Checking In From Glasgow

SPEAKER_00 0:25

Well howdy Ben, how are you today? Howdy Gene. And uh yo yo yo coming to you from uh downtown Glasgow.

unknown 0:35

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Glasgow or something like that. Yeah, I'm in Glasgow again.

SPEAKER_04 0:39

Yeah. Uh how is how's Ireland treating you?

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Scotland.

SPEAKER_04 0:47

Yeah, same difference.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

No. That just hurts.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. No, better whiskey here. Better whiskey. Yeah. Some people would argue, but uh Well, they'd be wrong. I think I think Scotch is better than Irish whiskey. At least to my palate. But then again, I haven't had a drink in five years, so who the hell knows?

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Yeah, so I got to Glasgow on Monday. And then Tuesday evening I drove up to Perth, was in Perth. And then after that, I drove down to Edinburgh, was in Edinburgh. I went and saw the castle and stuff like that. Did some touristy shit today, and then drove over here back to Glasgow.

unknown 1:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Because tomorrow I'm going to huh?

SPEAKER_04 1:37

I said I I'm pretty sure the UK government knows exactly why you're taking this roundabout kind of trip. You're hitting that ball to protest, aren't you?

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Old Inns And Late-Night Pourers

SPEAKER_00 1:47

Yeah, indeed. But you know, I'm I'm doing some castle seeing tomorrow as well. So anyway, I gotta tell you, Perth was cool, man, uh, in a lot of ways. So I stayed at a hotel that had been in continuous operation as an inn slash hotel on that property since 1699.

SPEAKER_04 2:08

That's a fake year. That's before America.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Okay. Well, anyway, I I had a physical room key for the first time in like a well over a decade.

SPEAKER_04 2:19

Oh wow. Was it an oversized giant giant key? Yes. Was it really?

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Oh my god. It was like the thing attached to it, yes. That's great. Yeah, and a full bed and not much to do in the room or anything. It didn't even have a fridge in the room. But here's the cool part. I asked, you know, what time does the bar close around here? And they said, Are you staying at the hotel? I said, Yeah. Said, well, then it never closes for you. I'm like, huh? Yeah, if there's no one down here, just ask for at the front desk, they'll get the night pourer out for you and we'll pour you whatever you want. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

So in lieu of a mini bar, you have a we have a guy that'll come and pour for you.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Oh, that's too funny.

SPEAKER_04 3:06

Yeah, it sounds like you're having way too much fun in the old country.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Oh, yeah. I mean, how can you come here and not? Like it's been hectic. It's you know, it's a work trip. There's lots going on. I I have lots of work stuff going on. Right. And I'm having to take calls at odd hours, you know, just because just because I'm over here, the work doesn't stop back home, right?

SPEAKER_04 3:29

Right. Of course. So you gotta be in Virginia time.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

Yeah, more or less. So I do have to take calls, I do have to do things, and it it's annoying, but you know, I mean, my God, I I this is part of why I love my job. I get to come here and you know, do something like this, and yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:51

That's awesome. It's great. And happy that you were able to get a little bit of free time to actually do some touristy shit and not just fly in for a meeting and fly right back.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Well, so I was supposed to have multiple meetings. I was supposed to have meetings potentially Tuesday and Thursday, and we had some of the meetings Tuesday, but the Thursday meetings got canceled. That's why I got to see Edinburgh really at all. But I got to walk around Edinburgh quite a bit. And I I gotta tell you, out of all the cities I've seen in Europe so far, I haven't got to spend as much time in Glasgow as I'd like, but Edinburgh is gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Mm-hmm. But I'll spend some time in Glasgow tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 4:31

So you like Edinburgh more than Barcelona?

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Oh, yes, by far. And I like it. I like it so my top city up until now was Athens, but this beats Athens.

SPEAKER_04 4:43

Cool. I've never been to Scotland, so one of these days might have to go out there.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Well, I've got a pint and a dram in front of me as we speak, so there you go.

SPEAKER_04 4:54

A pint and a dram. That sounds very Scottish. Pint and a dram. Oh, a pint. Oh, okay. I thought you had a pipe. Uh a wee pint of beer and a wee dram of whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

What are you double fisting? No, you drink, you sip on the whiskey and you drink the beer. Uh it's a normal thing over here, I promise.

SPEAKER_04 5:15

Yeah, it's always drinking warm beer. Doesn't make it good.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

You know, I had a warm pint of bitters earlier today with my lunch, and it was delicious. My lunch was delicious, man. I had a beef pie that was oh, with mashed potatoes and this gravy. Like I have had some really big shepherd's pie? Yeah, but with big chunks of beef in it and stuff, and it was just delicious. And I I tried tried black black pudding.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

If it's authentic.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Yeah, well, anyway, I tried black pudding.

SPEAKER_04 5:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Delicious.

SPEAKER_04 5:50

Are you making that at home now?

SPEAKER_00 5:52

I I don't know if I could. I couldn't tell them what it is. I would have to trick them into trying it.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

It's pudding. It's good for you.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

But it's delicious. It really is.

SPEAKER_04 6:06

It looks like it, but it's like pudding is not a kosher food, but I have tried it once. And it is I found it a little too salty, but you said yours was good. It wasn't salty.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Yeah, apparently the brand really matters, right? So the brand of sausage that's used to make whatever they're making, yeah, apparently really matters. And the Scottish guy I was with said this is the best. So and it was good. So cool. There you go. Yeah, I've got about four bottles of four or five. Five. I've got five bottles of whiskey to bring back right now. Oh my god. I may have to check a second bag.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

You might why don't you just ship it then? It's probably faster than because then I have to pay customs. Oh, well, yeah, fair enough.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

If I bring it back, if I schlep it myself, then I don't have to.

SPEAKER_04 6:59

Are you gonna buy a separate bag just for that then?

SPEAKER_00 7:02

No, I can check my carry-on.

SPEAKER_04 7:05

Six bottles? Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

I so I brought two bags. I knew I was gonna be bringing stuff back.

SPEAKER_04 7:11

Okay. Right. All right, so you planned.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

I I brought a checked bag, a large checked bag that I really didn't have to have, basically for this purpose. I see.

SPEAKER_04 7:21

That's probably smart, yeah.

unknown 7:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:23

But technically, you know, you could also just go to like a UPS shop, have them pack it up for you, and then just check the box. You know, it's fully padded and everything. Because I I'll tell you, I have broken several bottles of port hadn't back from Europe before. It's very disappointing when you when you realize that all that planning and an anticipation isn't gonna actually happen.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

Um, I that's actually not a bad idea, and I very well may do that. So but I'll have to do it tomorrow because my flight leaves at the ass crack of dawn Saturday. Yeah, yeah, it's a 6 a.m. flight.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

Now, any chance you're gonna miss your flight back connection flight? Or is that you have plenty of time there?

SPEAKER_00 8:11

I I only have an hour layover in Frankfurt.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

So if you're late, you might miss that flight.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Yeah, like but on the way here, on the way here, we were late, and I'm I made less than an hour connection on the way here. So I can I I I I can run through an airport, right? A lot of people won't do that. Six bottles of it'll be checked, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Okay, all right, all right.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

So, especially if I check my normal carry-on bag and it's just my backpack, I can run through a fucking airport, dude.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

Running through a backpack with a backpack, sir.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Makes sense. It will be get out of the way. I'll have to translate it in German. Move out of the fucking way. Snow, snow. Yeah, so CSB wanted me to try a cheese while I was here.

SPEAKER_04 9:02

Okay. Yeah. Some stinky cheese.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

It was some cheddar, some brown cheddar, whatever. It sounded good, but I I've looked for it. I asked the Scottish guy I was with, have you ever had this? And he's like, no. So and I messed, I I DM'd CSB on Twitter and said, Hey, where do I find this? And he never responded.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

Yeah, he he doesn't like you. So it's on him. I tried to try it. Yeah, there you go. Is it is it Scottish cheddar? Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

You're gonna you're gonna have me going to my DMs on Twitter to find out what it is.

SPEAKER_04 9:37

Oh no, you gotta work.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Fucking work. I've been working. It is when in Scotland, try this cheese, medium-colored uh O'Carney cheddar. Sounds cool. And report on the podcast how do you like it? It sounds like whatever.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

Yeah, interesting. All right.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Anyway, Edinburgh Castle was cool, it really was. Cool.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

How big was it? Did you get a good tour inside? Did you just walk around the outside? What'd you do?

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Yeah, I actually paid for a tour so you could go into certain portions of like the Great Hall and stuff like that. They're not normally available unless you pay for a tour. And not everything was open that I wanted to see, like the Crown Jewels of Scotland that are normally there. They're traveling somewhere else during construction, so they're not there. But other than that, it was very cool. So nice and learned learned something about my own genealogy that I'm gonna have to go back to the records when I get back home and check. But I think I found out something that my grandma probably knew, but I don't know that my dad even knows.

SPEAKER_04 10:49

Really? Wow.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 10:52

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

All right, well and it explains something to me that I've kind of wondered for a long time.

SPEAKER_04 10:59

Hmm, okay. You know, I always kind of figured that that you probably had a relative from somewhere in Africa, but I guess now you don't.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Well, you know, the coat of arms that we have does have a Moore's head on it, so see?

