Kurt Saxon's 1976 magazine The Survivor blends practical survival guides with extreme conspiracy theories, racism, and instructions for improvised weaponry like tear gas and zip guns. Hosts Robert and Cody dissect his contradictory stances on gun control versus bomb-making, noting how he justified banning firearms while predicting dissidents would resort to explosives. The discussion highlights disturbing reader accounts of using Saxon's advice for illegal acts, revealing a publication that oscillates between nostalgic self-reliance and a manual for societal collapse, ultimately questioning whether such fringe literature fuels genuine terror or merely reflects paranoid anti-authoritarianism. [Automatically generated summary]
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Katie, got shit.
I do.
Katie has a headache.
This is Behind the Bastards podcast about that.
I promise it's not a corona headache.
It's just a normal stress headache.
Yeah, you say that, but you've got that look in your eyes like the guy in the zombie movie who's hiding the bite.
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So, this is our first corona-recorded quarantine episode of Behind the Bastards, the quarantine bastards.
And I figured we should do something a little special for it, y'all.
So, oh, I just had my first cup of coffee, sip of coffee for the day.
That's nice.
That's lovely.
Robert, why did you not drink that before you started recording?
We have a rule because we're professionals got to be fast.
Speed is everything.
Now, let's very slowly discuss this old prepper magazine from 1976.
Oh, yeah.
That's what we're reading today.
Yeah.
I was given this, mailed this by a fan, and I don't think they sent it weeks ago.
So this was just a coincidence that it timed out well with the coronavirus.
But it's called The Survivor by Kurt Saxon.
Now, Kurt Saxon was A fringe survivalist lunatic who wrote a book called The Poor Man's James Bond and a number of other guides to making improvised weapons and stuff like that.
He's one of those, here's how to kill people with objects around you type dudes.
Here's how to be a fake James Bond.
Excellent.
The 1976 Prepper Magazine00:02:07
It's more like, here's how to booby trap everything that you own and kill people.
If you have so it's more like a bad MacGyver, yeah, here's how to be like a drunk, lonely MacGyver in the woods.
So like a light terrorist.
Look.
Yes.
Like a light terrorist.
Seems like what we're talking about here.
We got a lot of time on our hands.
I don't know if this is a responsible thing to put out in the world, but we are.
So I want you to look at the beautiful copy of this.
It is about enormous.
It's about twice the size of a normal piece of paper.
The book is.
It's hand-bound.
Whoever made this clearly did it in their garage.
And the front has this an illustration that I can only describe as unhinged.
Oh, yeah.
It really is very lovingly made.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like a very, it's a warped fairy tale.
Yeah.
It's a fat gene.
Yeah, there's Katie's description.
Made with love.
It is definitely made with love.
It shows a man who looks like a young, who's the guy from Greece?
Greece guy.
Zuko!
It's Johnny.
John Travolta, Johnny T. John Travolta.
Tommy Travolti.
Yeah.
He looks like young John Travolta.
Got the hairy chest.
I'm a phenomenon.
I hate this.
He's clearly forging something.
And he's forging something.
What I love about this picture is that he's clearly working on an act of hot forge right next to his daughter, who's immediately left of the forge playing with a doll and letting her sparks go fly.
It's great.
But he should do that and be a good parent.
He can.
Of course he can.
They live in some sort of home-built house.
There's what I have to assume is a bomb-making chemistry set.
Either that or methamphetamine in the right-hand corner.
And then his very quiet, perspective-warped wife standing in the background, operating some sort of rudimentary lathe.
Popular Mechanics Survival Tips00:15:00
Yeah, look at that.
She's got her apron on, I think.
You're damn right, she has an apron on.
Her daughter getting her face burned off.
I have a feeling Kurt Saxon does not like it when women don't wear aprons.
I understand where you get that feeling from.
Well, he's not going to shell out for her to buy another dress if she ruins it being stupid.
Here's the thing about prepping because I do it myself.
Unfortunately, you often wind up taking advice from lunatics who are light terrorists because they also know how to do a lot of really useful shit because they've been living alone in the mountains for 35 years and they picked up some skills.
So I'm interested in the ratio.
I'm going to predict right now that this magazine will be a mix of incredibly useful survival tips and absolute madness.
And I'm really interested as to what that ratio is going to be.
Right, and how they relate to each other.
Because I imagine a lot of the useful things will be like, hey, did you know this?
And here's what you do with it.
You want to crossover there.
Well, page one has a, what I would, I guess we would call an editorial.
Survival is looking out for number one.
And I guess I should read a little bit from that to give you give us an idea of the tenor of this piece.
Alarmists all around the country are promising disasters such as superinflation, famine, foreign invasion, the triumph of communism/slash fascism.
Oh, yeah, they are.
That classic.
You guys remember when the communo-fascists were rolling in?
Oh, yeah.
That red-brown alliance.
Oh, yes, the dangers of that one thing.
Nuclear war, etc.
Unfortunately.
Well, it's essentially the same thing, so I don't have too much of an issue with that slash.
Lump them in together.
Unfortunately, they may all be right, even though their timing is wrong.
Semicolon, we hope.
Not exactly where I would use a semicolon, but you have only to compare this year's food prices over last year's, this year's rise in crime over last year's.
These things affect you directly.
It's like prices going up.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
All right.
Sorry, Carl.
It is a little bit comforting to read the tone of certain imminent doom in this magazine and then be like, oh, this was 50 years ago.
We kept on limping forward.
Just wait, buddy.
Just wait.
Maybe we'll get through this.
Yeah.
There are two main reasons for this, which no political system can help.
One is that the age of exploration and development and the industrial revolution is over.
And the other is that the good crop weather worldwide is also over.
Maybe for centuries.
You guys remember how we weren't able to, we can't grow crops anymore?
Yeah, the crop weather stopped.
I'd almost forgotten with everything that's going on, but yeah, that's part of the problem.
We don't have any crops.
I mean, we actually do have a major problem with that because the Trump administration is not letting Mexican workers in on visas this year to harvest crops.
That's going to be an issue.
But, oh, Kurt Saxon.
This guy couldn't have known that.
How dare you make this relevant, Robert?
How dare you?
We're trying to escape here into the world of awful bastards, not remember the bastard reality that we live in.
Why don't we escape into hearing what Kurt Saxon has to say about the age of exploration and development?
Oh, yes, please.
It began around 1500 and ended around 1950.
From the beginning of that period, the earth was explored, mapped, annexed, developed, and exploited.
With you so far, Kurt.
Its resources, animal, vegetable, and mineral, were looted with little or no thought for future generations.
Still on board.
As national industries grew to take advantage of the inpouring bounty from the hinterlands, living standards rose, enabling more people to survive and, in turn, to reproduce their kind.
Human locusts spread over the earth, born only to exploit, rape, and destroy their own environment.
Have more babies so we can clear more land.
Have more babies so we can mine more coal and metals.
Have more babies so we can keep the factories running.
Have more babies so we can take more territory from the hated enemy.
That's right.
We've got a built-in workforce.
The babies.
The babies.
More babies.
Dead babies.
As you were reading that, I was like, I hope there's a third.
Have more babies.
And you did it.
