SPEAKER_01: 0:25

Howdy, Ben. How are you today? I am doing much better than I was Thursday, Gene. Thursday was rough.

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Yeah. Yeah. I I kind of I got your message about being awake since 4 a.m.

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and I figured, yeah, you're gonna sleep. No, no, no. 3 a.m.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Yeah. I and and I couldn't fall asleep till like midnight. And then I had to get on a plane. I had to get up at 3 a.m. to get ready, get everything packed, get out the door for a 6 a.m. flight so I could then make it back to Texas and drive up to be at my son's school in time to do a boat launch. Ooh, a boat lunch. Yeah, just the little model boats that we uh all the dads and kids made. Oh, nice, fun. Yeah.

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Well, I made it. Well, that's good. That's certainly a good reason for delaying when we record, which is not that big a deal. We've done that plenty of times in the past.

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Yeah. So anyway, needless to say, come seven o'clock, I was not conscious.

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You were pretty fried. Yeah, I figured as much. Not a problem.

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Oh man. Talk about slow newsweek. Has it been? No, it's actually been pretty phenomenal.

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I mean, I've I've had I I will admit I'm a bit off the news cycle simply because Battlefield came out last week. Battlefield 6. And Battlefield is back. This is old school Battlefield feel for anybody that remembers back before they kind of screwed it up for a while there. The game is fantastic. The uh there's a lot of people making videos about it, and it really does feel like Battlefield did a decade ago.

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Okay, cool. It's been a long time since I've played Battlefield. In fact, it might have been the last Battlefield I played, might have been 1942.

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The original one? Yeah. Or the remake. Battlefield 42 was kind of a remake of the original 1942.

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Right, right. But the that that Xbox 360 or Xbox version, whichever it was, I think that was probably the last version I played.

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Okay. Okay. So you didn't play the Vietnam one? No. Didn't play Bad Company Battlefield? Nope. Nope. Bad Company, I think for most people, kind of stands out as the best battlefield, or Bad Company 2, actually. Because that was the the first bad company, which is I think the third game in the series, was when they first introduced destruction into the environments. Because in every previous game, you could shoot rocket launchers at a building, and to it'll kill people inside, but the building doesn't change at all. And in bad company, they introduced this new destructible mechanic. And so all of a sudden, buildings started taking damage. Not just cars and vehicles and things and tanks, planes, but actual buildings started taking damage. So that greatly affects your use of that building during gameplay. And this current version, of course, now is it I think Bad Company came out in 2006 or seven. So like 13 years, no, 20 years ago, almost 19 years ago. Damn long time ago. And uh that was that was kind of the start of this more modern phase of all games, which not I mean not all, but a lot of games now do incorporate destructible elements into gameplay. Where and before that, very that well, there were none, in fact. I don't I think they were the first company to really make destructible environments like that. Cool. Yeah, so been playing way too much of that lately.

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Well, speaking of video games in real life, did you see what happened in Alexandria, Virginia?

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No, what happened there?

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Three masked men in Halloween masks tried to break into a home front and back.

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So I saw a headline on that, but I didn't watch any video. I assume there was a ring video.

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Oh, yeah, there's a ring video, and it's very creepy. And Collian Noir did a fucking hilarious spiff off of it. He's like, wait, wait, one second, I'll be right there. Well, as he's putting the colour, I thought you didn't like the I like Colin. I I would I'm not a huge fan, but dude, this was funny. Okay. Like, I think he's too he he he's too much of a sportsman and not really worried about the principle of the second amendment as much.

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So well, I mean, he's a lawyer, he's does a lot of gun lawsuits. He uh uh he was on the NRE local Texas board for a while.

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Yeah, but NRA, need I say more anyway. These the three guys in creepy Halloween masks tried to break in front and back of the property. Right. They're in Alexandria, Virginia, which is not a low-rent place. No, no, and uh they got away. It took the cops over 15 minutes to get there.

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Well, yeah, because the cops always get there after something happens, not during.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. But my point is, this is Virginia, which is a stand-your-ground state, and quite frankly, my understanding of the Virginia law, not a lawyer, not legal advice, is that the homeowner who says she was armed could have shot them. Should my mind should have exactly I agree, at least pop one in the you saw that video of the Florida sheriff talking about that you know, it we can't always get there in time.

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In fact, we usually can't. So we advise our residents to take handgun classes so that they can aim better and take the first necessary steps to protect themselves. I love that attitude in the sheriff. That unfortunately, that's a rare attitude. Most cops would prefer that civilians stay disarmed.

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Well, the Alexandria police chief did come out and say that A, she could have taken defensive action and B, that that they are taking this seriously. And so we'll see.

SPEAKER_02: 6:59

Imagine if this happened in Maryland. Oh, you the homeowner will probably be arrested. Arrested for calling the cops. Yeah, yeah, exactly. For for trying to, you know, protect her home by calling the police because they believe that if somebody wants to rob you, you should just let them. More or less.

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Like in Maryland, you have a it's a duty to retreat state.

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Yeah, yeah, it's a cucked attitude. Like their their response to incitement of violence is to encourage that violence by complying with it. The only way that you reduce sexual crime is if more criminals die in the process of committing a crime, you raise the cost of doing the crime. Well, yeah, you you not every criminal is insane, and the ones that aren't insane are still making value judgments. And when the cost of doing the crime, like it is in San Francisco, for example, is actually positive, meaning if you go into an Apple store, you can steal all the shit you want, no one will stop you, or any store. I mean, cosmetic I've seen like gangs women, all of a certain race, going into a cosmetic shop and filling up garbage bags full of expected expensive cosmetics in San Francisco, and everyone's just standing walking around with their phones filming it, but no one's doing anything about it. Because they've been told do not resist, because if you resist and you get yourself hurt, it's your fault. That's the attitude. The real victims are the criminals.

SPEAKER_01: 8:47

Well, what I think should be everyone's takeaway from this is prepare accordingly, right? Because I guarantee you, if someone showed up at my house and was doing what they were doing, I would have been pulling the collier noir. I would have thrown on body armor, I would have grabbed my probably my Tavor or my PDW, and yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely. That's yeah, I I'd still probably go with the shotgun myself. You don't you just need to worry about the aim a lot less with those things.

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Fair enough. And you can also have more you know c collateral damage.

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To your house, maybe, but less to your neighbor's house. I mean that's the beauty, is it's it's a limited range weapon. Yeah. Versus the putting the green tips in my AR to self-defense could end up going through a couple neighbors' houses.

SPEAKER_01: 9:53

Well, regardless, it's interesting. And then we had Trump have to take the short stairs. Uh where's this? On Air Force One. Oh, really? Why? As an increased security measure. Oh, okay. Because apparently a hunting blind had been set up near the area. Jesus. Well. Now, whether or not this was just a hunter not knowing anything or someone, you know, I mean, it it's near an Air Force base. It doesn't seem like it would be a hunter, you know?

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Yeah. Yeah, that seems peculiar.

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Yeah. Anyway, we've got some crazy shenanigans going on now.

SPEAKER_02: 10:39

Good. No, here's a story you probably haven't heard of because it's more on in the YouTube or Twitch arena. But one of the, in my opinion, most attractive, but uh let's just say one of the most popular Twitch streamers was at TwitchCon and got assaulted. And she goes into great detail in a stream she did afterwards talking about how Twitch has done nothing to protect people at TwitchCon from you know, certainly in in light of what's happened with Charlie Kirk, but it doesn't have to be political, right? It can be just somebody who's really angry. A deranged fan, yeah. Yeah, it could be a fan, or it could be a fan of somebody else who's out to get you because they don't like you because they're a fan of a different channel, and that there's like zero security at this thing. So this this dude approached this like five foot five Asian chick and uh grabbed her head, and it looked like he was holding a knife, but turned out not to be a knife, but it's what it kind of looked like to me.

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And I didn't see the video of the incident, I just heard her spiel about it.

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Right, right. And you know, she screamed, she had the personal bodyguard there, thankfully, because the the security, quote unquote, at the event didn't even notice anything was happening, and then only after hearing about it, kind of said, Well, you know, we're glad she's okay. I guess nothing really happened. I mean, it was a complete failure, and this is she she's considered one of the biggest female streamer and streamers on Twitch. They make a lot of money off her. They probably twitch probably makes about 10 million a year off her, and they completely neglected to do their jobs, and her whole point is like, you know, I can afford a personal bodyguard, most streamers can't, which was actually a really good point that she made. Yeah, and the other thing is they banned TwitchCon banned her previous bodyguard last year at the event or after the event, because at that event, somebody also tried to attack her, and the bodyguard grabbed the person and held him for 15 minutes until the cops showed up. Yeah, and Twitch said that's unacceptable. We can't have somebody, you know, acting like they're the police, even though they're not the police, and ban that person from ever coming to an event in any capacity.

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Well, and to me, the most egregious thing was that they only banned the guy who went up there and kissed her, tried to kiss her for 30 days.

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30 days, man. You can't be on Twitch for 30 days. Like, what the fuck kind of response is that?

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Like any other company. So much so much of the rest of it is like, you know, hey, it's an event, come at your own risk, whatever. Yeah, yeah. You know, there's some of that.

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But it it should be if you're just coming at to an event, like if you go to a Star Trek convention or something as a fan, yeah, there's certain risks. But if you're there as William Shatner, you better make sure the event's paying for top-notch security for you. And if some fan is deranged, that they're gonna tackle them before they ever come close to you. Yeah, you know, that she is the equivalent of the kirk at a Star Trek convention, and it is absolutely crazy that they just don't care about people that are generating literally millions for the company. Because you know, Twitch takes half. Every donation you make to a Twitcher, Twitch person, whatever you call them, their Twitch takes half of that.

SPEAKER_01: 14:35

Which is just crazy. I mean, YouTube doesn't even take that much, do they?

SPEAKER_02: 14:38

No, no, YouTube doesn't take that much. They are like a third, right? They take a yeah, they take three 35%, I believe. And then like if you're on whatchamacallit, what's the other platform? The one that you signed up for premium on. X? Rumble? Yeah, Rumble. If you're on Rumble, Rumble takes 10%.

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Why the fuck isn't everybody on Rumble?

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Well, because it's it, I don't know. It it kind of got all the political people moving there, but it didn't get the gamers moving there for some reason. I I stream on Rumble as well when I stream gaming stuff. Nobody watches ever because people don't know to go there for gaming content. It's a chicken and egg thing, right? Because people that are streaming want to have an audience that's already on the platform, so that your only job is to get them to come to your channel. But with Rumble, like you first have to get them to go watch Rumble, then to go to your channel. So maybe it'll happen, but it looks like Kick is the platform that is a direct competitor to Twitch and has been kicking their ass lately. And while I wouldn't say it's a conservative platform by any stretch, I'd say kick is very much a centrist middle of the road platform that'll take anybody. Whereas Twitch has been moving more and more along with the Democrat Party towards the craziest left side of the equation, like they'll ban somebody for fat shaming for 30 days, or they'll ban somebody for assaulting a girl for 30 days, but they won't ban somebody that is literally saying go kill all Jews. Like those people can be on their platform with nothing, no restrictions of any kind. Well, I mean, that seems reasonable. Uh-huh. Exactly. Your kind of platform. It's an it is crazy. Well, don't forget the Christians are right there behind them. The Jews are first, the Christian, but the Jews are tiny. It's uh they're gonna go after all the Christians after that. It's uh what I'm referring to is Hassan Piker, who's a total Islamist radical and one of the biggest streamers on the platform, like with the biggest audience of the way, with the no king stuff going on.

