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Turning Plastic Into Fuel: Innovation vs. Industry
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Ever wondered what happens when innovation threatens billion-dollar industries? Our latest episode dives deep into the fascinating world of Julian Brown, a visionary inventor who's developed technology to transform plastic waste into usable fuel.
Brown's process breaks down petroleum-based plastics into Plasteline" and "plastidiesel" – his terms for the gasoline and diesel alternatives he creates. This remarkable innovation addresses two massive global challenges simultaneously: our overwhelming plastic pollution crisis and our dependence on conventional fossil fuels. Imagine the Great Pacific Garbage Patch transformed from environmental disaster into valuable resource!
But as we discover, challenging established energy paradigms comes with serious risks. Brown has reportedly faced threats to his safety, including having lug nuts loosened on his vehicle. This darker side of innovation resistance reveals how deeply entrenched economic interests can obstruct progress toward sustainability.
The conversation expands beyond Brown's specific work to explore how society approaches technological change. We examine other alternative energy pathways – from vehicles running on water to solar-powered cars and hydrogen fuel cells – and how they've struggled against institutional resistance. Throughout our discussion, we contemplate how future generations might view our current dependence on fossil fuels and plastic, drawing parallels to how we now look back at outdated technologies.
Despite acknowledging the powerful forces aligned against sustainable innovation, we remain cautiously optimistic. Social media and information sharing continue to amplify voices like Brown's, gradually building momentum toward environmental solutions. This episode will leave you questioning not just how we fuel our vehicles, but how we fuel progress itself.
Have you encountered other innovators fighting against the system to create sustainable solutions? Share your thoughts and join the conversation!
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Introducing Julian Brown's Plastic-to-Fuel Innovation
Speaker 1It's Pop McProvert and the Jersey Guy Podcast. How are you, gentlemen, doing today? It's around Everything good.
Speaker 2Chilling like a villain, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1So let's get right into it. Yeah, you guys follow, we have on our page, right? I even follow them on my personal page, nature Jeb. Okay, alright, julian Brown. So you guys follow, we have on our page I even follow him on my personal page, nature Jeb. Okay, all right. Julian Brown, this guy takes plastic, turns it into plasticine, plasticine, plasticine. We're going to look it up and he says it. And Plastidiesel, he does All right.
Speaker 3Oh so plasticine means like gasoline, right, but it's from plastic, plastic gasoline, right, but it's from plastic, plastic gasoline Right.
Speaker 1That's the name for it, that he gives it.
Speaker 3Okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 1And he does it when he makes it for diesel as well, and he has this stuff machines that he works on and he does it and he runs people's equipment with it and he keeps refining it. He shows you how it looks when he first breaks down and then he refines, he cleans it up and it looks just like gasoline like it's you know it has the same kind of you know texture.
Speaker 1He's able to take the plastic break it down, it smells differently I don't know that's a curious question, but the idea that someone could come up with an idea to say, hey, this is our way or one of the ways we can get the plastic and get rid of it and use it so we do it the right way, versus trying to fucking bury it and put it places and it's in the ocean and we can get rid of it.
Speaker 3Well, it makes sense. Gasoline is petroleum-based, plastic is petroleum-based. Yeah, and he says that, and he says that in his videos.
Speaker 1If you watch him, you go on. He's on Instagram. He's on Facebook. I. If you watch him, you go on. He's on Instagram, he's on Facebook. I think he's on TikTok as well, if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure he's on all of them. Whatever it is, he's probably on it. This guy is very smart and he's been doing it for quite a while, and I did reach out to him because I wanted to get him on the podcast. I thought it would be cool. I knew it was a shot in the dark, but I was like, fuck, we'll just do a podcast about him anyway.
Plastic Pollution and Resistance to Change
Speaker 1So it doesn't matter because what he's doing is good stuff. Yeah, you know, I love that because that's people showing, but then of course they run into problems. Right, you know? Right, higher forces, right.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, that's the thing. I was like how's this guy alive?
Speaker 1you know, yeah, he's already run into kind of stuff.
Speaker 3Yeah, already. Yeah, you know where he's, you know you said lug nuts.
Speaker 1What happened? Yeah, it was where lug nuts were loosened on the tire of his car and they came up. Yeah, he was like at least five of them, you know. At one point his mother was, you know said hey, he's fine, I just can't give you his location, this, that. And he wasn't. He's still. Fortunately, he's still with us and he's doing what he's doing and he's showing us that, hey, there's another way to do this. This is one way. It doesn't have to be the only way, you know. Yeah, however, you can come up with it to make that stuff go away, so we don't use it anymore. We got to get away from plastic. Man, that's like the death of us. That's like the death of us.
Speaker 2That's shit. Yeah, it is man. Definitely. Well to take what we have already, because what did you say? What did we have floating in the ocean? Oh yeah.
Speaker 3So that's what.
Speaker 1They clean it up, but it still comes back. I mean like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Right.
Speaker 3That'll be gone. Yeah, it'll be like priority. Everybody like get it out, get it out of the ocean.
Speaker 2Yes, but it's not the money, you know, and that's, you know, like I've said before, the big business. You know what I mean. This is you know, that's why they. They have the when you could take the oil from fast food restaurants you know, oh yeah, and they run into cars.
Speaker 1You can do that too, yeah you. Yeah, there's a bunch of different things you can do with it. Yeah, but that's the way to go to get us away from that shit, man Right.
