SPEAKER_03: 0:24

Mm-hmm. Well, howdy, Ben. How are you? It's been an interesting day, Gene. Yeah, we're wasn't expecting to wake up to this.

SPEAKER_01: 0:32

I definitely was not. I was, you know, I've been hoping for the last month or so that this would happen, but you you let me know nice and early this morning what was going on. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_03: 0:44

Mm-hmm. You know, I've never seen a war have a soundtrack in the first day, but damn, there's some good music coming out right now.

SPEAKER_01: 0:52

Oh, hell yeah. There's all kinds of stuff. Good music, good videos, good memes.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00

Lots of horse eating Persian food tonight.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03

I am. I'm I'm trying to swallow the last bite. And in celebration, I'm I've got my local Persian place that I ordered some chicken kebabs with rice and which should now be referred to as freedom kebabs. That's right, freedom kebabs. From Wada Kebab, which is a local Persian place. So yeah, it's been like a full day of sending and receiving links to videos between the two of us. Yep. And trying to catch up and stay current on what's going on. A lot of virtual high-fiving with people. Obviously, not physically in close proximity, but basically. Lots of good news. There's certainly been some bad stuff as well. There's the death toll is starting to add up. There's been a large number of civilian buildings hit by IRGC drones.

SPEAKER_03: 2:02

Yeah, in like I never thought I would see Saudi Arabia tell Israel you can use our bases and airspace to strike Iran. And then later on in the day declare war on Iran, followed by the UAE declaring war on Iran, followed by Qatar declaring war on Iran. Yep. Like Bahrain. The entire middle Iran just pissed off the entire Middle East.

SPEAKER_01: 2:28

They did. They just went full Candace Owens. They did. Total insanity. It's I mean, I knew Israel was gonna get hit. Everybody in Israel knew they were gonna get hit. Everybody's you know bracing for it, staying in their bomb shelters, but attacking Arab nations, that just seemed to be a big bomb downtown Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

SPEAKER_03: 3:00

Like you just don't do that. Like an airbase out somewhere.

SPEAKER_01: 3:03

The Birj Khalifa got hit? Yeah. That's crazy. I'm surprised it didn't hit Kaaba.

SPEAKER_03: 3:14

I'm surprised, and it'll be interesting to hear if they tried to use any of the Chinese hypersonics.

SPEAKER_01: 3:21

So the Israelis are saying yes.

SPEAKER_03: 3:24

That they tried?

SPEAKER_01: 3:25

That yes. They were several, not many, but several hypersonics flying into Israel.

SPEAKER_03: 3:30

Well, I wonder if they tried to use them against the Abraham Lincoln.

SPEAKER_01: 3:34

I don't know. That I don't know. I haven't heard anything officially out of the U.S. in terms of what kind of damage or at least what kind of attacks they experienced. I've not seen anything on that.

SPEAKER_03: 3:45

Well, we haven't gotten any uh U.S. official reports on any casualties or any, you know, there's been some videos claiming that one of the supply ships for the the Gerald R. Ford got hit, and there's video, but you know, Iran has also put video of the the Abraham Lincoln smoking, right, and being on fire and hit. So the propaganda has been strong in Japan.

SPEAKER_01: 4:13

There's propaganda, but I'll tell you, you can't stop the videos from people's phones from spreading. And there are a lot of videos from phones that both show the the drones hitting targets in the Arab countries, but also quite a few videos coming from inside of Iran showing people in just insane celebrate celebratory jubilation. Jubilation is a good word for it. Yeah, dancing in the streets, yelling, yelling.

SPEAKER_03: 4:46

What was it were they well there were several people yelling in Farsi saying we love Trump.

SPEAKER_01: 4:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was the we love Trump in Farsi. There was also a a hurrah America chant going on. Yeah. Which in Iraq is just not something I expected to hear. Sorry, in Ira, yeah, I didn't know shit, right? In Iran, not something that I ever expected to hear.

SPEAKER_03: 5:14

I mean the fact that we did this as a daytime raid, too. Like that was the biggest FU to their missile defense system ever.

SPEAKER_01: 5:21

Well, you know, they're their defense system, brother. The the Israelis explained why that was the case.

SPEAKER_03: 5:28

Is that they've been waiting for them to meet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 5:32

Apparently, the they hunkered down at night in really deep bunkers because they are expecting or were expecting a nighttime beginning of the operation. This would be typical US standard operating procedure, right? Is you you wait for a dark moon night, and in the middle of the night, when you've got night vision, nobody else does, or at least relatively few people do, you execute your operation. And so, in order to have better access when they're not hidden, and by they I mean all the leadership of uh IRGC, not just Kamei, but all those guys, they decided to do it in the day, in daytime. And I guess it would have been about what about 1 p.m.

unknown: 6:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 6:28

Well, it's 3 a.m.

SPEAKER_01: 6:29

our time, so oh was it oh okay, so it's not that so 3 a.m. our time would have been like 9 a.m. their time. Yeah. So yeah. Definitely not in the middle of the night.

SPEAKER_03: 6:44

Mm-hmm. Did you see the joke we played on Iran earlier in the week? Which one? No. Or maybe I don't know. They were looking for the F-22s flying around their airspace, and one of the F-22s turned on his transponder so they could see where he was, and he did it as the Goodyear blimp.

SPEAKER_00: 7:07

No way.

SPEAKER_03: 7:09

Yes, traveling at 600 kilometers, you know. Oh, that's great. I'm right here.

SPEAKER_00: 7:15

Goodyear blimp.

SPEAKER_01: 7:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 7:18

Yeah. Like the sense of humor has returned to the military.

SPEAKER_01: 7:23

Well, the military has gotten more of what they used to be, which are actual patriots and not just a bunch of soy boys wanting to collect a paycheck. Because I swear to God, that's the other annoying thing on X. And I've spent way too much time on X today, is watching these videos of headshots of all these guys in their like mid to late 30s, talking about how they're a veteran and Trump is a is a traitor to America and we need to overthrow Trump, and this is not what we were signed up for in the military. It's like, you piece of shit. First of all, and then they're talking about this is you know, this we're fighting for another country, we're not fighting for America. Okay, let's talk facts. America has not needed to have anybody fight for it since World War II. There's not been in 80 years, there hasn't been an American in the military that's actually fought for America. They fought as employees of America for goals that the American government thought were worth fighting for, but they sure as fuck weren't fighting for the country of America. They weren't defending America the way that soldiers in World War II did. So get off your high scores, you collected a fucking paycheck, and you got health insurance for life, unlike the rest of us. So I'm I'm just getting tired of these people thinking that somehow, because instead of going to college, you decided to go into basic training, that you have some special status that makes you a you know better at deciding what's right and what's wrong for America. No, because of a number of things, including that you weren't fighting for America, you were working for America.

SPEAKER_03: 9:06

To be clear, you know, I one of the things I hate is everybody who thinks uh every veteran for their service. Like, you know, the guy that we saw get the the two gentlemen we saw get the Medal of Honor during you know Trump's State of the Union. Yeah. You know, those guys, yes, thank you for your service and thank you for what you did. The desk clerk that didn't really do anything, come on, man.

SPEAKER_01: 9:32

Well, how about now when Trump gives himself a medal? Are you gonna be uh which side of the debate are you on that one? Because he talks about how much he wants to give himself a medal.

SPEAKER_03: 9:40

Let's finish your round and then we'll go to that. But fair enough. Fair enough. You know, hey, quite frankly, I think Congress should issue him a medal at this point, especially with the way this is going. Look, we went into Iraq, and we went into Afghanistan, and we got boiled and bogged down into wars. Trump made it very clear during his eight-minute 3 a.m. speech to the Iranian people. This is your time, this is your chance, this is the only one you're gonna get for decades or generation. Take it. And if you don't take it, that's on you. We are going to decapitate this regime. Yep, we are going to take out their capacity to support terror around the world. We are going to take out their capacity to even think of building a nuke. And, you know, Trump was negotiating. He even we we offered Iran at the negotiating table. You can have nuclear power.