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Did you see the AI video Trump put out? Yes, that was and Harry's Harry's sister, or whatever his name is, literally said, Can a reporter ask Trump why he did this AI video of jumping poop on me? And did he hand said, I'll ask him, Harry. Uh-huh. Like the trolling, the level trolling is so good when he posts huge thank you to all the no kings protesters yesterday. I was very concerned a king was trying to take my place, but thanks to your tireless efforts, I am still your president.

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Great job. I know, it's not awesome.

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Oh my god.

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And they hate that more than anything.

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Oh, god, yes.

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You know, because they like they don't realize they're setting themselves up, and then all of a sudden they're the butt of the joke, and they're like, Well, no, no, not what we meant, not what we meant. Yeah, it is hilarious. Um, do you see the clip of some uh you know new media reporter type asking Nancy Pelosi if if about January 6th? No, not January 6th, about her stock portfolio, about how you know now that you're no longer able to uh get insider trading information, are you concerned that your stock portfolio is gonna go down? And her response the response is you know, she waving her hands for her security to get rid of these people.

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Well, you saw the one where the reporter for Mike Lindell's TV channel came up and was asking her about not accepting the guard on January 6th, and she went off on him and lost it. Like she had a breakdown, dude. Didn't see that one. That's interesting. Yeah, you you need to watch it.

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She she it was complaining too much, apparently. I didn't know Mike Lindell did anything other than make pillows. Oh my god, he makes a shit ton of stuff, dude. Well, yes, but I thought I always thought he was a you know seller of things. You remember when we were right next to him at the Trump event? Sure. Well, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. In uh Waco, yes, yeah, in Waco, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's he seems taller in person. He's not a short guy, no, because I and the video, I think they put the camera up higher when they shoot his videos because he doesn't come across as a tall guy in video, right? That was my impression, and you know, I'm 6'2, so uh maybe in centimeters. That's oh 65 that that's not a measurement anybody would be proud of, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01: 19:37

Oh no, man, but we've had it's it's been quite the the week. The Israeli Palestinian ceasefire seems to be holding. No, actually. No, no, Palestinians are shooting back. Well, and the Israelis have not, and that was condemned, and they the Hamas leadership has and through the Qataris and everybody else has said no, we're going to make sure this works. So they've run it back already.

SPEAKER_02: 20:06

Yeah, we'll see how that goes. I I don't think these things are ever meant to work. So I uh I don't see this but anything but a short-term short-term ceasefire, if anything, before aggression resumes, because the rhetoric has only been ramping up, not down.

SPEAKER_01: 20:27

I don't know, man. I think I think Qatar, UAE, and Saudi want peace. I think they're really wanting the new economic zone to be the Middle East, and that has to include Israel. I think they're more worried about the Palestinians in Iran than they are Israel. Well I think the Arab nations are gonna back until the Arab nations allow Palestinians to immigrate to them.

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Nothing's gonna change.

SPEAKER_01: 20:58

Well, that's part of this peace deal that Trump has brokered, is that any member of Hamas who wants to turn in their guns will be granted will be granted clemency, or however you want to put it, a pardon, and then allowed to go to Egypt and migrate wherever they want to go. I'm shocked that Egypt would accept that. Not only Egypt, but so did Qatar, UAE, and Saudi. Yeah.

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Well, Saudi Arabia has always been cautiously, you know, for normalizing relations because they do Saudi Arabia has had informal relations with Israel for a damn long time because they're both U.S. allies. And they they are the two U.S. allies in the Middle East that have the biggest financial purchasers of American weapons.

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Qataris are up there too.

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Compared to Saudi Arabia and Israel, no.

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Qataris, UAE, and yeah, they're all big purchasers. I mean, the largest base outside of the US right now is in Qatar.

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Well, it might be a US base, but I'm just saying in terms of purchasing US weaponry, financial spending. Yeah. So there have always been, you know, backroom dealings between those two. But the the thing here's why Saudi Arabia is not completely against Israel is because they don't like Iran. And and this is is there have been a number of Israeli people that have said this, and I think it's very true is that the only thing keeping the Middle Eastern countries from all fighting with each other is a shared hatred of Jews. If the Israel was not there, Saudi Arabia would be at war with Iran, and all the other uh you know, surrounding smaller countries would all be picking sides and joining in.

SPEAKER_01: 23:34

Well, it's interesting though, the so are you were you were aware of the security arrangement that Pakistan and UAE have? So apparently Pakistan, UAE, and Saudi have the UAE and Saudi have financed a lot of the Pakistani nuke arms productions, and basically for ever so many of them, they're supposed to have some set aside for the UAE and Saudi.

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Gotcha.

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That doesn't surprise me, but I did not know about that. Yeah, apparently that has become uh a thing. So that's not dangerous at all.

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Well, you may be surprised to hear me say it, but I don't think it is. I think a nuclear Saudi Arabia is actually about as safe as a nuclear Israel. Like they're not like that's not saying much. Nuclear Iran is way more dangerous.

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Agreed. And it's mainly because of the Ayatollah's points of view.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not the Iranian people. Like, if they got a different government, if it wasn't uh, you know, not it could even be authoritarian, but it just wouldn't be a religious-based government, I would not be saying this. But I think that Saudi Arabia has seen the greatest benefits of trade with the West in turning their shithole desert into a extremely financially rewarding country.

SPEAKER_01: 25:17

Well, it not just not just Saudi, but like I said, UAE and Qatar. But to your point, like m my company right now is one of the major contractors on the new King Solomon Airport in Riyadh. So yeah. That makes sense.

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The CA always wants to keep tabs and things.

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I'm not Jesus.

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I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. So the well, I noticed you said the company, so I you know, I'm just I said my company. Well, I heard the company, that's right. Jesus anyway, no, your secret's safe here, Ben. The I I think this piece is gonna be temporary. I don't see this holding any any amount of time. There's I also am pretty sure that the US is now funneling money to Hamas because Hamas isn't gonna get bought off simply by the destruction of Gaza, they don't care about Gaza. What they care about is power and and the the money that they've got out flowing in from other countries. So for them to basically put a stop to that, they have to get a different funding source, which is probably the US, which wouldn't surprise me because the US has funded literally every terrorist organization in the Middle East at some point. You can argue semantics, but whether it's the Taliban, whether it's ISIS, you name it, we fund it. Oh, agreed. So well, yeah, maybe that's not even a con a particularly controversial point at this point. So the the idea that we're gonna find out a decade from now that the US paid off Hamas by a tune of a billion dollars wouldn't surprise me at all.

SPEAKER_01: 27:04

Uh, I mean, I don't know, man. I I think paying them off is a means to an end for potential peace. You know, I I I think if if Hamas does not work towards peace really pretty, you know, as an honest broker and approaching it, you know, in that way, then the Arab states are gonna get real pissy real quick. And you know, part of Trump's peace plan is hey Arab states, you've got to go in and take care of this. If they violate the peace orders, then you gotta go do it.

SPEAKER_02: 27:48

Well, and that's that's the only way to do it is to basically say if Saudi Arabia, you don't control Hamas yourself, we're gonna start putting terrorists on the airboil. Yeah, that would get Saudi Arabia to instantly create a mile-long city that all the Hamasans can move into and you know, not be a problem in uh Gaza.

SPEAKER_01: 28:16

Well, I think I think I think I think the Arab states are bought in, dude.

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Yeah. Well, they're bought in, uh, but I I think they're more bought in behind closed doors than they are publicly. Publicly, they all still have to condemn Israel for everything. That's what it says in the Quran. It's all the Jews fault. And Jews, by the way, is spelled J O O O O O S. It's the Jews! Yeah. So consequently, you know, people that have a sense of and I I watched a few videos actually done by Saudi, part of the Saud family, but like not particularly high up in the ranks, that say exactly that. It's like, look, we have a problem with certain elements that misinterpret Islam that are giving all the rest of us a bad name and are preventing us from having more cooperation with the West. And we, as Muslims, need to fix this problem because if we don't, and the West has to fix it. Well, do you remember what happened with the Crusades? Now, I'm all for the Crusades myself, I'm a big supporter.

SPEAKER_01: 29:42

Yeah, well, the the you have to remember the crusades were not in a vacuum, this was after the Islamic conqueror, and yeah. I mean, when you look at what happened in Greece, like the Greeks have dark skin today because of African invaders, you know, before the first crusade.

SPEAKER_02: 30:01

Yeah, the Greeks were white, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's the Romans that were dark-skinned, and in fact, if you read some old Greek texts, they talk about the the dark-skinned short people who were the Romans. They were shorter and they were darker skinned than the Greeks. The Greeks were European before there was a European. Now, certainly there were lighter skinned people, you know, in in the Celts, but as far as just Central Europe goes, the Greeks were absolutely white. The Italians, not so much. Italy's had a long time of people. Well, people floating from uh from across from Africa. There was a lot more intermingling going on. Like for thousands of years, pre-Roman Empire even, but certainly during the Roman Empire when they conquered North Africa, there was tons of mingling going on.

SPEAKER_01: 31:05

Well, we'll see if this ceasefire holds at all. And uh, you know, if so, great. If not, we'll see if the Arabs step up and cause some consequences for Gaza.

SPEAKER_02: 31:17

Well, uh again, you know, back literally 11 hours ago, Gaza was rocketing what Israel is saying is troops in Israel and that therefore had to shoot some rockets to uh take out the uh Milton Gazans.

SPEAKER_01: 31:39

So CNN an hour ago said U.S. brokered ceasefire appears to survive the first major test as Israel and Hamas affirm commitment to deal. This is after that.

SPEAKER_02: 31:50

Well, that's what they're supposed to say, yeah. Israel halts eight to Gaza until further notice as renewed fighting tests ceasefire.

SPEAKER_01: 32:02

So anything more on Israel?

SPEAKER_02: 32:08

Nah, not really. You know, it's I I've said this before. I think this was a mistake. I think they should have continued and cleansed Gaza completely. But you know, we'll see how long it lasts. Israel has historically had a California-style government.

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Much as Israel was closer to the communists than us during the that's what I mean.

SPEAKER_02: 32:34

California style. They're a lot more touchy-feely and caring about other people and bullshit like that than the Jews in America. Jews in America have generally been voting Democrat for certain reasons, and I think a lot of that has changed with the recent Democrat shift into the pro-Hamas camp. But the Jews in America have been more pro-Israel than the Jews in Israel, and so the the general sense is you know, it's at least good that the actual communist Jews went to Israel, where the non-communist Jews went to America, because they're they've been messing things up with the politics in Israel for the entirety of its existence. So whether you like Netanyahu or you don't like Netanyahu, Netanyahu is the closest thing to a strong leader that Israel's ever had. I mean, some would say Gold to my ear was a strong leader back in the founding days of Israel, but nah, not really. I think he managed to do what most of his predecessors have not managed to do, which is to put a very strong dent into the constant wave of violence that people in Israel have to deal with for literally my entire life. You know, every I remember as a kid watching news reports of suicide bombings. Like this this hasn't changed other than in size, size and scope went from killing a busload of people, not all of whom were Jews, incidentally, to killing over a thousand people at the same time. But other than that, this has been an ongoing issue forever. So if if I was an optimist, I would be saying if this actually holds and if Hamas leaves Gaza and the people of Gaza are not radicalized the way that they have been, which I don't know what to do about either. Because frankly, even the people that aren't directly holding guns in in Gaza and shooting rockets, nonetheless, those people have been brought up and are bringing up their children with this idea that the only good Jew is a dead Jew.

