SPEAKER_00 0:25

Mowdy Ben, how are you today?

SPEAKER_05 0:28

It's it's been interesting week, Gene.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Yeah? Is that why you're sounding like a chipmunk?

SPEAKER_05 0:34

No, apparently while playing games, and my computer just went to sleep randomly. When playing games, I apparently hit the voice disguise button on my my little roadcaster here.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

And is that is that the voice that you use when you leak information from your CIA job?

SPEAKER_05 0:56

No, it's just a default button that's sitting there.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Okay, you use a different one. Gotcha. I wouldn't use author shift equipment for that. Jeez. Of course not. Oh, so it's been a little while since we did a recording. Partly my fault, partly your fault. Mostly yourself. Well, because I said, look, I got nothing today. Let's wait a couple days, and you're like, okay. And then I didn't hear it from you for a week.

SPEAKER_05 1:21

And then well, we said we were going to do it on Friday, and then both of us forgot until it was way too late in the evening. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

So I'm blaming you. Anyway.

SPEAKER_05 1:34

I think there's mutual blame there. I'm happy to accept secondary blame.

Cyberpunk Side Missions And Replay Value

SPEAKER_00 1:40

You hold on to the primary. Uh-huh. Well, mm, you've been playing video games, huh?

SPEAKER_05 1:47

Yep, yep, yep. Found uh some interesting stuff in Cyberpunk. That's for sure. It's been fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Still on Cyberpunk, but you're almost done.

SPEAKER_05 1:58

Well, I'm I could end it at any time at this point, but um I'm just doing it.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

You're having fun doing side missions. Yeah. Or have you gone back and redone a part of it?

SPEAKER_05 2:08

No, I'm just going through and doing side missions right now.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you that is another way you could do it, is you could just back roll to what you did and then make different choices, but I think it's actually more fun just to replay it from scratch at some point.

SPLC Controversy And Indictment Talk

SPEAKER_05 2:22

Oh yeah. Anyway, Southern poverty law, dude.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Yeah. So Elon texted about it. Oh, what did he have to say? Shut it down. Just those words. That's all he said.

SPEAKER_05 2:39

Well, I we've got a good start.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Yeah, but I mean, that place for people like you and I, that place has always had a very negative connotation. Oh yeah. And a lot of not so above the law kind of activities going down. I mean, you you certainly heard plenty of rumors, let's put it that way. But you know, getting them for financial crimes, that's that's gonna be hard to fight.

SPEAKER_05 3:19

Well, I mean, I think they're gonna be nailed to the wall on it.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 3:23

You know, the imperial wizard or whatever it is of the KKK was on their payroll.

unknown 3:31

Right.

SPEAKER_05 3:32

You're gonna tell me he was an informant?

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Yeah. Everybody knew that though. That was in the in the KKK monthly. Didn't you read that? Mm-hmm. I mean why would it surprise you that that that's a democrat organization to begin with?

SPEAKER_05 3:54

Well, uh ish, like we we you have to really think through you have to separate the historical from the you know, you have to separate the Reconstruction era KKK from any period after that because it's two radically different radically different institutions.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Well when David Duke was running for office, he was absolutely on the payroll. Why? What are you saying? Because they he talked about it later in the interviews. Yeah, they've been around since I think the 80s. Okay. So I mean, I think it would be a good net positive for them to go away.

SPEAKER_05 4:43

Well, step one done. Yeah. Step one done. And the indictment is I mean, it an indictment is only one side of the story, but it sure doesn't look good.

Remembering Rush Limbaugh’s Influence

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Yeah. I remember Rush complaining about him all the time. Do you remember listening to Rush?

SPEAKER_05 5:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Because he very often would bring up things that they were doing or they were involved in or they were behind or whatever. That guy really, I think, was instrumental to where we are today.

SPEAKER_05 5:27

I mean, he certainly was the right-wing talk radio host for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Well, he was, I think, a lot more than the right-wing talk radio host. He was a guy that opened people's eyes since the 80s and really mainstreamed real conservatism. Because really, when Rush was questioning a lot of things, the mainstream Republicans at the time were just going along with everything. Well, it was it was very much a you know, the Democrats are here to disrupt things, we're here to keep things running attitude.

SPEAKER_05 6:10

Yeah, well, what what I think what made Rush big was obviously during the Clinton administration and him, huh? Food. Oh, ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Well, I mean, you set it up right there. I couldn't not say anything. Come on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:28

Anyway, but regardless, the Clinton administration and Newt Gingrich, right? Actually, having a politician in Congress and a very effective speaker of the House that gets the needle moved.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:47

So I think that's what made Rush big. I mean, that's when I was growing up listening to him.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Rush was one of the guys that made dude. A lot of these politicians would never have won their races without Rush campaigning for him. You got you gotta remember at a time when we had three TV channels and a handful of big radio stations, and everybody else was just playing country music, the all of those channels were doing center left. Rush was the only guy that had a show, certainly a show as big as his, not just a local, you know, citywide broadcast, that presented a conservative, and not just a conservative, but really more of a you know, independent-minded libertarian type conservative, more of somebody that isn't there just to get along, but somebody that's there to push back, perspective. And he's the guy that really helped a lot of politicians in the 90s get their way into the jobs they had. All politicians start small and then slowly get into larger positions, but in a lot of ways, and I'm sure there's a list I could probably ask AI to put together of politicians where Rush was instrumental in helping them actually get elected. Now, I don't know for a fact if Newt was one of them, but if he wasn't, he could have just as likely have been because Rush was that big. He was bigger than pretty much any politician short of Ronald Reagan at the time. Uh, he was better known and more people listened to him.

SPEAKER_05 8:30

He was certainly on the show with Rush enough. Yeah, they were friends. Formerly tobacco stained fingers.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

That's right. That's right. He had 43 million listeners. And that's not like counting podcast views where you know three seconds count. 43 million people tuned into his radio show and listened to the advertising on that show. Because that's where those numbers are coming from, is the ads. So yeah, Rush was very powerful in the 90s, arguably all the way through the mid-2000s.

SPEAKER_05 9:36

I mean, I guess my parents listened to Rush in the 90s, but and I thus listened to Rush in the 90s. But you know, in the 2000s, I it wasn't like I was listening to Rush in college.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

So no, in the 2000s, yeah. In the I started listening to Rush in high school, and I listened to him all through college. It's one of the guys that kept me motivated enough to actually run for office, and you know, somebody that was seen by I think most of my cohorts that were conservative and or libertarian-leaning as really the main the main guy, or how I don't even know how to phrase it. In a lot of ways, he I mean he wasn't like Charlie Kirk in the sense that he was hitting college campuses or talking to people, but he was he was the guy that was definitely seen as the head of the movement for conservatism in the country. And the politicians were either joining that movement or not joining that movement, regardless of whether they had an R bar the bar by their name or not. So I I think Rush was a very important figure that I I would I guess I could do a little bit of digging to see if I'm right, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if guys like Marco Rubio, you know, people my age would very much get into politics when they started listening to Rush. Maybe it was a big voice from a big man. And he was entertaining, and that I think that was one of the things that made him successful was that Rush said things that others didn't, other than their buddies when playing golf or something, he said it publicly, but he didn't take either himself or just the world too seriously. Like there's always a opportunity for humor with Rush. And I think that's something that made him very likable and very popular. And and everybody knew that when Rush talked about his formerly nickton stained fingers uh sitting behind his golden EIB microphone, that it's not actual pretentiousness, it's like a mock pretentiousness that that he's putting out there. That that he wasn't taking himself seriously in the likes of like Edward Armurrow or any of these, you know, traditional New York wasn't a Buckley, right? Yeah, right, right. It's a good point. Yeah, Buckley, who I also liked, but he he was not acting or taking himself seriously like Buckley did. Buckley absolutely was not a jokester. He was about the seriousness of politics. I mean, yeah, but I I still like him. He was good. He was he was a a very good debater. A master debater, in fact. Oh I went there.

SPEAKER_05 13:10

Um you would.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

So yeah, Miss Rush, it's always good to remember him every now and then. I guess he died in 2021, so five years ago.

SPEAKER_05 13:22

Yep, using his golden electrovoice microphones.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Mm-hmm. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 13:28

Same ones we're using. So do you want to talk about Virginia?

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Which the registry king? What what do you want to talk about? Sure.

