreme, but as I told you, we

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don’t trust the power grid here in Michigan. When it

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goes down, it goes down for days, sometimes a week,

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two at a time. And I’m going to give you

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the whole list of what we did, exactly what we did,

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my thoughts, my feelings on it. So let’s start out.

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It was solar Saturday, yesterday morning. I deemed it earlier

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in the week, solar Saturday. And I believe it was

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a success. I really do. Now here’s the equipment we

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were using. And like I said, my wife actually found this.

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She found this on a special, about a year ago,

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a little under a year ago, and shoved it under

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my face and said, look at this. This is a

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pretty good price, isn’t it? And I didn’t even know

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she even understood what, a solar battery backup was. I went, yeah,

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it really is. It was a great price. It’s the

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anchor Solix F 3,800 with an expansion battery. Now, since

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then I’ve realized why it was so ridiculously cheap because

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they were getting ready to come out with the anchor

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Solix F 3,800 plus that’s got a whole bunch of

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extra features and yada, yada, but that’s fine. Um, This

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one works just fine, trust me. So it’s the Anker

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Solex F3800 with an expansion battery. It’s rated at 7,700

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watt hours, almost 8,000 watt hours. Peak out at 6,000

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watts of peak power, you know, spike power, if you

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really want to know. It’s not going to run like

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that all the time, but it will run that. So

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that is the main battery bank. That is the main…

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electric generator right there is the solex f 3800 um

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what we did was and it came with two anchor

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ps 200 solar panels 200 watt solar panels they’re listed

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at 200 watts and it’s not exactly true but we’ll

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figure that out in a second um and on top

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of that we bought two more uh Renogy RPP200EF. So

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we’ve got four 200-watt solar panels to hook up to

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this thing. And just to give you a little background,

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there’s two different ways to hook solar panels up if

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you’re hooking multiple ones up. There’s parallel and series. And

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I invite you to look up the difference. You can

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go down this solar charger, solar panel rabbit hole that

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lasts for hours and hours and hours on YouTube. Suffice

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it to say that the Anker Solexop 3800 requires, if

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you have multiple solar panels, you hook them up in

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parallel because it keeps the voltage the same and increases

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the watts going into it. And that’s what we did.

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that matters. I thought I found it interesting as a

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side note right here. Now that Grok was very helpful

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figuring out the voltage, the amperage and everything else. um

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maybe it’s because elon musk you know owns a solar

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company but grok was extremely useful in setting this up

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telling us you know what we should shouldn’t do giving

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us little you know tips um And I even cross-checked

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Grok on some of the facts and figures, and it

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was dead on, dead on. So I’m pretty comfortable with

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what it said. So here we are with the 7,700-watt hour,

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Solex up 3,800, four 200-watt panels. And now this is

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late summer. This is fall. We’re into fall now. So

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the sun is not almost directly overhead. The sun is angled.

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thing about solar panels, and I don’t want you to

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be– discouraged if you get these things solar panels this

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time of year simply will not run as efficient as

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they do in the summer when the sun is overhead

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they just don’t so we’re running the 600 watt dehydrator

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averaging around 500 watts cooking these cinnamon apple slices and

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we’ve at the and when i started out we started

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out with three solar panels for about the first three

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hours We added the fourth solar panel for four hours,

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the last four hours. And we did it basically because

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I was waiting for Amazon to deliver one of the

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solar panel combiners. And thank God they got there early.

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So I was able to hook up that fourth one.

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So that’s what we have. Now, you know the layout.

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Four solar panels, the big Solex F3800. And we started

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out because I have had that F3800 in storage. You

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do not store a solar battery backup at full charge.

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That is a big time no-no. Somewhere around 75, 80%.

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And at the time, I had this one at 75%.

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So I hooked it all up, fired up the dehydrator.

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And to tell you the honest truth, as long as

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it was daylight out, I only lost 4% of the

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charge on that generator throughout the day. When I finished

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the day, when I unhooked the solar panels, when it

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started getting darker out, when they were no longer really

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putting out anything, I unhooked them. It was still at 71%.

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That’s pretty amazing. So we got four 200-watt panels. And

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the max I get out of them this time of year,

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like I said, it’s expected, is 550 watts. That’s roughly

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66% efficiency. And it’s expected this time of year, the

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angle of the sun, et cetera, et cetera. So what

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does all this mean? Well, like I said, the average

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of that dehydrator alone was 500 watts. Putting this into

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kind of common practice, The furnace that we have, it’s

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a boiler system, not really a furnace, it’s a boiler system,

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puts out an average of 150 watts while it’s running. Okay.

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The refrigerator. Average is about 100 watts when it’s running.

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Roughly two kilowatts all day long, it might burn. Same

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with the freezer, another 100 watts. So right there, you

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got 350 watts. Right there, you have 350 watts during

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the day running, but not all the time. That’s not

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an average. That’s what it’s running when it’s running. So

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between those three, the boiler, the freezer, and the refrigerator,

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you’re probably looking at 150 watts combined average. And here

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we are with 550 watts late fall coming into the

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house just with the solar. It’s bypassing the battery. We’re just,

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you know, the battery is acting like a controller and

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we’re just running that dehydrator that’s averaging 500 watts just

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on those solar panels. And it’s barely even using the batteries.

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That tells me, and that confirms what I kind of

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already knew, because we’ve had about a six hour blackout

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and we ran the furnace, the fridge and the freezer,

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and it barely put a dent. We weren’t running solar

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panels at all. We just had it hooked up. It

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barely put a dent in the charge of the F3800.

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So the bottom line is, is this setup could conceivably

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run the essentials plus probably a few lights, In the daytime,

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if the sun’s out, probably all day and still charge

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the unit to an extent in a grid-down emergency. And

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the last time the power went out, we even hooked

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up the well pump. And it handled the well pump

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with ease. The well pump’s got one heck of a

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spike when it kicks on. It didn’t even break a

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sweat doing this. So now we have the well pump.

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We’ve got the refrigerator, freezer, and the heat. You don’t

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need much else during a blackout. And if you wanted

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to get real stingy with it, you could rotate your

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refrigerator and your freezer, you know, put your freezer on

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for about an hour and then unplug it for about

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four or five hours, plug it in for another hour,

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let it cool back down to temp, unplug it for

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four or five hours. You can do that indefinitely and

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save a lot of the energy. You can do the

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same with your fridge, about three hours off, you know,

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45 minutes, half hour on just to keep it cool.