SPEAKER_01: 35:01

Well, so I think Hamas doing this war of choice and getting nothing for it and causing massive destruction. I think you may have some of those clan leaders over there rethinking that.

SPEAKER_02: 35:37

So the Arabs that live in Israel are perfectly fine with Israel, it's just the Arabs that live in Gaza are not fine with Israel existing at all, even though there are more Arabs living in Israel than live in Gaza. It's it's it's crazy, and the whole thing you can blame on Britain. And there's a video which unfortunately I can't share with you because it's for subscribers only, but there's a really good video that goes through exactly how Britain got the mandate in Palestine, what that process was, what kind of documents were signed, what was agreed to, and what most people don't know, unless you actually are a historian or you have an interest in Middle Eastern history, is that part of that mandate in the 1920s was that the territory that is currently called Jordan was set aside for all the Arabs living in the area, and Israel was supposed to have the border of its historic state of Israel. Before that happened, Britain basically sold that portion to the was it the Saad or Assad family? It's whoever was the first guy that became the king of Jordan. Like Jordan is a recent creation. Some people think it's like been around for no, it really hasn't. And Jordan is essentially an Arab who was born in Saudi Arabia coming in and taking over a territory that was under Turkish and uh Ottoman control after that Ottoman Empire basically lost, and just you know, buying it from the UK, which was happy enough to sell it, and it became the country of Jordan. Jordan is a completely fake country, just like Ukraine, well, and just like Gaza.

SPEAKER_01: 37:42

All of the Middle East was drunk drawn by a drunken Brit, dude.

SPEAKER_02: 37:46

Yeah, yeah. So blame Brit for for all of these, all of these.

SPEAKER_01: 37:50

Well, and the the some of those you could say some of the issues that Great Britain is having right now with immigration is just so if the chickens coming home to roast.

SPEAKER_02: 37:59

It's it's Schreidenfreude to some degree. It's it's sad, but it's also not at all unexpected. And I say, look, if if you're a British citizen, I mean, you gotta blame your parents and their parents for what they've been doing by putting in the politicians that you've had, because the politicians you've had are the ones responsible for the Middle East and therefore responsible for what's going on in the UK today. That is absolutely the case. And well, one of my favorite YouTubers recently on this topic, his channel is called the the traveling clat. But he's a younger guy, he's I think in his 20s, so that makes him what a zoomer, probably.

SPEAKER_01: 38:42

I mean, depending, yeah.

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Yeah, but I think he's like in his mid-20s, thereabouts. But he's a he's an Iraqi Jew, his family, not him, right? He'd never lived in Iraq, but his family were Iraqi Jews who left Iraq during the big banishment of all Jews in the Middle East and moved to the United States. And then he moved back to Israel. And so here's a guy that looks a lot darker and a lot more Arab than most of the stereotypical you know, European Jews that you find. And he he's a great commentator, he's a pretty good debater too, but he's a very good commentator to dispel these myths, right? It's like, yeah, you know, the the Jews in Israel, they're all just a bunch of Europeans from Poland that have nothing to do at all with that land. He's like, look, my family's lived here in Iraq, right across from across Jordan, basically, from Israel for the last several thousand years. And I moved to Israel just like a lot of Jews moved to Israel after the creation of Israel because it's our historic homeland that we've been displaced from for a long time, and finally we have our own country back. But you can't say that like all Jews are from Europe, that that people that call themselves Jewish is from Europe. That's retarded. It just so happens that a lot of Jews were in Europe, but there were also Jews all throughout the Middle East. There were Jews in modern day Israel that never left, that stayed there through all the different countries that held the territory, but it's not a uh it's not been something where you know it's not like the colonization of Australia by the British, right? There were never any British in Australia, and so the British that came to Australia and annihilated the native population of kangaroos.

SPEAKER_01: 40:57

They they they were literally criminals that uh they were, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 41:01

It was a penal colony, they were literally raping kangaroos, is what I heard somebody mentioned. So allegedly.

SPEAKER_01: 41:08

And so if we have any Australian listeners who wish to comment, gene at Sir Gene.com.

SPEAKER_02: 41:14

Well, we we did have one with Darren. There was a guy that sent in quite a bit of money that was from Australia, but no, they they are all know that they're all relatives uh criminals. That's that's like this is not a hidden history of Australia. In fact, there was an episode of Flight of the Concords, which is a New Zealand comedy duo, musical comedy duo. I don't know if you ever watched it, it was hilarious. The episodes were very typical British humor, I would say, sort of you know, you you kind of laugh at yourself along with the their the ridiculousness of things. But they did it musically, very good duo, I think. Anyway, they had a episode where Brett, one of the characters, or Brit, as he's called in uh New Zealand, because they pronounced their E's differently out there. He he wakes up in somebody's apartment and he calls his buddy, his roommate, the other guy, and he's like, Hey, I I think I must have been really drunk, and I think I just made a horrible mistake. And so, whoa, what happened? It's like, well, you know, I think I went home with this, was this girl. And the guy's like, Yeah, I remember you guys had enough. So, you know, would you guys have a good time? He's like, I think she's Australian. And his buddy, and his buddy's like, What didn't you didn't you see any of the signs? Didn't you check? I was like, No, I must have been really drunk and didn't notice. And he's looking around her room, like in the video, and you know, there's the flag of Australia, there's her playing with dolphins or something on the beach. It's like all these very, very typical Australian type things, and then she comes back, and with a very Australian accent, like, you know, come on, I I'm I made you some breakfast. And he's like, Oh, great, yeah, I really gotta get going. But uh, she's like, Oh no, you gotta eat. But she's basically the stereotypical kind of bossy Australian chick.

SPEAKER_01: 43:19

I have never known a stereo, uh, I don't know that stereotype. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02: 43:25

Oh, no, no, no. If you meet Australian girls, they're they're very, they're not like you know, asshole bossy, but they're just very tomboyish. Like every girl in Australia in Australia seems like a tomboy. They all grow up like surfing and boxing kangaroos and grabbing snakes that could kill you with their hands and stuff. Yeah, they're very tomboyish. And and but the converse of that, right, is no manners. And uh like she she's made them breakfast, so she's she takes a coffee cup out of the sink and then sprays about two seconds of water on it, and then drops the water out, and then pours some dry cereal in there, and then looks in the fridge and didn't have any milk, but she's got some old half and half and pours a little bit of that, and he's like, There you go, got some made some breakfast for you.

SPEAKER_00: 44:23

You know, that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02: 44:25

And so, and he's like, Well, okay, so she's from Australia, but it's like, so you know, are you are you Australian? She goes, Yeah, 100% bread and born. He's like, Well, what about what about your dad or your mom? Are they Australian? It's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I you know, I've heard the story of how my uh my granddad uh raped my grandma, and you know, that's my that's how my my dad was born, and and he's like, Oh, well, so your your grandma, you know, your granddad raped her. That's horrible. But yeah, yeah, he was a convict sent off to Australia, and she was a prostitute, and so you know, they end up kind of falling in love and having kids, and and basically, like, every time he's trying to confirm that she's maybe not like there's some chance that she's at least part not Australian and he can feel better. Yeah, he's just getting the stereotypical, yeah, yeah, deeper and deeper and deeper. So now he's he's trying to run away from there, and she's like, Oh, where are you going? Anyway, I don't want to just recite the whole damn episode. People can look it up themselves. I think it was an HBO show, if I remember right. So it's on whatever is HBO these days. I think it's Max.

SPEAKER_01: 45:40

Yep, HBO Max.

SPEAKER_02: 45:42

Yeah, but they should have, or maybe you could just get Flight of the Concords on anything these days. Uh, I have no idea, but just do the episode, just type in Flight of the Concords, Australian Girl, and I'm sure you'll find some clips from it as well. It is really well done, it is very funny. That show in general just spawns so many funny comedians. The uh Kristen Wig was on there, the the chick that was on the the last man on earth, or whatever that show was about the guy that everybody else died off, and then he was alone, and he ends up running into this woman who was played by the woman that was on that show. She was like their super fan. She was basically going to all their gigs, and you know, like you could tell the way she looks at them. She's imagining sleeping with both of them all the time. It was it was a very cool show for the time being. They did creative stuff with music, it's all kind of folksy, but the lyrics are really funny, they're really good, like they were good at doing that kind of stuff, and then they did some acts after that and just traveling, which you know never works as well. I I always think that anytime you see somebody trying to put a TV show that they were in into an a road act. Like I I went to see uh Mythbusters live.

SPEAKER_01: 47:10

I didn't know they did a live thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 47:12

They did it after the show ended. That was like the next year of their lives. In fact, Dave uh no, uh never mind. But yeah, so they did that show live, they did a traveling gig. I went to see them here. Uh, it was kind of interesting to see him in person, but not really nearly as interesting as seeing them on TV.

SPEAKER_01: 47:30

Yeah. Gene, I've got a dad joke for you. Okay. What's the difference between a genealogist and a gynecologist?

SPEAKER_02: 47:42

One letter?

SPEAKER_01: 47:43

No. The genealogist looks up the family tree. Yeah, the gynecologist looks up the family bush.

SPEAKER_02: 47:51

Oh, Jesus. Yeah, that's kind of a dad joke. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 47:58

On to r real politics here. So Trump is instituting what I would call that Neo Monroe doctrine that I talked about a while back. Have you been paying attention to what's going on in Latin America?

SPEAKER_02: 48:12

Yeah, it seems like we're sinking fishing boats these days.

SPEAKER_01: 48:15

We're sinking boats, but beyond that, you've got Argentina that we are escalating greatly. We flew a B-52 off the coast of Argentina, which anyone know who knows anything about the B-52, the buff, that is uh that that should be a scary moment for any military. Because tremendous amount of firepower capable there that they couldn't stop. Beyond that, uh, you know, we're sinking these boats. A seventh one has been sunk now. We are severely limiting their capacity to do things, but now we've gone and we've announced the end of all payments to Colombia. So Colombia is being brought into this. The airbase is for what USAID.

SPEAKER_02: 49:06

Why were we giving USAID to Columbia? What the fuck, man? Yeah, well, eh. Anyway, no, we should just fucking stop with all of it. It's time to do a reset. Okay. I don't have a problem with tactically strategic aid for certain things that we get that are tangible. However, I feel like much with the programs that Doge has uncovered, there's an awful lot of stuff that's running on autopilot. It's like, well, we got aid last year, we get aid this year, right?

SPEAKER_01: 49:36

And that's why I don't understand Schumer's shutdown because he's given Trump a lot of latitude to be able to go in and do a lot of this where he otherwise would not have had the authority to do so.

SPEAKER_02: 49:48

Yeah, and it's not like they're gonna keep the shutdown indefinitely, like it always comes to an end eventually. So what the fuck are they thinking?

SPEAKER_01: 49:56

I don't know. But Trump cutting aid to Colombia, taking the line in Argentina, the way he is, Puerto Rico arming up and getting ready.

