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129 Cultural Identity, Government Control, and the Future of America
When politicians override the will of voters, what does it mean for democracy? Our conversation kicks off examining California's redistricting controversy, where lawmakers are bypassing voter-approved propositions designed to create fair districts. We unpack how a state where Trump received 40% of votes maintains 80%+ Democratic representation, and what this reveals about power concentration in American politics.
The conversation shifts to Trump's executive actions, particularly his authorization of military force against cartels throughout Latin America. With guided missile destroyers appearing off Venezuela's coast, we explore this hemispheric approach to tackling drug trafficking and its global implications. The strategic positioning between the US, Russia, and China emerges as a central theme as we dissect recent diplomatic meetings and what they suggest about future alliances.
America's dependency on Chinese manufacturing represents perhaps the most serious national security concern discussed. We examine how COVID exposed this vulnerability when a single missing chip halted production of hundreds of thousands of vehicles. This economic reliance creates leverage that tariffs alone cannot address, raising questions about America's industrial independence.
Beyond politics, we venture into thought-provoking territory around leadership dynamics in relationships. Drawing on biblical references and business principles, we consider whether clear decision-making hierarchies lead to more functional partnerships than egalitarian approaches. This sparks a broader conversation about modern expectations in marriage versus traditional roles.
The discussion winds through additional fascinating territories - from YouTube monetization challenges to the appeal of exotic pets and even speculation about robotic companions. Throughout it all runs a consistent questioning of established systems and exploration of alternative approaches to everything from governance to lifestyle choices.
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Howdy Ben. How are you today? Howdy Gene, I'm doing well.
Speaker 2:Good good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just getting my stuff together to go to Puerto Rico Monday morning.
Speaker 2:How fun I've never been, but I've known quite a few people that have been there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to have to talk logistics, because next week we're going to have to not do a podcast next week or make up for it, like the following Monday. Oh really, because I'm going to be going to Puerto Rico and then, when I get back, on Friday, I'm going to my parents for my mom's 80th.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so am I.
Speaker 1:So you can't do it from portico then I could do it on my headphones, I guess I mean when you had another person sign up.
Speaker 2:So I kind of figured. You know, let's try and stick to a schedule a little bit I understand and you know. I mean, we can play it by ear. If you can, that's great, and I'm sure people will excuse a slightly worse sound because you don't have Apple headphones, but that's all right.
Speaker 1:Apple headphones yes, because they are so great.
Speaker 2:They're really good.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, uh-huh. Alrighty Anyway, but no dude, my travel is picking up like crazy. I'm going to be pretty busy here towards the end of the year.
Speaker 2:That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is not.
Speaker 2:It's another fun week. This whole year has been a bunch of fun weeks in a row.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it drums up to about 800 executive orders now, which is great. He's cranking them out, yeah, yeah, I wish they did one that would just replace the government of California with the federal government. That would be very good.
Speaker 1:It would be, but I don't think they have the power to do that Well didn't stop.
Speaker 2:Lincoln did it. No, it didn't.
Speaker 1:I'm not a fan of Lincoln? I'm not either.
Speaker 2:But I mean, I'm just saying it's good doing it, but yeah, california just ramming through and ramming is a good way to describe it a complete disregard for the proposition that californians actually voted for. That would, the proposition that Californians actually voted for. That would make redistricting be a non-political process.
Speaker 1:They're just decided to ignore it and say, yeah, we're gonna just do it anyway well, no, because he's got to get a referendum in and it's just not going to happen like apparently they've got the the bill in the house in their house right now. Right, but they have to do. A California law means they have to do a congressional election and take it to the people.
Speaker 2:Do they, though it doesn't sound like they do.
Speaker 1:That was my understanding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, we'll find out if they do, but I didn't think that was the case.
Speaker 1:Sounds like they're pretty much well either that or they don't expect any opposition to this. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which, yes, clearly California has a liberal majority, but the minority that doesn't vote liberal down there is not as small as people think it is. The minority that doesn't vote liberal down there is not as small as people think it is, and this would effectively change California from being 81% Democrat to being like 86% Democrat representative.
Speaker 1:Well, not on how they vote, but how the representation.
Speaker 2:How the representatives are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I think Trump got 40-some percent I can't remember what it was exactly, but 40-something percent votes from California, which would mean that they should be a 60-40 or even more even distribution. But it's already in the 80s, yeah, but hey, at least they still have a couple of representatives. Remember I mentioned massachusetts previously as zero. Yeah, zero.
Speaker 1:There are several states like that and I you know, I I think if you look at all the gerrymandering, like if we just gerrymandered everything democrat controlled states the gerrymandered as much as they could. Republicans didn't. The Democrat states are already so gerrymandered they would end up losing between 30 and 40 seats.
Speaker 2:I believe it. Yeah, yep. Well, I hope Ohio does something. Mm-hmm, there's another big state that has an opportunity right now to rejigger the districts?
Speaker 1:Yeah, indeed, there are several, it's a possibility.
Speaker 2:And I was watching a video of the local I don't know who she is, but some local political chick here talking about the importance of the I-35 corridor, all being in one district, from san antonio up to waco. Because people have relatives that live in san antonio and in austin, and in Austin and in Wakeham, uh-huh, and they comprise a what's the liberal word for it? Community, uh-huh, and this community deserves a voice, and if it's not, in the single district, aka minority voting then they're not going to have a voice.
Speaker 2:I want to lose what it's obviously her district that voice.
Speaker 1:I want to lose what. It's obviously her district that she doesn't want to lose, or something.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, obviously, obviously. But the point is it's already gerrymandered. I mean, it's like how do you have one district spanning from Waco to San Antonio?
Speaker 1:It makes no sense, man. I mean we should just try and make them as perfect squares as possible, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2:Well, there's, I think there's two schools of thought on this. One is, like you said, just geographically ignore the population and just purely do it based on geographics.
Speaker 1:The other, how the house is supposed to be apportioned yeah that.
Speaker 2:The other way to do it is to look at affinity groups where things like roads, railroad tracks or waterways are natural dividing lines between different groups of populations, like here in austin. If you look at west lake, where the the average net income is 120 000, and right across the road from that you got south austin on the west side, where the income drops by about 60 000, you know that's a pretty natural distribution. I-35 is another one. It separates downtown in aust from East Austin. East Austin historically was back when Austin was an actual segregated city, which it was in years past. That was where, if you weren't white, you could live. Now currently, what East Austin is is a completely re-gentrified tech employee housing location, but with a lot of Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 1:You know it's interesting to me that you know you used to have the. You know like Freetown and stuff like that, where blacks would go off and build their own towns, right, and we're returning to that. Both white and black Like this is insane. It's self-segregation again.
Speaker 2:Well, and you got that whole Muslim city.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in north of Houston that could be a problem.
Speaker 2:Well, they're obviously going to have different laws there, so it'll be more like a native american tribal land kind of thing yeah, well, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:The other thing is why don't we get to count our indians? Why don't we what? Why don't we get to count our Indians? Why don't we what? Why don't we get to count our Indians in the sense?
Speaker 2:Well, don't we though?
Speaker 1:No, they don't count towards the apportionment.
Speaker 2:I think only on actual tribal land. They don't count. But most people within American Glove actually are living outside of the reservations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know Texas, we've got a lot of reservations reservations, do we?
Speaker 2:I don't recall driving into a casino anywhere around here well, there's one on the way to my parents there is. I'm totally going there. I didn't know there was one. I literally like in minnesota you couldn't throw a brick without hitting casino. When I moved to texas it was sort of like I saw one on the border. Is that it? Is there nothing closer to dallas or austin here?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but there's at least the one. There's the, the. Oh god, I can't remember the tribe right now, but they've got. They've got a sandwich tribe huh damage I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what you're saying I'm saying sandwich s-m-a-c-h damage tribe I don't know what that is joke about sandwiches, but go ahead it just. It's easy to make it spelled the way that native american tribe names usually are yeah, so the the oh, you know, I'm uh casino, the luckiest spot in texas oh yeah, nice. Well, I'll take some of that luck.
Speaker 1:What's your game?
Speaker 2:Well, I had a conversation back at Pipestone Pipestone, minnesota, which is one of the holiest sites there for the Ojibwe tribe and explained to them that, genetically speaking, they're just simply Russians that left a long time ago and that really we're related, simply russians that left a long time ago and that really were related, where relatives were more closely related than you know. These newcomers that came here from places like england, uh-huh and you know I'm pretty convincing when I need to be and so I was allowed to go into the, uh, the sacred pipestone. Bullshit, what? No bullshit here. It's all true. So I I actually went to the, the, the area that was forbidden for white men to go to, which is a where they mine the pipestone for the peace pipes that were used in a lot of the ceremonies, and I still have a pipe from there. That's pretty cool okay, so you know, you watch.
Speaker 1:You watch with how you offend us natives okay, well, I sent you a link to the casino oh, you did perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll definitely hit it up so did.
Speaker 1:Uh. So what else do you want to cover on trump executive orders or whatever? Do we want to move to ukraine? I'm gonna move to ukraine what are your thoughts on how he handled zelinski this time and zelinski wearing a suit?
Speaker 2:zelinski was showing off that he was wearing a suit like he was to a you know an uncle, or something like see, I did what you told me to do. It still wasn't a very good suit.