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It would work, and it would be really stingy with

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the power. So there you go. It handled all of

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that with ease, and I’m confident now, confident that it

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would probably, it would be several, several days running just

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on that battery bank and the solar panels under fairly

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sunny conditions. I could probably run this house maybe for

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weeks on end today. and keep it warm during the wintertime. Now,

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in the cold weather, solar, of course, is not going

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to be as efficient. But even if it was at half,

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even if we were doing it at half at 400 watts,

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and we got really stingy and watched our usage, we

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could probably run it all day just on solar. So,

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that’s the first half. Today, today was Recharge Sunday. We, um,

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The F3800, the Solix F3800, we let it run to

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midnight because it was dehydrating those delicious smelling apples and

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they weren’t quite done yet. So we took all the

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solar stuff off of it right around 6 o’clock, 5.30,

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6 o’clock. Took all the, unplugged the solar, put it

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all away and just let it run. So it was

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down to about 30% by the time we got it,

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you know, turned it off. I’m sorry, 40%. That’s what

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I got written here is 40%. So this morning I

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got up and plugged all four solar panels back into

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it about 9.30. And by 3.30 in the afternoon, running

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absolutely nothing on it, just solar panels charging it. From 9.30

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to 3.30, I got it back to 85%, which is

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the perfect storage level, by the way. That’s kind of

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right where you want it, 80 to 85% to store it.

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I’m confident that it would have been to 100% by

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about 5, 6 p.m. For sure. I wouldn’t have had

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any problem getting that baby right back up to 100%,

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just charging it just off solar, nothing else plugged into it.

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So it’s put away. Now, we still have a 6,500

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watt gas generator. We still have a couple of alternate

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heat sources. We still have alternate cooking methods. Oh, look,

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Artie’s in the chat. It’s about time somebody showed up

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in chat. I was getting awful lonely, but that’s okay.

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We still have all of these alternate ways of staying alive, basically,

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if the power goes out, that things go south. Some

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of these things will be used in combination with the

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SOLIX if there’s an extended outage. In addition to all

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of this, we do still have the BlueEddy AC180 and

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the BlueEddy EB3A, which those can run lights, the television. Actually,

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the BlueEddy AC180, it will run the furnace probably all

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night if I plugged it in, or all day while

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the F3800 is charging solar. Just run the furnace, keep

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the house warm in the wintertime. So there you go.

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All right, so that’s the good news. Now, here’s a

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few notes. Anchor, what’s up with using snaps on those

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PS200 solar panels? Those snaps are a nightmare. It’s like

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the snaps that you would have on the old convertible

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tops where you’d put the bonnet across the convertible top,

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those big snaps that they used to use. Like snaps

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they used to use on jackets, except these are big,

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heavy-duty ones. They’re a nightmare. They have snaps to keep

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the panels folded. They have snaps to adjust the angles.

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They were obnoxious and very difficult to set up. And

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I just know, I just know the way, you know,

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as difficult as those were to work on, um, they’re

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going to be worse in cold weather. Guys, this is

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the age of industrial strength Velcro. Why would anyone use

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those kinds of snaps on portable solar panels? That’s beyond me. Also, um,

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Nothing protects the hookups, the wire hookups for the anchor

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solar panels. I actually was setting one up just on

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the other side of the patio and it fell and

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I got mud in the connector, in the positive end

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of the connector. I had to take a wire brush

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and some WD-40 and scrub it out of there. So

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it would plug in with a clean, you know, clean connection. Which,

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by the way, a small brush, you know, one of

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those bottle brushes. We have one of those little bottle

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brushes I have. And we use it for straws and

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stuff like that because, you know, metal and plastic straws,

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if you use reusable straws, you’ve got to have one

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of these little brushes or you can have all kinds

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of nasty germs and all kinds of nasty stuff in

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a reusable straw. So it’s good to have those bottle brushes.

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So anyways, those, the little bottle brush and a can

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of WD-40. maybe some silicone spray. Those are good tools

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to have with these portable solar panels. Also, you may

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want to consider those hooked needle nose pliers or some

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kind of electrical connector or disconnector pliers to disconnect the ends.

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Those ends, some of those are a little difficult the

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way they make those solar panel connectors. So that’s the

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anchor panels. Let’s talk about the Renogy ones. The Renogy

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were the other two panels I was using. They solved

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a couple of the issues. Number one, they solved the

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issues of folding and setup by using industrial strength Velcro

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on everything. It was wonderful. You just rip them apart,

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set them up, take them out. They’re good to go.

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They also had pouches. The Renogy solar panels had pouches

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sewn onto the back of the actual solar panel. with

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about three foot of um of your solar wiring and

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connector 10 gauge wiring connector rolled up inside of it

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so it was protected until you needed it until you

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wanted to pull it out and plug it in it

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you didn’t have that chance of dropping it like i

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did in the in the mud and getting crap down

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in there so kudos to them for thinking about that

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and the pouches are big enough where you could probably

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store whatever wiring you needed in them to tell you

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the truth I’m not. I got a big bag. It’s

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got everything in it so I can find it when

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I need it. So kudos to them for using Velcro.

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And actually, the top of where it folded together, where

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the handle was, the handle had a magnet in it,

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so it would stick together. Very good use of Velcro

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and magnets to make it very easy. And they fold

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up thinner than the anchor panels. So the Renogy wins

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for that. The only downside that I could find on

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the Renogy is there’s no angle adjustment. Angle adjustment is

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something in solar panels that you sort of need. The

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angle to set them up this time of year is

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a lot different from the angle to set them up

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during the summer. Also, like if the sun’s on the horizon,

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you want them straighter, you know, pointing right at it.

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And when it’s overhead, you want them, you know, the

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angle a lot steeper so you can get all that sun.