Speaker 2Right, but you know it's not yeah.
Speaker 1But I think it is. I just think that people are stuck in their ways. Yeah, you know, things got every time when something was invented in this country and somebody did something. They took a chance and they figured it out.
Speaker 2Now it's mine. Well, I mean, that was something I had said to you guys before. It's a gaffy duck, my, my, my. You know this is something like I said, but he's not the only one.
Speaker 1I'm sure there's other people doing that, yeah.
Speaker 2But so the big car companies Ford, I believe, is one I'm going to bring for right now but I believe that Lee Iacocca had turned around and said that he can call up the factory right now and this is like 25 years ago that he said this that he could just call up the company and they change one or two components in the engine of how and or what it burns and we could run off of corn oil, like we don't need to have gasoline. Yeah, they knew then too, exactly.
Speaker 1So then I mean it was way back when and they knew this, they know this, you know it's a little bit political right now, but you know, it's just like I said it's, yeah, I think it's, yeah, I think it's it's. People are pushing it. Society's changing, people are getting older, people are, you know, you know, dying off Right Now the other generations are coming after us and they're going to be the ones, and hopefully they.
Speaker 2The old stuff isn't as efficient as the new stuff isn't as efficient as the old stuff. So then, us being so, you know. So we'll take, like right now, efficiency. I can fill up my gas tank with a full tank of regular fossil fuel gas and it'll get me further than battery charge and or probably the hybrid. At the same time, it's going to take me five minutes at a gas station to fill up my gas tank, as opposed to a half hour 40 minutes. Right, having to recharge my battery, right?
Speaker 1I get that.
Speaker 2I'm saying so that's yeah yeah, that's, that's what people think or believe. You know. On top of that sorry to cut you off, bro, you know it's also. Well, if I can turn, if I'm, how do we get the batteries, the charger? It's got to get fossil fuel or some kind of. You know already what you guys are saying is bad ways to charge. No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1What I'm saying is is that if you figure out a way to take the stuff that we were using, what in our food, in our bottles of water, in our fricking stuff in our refrigerator, everything is plastic. Right, we get away from that. It's petroleum. You break it down the right way, the way he's doing it, naturally, the the way he has to break it down to get it, and then you get rid of it and then you just burn it. There's, there's a plot, plentiful to to go around. Right, that it's you know.
Speaker 1But then by the time they figure that out and they get it going, it'll be something else that they come up with. Hopefully will be even better. You know that will lead them in a different direction. That's my whole point is that don't have the mindset you know, be safe and guard it and go. Well, no, we don't want that. This is the way it's going to be. Period. End of discussion. When, no, it doesn't have to be that way, because things change and get better and that's what we're about and that's what you want people to do. And this kid he is, he's smart, he's fucking with me. He's got his own products, like the deodorant has aluminum in it and it's bad for you and what?
Speaker 1it leads to and everything. I knew that, and I already was using aluminum-free deodorant, so I was like, yeah, nope, not doing that anymore. See, that's what I'm talking about. So, a little at a time, keep pecking away. At some point maybe we'll see it at the end of our journey where it starts breaking through the way it should be, maybe a little earlier, who knows? Yeah, but it's happening and that's a good thing. Unfortunately, you have other forces out there that want to.
Speaker 3Like I said earlier, more selfish and they're like no, you can't talk.
Corporate Interests vs. Sustainability
Speaker 1This is us and you can't have a piece of it, and I don't give a fuck. And that's just the wrong way fuck, and that's just the wrong way, because that's it's not. I mean. I know it regardless. If it's wrong, it's still happening, right, you know. Hopefully it won't yeah agreed, it's great. Yeah, it's absolutely agreed. It's all about money, it's always about money.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's all, that's. What about the?
Speaker 1remember when you hear that, that conspiracy theory or I don't know if it's a story about the guy who had a car. He made it run from water. He could get it run from water, well yeah, Remember. And that guy disappeared, disappeared.
Speaker 2But don't, isn't he about, isn't somebody else the?
Speaker 1one who had the one car even Jay Leno talked about this where you could put anything in the vehicle and only one spark plug, right, if I'm not mistaken and you could run anything in it, from alcohol to perfumes to anything, and that car would run off of it anything and that car would run off of it, and that guy disappeared too.
Speaker 2He has it in his museum, doesn't?
Speaker 1he Doesn't. Leno have it in his garage. He might, he might, but it goes to show you. You know, people are protective because it's big money right.
Speaker 2Who are you talking about? Well we already know, we already talked about it. That's what we here on the show had spoken on.
Speaker 3That one light bulb.
Speaker 2It's that, like the one light bulb, there's a light bulb that's been burning for like a hundred years. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh good man, In New York City, at the they make your refrigerators. It's a breakdown cooking. Now it's in a firehouse in the city. So then now they make things On purpose.
Speaker 1To break down, and they know how long it'll take.
Speaker 2It's going to because is where they're looking at it. You know you got to come back and buy another light bulb. You got to come back and buy another car. You have to go and get that car tuned up. You have to go buy more spark plugs.
Speaker 1You know you got to do that On, and, on, and on.
Speaker 2So then they never make anything that's going to last, because it's the residual money.
Speaker 1But I think one day it will be like that freaking bananas.
Speaker 2So then you're going to need a new plasma torch to cut through whatever. You're still going to need a new flux capacitor to get your car.