Speaker 1:I will say that like he's worn better with no tie what the hell he's like it was not very good fitting either.
Speaker 2:He he has tv shows that he was on while he was an actor still an actor but when he was actually getting paid as an actor, where he was wearing better quality suits than the one he wore to the White House. And did you hear the insult he gave one of the reporters? No, where the reporter said Mr Zielinski, I think you're wearing a great suit.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he said you're wearing the same suit.
Speaker 2:And you're wearing the same suit. He's basically implying the fact that he's a multi-millionaire. Thank you, US. And you're just a dumb reporter. Mm-hmm. So there was that. Look, the proof's going to be in the pudding, right?
Speaker 1:And the war ain't over right now. It's not, but you know I think we're pretty close.
Speaker 2:It won't be done until the US stops sending money.
Speaker 1:Have we heard where they're going to meet? Uh-uh, I haven't Maybe they announced it, but I haven't heard. I know Putin had said something about meeting in Moscow, but I don't think, zelensky, they would have to give so many guarantees for his.
Speaker 2:That was a joke, I think. Okay, although a little known fact is Zelensky used to live there, yeah, so he really built his TV company in Moscow.
Speaker 1:What Do you think it was the real Putin in Moscow?
Speaker 2:Yeah. It was the real Putin, but I think you don't think what body double? No, I don't, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:You don't think so.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Nope. So you think he had enough confidence that Trump was not going to have him just assassinate?
Speaker 2:him. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It was pretty cool, the F-35.
Speaker 2:That was very cool, I agree.
Speaker 1:I suspect that was a yeah was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:The f20, f35, that was very cool, I agree I think I suspect that was uh, yeah, I would bet that putin's gonna steal that, and whenever there is a meeting in moscow, you can guarantee there's going to be planes flying overhead yeah, but russia doesn't have the cool shit we don't know what they have because they haven't used everything they have.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Well, it's true. I mean, a lot of the plane designs that they've had are designs that came out of the Soviet Union, so what they've actually been working on since then, we don't know Well we kind of do. Not really, not really. That's. The beauty of having your own natural resources is that you leave a lot less trails for people yeah yeah yeah, it will be interesting did you hear the? I think it was the guy that Halsey Hawley the see which guy was it? I think it was the. The guy that?
Speaker 2:god, I palsy holly, senator holly okay, that guy was questioning somebody about components of electric vehicles made in china. Did you see that clip? No, I didn't. I I really like his style. I mean it's useless, right? Nothing ever happens that he does. But I enjoy the fact that he comes very prepared and then asks leading questions, the kind of shit he wouldn't be allowed to do in court, knowing that they're going to answer incorrectly and then put them through the wringer. So he's interviewing somebody about the electric vehicles. And then he had all the stats. The guy said well, well, that's incorrect. He's like well, according to this, blah, blah, blah, that's the numbers I have. What numbers do you have and where do they come from? And, of course, no one's ever prepared for that kind of stuff, right? But it was something to the effect that to to make electric car batteries, you're needing to get somewhere around 80% of your ingredients from China.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, it depends. So you're mining the lithium in Latin America or Canada.
Speaker 2:Right, but the issue is those are Chinese owned mines that are mining it.
Speaker 1:You're shipping it across.
Speaker 2:It's being refined, but it's a refined, but it's it's battery. The electronic vertical, it's a vertical dude right I get it.
Speaker 1:But my point is make an electric car, parts have to cross the pacific multiple times they do.
Speaker 2:Well, I think his point is if you want to make an electric car in the us I think he was arguing against making electric cars, he was just for having gasoline cars but that if you have to make electric cars in the US, if you're not going to just import them fully built from somewhere, you're still looking at a roughly 80% material base coming from China. Now could you do a separate deal somewhere with some other mine and set up your own processing? Like you could do a separate deal somewhere with some other mine and set up your own process. Like you could do a lot of that stuff. But if you just want to buy the stuff, today you're only able to either build or buy 20% that doesn't originate in China.
Speaker 2:So, that's the issue I mean. To me, this has always been the most serious problem for the US and all this Ukraine bullshit and Israel bullshit everything else is a distraction. The real issue here is that we may threaten China with tariffs, but China can absolutely make our factories stop working. That we do have, do have. And that, incidentally, as a reminder, remember that happened during covid not intentionally but unintentionally where some dorky chip for four vehicles wasn't shipped from china and there was a massive build-on of hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were perfectly built and fine but without that chip couldn't't run or couldn't be sold. They probably could run, but they couldn't be sold. I don't remember what the chip was, but it was something either in emissions or something else, and it was kind of like okay, and this happened just because we had a pretend virus going around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that originated from china well, everything originates from china.
Speaker 2:That's my point. 80 of viruses originate in china. They got a monopoly on this shit man I didn't realize you were chinese. I'm not chinese. My people have had a conflict with china for millennia.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much well, and you know, this is one thing that I am happy you know, as a native american I'm happy to see coming out of this summit and peace talks and everything is putin saying hey, we should do more business together.
Speaker 2:We're more natural allies I think he said that for a long time right, but saying it directly to trump and he literally said it to bill clinton I agree he tried to join nato.
Speaker 1:I understand this, but you know, hey, if he, if he, if we can get, you know, an anglo-russo alliance going and fuck over the chinese, let's do it. Alliance going and fuck over the Chinese, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Now. Neither US nor Russia have sufficient factories to just replace China right now. It would still take years, but it would be a good move.
Speaker 1:Okay, but Vietnam is building out like crazy.
Speaker 2:But Vietnam could have an accident very easily.
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:You know, big chemical spill, nuclear disaster just on the southern border, western border of China, it could happen. I mean all those little countries there, when you're not geographically isolated and you're small. All it would take is a little man-made Chernobyl event to happen, and goodbye Vietnam manufacturing China's been building out nukes like crazy, so it wouldn't even statistically be that unusual for one to blow up, and they've been building out non-light water reactors too yep.
Speaker 2:So I'm just saying it's, it's. I don't think china's gonna just sit there and take it. They will respond in some creative way. The one thing that I think we can be sure about chinese strategy is they they don't do the posturing in the same way that the West does.
Speaker 1:How so.
Speaker 2:Well, they're always willing to move aside and then start plotting how they're going to stab you in the back. Where the West really playbook tends to be more, if we move forward and we get pushed back, then we double down and move forward harder. Oh, okay, so it's just the difference in in cultural mentality, and I'm not saying you don't know this, I'm just saying, generally speaking, this isn't something that a lot of western leaders neglect is to take into account that, culturally, countries, through their leaders, behave differently to the same situation like what was the response to covet you watch response of every country, including china. Their response was to pretend it didn't happen and then then, when it's happening, to just lock everybody in by you know, welding their doors shut.
Speaker 2:Other countries acted quite differently.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, I mean, had the government tried to do that here, you would have had an armed revolt.
Speaker 2:I would hope so, I would really hope so, but still, it was shocking to me how willing people were to completely give up their right.
Speaker 1:I've told the story multiple times of not wearing a mask during covid. You know I I refused because you know, you know when this first happened it. When it first happened, you know it's like okay, well, you know, maybe an n95 or whatever until we know what this is. But then you see the size of the virus and you're like okay, well, that's not going to work. So no, masking isn't going to work. So no, I'm not wearing a fashion accessory. And you can't make me Not going to do it. I did.
Speaker 2:I commissioned a leather BDSM mask and I was wearing that the whole time.
Speaker 1:Good for you. I did not wear one. I didn't wear one at all during this and I went in. I remember purposefully going to Target when they did the lockdown order and the masking mandate in Tarrant County and it went into effect at 6 pm on Friday and I walked into that, went into effect at 6 pm on a Friday and I walked into that Target at 6.01 pm on a Friday and there's this poor little manager sitting up front saying sir, do you have a?
Speaker 1:mask. No, no, I don't. Well, we're trying to comply with the local health order. There's some for sale right over there, if you'd like one. Oh no, thank you Well, sir, on.
Speaker 1:oh no, thank you well sir, and I said well, surely you recognize that every order has an exemption. And she goes yes, sir. And I said you see, I have a condition that prevents me from wearing a mask. Oh, I'm so sorry, sorry to hear that a brain hold on. And I go yes, you see, I have an organ that's apparently vestigial in the majority of the population. She still didn't get it and I said it's called a brain and walked past yeah, I saw that coming from a mile away.
Speaker 1:She didn't but uh and I went to Jason's deli a few months later and was trying to get served, and they would not serve me because, I wasn't wearing a mask and they threatened to call the cops on me and I said all the cops go ahead, let's, let's, let's, let's get this settled. And anyway went back and forth, back and forth, and they didn't ever call the cops.
Speaker 1:but what I did was I went and found the owner of jason's deli and called the owner's offices and said do you want your people litigating whether or not someone is exempt or not?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I got a letter of apology and so on. Thanks, went back the next week, huh.
Speaker 2:You mean free food.
