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00:00 All right. Hey, hopefully I've filmed my comedy special this weekend. I don't know. You know, it depends on if that had happened or not. Yeah, everybody applause. Jared in the comments. A good special good special. All right, so hey, also hot, also hot coming up in April. I am in St. Louis, Missouri. I am in. I think this weekend I'm in Omaha actually, because in a March 00:23 I'm in San Louis, Missouri and Springfield, Missouri and then uh in June I am in Birmingham, Alabama and Alpharetta, Georgia and I've got a couple other shows on the calendar and so always check out my tour dates at jaren Myers dot com slash shows. Let's get into the episode. Tim, what do you got? Hey man, have you ever heard of spruce pine spruce springsteen spruce pie? 00:49 which is for this. He's who cares? Dude, we have freaking fourth of July. So are we? I've got guns and I'm wiring the move. Please don't nuke us. We are the world. We are the world things I learned last night. oh 01:19 spruce pine spruce pines, spruce like a tree yeah like a spruce tree yeah, but that's not what we're tie. That's what it's named after spruce pine. Okay, spruce pine here spruce pine. Well, this is part of spruce pine. I should say oh, this is like a facility. Yeah, so this is this looks like a uh this is in the mountains. Is this Tennessee? Yeah, let's play Geo Guest or what do think this is? Oh shoot. Well, let me look. Give me a second here. Okay, yeah, oh 01:45 for audio listeners. It's a picture of a giant facility, uh definitely factory ish, a lot of trees, uh pretty mountainous uh green pastures, very mountainous. ah It makes me want to say it's in the ah Appalachia region. Maybe is this in United States? 02:09 Yes, it is in the United States. Okay, so this is this is like West Virginia, Virginia areas. These are not rocky mountain, mountain, yeah, these are smoking mountains, yeah, so this is in Virginia. Okay, close. Where is it? Oh, it's in North Carolina. It's okay spruce pine, North, I was close name of the town, small town in North Carolina. Okay, so there's a town yeah, so there's a town spruce pine, North Carolina and this significant because there is a geologic deposit here of courts. 02:38 Okay, you familiar with what court says yeah courts is this right? ah This is like crystallized courts um courts. If you don't know is sand is essentially what courts is we've got is the most abundant material on our earth, um but it is hard to find good courts spruce pine has some good courts don't like that and uh 03:06 Quartz is used for a lot of different things, uh but one of the primary uses throughout history is you can use it to make silica, uh which is the material that we use uh to make glass. And the purity level of the quartz that you have dictates how pure the glass that you get is going to be. uh And so you want... 03:31 obviously like any time you have any sort of natural material, natural occurring material, there is the possibility that there are contaminants that get into it. Other different materials and things like that that make it less peer less. Let's I don't know good. I, you know, in the beginning of your episodes, I do sit over here and I go. How's he going to make this interesting? 04:00 and this is one where can tell whether the panic in your eyes he's not he's not going to make it interesting. So it's sometimes getting contaminated and you it's obviously something you have to worry about when you're making a pain of class is that you want to worry about how to how to avoid it becoming contaminated with things that are really contaminated, because you want to remain pure. 04:24 So there was this so anyway looking at there was this place in france ah that was for the longest time the most pure courts, courts deposit okay in the world. It was ninety nine point seven percent is courts. Something we mine is that down like we yeah, so you can get it in a lot of ways, but the best the way to get the purest is to mine for it to get it from courts deposits uh and we use it primarily to make glass 04:53 Well, I said we use pure courts to make glass. We can use it also to make concrete, but that's typically we just collect sand from beaches and things for sure, but Fontainebleu was significant because it was Fontainebleu was the deposit in France. Okay, I'm Fontainebleu didn't know that deposit in France was very. also a casino in Vegas. I'm pretty sure I think they named it after this. That's what I would guess very pure courts and so they would make really good glass out of this yeah. 05:20 And this was actually very significant in World War II because early in World War II, Germany invaded France and they gained control of Fontainebleau. And so they were able to mine more pure glass. And what made that significant is it gave German tanks a slight edge over Allied tanks because they're viewing like scopes. The was more pure and so they could see better than Allied forces could. 