And then there was a fourth one.
A lot of babies having suggestions here.
I mean, Robert, I guess it's better than the usual dead baby talk on this point.
It is.
It is.
Although, I think that he would argue that like Lana Del Rey, these babies were born to die.
Yeah, I also think we're only on the first page.
We are only on the first page.
There's more time for dead babies.
This opinion column is continued on page two.
But before we get to it, we have a couple of really useful guides just on page one.
How to cut bottles with electricity from a 1919 popular mechanics article.
How to make a stationary windmill from a 1913 popular mechanics article.
And how to irrigate.
That's all cool.
A stationary windmill?
Yeah, stationary windmill.
So it doesn't move with the wind?
It just is like a statue.
No.
I figured it wasn't that.
I think it.
Yeah, no, it's not a problem.
It's a little bit scrolled down the hill, I guess.
I don't know why you specify that a windmill is stationary.
I've never seen that like low committee.
My windmill is not portable.
My windmill stays where it is.
It runs regardless of the direction of the wind.
That's probably what they're saying, Cody.
Mills of this kind can be built of larger size in some localities have been used for pumping.
And cutting a bottle with electricity.
You know, close.
Actually, that's like a useful thing for if you've got like a bunch of big glass bottles and you need to make cups because the society has collapsed, but you still need a good cup.
And you've got extra electricity hanging around.
Well, if you know how to make your own windmills.
Right.
If you're reading the survivor volume one, I think you're ready for this.
I mean, honestly, though, they jumped right into the heavy hitters in volume one.
I'm surprised.
This isn't even like a remedial guide.
Oh, boy.
There's so many pages to this.
This is so big.
I'm not going to go through the entirety of his column, but I do want to read the section where he starts about arming yourself and escaping society.
That seems like a good idea.
I mean, that's the most important step, right?
I mean, raise your hand if you're not considering arming yourself and escaping society for the mountains.
Yeah, that's right.
Everybody is.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So, you may want to get a few acres and live cut off from everyone.
This is fine if you're well-armed and a professional woodcrafter already.
However, this is too great a change for most people.
The inexperienced dreamer simply cannot survive alone.
Regardless of your choice, town, commune, or small farm, you must choose an area about 100 miles from any major population center.
It must also be several miles off from any major highway.
Refugees streaming out of New York or Los Angeles will clog the main highways and strip every home for miles each side of their route like irresistible plagues of locusts.
I'm guessing he's imagining those crowds as being a certain color.
You probably don't have to use much of your imagination.
No.
Yeah.
No.
Plagues of locusts.
I've seen the cover of this book you're reading.
He does say that he's going to focus on survival without savagery.
So that's good.
Okay.
Oh, Jesus.
No matter how much you might think you can steal yourself against pitiful refugees, you must plan to live as far off their prospective roots as possible.
Yeah.
There we go.
Did he say pitiful?
Pitiful, yeah.
Pitiful.
Diving right in there.
Pitiful refugees.
So, next we have a guide to making a mousetrap.
A guide to make popcorn cakes.
So that's nice.
How to make a houseboat.
Cody, that's for you.
Dang right.
Wait, how to make a houseboat?
How to make a houseboat.
Let's get into that.
This is a short guide to making a houseboat.
That's so short.
He's taken a lot of different guides from popular mechanics, and this is about a page.
There's four paragraphs on how to make a houseboat.
I didn't realize it was that simple.
And a very small diagram.
Why aren't we all making houseboats?
There's so much coast to California.
You guys could be living in houseboats right now.
Free rent?
We are dropping the ball.
And if you make that stationary water wheel thing, then you'll have power.
Exactly.
We don't have to.
Oh, we're going to live like very, very dangerous kings.
Well, and I have to say, you know, what's better for your, what's a better value for the funders of some more news than living in homemade houseboats and generating your own power with a wheel.
Honestly, I couldn't think of a second thing.
I'm sure the next page will provide some more for us, but Homemade blowtorch.
What was that, Katie?
It's like, what page are we on?
We are on page three.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
We already know how to make a houseboat.
My God, right next to how to make a houseboat.
Medicines like Granddad used to make, which is an advertisement for another 200-page book by Kurt Saxon.
Oh, my God.
Well, that's smart.
Yeah, I mean, you know, you want to make the sign of medicines that your grandpa used to make.
Oh, my God.
So it's $10, which $1976, $10.
Kurt's charging you quite a bit for granddad.
It's like $1,000.
Yeah.
Self-published, too.
But, like, if you're learning really valuable intel, I could shell out $1,000 to learn how to make a houseboat.
I know that's different.
You don't have to.
You've got the free four-paragraph guide right here, Katie.
Can we talk about this entry that says a homemade blowtorch?
Oh, absolutely.
Wait, where is that?
It's from Popular Mechanics 1915.
Wow.
Popular Mechanics is really changing.
This requires no air and no pump.
How do you have a blowtorch?
I don't know how you blow without air.
Yeah, or a pump.
But I guess there's a way.
Well, yeah, I mean, instead of forcing a small stream of gasoline into a heated burner, it converts the gasoline into gas in the chamber and blows a small jet of it through a very small hole under the combustion chamber.
So you're just making a slave throw.
There we go.
It's just that simple.
Thank you, Kurt.
And this is why we're all looking for things to do while quarantined.
Make your own blowtorch following the guide, this dangerously unhinged individual, self-published in his garage in 1976.
And maybe do not follow that advice we just gave you.
Follow all of it, every piece of it.
Follow all of it.
Get out of here, Elon Musk.
I do want to read a paragraph from Medicines Granddad used to make because it's made me aware of something.
So this is not medicines that Kurt Saxon's granddad used to make.
He included all of the medical preparations from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes, 1872, and the complete text of the Medical Students Manual of Chemistry from 1889.
So he's just taking old books and republishing them with a little bit of work and then selling them for a huge amount of money.
Yeah, it seems like all of this is just like he got a bunch of popular mechanics.
I mean, there's an element of that that's cool because like there's a bunch of shit in here from like the 1800s that is just like guides to life that random people on the frontier figured out.
But also like Kurt, you're not coming up with this stuff.
Yeah, no, he's a news aggregating website, basically.
Yeah, I do want to see what's, if you will.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's BuzzFeed.
He's like Prepper BuzzFeed from the 70s.
The sections from Dicks cover such medical preparations as bitters, aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, factitious mineral waters.
Facetious?
No.
No, it's not.
Neither one of those work.
Sophie, would you look up factitious mineral waters to see if that's a thing or if this is nonsense old people medicine?
Maybe they used to refer to mineral waters as factitious because people used to think they were fake.
I don't know.
This all sounds like stuff Grandpa Simpson would prescribe.
I'm gonna be honest, if you're trying to sell me medicine, you lost me at elixirs.
I i'm, i'm not gonna buy your, your stuff.
So update, there's really nothing, except I found one thing that's titled drugs in our drinking water and I don't think it's related.
So I think this person just made up a thing awesome or time ago.
So next page, how to make a make up a candy floss outfit.
What is a candy floss outfit?
No, it's how to make floss, it's how to.
It's a.
Or it's how to make a um oh, not candy floss.