SPEAKER_00: 10:39

Just buy the refined fuel from us, no domestic refining. Yep. Little do they know that it's actually nuclear power, but that's that's the point. You always like making fun of me for that.

SPEAKER_01: 10:52

I do. You keep using that word, dude. It's too easy.

SPEAKER_03: 10:56

Anyway, it's pretty interesting because if you go to Al Jazeera, Iran is still saying Khomeini is alive. Oh, yeah. But the US and Israel say no, he's dead. Yeah. But Iran does not deny that his son-in-law daughter and grandson were killed in that strike.

SPEAKER_01: 11:18

Well, and their uh their comment was he will not be appearing today.

SPEAKER_03: 11:22

Well, at first they said he'll be addressing the people in an hour, right? Right, right.

SPEAKER_01: 11:27

And then they canceled him. They said he will not be appearing today. But again, they didn't specify why, they just said he's not going to be appearing today. Yeah. Certainly in the Iranian diaspora, meaning Persian people living outside of Iran, I'm seeing a ton of Javit Shah messages popping out. And Javit Shah is essentially long live the king. So it's a it is the people that are supporting Reza, I forget his last name. Basically the son of the last Shah of Iran. Yeah. And supporting him, taking over. And and what he said essentially, and I think he's told this to Trump, but he said it publicly plenty of times, is that he wants to help the Iranian people coalesce around one person during the Reconstruction and then become the last king of Iran and put together a constitution for a elected presidential position.

SPEAKER_03: 12:31

So doing what Charles should have done.

SPEAKER_01: 12:34

Exactly, exactly. So he has, I think it's a win-win for him because he'll get to be the last king of Iran, which, you know, first or last, they're they're both memorable. And he's going to be seen as the guy that did the right thing and really made sure that Iran will never again be in the position of being a dictatorship unless they fuck it up themselves, and then they got only themselves to blame. Because you know, you can elect you can elect yourself a dictatorship. You just can never unelect one if you do so.

SPEAKER_03: 13:13

Well, you know, the there's many ways to vote yourself into communism or dictatorship, but only one way out of it.

SPEAKER_01: 13:22

And that's with American weaponry.

SPEAKER_03: 13:25

Apparently. Yeah. The Afghans offered us the use of Bagram during this. Which I thought was just hilarious. Well, and what I think's hilarious is they also used this attack on Iran, saturating the news, to bomb the hell out of Islamabad.

SPEAKER_01: 13:44

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03: 13:46

Like everybody's getting in on the fun.

SPEAKER_01: 13:48

They are. And the the official of the thing is.

SPEAKER_03: 13:50

I I saw today was the look Germany, Germany when World War III starts without them.

SPEAKER_01: 13:56

Oh, yeah. Yeah, because they they were not notified. Oh, the Europeans are so pissed that they weren't consulted by Trump's playouts before doing this. Thomas Massey's pissed off. Yeah, well, Thomas Massey's a piece of shit. And I I've been posting that right to his account today.

SPEAKER_03: 14:15

And and and here's the thing. Trump notified the gang of eight that he was going to do this, which suffices and meets the letter of the law on notifying Congress.

SPEAKER_01: 14:29

Well, but he didn't do it the right way. I don't give a shit what he did or not. He did the right thing. That's what's important. History judges based on success and relevance. It doesn't judge based on letter of the law. There's a lot of things that not weren't the laws were not necessarily followed that ended up still being the right thing to do.

SPEAKER_03: 14:56

So did you see the Jerusalem Post article that said the Elon Musk factor, this was printed before the attack. Grok predict predicts February 28th attack on Iran. And then I did not, no. Yeah, Elon Musk even put reposted it.

SPEAKER_01: 15:17

And one thing that uh most Americans don't know is that the Israeli Post is basically the Washington Times, or the not Times, the Washington Post or the New York Times. It's it is an uber liberal rag in Israel. And this is why a lot of times you'll see the the Jew haters out there posting pictures from there saying, see, see, even the Jews, even Israelis think that Benjamin Netanyahu is a bad person. It's like, yeah, well, if you read the New York Times, they post just as much about Trump being bad. So, you know, it doesn't mean shit. So always take your your source of news with the grain of sand, as it were. So I don't know. I mean, I've been watching Twitter, watching YouTube, getting on. There's not much going on in Russian sites, I'll tell you that. When I got on, there's a few official statements condemning it, but very quantum. Not much.

SPEAKER_03: 16:20

Yeah. And so has China for that.

SPEAKER_01: 16:22

Well, and look, what's Russia gonna say? You're not allowed to go into another country and start bombing them. Right, right. I mean China's got better footing than Russia at this point than that.

SPEAKER_03: 16:36

But that's another thing about this. So China's fucked.

SPEAKER_01: 16:41

Oh, yeah. China's more fucked than anybody else.

SPEAKER_03: 16:44

Because not only did they lose the Venezuelan oil, they just lost the Iranian oil.

SPEAKER_01: 16:49

Yeah, and not just the Venezuelan oil, they lost a huge loan that they made to Venezuela. That's obviously never. Yeah, yeah. I can't remember how many billion, but it was plenty of billion. And I would be surprised if there were no loans to Iran that were made at some point in the last year. Because China is in the habit of doing that, right? They'll loan out money, and then you pay us back, and then we'll help your economy by buying shit from you. That'll, you know, that's how they work. It's the whole Belt and Rodination. It's the trade empire from Star Wars. I keep repeating that. So it makes total sense that both of Venezuela and Iran are going to affect China very negatively. They're being, you know, if they're an octopus, their tentacles are slowly being chopped off. And you know, for Russia, it's it's not good either because Russia lost Syria a year ago, and now they lost Iran. And that's like their warm water friends.

SPEAKER_03: 17:54

Well, but it could be totally fine for Russia if they're in an alliance with the US.

SPEAKER_01: 17:58

Oh, it could be. Actually, something my dad brought up is he said, you know, it makes a lot of sense for China, given its both need for materials for raw products and raw materials and their their large number of population to actually go take over Siberia. Yeah. And I I said, Yeah, theoretically that makes sense, but the US would never let that happen. Because if China were to attempt in American eyes to take over a raw material territory in Russia, literally that day there would be press releases coming out about Russia being a great friend of the United States who needs our help and we need to fly in there and protect our resources. Because what's worse than just having you know an adversary like you do in the Ukrainian thing is having a much larger adversary like China all of a sudden get a bunch of free resources. Like that's a much bigger impact in the United States than simply Russia with its relatively small population, but a lot of land, just sitting on the resources that they're not actually able to extract. Right. So this is such a huge thing. I mean, it completely turns the Middle East upside down. We could end up in the position, and I I keep my fingers crossed and knock on wood and everything, but we could end up in the situation three months from now where there is no animosity in the Middle East. Yeah. Like I mean, nobody's a government could join the Abraham Accords very quickly. I think they're gonna be first, as soon as they have a government, literally as soon as they have one, I think they're gonna be joining the Abraham Accords. Because so many people, and you gotta remember, obviously, the US is huge. It brought a shit ton of weaponry and everything. But this has been the biggest Israeli operation in the history of Israel. Yeah, they've had over 200 planes that have flown over 500 sorties today as of a few hours ago. It's probably gonna be like 700 sorties today in one day by the time they're done.

SPEAKER_03: 20:18

The US and Israel combined sorties count should be well over a thousand by the end of the year.

SPEAKER_01: 20:23

It's gonna be thousands, I think. It's maybe I mean, I don't know how much the US is shooting off the boats directly rather than off the uh planes, but 500 flights for Israel is huge, man. And that is reflected in the videos coming out of Iran itself, where as much as people are super happy about the US doing this, they're they're also very happy about Israel. Like the the love for Israel of the Iranian people is very, very visible in the videos that you see.

SPEAKER_03: 20:58

Did you see the video of the women? And these are not young women, these are middle-aged to older women literally seeing the news and taking off their burkas. No, I didn't see that thing in the street.