05:50 when you're talking about uh tank combat, whoever sees the other one first typically is the one who survives. And so that gave them this slight edge, which is kind of crazy if you think about it. And the American, the allied troops, once they lost Fontainebleau, all of their court deposits that they were mining from were 95 % pure. And so that difference of like 3.7 % 06:19 or I guess that'd be four point seven percent was significant enough that it actually was felt in combat. And so it was a very significant thing. The loss of Fontainebleau was a very significant thing that the Allied forces began having to be like, got to find better courts. Started going all over the world looking for better courts. They found pretty good courts in Australia, but it was pretty comparable to Fontainebleau. Eventually they found. 06:46 They located spruce pine. They knew they knew about that. They didn't know how pure it was. They started testing for purity and they're like dang. This is some good. This is some pure core records and so that that held level the playing field in the war. Once they started making glass out of the courts from spruce pine, but this became much more significant many years later. Okay, because the silica is what you made glass from but 07:15 later into the twentieth century. We started creating silicon and using that to create computer chips. That's where I was wondering okay. Okay, that's where we're going. Okay, okay, the purity level of these ah of these ah the courts and these labs allowed ah us to start to create some of the most advanced chips got it, got it, got it, got it. Yes, I see where we're going now. Okay, and this is this. This is very significant for a lot of reasons, but probably the biggest reason 07:44 is we hear a lot right now about Taiwan em and how they have the largest manufacturer of computer chips in the world. They're responsible for about 90 % of the computer chips that enter the market. And right now there's a lot of manufacturers that are building up capacity to try to limit that. Because it is a strategic risk at this point. Computer chips have become such a 08:13 a vital part of industry and not just industry. I mean they're in everything yeah. They're in literally everything. I mean a cove it. The whole thing was that way they couldn't you know new cars were having trouble getting made because there's chips in the cars. Yeah, there's tips in the cars, the ships in your fridge, there's chips in your your phone, your watch and eventually your head brain and so these computer chips uh are having everything cornered in this one 08:43 nation became a strategic risk um because there is a little bit of a geo political issue going on between China and Taiwan right where years ago when the CCP, which we just learned about this uh broke off and became their own organization. CCP is Chuck E cheese pizza. You're right. Actually, thanks for thanks for just in case you forgot. We did cover that Nolan Bush. No, go ahead. No, that was there. Yeah, Nolan Bush now. Yeah, yeah, 09:13 that's a good call. I just came out. was that came out of my butt, which is for this he's uh hot. 09:22 that's also merch that we sell is just a short. says pretty hot. Is it in parentheses or doesn't say pre the sea? No, it's in parentheses. It says hot disease hot, em so they the issue is when uh China broke off the right, he won Taiwan was like we're not that we're part of the original China and so Taiwan has declared independence and a lot of western nations have recognized it not 09:49 every nation, but enough to where it's like kind of like, yeah, this is its own independent country. China heavily disputes that. And China's like, no, you're trying to say, nope, it's still part of us. And there has been this long conflict where Xi Jinping is pretty consistently being like, we're going to reunify Taiwan as part of China. And doing so would be a major hit to the world economy because that then means China has control over a major chunk of the chip market. 