I thought you meant like a costume.
No, we would call it um um, what's that shit they sell at the carnivals?
Yeah, it's a cotton candy, cotton candy.
How to make a cotton candy machine.
That's neat.
I would go for that.
I love this like an outfit.
I love uh, I love their old old terminology for that.
Yeah yeah, look at this out.
I definitely.
Yeah, you got some.
Thought it was an outfit.
Yeah, so on that page, we have how to make up a uh, a candy floss outfit, catching insects with a vacuum cleaner and homemade blowtorch, and then, right next, I don't really, I don't think that we need a big long description of how to catch a bug with a vacuum cleaner.
No I, that actually seems pretty simple.
Yeah, that's straightforward title.
The title is the uh, the explanation, you know what's?
I don't know, I think he's filling.
You know what's amazing he gives us?
He dedicates exactly as much page space to making a houseboat as he does to catching insects with a vacuum cleaner.
Homemade Cotton Candy Machines00:05:40
Well, now we know both.
And then, on the same page, another ad for another Kurt Saxon book, keeping score on our modern profits, psychic researcher and bible expert levels, on people who give the occult world a bad name.
Do you think that he's publishing books just to promote his other books?
I think so.
I think that this is all he's got.
His whole media network, like this guy is kind of like a low-tech Alex Jones who has like his own.
But actually some of this is really useful.
Um right yeah, like.
I imagine I might wind up digging this up to find out how to make a homemade blowtorch if things get a lot worse.
I knew you were gonna say blowtor technically.
Hey hey hey Robert, do you do?
You know what else is really useful?
The products and services that support this podcast?
Yes yeah yeah, they do yeah, they do.
Love that.
God, i'm so proud.
We're gonna go to products and after we get back we're gonna talk about how to keep score on our modern profits.
So I think we should all be excited about this.
I'm stoked always.
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Rule one, never mess with a country girl.
You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.
And rule two, never mess with her friends either.
We always say, trust your girlfriends.
I'm Anna Sinfield and in this new season of the Girlfriends oh my god, this is the same man a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.
I felt like I got hit by a truck.
I thought, how could this happen to me?
The cops didn't seem to care, so they take matters into their own hands.
I said, oh hell no, I vowed I will be his last target.
He's gonna get what he deserves.
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My next guest, you know, from Step Brothers, Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network.
It's Will Farrell.
Woo, My dad gave me the best advice ever.
I went and had lunch with him one day and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.
I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.
I'm working my way up through it.
I know it's a place to come look for up and coming talent.
He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.
Yeah.
He goes, but there's so much luck involved.
And he's like, just give it a shot.
He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.
It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there.
Yeah, it would not be.
Right, it wouldn't be that.
There's a lot of luck.
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In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckard found himself at the center of a paternity scandal.
The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story.
This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth.
You doctored this particular test twice, Miss Owens, correct?
I doctored the test once.
It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case.
I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for.
Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant.
They would uncover a disturbing pattern.
Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
Greg Gillespie and Michael Marincini.
My mind was blown.
I'm Stephanie Young.
This is Love Trap.
Laura, Scottsdale Police.
As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news out of Maricopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges.
This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona.
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10-10 shots fired, City Hall building.
A silver .40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
From iHeart Podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Rorschach, murder at City Hall.
How could this have happened in City Hall?
Somebody tell me that.
Jeffrey, what did it?
July 2003.
Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest.
Both men are carrying concealed weapons.
And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.
Everybody in the chamber's ducks.
A shocking public murder.
I scream, get down, get down.
Those are shots.
Those are shots.
Get down.
A charismatic politician.
You know, he just bent the rules all the time, man.
I still have a weapon and I could shoot you.
And an outsider with a secret.
He alleged he was a victim of flat down.
That may or may not have been political.
That may have been about sex.
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And we're back.
We're back.
We're talking about living in the mountains and forming a militia.
There we are.
A militia in which we would all be colonels.
Everyone is a colonel in my militia.
Can I give a quick anecdote?
Absolutely.
I'd never said the word colonel out loud until I started auditioning for projects and I was reading something and I had to say the word colonel, but I just read it and said colonel.
And that's my anecdote.
I immediately knew my mistake.
You can cut this out.
It's done.
No, We're all safe.
Kurt Saxon has shared his emotional vulnerabilities with us.
We should share ours with the listeners.
Exactly.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks for receiving me.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for opening up.
Thank you for sharing.
I mistook a wrench for channel locks once several years ago, and I felt very silly.
And all of the people who knew what they were doing with tools around me made a lot of fun of me.
So everybody makes dumb mistakes.
I'm so sorry that you experienced that, Robert.
I'm so sorry.
I feel you.
Yes.
Your pain.
Yeah, they were all woodsmen, and I wanted to be cool around them, but then I didn't know what channel locks were because I was a fool.
And I'm so sorry.
I still don't know what a channel locks.
I'm embarrassed.
I only have a vague idea, to be honest.
Cody, do you want to share a shameful and vulnerable moment, or should we read about what Kurt Saxon has to say on Modern Prophets?
I've never been embarrassed once in my entire life.
That makes sense.
That actually makes complete sense.
Modern prophets promoted by trashy tabloids claim to know the future.
Aside from predicting natural disasters, they are very heavy on sweetness and light.
Everything is going to turn out all right.
God tells them so.
Too many people believe frauds like Gene Dixon.
They don't prepare for rough times ahead because Gene says great things are in store for humanity.
The fact that these things seldom come off as prophesized is forgotten as new prophecies come out.
The author is the only one to collect and record four years of prophecies of the most popular modern prophets.
With their miserable scores, it is amazing that any of them stay in the limelight.
If you are hooked on the modern prophets or as someone who is, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
Oh, I think he's actually like busting, like talking about what liars psychics are.
Yeah.
He really hates this Jeannie Dixon woman.
And yeah, okay.
Well, there we go.
I don't know.
I went to one psychic that told me in a past life I saved a lot of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
And I tend to believe that that's true.
That is a nice thing to believe.
I feel like oneself.
Can I share one other psychic story that might convince you?
This is the time.
Do you think it will?
So my good friend Nellie, who loves Hawaii, goes every year.
Okay.
In her adult life, she has seen six different psychics who have all said that she used to be the ruler of a South Pacific Island.
Oh, that's cool.
Do what you will with that.
That is a creepy coincidence.
Either that or a lot of different psychics in Hawaii tell tourists who come in that they used to rule a South Pacific island.
Well, she didn't go to.
All of her psychics were in Hawaii.
She lives in California.
I'm also going to throw it out there that most people like Hawaii.
Yeah.
I'm not saying wrong.
Well, but most people don't go every year of their life.
Sure, I do want to, while we're talking about California, I feel like I should note that the address for Kurt Saxon's business is in Eureka, California, which I used to live next to, and nothing has ever made more sense to me in my entire life.
No, that does make a lot.
Oh, my God.
Wait, have we done the fun thing where we just search words yet?
Can we do that with the digital copywriter?
I kind of want to know who Gene Dixon is, but no, I don't think we can search words since that's a scan.
Making Imitation Gold and Silver00:15:13
We'll include the link.