SPEAKER_04 11:17

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

It's from leftover from the Crusades.

SPEAKER_04 11:21

Uh-huh. Anyway. Cool, man. So I've been traveling and working. Like a fun trip.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Yeah. You haven't had Haggis yet, though. I haven't had Haggis, not yet. I I want to try it, but I haven't seen a place that was like, oh, that's where I want to try Haggis. I did on driving in to Glasgow, so I'm in in downtown right now, and it is a fucking nightmare the way they have everything just blocked off and just having to go round and round and round, and the diversion signs are not clear. And apparently I can go the wrong way on a one-way because there's a diversion that normally you couldn't do, but no sign explains that to you. So I ended up I ended up just parking at a nearby park car park the park car park and w schlepping my bags over a block. But I saw this.

SPEAKER_04 12:26

Yeah, you're American, you're allowed to.

Cameras Everywhere And BBC Spin

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Uh-huh. Anyway, I saw this at a bus stop. All this ad wanted was 15 seconds of fame on tele. And this ad was banned on British TV. Still want to watch it, you little mass, anti-mass surveillant activist. And it's ad for VPN that they've put up. Really? That's cute. And I gotta tell you, so watching the BBC here, holy shikes Batman talk about propaganda.

SPEAKER_04 12:58

What? It's worse than CNN?

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Oh no, it's it. What I didn't realize, because I I don't want BBC World News is different than just fucking just local BBC.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

What I didn't realize is all these personal interest stories and all these feel-good stories that they tell, they tell, they tell. And the only international stories they tell on normal BBC here that I saw were Trump hit pieces and how bad shit's going, and what's how the Americans have fucked this up and this is going wrong here, and you're lucky to be British. Yeah. Like the morning show that I watched on BBC was nothing but feel-good stories. Oh, and by the way, there's two meningitis outbreaks going on like crazy here at some of the universities. Wow. And they're freaking out about it. But and I immediately go, Well, aren't you all overly vaccinated? How is this possible?

SPEAKER_04 13:58

Exactly. That's crazy, man.

unknown 14:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Yeah. By the way, we're totally not going to post this episode until after I'm out of the country.

SPEAKER_04 14:07

Yes, absolutely. Wink, wink, wink, punch. Yes, we're definitely not going to post anything. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I uh I would like to make it out. I'm pretty sure that that given the amount of surveillance cameras in the UK, that they have your whole path already planned out and tracked out, and you're gonna have a little talking to at the airport.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Dude, the you uh it's okay, so it's not as bad as the Middle East, but you are definitely surveilled here like crazy. You know, they've got average speed cameras on the highways and shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

And and this is something I asked my Scottish colleague. I said, How did the people of William Wallace come to accept average fucking speed cameras and a zero perc zero tolerance drinking and driving rule? So if you have any blood alcohol at all, if it registers at all, jail. Yep. So you could have a drink the night before, get pulled over, a prick cop decide to breathe you, and you could hit less than a percent, and oh, but it registered, so you're five.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

Well, let's hope it's less than a percent. It should be less than a I meant less than point oh one.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Less than a tenth of a percent, sorry. Actually a hundredth, but anyway.

SPEAKER_04 15:33

Yeah, it it's a it it is you would think that it would be strange that Britain has given up so much liberty. However, I don't think it is, because all the people that were actually fighting for liberty in the UK left the UK hundreds of years ago. What is left is all the peasants, all the serfs that just shrug their shoulders and put up with it. And now to that, add on a whole slew of Islamists coming from countries where the only women the only way women avoid getting raped is by hiding their bodies and not going anywhere without a male. I mean you gotta think of this in practical terms. Why is that a rule in Islam that a woman can't travel by herself and she has to be fully covered and not expose any skin? It is because it is considered normal for men to have zero control in fucking anything that excites them.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Yeah. I did see a guy in in uh uh uh St. Andrew's Square in Edinburgh who is obviously drunk, just going off about migration.

SPEAKER_04 17:22

Okay, and like in in a get them out of here kind of way or what?

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Oh yeah, oh yeah. And uh like I was waiting, I waited for quite a while seeing are the police gonna show up and get this guy because like a Indian or Pakistani couple walked by and he yelled some slurs at him and shit like that. You know, like Packy go home or some shit like that, and just really was going off. And he had his dog with him.

SPEAKER_04 17:49

And I mean, honestly, that is one of the mistakes the UK made for no good reason that I can come up with granting citizenship to people in former colonies. Why? Why would you do that?

SPEAKER_00 18:02

I don't know. But can you hear me? Yeah, I hear you. Okay, my browser, the meters aren't reading. So really just noticed. No, you're fine on this end. Anyway, so there's that, and then the the other thing I've really noticed is there's so they don't really care about Rupert Lowe and the Parliament down there because it's not as impactful to them as their parliament here, right? But but they're still part of the Commonwealth. They're they still have they're still subject to the crown, right? And there's definitely some sentiments that the monarchy needs to end.

SPEAKER_04 18:46

So I think that sentiment's been on for quite a while.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Right, but people are actively calling for it that this this should be the last king. Gotcha. Like fairly vocally to me.

SPEAKER_04 19:01

Well, I mean, you and I have talked about it. I always thought that would be the ultimate fuck you from Charles to his kid. And I'm the last king. So we're done. Just dissolve the monarchy. I don't I don't think anyone can force him to maintain the monarchy. But I don't think he will because of the money, but you know, I well but again, at his age, money is not what's important, dude. What's important is legacy. Legacy is what people remember you for. Right now, his only thing he'll be remembered for is having been a liberal king. That's about it. Like he's, you know, all about global warming. But there's really nothing that he's done.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

So it was funny. The finance minister was on this morning and he was talking about how Trump has just fucked up oil prices and this, that, and the other and screwed this up. And but you know, his his conclusion from this was it's just more evidence of why we need to go go green. This is why we need to transition to green. We need to go from blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces. Dude, do you have any idea the amount of power an electric arc furnace takes? You're you think you're gonna do that with renewables? Windmills. Are you fucking to use a br uh to use a UKism? Are you fucking mental?

SPEAKER_04 20:40

Well, that's all they can do is is windmills out there because they have no sun, so you can't do solar. Oh, there are solar panels on fucking everything, dude. Why?

SPEAKER_00 20:49

There's no sun. I don't know. It's the dumbest thing ever. Like, I literally saw a traffic, a traffic diversion thing for road work construction with a fucking solar panel on it. Jesus. At the Glasgow Airport, you know how they have some of those stairs when they're in Europe loading a plane on the tarmac or unloading it?

SPEAKER_04 21:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

To power the AC. Guess what it had on top? No way. Fucking solar panels.

SPEAKER_04 21:14

In the UK.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Do you think that's effective at all? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

That is nuts. I mean, that would be at least something.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Yeah, by the way, I just have to say, having traveled and seen plugs from around the world, I forgot to bring my, this is something I haven't said, but I forgot to bring my plug converters and I had to grab one at the airport.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

I they were sitting on my coffee table in my office and I just walked out without them, right? Just for forgot, brain fart. But I forget how stupid other countries' electrical plugs are. They're huge. They're all retarded. And like here in the UK, they're all switched. So I forget that I have to make sure that the switch on the plug is on.

SPEAKER_04 22:01

Yeah, they're mainly.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

And I'm sure someone's gonna come and say, oh, it's a safety feature or whatever, but it's just it's retarded.

SPEAKER_04 22:08

There's no two ways about it.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

The US has the best roads and the best plugs. Like I can Germany's got pretty confidently saying no, no, no, sir. Yeah, I would say yes. No, and it's in the cities, though. What I'm saying is in the cities. So, like you can talk about the highway system. The first of all, the British highway system just sucks, but that's neither here nor there. Germany has a decent highway system. But the thing that the US has that the UK doesn't and that Germany doesn't is we have main roads inside of a city that may be a surface street.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

But you can move along and you're not going through all different neighborhoods in your roads.

SPEAKER_04 22:52

I'd agree with that. That that's true. But to be fair, our cities were built with roads that are planned. Their cities were built a thousand years ago with roads out of the road.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Okay, but when you've expanded the city and it's grown beyond that thousand-year-old city, what the fuck's your excuse? Yeah, that's a good point.

SPEAKER_04 23:10

That is US. Like, I'm not talking about in downtown Edinburgh. I'm talking about outside. The best planned roads, I would for sure say that. That is definitely the case. But there would always be a I don't know what the hell I was thinking of a phrase like a happy spot or something. I don't know. There'll always be a place for the Autobahn in my heart because I did something on the Autobahn that I've never done anywhere in the US. I drifted a BMW at 152 miles an hour to where the front of the car was not facing the direction I was going. I've never done that anywhere else. Certainly not in the US.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Well, that's just unsafe.

SPEAKER_04 24:01

Okay, mom. Not about unsafe. It's about knowing that everyone is a good driver and you can do that safely enough. But having those rear wheels just break free. Yeah, just break free of the road and start start pivoting at over 150 miles an hour. It woke up the other people in the car. It was it was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

When I've been cars hearing that vibration, I think it was just through the table and the mic stand. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 24:35

I've I've done drifting on US roads at like 50 miles an hour, but that's about as fast as I've drifted in car.