Speaker 1This guy's still with microwaves turning plastic into freaking fuel. Why do you say that Things have already changed already you?
Speaker 2don't always need that, I know. But I'm saying but big business is still where it's going to be.
Speaker 1Well, I'm saying I'm saying you're going to get people who want it to be like that because they want to keep that. Yeah, because they're afraid of change it goes back to what we're saying, but at some point it's going to change. It's going to change. Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
Speaker 2Well, that's even questionable right now, just saying that's what the song says yeah, because, like I said, it's just big business is going to always want to stay to make that money. You know what I'm saying? Right, but eventually. But no, it's just going to change how they're making that money. I don't think it's going to change that. They're not going to be making the money.
Speaker 1Well, I'm hoping for a different. I'm hoping that it'll get to the point where you know, because this generation is nothing like we are and mindset. So see, maybe you're right, maybe it will be. We won't be around to see it, yeah, but hope it's a good thing.
Speaker 2Well, like I said, it just has to be a way. I mean, because for me right now I don't see how it is that it wouldn't be big business having a hand in it, or anything in the future that they that would change. So I mean, even like we talk about, let's just say, clean energy.
Speaker 1Well, maybe it'll be more disciplined, it won't be as fucking cutthroat and it won't be, you know. You know one way, you know. In other words, it's more of a cooperation. Yeah, maybe the money will still be in it, but maybe it'll work differently and, as the money is concerned, they figure out a way. Okay, I don't have to have all the money and it's all right that everybody else has a piece of the pie and live better lives and less. You know struggle you know. Hopefully that's maybe that way.
Speaker 1Yeah maybe, of course, money's probably never going to get out of the picture, but maybe it'll. We'll finally figure it out. And you know and say I don't have to have all of it, yeah, out. And you know and say I don't have to have all of it, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, do I really need this much to live? Yeah, you know what I mean. Like I never had that kind of money and I can't say that how I would be. I would hope that, like let's say, if god, we won that, god forbid. But let's say we won the, we won the lotto. Right, it's not god forbid, that's god. Please, yeah, god, please, well, whoever, please, right, right, whoever the higher powers be, and if it happens and now you can do anything.
Speaker 1But I think, because I think if I won the lotto when I was 24, yeah, I probably would have blew it around hell yeah but now, where we're at in our lives, now you would think about it, you would do everything to protect it, to make sure you still had it, that you didn't lose it, make sure it lasts Right and make sure it lasts, and then you would still get stuff.
Speaker 1but you won't go crazy because you don't need to, because you know you only get what you. You know, you're comfortable, you and your wife go. You know what? Let's get a camper. We're going to go take the kid and drive around.
Speaker 3I would be thinking also like and Plastic.
Speaker 1yeah, From plastic and put it in, whether it's diesel or RV.
Speaker 2Well, that's the thing, you just take a portion of it. Like he said, you know, if his kids well, like even for us, you know our kids are older, but you know, and they, you know, thank God they're pretty good, you know they're okay, right, but that then we would turn around and make sure that our kids are set up age and I'm only saying struggling, you know, for lack of a better word. You know, but not having to work as hard, I guess we'll say you know that they can take it easy, that there'll be. You know that they can retire with no it's just the way things have changed, man.
Speaker 2It's just, it's the way of the you know, I say that God won't bless me with hitting the lotto because I would take half of it and basically give it away Like I would walk with, you know, bags of money. No, you wouldn't, bro.
Speaker 1You're full of shit. Let's get on the subject. Donnie, Are you kidding me? Why would you do that?
Speaker 2Well, finish my sentence Go ahead, no, go ahead. So then I would take the bags of money and go to like the children's hospital, you know, and give money to the families that are there because you know they're there at the hospital with the kids. So then I would look away, give it to charity and stuff, you know. Some of that money, I would turn around and try to invest it in something like you're saying, like with the plastics and stuff like that. So then you know that that's we're trying to make the world better.
Speaker 1Oh, I see what you're saying. So you would just, you would find certain what, but you wouldn't just give the money. You're not giving the money away, so what you?
Speaker 2would do right, you have donation places that you you find that you're like this one I want to put money to, and that one, or make sure these people get the money right.
Speaker 1However, it goes right. Yeah, no, I I agree with you on that. I I misunderstood what you were telling totally. I I just pictured you walking down the street with fucking money, fucking million bags.
Speaker 2I'm like what the fuck? Come on, really, I mean Mayweather, bro, only Mayweather does that shit.
Speaker 3Boom, but I was like no, I'm talking about like I was going giving away to the families and stuff like that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2You know, just do things like that you know, Investing into things war back right, yeah, because when I was, I had the wisdom now and the experience you're like I don't need all of that right.
Speaker 1This is enough for me to live with you know yeah and then at least now I know I don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 2Yes, right, so and like just relax.
Speaker 1You go and come in with you, please, and do what you want. Take care of your family. I mean, like what would you?
Speaker 2want for chase right to, to, uh, or what would you hope that chase is going to learn from you giving him, you know, money if you won the lotto, you know I'm saying or what would you hope for him to be a part of in the future? That's going to be better for the him and the planet. You know, like you would do these things to try to set him up to be better. On the other end, you know, and I don't know, man, I just think that you know. There's just so many ways.
Speaker 1Sorry my bad. I was watching a video on his thing. I apologize.