You can read this all online.
It's in a PDF.
Oh, God.
Touring in the Auto, the Land Cruiser.
It's a guide to building your own RV.
And it is much longer than the guide to building a houseboat.
Which I feel like.
Does it?
Oh, no.
There's a little guide to making a barrel boat, too.
That's good.
That's good.
Wait, Robert, go to page 32.
Go to page 32.
Oh, but the poor man's James Bond is on the next page.
Okay, do that first.
Do that first.
You guys, take a look at the illustration for the cover of The Poor Man's James Bond.
And Cody, I'm going to need you to describe that for me.
What makes him poor?
The fact that he's got eyeglasses on?
Yeah, I don't know.
So the picture of the cover of The Poor Man's James Bond features a dude who looks like a nerdy engineer with big Coke bottle glasses and like almost like a very nerdy 70s comb part.
And he's sitting with a shotgun that is easily two feet taller than him and appears to have some home-built foregrip on it.
And then there's a beautiful young woman sitting in his lap with a beer, and he has an entire handle of whiskey and is surrounded by piles of shotgun shells and explosives.
Yeah, this all scans.
This scans real well.
I'm going to read the text.
The poor man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in the field of books on improvised weaponry and do-it-yourself mayhem.
It gives full and simple instructions for making tear gas, explosives, firearms, silencers, poisons, zip guns, grenades, knockout drops, flamethrowers, and a wide variety of weapons.
It also tells you how to buy most of the needed chemicals from your grocery and garden store.
Includes fireworks and explosives, like granddad used to make.
He really likes his granddad seems like a trooper.
This book has hundreds of formulas and processes for making fireworks, blasting compounds, gunpowder, nitro, gun cotton, etc.
The material was gleaned from formularies written from 1872 to 1907.
Plus, George W. Weingart's classic on fireworks, Pyrotechny.
This is the simplest and most comprehensive book on actually making fireworks.
It is heavily illustrated in how to make Roman candles, shellcases, fuses, colored fires, explosives, powders, rockets, mortars, firecrackers, torpedoes, etc.
Plus, the complete texts of explosives, matches, and fireworks from Joseph Riley, 1938.
So it's, yeah, it's more collating all these old guides to just help people make tear gas and grenades.
Oh, Kurt Sachs.
Thank you, Kurt.
Could you really quick read the very first sentence of that again?
The poor man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in the field of books on improv.
There we go.
Okay.
I really wish it was like books.
I wish it was books on improv.
And there was just like a page on like yes and stuff and like doing how to pretend to.
We all thought Del Close is the grandfather of improv, but no, no, no, no.
It's the poor man's James Bond.
This is like a whole book on how to do an improv version of James Bond at UCB.
Basically, yeah.
Not a popular tote.
And I have my gun.
And on the same page, we have a guide to making a thresher, a guide to making a handmade drill press.
And then how to raise cucumber on a trellis.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, how to make tear gas?
How to make sure that you're going to be able to do all the bases.
I don't see the problem.
Yeah.
Maybe you cook cucumber as part of the tear grass recipe.
I don't know.
Wow, this is interesting.
There's a guide on the next page and how to make alkaline water drinkable because in the past they knew that alkaline water was a bad thing to drink and you needed to filter it right.
And now we just sell it for $40 a gallon.
How the time is going to be.
This cures cancer.
Yeah.
That's cool.
All right, Sophie, what was the page you wanted me on?
So it's probably not going to be the same page.
So just look for how to make see-through mirrors.
Yeah, I think it's past the Enterprise.
Okay, so past the poor man's armorer, how to make a basic crossbow plus arrow sling, how to make an arrow catapult, a simple but lethal toy.
And improving the 11-shot shotgun.
I bet it's 12.
Does it go up to 12?
Yeah.
I think it goes up to 12.
Yes, Katie.
It's clearly a child using the arrow thrower that is a simple but lethal toy.
The coming age of steam, your basic steam engine.
So that's good.
God, there's so much in here.
Black powder, how to make a stool.
Oh, how much boomerangs.
Could I turn my houseboat into a steam engine?
Is there an entry about that solid?
Katie, the question is, can you afford not to turn your houseboat into a steam engine?
I don't know that I can't.
Not in times like this.
There's a hope.
Ooh, where do I get a train track?
Where do you get it?
That's a good question.
He teaches us how to make imitation gold and silver.
It's like a page and a half on it.
What were you looking at?
Oh, yeah, that's what you're about to say, Cody.
I was going past the past or the future is our past with a big picture of the USS Enterprise.
Or the Starship Enterprise.
Oh, my God.
Where the fuck?
It's on page 13 for me.
13.
It's got the Enterprise on it.
You can't miss it.
I'm way past that.
It is before how to make imitation gold and silver.
Yeah, I haven't run into that one yet.
Maybe our books are different.
Maybe you have a special copy.
It's slightly different.
Oh, here we go.
Oh, no, here it is.
It's right.
It's the page before burglar-proofing your home the poor man's way and simple protection against muggers.
We're going to have to come back to that because I'm going to guess it's murdering.
That's a good guess.
Oh, my God.
Our future lies in the past.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Barring a nuclear war with the soon-to-be-starving Russians, America's irreversible collapse should be apparent to anyone by 1980.
By then, it will be too late for city dwellers to go back to the land.
All they will find will be armies will be armed survivors treating them like improvident, ignorant refugees.
They will be.
You guys remember when that happened in 1980, right?
I'm thinking about it now.
You were reading it, and it painted a picture of a memory.
Jesus Christ.
The world cities will perish, but there need not be another dark ages.
Instead, we can go from our survival homesteads onto the stars.
It's just that easy.
You build a good enough steam engine, you can get to space.
I imagine that, like, by volume.
Funch that houseboat, right?
You gotta have a how to build a spaceship at some point in here, right?
Because otherwise, he's definitely skipping a few steps.
We might learn that.
We better.
We're learning how to make fake gold.
We better.
Guys, there is a letters suggestion, and the first sentence lets me know it's gonna be special.
Dear Mr. Saxon, congratulations on issue one.
I got my copy yesterday.
As soon as I rob a wino of six bucks, I'll send you the money for a year's subscription.
If they ever ban books, if they ever ban books, which they eventually will do, yours will be the first.
That's something to be proud of.
Seems free enterprise is a dangerous thing.
It's available for free online.
Free online.
We're all reading it right now.
It says rob a wino.
Like that's printed.
Yeah, it says rob a wino.
Yes.
Take the money.
Take $6 from a wino.
Wow.
Yeah, I mean, fuck a wino, though.
Fuck a wino, though.
I'm not going to shame you for your wine.
No, we're all drunks today.
I've been drinking wine today.
Yeah.
Wait, so some person wrote a letter about the publication that they got.
Yeah, I'm guessing this is another edition of it.
That's why our pages are wrong.
Yeah.
I'm going to guess that's why.
The only complaint I have is of the poor man's James Bond.
You didn't have a section on establishing a new identity.
A few paragraphs would have done.
This is the popular rage.
Visit a graveyard.
Take along a pencil and paper.
You won't need any flowers because you're not going to pay respects to the dead, but a wreath will provide a good cover as you move from grave to grave.
