Banter, CSB Drama, Stream Issues

SPEAKER_01 0:25

Howdy Ben, how are you today?

SPEAKER_03 0:27

I'm doing good, Gene. Hasn't been that long since we talked last.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Oh, it feels like years. Okay. Been been a long time. I hear you love CSB. I got that.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

Uh yeah, and he thinks uh yeah, we we're apparently a homosexual couple from his uh point of view.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

I didn't see that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

Yeah, he said, thanks, Ben. So you love me with three and you love Gene with four.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

So I wasn't sure what's meeting errors. Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

No, he no, no, no. He love him with three of them. Or maybe not. I don't know. Maybe he meant unconditional. I don't know. That's a good see. I thought he meant all four, which would include arrows. So that's why. Well, maybe he didn't. He'll have to clarify. But fuck you, CSB, for getting us kicked off the stream.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Yeah, CSB, you kicked us off the stream, you bastard. He denies that, of course, but Darren told me that it was CSB's fault.

SPEAKER_03 1:29

I don't know. See, my thought there would be Darren's kind of a shitster, so he's a troublemaker. Yeah. So maybe we're blaming uh CSV for no reason.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Maybe, but I don't know, man. I'm just going by what Darren said.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

No. Alright, so it's been a crazy week, hasn't it? Yeah. Dude, first Glock, now the scar.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Yeah, scar's done. I I had to reply to that video that announced it basically to you know me. That as as a owner of the FS 2000, I know what you're feeling right now, folks. The scar people. Because when that gun got cancelled, the FS 2000 was such a crap gun. Come on. It was a an iconic weapon from Call of Duty. What are you talking about? It looked stupid. It looked futuristic.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

In the most retarded possible way, yes.

Glock Wind-Down And Lawsuit Strategy

SPEAKER_01 2:38

No, it was literally the gun that was used in one of my favorite movies. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They use that in the movie. That was a great gun. I I I had two of them. And uh why'd you get rid of them if they were so great? Well, I had this thing about out-of-production weapons and cars and everything. I I don't like the risk of the game. So you're gonna get rid of your Glock? My Glock is well past. It's too my Glock has very few Glock parts in it at this point. That gun was reworked so many times that it's barely a Glock. Okay. You know, it doesn't have a Glock trigger, it doesn't have a Glock barrel, it doesn't have most of the springs, it doesn't have the rod, it doesn't like the only Glock parts on that gun are parts that were made of plastic. Everything else has been replaced. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

Well, anyway, so those who don't know, uh basically everything on the all the Glock platforms are now gone except the Glock V or whatever it is, and one of their newer ones.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Oh that's actually not true. There are three guns that are gonna be continue production, and they're all the the 43-44 series, the compact ones.

SPEAKER_03 4:07

And they're newer ones, like I said.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

All the all the current guns will be replaced by a not yet shown gun or guns of the V series. So we don't know yet if it's gonna be a small tweak to the slide, a small tweak to the frame, or none of the above and a completely different firing mechanism. So they they have not clarified that at all. But the guns will keep being sold to wholesalers through November. After that, the wholesalers will continue selling it to dealers until they dry up, and after that, the dealers will continue selling it to people until they dry up. So probably by the end of the year, you will no longer be able to buy a current generation clock. Or earlier. Uh maybe. I don't do you think there's that many people that are gonna just like pull the trigger on buying a gun that's been available for over 20 years? Yeah. Maybe. I just don't think their value is gonna go up.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

Okay. Now I think it'll be interesting to see what happens.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

Now, I think it sucks what's happening that Glock has to do this, but I also completely understand from a business perspective why Glock is doing this. They have lawsuits against them in multiple cities, including LA and Chicago. And they want to minimize the amount of money that you know for a fact that the cities are going to have the jury's award. Like in these cities, no matter what Gluck Glock says or does, the judgment will be against them. So what they want to do is limit uh the amount of money that is stolen from the company by these cities, and that's what their stockholders would want them to do. So I think Glock is doing exactly what they should be doing. They're protecting their stockholders. We'll see. Now, also I never thought that the fact that you can put a switch in a Glock was a benefit. It's it's a stupid device. First of all, Glocks are not controllable at the rate of fire that the switch can. Yeah, they're extremely fast cyclic, right? It is super crazy fast rate. Now, you have to be impressed that the gun is able to do that, but from a controllability standpoint, it is retarded. You do not want a fully automatic Glock. You don't want the Glock 18, even, which is the factory fully automatic Glock. It's not fun. I've shot one. It's not fun. You you hold the trigger down for less than one second. It is retarded.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

There's only one reason to do that.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

Well, I mean, it's to have fun, right? I mean, in the end, but from a either being accurate or putting more rounds down line, you would do much better firing the trigger one pull at a time and having control of the gun and having more bullets arrive at your at whatever it is that you're targeting than shooting it in full auto mode. So I I I just think it's a stupid thing. It's dumb that they have to make a change in the gun, but honestly, it doesn't take anything away from the gun because that was not a plus.

Full-Auto Switches And Controllability

SPEAKER_03 7:49

The problem is this is insane because you know, like Brandon Herrera has pointed out, you know, as soon as they get one of the new guns within a day or two, they can have a functional switch. Like he can figure that out.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

So I don't think there's a way of engineering around this.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

But it doesn't matter because they're not trying to engineer it away, they're trying to win a lawsuit, or at least not lose as bad in the lawsuit. So all they're doing is controlling the amount of money they're gonna have to pay out by showing, guys, we already fixed the problem. So you you know, it doesn't make sense to punish us for this because we were even proactive about it. We didn't even wait for this lawsuit to conclude. We already fixed the problem. So, you know, just give us a slap on the wrist and we'll all move along.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

But did they? We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

But again, it doesn't matter if they did as long as they can point to them doing something.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

Yeah. So the left has absolutely lost their mind about the White House.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Oh my god. Do we even have a White House? I heard it got demolished.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

Part of the East Wing is being remodeled.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Yeah. Well, you you probably didn't see my post. I dug up an old photo from the 1930s when it was remodeled. Yeah. And I I said new new uh archives show that this is not the first time that the Trump family has fucked with the White House. So we're gonna just blame that on Trump's dad. Um because why not?

SPEAKER_03 9:20

You know, I mean I mean so, first of all, he's he's not having the taxpayers even pay for this, he's getting donors to donate the funds, so the taxpayers aren't doing it.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

And it's you know, it's okay to upgrade something. Like, it's okay. Calm down.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

That part of the White House was not part of the original White House, anyway.

SPEAKER_03 9:41

So it it it was under Roosevelt, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

And also, is this really worse than making the White House a timeshare and renting it out to uh political donors the way the Clintons did?

SPEAKER_03 9:56

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

You know, they had a price sheet for the Lincoln.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Which bedroom do you want to stay in? Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Yeah, that's uh that's an$18,000 donation, and Bill gets to have your daughter suck his cock. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you not read the fine print?

SPEAKER_05 10:15

That's how that worked.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Oh well. You know what? She's the victim in all this.

SPEAKER_03 10:21

She really is. Like, how do you have any career or life after that?

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Yeah. Yep, pretty much. You know, I'm sure at the moment she was thinking of herself as the Marilyn Monroe to John Kennedy.

SPEAKER_03 10:36

Yeah. Just the Jewish version.

White House Remodel Outrage And Media Spin

SPEAKER_01 10:39

But her sad but her best friend make sure that wasn't gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Yeah. Yeah, so like NBC News, the to the title is the the headline is see the donor list for Trump's ballroom as White House East Wing is destroyed. Yeah, I mean TDS, man.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

I I think it's I heard it was just they were gonna re rebuild it in gold the way that our king likes it. Mm-hmm. It'll be a solid gold wing. Yeah, we're gonna go either to the West Wing or the Gold Wing.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

So I think I think Ireland's had it. This is a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

No, I've only seen one more video beyond what you sent on Ireland, so I don't know if there's been a lot more news in that.

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Well, they've been taking people's phones.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Oh, is that what they've been holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Yeah. They've been taking people's phones to not let them record. Wow. That's insanity, man. That's true insanity. But Ireland has been, you know, rioting.

unknown 11:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

So I don't know. We'll see. You know, this is all over a rape of a 10-year-old girl.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Yeah. Which, you know, the the Islamists out there don't see a problem with this. Mm-hmm. You know, I mean, rape is not even like the punishment for rape isn't even a loss of any body part, unlike the punishment for stealing a donkey.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

You got no okay. I was waiting for a funny comeback in that one, but okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

Well, I mean, this is where we should make the loss of a body part, you know, a very specific body part. Yeah, so Dublin, so here Time magazine's reporting that Dublin uh is in riot for a third straight night, people arrested.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Yeah, they're saying far right Nazis are are doing a violent protest in uh Dublin. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Now, what what happened to all the women that it's anti-migrant gene.