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But that said… And that could add efficiency that, you know,

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that really does make a difference. I played around with

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the positioning and the angle of these solar panels. And I,

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you know, the Saturday I squeezed out about 550 watts

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on all four of them, which for this time of

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year is not bad. But anyways, the factory angle on

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their energies weren’t too bad. They kind of just, you know, say, well,

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this is kind of a go between for everything. Let’s

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just put it at that. And if you needed it

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steeper than that, you could lay them down flat. There’s

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no loss as you can. Other than that, both sets

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of panels were good. They were good. Not going to lie.

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Either one, if you buy either one, you can feel

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pretty confident they do what they’re supposed to do. Decent

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output for an emergency use. And they are for an

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emergency use. I can see them not lasting. If you

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use them all the time, every day, regular use, I

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can see them kind of, you know, declining, ripping. not

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doing too well after, you know, 20, 30 uses. So

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that said, I may be inclined to get some heavy

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duty permanent panels, make a structure, make a frame and, um,

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start using that overall. But anyways, overall, I think we’re

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doing okay in that department. It’s a win. We had

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a really good weekend. It’s a win. I feel confident.

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I did teach my wife how to set things up,

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plug things in, turn things on. Um, She’s good to go.

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If something happens to me, if I’m not here, I’m

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traveling or something like that, I feel confident that she’s

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good to go, that she knows what she’s doing. So

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there you have it. That is Solar Saturday and Recharge Sunday.

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It was a smashing success. Not to mention the fact

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that we now have a great big bag of dehydrated

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cinnamon apples. And there is… Quite a few uses for them. Oh, yes,

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there is. And the problem is, is every time we

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would open the door to the dehydrator, we would both

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have to sneak one. So there probably isn’t as many

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cinnamon apples as there would be. The entire house just

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smelled heavenly all weekend long. Oh, my gosh. There’s still

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that cinnamon apple odor lingering in here. Oh, it’s great. Great.

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I love this time of year. And then last night,

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you know, after I put everything away and we were

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chilling out, sitting on the patio, fire in the chimney, unwinding,

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chilling out, got both cats and the dog sitting around me,

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enjoying the fire as well. Couldn’t ask for a better night.

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Listening to, you know, University of Michigan Wolverines lose their

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football game. It didn’t even bother me. I was like, yeah, well, whatever.

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It was just a perfect fall night. You couldn’t have

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asked one. And I love this time of year. Absolutely

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love this time of year. So there you go. First

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half hour of the whole show, all emergency prep stuff,

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things you need to know. If you want to mess

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around with this stuff, you know, don’t dive in thousands

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of dollars into it. Do what I did. I got

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that little EB, that Blue Eddie EB3A. I got it

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Black Friday. Two years ago. It cost me, I think,

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150 bucks. Go down to Harbor Freight. Get your cheap

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solar panel. See what it does. See what it doesn’t do.

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I’ve got a 100-watt solar panel sitting out in the garage.

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I was using that, too. Z-Bot’s in the chat now, too.

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I see you, Zelda. I got a little 100-watt solar

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panel that I mess around with, too. Charge batteries with it.

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Got a solar controller, a little setup. Experiment. Play mad scientist.

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I was using that this weekend, charging up some of

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the batteries I use for Parks on the Air and

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other things. It was a blast. So there you have it.

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Test things out. There’s a ton of information on YouTube, online.

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You know, you got to be careful. Sometimes YouTubers will

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lead you astray. Sometimes it’s a bunch of AI slop

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that doesn’t make any sense and it just doesn’t lead

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you down to a very good place. But there’s a

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lot of good people that are… in there, giving you

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good information. Start out small. That’s what I did. I

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started out small, added on to my collection. Now I’m

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feeling pretty confident that if we had some kind of

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outage grid down, something that may happen, being Michigan being

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what it is, and the way the weather pattern is

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starting to work out, there is a little bit of

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concern that I’m hearing with weather experts, and these are

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actual experts, not online experts, these are actual experts, that

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we may see things like ice rain this year. And

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I can deal with 12 inches of snow. I can

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deal with 10 below zero. Ice rain breaks things. Ice

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rain breaks things and it causes week-long power outages. I

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do not like ice rain. No, sir. No, sir. Not

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at all. I do not like ice rain. Last time

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we had it, we were out for a week. But

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That said, between the generator, between the battery backup, between

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the solar panels, between everything I’ve got, I feel more

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prepared and confident that we’re ready to face no matter

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what happens. We’re already at the bottom of the hour.

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I’m Alan Ray. We’re going to take a little break.

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When we come back, oh, we’re going to look around

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the world and see what kind of crap is going on.

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Don’t go anywhere. I’ll be back in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. It’s Sunday Night with Alan Ray.

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I am your humble host, Alan Ray. Welcome back. Welcome back. Oh,

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we got people in chat. I was all alone in here, guys.

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Where were you? PJ says 5G picked the show up

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better than he thought it would. Yeah, I’m not complaining

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00:32:05,619 –> 00:32:08,039
about 5G. I kind of like it. It’s pretty cool.

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I’m having a good time. No brain damage yet. Not

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that I know of. It is Sunday night with Alan Ray.

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We are all about doom. Yes, we are. Speaking of doom,

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00:32:23,470 –> 00:32:25,910
the world press is kind of going nuts tonight because

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the UK police said that five men were arrested in

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the early hours today near an air base that’s used

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by the United States during its war against Iran. They’re

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being held on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack that

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00:32:37,650 –> 00:32:43,359
appears to involve three trucks. I’m surprised that London’s Metropolitan

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Police even took the time to investigate it and get it. Anyways,

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where’s it at? RAF Fairford, Royal Air Force Base in Fairford.

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It’s a UK-owned base. It’s operated by the United States

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under agreement dating back to the Cold War. And this

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was reported by the AP, probably other people too, but,

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Speaker 2>you know, the associated propaganda.

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Speaker 2>

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Speaker 2>

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Speaker 2: You know, it’s so grating. Okay. It’s enough to just

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00:33:29,509 –> 00:33:34,049
make you want to pull your hair out. No further

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00:33:34,089 –> 00:33:38,490
brain damage. That’s right, Jeff. Just the existing brain damage

529
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I’ve had since birth from eating paint chips off the windowsills.

