Offbeat Holiday And Marriage Banter

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Well, howdy Ben. How are you today? I'm doing good, Gene. How about you? You enjoying your steak and BJ Day? I no. I don't know what the hell that means, dude. It's one month after Valentine's Day. Of course, I will be getting neither a steak or a BJ. Yeah, I hey. Well, who's counting?

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Yeah, I think the last few years of my marriage, there was definitely no there might have been steak because I was eating alone, but there was definitely no BJ on Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

No, it's a month after Valentine's Day. So you do the Valentine's Day stuff for her. Yeah. Yeah. She's supposed to.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Well, if there wasn't one on Valentine's, there's definitely not going to be one a month later. Right. Mm-hmm. Oh man, I am tired, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

What did you fly back? Yeah, we got in about like 11:30 or something last night. So of course I had to drive from Dallas because just using up American Airline miles, and it took us forever to get out of the airport, dude. Really? Normally Dallas is fast with your backs. Pretty quick. No, it was like an hour. And then just leaving the airport? No, no. Leaving the airport after we landed was almost two hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

What?

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Yeah, because we landed in terminal C, but we flown out of Terminal D. So we had to go do the ground shuttle. We had to get our bags and then do the ground shuttle over terminal D, and that just took forever.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

And the traffic getting out. It was crazy. But I got to experience the US customs in a foreign country bit. That was kind of neat.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Oh, oh, so you went through customs while you were still there. Yeah, while we were still uh up the Bahamas. The furthest country that I've been that did that was Ireland. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

I went through US customs in Ireland. Right, but this is a fairly new thing where they've really expanded the program, apparently. Under Rubio, they've added 16 offices, 16 different uh countries that they're different from.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

Yeah, uh it does speed things up a little bit, I think.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

Yep, yep. And uh while we were going through the customs, they were slow, so we did the global entry stuff for the kids. So the kids now have global entry.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

Yep, get them all registered to the beast. Good for you.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

Yeah. They don't have to give up, they don't have to give up their biometrics for it.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

Don't they? I thought they did now.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Nope. Just a picture. No fingerprints, nothing.

Travel Fatigue And New Gadgets

SPEAKER_03 3:04

Oh shit. Well, hot damn, hot damn, hot damn. So I just got a pop-up because I rebootled my computer while we were starting, my other computer. And after rebooting the software update from Steam Deck showed up. Which is fine. You know, might as well install it. But the first thing I see on that update is introducing the Steam Deck Plus Excel. God damn it, I'm gonna have to buy this now. Oh maybe I'll get your old Steam Deck. Uh yeah, I'm I'd happily sell you that. Uh what? You're not gonna give it to me like the monitors? Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, you you want just the instant gene pipeline of hardware shit?

Bahamas Trip Hacks With Points

SPEAKER_02 3:56

Exactly. You uh I'll take your hand me down, so I'll be your uncleberry. No, but it was good. The Bahamas was great. First time there, and we were at harbor side of Atlantis. So Marriott Harbor side, which I didn't realize, Marriott's taking over all of Atlantis operations now.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

But they always had been.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

No.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

No, they only had parts of it before. And now they've got all of it. But because it's owned by someone else, status doesn't mean Jack. Um but anyway, we were in the harborside little like condo things. So we had, you know, two beds and uh kitchenette and all that, and a little view of the pool, and it was great. But all access to you didn't get the Neptune room, really? No. Yeah, okay. But we had access to all of Atlantis and all that, so it was fun.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

Go down the shark water slide?

SPEAKER_02 4:55

I I didn't get to go down any water slides, too. Uh my daughter's a little too short for a lot of that. You can't toss her down the slide. Yeah, and anyway, and William's a little bit of a chicken sometimes, so we just ended up playing in the pools and at the beach. We spent a lot of time at the beach, well, next time. Yeah. Yeah, it the it's it's uh won't go back next year, but in a couple years, my kids are a little bigger. You know, it's definitely worth it.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

Because I never did get out there. I was I I actually I think I told you the story might as well tell it here too. Is shortly before getting to divorce, so right about the time we're talking about it, I remember my my ex-wife got pretty mad because I had calculated that I had enough Marriott points in the account to spend 45 days in a suite in Atlantis. There you go. And she's like, Well, I want half of that. I'm like, Well, you're not getting half of that. I earned that. Yeah. I earned that by traveling, damn it.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Yeah, so the flight and hotel were all on points. So all we ended up doing was spending money on food and you know, experiences and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so all in with food and experiences, I think we only spent like 15, 1,600 bucks.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

And if somebody wanted to just do that whole thing for cash, five grand oh more.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

More. Yep. The flights alone would have been like 700 bucks each. Okay. For four. So you've got, yeah, yeah. You know, you've got several thousand in flights. The hotel, the hotel alone would have been probably five. Um, you know, so yeah, it it Atlantis is expensive. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

Now, would you think it's more expensive than Disneyland?

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Uh yes. Really? Wow. Yeah, it's 300. So if you if you weren't staying at Atlantis where you had tickets included with your room, it's$300 a day per person. Oh my god. Yeah. Yep. Wow. Yeah, it's it's insane. Now they've got some amazing aquariums and you know stuff like that all over, and the kids got to do a bunch of fun stuff.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

Like honestly, that that would have been the main thing I'd be interested in, because I just, you know, while you and I talked about it, we both had aquariums when we were young. It's fun to watch the fish. I'm surprised you don't have one now. Yeah, I don't know. I well, I actually I do know why, because it's the same reason I do have snakes, because when I moved here, I was traveling every week.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

And low maintenance pets need.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Yeah, low maintenance and and fish are not high maintenance for sure, but they're not something you can leave a week every single week and be gone for a week.

SPEAKER_02 7:47

Well, anyway, we did a lot of the aquarium stuff. The kids got to do a little experience where they got to feed turtles and then pick up and hold a turtle, and then that's cool. Stingerays and a stingeray and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

They're so soft. I love stingrays, man. Even though they killed Steve Irvin.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Yeah. Anyway, they got to do a whole bunch of fun stuff. They got to hold a starfish and a conk, and uh, you know, they they loved the aquariums, and it was a it was a good time for the most part, you know, other than other interpersonal stuff.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

But yeah, conks are cool too. They're they're interesting, critters.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

And by the way, this is the only other time going into a country other than Qatar. Qatar was the other time when someone just flipped to a random spot on the passport and put it in the damn middle of the page.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

I hate it when they do that, dude. I've had a few of those. Yeah. And there's no reason for it either. They're just lazy. Yep. You know, it there are certain countries you enter where they they insert a sheet and then stamp that for you. Yeah, Israel. And others. But the such as Oh, there's a few of them, believe me. But if you're if you're at one of these lazy fuckers who has no reason to do that, and then they'll stamp just some random page in the middle of your passport. Yeah. I only had one passport passport that was almost full. I was trying to get it full, and I had two spots left at the end of the passport cycle that I just never traveled enough to fill. Yeah. Well, I'm filling mine up.

Scotland Plans And UK Knife Rules

SPEAKER_02 9:22

I should have got a bigger book. But yeah, so tomorrow I'm hopping on a plane and going to Glasgow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be fun. Yes, flying into Glasgow. No, fuck no, there's no direct flight unless you want to fly British Airways, and I'm not doing that.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

So you know, if they were part of the Star Alliance, maybe, but instead I'm on Lufthansa and I get to write into 747.

unknown 9:48

Woo-hoo.

SPEAKER_03 9:49

Yeah, yeah. But now remember, my my take on Lufthansa, and I've flown them, I think, three times internationally, is it's it's not a great airline. They're their planes are set up kind of not particularly luxurious. And I just it's very meh.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

I've flown Luftanza from what is it? Greece, Munich, or from shit, what's the not London, Manchester. There we go.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Manchester.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Flew it from Manchester to Munich. And you know, that wasn't bad, but it's only a couple hours. But this is gonna be, you know, my long leg on the way there. And and you finally get your 747, which you're having done yet. Yeah, and they're the only ones still flying the 747. So and it's an old revision, it's a 400 series revision. Okay, yeah. So the current one's like 800, I believe. So yeah, it's an older, older revision. But uh anyway, so in essentially what is like domestic first class, not uh they don't have true business class on this one, so yeah, so it's not an international setup plane. But they I mean you've got a semi-recline, you've got a foot rest and stuff like that, so it should be okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

And you're on the inside with just one person next to you, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which will be good because it's annoying when when you get stuck in that middle row.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

Yeah, I I I uh did not want an unassigned seat on that flight. Anyway, so I fly from Houston to Frankfurt or Frankfurt or Glasgow, and then I'm gonna be all over Scotland. Yeah, in fact, I've got to book my tour of Sterling Castle sometime soon.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

Yeah, did you just show up and say I'm home? Right. Where's my where's my throne? Yeah, I keep threatening to buy a kilt while I'm in Sterling, but you so totally should.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

The family tartan.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Yeah, why wouldn't you, dude? I mean, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Yeah, anyway, but I've got to go all over northern Scotland to I think I would probably get a couple of them while you're out there. Yeah, yeah. I gotta go up to Perth and then Edinburgh and then back to Glasgow. So it's gonna be a long week. That's very cool.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

But I got my mic, so I got the show.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

Yeah, you already bitched about it, so that's part for the course. Yeah, CSB was right, it's heavy, but uh it'll be all right. So I got the Rode Pod Mic USB, which is both an XLR and a USB mic with all the noise canceling stuff built in. So that's good.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

So yeah, so we should have good clean audio a little more latency, but otherwise still good.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

I don't know that I'll take it when I'm just doing a carry-on, but yes.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

Yeah, yeah. I but you're not gonna do a weekend stay if you're doing a carry-on, probably anyway, so we can always catch up.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

But by the way, did you did you know how restrictive it is to have a pocket knife in the UK? I would assume it'd be restrictive, but no, I I don't know. Yeah, so I looked into it because excuse me, part of my everyday carry is I carry two pocket knives. And you know, typically when I leave the house here in the States, I'm carrying a gun. I know I can't take a gun to the UK, but what can I do on pocket knives? So my knife that meets the blade length requirements, but it has a locking blade, so I can't take that one. My other one, which is more of a trapper style knife, I can theoretically take it, but I can't carry it unless I have a work-related reason to carry it. That's insane. How about throwing stars? It it is funny. Yeah, right. It's a it's crazy how neutered the British public have become.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Absolutely neutered. And uh, and it's sad. And this is why I also think the odds are against them for doing anything about it. They've given up way too much, they've capitulated way too much, they've had no backbone whatsoever, and this is why they are where they are.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

I mean, a knife with a locking blade is considered an offensive weapon in the UK.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

That's insane.