SPEAKER_03 12:59

Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

I'm just re- I'm just seeing what uh GBN is saying, and they're saying it's far right ideology Nazis.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Did you see the Swedish girl?

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Yeah, yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

The one that uh the 16-year-old one, yeah. Yeah, that the the guy wasn't deported, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Because it's not a serious enough crime because he wasn't fucking her long enough.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

Exactly. He came too quick.

Ireland Riots, Migration, And Crime Debates

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Yeah, yeah. That's the just how could like so premature ejaculation gets you. Oh, we're totally banned off the stream for this. Premature ejaculation totally gets you from being deported, I guess. Ah just think if he would have taken some Viagra beforehand, he would have had a very different feature. Mm-hmm. It's insane. And I I I meant I was talking to a friend of mine today, so I had a like a four-hour phone call about religious topics today with the my my token Catholic friend. And uh and you know, like the the guy prays for me every day, so I I told him I appreciate him doing that, even though I don't believe that anyone's listening, but nonetheless, it's kind of nice knowing someone's doing something like that because they care. But anyway, the the idea is that like you're starting to realize as a westerner why women dress head to toe in complete covered black outfits. Because Muslim men obviously can't control it. Anything they see that isn't covered head to toe, they're gonna fuck.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

Or at least try to.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

Well, yeah, but quite often successfully. I mean, I think Britain's had what 20,000 rapes since they started this policy.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

That's a significant number. I don't think that's the way they wanted to increase their population.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

No. And look, here's the deal. I had someone say to me, Well, if it was one of their own, they wouldn't be doing this. You're right. So what does that even mean? Well, they're racist because they're only doing this because it's a migrant.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Oh, you mean if an Irishman raped a child? Correct. You don't think that there would be protests? I think there would be.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

I think there would be protests if the government was protecting him and keeping him safe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Totally.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Anyway, man, the Irish, you know, hopefully we've got some of that fight left in us because we need it.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Are you gonna go there?

SPEAKER_03 15:40

No, I'm saying, like, here in the US, we need to be, you know, stand up as well.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Well, yeah, and I mean the Europe and the UK in particular is what happens when you allow unfettered immigration of a religion that as its tenant has convert or die as its market. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

Well, and that that's the thing that we have to remember while the US has had a lot of illegal migration as well.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

At least the Latin American sector, you know, it's it's largely Catholic. Yeah. Right. So it's not, it's not, it's not this influx of a totally different ethos than the what the West has held. So it's much more likely that they're going to integrate at least somewhat, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Well, there's plenty of violence coming from illegals that has nothing to do with religion.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

But I mean, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the people who are coming here.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

The problem with the people that are coming here is that they're not regular people. There have been numerous examples of people coming here illegally, exactly the way that Cubans came when Castro opened up all the prisons. Like when they when they did a deal between Cuba and the US, this was back in the I think in the 90s, to where, in fact, the movie Scarface is based on this. That when the US did a deal with Cuba to essentially allow political prisoners to be sent to the US, Cuba took full advantage of that to cleanse their prisons of all the most violent criminals that were in Cuban prisons. So they they effectively said, Oh, yeah, these are all political prisoners. And what instead they released into the United States were the most violent, not political prisoners. And of course, these people weren't going to correct anybody at the border, saying, No, no, no, no. I shouldn't be crossing into the border because I'm actually a violent criminal. That's not going to happen. So the US just do-dee-do-de-do, yeah, okay, we we saved a bunch of Cubans. Yeah, you saved a bunch of Cuban rapists and murderers. Congratulations. So what happened, I think, in the last four years of the Biden's administration, is a grander scale of that, where countries like Colombia, countries like Venezuela, all these countries basically took their violent offenders that they didn't want to have to pay for because they're going to have life prison sentences, and then gave them some money and a one-way plane ticket to get into Mexico. And from there, they had you know organizations guiding them to the border here too.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

The NGOs.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

The NGOs, yeah, yeah. Which we paid for one way or the other. Yeah. Insanity. It's pure insanity.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

Look, point is for those who are economic migrants, which I think there's a mix, they are more likely to integrate than not. But if you're getting people from asylums or prison and so on, we don't necessarily want those people here.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

Thank you very much. And I I think that the the legal immigrants, people that apply and then wait for years sometimes to be allowed to enter the United States as a legal immigrant, those are generally economic they're doing it for economic reasons, but they're also exactly the people that we do want. And what we don't want are the two things that essentially limit the number of legal legitimate people. One is the illegals that are taking up the places in organizations and in government uh support from people that could be coming over in an increased number of legal immigrants, and then the other one is H1Bs, which are also not immigrants, but are taking the jobs that legal immigrants, as well as obviously Americans, would have. The people that come here legally and the people that were born here are the ones that ought to be working here, not foreigners that come in on a bullshit visa, and certainly not complete illegals that don't even bother getting a visa.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Well, luckily we've closed the H1B.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Yeah. For how long though? Well, we'll see how that goes.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

I mean, uh by putting an actual cost for like a hundred thousand dollars on an individual.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Yeah, that I mean that's what they should have had from day one the company is that and I wouldn't say the actual I would say like double the salary. If you want to bring somebody in that's gonna be making eighty thousand a year here, the company should have to spend 160,000 on that.

Legal Immigration, H1B Reform, And Labor

SPEAKER_03 21:25

Yeah, I I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I would say that that's a great way to do it and also have a minimum salary, yeah. Like you can't bring anyone in under H1B that isn't gonna make a minimum salary of six figures, right? Because otherwise, that otherwise that is not a super skilled labor position that you can't find here.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

And that was the way that H1B program was put through in Congress is originally as a way to allow America to steal the brains of other countries effectively. And I think we're both fine with that. Yeah, totally. Like, if somebody is, let's say that there's a a chip expert in Taiwan, I would love to see that person move to Texas permanently and become a U.S. resident. Like, there's no reason that that person shouldn't be moving to the U.S. That makes sense. But, and and incidentally, I use that as an example because there are a shit ton of people that are in Taiwan right now which absolutely have a higher understanding of how to make really high density chips than people that are in the US. Like Taiwan is the leader in that front right now, it's not the US. So let's let's get people that we genuinely don't have or have very few available in the US, and not try and use the excuse of H1B visas so that rich people can have a housekeeper that is you know cleaning their house for 20 bucks an hour.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

Completely agree.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Yeah, you know, I no longer have a housekeeper cleaning my house because I I don't want to support illegals at this point.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Well, I mean, you can hire a non-illegal housekeeper.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Yeah, they're they're way too expensive.

SPEAKER_03 23:28

Really? Not around here.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Really? Yeah. I don't think you can clean your house for less than 30 35 bucks an hour here.

SPEAKER_03 23:37

That's insane.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Mm-hmm. That's what it is in Austin.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Austin is insanity.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

You know, I mean it was already out of there. It was already 20 bucks an hour like pre-COVID.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

No, it's not gonna be long until basically housekeeping is gonna be a six-figure job.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

Yeah, right, dude. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

In Austin?

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

No. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Yeah, so uh we got that. Oh, my album came out.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

Yeah, your album came out. You uh looked up Doug Kershaw.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

I did. I did, yeah. He's uh but ugly as fuck. Who the hell cares what someone looks like? I do. How do you not care what someone looks like? You kidding me?

SPEAKER_03 24:29

Because he was a childhood hero of mine.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

He looked like a freaking uh one of those monsters that scares kids at a carnival. You know, when you pay the two dollars to go in and see Monkey Man.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Yeah, well, he he's from south of I 10, Louisiana. That's not part of the United States.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

He's got a lot of the same genes in him, I can tell that.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

There's a few cousins having fun, that's for sure. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

Have you ever seen the movie Southern Comfort? No. You should watch it.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Should I? Okay. Yeah. And I again, not not taking anything away from his talent playing a fiddle, but yeah, the guy's head looks like a jaws from James Bond if somebody hits him with a nugget stick. I'm not at all. I'm totally not. I watched videos.

SPEAKER_03 25:22

But yeah, yeah, it's you see his playing from the hip style, though.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

I did not. I was looking for that, didn't see it, but he was very good at playing normally.

unknown 25:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

Yeah. So no, it's uh it's all good. But yeah, so I did, so I'll I'll explain to you guys because I want everybody that's listening to the podcast to buy this, and not not for uh, you know, the fact that I need to make money off of it, but it's price very cheap. It's$5.99 for the whole album or 99 cents a track, but it's more just to try and get it some some legs so I can push it into uh getting more visibility from people who don't listen to the podcast. So the the artist name, and I'll have obviously I have a link in the in the podcast as well. If you look in the the notes or whatever, in the footer, there'll be a link to it. But the artist's name is Amy Claire Smith. She's a pretty blonde, uh, like 25-year-old girl, woman, whatever, whatever those people call themselves these days. And uh the this first album, and I'm gonna have a lot more albums coming out, but this first one's got seven songs, they're all based on topics in uh the book of James from the Bible, so it is Christian music, but don't let that stop you from buying it and helping me promote it. Obviously, I'm not a 25-year-old woman, so this is all AI-based, but making AI music is is quite different than asking chat GPT to to write a paragraph for you. This involves a little more stuff by the actual creator. So it it's something that I absolutely use GPT tool or not GPT. I don't actually don't use any chat GPT because I don't like controlled AI systems. But I use uh a number of different AIs to create this. Uh but I will say I think it sounds pretty damn good.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

And I think the lyrics are pretty good too.