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That’s fine. Anyways, yeah, this is a big deal. Three

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trucks heading towards an Air Force base. And of course,

532
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you know, the BBC, they blocked out, you know, responses

533
00:33:53,940 –> 00:33:57,200
and stuff in their Twitter post of it because they

534
00:33:57,240 –> 00:34:01,519
really don’t want to talk about who was driving the trucks.

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Who was under suspicion of this terrorist attack? They don’t

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want to discuss that. That would be uncomfortable. That would

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00:34:09,550 –> 00:34:12,070
be something they really, they don’t want you to know.

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It’s assumed. Yes, it’s assumed. But they don’t want you

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00:34:18,480 –> 00:34:20,880
to talk about it because talking about it may make

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00:34:20,960 –> 00:34:27,860
somebody uncomfortable. Well, here’s the real uncomfortable thing. What we’re

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00:34:28,239 –> 00:34:30,860
seeing here unfolding is going to become more and more

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00:34:30,920 –> 00:34:36,050
commonplace because As number one, Western civilizations invite people into

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our countries who have taken a religious oath to either

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convert or destroy us as Western civilization, as Christians, as

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anybody that’s not of their particular faith. They’ve already taken

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that religious oath to convert or destroy us. That’s out

547
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of their own mouths. I didn’t say that. I’m not

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making that up. And number two, we keep messing around

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in the Middle East. The Middle East should basically be

550
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converted back into a giant cat box. Pull all of

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our interests out of there and threaten anybody that says,

552
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you know, tell everybody, you know, if you try to

553
00:35:12,460 –> 00:35:14,659
bring your interests in there, we’re going to just destroy you.

554
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Just let them sit in their cat box and go

555
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back to living in tents. That’s all they’re good for.

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And number three, it’s going to keep being like this.

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as long as we remain soft on Middle Eastern policy,

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if we have to mess around in the Middle East,

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if we feel obligated to mess around in the Middle East,

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we cannot remain soft on Mideast policy. These people there

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know one thing. Now this is coming from somebody that

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number one is Muslim. Number two grew up with an

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eyesight of the walls of Jerusalem. He’s a good friend

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of mine. And, and, He’s the one that told me

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this back on right after 9-11. Actually, I lied. Not

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after 9-11. It was right after we took out Saddam Hussein.

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He was overjoyed that we took out Saddam Hussein. But

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he told me this. He said, Al, the problem with

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00:36:09,460 –> 00:36:13,099
what happened is it’s great we took him out. However,

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we need to put somebody in there that’s just as

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heavy handed. These people are hard headed and they don’t

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know anything other than being smacked really hard when they

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get out of line. That’s out of somebody that grew

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up there. I’m not making this up. So these people

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know one thing. They understand that heavy-handed retaliation every single

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time without fail. They do stuff like this that happened

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in the UK. Heavy-handed retaliation has to happen every single time.

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They have to be terrified to mess with us. They

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do not, as a people, especially as the leaders, they

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do not respect spineless policies. We just went through the

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Biden administration. We just went through the Obama administration. Obama

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was better than Biden. He understood this. He actually attacked

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some of these people over there. I’m going to give

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him that. I don’t give him much at all, but

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I’ll give him that. He understands it probably because he’s

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tied up in it. But they don’t respect spineless policies.

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They see soft handedness as weakness. If you feel like

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you have to do things in Iran and Iraq, any

589
00:37:30,159 –> 00:37:33,429
of those places over there, you need to bring bombs

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to a knife fight every single time without exception. They know,

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train them to say, okay, and this is, you pay

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attention to it. This is what Jerusalem does. This is

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what Netanyahu does. Look what happened with the Palestinians. They

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went over there, they slaughtered a bunch of people. Now

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00:37:50,539 –> 00:37:53,699
look at their country. It’s laying there in rumbles, in ruins.

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I don’t feel sorry for them. Don’t mess around with

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these people. It’s the only thing they know. Every time

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something like this happens without fail, even though it was

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00:38:04,730 –> 00:38:10,070
a threat, Jeff, man, I’m not going to say that

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on the air, Jeff, but you’re right. Every time there’s

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even a threat like this, Targets need to be just

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lit up like light bulbs. The capital of Iran needs

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to just undergo massive bombing every time and let them

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know every single time you threaten us, we’re coming down

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on you with a full might of the American army.

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If you don’t like it, don’t mess with us. If

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you don’t like it, then you straighten up, declare peace.

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play nice, open up the Straits of Hormoz, or whatever

609
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that’s called, and back off. Otherwise, every time you do

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something like this, we’re just going to start blowing things up.

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It’s the only thing these people, they don’t think like

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normal people, or they don’t think like our culture. It’s

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the problem we’ve always had in the Middle East. Since

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I’ve been alive, it’s a problem we’ve had. These are

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hard headed, stubborn people. Their culture has been around for

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years and they believe that like a lot of other

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people I know, they believe that their way is the

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only way it is the right way. And everybody else

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needs to come around to their way or they’re just

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going to keep terrorizing and doing underhanded things and not

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being civilized. And unfortunately, Britain, U.K., They don’t understand this

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because they’re trying to play nice guy. They’re trying to

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play spineless. They’re trying to invite them into the country

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and look what’s happening. Look what’s happening to London, to Britain,

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to the UK as a whole. They’re being overtaken. They’re

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being overrun and the citizens are suffering for it. So

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there you have it. It’s my two cents. Those are my,

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I just, I just want to know where the heads are,

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the heads of state, where their heads are inviting these

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people and knowing darn well that They know that these

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people are like this. They know that the people they’re

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bringing into these countries are just like this. I don’t

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know how they’re thinking that they’re going to play nice.

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They’re not. They don’t do that. That’s not their way.

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It hasn’t been their way for thousands and thousands and

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thousands of years. And if you’re offended by that, I’m sorry.

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Go over there and live for a while. You’ll understand

638
00:40:33,849 –> 00:40:36,630
exactly what I’m talking about. This isn’t coming from me.

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This is coming from their own people. They’ve told me

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this point blank. Right? It’s tribal over there. It’s tribal.

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And certain tribes will tell you the other tribes are

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hard headed. And those tribes will tell you that tribe

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is hard headed. None of them get along. All right.