The X Bubble Versus Real Life

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Well, I don't know that I want to drift it any faster, but anyway, so that's the Boots on the Ground report from the UK.

SPEAKER_04 24:51

Cool, man.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

They are very unfortunately, at least the Scots, because I'm I'm not south. So the Scots that I've talked to, only a couple had any familiarity with the Amelia stuff. A lot of them didn't even really register who Rupert Lowe was or what was going on there. So it's interesting to me.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

It's not surprising at all. I'll tell you that. Because I'm constantly reminded by people who are not you or me that I am in the 1% of the people that lives on X and is on there a lot. And we all just talk to each other and argue and agree and assume that we, you know, like everybody on X, is in the same boat. We all find out about things literally 10 seconds after they happen. We all have our heroes and villains. And you talk to somebody, and a good example is our buddy Jesse on on the private group, who actually, you know, he he works for a living. And I don't mean like you, I mean like with his hands. And he doesn't know 95% of the shit that you and I talk about. Like he barely knows that Tucker is a anti-Semite. Because he just it doesn't affect him. It doesn't it it's not part of his day, you know? So I I have to be cognizant of the fact that the vast majority of people are not hyper interested in politics the way you and I are. They're they're not paying attention to shit that happens on you know by the minute basis. They don't live on X. And that things that we like, for example, for months now we've been posting photos of Marco Rubio in different outfits, right? In in oh now we Marco's got a new job. Like that's a hilarious meme. To 99% of the people in the country, you show them that and they're like, I don't get it. What is that? It's literally just like 1% of us that have the political understanding to laugh at the Marco Rubio memes.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Yeah, but I think the the difference here is like Rupert Lowe and the Restore Britain Party is now above the conservatives.

SPEAKER_04 27:22

But again, it's a country of serfs, it's a country of people that don't participate in politics.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

But my point, well, and like I said, the Scots, their defense would be, well, that's not my parliament. No, but that Prime Minister ends up representing you on the world stage.

SPEAKER_04 27:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Right?

SPEAKER_04 27:39

And it definitely affects Scotland. I mean, there's two ways about it. They're not an independent country.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Which, by the way, how pissed should I how pissed would you be if you couldn't vote for the president?

unknown 27:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:54

You know, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

It makes no sense.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

But most countries in the world.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

I have a Chinese car, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

Oh, you do? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's hear about that.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

Well, let's finish this. But yeah, I've got a Chinese car, we can talk about that.

Driving A BYD Seal Hybrid

SPEAKER_04 28:06

Kind of I think we are somewhat spoiled in the US given the rights that we have, that just don't exist in most countries. Most countries, the only voting you really do is for local positions, and then the you know, the upper house you have nothing to do with, and the lower house elects their own leadership, and you don't really have anything to do with. And that's assuming you don't have a dictator. So we are very, very in a small club in the US of countries that actually participate in politics. But even of the people that participate, you you and I and people like us are in like the 1% or less that are actively political, where the vast majority of people, their only participation is voting a few times or once a year if they're you know, if that. Okay. So and it's just something that I'm I'm often reminded of when I talk to people that are quote unquote normal that are not really politically minded. So, but I've I've always been political. I mean, ever since high school, so for like the last hundred years or so, everything's been very I don't care what it is, there's been something I've been interested in politically. So talk about your car.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

So I am driving a BYD seal. A bid seal. What's a bid seal? BYD seal. You should look it up. So it's a plug-in electric hybrid. Cool. All-wheel drive. Cool. And it's very torque. Yeah, yeah, it's actually pretty nice. Someone clipped my mirror last night, but it's neither here nor there in the parking lot, so I've got to report that.

SPEAKER_04 30:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

But I will tell you this.

SPEAKER_04 30:06

I I like I've said I've driven all over 3.8 seconds 0 to 60, baby.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Yeah. And then 80 turkey.

SPEAKER_04 30:13

82 kilowatt hour battery? Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

That basically the engine does nothing but charge the battery.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

So it keeps the battery above 20%. And then you've got electric motors. Like that's what happened.

SPEAKER_04 30:27

180 kilometer range, which is what is that? That's about 300.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

That's on battery. That hold on. That's on battery that's not talking about the hybrid.

SPEAKER_04 30:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

So I have driven from Glasgow to Perth, from Perth to Edinburgh, from Edinburgh to Glasgow, and I've used a 16th of a tank. I'm getting like over 50 miles to the gallon.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

This car looks nice. I'm looking at the interior right now. It looks like it's a little bit more.

SPEAKER_00 30:55

It's nothing but screens. It's a pain in the ass. I fucking hate it.

SPEAKER_04 30:58

It's awesome. It's all screens.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

It beeps at you every five seconds to look at the road.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

You could probably turn that off if you know how.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

It's like, look at the road. And I yawn. It's like, consider coffee. Consider stopping. Fuck you. I'm 15 minutes away from my destination. No.

SPEAKER_04 31:16

That's hilarious. It has an immersive driving theater. And a panic camera.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

And it's also got a camera on you the entire damn time and chin.

SPEAKER_04 31:25

Yeah, it's great. This is nice. I would totally buy one of these if it was available.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

Yeah, well, I I it's it's got a decent boot. It's nice.

SPEAKER_04 31:35

30% charge in just 26 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

It feels it feels good. It feels like a decent build quality and stuff like that. And I've again I've got the plug-in hybrid version of it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

3.8 second acceleration. That's pretty damn good.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

It is very torquey. Like it, dude, it but I will say it's got its limits. So 060, yes, above 60, it's like way slower acceleration. Like there's a dime, there's a hard shift there on the way the gearing is done, or however they've got it done.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

But very torquey, very fun little car in a lot of ways. All the cameras, like all the Tesla top view, and all the that's you know, I don't want to plug my phone into it. That's for damn sure.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

You don't want the Chinese to steal your stuff, dude.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

I would seriously could I would seriously in this car consider not making certain work phone calls in this car.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So this BYE company's got a lot of models. I didn't, I've never heard of them.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Yeah, I hadn't either till I got here.

SPEAKER_04 32:45

So they've got a C lion, which looks like a Porsche I am.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

By the way, the car had a hundred miles on it when I got it.

SPEAKER_04 32:54

So you got a brand new car right off the assembly line, perfect for listening in on all your calls.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Exactly. No, no one else has had this. Send all the recordings here.

SPEAKER_04 33:05

Let's see. This guy flew from Virginia out here. Yeah, let's give him a brand new one that's got a couple of things.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

I did not fly from Virginia.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

I mean, that's right. No, I meant not Virginia. I flew from Houston.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

Houston to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to here.

SPEAKER_04 33:18

Yeah, they know that. Yeah, these look nice. I would totally get one of these if these were available in the U.S. I I've always liked Hyundai for the same reason. Actually, Kia more than Hyundai. Kia ones have a little nicer look to them, but same company, obviously. But it's a yeah, the one you're driving. I'm digging, man. That's it's not bad at all.

SPEAKER_00 33:41

No, it's a good looking car. There's a lot to it, but I hate the all-screen interface. And when you're trying to fuck with something, it's like, look at the road, look at the road, look at the road, and it's like motherfucker, I'm tricky.

SPEAKER_04 33:53

So the station wagon seal, which maybe it's the same one you got, but not the station wagon version. So that's a sedan. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. But it has a little biddy engine.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

That's all this has.

SPEAKER_04 34:08

Guess what the combined driving range is?

SPEAKER_00 34:12

A thousand miles.

SPEAKER_04 34:19

800 miles, dude. 8 to 50, like 850. That is really good.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

No, and that that's what I'm running into, is that like I pay prepaid for gas, and it's like why did I get it?

SPEAKER_04 34:29

And you're you're never gonna use the whole thing, yeah. No! But gas is expensive there. Do you did you see how much the gas price is?

SPEAKER_00 34:37

I yeah, it's been a couple couple pounds a liter.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

So about eight bucks a gallery.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

A pound fifty to two pounds a liter.

SPEAKER_04 34:46

Yeah, so about six to eight bucks a gallon. Last time I was in the British Isles was like before I moved to Austin, so it was over 15 years ago, and the price was about a buck a liter. But obviously, it's quite a bit more than that now. Yeah, that's I've always liked cars with high driving range, which one of the reasons I got my car that I still have, my my Jeep, because that gave had a 700-mile range on uh and that's not a hybrid, that's just uh good old diesel. Because I wanted to be able to drive far enough away from a nuclear explosion to not have to stop anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Well, this would never survive the MP, but yeah, I know that's the problem there.

SPEAKER_04 35:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

This has so much technology in it, it's not even funny.

SPEAKER_04 35:46

Yeah, it's not gonna let you drive unless it can see you.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

But it has a lot of very nice features. It's got heated and cooled seats, right? I mean, it it it is a fairly loaded car. I'm yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't get me wrong. The gear shift is fucking annoying. Really? It's on the column and it's on the right hand, and up, it's like a blinker selector, right? Up is reverse, middle is neutral, down is drive, push in is park. That's all you got.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

Yeah, that's anyway.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

I find that annoying. Yeah. Like just totally like put it, put a gear shift down. Like, let give me some manual control in this vehicle. The lane stuff is really annoying, and I almost got into a wreck driving because the lane markers were gone, and the next lane marker was part of an exit just because of road construction, and it tried to jerk the wheel. And had I not had my hands on the wheel and went, nope, nope, a little bit of an accident.

