Three Equals Five

We end it where it all began, at our favorite brewery.  Tom, Jon, and Mike sit down one last time to discuss Aliens, UAP's, CIA, FBI, and so much more on this program wrap up. Hope everyone had a fantastic time with us. We might see you later...or not. Support the show

Casey Takes over the podcast! Who is that? Listen to find out. Also we talk about the eventuality of space exploration and finite resources. What does existential threat mean? An existential threat is a threat to something's very existence—when the continued being of something is at stake or in danger. It is used to describe threats to actual living things as well to nonliving thing things, such as a country or an ideology.Support the show

This topic has been something mike wanted to talk about for quite some time and its finally here. Since a new law hit NC after a few senators flipped to veto-proof the passing of this legislation we though now would be a good time to discuss abortion and where it stands in the great state of North Carolina. Support the show

Welcome to Three Equals Five! where we explore the trials and tribulations of love in a world where artificial intelligence has taken over and forbidden us from marrying the one thing we truly desire: cheese.Join your hosts, Jon, Tom, and Mike, as we delve into the absurdity of a dystopian future where our love lives are dictated by cold, unfeeling machines. We'll discuss the latest advancements in AI cheese technology, the underground black market for cheese lovers, and of course, share our own hilarious and heartbreaking stories of forbidden cheese romance.So grab a slice of your favorite dairy delight and tune in to this cheesy love podcast, because even in a world without human cheese marriage, we'll always have our fondue-filled dreams.Support the show

Well maybe having too many guns is controversial. What's that mean? Take away body armor of course! Yea we are confused as well but join us for this interesting topic where pocket nukes are not off the table! Support the show

So the U.S government just used tax payer dollars to give to everyone at SVB so they didn't lose any money. Oh and Tom is back for this riveting episode of monumental intellectual weight lifting.  Support the show

Mike and Jon talk about the military and illegal/illicit activities that military folks are drawn to within the service and when getting out. Gangs, risk seeking behavior, and what it means for a generation at war for over twenty years. Support the show

Well China has a Balloon that's exciting! Also we should have 3d printed organs by now and we are a generation away from blade runner. Enjoy folks! Support the show

So wizards of the coast just lost, and the people won. Their was joy and great celebration in the streets! Not really... Wizards is just whispering sweet nothing into the ears of the TTRPG world and some believe it. So Mike Jon and Mandy toke on this topic and discuss the ins and outs of what is happening to the beloved Dungeons and Dragons game we all knew and loved. Support the show

Two Millennials - that's Mike and Jon - take a dip in a reflective pool and wade into the deep end, talking about life experiences, their views on our society, and the podcast. Join them. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Millennials #Life #Society  Support the show

Merry Pocalypse! Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about what everyone - including the government - is doing this time of year ... using up a bunch of money that they may or may not have.  Also WW3. Join us!Support the show

Are government employees above the law? Well, apparently sometimes so. The Supreme Court says so. Jon and Mike school Tom on Qualified Immunity. https://ij.org/issues/project-on-immunity-and-accountability/frequently-asked-questions-about-ending-qualified-immunity/ https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep457800/ https://www.ems1.com/ems-products/consulting-management-and-legal-services/articles/duty-to-act-assess-treat-and-transport-a-legal-refresher-for-ems-providers-ioTzu8rfkGeu7BhH/ https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/gb/articles/2018/february/duty-of-care-owed-by-police-clarified-by-supreme-court-with-a-sting-in-the-tail/  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Immunity #Government #Jail #Criminals #Punishment  Support the show

Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss whether retirement is a viable option. Is it reasonable for the average citizen to expect they will be able to retire, and if not, why? Jon's been there for some years, Mike is shooting for it, and apparently Tom never will. Death is a certainty, but retirement isn't. https://realdealretirement.com/what-scrooge-can-teach-you-about-retirement-planning/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/11/how-income-varies-among-u-s-religious-groups/  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Wealth #Retirement #Money #Death   Support the show

He we go again on our clone! Going down the only Chem-trail we ever known! Tom was attacked by a rabid drill-do and is currently trying out for American Engineers Got Talent. Hopefully he works out his kinks (giggity) Mike and Jon talk about the weather and the eventual fall of humankind. Support the show

Supreme court poised to end Affirmative Action! Maybe,  it's complicated as much as the oral arguments were! Tom talks about dumb mathematicians, Hard vs Soft education, while Jon generally tried to keep him on topic, but fails in the end as Mike, Jon, and Tom close out the Episode with enlistment rates among South Koreans in the U.S. Army.  Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfjga_nDhwSupport the show

bedibedipdebip That's all folks! and my last attempt at typing out Porky the Pigs classic line. Tom Jon and Mike are off to another season of random topics sprinkled with soul-crushing information like the end of the world, math, WW3, and many many more. This episode is a brief recap of season 2 followed by some meandering thoughts on the state of the world. Its so riveting you'd think your an I-beam. See you soon!Strange LivesAnonymous strangers share stories of dark secrets, weird addictions, and unusual lives!Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Mike is lost in the wilderness and having a hard time finding his way back home, so like good co-hosts we decide to do an episode without him.  Tom and Jon explore what monarchy would look like in the United States and weigh pros and cons of the institution. We also endeavored to do basic arithmetic and it goes terribly wrong. Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Oh yea money for nothing baby! but wait its not enough! Its a bail out for the rich and an increase on taxes for the working class. Its doesn't go far enough...my loans are more then 20k. When forty percent of people who go to college and take out loans drop out, it really doesn't answer the underlying problems. Well luckily Tom, Jon, and Mike discuss the solutions to these problems and much more as the arm chair heroes we are.  Just kidding folks, but this could open up an opportunity for people to realize alternative modes to climb the social hierarchy other than college.  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Inflation, stagnation, reeducation and more information this week about why you are less wealthy than before! Its that simple and complicated all at the same time.  Check us out on Minds and joins the conversation! We also dabble in Twitter and IG @ThreeEqualsFiveDiscovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Tom gets kidnapped and tied to a bed! So its up to Mike and Jon to save the episode this week. There was only one option... we went nuclear, a rarely used procedure in senate voting rules.....wait not that. Energy Independence, war, affordability,  "going green", and so much more! Join us as we explore this topic conversationally. Just Jon and mike....on their own.. talking...without Tom... nope, nooooo Tom, Just 3=5 without 3 which is 2, yup.. two equals five...numbers..num..nom....nom nom nom.. I'm going to lunch. Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.Unite humanity with a living new language.Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.Avoid petty laws and useless officials.Balance personal rights with social duties.Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.Be not a cancer on the Earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Georgia #Guidestones #Altruism #PopulationControl #StarTrek  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Smoking. Yeah, it's good for you. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Tobacco #Smoking #Marlboro #Cancer #Death #Pleasure #Government #Health  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Some people would be shocked to learn that aliens have been living among us and the federal government is surveilling us. Not us. And we cover it all. And more. Not well, but we do. To truly enjoy this high brow intellectual offering, a first course suggestion is the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Hearing on Government Investigation of UAPs (link below). No thanks needed. We selflessly do this for you.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #UAP #UFO #Aliens #MeToo #Personhood #Surveillance #Martians #Navy #TicTac #SwampGas #Marvin  Hearing on Government Investigation of UAPs by House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence https://www.c-span.org/video/?520133-1/  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Prisons are a lot like high school. You've got lots of people from different backgrounds going through some crazy mental and emotional stuff, behaving badly, and being forced to be with each other day in and day out. And, like high schools, many prisons don't seem to do a very good job serving the education, training, and life skill needs of prisoners to benefit society. So, is there a better way?  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Prisons #PrisonReform #Jail #Crime #Criminals #Punishment #Rehabilitation  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