AI Music Project Launch And Strategy

SPEAKER_01 27:29

And the lyrics are pretty, and the lyrics are basically mine, but obviously I'm using tools for to make shit rhyme better. So it's a I'm seeing it as a tool. Well we'll see how the copyright office is gonna see it because I I applied to register everything for uh copyright.

SPEAKER_03 27:51

Okay, and what's the goal for this?

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Oh, I'm gonna start doing this uh a lot more. I mean, my the goal is obviously to see if I can create music that is on the same level or better as what is currently commercially available within a specific genre. So as long as the stuff that I'm putting out isn't any worse for the genre it is, and I don't think it is, I think this actually sounds better than a lot of the other music that I listened to when I was putting this together. Uh-huh. There's no reason that people shouldn't buy it. And I think I'm I'm gonna be just one of many people in the AI music renaissance where I think there's a very high potential that in the coming year, as close as a year, but maybe a couple of years, but certainly could happen within a year, that we're gonna start seeing top 40 billboard chart music involve no actual singers and no actual musicians.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

Well, I think we're I mean, aren't we already there with Taylor Swift?

SPEAKER_01 28:58

I mean, that's the thing you have to remember. Like, when you're listening to, and it doesn't have to be Taylor Swift, but any popular artist like Taylor Swift, like the amount of the work required to put the album out to generate the actual song MP3s that you're listening to is probably about 10% singer and 90% engineering and other audio-related functions. So you're there there's so much manipulation of sounds that is happening. I doubt that Taylor Swift is even hearing the other musicians when she's singing her songs. I think she's basically singing them, you know, to a backing track in her headphones that is a temporary track just to get her part, and then they're gonna redo all the other parts to match her. That's how I would do it anyway, if I was engineering this whole thing. So, long story short, obviously it's not listed under my name. Um I'm using a cute blonde girl for it because I want people to actually download it. But if you do a search for Amy Clare Smith, and Claire is spelled Irish, it's not the English spelling, it's C-L-A-R-E. Oh. No, without an eye.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

Do I get half the revenue?

SPEAKER_01 30:25

Just for being born Irish? No, because I get 90% of the revenue. Because you're promoting it on the podcast for being born Jewish. That's why what hell yeah. Well, you want to promote something? You go for it, boy. Promote whatever you want. What do you want to promote?

SPEAKER_03 30:41

If anybody's buying Audible books or wanting an Audible subscription, use my uh affiliate link. Send it to me.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Let's stick it in. There's no reason we shouldn't have an affiliate link for Audible in there. That's fine. I'm cool with that.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Yeah. Ah, anyway.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

No, I'm just giving you grief. I know. And I knew you, I knew you'd be, you know, you would live up to your heritage.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Damn straight. You mean you mean that my heritage as a uh music producer?

SPEAKER_03 31:12

Uh well, you know.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Uh-huh. But I'm I'm glad of this. Uh, there's been a bunch of people I've sent this to, and I just kind of said, hey, what do you think of this?

SPEAKER_03 31:22

And uh, so what was the other one you did today? That oh, that's so that's you're gonna have another persona too?

SPEAKER_01 31:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna do a male persona. You have to, you gotta do a female and a male. So I finally got that male voice locked in that I like that I want to keep. And then I also did a duet between them, which you heard as well. But the next album I'm gonna have, which is based on Corinthians, one Corinthians. So that one is gonna be done with the male singer, but I'm gonna keep cranking these out. I mean, the Bible has a lot of content, dude. I don't know if you know this or not, but there's a lot of content in the Bible that I can use. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

Uh-huh. Yeah, I yeah. I have I have read the Bible, you may not know this, but I've actually taken you should totally do a one off of you know, Judges.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

Uh okay. Uh that's yeah, I thought numbers would probably be the most fun.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

God, yeah, that's an album everyone's gonna want to be. Oh, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

And he lived to 700 and uh yes, but his wife became barren at 612 years old, and therefore he had to take on a new wife. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:41

Numbers is definitely the most challenging book to slog through.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

Numbers, yeah. Deuteronomy is kind of sloggy. But again, I'm actually kind of looking forward to rereading all this stuff. Like I told you before, I haven't read the the Bible. I the New Testament for at least 25 years, and the Old Testament probably 20 years. So it's been a while. Yeah, probably Old Testament like 16 years, because I was part of that rabbinical study group in uh in Dallas before I moved to Austin. But New Testament definitely longer. Yeah. But like I said, I'm going back through the Gospels.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

You're what? I'm going back through the Gospels.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's good. But yeah, it's uh I I I'm getting I'm getting a the kind of reception that I was looking trying like hoping to get, which is people not realizing it's AI generated until they're told. At which point, of course, everybody says, Oh, yeah, I totally knew it. Well, if you fucking knew it, why didn't you ask me?

SPEAKER_03 33:48

Uh you know, I and I I knew it was AI generated because I know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Well, you know what I'm doing. I've been sharing stuff with you for a year.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

Right. But what I would say is it's not it the AI generated music has gotten way the hell better. But what I would say is it isn't it the problem is that all these pop stars and everybody have gone through and used so much auto-tune and everything. Sounds old.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

There's there's no reference. Exactly. There's no difference. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

And that's exactly what it is. So I I listened to the uh Eurovision 1967 Grand Prix, which you know what Eurovision is, right?

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Yeah, I don't, I've never paid attention. I've never been into it.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Yeah, I know. I'm like one of five people in the US that actually watches Eurovision every year. But Eurovision is basically a a song contest that's been going for many, many, many years in Europe, and uh they have you know, different countries basically vote with their voting block for the winner is, and it's done in the same way that like Olympic sports are done, except it's for singing, you know, and singers. And anyway, listening to people singing in the 1960s, where you didn't have autotune and all the other manipulation, you start thinking, holy shit, did everybody suck back then or what?

SPEAKER_03 35:13

Uh no, it's just we now have the auto-tune stuff.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

Yeah, but that's what I mean. Compared to the quote unquote perfection that we've all gotten used to now, those people sound like they all need music lessons. Now, the the people we're listening to also need music lessons. We just don't hear the raw version of them. We only hear the corrected version, and it's not just pitch correction, it's also time correction. So, and and when there is uh breathiness, it's because a filter was used to create that breathiness at the right place, and not because the person was actually breathing into the microphone. I mean, it's amazing how much manipulation happens to modern music. So that's interesting stuff.

Music Engineering, Autotune, And Craft

SPEAKER_03 35:59

I by the way, if I sound a little different today, it's because I had a new temporary crown put on.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Yeah. You don't I don't I don't think you sound different.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

My my jaw is definitely sore.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

Oh, I would imagine, yeah. Yeah, I gotta get some dental work done as well.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

It's good news is insurance is covering all but like 200 bucks of it.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

That's awesome. I need that's kind of probably what I should do is just get some dental insurance and then wait whatever the minimal weight is before it can actually fully apply and then go do some work.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Because that's I'm getting there and definitely to that point where I need some. Yeah, so we'll wrap up that portion of it. Now, I am curious because I'm curious to see what feedback people have, if any, because the last episode that we put out was actually not our normal on schedule episode, which this one is. The last episode that we published was a short episode that kind of came about as a result of a conversation that Ben and I were having, and Ben saying, Why aren't we recording this? And I said, Sure, let's record it. So you guys got to hear it, and for those of you that bothered listening to it, and I gave a warning at the beginning of that episode saying, Look, this is a religious topic bonus episode. So if you don't care about the religious stuff, you feel free to skip it. We'll be back to normal politics and Texas and guns, as we have been on this.

SPEAKER_03 37:31

And we actually got a fan response about the episode.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

Oh, you did? Because I didn't I didn't see that. What an fancy.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

So this is Will from Houston. Didn't realize Ben was a violinist. I'm a classically trained double bassist, so caught my caught my attention. Great great out of sequence episode. Oh, I'm dude, I'm so out of practice. I would have to I would have it would not sound good right now.

SPEAKER_01 37:54

Yeah, okay. All right, fair enough. I and I I'll definitely say the same thing for myself and the accordion. It's been a long time.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

I'm getting my piano looked at tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

Oh, yeah?