SPEAKER_05 13:42

So it's already been struck down by Oh, I didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 13:47

Yeah, it's put on hold. Oh no. Um so it's there's a stay against it, and the judge is saying, hey, you violated the law to do this because the way the Virginia law is, they didn't follow that. So that will be interesting to see if it holds. So they they may not get to redistrict. But man, did you see the map that they did? Yeah. That was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

Yeah, yeah. And the law is very interesting too. It's basically a punitive law. So essentially, it says you can redistrict if any other state decides to redistrict before the next between 20, before 2031, essentially, before the standard schedule of the next census, then Virginia can also redistrict. And yeah, it's it's uh it's pretty pretty wacky. I'm trying to pull it up to look at it as we're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 14:54

But the they had the lobster, what they called the lobster district and everything else. And you know, I I I I really think Trump needs to the problem is Congress would have to act. But if we can get Congress to make DC a square again and take over Alexandria, yeah, that would fix Virginia's problem.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

That would fix a lot of it because it would remove a huge Democrat contingent from Virginia politics, bringing Virginia back to where it historically had been, which is a conservative state. You know, short of people that live within 100 miles of DC, the vast majority of people in Virginia are Republicans. And they have effectively been disenfranchised as far as their voting at this point. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:50

Not good. No, and I think it's at the point where it looks like Nick Freitas is leaving Virginia.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

Yeah, and his family has been there for generations.

SPEAKER_05 16:04

Do you know where he's going? I just know they say.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

I have not heard him saying it. No. I wouldn't be surprised if it's either Texas or Tennessee. Or Florida. Uh, do you really picture him in Florida? I just don't see him as a sand and beach and flip-flop guy.

SPEAKER_05 16:24

No, I see him in like panhandle slash central Florida.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Yeah, maybe. Maybe.

SPEAKER_05 16:32

There's a lot of really pretty places in Florida, man.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Yeah, I agree. I like Florida. I am a Florida guy. I would have no problem living in Florida. I love Miami Beach. I've spent lots of time there over the years. I love Key West. It's been great. I drifted halfway to Cuba in Key West one year. I had to get rescued. That would have been the first guy that actually went from the US to Cuba.

SPEAKER_05 16:56

Yeah, usually it's the other way around.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

I know, right? Well, the wind started blowing. It changed course and it started blowing from the north to south. And so I was kind of fucked. But yeah, I like I could totally see myself in Florida because uh, you know, Texas, Florida, it's a little more humid out there, but it's it's not as bad as Houston, I'll tell you that. Because at least in Florida, you can your your water is right there, you can just get into the water. In Houston, you gotta sit in traffic for 45 minutes to an hour to get in the water.

SPEAKER_05 17:28

Yeah, but if you're in Galveston, it never gets overall.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Well, Galveston is more like Florida. Yeah. For sure. But you know, that's the thing, is when you're within a block of the water, it cools off as soon as the sun sets. Yeah, it's very nice. It's it's like guaranteed sink. Yeah, guaranteed cool evenings year-round. Like you don't need to worry about, you can in fact, you can even open your windows if you wanted to, but it's still humid. But it it's it's a lot cooler than it is like in Dallas, where the frickin' temperature just stays at over. It's the first place I ever lived, Dallas, where there were nights where it didn't drop under 100 even at night. Because just asphalt.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

Yeah, well, and that's the thing is you've got the opposite type of heatsink there, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:17

And yeah, it heats up in the day and warms everything up at night.

SPEAKER_05 18:24

Just stays hot. Man, I do not miss Dallas weather in the summer.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

No, Dallas weather sucks, dude. It's Austin is much better. It's not great. It would now recall Austin weather great, but it's definitely better than Dallas.

SPEAKER_05 18:40

So the the other story.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

Well, there's one other thing with Virginia, too, is that aside from the resistricting, they had what was that? There was oh, I just blanked up. We're just talking about legislation. No, that's not what I was gonna bring up. So it was oh, they want to remove the vote essentially from the populace, or maybe they already passed this legislation they're either half-passed or are talking about putting it up. Essentially putting a bill on that says Virginia will provide its vote to whichever candidate has the most nationwide popular vote. Hmm. So not even the pop, not even the popular popular vote in Virginia. It's it's essentially that's why a lot of Virginians are up in arms, and people I know that live out there, because they're basically what what's the point of us even voting in Virginia if what you're saying is that Virginia, by law, is going to have its electoral college always vote for the popular vote winner nationwide. Like, what's the point of voting in Virginia then?

SPEAKER_05 20:00

Because they would have constitutional, dude. Like the popular vote in your state, I can see that.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

But the constitution doesn't specify this. That's the thing. It leaves it up to the states.

SPEAKER_05 20:14

Well, but it also has to be a Republican form of government inside each state. And if you're not if your vote doesn't matter, like if Virginia goes for one candidate but the popular vote is for the other candidate nationwide, like that's not a Republican form of government.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Well, you know, I I don't disagree, but I uh I don't know. I don't know how what they're gonna do or how they're gonna do it, but that's another crazy like this last election, the person Virginia elected is a insane person.

SPEAKER_05 20:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

There's no other way to describe it. So they're kinda they're they're gonna get what they voted for, even if they didn't think that's what was gonna happen. Yeah, I don't know. Normally I I I'm kind of gleeful or have a little Schadenfreude about the fact that people have the legislation that they or the politicians they deserve, but in this case, I know quite a few people in Virginia, as I'm sure you do, working where you are, that it would be this is not what these people want.

SPEAKER_05 21:36

No, not at all. So it's just the DC class that wants this.

Electoral Votes And The Popular Vote Plan

Cuba Custody Story And Forced Transition

SPEAKER_00 21:42

It it and it's a certain type of DC class, it's not the even people that work in DC, it's like people that make a living via politicians in DC that want this. It's a it's a very particular kind of thing. So I don't know, man. It's uh I I feel uh pretty bad for these folks.

SPEAKER_05 22:06

Did you see the Cuba trans story?

SPEAKER_00 22:11

I saw the story, I didn't read beyond the headline though. It sounds like somebody kidnapped some kid to get him trans in Cuba.

SPEAKER_05 22:18

Yeah, so biological father who is a you know trans a chick now, supposedly. Yeah. Told the mother that they would be taking the child to a camping trip in Canada or something. But they were really flying to Cuba. My God. Trans the child and they were stop it. But you know, most of the time it's the moms transing the kids.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Right, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_05 22:44

So not this time. It it's just the mental illness and the projection of this father onto his child is just I mean it's mental illness and it it's a very clear showing of it.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Well it it always has been a little bit more than a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05 23:00

I'm gonna take my kid to Cuba to do this. Why would you go to Cuba of all places?

California Sex Registry Law Backlash

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Yeah, I mean you could go to the country. And they're closer to Canada. Canada would have done it. Totally. They love doing that shit. They're like, bring more kids. Canada is. Yeah. It's it's absolutely crazy. So they're divorced, presumably then from the mother and the father? Yes. Yeah. And the father's got a boyfriend or something.

SPEAKER_05 23:31

Yeah. Yeah. And then California passes a bill and newsome signs it to change the uh sex registry laws in California to allow for someone having oral or anal sex specifically, not regular sex, but oral and anal sex with a minor to not have to be on a sex registry offend registry, and it leaves it up to the judge.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Using the Bill Clinton definition of sex then.

SPEAKER_05 24:06

Well, hold on. Someone with 14 to 17 year olds was someone no more than 10 years older would not be considered a sex offender. Under 14, it's up to the judge. It is not up to the judge if either party says it wasn't consensual. But how in the hell can a 24-year-old having sex with a 13-year-old annually be consensual?

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Right.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

Yeah. How that's crazy. These people have lost it, man. The the law, quote, ends the treating by uh the ends discrimination by treating LGBTQ young people the exact same way straight people have been treated since 1944. Well, it what?

SPEAKER_00 25:02

How have they been treated since 1944?

SPEAKER_05 25:05

I I can't imagine California's consent laws are that loose, but if they are, holy shit, dude.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

So can you just like screw in California kids left and right then, or what's the deal? As long as you're not more than 10 years older, I guess. Okay, okay. So like a 26-year-old can have a 16-year-old girlfriend. I guess. I mean, for the rest of the world, that would be normal, but in the US, generally, that's not considered normal.

SPEAKER_05 25:34

No, not at all. And it's just I just don't get how the Democrats can read this legislation and go, yeah, that makes sense for me to sign. That's a positive thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the Democrats are in California are a little further left than the Democrats elsewhere.

SPEAKER_05 26:12

It's the Florida man of politics.

