Sick Week And Quick Catch-Up

SPEAKER_00 0:25

Howdy Ben, how are you today? Gene, I'm doing all right. I'm feeling much, much better.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

Much later? That's good. No, much better. I've been sick this week. Yeah, I saw you uh you sent me a I have a fever note from from your mom, so you didn't have to go to school. So how you doing?

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Uh-huh. Yeah, no, I had to like this is the first time I've been sick enough where I've actually taken off work in I don't know how long. But yeah, I had with taking Advil and stuff, I had basically a 101 fever to 102 fever for four days. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

And then was it just a regular cold, flu?

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Yeah, flu, whatever. I had a sore throat and it went away. You didn't have hyper COVID? I don't know. I didn't test for it. I don't care. But it was funny because I I did end up going to the doctor, but for one reason. My sore throat that this kind of started with went away and then came back. And I was thinking, oh, well, if it's bacterial, maybe my body was fighting it off, but then you know, whatever. Let me go get swab just to make sure it's not something bacterial. Right. And it wasn't. So just a little virus had to run its course.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Well, you know, little viruses sometimes take a while to run their course.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Yeah, I'm still hacky and voice is off.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

So this is gonna be a fun podcast, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 2:03

Yeah, we'll see how long uh I can go falling apart.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

We'll see how Ben's voice survives, guys. So it's a bit interesting.

King Charles Visits And Pomp

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Better than the British Empire.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Why? What's going on there?

SPEAKER_00 2:16

King Charles coming over and Vulva. Yes, yes. And the hilarity that is ensuing.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

It I I think Trump has a certain flair for making people feel right at home.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

I mean, there's nothing more like uh revolutionary guards or whatever they're called than to make the king feel at home.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

I did think it was funny that the Brits brought some of their soldiers dressed up as red coats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And uh somebody made the point that that's the most British soldiers that have been at the White House since like 1814.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

1812, yeah. Uh huh.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Well, it's the War of 1812. They didn't burn the White House until 1814.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny. That is funny. You know, I mean, what is he, right? Because it's a symbolic monarch as far as politics is concerned. He has zero political power, at least in practice. In theory, he might have more, but he certainly doesn't use it.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

He doesn't use it, but I mean, he can dissolve parliament.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

Yeah, which was when was the last time that was actually used? Like 1812. His mom no has invented it at some point in time. Really? I don't recall that. When was that? Because I thought she was a I thought she are you sure about that? Because I thought she was from watching the TV show, I don't think she ever did. So we'll have to look that up. But yeah, anyway, state visit. I guess it's an opportunity to have a little pomp. A little circumstance.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

I I heard Trump talking about the benefits of granite versus marble and why he prefers using granite in construction. It's hilarious. The guy loves construction.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Yeah, well, he's definitely a nerd about it. He was talking about some of the buildings and yeah. So you're right, the last time it was unilaterally done was King William the Fourth in 1834.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

Yeah, so it's um it that's why I say in theory they could still have some power, but in practice they really don't.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Yeah, King Charles dissolved Parliament, though, on the request of the Prime Minister uh in 2024. So wait. Really? I did not hear about that. When the hell? Yeah, King Charles dissolved Parliament on May 30th, 2024, at the request of uh Prime Minister Shriek Khan to facilitate the general election.

SPEAKER_02 5:04

Oh, that's right, because he's a Muslim now. I keep forgetting.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

So whenever Muslims ask him to dissolve Parliament, he'll do that.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

But anyway, it's it's it's unilaterally was the key thing that takes it back to the 1800s. Yeah. Yeah. Did what'd you think of the gift? What do you think of the gift that they gave?

SPEAKER_02 5:24

I didn't see what what did they give him?

SPEAKER_00 5:27

So there was a submarine during World War II. They were talking about you know us beating the Nazis and everything, and that was the HMS Trump. And the drump. The yeah, yeah. And they gave him the bell, the ship's bell.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Oh, that's kind of cool. I I like that as a gift, man. Yeah. Showing homage, thank you. Yeah, I mean, that's a ship's bell is very symbolic.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

If you ever make it out to the Wizard Academy, you'll you'll get to see a ship's bell from a very famous ship.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Did you hear that they made a little trip into Virginia for Charles to see some reenactors, revolutionary reenactors?

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Oh, did they really? Oh no, I didn't. That's cool too.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

For the Battle of Yorktown.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Okay, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Yeah, the the I mean, like the symbology going back to the city.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

I mean, Virginia is now Chinese, of course, but still.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

Ah, I mean, I don't know. I think Virginia just got saved, but by the Supreme Court? Yes.