SPEAKER_03 38:03

That's good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

I've got an old piano that uh has some issues, so yeah, and I I've got uh electronic keyboard piano thing, whatever it's got weighted keys and everything, but I it's got about a half an inch of dust on it because you know I let my cleaning lady go, so I I've just kind of let it get accumulated with dust since I haven't been playing. But in theory, I I could just go back and start playing on the piano anytime I want to.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

Well, I am not a pianist, but have it for the kids, so hopefully we can get the one dead key fixed, the keyboard fixed up, and it tuned a little bit. But it's an the problem with old pianos is they get to a certain point where they can't be tuned anymore. So we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

If you replace the strings, I can.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

No, no, no, no. Because of the cast iron, you know, whether or not you can move parts and stuff, it's you know, you mean the parts get stuck? Basically, yes.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, my dad was a piano tuner as a side hustle. Uh-huh. And he back in the 70s, he created a little analog device that helped them, you know, measure pitch so you could tune faster. Nowadays, you could buy those things for 40 bucks for your guitar or piano or anything else that'll literally just tell you to keep moving with a yellow, green, red light. And then as soon as you get to right where you should be, the green light pops on and you stop twisting the dial. In fact, I saw an auto-tuner for a guitar in the video, which you basically connect up to your neck of your guitar, or you, you know, so it's over the knobs, and it will auto-twist the knobs back and forth until it completely finds the right position for them.

SPEAKER_03 39:55

Well, it is one I have was given to us, it was free. So, you know, it's from the 1940s during World War II. It's one of the mirror pianos that they redid. So we'll see.

Space Politics, Starship, And Point-To-Point

SPEAKER_01 40:07

Well, hopefully they can get it fully functioning. Is it a key in the middle of the keyboard that's dead?

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Towards the top end.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Okay.

unknown 40:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:16

It's just one dead key, and then some of the keys have delaminated a little bit. So that should be able to be fixed.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

The question is, can it have actual ivory the ivory keys? Uh good god, I hope not. Why?

SPEAKER_03 40:31

Because then you can't do shit.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

You could probably buy a key off a different piano, a dead one.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

No, no, no, no. The with ivory keyboard, all you can do is replace the entire keyboard.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

What?

SPEAKER_03 40:43

Yep, because of the ivory laws.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

Well, I know you can't kill the new dudes and stuff, but you can you should be able to use old parts. I can do that.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

I'm just telling you what I've been told.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Really? That seems stupid. Why would you not be able to use ivory to fix an ivory? I mean, it's not like you're killing another elephant.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

Because you gotta prove its age and stuff. So anyway, hopefully he can just relaminate the and hopefully it's not ivory.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Was there a ban on ebony too? There should be. It probably is like a tree that almost doesn't exist anymore because it's been over overcut.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

You know what my favorite my favorite wood from an aesthetic is?

SPEAKER_01 41:31

What's that? Walnut?

SPEAKER_03 41:33

Honduranian mahogany.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

Mahogany, yeah, mahogany is very pretty.

SPEAKER_03 41:37

Yeah. Well that's pretty the fire, the the the mantle over my parents' fireplace. That's a piece of mahogany that was originally going to be one of the spine pieces in the Captain Ben.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:54

Yeah, which was my dad's shrimp boat.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

Yeah. Yeah, your dad uh didn't did quite a bit of woodwork himself that I saw in this house.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

Oh yeah, and that fireplace, they built that fireplace.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

Yep, yeah. Yeah, he said that. Yeah, it's very cool. I mean, like I think I mentioned to you before, like it's still kind of sad that like his boat experience clearly he still has some feelings for because you know, I asked him, Oh, do you do you have pictures of your boat? And he's got I have one.

unknown 42:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Like, oh okay. I'm not gonna push that topic.

SPEAKER_03 42:33

It was a pretty emotional thing. Like, yeah, when so when the boat sank, it was 1985, uh 1984, actually. Like, I remember my dad, he you know, he was he's a diver, and he went out and he was doing the recovery dive, which we he could have just left it, right? He could have just walked away and left it and made the taxpayers pay for raising the vessel. Yeah, but he went out there, did the dives, got the pumps in, put the bags in himself, and raised the vessel. So, and we ended up selling the hull, what was left of it. Oh, you got some money for it still. Yo, dude, that that was a huge loss, though. The Coast Guard hit us for a$500,000 oil spill fine.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

Oh my god, holy shit. That's for just uh the oil that was or the the gas tank.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

Yeah, the diesel.

SPEAKER_01 43:24

That's a lot of money, man.

SPEAKER_03 43:26

Yep, and then you know, loss of the electronics. Electronics were a ton, loss of revenue from the season. It was extremely, extremely expensive for my family. And you know, we went from pretty uh comfortable upper middle class to Poe.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

Yep. Yep. Couldn't even afford school, your mom had to teach you.

SPEAKER_03 43:51

Well, they were doing that beforehand, but I know it's a joke. The the no, it was funny because I remember when we moved to Idaho and we were building the house, you know, we moved in right after we got it dried in, so we had sheets for walls, internal walls. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 44:08

Yeah. Yeah, but you know what, those kinds of experiences when you're young actually are very good for you. Mm-hmm. I kind of count the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 44:18

Now there's optimal deep deprivation, right?

SPEAKER_01 44:20

Yeah, yeah. Well, and I I count the same thing for my uh moving from Russia to the US, you know, starting basically from scratch in the US, like I had one suitcase. All the possessions I had as a kid were in one suitcase. It it kind of it makes you less susceptible to a lot of things that other kids your age are gonna be very emotional about because you've already gone through a traumatic experience.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

Yeah, I think there's also you know, we were poor and everything, but I didn't really know it. Yeah. We always had food. We all, you know, my parents struggled for a while, but yeah, they recovered.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Yeah, I'd I would say the exact same thing. I think it's it's one of those things where when you don't realize that you're poor, and I the thing that helped me not realize that that we were poor was because obviously we were even more poor in Russia.

SPEAKER_03 45:26

So I mean communism has a habit of the city.

Moon Landing Skepticism And Evidence

SPEAKER_01 45:29

Yeah, unless you're one of the one percent who actually runs the politics, everybody else, even if you're like a brilliant in your field, i everybody else pretty much poor. You know, my parents didn't have a car. The I don't think any of my relatives had a car. I I know there was a guy who lived in our building that had a car. Like maybe one guy in our entire apartment building had a car. Everybody else just walked and took public transit. So it it was the idea that every family has their own car in the US just seemed crazy. Like, holy shit, everything was. No, no, no. And the and the cars, if people haven't seen like Soviet-era Russian cars, they're basically all copies of Fiat or of uh goddamn, what's it was the other German car company, not BMW and not Mercedes. But they there used to be one pre-World War II. But basically, it was just like that's all they did in Russia, is just copy that design and uh copy the Italian design. So both of those were basically post-World War II victory relics. They they they they were able to plunder the factories that made them and bring the entire factories to Russia and then make very crappy clones of them. So not at all.

SPEAKER_03 47:13

Russia tried to do crappy clones of lots of things.

SPEAKER_01 47:15

So they did, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 47:17

Although I I think the space shuttle.

SPEAKER_01 47:19

No, I knew you were going there. I totally disagree on that. I think the Russian space shuttle was actually better. It was an improvement because how can you possibly say that? I can I can say that very easily because the Russian space shuttle didn't have 50 states that all needed to have factories making parts for it. It wasn't a uh this this completely ridiculous, bloated thing that we had in the US. If if you haven't watched some videos on the history, I don't mean you, I mean other people, on the history of the space shuttle to see what a absolutely genius, beautiful project it started off as, and what god-awful pork-filled project it ended up by the time the first shuttle was actually built. Like the shuttle would have been an absolutely masterpiece, and what we got was something that barely flew, and we were lucky it didn't kill a lot more people than it did, frankly.

SPEAKER_03 48:20

I will say this.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

Um watch some history movies, dude.

SPEAKER_03 48:23

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say this. I've been working with some spaceports and authorities lately. In fact, I was on the call this morning with one out of Virginia, and it's gonna be interesting to see what ends up actually coming to fruition here in the next 50 years.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Yeah, well, my prediction is there'll be only one space company.

SPEAKER_03 48:48

Why?

SPEAKER_01 48:49

Because SpaceX is just killing it, they're doing stuff nobody else is like nobody in the entire world. Okay, and it's gonna take a while for the Chinese to copy stuff. But like Esau, the European Space Agency, is basically dead.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

Right, but we have states building spaceports that they want to use for point-to-point travel and they want to like exactly it's pretty interesting. Like Houston has one that we've worked on. Virginia was on with the Virginia Space Authority today. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Yeah, and that's very cool. And I think we will have a lot more of those. Remember, one of Musk's sort of visions for Starship is not as a space vehicle, but as simply a replacement, a much faster replacement for super jets for for the like 747-sized jets. Yep. It's it's basically, hey, do you want to go from here to London in an hour and a half? Like from Houston to London in an hour and a half? We can do that using a suborbital of flight of Starship.