SPEAKER_02: 50:13

Like Grand Paul. Yeah, and what Massey. Yep, Massey is another one. Yep. So there definitely are Republicans that are some would say sticking to principles, some would say being obtuse, and uh should be kicked out of the party. But yeah, it's it's interesting because another one is Matt Gates, and Mae Gates, who's not in Congress, but who is very close, and I was certainly in supporting of him becoming the attorney general.

SPEAKER_01: 50:46

Matt Gates some say there's still time.

SPEAKER_02: 50:49

Yeah, yeah. Because the current chick just sucks, let's face it. She should have never had that job, but it's Trump's got a he's got a thing for blonde women. That's that's it. I can understand it. He just likes blonde chicks. I can't. I that's just lame. You don't put a person into a job who's not qualified for it.

SPEAKER_01: 51:13

Agreed. Anyway, what it looks like to me though is we're going to increase pressure on these Latin American countries till we fundamentally get their capitulation.

SPEAKER_02: 51:25

Um I honestly think we made a mistake by not forcing all of the Latin America countries to adopt the US dollar as their currency.

SPEAKER_01: 51:31

Well, with the digital dollar, that very well may be coming. And that would be the move.

SPEAKER_02: 51:37

Because it's America and we own it, and it's the Gulf of America.

SPEAKER_01: 51:41

I'm telling you, dude, we are looking at a very strong possibility of a neo-Munro doctrine being enacted, a la what I was talking about a few months ago.

SPEAKER_02: 51:51

Right, right. Which of course also completely justifies what Russia's doing in Ukraine. I mean, foreign tampering with the political climate, overthrowing a legitimately elected Ukrainian official to institute a puppet who has zero political experience. I mean, these are all fair arguments that could be made for any country. If you're talking about sphere of influence, there's nothing closer in sphere than the country next door to you.

SPEAKER_01: 52:22

Yeah, I I agree. I agree. You know, the historical or Israel with Gaza for that matter.

SPEAKER_02: 52:28

I mean, Israel ought to be controlling Gaza. You can't have a bunch of terrorists living right next to you.

SPEAKER_01: 52:34

Well, I think when you had the suicide bombings and stuff like that, that yes, that is a reasonable thing. There's lots of things here. But what I will tell you is I am encouraged by our actions against these quote-unquote fishing vessels, which I don't think they are. These are speed boats. No one's no one's especially right now, knowing what the US is doing, no one's taking a speed boat out for fishing right now in known drug trafficking areas.

SPEAKER_02: 53:04

Yeah. But I also have to agree with what I heard from the commentary of the president of Argentina, I forget his name. But he he was basically saying that if the US just wants to become a colonial power, that's fine. I mean, they can do that, but don't pretend that all you're doing is trying to shut down drug trade because the the problem with drugs can is in the citizens of America and not with the people producing the drugs. And I have to agree with that. I've always been on the side of like you can't blame the people that make drugs for the use of those drugs. That's ridiculous. It's like blaming gun manufacturers for the use of their guns.

SPEAKER_01: 54:00

I agree.

SPEAKER_02: 54:01

No, you can't do that. That's not a rational, uh, justifiable position. You have to treat the people that end up using the drugs. And I think a part of it was clearly we had an epidemic of over-prescription of opioids going on in this country, which I think to a large degree has been addressed. And people are not prescribed opios nearly as much anymore. Nowadays they're not going to be prescribed Tylenol either, which for a while they were. But you know, it's you can go after people breaking import laws, like I'm totally fine with stopping the drugs at the border with illegally moving product into the US. I get all that. But I've never liked, and this is going back to the 80s, I've never liked this idea that we're going to fly and then firebomb cocaine fields in Colombia. Like, not our fucking country, not the way you treat the problem, and people who probably work there as slaves are the ones getting killed, not the ones living in expensive houses and profiting off the drug trade.

SPEAKER_01: 55:20

Oh, I I I agree. I believe that we have a lot of culpability. But so, in addition to the current assets that were already in the region, here in the last couple of and last week, the US has deployed almost a dozen ships and over 4,500 marines and sailors, along with a significant portion of naval and air power to the Caribbean to strengthen urban operations against Argentina, including the USS Iwajima, which is a wasp class amphibious assault ship, i.e., this is a marine aircraft carrier. What most countries would consider an aircraft carrier are amphibious assault ships. So we've got cruisers, destroyers, we've got submarines, you know, we've got honest prey, we've got seahawks, we've got blackhawks, we've got drones, we've got Poseidons, we've got F-35s, we've got 10 F-35s, which is more than enough to take out all of Argentina by itself. We've got Harriers, you know.

SPEAKER_02: 56:26

I mean, I mean the British did it back with a much smaller fleet.

SPEAKER_01: 56:30

Yeah, in the Falcons War, yes.

SPEAKER_02: 56:33

Yep. That was the first war I watched on TV.

SPEAKER_01: 56:39

Yeah. Were you a Thatcherite?

SPEAKER_02: 56:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 56:43

You liked Thatcher, really?

SPEAKER_02: 56:45

At the time I did, I haven't really reflected back, but I I think given what was in in the UK pre-Thatcher, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01: 56:57

Anyway, Latin America is, you know, really Trump calls Colombians Petro an illegal drug drug leader who's the president, you know. So like this this rhetoric is going to continue, and what we're going to see, I really do believe by the way, just to interrupt you for a sec.

SPEAKER_02: 57:19

Really hot chicks in Colombia.

SPEAKER_01: 57:22

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 57:24

That's an export that that they need to switch to over over the export of drugs.

SPEAKER_01: 57:31

Yeah, you you gotta watch out though, because you know, Colombia versus Brazilian, you know, you get some I will take the Colombian over the Brazilian any day, right? But you know, because of the the trans issues down there.

SPEAKER_02: 57:44

In Brazil, where like it's totally legal and they they have lots of clinics for it, yeah. Yeah, and the Brazil is basically West Asia. It's the Thailand of the South America, exactly. Yeah, yeah. For sure. Although the Thai dude chicks look more like chicks, they're all short and skinny, whereas the the the trans chicks, dude chicks from Brazil look like dudes with breasts.

SPEAKER_01: 58:14

Well, anyway, regardless, point is just be careful, gentlemen.

SPEAKER_02: 58:20

Yeah, and you know what else is a big thing in the in Brazil? What's that? As far as the fetishes go, because you know, we we have we have to get an R rating in this episode.

SPEAKER_01: 58:30

But lists, yeah. I mean, we already have been banned from the no agenda stream, so I know, I know, that's what I heard.

SPEAKER_02: 58:36

Yeah, I heard that uh somebody who really doesn't like our show there, CSB, has uh commented that this show is not safe for stream, which is just insane.

SPEAKER_01: 58:47

Uh, I mean I mean, have you uh listened to Nick the Rat?

SPEAKER_02: 58:50

I yeah, clearly he has exactly Nick the Rat, who I donated money to and he wouldn't even acknowledge it, the bastard. But yeah, and half the time Nick the Rat's doing his show where the mic is the camera, but he's not physically there. And he's got like a screensaver going basically. Anyway, yeah, so a big thing that I'd never seen before that that came out of Brazil was ball kicking. Have you heard of this? No, yeah, it's where these really hot chicks like kick guys in the balls over and over and over. And I I don't know how look, I don't understand a lot of fetishes, okay? I just because I've seen it doesn't mean I understand it.

SPEAKER_01: 59:35

Subject yourself to this.

SPEAKER_02: 59:37

I guess they get some kind of uh uh you know pleasure out of it somehow or something, but but watching hot chicks kicking guys in the balls, and it's not the it's not like a fetish for lesbians either, right? This isn't something that women who hate men want to watch. This is something that guys are into. Isn't that weird? But I just I remember seeing this popping up at some point on the uh the old porn feeds, and you know, it seemed like this is a weird, weird thing. Yeah, and they were all from Brazil.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:14

Weird. Did you see the uh Christian group that's trying to buy Pornhub to shut it down? I did, yeah. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen, but you know, I I applaud stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02: 1:00:25

I think that's a great way to do it. Look, if you can gather enough money together to basically buy out something you don't like, or you know, fund a lawsuit against them as another way of doing it, then do it. I I think that's much better than going around shooting people in the neck. Yeah, agreed. So if you don't Agree with something, buy it. That's what Musk did, right? Yep. That's a legitimate thing. Although now I think that turned out to be a great deal because X is worth way more than he paid for it. And he overpaid for it at the time.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:06

Do you think X is really as valuable as the current market valuation? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02: 1:01:11

If you look at the stats for all the other platforms that have participation, basically, what you got to look at ad rates, right? What are you getting for your dollar advertising, for your advertising dollar? And what you're getting on X is highly motivated people that are on it for many hours per day reading your posts because they're part of your timeline, just like every message. Now, if you do a good job with advertising, there have been a few ads that are actually retweeted, like I've re-promoted them because the ads are funny. If you can do an ad that makes you chuckle, you're gonna get a retweet of that ad for me. That's that's always been the case. Because then to me, it's like art, it's not just a pitch for something, it's actually good. It's the same way that watching Brandon Herrera videos gets you to go to the gun store store and buy more shit. His whole channel is basically just one big advertisement for the gun industry. But we like it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:18

Well, it's entertainment too.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:19

It's entertaining, that's why, right? Because you you'll even if the AK-50 is never mass-produced, which very unlikely that it I guarantee you the AK-50 videos have generated millions, well, at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, but maybe millions, of people buying AK-47s.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:40

Well, you know, with the AK-50, I think the only way it becomes mass-produced is literally if someone like Barrett licenses it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:50

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, frankly, there this would never happen, right? But what would be hilarious is if Ismash licensed it. I don't know who that is. That's the manufacturer of the AK-47, the actual Russian company that makes the AK-47s.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:11

Like that would be hilarious. It's like bring it back home, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:18

I I wouldn't be surprised if he was legally able to, he would jump at that, actually. Oh, dude.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:24

If he got a tour of the factory, he'd be jizzing the entire time.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:29

And for those who don't know, Brandon Herrera is a fan of Soviet weapons.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:32

He he used to be known as the AK. The AK guy. That's still yeah, but these days people know him as Brandon. And I think the uh let's go Brandon did a lot to popularize him being known as Brandon. But before that, he was just only known as the AK guy on the internet. And I remember watching his old videos when he was way, way, way smaller of doing things like torture testing AR-15s and then comparing that same thing to AK-47s to demonstrate the AK-47 is a better platform.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:09

I mean, there's a lot of things there. The AK-47 is a much more sloppy platform, yeah, exactly. And that allows it to run in different environments, you know, with dirt, mud tests, and stuff like that. Sure. But when you're talking accuracy and several other items, and no.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:33

Yeah, well, obviously, you there's a trade-off for one or the other, but or they would they would even do stuff that wasn't destructive. They would say, Okay, let's start shooting targets. We have 5,000 rounds of ammo until one of the guns jams. And you know which one's gonna jam every time. Sure. And it's not the AK. But the AK was never meant to compete against a much more accurate and more finicky gun. That would be the SVD. The SVD is more of a designated marksman gun. It is definitely gonna be a lot more finicky than the AK-47, but it's gonna have that accuracy, it's gonna have a lot of the things that are benefits of the M16 platform. Now, also, I was watching a video since we're on guns. I've I'm sure you've seen him. The guy who is the the gun dude of the royal armory in the UK, you know the guy I'm talking about? No, I'm sure you've seen his video. See, he he is the the head whatever guy of the Royal Armory of the King of England.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:47

Okay, right?