Tattoos Kids And Birth Rate Anxiety

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Yeah, it's the Florida man of California. Exactly. Exactly right. It just Yeah. Yeah, you're totally right. But also, the only places I would expect legislation like this would be California or Oregon or Washington State. Or Maryland. Yeah, maybe, but less so. I think it's definitely a West Coast thing. And on the West Coast, there's a certain attitude that any fuckery that you do to yourself or your kids, you should be allowed to do. You know, Charles Manson was there with that. Well, let's stop at just the us portion, not the kids. I think people ought to be able to do a lot of fuckery to themselves because it doesn't harm anybody. The kids, even though you have control over them, are nonetheless not you. And they may be dependent on you, but none that that is not enough rationale to justify not treating them as individuals. Like there has to be a certain line drawn for all humans outside of yourself, which includes your kids on the other side of the line. And then there can be another circle that includes you and your kids for familial control. But you know, like I'll tell you one thing, I I don't like I don't like parents taking their kids to get tattooed. Oh god, that's fucked up because there's so many girls that have beautiful skin that's now fucked up with tattoos. It is it's yes, right? I would say you need to be fucking 18, and a parent permission does not bypass that. Like nobody under 18 ought to be getting tattoos, period.

SPEAKER_05 28:17

I I I agree with you, or piercings for that matter.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

Yeah, yeah, piercings for that matter. And and I would make uh you know an exception there for one piercing per ear for girls. I mean, look, if if they're going to their high school's prom, I don't want to have them not have earrings, right? Well, I mean they can have clip-ons. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:45

But but you look at these girls that are like pre-college age walking around the malls with just tatted up and tatted up in in high school.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Nose rings, like five earrings per ear. It's just like and wearing shit clothing on top of everything. It's like this is horrible. Like, there are people in Africa that look like that because they have to, they have no choice. You have a choice and you choose to look like this. Are you insane?

SPEAKER_05 29:21

Well, so you know, the the recent study said that 52% of women age 20 to 39 are now child free.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Child free? Is that what they're calling it?

SPEAKER_05 29:33

Yeah, exactly. I like what Phil Avante had to say about it. You mean useless?

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Good old Phil.

SPEAKER_05 29:41

Like why are we celebrating the collapse of our birth rate?

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Right. Exactly.

Canada MAID Numbers And Unease

SPEAKER_05 29:48

And a lot of old lonely, bitter Karen cat ladies incoming.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Absolutely. Yeah. The the cat lady phenomena is not something to be celebrating. Totally agreed. Yeah, I don't know, man. It's it's a weird thing.

SPEAKER_05 30:12

Yeah. By the way, did you see the Canadian Maid report?

SPEAKER_00 30:18

What's that?

SPEAKER_05 30:20

Assistance and the assisted suicide program there in Canada.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

I mean, I've heard of it, but what about it?

SPEAKER_05 30:26

So the one in twenty deaths in 2024. One in 20 deaths was Canadian assisted suicide.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 30:39

It's now estimated to be over that.

SPEAKER_00 30:41

And a lot of Canadians committing suicide.

SPEAKER_05 30:44

They don't even count those numbers, right? Wow. But the Canadian government is literally killing off its own citizenry.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Yeah. I mean, I'm not against suicide. I think people are, if they're in control of their bodies, they're in control of their deaths as well. So I don't have a problem with that. But I'm a little suspicious when there's a high percentage of people doing this because it means the satisfaction rate in that territory is really low. Yeah. Huh.

SPEAKER_05 31:17

And the median age was in the 20s.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

SPEAKER_05 31:21

So it's not even like you're killing old people who are chronically ill and whatever. You know, it's it's some fucked up shit, man.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Well, I I think they figured out healthcare. You want to die?

SPEAKER_05 31:38

Oh, you step your toe. You want to die? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

I mean your first step in an accent, right?

SPEAKER_05 31:44

Because that's doctors up there.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Your your first appointment in healthcare is determining how much how much your life's worth.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

But over five percent of all.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

Yeah, that's crazy, man. That that is nuts. Do we have any stats on men versus women on that? I'd be curious to see what the difference is as well.

SPEAKER_05 32:19

I didn't see that part.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

No?

SPEAKER_02 32:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 32:29

Uh the article I'm reading doesn't say, and I didn't go to the original report.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

Oh, okay. Yeah, like I said, all I saw was the headline, so I kind of stopped at that point.

Work Updates Discord And Big Contracts

SPEAKER_05 32:40

Well, you know, I I read the story, but I didn't go find the actual paper. What I find interesting about it is I yeah, if you own your own body, you ought to be able to kill yourself. But I think that's a sad excuse me. I think that's a sad, um sad way to go, you know? It's you know, it's the old joke. If you're thinking about killing yourself, you're thinking about killing the wrong people. Uh anyway. Anyway, work front. Man, I have been I've been swamped, and I had I had some issues with sleep the last couple of nights because of medical issues. And anyway, I'm tired, but I had my kind of culture fit meeting, you know. Yeah, yeah. Went pretty well. I would have liked a little bit more participation, but it went pretty well. But I got people talking.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Did you tell them that the the whippings will continue until morel improves?

SPEAKER_05 33:49

Not quite. No. Oh, okay. But I did go through and we got a bunch of people talking and found out that we've got several gamers in the group and stuff. Oh, nice. And anyway, so my team now has an official Discord server.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Oh, that's awesome. Also can get you in trouble.

SPEAKER_05 34:07

Uh I I mean, I'm I've all I did was put up a Discord server.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

I know, I know. But now you're responsible for everything that goes on there.

SPEAKER_05 34:20

Nah.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Oh, really? Have you checked with HR? Have they told you that you're not allowed to put one up?

SPEAKER_05 34:25

They have not.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

Told me I'm not allowed to put one up. Well, they would if you asked them.

SPEAKER_05 34:30

No shit. That's why I haven't asked them.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

Which, as my point, makes you responsible for it now. Nah. Okay. All right. So what else? Uh what else we got going on politically here or there? I know I I've told you this the other day.

SPEAKER_05 34:48

I've been We won the big power plant data center contract, by the way. Oh, good, good. Building out 11 gigawatts of generation, including four AP1000 reactors, is going to be a big highlight on my career.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

That's uh that's a lot of reactor space.

SPEAKER_05 35:08

It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot of power.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Awesome. It's a good thing. So anyway, what I was saying is I think I mentioned it last time. But I've been kinda over. How do I phrase it? I'm thinking of the. I am been paying because I kinda just I don't care as much right now.

SPEAKER_05 35:44

It's bad for the show, Gene. You're making it. I know, I know.

Trump And Control Of Hormuz

SPEAKER_00 35:47

It's I'm the only reason that the show is failing, exactly. Yeah, it's just like I I this is not an unusual thing. I probably go through this every three, four years, where like I get excited before the election about politics, and then after the election, it's all the new stuff, and you know, dealing with all the the getting rid of the old, bringing in the new, or the other way around is like, well, we're fucked now, Democrats have been elected. But there's a point that you get to after that where it's kind of like, you know what? The news today is literally the exact same thing as the news yesterday. And I already talked about the news yesterday, and I just don't care that much about the news today. So, for better or worse, I'm I'm gonna be probably in this mind space for the next six months or so.

SPEAKER_05 36:42

Better get used to it. We'll have to work on that.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 36:47

But can we at least chat about the philosophy of what Trump is doing with the Straits?

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Oh, yeah. I mean, that's that, see, that's not politics, that's just actually philosophy. So, or I guess uh anyway, yes. And I think it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 37:05

Or depending on how I think he's breaking the old world, the what is now the old world order. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're now in the new new world order.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Did you watch that video of the uh something Hansen guy? Yeah, yeah, Victor David Hanson. Victor David Hanson, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who you know, I there's some stuff he's done that I like, some that I haven't necessarily liked, but his summary on this is very short and concise, about 12, 14 minutes, and it explicitly just describes what Trump did, what it means, and why it is the absolutely most brilliant move to do. And it it's I mean, I listened to it, I'm like, yeah, he's right on every count. And what it comes down to is that we let the Iranians what it comes down to is fuck the rest of the world. Yeah, pretty much listen to us, which is what we should have been doing all along. But we let the Iranians set the condition for, haha, well, we're gonna control the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz. Which we obviously, and as he said, this is something that the Department of War, or Department of what do they used to be called, Department of Uh Defense had been doing planning exercises for 50 years for. This is not something that is like, what you're gonna do what? Oh, we're so not prepared for this. So the US knows exactly what to do here, has been planning through all the contingencies, and we let them do it. Like we could have really pushed back immediately, but we literally let them do it so that the rest of the world would then have to react to it. And we saw the reaction, which is all these friends of the US allegedly through NATO immediately set up their own deals with Iran, ignoring any other countries and just doing deals to where they're shipping large amounts of money to Iran to fund terrorism, and then their particular oil shipments will be allowed to go through. It's like a racketeering system. So we let we let that go for a week or so, and then we came in and said, No, you know what? Actually, you have a good idea here, but we'll be the ones that control the Straits of Hormuz, not you. And we're gonna determine whose oil gets to go in and out. And guess what? Iranian oil no longer can go through the Straits of Hormuz.