Speaker 1:I went back in the next week and walked in without a mask and the same person didn't say a word, they just. I'm sure they got quite the ass reaming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, no, that's. That's probably true. Masks were horrible for a lot of people, especially ones that bought into them, but were then too cheap to use disposables oh my god, I still see people wearing masks on planes it's, it's, it's insane, it's so I, yeah I I got a buddy that I know from gaming that works around suns fares, and so he cranked out a nice leather mask, right, and it's like it's compliant, it's a you know it's quote, quote mask. So there you go.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the thing is. People are just so stupid about it, Like I'm. I'm so sure that the masks probably causing more health issues than guaranteed?
Speaker 2:because they didn't. They certainly didn't do anything for the covet itself, so they had adverse effects. And it was all the masks that were either non-disposable or not N95, those actually cause a problem. If you're wearing a disposable N95, you're probably okay. It's stupid, it didn't help you.
Speaker 1:There's a smell, so what chemicals?
Speaker 2:are you breathing in constantly what? There's a smell in the mask? Yeah, I think you got a bad batch. There should be no smell in that mask. Yeah, I think you got a bad batch. There should be no smell in that mask.
Speaker 1:Okay, you're getting an 85. If I remember I had and still have are from like woodworking stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, okay, yeah, I remember we went shooting with Adam during COVID and after that we drove out to I can't remember the name of the little town, but it was. You know it's like 30 miles south of Austin or whatever, close to where we were shooting outdoors there. And then I drove out to the following cute little restaurant, went in there we're not wearing masks, obviously and we walk in and they're like yeah, we're going to, you know, eat lunch. They're like, okay, well, well, you guys can sit over here. The table is literally 10 feet away.
Speaker 2:And then they they say what you guys have to mask up but as soon as you sit down yeah, of course, as soon as you sit down you can take it up, but we're we're both gonna look at each other. Look at the, the hostess look at the table that's 10 feet away. It's like, see you, you would like us to wear masks for those 10 feet. There's like, yes, yes, I was like okay, where's the bathroom? It's like I like to look at a mirror when I put my mask on. So I'm gonna go to the bathroom, walk 40 feet, then I'm gonna come back out of there and I'll put the mask on so I can walk to the table. I mean, it's a private establishment and they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Speaker 2:They can tell you that they're not going to serve you if you don't want to wear a mask.
Speaker 1:No, they can't, Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Actually, they can.
Speaker 1:In state Texas? No, they can't.
Speaker 2:In Texas. For any reason, I can expel a person from a restaurant.
Speaker 1:You cannot Anti-discrimination laws? Nope, Put them on their own fucking petard dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's not discrimination because you're not a protected class if you're a non-mask wearer.
Speaker 1:You don't have to be a protected class.
Speaker 2:Anti-discrimination clause only applied to protected classes.
Speaker 1:Don't believe, so Look it up. Okay, I will.
Speaker 2:That's how these things are written, man, Anyway. So Now me, being Native American, I'm a protected class.
Speaker 1:Well, I have Native American blood.
Speaker 2:Oh see, you should have mentioned that.
Speaker 1:By the way, did you see the hey brother? We're related. Hey, did you see the appeals court no which on what Did you see the brother?
Speaker 2:We're related. Hey, did you see the appeals court no.
Speaker 1:Which, on what New York appeals court throws out Trump's more than $500 million fraud judgment.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome. I did not see that.
Speaker 1:That's great, wow, I'm going to guess that they're not going to appeal that appeal. They may not have grounds to yeah, yeah, and I mean they know it's not going to go anywhere at this point, yeah, but it's a terrible, terrible thing, but a nice victory, you know so it's.
Speaker 2:what's terrible is the fact that new york gets to have judges and prosecutors, but really judges the one I'm looking at here that are completely bought for or sold, or however you want to describe it Like these people are owned by somebody.
Speaker 1:Well, the appeals court even found that it was an excessive fine.
Speaker 2:Well, of course it would. How about Alex Jones? He needs an appeal.
Speaker 1:He does quick before they sell off InfoWars.
Speaker 2:Well, they keep you know every time he mentions that he raises more money, so it's actually probably working pretty good right now for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe, but at some point, yes, he'd have to do the ringer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was, I don't know. I'm a little miffed that they didn't hire me, because I would have been a perfect person for that. But you know, I still wish Alex well.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, he's been doing the rounds too. Yeah for sure On other people's shows. Another good news for Donald Trump tariff revenues have skyrocketed in just a few months, soaring past 2024 levels.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not looking forward to seeing what kind of tariff I have to pay here shortly On what I had to order a replacement joystick, and it's already overpriced, as is but the gaming accessory that you own is overpriced it's. This has been a very solid stick. I've had it for three years. One of 16 buttons is starting to go bad and unfortunately there's no easy way to replace just that one button right, but can't do you need that one button? Yeah, it's my thumb button.
Speaker 2:Okay, you have 16 others on there but every finger is on some kind of button, someone. I'm not gonna not have a thumb, but I mean I do have two backup joysticks for that one, but I don't like the way they feel, so I had to order a replacement. Replacement, I know so, and two, two, fuck yous with that. So the price of the actual stick itself hasn't gone up. That's the same. However, they only ship DHL now to the US.
Speaker 2:Because that's the only ones that are going to collect the tariffs, apparently. So the shipping from DHL, Now you imagine joysticks, mostly plastic and electronics, right? Yep $37 shipping and I don't know what the tariff will be when it shows up.
Speaker 1:Can you find a joystick already in the US that would work?
Speaker 2:No, they don't have these in the US. Okay, I mean they do. But I guarantee you, if anyone's selling one on eBay, they're marking it up by 3x. That's what I would do if I sold my backup sticks I would micro-mop 3x to sell them because they're so hard to get.
Speaker 1:Hmm, why.
Speaker 2:Well, because we've had some supply issues for a while there, they stopped shipping altogether to the us because it was just too much of a pain to deal with the tariffs. Now they've resumed shipping, but they've got this crazy high cost where you know. Basically it, it's very likely that the price I'm going to pay is double what the price that I actually quote-unquote bought it for is. So not a happy camper about that. I mean, I think the tariffs are working, obviously, but it's not like we're going to get a new high-end joystick manufacturer springing up here overnight.
Speaker 1:So back to real news.
Speaker 2:These guys are in Belarus and they make the sticks that I like, and then their main competitors are in latvia, who are assholes can't trust them.
Speaker 1:they make the other high-end joysticks so back to real news they both manufacture them in china venezuela woke up to three guided missile destroyers off its coast what's this, though? I didn't hear that either yeah, so trump has authorized the use of military force against terrorist organizations such as the cartels in mexico and latin america, and this was all part of that holy shit, I didn't realize it was more than just mexico yep okay I would not want to be a cartel member right now.
Speaker 2:Don't drone me, bro no, no, definitely like seriously he has authorized the use of military force.
Speaker 1:Well, the the canadian prime minister and the mexican president have condemned the hell out. Authorize the use of military force. Well, the Canadian Prime Minister and the Mexican President have condemned the hell out of this. America's going to be attacking its neighbors now Our neighbors are. Are you trying to tell us something?
Speaker 2:If the neighbors have been attacking us for years, what's the proper response? Well, it's obviously a special military operation.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do. It's awesome. I like that.
Speaker 1:So we'll see, man. I think it could be very interesting to see how that goes, because Venezuela's not going to respond Mexico. Venezuela is not going to respond, Mexico is certainly not going to respond.
Speaker 2:Mexico isn't going to do shit their government. Frankly, I think it's pretty obvious. Their government has been owned by the cartels for a long time.
Speaker 1:How many presidential candidates died? The last time around.
Speaker 2:Yep, but I didn't realize it went beyond Mexico. That's very cool actually.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Yeah, by the way, china issued a warning in response. Don't do that, us. No, what the fuck are you going to do about it? You have no blue water navy.
Speaker 2:Fuck off, they don't need one. They're only looking in taiwan they.
Speaker 1:They do need a blue water navy and you saw, did we talk about the collision last week?
Speaker 2:it was hilarious. It was like watching a car crash, with asian people driving oh no well, I mean seriously, how do you not see something that big? You know, you know, the filipinos who got away are just laughing their asses off yeah, because at the beginning of the video is just showing the, the chinese cruiser, going and harassing really close, yeah, basically harassing the little bitty tiny Filipino boat. And then the Filipino boat's going left, right, left, right and then it cuts really sharp left and you see a Chinese destroyer running into the cruiser.
Speaker 1:It's like what the hell man?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, the Chinese are really a threat, but hey, their boats boats didn't sink. That's a pretty massive collision still yeah, oh again. I just, I don't think anyone needs boats right now, you just need missiles oh, you gotta have something to fire the missiles from.
Speaker 2:I posted a yeah, north Korea. I posted a video of an advert from an American anti-drone company, which is freaking awesome. So their product I think they're a fairly small company. Their product has sensors that hone in on the drone and then shoot it. It's good old kinetic stopping power and the size of this contraption is about a yard by yard by yard and so it's very compact. But you know it can spin around and like. It will spin around and aim very quickly at where it sees a drone and then presumably will fire at it. But one of the things they show in their video is having this thing in the back of a van where the back doors open up, this thing starts, you know, moving around, sees the drone, shoots down and you drive away, because this is the kind of shit that we're going to see in the next conflict.