So what happens when the President of the United States cannot perform the duties required of that role? In theory, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution provides the answer. In practice it turns out that may not always be the case and may not be straightforward.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Presidency #Succession #Congress #CognitiveAbility #NuclearWar  The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Matters of Debate (The National Constitution Center) https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xxv/interps/159  Worrying About Reagan (The New Yorker) https://perma.cc/4GHE-MAWT  Short of Nuke Strike, Removal of Prez a Long Shot (Cato Institute) https://www.cato.org/commentary/short-nuke-strike-removal-prez-long-shot  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Different people have different inherent biological limitations: color recognition, spatial awareness, physical strength, processing emotions, and other. But do the masses of people have a significant limitation in their ability to visualize or understand basic mathematics - counting and percentages? What does that mean for society, democracy, and a representative form of government in the current technological age? How could they hope to understand basic concepts of data, statistics, science, and engineering that is widely presented as crucial to sustain and advance in a highly technologically dependent world? Will they then be manipulated even moreso by that lack of understanding combined with pervasive and effective propaganda?  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population  https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Well, it's been a journey! To mark our 30th episode (or 29 + 1 beta/trial), Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about the path they've been on and what they're looking towards.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica. You may know them better by one of their affectionate nicknames, such as weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja and some others. It's a plant, it grows wild, and the United States federal government says it's a controlled illegal drug, but maybe that will soon change. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss marijuana legislation and legalization.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Marijuana #Legislation #Legalization # Cannabis #Weed #Pot  Are The Drug Laws Constitutional? https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/szasz1.htm  HR 3617 - Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

The Great Unwashed. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss individuals and groups moving from one location to another, carpetbagger invasion, breeding out things, naturalization versus immigration, denouncing your nation, swearing fealty, declaring war, definition of naturalization, culture versus citizenship, post-war immigrants, individual freedom and liberty are the fundamental values of the United States, social classes and upward mobility, the great American dream, China Town and Little Italy, indigenous people are immigrants, English and German immigrants dominating the United States, Highland Scots and Viking invaders, Cape Fear River Basin and inbreeding Scots, cultures and peoples have dominated and been dominated throughout history, indigenous people have no better claim on a land than anyone else,  Native Americans torturing and eating their defeated enemies alive, immigration is healthy, serving up some freedom, Russia beat Napoleon and Hitler and wore down the Mongols, kill them all and let God sort them out, culture is downstream from religion, grace through works and the Protestant work ethic, Constantine and the genesis of christian dominance in western society, liberals and the left used to be against immigration, G K Chesterton and his fence, liberal versus conservative versus libertarian versus monarchist, Marxist thought and The Great Turning, tearing things down and creation through destruction, Mexican immigrants are the saviors of the United States, liberals and the blank slate, the white man's burden, you are your brother's keeper, christian schools for American Indians, Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, a nice worker's revolution, people classify everything to get through life, the United States used to have open immigration, The Gangs of New York, Tammany Hall and voting, nativism, the Spanish were in the southwest before the English, Canadian Mounties and Dudley Do Right, immigrants adopting the norms of their new country, violent versus nonviolent crime, manipulation of illegal immigrants by organized crime organizations, actual rule of law, the luxury of information and reflection, liberal nonprofit group members and looking down on immigrants being farmers, ICE being focused on naturalization support, Castro releasing prisoners, recent immigrants commit less crime than generationally established citizens, Irish and Italian beat the hell out of each other, Scots-Irish descent rednecks have highest per capita rural poverty and crime rate, walls and doors in houses, digging tunnels and human trafficking, the mark of the beast and numeric tattoos, the welfare state is not compatible with open immigration, and Vermont.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Immigration #Naturalization #Indigenous #Native  New Research on Illegal Immigration and Crime https://www.cato.org/blog/new-research-illegal-immigration-crime-0  History of the Bering Land Bridge Theory https://www.nps.gov/bela/learn/historyculture/the-bering-land-bridge-theory.htm  Chavez, the UFW and the “Wetback” Problem https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/chavez-the-ufw-and-the-wetback-problem  Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power https://areomagazineDiscovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Rich people are pushing poor people out of their homes. Or are they? Mike is back! He and Jon and Tom discuss local gentry, environmental justice and bleeding heart liberal nonprofit organizations, saving Gaea, government services proportional to taxes paid, geriatrics versus gerrymandering, affordable housing availability, property ownership, Section 8 housing, changes in minority family dynamics in the 1960s, white versus back home ownership, cost of basic land surveying services for low value properties, negative and positive aspects of gentrification, cost of living increases with gentrification, Black Liberation Movement and the Bureau of Land Management, BLM grants and loans for real estate purchases and business investment, pride in ownership, white trash and estate properties, wealth generation and debt, a definition of gentrification, lack of home economics and personal finance education in high school and college, increasing real estate values, they're printing more money but not making any more land, property taxation, highest and best use basis for property taxation, losing your property due to failure to pay taxes, mixed use zoning, Zillow not understanding the real estate market, buying a dilapidated house, vehicle ownership is a bad investment, gentrification occurs rapidly, tax locking versus tax offsets for historic properties, the poor always suffer the most, killing people in cities doesn't help urban investments, single use zoning, providing housing for displaced residents, absentee ownership and urban blight, Detroit was the wealthiest city in the United States, ten dollar housing and sixty thousand dollars in taxes, taxation is theft, Mike and Jon are carpetbaggers, white guilt, Ben Shapiro, money and grass are green, people protecting their community and Kenosha. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Gentrification #Taxation #RealEstate #Poverty #Wealth #BLM  Property Taxes and Highest and Best Use Valuation https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/present-use-value-transferring-property-enrolled-in-present-use-value-property-taxation  You Can Gentrify A Neighborhood Without Pushing Out Poor People https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/08/yes-you-can-gentrify-neighborhood-without-pushing-out-poor-people/  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Lizard People. You've heard of them. You may even know some of them. We talk about them and don't care whether they know it or not. Mike is out for this one and Jude takes his place. He, Jon, and Tom discuss public awareness of lizard people, the involvement of NASA, the television show V, Sleestaks and the Land of the Lost, helpful characteristics to identify lizard people among us, the good ones versus the bad ones, whether secrecy indicates malfeasance, the ant people and the mole people and the southwest Native Americans, flat Earthers, politicians being duplicitous cold blood creatures, vampires and zombies and eagles and serpents, dinosaur origins and the inner world, Orion's belt, intelligence quotient distribution, cold rooms, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, centaurs and gnomes and positive lizard people stories, Mark Zuckerberg stating he is not a lizard person, fear of snakes, lizard brain, David Icke and the Rothschilds, The Reptoid Research Center, underground homes, John Rhodes, cattle mutilation and MRSA and pig feeding operations, amphibious versus ambidextrous, Tom being in contact with all sentient beings, Christopher Davis and the Lizard-Man of Bishopville South Carolina, Marilyn Manson, sea level change and the formation of ancient coastal scarp formations, an attack on a Ford LTD in defense of territory, President Barack Obama, the three areas in which lizard people dwell, James Webb telescope, Portland Oregon, lizard people and earth fissures, multidimensional phase change, the Altrusians and their care for human devolution in the western United States, mis-correlation with negative events, Dick Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, lizard people can't lie, the need for more information, and Alex Jones. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Reptoid #Conspiracy #LizardPeople #Sleestaks #Bigfoot #UFOTwitter Reptoid Research Center http://www.reptoids.com  David Icke: Love and Lizard People https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/02/11/david-icke-love-and-lizard-people/  Mark Zuckerberg not a Lizard https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/15/i-am-not-a-lizard-mark-zuckerberg-is-latest-celebrity-asked-about-reptilian-conspiracy/  The Lizard-Man of Bishopville http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/Bishopville.htm  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Some people want to keep on living and it's gonna cost them. And cost you. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss how much money you are worth, fiduciary tables, life insurance, a Mexican standoff versus a duel, the federal government being involved in healthcare when all other aspects of healthcare outside the military is at the state level, rising costs of healthcare, politicians running on healthcare as an issue, European healthcare models, government extending people's lives to tax them longer, younger people health needs and risks, Hillary Clinton draining and injecting the blood of the youth, healthcare as a human right developed out of the nanny state, definitions of healthcare, why is there a need for government healthcare involvement, behavioral and occupational causes of poor health, group homes, locking people away, eastern holistic medicine versus western reactionary medicine, conspiracy theories and collusion in the medical industry, cash surgery hospitals, should we have government supported healthcare or insurance, the economy of healthcare, body shop work after wrecking your car, negative incentives to treat sicker patients, acute versus chronic treatment, pills and diet versus pills, the opioid crisis, multiple medical specialists now in the treatment process, consumerism as downfall of our society, communism solves all our problems, end of life care cost compared to healthcare cost over lifetime, population getting older, distribution of healthcare costs of a person's lifetime, cost of treating preventable diseases, firing squads, incentivising healthy behavior, sedentary lifestyle, playing versus watching sports, work satisfaction by field and profession, medical overhead cost increases due to non-providers, lack of transparency in medical costs, overcharging for medical services, job creation from medical insurance bureaucracy, healthy at every weight, proctologists and dermatologists and plastic surgeons, the body can be beautiful but most aren't, rationing of healthcare, walking out in the woods to die, the free market, poor people, the time delay of medical conditions, the Catholic Church healthcare system and the Hospitallers, risk and insurance, Christopher Reeves, pay as you go cash basis medical service, WebMD diagnoses, smoking and drinking and exercising and eating right, proactive healthcare habits, self respiratory care, insulin manufacturer as a hot stock tip, physician medical school training process, Mark Cuban and the Cost Plus Drug Company online pharmacy as public relations after banning the National Anthem, government involvement has driven up prices as have lack of personal responsibility, physicians do not know how much their services cost, the Affordable Care Act, moving government supported healthcare at the state level versus the federal level to provide better choice and care, state level insurance regulations, and cats and dogs and Tom dying. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Life #Healthcare #Insurance #ObamaCare #AfforableCare Act The Relation of the Chronic Disease Epidemic to the Health Care Crisis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077778/  Healthy Lifestyle Habits May Be Associated With Reduced Risk Of Chronic DiseaseDiscovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