SPEAKER_05 39:50

I mean, you the what we did to that Iranian tanker, uh, or not, it wasn't it was a bulker, sorry, so it was a cargo ship. But you know, hey, we've told you to stop. You're not stopping. Evacuate your engine room if you don't want anyone dead.

SPEAKER_00 40:06

Exactly. Yeah, and it's gonna happen to more ships, and we're gonna have more European whiny little bitches complaining about oh, it's not fair, it's not fair. The US is now impeding our ability to get the energy. But but part of what was so go buy it from Russia, you little bitch.

SPEAKER_05 40:24

Like, hey, you know, well, first of all, yes, this is helping Russia, but the other thing is the taking over of Venezuela before doing this and getting that production back up. He waited long enough that the production had started to come back up. So we're and we're only gonna see more and more production out of Venezuela over the next decade. Absolutely. We can replace the Middle Eastern oil now between the U.S. fracking and Venezuela. Yeah. We can, and especially if we take over Canada.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 40:59

Which that is progressing as well. Like I think that a lot of people who complain about Trump not getting enough shit done. My God, when you look back and actually think about what has been done.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:12

And the, you know, he is we are not out of the woods yet. There's definitely some more pain to come, but he is making moves that is, I really think is going to help my kids' lives significantly.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Yeah. Yeah, he said somebody would really have to try hard to fuck things up. Yep. Not to say they won't try, but they will really have to try.

SPEAKER_05 41:44

Well, I mean, he's just changed enough of the institutions at this point that yeah.

Culture War Over Video Games

SPEAKER_00 41:49

Yeah. Yeah, it's uh I I think it we're this is why it's it's crazy seeing people abandoning Trump and saying, yeah, I voted for Trump four times and I'm never gonna vote for him again, which is a typical thing to see. Uh no, it starts like this. I served three tours in Iraq, and I voted for Trump seven times, and I will never vote for Trump again because he betrayed me. That's that's most of these videos sound like something like that. Uh-huh. But it's always some kind of military uh action dude who claims to have voted for Trump more times than Trump's actually run.

SPEAKER_05 42:35

I think that there's a lot of a lot of that, but I I think the culture war, the culture is healing to an extent. Like and a great example of this is the whole Pragmata incident, right? The what all the the Pragmata. Which is what you can't tell me you don't know about a video game.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

Pragmata? No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 43:08

It's like one of the best-selling games on Steam right now.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

Pragmata? I didn't buy it. It looks like a freaking kids' game. It's got children on their cover.

SPEAKER_05 43:17

Yes, and the main character saves the game. This main character saves the little girl. And it's a dad hero fantasy. And a bunch of people have attacked over this, like calling it, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

It's pedo to me. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 43:34

Okay, well, you're in the you you're you're on the wrong side of history, but that's fine.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 43:41

Like this has divided the nation. Like, people are making jokes. Like, this has been a big deal, dude.

SPEAKER_00 43:48

Yeah. I don't play games like this. But anyway, what so what's the point you're trying to get to with this game?

SPEAKER_05 43:55

That it, you know, you've got a guy who's saving a little girl. Like, that's the entire story arc of the game.

SPEAKER_00 44:02

Why is he saving a little girl?

SPEAKER_05 44:04

Because he feels bad for her.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

Why?

SPEAKER_05 44:08

Because she's a robot that is after the place is done being built, is just gonna be left there.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Oh, well, that's different. I feel sorry for robots. You should have led with that. You're leaning with the wrong thing here. I haven't played the game yet.

SPEAKER_05 44:24

I haven't even bought it because I don't want to buy like third-person shooters, but oh yeah, I don't either.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

I like first person.

SPEAKER_05 44:29

But no, you should really go to X and look at some of the comments around this stuff. People are losing their shit over this game.

SPEAKER_00 44:37

Because it's a robot, or why are they losing their shit?

SPEAKER_05 44:41

Because it's they say it's weird for men to want. Want to protect and be heroes and all this. It's like that is every man's fantasy.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

Like that yeah, but uh I mean, yes, but not for little girls. That's a little pedo. I mean, for a robot, sure. But here's the thing it's every man's fantasy to protect a mate. Not to protect somebody else's child. No, not somebody else's child. That is not every man's fantasy. In fact, that is very few man's fantasies to protect somebody else's kids. A man's fantasy is to protect somebody that will become their mate as the act of protection, or is already their mate with the possibility of generating more kids.

SPEAKER_05 45:36

Yeah. Well, it's got a overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam. Yeah, I see that. I'm looking at you know, almost 7,000 reviews in. So I don't know. Obviously, people are enjoying it.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

There's a lot of sicklos out there. I don't think it's a pedo game, dude. I don't know. It's a it's a little pedo. Oh my god. Anyway. I'm on that side of the argument. I mean, I like space games, don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_05 46:11

And I like robots. Yeah, I like robots. Regardless, it can't be a pedo because the character's a robot.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

Right, but but look, is it is it totally normal to make a robot that you're attracted to be a child? No one's saying that. Like, I think so many people like you are just reading way too much into this. I mean, I'm looking at the video they made here in the Little Pedo.

SPEAKER_05 46:41

How so?

SPEAKER_00 46:43

Like, you get dudes running around with a little little robot girl on his back and you know, battling other robots, and it's just I look, I said the same thing about a game that you said you were gonna be playing soon or replaying soon.

SPEAKER_05 47:00

Bioshock, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:02

Bioshock. It's it was always a little pedo. It's it's undeniable. Like the the the whole daddy and you know, little enhanced girl relationship thing was always a little sus.

SPEAKER_05 47:18

Yeah, but that's you find out it in spoil alert, and I'm sorry if you haven't played a game from the early 2000s.

SPEAKER_00 47:23

10 years old. I'm not too worried about spoiler alert.

SPEAKER_05 47:25

It's it's older than that, but spoil alert, it's your daughter that you're saving. You know, you find that out. So again, not pedo-ish.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

But if you don't realize that the whole time you're doing it, it's a little no, no, no, no, no. You're talking about Bioshock 2. I'm talking about Bioshock 1.

SPEAKER_05 47:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Bioshock 2, you're saving your daughter, and you don't find out until the very end.

SPEAKER_05 47:52

You're saving kids.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

Bioshock 1, you're just kind of using them for drugs. Or drug mule, drunk mule kids. A little pedo. Oh, come on now. All right, well, you replay it and you you you just you'll see it with a whole brand new light after this conversation. Alright, alright. Just saying. It's a beautiful game. I enjoyed playing it. I liked obviously all the very, you know, and Randian ideas.

SPEAKER_05 48:18

Oh, yeah, very much so.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

But you know, it it's it did have that little element. Like I I just if I was making the game, I would have not had children.

Kerbal Artemis And Space Toilets

SPEAKER_04 48:34

Okay. Just saying. You can make them little robots that look like robots.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

Oh, and you get to dress this this robot girl up in different clothes. Oh, dude, that's totally pedo.

SPEAKER_05 48:51

I I did not know that portion of the game.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Yeah, I'm just watching a video on it. Yeah. Anyway. What so we talked a little bit about stuff you're playing. I've been playing uh quite a bit of a really old game lately, which is uh Kerbal. Which is a space rocketry construction simulator. Having fun time with that. I almost made my first moon landing in there. Ran on a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_05 49:28

Artemis III is not going to land on the moon, dude. There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

Well, no. Why would it?

SPEAKER_05 49:39

Because the original plan for Artemis III was to land on the moon?

SPEAKER_00 49:43

Well, but uh no, because we're gonna have a lander that that actually lands down there, not Artemis. Artemis is just a delivery vehicle for the humans.

SPEAKER_05 49:54

Yeah, actually, what we're gonna do is we're gonna be testing between Jeff Bezos' penis rocket lander and Musk's, and we're gonna be testing attachments. Not anything else.

SPEAKER_00 50:09

It's a totally different lander, which I've already built years ago, but I can't remember the name of the company off the top of my head that made it. It's actually not biz. It's there's three companies involved. He his is just the rocket part, not the uh lander part. But the uh the more interesting one is the Elon Musk Starship Lander, which is a very cool like 11 uh rockets fly to refuel it. Yeah, but that's like that's a standard thing that you learn to do in Kerbal. Like if you're gonna go to a long distance destination with humans, you could you could fly without humans without all the refuels.