Speaker 1:Conflict it's. The preview from Ukraine has been very obvious that if you have soldiers that are not preparedter style drones used you know the U S, you know we think of our Reaper and predator drones but this, which are very useful and they have longer lingering times and everything else, but you know it costs an arm and a leg.
Speaker 1:They do, but they're also not going to get shot down by you know very much You'd have to have a, you know, yeah, very much like you'd have to have a, you know, surface to air missile to take them out but we've had drones in video games like battlefield for 15 years, so it's interesting how they're actually in real life showed up finally in warfare, and they're they're.
Speaker 2:You know they're still not like 200 drones, but they are thousand to five thousand dollar drones and closer to a thousand than five thousand, and they're very effective at taking out targets, whether it's a human target trying to stay alive or whether it's a vehicle that's being driven. You know mostly what the russians did. Is they just started issuing everybody a shotgun?
Speaker 1:yeah, and I think that's what the us has decided they're going to do as well. But you know, if you're close enough to knock it out with a shotgun, you might, you still might not make it, you know yeah exactly the. The other thing that's interesting is the stories from ukraine, where, you know, the forest is just looks like a spider web because of all the you know command and control lines.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, at least that shit doesn't blow up. Yeah, Because you know, when I was a kid, going into the forest it was still dangerous, because you still were warned that this was back in the 70s, that there are likely still unexploded German mines out there, and every year you'd hear about kids that would get blown up Because that whole Finnish border was just mine. To hell.
Speaker 1:Well, and you know, landmines have been outlawed.
Speaker 2:So we don't have that problem. Whatever that means, outlawed.
Speaker 1:Yeah tell that to the african warlords well, you know, trump's slowly closing out conflict after conflict. So he closed, uh, some pretty good ones in africa too what did he close in africa?
Speaker 2:oh?
Speaker 1:oh shit, was it Uganda? Some war that's been going on for 30 years.
Speaker 2:I saw the clip of the monks the Buddhist monks like trying to rally to give him a peace prize well, I think Putin should put him in for a peace prize.
Speaker 1:That'd be hilarious.
Speaker 2:I think he should, I agree uh, yeah and I don't think putin would have anything against doing that huh, we'll see bbc how many of wars has.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was rwanda. Rwanda okay In the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Speaker 2:What was the movie about Rwanda?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but yeah, bbc has a movie about how many wars has President Trump stopped? And they say Israel, Iran, India, Pakistan, Rwanda and Congo, and then Thailand and Cambodia, which I didn't realize.
Speaker 2:That's probably the Buddhist monk one.
Speaker 1:Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Speaker 2:Well, egypt and Ethiopia. Okay, that's going to be a temporary conflict, because Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting for thousands of years. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I want to go to Azerbaijan, I want to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you want to eat to Azerbaijan.
Speaker 1:I want to go. Yeah, I know you want to eat food. Yes, yeah, I wouldn't mind.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, so did I tell you. I got a new neighbor.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So met the guy the other day.
Speaker 1:You're clearly not looking at your texts.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not. Should I be? Yes, okay, yeah, met the guy the other day. You're clearly not looking at your texts. No, I'm not. Should I be? Yes, okay, yeah. So met the guys. I'm walking towards the garage.
Speaker 2:I can hear russian music playing okay oh, this is interesting, is my replacement here already, and so I'm walk up there, you know, say hi and talk a little bit, and so that was that russian music I heard. Oh, it says yeah, yeah, this is I'm from saint peter, originally from azerbaijan, but then from saint peter more recently. I'm like, yeah, and then we switched to russian, but it was. It was very funny, because you generally don't expect in a city the size of Austin, which is, say, not a very big city and certainly not one with a big Russian population, to have a new neighbor show up who is from the old country. So it was a fun experience.
Speaker 1:That is fun.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, so I asked him so who are you the handler for?
Speaker 1:Well, clearly you're my KGB he had a good laugh about it.
Speaker 2:There's no KGB. He had a good laugh about it.
Speaker 1:There's no.
Speaker 2:KGB. Let's see what else is going on. So what were you saying about Ukraine?
Speaker 1:Oh, I was just trying to say. Did you see the BBC story about the Ukrainian held in Italy over Nord Stream gas pipeline blast?
Speaker 2:I just saw the headline what are they? I mean, it was obviously not some Ukrainian dude, it was us.
Speaker 1:But I don't know, but they're holding Ukraine responsible and German prosecutors are, you know, issuing an arrest for this guy and seeking extradition.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so this is some random civilian dude from ukraine that had the types of explosives, the fission quality of explosives, the underwater equipment to be able to accurately place this at a weak joint and blow up the entire pipeline.
Speaker 1:That's, that's what they're saying I mean it could be bullshit.
Speaker 2:No it's just, but you know, remember you bring the nine involvement in this anyway.
Speaker 1:But remember the story was that it was the Russians that blew up their own pipeline.
Speaker 2:Right, of course, yeah.
Speaker 1:Right. So it's just, it's hilarious to me to watch. Just wait and watch it change right, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So Well and at this point it's been so damn long, I don't remember anymore, but wasn't when that explosion happened? Wasn't Nord Stream 2 basically ready to go?
Speaker 2:All they have to do is turn the damn thing on in germany I don't remember I'm pretty sure that was the case and and biden just said that yeah, it's never getting turned on. I don't know. I mean it's again. It's like they thought this would be hurting Russia because it's lack of dollars and sales, which it certainly was, but it hurt Europe a hell of a lot more.
Speaker 1:Oh it, it gutted the German manufacturing base.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then, you know, I watch a YouTuber out of Austria who was talking about having, like the, the worst winter in terms of power going up and down and all kinds of things that she's ever experienced in her life.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what about the OnlyFans girls from Germany and Austria? Come on, guys.
Speaker 1:What do you think of this Indian truck driver that did the U-turn?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I watched the full video pretty early on. Somebody posted it. I think it got pulled afterwards. That's a nasty, nasty accident. There's about five cars that were involved in this thing. Yeah, have they given a cause or just simply said who the driver is? And there, look, I've seen posts on the x of people basically wanting to go kill this guy. Oh yeah, People are like with no ifs, ands or buts or coded messaging. It's like just you know, tell us where he is, they'll be in that.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, it's just why are we giving essentially an illegal alien a CEL in California?
Speaker 2:Well, we shouldn't be giving him anything in California because, you know, as a virtual truck driver, I consider myself part of the truck driving community and so I actually watch a lot of truck channels. It's not like there's a huge lack of people right now for truck driving jobs. There's a bit of a glutton fact of people who are wanting to drive and there's fewer jobs available. So the fact that we have California going out of its way to give somebody that shouldn't have a a license to actually do that, that's insane. Like how do you get a class a license, how do you get any class license without being able to read English?
Speaker 1:It's California is a failed state at this point.
Speaker 2:I was watching Asmund Gold talking about this and his take this is so funny is you know, asmund is sort of the what many people would consider the stereotypical live in the basement, millennial incel loser, even though the guy is worth like 25 million. But his take is how are we even allowing anybody legally to come to the US? Like, obviously illegal shouldn't be coming, but how are we even allowing legals to come to the us before they know english? He thinks it ought to be a requirement for even applying to come to the us is that you pass the english test I tend to I do too.
Speaker 2:I I think that's not a bad idea, because that that is something that you're going to need, that skill. How do you, how do you get by without it? You know, like my ex-wife, she was learning english for like a good probably nine months before coming over and her english wasn't very good. But you know, at least she could understand what other people are telling her and she could kind of answer them.
Speaker 1:So so do you want to talk about the cracker barrel thing, or now? Oh my god, what the fuck, dude? How are people so blowing up this? I don't who likes cracker barrel.
Speaker 2:Hold up, hold up. Are we on the opposite side of this? I can't believe. Those motherfucking liberal cocksuckers have tried to ruin another classic American brand like Cracker Barrel. I like Cracker Barrel. I don't have to ever go to a Cracker Barrel to know that I like Cracker Barrel. I think last time I was in a Cracker Barrel was about 12 years ago, but it doesn't matter, because I remember what it looked like, a sense of like. If I ever want that, if I ever want like 1960s wooden furniture and an interior that's somewhere between a perkins and the buckies, then there's a place to go. And it turns out they hired fucking kathleen kennedy or the, the chick that fucked up budweiser or some clone thereof, who thinks now it's a great idea to change cracker barrels into gay safe spaces what the fuck.
Speaker 1:I don't know man, but the memes are great.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, of course the memes are great.
Speaker 1:You saw the Sidney Sweeney meme I put in your. She also is endorsing brandon herrera apparently is that real or computer generated? No, it's computer generated. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say I kind of doubt that. That would be I. I don't think she's gonna endorse somebody that she's not even aware of yeah, it would be hilarious, though she did well I you know.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think she certainly at a point where she could yes that one. I saw the charlie kirk one. You sent me that that actually was. Somebody else did that one and I saw it earlier already, but it's basically showing the old cracker barrel logo next to a picture of sy Sidney Sweeney and then the new Cracker Barrel logo next to a double plus chick wearing jeans and having her flap hanging out. Yeah, yeah, look, I don't have to change what I say in X, because for every single one of these things it's the same comment Abolish the 19th. This is what happens when you let women vote.
Speaker 1:Okay, I think this is what happens when we have a lot of stupid people in our Congress and we change the basic function of our government.