The best identity is of a kid born about the same time as you, but died about a year later.
The younger, the better, because there will only be two records, the birth and the death.
Copy down about three names, recording date of birth and complete name and name of parents if listed.
Then go down to the local courthouse and ask for a copy of the birth and death certificates of the deceased.
The birth certificate will enable you to get a social security card, driver's license, etc.
The death certificate gives cause of death and related items.
A new identification is a necessary survival object since it gives a person the benefit of two people.
Finally, you can get a P.O. box for receiving through the mail certain things which you wouldn't want delivered to the front porch.
Well, we nailed it.
Wow.
So I was looking through volume two to see if that advice was heeded, and he was like, okay, in volume two, I'll do a whole section on stealing an identity.
But they seem to have laid it out pretty well.
Also, they really did.
In regards to how we're going to skip another dark age and go straight from our homesteads to the stars.
To the stars.
In volume two, there's a several-page spread titled Preview of Life in Coming Dark Age.
So he gave up that dream pretty quickly.
I mean, thank God he's got that information.
I'd like to imagine he spent all of his time reading old popular science and learning how to make blowtorches, and he just knew nothing about space and assumed it was like traveling to the town over.
Yeah, he's going to go.
And then he read a book and was like, oh, no.
I thought we said to build a really tall ladder.
Oh, no.
This is so much harder than building a houseboat.
This is going to take at least eight paragraphs.
I don't have that kind of time.
It's going to take a few more volumes, buddy.
Oh, man.
Oh, good.
Good Christ in heaven.
This book is amazing.
Yeah.
I want to find...
There is a review of the movie Taxi Driver in here.
What?
Of course there is.
Oh, yeah.
Wait, what year did it come out of this?
I found Sophie's.
I found Sophie's thing first.
We will find the taxi driver review.
How to make...
What year did it?
Taxi driver?
I just think what year did this come out again?
76.
Okay.
It's much later than I thought.
How to make see-through mirrors.
The FBI used the see-through mirror in the house on 97th Street.
I guess that's a movie.
Most guys who learn to make these mirrors claim they want them for surveillance of America's enemies, like the FBI and CIA.
When you learn to make such a spy mirror, you will probably run right out and buy a motel and a roll of film.
I don't care what kind of sick you are, as long as you send me some of the prints.
Also, by see-through mirror, he means like a window, right?
Yeah.
Like an interrogation window thing.
That was really worth the wait.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he's just joking about how you should use it to take pictures of people in their hotels.
Uh-huh.
I think this Kurt Saxon is a good dude.
I think he's a really good dude.
He needs to get canceled.
Can cancel.
Hashtag cancel this survivalist from the 1970s.
He's definitely dead from inhaling his own feet.
He's definitely still out there, man.
He's still surviving.
He's in space by now, right?
Oh my god.
Okay, so Sophie is telling me that it is time for another ad break.
And after that ad break, we're gonna start talking about what Kurt Saxon thought of the movie Taxi Driver.
Please, I can't wait.
What an easy thing to guess.
Yes, I love shooting setters.
Needs to be longer.
There's two golden rules that any man should live by.
Rule one, never mess with a country girl.
If you play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.
And rule two, never mess with her friends either.
We always say, trust your girlfriends.
I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of The Girlfriends.
Oh my God, this is the same man.
A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.
I felt like I got hit by a truck.
I thought, how could this happen to me?
The cops didn't seem to care.
So they take matters into their own hands.
I said, oh, hell no.
I vowed I will be his last target.
He's going to get what he deserves.
Listen to the girlfriends.
Trust me, babe.
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
What's up, everyone?
I'm Ago Modern.
My next guest, you know, from Step Brothers, Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network.
It's Will Farrell.
My dad gave me the best advice ever.
I went and had lunch with him one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.
I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.
I'm working my way up through it.
I know it's a place they come look for up and coming talent.
He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.
Yeah.
He goes, but there's so much luck involved.
And he's like, just give it a shot.
He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.
It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there.
Yeah, it would not be right.
It wouldn't be that.
There's a lot of luck.
Listen to Thanksgiving on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story.
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This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth.
You doctored this particular test twice, Miss Owens, correct?
I doctored the test once.
It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case.
I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for.
Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant.
They would uncover a disturbing pattern.
Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
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My mind was blown.
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10-10 shots fired, city hall building.
A silver .40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
From iHeart Podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Rorschach.
Murder at City Hall.
How could this have happened in City Hall?
Somebody tell me that, Jeffrey Hood did it.
July 2003.
Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest.
Both men are carrying concealed weapons.
And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.
Everybody in the chambers ducks.
A shocking public murder.
I scream, get down, get down.
Those are shots.
Those are shots.
Get down.
A charismatic politician.
You know, he just bent the rules all the time, man.
I still have a weapon.
And I could shoot you.
And an outsider with a secret.
He alleged he was a victim of flat down.
That may or may not have been political.
That may have been about sex.
Listen to Rorschach.
Murder at City Hall on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
We're back, and we are still talking Kurt Saxon.
Now, we're going to get to that taxi driver review, but while I was running towards it, I found, in addition to some guides on making your own ammunition, which I am going to bookmark, what I think is another op-ed by Kurt Saxon.
This is a long magazine, so he has a few.
Extra, and there's a little cute little picture of a newsboy saying extra.
Kurt Saxon warns, when politicians ban guns, bombers will ban politicians.
Ooh, okay.
I feel like this might double as his review of taxi drivers.
Yeah, I'm still sad.
It's a timely.
It's timely, though.
Many of your number, and possibly, dear politician, I should say, is how it starts.
Many of your number, and possibly yourself, have been raising alarms against the private ownership of handguns.
Propaganda cite pitiful examples, such as the four-year-old boy who shoots himself and the six-year-old who shoots his sister.
Actually, a man who lets his children get at his guns deserves to have his line die out.
Jesus Christ, Kurt.
Kurt.
Really bold stance.
That's not the take to.
Oh, here we go.
And then there are the minorities brawling their way through the ghettos and barrios on a Saturday night, shooting each other in quarrels over their females and dope.
Oh, okay.
There we go.
He got all the words right.
He said females.
Females.
Is this the America that the Republicans want to bring us back to?
Where you can talk like this?
I think it is.
You know, Katie, it's interesting that you say that because I have my questions about Kurt, and I wonder if...
Because there's this chunk of the right, like what I will call the dangerous right, who went all in for Trump because it was really was all about racism.
And then there's the chunk who are like fundamentally anti-authoritarian.
And even though they are super racist often, although not always, we're like, no, Trump is bad because he's an authoritarian and I hate the government.
Like, you don't understand.
I don't care if he hates the people I hate.
I hate the government most.
And I kind of think Kurt Saxon would be in that.
I hate the government more than anything else realm, but I really don't know.
It's hard.
He also seems to have some racism, sexism.
Oh, tons of it.
Tons of it.
Yeah, so it's a matter of, yeah, which one sort of wins out.
It is hard to tell.
Yeah, this guy.
He's one where I'm like, I don't know if he would have ever supported a presidential candidate, but maybe, maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah, if anyone, it would be Trump of all people.