Speaker 2And, like I said, like with this guy doing and you know all these inventions that he has, you know it's like bro, I wish that there were more kids.
Speaker 1There's a lot of people out there that do a lot of crazy things. There is a lot of people that do it.
Speaker 2There are I just wish they had more notoriety.
Recycling, Infrastructure, and Alternative Energy
Speaker 1Well, you see it on when you look at you, you, yeah, I guess, yeah, you're right, they should have more, but but the social media helps them what we didn't have, right, exactly so that helps them promote themselves in any talent or any direction. Really, when you think about look at people who have become famous of just being you know boxing music, right, you know like just from because they were you know social media, it's amazing that technology alone, so that direction, everything's going to change, man, it's just going to be.
Speaker 2That's why I'm going to have to agree with you. I'm going to have to agree with you with that, bro, because social media as a whole is what is bringing all those good ideas to light. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. And now people are like oh snap, you could do that. Oh snap, we could make that happen. What? No way. Like the dude making the car run on water.
Speaker 1Yeah, but that guy disappeared and that was years ago.
Speaker 2I don't know what I'm saying. That was years ago. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1So I'm saying so. This kid knows that what he's doing for him it's scary, but he's still sticking it out and and I, I, uh, you know, I commend him for that because he's trying to do the right thing, to help, not to hurt, right. But of course, other forces seem to look at it a different way, because they look at it as a threat when it's not, when they could be helping the planet, and why, you know? I mean like I don't understand the mindset. Yeah, that's what I mean and I get what kenny said, because I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying, that, nope, they want it like this and nobody else could have, you know, and that's it. And that's scary. This kid, he's got, he's pushing through and he's doing, he's following his dream and he's looking to help the planet out and people out.
Speaker 2Do something, because and we need more of that Absolutely and even think about it like this. By no means am I saying that this is healthy. Go and do it. I'm just going to say, like where it first started. So we're looking at vaping. Vaping was totally opposite. Not even the same people like the tobacco companies had nothing to do with it, right, yeah?
Speaker 3And it was just like vegetable glycerin, exactly With some flavoring.
Speaker 2Right, and then if you wanted nicotine added to it.
Speaker 3you could add it. You could add it, but now it's just like.
Speaker 2And then now tobacco companies got in on it and the other chemicals. And now they added all those other chemicals and it's now just as bad. Actually, it's worse than smoking a cigarette. Now we can make more money, right, because now, because now they got into it, right, you know? So then the same thing with-.
Speaker 1And they make it addictive, and then they buy more and same with the cigarettes?
Speaker 2Yep, and I'm saying so that then now with this kid dude, do you know what that is? I would love to have that mental where I'd be able to just take a fucking a couple of water bottles that I have at the house, throw them into this groovy ass microwave that I've got and make gas for my car. Dude, do you know that it cost me $50 to fill up my gas tank? Yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 1Yeah, mine's about $30.
Speaker 2Yeah, A little over $30.
Speaker 1Imagine making your own gas Dude, if I made my own gas. Bro, let me ask you a question Don't you think at some point, when we're talking about fuel and making fuel and being able to be independent, shouldn't at some point we should be where Americans should be self-sustained, in other words, they don't have to go through a company that supplies the energy for them. In other words, they could do it on their own. So now they have their own, self-sustained, whether it's using you know, they come up with their own type of generator or they have their own fuel and they don't have to worry and they just Imagine how great.
Speaker 3Great would be when it wouldn't have the need for power lines anymore right power lines or or you know just that's wireless, right like because there's so many different kind of things.
Speaker 1You see, now what when they're doing with the power, with the magnets and everything like that, and these things just run forever and they you know it's like it would be because it could work right. But again it falls into the same thing with this young man because but but social media, I always share the shit, I have it on our on on instagram and on facebook because I love. I think that stuff is great when people come up with these ideas and that, like kenny said, I wish I had the mentally be able to sit down.
Speaker 1You know what I could take two speaker magnets and I'll take it and then I'll run this fan and get it going, but I'll also be solar, yeah, at the same time. Yeah, you know like, yeah, yup, you know, like. I want more people like that in the world.
Speaker 2You know, oh yeah, absolutely, it would be freaking fantastic and I think there is, I think.
Speaker 1So, like I said, social media definitely brings about it, like the algorithm you said, if you watch a certain thing, you'll have a lot of it. So when we hit that stuff on our Instagram and Facebook, I shit out of it, especially if it's something really cool, like the bike when we were talking about earlier Uh-huh. You know I mean so.
Speaker 3You know what it's not. Imagine how much nicer neighborhoods would look without telephone poles.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah. Why are they above ground on me? They should be underground. I forgot, but it was a thing about that.
Speaker 3So like the problem is, is you do it like flooding and stuff like that? Oh okay and like. So, like I remember, cause we have our own electric company in town, we got Butler Electric. I remember there was a there might there might be like one spot or they maybe they shared a video and like it was like a disaster. They had like flooding and but the flooding was electrified because the underground and then it just shorts everything out.
Speaker 3And the guy from the. They wrote like this is why underground everybody likes underground, electric, electrical and until stuff like that you have fiber octopuses, you have all of that stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, and they could be using the technology is definitely there for it, I think it's just the money Exactly.
Speaker 2Do I want to spend more?
Speaker 1But they want to make the money, but they don't want to spend the money, right?
Speaker 2Yeah, Listen bro. That makes no sense, but that's business.