SPEAKER_03 14:08

Yeah. You know what else is considered an offensive weapon?

SPEAKER_02 14:11

What?

SPEAKER_03 14:11

A white man speaking.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Yeah, true. And that's the other thing you gotta remember. There is no free speech.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

So you're being offensive.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

I'm gonna have to watch my P's and Q's. You are totally gonna have to do that, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Oh yeah. But the the only silver lining is there's a lot more good places to eat there than there used to be. If you like curry or Middle Eastern food.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Well, it's funny because we've got a work dinner planned for Wednesday night in Edinburgh, and we're going to an Indian place.

SPEAKER_03 14:47

Well, yeah, where else would you go? I don't know. Local pub. Dude, English food sucks. Fish and chips. That's that's about the best that you get. And it's I'm in Scotland.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

I gotta try Haggis.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

Yeah, I guess. I guess. I don't have the stomach to try haggis. It's not that bad. I think it's more of just asking for the ingredients is what makes people kind of turned off about it. If you didn't know what was in it, it doesn't taste that bad.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

Well, I mean, like I like Minuto and stuff like that. Let's tripe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

I I don't like tripe. Never been a fan tripe.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

On my way back, though, I only have an hour layover in Frankfurter, so I might get stuck in Germany.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

Oh, because if you if they delay it all.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Yeah, or if I can't, if I have to like the travel agent, you know, because we booked through a travel agent, seemed to think I was gonna have to go through immigration.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

Which I don't know why I would just transfer. You may there are some airports that don't have flights from all here's the thing. You're flying from the from uh well, no, it's not an EU country. Never mind. No, you should be fine. But I know there are some airports where if you're an EU to EU flight, it's basically domestic. Right. But if you're flying two or from the US, it's international.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

So you may be flying Frankfurter to the UK is also international, they're no longer part of the Schengen zone.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Yeah, so then then you're probably gonna be okay. They'll probably both flights will be coming out of the same zone. Well, I'm not gonna lie, if I get stuck in Frankfurter for a night, it won't hurt me. Yeah, that's not exactly.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, well, the streets are still closed. It's funny you're calling it Frankfurter. Frankfurter. What would you call it? Frankfurter. It's okay, it's spelled Frankfurter. Uh what? You're kidding. No, I uh right. Anyway, whatever. Frankfurt. You're talking Frankfurt, Germany.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

It's spelled Frankfurt. Okay, well then whatever. I don't know why I'm calling it that then.

SPEAKER_03 17:11

I think it's funny because I just re-watched Rocky Horror Picture Show on YouTube. I've been watching a couple of reaction videos to people seeing it for the first time. And I think it's more fun watching the reactions of a version to that movie than just watching the movie. You know, I've never seen that movie. Oh no way! Oh my god, we're totally gonna go and watch it. Okay, okay, okay. Cross dressing just doesn't appear. I have to it's a hilarious movie. I have to figure out exactly a time for this. You gotta be it could be in any of the larger cities, including Austin, and there's there's bound to be a midnight showing with everybody in in costume. That's the way to do it. Is it yeah, for sure. I don't know if someone was. I didn't do it that way. I my grandma took me to see it when I was a kid, because she didn't know what the hell it was, and I didn't know what the hell it was.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Today. Grandma was on stake and BJ Day, and she took you to Rocky Horror. Okay, grandma. Yeah, I was I was probably like 12.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

You didn't realize it, but your grandma was a freak. Yeah, exactly. My grandma barely spoke English. So, yeah, I think I was 12. And did you call her Oma? No.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Why would I call her Oma? I'm not Korean. It's not Korean, that's Eastern European.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Eastern Europe. That is Korean. Oma and Opa. Opa, or whatever it is. I don't know. But it's like we gone to that theater. No, now now the only saving grace there is it wasn't a midnight showing. She would not obviously take me to a movie at midnight. It was a during the day showing, but still, the I was I was at the wrong age for that movie, for sure. Not to say that I wasn't, you know, happy to watch any uh rated movie when I was a kid, obviously, like most kids. Like, oh, yeah. Let's check that out. But is it rated R for any good reasons? Not you know, it it mod these days I don't think it would be rated R. It'd probably be PG-13. Back then it was rated R because I think anything slightly homosexual was considered R-rated. Like any movie that deals with that topic would have been R-rated, even if there's no gratuitous anything.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

So this j the Rocky Horror picture show just never has appealed to me. Because A, not a big fan of cross-dressing and stuff like that, right? And then B, I don't like musicals.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm very picky about musicals. It's it's campy. The the biggest thing about it is you gotta understand it's it's watching a very campy 1970s thing. But it's it's camp that's done well. Meaning like they're not laughing while they're doing it about how ridiculous it is, but they're they're acting with the full knowledge that it's ridiculous. And the reason that I brought it up here is because you mentioned Frankfurter, because the the main character's name is Dr. Frankenfurter. So that kind of was like, oh, that's that's funny. It's a I think it's pretty well done. The story of it is interesting. It definitely like you know, other m movies or TV shows that are a little more esoteric, a little more out there, it got a very strong cult following, which is how people started dressing up for it. Yeah. But uh, yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to think. I think I saw it probably four times in my life. First time when I was a kid, way too young. And then I saw it a couple of times when I lived in Minnesota at the uptown theater at midnight showings, then I saw it once here in Austin with a friend of mine that had never seen it before. So it was a fun experience watching her going through it the first time. Very cool. But it it it is, it's it's something that even if you know what it is about, right? It's just still something that makes people a little embarrassed or a little uncomfortable. And and that is the funnest thing to watch somebody be going through is genuine discomfort or genuine embarrassment. And so the one the video I watched recently was of a YouTube channel of a professional opera singer and teacher who does basically video. Like reviews of music videos and stuff like that. It's the channel's called The Charismatic Voice, in case anyone else has watched it. And it's she's in a lot of really cool reviews that I like. Like she actually understands, you know, singing, understands music, plays multiple interest uh instruments, was in her early life, like when she was younger and didn't have kids, was a opera singer. And in fact, she she she posted a video about a year ago called Yes, I can sing, because so many people only knew her from the reaction channel. So then they knew like she's a voice teacher, but people as often happens, start questioning well, can she even sing? You know, what's is she just somebody that reviews other shit, but she can't actually do it herself? So she she had to post uh a video of her as a uh an opera singer singing with an orchestra, and she's got a good voice, not like anywhere near the best I've heard, but pretty good. But anyway, sure she's definitely a very she's a nice girl, is the way I would describe it. Like if if you saw the personality, somebody's not gonna swear. If she swears, it's it's because that word came out before she thought about it, and it's gonna be super rare. You know, one of those people, somebody that that isn't necessarily a Mormon, but kind of you'd think they might be a Mormon, one of those type of people. Okay, and watching her watch Rocky Horror fiction show was so enjoyable. Because obviously, to not get a copyright strike, because she literally watched the entire movie over two hours on YouTube. So it would, there was no cuts, right? But she's gotta have her face be the main thing in the video, so she's not gonna get a copyright strike for just showing the movie. So you see the expressions on her face, and a lot of times it's not even what she says, it's that you know, her eyes like open eye wide, and she starts getting this very like, oh my god, I can't believe they're doing that kind of look on her face. So it was at or moments when she it takes her a little while to realize what's going on in the movie, because you know, having seen it multiple times, you kind of know what's in there, and then watching her realize, oh oh my god, I can't believe they you know that kind of reaction. So it's always fun to kind of re-watch that initial experience for anyone that's a virgin to the movie.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

So ready to get on to politics?

SPEAKER_03 25:14

Oh, yeah, real topics, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're kind of starting a little slow.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

Both of us are going on very little sleep. Very okay. So, do you want to talk Virginia gun control stuff? Yeah, what the fuck, man?

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Virginia is like England now.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

Yeah, but it's worse than a lot of people have reported. So in the section of the amendment for how you're supposed to keep guns in the cars, section G reads the provisions of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly who leaves a handgun in an unintended motor vehicle pursuant to da da da. They've written themselves. But we can. Yeah, rules for thee, but not for me. Yeah, like I I I'm very interested when I so I'm gonna be going to Virginia not next week, because next week, you know, in Scotland, but the week after. And it'll be very interesting to hear what people have to say about it.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. Virginia has gotten progressively more liberal. It used to be that all the Democrats that work in DC lived in Maryland, and then the Republicans lived in Virginia. But I've got a good friend.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

If you just take Loudoun County out of Virginia and give it back to DC, it'd be Yeah, that might fix things.