SPEAKER_03 50:02

But do you think it's ever gonna be economically viable? Well, like how much does that ticket cost?

SPEAKER_01 50:08

Well, that's the thing. Do you do you remember the Concord? I unfortunately blew my chance. I had a chance to fly in it, and I I went for comfort instead of a once-in-the-life opportunity, and I was an idiot. But the because the Concorde is notoriously uncomfortable, especially for fat guys. And so I I chose to instead fly in first class. But the Concorde was ticket was uh ten thousand dollars. This is back like late 90s, so it would have been what a little over 25 years ago. So in today's money, that's probably equivalent to about$22,000,$24,000, right around there. And so could Musk sell$25,000 tickets on Starship that'll take 100 people from Houston to London in uh just over an hour? I think he could. In fact, I bet you for the first few flights he could sell them for a hundred thousand and they'd be full.

SPEAKER_03 51:11

I don't know. I'm pretty skeptical. I mean, how many people do you think have a hundred thousand dollars for a one-time trip? That I know, probably a hundred. You've got some wealthy friends, man.

SPEAKER_01 51:22

I got a lot of wealthy friends. I know. Doesn't help me because I'm not a moocher, but no, I know a lot. I mean, I don't want billionaire, but I know a lot of millionaires.

SPEAKER_03 51:37

Okay. Well, what else we got to do?

SPEAKER_01 51:39

We shared the same caviar guy. Uh just.

SPEAKER_03 51:45

Oh, Jesus, the joke's old. I know, it really is. So are you gonna put any for put forth any mixes for an agenda? Now that Adam's opened it up.

SPEAKER_01 51:55

I uh I I should. I should. I'm not gonna just rush to do something. I wanna if I'm gonna do it, I wanna do something that that I'm proud of. Alright. So and I've been kind of stuck now lately on this whole uh biblical music kick. So we'll see how long that lasts before I want to take a break and do something different. But so far I'm the music to Adam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw I sent it to him. He you know, he said it kind of sounded a little bit too much like Peter, Paul, and Mary. Or Mary, Paul, and Peter, I don't know, whatever that band in the 70s was. Peter Mary. Peter, Paul, and Mary, I think. And I listened to it, and I think he's right. I did listen to a couple of their recordings. They're not religious, but the sound is fairly similar. But I would think that'd be a compliment. Uh, you know, I didn't take it as one. I don't know. Most of the music in the 70s was pretty damn good. Yeah, people say that. I I like 80s music better, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:00

You know, like Roger Bob Seeger, the Moody Blues. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 53:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:08

Pink Floyd, Janice Joplin, Pink.

SPEAKER_01 53:12

Definitely not. Janice Japlin sucked. There, there's nothing. Oh my god, no. It's stupid screaming music. It's dumb, it's always been dumb.

SPEAKER_03 53:19

So, do you not like Joe Cocker?

SPEAKER_01 53:22

No, not really. With a little help from my friends?

SPEAKER_03 53:24

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

No, no, it's I I think the advent of electronic music really just brought music forward tremendously because people were kind of getting stuck in music, and they only things they could come up with to do is distortion. I'm not a fan of distortion.

SPEAKER_03 53:48

So you didn't like Jimi Hendrix?

SPEAKER_01 53:52

No, no, not at all. I'm not saying the guy didn't have talent. Just not my style of music. I like Prince a lot more than Jimi Hendrix. Oh, God. Yeah. And Prince, I was a name, I was Prince's neighbor. And we shopped at the grocery store at the same time back in the day. He's a short guy. Now you talk about short man. He was short.

SPEAKER_03 54:20

By the way, did you see the guy that got stuck in the uh water slide?

SPEAKER_01 54:24

No. Didn't see that video. What was that?

SPEAKER_03 54:27

Fat guy on a cruise ship. It's got a cruise ship. I don't know, but I I hope it's not because it was hilarious. They're having to take the water slide apart around him. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 54:39

Oh no. Did they not have a maximum weight limit sign or anything?

SPEAKER_03 54:45

Apparently not.

SPEAKER_01 54:48

Yeah, that's they they probably should. They'll probably add one in the future.

SPEAKER_03 54:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:54

Yeah, it's it's it's only funny if it's not you.

SPEAKER_03 55:01

No, I mean, even if it happened to you, you'd have to laugh at yourself at some point.

SPEAKER_01 55:06

Yeah, yeah, I think so. But there's uh there's videos of a lot of pets getting stuck like that. Because pets are not particularly good like dogs and cats, are not particularly good at estimating the diameters of objects, like pipes. The number of cats that have gotten stuck in pipes is ridiculous. Because they think they can go in and then they don't realize they can't back out. You gotta take the uh the gutter down because your cat decided to stick its head and half its body into it and is now stuck. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:49

Yeah, so according to Google, it's real. But it's real. Oh the video, the video, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:57

Speaking of real, have you seen the videos of the spaceship? I mean the asteroid that is meteor that is heading towards Earth.

SPEAKER_03 56:06

Some, yes.

SPEAKER_01 56:07

What is the the the L1i or whatever, L3i?

SPEAKER_03 56:11

That's coming in at an odd angle.

SPEAKER_01 56:14

With a bunch of lights on it. Okay. And it it's interesting. Well, I'm I'm having fun trolling people saying I don't understand what you see here. It just looks like a rock to me.

Iron Sky, Propaganda, And Persuasion

SPEAKER_03 56:25

Well, I mean, okay. I mean if it was announced tomorrow that it is an alien spaceship, I would go Psyup. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 56:36

Yeah, yeah. And I think if it landed and they came out of it, you'd probably still say Psyup.

SPEAKER_03 56:42

Yeah, it'd say Project Bluebeam. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_00 56:45

It's a fake spaceship. There is no space. You all know that space is a lie.

SPEAKER_03 56:53

Of course. That's just the firmament.

SPEAKER_01 56:55

It's just the firmament. Exactly. That's what Adam always says, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:59

No, I believe in space.

SPEAKER_01 57:01

Yeah?

SPEAKER_03 57:02

Yeah, I do. I I I doubt certain things that we've done, and there's some technology.

SPEAKER_01 57:08

Well, you can meet both on that. Yeah. And for me, like going to the Houston Museum of Space, or whatever it's called there, the basically, you know, where they developed the Apollo program. And looking at the rocket parts and all the history there, it just more and more reinforced in me that Stanley Kubrick was an absolutely brilliant cinematographer. Yeah. Interesting stuff. And you know, we've had rockets. We've had plenty of rockets. The issue isn't talking about can we go to space? We went to space. We even did the was it a Gemini flight or which flight was it? Mercury flight that uh no, I think it was Gemini. That where we did a a rendezvous mission with the Russian ship. So the there was a Russian cosmonaut and uh American astronaut that met in space. You know, all that stuff happened, I think. Obviously, we've got the space station up there right now. Uh the American one's totally real. The Chinese one, eh, not so much. Because they seem to have again now? They seem to have gravity. What, the Chinese space station? Have you seen it?

SPEAKER_03 58:26

I'm aware of it, but what are the why does it seem fake?

SPEAKER_01 58:29

Because there are videos of the astronauts floating in the Chinese space station and accidentally they'll drop something and it falls to the floor. Okay. That's interesting. That's like the Americans do a better job than that with green screen. Just saying.

SPEAKER_03 58:48

So you don't believe in the space station?

SPEAKER_01 58:51

No, no, no. We have a space station. I totally believe in the space station. I've talked to people that have worked on the space station.

SPEAKER_03 58:59

Yeah, I I've I have a shirt from ISS from an engineer that was part of it. The program.

SPEAKER_01 59:05

Yeah. And I know I personally know guys that were spatial engineers. I know guy uh two guys that were in NASA, one guy that was in Martin Mary.

SPEAKER_03 59:13

Let's be honest. Low orbit like that is not hard.