Speaker 1Yeah, In the future you got to get with the program. You know what I mean. You got to take chances and everything.
Speaker 2I'm with you, brother, I am with you.
Speaker 1I'm just saying yeah, that's what we need to do, yeah.
Speaker 2Because this is just listen as a planet, as a planet exactly Because you know what, right now, from the way that things are going, we have the different ideas. Bottom line, though, is that if we keep doing what we're doing regardless, it's gonna end. You know, I'm saying like the planet is gonna just look at how many sinkholes we have from the mining, you know around the planet. You know, just in the states alone, how many just the sinkholes. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3That alone is freaking, killing people, you know that's the wild part too, is like this stuff is like from over 100 years ago.
Speaker 1Yeah bro 150 right yes but now it's time to break down these huge sinkholes.
Speaker 3You're like what about the stuff we do today? Yeah, is that going to the people that like the effective later down the line like two generations from now we're gonna do it some.
Speaker 1Yeah, why, a why is Blacktop so bad? Huh, blacktop. I don't even know. You were talking about the sinkholes, right Right, but what Blacktop Our roads here, right In Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3New York.
Speaker 1Well, pennsylvania has some decent roads, but Blacktop in general. I mean you go drive in New York or wherever it's like-.
Speaker 3Because they don't spend enough money to do it over.
Speaker 2Oh, that's what you mean. Yeah, I thought you meant like it was bad for you.
Speaker 1No, no, no. Mark Topps is like almost like 90 something percent recyclable.
Speaker 2So let me tell you.
Speaker 1And you can put supposedly they were supposed to melt the tires and they break them up and they melt, and it's supposed to make it better or whatever. But do they actually really do that, or is that just something? They just no?
Speaker 2it's true. So again, this is where big business under cover.
Speaker 3Right, yeah, they got to figure out how to.
Speaker 2That's what it burns the rubber, it chips it out or whatever.
Speaker 1That's why the tires get worn out and such the way that it is Right and they use that and it makes it better for them to expand and move and contract.
Speaker 2Right. So it's the same thing if you go, like you know, when highways and shit, it's the same difference it's. But it's all about the money, right, because you know we got to keep this going. We got it right, you know.
Speaker 1And then like they have the stuff where we can right they gotta suck out of it as much as they can, not even the tires, but you know, imagine how many people have tires. You ever go past properties and people have mounds of tires and shit like that again just get it from those people. If you want to get rid of them, you get rid of it, you can get it.
Speaker 1Those people say, hey, listen, you bring your tires, we could use it on our asphalt or whatever they're supposed to do, I don't know how that works, but they can get money for it.
Speaker 2Well, look at what.
Speaker 1So right now they'll take them for nothing. In other words, now you don't have to worry about all that being on your property.
Speaker 2Yeah, so then now, what they use with the old tires. They use them in playgrounds, they recycle them so you could turn around and use it for the place of the mats underneath the swings and such like that. Make it for the ball pits, or I say for the flower pots once in a while, so I mean there's a bunch of different things that you know you can do with all of that stuff, recycle it, so this way it's not sitting in a landfill. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3So this is going to be worthwhile.
Speaker 2But again, depending on what you're using it for, what you're looking to use it for that big business, because there are tools, machines that break down the tires, that break down a lot of the stuff that we use, that we don't have access to. You know, it's a $100,000 machine to break down the tires, to make them small enough to where we can throw them into that super hot oven or, you know, into that vat of acid where we're going to be able to pull the metal that's in, you know, the steel belts and the you know, or the radios or the tires in. You know the steel belts and the you know, or the radios or the tires. You know what I mean. Like, it's just all those things that we us, we can just throw right here in the backyard and, you know, make it happen. We don't have one, the knowledge, you know, or the space to turn around, and, you know, go to money, the space and everything to do that Big business does.
Speaker 2Well, you know, only a millionaire is going to space. Now, right, exactly, yeah, you know, and it's just billionaires, billionaires, but billionaires. I want to be a billionaire, so freaking bad, you know, I don't want to be, I do bro, later for that I, I would, I because I feel like you, can't be a billionaire without being evil no see, I don't know.
Speaker 3I feel like you have to, yeah, do some evil shit like like you could be a millionaire right and not be evil, but like, if you're a billionaire, like how do you to get that much money? You have to do some evil shit I don't know right, you have to be fucking some people over. Real bad whoa again.
Speaker 1Listen, you know, okay, I guess a lot of times it's inherited. Some do it on their own, but yeah, how do you get that kind of money?
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I mean, that's just out of our field. We'll never know that.
Speaker 3I feel like from an ethical standpoint, just hoarding that kind of money, that's hoarding. At that point, Like you're, you can't who. What were you spending the money on? It's hoarding.
Speaker 2Well, that the whole point it gives you power, you're just yeah. Right. Money is power. You know what?
Speaker 3billionaires are. They're dragons sitting on a pile of gold. Yeah, pretty much. That's a good analogy.
Speaker 1I like that Someone else came up with that analogy, yeah yeah, yeah, no, but it's all right to use it, but it's okay to use it.
Speaker 3It's a good analogy. Well now, from what?
Speaker 2I had understood it really does, the more billionaires there are the more fucked up the economy gets.
Speaker 3because there's no money, there's no economy being stimulated.
Speaker 2They're sitting on billions of dollars, but doesn't that money, isn't it? Basically, it's not liquid money.