Speaker 2:Which happens because women vote.
Speaker 1:Some of it happened before that, but okay.
Speaker 2:Oh really, before 1917?, 1915? When did women get to vote?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I'd have to go back and look.
Speaker 2:No, you're saying it happened before, then I'm saying it's happened since then.
Speaker 1:In the last hundred years. Yeah, I'm not worried about back then, that's happened since then in the last hundred years or happened before then I, yeah, I, I don't.
Speaker 2:I'm not worried about back then, I'm worried about what's been happening since women got to vote yeah, this is a much bigger issue. This is one we actually live in the consequences of. So let me ask you a question. So I was having a conversation with somebody talking about like what's it mean for a woman to be submissive?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:What's your? What would you say would be that, Like someone asked you. So if you say, like a wife should be submissive, what would, what would does that mean, or what would that mean?
Speaker 1:So I, I, you, you have to put this in context. So for me it means Ephesians 5. So Ephesians 5, but you really need a Psalms. What 11 woman?
Speaker 2:Can we talk without the shortcuts?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like for the heathens listening. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:All right For the heathens listening. What are you talking about? All right? So the woman described in Psalms as an ideal wife is someone who is very capable, who can go out and earn money if her family needs her to, can do things, can fight the tyrant if necessary.
Speaker 1:The Ephesians 5 version of marriage is wives, submit yourselves to your husbands. You know, the man is the head and the woman is the body of the marriage, joining into one flesh. And men, love your wives as you would love your own body, because you know, no man hated his own, has ever surely hated his own body. So you're supposed to see it as that? That's not to say a woman shouldn't have opinions. That's not to say your wife shouldn't be your most trusted advisor. She should be, you know. But ultimately you cannot have a democracy of two in a marriage. Someone has to make the decisions and then take the responsibility for those decisions. For instance, if my wife wanted to do X, y, z, and I think it's a bad idea, but I acquiesce, well, and it turns out it was a bad idea, that's on me. So there's no blame game going on there. There's none of that.
Speaker 1:Maybe, a conversation. See, I knew this was a bad idea and we shouldn't have done it, but it's on me and you know, let's learn from this. How do we learn from this? But really it is 1 Timothy 2.11.
Speaker 2:That's how you learn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. Ultimately the man is the head of the household. Now, I wouldn't go so far as to say it has to be the man. I think for me it does, but that's because Someone has to be the man, someone has to be the head. And if the woman is more of a man than the man and smarter and more capable, then fine, I wouldn't ever be in a relationship like that because yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing like that. Because yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing like that is very capable and I make the money. I like that. By education, by personality, by everything, I should be the head of my household right yeah, so anyway, what was your conversation with the other person?
Speaker 2:Well, it was right along the exact same lines, just without using, you know, 1 Peter 3.7, genesis 3.16, 1 Timothy 2.11, ephesians 5.21, hebrews 13.17, titus 2.5. Without any of those, basically just saying that submission is simply who gets to make the final decision? You can disagree with your husband all you want, you can try and convince your husband that what you're wanting to do or not do is correct, but the submission is that in the end, when he makes the decision, you will stand by that decision and submit to him in his choice of what you as a family are going to do.
Speaker 1:It also.
Speaker 2:You can't have two equal votes is my point.
Speaker 1:Right, and it also means that you need to have someone who, even if the decision is made that they don't agree with, but once the decision is made, they're willing to go with it, support it and at least publicly agree yep yeah, exactly and honestly, it is absolutely the exact same thing I would say about a business relationship.
Speaker 2:If you have a business partner, you have to, at the start of that partnership, you have to have one of the partners be the one that has either more shares or you know, ideally more shares, like that's the clean way to do it.
Speaker 2:But if you are 50-50, you still need to make a decision in writing, with an agreement that one of the people is going to be where the buck stops.
Speaker 2:And the easier way, like I said, simply do it with one being 51%, one being 49 or whatever non-equal percentages. Because you're, just like in the marriage, you're more than welcome to try and convince the other person that you're on the correct side here, but in the end you have to abide by what that person decides and you have to not try and stab them in the back. You're like you if the, if the decisions made on behalf of the company, just like on behalf of the marriage, you have to go along with that decision, even if you were initially arguing against it. And that's also one of the 12 principles of Amazon that Bezos kind of came up with or stole. Whichever way you want to think about it, it's the same approach is that, once the decision has been made, everybody on the team is supporting that decision and not trying to, you know, prove that they were right all along and sabotage it.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, and it's. I think this goes beyond just business. It goes to employee employer Sure. Well, so, for instance, you know my VP that you know I talk with regularly because he's my boss he and I will disagree on a lot of different things or how to handle something specific, and the result is I, you know he's got the call on how we handle something and I may not like it, but you know I'll support it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not like it, but you know I'll support it. Yeah, and it's for whatever reason? Well, and we know the reason it's women voting is the reason, and feminism the population of your age and younger seems to have this asinine idea that somehow they're in a partnership and not in a marriage. It just drives me. It's like it's grating, it's like nails on a chalkboard, which is probably something most people haven't heard of. That are your age.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everyone's looking at TV screens these days.
Speaker 2:I've literally done it. Have you, yeah. But it's a grating sound when I hear somebody in their 20s or 30s even talk about like a guy talking about his wife and not ever calling her his wife and just calling her his partner. Because my gut reaction is like, oh so you guys are like poly. Well, because I mean you. Obviously, if you have a partner outside of your wife, obviously you're into threesomes or you know couplets or whatever.
Speaker 1:So what the fuck man it's, if she's your wife, she's your wife, she's not your partner you know, and I even had a discussion and kind of disagreement with someone the other day about arranged marriages. You know well, thankfully we don't have arranged marriages here. Well, that's not necessarily a good thing.
Speaker 2:I would agree. I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. I think that I've certainly had, over the years, handful of people that have been in arranged marriages that have worked for me, and I wouldn't say they're any less happy and occasionally even more happy than people that pick their own spouses in their marriages and then ended up bitching about how much they dislike them after a year or two. I think in some ways here's what you do within the arranged marriage you set very low expectations, you hope that your parents aren't going to screw you over, but essentially you assume the worst and so your expectations coming into it are really low, and if that person actually proves your expectations wrong because they're better than what you expected, well, that's a better marriage than most in this country well, and not only that, you have the.
Speaker 1:You know, love is not the only reason for a marriage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cs lewis proved different types of love. Ben, I have to tell you, you know there's there's at least three different types of love out there in in greek. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the no cs lewis. You know his marriage was he was gay, right? No, no I heard something anyway. His marriage was not for romantic love at first it turned it.
Speaker 1:But you know there are. There are four types of love in the greek language. You know there are four different types and this is something I think a lot of people miss and why I choose my translations carefully on the bible. Because, for instance, you know, love is patient, love is kind. Well, that's the nib translation. Kjv translation is charity is patient, charity is coming. Everybody uses that at weddings. That's the NIV translation. Kjv translation is charity is patient, charity is kind. Everybody uses that at weddings. That's a whole different woman. It is it's agape, not eros Exactly so it is very different right.
Speaker 1:And it's something you just have to recognize is there are different types of love. You know you have agape, which is God's love. It's endless, it's unrelenting, it is unconditional. You know you have eros, which is the sexual type of love that is there, you have the attraction type love. Yes, you have storge and philia right, these are all different emotions and different things. That in the English language.
Speaker 2:I think storge is thought of more as a bond right, it's.
Speaker 1:It's more like a fraternity and then philia is family. But you know in in the english language, you know we might say brotherly love, or you know fraternal love or something like that. But it's a the English language. Instead of having a separate word, we use modifiers, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we do, but we often don't. We should, but we don't, so sometimes people have different meanings for the same word.
Speaker 1:Lots of people are lazy in their speech and not precise.
Speaker 2:Dude. I heard a bad stat the other day that the English language since the year 2000 has lost 14,000 words. American English.
Speaker 1:How have we lost these words?
Speaker 2:So these are considered out-of-use words and they're kind of in the secondary category in dictionaries. They're words that are not commonly used. Secondary category in dictionaries they're words that are not commonly used and words that used to be part of the common vocabulary. We've now demoted 14,000 of them into essentially what I mean. It is a little hyperbolic to call them lost words, but they're certainly words that have lost common usage. I blame the phones for this.
Speaker 1:Well, what are some of the words?
Speaker 2:The article didn't actually mention what they were, they just gave them a number.
Speaker 1:Well, that's fucking useless.
Speaker 2:Well, look, I guarantee you, if you read a book whose target audience is not young adults, you will have some of those words in the book that are rarely used in modern speech.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's a bad stat. It doesn't matter what they are, I'm just saying it's a bad stat Because what you want to hear is that we've added an additional thousand words every year to the English language because people are being creative and they're kind of like they were in the 1930s well, I'm sure we are adding crazy words.
Speaker 2:You know, it's what's coming off and what's going on yeah, well, like Riz, you know which is an abbreviation, but yeah, there's a. Somebody did a video I watched probably six months ago. I don't think I sent it to you. I sent it to Adam. It was hilarious, but it was going through and dissecting the language of the Zoomers, like all the words that they use that were not commonly used previously.