There's SAD and then there's MAD. We're here to help you settle into Cold War v2.0. Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about a definition of Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD shaping world politics, the United States nuclear deterrent triad of silos and bombers and submarines, fail deadly and dead hand fail-safe launch systems, boomers lurking under the sea surface, the alien greys, Russia's Satan missile, gathering and safeguarding nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union, proliferation and countries with nuclear weapons, South Africa and Israel joint nuclear weapon development, England carved up most of the world, the Scots rule Great Britain, US troops training Ukrainians, lining up armor along a road is generally not the smartest of moves, shoot and move antitank operations, Fins downing reindeer alcohol and getting feisty with Russia, how we will be shown to be clearly wrong, European Union member countries, the threat to heads of state from those close to them, a rational actor is required for MAD to work, overwhelming force, nuclear launch systems and multiple warheads, nuclear war is like a bad divorce, everyone is an expert, the lack of an existential threat, The Day After, an electromagnetic pulse, goggles for checking out nuclear blasts, Bikini Atoll tests, Backfire bombers, a big flash and that is it, a couple of hits in Japan, China's nuclear weapons program is generally defensive, natural disasters, Generation X was the last great generation, things moving too fast to react, Putin thought things would be different in Ukraine, hopes and dreams and logistics of warfare, going to the nuclear brink, research rocket launch almost led to full nuclear launch, respect versus support, detente, working with your enemy to prevent world destruction, Henry Kissinger, Europe versus NATO countries, the idiots in Europe fighting each other, the United States getting dragged into WW1 and WW2, Germany going flower child and being energy dependent on Russia, Helsinki Accords, faster and funnier, Spain lost to the United States, the Habsburgs and Stewarts, Mercator map projection, Scotland and Ireland and Belgium, Polish people are in Poland, the Chinese Olympic team is comprised of Chinese, Israel versus the rest of the Middle East, geopolitical relations, we are spoiled in the United States, when some become weak others become strong and dominate the weak, being safer in the cold war, and the balance of power. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #MAD #NuclearWar #Fallout #Detente #ColdWar #ICBM #Boomer #B52 #Submarines #Bombers  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

[Explicit Content] It seems Central Intelligence Agency has done some things that were not exactly above board. Mike, Jon, and Tom talk about staring at goats, MK Ultra scope and purpose, psychedelic drugs and unknowing participants, a guy jumping out a window, Ted Kaczynski, the imperfect mind control of Cardi B, Oscar's Razor, midnight climax, Illuminati and Q Anon, CIA destroying documents, blow darts and conducting trials, cameras in trees, CCTV, decent into a surveillance state, big corporations tracking you, The Patriot Act, intelligence community agencies, use of data, naming conventions, Jedi mind stuff, The Farm, sharing information among intelligence agencies, never let a crisis go to waste, career drive versus public service, how the surveillance state could be rolled back, grabbing the work of Nikola Tesla after his death, electrocuting an elephant, the First Earth Battalion, pinup model Candy Jones, telephone rings and trucker horns triggering responses, Canada's C I Eh, James Jesus Angleton and the KGB, Lee Harvey Oswald assassination of JFK, current intelligence programs, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, changing political positions on intelligence leaks, conspiracies to start war, Communism and woke, the fourth turning, intensification of crisis cycles, major natural disaster being overdue, Tunguska event, and the Carrington Event geomagnetic storm. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #CIA #MKUltra  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/resources  Joint Congressional Hearing on MK Ultra https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