SPEAKER_03 26:41

But I've got a good friend that that works at the Pentagon out there, and you know, he's been bitching a lot about the current administration that won the election. Well, I'm waiting to see one of these moving. He's one of these, like, you know, grandsons of the the revolution dudes. Like his whole family's lived in Virginia since before it was a United States state. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

I'm actually eligible to be a son of the revolution.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, one of those dudes. And I I've tried to get you and him connected up for a while, but he's just hard to get a hold of because a lot of shit going on right now that he's involved with in the Pentagon. Just just a little bit. But I I told him, you know, when things slow down, I gotta get you in bed online. You you you you can all discuss things. He's he's the guy that got me to play that Confederate war game. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, good guy. But yeah, he is very frustrated right now with what's what's happened to his state. Because there's just been an influx of more of the people who work in DC. And when I say that, it's not just politicians, it's actually more than politicians, it's lobbyists. It's people that that make a living there but don't work for the government. And a lot of them, you know, especially the younger millennials and younger types, are very much voting Democrat. Same people that got Mundami elected or Mundani in uh New York. Yeah, which that's not going super well. Oh, it's going really well. I'm really happy about what's happening there. This is exactly what we need.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

So you're an accelerationist now.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

Yep. I'm telling you, dude, this is this is the only way to teach people not to vote for Islamists, is to have the biggest, well, maybe not the biggest, but certainly like one of the grand cities of the United States become a shining example of what happens when you get a socialist Islamist in there. Because he he's doing both. You know, he's he he takes the chairs out of the assembly meeting room, so everyone has to sit with their on the floor with their knees crossed. He's got prayers all over the city now, in the middle of Times Square and other places. The call to player prayers broadcast through a bunch of speaker systems around the city. The any kind of not even so much restrictions, but any kind of decorum around Muslims not trying to impose Islam is gone. They are full on, this is our city, it's gonna be treated like it's a Muslim city now. And and now you realize whether the Jews were making tunnels. Exactly. That's I say it about the UK, I say it about New York. Absolutely. Now, Virginia, I don't feel like that's the case. I feel like they got screwed. Hopefully, they can revert the course in Virginia, but you know, it looks like Cuba is.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Yeah, yeah, which did you see the protesters torching Communist Party headquarters?

SPEAKER_03 30:13

No, I didn't see that. I just saw the statement from the uh the head uh dictator there saying that they're in talks with the US. And they're already letting FBI agents in, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

Right, right. But no protesters arise up on the island and literally burn the Communist Party headquarters to the ground. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

I don't understand why they would let the FBI in. Like what first of all. Well, it's kind of shouldn't they be letting the CIA in, not the FBI?

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Well, why would the FBI go to there?

SPEAKER_03 30:43

Probably to try and find and destroy any records of the assassination of the Kennedy that shows a connection between Cuba and FBI. Maybe. Or maybe that'd be my first gut reaction.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Yeah. Or maybe some Epstein stuff or whatever. Maybe we'll have to see. Yeah, yeah. How but we don't have a reason why. We just know that they've agreed to let the FBI wait for what though? Like you're missing a part here.

SPEAKER_03 31:12

Yeah, for what? And we already have a giant ass military base in Cuba. Wouldn't it make more sense for dudes to just go from there into Cuba instead of from flying in the FBI? I don't know. It it seemed like that messaging left something to be desired. Well, the the there is something we are not being told, right? Well, that's per usual. That's par for the course, unfortunately. We're either told too much and the wrong things or nothing at all.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Well, and I'm I'm very interested to see what when Cuba ends up collapsing. Somebody suggested that Iran collapses first.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

That Cuba is gonna be renamed to Marco Cubia. And Havana will be Trump Vana. I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

I I can see Trump building a tower and oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

I don't know about renaming, but you know for a fact there's gonna be a big gold hotel there right on the beach called Trump Plaza.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 32:21

Yeah, I I think these are all great things.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

A lot of detractors to the war in Iran, a lot of doomsayers, I'm surprised at who all has come up out against this. Really? Yeah, like even Tim and then Oh, yeah. What's his name? Who? Bestpoliticalchurch.com.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

Oh, the Polish guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's been against everything lately. He started this, which in my mind, of course, appropriately when he was against the US supporting the war in Ukraine, but he stayed on that with all the Israeli shit. He's pro-Palestine, and he's against the war in Iran, and he's against the Cuban invasion. I mean, he's posted all of those. So I've fully unsubscribed to everything from him at this point. I haven't given money to him in quite a while, but I've now like stopped following him on all the time. Yeah, and he used to be really good. What the hell is his name? Luke. Luke. Luke. Luke Rodkovsky, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

There you go.

unknown 33:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

I know.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

It's he's uh This is what few hours of sleep will do to you.

SPEAKER_03 33:41

It's it's definitely not just a few hours of sleep, Ben. This is what a few decades of not a whole lot of sleep does to you. Permanently. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

You know, I think it's interesting because did you watch the video I sent over on why the Navy can't start escorting through the straits? No. Oh well, it was a pretty interesting breakdown of it was done by the Naval Times or whatever, but it was a tactical breakdown of, you know, hey, here's why we're not doing that, and that's not a silver bullet.

unknown 34:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:17

So one of the things that's interesting is the mass, the vast majority, if you're counting number of hulls, of Iran's Navy are these fast attack boats that are basically off-the-shelf speed boats that they've added missile launchers and torpedoes to.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

So they can just they can shit, they can sink andor heavily damage ship pretty easily. Also, you know, whether or not the Iranians have mined the strait or not is kind of up in the air and all that. We've destroyed their mind layer. Yeah. We've we've we've destroyed their mine layers, but that doesn't mean they haven't mined it.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

That's you know. So what is the why don't we just take out the rest of your navy? What's the problem there?

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Well, it's a bunch of little small boats, dude. So we can take them small boats.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

Take them out.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Yeah, just you gotta find them. And you know.

SPEAKER_03 35:10

No, you don't. You just bombed a whole coast. They're parked somewhere on the coast.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

Well, but then you incur civilian casualties, and we've been very strategic about not hitting civilians.

SPEAKER_03 35:21

It's overrated. The the Iranian population is fully willing to accept casualties to get this thing over and done with.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

Yeah, the uh the Iranians are saying we hit the school, we're saying we didn't, there's a back and forth.

SPEAKER_03 35:34

There's conclusive video.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

The US is doing a probe into it, so at least we're kind of doing the right thing.

SPEAKER_03 35:43

What we have is the trajectory of the rocket that hit it and the satellite imagery showing a directional hit from the wrong direction. So the only way we could have hit it is if we had a shitty ass Chinese-made rocket that flew slightly over the target and then turned to go back down from the opposite side of where it flew in from. So it is obviously, as we certainly expected, it is damn near impossible for the US to have hit that school. However, having said that, I have no problem with the US hitting that school because that school was inside a military compound with literally a fence line around the entire compound that has a gate to go through, and that school was inside the compound. So, best case scenario, that school was for the children of the military. So that's I mean, that's a military target, dude. But then also, I don't really give a shit because there's no such thing as international law, and we should and we can hit anything we want. Because we're badass.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Well, and we definitely have been in this campaign. I mean, the we we you know what? We are setting up Israel to be the regional hegemon of the Middle East with this.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Well, or Iran. That would be that would be some shit, wouldn't it? Well, there's no reason not to. I mean, Iran is the biggest country in that region, population-wise. And it's a pretty large country territorially. Yeah. It's bigger than the UK in both counts. Bigger territory, more people. I I don't think that other Arab countries would particularly like that. But then again, they don't really want Israel to be that either. But I'll I'll tell you, Israel is gonna do whatever it takes, because having a country that likes you of that size in the Middle East for Israel, is even better than having the US as a friend. Like if Iran if the revolution actually happens, or the counter-revolution, if we want to use the proper terminology, and we have the Shah restored, which is what most people seem to want. Like that at that point, I think you're gonna see Israel basically saying, you know what, just cancel the next already budgetarily authorized payment from the US to Israel, because we we just don't need that set of handcuffs. Because Iran, Iran and Israel being on the same side is gonna make all the other countries that support terrorism, Qatar, a lot more nervous.

SPEAKER_02 39:04

Well, it'll be very interesting to see if you know Iran and Israel end up on the same side and uh you know if we can finally stop paying the Jews.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

Yeah, I think it's gonna happen. But you realize we're gonna be paying Iran for like 20, 30 years. Paying for what? As a buddy of the US payment?

SPEAKER_02 39:26

Eh, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

But I think we're gonna get construction.

SPEAKER_02 39:29

Yeah, well, we're gonna think we're gonna get in there and do it, though.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

I think it's gonna be a good thing. We're gonna get some oil rights, we're gonna get some good stuff out of it. But our financial relationship is going to dwarf any expenses that we have military right now.

Propaganda Videos And Leadership Rumors

SPEAKER_02 39:44

I think that there's forget about you have you been on Twitter lately? Yeah, unfortunately. What do you think of all the videos coming out of Iran right now? Dude, they're all AI generated. You think?

SPEAKER_03 40:00

Every single one. I meant look that close. Every fucking one. And I I post comments essentially saying that on all of them. The the if you want to see all of them, it's really easy. Just go to RT's account. Um, because RT has every Iranian video on their account. You can see them in in other posts as well, but if you want to just see all of them, RT's got them. They've got videos of drones flying through closed gates. They've got videos that have repeating looped footage in them. They've got videos of explosions to buildings that didn't blow up. I mean, it and and that's to say the least of having videos of a ceremony with a cardboard figure of their leader. I mean, it's just like, guys, you're literally it's the whole propaganda system there could be run by two people.

unknown 41:21

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 41:22

And one AI. What do you think of Khomeini's son being reported as at least maimed and in a coma, if not dead?

SPEAKER_03 41:31

Yeah, so the the conspiracy theory is that he was already maimed and had one leg blown off before they made him the leader. Right. And there's the Israeli news is reporting him as dead. They're they're just saying he's just dead already. There's no there there's no injury there, it's death. So I don't know. I think he's either dead or gonna be dead soon.

SPEAKER_02 41:59

I don't know. Who do you think we're hoping will be put in?

SPEAKER_03 42:05

Well, I don't know who Trump honestly wants in there. I don't know if that person exists. I know that every one of the Iranian channels that I follow, they all want the Shah restored. And I think there's good reason for it because there is a smaller but still active group that wants that that is a communist-based group, basically, that wants a socialist revolution. And socialists have a way of taking over other people's revolutions like happened in Russia. That original revolution was a proletariat revolution that was not orchestrated by socialists, but the socialists quickly came to power and overthrew that government and took over the country. So they're a part opportunistic. And incidentally, there were about 40,000 socialist supporters of the original Shah in 1979 that helped to get rid of the or not the Shah, sorry, the the what's his name? The Ayatollah. That were supporters of the Ayatollah that helped to get rid of the Shah in 1979.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

So it was a revolution.