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Moving on. Moving on. Oh, the media, the American media,

645
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the left wing American media really, really wanted this to

646
00:41:07,260 –> 00:41:14,460
be a story about racism. But it ended up being

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something completely different. And it’s a tragic story. Tragic story.

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Tasia Fortune, 29-year-old mother of four, was found hanging from

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a tree at an abandoned home in Jackson… Where is it? Jackson?

650
00:41:26,369 –> 00:41:31,820
Jackson where? Mississippi? Anyway, she was found hanging from a tree.

651
00:41:33,719 –> 00:41:41,010
And the American media immediately, immediately tied that to old…

652
00:41:42,039 –> 00:41:46,969
I should say old Democrat, Southern racism, lynching black people,

653
00:41:47,309 –> 00:41:51,070
hanging them. Oh, Whitey is bad. Whitey is evil. Look

654
00:41:51,090 –> 00:41:53,949
what they did. The problem is, is Whitey didn’t do that.

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A couple of black guys did. And now it gets

656
00:41:59,340 –> 00:42:03,940
even more interesting, according to the BBC. The mother of

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a woman found hanging in a tree in Mississippi, there

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00:42:06,199 –> 00:42:08,800
you go, has spoken of her shock after authorities said

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they believe her daughter was dead before her body was

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placed at the allegedly staged crime scene. The discovery sparked

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00:42:21,300 –> 00:42:24,159
widespread fears in the majority black city because of the

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state’s deep history of racial violence and lynchings, which haven’t

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happened in over 100 years. But on Friday, police said

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that Fortune had been dead before her body was hanged

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from the tree. Let’s just stop right there because you

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probably know most of the story. They have people, they

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00:42:41,380 –> 00:42:47,840
have suspects in custody. The original narrative to this story

668
00:42:47,900 –> 00:42:52,099
is just getting riddled with holes by the minute. This

669
00:42:52,159 –> 00:42:54,860
was supposed to be another rage story that would get

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00:42:54,900 –> 00:42:58,300
the dumbed down left-wing voters to start wrecking neighborhoods, burning

671
00:42:58,400 –> 00:43:01,820
used car lots and throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at

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the police. Instead, it ends up being black on black violence.

673
00:43:07,570 –> 00:43:12,550
And now it was staged. That’s even worse. It was

674
00:43:12,570 –> 00:43:15,769
staged after her death. So I guess I have to

675
00:43:16,010 –> 00:43:30,860
ask a few questions. Staged by whom? Was this an

676
00:43:31,059 –> 00:43:35,610
organized thing? Was this staged by activists? You know, I

677
00:43:35,630 –> 00:43:39,170
wouldn’t be surprised. I would not be surprised if they

678
00:43:39,250 –> 00:43:41,610
dug into it long enough and found some activist group

679
00:43:41,989 –> 00:43:47,829
used this as a way to get the used car

680
00:43:47,869 –> 00:43:51,570
lots burning again. I mean, we are at a midterm election.

681
00:43:52,329 –> 00:43:56,010
They need the violence. They need the sights and the

682
00:43:56,050 –> 00:44:01,070
sounds of chaos and doom so that people will get

683
00:44:01,110 –> 00:44:05,329
afraid and vote for Democrats. I mean, the whole thing’s

684
00:44:05,369 –> 00:44:07,050
disgusting and shocking. I’m not going to lie to you.

685
00:44:08,579 –> 00:44:12,539
But this is what left-wing activists want. They want this

686
00:44:12,599 –> 00:44:15,900
kind of visualization. They want these kind of optics so

687
00:44:15,940 –> 00:44:18,099
they can look at them, look at them, and then

688
00:44:19,099 –> 00:44:22,000
you’re looking at the horror and the shock. And then

689
00:44:22,059 –> 00:44:24,320
in the meantime, in the background, they’re going, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,

690
00:44:24,340 –> 00:44:26,019
Trump did this. Trump did this. Trump did this. Yep.

691
00:44:26,099 –> 00:44:27,559
Trump did this. He’s the one that hung her. Yep.

692
00:44:27,719 –> 00:44:29,969
He went down there and did it himself. They know better.

693
00:44:30,010 –> 00:44:31,809
They know it’s a lie. They know it’s not correct,

694
00:44:31,849 –> 00:44:33,849
but that’s what they want so they can use it.

695
00:44:34,610 –> 00:44:39,119
Because all they have right now is PSYOP. All they

696
00:44:39,159 –> 00:44:43,659
have right now, all they have right now is evil

697
00:44:43,719 –> 00:44:50,139
orange man. That’s all they have. Watch their commercials. You

698
00:44:50,159 –> 00:44:53,480
cannot fire up a YouTube video without having to endure

699
00:44:53,679 –> 00:44:59,750
painful 30-second commercials from Democrats. And no matter what politician

700
00:44:59,789 –> 00:45:02,969
it is, they have to tie in Trump first. To

701
00:45:03,070 –> 00:45:05,150
every one of them, Trump, Trump. If you’re running for

702
00:45:05,210 –> 00:45:12,619
county dog catcher and you’re a Republican, they’re going to say, oh,

703
00:45:12,639 –> 00:45:15,920
he’s a dog catcher, all right, but he supports big

704
00:45:16,039 –> 00:45:20,460
pharma and data centers. What’s that got to do with Trump?

705
00:45:21,530 –> 00:45:31,630
It doesn’t matter, Trump. So there you go. That’s what

706
00:45:31,650 –> 00:45:38,320
these people want. Moving on. Moving on. This one’s interesting.

707
00:45:40,440 –> 00:45:46,929
In the state of Washington, Washington taxed its millionaires. It’s

708
00:45:46,949 –> 00:45:50,449
according to the New York Slimes. Now Washington state voters

709
00:45:50,469 –> 00:45:52,190
will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9%

710
00:45:52,190 –> 00:45:57,510
income tax on millionaires approved by the legislature, which broke

711
00:45:57,550 –> 00:46:01,039
the state’s taboo against levy and income taxes. They went

712
00:46:01,099 –> 00:46:06,559
after millionaires, 9.9% tax on additional tax on anything over

713
00:46:06,579 –> 00:46:14,130
a million dollars. This is a lot of fun. I

714
00:46:14,170 –> 00:46:17,210
guess the millionaires in Washington just don’t want to fork

715
00:46:17,269 –> 00:46:21,349
over the money to the state of Washington’s government. I

716
00:46:21,409 –> 00:46:25,400
find that funny. What? Wealthy Democrats don’t want to put

717
00:46:25,420 –> 00:46:30,550
their money where their word holes are. That’s just crazy.