Speaker 3Well, has something happened, right Well I know it goes into stocks Cause it's so right, but technically, you're not to be able to.
Speaker 1that is another. There was a whole big thing. Yeah, cause, they're not supposed to, certainly, but they did because Musk wound up doing that, doing what he gave, you know. So, in other words, he was, he didn't have the money not in it, but whatever, Because he liquidated other stuff Because it was all in, it was in credit. It was with stock market stuff it was all that Got it.
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Speaker 2You know what I mean. Right, Well, and then you go, so then so, but that's not you know what I mean?
Speaker 1I mean, that's just yeah. I don't understand any of that stuff.
Speaker 2hands down and that's what I'm saying. So then, this kid making you know, or anybody taking anything to recycle it, decompose it, restructure it whatever it is to break it down, to make it to what we can, you know, for something that we can reuse. Like I said, it's great we turn around, we take Coca-Cola bottles or soda bottles and cans and we you know, clean them up.
Speaker 1They did it with World War II, right, right, they told people to bring all their metal or whatever they had, so they could help, so they could build planes and tanks and all that stuff.
Speaker 2But again, war is money.
Speaker 1It shows you that it can be done is what I'm saying yes, definitely so. It doesn't necessarily have to be that setting or that atmosphere. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2Right, okay, all right, fair enough I got you, they needed it.
Speaker 1They got people to get it for them and they used it and it helped them through the war. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2And that's where the clincher is, bro, For people. You know you said that you guys are saying before, you know, taking that the kids, now, you know, the younger, next generation or next two generations, that they're going to be able to see past all of this stuff. You know, I like to use that. You know, I remember I read an article a bunch of years ago and it said how the Saudis, you know the Arab nations, how they've basically moved on from fossil fuels, you know, from selling it, mining it, whatever, because they realized that there's, they could see the bottom of the barrel now. So now, what are they going to do? So now, that's why, like Dubai and stuff, you know stuff like that you know the whole United Emirates, how they're now a real estate thing.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the place to go.
Speaker 2Because they had to shift from oil. They had to shift from the oil, from the fossil fuels, to now making themselves into the next super attraction.
Speaker 3Yeah, so they are the las vegas, the 10 times bigger las vegas. Yeah, because, because you know the the other prince was like the first one, that hotel.
Speaker 2That was the first thing he put up.
Speaker 3He's like I don't want a five star hotel, I want a six star hotel. What can we do to get it Six-star? Yeah right.
Speaker 2Yup Bro, they're building cars over there. That was the first thing, that was the one that looks like a table.
Speaker 1Where's this set? Yeah, there's a table in the United Emirates. Okay, that building is 100% green.
Speaker 2Well, my son's college in Ithaca they have green buildings where the plants are growing on the roof, on the roof and whatnot.
Speaker 1It's part of the roof, the grass or whatever it is that they have up there.
Speaker 3Speaking of, green and University of Ithaca. Tom Green went to the University of Ithaca. Oh, did he? No, he didn't. It was in the movie.
Speaker 2Road Trip, road Trip I. Road trip, road trip. I forgot about road trip. Sorry, that's funny. Well, check this out.
Speaker 1We were talking about, like recyclers. So Milan uses waste to energy Plants to generate energy from non-recyclable waste, including incineration, and at the Scylla 2 plant, this process, also known as energy from waste, converts waste into usable heat electricity. Additionally, milan has a program for collecting food waste and composting bags, which is used to produce yoga biagos and soil. What is that? Okay you're gonna have to read that for me agos biagos and for soil remediation remediation, remediation, right, yeah, you see so happy remediation, remediation.
Speaker 2Remediation, remediation.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 1Yeah, you see. So how does your IOMIC look?
Speaker 3Remediation, remediation.
Speaker 1So yeah, but so they, the lot is big with that. They use everything, pretty much everything, on that Right.
Speaker 2Well, where is it? Is it Greenland or somewhere over there that they use thermal? Energy to heat up their heat, that they use thermal energy to heat up their heat and cool their houses.
Speaker 1Why not? Well, that's what I'm saying. Well, they sell that kind of air conditioning, they sell that kind of cooling system here in the United States.
Speaker 3Because the whole way it works is, you know, like a wine cellar is a constant 55 degrees right. It doesn't change. So if you take the air that you are cooling, for your house. From there, it doesn't need much power.
Speaker 2It's the same thing for heat.
Speaker 3Okay, instead of it being 20 degrees outside, you're heating the air at 55 degrees Right, you're not running the heating coil through.
Speaker 2Yeah, right, right, and there you go. Yeah, and that's why I'm saying so. Now imagine well, not imagine, they actually do this. This is that you're taking solar power right and that's your energy. Well, the sun is now the best thing you could do right and then, and, or some places is wind power now you use the thermal, the thermal energy idea or thermal heating and cooling system, right and now you know they make machines so they can take the air, pull the air in and make water from right, and that was the other thing you were telling us.
Speaker 2But now they're also doing the cars that run on the water, on hydrogen.
Speaker 1Right, so they're doing that. They've been working on that for a while, but I think they're getting close now to the way To make it more efficient. More efficient and where it would be more feasible to do rather than have electric.
Speaker 2I mean you know.
Speaker 1Why not?
Speaker 2But then now, do you remember back in the day when they had the cars, the electric cars that they had? The solar panel was the roof. So instead of having a sunroof, it was solar panels on the roof of the car Right, and that's what was charging and keeping the car moving Right.