SPEAKER_03 43:25

Yeah, it was absolutely women. Yeah, which is, you know, I probably post a quote from 1984 about once a day about women. You know the one I'm talking about, right? They were the most fervent of the revolutionaries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's here, I'll I'll find it while we're talking, but it's a the pro-shah majority of the people want to absolutely make sure that the socialists don't get anything in this revolution because they fucked it up so badly last time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Well, hopefully they will get another revolution and maybe do it right this time. Because there's enough people alive from the first one to hopefully realize how they screwed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.

SPEAKER_03 44:23

Yeah, so they I found the quote so for more well from 1984. It was always the women, and above all, the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of the slogans, and the amateur spies and nosers out of the unorthodoxy. So yep. That was predicted. So go ahead. Well, or or you know, he was just a student of student nature. He saw that in the UK, where he lived.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

Well, he well, he he lived through the communist revolution in Spain, right? Yeah. Yeah. So he fought the Republicans. So You know, I don't know that. Did he? I didn't realize that. Yeah, so he was in. You should read Orwell's book, What is it?

SPEAKER_03 45:15

Ode to I've only read Animal Farm in 1884. I haven't read it. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

Oh my god. You've got to read The Road to Wigampier, and then what was the other one? It was where is Barcelona? What region of Spain is that called? Catalonia? Yeah, Ode to Catalonia. There we go. So that's all about his time during the Spanish Revolution and opposing Franco and all that. I said Marco earlier, which was a slip of the tongue and hilarious in a way when we think of Rubio, but I know.

SPEAKER_03 45:49

Dude, the memes of Rubio doing all the jobs of everybody and every country we topple is hilarious. Oh my god, it's hilarious. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

I really wonder because you know No, you you really should read The Road to Wickham Pier and uh Ode to Catalonia.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

I'm sure I could probably snag those for free at this point. It's been long enough. Probably. Yeah. Don't don't have to pay uh those books that old. So any any more on Iran? No, I was gonna the only related thing is is Tucker is next level crazy at this point, which I'm sure you saw. I I had no, I have not been paying attention to Carlson. Okay, so he's still going on about how this is Israel's war. That's fine. But now his latest thing, which is insanity, is he's saying that Trump wants a whatchamacallit, surrender. A what do you call it when it's complete? Unconditional. Unconditional, right? Which Trump wants an unconditional surrender, which and this is literally quoting Tucker.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

I I did hear this quote.

SPEAKER_03 46:57

Okay, which of course means that we can rape all the women and children of that country. That's what an unconditional surrender is. Everybody knows that. I'm really bad at trying to do Tucker's voice, but that's essentially what he's saying is that unconditional means we get to rape everybody, literally rape everybody. Which, of course, my reply is Tucker must have been talking to his grandpa, who must have raped all the Japanese women. That would be what the Arabs would have demanded during the Arabs rape without any surrender. They rape when they attack. You know, that they rape everybody, they rape men and women. Well, not so much men as little boys, but yeah. Fair enough. They don't like the old men, yeah, that's true. They they also they'll rape the goats. I mean, they'll take all your stuff, your women, your children, and your goats. But like Tucker, it's just insanity. He's saying shit where I think he's he's even losing people that were kind of supporting him because they don't like Jews. They gotta admit, like, basically, Tucker's saying American troops are gonna go and rape because that's what Trump wants. He wants our troops to go in and rape everybody, all the civilian population of Iran. It's pure insanity. I think the guy's been sucking on too many uh nicotine bags, and something's just melted his brain completely. This is this is this is beyond even Qatari money shit. Because who says that? Who literally would say that?

UK Tensions And Europe Pushback

SPEAKER_02 48:47

I don't know, man. It's it's a bit out there. So do you want to go to the UK, Candinavia, which I've got some boots on the ground reporting. Okay, yeah, let's do UK first. Okay, did you see the retired British colonel talking about civil war?

SPEAKER_03 49:06

The one that you just posted three minutes ago? No, I didn't see that, though.

SPEAKER_02 49:11

Okay, well, I found it again, so that's why I posted it. I saw this earlier, but anyway, he's just, you know, he he's going on about if the government doesn't stop the Islamification, that the UK is headed for a civil war.

SPEAKER_03 49:24

Good. And I hope they do, because that's honestly their only chance. If they don't have a civil war, it is a caliphate, and all the people left in the UK will be raped, women, children, and goats, and subjugated.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

But it the point is when you start getting more and more ex-military coming out and saying this, yep, it's a pretty good indicator that some people are getting pissed. You combine that with Restore Britain and all the Amelia memes that we've been seeing for forever now. Like people are getting moved and set up to accept that that is what is going to be required.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

Yep. Yeah, I think it's true. And the UK is on the forefront of this. Uh the EU is right behind them. And it's the EU's ahead in some ways. Look at France. Uh yeah, but France is good at sticking their heads in the sand. But you know, France may become a caliphate before they do anything. Yeah. I don't know. I think Germany we'll we'll see what happens with Germany. But Germany has some people pushing back. The problem with Germany is they still have that World War II guild thing going on to where they think that they can't, as Germans, push back on anybody else because they'll come across as being, well, kind of like Germans. So I don't know, man. It's I think the strongest countries in the U, honestly, are the East European ones right now, like Poland and Hungary. Like they're basically saying nope.

SPEAKER_02 51:15

And Poland just bought a shit ton of new missile defense from us. Yeah, which, you know, that's good. Get some money coming in. And that's something that we have to really hit. You know, we already kind of left Iran, but China has got to be devastated. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're uh hypersonics that were supposed to be able to sink the aircraft carrier. So the reports have changed to where we didn't even intercept them, they just fucking missed and didn't work. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't need we didn't even have to intercept them.

SPEAKER_03 51:51

Yep. Yep. Now there's another thing that's I've seen videos of which originally I thought was just detonations of missiles, but are people are saying no, no, no, these are actually true multiple warhead missiles. These are coming in as a single missile, and then the warheads are they've got multiple. Yeah. Which I guess they could have. It's not that new a technology, but they seem to go kinetic at that point. They're not like fully autonomous. Yeah. They're they're just basically a shotgun approach. So instead of having one big explosion, they're gonna have a bunch of smaller explosions in the larger area. Which is fine. Yeah. You saw, I'm sure, that they hit five of our refueling planes.

SPEAKER_02 52:45

I didn't see that they hit five of our refueling planes. I saw that one of our refueling planes went down.

SPEAKER_03 52:50

Yeah. Well, they hit five of them on the ground. Where were they? They weren't destroyed, they're in the process of being repaired. Saudi Arabia. Ah. They're in the process of being repaired at whatever base we have out there. King Super Duper Base or something. Yeah, King Solomon, some odd. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Something like that. King Solomon's mine. But yeah, so there was clearly damaged. They said five, and the U.S. confirmed it. It initially just popped up in Al Jazeera, but it was later confirmed.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

Um we have been we've been declassifying stuff at a rate that I've never seen it this fast. Yeah, never. And the Israelis, too.

SPEAKER_03 53:34

So during the first Gulf War in '92, I had a security clearance at the time, and I got to see some really cool imagery from that conflict.

SPEAKER_02 53:49

And you mean it wasn't the CNN fake green screen? No. Well, there was plenty of that too, but for those who don't know, look up the first Gulf War CNN reporting. It was hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 54:02

Yeah, where they're pretending that shit's happening around them, they're standing in front of a green screen. Yeah. There was a lot of stuff that never made it to the official news channels that I saw on the classified side. And it was a you know, it kind of set my expectations for the future of how these things work. But I will say during Desert Storm, or no, it was this the 2001 one. What was the first one that we did in 2001? Yeah. Desert they're all desert something. I don't know. It was Desert Storm, but go ahead. It was Desert Storm. Okay, yep. So well shit, what was the the original one in '92 then? Desert Shield. Desert Storm. Oh, does it no no? I'm asking about the 2001 one. What was the 2001 attack on Iraq? Iraqi freedom. Iraqi freedom, okay. There we go. So during that one, we got to see more satellite imagery, but it was usually like months later. But it, you know, more things were declassified compared to Desert Storm. But what I'm seeing right now, it's yeah, it is sometimes less than one day, and and they got declassified stamped all over it. It's like, Jesus, this is great. I mean, I'm loving it. I don't know about anybody else. But also, we know for a fact that China and Russia are both parked their satellites over that same region as we have, and providing targeting data to Iran for whatever they're shooting, drones and missiles. And there's really nothing we can do about it because you know we've been doing that in Ukraine for two and a half years. And it's not considered being involved in the conflict at all.

SPEAKER_02 56:01

Right, but the the good thing about it is our shit's working and their shit isn't.

SPEAKER_03 56:06

Right, right. The Chinese quality of weapons is not great. The Russians, whatever they sold, I don't think is done a whole lot, and and they sure sell haven't had anything to sell in the last two and a half years. So I yeah, yeah. I I think in a lot of ways this has been a tremendous boon to the US arms manufacturing industry for sales to all kinds of other countries. Going through stockpiles, but even just selling, you know, future contracts for shit, like even stuff that's not currently even produced yet. Because if you're France or if you're, you know, some random European country, or even a country in Africa for that matter, and you're shopping for your next set of blah blah blah for your military, you know, you're probably gonna be looking at American shit. You're not gonna be looking at any other country stuff right now. Because the performance has been very good. So, yeah, it's I think the number of total casualties we've had so far, knock on wood, is extremely low. It's basically one per day.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Yeah, it's only been in the teens, and the biggest chunk of that came with the refueler crash, which is uh apparently a Boeing issue. Well, that's a shocker. Not yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:40

It's sad because Boeing just totally threw away many, many years of positive goodwill and heritage. And they're just their quality is just turned to shit, man. In in everything. I mean, depends on the airframe, but yes. Well, the their space programs, shit. I mean, it's it just companies not run where very well currently. Yeah. So yeah, it's it's happening.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

Canada. Saskatchewan now has a secessionist movement that's gaining quite a bit of steam. Oh, nice. So I talked to some people from Prince Edward Island while I was, you know, at the pool while watching the kids and stuff, and started talking to them, and they're all for Alberta going if they want to go and all that, and they really don't like Carney, you know. They don't understand why Polyev didn't win, and it was it was a it was it's all rigged. Yeah, yeah, but it it was a really good conversation to hear what you know some Canucks that aren't dramatically liberal have to say, right? Yeah. Um by the way, and before you get too far off Britain as well, it's official now that Restore Britain has more members than the Conservative Party.