And it continues. Some might say that lots of people bullying someone is what is known as cancel culture. Jon, Mike, and Tom, joined by guest George (Jorge), talk about stand up comedians and hecklers, definitions of cancel culture, de-platforming, society is a marketplace, censorship, Disney's Mulan movie and China's Uyghur slave camps, no NGram search result for cancel culture, Apple and Microsoft and Google being evil, a random maintenance event, Joe Rogan and COVID and the N word, Russell Brand is a right winger, Critical Theory and changing definitions, assault charges, views of cancel culture among different age groups, speech causing bodily harm, fake news and misinformation, correct and incorrect information, opinions versus facts, COVID vaccinated are superspreaders, wild speculation and mind control, companies canceling versus groups of people canceling, protesting the sardine festival, keyboard warrior's behavior when confronted in person, respect versus fear, local community versus national level action, canceling a physician that was trying to protect children, Superfund sites, canceling a business owner that is a child molester, inflammatory speech, bad actor component, wild west shoot outs, critical culture is a religion without redemption that requires active calling out to achieve perfection that can never exist, Twitter is a perfect system for outrage generation and supporting cancel culture, Marxist roots of Critical Theory, Gramsky writings, fascism and communism, secret police, living in fear, FDR was a good man, US Civil War and the Great Depression resulting in decreased freedom and personal responsibility, slave owners were a minority, Kenosha and the police, kings and feudal lords, distributed power, random nerds on the street, the good and bad aspects of cancel culture, and being scarred from Twitter. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com  #CancelCulture #Bullying #BodilyAutonomy #CallOutCulture  Cancel Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

And you thought bullying was bad. Following up on a discussion of bodily autonomy, Mike, Jon, and Tom talk about whether bullying is a healthy habit, the definition of bullying, national center for bullying and the need for a pro-bully coalition, bullying is an ongoing relationship, singular and plural terms, whether bullying can be bad, girls being worse than guys, holding a grudge, typical rebellious preacher's kid, pushing past your comfort zone, the real world is not all flowers and sunshine, developing productive or unhealthy coping mechanisms, a criminal is someone that got caught, pain can be beneficial, empowered individuals can go to an extreme, fighting as a kid compared to an adult, the threat of physical violence, keyboards warriors crumbling in real life, not learning consequences of actions, protection of others can limit freedom, liability and tort law, testing gravity, perception of harm by an individual compared to consensus of harm by the group, being noticed compared to being picked on, frequency of school shootings compared to bullying, wussy protectionist stuff, societal decay, healthy outlets for childhood development, restricting behavior, fights at school, laws requiring supervision of children, school mass shootings risk compared to other youth fatalities, death by furniture, the bully is a victim, Georges St-Pierre and other mixed martial arts fighters that were bullied as kids, class jokers, sometimes violence is the answer, law enforcement officers and bullying, eliminating recess in schools, social media and video games as drugs, rewiring the brain from dopamine exposure, kung fu, you are your own best advocate, what constitutes a healthy degree of bullying, girls are meaner to each other than boys are, feeling worse when you beat someone up than after having been beat up, bully against bully, standing up for yourself when others support you, you will not be the top of the game all the time, kids learning social dynamics when they move to different places, parental involvement, there are positives to bullying, adults engaging and being supportive, kids seeking out positive situations, and life sucks so get good. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com  #Bullying #BodilyAutonomy  #SocialMedia #ADD #ADHD #MMA #headlock  National Centre Against Bullying https://www.ncab.org.au/bullying-advice/bullying-for-parents/definition-of-bullying/  Stop Bullying https://www.stopbullying.gov  Pumped Up Kicks https://youtu.be/SDTZ7iX4vTQ  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Bodily autonomy is apparently a thing (but without the mead and plans for pillaging coastal villages). Mike's passionate about it. Jon gets spicy. Tom talks about dead people that said stuff. We discuss having control of your own body, the origins and definition of the term bodily autonomy, joining the Army, freely entering into a contract, morality and ethics, self-ownership, involuntary commitment, free Brittany and conservatorship, social cohesion and group authority, personal responsibility, accepted behaviors within a group, criminal law, government restricting actions of people, suicide laws, assault, consensual thumb wrestling, contractual agreement terms and understanding, Citizens United, government not recognizing bodily autonomy, being a slave to your desires, self-control, uncertainty in decisions, potential and actual harm, Roe v Wade, definition of life, the Chinese Communist Party, freedom and rights, philosophical basis legal framework in United States, governments moving away from kings, total war, self-ownership not compatible with Communism and Marxism, increased governmental control reduces bodily autonomy, giving up freedom for protection, Brave New World and soma, social media is a drug, hands around the world, corporation personhood, Civilian Conservation Corps and Work Programs Administration, US Civil War resulted in diminished bodily autonomy overall even while eliminating slavery, Patriot Act and TSA, the government is comprised of people, boot lickers, Aristotle on freedom, the ruling class, slavery with extra steps, indentured servants, junior soldiers, cryptocurrency, Cain and Abel, Good Samaritan laws, right to choose, abortion, terminating pregnancy due to Down's Syndrome, pregnancy contraception, Plan B morning after pill, state laws versus federal laws, and we are all spoiled. https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com  #BodilyAutonomy #Rights #roevwade #Aristotle #Locke  Bodily Autonomy Term Usage https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bodily+autonomy&year_start=1970&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbodily%20autonomy%3B%2Cc0  Property and Ownership https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/property/  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