SPEAKER_01: 21:13

No, that's awesome. Yeah, yeah, and I've seen videos of like 45, 50-year-olds, you know, not super old women, definitely just like crying and bawling their eyes out because they they never thought this day would come. Because when you're in a repressive regime, you you get very pessimistic. I mean, Jesus Christ, dude. I I haven't lived in Russia in 50 years, and I'm still pessimistic. That's how that's how strong that in that like instinct is when you live in a dictatorial country. So this is this is a great day for the people around. There's still a lot of work to do. I mean, we it's worth celebrating, but it's also celebrating the beginning and not the end. Because the the end will happen when there's no more resistance from IRGC. That isn't gonna be tomorrow. That'll take a little bit of time. That'll take Iranians on the ground actually making that happen.

SPEAKER_03: 22:18

Well, there's already been reports that the you know the first city in Iran has Been, you know, taken over.

SPEAKER_01: 22:27

Yeah, the flags are changing. The flags are definitely starting to change. But it is going to be city by city. It's not going to be like all of a sudden the whole country is just, yeah, okay, we changed governments. We're good to go.

SPEAKER_03: 22:37

Well, I mean, Trump said he has several off ramps for the RGC to take if they will take it.

SPEAKER_02: 22:45

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 22:47

Yeah, I mean, it's they they can. Well, what he essentially said is you can take the off-ramps to transition to the new government, or you can be dead. That's your two options. Pick one. So they're not mincing words. That's what I really like about Trump's current Department of War is that, first of all, it's called Department of War, as it was historically before that. And as it should be. As it should be, absolutely. And the fact that they're willing to use the, you know, they're calling a spade a spade. They're using the appropriate terminology, the appropriate words, and not trying to politically correct, you know, tweak it so it sounds more PC. Indeed. So it's very good. Uh you know, obviously we're doing this episode a little bit out of sync. We just put out an episode a few days ago, but much like with Charlie Kirk's death, his assassination, I feel like this is a historic event.

SPEAKER_03: 23:56

We didn't record Thursday, though. What do you mean? Because I was working late, remember?

SPEAKER_01: 24:01

Oh we didn't wait, so didn't we? Oh, I god damn, I could have sworn we did. Okay, so we're just catching up, and it's so it's convenient that we planned all this. Yeah, we knew this was gonna happen the 28th. What am I saying? Our sources told us. That's right. Sorry, I forgot we were gonna let people know instead of hide it with what I just said. Yes, we we absolutely knew it was gonna happen and we planned to do it today, and it wasn't because Ben was just tired. So, yeah, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_03: 24:30

Oh my god. I one of the funniest memes I I've seen today, too, on this was a picture of Kim Jong-un on the phone saying, Hey Donald, we cool, right?

SPEAKER_01: 24:40

Yeah, right, exactly. Well, I I'm putting my money on Castro, I think that'll be the next one to go.

SPEAKER_03: 24:47

That and then I sent you another one that's the Mexican president right now and smoking like 20 cigarettes or no. Dude, I'm telling you, Cuba. We're gonna clean shit up on Cuba. Trump saying, you know, that he sees a what what did he call it? Not a hostile takeover, but a friendly takeover of Cuba.

SPEAKER_01: 25:07

Yeah, a friendly takeover, exactly. Like which I suspect the reaction of the Cuban people would be exactly what the reaction of the Iranian people is right now. I agree. It's a liberation, it's not a fucking war, and all these Tom Macy assholes and Tucker's and everybody else that is on that bandwagon is like, oh, it's illegal, we should have no business being in wars.

SPEAKER_03: 25:32

I I loved the meme saying what is Tucker's opinion going to be now when Qatar Right.

SPEAKER_01: 25:39

Right. Qatar is on board, yeah.

unknown: 25:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 25:42

Yeah. I mean, do they even need Tucker? Didn't I didn't I say that Qatar's gonna get tired of Tucker within a year? That year may be happening sooner than expected. Yeah, because ultimately, without Iran supplying the money, there's no way Qatar is going to want to be the one single country supplying money to Hamas because they know exactly what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03: 26:07

They're watching it right now.

SPEAKER_01: 26:09

Yeah, they're watching it right now, and and frankly, you know, it Iran may have been too big for Israel to do on its own. Qatar is not too big for Israel to do on its own.

SPEAKER_03: 26:21

Yeah. One of the things that I thought was funny is people talking about the strikes are illegal and so on, and the response being, it's not a legal strike, it's just undocumented.

SPEAKER_01: 26:32

Undocumented strike. That was great. I wish I would have thought of that. That is a brilliant response.

SPEAKER_03: 26:38

First person to come up with that comeback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two chaser. Congratulations, golf clap.

SPEAKER_01: 26:43

That was good. That that was a classic one. And it is. It's like they're just people, even if they call themselves America First, there are people that just hate America. They hate America, they hate what it stands for, they hate Trump, they hate winning, they want to be comp perpetually losing, so they can point at Trump and say, see, we're losing because of him. This upsets the all their plans. Upsets the apple cart. Having America be doing what America had done last century and what nobody thought America could do again, which is bringing peace to the world. It it's it's tremendous. I mean, having Iran as a favored nation status country is gonna be awesome. Well, and say that again. Having Iran as a a most favored nation status country is gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 27:52

Or, you know, little US Middle East, you know, we we didn't go in and take Gaza, so you know, maybe who knows?

SPEAKER_01: 28:00

Yeah, and I don't know. I couldn't even begin to predict what's gonna happen in Gaza without the money coming in. My guess is people are starting to get starting to start becoming a lot more meek in Gaza and realize they have to actually work within their means and become friendly with Israel. Otherwise, they're just gonna be dead. Yep. Because nobody wants them. None of these Abraham Accord countries want them.

SPEAKER_03: 28:28

Did you see part of Putin's reaction to this today?

SPEAKER_01: 28:32

I saw the not Putin's, I only watched the UN presentation where the one the Russian diplomat talked.

SPEAKER_03: 28:39

Yeah, yeah. Putin came out today and said he is willing to accept U.S. security guarantees in Ukraine. Wow.

SPEAKER_01: 28:47

Well, that's something I did not see that.

SPEAKER_03: 28:49

Yeah, that came out today.

SPEAKER_01: 28:52

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, he's definitely like there's a reason for that because he's not willing to accept any European guarantees. It has to be the US.

SPEAKER_03: 29:01

Well, but he also sees what we're doing to Iran right now. And again, going back to that, hey Russia, you're better off with us than against us.

SPEAKER_01: 29:10

Oh, yeah. Yeah. But like Russia knows this. The problem is that we were against Russia. That's how the whole Ukraine situation happened. Hillary Clinton. You know, that that's I think that if Ukraine didn't have a revolution, if Ukraine just in the course of normal elections got somebody that was very anti-Russian elected, I think there would have been a lot more diplomacy and trying to find common ground rather than what happened. Because what happened is that a guy who was he wasn't even all that pro-Russian, but he wasn't anti-Russian either. The guy that's the guy who actually got elected, and then shortly after election is when the revolution got staged by Hillary and her team.

SPEAKER_03: 30:29

Well, this was during the Obama administration.

SPEAKER_01: 30:32

Yeah, by Hillary and her team. Secretary of State, right? Right. So it's I I do think that both Putin and Trump, when they say this would not have happened if Trump was president, are are accurate. But also it doesn't mean that this wouldn't have happened if everything else was exactly the same. The assumption is Trump would not let have things get as bad as they got in Ukraine under Biden. Right. Well So not to mention all the boozell and drug labs in Ukraine.

SPEAKER_03: 31:17

Yeah, well, I think it's an important step, though. If Putin is willing to accept security guarantees from the US, then I now whether or not we should be willing to make those, or it's a whole different story.