SPEAKER_03 59:15

Really? That's cool.

SPEAKER_02 59:16

Mm-hmm. So the odds of Rupert Lowe being prime minister keep going up, dude.

SPEAKER_03 59:26

Yeah. Well, and I think they do have a path out of this. It's just gonna be a very difficult path because of how far they've let things get. So it's unfortunate. I watching Clarkson's Farm, even starting from season one. It's such a good show. It's yeah, it's it's a good show. I just like my stress level goes really high whenever he had to deal with the local council.

SPEAKER_01 59:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:58

Because it's like, why do these people have that much power to fuck things up for I mean, it's just retarded. Like, here's a guy bringing tax money and utilizing the land and providing food for the country, and they're like, Oh, your your parking lot needs to have a environmental damage assessment done because you're gonna have more than 12 vehicles parked there. What? It's on his fucking land. What what what?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:28

Well, I mean it it goes back to the knife comment I was making. I can't carry out a knife with a locking blade.

Term Limits And Service As A Job

SPEAKER_03 1:00:36

Yeah. Yeah. It's that is crazy. That's just crazy. It's when when you start giving up your rights, you just keep giving up your more and more and more of your rights to that degree. And I was talking earlier with my dad about this. It's it's like, you know, I was right when I was in high school, and I wrote a paper about term limits are the only way to make a dent in cronyism. It sucks because it means also that at some point you're gonna lose to vote in a politician that everybody really likes that's doing a good job. But unfortunately, that's the price we're gonna have to pay so that the bad politicians don't have an opportunity to stay in. And I, you know, I wrote that like 40 years ago, and I'm gonna stick with it because it's still true. It's true today as ever. And it's true for every country. It's just you gotta have term limits. Without term limits, you leave the opportunity for cronyism, for for bad politicians that focus only on survival, only on staying in power, and not on the will of the people. You create a path for them to stay in there indefinitely. It was never meant to be a career. No, and it's a politics was always meant to be a job. Yeah, yeah. It's it's a service, just like serving in the military used to be. Which, oh, by the way, did you see that video I sent? I know I sent you a bunch of videos while you were on vacation, which of course probably means since you had nothing better, do you watch them all on your trip? Uh no, I was walking multiple miles a day and chasing kids around. Well, one of those videos was a guy recounting his story of when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. And my comment was like, I think this is a perfect honest description of most people that join the armed services, and certainly most people that joined the Marines, which is you know, he wasn't doing it out of patriotism, he was doing it because it was a way to get a job that's a lift out of poverty. Uh-huh. Well, not even poverty. Just like he didn't have to pass a whole lot of tests to get in there, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, especially not the Marines. They do coloring.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:19

Yeah, yeah. Now, he did have to be in reasonably good physical shape, you know. I I couldn't get in the Marines as a fat kid, but but I would have been too skinny out of high school. There you go. Yeah, between the two of us, we we could have gotten in as one person.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:38

Right. But uh dude, when I graduated high school, I was my current height and 135 pounds. Really? Wow. Yeah. I was a runner, you know, I did track and all that. So I was like 4% body fat and you know, not lifting weights or doing anything.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:55

Well, and I was on the weightlifting team in high school, and I was 205 pounds at probably an inch taller than I am now. So about you know, six foot four. But but either way, like according, and I remember having this conversation with the the it was the Marino's Navy recruiter. It's like, dude, it doesn't matter how many sit-ups or push-ups you can do for your age and height, you have to be 175 pounds or less. They they had no deviation for somebody that actually had a lot of muscle on them. So it was kind of like yeah, it was like now I I you know I was not like cutting weight like the the wrestling team or anything, so I I wasn't in five percent body fat at 205 pounds, but in high school I was benching 360 pounds, I was doing a thousand pound leg press. I was made of muscle back then, yeah, and they didn't care. There's like this out of out of spec. You'd have to lose that 30 pounds of weight to be able to join. So, you know, they didn't get me as a result, but I would have totally joined the Navy. I was always very like the books I read and stuff, I was always into SEAT.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:26

You would be in the Navy, you would be in the Navy and go and tip the butt.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:31

You know, there's a lot of jokes about the Navy guys, okay? Most of them are not fair, but honestly, if you want to have a uh a true experience of not being treated like a disposable grunt, but have the risk of having your ship go down, then the navy is the the way to go. Air force. Oh yeah. If you want to learn to play really good golf, then you join the Air Force, yes. Yes, the chair force.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:58

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:59

Uh huh. Yeah. There there's uh well, and right now, of course, Space Force, because Space Force is literally sitting in front of a computer.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:07

Yeah.

Court Culture Wars And Public Decorum

SPEAKER_02 1:06:08

So did you see do you know who Judge Van Dyke is?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:14

No, it doesn't ring a bell.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:16

Okay. So this is a Ninth Circuit descent, which I thought hilarious. Okay. California, Washington, yeah. This is actually about Washington. Okay. So I'm gonna read part of the descent. Yeah, it's and I'm gonna do it for shock effect. Okay. This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of the Olympias Olympus spa, a traditional Korean women's only nude spa, understandably don't want don't want them in their spa. They're Female employees and female clients don't want them in their spot either. Oh, so Washington State insists on them, and now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion. You're not wrong. But as much as you might find as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope you can all agree that it's far more jarring for the unsuspecting exposed women at the Olympus spa.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:23

Bravo, sir. Like hell yeah. Yeah, the solution to this though is so easy. I don't know why nobody does it. You gotta have bottom surgery. No, I I guess that might be a solution. No, that's not what I that's not where I was going with this. You you want to say you're a woman, fucking cut it off, dude. Yeah, cut your balls off, man. No, what I was saying is the solution is just to turn everything into unisex. Yeah, well. You want your nudity? Fine. You're gonna have both sexes there. You can be nude together.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:55

I don't really want that, you know. But anyway, I just I find his Yeah, you've not been to Europe enough. Okay, anyway. Like unisex bathrooms are a lot more common there. I find his descent to be refreshing. It's funny. I like it. I like it, yeah. It kind of reminds me of all other members of the court chastised him for it. And he basically came back and said, screw you, I don't care.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:20

Yeah. It reminds me of the judge, not a circuit court judge, but it was a judge, I think somewhere here or in maybe in Louisiana, talking about magazines where you know, normal capacity magazine is 20 rounds.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:42

Where depends on the gun.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:44

Where he was demonstrating it by pulling out his personal pistol and and showing that it it is a magazine that fully fits inside the gun. The standard that this arbitrary 10-round magazine limit is bullshit. But he was doing it with visual enhancements. And a lot of people didn't like that either. Like, whoa, what's the judge carrying a gun for? Because he can. You don't need any any anything beyond that. Yeah, it's it's nice when these guys get so fed up that they're willing to just push back a little bit. Well, and hopefully there'll be a judge like that in Virginia. Hopefully. Just to round out that conversation back to where we started.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:38

But anyway, it was it was very just refreshing to see a judge just go off and say no no more of this. Also in shock politics, did you see the Patriots Patriots opinion or whatever posting hit pieces, uh Patriot takes on Twitter posting hit pieces against Brandon?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:04

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:05

So they unearthed a video of Texas 23rd congressional candidate Brandon Herrera wearing a Confederate flag and recruiting for Sons of Confederate veterans. Oh no! This is who Trump endorsed to replace Tony Gonzalez. Oh, what are they doing? Of course, the replies are let me vote for him harder. I know. I'm gonna have to vote twice now. But like I I'm a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans. You know, it's pretty common if you're of a Southern heritage to have that.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:38

Dude, I I drove around with the Virginia Navy flag hanging down in my car's, like down in front of the window in my car for two years in Minnesota. And the only reason I got rid of it is because it ended up getting dirty enough that it was no longer like it was a little too shameful to have the flag be visible in that condition. But I bought it when I was in North Carolina, I stuck it in the side window of the car, and I drove that way for two years. And it's like, you know, there's nothing wrong with a little Southern Pride. I was also the president of the Southern Cruisers in Minnesota for a while.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:23

In college, I had a battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia hanging in my dorm window. So there you go.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:31

Yep. Yeah, and it it's you know, worst case, it should stir up a little conversation. Best case, you'll you'll get a uh a nod from somebody who knows why you hang that flag. So I don't I don't really see a uh problem with it. And and the fact that it's gotten so conflated with slavery is also a myth that needs to get dispelled. I agree. I also have the the other flag that I brought down to the border when I was down there with your folks is the the Texas Republic flag.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:17

Republic of Texas, yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:18

Yeah, the Republic of Texas flag, which we need to be flying more often, I think. I I like our current flag too, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to commemorate.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:31

Which flag are you referring to? The De Zavala flag or what? There were several.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:37

It's the one with the the round kind of round logo on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:44

So the single blue blue field white star with the yeah, yeah, it's the De Zevala flag.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:49

De Zevolla, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:50

Why is it called that? Because of the man who designed it. Oh. Okay, well that's that's fair enough.

unknown 1:12:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:57

His last name. Yep. So I bought three different ones of that from they're all from China, obviously. And they all had different blue color. I'm like, god damn it. So I I need to figure out which one is the truest replica of the correct blue color. But yeah, it's I I think we we need to fly a little more of that.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:26

Yeah. So yeah, the Daisval flag is the one where it's the blue field white star in Texas spelled out around the star. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:41

Yep, one of the early ones. So what are the other ones? What do they look like?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:47

Well, there's one that looks like what we have now, essentially. So, I mean, flags of the Republic of Texas.