10:18 And at any time, as we've seen over the last few years, if there is like a choke point on a single market, that company or that country has the ability to restrict other nations from having access to that good. And not only are chips in everything and are like regular consumer market, they're in everything. When we talk about defense, planes, some trains, automobiles, they're in guns. 10:48 they're in helmets, they're in everything and yeah for real access to those things, uh but also like it's in your phone. The thing that your dad still plays angry birds on still playing air birds in point twenty. Who does that? The same somebody still does you're saying like that is the most popular game in the world. Fourteen years ago, it's incredible. Everyone played it. 11:11 I don't think for you guys understand how popular angry birds was. It's a lot like gambling is now actually kind of really was everywhere. That's kind of crazy, but thanks us to this week sponsor. This is brought to you by angry birds, a highly addictive game that you would love to play. Use code tillin at the app store, the app store, so download angry birds for free. 11:41 Okay, it's already free. It's already it's already free next week's episode is brought to you by temple run. You're gonna love it here. I all of it. You know what sucks what I've been streaming on Twitch and stuff. If you if you want to follow me on there, it's Twitch dot tv slash. It's just jiren Myers. I was going to do something stupid, but whatever I've been playing uh Super Mario Brothers three yeah, you know, which is from the from the seventy's eighties. 12:11 late seventies. I don't know. I don't know what year that came out. I was like eighties. I'm a plant and that's the games that you know my my dad played when he was younger and then I played them when I was growing up. What year did Super Marvos three come out? Is that what you just Google? There were three doing something else in Japan. It was nineteen eighty eight North America, nineteen ninety really way later than I thought. Well, Super Marble is one came out 12:40 early eighty son early. I think it was on the any as the any as I think was like eighty five yep. That's there you go yeah. So anyway, so that's what my dad played when he was a teenager right yeah and then I played it when I was growing up at my at my aunt's house yeah, and so now these are like the classic games I'm playing yeah and I just I'm afraid that my kid's going to be like Gavin getting really into classic games and like really oh yeah and they're just freaking sling shot and birds at pigs. You know say well 13:09 that is true, but they're doing it like this, like on their V R headset, not even a headset just with their brain. Yeah, you're gonna see their eyes glazed over just their eyes. There's like a like black mucus that goes over their eyes. Yo yeah, I'm gonna play angry birds a little bit. 13:30 uh the chip in your brain. That's so that's um yeah yeah. is yeah. Did I talked about on this that I realized that the Xbox three sixty is older to my son than the any s is to me yeah, and I hate that so much. I hate that so much. Yeah anyways, 13:57 it's the time just keeps going and it doesn't stop going. The years start coming and they don't stop coming and it's a sucks. Yeah, you know that you know that's a that's a lyric. Do you recognize that lyric? Okay, anyways, let's talk about China ticket over the world. Okay, let's it's easier talk about trying to take it over the world than my mortality. I saw something the other day, but I got a google it before I say it on here. You know that Australia is wider than the moon 14:27 so hold on. What did you know? don't think you know this for. I don't think that's true. That no way the surface of Australia is wider than the moon. 14:37 hold on. I just Google it before I said I'm this up because I don't believe that I literally was like in my head. was like know I have a fun fact, but Australia floating around up there. 14:48 hold on yeah, in that crazy what that is insane yeah. So the moon is the diameter of the moon is two thousand one hundred fifty nine miles and the the width of Australia is two thousand four hundred eighty five miles. That is in that crazy. That is actually bonkers well and Australia is about as wide as America, isn't it the United States? 15:17 I don't know. I think it's bigger. I think it's wider. I think it is a little wider. I don't know. Actually the United States is twenty eight hundred, so next time you go coast to coast, you can say I'm crossing the moon. Wait, so is the United States is wider than United States is wider. Yeah, well, then why is why did I see that? do we have to bring Australia? What are we bringing Australia to the? know these, you know, Australia is is is wider than the moon. Who cares? Dude, we have freaking fourth of July. So are we 15:47 I've got guns and I'm wider than the moon. 15:55 Hey, thanks for watching our show. you like it, a great way to help out is by being a Patreon supporter. Doing that helps make this show possible, but it also gets a lot of perks for you. You can get every episode a week early ad free. You get access to a Discord where you can meet a lot of other people who love the show and actually hang out with Jaren and I every month on a hangout. And we're also in that Discord chat all the time, hanging, talking with people, talking about episodes and just random stuff in life. It's super fun. 16:18 We do, there's a way to get birthday messages, a free gift, merch discounts in there. So there's a lot of really great reasons to be a Patreon supporter. You get a lot of benefits out of it. And it also makes the show keep happening. So if that sounds great to you, you can go to support.tillin.com or tillin.com slash support, uh or just tillin.com and search around until you find the links and become a Patreon supporter. really appreciate you doing that. But if not, right back to the episode, right? 