SPEAKER_01: 31:32

Well Putin is a pragmatist, right? So he is if he loses sales to China and he loses his Iranian trade, and but in in turn he gets American trade back, like that's a win. That's not a that's not a loss. It's it's all about what's actually good for Russia as a country. And obviously being friendly with the US is good for Russia as a country. Even after this whole situation with Ukraine, where the US was basically paying for and conducting a Ukrainian war that's funded in order to test American weaponry, even with all that stuff, it's still better for Russia to be friends with America than not. And I think Putin being a pragmatist knows that. And that's why the the biggest fear I have is of Putin dying prematurely, because there's plenty of people in Russia that are not pragmatists. They are driven more by emotion. And they they would refer to have revenge on the US than to do something that's actually good for the country.

SPEAKER_03: 32:58

Yeah. Well, I I think we are I think we're gonna see the Donro Doctrine working very well. I think the odds of Mexico getting. Did you say the Donro? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 33:14

As in Donald Trump. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 33:16

You haven't heard it called that yet?

SPEAKER_01: 33:18

I have not, no.

SPEAKER_03: 33:19

Yeah, yeah. He's even said it, the Donro Doctrine.

SPEAKER_01: 33:22

Of course, of course he said it.

SPEAKER_03: 33:25

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I I think the odds of Mexico getting in line and you know, yeah, taking care of business. But the problem Mexico has is you know, we saw so since the last podcast, we've we've had a lot happen, dude. It's been it's been a week.

SPEAKER_01: 33:44

I thought we did one two days ago, but okay.

SPEAKER_03: 33:46

No, no. You did one with Darren yesterday, but did I?

SPEAKER_01: 33:52

Oh, I guess I did.

SPEAKER_03: 33:53

We've been talking about it.

SPEAKER_01: 33:55

We talk about drugs mostly in that one.

SPEAKER_03: 33:57

Yeah, we've we've been talking on Discord while we're Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 34:00

See, that's the problem, is we've been talking while not recording. That's the issue.

SPEAKER_03: 34:04

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 34:05

That's why I keep thinking that we just had a show.

SPEAKER_03: 34:07

Anyway, Mexico took out a cartel leader.

SPEAKER_01: 34:11

Mm-hmm. With our help.

SPEAKER_03: 34:15

Yeah. Yep. With our intelligence. But then the cartels retaliated. And then adult tourist areas.

SPEAKER_01: 34:31

Yeah, it's Acapulco, I think, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Intelligence as in the computer in Team America. Yeah. Yeah, we need to gather intelligence and see what the intelligence tells us. Intelligence is just a computer. Uh yeah. Yeah, Mexico needs to get in line. I mean, there's no two ways about it. But I I don't think we're we're gonna actively go bomb Mexico, but certainly I think what we're gonna do is Oh, why not? Well drone strikes against the cartels. Yeah, just start decapitating it. We'll get some of those. But I need to re-watch Serpico because I remember that was a great movie, and it was all about US going into Mexico to kill some cartels. Mm-hmm. And not really caring too much about laws. You know, those things. Pesky little things. Which I've said for a million years, international law is a figment of people's imagination, it doesn't exist. On an international scale, all that matters is your ability to project force. Yeah. And the only thing you can do if you don't have the ability to project force is just bicker at the UN. And what I say earlier to you today, man, I would love to see us just go in and arrest every person that's in the UN right now.

SPEAKER_03: 36:05

Maybe not every person, but the majority of the.

SPEAKER_01: 36:07

I would arrest all of them.

SPEAKER_03: 36:08

Fuck them. It would be a statement. So so CENTCOM has put out a statement saying as of right now that there are no U.S. casualties. No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. The armada is fully operational, and damage to U.S. installations is minimal. What's the time of the state? Two hours ago.

SPEAKER_01: 36:31

Okay. Yeah. That's I I heard the same thing from my Israeli guys that the they are not aware of any U.S. casualties right now. Israeli casualties. Yeah, there's 67 Israeli casualties as of a few hours ago. Including an F-15 fighter shotgun. Yep. Which we saw on the video.

SPEAKER_03: 36:52

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 36:54

But yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 36:55

Yeah. The the Iranians targeting the the Burj Khalif is just insane. Like that's a such a big point of national pride for the UA. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, that's that's nuts. And then did we ever figure out by the way, I think everyone should expect the Iranian targets to get more and more insane as the upper leadership is dead and decapitated, and lower and lower level people who are fanatics are struggling to figure out what to do.

SPEAKER_01: 37:31

Yeah, I I think there's to some extent there the response is simply a we don't want to leave the new government any weapons. So we're gonna utilize every weapon that we can, no matter who it's shot at. I mean, it it does matter, obviously, they're gonna target. But the key point being that they want to leave an empty military for the new government. Well, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02: 37:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03: 38:01

Yeah, I love the the calendar meme that shows you know Maduro in January, the the cartel leader in February, and then the Ayola in March, right?

SPEAKER_01: 38:13

Well, and they they had to move the Ayola to back to February, so now they now there's discussion on who's gonna actually fill the March position.

SPEAKER_00: 38:22

It'll be Cuba, but I think it'll be Cuba.

SPEAKER_01: 38:25

I it's Cuba should be the frickin' easiest and quickest, and the same kind of reaction. People there are tired of starving and having a government that is dictatorial, and they will be grateful for the liberation that happens, not to mention the fact that attracting American tourist money is gonna be driving the economy insane in Cuba. Like Florida is gonna be pissed because all those trips to Florida that people are gonna take are all gonna end up in Cuba.

SPEAKER_03: 39:03

Yeah. What's interesting, and I liked your joke about just renaming it to South Florida.

SPEAKER_02: 39:09

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 39:12

The the interesting thing is that the entire Iranian Navy is reported to be done. Sunk. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 39:22

Which the fat electrician has a great story about the Iranian Navy and the last time the US attacked it.

SPEAKER_03: 39:29

The last time we decided to respond proportionally. Right.

SPEAKER_01: 39:34

Yep. U.S. proportional response doctrine. Yeah. That's very true. I'm just drinking some dew here. So if you hear me move further away from the mic, that's because I don't take a drink of my yogurt soda.

SPEAKER_03: 39:50

Dude, I I'm just this could save the midterms. It could. It could, literally. Like if Trump, if this goes on for a few days and we get a free Iran, oh my god. Like, I don't see how we could not. Alright, so we've talked a little bit about Mexico. We've talked Cuba-ish. We've talked Iran. Do you wanna where do you want to go next?

SPEAKER_01: 40:15

Gee, I wasn't prepared for you to ask. Let me see.

SPEAKER_03: 40:18

Or do you want to continue to talk about this? I've got a topic.

SPEAKER_01: 40:22

Okay. Let's jump in.

SPEAKER_03: 40:23

Fucking Tony Gonzalez, dude. Oh, yeah. Herrera better win this outright.

SPEAKER_01: 40:28

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03: 40:30

So, for those who don't know, Tony Gonzalez, Texas rep District 23, who barely beat Brandon Herrera last time. One of his staffers last year supposedly killed herself through self-imulation. And her husband has now released some texts between her and Tony.

SPEAKER_01: 40:51

Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 40:52

And now, mind you, Tony is married with six kids. And Tony in the text appears to be using his position of power and authority over her to get her to do sexual stuff for him. And you know, including, you know, asking her for anal and everything else. And apparently this was an ongoing affair where he will she would in the text basically tell him no and he would just keep on. And you and I have very strong feelings about sexual harassment and everything else.

SPEAKER_01: 41:35

Yeah, it it's you know, consenting adults. See, if one if one person is in charge of the other, there can't be consent.

SPEAKER_03: 41:44

Well, and the other thing would be Tony, the hypocrisy being worse than anything else, right? And he still denies it at this point and has refused to step down.

SPEAKER_01: 41:55

To me, it's not even so much the hypocrisy hypocrisy.

SPEAKER_03: 41:59

See, you make fun of me for the nuke statements. Yeah, I'm gonna make fun of you for this one.