SPEAKER_05 50:51

But if you're gonna have life support make it.

SPEAKER_00 50:54

If you gotta do all the life support stuff, you're gonna have to refuel an orbit. How did Apollo make it? So I think we'll find out exactly what's needed to go to the moon once and for all.

SPEAKER_05 51:07

I mean, it really does kind of make you wonder when you look at the Artemis architecture and how they're deciding to do these things, and you go, huh.

SPEAKER_00 51:16

Artemis barely made the flyby in a week's worth of time in space with their toilets not working.

SPEAKER_05 51:23

My God, can you imagine the smell in that cockpit?

SPEAKER_00 51:26

I don't think there's a smell in space, though, is there?

SPEAKER_05 51:29

Why would there not be a smell in space?

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Well, there's no air.

SPEAKER_05 51:34

The cockpit is pressurized by the human.

SPEAKER_00 51:38

Yeah. Yeah, it would not be pleasant, especially with that many people aboard. It'd be bad enough with one person. Yeah. But in Apollo, they allegedly wore diapers.

SPEAKER_05 51:52

So yeah. Well, but they also had a system for jettisoning stuff.

SPEAKER_00 51:57

There is a way to do it. I just I guess they probably have decided it's not a good way to do it. All you have to do is switch to a protein-only diet about a week and a half beforehand, and you can completely evacuate everything in your intestine. And then once you're actually in space, you can have a liquid-on diet that is 100% absorbable with no actual no fibers, nothing, nothing that has to be digested by bacteria. It is it's essentially just drinking sugar water and eating pills for supplements. And that way you just don't poop for weeks on end. It's it's a thing that you know people do in Russian space programs. So you just don't worry about it. It doesn't happen. You don't have to think about it. Eating solid food in space is kind of stupid anyway. Well, you're weightless. I mean, uh like solid food in space, you're you're not going to have the benefit of gravity helping you push it through your entire digestive tract. You're really best off not eating things that require bacterial digestion. Well, and if all you do is you drink sugar water with supplement pills for all your minerals and vitamins, you don't even have to bring a whole lot of water because you're recycling that water all the time. You're just basically drinking piss with some vitamin pills every day. And it's the most efficient method.

SPEAKER_05 53:56

Lovely.

SPEAKER_04 53:58

Just saying.

SPEAKER_05 54:03

So anything else on Artemis? I think it's good that we've abandoned Gateway.

SPEAKER_00 54:09

Yeah, I think Gateway was always a dumb idea. It's just asking for something to go over. Imagine the International Space Station, except it's around the moon. And I I've I've done this in Kerbal, I've built these. You know, you can't have like a rescue mission to it. Not a timely rate. Yeah, yeah, you can't. That's why you should have as little shit out there as you can, and it should be self-sufficient with enough supplies for an extended delay if there is one. I think if you're gonna take more than a couple of people to the moon, you ought to bring about three weeks worth of supplies for them.

SPEAKER_05 54:56

It takes longer than that to stack a rocket, but okay.

Lead Cooled Reactors And Small Nukes

SPEAKER_00 54:59

But you should have more than one rocket launch ready to launch as soon as one is launched. You know, really like if you're doing this, let's say we have a base we're gonna build on the moon, you you know that statistically you will have an anomaly happen. And you're gonna have to deal with it. So you should maybe even have something in space already that is ready and fueled up to fly to the moon if needed as a escape vehicle. You can have one that's that's uh circling the moon ready as an escape vehicle. I mean these are all possibilities, especially if you use good old-fashioned fuel rather than the cryogenic fuels.

SPEAKER_05 55:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

So it's a it's gonna we're gonna have to do all these things anyway, if we have if we have a hope of building any kind of infrastructure on the moon.

SPEAKER_05 56:01

Well, I think that there's some actually some interesting research coming out of this, both for the reactors that they're planning on putting on the moon, which is good. Uh, but did you see the lead-cooled reactor vessel?

SPEAKER_00 56:16

No.

SPEAKER_05 56:17

So a company has built it's a non-nuke reactor vessel right now, because they're testing the feasibility of this.

SPEAKER_00 56:26

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 56:26

But instead of using water and steam, yeah, they're talking about using lead.

SPEAKER_00 56:32

Molten lead.

SPEAKER_05 56:33

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 56:34

Yeah, I could see them doing it. Lead has a fairly low melting point. Low melting point, less energy.

SPEAKER_05 56:40

I mean, this is why we what that what that will allow them to do is make extremely low-fueled reactors feasible, right? Because part of the problem right now is especially with light water design, is you have to generate enough heat to get to sufficient steam volume to turn turbine. Right. But lead has a lower melting, a low enough melting point, and it has enough mass behind it that less energy is needed.

SPEAKER_03 57:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:12

No, that's interesting. So lead over sodium, though.

SPEAKER_05 57:18

Well, we've done molten salt reactors in the past, but yeah. Sodium has a higher melting point. So molten so molten salt reactors are usually in like a breeder reactor design, like ERB1, right? Where your mixed fuel is literally your entire your entire system is radioactive. Um, so your turbine, all that is radioactive in that kind of reactor design. This vessel is hopefully going to be able to be designed where only the core is. You won't really even have you'll have the uh the hot side of your heat exchanger like you would with anything, but you'll have be able to use lower refined fuels to do it.

SPEAKER_00 58:05

Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, lead lead's melting point is about 125 degrees lower than the the salt that we use, lithium fluoride. So it's an interesting idea. I mean, you get the additional benefit of radioactive blocking as well. Yeah, exactly. Which I guess if if you're if it's in liquid form, you could literally have a a like a liquid skirt of lead flowing around the outside of the reactor.

Literacy Collapse And Voting By Writing

SPEAKER_05 58:42

It'll be interesting to see what their ultimate design is, but the point I'm making is this company is one of the SMR companies. I think it's NewScale that's doing it. If I'm not mistaken. You're obviously looking it up, so check me on that. But you know, it's one of these SMR reactor designs that they're trying to come up with, you know, a feasible way to get backyard nukes as a thing, right? Yeah. And when we say backyard nukes, we really mean the better term would be more like a neighborhood nuke. Yeah. Right. So, like in a city the size of college station, you might have five or six of them around the town plus the incoming grid.

SPEAKER_00 59:24

Yeah, I tell you, the the amount of people protesting the first one getting put in is gonna be huge.

SPEAKER_05 59:31

Well, I mean, not if you can get the fuel low enough, I think.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

I think all they hear is radioactive and they don't know anything. They don't care how much fuel there is in there. People are gonna be up in their arms.

SPEAKER_05 59:46

Well, that's because most uh such a large amount of our population are NPCs at this point. Oh god. Like people can't read, dude. No, people can't write. So somehow percent of adults can't read above a fifth grade level. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:04

I I so I went to see my cardiologist the other day. Uh who is a he's a great guy. I love my cardiologist, he's hilarious. We spent the entire time of me sitting there for 45 minutes talking to him, talking about gun range and how much insurance companies screw you over. That was the vast majority of our conversation. And then I I as he was getting ready to leave, I said, So did you look at my cardiogram? He's like, nah. And then he starts walking, then he turns around and goes, Yeah, yeah, you're you're all good. It looks fine. So he's funny. I like a funny guy. Anyway, so when I went there to that appointment, they give you, and this I hate this part, they give you like paperwork to fill out as you're sitting there waiting for your appointment. It's it's like four pages front front and back. And you have to write shit on there, and it's not just you know, circling things like you have to write any any pills you're taking, you have to write all this. So I asked the uh front office chick. I'm like, so you know, I hope you you're not gonna actually read any of this because my handwriting kind of sucks because I I write so infrequently these days that my penmanship is like chicken scratch. So just giving you an early warning.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:32

You saw my pen.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:33

Yeah, yours is worse. I didn't see you. Yeah, absolutely. You finally got your postcard. I got my postcard finally, yes. Yeah, thanks, Ben. You sent me a postcard of my favorite breed of cows. From Scotland. Yeah, from where the from the actual cow origination destination or origination location. Yeah. Yeah. They're cute cows, though, you gotta admit. You know, a cow that that has kind of furry red hair looks cute. Anyway, so I said, well, okay, what about the Zoomers? What do you do with them? They don't know how to write, and they don't teach writing in school anymore, they only teach typing.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:14

And the attention spans of it's not just Zoomers, it's Gen Alpha. Um, I I I really think.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:23