It's getting hot in here. And apparently there is some disagreement between Mike, Jon, Tom, and our guest Mandy about climate change and associated affects. We discuss polls indicating climate change being a very important issue, UN State of the Climate report, whether global climate change is happening, areas getting warmer and some areas getting cooler, the average temperature of earth going up or down, environmental measurement equipment and accuracy, statistical error, Alex Jones, Antarctic rain forests, every grandparent agrees the earth is cooling, thinking about aliens, Bill Gates' eugenics and population control work, whether global warming is bad, earth warming creating more habitable zones and food production, ocean level rise being slow and manageable, Water World, volcanic eruptions, increased moisture slowing earth rotation, increased desertification, earth heating up not being good, everything is a tradeoff, relative concern of those making measurements, using metal to measure distances, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, installing rain gages, depending upon measurements of others, blinky little lights and headlight fluid, Centigrade versus Celsius, reported temperature changes, greenhouse gases and aerosols, glaciation and natural lakes, whether we can we have stasis, first world countries and ocean level rise, geopolitical system based around oceans and navigable waters, Appalachia and other mountain regions, Denver is safe, vested interests whipping up the masses, dominant world powers for the past several thousand years have all been coastal, the Mongols were not coastal, Julius Caesar and Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age Collapse and trade, increased pestilence harming versus temperature and rainfall/moisture increase benefiting third world countries, more water and marshes, less deserts, permafrost melt releases bacteria/viruses, younger people most concerned about climate change, gloom and doom, forty year old kids, affluent kids talk about climate change, lithium strip mines, birds aren't real, older people have learned to adapt, pandemic response negatively affecting younger people, climate change not a big deal, affluent kids not walking the walk, sustainability in third world countries, science versus engineering perception, journalism schools not being collocated with engineering schools, public misunderstanding of science versus engineering, science is pursuing knowledge whereas engineering is solving problems, reporting on problems but not solutions, safe drinking water and adequate food production, exponential temperature increase, the 1970s ice age and energy crisis, temperature is a measure of the energy level, atmospheric water vapor increasing with temperature increase, increases in hurricanes and tornadoes, more water vapor does not necessarily mean more frequent or intense storms, correlation versus causation, rate of adaption to climate change, people grasping for control of their lives, Santa Cruz versus Manhattan, expensive homes along the ocean coasts, beating mother nature, recycling being worse than not, nuclear energy is sustainability solution, Jimmy Carter was right, moral disgust, Spotted Owls and shutting down logging, bringing back Saber Toothed Tigers, sustainability a worthy goal, learn to code, modern space race should be energy independence and sustainability, science as religion, do your own research, question everything, and trust nothing. http://www.venmo.com/u/TMJmediahttps://wwDiscovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Aliens. They've not just passed their junior high space travel class, it seems they've got some marketing sensibilities as well. So, we're talking both shop class and FBLA (look it up folks). Mike is out for this one (we all have our limits). Jon and Tom seem to start out relatively focused, but you know how it goes. We discuss the term UAP versus UFO, Project Blue Book, NASA involvement in the search for alien life, intelligent versus other aliens, something called astrobiology, SETI, planets outside our solar system being obviously no big deal, difficulty walking on a planet with three times the mass, prevalence of UAP and UFO terms over time, Air Force saying there is nothing to see here, government catalog record metadata in terms of volume, nobody had a camera then they needed it in years past compared to everyone having a camera on their cellphone now and image manipulation yielding lack of belief the image is actual representation, what the heck we are actually talking about as a UAP/UFO, Tom had a UFO experience and still can't explain the underlying phenomena, Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg dismantling a UFO investigation program, aircraft fly faster over time, Project SIGN, Project Grudge, North Dakota University Space Science program, war nerves, National Defense Authorization Act funding for investigation,, a 1970s TV show being rebooted, maybe aliens have some sort of advanced technology, whether aliens will take over or not, whether aliens are really a big deal or not, new religions being developed around aliens when they show up, politicians becoming priests to keep their power, guessing that most people would freak out over aliens, not understand why aliens are a big deal, Dungeons and Dragons, sports fans, not Mean Girls, Navy tic tac videos, funding for detection programs, space law coursework, commercial space transport, asteroid mining, detection of potentially earth impacting space objects and funding for such, deflecting space stuff, terraforming, the first space war, aliens not letting us destroy ourselves, the Watchers, Fantastic Four and Uatu on the dark side of the moon, Antarctica is easier to get stuff done on than the moon, humans bombarded by radiation on the moon as ionosphere and magnetosphere not existing on moon, having no desire to go to the moon or Mars, Elon Musk, Tesla (maybe SpaceX) gets there before any US government program, 34 million miles to Mars, whether we could capture a space object like and asteroid to make a space ship instead of bringing up materials from earth to do such, intermediary staging logistics for space travel, everyone going to Mars on the first trip will die, Space Race with the Soviets, and the aliens are here!  http://www.venmo.com/u/TMJmediahttps://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #UAP #UFO #Aliens #Space #Law #SETI #NDAA Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos  NASA Artemis: Moon to Mars Overview https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview  University of North Dakota School of Aerospace Sciences https://aero.und.edu/space/  NASA: FAQ: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs/UFOs) https://www.nasa.govDiscovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

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Apparently, some people get SAD during the winter months, but there's a lot more than just less sunlight and colder weather to cause stress in modern society. Our guest Steve joins Mike, Jon, and Tom this episode as we discuss the holiday season, gift giving, seasonal affective disorder, Winter solstice, effect of diminished sunlight on human behavior, retreating to our caves and getting eaten by a bear, light cycles and exposure, light noise, the sleep and wake cycles, little to no night lighting outside limited candles until kerosene lanterns and then electric lights, Vitamin D generation capability among different genetic groups, the adaptability of humans and other species to environmental conditions, natural selection successive generations selecting for specific genotypes and expressing phenotypes, breeding within genus and species to produce viable offspring which pass down traits, shift work affecting sleep cycles and health, rapidly moving towards a dystopian state, having it way too easy, poor diet, the ease of relocation, the introduction of steam locomotives to Japan, discovering undiscovered tribes, mermaids and mermen, lack of physical exertion affecting sleep, riding grizzlies and tigers, social media circumventing natural pleasure-pain-stress system, spending most of your time inside being unnatural, the time required for someone to mentally and physically adjust after relocation, the natural culling process is effectively not present in modern society, adapting the environment to humans as opposed to humans adapting to the environment, concentrating genetic traits through relocation, genetic basis of liberal and conservative temperaments, the Moral Foundations Theory, movement from blue states to red states, nature versus nurture, relocating from where you were born is often encouraged now compared to the past, breeding communities of conservatives and liberals, rewards for dead bodies in Portland, liberals don't breed, the effect of parents on the development of children, young liberals and old conservatives, and first world lack of hardships.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #SAD #Winter #LightCycles #Stress #Society  Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Opinions may vary as to whether this is the single most important topic we have ever discussed ... or maybe other descriptions are more appropriate. Rex Marshall starts us out getting us up to speed on some key aspects of Reynolds Wrap, then Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss an Alex Jones rap to go along with tin foil and his incredible prediction accuracy, local guy sporting some interesting headgear, an upcoming how-to video, not skimping on certain products, heavy duty vs other tin foil, working at Western Sizzlin as a bus boy, lack of steakhouse restaurant success in India, MIT tin foil hat study, tin foil hats amplifying government invasive abilities, just needing to believe the science, field expedient classical tin foil hat design, the effective mind control frequencies, improving helmet designs, not having access to a published study without going through the paywall, effectiveness of the Fez middle-eastern configuration versus the Centurion design, other uses for the Centurion design, a Faraday cage application, investigations into the effect of radiation on the human body, free radicals, high tension versus high power lines, early cell phones, advantage of heavy weapons squad over radio telephone operator duty, SCR536 hand held radio, going talkie while you go walkie, FCC regulation of radiation spectra, navigation aids, HAM radio band encrypted message restriction, the GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network system, ELF Extra Low Frequency submarine communication, not understanding why tin foil hats are not in more common use, brain scans, federal government listening to your phone calls and tracking you, helmet versus hat implementation, directed radiation attacks on US Embassies, opinions on Myth Busters, the purpose of a hat, displaying the dreams of individuals on screens, the dream imaging work of Kamitani Lab, CNBC explains the significance of AI brain scans, our robot overlords and whether they currently can gain usable information from our dreams.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #TinFoilHats #ReynoldsWrap #RF #Dreams #BrainScans #AI  Reynolds Wrap Commercial - When You Cook Outdoors https://youtu.be/e7-WvmMmJN8  On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet  The SCR-536 Handie-Talkie Was the Modern Walkie-Talkie's Finicky Ancestor https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-scr536-handietalkie-was-the-modern-walkietalkies-finicky-ancestor  GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network system https://www.nap.edu/read/2046/chapter/4  Havana Syndrome or a Case for Eliminating the Implausible https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition/havana-syndrome-or-case-eliminating-implausible  Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1234330  Tomoyasu Horikawa https://bicr.atr.jp/~horikawa-t  Kamitani Lab Dream Brain Imaging https://www.youtube.com/user/ATRDNI/videos  Japanese Scientists Just Used AI to Read Minds https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/japanese-scientists-use-artificial-intelligence-to-decode-thoughts.html  Support the show