Speaker 1Did they have gasoline too? Was it a hybrid?
Speaker 2No, bro, it was just straight up solar, 100% solar power on that car. Yeah, I mean, it was a solar project.
Speaker 3You could probably still do that now, though, I think they could do that now, and it would just be built into the shape of the car, you wouldn't even see them. You could have it where it's the shape of the car. Yeah right.
Speaker 1And that's what they did Sunroof or something.
Speaker 2Right, but nobody was giving them the backing.
Speaker 1Right Now it's getting the baddest. It's getting there now. Now it's definitely getting there for sure.
Speaker 3But see, like it's funny, like that kind of stuff gets suppressed because they could still use it for money, because, like say, you have a fuel cell, right.
Speaker 2Right, yes.
Speaker 3Like Prius, right, right, that's the most famous fuel. If they were to put those solar powers panels on now you're reclaiming it.
Speaker 2You know what?
Speaker 3I mean, but you'd still need the fuel for other stuff.
Speaker 2You know what?
Speaker 3I mean, like, why are they trying to suppress it? Like they want to see that's how scummy they are. It's like oh, uses less fuel, so we can't you know we need to use more fuel.
Speaker 1you know, get a V12, it's like you know what I mean.
Speaker 3Like they're just right.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's just again like we said it's all about money. It's all about that money, bro. It's all about what's going to. Let's just use the shit out of this right now, because there's nothing wrong with the earth.
Speaker 1There is no such thing Well, yeah, Well there's nothing Meanwhile, it's Well because what they don't care about is the fact is that they're going to be here for a certain amount of time and they don't care what's going to happen afterwards. They just want to get what they want and that's the end of that. Basically, yeah.
Speaker 2And that's it, and that's just a selfish way of doing shit.
Speaker 2But I believe that they turn around and that with all up with the, I guess we'll say the fix of those faults. So we're saying so. Now we have the. You were asking about the asphalt, the blacktop, so it's we're going to make the blacktop what is nice and it's going to last through these next two winters, but we're going to make it only to last these next two winters because we're going to have to repave the entire infrastructure and the third one. So we're going to make the next $100 billion off of having to repave everything.
Speaker 1They just recycle whatever they use. Look at the bridges.
Speaker 2I will say one thing right now, bro the infrastructure fixing is what I'm going to call it. Can we talk about the?
Speaker 3bridges for a minute, because I was looking at today, because I was working at Staten Island today I was crossing over, not in Arizona, the one that goes from Jersey to Gothels.
Speaker 1Well, it used to be Gothels. It's the newer bridge Right. It's the newer one now, it's two now.
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Speaker 3Yeah, but like, okay. So like the original bridges, the suspension bridge, we'll think of the George Washington Bridge, metal, strong steel. Now they got these new ones and it's just like concrete. They're not even connected, they're just pillars going straight up. That boggles my mind. As I'm driving over, I'm like this thing's just going to crumble. It's got holes. It's concrete with holes in it, if I was a giant, I could just go. If I was a giant, I went up to the george washington bridge.
Speaker 1Yeah, uh-huh well yeah, no, you don't remember. You don't remember the goths.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that was a crazy bridge, right well, so now here's the thing.
Speaker 3So, going by what you're saying, like I the science behind that the brooklyn bridge, yeah yeah, brick, but it's a gate structure, it's yeah, oh, I know what you're saying oh, it's not a solid pillar, it's a still. It's a gate structure. Yeah, oh, I know what you're saying. It's not a solid pillar, it's a still, even though it's known, but there's still.
Speaker 2I know what you're talking about. They connect, but these ones just go straight up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Does that work?
Speaker 2Yeah, it's reverse of that. Right, that's what the idea is. It's reverse of that.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah, but still it's up.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's the idea. It's supposed to be that way.
Speaker 1Yeah, and don't forget a lot of the bridges like that, the one in Boston, the one that we just put up here you don't need to.
Speaker 2What the fun. You can take it away from the view, bro.
Speaker 1Mario Como Bridge right.
Speaker 3Yes, I know.
Speaker 1You got the no, didn't they make it back Kaskioskos, Kaskiosko bro Kaskiosko. He wouldn't even ruin it, man, yeah.
Speaker 2But we still get one too, but that one.
Speaker 3But all our lives. That's what it was. Kaskiosko, I don't care. Middle of the suspension part. Yeah, Going through the middle.
Speaker 2That one's a super little bridge though.
Speaker 3Yeah, that one is like 100 yards.
Speaker 2You know what?
Speaker 3I mean. So it's a little.
Speaker 2Yeah, it wasn't that big. Yeah, yeah, it's a little ass thing.
Speaker 3So it's.
Speaker 2Kosciuszko. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Kosciuszko, kosciuszko.
Speaker 3So I think the sidebar Kos, so that's going from Brooklyn to Queens, right? Yes, yes, yes, I believe you're right.
Speaker 2I had to think about it. I had to remember where the bridge is. Yes, it's going from Queens to Brooklyn. It's on the BQE.
Speaker 1But if the structure is, good though, because if they're rebuilding it and they're doing it, because a lot of these bridges even now, like the older passes and the stuff that you see here upstate, it's like everywhere Now they're making 17 into 86 and they're making it wider, yep, you know it's crazy how they do it and keep making the roads wider. Wider and wider.