SPEAKER_04 36:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

I I no, I would have clipped the car next to me.

SPEAKER_04 36:57

Oh, damn. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

But you know what they need drivers. Well, here's the thing, because it has all these sensors around it and it knows when a car's around it and all that, but it was like, no, I'm in my lane. This is my lane. Like it had that attitude, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like I can totally see the Chinese programmer going, no, they're in the wrong spot.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

So guess how much that car costs the way you're describing it? How? I don't know. 58,000 US dollars. That's cheap.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

Yeah. That is cheap. Like, I I what you get. Yeah, so if this were a Lexus or Toyota, this would be a$50,000,$60,000 car just for the Toyota, right?

SPEAKER_02 37:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

And if you're looking at a Lexus model, you're probably pushing$80.

SPEAKER_04 37:51

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

And you said it was how much?

SPEAKER_04 37:54

Uh$56,000.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

Okay, so it's comparable with Toyota then.

SPEAKER_04 38:00

I mean, you get more than you would with a Toyota for that price.

SPEAKER_00 38:03

You think? I think so. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 38:07

Way more tech.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

I haven't looked at sedan prices in a long time. But I'm just throwing out my gas.

SPEAKER_04 38:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the all the tech you mentioned that I'm looking at on the on the their website.

SPEAKER_00 38:18

Oh, wireless charging for the phone, everything, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:21

Yeah, well, that's that's not that big a deal. But like, you know, the auto steering and the a lot of these automated kind of gizmos, all that stuff adds up.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

It doesn't have auto driving, but it'll stick in a lane and do the adaptive cruise control.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

All wheel drive is the most expensive version of it.

SPEAKER_00 38:42

And this one has it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:43

Yeah. So that's why I'm that's why I'm basing that price on. Is that because you it starts at$49,000. But the version you've got is$58,000.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Well, and you would want the all-wheel drive. Yeah. Like you really would.

SPEAKER_04 38:59

I like I dude, I I don't think I've owned a car that wasn't all-wheel drive in 30 years. Because I've I just ever since living in Minnesota, I really appreciate having all-wheel drive. Even my little beamer convertible that I had back uh about seven years ago, that had four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive in it. And it's for acceleration more than anything else. But accelerating a four-wheel drive vehicle allows you to not have wheel spin.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Well, and if you do have a wheel spin, you've got two to three others that have traction that's moving. So, like that's one of the cool things about the way the Audi did their limited slip differential, is it would basically if a wheel started just free spinning, it would take away torque from that wheel and put it to the other. And that was a mechanical mechanism in the original Audi Quatros, right? Now we have electronic mechanisms, but back in the day, Audi did that with a mechanical mechanism that would made that's what made them such a dominant rally car for so long.

SPEAKER_04 40:02

Yeah, yeah, that was a great car.

unknown 40:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

I was always a big fan of Audi's. My first car I really drove was an Audi 100 uh 89 Audi 100 Quattro in a five-speed configuration with the inline five. That was a fun car in the snow. When I was a kid, our neighbors had a only produced about like 110, 120 horsepower, but it was fun.

SPEAKER_04 40:26

Yeah, yeah. But still, you know, having the the four-year-old drive was very good. I remember they had an issue in the mid-80s or late 80s with their cars getting out of park and just starting to drive forward by themselves. But I think that was a quality defect that they fixed pretty quickly. But yeah, in general, I've always been a fan of Audis. I've almost bought Audi's four different times, but in the end, I always ended up buying something else. But I've always liked their displays, I've I've liked their tech, I like pretty much everything about Idiots. It just usually the the reason I ended up going with something else is because I either got a significantly more horsepower, or I got you know, something the Audi didn't have for comparable money in a different brand.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

Yep. But well not done with cars yet.

SPEAKER_04 41:32

I might still get an Audi.

SPEAKER_00 41:35

Well, better you might get a BYD.

SPEAKER_04 41:38

Well, yeah, that too. I mean, shit, dude, that looks really nice.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

If that was sold in the US, I would have a hatchback version and they have an SUV version.

SPEAKER_04 41:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the SUV looks like a Porsche.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

That shape. It does, it looks like a Porsche Cayenne. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 41:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

Anyway, all right. So I think we've beat the travel BS. Yeah, yeah. But they have so they have the BYD Alto 3 Evo, which is the big one. They've got the Dolphin, but they've got the two, which is more like yours, right? That crossover style.

SPEAKER_04 42:12

Yep. Yeah, it's it's an interesting car company. First I've seen it.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

So cool. I I had never seen it before in my life either.

SPEAKER_04 42:22

So I I like that their their middle display rotates.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

I haven't even played with that. I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:32

They go from vertical to horizontal depending on which one what you're looking at.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

So the the version of the car I'm in, by the way, I'm looking on their website. You're wrong on your math. Yeah, and I was closer when I said a thousand miles. It'll do 935 miles.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

Oh, okay. Wow. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Sorry. 935 fucking miles. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 42:52

Yeah, that's very good.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Yeah. And it's quick. It really is. Some of the environmental stuff is stupid, but the the I'm I'm not going to belabor it. But yeah, it's Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:05

Now, how might how well it's going to perform like three or four years after you buy it is a different question.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

Yes, and how long, how will it hold up? And by the way, they have a warning sticker.

SPEAKER_04 43:16

You know, might be just fine.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

They do have a warning sticker underneath the big screen that do not affix anything to this screen. If you do, it can be up to a 2,500-pound charge.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

So apparently that center screen's a little fragile.

Back To Politics And Media

SPEAKER_04 43:36

Well, people probably have been sticking their phone holders on it or something. Right. I mean, I it's a it's a touch screen, right? You shouldn't be putting anything on a touch screen. Yeah, I understand. That's nuts. Alright, so let's see. Let's get back to politics. Not just your travel travel log here. So there was a nobody cares about butcher. Well, nobody cares about any of it, honestly. But so we we've had we've had a number of, I guess, new things pop up recently.

SPEAKER_03 44:19

There's there's a dude whose name I'm blanking out right now.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

Yeah, that just left the Trump admin.

SPEAKER_04 44:27

Yeah, yeah, that just left the Trump administration, went directly to Tucker Carlson's show, and basically did an interview an hour after resigning. That said, yeah, Iran never had nukes, they still don't have nukes, they will never have nukes. This is all bad. Total scam. And it's all just Israel controlling the US government. So interesting thing about that guy, and I'm sure his name will come to me shortly here.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

But do you want me to tell you?

SPEAKER_04 45:03

Oh, do you do you know his name?

SPEAKER_00 45:05

Kent. I don't remember his first name, but it's Kent. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:09

Oh, last name's Kent. Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

Joe Kent. Joe Kent.

SPEAKER_04 45:13

Joe Blow Kent. That's right. So turns out he was a registered Democrat until four and a half years ago.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

Yeah, and he's been on the outside and was a leaker. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:25

Yeah. He's a leaker, but he's been, you know, he ran as a Republican. He's been portraying himself as a MAGA core deep Republican type. And you know, there have been a few people starting to dig back into his background. He's he's cleared out all his social media, so he's deleted all his pro-Burney posts that he had on his. Yeah. His wife is a total liberal chick.

SPEAKER_00 45:55

And hard to get around that these days.

Joe Kent Tucker Carlson Fallout

SPEAKER_04 45:58

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

I mean I'm no, I'm actually being serious there. Like, seriously, it's hard not to have a feminazi wife at this point.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

Yeah, you could just not have a wife.

SPEAKER_00 46:09

Yeah, those are your choices, basically.

SPEAKER_04 46:12

That is a good way to have a liberal wife.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

Yeah, sure. Not a great way.

SPEAKER_04 46:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now that is that is one thing I will say, is that uh I while I was married, my my ex-wife was as conservative, or even more so than I was, so I can't really complain about politics in that sense. But that was a criteria for me for marrying somebody, is that I could not marry somebody of a different aka stupid political association. So she had to be conservative. But anyway, so this guy now this this actually came out on Raw's alert, so who knows how true it is, but apparently both him and Tucker are currently being investigated by the FBI.

SPEAKER_00 47:06

I I actually fully believe that.

SPEAKER_04 47:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:11

Well, maybe. I mean, I guess it could be that he quit sensing blood in the water and decided to just get ahead of it.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

I I so my my take is that he got cut out of the and this is me being traveling and everything else and picking up a few things, but my sense is he got cut out of the briefings. Knew he was getting cut out of the briefings, and when he finally got let go, he had a plan of what he was doing.

SPEAKER_04 47:40

Yeah. Makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 47:43

Like that that's the way I read it. He he was ready to be let go, and that's what happened.

SPEAKER_04 47:51

Mm-hmm. Now the the fun part is, of course, we have Grok that can make videos, and so there's now plenty of videos showing him stealing information from the US government and then ship shipping it off to the good ones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

And the it's a I I think Well, the Turko Carlson one of him in an imam suit and Trump calling him, and like the those are great. Yeah, those are fucking fantastic. Whoever did that, thank you. That brought that brought joy to the cockles of my heart.