SPEAKER_02: 1:05:48

So it's it's basically a museum position. Like you're the you're the head of that the gun portion of the museum collection. And what's notable about him is in all the videos, he's handling all the guns wearing white gloves. So it's he's a curator. Now he does get to shoot these things, and he does he probably has shot more guns than any other person in the UK, frankly. But it's a little different than what you can do here in the US of just own any of these things and shoot them, uh, although they get to use suppressors, which is cool. But anyway, so he did a review of guns of Battlefield 6, and this is a an ongoing thing that he does in all the video games that come out that have guns. He always does reviews of guns to point out what model they're similar to, what bits they borrowed from what gun. And he does have pretty good knowledge on that. But one of the things that that I what made reminded me of him, right? Was that he had mentioned the the American army's different usage of different guns, you know, what the M4 was, M16, and then why he still will keep calling the M16 the AR, I can't remember say AR-16 or AR 15, but whatever, by its manufacturer's name rather than the military designation. Because to him, like that gun was the gun that Stoner made, and that's the gun that everybody copied. And um and it was single fire, it didn't have full auto, and it wasn't until later in the Vietnam War that the army requested that full auto be added.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:50

No, it was during the trial because the first M16s that went to Vietnam were select fire. I am pretty damn sure, dude.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:01

Okay. Well, we'll we'll check on that. But either way, the the gun as it was given to the military was a single fire gun. And the see, I don't I don't think you're correct because I remember hearing stories of guys in Vietnam saying that it's bullshit that our guns can't do full auto. And that this happened after the guns were in Vietnam, not during the trials. But we can we can check. But either way, I think Stoner was correct in that you really need to have all you really need is single fire. Because the only thing that having full auto does is it wastes ammo, and the only silver lining, the only actual benefit of that is having suppressive fire. It's easier to do suppressive fire, but other than that, the only thing that full auto does is puts a smile on your face, it doesn't actually help you from a military standpoint. Like there's not a situation where if only I had full auto, I could have killed this guy faster. Because when you shoot single fire mode, you're way more accurate than you ever are in full auto mode. And if you can pull your trigger with your finger multiple times per second, which most people can, certainly in that age bracket of in their early 20s, you can get a pretty quick rate rate of fire even from a single fire weapon. Now, I say this as somebody that owns both a binary trigger and a fully semi-automatic force reset, yeah. Yeah, force reset trigger. Like I I've got both of those my guns, but but that's for fun. It's not because I think this makes the gun better in any kind of uh actual gun application scenario.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:06

So the first model M16 that the US military wanted to adopt was the Colt Model 601.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:20

Yeah, so you say the Colt model what?

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:22

So the Colt Model 601, which was the first weapon that would eventually become the M16, that was adopted originally by the US Air Force, and it was a select fire weapon.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:37

How about the Army?

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:39

I I don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:40

I'm just telling you the first one that went into I don't think that that weapon is known for its use in the Air Force.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:47

Well, that's what became the M16, though.

SPEAKER_02: 1:10:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:52

So letting you know. Anyway, regardless, they had both correct, but yeah. They they had both semi-automatic and select fire variants from the very beginning, is the point.

SPEAKER_00: 1:11:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:11:08

Yeah. Okay. Well either it was designed as a single fire weapon, either way. So in fact, I think and again, I I'm going off of videos I watched of Stoner inner being interviewed. So I think he in that video said that the reason that it had a three-round burst mode was a compromise between him arguing that it was a bad decision to give fully automatic weapons to the troops, and at the very least, if they want something more than single shot, let's give them a three-shot option.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:01

Yeah, three-round burst, but the three-round burst mechanisms are janky. The other thing I would say is how do they work?

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:06

I have never looked into how they do it's a ratchet round.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:09

It's a ratchet. So it's a ratchet on the steer.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:12

No ratchet and then the resets.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:14

Right. Okay. Um, so interestingly enough, though, so the three-round burst mechanism was kind of eh, but one of the things that was pretty interesting that Stoner, when you look at the history, the issues with the early M16s, Stoner insisted over and over and over again that the barrels be chrome lined. And the military, in order to save money, decided, nah, we're not going to do that. And hence why the reliability issues of the original M16s became a problem. Yeah. Because without the chrome lined barrel, if you're not maintaining your gun, then you have a problem where you know you've got an iron barrel, it's going to rust if you're not maintaining it. Yeah. Especially in a jungle environment.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:10

It's gotta, yeah, it's gotta get cleaned, it can be grimy, and even with your, and this is the other thing that I don't like about it, is I don't like weapons that don't use pistons. Like, I don't want hot gas blowing in my face every time uh the gun shoots.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:27

I mean, the there are pros and cons to direct impingement versus gas piston. Gas piston screw with the barrel harmonics, which can be less accurate. Direct impingement has some benefits.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:42

How do they screw with the g with the barrel harmonics?

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:45

Because you've got more mass on top of the barrel, so it's messing with the barrel harmonics. And the barrel harmonic, the reason why we've gone to free float hand guards and everything, is that barrel when the when the round goes through and is whipping around from the rifling, it causes that barrel to oscillate with additional mass up top. This can be somewhat problematic. At least that's what the gunsmiths tell me. I've had gas piston operated ARs, I've had direct impingement AMR tons, I've got lots of different guns. The reality is the difference in accuracy that is going to make on that particular firearm platform is minimal. Now, would I want a gas piston sniper rifle or something that I'm wanting to be sub-MOA? No. But I also wouldn't want direct impingement. I probably wouldn't go semi-auto, right? And if I am, then you know, probably direct impingement's gonna be the better choice because it's easier to tune. But, you know, when you when you have a reciprocating mass up there, it just adds to to the way the gun handles.

SPEAKER_02: 1:14:57

Yeah, I I I mean I don't disagree with you at all on that. That's definitely the case, but also you have to look at what what the parameters for the gun are for its specific purpose.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:09

Agreed. And that's that's where I was. Well, for CQB.

SPEAKER_02: 1:15:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:20

Right. I mean, the original N16 had a 20-inch barrel. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I I think I think the point.

SPEAKER_02: 1:15:33

Well, I yeah, the the current M4s use either a 9 or a 13-inch.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:39

I think 13-inch is the standard, but r regardless, we do have down to like a nine-inch barrel option for most of them.

SPEAKER_02: 1:15:48

Yep. So I I think it's a the bottom line. We started on this whole topic talking about Brandon Herrer and the the gun, the stuff he did before he was well known, which was basically AK propaganda, would be a good way of putting it. Um did you see ever see the video that was shot of Stoner meeting Kalashnikov?

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:13

Kalishnikov, yeah, yeah. And then shooting each other's guns. Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 1:16:16

That was that was cool. Yeah. No, they both had uh a lot of respect for the other.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:20

Well, both are quite frankly pretty brilliant gun designers. Yeah, the only gun designer I would put above both of them would be Browning. The mountain Jew.

SPEAKER_02: 1:16:32

Yeah. Yeah, he's a he definitely revolutionized, I think, the gun industry back in the 1800s.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:44

Oh, dude, the the BAR, all of that. The Browning high power, I mean, just absolute brilliant gun designer.

SPEAKER_02: 1:16:52

Yeah. Yep. That's still those a lot of the derivatives of those guns still very much in production today.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:01

Oh my god, if I could have a B AR, I would be oh, oh my god. Full auto 30 odd six. Yes, please.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:10

Yeah, yeah. I just I like I've always had a fascination for bull pups, and I like owning them. I've owned like quite a few of them over the years, including the current one that I got you interested in and you ended up buying.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:27

Hey, I like bull pups too. I've always wanted an AUG. I've always wanted a bull. Yeah, but you know what? They've been too damn expensive and not modernized enough for a long time. But you know what? Aug has changed that significantly generation. Yes. Okay. Uh they maintained the quick swap barrel, but they actually have a decent handguard now and several other things. So like the Aug has come up as a potential option again.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:53

Oh, that's good. Yeah, the more options, the better. I I like competition in the space, but it it always seemed to me that it was just wasted space behind the grip of the gun. And like if you could utilize it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:09

It's it's the trigger, though. The that's one thing bullpups no bullpup has a good trigger.

SPEAKER_02: 1:18:14

Yeah, yeah. I I think compared to a non-bullet pup, they tend to have worse triggers. But I will say that in the Tavar, it's probably the best bullet pup trigger that I've used because certainly in other bullet pups I've had the triggers have been worse.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:28

Did you get one of the upgraded trigger packs or no?

SPEAKER_02: 1:18:31

No, I never did. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:33

Well, supposedly some of the no, I have not. I haven't. They they've been on they're like they were on back order. Yeah, and they were on back order for a very long time.

SPEAKER_02: 1:18:42

I don't shoot that gun enough to justify an upgraded trigger, I think is my bottom line.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:46

Well, I've I've spent way more upgrading that gun with the the handguard. Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_02: 1:18:51

You replaced the handgarden, yeah. Yeah, I mean the most expensive thing I have on that gun is the thermal site.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:59

Yeah, the most expensive thing I have on that gun. The optic isn't cheap. The IR laser wasn't too expensive, but still not cheap, you know. I don't know. I've put it's it's it's set up for you know night vision use and lots of other things.

SPEAKER_02: 1:19:19

So yeah, exactly. And the only thing it's missing is really a suppressor.

SPEAKER_01: 1:19:24

Yes, and I'm it's uh so I actually have a surefire mount on there, and I have the the surefire linear compensator on there right now with a war mount. I would love to get a suppressor for it, but current legal restrictions. Um I'm waiting to see where this lands.

SPEAKER_02: 1:19:46

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it'd be silly to just spend the money or even not spend the money, but fill out all the paperwork and the bullshit you gotta go through. When it's likely to be gonna change it within a year, yeah. If it just like, oh, you can just buy it mail order now from anyone. God, that would be how cool would that be. Like every other accessory, my FRT, I just got showed up to my house in the mail.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:10

Yeah, because it's not a gun.

SPEAKER_02: 1:20:11

Not a gun. Exactly. Neither is the suppressor, goddamn it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:16

No, but the problem with that is then the suppressor is technically not protected by the Second Amendment.

SPEAKER_02: 1:20:21

Well, that that's fine. I mean, any single gun part then can be said to not be protected. That trigger could be not protected then. So you can have all the guns you want, but no triggers.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:35

That would be an interesting thing, right? I mean, that'd be the this is the that would be the left's law. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:20:46

So yeah, it's I think any anything that is a gun and any accessory that fits on that gun is protected, in my mind. Now, the government disagrees with me, but logically, that's what I would say. It you can't say cars are protected, but tires are not.

unknown: 1:21:08

No.

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:09

Did or off-road tires aren't. You can have normal road tires, but you're not allowed to put off-road tires without filling out a form.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:18

Did you uh see the latest Ozympic news?

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:21

No. What's going on with that?

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:23

So they're claiming Ozimpic may help reduce alcohol consumption.

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:30

I could see that. I mean, it definitely fucks with your brain's uh motivational centers when it comes to feeling hungry. So I could see how it would work with alcohol too.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:42

They're just gonna make this the Vunda drug.