Campus Culture, Ukraine, And Defense Build-Up

SPEAKER_01 59:15

It's not hard. I could do that tomorrow if I wanted to. Not a problem. But when it comes to, and in fact, I've got video of doing that in a simulator. I've designed rockets that'll go that there and then come back, and it's like literally documented in the simulator. And the simulator is just as good as the real thing. So that's all totally doable. There are two other questions besides have we been to space. And the first question is of the videos that we've seen, were all of them actually shot in space? And that's a harder answer. No, but some of them have been. Some of them, yes. Some of them, maybe not. And then the other question is surrounding the landing on the moon. Now, we can totally go to space. I don't think that's controversial. Can we go around the moon? Can we plot and chart a path to the moon? Yeah, we've demonstrated that by sending ships a lot further than the moon. Can we bring a ship back from there? Yeah, we I think we can. I think it's certainly doable. We we've seen plenty of missions that have come back and brought something back. But can we do a mission to the moon with three humans that lands on the moon for the first time and then takes off again? And no one dies in this entire mission, and it comes back safely to Earth the first time we do it. I think that's a stretch.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

Well, I mean, we did lots of things where we were setting up, you know, and the you know, the before Apollo 11, supposedly they went to the Yeah, we had 10 other Apollo's.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:01

I get it.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:02

So there was there was a lot of testing involved.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:06

And Apollo 10 was supposed to have landed on the moon. They but they aborted before actually doing it.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:14

Yeah, but the the question really becomes you know, is you know, Van Allen radiation belt, all that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:23

I don't think that's an issue. I think the Van Allen radiation belt is mostly talked about by people that don't actually understand radiation. Because you can absolutely go through it. The Van Allen radiation belt is about equivalent to getting three x-rays. Is it something you should do every every year even? Probably not. But is it something you could do if you break your leg and they want to x-ray it multiple times? Yeah. And unless you're gonna do it during a solar storm, uh that's really about all the radiation you're gonna deal with.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:00

Well, uh so what what uh what do you doubt about the official story then?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

Well, it's here's what I doubt. What we didn't do is we didn't land something on the moon that was exactly the same mass, and this everything was the same without humans, which is how we would do it now, right? We would do a a mission without any lives, without any humans aboard. We would land there, we would take off from there, we would essentially do the whole mission without people first. And if something didn't work, as you saw with the the problems that Boeing had on their capsules, then we fix those things before we put humans on there. And like, you know, Gagarin, the first man in space? Not actually the first man in space. Gagarin was the first man in space who survived the landing. Because before him, there were two other guys that went into space. Supposedly. Yeah. Actually, that never made it back, and therefore they were never publicized because it would be worse for the government in Russia to admit that they failed at something than it would be to say that they kind of did it, but then didn't really. So they waited until they had somebody that both was sent up and came back and then announced him as the first man in space. Uh, there have been numerous animals that have died aboard various space things. And I think probably in both countries, for sure in Russia, but I think also in the US, there were quite a few animals back then, chimps, dogs that were sent up to test what it would be like for humans to be in space, but nobody ever brought these animals back. So I think that the likelihood, like you can plan the route and you can fly the route multiple times to the moon and back. That, like, that's a mathematical calculation. You can do that, and then you have to make sure you've got sufficient fuel, obviously, that your timing is good on that route. But the part that was never tested was the landing on the moon and then taking back off of the moon, taking uh going back up from the moon, and then joining up to transfer the crew from the lunar module to the lander or to the uh the capsule and then flying back. Like that's the bit I have a hard time seeing actually happened the first time they tried it. Because you'd have to get all your calculations to be exactly right. So either in my mind, the scenario is either we have attempted this in the United States as well, and maybe Apollo 10 did attempt a landing, but it was unsuccessful, and it was covered up as though we never attempted it or something, or nine or whichever Apollo. You know, we may have Apollo astronauts that died that we covered up as well, that nobody that everybody that was part of the program basically swore to never reveal for national security reasons, because that's usually the excuse for everything. And the and so my if I'm gonna go with a conspiracy theory, my theory has been, and again, this is not something I can.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:29

What about the theory that we landed afterwards?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:32

Yeah, that that's exactly, right? So my theory is that the Apollo crew, Apollo 11, shot all the footage that was actually shown to people of the the landing on the moon, the experiments on the moon, and the trip back up from the moon, uh, that that all of it was actually shot on Earth. And so that was the video that was shown as the success of Apollo 11. And I think I think that they kept doing more of these experiments to try and get us to actually go to the moon, and I think probably by Apollo 14, we actually did go to the moon. But I don't think that it happened when they say it happened. I think it was a lot more likely, and not to mention the fact that the footage was lost, the video that was rebroadcast was seen all over the world, and the rebroadcast happened from Australia, and the Australian studio had the video footage, but then they they also lost it. Like, there's too many coincidences of things disappearing that could prove for sure whether or not this happened.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:53

Well, you know it could really prove it. We could go back and see if Armstrong's fingerprints are there.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:01

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:02

We have fingerprints, footprints.

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SPEAKER_01 1:07:04

Yeah. I mean, what we do know is there is we do know that there's a flag on the moon. We do know that there's a very much how do we know that? I've seen it with you know that all you need is a telescope for that. That's not hard to see. So you can have a telescope. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's visible. You just need enough magnification. We know we have the buggy up there because it's totally dust covered at this point, but it's up there. We we can see it, we can see the shadows from it. We can see a lander. In fact, I think there's three lander modules that we can see on the moon. So we can see that stuff. My contention isn't that we've never been to the moon. My contention is simply that we were not shown actual video when it was announced that we went to the moon.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:58

I mean, I can agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:01

And I also say I can't prove that. That's just a theory. That's it's my theory, and it I think it's a theory that makes a lot of logical sense, but I could never prove that that crew never went to the moon. But there are a couple of videos out there that I've seen of I think one was of Buzz, and the other one was of God, I forget the guy's name, the poor guy that had to stay in the uh lander or sorry, in the uh capsule. Yeah, the command module in the capsule that never got to go to the moon, talking about like in their 70s, when somebody asked, and and they they would say something like, Well, you know, we would we wouldn't really know that because that's something you'd have to go there to know. Like answering questions that make you go, huh? What? What do you mean? I thought I thought you were there. So I think these guys, remember, they were all military, all these guys were military at the time, Air Force. And so they, as part of being chosen for the program, they were sworn in that here's what's gonna happen. If any of y'all die, we're not gonna say you died when you died. If we if we say that you went somewhere, even if you didn't go there, you're gonna agree and say, Yes, we went there. You know, like they were given lines of what the expectation is for them. And I think they were all patriots, and I think they were going to stick to those lines, you know, for national national pride, national security, whatever you want to call it, because you you can't let the commies win. And they were willing to do that. So whether Neil Armstrong ever actually set foot on the moon, I think is still a question. Did we end up with some ships landing on the moon? Yes. Was there somebody that that made other footsteps there? I think it's possible. I don't know. I I again I can't say with 100% certainty that anybody would technically land on the moon. We know that equipment landed on the moon. And we can see a flag on the moon, but that's as far as I'm willing to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:20

Well, you know, hopefully maybe sometime in my lifetime we'll actually.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:25

Yeah, it would be it would be very different watching a real HD feed coming from SpaceX in multiple camera angles of its American first of the moon landing on the moon. Now, the other, of course, conspiracy theory is that when we get there, we're gonna see a bunch of Chinese houses that are already built at the location that we're planning on landing.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:48

Nah, Nazis.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:49

Yeah, well, Nazis on the moon is the classic, yes. The in the moon, not just on the moon. The Nazis that have been mining helium 3 on the moon for 50 years now.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:04

The the the that whatever B rate movie it was. Yeah, I think that's the name of it. Oh, it's so ugly hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:11

Yeah, it was Iron Sky. Iron Sky, yep. Yeah, it's a classic. The second one is very cheesy. They made a second one, but the you know, it was a crowdsourced movie, like they literally had a a funding thing for it to crowdsource it, the making of the movie. I did not know that. Yeah, cool. But it was it was a classic, and one of my favorite songs in that movie when the blonde chick character is talking to the president and talking, you know, giving her passionate speech that the president should say about you know, we are the the combined product of the dreams of our fathers and the you know, or the work of our fathers and the dreams of our mothers, and but it's very it's super Hitler ish, but it's beautiful, it's absolutely beautiful. I I love I watched but what does that say, Gene? What does that say? That good speech can make people you know agree with it regardless of what the the subject is. Absolutely. If you you have great building, passionate music behind them, little Wagner, and then you've you've got a good orator. Have you heard Hitler speak like personally?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:26

I've I don't speak German, so no, but have you heard Hitler speak?

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SPEAKER_01 1:12:30

Like when not when he's giving a speech. Yeah, the guy sounds totally normal. There, there's nothing yelly or shouty, as CSB would say, about him. I've I've watched uh some home movies of Hitler's, and you know, he's just sitting there drinking tea, reading a book, and talking in a quiet, nice voice, and being nice to his daughter, yeah, just being nice in general. You know, it like he clearly was figured out how to motivate people by playing this character that Charlie Chaplin created and then got people roused up. But that that that's not to say that that's actually how he talked in real life.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:16

Well, you know, I think everybody oughta read you know Meinkampf and everything else, just uh definitely banned from the agenda stream. Well, no, I mean you should know what people said. Like, don't just don't take people's word for it. You know, like read the Communist Manifesto. Is it a bad idea?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:37

Yes. I mean, it's it's a long read, man. That book is not an easy read.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:41

Oh, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:42

What's Capital? Yeah, it's not no. Are you kidding? That that book is difficult for most people. It's a philosophical what if scenario with a whole bunch of German uh what do you call them? Oh, there's a word for it. Basically peculiarities, German peculiarities thrown in. I don't I don't think it's an easy book to read, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:13

I I I find stuff like that way easier to read than like Peterson's maps of meaning.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:21

Oh yeah, yeah. I Peterson is not the most exciting, enticing writer.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:30

No, I would say that he's very good. It's just that you know, like maps of meaning is fucking deep, dude. And then We Who Wrestle With God was the next one that was really hard.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:43

Yeah, I haven't read that one. How was that one?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:45

It's good. You should read it. Like, especially if you're going to be a good one. I own it.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:48

I bought it when it came out. I just haven't read it. You you it's you should read it. It's very good. Yeah. Yeah, get around to it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:00

Uh-huh. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:01

Is there anything else? Uh, I'm trying to think of what other things have come up.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:08

Uh, let's see. We talked about the White House. Yeah. We talked about Ireland. Let's see if there's anything else. Oh, they're talking about arresting ice agents.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:22

For what?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:26

Whatever they can.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:27

Like, oh, you mean like California or somebody? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, good luck on that. I mean, it's and I I know there's gonna be people that are all like states rights, states rights. Like, ICE agents are enforcing federal law, okay? So states like the the extent of states' rights is you don't have to help them.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:53

Agreed. And like Ben and I were talking that I added to our little group chat. He and I were talking, and we were talking about the Glock stuff and everything, and he's like, Yeah, sucks that these states, and I'm like, Well, yeah, but it's also states' rights, right? We just need to get rid of the ATF and federal enforcement and let the shitty states be shitty states. Like California California.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:16

That's an equitable trademan. I will take that trade. Get rid of the ATF and let California just ban guns altogether.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:22

Sure. And I will never go to California. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:31

I think that's fair.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:33

Yeah. So the Harvard Dean called police racist and evil. Okay. Didn't care if Trump died in old posts. So there's controversy at Harvard. Which, you know, as far as I'm concerned, why the hell is Harvard ever getting.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:52

They they've got so much endowment money, they don't need any. Although maybe they don't have as much endowment money because they pissed off all the Jews.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:01

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:02

And you know, it's one thing about Jewish endowments, is there's always a take back.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:07

Yeah, so we haven't talked to Ukraine in a while.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:10

And it looks like I don't even know what that is anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:12

Well, it looks like Trump is putting the squeeze on Putin right now.

unknown 1:17:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:17

Whatever.

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SPEAKER_03 1:17:19

I don't know. You heard him talking about tomahawks, dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:23

Yeah, that's fine. They want to test more weapons, that's fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:28

Yeah. I don't think the Russian air defense is ready for tomahawks.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:31

It doesn't matter. If the Russian defense isn't ready and they take out something that's actually valuable inside of Russia, then Kyiv is gonna burn. Congratulations, America. Why would I care? Yeah, exactly. Nobody cares. Now it's it is the designated testing area for military shit. And as Lindsey Graham said, we will fight Russia until the last Ukrainian. There's still a few Ukrainians left. So I I think it's a big nothing burger for two reasons. One is Trump knows full well that Putin is the most moderate liberal guy in Russian government. That if Putin goes, the next guy will just not hesitate to flatten all of Ukraine.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:35

So it How long do you think the shutdown's gonna continue for?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:38

Oh God, I can only hope a whole year. When is the Congress back? When are they officially back?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:47

But you know what? What we should do is take the opportunity to privatize airport security.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:55

Air traffic controllers, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:57

I know that I need to finish doing the the copyrights on the music before the end of the month because the the Department of Trademarks and Copyrights, that office shuts down at the end of the month. Like they had funding through the end of the month. USPTO, I guess. So I just don't think it's that big a deal. Like most people, unless you're getting money from the government, which I I guess there's too many people getting that right now. But if you're not getting money from the government, what do you care if it shuts down?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:37

I think it hasn't affected any of my projects.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:40

Yeah. Yeah, and you you're certainly more closely related to that than you know other companies.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:47

All I can say is the defense contractors are spinning like there's no tomorrow, and you know that it'll be there. We're doing a bid right now on a rocket manufacturing facility in Virginia, and think HiMars, think Patriot. Yeah, and they're wanting it operational by 2027. Of course, they do a brand new build. Yeah, like do you have any idea? 56 buildings. Do you have any idea how how massive of an effort that that's going to be?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:17

Like my group's portion of the control system integration and cybersecurity will be eight figures.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:23

Yeah. I believe it. That's amazing they're doing that with a billion-dollar facility.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:28

Half a billion-dollar facility. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:31

Yeah, and they're doing it because they've already got the government contract secured. Yep. So I think that this is the second half of why Trump isn't doing anything, why he's just letting the war go on. Because it's what I said to my Catholic buddy today. It's like, you know, what because we he asked about the same topic. I said, look, Trump can end the war tomorrow. He could have ended the war, like he said originally, in 24 hours after becoming president. All he has to do is stop sending the money. That war would be over that same week. Ukraine would surrender, Russia would accept that surrender, and now you can get to terms of negotiation for the post-war version of Ukraine. And that's it. And you're done. The whole thing's over.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:26

And here's the thing. We might get that because I think that I think Trump is really looking at the Neo Monroe doctrine. I think we're focusing here. I think you know Zayan even put out a video talking about are we going to invade Argentina? How would that work? What would happen? Like, it's a thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:48

Did you say Zahan or Zahan?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:50

Zayan. Peter Zahan.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:52

The New York mayor? No.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:55

Peter Zahan. Peter Zahan Zahan. Zaehan's ohan.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:57

Zaehan is the Muslim guy in New York. Yeah, Zahan remember. Zohan is the the guy who's wrong about China. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:05

Yeah. Well, anyway. It was interesting that he would choose to put out such a thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:12

And what is his conclusion?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:14

That taking Caracas would be very difficult because of geography. I have Which I don't think he's correct, but.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:23

I've my only this is going to be funny to admit, but my only knowledge of the geography of Caracas is from the movie Romancing the Stones. I have no idea what movie that is. It was a movie that came out in the 80s with Michael Douglas as the main hero protagonist about a woman romance writer who decides to take a vacation to Colombia and doesn't realize all the danger involved.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:59

Yeah. So since we're already gonna be banned, click on the link I just sent you.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:05

Oh my god. Explain that to me.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:10

I can't. Women are nuts. So there's these women in bathing suits with a hot dog tied on a string trying to flip it up and into their mouth and failing. And it is hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:23

I don't know that anyone could do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:27

That is nuts.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:29

That is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:31

Yeah, I yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:33

Well, leave it to Ben to send stuff that has nothing to do with anything and just has half naked chicks in there. Hey, I like what I like. I know. I know what you like. Exactly. I know what else I can mention. I I listened to a new scene.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:51

Have you ever watched any of the Atlas show the Atlas Bunkers videos? Atlas Munker? Bunker. Bunker.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:59

Atlas Bunker? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:01

Oh, dude, you gotta go watch some of these Atlas Bunker videos of them installing these Doomsday Bunkers.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:07

Oh, Doomsday Bunker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're talking about people that have bought the uh empty uh saddles?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:13

No, these people who are building new houses and stuff and burying these massive bunkers underneath them.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:20

Oh, okay. I've seen some of that stuff on YouTube, but I I that name doesn't ring a bell.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:26

Well, the these guys just put in like a half a half 500 like half a million dollar bunker that was like 2600 square feet underneath this guy's house. And to get they had to do it in multiple pieces, it's really cool to watch.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:41

That's cool. Do you think they're more symbolic and just kind of a man cave than anything?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:47

Uh fuck no. If I ever build a home and have the money, I'll put something in. Not that elaborate, but something.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:54

My my from what I saw, here's my problem with these things is that they look neat and they certainly make you more quote unquote prepared than your neighbor. However, I don't think any single one of them would survive a nuclear blast anywhere near it. That would be one issue. Two, none of these things have an independent energy source that could power them for any any significant duration of time.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:20

Go look at this one because that's not true. What's it got? Uh well, it's got I'll I'll find my uh six thousand gallons of diesel oil. It has several thousand gallons of diesel and as well as solar in a battery system, and they talk about how long they could operate on the existing fuel, several years.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:40

No, that's bullshit. There's no way.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:42

Yeah, because the everything is low voltage DC stuff, and basically they can run for several days off of battery with no solar. If they have solar, then they can essentially run inevitable, you know, for however long.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:58

Hey, I watched that that dumb TV show that you got me into.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:03

Which one? Silo?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:04

Yeah. Okay. I I know how that shit works. You know, when the the atmosphere is poisonous, you're screwed. You're not coming out to do maintenance, you're not doing any of this shit. Because all these bunkers are made to enthusiast level, they're mostly for show. They're I'm not saying they're useless, but they're certainly not going to be sufficient for any kind of argument argument argument. Armageddon type scenarios.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:39

Well, take a look at this Atlas bunker because it's uh pretty fucking neat.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:44

Yeah, and I do like watching building shows, so just for that reason, if no other, I'd definitely check it out. And I I've certainly played plenty of video games with bunkers in them. So that's a thing. Oh, and if if anyone is playing a Battlefield VI, feel free to hit me up in-game under Atlas Gaming, is what I'm in there. Also, I've been working on a spreadsheet that maps out all the different damage of the guns compared to each other, and taking into account the accuracy of the guns, the reloading time, all that good stuff that people care about to maximize.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:26

So it's the best gun.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:29

Uh, it's hard to say because they did a really good job in balancing, right? So for every positive thing one gun has, a different gun has a different aspect that's better. So it's really hard to say that there's a single like the most powerful gun, the one that does the most actual DPS, is the Tavor 7, the gun that you and I have in real life. Really? Yeah. The full auto version of it, obviously.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:57

Why the Tavor, not a 50 cal?

SPEAKER_01 1:27:59

Not a what?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:00

Why not a 50 cal?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:02

Well, they don't they don't have a 50 cal gun, they have a 50 caliber rifle. You know, what we're talking just like, you know, for lack of a better term, an assault gun, right? An assault rifle. So there are machine guns that do more damage, obviously, because they put out a lot more damage per second.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:27

But uh and go longer, and then there's the 50 cal rifle, which does very significant damage. But in terms of like the guns that your infantry dudes would carry, the the Tavor is the one, huh? Tavor's the one, yeah. It's a full auto 308 with a decent rate of fire. Because a lot of the other 308s are slower rates of fire. That's that's the distinction. So the full auto Tavor is 720 rounds per minute.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:58

Which is pretty damn fast.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:59

It's very fast. Where a lot of the other guns are like 500.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:04

Last real story to talk about, and then I gotta go to the bathroom. Yeah, yeah. But did you see the NBA indictments?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:12

No.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:12

What for 30 dicks? No, 34 indictments, players, coaches, etc.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:18

Well, yeah, I see the headlines, but that's all I saw is that yeah, they're the games are rigged. But like, come on, is anyone really surprised? Well, I'm just saying. So, no Epstein files, but you know, at least we're going after the rigged games of the NBA. I don't know how Dan Bungino like wakes up in the morning. This is a guy who spent a year plus of talk show hosting talking about the Epstein files. Cash Patel talked about all the uh corruption in the FBI. Nothing. We've seen 'em, there's nothing to show. End of story.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:13

I I have to believe that there's gonna be something coming.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:16

Yeah, and I I'm gonna stick with my original thing that I told you before anything came out that I don't think this will ever come out. Because it is most likely that Epstein's employer was the United States government, and the US government does not want to show that they were responsible for a guy that used methods that involved young women to get blackmail material.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:47

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the CIA.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:50

What do you think? More pictures of barely closed chicks with large breasts. Are you complaining? I mean, I'm just trying to do it. You're so predictable, dude. You're so predictable. You're doing it during the show, even. You're not even waiting until we're done.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:05

It's what came across my X feed.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:07

Yeah, that's the main thing that can't. And by the way, I gotta mention this. My X feed is completely fucked. It's all Jew haters. It's 100% Jew haters. I don't have a single person that I actually follow in my feed that shows up. It is all the Tucker Carlson types. And then I thought about like, I wonder what the hell happened. How did my feed get screwed up? I started looking into it. A whole bunch of people are complaining about their feeds right now. And there's it appears that there's been some algorithmic change in X that has decided that maybe not for everybody, but for a certain group of people, they're gonna start only sending them contrary opinions to the people that they follow. Now, this could be a good thing for interaction, right? If your goal is to get more people interacting with your posts, it's just as good to have people complaining and saying you're a moron as it is for people to say, yeah, I agree. Because interaction is still interaction, there's still advertising on those feeds, you're still getting revenue. But for somebody that isn't getting revenue and is just on there for fun, it it's making the system unusable. So I actually unsubscribe from X.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:30

And until they fix this, I there's no point in being on X. I'll pay for Grok directly to Grok and have access to it instead of paying through X, but I I don't need to pay for X if my entire feed is just fucked. There's not a single person that I actually followed. Guess when the year ends. When? In four days. Okay. Five days. Five days, however many days this month has. It's the end of the month. So I I basically I did the actual cancellation, which doesn't kick in until the end of the month. Fair enough. And I I mean it's gonna cost me a little more to have direct access to Grok without X, but you know, I don't care. I actually use Grok. I I can't use X right now because it's it's it's completely fucked.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:23

It's interesting that I don't have that problem.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:25

Yeah, it is interesting, isn't it? Maybe we ought to do a class action lawsuit or something. Why? Well, not you, but I mean, you know, people like me. The Jews? Oh, I'm not I don't know if it's the Jews, but all I and I look, there could be a bunch of liberals that all of a sudden are getting nothing but conservative stuff coming into their feed. I don't know what it is. I just know that I had four other people tell me they're seeing the exact same things. Like their feed went from people basically agreeing with them on everything to only people that disagree with them. It's an inversion of the algorithm. And you don't notice it when it first happened because you're you're thinking, oh wow, this must have triggered a lot of people, you know, Crimea River liberal tears. And then next thing you realize, like, wait a minute, every day I log in here, I see nothing but liberal posts. I see Harry, what's his name, posting about Trump. I I see, you know, Mandani posts every two minutes. There's it it's it just completely crushed the algorithm compared to what it used to be, which was predominantly people that I already follow and others like the people who I follow.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:52

I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:53

It's not a setting I changed, it's nothing that I did that I can tell. And when I started seeing other people complaining about the exact same thing, I'm like, okay, it's on their end, it's not on my end.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:07

So I don't know. My X feed's pretty hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:09

So well, that's because you've only ever subscribed to chicks with big breasts, that's all. So your whole feed has no politics, it has nothing of consequence. It's just that every message you forward to me is basically oh, did you see this chick? Uh-huh. No. I have lots of politics on my game. I'm sure you do, yeah. No, I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, chicks with guns. Yes, you subscribe to those two, not just chicks without guns. And there have been a slew of videos of chicks wearing yoga pants that are tighter than their actual skin. What's wrong with that? Nothing's wrong with it. It's just like that's the content you're getting. I mean, you know, there's other websites for that content than X. Ah, yes. It it's it's marginally funny, like this video that you just sent of a a chick doing a handstand wearing a loose-fitting shirt with nothing underneath. And, you know, we have this thing called gravity in America.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:23

So only in America, not the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:26

Well, I can't speak for the rest of the world. I can only speak for this country because I don't know what what happens in other countries. But yeah, I okay, where did you get the official plans for the renovation of the White House?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:39

Uh it's a secret.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:40

Because that's that is I gotta say, that front parking lot they got, that is the best use of space I've ever seen.

unknown 1:36:48

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:49

Look look how many limos can park there. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:55

Yeah, I remember going to DC. I was on a photo trip down there, and it was when they first put a fence up in front of the White House. I was so pissed off, man. Because I remember going there when there was no fence in front of the White House.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:20

I know that's before my time.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:21

I remember when the street wasn't closed, when we can literally drive past the White House and see it out of the car. And, you know, all of a sudden fencing it off just seemed like, wait a minute. If you gotta have a fence, maybe maybe you don't actually represent the people.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:39

Well, it used to be you could go to the White House and seek an audience with the president.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:43

Yeah, well, you could get a tour for sure. All you have to do is come to the city. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:47

There you there was a time in the United States when you could go and sit down and say, I want to speak to the president.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:55

Yeah. And how'd that go for your grand grandgrandad?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:01

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:02

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't know. But I but I do like the renovation. I think it'll be uh nice to have a gold tower right next to the White House. The the image that Ben sent, uh, which I believe is the official one, is that basically the east wing of the White House is now gonna look like a miniature Trump Tower. It'll be about two and a half times taller than the White House with gold glass all the way around. But I think that's an improvement because that that space has just been wasted for many years. And you know, you don't want people staying in the Lincoln bedroom, you want them staying in the Trump bedroom.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:47

We'll see. I don't think he's planning on adding anything like that, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:52

Well, that's what this this you know architectural image shows. So why'd you send me a picture of Monica Lewinsky?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:02

I don't know. It's just uh interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:04

Random chicks with boobs. Okay, I get it. All right, guys. No, that's she looks good for her age. Sure. I'll for her age, she looks fine. She looks actually, she looked worse when she was young.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:18

Alright, so we'll go ahead and wrap things up, guys. We'll catch you on the next one. Hopefully, you enjoyed the special episode we did as well.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:26

All right, Gene. We'll catch you.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:28

And buy my album. Don't buy Gene's album. Don't listen to Ben.