SPEAKER_04 48:33

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, and I'm I made one. I made a video of Tucker in a Muslim suit praying. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

I've been posting better than yours.

SPEAKER_04 48:46

I know, I know. But the the mine took 10 minutes to make. These people are spending a lot more time than that.

SPEAKER_00 48:53

Yep. And sorry for the beating and banging. I definitely need a shock absorber for this mic.

SPEAKER_04 48:59

Yeah, there's a little bit of noise coming from your desk, I think, that the mic is in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:04

And that's unfortunate. Otherwise, I think this mic we tested out earlier has been performing pretty well.

SPEAKER_04 49:11

Yeah, it's a new mic. I'll tell people what it is.

A New Mic For Podcasting

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Oh, I forget that we haven't talked about that. So, yeah, it's the pod mic USB by Rode. So it's an XLR mic that you can use. And actually, I would recommend this for anyone who's starting a podcast. Like, hey, what mic and DAC and everything else should I get? Uh-uh. Just get this. Start here. It's got decent processing. You can hear that right now. Like a one to the processor.

SPEAKER_04 49:38

One person at a physical location podcast.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

Sure. I'm just recording my voice talking into the internet. Yeah, yeah. I'm a streamer. Whatever. Yeah. This is this is good. Because it has enough processing and things in it that you can start out with USB. But what's really great about it is it's got the XLR connection on it. So let's say you buy the Rodecaster or the RoadStreamer or whatever, and you want to upgrade and you want to add to it, you don't have a wasted investment. You have a decent quality mic that you can use.

SPEAKER_04 50:08

Yep. Through XLR. It comes with a noise gate built right into the mic if you use the noise gate.

SPEAKER_00 50:16

More than the noise gate, my friend. It's got a big bottom. It's got a big bottom. It's got a voice. It's got a high pass filter. It's got an oral exciter. It's you know, it's got the compressor limbers. Darren is just popping a woody right now while talking about all this. But anyway, no, it actually has a decent amount of processing. And you can either use it with Road Central, which is their quite frankly, dumbass software, or you can use it with like Unify or whatever and tweak it however you want. The only way to edit routing for like the monitor settings and stuff like that is through Unify.

SPEAKER_04 50:57

But for a$200 mic, yeah, it's it's actually the alternatives.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

It it it really is, unless you're going with something like a blue Yeti or something like that. But yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:09

Yeah, which is crap.

SPEAKER_00 51:10

Which I've tried in the past. Those who have been listening to the show long enough will remember and the noise gate there and the everything it just sucked. In fact, I gave it away. But this this to me is enough of an investment that you can start streaming, you start doing stuff, and then you can upgrade later with the XLR feature, right? It's not just a dead pathway. That's what I like about it. Yeah, it's heavy as fuck, though.

SPEAKER_04 51:38

That's the one downside for travel is the weight of it.

unknown 51:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

But sound-wise, it sounds great. I think you're on par. You might even with all with the big bottom right in there, you might even sound a little bit better on this mic than the standard re320 that you have back home. Okay. Well, there you go. You may you may have to try that mic as your home mic for a while.

SPEAKER_00 52:03

As long as it doesn't have me sounding like Larry, then we're okay.

SPEAKER_04 52:07

No, no, no. I can still hear you, so that means it's not it's not cutting out all the high frequencies. Yeah, you can't do it. I I I'm sure Larry is a great guy. I wouldn't know because I've never heard him. Not because I haven't tried to listen, but because when I when I try listening, it just rumbles. It's just low frequency lump rumble. I can't I can't hear any speech. You know, at least Darren has that overlap. Like he can do the rumble, but he can also speak normally. But Larry, Larry is just a little too low for me. I guess the one trick I could do that I haven't tried is just to play their podcast back at 3x without doing frequency adjustments.

SPEAKER_02 52:51

Without doing that. No, no, no.

Iran Israel Escalation And Oil Strikes

SPEAKER_04 52:54

I think at 3x he would sound pretty much like we are right now. Okay. You triple the frequencies, you'll end up right about a 160. Yeah. So other than that, one dude. Let's see, what else has been going on? I I feel like, well, we had an F-35 that got shot down, sort of. It made an emergency landing, so it yeah, it made an emergency landing, so it it hasn't been destroyed, but it's effectively out of battle, and there was some um medical issues with the pilot, but he was able to land.

SPEAKER_00 53:38

What what happened? How'd they get pizza?

SPEAKER_04 53:40

The the Iranians are claiming that they shot it down with a missile. I have not heard anything from the American side to give us anything.

SPEAKER_00 53:48

I'm gonna call some bullshit on that.

SPEAKER_04 53:50

I mean, they have a AI video that shows them hitting it with a missile, so sure.

SPEAKER_00 53:55

They have an AI video of the Abraham Lincoln getting sunk as well.

SPEAKER_04 53:59

They do. And and RT has been crazy posting all the advanced missile shit that the Iran is allegedly doing, which is freaking funny. I mean, like, this is all none of this is a surprise. You know, after almost three years of the US supplying military equipment to Ukraine in their war with Russia, you have to expect that anything Russian connected is obviously going to try and do a little revenge, do a little karma back to the US in whatever way they can. This is expected. I'm so I'm not saying they're doing anything crazy out of the ordinary, but it is kind of funny because we all know that the shit that Iran has is it's Chinese quality. I mean, it's kind of crap. It's prolific. I will totally give them that. I mean, they're still shooting missiles.

SPEAKER_00 54:59

It's amazing that now who's shooting more drones than they are missiles. They're still shooting missiles, though.

SPEAKER_04 55:06

Two weeks into the battle, they haven't run out of missiles. Now, Israel is saying that their 100% of their manufacturing production line for missiles has now been destroyed. So they they cannot create any more missiles, according to Israeli spokesman. But while they have great.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

According to Israeli spokesman, Netanyahu is still alive.

SPEAKER_04 55:29

Well, he is alive. I mean, I saw him shaking hands, all 15 fingers. So it's we we have proof of life there. That's that's definitely not an issue. But you know, until they stop shooting missiles altogether, it's still a risky situation. You know, even though pretty much everybody in Israel is used to going into the shelters when the sirens turn on, and they've had a very low death rate as a result of these Iraqian missiles, but it's still not zero. I think right now the death count in Israel is around 56 people.

SPEAKER_00 56:09

Yeah, but it the Israel still has interceptors. Yeah, Qatar doesn't.

SPEAKER_04 56:14

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:16

Qatar is kind of fucked right now.

SPEAKER_04 56:19

Yeah, yeah. And then did you see Trump's very stern letter about Israel destroying one of the refineries that happened to be a Qatari oil refinery in Iran?

SPEAKER_00 56:33

Yeah, and he he well, he told Israel not to attack them anymore, and then Iran hit Qatar uh in their oil refinery, which basically basically this is a lesson to Qatar. You should have bought more fucking interceptors.

SPEAKER_04 56:50

Or how about a different lesson? How about don't get friendly with Iran? That that's a better lesson. Because Qatar thought that they had full immunity, right? So whoever is getting missiled, even if it's Saudi Arabia, they don't care because they're buddies with Iran. Well, turns out Iran doesn't care that they're buddies with Iran, and Iran is happy to blast them as well because they've had that US military base. But also, you know, when when Iran struck a Israeli refinery, they immediately retaliated by taking out Iranian refinery, and it just so happened, I don't think it was coincidental, I think it was pretty obvious that they hit it on purpose, took out a Qatari one that was an Iranian one. So it hit the you know, two birds with one feather. One stone. Well, I prefer to use feathers. But either way, there they're a oh the okay. It's a different saying in a different language. It it it's something. You use stones, we use feathers. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 58:02

I'd rather get hit with a feather than a stone.

SPEAKER_04 58:05

Yeah? You're not ticklish?

SPEAKER_00 58:09

I'd rather be tickled to death than bludgeoned.

SPEAKER_04 58:12

Okay. Well, just careful what you wish for when you're in the UK. That's all I got to say. Uh so yeah, so the letter from Trump definitely sounded very pissed off at Israel.

SPEAKER_00 58:29

Yeah, at Israel and at Iran. I think he made it really pretty clear that you know, don't touch. And if you if you think about touching, there will be consequences.

SPEAKER_04 58:42

Yeah, because the whole refinery thing, I mean, it's the same thing in Ukraine, right? So Russia wasn't blowing up any oil infrastructure until theirs got droned. So for over two years, the oil infrastructure in in Ukraine was not at all touched.

SPEAKER_00 59:03

And that's kind of the interesting thing, is we're seeing a version of the Ukrainian conflict play out at like 10x speed.

SPEAKER_04 59:12

Yeah. Yeah, it's going at a much faster pace for sure. Also without any troops on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

Yes, so far, however, the marine expeditionary unit is on the way.

SPEAKER_04 59:23

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:24

And the question is, what are they gonna be doing?

SPEAKER_04 59:27

Well, we know what they're gonna be doing. They're gonna take over the refinery island there, whatever it's called. I can't remember the name of the island.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

That, or they could be doing some other stuff as well, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 59:38

They're gonna be called advisors. That's pretty obvious.