16:46 wider than the moon. Oh, he's wider than the moon. That's what I've always said about the United States. That place is wider than the moon. Is that supposed to be exciting in the States? I went to a Salt Lake City Airport, Salt Lake City Airport as these two terminals and they are a ten minute walk apart connected by you know those little, know, like the flat escalators where you walk on it. You go faster, whatever that's called people mover. Sure, 17:15 there's three of them in a row. There's three different sections of this tunnel and for whatever reason I can't figure it out. I go to Salt Lake City Airport almost every week as I fly through and I cannot figure out what the rhyme reason is because it's an undecorated hallway, but the lights are a little dim and each of the three sections is playing three different types of music. One of those songs is we are the, but I can't figure out if it means something, but every time I walk through the middle section and it's it's 17:45 we are the way we are and it's just like and the other one is like the first one's like classical music and then it's that and then it's almost like a country type song. They just play that on repeat twenty four seven. That's so we're not in there long enough to hear the whole song and it and it doesn't, but I'm there often enough to know that these are the songs they're always playing those three. 18:11 but it's in each different. It's what do that? I'm so I think it's one hallway and they're not separate. They're not far enough apart. There's just still I like you're the holding up that you know like they're not yeah, there's a blending area. Yeah, yeah, you're like I am hearing both and I can't figure it out. That's so we anyway. That's why I brought that song up because I was just in Salt Lake last night. That's the Salt Lake song. I don't know. I genuinely have never heard that is that have you heard it outside of Salt Lake City? 18:39 We are the world. Yes, that's like thought. There was like a huge famous thing. You know I'm talking about like with all the stars that came together. Yeah, they do. You know this. I don't know that song. You don't know where they like it. Like what year did they do that? That was like was that an eighties thing, a nineties thing. What year did they do that? I think it was an eighties thing as they were trying to do the whole five. I was gonna say it was the whole world peace thing and all the celebrities freaking Stevie Wonder Michael Jackson. It's just they're just thinking we are the world. Yes, they do it in Salt Lake City 19:08 No, the Salt Lake City, so but like it was a world peace thing because they were trying to you know, because they were, it was during the Cold War and it was like every celebrity was and they were in this big choir and it was we are. It was like it was basically a hey guys quit fighting. We are the world Alex who paid for it. I find out who paid for it. Yeah, let's find out who funded that was a Putin. Why don't you look it up Alex, Alex, Google that and that was kind of nice to not be the Googler for a second. It was kind of nice to not be Google in 19:37 Yeah, who funded who funded that funded? We are the world see, but this is what I'm saying. Your little cynicism goes yeah who paid for it. Yeah, I want to know what organization paid for that because I want to know if it's valid or not. Yeah, you think that everyone here being like hey guys, we should stop wars and we should pursue peace. You're like who's paying for that who's paying for that? Call me garbage. That person saying oh, we should pursue peace. I bet that would be in your interest. Wouldn't it m 20:06 You know, be in my interest sending my three sons to war. That would be in my best interest. 20:13 Funded by Harry Belafonte. I don't know who that is. Is he the cheese guy? In the bio it just says entertainer and activist. Cheese guy? I think it's the cheese guy. Is Belafonte cheese? 20:31 I this is definitely like a guy yeah. He became a civil activist, but he was uh like definitely like an old school movie guy. Okay, I don't recognize any of these movies, but like you look at the picture. It's like it's a wonderful life era. Oh okay, interesting and so yeah. He just became an activist sure well, so now you've learned something yeah. We've talked a lot. He was active until twenty twenty three. That was probably a fifteen minute, because he when did we talk about Australia in the moon? You got a time stamp on that 21:01 Uh, the timestamp that I have related to that is the quote, I've got guns and I'm wider than the moon. And that was at 19 minutes, 20 seconds. 