Heritage Flags And Military Posture

SPEAKER_03 1:14:00

Yeah, yeah. So you saw the US is sending a third aircraft carrier to the region.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:08

Yeah, that's George Bush. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Well, it's like five days. But that one gets sunk.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:16

Oh, dude. That's just mean.

unknown 1:14:19

Fuck.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:20

What does the carrier have to do with anything? Jesus Christ, man. It's fucking named after him. Doesn't matter. You can change the name. Don't be sinking ships. You're don't want to be as bad as Tucker here. You know what?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:31

If they touch the boats, you know, the last time someone touched our aircraft carriers, we lit two artificial suns over them.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:40

So yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:46

And the last time Iran touched a U.S. flagged vessel, we destroyed half their navy. Yeah, more than half. Well more than half. Which, by the way, if you're listening to us and you haven't watched the Fat Electricians uh video on that, you totally should.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:02

He's a such a good storyteller. Yeah, I actually suggested something to him, another story that he needed to do a deep dive into. What the hell was it? Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:11

Well, I'm still pushing for him to do a story on Bo, but oh yeah, yeah. You should totally do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:18

Yeah. Yeah, but he's on X. You can you can contact him. I've I've tweeted. All right.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:26

I don't know that I have enough followers to get anything through a DM. So I don't do shit on Twitter, man.

Social Media Virality And Pundit Drama

SPEAKER_03 1:15:36

Yeah, it's uh I I I did have last week I had two posts where I had over a thousand likes. So I'm definitely pushing some stuff through, yeah. But again, it's like, you know, I a thousand likes in my post, and I look at one of one of the posts of people I follow, and it's like 1.2 million likes. I was like, okay. Different category there. But I don't think that's too big. If I can get a thousand likes and I've got less than a thousand people following me, that's not a bad ratio. But it's always, without exception, it is always a post where I either misspelled a word or have bad grammar. I swear to God. It's I always hilarious. I always feel like it's yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. It's every single time. It's like I I do like I say the the, you know, two the's in a row, or I use instead of the, or I have you know, some kind of grammatical issue. And the and the the reasons are always the same. Because I I don't I'm a lazy fucker these days, I don't type, I dictate, I dictate everything into speech to text. Dude, me too. I I generally will read it over and review it and fix anything that it didn't correctly, you know, write. But sometimes you just miss something, or if you're posting at 3 a.m. and you know your brain's not where it should be. And it's always Murphy's Law, every single time when one of my posts actually manages to catch a little bit of virality, it's always one with a grammar error in it. Like, god damn it. It's either that, or maybe people are just like attuned to the fact that if there's an error in it, it's not written by AI.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:32

Maybe, maybe, maybe, I don't know. All right, that's actually an interesting thought.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:36

But it it's it's always it always makes me feel bad when I notice that oh, this one's catching. Oh, god damn it, I can't believe I spelled that wrong, you know? Something like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:47

So did you see, and speaking of unforced errors, did you see Alex Jones on Tim? No, dude, you need to go watch that. Yeah, he is fucking wasted.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:05

Okay, well, lately he's been spewing trash, so right that he's watching him wasted. Really?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:12

Okay, it's like he ended up leaving the show early.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:15

No way, really, yes, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:19

Well, it's that bad. Like it's really sad to watch.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:23

They made a mistake by not hiring me because I was absolutely 100% qualified for the position that they had open, and I would have been a positive influence on them. He would have been all in favor of Israel right now had I been there, and he wouldn't have been getting drunk on somebody else's show, he would have been getting high. So I don't, you know, I don't know, man. I kind of feel like Alex goes through these periods of time. Like, remember when he was in the war with Joe Rogan? Mm-hmm. And like every other show, he'd be talking about how Joe Rogan's totally works for the man, and you know, wait until you hear what he has to say about Joe Rogan on this episode. Really?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:05

Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:06

Yeah. So he's back to that. Okay. Mm-hmm. Hmm. And as far as the pool boy, I just I just found him to become less interesting once he had a kid. Like that to me was the pivot point where he's just like everybody else now. He's not really breaking any new ground. Yeah. So and you were saying he's against the war as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:37

Who?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:37

Tim Pool.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:39

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He's he's thinks it's a mistake. But you know, here's the thing, and we keep going back to Iran, but it's saturating the news, so forgive us. Yeah, yeah. But the fact of the matter is if you didn't do it now, you end up with a north another North Korea.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:06

Yeah. And which will be much harder to untangle.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:09

And and here here's the thing: North Korea may be very isolationist and communist and so on, but they're atheist. They're not religious zealots that believe in dying so that Muhammad can come back. Right. Right?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:30

It's pretty fucking it it's a different sort of thing when you have a state that has a religious theocracy that is bent on war. That is a different thing. And yeah, you know, what what what's come out is that apparently Iran told the negotiators we have enough physical material for 10 to 11 bombs and we're not giving it up.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:57

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:58

And okay, well, we'll change that. Now, how we end up handling the IRGC, whether or not we send troops in, you know, all the Marines are really on their way there. I mean, the that's the expeditionary unit is, but that doesn't mean really much of anything.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:18

We got 7,000 Marines on their way there. Correct. Sizable force.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:22

But the expeditionary unit, you know, that's what most countries would call an aircraft carrier. And they can do lots of things without ever setting on you know, on the ground. So we'll see. You know, you have the Harrier Aviation Wings, you've got the vertical takeoff F-35s on there, you've got Ospreys, you've got all sorts of stuff that you can do quite a bit with. So, you know, what people need to understand is our amphibious landing craft are bigger than China's well, except the new one, but bigger than China's aircraft carriers.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:56

China's amphibious landing crafts are actually quite big because they use them for civilian shit in land. So those are those are dual purpose ships. But obviously they're aircraft carriers, PewDiePie. Yeah. Yeah, I I think it's we're gonna need boots on the ground no matter what. It's just I don't think we need to bring them out.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:23

Is it just a few advisors, or what is it, you know?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:27

I well, the the key thing is I forget the name of the island. There's an island that has all the all the oil export shit. Yeah, we bombed the hell out of it. Well, we bombed, we didn't bomb the hell out of them, we bombed very strategically on it because Trump talked about going out of his way to preserve the infrastructure. So I think the game plan here is, and I'm just pulling shit out of my ass, but it's probably going to be true. Like the game plan is our first set of boots on the ground is going to take over and secure the island. Because if we gain control of their ability to export petroleum products, that cuts them off completely from any financial. Like there's they have some pipelines, but most of their product gets shipped by boat. So that's a very likely first step in boots on the ground is going to be on that island. Beyond that, I think we're gonna need to rely on a two other groups. One is the Kurds down in the western side and the local population in Tehran and surrounding areas. Well, and some of the regular troops defecting, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:44

Not IRGC necessarily, but some of the regular troops.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:47

Yeah, and I think that'll be a domino effect. Like once enough news goes out about the number of military that have defected or flipped sides, whatever way you want to describe it, I think that's going to have an effect on all the remaining troops. Because I think right now, the only reason that most of the troops are not already defected is because they don't and they don't want to get the consequences of doing it too early. Right. They don't want to have another month go by where IRGC is still running things after they defect. They they want to time it so that their defection is part of the big wave and not an early precursor and then they get killed. So I think things will turn very quickly once that wave starts moving. But right now, Trump's still saying the same thing to the people of Iran, which is don't go out in the streets yet. So it's really kind of on our timeline. We're encouraging them to not have the big protests, the big waves to actually do this right now because there's more that we need to take out for our boots on the ground. We need to get to the point where they don't have capability to send drones or missiles to hit that island themselves. And then I think is when we're gonna have the land invasion. And I think right when that happens, Trump's gonna basically let Iranian people know now's your chance.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:27

Let's slip the dogs of war. Yeah, yeah. I I do love that the buff is getting in on it though. The buff? Yeah, B-52. What? Buff.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:40

Big ugly. Yes, the B-52s.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:44

And by the way, if y'all are not watching Habitual Lion Crosser right now and his skits that he's doing on Ice. I fucking think he's hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:54

Oh, he's such a moron. Sword again.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:57

I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:58

It's like stupid drunk humor. Exactly. It's hilarious. Not my not my thing at all.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:06

You just don't like that he has the buff character fucking Russia's mom all the time.

Campus Shooting And Political Fallout

SPEAKER_03 1:26:10

Dude, he's got stupid characters all around. I mostly am just watching all the hot chicks of Iranian descent right now.

unknown 1:26:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:19

So did you see what happened in at Old Dominion? No, I don't follow football. No, this is uh dude, there was a shooting at Old Dominion.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:31

Oh, no, no, I did hear about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:33

Yeah, one left dead, two wounded, and the students, some of them R OTC. Yep. Students. So this is Dominique Evans, special agent of the FBI, Norfolk talking about it. Extreme bravery and courage and prevented further loss of life by stopping the gunman. Yep. Mohammed, whatever his name. Yeah. They do him and rendered and rendered him no longer alive. They beat the motherfucker to death. Yep. Good for them. Good for them. Instead of cowering or anything else, standing up, rushing him, subduing him, and taking him out. Yeah. I think that's and they're very they are very lucky that they did this under a Trump administration and not a Biden one. Otherwise, they'd be facing other charges.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:20

Uh absolutely. 100%. Yeah. This I think, at least from a federal level, the Trump administration is gonna be full Samaritan, pro-Samaritan law kind of administration. So if somebody is doing something in the service of preventing violence, you get a clear pass. Well, especially after someone had already been killed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:48

So, anyway, that's all I had to say about that, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:51

But since you that's all I have to say about when you force Gump now. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:58

You know, every now and then life is like a box of chocolates. Yeah. What do you make of Netanyahu not being at the security briefing? I think he's busy.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:10

I don't know. There's lots of rumors spreading that he's dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There have been a lot of rumors. It's wishful thinking. I mean it wouldn't be a bad thing. It it would be a very bad thing. He is definitely the the Trump of Israel right now. And then you saw the the Michigan synagogue.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:38

Did you just call Netanyahu the Trump of Israel?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:42

Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah, he's got stretched. He's got his distract detractors, just like Trump. He's always being accused of shit, just like Trump. He is very much in let's make Israel great again for enhancing Israeli capabilities, both in the civilian sector and militarily. You gotta look at leaders from a standpoint of their countries. Like this is the same reason I say Putin is a very good leader for Russia because he's doing what the population agrees with and wants him to do. Doesn't mean he's a good guy to us by any means, right? I mean he's supplying Iran with the satellite data right now with drones and missiles. But from the standpoint of the country he's in, he is very good. Now Putin also happens to be not as bad for us because he's not a crazy man that wants to nuke the US. Which a lot of other potential Russian leaders would be. They would not have let Ukraine get to where it got without using nuclear weapons. So yeah, I think I think Netanyahu is the Trump of Israel. I don't like Netanyahu, but he's also in his second term separate from his first term. Well, you can dislike him, but he you know, it doesn't make any difference. He's not our president, he's Israel's president.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:21

By the way, did you see that Tulsi Gabbard is meeting with Maduro?