SPEAKER_00 59:41

No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not even talking about troops. I'm talking about the act. So with the Marine Expeditionary Unit, you get a lot of vertical takeoff, vertical landing vehicles, you get a lot of slow-moving vehicles that can really do some really interesting interceptions, especially when it comes to potential potential escorting of vessels through the Strait of Hormos. So one of the theorized moves that they may be making is using some of the ospreyes and these slow-moving vertical takeoff, vertical landing gunships as basically we're gonna fly right by the tanker and use it as interceptors like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:24

Yeah, yeah. I we'll we'll find out. I mean, the reality is this war is just two weeks old right now. This is barely started.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:32

And of course, if you listen to we have a$200 billion bill.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:36

Yeah, and if you look at we spent a trillion on Ukraine, according to Trump. That's he's saying our total cost, and a lot of it was not explained to the US citizens, was a trillion dollars so far on Ukraine. So, you know, we're barely, barely moving along in this war. And and frankly, the only legitimate thing that the federal government should ever be spending money on is national defense. And I could make the argument this is national defense.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:13

So I could too. And a lot of people don't like it, a lot of people don't want to hear it, but the way I've been explaining it to my colleagues here, and even some that are Muslim, is do you want a religious fanatic version of North Korea with the bomb?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:32

And I'm not saying all Muslims are bad or anything like that, and I caveat and so on, but do you want a religious fanatic version of North Korea with the bomb? They all say no.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:44

We're gonna have to do something about North Korea, though. We've got probably 10, 12 years to do something about North Korea because the next North Korean designated ruler is Kim's daughter. And we sure as hell do not want a woman with a button.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:11

You don't want somebody nuke in Japan because they're they've got PMS.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:16

Alright, Baron, you're up. You sacrifice his tribute, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:22

There there's been some people talking about how you know giving Baron married off to the daughter of MBS is is the key for peace in the Middle East. Do you unify Saudi Arabia with the US through uh better if uh Vonka and Kushner have a kid? Well, don't they?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:46

I thought they had they no, they've got two kids, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:49

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:50

Okay, then there you go. That way you got a Jew.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:53

Yeah, I think every one of Trump's grandkids is Jewish. In every one of his Right, but Baron isn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:00

Are you sure about that? Unless he's converted. I mean my my point is something more useful. Huh?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:13

He's about the height of a golem.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:16

Baron. You mean a Nephilim?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:19

No, I mean a golem. Oh, right, it sure, yes, yes, no, you're right. Yeah. No, you're right. Because Gollum is a robot. Yeah. Yeah, he's fucking tall. He's like six foot twelve. Like seven foot. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I said he is a tall fucker. And he doesn't smile much, which is scary. Because when you got somebody that tall that's not smiling, you're like, I would fuck you up. Yeah, pretty much. It's like he's planning something. He's he's he's thinking of some shit. He he he doesn't laugh. He doesn't cry. He really doesn't. He just does. I'm scared. Yeah. By the way. Did you watch the Ivanka movie? No. Well, I watched it. Okay, and it's it's not at all interesting. It's basically it's basically Ivanka choosing dresses. And getting alterations done. That's that's like half the movie. Her choosing clothes and then having alterations done because she wants something to be different or moved somewhere else or whatever. And all the gay dudes surrounding her to get that shit done. She really is still is a model. I mean, that's what's so funny about it. Like she's a model that got to stay a model for her entire life by marrying Trump. Yeah, to an extent. Because most models are done by the time they're like 23, which is pretty much the age that you retire women at. So for her, this last surgean.com. Yeah. Just just saying facts, man. Not controversial at all.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:10

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:10

Get rid of the 19th while you're at it.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:13

That we can agree on.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:17

So I think that there's the the interesting bits in that documentary were when Trump shows up. Like most of it is just her. But occasionally there's bits where Trump shows up, like when he's working on his speech or practicing his speech, his acceptance speech after elections. He's, you know, reading it to her, and then she's like, Oh, you should change this word. I don't like that word. And then he changes it. So he definitely is listening to her. Which I don't really like.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:53

But I mean, you would listen to her. No, no, not really. If she was your wife and you were getting laid, you would listen to her. No, no.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:05

Bullshit. Definitely not. No. First of all, she would divorce me. Even if I had even if I had Trump's money, no woman would stay married to me for very long. Okay. Because the personality that you get with me as a friend is the exact same one you get with me as a spouse. And this is something that women think is cute for a while, and then they realize that hold up. Well, that's he actually he's not even trying, is he? And then they decide that nah it's just not I'm not for them. That's all right.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

Anyway, go on.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:41

Yeah, so when when Trump is interacting with her, first of all, the the first thing You notice is dude definitely loves her. Like, there's no two ways about it. This is not a marriage of convenience the way the Clinton marriage is, where they hate each other, but they married for politics. This is genuine love. And he, you know, he wants to make her happy, and he still does, even though he's the most powerful man in the world, one of the richest men in the US, if not the world, but he still very much wants to make her happy.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:16

I mean, he's only worth a few billion dollars. Yeah. He's not even in the top 100.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:21

No, no, he's no, he's not.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:23

And he shouldn't be, because see, you know, but you know, he is in the top thousand, which out of the top percent for sure. Right. No, top 0.1%.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:34

Probably. Probably, yeah. I mean, millionaires are a dime a dozen. Billionaires are a little more rare. Although, you know, there was a chart I was watching recently about the the net worth of the richest people in the world, and for a long time Putin was the richest man in the world.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:59

But family, and there are others that are off the they're off way lower. I don't think so. Well, that like the Rothschilds are just off the charts, especially as a family. And you know, they yes, their wealth is more diluted, but when you look at them as a family, yeah, their overall wealth is tremendous, and most of it is off the books. So that's the other part.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:27

Putin was at 13 trillion, the Rothschilds are not that high.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:31

I there is no way he is over a trillion dollars.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:34

Something you gotta rumorize is if if there was a guy that owned a 50% stake in Apple, literally owned half of Apple right now, and then he owned that in multiple companies, he would be richer than Musk. And when Russia fell apart, there are no Russian companies worth a hundred billion dollars. No, no, it's that's absolutely true. Because it's not currently in Russian companies. That's the thing. But when Russia fell apart, a lot of what became companies that were not companies had to make deals with politicians, and so all of a sudden, people that had been maybe had a net worth of one million all of a sudden ended up with net worth of 100 million or even more. And so having that for many, many years, for over 20 years, being able to diversify that anyway, there's a video and it's it's got a breakdown and a chart and everything else. And I think that, yes, there are certainly people that are in the West that have had lots of money in a lot of companies, and they're not easily connected to it. And you can you can make the conspiratorial arguments about the Rothschilds and how much money there's no conspiracy about the Rothschilds, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:12

Look at what happened during the Napoleonic Wars. The Rothschilds are some dastardly motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:20

Well, but that you're going back to the Napoleonic Wars. I mean, that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:24

Yes, and that's when they really took over shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:28

Okay, and let's ask Grok, what's the net worth of the Rothschild family using publicly available information?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:36

Yeah, that's the problem.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:39

That's why it's a conspiracy. If it's not publicly available, it means you don't know what it is, which means you're guessing, which means it's conspiracy. Well, absolutely. I'm watching a video that's talking about it. I don't have any knowledge of it. I don't know what it's worth.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:54

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:55

Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:57

What did Brock say?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:59

Well, it's I gotta spell Rothschild properly to get an answer on that.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:03

Oh boy, we're fucked. It's not although you can spell Natulev correctly.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:12

Well, I I don't even know what that is. Alright, here we go. Rothschild. So summary. They are worth verifiably 22 billion.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:29

With an estimate that is non-verifiable that people have of 300 billion. And an absolutely upper plausible estimate based on conspiracies of 500 billion. So half a trillion. Yeah. Any claims of trillions or control of world finance are unfounded, Groc says. Oh. Okay. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:56

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:57

They they own with Tony Russell.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:00

I only care who makes their money.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:04

Yeah, I mean, you know, this is something I've said for a long time. That the the the biggest mistake I made in choosing a college major was not choosing finance.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:15

Mm-hmm.