32 minutes. 10 minutes ago. Oh crap. Oh crap. I've got guns and I'm wider than the moon. Got guns and I'm wider than the moon. Yeah. All right. Well, let's talk about silicon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the chips is what saying. So the 21:31 I think what I was talking about before all this happened sorry guys, the guy on the right, ruin the episode again right guy. Oh my gosh, I'm freaking right guy hot the right and wide right wide guns. No, so Taiwan, the problem with Taiwan is if China were to gain control of Taiwan, yes, yeah, then 21:57 they couldn't they would have control of the chip supply to the world, so we need to be trying. We need to make a chip yeah, which is a big deal for part of the chips act right. Yes, this is a big deal for markets is a big deal for defense right. Here's the thing though. There's a lot of fear mongering out there about Taiwan and how China at any second could snatch Taiwan and then we're all scream. The problem is we have spruce pie. I want China doesn't have a spruce pine. We have a spruce pie. 22:27 Spruce Pine is our defense against Taiwan. Spruce Pine is really the thing that keeps Taiwan safe, Because Spruce Pine is the purest deposit of courts in the world. This is 99.9999 % pure. The next purest is in Australia. It's 99.9999. 22:54 which is less pure and that that that difference nine nines versus eleven nines. We have eleven nines. They have nine nines that different dangerous numbers to be playing around with everybody. That difference is is the difference between twenty five years worth of progress in commuting and computing. Oh okay. And so if 23:24 if spruce pie tomorrow ran out of courts were set back twenty five years and how yeah okay, okay and it's because of that purity because with uh computer chips over the last and those are the wonderful things it does yeah. Oh that actually all that actually you're What's it from? ah 23:48 Mary Poppins. Yeah, is it? Yep. I you're I think you're little thing. It's very poppins. I don't think it's because because because because because of the wonderful things it does. Oh, it's was a boss. It's the wonderful things he does. Yeah, it does. Yeah, he is not a bit okay. She's okay. So over the last look throughout the twentieth century, uh we have 24:18 We've progressively been uh making computers smaller and smaller and smaller. We talked about this in the blue light episode where we're now using what's called photolithography, where we are using light to carve the pathways. small. These are these pathways that we're sending energy through and computer chips are literally measured in atoms. They're about 40 atoms wide. Yeah. And so if you have one atom that is the wrong thing, it breaks the entire chip and it 24:47 in one of those pathways and so these need to be incredibly pure and the silicon that we use in it comes from spruce pine to make these possible. It's the only place you can get it and it is it's an interesting process to to me. It owns this place. Is it a government? No, it's not the government. There's two private companies that run 25:10 god at run this and so there's two separate minds, two private companies that have I was like dang it do it. I just got to get a freaking courts mine. I wish my grandpa found a court mine. There are two private companies that are defended by the military. You have like patrols because it's it's strategic at this point right and that's what you got to figure out. You got to figure out how to create a service to get you defended by the military. I'll tell you what 25:39 They don't care if our podcast gets struck by a nuke. Nobody cares of Putin nukes us. We need to become a strategic choke point for a global. Please don't nuke us Putin. We are the world. We are the world seems like he knew the song. It's like he knew the song don't 26:09 Hey, thanks for listening to this episode of things I learned last night. If you liked the show, you want to support us, we've got merchandise that you can get and it's good stylish stuff that I made. put a lot of work into this stuff, so it's great to find other tilling fans in the wild and be like, wait a minute. I know that shirt. And so yeah, we would love for you to do that. You can pop over to shop.tillin.com or the QR code or there's a link in the description. There's plenty of ways to find it. We promise we made it super easy. So thanks for supporting the show and thanks for listening. 