If anyone, it would be Trump.
Yeah.
Or like Rob's next, I guess.
Yeah, okay.
That's about all that I think we need to read.
Oh, wait, no, he talks about Sirhan Serhan.
We got to talk about that.
It may be the real.
So he's still like threatening politicians.
It may be a real belief among those of you who are most sheltered that guns can be banned and that lying, then lying politicians won't be shot by disappointed constituents.
Not so and worse than not so.
First, guns can be banned by law, but then private, illicit gun factories will flourish.
And worse than guns, their alternatives will make any public appearance by a liberal politico a great show for a TV audience, as he and anyone else on the platform is blown to bits by a casually thrown bomb.
Bombs are easy to make, their components are cheap and easier to get than our guns.
Moreover, the chances for escape by the bomber due to the panic and confusion are much greater than had he used a gun.
Make guns hard to get to any degree, and the dissident will choose bombs and even be glad you helped him make that choice.
If Sirhan had thrown an easily made black powder bomb at Bobby Kennedy, he would be partying with his accomplice now.
If Brimer had thrown a bomb at Wallace, he too would probably be free, and Wallace would now be edging toward the presidency.
Books on bomb making and improvised weaponry, such as my own poor man James Bond, are sold all over the country in numbers directly proportionate to the growing threat of gun confiscation.
In fact, all books on guerrilla warfare and military science are gaining interest.
So he's just literally saying, if you pass gun control, people will kill you with bombs, and I am going to provide them with the guides to do it.
And the fact that it does a little bit, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, we really got into the terrorism part of this little publication.
We sure did.
Right after how we're going to get to the stars by homesteading.
From homestead to stars.
Really quickly, I have to read this.
Sure.
So you mentioned improving the 11-shot shotgun earlier.
Yeah, I do want to know how you would improve the 11-shot shotgun.
That seems perfect.
What's better than 11?
What's better than 11?
I don't know.
I'm sure it'll tell us.
But I think that the very first sentence of this section is a perfect microcosm of this entire thing.
And so improving the 11-shot shotgun.
They all laughed when I demonstrated my notorious 11-shot shotgun.
And then it goes on.
Amazing.
They all laughed at my homemade shotgun.
But then I had a shotgun.
And then he explains how to improve it, and I'm sure it's some good advice.
But I bet he knows how to improve a shotgun.
Oh, yeah.
So.
Oh, it's about making sweatproof.
Oh, okay.
Because you're going to be shooting so many people.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
You're going to get sweaty.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
I like practicality.
So, Atlan, Atlan is his publishing company.
Atlan's first and maybe last movie review, taxi driver.
In my third issue, James Allen asked for a description of the device the taxi driver used to snap the gun out of his sleeve and onto his hand.
I watched the making of his device carefully, and I'm still uncertain how he did it.
Anyway, he had an arrangement built of odds and ends, and it had a track going down his arm on which the gun carriage was on rollers.
When he snapped his arm to the firing position, the carriage would rattle considerably and the gun would slide into his hands.
It was noisy and it reminded of putting a coin in a Coke machine and waiting for it to finally finish its grumbling and shoot the bottle out.
Any police officer I know is faster on the draw, and I think such a device would only give the wearer a false sense of security.
Travis, the taxi driver, is an ex-Marine and Vietnam vet.
He can't sleep, and whether he is haunted by war memories or intestinal parasites picked up in New York or Vietnam is not made clear.
Anyway, Travis applies for night taxi duty in New York City.
So the first third of this review is just him arguing with like A specific point of like a gun delivery device that Travis Bickel put like builds for himself.
So that's interesting.
I don't know if he knows how to write reviews.
No, he doesn't.
It gets into it here a little bit.
Travis develops a protective interest in Iris, a 12 and a half-year-old hooker played by Jodi Foster.
She's hardly a turn-on since anyone would identify with her role as the cute little con artist playing alongside Christopher Connolly in the TV series paper.
She's not hot because of her role in a TV series.
Not because she's 12 and a half.
I like how he is saying he takes on the role of protector.
That's one way to describe how he does.
Anyway.
In text.
Oh, buddy.
I love.
Yeah.
All of these.
And it's the same thing with like, I'm have a degree of interest in like some of the 3D printing gun stuff, but like the organization that started really doing it, Defense Distributed, it was headed by this capitalist anarcho-capitalist, I think is how he identified, dude, Cody Wilson, who turned out to be a pedophile.
Of course.
Like all of these fringe people turn out to be like the Adam Waffen guy, one of the big Adam Waffen guys they just arrested.
It came out weeks after the arrest that like, oh yeah, and they found child porn on his computer also.
Like these guys are always fucking pedophiles.
And that's how a pedophile gets a movie review.
Like no one else is like...
Jodi Foster's not hot in this movie when she's 12.
Like no one else thinks of that.
Kurt does.
Kurt and the guy who shot Reagan, except for he had the opposite conclusion.
We don't make enough of that that the guy who shot Reagan was trying to impress a teenager.
We really don't.
We really don't.
Anyway.
We certainly can if you want.
The upshot of the movie is that Travis raids the house Iris works in and kills everyone but her while stage hands stand off camera sloshing buckets of orange paint on everyone.
Travis survives and gets his name in the papers as a hero.
Iris goes back to school in Pittsburgh.
Don't be upset that I've told you the plot.
If you've seen the movie, you'll thank me for showing you that it had a plot in the first place.
The message I got from Taxi Driver is that most New Yorkers are not fit to survive.
Travis shows that casually gunning down Travis shows that casually gunning down New Yorkers is a public service, good target practice, and has its rewards.
It's a kind of recruiting film for vigilantes, but it probably won't inspire much zeal in good folk to go there and help.
The Peace Corps fever has largely died out in our land.
Go see it, but leave the old folks at home.
Kurt, baby, you got the movie all wrong.
I think he missed some points.
I want him to write reviews for every movie that's ever been made.
Yeah.
I want his review of like the English patient.
The man, oh, with the man who went up a hill and came down a mountain.
Yeah.
It's just going to be like four paragraphs of him complaining that there are no 12 and a half year olds.
And the ones there are not hot enough.
Kurt Saxon.
Where are the 12-year-old appreciator?
Where's the buckets of blood?
Yeah.
It really makes me wonder about what kind of patient are we talking about here?
Cover of this now.
Yes.
Yes, it does, Cody.
Yeah.
Kurt.
Now, and of course, now there's yet another column by Kurt Saxon, and this one actually does strike home as a result of the current situation we're in.
You can't change the channel.
A while back, I saw a funny and tragic cartoon in a magazine.
It showed a car pulled over to the side of the road.
A harried and exhausted mother was inside, flanked by some miserable children who plainly didn't like the situation at all.
The father was outside, trying to pump up a flat tire.
While hard at work to save their vacation, the father was saying, but kids, this is real.
This is life.
We can't change the channel.
The cartoon showed the absurdity of the children's confusion between reality and TV.
I got a charge out of it because it paralleled the American adults' confusion between real-world conditions and pure entertainment.
So he's talking about how, like, yeah.
I don't know.
That's something that, like, I've heard people express variations of on Twitter as a result of this whole situation.