Well, Gen Alpha isn't filling out forms yet.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:26

Zoomers are and so she's so so I said, dude. It's modern kids programming, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:32

I I don't disagree. So I so what do you do with them? And with a totally straight face, she says they take them back to their parents to fill out. You imagine being like a 22-year-old. You gotta go to the doctor for your birth control pills, and you gotta bring the paperwork to have your mom fill it out because you don't know how to write.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:53

Well, most of them are having to have their parents take them because they don't drive.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:56

That's a good point. So maybe that maybe the mom fills it out while she's sitting in the waiting room waiting for the for the kid. That is insane to me. Like, I could not wait to gain freedom. Like getting a car at 16, having those keys, being able to drive yourself somewhere, make your own decisions, not involve your parents whatsoever. That was what all the kids were looking forward to when I was young.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:25

Yeah, no shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:26

Not the case today.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:28

Go park in the quarry with your girlfriend, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:33

Yeah, or you know, go to Radio Shack. I guess we have different lifestyles. But anyway. No, Teenage Gene knew all the Star Trek episode names. Oh, I'd tell you.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:48

I probably did too, but I I still was focused on something else. So Blair White actually did, I started watching, I haven't finished it, but so far it's been good. Popped up on YouTube because I'm out of shit to watch on YouTube. But going through and looking at some of this education stuff and the collapse of literacy. Oh and yeah, and you know, one of the things I would say is if we make it what we ought to do is instead of automating the enrollment in the draft, we ought to make it required to vote and a literacy test. So you do those two things, then you can vote. It would fix all our problems.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:36

Yeah. Yeah, and I still say my solution is the cleanest because it requires the least amount of change, and that is to simply print a blank form for voting that just has the positions and not names of the candidates. And if you don't know and you can't write who the candidate is, you shouldn't be voting for him. Okay. I'm down. And I it is like everyone has a similar, well, I shouldn't say everyone. People that generally agree with me, like you and my dad, had a similar reaction to where they're like, it's an it's a very unenthusiastic support. It's like, well, that could kind of work, I guess.

unknown 1:05:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:15

Like, why it's a why is that worse than the alternatives? Like, to me, this is so clean and simple. It it does two things. It does a an ability to know who you're voting for. Like you have enough memory to at least remember from five minutes before you walk into the polling place to the point where you're voting who that person is, what their name is. That like that, I think, is an important thing. If your memory doesn't work for at least five minutes, maybe you should not be voting. And then the sec the second thing, of course, is just the ability of literacy. Like you have to be able to write their name legibly enough that your vote will count.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:02

Counting those votes would be difficult, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:05

Oh, OCR run by AI.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:08

Yeah, I don't think we're there yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:09

Yeah, I think I think if it doesn't pass, it doesn't matter. You skip it.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:14

You think NI could OCR my handwriting? Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:18

If you cared enough about who you're voting for, you'd learn how to write better.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:24

Okay. By the way, DOJ just arrested Army Special Forces soldier uh for allegedly making 400 grand on the Maduro raid.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:34

I am very mixed on that, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:36

I no, I'm not I think Trump ought to pardon him immediately.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:40

Okay, okay. Well, then you know what I'm talking about. Nick, on the one hand, yes, there is absolutely a law in The in the code of military justice.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:49

Yeah, they're they're charging three counts of violating Commodity Exchange Act, one wire fraud, and two unlawful monetary transactions. Yeah. Yeah. 60 years he's facing.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:00

It's it's it's stiff. It's stiff. So I get it. Like the guy does seem like he's actually guilty of multiple crimes. You cannot use information obtained in a secret top secret fashion for monetary gain. That is illegal in the United States. Unless you're in Congress. Well, of course. Congress exempts themselves from all laws, naturally. What are they stupid? So it's a I don't think it's disputable. The guy's guilty. However, I do kind of feel like the guy that was actually there and carrying out the what do we call it?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:46

An abduction? I don't know that he was one of the special forces guys in the raid.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:51

That's what the article I read said. Okay that he was one of the special forces guys in the raid is the one that they just arrested for making a bet correctly on when this is going to happen.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:04

Well, I again I just think Trump needs to go ahead and pardon him.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:08

Yeah. And then there are people on the posts on X about this topic saying, well, the guy's a hero. You got you gotta be kidding me. I mean, maybe split the money amongst a few of those guys that were there, but it's ridiculous that you carry out an operation like that and then you can't profit off it. What look, what happens to most of these Navy SEAL dudes a year or two down the road? They all have book deals. As soon as they leave the service, they all have book deals and they're all making that same amount of money anyway. He just wanted it now. Maybe he's got a need for it. Also, I don't see anything wrong with just having a bonus payment to people that do shit like this. Maybe everybody that takes place in an abduction of a leader of a country gets a$100,000 bonus automatically or something.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:04

Would the KPI be how many Cubans you killed?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:08

Yeah. Yeah, the Cuban Personnel Index. Cuban with a K. Uh-huh. The KPK. The Cuban Personnel Index, man. That's what it's all about. So I don't know. I'm like I said, I'm I'm kind of both minds on this. I I get that the guy's likely guilty, but I also get that it's really not a crime against anybody.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:36

No, it's a process crime. Yeah. Which a crime ought to be against one's property.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:42

I mean his person or one's his buddies that were there with him and didn't do this probably have something to say, but you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:49

Probably like, dude, why didn't you tell us? That was a good idea. Yeah, exactly. We just needed to hide it better.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:54

Yeah, yeah. If we all would have done it, no one would have noticed it. That's probably not true, but but still. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:05

So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:10

Yeah, so Trump's statement on this was he betting that was it would get him or wouldn't get him. Reporter, he was betting on his removal from office. Well, that's like Pete Rose betting on his own team.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:22

Right. And I was always on Pete Rose's side. I have no problem with that. Like Pete Rose wasn't betting on when their team loses, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:31

Right. But again, I I think Trump ought to pardon him, and I think based off of Trump's reaction to this, he very well may.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:40

I think he should, yeah. I agree. I think that would be the right thing to do, as it were. Because the It's a victimless crime.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:55

Well, I mean, you could argue that the people who didn't have the insider information got screwed, but uh yeah, but I don't know.

Europe’s Decline And A New Monroe Doctrine

SPEAKER_00 1:11:05

I mean, I guess if somebody else would have won for being the closest if it wasn't for him, maybe they do have a legitimate point, but I don't know. Whatever. Not too concerned about it, I guess. That is true.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:36

Yeah, well, no, it was about the California law.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:38

Did you see the article that Crowder, or not the article, the the video Crowder had about asking people in the UK where they think their earnings are versus US states? Like what like amongst the 50 US states, where do you think the UK would fall in in terms of GDP per capita? This this typical European behavior. Europeans so greatly overestimate their value, they don't understand that the only people left in Europe currently are serfs. Serfs and royalty. Everybody else that had any intelligence left Europe.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:22

Well, it it it it's just hilarious because they think, oh, we'd be sixth or seventh, you know, and they they're they're speaking with false modesty, right? Oh, I'm not gonna say too high. We're probably right.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:34

They're not gonna say, oh, well, well, I'm sure, of course, we'd be higher than any American states. I mean, we use the British pound after all.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:40

But no, they would be the 51st state, they would be poorer per capita than Mississippi, than Alabama, Mississippi, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:49

Even Hawaii. It's amazing. All these all these states would be at a higher GDP per population than most European countries, and certainly than the big countries like UK and France. Yeah. Well, Germany would be a little higher above them, obviously, but they still wouldn't be in the top five of the US.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:16

Yeah, well, it's it's i look, here's the thing. Europe is not capable of defending itself. Europe is not capable of feeding itself, Europe is not capable of Europe isn't a nursing home.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:33

They're the elderly relative that you have who can't take care of themselves. They're in a nursing home, they need help, but they're still very prideful. And they want to keep telling you what what you ought to be doing and what you shouldn't be doing because they know better. That's what Europe is.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:52

Well, here's what it comes down to is I don't think the American century is over yet. I think we have a lot of time. Oh, I think it's just begun. I really do. I think like when Trump got elected this last time, what I said was we were gonna institute a new Monroe Doctrine. Done. We were gonna tell you Ben Link to explain.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:14

While I didn't greatly disagree with you, you were so right on the money at that point. Like you saw immediately. You had an epiphany there. Yeah, like it was super clear to you.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:26