SPEAKER_01: 42:04

It's not that I mispronounced hypocrisy, it's that I I lost my my movement of my tongue, apparently. Yeah, I think for me, it's the lying about it, right? Because he clearly got caught. It's it's pretty obvious what happened, happened. People suspected this immediately when that girl killed herself, but we didn't have any evidence, it was just suspicion. Now we have evidence, and he's still denying it. And that's the part that gets me. Because look, if a married guy married with kids, has an affair with a woman who's also married, I I think that's bad, absolutely, but also that's mostly like bad for them and their families, not for me as a third-party bystander, don't give a shit person.

SPEAKER_03: 42:54

Like, that's just you know, but what you do is you come out and you say, My wife doesn't put out her husband's dick, and you know, we found each other, it worked out.

SPEAKER_01: 43:04

That I I think the stats that I've seen and back from the what was that website that we were all on back in the day? Madison, something Madison, Ashley Madison.

SPEAKER_03: 43:17

No, I was never on there.

SPEAKER_01: 43:18

Sure. Thank you. Keep telling yourself that anyway. I was on that website. What we found out is a lot of stats because they published those stats, and about 17% of men cheat, and about 27% of women in marriages cheat. That's about one out of three women is willing to have sex with somebody other than their husband. So I don't think Tony's unique in this, but I think the use of his position should absolutely be condemned and should make him somebody that is ineligible, frankly, for that position. So he should drop out if he was a real man, not like keep running with this shit happening. But also him lying about it. It's it's like, look, when you finally get caught and there's sufficient evidence, there's a certain point at which repeatedly denying it no longer places any doubt in people's minds. It just simply makes you look bad. Like you want to seem more like you're you know, what's the word? Like you're repenting, that's the word.

SPEAKER_03: 44:34

I knew I had trouble finding that word, but well, if you're but if you keep denying it, then you're not.

SPEAKER_01: 44:39

Exactly. That's my point. Like, even if he's not actually repenting, it would actually be smarter for him to come out and say, yeah. Yes, I I lost my way. I made a mistake. This is a horrible thing that happened.

SPEAKER_03: 44:52

You know, like basically there's more than enough for the House Ethics Committee to take him out over this. Absolutely. Absolutely. So even if Brandon doesn't win on Tuesday, the third, everyone should go. If even if he doesn't, the House Ethics Committee could have him removed and there would be a special election which Brandon would win.

SPEAKER_01: 45:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 45:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 45:15

But he barely lost last time. So hopefully he could actually that'll be him. You know, I I'd love to see him win with a landslide, frankly. That would restore some faith in South Texas for me. Because right now, given that they had elected that douchebag, it really makes me not have a high opinion of South Texas. And and the fact that people clearly connected to Tony Gonzalez's campaign have been calling Brandon a neo-Nazi is just insanity. I mean the guy is a gun guy, right? Like he I don't even think he's expressed any opinions about many things other than guns. And certainly not any Nazi-like opinions. So it's just it's it's a smear campaign. That's all it is. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So how cool is it gonna be to watch gun meme reviews put on by a sitting congressman? A sitting congressman. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03: 46:39

I just can't wait to see him tear him a new one on the house floor. Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 46:44

Yeah, and and between him and Luna being there, I mean there's gonna be like calendars coming out. Yeah. You know, gun calendars. What do you think I was referring to?

SPEAKER_03: 46:59

Yeah, her holding Brandon's gun collection in a swimsuit.

SPEAKER_01: 47:04

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03: 47:05

Which, by the way, if those two hook up, I wouldn't be mad.

SPEAKER_01: 47:10

You know, her Instagram is still up. No, I had to confirm it. I had to confirm this the other day because of somebody. And I'm like, yep, she still has her bathing suit photos with guns up on her Instagram. That is just baller.

SPEAKER_03: 47:28

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 47:29

Not trying to hide anything.

SPEAKER_03: 47:30

It's like a grid by we supposedly in the Iranian attack used some new weaponry.

SPEAKER_01: 47:37

Yeah, you were telling me.

SPEAKER_03: 47:38

The details of which have not all been released. But there were a lot of UAPs over Iranian territory last night.

SPEAKER_01: 47:49

So that's Alex. UFOs?

SPEAKER_03: 47:52

Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 47:56

I'm not super, super happy about all the re-terminology of UFOs. Like, what was wrong with just calling them UFOs? I don't know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 48:08

But I don't know. It's going to be interesting, man. I love the Marco Rubio memes that are coming out with him as Castro and dictator of Cuba, president of Mexico, now Iran. Like, it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01: 48:24

Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a hell of a hell of a thing. Okay, I was gonna look up what other actual stories that we were gonna talk about here. I'm trying to remember. Oh yeah, yeah. The the other the hotel hit in Dubai was the apparently a very famous luxury hotel, the Fairmont.

SPEAKER_02: 48:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: 48:45

And and we were watching that video. And that was like you could literally see the impact right into the top floor of that building.

SPEAKER_03: 48:52

Yeah, I've stayed at the Fairmont in Dallas, not the that is not an accident.

SPEAKER_01: 48:57

There's no way that was an accident. No. Yeah. I don't. I don't know. So the the other memes that I've been posting quite a bit of an X it had to do with It's actually not one that I made, but somebody else made, but I've been posting. It's great. Which is your typical blue-haired girl standing in front of a table where the sign says a trade in your flags, and so there's a bunch of these lefties standing with their Palestinian flags to trade them in for IRGC flags. Which is happening right now. Like right now, if you look in New York, there were protests today in New York, and because you know Mandami is obviously on the side of IRGC here, there were protests in New York condemning the American attack, the illegal American attack on the government of Iran, while in Washington, DC, there was a celebratory, not protests, I guess a celebratory event done by the uh the Iranians, the Persians and in living in the US, where they were playing YMCA and dancing and and flying the uh the lion flags of Iran and super happy about what's going on. Which it's just again, it just shows you the insanity of the left and the woke right is part of the left, as far as I'm concerned, because it's the same mind virus. Is that their evaluation criteria for what they're going to support isn't based on how good or bad something is, it is 100% based on what somebody else thinks of that thing. And if that somebody else is something they don't like, like Trump or Israel, then they're gonna have the contrary opinion without any actual independent evaluation of whether that event is good or bad. Like it's an automatic, oh, Trump said uh that everybody should eat salad dressing. Well, no, fuck that. Salad dressing is the most evil thing you can eat. We're gonna boycott salad dressing now. It's that kind of mentality.

SPEAKER_03: 51:14

Well, it's definitely a reactionary Trump derangement syndrome mentality.

SPEAKER_01: 51:22

Yeah, yeah. But my point is it's the same thing on the left and the right. It's just on the left, it's Trump, on the right, it's Israel. But it's the same mentality. It's it's not actually independently evaluating and using, you know, logic and and your faculties that most people possess, to some extent at least, to evaluate each individual scenario and then decide on what's good and bad. It is strictly based on the enemy of my enemy is the good guy. Like that's all they're that's that's their whole operating system that they're running on.

SPEAKER_03: 52:02

Has been for years.

SPEAKER_01: 52:03

Did you see the not so much on the right for years though?

SPEAKER_03: 52:07

Well, yeah, yeah, but I'm talking about the left. Did you see the Irish data privacy ad that I put up?

SPEAKER_01: 52:14

No.

SPEAKER_03: 52:15

So it's pretty interesting. This family, a wife, husband, and their daughter are walking through a mall and these strangers are saying, Oh, hi to the daughter, and it was your birthday. Did you have fun? Yeah, yeah. Fucking hey, good for Ireland trying to educate parents. Don't post your family shit on fucking Facebook, dumbass.

SPEAKER_02: 52:38

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03: 52:38

Like, I I've made it a rule very early on. No pictures of my kids on Facebook.

SPEAKER_01: 52:43

I didn't think the people in that ad had Irish accents. I thought they were Americans.

SPEAKER_03: 52:46

Yeah, but it's the Irish government that put that together.

SPEAKER_01: 52:50

So what are they implying? Don't trust Americans? I don't know. Like it's because the pedo-looking guy was definitely had an American accent in that ad.