Speaker 2:And it turns out that over half of the what zoomers with the yeah, what they would think are their words were actually words from the 1930s or 40s or 50s. Like half of them have already been popular and then died off and have now been resurrected by people who think they invented them it is. It is pretty funny.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, hey, what is old is new again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because no one ever remembers history, fun stuff. What was the thing I said? Hey, let's talk about it. Did we already talk about it? I can't remember what I said talk about yesterday. It's something I sent you the other day.
Speaker 1:I don't remember, dude. This week I have had back-to-back meetings and been oh yeah, the hemp ban in texas okay, what's the hemp?
Speaker 2:have you read up on this at all or not? No apparently there's a legislation sb6 which is an almost complete ban on all hemp related products in texas. Why?
Speaker 1:would we do that?
Speaker 2:I think that they're well clearly. It's legislation that's out there, so there's a push for it now. Our governor has already vetoed a similar bill previously because it actually fully banned all marijuana products legalize.
Speaker 1:We're legalizing research into ibogaine, which is what psychedelic? Oh okay, yeah, so harry was all about that.
Speaker 2:He was, yeah, so sb6 is basically taking anything that is a derivative of cannabis, except for what's? The, the non, uh, the non-active ingredient. I can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 1:I don't know. There are a lot of cannabinoids.
Speaker 2:Cannabinoids. Yeah well, whatever it is. Anyway, it's extremely limiting, and so there's a thought that he might ban it again if it passes. But you know, a similar bill, in fact a more restrictive bill passed the last legislative session, and so the guy doing the story thinks it's likely to get passed again. And will the governor veto it this time or not is the question. I thought Texas was going the way of most other states and basically fully decriminalizing all the hemp-related stuff, but this doesn't sound like that's the case yeah I don't have a dog in this pony race, so I don't either I don't care.
Speaker 2:I think people that smoke pot are always going to smoke pot and have always smoked pot, no matter what. I was talking to a guy on a YouTube channel who was playing a video game on his YouTube channel, talking about how he has zero money and Zinc, truncate sodium, aspartate, sorbitol and I don't know what that was. He has zero money and you heard that. Yeah, huh.
Speaker 1:Weird that that would play back through Sorry.
Speaker 2:It did a little bit.
Speaker 1:That was a random thing on Twitter.
Speaker 2:And so he. You know, it's just a weird, you know a junction where somebody Is complaining about not working, having no money, having creditors be pestering him To where he's avoiding them and at the same time he's on YouTube playing a video game.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And do you not think that that's ironic?
Speaker 1:Why would that be ironic?
Speaker 2:Because he ought to be either looking for work or working, and not fucking around on the internet playing video games.
Speaker 1:I mean fuck man hey, shut up, I'm busy, I'm doing things.
Speaker 2:I'm fuck man Kettle black hey shut up, I'm busy, I'm doing things. I'm, you know, I'm moving and hustling and shaking and things. Uh-huh, uh-huh. I'll speak now. Did I already talk about the video? I'm trying to remember? Yeah, I think I did.
Speaker 1:I talked about last time, so yeah, because you didn't have anything to say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you didn't have anything to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah Because I was busy. So I did end up finally finishing out the second weekend. So over the two weekends I did about 70 hours in that beta, which was sufficient enough to get me to unlock everything.
Speaker 1:Now, how did you do 70 hours in two weeks?
Speaker 2:I'm a very dedicated person when I set my mind to it, Ben.
Speaker 1:That's just a lot of video game time in that short amount of time, dude.
Speaker 2:Well, keep in mind, weekend starts on Fridays. It's actually six days, not four days, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, Like I would Okay.
Speaker 2:You know, you get up in the morning, you brush your teeth, you take a shower maybe, maybe not Then you go and play video games and then it's midnight and you think I got a couple more hours than me.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I was streaming too, so people were watching the stream, which is fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you make anything else.
Speaker 2:No, I don't make any money on YouTube.
Speaker 1:Why not?
Speaker 2:I'm not monetized. I wish I could. Why aren't.
Speaker 1:Why is your video game channel not monetized?
Speaker 2:because youtube has it's fucked up. I think I've talked about this before, but basically I used to have a google ads account back like 15 years ago, when I was doing a lot of photography stuff and so I was buying and I was doing reviews of photo gear. I stopped doing that probably over 15 years ago. Accounts have been dormant, not doing anything, for all that time. When I came in to set up this channel, it said, oh well, you already have an AdWords account, so we'll use that. I was like, okay, I guess, whatever.
Speaker 2:And then a few days later I got a notice that says we're sorry, but we've decided that your website does not have sufficient interest for our advertisers, so we're not going to approve your account. Well, I didn't want my website like. My website doesn't exist anymore, obviously. So point long story short is for about seven months I kept trying to set up a different adwords account, which is how you get paid on youtube, and it just will not let me. It basically says you can only have one per human being, and the one that I have can't be reset in order to be used with YouTube. So I'm just locked out of YouTube, basically, so they don't care what my viewers are. I mean conservatively speaking. Over the last nine months that I've been on there, I think YouTube has kept somewhere around $10,000 that I haven't gotten.
Speaker 1:So why don't you? I can't do anything. I have a company Dude no, just set up a different channel and set up a new AdWords account. Dude no, just set up a different channel and set up a new AdWords account.
Speaker 2:Growing the channel takes not just energy, it takes luck, and I got luck when I grew this channel.
Speaker 1:Right. But you could create another channel and stuff like that. You could move it over and just tell people, hey, fuck you If I told people, hey, you should go watch, move it over and just tell people hey.
Speaker 2:If I told people, hey, you should go this, watch this one instead, subscribe to this one instead. This first one is fucked. I probably would have less than half of the people that I currently have, Cause most people just don't want to be bothered to do things. The other aspect of it is again, it's not about a different channel. I can have other channels, it's not a problem. The problem is that they basically won't create a new AdWords account for me, and the one that I have is obviously borked because it it should flip to say it's now a youtube account and it doesn't. It's still trying to say that I've got some website that I'm selling products on or something.
Speaker 2:So I look, but I spent six months trying to do this.
Speaker 1:I just gave up have you appealed to google?
Speaker 2:there are no humans until you get to 100,000 subscribers. You only talk to bots and the bots keep telling me keep making videos and someday you'll get approved. It's like the only way to fix this and I think it would be a very quick fix. I'm guessing here, but I'm probably right. A human could probably go look at my account a human that works for Google. They would look in there. I would describe the problem. They would say, oh sure, I just need to check this box and it would be fixed. The problem is you literally cannot get a human at the size channel I am and they tell you that they like we don't. We don't have capacity for that, and so we don't do it. We don't offer any human support for channels of your size.
Speaker 1:Well, if anyone knows anyone who works at YouTube and can help Jean out, yeah, I kind of doubt any of our audience works at YouTube, but yeah, why not like reach out to adam or someone I?
Speaker 2:talked to brian brushwood. He's got a million plus accounts, whatever. And he he went yeah, that sucks, well fuck you, brian be nicer. I don't know that he can do anything about either. I mean, that's the thing, it's kind of like youtube guy it's you know, it's I. The bigger the channel gets, the more mad I'm going to get right. It might be 10 grand right now.
Speaker 2:It might be a lot more than 10 grand a year from now yeah but it's also like I literally feel like I've been hitting my head against the wall for roughly 6 months and I just said, okay, screw it. I'm said, okay, screw it, I'm not going to worry about it.
Speaker 1:Well, cut it off and go ahead and start over now.
Speaker 2:But it's not going to do anything. The issue isn't the YouTube Google person in their database has one associated account for marketing which they do not replace. They tell you you can't do it. If you try, then they will just cancel the new account and restore your old one. Like you, you can't, I think. I think probably there was some fraud that went on with the people doing this originally and so their policy changed to basically say you can only have one account for your whole life and if you know you can either use it or not use it, but you can't get another one.
Speaker 2:There is one way to get around this, but I haven't bothered going down that route. One way to get around this, but I haven't bothered going down that route. There's a way to assign your YouTube channel to a management company, to, essentially, an organization that manages your channel's advertising. Typically, they'll get a very large chunk of your advertising money for doing that, but that's literally the only thing that I haven't tried. That probably would work, but it'd be kind of like okay, so do I really want to just be giving up a ton of my ad revenue to some company that does nothing? What?
Speaker 1:It's better than not having any ad revenue.
Speaker 2:I don't know that it is. I don't know that it is. I don't know that it is because, by not having advertising, you know what I can do on my channel they fuck you no I can play all the fucking music I want okay which you can't do if you're making money.
Speaker 2:I, by having a non-, nonprofit channel, I have certain freedoms that I wouldn't have if I was getting ad revenue. Now I'm not using any of those freedoms cause it's not a political channel, it's purely a gaming channel. But you know, I don't know, I don't know I'm, I was frustrated with this for a long time. I just, I've just walked away. I don't know. I don't know, I was frustrated with this for a long time. I've just walked away. I don't care, whatever.