It makes sense, and I'm telling you, uh, the US is territorial expansion. It I really think it's gonna happen. I I I think our sphere of influence, I think the UK and Ireland might be worth saving. The rest of Europe, I don't think so. You know, we're seeing a little bit of fight out of the Irish right now. We'll see how this goes, but it what it comes down to is I think we will have either absolute territorial control or the these areas will be surfed to the United States. I I think we're gonna control all of North and South America. That influence is going to extend over to Greenland at the very least, potentially the United Kingdom. But then I think we're gonna go west and we're gonna exert influence all the way to Southeast Asia. Guam isn't going anywhere. Yeah, right? To replace Guam would require a technological innovation that just isn't gonna happen. Yep. And I have some insight on some of the investments that are going on in that island right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:37

Dude, if the US didn't have a bunch of warhogs trying to push NATO forward, if we had just stopped spending money on NATO and that helped it push its way further west or further east, rather, at this point, the U.S. probably would have leases on billions of acres or hectares of Siberian territory. Because Russia has more land than they can develop, and they need money more than they need that land right now. They wouldn't sell it. They made that mistake once. They're not gonna do another Alaska. But the 10 years ago, 15 years ago, the US could have absolutely done a deal with Russia where they're they leased a huge chunk of Siberia, if nothing else, just to keep China out of there.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:30

Yeah, so here's the deal. I think had a different president been in when when Russia, after the US collapse of the USSR, when Russia asked to join NATO, the answer obviously should have been yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:51

Yeah. Yeah, it's the old adage, you know, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And that would have been the right move at that time as to bring Russia. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:02

Now we've gotten rid of the USSR. Communism is collapsed, Russia is transitioning, they want our help and support. Be the good brother and friend. Extend your hand and go, man, I know we've been fighting, but I'm gonna lift you up, and make a really then that would have been a strategic moment, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:23

Well, the Soviet Union collapsed after the Cold War, technically, is it didn't do what it did for Europe after World War II or Japan. It didn't come in and say, we're now going to restore you to a greater economy than you did in the past. And the trade-out for that is we're gonna be best buddies even if you don't necessarily like it. And Russia would have said, yes, please do that. Instead, they stuck to this, like, well, you know, we don't really like you people, kind of attitude that I think was predominantly based on Cold War era people in the deep state. And not necessarily anything bad about it, just you know, military contracts and people that support those industries, people that needed a give money to politicians. Like to them, this was never a good thing. To actually win the war is bad. It's just like doctors to fix your disease is bad, to treat your disease for the rest of your life is good financially. So it's the same thing for these guys. So consequently, we needed to maintain after the USSR, we needed to maintain Russia as the enemy, even if we weren't necessarily seeing any enemy behavior from them. And uh it got us to where we are right now, which is you know, pushing China and Russia way closer together than they should be, where not where naturally Russia has it's a country with a predominantly white Christian population. It's it's one of the countries with the highest percentage of self-described Christians. Certainly of any large country, there are smaller countries that that might have higher percentages, like Ireland or something.

Ten Commandments Schools And Sabbath Meaning

SPEAKER_05 1:19:12

I just want to remind everyone Russia is a European European state. Yeah. And the way we have decided not to treat them like that is like the USSR, I get it, right? Communism, bad. But you know, we have to separate the Russian people from the what the Jewish communists did in Russia.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:48

What about the non-Jewish communists, dude?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:51

There weren't that many of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:52

Oh, whatever. There was plenty of them.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:56

Hey, speaking of religion, what do you think about Trump's Bible verse reading?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:01

You mean the executive order to let Texas schools put the Ten Commandments into schools?

SPEAKER_05 1:20:07

No, no, no. He read a Bible, he had a prayer meeting and thing at the Oval Office and he read a Bible verse.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:14

Okay, I didn't see that. I don't really have an opinion on it. Okay. Let me look it up. All right. I mean, I did you, but what about the other thing that I mentioned? Did you see that? What the executive order that Trump said that effectively prevents the federal government from interfering with Texas's desire to have the Ten Commandments in public schools.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:41

No, I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:42

Yeah. So I think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:46

Yeah, so a good thing for states' rights and a so Trump held he read a scriptural passage on a live stream that was part of a Bible reading marathon that was arranged by some. Sorry, I'm having a I've got a lot of phlegm, my allergies are killing me. Anyway, it's from 2 Chronicles verse 14. And the translation that he used is a new version of King James, which is interesting to me.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:22

Uh they removed the Elizabethan language, so no more these or thou's. Good, but otherwise left the flow of the King James, which I I like. If my people, which are called by name, shall humble themselves and pray, and will seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive them their sins and heal their land.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:46

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:47

That is a perfect Bible verse for where our country's at right now. Like he did not choose that blindly.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:54

Where's that from? What's what uh which book?

SPEAKER_05 1:22:00

Second Chronicles, verse 14.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:02

Okay. Yep. Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:05

So the Old Testament.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:08

Yeah, yeah. I mean it's talking about Jews, but yeah. It you can use that for a lot of things.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:18

Well, right, but as a Christian, the Jews are not only God's people anymore.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:26

Yeah, well, there's a reason that Jews have hierarchies. Not many more than mine, but okay. I I posted the uh Ken Paxton thing about the Ten Commandments, and there is you. And apparently this just happened with Trump actually weighing in on this and and putting an executive order in place. But yeah, I I have no problem with Ten Commandments being in schools. I think that this is admittedly a basis for the US legal system in the first place.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:07

So absolutely. There's a secular reason to put it in there, not a religious one.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:16

It's you could you could use historical reason, you could use I mean, aside from just religious shit, it's just a good idea, man. It's it's it's not something that you would find too many people arguing and saying, actually, you know, nine out of those ten commandments are pretty bad. So I I I think that's appropriate. And it would get the kids to actually memorize them when they're young, which would be good too. Do you know all ten commandments by heart? I'm sure. I don't think I would forget any. I don't. Why not? I don't know. Never learn them. But I I could probably get to like seven of them pretty quickly, I would think.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:06

I don't know that I necessarily want to do it on the podcast recorded.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:10

Oh, chicken.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:11

But I I think I could probably get seven out of ten. But because they are they're not hard to derive, even if you don't remember what they are.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:21

Well, it I mean, it's pretty, I'm not gonna try and quote exact verbiage, but it first one is no other gods before me. Yeah, no idols, number two, shall not miss uh uh Lord's name in vain.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:38

Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. That's four. Honor your father and mother's five. Yeah, I believe. You shall not murder, yeah. No, no adultery, shall not steal, shall not bear false witness against your neighbor, which is one too many people forget these days. And coveting your neighbor's wife or property.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:02

Yep. Is that the last one? Yes. Okay, so that's all ten. So I think I had, yeah, I had seven out of those. Yeah. Yeah, because the first three are really kind of dealing with you know, personality of God. Yeah. And then after that, you actually move on to the don't do things that are stupid to do.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:26

The Sabbath, right? A day of rest, that that's important.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:30

Yeah, but I I guess. I mean, it is to religious people, sure. And so I've I've watched a few rabbis talking about this, the the day of Sabbath thing. Because that question of exactly what the Sabbath is for and what you can and can't do is what originally led me when I was living in Dallas to get involved with the rabbinical study group. Because no one had a good answer.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:57

So well, and it's a little more important for religious Jews than it is for Christians, because you you know, y'all can't even flick a light switch, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:09

Yeah, well, and again, this is this is where that interpretation comes in. Because obviously, God didn't say, and don't turn the lights on. Right? Right. So I think that from what I've heard from rabbis, is that the idea there is that man is going to be so busy working and carrying out the processes required for livelihood for him and his family that there is going to be a temptation to not take any time out from that work. And this is a a way of reminding him that it's not up to you, it's actually a command for you to take that time away from work and to have time available that you could then dedicate to studies, to family, to interactions with other people, to things that don't directly impact your work or survival. So I think that sounds like a reasonable interpretation of why that is a commandment. Okay. What do you think? As a non-Jew, what do you think?