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:45

Well, it's uh we've talked about this before. So it's it's not really a drug. What it is is an artificially created uh hormone, essentially, that your body naturally produces anyway in the pituitary gland. So all you're doing is you're injecting yourself with a higher amount than your body naturally produces. So do you want to call it a drug? I guess maybe because it's delivered in drug form. It's a shot. But I don't know, man. It's to me, this is in the same category as like what who's our bicyclist here in Austin? Uh Lance Armstrong. This is kind of in the same category as what Lance Armstrong got busted for or doping. You know what he was doing?

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:36

Testosterone?

SPEAKER_02: 1:22:38

No.

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:38

What red blood cells? Oh, that's right, because he had cancer.

SPEAKER_02: 1:22:43

Yeah. So is red is a red blood cell a drug? You know, I mean, I guess you can treat it as as that if it's artificially injected into you, so you have a higher capacity for carrying oxygen. But it it's very tenuous. I mean, technically, testosterone really isn't a drug either. It's once again, it's adding a hormone that is naturally produced within the body to the body. Now, if you take a drug that stimulates natural production of testosterone, ironically, that actually would be a drug because that is not something that's naturally produced in the body. You're using an external set of chemicals to boost the production within your body. So that to me would be a something legitimately called a drug, but actual testosterone injections. I don't I don't really think that that's a drug. I mean, I I take insulin injections. Is that a drug? My body makes insulin, just doesn't make enough of it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:23:59

Well, but you're using artificial insulin, not quite the same.

SPEAKER_02: 1:24:03

It's doing the exact same thing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:05

Yeah. Did you it's it it's a gray area. Did you see the news about Tommy Robinson? No, what happened to him? So Tommy Robinson was leaving the UK, had rented a very nice car, like a Bentley or something, and was heading somewhere for vacation over in Europe using his newly obtained Irish passport.

SPEAKER_02: 1:24:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:30

And the Brits knew who he was at the border crossing, stopped him, asked for his phone and the password to his phone, which they're allowed to do under their terrorism legislation. Yeah. And he said no. So now he is facing new jail time for terrorism charges. The insanity of the UK continues.

SPEAKER_02: 1:24:50

And again, like they're digging their own grave. What they don't seem to understand is this this leads to only one thing: a caliphate. The the surest, and I've said this for a long time, the antidote to feminism and by extension, liberalism is Islam. This is Islam is what you get when your country becomes too liberal. This is what happened in Iran. This should have been a lesson for everybody. Iran was outpacing Europe in its liberal policies. Yeah. And it upset enough people that were extremists that they overthrew the government, overthrew the Shah, and elected or elected, uh, put in place a uh religious government instead. So I this is I I think the UK is on a very short ticker here. Like the fuse is almost beyond the point of being able to snip it off.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25:55

Yeah, I don't know that the UK is salvageable at this point.

SPEAKER_02: 1:25:58

Yeah, yeah. I think that, and if you listen to and this is like I mentioned that Israeli dude who is you know, family is from Iraq originally, Iraqi Jews, but talking about, or he's showing videos of these Islamists living in the UK who openly talk about how they're counting down the days at which they can start imposing Sharia law on the entire country and charging all the non-Muslims jizya.

SPEAKER_01: 1:26:29

You know, which is a tax to live in a Muslim country. Yeah, it's a tax non-Muslims. If you're living in a Muslim country, you're either functionally a slave or you are you are converting.

SPEAKER_02: 1:26:44

I mean, it's I guess it's better to pay a jizya than be killed, which is what used to happen. But at the same time, you don't have the same rights as a Muslim living in a Muslim country, you never will.

SPEAKER_01: 1:26:57

No, and I think a really good example of this, and people don't think of it, but is the UAE. You know, I've talked about many times the UAE's population is 98% you know non-citizens, right? So to be in the UAE, you have to pay for a visa, you have to have a job, you have to be doing things, you have to be paying that tax, and you do not have the rights of a citizen. You even if you spend over a million dollars, the best you can hope for is a golden visa, which is good for 10 years. That's it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:27:31

Yeah, and this is why you find a lot of European millionaires or Russian millionaires, or you know, people that don't want to live in necessarily the country that they were living in, they they tend to flee to the UAE and get one of those expensive visas because they want to get a lot of the benefits of not living in a country with laws that may find things to charge them with. A good example of that is the guy that uh I forget his name, I'm horrible with names, but the guy that created Telegram app. So he he lives in the UAE. And if you remember, he was like a month or two ago, he was visiting Paris on a trip, and they arrested him for something, some bullshit thing or other, and then held him for like three weeks before he finally got out of there and went back to the UAE. And I don't think the UAE has extraction deals either.

SPEAKER_01: 1:28:34

The UAE does not, so it depends on which countries, but the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, none of them have extradition as much extradition agreements with the United States.

SPEAKER_02: 1:28:45

Extraction is what we do in countries that don't have extradition, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:28:49

And the other thing I would say is Narda Cyprus, actually. Which is a member of the EU.

SPEAKER_02: 1:28:56

A lot of the Russian oligarchs moved to Cyprus. Yeah, it's it's I'm not against that model. I I think that for the actual citizens of Qatar and for the citizens of Saudi Arabia and for the citizens of a lot of these Muslim countries, like they're doing what's good for them. Oh, yeah, absolutely. They're not they don't give a shit about well, is it fair to everybody? No, no, the Saudi family rules a fairly sizable country, yeah, and like I mentioned earlier, Jordan ruled by really what was a member of the Saudi family. So, yeah, they're doing all right for themselves, and I have no problem with those guys. I have no problem with the type of uh Islam that they practice either. Like, it's a practical Islam, not a militant Islam.

SPEAKER_01: 1:29:56

I mean, I don't know, the Wahhabiists in uh Saudi Arabia are pretty pretty militant.

SPEAKER_02: 1:30:02

Well, they're not like the Shiites.

SPEAKER_01: 1:30:05

Uh I don't know about that, dude. The Wahhabiists are pretty gruff.

SPEAKER_02: 1:30:11

I don't know, dude. I I knew I mean if you if you buy the story on 9-11, I mean hijackers were Saudi Arabian How absolutely hobbyists, but is that because they were hobbyists or because they were simply people that bin Laden trusted? Would naturally be people from Saudi Arabia as he was part of the family?

SPEAKER_01: 1:30:39

I mean, let's let's be honest.

SPEAKER_02: 1:30:42

The the do we really believe the Jews blew up the building, of course. Yeah, it it's either way, I think that it is a little suspicious that all of the hijackers were from the same country, and that the passports were found. I don't think that's I think that's less suspicious, honestly. Because how the fuck does a passport survive that? Well, why would it not?

SPEAKER_01: 1:31:11

Because the fire is strong enough to melt as best as coated steel, apparently. Yeah, but if which is not physically possible, but anyway.

SPEAKER_02: 1:31:20

But if there are explosions, which presumably there were visible explosions that we watched, at least I watched this shit live when it was happening. But anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 1:31:39

I was living in Idaho at the time, and I was in the shower getting ready for school, listening to Rick D's in the morning and thinking, This is a really stupid joke, Rick. What are you talking about? Right, because he was kind of a shock jock kind of guy. And you know, like this isn't funny, and then turned on the TV on Fox News, and sure enough, and called the school and like, are we still having are we still having you know class today? And they're like, Yes, of course. And I remember being in my AP English course and going, Why are we at school and why don't we have a TV on watching school just your mom? No, this was when I was in public school.

unknown: 1:32:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:32:23

This was anyway.

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:25

The public school in the compound.

SPEAKER_01: 1:32:27

Ah, god god, dude. Anyway, there was this kid there who was like, I just like why the fuck do we care about what's going on in new in New York? It's like because this is gonna change our the course of our nation's history, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:39

And it did. Yeah, for sure. We're still living with it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:32:43

Patriot Act wanted too, baby, keeps getting renewed.

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:45

Yeah, and okay, so here's the other thing. The I think a passport could legitimately have been blown out with an explosion. Ain't no way. I think it could have. Uh, it was like it's not like the passport was the only piece of stuff from the plane that was found outside of the actual crash site. Okay, there are other bits.

SPEAKER_01: 1:33:12

And I I assume you believe that the the jet fuel was enough to melt the steel.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33:17

No, obviously not.

SPEAKER_01: 1:33:18

But just not isn't it Occam's razor to say that it's more likely that that was planted? Not at all. It it is that's insane. It's that's insane.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33:28

For look, just because an actual conspiracy happened doesn't mean that absolutely every element that you find about that event is part of the conspiracy. There are perfectly reasonable natural things that happen that are not part of the conspiratorial plot, even if there is one that exists.

SPEAKER_01: 1:33:51

And assuming that everything has to be related is the Pentagon hit by a plane or a missile.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33:57

Yeah, that's uh that's a tough one. I'm gonna say probably a missile, but I can't I can't prove it was a missile. Because I watched the footage of that too, but that footage was it was very fast. Like what you didn't have in the footage is you didn't have an image of a plane descending toward the Pentagon.

SPEAKER_01: 1:34:19

Yeah, and when you look at the physics of the the required piloting skills to do that is fucking impossible for someone to use the phone.

SPEAKER_02: 1:34:28

I've done that plenty of times in in plenty of times in uh flight sim 10. Oh please.

unknown: 1:34:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:34:36

The crashing into a building in Flight Sim 10 is like the default thing until you learned how to land. The damn game was a good thing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:34:44

Right, but the Pentagon is not exactly big enough.

SPEAKER_02: 1:34:49

Are you kidding? The Pentagon is one of the biggest buildings in the world.

SPEAKER_01: 1:34:53

From a footprint area, not the height.

SPEAKER_02: 1:34:55

Oh, yeah, it's not very tall. It's I think it's four four floors tall. Well, you would think five, but yeah. There you go. So yeah. It's it's likely that it was not an airplane, but I can't prove that it wasn't an airplane. I definitely saw live video of two airplanes crashing into the two towers that I did see. I saw the second one. People that say that there was a missile. I think you gotta stretch the imagination a little bit to say that was a missile. Now people argue, well, it wasn't the same plane, it wasn't actually physically the same size, the plane that crashed into it, as the plane they're claiming took off from Boston. Okay, that could be the case.

SPEAKER_01: 1:35:46

I don't know enough about the you know size of planes that are only caught in like four frames out of a video to be able to the people, especially the zoomers who are getting into the 9-11 conspiracy theories and coming up with all these oh, it was holographic and this, that, and the other. Uh dude, you gotta remember the quality of TV we had back in the day. Yeah, it is not the same as you know uh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02: 1:36:14

But but we do have, at least for one of the planes, film footage of it crashing into the building because somebody was filming on an eight millimeter camera, some event that was happening uh south of uh you know, south south the south of Manhattan.

SPEAKER_01: 1:36:34

Yeah, just no one ever forgets WTC 7.

SPEAKER_02: 1:36:38

Yeah, WTC 7 has no explanations at all. And if you look at the footage without telling anybody, what are you seeing here? Well, there seems to be a fire in the bill. Oh my god, the building just completely collapsed in a staged set of explosions. So there not only do we have no better description of why it collapsed than what I just said, we also have motive for why that building was likely to want to have been collapsed because of the data that it was holding several reasons, but yes. Yeah, I mean basically every everything that you can say the government has lied about was stored in that building. The the audits of the Pentagon, the IRS papers, the the links between the what was going on with the CIA and the operations of terrorism they were funding, like all that was stored in that building, allegedly. So all of it conveniently all disappeared at the same time. And here's the other thing all the cameras were cut for some reason. That building had no video surveillance, where normally it had video surveillance 24-7.