SPEAKER_03 1:30:27

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:29

And what's that for what? What's the purpose?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:32

The whole rumors around the internet is he's gonna tell him how the voting machines faked shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:37

Oh, now that would be uh like trade that in for a nice like house somewhere where no one knows his name. That would be interesting. Yeah. I mean, if he's got any dirt on that, that would be fascinating. I find that like I already assumed that Biden winning was fake because we saw those completely unrealistic hockey stick type graphs where you at the last hour of counting, you had a 100% of the votes coming in for Biden and 0% for Trump. Yeah, it's statistically possible. Yeah. So already had that feeling five, six years ago now. But I think the more data that's come out since, every shred of data, like stuff from Georgia, stuff from Pennsylvania, it just keeps proving it more and more that that election was stolen. I completely agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:41

In fact, you know, I started writing a little bit of a journal for the kids and do the first Spanish. The first entry. Yeah. Give them a challenge. The fur well, William's learning Spanish right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:54

Yeah, there you go. And you gotta practice your writing Spanish. Uh I'm telling you, it's a good mess. I'm not I'm not kidding. I'm just seriously that's a good idea for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:05

Anyway, the the first entry was around Jan uh January 6th, and you know, just kind of my fears about what this would mean and where things were going. And I in that entry, I went back and reread it. I talk a lot about I hope truly hope history will show how this election was stolen.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:28

And anyway, just been writing shit that'll end up on PBS a hundred years from now. Yeah, that'll be a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:37

Why did I decide to run in the background when I decide to run for Congress or something, somebody will dig shit up and you know, oh my god, he's confederate. They're gonna dig this podcast up, that'll be enough. I can't oh yeah. They'll they'll go to the oriental joke I made on episode like 50, and they'll be like, he's a racist. Yeah. And for those listeners, you might want to go back and listen to that because it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:06

No, we've had plenty of what some people make instead of racist material here, but you know, it's it's not really racist, it's just racist fish.

Bahamas Corruption Stories And Travel Haggling

SPEAKER_02 1:33:16

Well, and there's a difference between a racist and a racialist and everything else. And there you go. You know, you being being slightly racist and sitting here making jokes and laughing, and you know, fuck, I make Polish jokes, I make Russian jokes, I make whatever. Who cares? Yeah. Like if you can't laugh, then I don't know what to tell you. You can laugh now, being a racialist where you're talking about supremacy or this, that, and the other, and everything else, that's a little you know different. But I will tell you, I am convinced if the Bahamas was in a any other geographic location, that would be a complete and total shit shithole.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:58

Like since they won their independence.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:00

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:02

Because it is so it it's it's it's corrupt in so many ways. And there's so many shit laws and everything else. The only two reasons why the Bahamas hasn't fallen into what Haiti fell into is they make two well, first of all, they're still part of the Commonwealth, right? So they don't even have their own Supreme Court still, they're still controlled by Britain. Yeah, that's where they go to the Privy Council from uh the Queen, or in this case the King, I guess. I've never been to the Bahamas.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:33

No, I guess I have.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:34

The other smart decision that they made that I think is keeping them with enough investment from the U.S. to keep up the infrastructure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is the Bahamian dollar is tied to the US dollar. So they can't just inflate it away like they would in Africa or somewhere else. But the mentality and the way the government operates is very much the same. What the hell would be about all this? Oh, I dude, are you kidding me? I I by the way, but while I was there, one of our drivers, one of the car drivers we had, is a former pimp from New York. That's he was a pimp in the 70s in New York. That's and he was telling us all about it. That sounds like a good driver. Yeah, yeah. Uh, if anyone needs a driver in the Bahamas, I will send you his number because he is hilarious and great. But no, you know, just digging into stuff, you know, they're like the locals aren't allowed to go gamble in the casino because they because they don't want them riffrafts, no riffraff loss.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:38

I'm off for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:39

No, no, no, no. It was more about spending all their paycheck and being protectionist. And one of the guys that used to fly for Qaddafi, apparently, came back and opened up a bunch of internet cafes and did gambling online, which they can do legally, and short and made his fortune on this in the 90s. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. And I met a guy, uh I met a guy there who his entire job was he was an import fixer.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:12

Yeah. So literally, he would people pay him to import parts or whatever, and he fixes the invoices so they pay less tariffs and duties.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:23

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:25

A lot of countries know that. And right, right, right, right. But when someone when you're sitting in a restaurant and this was at a hookah place, but anyway, I was having a hookah, and started talking to the guy and all this.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:38

And how was the hooker?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:40

Hookah. Hookah. As in water pipe. Arab water pipe. Sitting there talking to him, and he just says, you know, I said, Hey man, what do you do? And he flat out tells me that's a level of open corruption that is yeah, yeah, you know, not great.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:59

Dude, you you would have the exact same thing in Russia, and you may even have it today, but for sure you had it 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:07

Oh, during the Soviet Union and all that.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:09

No, no, no, after Soviet Union, like like post-Soviet Union Russia. I just don't know in the last 20 years because I haven't been there for 20 years. But when I was there last, that was absolutely the case. You know, I I had guys getting me deals, and the funniest thing that happened, really kind of like this, is we were gonna go to the my buddy and I, so I went there with a friend of mine, and he and I were gonna go to the Hermitage Museum, which is a really cool museum St. Petersburg. If you ever get out that way, for sure, take uh at least a half a day to a full day to go through it. Really cool, great looking, you know, it's it's parallels the Louvre. Except I think it's prettier. But there was you know, there's two rates, one for locals, one for tourists. And when I came up to buy my ticket, I guess I was dressed like a tourist. And so they told me the tourist price. And, you know, it's not like I couldn't afford the year tourist price, and the tourist price was like, you know,$27 or something equivalent in rubles. And so I I bought my ticket, and then my my buddy was running a little late, or he was still looking at some stuff, or maybe he was paying for the taxi, I don't remember, but something, some reason where he came in after me, and the chick that I'd hired to kind of be a not even a tour guy, but just kind of get do shit for us. She goes up to the to get a a locals ticket and comes up with him and says, you know, two local tickets, and the clerk looks at him, because my my buddy's Korean. He's not, you know, he's not Russian looking. And she's like, yeah, he's his family's out from the uh the far east side of Russia. Without him saying anything, she's doing all the talking in Russian. The fucker gets a cheap ticket as a local. Out of the two of us, I'm the one that should have had the locals' ticket, and he should have had the foreigner ticket, and I'm the one that ended up getting the expensive. Well, why didn't you start haggling with them in Russian? I don't know. You may find this surprising. I don't like to haggle. I prefer to not haggle, dude. I don't mind getting a good deal, right? But only by doing my research and and finding a way to get something cheap. I don't like to actually haggle. And I know that this is a problem because there are certain countries that I've been to where I know I've overpaid for shit because I didn't haggle. But I just I just don't like haggling.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:13

Yeah. Well, definitely had to haggle at the shops in uh Bahamas.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:20

I'm sure that, yeah, and see, I just say no thank you. I don't buy anything from those places instead of trying to haggle down to a cheaper price. Um luckily you've got some of those Scottish DNA that you know are super cheap. And so you're you're you are gonna haggle. You have no shame in haggling, that's for sure. No, none at all. Mm-hmm. But anyways, that's that's my funny little story with uh that trip to Russia. Well, that's all I got. Yeah, I don't think that I really have uh a whole lot more. It's I mean, it's all just ongoing drama shit. I wish we'll already talk about Tucker Carlson and uh Megan what's her name? Kelly. That's the one, yeah. I mean she is she's going full candles at this point. She started off as like trying to be a middle of the rotor, but she's gone full-on candles just saying complete conspiracy theory shit. And and taking credit for uh getting Ben Shapiro famous, which I think is hilarious because you know he built his network up that she had nothing whatsoever to do with. But somehow she's managing to take credit for making him famous. Okay. So yeah, just you know, ongoing drama shit that I'm peripherally peripherally watch, but it's gotten kind of boring, frankly.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:56

Yeah, I I am totally not following any of that. So that's you're not even a fan.

Steam Sales And Hyper Realistic Shooters

SPEAKER_03 1:42:04

Yeah, I know. That's totally my beat. You're you're not really gonna have time to play any video games here either, are you? Uh only if I do it tonight. Yeah, yeah, with all this trouble. You know what you really need is a Steam Deck. Check that right in your suitcase. Well, when you get your new one, let me know. It runs Linux. Ironically enough, yes. You ain't getting that one for free, and I yes, I will get a new one at some point.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:32

Well, if you get a new one, I'll buy your old one. Yeah, okay. That or maybe I'll look at getting a Steam Deck. How much is the new one? 600. Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:45

I don't game that much. I know, I know. And you know, again, I don't game much on it because I just bought it for when I travel. I don't touch it if I'm not traveling. But it is pretty cool to have that in the airplane or even in the hotel room. But I also have a gaming laptop that I also don't really touch unless I'm traveling. So, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:10

Well, we'll see if I get to do anything tonight, but I am pretty tired. Yeah, it's it sounds like you're I did buy a uh I guess since we're on this. I did buy a new game. Oh, what'd you get? Uh hold on, I'm opening Steam. I did a remote install of it while I was gone because it was cheap, which is a cool feature, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:35

It is. I did the same thing. I bought a game recently from my bed right before going to sleep, and I did a remote install. And I'll tell you the game I got. I'm popping it open as well. And this game is actually content. I know, super, super awesome. This game that I got is really good for the Steam Deck because it's a fairly low graphical intensity thing. Uh, it's called Microcosm 2. And you play as a bacteria. Okay, interesting. And and you're you're moving around, fighting with other bacteria, and then get DNA from that.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:19

I see recently to be able to upgrade. Oh, Dead Space. The new Dead Space.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:24

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:25

Yeah. And then I got the the new Dead Space is the one. So it's it's it's basically similar to what I sent you for Half-Life, where they've redone the graphics and stuff. Um, did you ever play Dead Space?

