Haven’t listed to the episode yet. Just wanted to point out that the show numbers this week match the dates – cool!

Another great show, Jack.
On the topic of transporting silver and gold, I kept waiting for you to say one thing and you never got to it.
Lets imagine two situations.
1) You are transporting $10,000 in gold from place A to place B.
2) You are transporting your family from place A to place B.
You already spotted my point didn’t you?
Most people forget how precious their cargo is every day.
That said, you made a good point about a fire resistant box.
Anyway, like I said, another great show and great links. I will be sharing that YouTube about money creation with some people I have been trying to explain that to for at least three years. Maybe they’ll get it if it comes from someone else.
Keep Rockin Jack!

Just a silver lining on the Citi-group tax cuts. They are not paying as much into the beast.

On transports, just a few ideas. Have a decoy give away. It is like having $2K in your right pocket and $20 in your left pocket in case you get mugged. Second, have the valuables buried inconspicuously, and get lo-jack for the vehicle so if on the off chance your vehicle is stolen you have a fair chance of recovery before the valuables are found.

I live in Finland, so we have some ash in our upper athmosphere. It is almost impossible to notice from the ground, and it doesn\\\’t air quality on the surface.

Our airspace has been pretty much shut down from Thursday (there were some rushed flights yesterday) and met office said that it will be so at least till tomorrow morning.

One of our military planes was flying when the ash arrived and the pilots didn\\\’t notice anything, but they had to land when engines started to overheat. As customary in cases like that, they did a checkup and found out that the engine had molten glass inside. Story with pics of the engine, mil website in finnish http://www.ilmavoimat.fi/index.php?id=1149)

Authorities are saying that the flight ban might affect things like organ transplants, medicines with short shelf-life and some random stuff like roses from Kenya (oh, what loss those roses would be ;))

So the ash cloud does not affect things much for the \\"ordinary people\\" (at least not yet). But sort of combining with it we are having workers strike in different industries.

Stevedores did one earlier this year, it was kinda short and effects didn\\\’t really show because shops had some stores.

Food industry workers did strike about a week or two ago and that was worse, some stores ran out of things like most popular bread brands, minced meat and other processed stuff. Some of the effects did combine with the stevadores strike, so the situation was not good to begin with.

Shop workers were on strike last week, but they are not so organized and some shops stayed open.

The second food industry strike will begin tonight and my guess is that this time it will really be felt as shops are really low on their supplies in some stuff.

I just wanted to mention these things as they all pile on top of each other and combined effects are worse than any one of them separate.

And finally some advice. Store some food and learn to bake because the systems really are quite easy to break 🙂

Jack,

Thanks for the feedback on E4E! I had a hunch that this was the case, but just wanted make sure.

Great podcast!

“If God didn’t want me to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.”

Classic. I like this one myself:

“There’s a place on earth for all of God’s creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes.”

Jack, how about this one?

“Everyone should believe in something.

I believe I should eat some more deer!”

For those wanting to construct solar panels themselves there are plenty of other instructions you don’t have to purchase — these are a good start:

http://www.mdpub.com/SolarPanel/

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-high-powered-solar-panel-from-broken-solar-/