26:40 right so yeah. So some people are getting really rich off this, which is you know good for them for sure, ah but the what's because because of the way our process works for this here. Also, I'll show a dig in my backyard and see if maybe we run into some courts. So the way this the way this process works is uh we take silicon that we we pull silicon from these courts minds right and what's crazy courts has a 27:08 ridiculously high melting points, twenty four hundred degrees Fahrenheit, so they essentially turn this to molten lava and they pull it out of the earth and then they take it to what is the thing holding that have to you know, I'm talking about holding the lava yeah. Well, that's what's really really interesting about this process to make it out of courts yeah, because it has to be pure. So they create these courts crucibles and these are single use, but how they 27:35 Oh, so we're burning courts to get courts. Yeah, and so we make a courts crucible, which is a fancy word for a bowl and we fill it with courts and it can only be used once because if it again, if there's any imperfections in this, it breaks the process and it doesn't work. Yeah. And so we are pulling this molten lava courts out of the earth, putting it in these courts, crucibles and we're creating a crystal ingot and this is what's so crazy is this process. The first step here is not patentable. 28:05 because there's not a science to it. It's an art. And so you can't patent it. And so there are people. It's an art. It really is. It really is. It's a feel. It's not you can't write this process. There's there's people go through apprenticeships where the person like trains them to feel when the ingots ready to come out. And because what they do is there's a process where you put essentially a rod into this molten quartz. 28:32 and you pull it out and if you pull it out at the right, like, I guess frequency to feel it out and pull it, it turns into this pure crystal ingot as you pull it out, as it hits air and oxifies. Okay. Oxidize. Oxidizes. And so it's this feel. Oxidize. It's completely out of feeling. Oxified! 28:57 and so then so they pull it out a little bit of a cold beer on a Friday night. That's a that's the that's the verse for real the world. It goes in a little bit of chicken fry cold beer on a Friday night pair of jeans. If it just right in the radio, we are yeah, it's a good song so 29:24 and so then the show is terrible. Dude, the guy, the right ruins it, the right. I was real. I was really interested in chips, so then they take that ingus out and he get out. They can get out. They throw the crucible away. The court crucibles trash now okay, and then they take that and they grind. How big is that? You can't tell from the picture. How how what do you know? How what are we talking? 29:50 I mean it depends on what they're manufacturing, like what kind of chip they're manufacturing, because like how do they make the courts in? This is how you get courts, so it but this is just the courts for the but those guys are going to make silicon out of it yeah, and so it depends on the chip that they're going to be manufacturing anywhere from this big to I've seen people hold them that are around this big okay and so because because what they're going to do next here. I'll you. I'll show you what they're going to do audio list. I did you get it 30:22 you got it. What they're going to do next? No, down the audio listener. Hold on for the audio listener. It's about the size of a cereal bowl all the way up to like maybe the size of like like a like a Chinese restaurant like a wall. Oh yeah, that's a better. That's a better yeah, so I'm so good to they grind it down to get nice and flat and then they slice it and so this is this is a sliced piece that they've actually etched 30:49 And so this is what it'll look like after they slice it up. And so they slice it. picture? Yeah. Go back to it. 30:58 okay. Yeah, I can find a picture of someone holding it. I was a graphic, so then they slice it and after they slice it, let me the animation of this graphic to like the or the graphic style that we're looking at looks like those cartoons. We were just looking at to looks like their early two thousand, the early two thousand, the ID yeah. I'm finding one of these slices for you know what song was stuck on my head yesterday. Now it's going to get stuck in years was you heard it 31:27 I was listening to 90s country the other day. Yeah, you texted me. It's a great day to be alive. I don't know. The sun's still shining. We're gonna close my eyes. Yeah, I don't know. You know that song. I you were, you were like getting nostalgic with me. You were like getting the nostalgic with me about that and I like it's just an experience. I don't know. You don't know. I don't know. I don't know if it's because I grew up in me. Do you want to be my friend? No. 31:57 I don't know if you do. I don't know that, so anyways, so they slice it. Here's another picture of one of those slices with someone holding it and this is as big as his hand yeah and this they're different sizes. So like this is one size. I've seen. I've also seen it where they're holding it with two hands like this, like across. So will this become that many chips? Is that what this is? Yes, got it and so then they take it after that. They grind down the edges, they clean it, polish it and then they etch it and then the etching is what you're seeing in there. 