SPEAKER_01: 1:38:00

Yeah, and don't forget on what was it, September 9th, that Donald Rumsfeld said that the failed uh audit of the Pentagon and the unaccounted for multi-trillion dollars was the greatest, the greatest threat to our nation. Yeah, yeah, and then that just went away, and we spent trillions more.

SPEAKER_02: 1:38:21

It's shocking how that it's just like Charlie Kirk said, I hate Israel, and then the next thing you know, he's dead.

SPEAKER_01: 1:38:27

Yeah, okay, Candace.

SPEAKER_02: 1:38:31

My god, Candace has been reading the T Leaves like crazy and has become Charlie Kirk's posthumously Charlie Kirk's best friend.

SPEAKER_01: 1:38:39

Well, and yeah, yeah, yeah, and apparently getting her Ouija board out.

SPEAKER_02: 1:38:44

Uh-huh. That's about it, man. I I think that I don't think she realizes how much of a disservice to Catholicism she's currently doing. Why? Because people are starting to see, oh, this is what happens when somebody converts to a Catholic now. This is what Catholicism is all about. It's all about mysticism and you know, dream interpretation and all this shit. Because she, you know, she I don't know what she was, but she was a typical black chick who incidentally, you know, the the way she got famous, you probably know this, but the way she got famous initially was a website that she set up to basically dox people she didn't like. That was her claim to fame before she got her start as a media person. She set up this website to basically dox people that were making threats from the left. So you could like you could say, well, that's not a bad reason to do it, yes, but you know, doxing has kind of been frowned upon as a method of of uh retaliation by both sides, I think, for the most part. But she was certainly the first person from the right side perspective to start doxing people on the left. And I remember watching one of her very early debates with with Blair White. Where Blair White, who is a conservative trans chick, she decided to go up against and talk about how you know evil and nasty and crazy all the transsexual wise, and Blair's like agreeing with her, but this she keeps putting putting Blair up as an example of how bad this is. Like, dude, I'm gonna pick an example. There are many other trans people out there that are way worse examples than Blair White in in the way they act, in the way that they're you know corrupting kids, all this shit. Blair is the least of your problems, and it was a show that Dave Rubin moderated, and Dave, I remember saying, throwing his hands up in the ears like I I don't know what to do, I don't know how to handle a cat fight as a gay man. I think it was it was a genuinely funny moment, yeah. But yeah, it it's I think that's the other thing is I think kind of like Hitler, Candace just had some bad experiences.

SPEAKER_01: 1:41:35

Sorry, what a transition.

SPEAKER_02: 1:41:37

Well, it's uh I'm just factually correct in this. She had some negative experiences with Jews that that originally were helping her, like Dennis Prager, which got her her first real media job, you know, Dave Rubin that that moderated that show, the Daily Wire that made her a much bigger name and gave her a much bigger paycheck, and and so all these all these helpful Jews along the way, she sees as greedy because they were taking money that was coming in for in support of her.

SPEAKER_01: 1:42:12

Well, I mean, you know. Try not to live up to the stereotype so much, right?

SPEAKER_02: 1:42:19

Well, look, it it it's it's totally not true to say that the Jews control conservative media, but the Jews do control conservative media.

SPEAKER_01: 1:42:29

Yeah, I think the Jews control a lot of things, but I don't know that it's some like conspiracy. I think when you look at IQ research and you look at statistics on IQ research because people don't like hearing about IQ, but yeah. Well, but the I mean, the dude, it this is something we have to face is there are different ethnic groups have different IQs, and it's not to say that all you know Jews of a specific lineage are you know ubermensch or super intelligent, yeah. And it's not to say that all blacks are you know functionally retarded. There is a bit that came out uh that no, hold on, I want to make this point because the there is this uh there's there's more overlap than there is distinction. But when you're talking and that's my point, is but when you're talking at the margins, when you're talking about five, ten percent differentiation, how that plays out in the long run is a big deal, and that's my entire thing.

SPEAKER_02: 1:43:36

And it may not even be five, ten percent, but it is statistically significant.

SPEAKER_01: 1:43:40

Yes. Well, I mean, I believe the Ashkenazi Jews are statistically, I think it's one standard deviation, so that'd be 15.

SPEAKER_02: 1:43:49

Really? That high. I didn't realize.

SPEAKER_01: 1:43:51

So the average IQ for Ashkenazi would be 115 percent now.

SPEAKER_02: 1:43:55

If if I'm 50 Jewish, do I get half of that done there? How's that work?

SPEAKER_01: 1:43:59

It's this it's random genetics, dude. It's all about statistics, right? Lies, damn lies, and then statistics.

SPEAKER_02: 1:44:05

Uh-huh. So one thing I I saw a video on recently is uh relating to IQ the bell curve. Great book, by the way. Is Asians. There's been a lot of conversation about how Asians are, you know, they're excelling at everything, they're more intelligent than white people, and even you know, statistically true, like MIT had to stop admitting Asians because they were an overwhelming majority and they needed more black people. So, what the study found in analyzing it was a meta study analyzing a bunch of other studies of IQ that were performed in Asia. What they found was that Asians as a group had an average IQ of 97. Okay, and that they're actually slightly below the average IQ in the United States. Well, but two factors play into this perception. Number one, that the Asians that migrate to the US tended to be the higher IQ people. Correct. The second one of which that they think is the much greater impact here is that going by by cohorts of the same birth cohorts, so birth year based, they found that on average Asian students spent at more than 90 minutes longer than white students studying on a daily basis.

SPEAKER_01: 1:45:35

Yeah, and that's that tiger mom theory. Yep. And the other thing I would say is if you look at this in contra and compare and contrast to Africa, blacks in America have a higher IQ than blacks in Africa.

SPEAKER_02: 1:45:47

Oh, I haven't seen that. That's interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:45:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_02: 1:45:50

Well, don't tell my dad. Why? You don't wanna you you think I'm racist? You you heard him talk about Africa.

SPEAKER_01: 1:46:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:46:03

I like his this show is definitely on the not safer stream mode here, but like you know, a typical joke would would be something is like, well, of course, or the punchline would be to whatever the joke setup is of course he can do that, his tail still works. You know, it's it's that level of racism. Okay, yeah. Like, like that, you know. How do you tell a black person apart from a gorilla?

SPEAKER_01: 1:46:36

I dude, I did you really go there.

SPEAKER_02: 1:46:39

I I mean, I'm not I'm quoting, right? This is not me telling any racist joke. This is me quoting.

SPEAKER_01: 1:46:45

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02: 1:46:46

I'm not even gonna even give you the punchline on that one. You come up with your own answer.

SPEAKER_01: 1:46:49

You you can give it to me offline. That's the that's the safer answer in case this ever becomes an exhibit for HR.

SPEAKER_02: 1:46:57

Exactly. So my point is what I'm trying to say is my dad's freaking racist, but everybody was racist that was born when he was born. Because that was the if you lived in Europe, that was the standard.

SPEAKER_01: 1:47:13

Well, and race was way more broad than white and black and yellow. It was the Irish are not white.

SPEAKER_02: 1:47:24

Right, right. And certainly the Italians are not white.

SPEAKER_01: 1:47:29

Yeah, absolutely. That's like it it it it's it's like people sit there and go, Hitler was Austrian, yeah, he was ethnically German. That's the whole thing, is the your language and your country were tied to your race.

SPEAKER_02: 1:47:45

Yeah, yeah, where the borders tended to be based on those racial divides. And again, we can blame the British for mostly screwing that up in in all of Asia and including India and Pakistan.

SPEAKER_00: 1:47:59

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:01

Yep. Well, what do you have you been listening to No Agenda at all? Yeah. What do you think of Adam's North Steam Nexus theory?

SPEAKER_02: 1:48:09

I haven't heard that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:10

Oh, you need to go into the show notes and listen to that.

SPEAKER_02: 1:48:14

Well, give me a brief synopsis.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:16

Uh you can go do it. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:48:19

So we don't need it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:21

No, it's not, but it's it's it's an interesting hypothesis.

SPEAKER_02: 1:48:24

Adam sent me a thing based on the.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:25

And you bastard for what? Nothing, nothing, nothing. Trying to not laugh.

SPEAKER_02: 1:48:33

Yeah, okay, yeah, please don't. So the I got a text from Adam talking about end of show mix stuff, and then I said, Well, I thought that you know I couldn't submit AI-generated music to the end of show, which is why I've never submitted anything. Because obviously I don't, you know, play an instrument in real life. So I'm I'm uh, you know, a music producer. That's all. So he says, no, no longer. He says, send some end of show mixes. And I reply, I thought the jingles were banned. No longer, it's just too good. So I guess apparently they do accept AI-generated music.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:13

So I actually've been playing some of that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:49:16

I yeah, I I honestly have not been listening to the end of show mixes when I do listen to the episodes because I usually listen at 4x, and music does not sound good at 4x.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:27

No, dude, you you can't do that. Don't don't do 4x.

SPEAKER_02: 1:49:32

So and I might slow it down for that portion. I'm not gonna slow them down just for that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:36

And how can you possibly listen at 4x and pay any sort of fucking attention?

SPEAKER_02: 1:49:41

I don't know, maybe it's all as Ashkenazi, you know, genes or something.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:45

Uh-huh. That are you're just not really listening.

SPEAKER_02: 1:49:47

Can you not understand things at 4X?

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:50

I I can, but I don't find it pleasurable. Oh. Like it just sounds screechy.

SPEAKER_02: 1:49:57

It just basically like listening to Ben Shapiro 2X. Again, not something I would when I listen to his show, I usually listen to 2X. I can't I can't listen to Shapiro at 4X.

SPEAKER_01: 1:50:13

No, he talks the dude talks fast.

SPEAKER_02: 1:50:17

It's not physically possible.

SPEAKER_01: 1:50:21

You've seen his sister, right?

SPEAKER_02: 1:50:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've seen his sister, if that's what you mean, yes. Okay. In fact, I think I might have sent you a photo of his sister. But I wouldn't know, right allegedly.

SPEAKER_01: 1:50:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:50:37

But yeah, so the chick that kind of looked like she could be his kid's sister that used to be on the Daily Wire. Uh I forget her name now. You know what I'm talking about, right?

SPEAKER_01: 1:50:50

The uh Brett's Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:50:54

Brett Cooper. Yeah, yeah. So who's now a mom? She's got married, had a kid, doing her own show. And I think I think her audience is now even bigger on her own than it was with the Daily Wire, which I would expect because a lot of people just moved over to her channel once that popped back up. But she's certainly not covering the same kind of topics that she was. What's she covering? Mostly gossip, girl gossip shit.

SPEAKER_01: 1:51:27

Why is that surprising?

SPEAKER_02: 1:51:28

Not at all. Yeah, I know. And so that's maybe the part that people didn't realize is that her objection to working there probably had a little to do with the money, even though she was getting paid way more than she'd ever gotten paid in her entire life when she started there. And she took over a show that already existed, which also is another thing most people don't realize. They thought that was like her show they created. No, that show had been created prior to her, it just didn't do very well. And she definitely brought a lot of the uh energy to the show to make it grow. There's no denying that. But I think part of it was just she was basically given the scripts to talk about things she didn't really care about. And you know, having this sort of a young, pretty actress chick, because she was a child actress that talks about conservative political topics is really great for conservatives going, oh, look at that, look at that bright girl there. But you know, if it's disingenuous, given the choice, she would prefer other topics.