Bitcoin Gold And Hard Assets

SPEAKER_04 1:12:17

Because that would be where I would point anyone who has at least a non-hatred of math. Any kid who doesn't absolutely hate math should just go into finance. It is the easiest way to make money. You're basically you you can be average. Nothing at all special about you. And be able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. And it's it's something that you can do in other professions, but with a lot more work. So that that is the one regret I have in going down the path that I did is I never ended up going into finance. But anyway, you know, money makes money. So speaking of money, Bitcoin is at 69.9, which I think down from yesterday, but it's still up from where it was at its bottom of like last month.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:24

Yeah. Okay. So I don't really pay attention to the Bitcoin price. I know, but a lot of people do. You know, by the way, I I'm I'm gonna start actually. I I think I'm gonna start here regularly putting a percentage of my monthly budget towards precious metals. Oh, metals.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:47

Now you want to store them locally, or do you want to just have an account?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:50

No, I know I know paper contracts, new paper contracts, all physical.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:54

So you want to actually have bars of gold or silver? Correct. I yeah, I mean, I could see I could see pros and cons to that. The problem, the con, the biggest single con is if there's a if there's a downturn and the the price goes down on gold, for example, selling physical gold isn't gonna get you as much as being able to just have an automatic sell order for a price change.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:26

Sure, but when you look at the silver contracts that have been sober extended and everything else, I don't want to touch that.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:32

So yeah, yeah. I think it all depends on how you want to use it. The other thing that I've said for a long time is if the shit really hits the fan, lead will be more expensive than gold.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:48

Well, lead in certain forms, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:50

Yeah, well, yeah, yeah. Lead and brass. Lead inside of brass will be more expensive than gold.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:55

Manufactured rounds of ammunition. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:59

So if you want to make an investment for shit hits the fan, get yourself a Lee press.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:05

And uh some raw material or whatever. But I will say on single stage presses, no one should be if you're doing a single stage press, don't give a fuck about the brand. Like really.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:16

Yeah, that's a matter. And if you're doing a single stage, don't do it. Just get a get a press that lets you do the full deal.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:22

No, no, no. No. Gene as someone who has loaded more rounds than Gene, a single stage press is extremely useful, especially for like a car.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:33

How many rounds I've loaded?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:34

I don't know how many.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:36

Zero. Okay. My dad loaded rounds for 20 years. So I've always had somebody I could just talk into loading my ammo for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:45

As someone who has actually loaded tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. A single stage press, especially when you're developing a round or you're doing something for like a very high pressure cartridge and you want to be very precise with it, a single stage is fine.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:02

In fact, what Ben's saying is he's a cheap Scott. And if you're not Scottish and you're not as cheap as him, just get the real deal right off the get-go.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:12

You don't need to go to a progressive press, though. You can go to a turret press. And a turret press is kind of an in-between. In fact, if you were going to do a let's say you wanted to reload a bunch of 9mm or 556, go to a turret press. If you're not, if you're not making boutique ammo, but you want to mass manufacture to an extent without spending thousands of dollars, go to a turret press. When you go to a progressive press, now price really matters, and you're going to spend some money and get a dillin done.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:42

Yeah. Yeah. And you and then you're you're set. You don't have to fuck with anything else for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:50

But but I will say, no matter what press I have available, I still want a single stage for certain reasons. Like even if it's just sitting there as D priming or doing case modifications or part of my trimming routine, like a single stage press is useful to have. Sure.

unknown 1:17:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:10

You know, it it's see. Let's see how much a Dylan is gonna run me here if I order one right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:19

Well, depends on which one. Definitely get one that's capable of a decent sized rifle cartridge. Because you can always go down in caliber, but you can't always go up. Like if you get a pistol one, you may be stuck with pistol cartridges.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:34

Right. So 800 plus. Okay. Let's do that. And we want to do three weights. And let's do the upgrade on it. So yeah, 1400 bucks. And you're set.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:04

For one caliber. Nope, nope, that's nine millimeter, 45, and 308.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:11

That's three calibers. I don't think it's I mean, I'm sure there might be other crap you're gonna need to buy along with that. But you're which bottle did you go with? The 750XL. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:27

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:27

Or XL 750, I guess it's called. But anyway. I I have uh I don't want to say zero, but very little interest in tinkering with rounds since I never got into loading. But my dad did it for about 20 years, and so I I've I've watched all the progression that he did. Well, it was a good hobby for me. It was a good hobby for him to have for me. So because I could I could get rounds made. All I had to do was buy the the brass and the lead, and then he would take care of doing the actual uh assembly. And and so I got a whole bunch of really nice nine meter nine millimeter plinking rounds for shooting at the range.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:20

Does he still have his press?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:22

No, no, he sold out that before they moved. Damn it.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:24

I was gonna say, does he want to get rid of it and get some retirement money?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:28

He he was he cleaned house pretty well when they moved out of Minnesota.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:32

Uh why didn't you buy it?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:34

Uh, because I had zero interest in it, remember? That was a good reason for it. First of all, second of all, dude, he he didn't even sell me his frickin' guns when he moved, which I told him, I'm like, hey, you're moving, you're probably not gonna use these again. You know, keep a shotgun, I'll buy the rest of your guns. He was like, nope. So then it it took what did he do with them? Well, it took 20 years before he gave them to me. So in the end, I got them for free, but you know, it's like 20 years later, and it's not like he used them when they moved. The I think he he said he went to the range once after moving out to Washington State.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:16

In in all honesty, though, like if my son came to me and said the same thing, he'd be like, fuck no, you can wait till I'm dead to get my guns, you bastard.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:24

Yeah, I I could see that. I mean, it was actually, I think, my mom, because I I actually did buy my dad because my dad used to compete, so I bought his competition 45 from him over 20 years ago. And then I find out a couple days later that my mom had apparently talked and he reversed that sale. And he was like, Yeah, no, I'm I'm I don't want to make your mom unhappy, so I'm not gonna salt you. I'm like, What do you mean? We had a deal. It's like, yeah, sorry, not gonna happen. So my mom So your dad's an Indian giver. Well, he's not a giver. I mean, yeah, it wasn't an Indian giver, it was a purchase, but he definitely reneged on something that I thought was a done deal. You know, I'm like, you know, there was a reason that I told him to bring it to a restaurant when we got together for food instead of doing it at their house, because I knew my mom didn't want me buying his gun, which had nothing to do with guns. Like, I already had a bunch of guns and she wasn't anti-gun at all. She thought that my dad, like supporting what she considered to be a bad habit from a financial standpoint, was bad. So she thought that I should be doing things like saving money to buy a house instead of spending money on guns. So, you know. I I understand where she's coming from. She was wrong, but I understand where she was coming from.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:00

And you should always buy more guns.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:02

Yeah, I mean, like, there's I I've not lost money on almost any gun that I've sold that I eventually did sell.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:13

Which, by the way, I definitely got some weird looks sitting in public watching the Darwin Award video on the phone.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:25

Yes, I bet you did.

Gun Culture And Personal Security

SPEAKER_03 1:22:27

Yeah, it's the fuck is this?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:30

One of my favorite videos of that Portuguese couple that they're the Europe, you know, Europeans who love Texas. One of my favorite videos of their trip to Texas was when they went to the gun range in uh in uh San Antonio. Because you know, they're like guns are these I can just buy this? What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, no, that was when they went to Cabela's. When they went to Cabela's, they were like the jaw was on the floor. It's like there are more guns here than probably in the armory in their city. And this is a one of many stores.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:06

Well and that's something I've explained to a lot of people here is you know, normally I walk around with two pocket knives, one of which would be a crime in your country, the other which I would have to it would have to be related to my work to legally carry it. And normally when I walk outside my door at my house in Texas, I carry a gun on my head. And they're just like, huh? Yeah. Huh? You really do that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:33

Why? Why not? Well, and that's why guys like Tucker and Isla could talk talk about Tucker said, you know, Israel's the most dangerous country in the world because every person there is liable to be walking around with a firearm.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:48

That's not true, though.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:49

Really sounds like America first, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:52

Well, but their gun control laws are actually pretty draconian.

Influencers Grifts And Backstories

SPEAKER_04 1:23:56

They're yeah, they're they're crappy. They're they have absolutely crappy. That's the thing. Israel is not a like the country that it's made out to be by the people that dislike it. It's a lot more it's communist. It's more communist. I mean, it's not communist, but it's more communist than people think it is. It's got a lot more liberal kind of attitude. It's and there's a lot of American Jews, they're like, I really wish Israel was more conservative. It's just not conservative enough. You know, other than the usual ilk of like Megan Kelly, you know, at a great old age of 55, deciding that her comments on her show, on her podcast, ought to be calling Mark Levin's penis to be small, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:53

Like which, by the way, I mean, he's Jewish, of course.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:57

Yeah, well, yeah, Jews have pretty big penises. But either way, like is a grandmotherly woman. What did you just admit to? Is that Jews have big penises?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:09

Is that would you know this?

SPEAKER_04 1:25:11

Well, I'm Jewish for one, but yeah, that's if you have if you have grandmother age, if you have grandmother age women making cracks about guys' penises, then I'm saying the gloves are off. So I immediately made a use a little little grok magic and made a nice picture of Megan Kelly holding up a little sign that says that what was it? I want to pick the right words that I had in here.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:40

Need evaginal plastic.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:41

No, no, no, no, no. It was it was better than that. It was I mean, I could say the other I want to just make sure I have the right words for exactly what I put on there. I don't want to lie. Massive cunt. So I wrote massive cunt on there.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:58

Because really, I mean, you know, if you gotta start talking about the size you gotta defend Mark Levin's micro penis to validate your own.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:15

Yeah, there it is. Because no, huge cunt. Sorry, I said giant, huge cunt is what I put on there.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:21

Because I just think you're compensating for something.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:25

Gloves are off. Gloves are off, so you might as well join in. Yeah, hey, she said it first, she opened the gate. It's it's like anything else, like you know, if if the other person is the first to hit you, guess what that means you can do. You can hit him back. Yeah. So and then you saw my my image of Tim Pool. I actually had a whole little song of Tim Pool.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:51

Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:52

Pretty sure I see.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:53

Did you see the uh bagpipe bagpipe player? I did, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:57

Somebody said he looked like a relative.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:59

Right, and I went back and looked and kinda mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:05

Yeah, no, it's you know, it didn't have to be asked him his name by the way.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:10