Speaker 1:So much for Atlas Gaming.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, it's one of those things where I'm not going to get frustrated at something that has nothing to do with my actual enjoyment of the game or my actual uh you know interaction with the people that enjoy watching me play it, like I never did this for the money in the first place. It'd be nice if I was getting some money, but it's that wasn't why I got into doing this, so, whatever, it doesn't matter. You know, money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 2:Ben okay, I like money yeah, I know, I know, I I. It took me a long time to realize that. I don't realized that I don't. Uh-huh, if I could have all the things that I want without using money to get them, I would be happier.
Speaker 1:Your communist traits do come.
Speaker 2:I prefer other people just give me things. So, speaking of, I'm doing a big collection drive right now in in the really dangerous in the main game that I play, because a brand new ship just came out. It is a a group carrier or a vanguard's carrier is what they were calling it originally, but I guess now it's a squad carrier. But it's the biggest ship that you can have in the game, meant for organizations, not really for individuals, and it's very expensive.
Speaker 2:It's 25 billion of the in-game currency translate to in real dollars well, it's hard to say because there's not really a good translation tool for that. I will tell you what it translates to in terms of time, investment is to make 25 billion, probably somewhere around thousand hours 1,000 hours and what is your normal hourly rate. Well, I mean, that's the thing it's like. The hourly rate I think is around, you know, around $250 million an hour.
Speaker 1:Okay, uh-huh.
Speaker 2:So, but in-game, that's what I mean, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1:It's Right, but I meant your normal hourly rate. Oh Well, that's what I mean. I'm not kidding, Right, but I meant your normal hourly rate.
Speaker 2:Oh well, that's highly dependable.
Speaker 1:Like in real world.
Speaker 2:I mean in real world, like if I'm doing stuff for clients, it's $360 an hour.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's how much it costs you in real world money then.
Speaker 2:Well, no, because it took me a lot longer than an hour to save up for it in game.
Speaker 1:Times the thousand hours required.
Speaker 2:So if you're saying yeah, sure, so you know if you're going that way about it, yeah, that's probably about $360,000 a ship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what the fuck dude?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I don't, you know, know, I don't care about money. So point is, I have to use up all my damn money to buy this thing. And so now I've basically told the rest of the people that are in my group start pointing up a billion at a time, because I I need to spread this cost amongst everybody like a good little community, and not just have me pay for the whole damn thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which I think I should make some profit on, because there's more people in the community than you know. Like if everybody gives me a billion, I'll actually be negative or I'll be positive, so that'll be good. But point is, the game's awesome. They keep releasing new content and, unlike many other games that charge real money for shit like this in Elite Danger, really dangerous. It's all with in-game currency okay which is it's nice, because it means you know you don't have pay for pay to play or pay to win which a lot of games.
Speaker 1:These things do.
Speaker 2:If you look at a lot of the games the kids are playing.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, like World of Warships and shit like that.
Speaker 2:Dude, I spent 12 grand on World of Warships. That game is what the fuck.
Speaker 1:Who spends that much money A friend of yours. By the way, I'm bringing the box of crap I have for you to my parents.
Speaker 2:Oh nice, nice, I should do likewise.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure can't believe my mom's gonna be 80 man I know it's crazy right yeah yeah, that's now.
Speaker 2:She said no gifts, so I have to get creative.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you and me both, Except I already gave her her gift. Oh, you did. Okay, her gift was a gun.
Speaker 2:Oh, nice, nice, Very good, what caliber 9mm. Maybe I'll give her some bullets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just ordered. By the way, ammo Depot has a really good deal right now on remanufactured 9mm.
Speaker 2:You know what? I am going to give her some bullets. That's actually not a bad idea, because I know your cheap ass isn't going to get her anything nice. I gave her a gun, I know, but not bullets.
Speaker 1:Anyway, ammo Depot has a really good deal right now on remanned ammo. I don't buy used stuff Anyway 18 cents around.
Speaker 2:That is a good price, though I will say and free shipping over orders over 140 what's their price for non-referbs?
Speaker 1:oh, that down to like 22, 23 yeah, I think of I.
Speaker 2:I think we mentioned this last time we were looking at gun prices or ammo prices. 9mm right now today in adjusted dollars, so inflation-tied dollars is the cheapest that it's ever been in my lifetime, because it's been cheaper than $0.22, but the value of those $0. Cents was higher in the past, so I think ammo pricing is extremely cheap right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always order from SG ammo, ammo man ammo. It all depends on on the deal of the day, but a thousand rounds of the remand ammo for a week in ammo, fuck it, why not? Get ammo for other stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, I don't even like buying, like you know, european ammo. I prefer American ammo.
Speaker 1:Okay, why.
Speaker 2:Don't trust them.
Speaker 1:Well, I wouldn't trust the Europeans either.
Speaker 2:No, it's usually. It's either going to be like IWI stuff or stuff from federal.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:But you know, occasionally you get some deals. I'll tell you, there hasn't been any great deals that I've seen on exotic ammo. In a while, though, have you looked for any exotic stuff? No, no on exotic ammo.
Speaker 1:In a while, though, have you looked for any exotic stuff? No, no, the last exotic caliber I was looking for was .300. Rum and oh my god, yeah, dude, the cheap stuff is ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 1:Talking well over $80.
Speaker 2:How much have you seen P90s going for? I haven't why. Okay, I just saw one for sale Talking well over 80 bucks.
Speaker 1:How much have you seen P90s going for? I haven't why.
Speaker 2:Okay, I just saw one for sale for $1,300.
Speaker 1:For a civilian legal P90?.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you'd have to replace the barrel.
Speaker 1:After SBRs are removed from.
Speaker 2:Or wait, yeah, yeah, or just wait yeah.
Speaker 1:And do you really want a semi-automatic P90?
Speaker 2:No, absolutely. I would want a fully semi-automatic P90.
Speaker 1:I really want them to come out with a force reset trigger option.
Speaker 2:Absolutely 100%.
Speaker 1:I think that probably that the problem is the way the progressive trigger works on the P90, I don't think you can do it.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I hope somebody gets creative. Maybe it's going to take somebody like a Palmetto to just knock off the mechanism and then have their own version of the P90. Kind of like they have done with Glocks.
Speaker 1:Make their own Mini-14 and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah they make Glocks, they make Mini-14s. They've done a number of them, In fact. They make Glocks, they make M14s. They've done a number of them, In fact. They make a don't they make. So, yeah, I think it is them that has the 5.7 gun.
Speaker 1:Yes, they have a 5.7.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do. That's what I thought, but the overall shape of the P90 is classic. I'm so looking forward to getting that back in Battlefield 6.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I grew up watching Stargate and you know it's yeah.
Speaker 2:It is the future American gun.
Speaker 1:Except it's not.
Speaker 2:Except it's not. I remember watching a TV show called Future Weapons.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I remember that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, back in the late 90s.
Speaker 1:It was part of what made me go with the 6.8 AR.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they were talking about the 6.8 cartridge.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and yeah, you know, the guy that used to be the host died of cancer when he was pretty young. Huh, sucks, he was a special forces. And yeah, you know, the guy that used to be the host died of cancer when he was pretty young. Sucks, special forces dude. But yeah, that show, along with FPS Russia, were like two shows I would always look forward to Because they would in great detail show weapons that were not available here.
Speaker 1:Fps rusher was pretty cool. I'm so sad what happened to him yeah, well, maybe with the new laws.
Speaker 2:I know georgia, I think, passed a law that lets felons that were non-violent get their shit back, so that's where he was. You know Georgia.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it would be nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, kyle. I'm trying to remember his actual last name, kyle something, but he was. He is a very good storyteller. He's just a very creative guy. His prison stories are awesome awesome.
Speaker 1:I have not ever heard his really no.
Speaker 2:I've heard a bunch of his prison stories. You know like, you know the crazy eye guy that he makes friends with and you know the black guys that were pretending to be all tough because they didn't want anybody finding out. They grew up in the burbs with a bunch of white people. It's all kinds of stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Okay, and his felony was pot possession right.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was not gun related, it wasn't even his, it was his girlfriend had a pot pipe in her bag, but the feds were on his ass because somebody killed his business partner and I don't think it was him, but you know, the way that his business partner died was clearly meant to be a message, because he was on his knees with his hands tied together, with a shot to the back of the head.
Speaker 1:I mean, we don't think FPS Russia did this to me, I think it was probably likely suicide. Yes, a Clinton-esque form of suicide.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, exactly, but it is tough. When somebody commits suicide with their hands tied behind their back, that's always a toughie. Yeah, it shows you how creative people can be. No, I don't think he did it. I really don't. He he is. He's a guy that I think always enjoyed guns, but he was never like he didn't have the little Napoleon complex, you know what I mean Like he was never a tough guy. He was just a fun loving guy who is into guns, who enjoyed getting access to them, but he was never a he never played an actual tough guy. Hmm, okay, you know his whole story right? No, not really. Yeah, he was a battlefield player and that was his name in there. It was FPS Russia.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And so he was basically LARPing as a Russian player, having heard Russian swear words, which is inevitable if you play any video games, you're going to hear Russian swear words. And so he just started LARPing, basically as like pretending to be Russian on there, and people thought he was hilarious, because he is he's a very good storyteller. And then he decided to make a few videos with real world guns and see how that went under that same pseudonym, and it went extremely well, to the point that the guy that ended up being his business partner said well, shit, dude, you know I've got an ffl and you're getting a shit ton of YouTube views. Back in the day, when you could make a lot of money on YouTube by doing gun content, they were perfectly happy with that back then.