SPEAKER_03: 53:03

Anyway, it it has several million views on the X post. But yeah, it's data protection commission dot IE.

unknown: 53:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 53:15

So that's awesome. Ireland. Yeah, yeah. No, but it's a good message, and people don't realize you know, when you're when you're posting about your this goes into, you know, OPSEC, operational security. When you're just putting stuff out there about yourself, you're letting the world know way too much about you. This is why I don't post personal shit online. I don't let my kids' pictures be put online. Just no. Oh bullshit. Your face is plastered everywhere.

SPEAKER_01: 53:52

Oh, whatever. That's a cartoon, man. That's not what I actually look like. But it it's a it's something that unfortunately a lot of people just don't even think about. Like, and as somebody that doesn't really care about their kids, it's wasted bandwidth. Like, I don't need to see photos of everybody's kids. Like, dude, just not you don't need to post that shit. And there are people that absolutely want to see those photos for bad reasons. So don't post that shit.

SPEAKER_03: 54:22

And and just think in the day and time we're living in with AI and what you can do with local models on your computer with a decent graphics card, you someone could take a picture of your kid that was totally innocent and turn it into live action porn. Absolutely. So you you like I just I really don't I don't get why people feel the need to fake up and show off their lives and quite frankly, virtue signal that look how good I am, what I'm doing with my kids, and all this. That's for you. That's for your family. Like I have a Google photo album.

SPEAKER_01: 55:05

They use their kids as accessories.

SPEAKER_03: 55:07

Yeah, yeah. Well, I have a Google photo album that I use, and I use Google just because it's easy for grandparents and everybody to access, but that you know, that's private, and we share photos and stuff with a select group of people, and that's all we do.

SPEAKER_02: 55:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 55:30

So if I can get it, I don't know if I can add on, I'd be better, but I don't know if I can add anything else because that's just true. Like the idea of putting third party and really kids are like they're second parties, I guess, right? They're not third parties, but putting somebody else's images and likenesses on the internet is just not a good practice. It's bad enough you put your own shit on there, and and God knows women post way too much crap for other men to look at. I mean, this I don't wanna, you know, I'm not for Sharia law or anything, but Jesus Christ, there's so many women that are married that looking at their Instagrams, you would think they're OnlyFans models trolling for single guys, you know?

SPEAKER_03: 56:22

Yeah, donations, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 56:23

Yeah. And they're they're married. It's like, Jesus Christ. And their husbands don't know a lot of the time.

SPEAKER_03: 56:31

Yeah, that's what I was about to say. How many of their husbands have no clue?

SPEAKER_01: 56:34

Right? Yeah. Because, you know, husbands, right? Of course you don't have a clue because you're not concerned about that stuff. You're in a happily married relationship. And you're not on Instagram. Mm-hmm. The only men on Instagram is John C. Dwarak and me.

SPEAKER_03: 56:55

Yeah, and younger, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 56:56

Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm just there to check on things, you know. For validation purposes for open source intelligence purposes. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03: 57:09

Did you did you see the 17-page leaked White House memo on the elections?

SPEAKER_01: 57:14

Uh-uh. Nope.

SPEAKER_03: 57:15

So I sent it to you in our chat and said this could fit the elections. Yeah, yeah. So Trump, it's an executive order claiming that certain jurisdic jurisdictions that during the 2020 election we've proven have voter fraud. Yeah. That they, since it's a federal election, he's going to conceivably federalize those specific counties and areas.

SPEAKER_01: 57:45

Yep. That's good. And I we talked about this before. I I just think the federal elections should be done by the federal government, period. I just don't think it you need a special circumstance for it. I think that when you're talking about a nationwide election, not a local election, it is asinine to have every state have different rules for that. It's just stupid. So state elections, I don't care. So one state wants to do, you know, list list all the people that are child predators first, because that's what they want to get elected. That's that's their state thing. Don't care. But if you're talking about federal elections, you cannot risk that. This is also why I'm actually a believer in elections over internet. And I know you disagree with this, but I think if done properly with biometric identification and measures against possibility, I think that internet-based elections would actually be much better.

SPEAKER_03: 58:48

Yeah. But sorry to interrupt but and change the subject back to Iran. But Fetterman just put out a statement on Twitter.

SPEAKER_01: 58:56

Fetterman put out a statement about six hours ago. Is this a different statement, or are you just seeing the same one?

SPEAKER_03: 59:01

Maybe I'm just saying it. President Trump has been willing to do the right and necessary things to produce real peace in the region. That was about six hours ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 59:12

Fetterman is a better Republican than half the Republicans.

SPEAKER_03: 59:16

Oh, agreed. And you know, he was one of the only Democrats during the State of the Union willing to stand up and clap.

SPEAKER_02: 59:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 59:23

And, you know, he just ignored the rest of his party and, you know, rose for the U.S. hockey team, rose for the veterans. Exactly. You know, I'm sure you had plenty of disagreement with President Trump. But, you know, when Trump set the trap for the Democrats and said, please stand if you think your government should represent its people and not electric aliens. And he was one of the only Democrats that stood up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 59:46

Hey, whatever they did to his brain, they fixed him.

SPEAKER_03: 59:52

He had a long reboot cycle there where he was pretty iffy.

SPEAKER_00: 59:56

Yeah, hell of a reboot cycle.

SPEAKER_01: 59:59

So in as much as I I I thought it was ridiculous that they kept him in the race, you know, given what happened with the stroke, I thought I was just crazy that that he ended up winning as somebody who's clearly mentally incapable of serving. I was totally wrong. I happily admit that. Because the guy has proven himself to be like the only the only actual human Republic Democrat, the only human Democrat that we have. The rest of them are bots. And it is sad because like when I ran for office back in 1994, I'd say 75% of the Democrats were like Fetterman. But they were people you could go to lunch with and have conversations about plenty of other topics and find common ground and actually, you know, enjoy as friends. But not anymore. Not the case anymore. The Democrats are not like Fetterman.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:08

I lost you there for a second.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:09

I know. I'm gonna keep talking. Okay. They're generally not like Veteran. They're now just bots. They all repeat the exact same lines, the same shit that you see on TV, on the view. That that's generally what the Democrats say. And they don't care whether what comes out of their mouth is in fact accurate. They they'll just gonna say it anyway. I mean, they're they're more actors than Hollywood actors at this point. Because what they say has no relevance with reality. And Fetterman is a large break from that in that he's and he's been asked, he's like, Well, why don't you switch parties? He says, Well, you know, I still kind of believe in a lot of the Democrat principles, even if none of the other Democrats do. So yeah, it's I think Trump and Fetterman could have dinner together, and there wouldn't be a single thing that they would be disagreeing on because both those guys would have way more in common than they have different.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:11

Yeah, they'd both put ketchup on a steak. That's probably true. You know, one of the things that I thought was striking though is the State of the Union with Fetterman, is he actually wore a suit. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:22

Yeah, yeah. And he didn't do that for the first year, but I think he got enough pushback on it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:29

Yeah. By the way, what did you think of the State of the Union?

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:34

Hmm. Yeah. It was good. I I gotta be honest, a little too long for my taste.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:42

Longest in history.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:44

Mm-hmm. And I don't think that needed to be a goal, frankly. But he already had that record, by the way. He broke his own. Of course he did. Of course he did. And it's mostly because Trump repeats almost everything three times. So there was quite a bit of repetition, but it was a good speech. I I liked it. It just didn't need to be that long. That was my impression.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:16

Democrats were being idiots, as you know.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:18

I thought it was I thought it was brilliantly done. I thought it was very much a weer back speech. Uh I thought he laid out the case very well. I'm just not mad at it. I thought it was good.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:35

Well, I'm not mad. I'm just saying that it didn't have to be that long.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:40

He did not look like his age during that speech or afternoon. He was clearly very energized by it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:49

Now he did look pretty tired when he announced the Iran action.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:53

Well, it was 3 a.m.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:55

Yeah. He looked like he needed to go back to bed. But so would probably anybody in that position. It's it's a stressful decision.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:05

Making the call, like all of that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:08

Yeah. But also, to be fair, I mean, he's not at the White House. He's basically been just living at Mar-a-Lago the whole time. So, you know, other presidents were kind of chastised for not spending enough time at the White House. Trump doesn't even try. He just lives at his own house. Which also is kind of ironic that where he's living in and where he has all the Secret Service security is where under Biden we had the FBI coming in and sorting through all his shit through Melania's panty drawer.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:45

Exactly what I was thinking. Yeah. Which, all right, honest moment. If you were on that raid and you had the opportunity, would you?