What? Huh?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:11

No, I didn't, but in our group chat, one of the one of the other guys was like, Is that your brother?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:16

Mm-hmm. So you know, I used to sell bagpipe jokes.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:22

TCN, uh Tucker Carlson Network, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:24

Uh huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:27

Yeah. Wow. You think uh Tim Pool's back to his roots, huh? Yeah. Well he is.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:35

I mean, he was a lefty. He always talks about how he was a lefty. He's a lefty.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:41

But why why are you saying he grifted?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:44

Because he was pretending to not be a lefty for a while. All these people. Here's my problem, dude. How many times have you voted for Democrat?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:54

Zero.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:55

Zero.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:56

Ask me how many times I voted for a Republican.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:58

Don't care. I'm in my 50s. I voted for a Democrat zero times. Tim Poole, Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, all these fuckers. You ask them how many times they voted for Democrats, it ain't zero. It is not zero. And I all these Johnny come lately's, oh, I used to be a Democrat, and now I've decided I'm gonna be a Republican. You know what? Fuck off. Don't need you here. Go go away. Okay. So And the the other chick, what's her name? The the Catholic chick that was all like Catholicism says we have to hate Jews. What was her pre-Gene? Something pre-Gene. I have no idea who you're talking about. Really? She was the chick that was on Trump's panel for religious diversity or some shit like that. Seriously? You missed that whole thing?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:02

Wow. Apparently. I'm out of it. I'm tired and I'm hungry. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:06

Well, too bad. Her name is something pre-Geene. Caroline. Caroline Pregene. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:20

Pre Gene.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:22

P-R-E-J-E-A-N.

unknown 1:29:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:26

Pregen? Pregen? Pregene? I don't know. It looks like the word pre next to the word J-E-A-N. Gene. So she was she got famous in a hurry here in the last two weeks by leading this panel. She wasn't even leading. She was one of the people on the panel about religious something or other. Religious Liberty Commission, that's what it's called. Religious Liberty Commission. And basically just completely turned their presentation into a I'm Catholic and Catholics don't like Jews. And she was wearing a Palestine pin. And then things started coming out about her, which was awesome. Like, first of all, she's been a Catholic for all of six months. It's always these people that discover religion and now are the most like uh the converts are always the most fervent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Very fur fervent is a good word for it. And speaking for that religion, literally right after you converted. So got called out on that. And then it turned out because she was actually Miss California. Doesn't look like it. If you look at her now, you'd be like, You're kidding me? That does not look I'm missing anything. But she was Miss California. And which is how she knows what's her name? The uh TP USA chick. Which TP's wife is Charlie's wife.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:09

Okay, yeah, yeah. But she is if you meant Candace or who?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:12

No, no, no. But like Candace, she is also against Charlie's wife. So she's in the Candace bandwagon. And you know, the people started saying, well, it's jealousy. Well, then some people started doing a little more digging and then found her porn videos. Oh. Miss Catholic, you know, we hate Jews.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:36

And you're gonna send me links, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:38

Oh yeah, no, I thought I already did. I mean, it's not very good production quality. But uh you know, she's got tits, she's got big tits, you know, fake type yeah, your tape with the fake tits and everything. But it's like, okay, this is this is the typical thing you find out about a lot of these people is that they're they're recent converts and their past is their their whores. And and so they are they are transferring their inherent self-hate to a third party that they can then blame. Which is also why they find religion, because they they would they want to get rid of that self-hate that they have for themselves, and uh religion, certain religions, in fact, most religions, frankly, allow you to do that, allow you to get rid of the self-hate and then blame somebody else for it. Islam certainly does that, certain strains of Catholicism certainly do that. So it's it it all makes sense, but her moment in the spotlight, I think, got short very quickly by people digging up a little bit about her past.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:54

And and pointing out the absolute well, it's like that one commentator on that Tim had on for a while. Exactly that same thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:04

Yeah, the guy that was running like the men's group or whatever, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:09

That ended up having an OnlyFans with his wife.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:11

OnlyFans, not not if that would have been that would have been weird, but it was way worse than that. He had an OnlyFans where he was getting money from gay dudes to fuck himself in the ass with a dildo. And there goes our PG 13 rating for this episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:29

We were already past it, but okay. And oh bad visual.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:35

That was the Liminal Something Club as he had the liminal something. I forget his name, but that was one of the issues where I like stopped paying for Tim Pool at the time because he was still supporting him during that whole thing. I was like, dude, yeah, you gotta you gotta deal with reality. You booked a bad guest, okay? And you gotta move on.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:56

A bad regular guest.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:57

A regular, yeah. He was a regular, that's true. He was there quite a lot. And he was a did he? I don't remember. He was a something that always bothered me was he had he had fake beard coloration, meaning, you know, I've I've got a long beard, I've been around a lot of dudes with beards. I know you're gonna make a joke about that, but like I've been to the world beard competition.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:26

It's just been some dude's beard, I don't know. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:28

Yeah. I knew you were gonna go there. World beard competition. Like, I I know when men start getting gray hair in their beard, I know what it looks like because it it's the same for everybody. The same part of your beard starts getting gray first. This guy was the exact inverse. Like the gray in his beard looked like it was applied chemically and not naturally, or the or conversely, maybe his whole beard was gray, but he was doing a you know color job on his beard to put some color back to make himself look younger, and he decided to make it look realistic. He would leave a portion of it gray, which is normal for beards, it doesn't all go gray at once, you get streaks. But in his case, the part that is usually the last to go white for him was the only part that was white, and the rest of it was still colored. So I always suspect darkly colored, yeah. So I always suspected there's something's something's up with that. I don't I don't trust the man like that with a wrong-looking beard. That's a sure sign of something being up.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:40

So, what's that say about you?

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SPEAKER_04 1:35:42

Well, my beard's all natural. So it's definitely and you can definitely tell in my beard when I've had stress, because it you can see like the last three years of my life in my beard, basically. And and so you can tell like when I've been in stress and when I haven't been, because the gray, and really what I mean by gray is white, comes in very quickly and heavily when there's a lot of stress, and it doesn't at all change when there's very little stress. So a dude that is old with a beard that's not white has had a fairly stress-free life. And that note, unless you got something else, we can wrap it up.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:31

No, man, I'm I'm good. Like I said, I've been traveling and I am I'm like I'm actually yesterday and today for pretty adjusted, but I haven't eaten yet, so I'm ready to go eat. But you know, adjusting to I always find it harder to go east than I do west.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:51

Mm-hmm. I think everybody does.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:54

I don't know. A lot of people are saying the opposite, but I always find it.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:58

You lose time when you go east, you lose time. So you feel like you're still not tired by it at 2 or 3 a.m. If you go east. Right. If you go west, you stretch the day so you can have that long ass day to where by the time you you really get tired, it's you're very close to what the normal time is when you're going west. Depends how far, obviously. But if you're going like to Hawaii or something, I find Hawaii is super easy to adjust to.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:31

Yeah, Hawaii was easy and fuckwam was easy, you know, because you're just skipping a day, essentially.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:38

Yeah. And in when I've gone to Europe, uh it's usually the first day is fine, but I stay up too late, and it's the second day is where I really start to pay it.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:50

But but flying back to the US will be easy.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:52

Oh, yeah, yeah. And I'm finally, but today and yesterday I'm pretty adjusted and good. Today was really good. And uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:02

One thing I mentioned to you, I'll mention on here just to see if anyone cares one way or the other. But something I I would like to do next time, and when you're back in in the US, I didn't want to do it this time around, is uh try streaming the live recording of us recording this on an X because it's pretty simple to do. Okay, and I think it may help us with getting some more X why don't you figure out how to do it on the Noagenda stream too? No, that that's not gonna help us. Everybody on the No Agenda stream that is gonna listen to this show already does. We're not gonna get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:43

You could end up with some rando getting it, but you know, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:46

Dude, we're played on no agenda stream, just not live. And when we record this, which is not always at the same time and not always on the same day, mostly because of not me.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:59

I'm always on the same bat channel or same battery.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:02

Exactly. And you can't do well, I mean you could, but you know, you're gonna be competing with other people that do stick to a schedule for recording or doing a live stream on there. But I've told you before, all you gotta do is just talk to Darren. He can walk you through it.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:19

I just I don't want to well, there you go. I don't want to commit to a time fully.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:24

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:25

That's I I have a life. But going on X, you know, if this podcast takes off and and we end up making no agenda money, then maybe I would obviously not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:36

But exactly but we certainly could get a few new listeners if we're on X, because what happens when you're streaming on X is if you follow that person or if somebody that you follow follows that person, you will see the little notification that there's a live stream going on, and then you still have to click on it to actually go listen to it. But I found you know live streams, like I I I mentioned to you this morning that I totally randomly ended up on a stream that had a a rabbi that I watched his videos that he ended up joining that stream on X, which was hilarious because it took him even longer than takes you to get this shit done. Because it's you know, he's the first time he's actually done a stream on X. So he took about half an hour for him to figure shit out.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:29

It doesn't take me any time to figure shit out.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:31

Thank you. I'm I'm always the one waiting, though, somehow. No, not always, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:37

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:38

And on that note, we'll talk about it later, Gene. We'll see you when you're back. Bon voyage.