TrueNAS Build Specs And Lessons Learned

SPEAKER_05 1:27:32

I think it's a a day of remembering God's work that He created us, that He loves us, that you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:42

But do you really need a day for that? Like that could be done every day incrementally.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:48

But I don't know. Sure, your interpretation works for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:51

Yeah. Well, again, not mine. I just uh it was me writing it, I'd say take the weekend. Two days off. One day for God, one day for yourself.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:04

So my NAS is now complete.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:07

Oh, yes, you were building a a large NAS with a lot more powerful hardware.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:12

Yeah, and it's been up and copying data off the old one that finally completed. That took almost five days to holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:20

That is that should have been done in less than one day.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:23

It it the fastest read speeds I was able to get off the old NAS was around fifteen megabytes per second. That's amazing. But now I can saturate two point five gig.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:33

Which is what it should be, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:35

Yeah. And it was CPU limited on the old NAS. So like doing that large transfer, it the Atom CPU in there was just why it originally made me ask you if

SPEAKER_00 1:28:47

You had a bad drive or something because if it was doing math to recreate that data, I could see it taking a long time. But if it redrives there and it doesn't have to do any security math, it was not rebuilding, wasn't doing anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:59

All the drives are in the new NAS now. I salvaged the drives out of that NAS, and all smart reporting and everything looks good. But so I built this true NAS box and I have Reddit 22 terabytes of just hard drive storage in there.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:16

And then I have another MVME, a one terabyte MVME that's for my VMs that I'm going to be running on this box. And then I have another one terabyte SATA drive that's going to be for containers. So yeah. And then the OS drives. So got a lot of storage. Core i9 processor, a K that's unlocked.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:38

Pretty damn drives, apparently. What do you mean? I mean my NAS is like pushing 10 years old and it's 40 terabytes.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:48

Okay. Well, I used the two and three terabyte hard drives that I had.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:53

Okay. So you weren't using four and eight? No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:58

I'll upgrade eventually, but I wanted to consolidate my storage and be able to get better performance. So there you go. But anyway, what's really cool is I've been running some workloads on this thing, just testing it out. And my CPU temperature is staying down around 30 degrees with that AIO. That's good. So I've got a lot of room if I want to start overclocking stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:28

Yeah, which normally in the NAS you don't really need to worry about.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:32

Right, but it's also a VM box.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:34

Which CPU did you put in there?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:36

It's a Intel 710790 or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:43

Okay, 10th Gen 7.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:45

Yeah. Yeah. Core i9. It's a core i9 K edition, so yeah. Yeah, it's overkill for this NAS in a lot of ways. But you know, I like I've got a Plex server up and running on this NAS. Again.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:59

So nine, so you've got what, eight cores?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:04

No, I have so cores and threads. It's it's ten cores. Ten cores. Okay. 20 threads. Yep. 20 total threads.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:20

And they're all symmetric cores in 99, I believe.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:23

I don't know on that generation. I think they are. Hold on. I will tell you exactly what I want.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:31

Yeah, that's super interesting content for people listening. What the specific spec of your core nine is on your well, no, but it's about the NAS in general.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:40

So I think that's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:42

The point is, if you have questions about billing a new NAS, I think at this point Ben's a good guy to answer them, so send them in.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:50

But I I gotta tell you, I'm very happy with my choice to go with TrueNAS.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:55

Yeah, but you've had it before, haven't you? True NAS? You were recommending me installing TrueNAS before.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:01

Yeah, but I was using the old core version, not scale. This is okay. So they've changed a lot since the last time I used it. Yeah, so it's an i9 10850K.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:11

Okay. Yep. So unlocked up to boot. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:17

I don't know if that has symmetric cores or not, but I'm pretty sure they do.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:25

Wouldn't surprise me with the I think it was just AMD and Apple had asymmetric cores.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:31

No, Intel pushes asymmetric. They have been for a while now, and they're kicking AMD's butt on productivity numbers. Like AMD is a good gaming architecture, AMD is a good server architecture.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:44

But for desktop compute, Intel's still winning.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:48

Yeah, I don't know what that means, dude. I mean by volume, sure. But as I would still if I had a choice, I would buy AMD.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:57

By performance metrics on benchmarks.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:00

But performance for per dollar or performance per what? Per wattage?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:06

No, just flagship CPU up against flagship CPU on workload tasks like calculations, etc.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:14

Yeah, workload tasks don't require flagship CPUs ever. Gaming requires flagship, and AI requires flagship. That's it. There's nothing that Microsoft Word requires you to have a latest generation CPU for.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:30

Yeah. Anyway, the it is symmetric cores on this chunks and it's still a$300 chip.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:35

So that's actually more expensive than I thought it would be.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:39

It's on Amazon right now for$310.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:42

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:46

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:49

Anyway, I'm super happy. I thought I was going to be using the MVME drive as a cache drive, but I don't need it. The RAM caching in TrueNAS is fast enough that you know I'm not limited by the hard drive speed.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:05

Yep. Yep. No, that's that should last you a good long time then. Although I think the drives will start failing because you're using used drives.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:16

I'm using used drives that I have had that I know what they've been through, they're fine. And when the drives start failing, I'll start replacing them with bigger drives.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:27

Yeah. Yeah. And uh did you set up, remember I reminded you to set up alerts?

SPEAKER_05 1:34:32

I do have alerts set up and configured. So yes. Good.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:37

Very good, because that's how I ended up losing my NAS is because I didn't have alerts set up and didn't notice when a couple drives died. Well, don't do that. Well, I, you know, that's why I went to dual drive mode raid. So now I can have two drives die and not lose anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:00

Yeah, and that's the thing is I've got two separate ZFS pools that, you know, they both are doubly two drive redundant. Yep. So to lose all my data, I would literally have to lose four drives all at once.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:18

Yeah, let's hope that doesn't happen.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:20

Now, if I lose three drives on one ZFS pool, then I'll lose whatever's in that ZFS pool, but the rest of the the other half of the day will be fine.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:31

Good. Well, good. I'm trying to think if there's anything else I will bring up here, but uh one last thing on the topic.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:40

I will say, yeah. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the case. I got the Johnsbow N5, I think it looks good. But the build quality is a little eh.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:53

Really?

SPEAKER_05 1:35:54

Yeah, I mean it's a Chinese company.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:56

Uh yeah, well, most of them are.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:59

I've always liked the Lian Li cases. Yeah, me too. That's what my main gaming PC is.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:05

Mm-hmm. They've had pretty good quality over the years.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:11

I've got the the three glass sides.

Game Recommendations And Closing Joke

SPEAKER_00 1:36:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's I well, I told you. I think like with all the lights and PCs these days, I actually think that would be kind of distracting. So I have my computer on the floor, even though it's also got glass in it. Uh it's only got two sides that are glass, the front and the side. Okay. Alright. Well, I like I said, I don't really have much. Oh, one other gaming thing, I guess I told you this, so might as well just mention that here too, is Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is a game that I I think is one of the best games of last year.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:57

Yeah, you were trying to get me to buy this.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:59

Yeah, you need to buy it. Why do I need to buy it? It's the trifecta of games that I told you about when you were first building your computer that are all, in my opinion, in the same genre. So the three games are Cyberpunk, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. So all three of these games are genre. The genre is first person, awesome storyline, very much living as a character in the game, and having a bunch of choose your own adventure type quests around you. So there are other games that I guess would technically fall in that genre, but I consider these three of the best games ever made. I just think Red Dead 10 Years Later. What?

SPEAKER_05 1:37:49

It's still a$50 game.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:51

It's half price, dude. Jesus, get over yourself. What's that? It's half price. The 50% sale. It was worth a hundred bucks when I bought it.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:02

So which bundle would you get?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:04

I don't know. You can get the cheapest one.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:07

I generally don't need all the DLCs.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:11

I mean, yeah, you want the DLCs, so get those two. Whichever bundle has all that stuff. What you don't need, they do have some bundles that bundle other games with it as well. That's the ones I wouldn't bother getting, because you know, this is the only game you need to buy is the actual game, not some bundle on thing. But they also have other crap which I didn't buy, like the storybook and the background and how they made the game and stuff like that. I'm like, yeah, whatever. Don't care. But the actual gameplay, including all the DLCs, are excellent.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:49

So which one then? The Kingdom Come Deliver System.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:53

Why don't we wrap up the podcast? I'll look at Steam so I can tell you exactly the one that I would recommend. And that's what I'm saying. I think they're they're smart enough to figure out which bundle they want to buy, which is probably the main game and then the uh DLCs. There you go. Look at that. You got a good deal on it.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:15

But it's it is dude, is medieval gameplay fun?

SPEAKER_00 1:39:19

Like yeah, because the storyline's really fun. That's the thing. What makes a great game, in my opinion, are two things. One is the storyline, because you can have a good game, but you can't have a great game without a good storyline.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:34

Agreed.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:35

And then the second thing is the graphics have to be immersive enough to look like you could actually be in there. I disagree with you.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:45

I know you don't you don't have the same visual playing playing a video game for graphics is like watching porn for a story.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:52

Yeah, and crappy porn doesn't have good stories. Good porn has good stories. Like I want to know exactly why that winch needs to be spanked.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:03

Okay. That got me.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:06

And on that note, we'll go ahead and wrap things up until next week. See you in a week, then. See you, Gene.