Speaker 2Yeah 20 years is going to be a 40. Bro, I'm going to tell you what, man? Well, no, because in that 40 years the cars will be basically driving themselves. So then there'd be no accidents.
Speaker 1And eating a banana at the same time with a spoon, not everybody trying to fight traffic.
Speaker 3It'll be organized.
Speaker 2Yeah, it'll be actually organized. Yeah, because you're saying this is where I got to go.
Speaker 3Cars are talking to themselves, Plus people won't be so concerned because they're going to be doing whatever they're doing.
Speaker 1Right, yeah, you think we'll be that confident to get to that point where we're comfortable with the transportation where we're not going to, you know was driving like that.
Speaker 3I'm going to say there's going to be a period where it's a little weird.
Speaker 2Well, I'm going to say it's not the we as us in this room, because we're not going to see it them, yeah, so it's going to be the kids, I mean we as a society. I mean that's right Hands down.
Speaker 3But I mean like I think there's going to be a period where it's like they're working out the kinks. You know, there was a movie. There was a movie a long long time ago.
Speaker 2I'm not doing that and they were showing that there was no more gasoline cars, and I can't remember who the actor was I want to say it was Stallone, so I can't remember the name of the movie, but that he had. Well, it may have been Lee Majors, anyways, who that he had a race car in his garage and something was going on and he needed to take his race car, that he had a little bit of gas for and he had to drive through you know, and there was a plane following him and all that, yeah, and I remember that.
Speaker 2So you, know it's one of those things where people aren't going to. So if we're going to get away from fossil fuels, I think that's going to be hands down. I think we're going to get away from all that. And now?
Speaker 1I think people are going to still keep the cars and stuff like that too, right as as clad things to show everyone in a while eventually, that's, they're just going to be in museums right, exactly, but I think or parades and things like that.
Speaker 3There's going to be like generations from now. They're going to be like wow, wow. So people used to like drive cars themselves. Yeah, like, yeah, you had to worry and not get into an accident with someone Dude what's the? You know people are going to be like. You know like it's going to be so foreign to them.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3You're just going to get.
Speaker 2Demolition man right yeah, yeah yeah, with Stallone. Stallone and Wesley Snipes yeah, how come my car turned into a calzone? Yeah, oh, no, a cannoli. Yeah, yeah, right, exactly, you know it's so funny you're talking about because I was thinking about that the other day, for whatever reason.
Speaker 1that scene where he has an accident, right, and all the foam comes out and protects him, yeah, and protects him. Yeah, I was thinking about that, I don't know what, that particular thing, but it's funny that we're talking about it right now. That's pretty cool though.
Speaker 3It's a real thing. They have expansion foam now, but it doesn't harden. No, it sticks.
Speaker 2Right, so you know so when they're switching up they made it well they made it hard in a bag, so when it goes, off.
Speaker 2It's in the jacket, yeah, ah, so then. But it doesn't. It's not a foam, it's like a balloon. Okay, so then, like some motorcycle riders especially, they turn around and while they're riding and the jacket is attached by the to the bike, okay. So like if, when it knows that when it gets to a certain angle, degree, or that there's a hard hit on the jacket, that the first initial hard hit would be like, say, if you hit the ground or whatever, that it would and it just expand like balloons up yeah, it's a real thing, yeah, and it stiffens up the neck and the whole thing.
Speaker 3That's pretty cool yeah but anyway.
Speaker 2So I'm saying in the in these movies, though, is that the cars are driving themselves. I robot, the cars are driving themselves. It wasn't until will smith turned him on, says you know manual.
Speaker 3Which one is the one where it goes up the building?
Speaker 1Oh, that's the one with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1Minority.
Speaker 2Report Minority Report yeah.
Speaker 1That was good too. I like that. The precogs yes.
Speaker 2Right, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1I do believe that the future is definitely going to get to a point where the future's so bright.
Speaker 2Yeah, I got a wish.
Speaker 1Unless we get reincarnated and come back. Dude, I'm going to be a cyborg. Look at the face you're in.
Speaker 2You might be able to do it, man. No, I just feel that you know the things that we should change. We could change the Borg. I don't want to be Borg, I don't want to be one. Yeah, the Borg, I don't want to be one. No, you don't want to be the Borg. I don't want to be the Borg, but you know where that came from, right which part.
Speaker 1So it's my understanding, if I'm not mistaken. So remember the Star Trek motion picture, yes, where they took what was it called? Again, they were calling it the Creator.
Speaker 2Remember she was right. Yeah, oh, wow yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, they kept calling it a visa, but it was a Voyager.
Speaker 2Right and it got caught and went to this machine world and it came back.
Speaker 1Now, what the machine world wanted was to connect with the humanoid. Oh, so she did with one of the people from the thing, which in turn, later on came to Borg. Blown right down the line, the machine consciousness took over and there you go. There you go, a little Star Trek.
Speaker 2That's a lot of Trek If I'm off on anything, please.
Speaker 1I don't mind being corrected. You can go ahead and hit us online Facebook. Instagram, tiktok, yep, you know.
Speaker 2So with that YouTube, we'll end with that, with the Star Trek.
Speaker 3Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 2Time's up. Sorry, guys, you know. So, with that, thank you guys for listening, like, follow and everything. Like Lou just said, thank you very much for being here with us. Love, peace and hair grease.
Speaker 1Live long and prosper. Stay weird.
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