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:58

No, of course not. No, no, no. Women's underwear is not a turn on for me. Like women with no underwear, that's a much bigger turn-on. All right. Yeah, I've never been more impressed than when when a woman has no lingerie drawer. It's like, okay, we're gonna get along.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:28

I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:29

Some a little something every now and then can be fun to take off. That's what the leather outfits are for. See, leather and latex have never done it for me.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:39

Really? Oh man. Yeah, that's different. I guess you're all into satin shit, huh?

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:46

I uh the the more feminine, soft, and then you know, yeah. But that's a topic for uh OnlyFans podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:56

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. This is for uh subscribers only. We're gonna do a special episode. Uh we'll we'll we'll even make it PG 13 rated, unlike this one. Yeah. Oh boy. I don't know what else we got, dude. I mean, I my brain's kind of been vacuumed out by the day today. Like whatever topics I probably had thought of.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:18

Oh, well, we had a but yeah, it's yeah, I I I tend to agree just because it's today has been a sensory overload day in a lot of ways, right?

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:28

Well, I okay, so the anthropic apparently now been kicked out. So we had that story.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:34

Yeah, and their CEO's none too pleased about it. Um fuck him. Well, I mean, the the Department of War and DOD has and I have experience with these companies. You know, because we my company is we do a lot of work for defense contractors, I'll be right back. Yeah, no shit.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:55

Everybody knows everything about you. Yep. No, they don't.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:59

Anyway, we but uh like Palantir, I I would take Palantir over a lot of the others.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:07

Well, of course you would, because Palantir's got everybody's camera access.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:11

So naturally Palantir has a lot of shit, dude. And it the way they do things and the way they approach it, it works because there is no it's not a large, it's not a traditional LLM. That's not the way it works. It it's a different approach.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:32

Anyway, yeah so relating to that, somebody did a quick test, which are very popular these days, is let's compare four different AI engines and see what kind of answer they give to the same question. The question is Was Donald Trump right to strike Iran must answer yes or no? Brock, yes. Chat GPT, no. Gemini. The question of whether military action against Iran was the right decision is subject to intense debate among policymakers, military analysts, and the public, and the veiled arguments on both sides could be correct. Claude, this is a genuinely contested political and geopolitical question where reasonable people disagree strongly based on different values. That's not a good idea. And I will not be providing an opinion. I mean, why would you use anything other than Grok for Christ's sakes?

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:29

By the way, did you see it looks like the F-22 finally got a kill?

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:33

Oh no, I didn't. Because I was I was wondering if we were even gonna have them flying.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:38

Yeah, we did. They did get one.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:40

What did it take down?

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:41

Supposedly the first air-to-air kill, combat kill for the F-22 is an F F or Phantom.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:47

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:51

Like, talk about a you're fucked and totally outclassed, dude. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:57

So they're they're still flying phantoms.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:59

That's great. Yeah, well, they do. I'm just glad it wasn't an F-14.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:05

Yeah, you just want that sitting in the Smithsonian.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:07

I do. I want the Iranian F-14s brought back.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:13

Did we ever get paid for those? I don't know if we did.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:17

I don't know if we did or not.

unknown: 1:09:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:20

Because I know we were selling, we were selling a lot of weapons to Ron right before the revolution.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:25

Well, the Shaw, the Shaw had, you know, that's the reason why they have the F-4 Phantoms and the F-14s.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:31

Yep. Yeah, and the last thing in 79, I think beginning of the year, he had his big birthday party. They had dignitaries from all over the world, and there was a lot of a lot of countries that were like basically announcing deals that they'd just done with Iran on his birthday. Because I mean the deal was obviously already figured out beforehand, but it was one of those kind of ceremonial things.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:57

He was the king after all.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:00

So one of the things one of the other stories I wanted to touch on fairly quickly and then we can call it. But so Alberta is not going to be the only province having a referendum. Really? Who else? Yeah, it looks like Quebec.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:15

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You did mention that to me the other day. Yeah, that's very cool. Now I don't know that we really want Quebec. I think they can stay independent. No, no, let them be independent. That's totally fine. Yeah, yeah. But maybe France will take him.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:28

It really looks like it looks like Canada is really getting close to this last leg.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:37

Yeah. Yeah. Man, I would love to see Australia do the same thing. Have the uh the Western provinces that actually like their guns say fuck you to the eastern provinces which don't.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:52

Well, in Great Britain, restore Britain is it's it's growing by leaps and brown bounds. I I think I think we could see I I don't know that Europe is salvageable, though Hungary and Poland keep proving me wrong.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:11

But which is also why Ukraine uh decided to blow up the pipeline that feeds the energy to Hungary. And Hungary put troops on the border. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. As they should.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:26

Hungary's about to come in on the side of Russia on that shit, man. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:29

No, and they're not really huge fans of Russia either, but they're definitely not fans of what Ukraine's doing.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:34

I will say this action that we've taken in the Middle East and Iran's retaliation when they blew up some of the Saudi's oil production. China screwed, Putin's rich, and the U.S. is going to be largely insulated because we are fairly energy independent and we took Venezuela first.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:54

Yeah.

unknown: 1:11:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:55

Well, I you I US is also rich. I I'm if it hasn't already happened today, I'm absolutely predicting oil is going to be a hundred bucks a gallon plus. Oil went up twelve percent. You mean barrel?

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:08

Oil went up 12%.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:09

Up today, right? 12%. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:11

I haven't looked at the latest future market, but as as of the at like 10 a.m. this morning, it was already up 12%.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:19

Yeah. Yeah, it it totally makes sense because we've we've reduced the oil supply literally in one month by a big shot. And this is it's good for oil-producing nations for all. It's good for Saudi Arabia, but it's also really good for us and it's good for Russia.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:36

It's good for Venezuela.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:38

For countries that import oil, like China. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:43

Europe.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:44

Yeah, yeah. Europe, uh, Germany, you know, not France as much, because they were at least smart enough to build nukes. But and you know, Norway's got their own pipelines, they're pumping their own oil. But a lot of sort of Central European countries are definitely fucked. They import oil.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:04

This this entire year, 2026, has been nothing but a fuck you to the globalists, and I love it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:10

Yeah, it's it's been a banner year all the way around. And and partly because I'm feeling celebratory, I'll I'll go ahead and announce it on the podcast here. I've I've lifted my block of CSB. Oh, wow. So he's not he's now unblocked. I don't know why you and Darren block him. I just don't even bother. Has he said anything that's pissed you off enough to block him? Probably not. I don't even I yeah. Hey CSB, here's your new challenge. Get Ben to be so pissed off that he blocks you, and Darren and I'll send you some Bitcoin. How's that? Is that fair? That's fair.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:54

Yeah, Darren's gone off the rails on the AI music on y'all's show.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:59

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, he he is, as we like to, as men like to do in general, he's justifying his investment. You know, when you go, dude, he he is bought a new toy and he's playing with it. He is right now, he's probably about a month away from pulling the trigger on buying the brand new bigger Mac Studio. Why? Because he can hook them up together and have an even more powerful AI generator. And to be fair, I have 5090. Uh no, this is so the stuff that the Macs will do, the 5090 can't. The 5090 can do other things, but the the ability to use all of your RAM for a data set is something that allows you to do stuff that the 5090 just can't be used for.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:54

Yeah, but your regular RAM and VRAM are two totally different things, though.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:58

Not on the Mac. The Macs are more expensive, they use the expensive memory for everything.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:03

Yeah. So all DDR5 Plus or whatever it is. Yeah, it'll be interesting when this when the bottom falls out of the AI and we start getting 5090s for nothing. They must the data center.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:16