SPEAKER_01: 1:52:40

If it's disingenuous, it's never gonna work out long term.

SPEAKER_02: 1:52:43

Yeah, because one of the people ain't gonna be happy. Either she's gonna start doing a shitty job, which she didn't, because she was a child actress. I think she was well versed in playing a role that maybe wasn't exactly her. That's the role she played on her show on Daily Wire. And now that she's got her own show, she's free to do whatever she wants. It's just like Megan Kelly. Megan Kelly, what did she do when she left Fox? She cut all her hair off and started looking like a feminazi bitch.

SPEAKER_01: 1:53:14

I think she's got it back.

SPEAKER_02: 1:53:16

She grew her hair back, and I think she she realized after dipping her toe into that content, into basically the morning, you know, women's show to talk about women topics and not actual political discourse, like they were grooming her to be another the view type gal. I think she realized that that's not where her mindset was, and that even though she hates Trump, and even though she hated all men for a while there after leaving Fox, that maybe she was wrong, and maybe men aren't as bad as she thought. And that's when the hair started getting grown out again. And so her new show that she started up as a podcast, I can't remember who threw, but it wasn't it was not like she just did it on her own, it was through a channel with professional management and everything. But that grew nicely, and even I think Adam Curry was a guest once on there, maybe.

SPEAKER_01: 1:54:16

Yeah, he has been.

SPEAKER_02: 1:54:18

And he likes her. I I just still dislike her previously from from her dislike of Trump. Like, I think that was a a moment where you realize that she is just reading somebody else's scripts on Fox. But when she gets to not read the script, better she's a neocon. Well, either or she could be a neocon too, that's fine. But it doesn't mean I need to like her. And so I don't like it. But when she was on Fox, she seemed likable. You don't like well, I don't know. I I generally like intelligent chicks, and she clearly has always been intelligent. I have never said that she was dumb. Unlike that other blonde chick, Laura something. Laura Lumer. No, no, no. The the blonde Nazi looking one.

SPEAKER_01: 1:55:14

Laura the one that married Trump Jr.

SPEAKER_02: 1:55:19

No, no, no, that's Guilfoil. No, the one that she always looked like a training. She did, I agree. The one that interviewed Vivek and said, you know, I agree with all your policies, but I could never vote for you because, you know, you're Indian. That chick.

SPEAKER_01: 1:55:39

You know what I'm talking about? No, not off the top of my head. I'm blanking.

SPEAKER_02: 1:55:43

Okay. I'll look it up. Vivek interview. Wouldn't vote for you, Indian. And I'm sure it'll tell me exactly who I'm looking for. Anne Coulter is the lordship I was thinking of. Yeah. So Anne Coulter, who's been. I I've always disliked her from her personality, but not necessarily her opinions. Like a lot of her opinions I agree with.

SPEAKER_01: 1:56:16

She well, I mean, she called Trump's ascendancy right on on the Bill Maher show.

SPEAKER_02: 1:56:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she is not, she she was definitely just makes me think of the the bitchy girls in high school, you know, the clicky ones. Like that's her in an adult form.

SPEAKER_01: 1:56:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:56:40

So I'm never really like, but I don't know. You know, we're not this has nothing to do with sexism. This is just professionally rating women based on their ability to host shows and things and be commentators. That's what it's uh you know, totally legit. I just thought I'd throw that in there. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:57:04

Anything else you want to cover, Gene?

SPEAKER_02: 1:57:06

No, I was gonna say, and on that note, I think we can wrap up this totally PG-rated show that we just did that should not offend anybody on any streaming service.

SPEAKER_01: 1:57:16

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02: 1:57:17

Can you believe that Unrelenting has been on YouTube now for over a year without any takedown notices?

SPEAKER_01: 1:57:23

That's okay. The only way that is true is if you have like five views.

SPEAKER_02: 1:57:29

That could be, that could be. I honestly, I'm not even one of them. I don't subscribe to the channel myself, but I I we put that up on YouTube literally as a joke to see how many episodes it would take before we get a notice for some policy that'd be violated. It's been like 18 months, and nothing and that's the thing like viewership shouldn't matter to the AI that is doing text-to-speech transcription for all these shows. Like, I thought all they were doing is keywords, like they're saying, Oh, if you mention certain words, then we're gonna flag your content. But now I'm thinking maybe you're right, maybe it is like they don't even bother censoring anything until you get an appreciably large number of views, yeah, until you've reached some critical mass. Yeah, so if you get a hundred thousand views, now their algorithm's gonna go, oh, let's see what this guy's all about. Because I know people have talked about shows from previous years all of a sudden getting it flagged.

SPEAKER_01: 1:58:32

Well, Tim's Tim's was a good example of that.

SPEAKER_02: 1:58:35

He did that as well, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:58:36

Yeah, the the his most popular show ever with uh Alex Jones? Yeah, Alex Jones. Uh what's her name? Blair White sitting on his Blair White, yeah. And then and then Alex going on Blair White's show notes, passing out. Like I don't know what the state of this and this is right during Alex's divorce and all that.

SPEAKER_02: 1:59:04

It's like he's happily married, okay, man. Yeah, he gets a pass from me on any of this stuff. I I think anybody are you trying to fuck the you know the the trans chick here, dude? He's a very visual man, okay. Well, and you know Blair.

SPEAKER_01: 1:59:26

Yes. The first thought when you see Blair White is not tranny.

SPEAKER_02: 1:59:29

No, you're like, oh, look at the boobs on that chick.

SPEAKER_01: 1:59:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 1:59:34

So it's not until you start digging deeper that you're oh, oh, that's a dude. Oh okay. Yeah, but but it it's and like she hasn't said that, but others have said this. If the majority of people that are trans acted like and looked like Blair White, no one, yes, no one would have said a damn thing about anything, it would just be a non-issue. Agreed. No one cares, looks like a chick, acts like a chick.

SPEAKER_01: 2:00:09

When Ben Shapiro says, Hey, I'm not gonna go to a restaurant and say, has he arrived when talking about Blair White? Yeah, is a perfect example of this.

SPEAKER_02: 2:00:21

Yeah, yeah, exactly. So a conservative Jew who wears a yarmulke all the time, when he and homosexuality, as you well know, is is not kosher. When he has no problem with Blair, that tells you something.

SPEAKER_01: 2:00:38

You know, it's the Zionists are out to get us, is what it tells me.

SPEAKER_02: 2:00:44

Yeah, yeah, obviously. That's it's gotta be like clear. Clearly, the Jews support the trans. Just look at look at that Shabir guy. Exactly. Found the one Jew and the one the one trans chick that people don't have a problem with. And it's like, yep, they're they're responsible for all trans.

SPEAKER_01: 2:01:02

Yeah. Actually, you know, you know, dude, I've actually been going back through the gospels. Like I I I started off with John for some reason.

SPEAKER_02: 2:01:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 2:01:13

And now I've gone back through Mark.

SPEAKER_02: 2:01:15

And you're gonna do Luke next.

SPEAKER_01: 2:01:19

Mark is my favorite. So I don't know. I don't know where I'm gonna go, what I'm gonna do, but you know, every time I hear, you know, or every time I read Give Us Barabbas, it's just like but you know, it it things have to happen.

SPEAKER_02: 2:01:36

Are you audio booking or are you actually reading?

SPEAKER_01: 2:01:38

No, I'm so I'm reading, and then I found this.

SPEAKER_02: 2:01:41

Oh, and then I gotta I gotta ask you because now this is a big big thing. Which version?

SPEAKER_01: 2:01:47

So reading, I'm reading KJV.

SPEAKER_02: 2:01:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 2:01:50

It's what I grew up on. I use a strong concordance, learned quite a bit of Greek and Aramaic from that over the years. But what's interesting is I did find this podcast on YouTube where I'm I'm sure it's an AI voice, but it's a damn good one if it is that's going through, and like there's campfire noises in the background, and it's very softly reading to you, and it it's it's fantastic to sit there and fall asleep to. Nice. Like it is very like you would even probably enjoy just the the AMSR of it all. I'm trying to look through my history, but it's not showing me enough on my view all.

SPEAKER_02: 2:02:35

There we go. It's been a damn long time since I read the New Testament. Like a very long time.

SPEAKER_01: 2:02:41

The Gentle Bible is the uh channel, and it's it's I'm not sure what version they're using. I'm sure it's one of the New Internationals or something, which whatever. You know, it's it's just a way of doing it. And they they go through some of the New Testament, they go through Psalms, they it's it's an interesting thing. So but it just it's a fantastic. Like I'm uh if I'm gonna fall asleep listening to something, not a bad way to go.

SPEAKER_02: 2:03:07

Yeah, yeah. It's uh I can see that if it's done well. A lot of people say my voice is very relaxing and they instantly fall asleep when they start listening to my podcasts or my videos on on YouTube.

SPEAKER_01: 2:03:23

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02: 2:03:24

I take that as a great compliment.

SPEAKER_01: 2:03:26

They must be drunk.

SPEAKER_02: 2:03:28

Well, or maybe smoking pot. But no, I think I do have a fairly unobstructive voice. I don't know how to phrase it. Like my voice doesn't try and it's the opposite of Alex Jones. It's uh it's the opposite of Alex Jones. Like, forget the content, just looking at the voice itself, like his voice is very gruff, rah rah rah, you know?

SPEAKER_01: 2:03:54

Yours is more melodic.

SPEAKER_02: 2:03:56

Mine is more melodic. I and I've always kind of dislike that. I've always wanted to have a voice like Darren, frankly. That deep kind of radio voice. Yeah, and and honestly, I think after getting hundreds, literally hundreds of comments talking about how people like my voice, I've I've stopped hating it myself. Because you, you know, the voice I hear in my head sounds different, obviously, than when everybody else hears.

SPEAKER_01: 2:04:30

Yeah, I I just you know, I don't I I've never liked the way my voice sounds on recordings, but I really don't give a shit. Yeah, and I think you're yours.

SPEAKER_02: 2:04:40

I would say it's very middle of the road. It's I I don't say I don't think it's one way or the other. Like you've got a normal, decent voice. It's not a voice that I was like, oh my god, you have a great like I think Darren's voice quality is better than yours from a subjective standpoint for me. Other people may like yours more than his, but I've always liked listening to radio, and I've always been a big radio guy. I've always liked listening to guys that have very deep kind of masculine sounding voices. Okay. So it is what it is, and and uh I think we all tend to be our own harshest critics and everything. People may not believe me, knowing that I you know pump my own horn quite a bit, but I am definitely my my harshest critic.

SPEAKER_01: 2:05:35

Well, I I think you have to be. If you're not if you're not willing to criticize yourself, I'm just not willing to lose that title, that's all. Well, no, it's not even that. It's if you're not willing to be critical of yourself, then how can you ever possibly stand up to others?

SPEAKER_02: 2:05:51

Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. You you do want to analyze what your decisions and choices and everything else are, and uh not be afraid to say, well, this was a bad decision. And and even hopefully not make the same decision again. So let's wrap up the show so I can make a bad decision and play a little more battlefield here.

SPEAKER_01: 2:06:15

All right, Gene. Well, we'll catch you next week. Sounds good.