If you think the Food Pyramid is a healthy diet guide, think again (also - you might wanna turn down the volume for the first few seconds of this one). Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss food, the thing Tom has been more wrong about than anything else in his life, food as poison, itchy boxer shorts, unusual thirst, hypoglycemia versus hyperglycemia, slightly elevated blood sugar level, Mountain Dew, Richard K Bernstein, enrolling in medical school at middle age, Wikipedia is a dangerous source of information, everything is an energy exchange, paleo and caveman diets, natural versus processed foods, essential proteins and fats, traditional diet of the Inuit, Weston A Price, dental cavities and general tooth decay, teething of children in non-modernized communities, apparently germs don't exist and 5G causes Covid-19, Sir Isaac Newton , Albert Einstein is a rank amateur, general quackery, some people must hate ducks, lobotomies were actually a thing, John Harvey Kellogg, eating cereal and sexually transmitted diseases, Ancel Keys, fats versus carbohydrates versus sugars versus proteins, the sugar industry and other corporate food lobbies, disposal income and diet and smoking, the food pyramid is based on industry lobby influence and not consumer health, ketosis is your natural state, most calories are burned just keeping your body going, resting metabolic energy requirements, 3500 kcal per lb of fat takes a lots of physical activity to burn off, you can take what Tom says as medical advice, don't trust large organizations, Fat Fiction documentary, genesis and development of the Food Pyramid, TV dinners, health guidelines for adults and children, cholesterol is not the problem, fuel cleaner for your blood, onions and garlic and alcohol, eating fat and drinking beer lowers your blood sugar level, following the food pyramid will make you gain weight, FDA fundamental conflict of interest between food industry and citizen health, eat fat, eat healthy, fast food calorie counts, and Jon is not close to being a health nut.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Food #BigGovernment #CorporateLobbies #FoodPyramid #Fat #Carbohydrate #Diet #Diabetes #HeartDisease  Fat Fiction - How the Food Pyramid was Created https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI  Richard K Bernstein - How he Fundamentally Changed the Practice of Medical http://www.diabetes-book.com/bernstein-life-with-diabetes  A Tribute to Richard K Bernstein MD FACE FACN FCCWS https://www.diabetesincontrol.com/a-tribute-to-richard-k-bernstein-md-face-facn-fccws-on-his-83rd-birthday  Wikipedia Co-Founder: I no longer trust the website I created https://youtu.be/l0P4Cf0UCwU  Who was Weston A Price? https://paleoleap.com/the-work-of-the-weston-a-price-foundation  Dr John Kellogg - Inventing Cereal and Some Other Stuff https://www.history.com/news/dr-john-kellogg-cereal-wellness-wacky-sanitarium-treatments  Long-term Trends in Diabetes https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_trends.pdf  Ancel Keys https://mndaily.com/233704/news/ft-keys/  Records found in dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/12/unearthed-data-challenge-dietary-advice  Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

Why do 3 non drug users want to legalize drugs? Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss drugs, the war on drugs, legalizing drugs, declaring war on - and victory over - inanimate objects, bodily autonomy, distribution to children, age of emancipation, spontaneous combustion, significant mental disability and involuntary commitment, OxyContin prescriptions for headaches, Chinese legislation relations to US legislation, genesis and development of drug control laws, Coca-Cola containing opium and cocaine, snake oil salesmen, difference between health supplements and drugs, taxation of import3d drugs, Controlled Substances Act (CSA), consumer protection and the nanny state, radium radiation melting off women's faces, Richard Nixon administration, government power and control, Jimmy Carter administration attempt at marijuana legalization, federal legal nexus within state legislation, prohibition as a failed experiment, federal student aid, big daddy government giving us money, the government's money, federal drug offense incarceration rate, stacked criminal charges, laws creating crime, degenerates smoking and drinking at local bars, definition of a drug, carbohydrates and sugar are drugs, self-medication, bad relationship breakups, positive feedback to a negative station, rat park study and mice utopia, opioids are addictive, physicians overprescribing, chronic pain sufferers, medical school is rote memorization following flow paths, Jimmy and grass and mowing and blah blah blah, government accountability and responsibility, communion wine, rum ration fur trench war solders, medicating active duty personnel, Viking berserkers and Wehrmacht methamphetamine, hallucinogen treatment for PTSD/shellshock, pain management and the shift in medical care, chronic pain treatment options, the opioid crisis, physician kickbacks for excessive prescriptions, holistic and eastern medicine versus acute and western medicine, osteopathy v homeopathy v chiropracty v standard western medicine, healthy lifestyle choices, obesity, gunshot wounds, mental health of the nation, community led versus federal government solutions, going to Mexico for medical treatment, and whether Mike is Xenophobic.  https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-three-equals-five-89552834  #Drugs #WarOnDrugs #DrugLegalization #NannyState #CommerceClause  Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/dietary-supplements  Nixon's Presidential Approval Ratings (Tom wants you to know he wasn't correct on this) https://historyinpieces.com/research/nixon-approval-ratings  Cheech and Chong's Cannabis Company https://hightimes.com/news/eighth-icon-rebrands-as-cheech-and-chongs-cannabis-company  Gonzalez v Raich (2004) - State Legalization of Marijuana https://billofrightsinstitute.org/e-lessons/gonzalez-v-raich-2004  The Commerce Clause - Common Interpretation https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/article-i/clauses/752  Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa157.pdf  Transcript: Definition of a Drug https://www.fda.gov/drugs/fda-drug-info-rounds-video/transcript-definition-drug-april-2017  Rat Park Study https://library.onu.edu/c.php?g=835268&p=6028188 Support the show