It's like it's a bad movie that you can't turn off.
Like, we've put on some sort of low-rent Netflix contagion series and it just keeps auto-playing.
Yeah, yeah.
There's no escaping the surreality that we're in.
I can't.
Yeah, the remote control is broken.
And it's right next to...
And of course, it's right next to a guide on how to make the super still, which includes this paragraph.
For the real poop on alcohol for its own sake.
For the real poop.
For the real...
Say that one more.
We'll read that sentence one more time.
For the real poop on alcohol for its own sake, get Granddad's wonderful book of chemistry.
Alcoholmetry starts on page 129.
Oh my God.
I so want to get granddad.
You don't want the real poop on alcohol?
He's trying to keep it light.
Heeds his terrorist manual to not have words like shit in them.
No, I mean, the real...
That was a term people did use back then for like scoop.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, the scoop.
Yeah.
Use scoop.
She just used the word scoop.
But people did not use.
How did poop become synonymous with scoop back then?
I don't know.
It was like an old-timey thing.
I remember scoop of poop.
Bloom County cartoons from around the same period of time using that phrase.
Bloom County.
I don't know.
All right.
Bloom County is a great combat.
Oh, here we go.
There's yet another book about how to make your own alcohol, which I get now that we're all in quarantine.
Bar Drinks and Booze like Granddad used to make by Kurt Saxon.
$8.
If you're tired of paying a dollar for a nickel's worth of booze, you ought to make your own.
Anyone can do it, and millions do.
Once you learn to make it for yourself, you can make it to sell.
No, you cannot, Kurt.
You absolutely cannot legally do that.
That is bootlegging.
Bootlegging Home Distilled Booze00:06:00
I don't think that's a concern of his.
I don't think that's a concern of his either, Cody.
Oh, my God.
He's got a guide to making champagne.
It's not champagne unless it's just sparkling wine.
If you're not making it in the champagne region of France, Kurt Saxon.
Okay.
He's got a guy disarming the letter bomb.
He teaches you how to disarm letter bombs.
I know on the same page as Granddad's Guide to Boost.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
I'm not going to laugh at that.
At various times of the year, probably during full moons, letter bombers go into their act too cowardly to confront that.
You just were making guides to bombs, Kurt Saxon.
You don't get to call letter bombers cowardly.
I don't want to be defending letter bombers here.
Hey, Kurt.
Robert, let's be fair.
He wrote that other article during a full moon.
Jesus Christ.
As there is status among criminals, there is also status among political fanatics and those who use violence to register protest.
Among any prison population, the lowest group includes child molesters and all those who use helpless children to work out their pathetic fantasies.
The letter bomber has the same status.
You can't get any lower.
In fact, I see a similarity.
I wouldn't say that all child molesters are letter bombers, but all letter bombers would have the same degree of social inadequacy.
Kurt, buddy.
Kurt.
Something going on.
Kurt, man.
Again, you just told us how to make bombs.
You have repeatedly been telling us how to make bombs throughout this.
Half of this is about how to make bombs, Kurt.
The parts of this that are not about going to space or taxi driver are about bomb or liquor are about bomb making.
Skipping to space.
Yeah.
Really, really wanting to figure out where the space guide comes in this.
Oh, this is wholesome.
How to lay out a sundial.
That's nice.
Yeah, that's potentially useful.
Stake your claim.
I feel like some of this stuff deserves to be in a different book.
He's just mixing his branding a lot.
Yeah, it's this mix of like, here's useful old-timey survival tools I culled from our ancestors' wisdom.
And then here's how to make a bomb homemade liquor.
And Jody Foster wasn't hot enough in Taxi Driver.
To Katie's point, it does seem like it's like if we're equating this to 2020, it's somebody where you find out who they are in real life that has like a very popular social media page and you're like, wait, what?
Yeah.
Very like mixed, very mixed content here.
Yeah.
Yes.
Depending on the day, I guess depending on the moon phase.
Sure, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, we have a politics and politicians.
And I think we're getting that this might answer our question as to what Kurt Saxon would have done in 2016 if he hadn't, I'm just going to guess here, killed himself in a distilling accident.
Solid guess.
I mean, it could have been his houseboat could have sunk.
Yeah, his houseboat could have sunk.
His steam engine could have gone off the rails.
His steam-powered spaceship might not have made it up into the atmosphere.
Or maybe he's that guy that died launching himself in his homemade rocket recently.
I'm going to bet you Kurt Saxon was a real big influence on that fella.
The liberal is so insecure in his real value that he must reduce the value of all so that he looks better by comparison.
Hence the idealistic social programs that fail along with the roads that go nowhere and the dams that break in the publicly subsidized industries which loot the rage earners.
It doesn't really matter if the dummy is ignorant or actually stupid, whether he calls himself a liberal, conservative, or a moderate.
They are all political pigs wanting only to get up to the public trough and stay there.
They all plead ignorance in one way or another.
They all need the support of the American people, as if that support will somehow put the stamp of validity on their incompetent efforts towards a better life for all.
That's why they all say, even if you don't vote for me, vote.
They know your vote is a vote for their own way of life.
It ensures that if they lose this election, they'll still have a goal to shoot for next time.
It's a vote to keep those places at the public trough available for creeps who have nothing to sell but themselves.
And since they have nothing to sell but themselves, the accent is on personality and agreeableness.
They parade out their unusually pretty wives and homely children and read speeches written by others.
Most such speeches are written by Madison Avenue types whose works sound like commercials written for kiddie shows.
Vote for Captain Monster.
More sugar to the spoonful.
Okay.
Yeah, having the first sentence.
Then he really, really likes me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Survivalists don't involve themselves in national politics at all.
They don't want to be dependent on either big business or labor unions, the tweedledee Tweedledum of our political system.
They know that as part of an intelligent minority, their votes will be canceled several to one by the ignorant.
So, yeah, I don't think he would have voted, but you're right.
If he was going to vote, Trump would have been the guy to get him on there.
Yeah, I think he seems like he would have been a.
I don't think he would have voted, but I think he would have been pretty into the idea.
I think the first person he ever voted for would have been Donald Trump.
Yeah.
If at all.
Yeah.
Because I also kind of think he might have been the, you know, the very first things Alex Jones said about Trump's campaign before he got on board was that like Trump was mobbed up and this was all a conspiracy to like infiltrate and take over the liberty movement and you know the dissident right.
And I think Kurt Saxon might have started like that and stayed on that course, but I really don't know.
But what I do know is that we have another letters section, and I found one that is just amazing.
This is R. Borlia from California.
Dear Kurt, I have made two batches of your acroline tear gases described in the poor man's James Bond, and neither has retained its potency.
Testing Acroline Tear Gas00:04:38
Am I doing something wrong?
It's fantastic stuff when it's fresh.
Oh, yeah.
But he doesn't, but they don't know because they've never made it right.
He's saying he's made it and he has tested it.
And it's fantastic stuff.
Yeah, it just loses a bit of oomph after a little bit.
Well, of course, you know, nothing, nothing, you know, look, if you want perfect tear gas.
I've never heard Cody say oomph before.
Oh, yeah.
Oomph.
Oh, yeah.