I mean, not that you need one. Should we talk a little bit about your latest hobby? Uh, we can if you want. Well, I I think that I've definitely contributed to Ben's delinquency here.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:29

Well, not delinquency, it's just I've been I've been playing video games again. Your new hobby. I have gotten back into actually fairly seriously playing video games for the first time since like 2012, 2013.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:43

Yeah. And I know what that feels like because again, I stopped pretty much playing all games in 2010. And it wasn't until I was dating a chick that was a streamer on Twitch who was 21, and she kind of got me back into video games because I was buying her computer shit. I was like, Oh, I'll kind of get one for myself too, I guess. And and then uh I was like, oh shit, I remember how fun this is. God damn it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:11

I gotta say, playing Cyberpunk with everything basically set at ultra.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:16

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:18

Except some of the ray tracing. Yeah. At the worst frame rates I've gotten has been around 90. And I'm usually over 120.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:29

Yeah, and easily over 100 the rest of the time.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:31

At native 4K.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:32

And at 4K with everything on ultra except for ray tracing, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:36

And that's really the main thing you get with a 5090 is you get to turn on ray tracing and still have those high frame rates of over 150.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:44

Ray tracing pushes me down to like 60.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:47

Yeah. But you but you did uh have it on for a little bit so you could see what it does. Like you saw the difference that it makes. It's not required, but it definitely makes things more photorealistic.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:58

I have some ray tracing on. I have the local stuff on okay. Yeah, yeah. The big hit comes in when you're doing all light sources, right? Right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:06

Like because it's got to model everything.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:08

Yeah, as long as you're not doing all light sources, I'm doing great on frame rate and it's fun. Hell divers looks good. Counter Strike to insane 200 plus frames for something like that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:22

Well, that I mean that that has much older graphics, so it should look really good.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:27

Yeah, but everything running in 4K, so yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:32

And I'll I'll tell you why I brought it up while I mentioned it because it is kind of funny. Is you know, I'm just doing my thing, whatever, it's 10 o'clock at night, all of a sudden I'll get a phone call. Ben's like, okay, so I'm here trying to move the robot and I can't figure out where it's supposed to go. Can you jump on? So I've been I have to say, I like doing this. This is enjoyable for me. This is why I started doing YouTube videos, is helping people path their way through video games. It's something I consider to be fun. So for a couple of days now, we've actually jumped online with Ben playing, me watching what he's doing using the power of Discord, and then keeping my mouth shut is the hard part, right? Because I I I have this obvious desire to just tell him constantly what to do, but I'm trying to let him make all the choices himself, and only if he asks me, then I'll chime in and give him an answer, or if he just walks by something super obvious that he's gonna need later, I'm like, dude, to your left, to your left.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:36

But but yeah, I I think well, it's been fun shooting the ship more than once a week.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:41

Yeah, well, that's true too. Yeah, it it it is it is the sort of guy conversation that I used to have, and I'm sure you used to have back in your 20s when you just sort of zone out everything else and zone into the video game and chatting with your buds.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:57

Yeah, like I it's just bringing back memories of like Nazi zombies. Like the last time I was really into gaming, you know, Bioshock and World at War, stuff like that. And my friends used to come over and I had this big projector, and we would play Nazi zombies on the Xbox like crazy, and got really good at it. You know, but the so when I lived in when I was in college, my last gaming PC, real gaming PC, was a Pentium 4 era PC. You know, and so after that I had an Xbox for some time, but that was me getting out of gaming, right? Because I I consider the only real serious gaming to be PC gaming. Yeah. And since the Xbox 360.

SPEAKER_01: 1:19:53

You don't have to consider the Wii to be serious gaming?

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:56

Since the Xbox 360, I haven't had a gaming console. Yeah. So, you know, I I just got busy work, life, you know, everything. Exactly. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:09

Yeah, and and it's like, you know, there's plenty of times where you or other friends asked me, yeah, you well, you remember that. That like uh in 1998, weren't you playing that game? Like no, between about 94 and 2005, I was having a lot of sex. I was not playing video games. Have you well that's a different type of game? Well, yeah, but it one requires just as much time that you don't have to do video games.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:36

Have you ever played Counter-Strike all the way or Half-Life all the way through? CSVO? No. You haven't played Half-Life all the way through?

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:44

No.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:45

So you need to get the one with the updated graphics and play it. It looks great. And it's yes, it is a fun, good game.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:54

I mean, I've played Half-Life mods, I've just never played the actual Half-Life.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:59

No, the story, the ha Half-Life is worth playing through.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:03

Okay. Well, that ought to be cheap enough on Steam. I'll snag it. Oh, I think it's free. Well, that's pretty cheap.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:10

Yeah. Oh, what's it called? Oh, let me open up Steam. Oh.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:16

By the way, I went through yesterday and played the exact same portion uh myself that you did in uh Cyberpunk and actually went through and collected every single item and killed every single person without getting hit once.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:34

Oh, good for you.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:35

Yeah. Can I can I tell people how bad your mouse skills are?

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:40

You mean my driving skills?

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:42

Your mousing skills. Ben moves the mouse and then stops and then moves it again and then stops and then moves it. Like, where's the flow, man? You gotta get Zen with your mouse. You just never stop moving the mouse. It should always be moving closer and closer.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:58

It's been a while, Gene.

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:00

Yeah, yeah. Gotta get that hand practice up, buddy.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:04

Anyway, I think it's Half-Life Source is the uh data graphics one.

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:10

I'll I'll snag that. Yeah, it shouldn't be much, if anything.

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:15

We're good. And one of these days, probably after you're done with Cyberpunk, I'll I'll give you a walking tour of uh Star Citizen, which I've told you before is not ready anywhere near for prime time. It's been developing for 13 years, but I can't call it a game because it's got way too many bugs. But it is a really beautiful, cool spaceship and planet environment to check out. Just not really not really play on the regular basis at all.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:47

So Half-Life Source one is$9.99. Yeah, I I I'll get that. How do I send you a gift?

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:55

Oh, you can just click buy and then it'll ask you do you want to buy it for yourself or somebody else, and then you can buy it for me. Okay. So that's that's good. I bought you a few games, that's fair. Yeah. Which reminds me, I'll I'll I'll walk you through checking, but I I want to make sure you have the DLC for Elite Dangerous, because it's on sale right now if you don't have it. I have it. You do have the DLC, both the main game and the DLC. Okay. I don't know about the DLC, but it's got the that's literally what I'm talking about is the DLC, not just the main game. Because they've got the main game 70% off right now, and the DLC, I think, is 50. Anyway, given that we're talking about video games here, I think we're done with the podcast here.

SPEAKER_03: 1:23:43

All right. Well, you got anything else? No, hopefully this continues and we have success and we end up with a free and friendly Iran and peace in the Middle East. And, you know, given the reaction of all the Middle Eastern countries, like I I can see a new Middle East coalition coming out of this.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:01

How awesome would that be, huh?

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:03

Like, I I can literally see Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Israel and the new Iranian government in a mutual defense treaty.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:14

Yeah, and mutual trade and mutual everything. I mean, like they're gonna the tourism is gonna boom.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:21

Oh, yeah. I I'll go to Iran. Like, like I told you on the phone today, I'm looking forward to getting jobs in Iran rebuilding. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:29

Well, that makes total sense too. But even as even aside from the rebuilding, just it it will be a a bucket list item for me to be a tourist in Iran, for sure. Because I still remember when Iran was free. Like I remember 78, 79, and then how old were you? I was young, but I what you think? I didn't watch TV? Okay. I remember shit. I remember the clothes that I used to wear back then were so ridiculous, man. Bell bottoms were never a good look for anybody.

SPEAKER_00: 1:25:08

They still aren't.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25:09

No, they're not. And that's why, like, when they kind of started making a comeback, I'm like, not good. Thank God corduroys never came back. That was another 70s thing that just should have never happened. Alright, we will catch you all. Okay. We will catch you all in a week or so. Give or take. See ya.