SPEAKER_03 1:44:40

85% off.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:41

Yeah, exactly. It was cheap.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:43

It is super cheap. Let me look at it real quick. I don't think so. I don't think I ever played it.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:48

It's a fun first person horror flick sort of thing.

unknown 1:44:54

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:55

Since they updated the graphics and it was like fucking five dollars or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:59

I was like, boom, done. Yeah, some of their sales are really hard to pass.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:06

Yeah. Well, and it was a game I played in college on the Xbox 360 that I will play again with updated graphics.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:16

Well, and at some point here, probably in the next well, let's say three months, I do want to get you pulled into Grey Zone, which is the hyper-realistic military combat sim. That's the one that I jokingly referred to as M16 Assembly. What's that?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:43

Grey Zone? Is it 299 on sale? When did it come out? Because I just put it in gray zone and it's called Grey Zone Warfare.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:54

Grey Zone Warfare. There may be a different gray zone by itself. Let's see how much is it currently for? I'm not finding it. You'll have to send me a link. You type in three words. Grey zone warfare.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:18

Is it Cyberphobia Prologue Proxy War?

SPEAKER_03 1:46:22

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:24

Yeah, it's not coming up in the search for me. That's weird. On the stage.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:27

I'll I'll give you a link to Steam then. But either way, the The Grey Zone is about to release their next patch, which changes a whole bunch of stuff in the game for the better. I really thoroughly enjoyed it in its last version. It's still pre-release, it's not been released yet. Okay. But you know, it's a very playable pre-release, like it doesn't crash at all. It's just they're gonna add more features to it over time. So it's still technically pre-release, even though you can totally play it right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:04

So if I use Google putting in Drazon Warfare, I find it on Steam.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:11

But if you search in Steam, you don't. You know what? You probably have age limit settings turned on. Why would I have age limit settings turned on? Because you are putts and you didn't turn them off.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:21

First of all, Steam should know my age, and that shouldn't be a thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:28

Well, let me ask you this. If you type in the word sex, do you get a whole bunch of games showing up or zero games? Store. Because they Steam sells a huge number of X-rated games. Yeah, no, I get X-rated games. You do? Okay, well then that's turned off. Then you should be. I don't know why you wouldn't be getting Gray Zone then. See, fuck off. You did something wrong. I just don't know what.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:54

I don't know. Google found it. Anyway, cool. I'll look into it.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:57

But yeah, Grey Zone is hyper realistic. It is the opposite of like cartoony games where it's where everything's super supporter bundle.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:08

That's 120 bucks, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:09

Yeah, that's why it's yeah. You don't need to do that bundle, and it's not any cheaper to do that bundle piecemeal. What the super supporter bundle is, since they're still making the game, is you're paying for somebody's salary. Yeah. And in return, you get some cool guns. But it doesn't have like nothing you get in the bundle, you couldn't just get from playing the game. It's just basically you give them real money, they give you fake guns.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:41

Yeah, I'm not gonna be buying fake guns, I'll buy real guns.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. So the game by itself is what 39 bucks, something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:51

And it does go occasionally on sale. I think when I bought it was 29. But and then I upgraded it to the full bundle eventually.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:00

Alright, well, I added it to the wish list.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:03

Oh well, there you go. Perfect. Because then now it'll tell you anytime it's anything on your wish list, anytime the price drops, they let you know. Yeah, which is seems counterintuitive for their business model, but I know, but it's very handy. Because you basically just wish list all the shit that you kind of want, but don't really want to pay full price for. And and then you're bound to see that stuff on sale.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:26

I feel like scrolling through the list of games that's a stack, you know, comes up with the search term stacks. Yeah, I'm gonna end up on a list. Oh, you are totally. Yeah. Like with one game that's sexual Hitler. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 1:49:44

They know your demographic. I at least I didn't do something much worse and tell you to search for furry. Oh, there's some furry stuff that's popped up. Oh, you'd see a lot of furry stuff. I I don't understand the peel of furry shit in general, but I extra don't understand the peel of furry video games.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:02

I don't get it either.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:03

Like you're playing as a dude who dresses like a critter to fuck other dudes that are dressed as critters. I mean, the whole thing is just too much inception. It is. It's it's too many. Yeah. I did, I guess this is one thing since we're wrapping up on the video game thing. Jesus Christ. I I just remembered. So I've been playing Dune Awakening, the Dune game. You know, it's not bad. I don't think it's the greatest game ever. I've played 10 hours in it so far. And the graphics are nice. Not the best I've seen. Of course there is. But it's that's pretty. Judz Ellie. Yeah. It's pretty good. It's it definitely looks like Dune. The worms are ginormous the way they should be. They're not miniature at all. You survive by sucking out blood from people and processing it for liquid. Gross. Yeah, yeah. It's realistic though. That's what they do in the game or in the movie, in the book. So it is kind of neat to be in that environment. But, you know, I'm I'm maybe like 5% of the way through all the progression in that game. So the the negative, the only real negative that I don't like on that game is it is a what do you call it? It's a server, you know, massive multiplayer game. So there's always other people that are you may end up meeting because they're on your server, which sometimes they don't like. And because it's an always running game, like um die. Well, not not just that, but like your shit can get destroyed when you're not around. Because you gotta hide in the game. So, like, for example, I know I have enough fuel for 20 days. The last time I played this was six days ago, and I had put in 20 days worth of fuel for my for my whatchamacallit, shield. My well, for the shields, basically, for my base. But if I would have put less than seven days in, by now that shield would have turned off, and then somebody else could destroy my base. So it's that kind of thing. Like the game turns into a job because you have to maintain shit in the game. Well, but that's one way of them continually getting of course, you know, play and yeah, yeah, yeah. And and they they have added a large amount of content to this game for free. So it's very good, but I still kind of prefer more you know, stuff that doesn't require me to log in every couple of weeks. Because the way I play is usually a lot all at once, like in a week or two, and then I put the game down for a while and don't play with it for many months. And if you do that on a massive multiplayer, you're kind of screwed.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:10

Yeah, I mean, this goes back to why I never got into Warcraft and all that.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:13

Yeah, same exact thing. Same exact thing, and this is where I think Elite Dangerous makes a little better, like a little more pro occasional player kind of setup to where it's not you don't have to deal with anything, nothing can get attacked, nothing nasty happens unless you have a fleet carrier. And if you have a fleet carrier, then you do have ongoing costs and expenses. But generally, by the time you're able to buy a fleet carrier, you've got billions in your bank, and so your fleet carrier can last for a year or longer. And when I took a two-year break from online with other people, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh well, yes and no. It has multiple modes, it has a play as solo, play with friends, or play in open play. So you can be online with a whole bunch of people, random people if you want. And that's more for people that want to do PvP. I will generally play either in with friends mode or solo mode, where the whole universe is running and reacting to what everybody's doing, but the only people I'm going to encounter are NPCs.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:38

Which I prefer. I I would rather shoot NPCs with friends than have, you know, just PvP shit. PvP is occasionally fun, but not when I'm trying to haul shit. You know? I'm like money making and PvP generally are at opposite ends of gameplay. If I'm trying to increase my bank account, I'm going to try and not be the guy that somebody else kills. So this is what I like is in that game, you can every time you launch the game, you can pick which mode you're in. And I wish more games would honestly have that, to where you can control like for that play session whether or not you want to have PvP enabled or not. And I like Star Citizen, which is a game that we'll do a walkthrough at some point in the future, that is all PvP all the time.

unknown 1:55:45

Okay.

Campaign Games Versus Replay Habits

SPEAKER_03 1:55:46

So you could get killed. There's safe areas that you can go to where no one can shoot you, but generally speaking, you could get killed anywhere in that game at any time. Did you ever play Halo? Yeah. I never really got into Halo. I played it with friends on their Xboxes. I never bought it myself. I didn't have an Xbox back then. Yeah, like I said, that was during the part of my life where I was more interested in chasing tail and making money.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:18

Well, the reason why I ask is they've got some deals on Halo Infinite right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:23

So oh, I saw that. Yep.

unknown 1:56:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:27

And you know, it's fun, but I kind of feel like Halo big appeal of Halo is that sort of multiplayer thing, is like playing with friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:36

Oh, I like the campaign, but sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:39

Really? Okay. Uh well, I never did the full campaign because I was the only time I ever played it was with friends on their machines.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:48

Well, the full campaign, it's it's a good story and it's challenging. I liked it.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:55

What's interesting is like when you get a machine that's capable of doing this, playing the all these games, you're you're kind of gut feel is to go and replay shit. Where my general gut feel for anytime I can, you know, whether I upgrade a computer or do something happens, is to do the shit that I didn't do before. Because I didn't have the machine to do it. So I'm I'm generally looking for okay, what came out that I never got because my machine wasn't good enough. Yeah, you are looking for what's the shit that I already enjoyed.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:34

Well, with upgraded graphics and right, right.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:37

But like, you know, like you to my mind, it's like, okay, well, you did that already. You've been there, done that, you played it, you enjoyed it. Find something to play that you've never played. So it's just a difference in mentality. I'm not saying my approach is the correct or anything. I'm just saying it's interesting to notice that you have a very different approach to like where you want to spend your time and money and priorities, and it's it seems to be redoing shit you've already done. But remember, I'm also a guy who never rereads books.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:13

Okay. All right. Well, we'll uh we'll figure it out between the two of us. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:20

You've got six hours to play, and then you gotta get ready. Later, man. Late, later, man. Bye bye. Yeah.