Saved it.
Saved it for this.
Saved it for the tear gas part.
And then, yeah, like, how to cane chairs.
It's just like Ron Swanson plus terrorism.
Yeah.
That's actually a really good touchstone for this.
Yeah, Ron.
If Ron Swanson was a terrorist.
Alex Jones.
Yeah, like if that show wasn't so twee, it'd be like, all right, let's get real.
Yeah, let's get real.
Ron, like, dies in a shootout with the ATF because he's been manufacturing illegal sought-off shotguns and giving them to the Aryan nations.
Yeah, and then giving advice on how to improve his 11-shot shotgun.
Because they all laughed.
They all laughed.
Would have been a very different show.
Yep, we got boomerangs and how to make them.
Survival ammunition by Clyde Barrow.
So that's probably great.
Anyone preparing for survival in these uncertain times should be sure that he will have adequate ammunition for any guns he might own.
Okay, that's fair.
Oh, I was wanting something crazy to be in here, but this is just a pretty basic guide to reloading ammo.
Good for you, Clyde Barrow.
I'm sure you won't murder anybody.
Yeah.
Survival ammunition and how to make boomerangs is on the same page as how to make cane chairs.
It's just incredible.
It's such constant whiplash.
Survivalist whiplash.
Oh, and here's a column called Now Who's Stupid Dad by Mark Riddenhauer.
Oh my God.
Ever since.
That's my favorite part so far.
Yeah, wait, you have to say it right, Robert.
Now who's stupid?
This is like the subtext of the entire thing.
The whole thing.
Ever since I'd first brought up the subject of survival, my father had scornfully rejected anything I had to say.
He was one of those it can't and won't happen here attitude.
He reminded me of the brass in the U.S. High Command prior to Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.
That evening, I sat as I sat reading my latest issue of The Survivor in my room, my younger brother Jeff, who is a carbon copy of the old man, stuck his head through the door.
What you doing? He demanded.
Get out, Himmler.
Barked.
His name's Himmler, or is that his nickname?
No, he's calling him Heinrich Himmler.
His little brother.
He stuck out his tongue at me.
Don't have to.
Laying aside the paper, I got up and went for him.
Turning, he fled for the stairs.
Closing the door, I locked it and then sat down and resumed reading.
Presently, I heard heavy footsteps on the stairs, and my father's voice demanded: Are you reading that idiotic paper again, cluttering up your mind with that survival rubbish?
I didn't reply.
Answer me, he demanded.
Open that door this instant, came a second demand.
Again, I paid no attention.
Muttering about worthless whelps and other things, he stomped away and went back downstairs.
He, the runt, and my mother would all agree how impudent, disrespectful, and no good I was and how I ought to be punished.
Jesus Christ.
So this is just like a kid, a small child, reading the survivor.
Okay, what actually happens to this?
Jeez, that kid calling his little brother Himmler and Imp, and like doesn't seem like a very healthy family.
Oh, the power goes out in their town, and he has an AM FM radio and flashlights.
And so he's able to find out what's happening.
And his dad is grateful.
Oh, yep, yep.
This goes on for pages and pages.
I think we get the idea.
Yeah, we sure do.
Oh, God.
Okay.
How to be a disaster profiteer.
Also, interpreting baby talk.
Planning to profit from a disaster will give you an edge over those who simply plan to survive it.
Thanks, Kurt.
Thank you, Kurt Saxon.
How to price gouge.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, he's a good guy.
Oh, here's another letters section.
Let's see if we can find another guy who's absolutely committing horrible crimes.
I really enjoyed your book, The Poor Man's James Bond.
How to Price Gouge00:07:12
In your poison section, you should list a different source of nicotine sulfate.
Blackleaf40 has been outlawed for two years.
Thanks to your book, my mother and grandfather consider me in need of counseling or psychiatric help.
So far, I have used your hydrochloric/slash aluminum smoke bomb in the local walk-in movie twice in the school gym once.
I also got detention on the second day of school for igniting some stuff in class.
Thanks a lot, JL, Missouri.
He only got detention.
You're welcome, says Kurt.
Yeah, he does.
Hey, your book on poison, some of the stuff in your poison book is illegal.
So you need to update your poison book about the book.
Also, my grandma thinks I'm crazy because I've set off bombs in school.
Wow.
Yes, Kurt.
It's plural.
This was special.
This has been very special, and I think we all learned a lot from Kurt Saxon.
We've learned about ourselves.
We've learned about Kurt.
We've learned about Taxi Driver.
Yeah.
Taxi driver.
We've learned what Kurt Saxon thinks about certain 12 and a half year olds.
A lot of information here from Kurt Saxon.
Not a lot of surprising information.
No, no.
I wouldn't say accurate information either.
Not all of it.
Not all of it.
I mean, that houseboat guide looks bulletproof.
Yeah, how to make a monorail sled?
How to make a miniature stage?
Oh, amazing.
Well, guys.
Houseboat is also a floating tomb.
Speaking of floating tombs, do you want to plug your social media?
The floating tomb of our drowning society?
Very appropriate.
Amazing.
I'm Katie Stoll on all the social medias.
Katie with a Y, that is.
And we've got other shows.
We co-host a show with Robert called Worst Year Ever.
You should check that out if you don't.
And we also have our own podcast, Even More News.
You should check that out if you don't.
Cody, you want to say the other things?
Absolutely.
We also have a YouTube show called Some More News.
And me personally has twitter.com.
And that is Dr. Mr. Cody with a DR, an M-I-S-T-E-R, and a C-O-D-Y.
We speak good on mics.
Good speakers.
We do.
Good job, guys.
We do good English speak on mics.com.
Also, before Robert does his plugs, Jamie Loftus says hi to everyone.
Hello, Jamie.
Hi, Jamie.
Hi, Jamie.
Also, Robert has a new show.
It's called The Women's War.
Look out for it.
Our trailer launched when this comes out last week.
So that's out episode one, March 25th.
It's very exciting.
It is very exciting.
You can follow Robert at iRightOK on Twitter.
You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram at BastardsPod.
You can wash your hands.
And you can avoid the coronavirus by staying indoors and reading through back issues of the survivalist and learning how you too can make tear gas that works really well initially but quickly loses its potency.
And then go to space.
Use your time wisely, folks.
That's all we ask.
Yeah, I can't think of anything better to do in quarantine than experiment with making your own tear gas.
So get on that.
Get on it.
It's all available online for free.
It has not been banned as Kurt may have thought it would be.
There were definitely legal issues with some of his books that I think contributed to Paladin Press shutting down.
But we will do a whole episode on Paladin Press.
Please.
Because it's amazing.
Art of Makes Life like Marionette Bodies.
This is some good stuff.
Also, if you're looking for some peaceful content, I post a photo of Anderson every single day on my Twitter.
Why underscore Sophie underscore Y. Not uncommonly more than one.
There are many, many, many photos of Anderson.
Yeah, sometimes hundreds.
There's like 50.
The only other living entity in my room, you guys.
There's like 40 pages on how to make puppets and puppet shows and puppet sticks.
We're done, though.
We're done.
I know we're done.
That is what we're ending on.
Oh, how exciting.
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