Speaker 1:Well shit, you saw what donut operators making.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did actually not that much.
Speaker 1:What Like 70 grand a month yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought he'd be making more than that.
Speaker 1:I would be very happy with 70 grand a month. Yeah, I thought he'd be making more than that. I would be very happy with 70 grand a month. Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:I get it, but again, guys that are doing video game channels that have the kind of numbers that Donut Operator has, they're making way more than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They're making hundreds a month because that's safe advertising for any product. What Donut's doing watching police videos? That's still a limited category.
Speaker 1:Well anyway, so we should talk about the UK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, we have kind of off off the air. Talking about the uk, you think that they're on the verge of having a serious, like french style revolution I think they, the uk, is about to have a civil war on september.
Speaker 1:What is it? The 13th?
Speaker 2:yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it didn't coincide with september 11th, it was right after that right, but the, the guy, one of the guys who founded like sas, is saying show up to parliament with your shields which means what I?
Speaker 2:I don't know what that means, because they don't have guns. What's a she? Is that a code? Work for something, or is that?
Speaker 1:oh, I think it's like a literal face off against the police, like be ready, like a police shield would be Okay, a riot shield, same sort of thing, like that's what I'm thinking it means.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's a country whose people get into very brutal fights at football matches. So you know, if they put their mind to it it, they could fuck things up pretty good so I am seeing something on Twitter right now that I need you to validate through experimentation on the X, you mean yes you want to send me a link, or do you want me to?
Speaker 1:it's a snake that can't slither on a microfiber. What, yeah, okay, you want me to Sure? It's a snake that can't slither on a microfiber. What?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, oh yeah, it's probably real. Let me see yeah it's real, that's interesting. It's absolutely real, so I actually usually will help my snake by putting my foot so he can push against it. They're not good at moving on carpets and rugs and things. This looks like a shag rug. What the hell is this?
Speaker 1:It's microfiber?
Speaker 2:I don't know it doesn't look like microfiber to me, but yeah, look at that poor little guy. He's trying really hard and he's barely moving. Yeah, that's a little Python.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I mean, yeah, it does look kind of funny, but there's just nothing to push off of. So that is not computer created, I don't believe.
Speaker 1:Well, you should try it with your snake and validate.
Speaker 2:Well, there is a slight difference. First of all, my snake is 19 feet long. You've got two. I do have yeah, I could do it the second one, but I don't know. I don't want to stress him, that'd be stressful. I usually carry the smaller one, but I don't know, I don't want to stress him, that'd be stressful. I usually carry the smaller one everywhere. He doesn't even climb all that much. But yeah, that's like an albino python. In fact I think it's a ball python.
Speaker 1:I have never understood why people would want a snake as a pet.
Speaker 2:A good pet. How they're cute. They're very low maintenance. So my smaller one that I have. He's about three and a half feet long. He just ate for the first time in nine months. Okay, but but you know yeah, well, I'll tell you what ben when you travel every week and you have nobody at home to take care of your pets? Yeah, I trust me, I understand okay, that's when I got the snake.
Speaker 1:For me recently.
Speaker 2:So it's a it's. It's a pet you can have even if you're not at home a whole lot. But also I've always kind of liked reptiles. I think they're neat.
Speaker 1:The fact that the thing doesn't need to warm itself up is just so weird. Well, it does need to warm itself through radiant heat. It can't control its own body heat. That's the whole thing about.
Speaker 2:Right. But the reason that it can't is because it figured out over the years and by years I mean millions that it doesn't really need to over the years and by years I mean millions that doesn't really need to. Like it could just rely on warmth from ambient air and the sun and not have to expend calories on warming itself up, which I think would be kind of cool to do as a person like. If you could shut down your your actual heat generation, That'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I think there's a lot of advantage to being warm-blooded personally.
Speaker 2:The one animal, that's, a mammal, that has a lower body temperature, which makes it, incidentally, immune to a number of diseases, including rabies, is a possum to a number of diseases, including rabies, is a possum. Possum's body temperature is about eight degrees lower than the human.
Speaker 1:Possums are so weird.
Speaker 2:They're so cute. I love possums.
Speaker 1:And you know, I mean, they're just such a the only marsupial in North America, you know.
Speaker 2:I think they're super cute. They're like a big rat, but I think they're a lot cooler looking than the rat. They also if you're seeing a possum that has babies. They're super adorable because all the babies hang on to the back of the mom. They're just like riding mom, like mom is a big truck and they're all sitting in the back of the mom. They're just like riding mom, like mom is a big truck and they're all sitting in the back of the cab. I don't know. I don't understand why they don't make like there's not more of them as pets. A few people have them as pets. I've subscribed to a few channels.
Speaker 1:Well, I told you about my dad's friend who had a skunk as a pet right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I had nothing against. Did it tell the story about his girlfriend?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So he was dating this girl and you know it was dissented and everything. But she had to go to the bathroom and so she sits down to go to the restroom in Sid's house. They just started dating and all of a sudden she feels something brushing up against her leg. It was behind the toilet or whatever it came out rub it up against her and she flipped out.
Speaker 2:Man oh I mean they're not, I don't know. I haven't never had an issue with skunks. I actually don't mind their smell that they put out. It's a smell that I, I kind of grew up with, that german plastic manufacturing always had anyway, so it didn't seem particularly bad to me. But yeah, I just, I don't know I, I I know in texas we do have more of a variety of pets than a lot of other states because we allow them. But I also am somewhat surprised at just how many people get a dog or a cat when you can get so many other things.
Speaker 1:I've got a dog and a cat. I'm fine.
Speaker 2:I mean I get it, that's fine. But a possum, I think, is somewhere between a dog and a cat.
Speaker 1:It's got a neat animal.
Speaker 2:Another one that people don't have usually but could, are foxes. Foxes are like dogs that climb trees and yelp like they're laughing. Which was very sad. That the fox sanctuary chick committed suicide, which was very sad that the Fox Sanctuary chick committed suicide, that was very sad.
Speaker 1:The what.
Speaker 2:The Save a Fox Girl, the Fox Sanctuary, the biggest Fox channel on YouTube, and committed suicide because apparently people were harassing her or whatever. Very sad yeah. I guess, yeah, you know, but I just I like, if I won the lottery, there's no doubt that I would have exotic pets and like more exotic than I currently have. It would be Gene Exotic it would totally be gene exotic because I think big cats and bears are the two most likely pets that I would want fucking russians, man russians I want a siberian tiger and a black bear.
Speaker 1:Oh, good Okay.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Do we have anything else we want to talk about?
Speaker 2:I've got photos of myself with little babies of both Playing with a Siberian tiger and playing with a black bear. Fun, now, it'd be cool if they didn't get too big, but even big size. Didn't get too big, but even big size. Like. The trick to having an animal that is a good pet is not getting a refurbished one. Get them on their babies and make sure that you're there all the time when they're growing up and they're super used to. I think that's the single biggest problem that people have is they? They just they're not there to train the animal from the start, and that's the problem. You have to do that if you want a good pet. Would you disagree?
Speaker 1:No, I think that's correct.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just like kids.
Speaker 1:Just like anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, one last thing, and there was a watch. The video talked about the, the fact that robot wives are closer than you think, woohoo. Except that was the reaction to pretty much everybody in the comments. It's like, yeah, that'll be the single biggest influencer of women. Moving forward is when there's a alternative.
Speaker 1:Well, that or World War III.
Speaker 2:How would that happen?
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:I don't see World War III happening.
Speaker 1:Well, there's the whole. You know, for Article 5-like protections for Ukraine, that you know, if we do that and there's a false flag, and then the EU is at war with Russia.
Speaker 2:Oh okay. Yes, I thought you meant like women would get upset and then start World War III.
Speaker 1:No, no, world War III happens and they say yeah, world War III can happen regardless.
Speaker 2:Yes, I agree with that, but I'm just saying that, according to this video, it looked like we're probably about three to four years away from from having quarter million dollar companions and probably about ten years away from having a $25,000 companion. You know somebody?
Speaker 1:that would 10 years away from having a $25,000 companion.
Speaker 2:You know somebody that would not make your life hell, wouldn't constantly disagree with you, would cook food for you and would think that the proper place for a robot wife is this abusive place.
Speaker 1:So there you go, tied it back together. I would hope so. I would hope they wouldn't have like a nag mode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know what's his face Elon's thing does. There's a nag mode as part of Grok that you can turn on God. Why I don't know Some guys like that? I guess no. Turn on god, why? Just I don't know some guys like that, I guess no. I think elon's going a little deep into the whole like anime teenage girl thing with grock.
Speaker 2:I'm not a big fan of that, I have to say and I don't use I I very rarely but if you look at Elon's posts, like every other post is a kind of a loosely dressed high school girl.
Speaker 1:Okay, I don't watch Elon's posts that much.
Speaker 2:I get all his posts coming right in there.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But it's, I think he needs to move on. Okay, I think he needs to move on. He needs to find something else to do other than watching anime. Elon needs a new project.
Speaker 1:Or another girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Another wife, Elon, needs to make more kids. How about we wrap things up? Ben Alrighty Gene.