718
00:46:30,590 –> 00:46:32,400
Cause you know, these people, all these people that are,

719
00:46:32,500 –> 00:46:35,000
that are come up with this law, you know, what

720
00:46:35,059 –> 00:46:36,820
it is is the law has already been passed for

721
00:46:36,840 –> 00:46:43,300
the 9.9% tax. Okay. It’s already been, it’s there. And

722
00:46:43,360 –> 00:46:45,989
from what I’ve read, what I understand is they don’t

723
00:46:46,030 –> 00:46:52,269
start collecting these taxes for another two years. The, the

724
00:46:52,510 –> 00:46:54,349
thing that’s coming up, what they’re trying to get people

725
00:46:54,369 –> 00:46:55,760
to sign for, what they’re trying to get into the

726
00:46:55,800 –> 00:47:01,789
books is something that repeals that law. So if you

727
00:47:01,869 –> 00:47:05,289
vote no on it, you’re voting no to repeal the law.

728
00:47:05,369 –> 00:47:08,030
So the law will go ahead and remain in effect.

729
00:47:09,469 –> 00:47:11,949
And the commercials that I’ve gone down a couple of

730
00:47:11,969 –> 00:47:16,179
rabbit holes, the commercials are very confusing. They seem like, oh,

731
00:47:16,199 –> 00:47:18,179
do you like higher taxes? Because it’s going to filter

732
00:47:18,219 –> 00:47:21,699
down to you, too. So, you know, I mean, it’s

733
00:47:21,780 –> 00:47:24,139
almost like, you know, one of those questions, are you

734
00:47:24,159 –> 00:47:27,079
still beating your wife? Well, no. Oh, you mean you

735
00:47:27,159 –> 00:47:29,360
used to? No. You know, I mean, there’s no right answer.

736
00:47:31,840 –> 00:47:35,920
But apparently the wealthy Democrats in Washington state don’t want

737
00:47:35,940 –> 00:47:39,400
to pay more in taxes. It’s funny how people are

738
00:47:39,440 –> 00:47:44,000
like that, especially when the left wing rubber meets the

739
00:47:44,039 –> 00:47:47,860
left wing road. It’s just like the whole green energy thing,

740
00:47:47,880 –> 00:47:53,280
the whole green new deal. The left will sue the

741
00:47:53,340 –> 00:47:55,920
pants off of these solar companies to keep giant solar

742
00:47:56,340 –> 00:48:00,159
farms out of a red county, red or a blue county,

743
00:48:00,219 –> 00:48:03,480
blue areas. Democrat run areas. They’ll sue to keep them

744
00:48:03,539 –> 00:48:07,340
out of there and push them out, demand that they

745
00:48:07,380 –> 00:48:12,000
put them in rural farmland, rip up perfectly good farm country,

746
00:48:13,000 –> 00:48:17,219
knowing these people don’t vote Democrat, but that’s okay. You’re

747
00:48:17,239 –> 00:48:19,119
going to have to put up with our green energy

748
00:48:19,619 –> 00:48:21,699
and shame on you if you fight it. Yeah, well,

749
00:48:21,719 –> 00:48:23,610
you fought it. Well, that’s different. We don’t want it

750
00:48:23,619 –> 00:48:28,090
in our backyard. See, they don’t like their own policies.

751
00:48:28,530 –> 00:48:35,300
They just want you to suffer for them. none of

752
00:48:35,320 –> 00:48:38,210
this should surprise you. It’s just like when they took

753
00:48:38,289 –> 00:48:40,989
all of those illegal aliens and shipped them to Martha’s vineyard.

754
00:48:42,489 –> 00:48:44,809
That was funny. That was a great publicity stunt because

755
00:48:45,409 –> 00:48:50,159
their hypocrisy was on display for the entire country. Oh yeah.

756
00:48:50,219 –> 00:48:52,940
They treated them nice. We gave them, we gave them

757
00:48:53,219 –> 00:48:56,380
all a nice donut and told them to stick to

758
00:48:56,880 –> 00:49:01,219
places that are not ours. Go back. Here’s a sandwich.

759
00:49:01,510 –> 00:49:04,929
Now go back to some desolate farm and go work

760
00:49:04,989 –> 00:49:07,489
in the sun because we don’t want you here in

761
00:49:07,530 –> 00:49:11,449
Martha’s Vineyard stinking up the place. No, no, no. We

762
00:49:11,530 –> 00:49:14,190
want you in America, just not here where we can

763
00:49:14,269 –> 00:49:20,559
see you. Typical, typical left wing crap. Makes me laugh.

764
00:49:22,920 –> 00:49:29,639
The hypocrisy is off the charts. I’m sorry, but I just,

765
00:49:29,780 –> 00:49:31,460
I can’t help but laugh. And I think, cause they’re

766
00:49:31,480 –> 00:49:34,739
like this with everything. They’re like this with every subject,

767
00:49:35,579 –> 00:49:40,039
solar farms, plants, windmills, you don’t see them where they live.

768
00:49:41,300 –> 00:49:44,480
I personally think solar farms in Michigan should be in

769
00:49:44,519 –> 00:49:47,579
Detroit on every rooftop. They should be in Ann Arbor

770
00:49:48,199 –> 00:49:50,960
on every street corner, on every roof, everywhere in Ann Arbor.

771
00:49:50,980 –> 00:49:53,699
They should be in Kalamazoo. They should be in Lansing.