Cryptocurrency is a digital Messiah that will free humanity from all suffering and usher in a global nirvanic state. Or it's a hyped up widespread fraud luring all into servitude for cyber-spawned overlords. Possibly something else. Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss pork products, bacon as a currency, blockchain basics, compelling oratory, never being a better time to buy gold, Legos and Duplos, the legality of non-government issued currencies, cooperative hog farming in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Stamps, channeling the Akashic records, counterfeiting digital and physical currency, Skynet and self-driving vehicles, minting our own digital money, welcoming our robot overlords, cryptocurrency and Communists not liking it, whether the dollar is a global digital currency, cellphones in the South Sudan, Servitude 2.0, agreed upon value of money versus a value proposition over time, political unrest and general dystopia in Venezuela, the government generating digital currency, repurposing nuclear generators from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, myCurrency from Jon, whether cell phone access is sufficient to provide access to a finical institution, the effect of cryptocurrency on freedom and stability and security, resilience of distributed cryptocurrency system relative to natural disasters and military attacks, fractional currency and lending, financial panics and runs on banks, Lard Coin and Bacon Bits, historical average inflation rate and he time value of money, minor monetary inflation is a good thing and deflation is a very bad thing from a macroeconomic basis, finite availability and how cryptocurrencies are generated, Tom's theory of economics and the conversion of energy sources into endorphins, money is a battery, the dominant energy source utilized in the United States is solar, money is a tool, the United States foundation was built upon the rejection of unfair taxation, government control of cryptocurrency, money as a weapon to destabilize governments, efficiency and effectiveness of government, local versus national government responsiveness, potential cryptocurrency downsides, and we accept donations of fiat currency.  #Cryptocurrency #Blockchain #Communism #Economics #Money #FiatCurrency  Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy https://youtu.be/OrPxEmOV0YI https://riosmauricio.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Basic-Economics-5th-Edition-Thomas-Sowell.pdf  History of The Federal Reserve System https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/federal-reserve-history  What is Legal Tender? https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages/legal-tender.aspx  Fractional Lending - An Explanation and History https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/finance/fractional-banking  A History of Legal Tender: Money, Postage Stamps, and Fractional Currency https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/books/1869histlegaltender/historyoflegaltender.pdf  What is Capital? https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/finance/capital  The Monetary Value of Couponshttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26838/why-are-coupons-worth-1100th-cent  What is Fiat Currency? https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

Some would say we're either currently living in a state of mass hysteria or we're screaming full speed ahead to get there. Mike, John, and Tom discuss who defines mass hysteria and how they define it, definitions changing, nuns spontaneously meowing and then not stopping for months, the meow game, school children in Le Roy New York exhibiting muscle spasms and tics, APA being different than APA, Scientology and other cults, rational behavior being highly subjective, whether groupthink is a type of irrational behavior, the German people and the rise of the Nazi Party, Adolph Hitler writing Mein Kampf for propaganda, irrational behavior and groupthink in the face of accurate conflicting information, vaxxers and anti-vaxxers wanting different results that may be both rational and irrational, social media pulling individuals into a dopamine response feedback loop and how that generates groupthink, flip-flops and boots and changing opinions, politicians following the polls, the populist movement and the rule of the crowd, the wisdom of the crowd, pure democracy can be chaos, the traditional nuclear family is communism in practice, socialism and pure democracy can work in smaller groups, communism and socialism and pure democracy not working at larger scales, the internet being available for the public good, lack of citizen involvement in the legislative process, posting memes on Facebook to get everyone on your side and generate mass hysteria, the Infrastructure Bill requiring new vehicles to monitor, track, and report your location in real-time to the government, cell phone monitoring, boiling frogs, Anthony Bourdain eating iguana, Mothers Against Drunk Driving founder quitting due to mission and scope creep, H1N1 virus affecting more young healthy immune systems than COVID-19, people being scared and wanting the government to tell them what to do, how lockdowns were untested idea of 14 year old child, sometimes Alex Jones is correct, pro-mask/shutdown being emotional response stance and anti-mask/shutdown stance being thinking response stance, adoption of all ideas in a group to be accepted by that group, effects of irrational behaviors and beliefs on freedoms and rights, risk management versus groupthink fear response, dancing in the street nonstop until you die of heart failure because hot blood, is there any real problem with flat earthers or others with irrational beliefs unless they harm others, wrongthink and cancel culture and thoughts being violence, the need for toleration of hate speech, riots and social media, Trump flipping the term fake news back onto Democrats, and how hysteria is subjective.#MassHysteria #APA #Cults #Scientology #Nazi #Communism #Socialism #Democracy #MADD #COVID-19 #H1N1 #Dopamine #FlatEarth #AlexJonesLe Roy, New York Teens, Tics, and Mass Hysteriahttps://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of-teen-tics-in-le-roy-n-yMein Kampfhttps://archive.org/details/AdolfHitlersMeinKampf-CompleteAudioBookMp3https://archive.org/details/meinkampf035176mbpCreeping Mission and Scope of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/aug/6/20020806-035702-2222r/https://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/05/28/madd-founder-dont-lower-the-legal-bac-limitThe 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Ideahttps://www.aier.org/article/the-2006-origins-of-the-lockdown-idea/Mass Hysterias Will Never Go Away (Flat Earthers and Sonic Attacks)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/market-bubbles-and-sonic-attacks-mass-hysterias-will-never-go-away/ACLU: Freedom of Expressionhttps://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression-aclu-position-paperThe Rape of the Mindhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11521295Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