32:26 and then they lap in or the sorry this is backwards. They lap it, etch it, polish it, clean it and then and then it goes through photo lithography where then there's the most expensive and pressive machine we've ever built shoots lasers through it and the size of atoms to carve a pathway for electrons to travel through this device and that's how computers happen. Okay ah and those happen in these rooms. How long have we been doing that since 32:55 computing that's wrong. One it's becoming so in the sixties we invented the transistor, which is just you're sending electricity through or not sending electricity through okay, which is the basis for all computers. Computer chips are billions of transistors. I believe and I don't know if maybe I should double check this before I say it out loud, but I'm pretty sure that apple go for rip it. Who cares? Wait, how that ever stopped you before the show just 33:23 just make an estimated guess. Okay, the apple m three chip, the base model is made up of twenty five billion transistors. The ultra is a hundred and eighty four billion transistors. How is it in there and so where is it at? That's the thing that's because they're working at an atomic level, lasering in these transistors, lasering out of that silicon. 33:48 and so that's why you need such pure courts, because if you have even one Adam in there, that's not supposed to be there. The whole thing doesn't work. The success rate is forty percent. The rest is why I'm confident that the world's not made up of my head. You said that the other I think about that. You said that the other day. I think it was the blue light episode. I was driving down the highway and you said that and I laughed out. I laughed out loud. I'm so serious. I can't think of but also like this is how screwed we are. If the world does apocalypse and I'm the only one left 34:17 humanity is not going to, you know, we, can't reset this. I can't reset this dude. It's going to take us so long to get back to this. Well, that's the, that's the interesting thing about this. The reason why China won the solar war is because to create solar farms, you need to burn a lot of energy because you're creating really advanced chips. You need that are at least nine nines and that 34:43 you need a lot of energy to do that. And China was willing to spend the energy to create the solar farms. And that's how they won the solar wars. They don't have access to courts pure enough to win the chip wars. And so even if China were to take Taiwan, it's not pure needs spruce pine. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Okay. Diplomatic thing here. That's access kind of a moat around Taiwan where sure you could take Taiwan, but if the U S decides you don't get these, the silicon, then Taiwan or hoatter anymore. Yeah. 35:13 And so that is the this little tiny spot in North Carolina is a very unique situation in global industry where this tiny bit of real estate uh is a choke point for a global industry and is a choke point for geopolitics. Yeah, protect what is honestly the most impressive thing I think humanity's ever built. And it's a shame you kind of mentioned it. If ah 35:41 if humanity were to disappear tomorrow or I just say if civilization were to collapse and two hundred years from now, people found these chips, they would find these these things would still exist, but you can't tell how impressive that is from looking at right because there's a hundred and eighty billion transitions transistors in there that are making advanced compute possible is crazy, but are we going to run out of this stuff? Well, there's that's interesting in my research. I haven't seen anything about like 36:11 their it's a limited supply right yeah. There hasn't been anything talking about us running out of this. I do know it takes about two hundred and fifty pounds of pure quartz to create a million apple chips. Oh, that's not that much. Yes, yeah, so it's it. I think we've got a lot, but I do think theoretically there is a limit turn for two pounds is what like half of you half of me half of me got him set him up cut him down 36:41 Sorry, Terry, she's going to be mad that I bully you on this. They the but the facility where they make these, they are the cleanest rooms that exist. uh They have HVACs. Oh yeah, that particles literally atomic particles in the air can't touch the ground because the HVAC system catches them before they will touch the ground and they felt filtrate it out of the room. They bathe the rooms in yellow light and UV light