772
00:49:54,599 –> 00:49:56,699
In fact, the state capital parking lot should just be

773
00:49:56,800 –> 00:50:01,480
covered in solar panels. I’m not anti-solar. I’m not. I mean,

774
00:50:01,739 –> 00:50:03,739
the whole first half of the hour was about solar

775
00:50:04,760 –> 00:50:08,309
and using it. I do know its limitations. I do

776
00:50:08,349 –> 00:50:10,269
know what it can and can’t do. I do know

777
00:50:10,349 –> 00:50:12,469
that they want it as a primary source of energy,

778
00:50:12,489 –> 00:50:15,500
and that’s the last thing you should ever want. And

779
00:50:15,519 –> 00:50:18,219
they’re tearing up perfectly good. Some of the best farmland

780
00:50:18,239 –> 00:50:20,840
in America, they’re tearing up to put these hellscapes in,

781
00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:26,639
these solar hellscapes, that in, what, three years? And this

782
00:50:26,699 –> 00:50:28,429
is coming from the people who are putting the one

783
00:50:28,469 –> 00:50:31,510
around us. I was talking to them. These guys already know,

784
00:50:31,690 –> 00:50:35,409
in three years, these solar farms start losing their efficiency.

785
00:50:35,880 –> 00:50:41,530
In 10 years, they’re pretty much done. So millions and

786
00:50:41,570 –> 00:50:45,750
millions of dollars on a 10-year project. Where are the

787
00:50:45,869 –> 00:50:48,670
used solar panels going to go? You can’t recycle them.

788
00:50:49,309 –> 00:50:50,710
The only thing you can do is bury them. Is

789
00:50:50,730 –> 00:50:53,409
that what you want to do? 10 feet underground through

790
00:50:53,429 –> 00:50:55,469
the entire United States have a bunch of solar panels?

791
00:50:58,239 –> 00:51:00,800
It’s kind of funny. All right, we’ve got a couple

792
00:51:00,840 –> 00:51:04,860
more minutes. Oh, this is a great one. You know,

793
00:51:05,280 –> 00:51:11,500
I started talking about flock a while back. And it’s

794
00:51:11,539 –> 00:51:17,420
kind of funny because it’s just, it’s snowballing. Snowballing and

795
00:51:17,500 –> 00:51:24,750
snowballing and snowballing. Neither side wants this, folks. The right

796
00:51:24,929 –> 00:51:30,769
understands that it can be abused. That’s unconstitutional. Unconstitutional. The

797
00:51:30,789 –> 00:51:33,730
left don’t want it because they don’t want people spying

798
00:51:33,769 –> 00:51:38,010
on their illegal aliens. They don’t want getting people getting caught.

799
00:51:39,380 –> 00:51:41,969
But the common theme, the common theme on the flock

800
00:51:42,110 –> 00:51:45,400
camera thing is that nobody wants it left or right.

801
00:51:46,059 –> 00:51:48,260
It could be the one thing that unites everybody in

802
00:51:48,280 –> 00:51:53,239
this country. And it’s not because of the cameras themselves.

803
00:51:53,300 –> 00:51:55,840
It’s because how they’re being used that they’re finding out

804
00:51:55,900 –> 00:51:57,969
is being more and more abused as time goes on.

805
00:51:59,650 –> 00:52:04,809
So you run across this article that I find absolutely hysterical,

806
00:52:04,849 –> 00:52:07,090
and I’ve seen it in different things, but this is

807
00:52:07,170 –> 00:52:12,539
from The Intercept. Amid mounting concerns about its sprawling surveillance

808
00:52:12,579 –> 00:52:15,559
camera network, Flock Security told the press this summer that

809
00:52:15,579 –> 00:52:19,710
it operates more than 120,000 cameras nationwide. But a new

810
00:52:19,829 –> 00:52:24,590
map published Wednesday by Cybersecurity Researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach

811
00:52:24,699 –> 00:52:29,099
is even bigger. Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database,

812
00:52:29,159 –> 00:52:33,960
the map shows more than 170,000 cameras, plus more than 130,000

813
00:52:33,960 –> 00:52:36,860
accompanying gadgets that play a part in the company’s expansive

814
00:52:36,880 –> 00:52:44,030
American surveillance network. That’s 300,000 units. Joshua Michaels, Flock’s surveillance map,

815
00:52:44,949 –> 00:52:49,480
And that’s, I think, dfloc.org. I’ve got it on my

816
00:52:49,559 –> 00:52:52,159
Linux computer. I actually look at it all the time.

817
00:52:52,199 –> 00:52:57,420
It’s kind of cool. Anyways, Joshua Michaels highlights the location

818
00:52:57,619 –> 00:53:00,639
of what he says are 300,000 FLOC surveillance devices spread

819
00:53:00,679 –> 00:53:04,559
across the country. His findings, which were cited in Wednesday’s

820
00:53:04,639 –> 00:53:08,860
Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on FLOC, differ

821
00:53:08,900 –> 00:53:11,889
from existing map of FLOC’s automated license plate readers in

822
00:53:11,929 –> 00:53:16,349
scope and methodology. Oh, this is a different one. This

823
00:53:16,409 –> 00:53:20,409
isn’t D-Flock. This is a different project. Interesting. I didn’t

824
00:53:20,429 –> 00:53:23,769
catch this the first time around. Unlike crowdsourced projects such

825
00:53:23,809 –> 00:53:26,610
as D-Flock, which are built on locations submitted by users,

826
00:53:26,670 –> 00:53:30,000
the Flock surveillance map relies on location data called from

827
00:53:30,039 –> 00:53:33,599
a snapshot archived by Michael in December 2025 of Flock’s

828
00:53:33,760 –> 00:53:38,929
own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices,

829
00:53:39,050 –> 00:53:43,760
including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment

830
00:53:43,800 –> 00:53:47,050
that integrates third-party cameras to illustrate the scale of FLOX

831
00:53:47,110 –> 00:53:51,219
surveillance web. Oh, we’re going to have to get a

832
00:53:51,360 –> 00:53:56,260
hold of this map. Yes, we are. So anyways, the

833
00:53:56,300 –> 00:54:05,380
problem is, is FLOX CEO is crying. He wants this

834
00:54:05,460 –> 00:54:11,300
map taken down. He wants privacy for the Flock Corporation.