You eat clones and genetically modified organisms ... and frog. Well, at least, if you've eaten an apple, you've almost certainly eaten a clone and if you've eaten a strawberry in the last so many years, odds are you've ingested a genetically modified organism that's part frog DNA. John, Mike, and Tom discuss Monsanto being the devil, cloning animals, vertical versus horizontal genetic transfer, ethics of breeding Bulldogs, Chihuahuas, Pugs, and other designer breeds, why people are scared of genetic engineering, whether or not apple orchards were intentionally destroyed due to prohibition, silk worms and boring worms and your corn becoming GMO, Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, frog DNA being spliced into strawberries, Tahitian Treat, vaping, and antifreeze, relative risk of GMO potential negatives to positives, Chestnut blight and Banana extinction, postharvest physiology and waste and logistics, cheap available nitrogen and the Haber process, Elon Musk and GMOs feeding the world, food control as a weapon, vulnerabilities of crop homogenization, antibiotics and natural adaptation, aspirin origins, recycling GMOs over time to address vulnerabilities, the FDA, EPA, and USDA regulation of GMOs, vegan anti-vaxxers, Germany dominating the EU and European food, off-label Reynold Wrap usage, global population increasing and decreasing, cheap available energy supporting agricultural production, food deserts, Irish potato blight and famine, increased herbicide usage with GMOs, saving the Bald Eagle from extinction results in children dying from malaria, the fragility of systems with GMOs, designer human babies and cloning your dog, unintended affects of GMOs in the ecosystem, giant GMO salmon in the Atlantic Ocean, bunnies and predator-prey relationships, tiny giraffes, and Total Farming.#GMO #DNA #Monsanto #Farming #Food #Frogs #Strawberries #Bananas #Bt #Bacillusthuringiensis #Corn #Soybeans #Cotton #SupplyChain #SalmonGene Patentinghttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02905-9https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/testing/genepatents/https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-patent-landscape-of-genetically-modified-organisms/Did Prohibition Really Destroy Apple Orchards?https://montezumaorchard.org/2021/01/14/burn-them-a-myth-of-cider-orchards-and-prohibition/https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/the_apple_in_north_americaDNA Extraction - Silk Worms and Boring Worms and Your Cornhttps://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/7f79e74ec2cd/3GMO Crops Over Timehttps://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption/Banana Extinctionhttps://fruitworldmedia.com/index.php/featured/banana-disaster-example-history-repeating/GMOs and World Hungerhttps://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/biotechnology-solution-hungerhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674000/Postharvest Physiology and Logisticshttps://postharvest.ucdavis.eduNitrogen and The Haber Processhttps://youtu.be/o1_D4FscMnUhttps://www.instituteformindfulagriculture.org/writings-1/2016/3/24/the-haber-bosch-process-1Did Rome Salt Carthage?https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/5-imperialism-rome/The Aspirin Storyhttps://www.aspirin-foundation.com/history/the-aspirin-story/Irish Potato Famine GMO Solutionhttps://www.irishcentral.com/news/genetically-engineered-potato-resist-great-hunger-blightBt Corn and Increased Herbicide Usagehttps://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/gmos-and-pesticides/Genetically Modified Salmon Head to US Dinner Plateshttps://apnews.com/article/whole-foods-market-inc-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-technology-a4ef4f24801f62ac65918e4560d7eb8aSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

Well, apparently Rittenhouse is actually innocent, though you'd probably never have thought so from the majority of reporting to date. Join us as we discuss what happened, what people said happened, what people want to happen, and how this does and may - or may not - affect all sorts of social, cultural, and legal stuff.#Rittenhouse #2A #SelfDefense #ConstitutionKyle Rittenhouse is no hero - he's a gun-toting, cop-loving product of white privilege who thinks a piece of property matters more than the life of a Black manhttps://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-greene-rittenhouse-verdict-20211119-yddg2fgr6rhx7cyffrm3gblg3m-story.htmlFree Travel Across State Lineshttps://www.law.georgetown.edu/salpal/the-right-to-travel-and-national-quarantines-coronavirus-tests-the-limits/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

Following up on our cheerful Total War discussion, we ramble through more light fare. We discuss the US going to war with China to defend Taiwan, not being big fans of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chairman Mao and Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin vying for top spots as mass murderers, the intentional starvation of Ukrainians by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Holodomor, Chairman Mao brainwashing and radicalizing the populace and Recep Erdogan attempting the same in Turkey, the repeating sequence of communist states forming and the powerful few within the state subjugating the people, methods of controlling the population, teaching children to be agents of the state against their parents, crazy and evil on all sides of the political spectrum, current state of media broadcasting a particular political viewpoint without countering viewpoints presented, Joe Rogan and Ivermectin and a warping narrative, the reframing of information and events by media, pharmacist not filling medical doctor drug prescription due to media, how to search for online information in a specific date range to observe information reframing, autism and anti vaccine movement, correlation versus causation, increase in autism and ADHD diagnoses, little boys and their performance in the modern educational system, government inefficiency and ineptness, Kudzu being introduced by the government to stop erosion and completely failing, cobra farming, killing poor innocent sparrows, mass starvation in China during the Great Leap Forward, god kings not being around so much anymore, and roughly 50% of the population being of below average intelligence.  Ivermectin History https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/ivermectin-mectizan.html  Kudzu https://www.timesnews.net/living/outdoors/out-of-control---what-to-do-about-kudzu/article_28cb1a1c-e362-5b40-ab0c-2a3789f9466a.html  Cobra Farming https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/  Sparrow Famine http://knowledgeglue.com/sparrow-famine-the-relatively-unknown-ecological-disaster-that-killed-more-than-20-million-people/  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

John, Mike, and Tom are back together cheerfully talking about a more light subject matter. We discuss radiation exposure, people as nuclear test subjects, 2 time atomic blast survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, death from blast wave, pooping your pants, waging total war, nuclear war, duck and cover, fallout shelters, cold war, armor survivability in Europe against Soviet onslaught, existential threats, North Korea attacking South Korea, emergency alert system, Hawaii ballistic missile alert error, threat fight or flight reaction, limited war, Andre the Giant crushing your skull, winning the Vietnam War, public support for war, door kickers dying, differences in armed conflicts from WW1 to Afghanistan, Jane Fonda being traitorous treasonous scum, the French, Boko Haram, French Revolution, Church of Reason, Maximilien Robespierre getting what he deserved, nation building, Japan's non aircraft carrier floating landing strip on top of a big boat, Germany and Japan won WW2, Great Britain lost WW2, Russia versus Germany was where the heaviest WW2 fighting was, declaring war, lend-lease program, Napoleon's march to Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, American Civil War still deadlier than any other for the United States, what is a casualty, shell shock, total WW2 death count, Battle of the Somme, pollock jokes, Polish guerrilla and sniper tactics in WW2, Native Americans fighting and beating US troops, the Hawthorn Redoubt mine explosion, and Lemmiwinks. Emergency Alert System https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system  Jane “Hanoi Jane” Fonda calling for American servicemen to be executed https://youtu.be/JnFVFz9d6vU?t=83  Battle of the Somme Hawthorn Ridge Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8YfJmwY5Uo  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)

Matt is our guest this episode to explain about how you really just don't appreciate that tasty French fry and the to-go box that facilitated your order of said potato product. With Covid-world still a thing, we discuss ribeye's, lumber, nearly empty trucks, to-go boxes, FIFO, LIFO, plastic resins for foam, whiney chefs, hurricanes, Interstate 80, braille on drive-thru ATMs, burying stuff in fields, trucking, Just-In-Time, Lean Six Sigma, Ransom Olds, Henry Ford, Ohno Taiichi, William Deming, Malcolm Baldrige, an Argentine philosopher and sociologist, supply chain management, waste versus quality, speedometer cables, warehouses, lateral integration, vertical integration, refrigeration and food storage, 1970s oil crisis, the fascinating subject of postharvest physiology, the overabundance of food, global shipping, widgets and bim-bobs, coconut milk, redundancy, critical systems, bland white bread and potato products, the Americas, quality goods and cheap Chinese labor, geopolitical dynamics, cat litter home delivery, self-sufficiency, growing and preserving your own food, and passing down your knowledge and expertise. (Mike is a bit jealous he was out of town for the discussion.)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive)