SPEAKER_04: 0:50

Well, how are you Ben? How are you today?

SPEAKER_01: 0:52

Uh it's been a long couple of weeks, Gene. I uh submitted my timesheet today and I was at uh 120 hours or 112 hours, sorry.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02

112 hours for for two weeks? Yep. Slacker. You used to do that in one week. No. Well, I used to bill that in one week.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14

Okay. That I believe. This I believe.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18

Speaking of billing, I did get on my client that I worked with, that I'm no longer working with anymore because I wrapped things up. But he did send me an email to let me know that we won the lawsuit, or he won the lawsuit. So that was good. Very good. Always always good to know where um you know a million dollars goes.

SPEAKER_01: 1:40

Mm-hmm. So now on to the next slide.

SPEAKER_04: 1:48

Yeah. And it was it was a one day in court. Lawsuit. Yeah. So keep that in mind. And it's also why I always tell people, not giving business advice, but nonetheless, if you pay me, I'll give you business advice. I always tell people, incorporate in Texas. Don't freaking go to Delaware to do it.

SPEAKER_01: 2:11

Yeah, the the courts in Delaware have definitely made it pretty they're uber expensive.

SPEAKER_04: 2:17

The rates Delaware is charged there are easily double Texas rates. And and you you know you you gotta use them because there's all kinds of peculiarities out there. So for whatever savings you think you might be getting in Texas by doing Delaware, it's all gonna get eaten up at the first lawsuit. And if you are successful in business, meaning you're making millions, not thousands, you will get sued, or you will have to sue somebody else. That's just reality.

SPEAKER_01: 2:48

Well, and on that note, it's got a litigation thing going on right now that who does um my company has a litigation thing going on right now that was for a big project, and they it's all confidential. I don't even know the details about it. Yeah, don't talk about it. They made a point of it's not but we we changed the factors on the bonus, so it won't affect the bonus. Oh, nice, nice.

SPEAKER_04: 3:12

Well, and I mean I've told you this before, and I think I've said it. I mean, it's um my frickin' LinkedIn. Uh one of the things that I did for a while was work with companies on litigation and remediation. Like, can we can we just change what we're doing here so that both companies end up dropping the lawsuit? Because you got a lot of time to do that as a large company, especially because these things just they take forever. You know, uh, you got a billion plus company suing another billion plus company, or it could be hundreds of billions, uh but you're it's like five years is considered a short lawsuit.

SPEAKER_01: 3:55

So five years is a short lawsuit and just about anything.

SPEAKER_04: 3:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 4:00

The way the courts move these days, it's super slow.

SPEAKER_04: 4:03

So consequently, if there's a way to get out of it and just settle without having to actually win or lose the lawsuit, then it's always worth the effort to at least try. And uh, I am available. So, anyway, what do I want to start on?

SPEAKER_01: 4:21

I told you I submitted your resume.

SPEAKER_04: 4:23

Oh, good, good. Well, you know, yeah, but the more people do that, the better. The one thing I think we should start using as a rule, which means nothing to the listeners, but I'll just mention it here so I don't forget it. Is let's make sure that anything that we're gonna talk about, if there's a link that exists for it, whether it's a video or a text, make sure you send it to me and I'll send you likewise so that we're not just going blind, but I see you sent me the uh wear link. That's good. I like that.

SPEAKER_01: 4:57

Yeah. Anyway, so I'm going on a mileage run Sunday.

SPEAKER_04: 5:01

Yeah. And how far out of your way are you mileaging?

SPEAKER_01: 5:06

Well, so my uh trip tour Orlando got cancelled uh or will postponed till January, so I needed three hops.

SPEAKER_04: 5:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 5:16

So Sunday, I'm literally leaving at eight something, yeah. Flying to Chicago, then flying to Kansas City, then flying from Houston.

SPEAKER_04: 5:27

You're fucked.

SPEAKER_01: 5:28

Why?

SPEAKER_04: 5:29

I'm sorry, dude. Because flying uh because I got the weather forecast this morning when I recorded my other podcast with Darren O'Neill, and it is going to be 13 below zero in Chicago. That's Fahrenheit, not Celsius. And that means that there's an increased likelihood of flight delays. So you may get stuck in Chicago. If you do, I can tell you where there's a good deep dish pizza place right next to the airport, because I get stuck there once. More than once, actually.

SPEAKER_01: 6:03

I I don't think I'll get stuck in Chicago. I've got a long enough layover.

SPEAKER_04: 6:06

Well, you keep thinking that. That's a good healthy way to do it. Now, Kansas City is gonna be cool, but it won't be as cool as Chicago, obviously, so you should be okay in there. The airport of Kansas City is also excellent. Then yeah, most people haven't. You know, I've been to Kansas City like 40 times. We always used to have our well, I mean, I used to have my meetings there.

SPEAKER_02: 6:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_04: 6:32

So it's it's a great location, great barbecue. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 6:38

My worry is I only have like a 40-minute, 35, 40-minute delay at Kansas City.

SPEAKER_04: 6:44

Oh, yeah, yeah. I well, as long as you make it there, you'll be fine. But you'll probably be late leaving Chicago, so you'll probably miss Kansas City. And if you stay overnight, I'd give you tons of good places to go. The the Negro Baseball Hall of Fame is there as well.

SPEAKER_05: 7:01

So if you get stuck overnight, you may want to go check that out.

SPEAKER_02: 7:06

I know you're a fan of Negro baseball.

SPEAKER_01: 7:11

I I want to make a joke about, you know, their own a league of their own, but you know, I won't.

SPEAKER_04: 7:17

They sure were. And you can you can see all about it at the museum, and then they even have well at least they used to, I don't know if they still do, but they had like made their from scratch soda. They had like a soda jerk kind of thing. Deal there.

SPEAKER_01: 7:39

So Sunday in Chicago is supposed to be sunny, but just cold.

SPEAKER_04: 7:43

Yeah, so freezing cold.

SPEAKER_01: 7:44

Shouldn't be any weather delays.

SPEAKER_04: 7:46

Well, okay. So you've been through that airport before. You know that it never stops wind there, right?

SPEAKER_01: 7:53

Right. I understand.

SPEAKER_04: 7:54

All right.

SPEAKER_01: 7:55

So yeah, I was in Chicago last week, dude.

SPEAKER_04: 7:59

Well, keep our fingers crossed. And if you know, if you get stuck there, I'm sure you could ring Darren and then he'll tell you he's too busy to drive up and see you.

SPEAKER_01: 8:09

But uh yeah, well, I I wouldn't even tell Darren.

SPEAKER_04: 8:13

Oh, he's got he's a good food guy, man. He'll tell you where to go. But I can tell you where to go.

SPEAKER_01: 8:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 8:20

I my plan is I'm not even taking anything but my backpack, you know, and maybe Do you take a put on a light jacket just in case you get stuck in Chicago and you want to walk outside? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 8:34

Yeah, I'll take a decent jacket, take my backpack, which has toothbrush and all the necessities. Like I can grab my backpack, dude, and go anywhere in the world for a couple of days if need be, right?

SPEAKER_04: 8:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 8:47

So like I keep my passport in there. I keep all my stuff I need in there. Like a, you know, I'm I'm medic any medications I would need to do that.

SPEAKER_04: 8:56

5,000 in cash. Not that much. You gotta have money in case you gotta fly somewhere. You gotta have enough money to be able to buy an airplane ticket.

SPEAKER_01: 9:09

Which, by the way, this was actually a pretty good deal. So it was like twenty twenty-something thousand points for this little jaunt.

SPEAKER_04: 9:20

But that gets me points. Uh-huh. That counts now. It didn't used to. It used to only count if you paid the real cash.

SPEAKER_01: 9:28

Nope. It legs and every every thousand points equals one PQQ.

SPEAKER_04: 9:33

They should just sell you my they they should just not make you fly. They should just sell you this ticket and count it.

SPEAKER_01: 9:39

So at after platinum, you if you're short at the end of the year, you can buy the buy ups.

SPEAKER_04: 9:45

Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_01: 9:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_04: 9:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 9:47

Based off of how far down you're which I'm making sure I'm getting to platinum. So I did 45 flight segments, and that was where I was gonna be short. So I'm gonna make it.

SPEAKER_04: 9:58

Good. Well, and they keep they keep increasing that shit. It like back when I used to have earned status, I was I think all I needed to do is fly 75,000 miles. There was no minimum dollar value, and it was basically I think it was like 25 segments or something, and that was top tier. And then they kept adding and increasing stuff, then they added dollar minimum value, and more and more and more stuff popped up. I think the last time that I had earned stat, and I say earn status because I've actually got status in a couple of airlines through partner deals, but like gold, nothing fancy. But the last time I had earned status, I think was about 13 years ago. And I didn't use it at all because 13 years ago I was flying all first class. So status literally meant nothing at that point, but I was flu enough to get it.

SPEAKER_01: 11:09

If you get to, you know, 1K, you're almost guaranteed an upgrade in first.

SPEAKER_04: 11:14

Right. But I was, you know, I had client pace for first class tickets in my contract, so it matters.

SPEAKER_01: 11:23

I've been I've been getting first quite a bit, either bumped up or just because of the flights I've been on, I haven't been.

SPEAKER_04: 11:30

Yeah, you know what's actually the last time I dealt with this? The the hilarious thing is, you know what the hardest flight to get upgraded to first actually is from here?

SPEAKER_01: 11:39

From here?

SPEAKER_04: 11:40

From where I'm at.

SPEAKER_01: 11:42

Oh, I would guess Austin to DC.

SPEAKER_04: 11:45

Austin to Dallas.

SPEAKER_01: 11:47

Oh. That isn't surprising either.

SPEAKER_04: 11:50

A thousand people per flight that all have platinum or better status.

SPEAKER_01: 11:55

Yeah, that that's the way it is. That's the way it is going from Houston to Dallas as well. And it's the way it is going to DC, to or from DC.

unknown: 12:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 12:08

I'd have flights from Dallas to anywhere be upgraded, but then the segment from Austin to Dallas, I'd actually have to pay money to to buy, just so I don't have to sit in the back. But anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 12:26

I will occasionally pay for the upgrade if it's like if it's a short flight, like a hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_04: 12:32

Mm-hmm. Well, and the irony is the the cost for a ticket from Austin to Dallas, and this was this was like three years ago. This is not this year, but three years ago, was a hundred dollars more than the cost from Austin to Cabo in Mexico. First class. So first class to Cabo was cheaper than first class to Dallas.

SPEAKER_02: 12:58

That's nuts.

SPEAKER_04: 13:00

I know.

SPEAKER_01: 13:09

That's crazy. More people going to Cabo.

SPEAKER_04: 13:13

Yeah, and it's a direct flight from Austin. I mean, that was what's that was so crazy about it. It's like, wow. I don't even have to go to Dallas first. But yeah, well, I wish you luck. Hopefully, you will not encounter any any hiccups. I think I've told this story before, and I'll just do it briefly. The my longest dog leg mileage run was leaving New York out of Newark. Because the only way I could manage to do the flight was using Newark. But anyway, flying Newark to Minneapolis to Houston to Miami because I was basically going from New York to Miami for the weekend. Mm-hmm. And then the same route back. So it basically took a day there and day back, but I got all my miles.

SPEAKER_01: 14:03

Well, I'm just trying to get it out of the way because it just made you know the way I look at it is um it's costing me a few miles and a day of my time, but it's paying for benefits for all of next year.

SPEAKER_04: 14:15

For next year, exactly.

SPEAKER_01: 14:17

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04: 14:18

I I I do think it's totally worth it. It's like if you're especially if you travel as often as you do, it's a no-brainer.

SPEAKER_02: 14:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_04: 14:32

And you I don't know, I've I watched the video I sent to you. I don't know if you watched on the Cathay Pacific's kitchen, which was pretty interesting. Like how they cook the food. Because my my because I haven't been on the Middle Eastern Airlines that you've been on, my best flight ever was on Cathay Pacific. So that definitely was still my.

SPEAKER_01: 14:57

You don't even know what airline that is.

SPEAKER_04: 14:59

Well it's called Cathay Pacific.

SPEAKER_01: 15:02

Okay. Never flown it. Yeah. Never even seen it come up.

SPEAKER_05: 15:06

Okay. It's it's uh Asian airline.

SPEAKER_04: 15:12

What else we got? Oh, you uh just again briefly, in case anyone cares. It it seems like Ghost Girl has made the jump from Tim Pool to Daily Wire.

SPEAKER_01: 15:27

And either is wearing less baggy clothing or had some surgery.

SPEAKER_04: 15:34

Or got an upgrade. Yeah. Well, I don't think she could afford an upgrade when she was working for Tim. Everyone's always complained how he pays like the absolute bare minimum he can get away with. He's basically looking for people to do stuff for free. Yeah. And then, you know, meanwhile, his net worth is in the tens of millions. Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just he's he he tends to be a guy who does not value experience. And I I've sent him those comments in the past when he was going through and trying to restructure his business twice now. I was like, dude, hire somebody, hire a CEO, hire somebody that can take care of running your business properly because what you've been doing, which is hiring either friends or skaters and then paying them 25 bucks an hour, it ain't gonna get you very far.

SPEAKER_01: 16:36

So yeah, uh, he's uh gone all in on the Candace Owens thing and everything else. Yeah, like he's grifting just as hard against Kansas as Candace is against Turning Point.

SPEAKER_04: 16:50

Oh, totally, totally. No, he every show has been Candace, Candace, Candace lately, but he definitely got very, very triggered. I was gonna say offended, but I guess the kids' proper language would say triggered instead of offended when Candace said something about him because he was just an outside observer. And since she mentioned, you know, the the people out there like Tim Poole that are looking at how much money I'm making instead of trying to do better themselves, that got very offended, and and she said something off-handedly, obviously, and kind of alluded two different events that happened. One was where Tim Pool's property got shut up, and then another one where they were doxed, because they've been doxed a whole bunch of times, but nobody actually was shooting at them. And at that point, that I think some person that works for Tim shot, you know, at something. I don't know. Long story short, is it what she managed to really piss him off, so now she's got Tim to deal with, who really is not a big pro-Jew guy or a big anything guy. I mean, he's he's like her, both of them are ex-lefties who got into media, put their finger up in the air, and realized that you could be much more successful in media on the right than on the left.

SPEAKER_01: 18:27

So they've got that in common. What I don't understand is she said, you know, Charlie was her friend, and she cared so much about Charlie. There are only two people who could make her stop doing this, and that's her husband and Erica Kirk. Yeah. Well, Erica flat out asked her, and she hadn't stopped yet.

SPEAKER_04: 18:47

Well, by two people, she meant clearly Jesus and her husband. Because she's doesn't give a shit about Eric. She said Erica Kirk. I know what I know what she said. But dude, this black girl's been in love with Charlie her whole life. She clearly did not like Erica stealing her man from her. All this was before she got married and had a bunch of kids. Clearly, she was always into white guys, her husband's white, Charlie's white. So I think this is a a catfight by any other name. That's that's really all it is. And I'm sure Erica knows all of that as well. And I remember hearing Charlie say something to the effect of you know, he was he was talking about not liking to feel donors saying they're going to stop giving him money if he has people that are anti-Semitic on. And he said with a laugh in his voice, oh, wouldn't it be hilarious if I if I brought Candace back and then his staff was laughing and then Charlie was laughing. So clearly they thought that was a completely ridiculous thing to even think about is bringing Candace in for a uh turning point event. But I I think uh a big part of that is not just because of the her views. I mean, they brought other people in that had views that cost them money from donors, but because Charlie personally has had enough of Candace over the years, and every every text that Candace was showing, which I still say half of them were totally fake. That's my contention, but everyone that She was showing that had a visible dateline was from like three plus years ago.

SPEAKER_01: 21:18

I mean, does that surprise you?

SPEAKER_04: 21:20

No. No. But the way that she talks about it, it's like Charlie and I text all the time he was my best friend. Okay. How are you, a married woman, have a best friend who's a married man with both of you pretending to be Christians? Or alleging, maybe not pretending, but alleging to be Christians. Like, no, you don't have a fee a best friend of the opposite sex while both of you are in committed relationships. That's not okay.

SPEAKER_01: 22:14

In any religion. Why? Well, I mean, you don't think uh men and women can just be friends, Gene?

SPEAKER_04: 22:23

Oh yeah, yeah. If if they both find each other completely unattractive.

SPEAKER_02: 22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 22:30

If you if you like you know, if the chick looks like something that somebody would step on and not notice that she was under their shoe, you could be friends with her. But only if she has the exact same view of you. Like, if one person's attractive, the other one's ugly, you know, that's not called friends, that's called carrying a torch and hoping the other person sees them for what's good on the inside. If both of you are hot, then you know you're clearly cheating. If if both of you are ugly or consider each other ugly, like maybe it's to a third party they wouldn't, but at least definitely not your type. Uh like I was I talked about this earlier on my uh other podcast, unrelenting.show, that there was a a woman that was well, I I got to know her through dancing. I used to I used to dance, I used to be a dancer, and when she started doing now, when you say a dancer, what can you do? You can listen to Underlinek.show that goes in depth on all the past history, and so you you can catch up on that show, don't need to repeat it on here. But I got to know her when I was I would have been 27 and she was like 40. Zero traction there.

SPEAKER_01: 24:09

I I just imagine you as a dancing Russian bear.

SPEAKER_04: 24:14

Oh, fair enough. But you know, I I weighed a lot less back then, dude. But but we got to be good friends because neither one of us saw the other as attractive, as a potential partner. Like it was it was just, you know, a buddy thing. And so when she started teaching dancing, I was her what would you describe me as, I guess, assistant would be a nice way of saying it. But I was basically just there to demonstrate whatever moves she was teaching, and then people can see what they look like. And yeah, that was for Tango. Which is how we originally met. We originally both met when we were in uh taking classes for Tango.

SPEAKER_01: 25:09

But you know, I used I did I danced quite a bit in college, uh, but all country western stuff, you know, Texas swing, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04: 25:19

Yeah. But I actually I had a dance partner for a long time. We we had lessons every week, and we actually competed in one time in a uh dance contest. So anyway, more more details on that on the other show if you want to hear more.

SPEAKER_01: 25:42

What else would you know anyone would no?

SPEAKER_04: 25:44

You would. Well I I'm talking to you mostly.

SPEAKER_01: 25:48

Okay, do you want to go to the State Department or Venezuela?

SPEAKER_04: 25:54

I don't care.

unknown: 25:57

Pick.

SPEAKER_05: 25:58

Sure. Venezuela.

SPEAKER_01: 26:01

The Navy went, I'm the captain now.

SPEAKER_02: 26:07

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01: 26:09

When you did you did do you not watch movies when the captain? Captain Phillips? Oh my god, Captain Phillips. Have you seen that movie? That was uh Sean Tanks.

SPEAKER_04: 26:21

Or Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks.

SPEAKER_01: 26:23

Yeah, and the Somali pirate says, I'm the captain now.

SPEAKER_04: 26:26

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01: 26:27

And we took over their oil tanker.

SPEAKER_04: 26:31

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We stole an oil tanker or something. I I vaguely saw a video on that.

SPEAKER_01: 26:36

Well, actually, everybody's flipping out, but when you look at it, this tanker is one of the quote unquote ghost fleet that's been violating sanctions all over the place. And actually, the process to do the civil forfeiture started under the Biden administration. Trump just actually went and executed it.

SPEAKER_04: 26:57

That's funny. Yeah. It is also kind of bullish because the idea of taking another country's property because you have some kind of sanctioned bullshit thing going on.

SPEAKER_02: 27:14

I mean, that like that's not a thing.

SPEAKER_04: 27:21

It's you shouldn't be able to do it. And the only reason that we can get away with shit like that is because we have nukes. It is literally at the point of a gun and not through any actual legal justification. But as long as everybody's understanding that's what it is, it's just piracy with a letter of hey dude.

SPEAKER_01: 27:51

We have marks and letters of mark and reprisal in the constitution. I'm totally okay with it.

SPEAKER_04: 27:57

As long as everybody understands that's what it is, then that's fine. I have no problem with it either. I just I don't like people pretending that something's not what it is.

SPEAKER_01: 28:09

Yeah, well, anyway, I think it sends a hell of a hell of a statement to Maduro.

SPEAKER_04: 28:16

Yeah, I I agree. I I think it's definitely says that it you're gonna have financial repercussions if you don't change governments. I mean, typically past presidents would have simply tasked the CIA to make this happen. You know, economic hitman, whatever methods, all up to and including an assassination of another world leader. This is all shit that we've done in the past. But Trump I think enjoys this too much to let somebody else do it. So he's gonna do it on X with posts of what he's doing, and then of course he actually has to do the thing that he's posting about. So yeah. It's the most open government in the history of American government. Except for Epstein, which will never come out.

SPEAKER_01: 29:14

Well, the Democrats leaked a picture of Trump with a bunch of girls. Yeah. From the Epstein files.

SPEAKER_04: 29:22

Yeah, but unless they can have a GPS data show that it was on the island, it kind of doesn't matter because Trump owns a resort in Florida. He can be hanging out with girls every day, including today.

SPEAKER_01: 29:35

Right, and their faces are redacted and blurred out, so you can't tell age or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, and they're all probably like 25. With the beauty, with the beauty pageants he ran and everything else. Come on. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04: 29:48

And by the way, I remember when when somebody was making a big fuss about the fact that, well, he shouldn't be walking back there backstage when there's naked women out there in the contest. That's that's not right. What a creep. These people have no clue how beauty pageants or any kind of photo shoots actually work. If you go to the backstage and the you of a like a clothing line photo shoot, you will see a whole shit ton of basically naked chicks standing around, getting makeup retouched, putting on clothes, taking off clothes, and a whole bunch of dudes that are working a variety of jobs related to that, you know, grip and and sound guy, and you name it. And no one cares because it's not nudity when everybody else around you is naked. It's it's very different than a peep show, which is what these people clearly have in their heads, of going and and thinking, oh yeah, Trump snuck in because he had a key. He opened up the uh private changing room and snuck in there and said, Hey, surprise, I own this, so I can be in here. It's just a retarded, very childish way of looking at it.

SPEAKER_01: 31:15

Well, it's you know, it's one of those things that you know if you go into a locker room or anything else, it's just it's not a thing, right? It's it's the same sort of vibe.

SPEAKER_04: 31:30

We can have anyway of naked girls. So apparently he's just sent me a thing about a Swedish girl who's raped.

SPEAKER_01: 31:38

What's that?

SPEAKER_04: 31:40

You just sent me a thing about a Swedish girl who was raped. You want to talk about it?

SPEAKER_01: 31:44

Sure. So a Swedish girl, 15, I just saw this Daily Mail headline. I haven't really dug in yet, but okay. Apparently, her and four of her teenage brothers get are jailed after luring a taxi driver who raped her into the woods and hanging him for revenge for raping her.

SPEAKER_04: 32:08

Were they just sold out of wood chippers then or what?

SPEAKER_01: 32:12

Uh, you know, but this is what happens in Europe, you know. I know, that's uh jail the victim. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 32:19

Well, jail the victim, and rape is not a crime, apparently, in Europe.

SPEAKER_01: 32:24

Yeah. So the court of appeal apparently acquitted them.

SPEAKER_04: 32:31

Mm-hmm. So well, that's good.

SPEAKER_01: 32:35

I dude, between this and what's going on in Ireland and everything, I I think Europe is uh the Reconquista is gonna happen.

SPEAKER_04: 32:44

Mm-hmm. Well, I hope so. I really hope that they can get their shit together, they've got enough balls left in the country to be able to do that, or in countries, it's not just a singular country that needs to have a revolution.

SPEAKER_01: 32:57

And I heard a very French farmers, no.

SPEAKER_04: 33:01

Oh, the trackers, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 33:03

With the tractors and spraying manure literally on the French farm on the EU. Yeah, I did see that. That was funny.

SPEAKER_04: 33:10

But I heard a good definition of revolution recently, and I I kind of agree with it. It's not the standard definition, but it's basically it's very simple. It just says all a revolution is the elites are changed, Alec. Yep, it's exactly I heard the same one. Okay, but I I was like, I'm gonna start using this because this when you swap out the elites, that's a revolution. Doesn't matter what party comes in, what party exits, if there is a party, whether it's a king or a dictator or elected person. A revolution is when the elites get swapped out. Now notice they're never just removed because somebody's gotta take up the vacuum. And it's usually the people that were leading the charge for the revolution. But at some point, you know, those people also would need to get replaced out.

SPEAKER_01: 34:08

Well, you know, I I think we're starting to see the possibility of it, at least in parts of Europe.

SPEAKER_04: 34:14

Yeah. Speaking of Dan Crenshaw and the elites that need to get phased out. So you and I both watch a lot of YouTube videos, including by some former special forces dudes that now do podcasting. And I forget the guy's name, actually, off the top of my head. I have to watch it. Sean Ryan. Sean Ryan, that's right. So I've always liked Sean Ryan's show. I started watching it probably in the second or third episode he ever did. And I just like that sort of chilling in the basement thing that he's got going on in this podcast. And then you know, back then the topics and the guests are so state-sponsored. Sure. But initially, when he started, all he interviewed was other special forces dude dudes, but over time that definitely changed to just mostly special forces dudes, but a lot of other people have gone through there as well. But anyway, so he had said, pointed out very flippantly, you know, casually, that it sure is interesting how there are a lot of people that go to Washington with barely any money and run on the I'm the average Joe kind of campaign. And then end up and then within two or four years, their net worth is tens of millions of dollars. And gee, how does that happen on a salary of$180,000 a year? Well, we all know how it happens. Called insider trading. Nancy Pelosi wrote the book on it. And so he mentioned this without even using a name. But he did mention that somebody, in fact, in Congress was having a birthday party and booked Steve Aoki, who I have no idea who Steve Akioki is. Absolutely know who Steve Aoki is. And he is uh he's a DJ. He's a very high-end professional DJ. You know, he his rate is$200,000 for night. So that's the kind of people that Congress recruiters hire for their birthday parties. As somebody that's making$180,000 a year. I mean, literally, you're gonna pay your yearly salary for a one night of entertainment where you're not even getting laid. Well, I mean you'd have to pay extra for that. Well, you know, you'd have to pay extra for that. Steve Aokie isn't gonna fuck him. I'll tell you, that's is what I mean by that. And Crunchaw clearly saw himself being the target of that, even though he wasn't mentioned by name, and then sued for I think for defamation, I believe is what the law is. Okay, fair enough. But he had his lawyers draft a demand letter to remove that video and effectively do a self-voluntary gag order of never talking about Crenshaw ever again. Well, that didn't go over too well. Thankfully. I've always called Crenshaw the uh pirate John McCain because his voting record is essentially identical to John McCain. And he's a pirate because he wears a patch over one of the. Never met an industrial military contract company that that he wasn't getting bribes from. Or allegedly. So I really hope that this is the thing that burns him down, speaking of revolutions. Because if this ends up resulting in more information being dug up about him and him doing something actually illegal to gain money, oh it would be so so beautiful a bonfire. Nothing better than the bonfire of politicians, is there?

SPEAKER_01: 39:10

Uh I don't know. You know, I I dude. I I want to just see them jailed. I don't need a bonfire. I need to see some people go to jail.

SPEAKER_04: 39:23

Have you seen how nice the jails are for people that go to jail for political things?

SPEAKER_01: 39:31

Yeah, let's not put them in a nice jail. Let's put them in a shitty jail.

SPEAKER_05: 39:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 39:39

So what what else?

SPEAKER_01: 39:43

So the State Department has issued new directives for 40 some odd countries that if you want to come to the US to get a visa, so these are countries not in the visa waiver program, you have to show up to five years of your social media history.

SPEAKER_04: 40:02

I think that's a threat. I don't think that's actually enforceable. I don't think it should be. I they're not gonna give it from a practical standpoint.

SPEAKER_01: 40:12

You're not gonna do it. But I think they are going to put it in where they can do it selectively at the very least.

SPEAKER_04: 40:18

But you realize as soon as the US does it, literally all of NATO countries will slap that onto their entries as well. And it'll be great. It'll be like a 9-11 type thing that can add new permanent draconian laws that allow them to remove more of your privacy. So I'm not a fan of this.

SPEAKER_01: 40:40

I think I'm not a fan of it either, and I think it's a move towards digital ID.

SPEAKER_04: 40:44

I wish it's gonna happen. I I don't think that's avoidable. It'll happen in Europe before it happens here, but I think it's unavoidable. It's with every year, there are fewer people that would fight against it, and more people that would just raise their eyebrows and goes, duh, I don't want to carry a driver's license. I just want to carry my phone around.

SPEAKER_01: 41:13

I just I I hate the way people are going. Like people act like it's so weird to have cash or exact change.

SPEAKER_04: 41:22

Yeah, cash is grimy, man. I don't like handling cash.

SPEAKER_02: 41:31

I mean, you gotta you gotta have cash, but if I can afford.

SPEAKER_05: 41:34

Avoid using it, I'll avoid using it.

SPEAKER_01: 41:38

No. No. So AM's go into the foot go into the national championship.

SPEAKER_04: 41:44

Oh yeah, you said you were going to the game.

SPEAKER_01: 41:47

I think I have secured tickets. I will find out here shortly.

SPEAKER_04: 41:51

Very good. So how when's the actual championship thing game deal? Whatever.

SPEAKER_01: 41:58

Like the actual national championship? Sure. Well, I mean, there's it's a 12-team playoff, dude, so you gotta be more specific.

SPEAKER_04: 42:07

When is the season end? January. January something. Okay. So basically they've got what four games left if they do well.

SPEAKER_01: 42:17

Yeah, if they go on a run. So yeah, you know, it it all depends.

SPEAKER_04: 42:22

Four or fewer games. And they they still can manage to win, even though they get their ass kicked by Austin.

SPEAKER_01: 42:30

Yes, actually. So we'll be playing here at home against Miami, and then in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl against if we win against Ohio State. And then if we beat them, we'll probably end up having to play Georgia as the most likely on the other side of that bracket. And then if we make it to the actual championship, right? Yeah, Ugga. If we make it all the way to the actual national championship, then it's you know likely gonna be probably Indiana.

SPEAKER_04: 42:58

Really? Interesting.

SPEAKER_01: 43:01

Indiana's number one.

SPEAKER_04: 43:03

How are the Buckeyes? How's their team?

SPEAKER_01: 43:06

They're the number two team in the nation.

SPEAKER_04: 43:07

Are they? Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 43:09

Mm-hmm. But Indiana beat them.

SPEAKER_04: 43:11

Yeah, that's surprising. I mean, it's not really surprising. I don't know shit about this, but I I That's pretty surprising. I've known people that are into college football that like when you talk about Ohio and Georgia, people expect those to do well every year. So well, good. Hopefully you you've got your ticket thing and it didn't cost you an arm and a leg. I'm sure it did, but a buddy's hooking me up.

SPEAKER_01: 43:43

So okay.

SPEAKER_04: 43:44

So is this like he can't use them kind of thing?

SPEAKER_01: 43:47

Yeah, he's he's not going to the game. Oh, his boys are only using their two, so got it.

SPEAKER_04: 43:53

Nice. Alright. So there you go. It'll have to give us a full report when you're done with it.

SPEAKER_01: 44:01

If I have a voice left. If um Yeah, so I am off the last two weeks of the year, dude. I can't. Yeah, that'll be fun. So we'll do like four trades. My last day till the fifth.

SPEAKER_04: 44:16

Oh, the fifth even. So I I mentioned this on Unrelenting as well, but and people that have been listening for a while know this, but new people may not. So every year I do a fast after New Year's. Don't necessarily do it on the 2nd of January, sometimes the third or fourth, but generally I'll do it in that first week. And it's something that I every time I do it, I always after I'm done, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do this quarterly. This is so good. I'm gonna just do it. And then I never get around to doing it until the following year. But at least I've been doing consistently every year now for I think six years. And all it is is I just do a water fast. So I I eat absolutely nothing and I only drink water. And put a little bit of salt in there for the electrolyte replacement that you normally lose from sweating. But I I don't I don't do any other stuff, I don't do smoothies or anything other than just distilled water. I do take vitamins, as I do every day anyway, normally. But I what I find is it's it's really frustrating from like day two to day four, or day really day two and three are the worst two days. By the fourth day, you kind of are used to it, and it's no longer something that's really reminding you constantly, like, oh, I really feel like eating. And and so from day four till seven is usually the it's exactly the same, there's no difference. The longest I've gone is two weeks like this. Uh last year, I think I only did five days, or no, seven. No, I did I did seven days barely. I basically did six days and and twenty hours, something like that, just shy of seven days. But my goal again is to do a minimum of seven days and preferably at least ten, and then if I can if I'm still feeling good on day ten, I'll just keep going and trying to hit two weeks. But it's it's one of those things that just is a very nice kind of a refresher. I always feel really good at the end of it. I don't enjoy the first three days, as I mentioned, but by the time it's over and done with, I just feel very refreshed and very energized, re-energized for starting new things in the soon. Yeah, but it's a that is true. However, it's such a small percentage of weight loss that in it's really kind of negligible.

SPEAKER_01: 47:08

For most people, it wouldn't be that small of a percentage.

SPEAKER_04: 47:10

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. For for you, like if you fasted for two weeks, you would probably lose like 20% of your body weight. 15 minutes. I don't know about that. You're in you're in fine shape. I saw you for Thanksgiving. But I don't know. I I enjoy it to the point where at the end of it, I always think in my head that this is something I should do every quarter. So do it January, April, July, and October. And then I just forget to do it. So anyway, that's the game plan. Shouldn't affect any of the podcast schedule or anything else. The only thing it affects usually is I have to explain it to people that want to meet up for lunch or you know, dinner or some other reason that involves food. It's like I can either meet with you next month or we can meet at a non-food event. But that's really the only thing that tweaks. I mean, even if you don't really think about food, if you're a week into your fast, it it's not a particularly enjoyable thing to go to a restaurant and watch somebody else eating, especially if it's a good smelling food there, like brisket. Like, I don't need to torture myself like that. Not worth it. But, you know, as long as you're not surrounded by great smells, you you just stop thinking about food.

SPEAKER_01: 48:44

Yeah. So Trump uh kind of really pushed Zelensky on elections and kind of publicly shamed him. Did you see that? I did not at all see that, no. Uh yeah, so Trump was saying, you know, at a point it's not democracy anymore when you just keep postponing elections. And now Zelensky's talking about the conditions under which he could have elections in the next 16 to 90 days.

SPEAKER_04: 49:08

Yeah. We'll see how that goes over.

SPEAKER_01: 49:13

Well, if he actually if he it might be a way out. So it really might be a way out. Zelensky hold elections, you're going to lose. You will then be able to just retire gracefully, leave, and then we can get somebody in who will actually end the world.

SPEAKER_04: 49:31

Negotiate.

SPEAKER_01: 49:32

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 49:34

And you know, Putin has even said that he's okay negotiating with Zelensky at this point. I think he just wants to get this over and done with and wrapped up.

SPEAKER_01: 49:45

Yeah, but I mean, there was a five-hour Putin-Kushner-Witkoff meeting that apparently was not very fruitful.

SPEAKER_04: 49:55

Well, what kind of fruit are you going to have when the position has been clear for two years now? No NATO in Ukraine.

SPEAKER_01: 50:07

Which NATO shouldn't want Ukraine.

SPEAKER_04: 50:12

If you listen to Starmer in the UK, it's the only thing that makes sense is to bring all of all of NATO troops and park them in Ukraine, along with some nukes. Because that'll keep Russia out of the UK. That's that's their thinking.

SPEAKER_01: 50:30

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_04: 50:31

Yeah. I mean, I I guess it may not even matter if they wait long enough because the UK will just become a caliphate, and Russia has a history of working with Middle Eastern countries. They may end up being friendly with the the caliphate of England. That's a joke, by the way.

SPEAKER_01: 50:54

But I I don't think it's that much of a joke.

SPEAKER_04: 50:57

I know, that's why I had to say it, because it's it's like, oh, this may be you you may be thinking I'm not even joking, but I I intended that to be as a joke. But I don't know, man. I I think I other than just a continual stream of money, which has been my one big disappointment from the Trump administration, more so than the Epstein stuff. The Epstein stuff I predicted wouldn't come out. So I wasn't particularly disheartened when my prediction came to fruition. But the ending of the sending of the perpetual money to Ukraine, I thought was going to happen under Trump. I thought that that would be the negotiation move that he absolutely can do. It's it's free and open to him, and it would motivate that country to end the war as quickly as possible because we are still now 12 months into the Trump presidency paying 100% of the government expenses of Ukraine. The US started covering that under O Biden, and Trump has maintained it. You know, it it's we're not sending them the big bonuses that we were under O Biden, where Congress would decide to add an additional 200 billion to send to Ukraine whenever they felt like it. We're not doing that at least, but the cost of the operation of the Ukrainian government is outside of that and has been covered by the US since day one and is still being covered. And that's sad because I thought that was exactly the type of negotiation that Trump was willing to do is to say, look, guys, you you keep fighting however long you want, but the last bill that we pay for salaries for people, for services, for everything for Ukraine will be pick a random date, you know, June 1st. If you would have said that in January 15th, that June 1st was the cutoff date for Ukraine, and they've got six months to wrap things up and negotiate peace, we would have ended the war sooner. As it stands, Trump just said, Well, I tried. Okay, true. You tried, it didn't work, but your solution now is just to keep repeating what Biden's doing, which is covering all their bills. And we know, we in the West, but and certainly everybody in the East knows that whatever amount of money is sent to Ukraine, just like whatever amount of money is sent to Gaza, a large slice off the top of that money just disappears. It it is it is the nature of the the types of government that that country has.

SPEAKER_01: 54:08

Well, it it's not just that, it's the nature of war.

SPEAKER_04: 54:11

Well, okay, fair enough. But but like the country was known way before any wars as the place that you had to hang on to your wallet a little more carefully because you will get ripped off. I mean that like that region was known for that. It's it's not something that just came up during the war. It's like going to Cairo. If you go to Cairo or you go to Morocco, hold on to your wallet, or you go to Tijuana, hold on to your wallet.

SPEAKER_02: 54:43

Because you will get ripped off.

SPEAKER_04: 54:50

So funny story I sent you. You probably didn't watch the videos because it sounded like you were busy, but there's a very interesting story about how a Russian illegal was found using her cat.

SPEAKER_01: 55:06

How was she found using her cat?

SPEAKER_04: 55:08

It's a it's a well, you should watch the video. It's actually a pretty damn well done story. It's the kind of thing that the uh fat plumber should do.

SPEAKER_00: 55:19

Okay. The fat electrician, you mean?

SPEAKER_04: 55:21

Yeah, that guy. Yeah. Because he's good at telling stories like this. So I think he had a learn that story and then put his own spin on it to make it interesting. But it's a story of a Russian spy in Italy that disappeared right as the authorities were closing in on her. And the story of how then she was tracked down using her cats' photos.

SPEAKER_01: 55:50

Don't take pictures of your cats.

SPEAKER_04: 55:51

I my advice, just don't have cats.

SPEAKER_01: 55:55

I like cats.

SPEAKER_04: 55:56

I like cats too. I love cats, they're awesome, especially big wild ones. Oh. If I lived in like nice acreage, say like 40 acres minimum, I would totally have a puma. That was one of the coolest pets you can get. No, it wouldn't mol me. We'd be friends. It's an awesome, awesome pet. There's a lot of Russians that have mispets. It's it was pretty easy to get a puma as a pet in Russia. And easier than the US, ironically. And so they've they've figured out exactly how to make sure that the cat is a kitty cat and not a wild animal. But you know that Puma is the largest member of the house cat family.

SPEAKER_01: 56:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_04: 56:53

I don't think they're a member of the house cat family, but well, it it's it it's not a fan, it's a a a clade, I guess. But they're they are close more closely related to the average house cat than they are to lions or tigers or jaguars or you know, the bigger cats. So this is the largest physical size of the small cat family.

SPEAKER_02: 57:24

Very cool. Very cool stuff.

SPEAKER_05: 57:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 57:27

Did you watch the uh the German or sorry, the Portuguese couple that is from Europe that came to Texas that I sent you? No. So this is why do I bother? Well, I swear to God.

SPEAKER_01: 57:44

I send you I have been working a ton lately.

SPEAKER_04: 57:48

Okay, but all I send you is no more than like eight or nine videos a day. All you gotta do is watch them. They're not more than two hours long each, and you don't even do that. I mean, that's just disrespectful. Sadly, he is not exaggerating by much. No, I'm not not. I mean, most videos I send you are two hours, but I told you how to watch them. You put it on 3x speed. This is how I can get six hours worth of content consumed in in the just two hour time.

SPEAKER_01: 58:16

I never do that. Did you uh did you see the Indiana GOP vote on redistricting?

SPEAKER_04: 58:22

No. Oh, yeah, I heard it. I didn't see it, but I heard that it was they pushed back.

SPEAKER_01: 58:29

Yep. Several GOP members defected to stop it.

SPEAKER_04: 58:34

Allegedly GOP members.

SPEAKER_01: 58:36

Yeah, exactly. They're gonna get primaried crazy.

SPEAKER_04: 58:40

And uh turning point USA is where I read this, and they already said themselves that they will be working against those people in the primaries. So that's good.

SPEAKER_01: 58:53

Yeah. Well, anyway, even if Indiana doesn't redistrict, it looks like with the planned redistricting, assuming other states don't peel off like that, with the Texas lawsuit out of the way, pretty much everyone's gonna redistrict, which is fine. But it's gonna be plus about 21 seats in the House for the GOP.

SPEAKER_04: 59:15

Yeah, and I think it's a plus eleven for the Democrats as well. Well, but it's a net plus twenty-one for the way that it was explained, I think, quite well, is essentially if you look at like political maps that show the predicted election results. Everybody that's red on the map stays red. Everybody that's blue on the map stays blue. Everybody that is gray or white, meaning or purple, meaning those districts will flip-flop. They'll do Republicans one year, they'll do Democrats another year. Those are the districts that will no longer be flip-flopping, and they have now been drawn in a way which in red states make sure that they stay red, and in blue states, make sure they stay blue. No more flip-flops. So the prediction is that the election results coverage, the predictions will be much more accurate because there's much fewer opportunities for counties to flip-flop the way that they have in the past because they had you know fairly balanced segments of people voting Republican-Democrat, and with the newly redrawn districts, most counties in the U.S. will be a minimum of 60% something. So that's that's where that biggest change comes from. So there were there are absolutely gains for the Democrats as well, and for the Republicans, bigger gains, but they're both coming from that flip-floppy middle.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:00

Yeah, but I I think that's okay. And I think it uh increases the odds of the Republicans holding on to the House. I agree. I'm not saying they won't. In fact, it moved the call she market quite a bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:10

Yeah. No, I I think uh that's definitely the case. It's good for Republicans if they don't keep fucking things up the way that Candace and Tucker have been.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:22

By the way, did you watch Crowder's interview with Nick Fuentes?

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:25

Or Fuentes Fuentes. I watched just highlights. I didn't see the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:31

So I watched the majority of it, and it was actually pretty good. Is it? And then Fuentes went on uns the oh shit, who's the British guy that's yeah, and he supposedly a Catholic. Right.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:49

They're both Catholic.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:50

Right, but he made fun of Fuentes for being a virgin.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:55

He did, indeed. As everyone mentioned.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:58

And then Crowder nailed him for it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:02

What he's saying, why are you making fun of him being a virgin?

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:05

Right. If you share these beliefs. They don't share these things.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:07

If you share these beliefs of No, they just share Catholicism, not actual beliefs.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:12

Okay, but I'm talking about the belief of, you know, maintaining your virginity.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:17

How many how many Catholic men are virgins? Wouldn't know. I wouldn't either, but I would bet it's much smaller than what the Bible says. I don't know that it would be.

unknown: 1:02:40

No?

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:42

I mean, the average guy today loses his virginity at 22.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:47

Oh no. No, no. That rate is pushed way up. It's getting way closer.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:51

The the rate the rate of virgins at 30 is maybe that's the bigger issue here, is that he shouldn't be making fun of goddamn, who was Pierce, Pierce Morgan. He shouldn't be making fun of him for making fun of the gay Mexican being a virgin. He should be making fun that Pierce actually still thinks that 20-year-olds have sex.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:19

Which is just shocking to me. Like, how did we raise a generation that doesn't drink, smoke, have sex, do jack shit?

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:30

Yeah, we gave him phones very young.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:33

Yeah. But and you know what kills me is they all fucking smoke weed. Yeah. And they don't think that's that that's not as bad for you as you know.

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:43

It's not as bad for you. I agree with that, but it makes you a lazy fuck.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:47

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_04: 1:03:48

Yeah. So I um I don't know, man. I it's gonna be scary when that generation actually comes into its own. Hopefully I'll be.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:03

Well, I think they already are, is my point.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:05

No, they don't hold any kind of controlling jobs. There's nothing that impacts us from Gen Z decision making, but it will.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:16

All I can say is the the millennials like me, which there aren't a ton, but we're gonna stay in power a lot longer than the boomers did.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:26

Boomers stayed in power a damn long time, dude. They don't think that's possible. Boomers got into power 30 years ago. No, they're going down. Lifespans are going down right now in the US.

unknown: 1:04:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:39

No. I think I think you just got a rosy position. No, you're gonna have a much shorter time in power, much less wealthy than the boomers.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:49

Well, definitely much more depressed than the Gen Xers.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:53

Well, the Gen Xers, we like we all knew about this. That's why we don't give a shit. That's why we drink water from the hose. Because we're the smallest generation.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:03

No, you're not. Unfortunately, Gen Alpha is the smallest generation.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:09

They're not done yet.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:10

Yeah, but they're all gonna top off at like 30-some odd million.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:15

Yeah, well, what happens when uh when the the jet beta comes around? You think they'll gonna be bigger?

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:22

No, it's gonna be a problem.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:24

It's gonna be a problem. No one's having kids. Except for Elon Musk. We gotta start with the case. It's up to him. It's up to Elon Musk to repopulate the planet.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:31

I will volunteer as tribute to help.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:34

Yeah, you do that. It's a getting the men to help isn't as big a deal as the women. Yeah, I agree. The first thing we can do is is get rid of the 19th. That'll go a long way towards repopulating country.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:46

Get rid of the 19th and ban birth control.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:49

Yeah. And you know, I don't even think you need to ban it. You just need to make the word slut actually mean something again. Yeah, you can't be selling t-shirts that 12-year-old girls wear that says slut on them.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:07

I know of a 12-year-old girl that would be allowed to do that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:10

Oh, I gave one to my niece when she was that age. But it's you know, as a joke.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:14

You would.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:16

I was in Vegas. I bought it in Vegas, I thought it was funny. But but my sister's the one who let her wear it. That's the bigger issue.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:24

The fact that your sister ever let her see it is the issue.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:28

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:30

That's not appropriate.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:31

It's but it's funny. I mean, look, do you think of the word appropriate anything having to do with me at all ever?

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:39

Not really. No, not really. Troll. Troll mostly.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:43

Uh-huh. Exactly. It's like the the intro song says, I never mean no harm.

SPEAKER_05: 1:06:51

Or any harm. Either or. One or both.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:56

So I don't know. I it's going to be interesting to watch. I'm not super concerned because I don't have to worry about my kids because I don't have kids. But you know, I can imagine as somebody who does have kids, it's probably going to be fairly frustrating watching what happens to this country.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:24

Unless something major drastic changes.

SPEAKER_04: 1:07:26

And I don't even know what that could be.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:31

You know, I don't know. I think we're I think we're getting to the point of of really the the amount of fatigue both racially and between the sexes is getting pretty high, dude. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04: 1:07:49

Yeah. I agree.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:52

I fully agree. Well, what are you gonna do about it? Nothing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:02

You know make better choices in the future.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:04

Well, I d but also sex robots are gonna be coming fully online in this.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:10

And that will be the end of humanity.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:12

Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:14

Pretty much, because I mean flashlights are already pretty much.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:18

You imagine you could buy something that will actually tell you thank you.

SPEAKER_02: 1:08:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:08:25

It's amazing. It's gonna change the world. Men are never gonna go back. It's like that skit, which I I know I've posted, so I'm sure you've seen it, of the uh guy stopping at a corner, and there's like a prostitute-looking chick that bends down to his window, passenger window in the car. He's like, How much? Like, what are you looking for? He's like somebody to listen to my ideas and tell me that I'm right and appreciate when I do something for her, and she's like, Yeah, fifteen hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:11

Yeah. Yeah. Tell tell me, tell me you're proud of me, please.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:15

Yes, tell me exactly. Tell me you're proud of me.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:17

Like it is it it is so sad the the way we have allowed relationships between men and women to become a few.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:25

Yeah, but you know exactly why. This is this is not a secret. It's equal. Equality. The equality is a stupid idea, it is unnatural.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:37

What'd you say?

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:39

Well, and it's a falsehood.

SPEAKER_04: 1:09:40

Yeah, it's a falsehood, but it like even way before people went overboard with the whole wokeism stuff, this whole notion that men and women are equal, that everyone's equal. No, equality was something that only applied under the law. Like you should have the same laws for people that break rules, regardless of what sex they are, what they look like, etc. Like equality under the law is beneficial. Equality in all things is asinine and unnatural.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:21

Well, it humans aren't equal. Like we may have we may have so that and this is something that I have been accused by certain someone of you know this showing my narcissism. But well, you just think you're better than everyone. Well, it depends on what you mean by better. If you mean is my life more valuable than someone else's, no, it is to me, but in general, humans are all unique, and you know what what drives value, and that's uniqueness. And since we are all infinitely unique, we are all infinitely valuable. That is the spark of the divine, that is the human sovereignty, individual sovereignty, etc. However, if we're talking about, am I smarter than someone? Well, yes. Some people, yeah. Am I better at this or that and the other, then you can build up a different level of value. And uh, the level of value that you contribute to society is a big deal in a big measure.

SPEAKER_04: 1:11:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:26

Or at least it should be of any man's self-worth.

SPEAKER_04: 1:11:29

If you can't think of anything that you're better at, then either you're a liar or an idiot.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:39

Well, and that's that's the thing. It's one of these tropes that we've been trained. You know, you can't just like violence is never the answer. Exactly. Violence is the answer. The question is when.

SPEAKER_04: 1:11:51

Yeah. You know, and I'm absolutely better than everybody else. It's not, I don't have a single doubt about that. So it it's really it's really just letting the car just sit in neutral for too damn long and doing nothing about it. Now the car is moving with breakneck speed, and we're going, whoa shit, man, how did this happen? Well, it happened because nobody's paying attention. Talk about the boomer generation.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:21

They're responsible for awful windows. Yeah, but that's the move of the overton window.

SPEAKER_04: 1:12:26

The overton window doesn't move itself. It happens when a generation doesn't pay attention.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:33

Right, but the the thing is, here's what what it comes down to it's not just not paying attention, it's what one generation tolerates, the next will accept.

SPEAKER_04: 1:12:42

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:44

And I I hate to say it, but the only way you have a tolerant society is by selective intolerance. Absolutely. You choose what you can tolerate and what you will tolerate. Yep. Otherwise, if you tolerate everything, your society is gone and you no longer have a to tolerant society.

SPEAKER_04: 1:13:04

No, because uh the tolerance, uh, much like utopia, is a bullshit idea. Tolerance is bullshit, equality is bullshit, utopia is bullshit, communism is bullshit, it's all bullshit.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:18

This is coming from someone who was born in the USSR, by the way.

SPEAKER_04: 1:13:21

That makes me know better. I have first hand knowledge. I don't need to just have read about it, I have experienced it, and I can tell you it's all bullshit.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:32

Oh, you were just a kid, you don't remember.

SPEAKER_04: 1:13:35

The young socialist kid, I was the leader of my group. I knew exactly what needed to get done to get special favors. Yeah, I I I kind of joke with my dad. I was like, you realize if we would have stayed in Russia, I would have been an oligarch, right? He was like, Yeah, but I wouldn't have had a sailboat, so I made the right call. I'm like, you bastard.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:57

Does he still have the sailboat?

SPEAKER_04: 1:13:58

No, no, he sold a sailboat.

unknown: 1:14:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_04: 1:14:01

No, it's uh, but you know, he's a little old to go sailing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, that's why he sold it. He's and he he had it up until like five years ago. You know, he was still in his 70s sailing solo. And you know, the rest of us were all like, uh, this could be dangerous. You never know. Something happens, mass hits you upside the head, happens to all of us. Oh, yeah. It can end poorly.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:30

Especially in the cold waters up there.

SPEAKER_04: 1:14:32

Yeah, exactly. You fall into that water, you've got about a minute to get back on the boat. After that, your muscles are gonna start not paying attention a whole lot to you. It's gonna be harder and harder to climb aboard. Dude, I didn't even like getting my feet wet in that water. And and where we're talking about is a Puget Sound, and it's north, northern coast of America and Washington State. And fucking cold. Yeah, it is fucking cold.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:05

By the way, what the hell happened in Washington? Why did they uh flood out that way? Jeez. For an area that gets a lot of rain, you would think they would be prepared.

SPEAKER_04: 1:15:14

I don't even know about any flooding. Where they had flooding?

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:17

Uh yeah, in and around Seattle.

SPEAKER_04: 1:15:19

Oh. Yeah, that seems really weird because Seattle's kind of a hill right up on the water, so they shouldn't pool. It should all run down the hill. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:29

There's actual flooding pool itself, but surrounding areas.

SPEAKER_04: 1:15:34

Yeah, I mean there, yeah, there's some low spots there, but generally it's a fairly mountainous area, so the the the gradient going from the water is usually up towards the mountains pretty aggressively. With a few exceptions there, right on the waterfront. It's pretty. I'll give them that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:56

Like I oh, the that that part of Washington is absolutely gorgeous.

SPEAKER_04: 1:16:02

But I'd never want to live there. It's too fucking cold. Although technically, anywhere you live that's right on the water is much more moderate than deeper inland. Mm-hmm. Generally. You know, your your coastal Mexico is not as hot as central Mexico. Your coast.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:25

Same thing in Texas.

SPEAKER_04: 1:16:26

Yeah, yeah, same thing in Texas.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:27

You know, like Galveston, it's very rare for Galveston to get over a hundred.

SPEAKER_04: 1:16:32

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:33

Yet you go just inland enough to into Houston and you'll get a few days of a hundred.

SPEAKER_04: 1:16:36

You go up to Dallas and it's like all summer long. Yeah. Yeah. No, we had over a hundred days of a hundred, I remember, uh, not that long ago. And Austin is a little bit better just because we have more trees and water than Dallas, but it's still gets damn hot. What's God station like?

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:57

The longest stretch we've had in a long time was 10 days over 100.

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:01

Oh, that's not very long. Yeah, it's not bad.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:04

Oh, well, and it was uh a couple summers ago, it was a record setter.

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:09

So we usually have a couple days a year over a hundred, and that's about it.

SPEAKER_05: 1:17:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:16

Yeah, no, I mean we've got plenty of days in the high 90s, you know.

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:22

Yeah, yeah. And humidity makes a big difference too. Hey, did you say that you got a maschastic setup going? Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:34

In fact, I took it on my trip.

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:36

And how was it? Any feedback?

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:38

Um, I yeah, I actually chatted with some people at some airports and things and just random dudes. Uh just random people. Hey, testing this out, that sort of thing. And one of the cool things was I left it on while I didn't even think about it while we were flying.

SPEAKER_04: 1:17:53

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:54

And I started getting notifications and I was picking up nodes as to do the f flying, yeah, yeah, at 30,000 feet.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:01

Like ground nodes. Yes. That's cool. Okay. Now see, that's a that's a better argument for it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:08

Because I and it maps out.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:10

Yeah. So even though something that's so low power is one of those things, it's but it's running on 900 megahertz, right?

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:17

Yep.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:17

So it does have a little bit of penetration. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:25

Anyway, it's it's uh it was neat. It was neat to see how we'll be playing with it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:30

So, yeah, definitely do play with it. If if I see one that looks decent, I'll pick one up as well. I know they're pretty cheap, they've been around for quite a while, but they're mostly for hobbyists that like to build things. I don't have any interest in that. I just want to buy one and turn it on.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:53

Well, I mean, all you gotta do is put a board in a 3D printed case, dude. It's not exactly rocket soldering.

SPEAKER_04: 1:18:57

No, no, no, I know soldering anything. But they're well, today, like a year ago, you would have had to solder something. Two years ago, you would have to source parts. So it's getting closer to turnkey for sure. And I like that turnkey. What I would like, here's my version of a radio that would be useful. Is I want something that is essentially the shape of the largest size battery, lithium battery that you can bring in an airplane. Basically something flat and about you know three inches by five, six inches. Except that it's not just a battery, it has a substantial battery, but in that same footprint, it also has one of these metastic things.

SPEAKER_01: 1:19:45

And it like my little one that I've got with the teeny battery left on lasted days.

SPEAKER_04: 1:19:53

Well, I I I want to just have it be running by itself for weeks on end without having to worry about power.

SPEAKER_01: 1:19:59

Yeah, and you know, they've got solar kits for them, and people are setting up, you know, basically repeater nodes and infrastructure.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:07

Like in Chicago, there was quite a few infrastructure nodes pretty close to the airport that I was able to hit and then literally send a message all the way across, almost all the way across town.

SPEAKER_04: 1:20:19

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:21

Yeah, and by the way, this is all encrypted and you can do a general broadcast, but you can do encrypted messaging that doesn't go over the internet and general breaker breaker one nine.

SPEAKER_04: 1:20:34

Hey y'all.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:36

Pretty much. You know, it's text-only communication, but it's useful. And you can exchange locations, you can do all sorts of stuff.

SPEAKER_04: 1:20:45

And it does not require a license from the FCC. Correct. Yeah. So there that is a benefit.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:56

Uh the next security convention I go to, I'm definitely taking it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:20:59

Oh yeah. And the next one you go with it, it'll probably be hacked. Because I'm sure that there are people that focus on exploiting the code for those. I mean, it doesn't matter, even if it is, right?

SPEAKER_00: 1:21:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:21:16

It's not like you're gonna use it for anything. Yeah, exactly. But I I like it as a concept, and certainly it is one of those things that there if there is a critical mass, we could all of a sudden, if this thing just goes viral on the video and a bunch of people order them, it could all of sudden just uh lets you do uh full countrywide free encrypted communication without relying on anybody's private infrastructure and that's pretty damn relying on people's private infrastructure literally but without relying on commercial infrastructure it's all enthusiast driven which you know there are people that run repeater nodes for ham radio as well and there there's ways to use your small antenna portable low power set through repeater nodes to be able to get them communicating with longer ranges longer distances but it's all hokey it's all very analog this has always been my biggest issue is just I just don't like analog and I still have I've maintained my you're not using analog hardly anymore at all it's almost all digital everybody switched to digital well it's there's there's a ton of analog on ham radio but I I think digital well there are some digital radios out there for sure but I don't know about everybody I don't think everybody's anywhere near switched but generally speaking the you know people that got into ham radio have kind of done it with a mostly because they're nerds but uh they use the excuse of well you know we're the backup infrastructure if if there's a failure of commercial infrastructure but I think that's just something people say to justify it not any kind of reality.

SPEAKER_01: 1:23:23

There's been a few instances where people have the hands of save the day where that where they've helped out the day at the end of the world right yeah yeah exactly but realistically you're not gonna save the day but what you can do is have a means of communication like yeah you know means of communication during a disaster is pretty important so when I was at AM and Katrina hit and everybody evacuated got evacuated from the Superdome a lot of them came to Reed Arena here at Texas AM and I was one of the student volunteers setting up IP telephones for them to you know use to be able to call and tell people where they were and what was going on I guess I guess that's that's all true.

SPEAKER_04: 1:24:10

I don't know man I I used to have a satellite phone for that reason as well I had it for many years and and I I used it when I was traveling for no good reason other than the fact that I'm paying for it I might as well use it. But eventually I got tired of paying for a just in case service well and now with modern cell phones having the ability to at least text over satellite is pretty yeah and I think more of that is supposed to be coming the the latest generation of the Starlink is has special provisions for using a lot more is about to set up if you I don't know if you saw it but he bought a bunch of cellular spectrum.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:56

Good good yeah so I think the Starlink phone I think it very well could and here's the thing yeah uh it won't work in buildings worth of shit right yeah but what you could do is have in major you know rents based on a couple well that are you know yeah a couple strategic things in like big office buildings and stuff like that but and you know you can always do roaming agreements with someone else and stuff like that as well.

SPEAKER_04: 1:25:28

I no I think it's it it'll happen it makes sense because it there's not a whole lot of data for those like the the SAT phone that I had well there's two main problems with it three main problems with it one the phone itself was a thousand bucks which is something that makes it not when was this in the early 2000s? No no no this would have been I got it around yeah 2008 yeah yeah I guess it is and late late early 2000s 2008 2009 and I got it when they were still launching satellites so I got grandfathered in into a unlimited fit flat rate plan so no matter how much I used it it was always the same price every month and that you know was not bad for what it was and then about I want to say right when I moved to Austin so around 2011 they added an app to be able to text through the sat phone okay from the regular phone or from the sat phone from anything from a phone or computer you could you you could connect through Bluetooth to the sat phone and then it would send the text through the sat phone. And I had some fun with that you know because we basically you get a number on the sat phone that is not geographically pinned. So all these services that know where everybody's phone numbers are and they've got you narrowed down to a very small area like on the sets. Yeah yeah yeah but you know you're probably still getting some ads for Idaho then there are people that you like spam calls using that area code often exactly so anyway long story short is that it doesn't broadcast a a a GPS signal from the for the number so your number basically can be anywhere.

SPEAKER_01: 1:27:46

So I had a European number that I used for a while and why would you do that to yourself anyone trying to call you has to do international long distance maybe people were calling me that that wasn't an issue for ah this was how you stayed in touch with your KGB handler.

SPEAKER_04: 1:28:05

Yes through a satellite exactly because it's that's the one thing that the FBI can't figure out how to track but it was very handy and I actually had priority breakthrough on there as well which is for disaster based situations when they prioritize exactly so when they take advantage of that shit I I've I've used a few times so when they have a limited number of channels because everybody's trying to get on during a disaster so if you have that number tagged as priority then you're you're ahead of many other people that are trying to use satellite phones at the same time so it was it was interesting but I got rid of it about a decade ago so I probably had it all said and done about seven or eight years. It wasn't even a decade it was probably about seven years ago I got rid of it. So about seven or eight years I used it or barely used it but paid for it eventually got tired of paying for it. And I I thought about getting like one of those spots just to have in the backpack just in case like the Garmin one the Garmin spot or whatever whatever that yeah the basically the small size satellite based communication devices that usually will use blue links to your phone to your phone.

SPEAKER_01: 1:29:32

Yep. And usually some of them are text only some of them can do voice.

SPEAKER_04: 1:29:38

Yep although the latency's horrible and then I don't know I just kind of hemmed and hawed and never pulled the trigger I was waiting for new products to come out and then a couple years back when we went to the border with when I why I went there with your folks I bought some Motorola walkie talkies and that two interesting things one is in the recent test that was done these were the best rated out of 25 different walkie-talkie models so I thought that was pretty cool. So I picked I picked well but those walkie-talkies also have a Bluetooth interface that allows you to do more cool functions like one is you can use a Bluetooth headset so you can you know talk on the Bluetooth headset instead of the walkie-talkie itself which is cool but beyond that it'll talk to your phone via Bluetooth and has an app and the app will broadcast the location so you like you can basically using that walkie-talkie send an updated location of where you are to your buddy on the other side of the walkie-talkie doing the same thing. So it's got you know some digital encoding in there and a map that that you can see all of your group and it it works obviously even if there is no cell phone signal because it's all doing it over the yeah it's just point to point communication.

SPEAKER_01: 1:31:10

Yeah so it's kind of a family services radio or something like that.

SPEAKER_04: 1:31:14

Yeah exactly so it you know there's there's stuff like that but I think mesh tastic if it catches on more it will just be way better than all this other tech because it's you can have basically for one time payment no monthly fees you can have a device that can send messages in case of emergency or in case of non-emergency and do it without those messages traveling over any commercial networks then that's cool. It may be slow resistance is on and it's not it's instant no I mean like if I'm trying to send the message from here to Chicago like if I had a mesh to STIC and let's say there were enough nodes between us to form a mesh that long it would it'd be more like packet switch communication.

SPEAKER_01: 1:32:16

It wouldn't be like instant communication and it's store and forward right yeah so it's essentially like email yeah yeah it's more like email than text message although text message store and forward too I guess technically I know actually SMS is not SMS is best effort.

SPEAKER_04: 1:32:39

Yeah I guess SMS can fail but like all the Apple crap has always been store and forward oh yeah any R signal or any of that yeah yeah yeah which I I kind of like that more because then I don't you know if if you get a text message failed you may not even notice so I don't know what else you got Gene I don't have a whole lot more dude ships spaceship sales are all over all that shit's over you know both of my common space games that I play Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous both released cool new ships so now we we didn't talk about this but you are actually looking at going to Linux for gaming. Yeah yeah well I will I it's just a question of how long before I pull that trigger but I it's bound to happen. Related to that you were looking at I can't remember the name of it but there there you know I send you links to this shit after I watch a video and then you're like yeah that looks cool and then I forget about it. But it's it's a thing there's more and more people that successfully are doing gaming on Linux.

SPEAKER_01: 1:33:50

Well and seeing pretty damn decent performance.

SPEAKER_04: 1:33:53

Yeah yeah definitely performance that is comparable to or even slightly faster than Windows 11 not quite as fast as Windows 10 yeah the only problem is some of the graphics card drivers yeah that's the only holdup and otherwise I think gaming would be full on and I've always been or I shouldn't say always I've for a while now I've been a Radeon guy not an NVIDIA guy. So Radeon has actually had Linux drivers for a long time. You don't want a 5090 I mean I wouldn't mind a 5090 but also I don't want to pay the electrical cost of a 5090 imagine putting a 5090 into a PC running that AMD 96 core chip oh god the thread ripper yeah yeah yeah that the Linus was testing that that chip by itself eats 800 watt of power which is just and then the video card is going to be another thousand watt of power on top that you're gonna need a two and a half kilowatt connection so chewing down your power for the computer you can watch your meter spin in real time you can see a noticeable increase in your electric bill oh you yeah I'm sure you will you know when I had my little electric fiat my that was my main vehicle that I used for all my day-to-day driving and then I kept the the grand character in the garage for longer stuff but when I had that car my monthly electrical bill went up six dollars it was insanely cheap man but you just stay at home well I I mean granted I didn't drive every day to work and power prices were cheaper yeah they're always I mean there's only one direction prices for anything ever go but still it'd probably be still under 10 bucks a month right now I don't know about that versus like 2015 yeah no no it was after that it was it was a 2018 yeah but after Uri like after URI power prices are still just up yeah yeah well that they like I said they never go down they uh only go gas prices are the only prices that actually fluctuate up and down it I think everything else just goes in one direction up so that's the unfortunate thing about inflation is the prices don't come back down. Right right except gasoline is probably the cheapest it's ever been now and ammunition is the cheapest it's ever been and RAM is some of the most expensive it's ever been because RAM prices are out of control. Well because fucking well two things one fucking AI data centers are sucking it all up which sucks and two uh micron is phasing out RAM production and they make m a lot of memory chips margin business yeah they're shifting to different different lines of chips they're just getting out of the RAM business and that is call it and it's not gonna happen until middle of next year they're just giving a warning to everybody but that warning has already cost a large bump in price from the preemptive move where people are basically I mean you know it goes downhill right so if Dell finds out that one of the big RAM chipmakers is going to shut down their lines they're gonna put in extra orders to get RAM ahead of time and so is everybody else and and that takes away from RAM that would have otherwise ended up at Microcenter for individual people to do their own upgrades. So those supplies are shrinking which then drives the price up for everybody and somebody is making a killing because right now what was selling for about 260 bucks is now back up to about 700 bucks that's not inflation that's gouging but Ram has a history of doing this my my old joke with another buddy of mine used to be that the one thing that we can absolutely bet on is once a decade at least once a decade Godzilla goes and stomps on the RA factory. It's like every single decade there is some if you look at the price of memory there's some spike where some event happens that just makes ram prices double or triple then slowly it'll kind of wander back down and and get into cheaper pricing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:39:03

There'll be some new innovations faster speeds and then it'll spike up again but when it spikes up it doesn't ever go up like a little bit it doubles or triples or higher so I have some exciting news what's that my uh my spaceship should be here by Tuesday oh your uh Lego congratulations I I'm sure Darren will enjoy seeing photos of that or his wife will anyway yeah well that's good I mean a man's gotta have a hobby right yeah I actually spent several hours putting Legos together with the kids last night so oh there you go brought back some fun memories oh no I I like playing with them and doing stuff like that I so I landed in Terminal D when I got back from my last trip which is kind of odd because it's Terminal D is normally an international terminal but because they've got all the construction and everything going on you know they've got people going wherever and anyway it was interesting there was a Lego store in the Houston airport didn't really know that but uh anyway so I picked them picked them up a couple sets to play with good Legos I I have fond memories although when I played with Legos when I was a kid they they didn't have any specialty pieces it was all just bricks and for those who don't know I got the Enterprise D Lego kit.

SPEAKER_04: 1:40:39

And how big is this thing supposed to be when it's done?

SPEAKER_01: 1:40:42

Oh my god it it's it's it's substantial it's like over 3000 pieces like almost 4,000 pieces.

SPEAKER_04: 1:40:48

Right so the the finished piece will be what like three feet four feet long? Uh no like I think probably like 16 inches by I don't that's a desk mountable thing. It's I thought it was one of these like three foot long suckers that you you have to have its own table. No, but it's gonna be in my office on the coffee table in the background for my glue it in place like some people do when you assemble it or are you gonna just assemble it and then let your kids rip it apart?

SPEAKER_01: 1:41:19

Oh god no I'm I'm gonna let them help me assemble it and we'll do that over time. But I it's gonna be in my office where they don't go without me. So no Oh really?

SPEAKER_04: 1:41:30

You you like your dog isn't gonna knock it over or your kid isn't gonna grab something and It'll fling to the floor.

SPEAKER_01: 1:41:35

The dog doesn't come upstairs. And no.

SPEAKER_04: 1:41:38

You don't have a dog in your office? See, you're you're an unusual one in that. Most guys will have their dog sitting with them.

SPEAKER_01: 1:41:45

My dog doesn't like going up and downstairs. Oh, you got a lame dog.

SPEAKER_02: 1:41:53

What's why can't the dog walk upstairs? Hip problems?

unknown: 1:41:58

No.

SPEAKER_04: 1:41:59

Just like it. What is there some childhood incident that he's afraid of going upstairs for?

SPEAKER_01: 1:42:06

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_04: 1:42:08

Well, I guess as long as you don't mind that dog's not in your office, it's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:42:14

I do not mind that he's not in my office.

SPEAKER_04: 1:42:16

Yeah.

unknown: 1:42:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:42:19

Oh, I should I tell a pet story?

SPEAKER_00: 1:42:22

Uh if you want, go right ahead.

SPEAKER_04: 1:42:24

So my snake's been sleeping in the bathtub for the last two days. And he's got his own bathroom and everything. It's not like he's in my bathtub or something.

SPEAKER_01: 1:42:34

But that would explain the smell, though.

SPEAKER_04: 1:42:37

He's been in the bathroom, you know, with a door open, sleeping in the bathtub for literally 48 hours. I can say he's sleeping because his eyes are shut. And uh, or the snake equivalent thereof. And he's estivating. I'm hitting sitting here in front of the computer, and all of a sudden I kind of hear in the background, I hear like somebody farting. And I'm like, oh, snake must have woken up. And I get up, walk over there to take a look at him. Fucker crawled out of the bathroom onto the carpet so he can then fart and poop on the carpet instead of in the bathroom or in the bathtub where it's all easy to clean up. Little bastard. It's like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_01: 1:43:28

It's a very mindless animal.

SPEAKER_04: 1:43:30

It's a mindless animal that knows how to push buttons, is what it is. Make me stop playing my video game and go over and have to use the wet drive act to clean up his poop.

SPEAKER_01: 1:43:43

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04: 1:43:43

Mm-hmm. So there's my pet story.

SPEAKER_01: 1:43:47

Oh, well. Sorry, you had to clean up some uh poop. Which snake poop is ugh.

SPEAKER_04: 1:43:55

Yeah, well, it comes in two varieties, right? The the white and the brown.

SPEAKER_01: 1:44:00

Mm-hmm. And uh for those who don't know, it's you know, the snake digests the entire animal that's eating whole bones and all, and fur and all that. And it's kind of like an owl pellet in a lot of ways.

SPEAKER_04: 1:44:20

It's very processed. It's all just poop. But much like birds, they have cloacas, and they their urine is actually not liquid. It's well, it can be liquid, but it's a lot more solid urea, the same shit that you put in your car, uh, if you have a diesel. But it's just basically like a white goop, and it is extremely noxious. Like pure urea is well, I mean, you know, you know what it smells like when you take a leak, and then imagine solid version of that. It is not pleasant at all.

SPEAKER_01: 1:45:06

This is something like people who have birds that just fly around their houses and everything. I I I just I do not personally understand it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:45:14

No.

SPEAKER_01: 1:45:15

Like, why why are you letting this animal poop all over your house?

SPEAKER_04: 1:45:19

Yeah, yeah. And I look, I I get it, but also it's either you gotta be really on top of it to always just clean it up right away, or your house is not gonna be some place people want to go to. And maybe that's okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:45:37

But and I'm guessing yours is the ladder.

SPEAKER_04: 1:45:41

Well, I mean, like I said, the the snake's got his own room, he's got a bathroom. So those two rooms are not super duper clean, I'll tell you that. But, you know, they're they're clean in terms of I clean up if he does poop somewhere, obviously, I clean that up with a wet dry back and do a I've got it's actually more than just that. It's it's a it's like a uh miniature carpet washer. So it it sprays a soapy liquid and then sucks it back in. And takes all it. That's that carpet shampoo. Yeah, it's carpet shampoo, but like a a smaller one meant for pet usage.

SPEAKER_01: 1:46:26

Yeah, you but did you pick up the one that uh JCD recommended?

SPEAKER_04: 1:46:30

I didn't hear. Did he recommend one? Oh yeah, he didn't. I picked up the one that was on sale on Amazon.net.

SPEAKER_01: 1:46:39

Okay. Tip of the tips of tip of the day.net.

SPEAKER_04: 1:46:43

But at the same time, the snake does shed, and because he's so big, he doesn't shed in one like sock. He sheds in like little strips, and that when he rubs against something, it like leaves a little strip of old dead skin. And I've not been great at at being really good at cleaning that stuff up because the problem is no, I wish it was that easy, dude. The problem is that when that skin comes off, it is kind of stretched when it's absorbed water, it's absorbed liquid. Because he soaks in the bathtub before you know to get the skin off. And then when he crawls against something, unless I pick it up right away, it starts to dry and actually sticks to whatever it's stuck to because it shrinks ever so slightly when it dries out. And so if you pull on it, it just rips. If you vacuum it, it doesn't let go of the you know the wall or whatever it is. So you gotta like scrub it off, yeah. Or get it wet again. And that I miss having a housekeeper, dude. It's so nice when somebody else did that for me. I know, I know. That's that's the key, is I I'm in cheap mode right now, so I don't have a housekeeper running right now.

SPEAKER_05: 1:48:07

All right, I think we've probably talked enough. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:13

Oh man. All right, Gene. We'll catch you next week.

SPEAKER_04: 1:48:18

All right, well, and we're we are doing a show next week. Are we taking any time off for Christmas or not? I just want to let people know ahead of time. I don't think it'll affect our schedule. I think we're still gonna do it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:48:29

Well, I mean, Christmas Day is Thursday.

SPEAKER_04: 1:48:33

But we but what right, but we we could just shift it. I mean, we don't have to do it that same day. We're not re playing live, right? We're always delayed anyway. So it doesn't really make any difference when we do it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:45

Actually, so uh we're probably gonna have to shift the next three. Okay. Actually, better I'll have to do it from a hotel room in Dallas.

SPEAKER_04: 1:48:55

Okay. Well, we can shift them. Whatever. I'm I'm flexible. You know, my Christmas is basically just going to an Asian restaurant.

SPEAKER_00: 1:49:05

Yes, very uh very Jewish of you.

SPEAKER_04: 1:49:08

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Eat some kosher shrimp.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:14

Some peeking duck.

SPEAKER_04: 1:49:16

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:18

Uh-huh. All right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 1:49:20

Some mushu pork. Kosher mushu pork.

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:23

Kosher mushu pork. Sounds good. By the way, hey, yeah. Oh, one thing, one thing I want to tell you. Yeah. Do you like do you like Israeli olive oil?

SPEAKER_04: 1:49:36

I I don't care. I'm not a well whatever. Why you get some?

SPEAKER_01: 1:49:42

Well, my I just picked some up today, actually. My local Hilal market, yeah, the guy who owns it and runs it, he apparently still has some land over in Jerusalem. And he he and a bunch of people around there, they kind of do a co-op thing. And anyway, it's literally pressings from his trees and send them out.

SPEAKER_04: 1:50:04

That's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_01: 1:50:05

So he's got it in his store.

SPEAKER_04: 1:50:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:50:08

So I picked up some.

SPEAKER_04: 1:50:10

Nice. Yeah, it's kind of neat. I'm not I'm not a big olive oil guy. Some people really love it. I think it has too much flavor. I tend to use more avocado oil.

SPEAKER_00: 1:50:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_04: 1:50:24

All right. But I don't have anything against it. It's just I I like my oil to not not have as much flavor. But uh, the one thing I was gonna mention, because I we always forget because it's just never on top of our minds, is for anyone that hasn't shared this podcast with a friend, don't forget to do that. It's it's a very cheap for you, easy way to help us, is just spreading the message. If you know somebody that you could think would enjoy hearing this type of conversation, get a chuckle out of the topics that we cover. Uh, we didn't really do anything with guns this time around, but that's usually a common thing for us as well. Then the the best thing you could do is just send that person uh to just a good old boys.com, and then from there they can click on the link in the podcast app of their choice and hopefully get hooked and start listening to the podcast. And if you really like us, it is Christmas time, so think about maybe doing another donation. We're certainly appreciative of everyone that does. We know that we do this for for the joy of it ourselves, not to make money. And we always very much appreciate when somebody feels that they've gotten enough value from what we talk about, enough enjoyment probably, that they choose to send us some money. And it's we don't ask for a whole lot, but but if you're gonna do it, make sure you take a look at the options each episode as well. Different podcast apps handle that differently. Some will let you actually click on links right inside the app, others may you may need to actually go to the website on a real browser, not inside the podcast app. But either way, I just want to mention that because I know I do a horrible job of reminding people to both share and and subscribe.

SPEAKER_01: 1:52:22

We both do, and you know, we we appreciate those that have stuck with us and helped us out. We've lost a couple over the time period, but yeah, we won't name and shame you.

SPEAKER_04: 1:52:32

Yeah, and we still have I think two people that have been with us for over two years now. Which is very cool.

SPEAKER_01: 1:52:40

Yeah, yeah. You know what? I was just thinking, what we ought to do the week of Christmas when we do it, we ought to do another little kind of like religious special.

SPEAKER_05: 1:52:49

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. That sounds good. I'm up for it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:52:56

So we'll have to think of some topics.

SPEAKER_04: 1:52:58

All right. Well, we can those are easy. Those are easy. I I uh read andor watch uh discussions about religion on a daily basis, so it's super easy to get a topic. All right, Ben. We'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_00: 1:53:19

See you, man.