835
00:54:12,530 –> 00:54:20,510
This is the same CEO who told the press, if

836
00:54:20,570 –> 00:54:23,469
you don’t like our cameras looking at you, stay off

837
00:54:23,489 –> 00:54:31,989
the roads. We have the right to to run these cameras,

838
00:54:32,230 –> 00:54:34,530
to take pictures of your vehicle, to find out where

839
00:54:34,550 –> 00:54:37,840
you’re going, what you’re doing. He believes they have the

840
00:54:37,940 –> 00:54:42,659
right to take flock cameras and point them at gun ranges,

841
00:54:44,840 –> 00:54:51,860
gun stores. They have the right to take flock cameras

842
00:54:51,900 –> 00:54:55,199
and point them at dispensaries. They have the right to

843
00:54:55,260 –> 00:54:58,199
track you down, figure out where you’re going, what you’re doing.

844
00:55:01,170 –> 00:55:05,429
But we do not have the right to tell everybody

845
00:55:05,469 –> 00:55:10,969
where their cameras are. We do not get to tell

846
00:55:11,130 –> 00:55:16,710
him to show where his product is, to have them

847
00:55:16,750 –> 00:55:21,530
under surveillance. And there was a story just last week

848
00:55:21,800 –> 00:55:26,199
of a guy in Atlanta, Georgia, following a guy who

849
00:55:26,239 –> 00:55:29,599
was installing flock cameras, following around, filming him. And the

850
00:55:29,619 –> 00:55:31,300
guy called the police on him. It said he was

851
00:55:31,320 –> 00:55:33,400
harassing him. The guy said, no, I’m not. I’m just

852
00:55:34,480 –> 00:55:36,610
doing the same thing he’s doing with the flock cameras.

853
00:55:36,869 –> 00:55:38,929
And the police couldn’t arrest him because there’s no law

854
00:55:38,969 –> 00:55:45,809
against it. It’s there again. I have questions and it’s

855
00:55:45,929 –> 00:55:49,920
not the tool. It’s not the tool at all. I’m

856
00:55:50,039 –> 00:56:02,800
sure flock could be used for good reasons. And already

857
00:56:02,820 –> 00:56:04,659
you’re right. I’ve seen that too. He got mad about

858
00:56:04,699 –> 00:56:06,820
how someone put his house on Google Maps and ordered

859
00:56:06,840 –> 00:56:08,760
it to be taken down. So they changed the location

860
00:56:08,800 –> 00:56:15,320
of his house to a public restroom. But he’s getting really,

861
00:56:15,360 –> 00:56:17,820
really upset because of these maps and everything. And he

862
00:56:17,860 –> 00:56:23,070
doesn’t like them. And people putting them up are being filmed.

863
00:56:25,469 –> 00:56:29,260
Nobody wants these things. And before you go with the whole, well,

864
00:56:30,059 –> 00:56:32,139
you’ve got your phone in your pocket and your car

865
00:56:32,159 –> 00:56:35,719
has GPS and yada, yada, yada, there’s a big difference, okay?

866
00:56:35,960 –> 00:56:38,440
I’m going to tell you what the difference is. You

867
00:56:38,579 –> 00:56:43,289
choose to carry your phone. You choose to buy a

868
00:56:43,309 –> 00:56:46,889
vehicle with GPS in it. You can buy an older vehicle.

869
00:56:46,929 –> 00:56:49,460
You can buy a junkier vehicle, fix it up. In fact,

870
00:56:49,719 –> 00:56:52,519
I’m leaning more and more towards going out west somewhere

871
00:56:52,900 –> 00:56:58,400
in the dry Arizona desert, finding me an old Chevy, Ford, Jeep, something,

872
00:56:58,900 –> 00:57:01,360
dropping 10 grand into it to make it run like

873
00:57:01,420 –> 00:57:05,340
new and just driving it around. Mid-70s with none of

874
00:57:05,360 –> 00:57:09,050
the new stuff in it. You choose to do that.

875
00:57:11,929 –> 00:57:15,849
You do not get to choose to have your vehicle,

876
00:57:15,989 –> 00:57:20,750
profile of your vehicle, put into a database and tracked

877
00:57:21,030 –> 00:57:26,130
everywhere you go. You don’t get to choose that. And

878
00:57:26,150 –> 00:57:29,150
I don’t care what the CEO of flock has to

879
00:57:29,210 –> 00:57:33,599
say about it. The big problem is, is who gets

880
00:57:33,840 –> 00:57:36,219
this data and how are they going to use it?

881
00:57:36,739 –> 00:57:39,119
And my biggest question is, and I told you at

882
00:57:39,159 –> 00:57:42,719
the top of this show, I asked the questions, what

883
00:57:42,739 –> 00:57:45,739
would have happened if flock would have been going full

884
00:57:45,780 –> 00:57:50,989
tilt during COVID shutdowns? how powerful could the government have

885
00:57:51,090 –> 00:57:54,050
been using flock to make sure you didn’t leave your house,

886
00:57:55,130 –> 00:57:59,420
tracking you down, giving you fines for not obeying the

887
00:57:59,559 –> 00:58:07,320
almighty government. Ask yourself that before you condemn me too much.

888
00:58:08,639 –> 00:58:12,369
It’s who’s getting this information. How are they going to

889
00:58:12,489 –> 00:58:16,940
use it? Not just now, but in the future. We

890
00:58:16,960 –> 00:58:21,480
have some crazies. We have some real lunatics in the

891
00:58:21,579 –> 00:58:25,900
upper levels of our government, people. Both sides. I’m not

892
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just pointing to the Democrats. We already know that. But

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both sides, there’s some real loonies up there. I don’t

894
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want them to be able to track me if I

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do something to make them mad, if I do something

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against their almighty will. I would rather remain pleasantly anonymous

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to all of them until I don’t have the need

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to be anonymous. We’ve reached the top of the hour, folks.

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I’m Alan Ray. It’s Sunday night with Alan Ray. Thank

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you for spending the last hour with me. You can

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take the first half of this show and use it

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to go down the rabbit hole and get yourself prepared.

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You know, the second half, of the show is usually lately.

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It’s just been old man rants. Yes, sir. I appreciate

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each and every one of you join me next week.

906
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Lord willing. I think I’m going to be here next week.

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We’ll see. I’m going to try. I’m going to, I’m

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going to give it a good effort. I got a

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busy Sunday coming up. So I’m not a hundred percent sure.

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But remember, whether you meditate, you pray, whatever you do, meditate,

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pray for wisdom and discernment. Because, folks, we need it

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more now than we ever have. I’m out of here. Peace.