to kill anything that isn't supposed to be in there. People who when they enter they take an air bath 37:09 it's yeah a bat that washes in dirty. have like smaller versions of these for like those hardware repair places, not hardware hard drive, where places yeah, because you can't end up. You can't have any kind of the in perfection yeah yeah yeah because it because you're working at such a microscopic level yeah and so that's why was like I had a hard drive that as kid at Starbucks knocked off the table and it was going to cost me. It was going to cost me two hundred dollars just to see if they could fix it yeah. 37:37 yeah, because I had to go in that room and they to go in that room yeah and they charge you two hundred hours for that room. That's a lot to walk in that room costs a lot to get into the room. You know unless you have a dad yeah who can just get you in just get in the room yeah yeah they called the upper room yeah and that's who we have. We have a dad who welcomes us with open arms into the other room. 38:07 when and we can go to him and we say daddy God, daddy God, daddy God, daddy God, hey, I wanted you to just gave me out that up to room, give you all up to the upper room, my heart, take me on up to the upper hard drive done went and bust hard drive down, no work no more, don't win, not work. That's how people in Los Angeles talk. 38:34 this was a significant thing because in twenty twenty four when Hurricane Helene came through, it hit Spruce Pine. Oh, and this became a thing that the global markets were like closely worried to find out like how much damage is there going to be on Spruce Pine? Yeah, specifically on these facilities that pull the courts out because they have stockpiles, but it's at best a six month supply. And so if the damage was going to take longer than six months for us to re up the right process, 39:04 We're right chips. We're going to run out of chips and that is going to shock the market. Yeah. The other thing, the process to build this, this is the process to get the courts ready to be used to turn into a computer chip. The process to build a modern advanced computer chip is a thousand steps. It takes three months to build one computer chip. The yield is only 40%. And so you go through a three month process and 60 % of what you make is not usable. It's just trash. Oh yeah. And so it is. 39:32 manufacturing these is a very labor intensive, slow, long process to get right. And so if this was damaged, if it was even three months, that puts us at the six month timeline where, okay, now we're going to run out before our stockpiles, before we were able to get back to production levels. And so the world was closely watching that. And luckily they found out that damage was minor. It only took them a few days to get back to full production capacity. uh 40:02 But it kind of put the world on notice to say, oh, it's not good that we have what is probably the most vital industry in our world right now, Focused in literally one small few acre patch of land in the United States. Yeah. And so now a lot of nations are trying to figure out an alternative of is there a more pure courts? Is there a way we can get courts more pure to be able to compete with this? But as of right now, 40:31 This is this is our Saudi Arabian oil that kind of protects us as a hedge and we can use as incredible leverage in a geopolitical scale. Wow, pretty incredible spruce pine and they don't want you to know about it. There's a reason why this isn't talked about a lot because it's so important. So they would rather you focus on area fifty one and think about aliens and stuff. Yeah, yeah, one hundred for real one hundred percent then spruce pine because spruce pine is 41:01 more important. Well, we'll see if this video gets any views then that's crazy. Yeah, it's respine pretty significant. Wow, well fiddle off then, huh, fiddle off. Hey, if you like that episode, we have another one called brain computer interfaces, which is where they really are. They're going to try to put chips in your brain yeah yeah against your will. No, I don't think they're going do that, but they can't do that. If they run out of courts, but that was an episode we did several years ago, so I'd be curious to if the if the information holds up 41:29 but the ideas I'm curious how much I wanted it well, because I think I did. I think that now the it might be a little different. yeah, you can get next week's episode, a very special next week's episode by the way is just kidding. I don't know what's the next week's episode. March thirty first, thirty first in the March do something 41:49 check that out. It's on Patreon. We finally got the shot collar. Wouldn't that be crazy? I would be crazy. He said he's going to do something to me for that episode. I don't know. We haven't shot it yet. I'm going to shoot him all right.