Supreme Court Redistricting Fallout

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Maybe, maybe. We'll see. Yeah, the Supreme Court ruling, I think, opens the floodgates for a lot of lawsuits, but it doesn't mean those lawsuits are gonna get settled.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

Because there's a few of them here.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

I'm talking about the ruling about gerrymandering.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Oh, today, yes.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

Yeah. Which one are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Well, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the redistricting couldn't happen. Oh, well, that's good too.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Okay, gotcha.

unknown 7:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Yeah, I was I was thinking more about the uh gerrymandering one because effectively it it says now that all these lawsuits which would have been thrown out as unconstitutional can now go forward relating to districts that are based on a uh racial bias.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Right. So actually it rules that those districts are unconstitutional and thus must be redistricted.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Must be redistricted, exactly. But I think the big the big reason that this came up because a lot of states had pending lawsuits that were effectively on hold until the Supreme Court decides on whether they had any standing to sue in the first place.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

And if the states that are Republican controlled go through and use this to redistrict right now, Democrats will lose lack of the city. Well, but here's the thing. Any and this is why it'll happen. Anyone in that district, in a district that's been done like this, can sue and cause them to do this. There's already Supreme Court precedent and everything else. Yeah. So are they really gonna fight it or are they just gonna just go ahead and do it?

SPEAKER_02 8:23

You know, and don't trust a Republican out there any further than you can throw them.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Yeah, Hokel said she was gonna redistrict New York.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Okay. I mean, okay. And what is that gonna get us?

SPEAKER_00 8:41

I don't know how many U.S. congressmen are from New York that are Republicans.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Zero? New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut. There's like five states all clumped together that have zero Republican congressmen.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Yeah, so there are Well, the popular vote is around 40%. There are several in New York that are Republican. So you've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

So that's Oh, really? In New York? Oh, okay. Maybe it it's the other states aside from New York. But it's it's a whole gaggle of states in the in that area that have no Republican representation at all. At least that's what an infographic that I have on.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Like Maine.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Okay. Well, Massachusetts is the big one. I know that for sure. And a bunch of others.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

But Maine has, you know, the Maine's almost always all blue.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Anyway, it'll be interesting. Florida's redistricting. Yeah, Florida is saying they can add five. Well, and the South, I mean, if they if the South redistricts, I think we win. Like, I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Well, California is threatened to redistrict one more time and match any states that how many weapons do they have? I think they have four. I think they have four. Out of like 29, they're 31.

unknown 10:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

It's but I think it is still funny. Because California is like they're they're treating this not as a California has three, maybe four congressional districts that are Republican.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah, so they're gonna redistrict those to make them zero. Apparently. So Florida needs to do its thing. The big one what was the big one that never happened? Was it like Ohio or something?

SPEAKER_00 11:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Yeah. Which they they talked about it, and then then nothing happened.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Well, anyway, it's a hell of a Supreme Court decision, and you know, the moral and one that makes sense. Mm-hmm. What? You shouldn't be basing people's representation off of their race? What? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Well, how else are those people gonna get represented if it's not based on their race? I mean, isn't that what we do with Somalis? We have a Somali district of Minnesota.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

You you saw the Elohad and Omar thing, right? Yes, yes. Yeah, World War 11. Wait, what? And then you realize it was written in Roman numerals and she's just a she just doesn't know what World War II is, that's all.

unknown 12:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

I mean, why would you expect her to? Okay, let's just be fair.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

Yeah, it's racist of me to expect her to be.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

She grew up in Africa, which didn't have World War II, because they were living in Wakanda and flying in their flying vehicles. And until the white man came and then, you know, everything broke and stopped working. That was just wonderful in Wakanda. So I yeah, I don't. I don't know, man. I don't know. And I like my my sister and my dad picked the two most liberal states to live in, which is hilarious in one sense and kind of sad in another. Where does your sister live? Minnesota. And my dad's in Washington State. A state which recently increased the estate tax to 60%. 6-0. Wow. Yep. Your kids don't need anything. The state'll take it. Don't worry.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

That's that's just horrible.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

It's insanity.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

It used to be 20%. It's it's we don't want you to have generational wealth.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

No, no, no, absolutely not. And there might be something to be said for that. I think that there's a a number of problematic dynasties have been created through generational wealth.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

But yeah, but good news is they usually only last three days.

TRIP Plan And Caucasus Corridor

SPEAKER_02 13:52

They don't last very long. They blow through it pretty quick. Except for the soruses. But yeah, I I don't know, man. I just This is why I don't go there as often as possible. I haven't been to Minnesota in many years. I told my sister, you know, I can I'm happy to host her here. I'm happy to meet somewhere else, just not Minnesota.

SPEAKER_04 14:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Alright, well, while we're done with that. Should we talk about video games then or what?

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Well, we've got some more politics that call me about you heard of Trip. What's TRIP?

SPEAKER_02 14:37

It's the Trump route for international peace and prosperity. No. Yeah. So I hadn't either until very recently. Okay. So TRIP is it's an interesting thing because it basically is first of all, it's organized by or I should say administered by Trump's peace board. Okay, so this is an ex extra governmental American agency. Well, it it's an NGO that Trump is an NGO that has yeah, that is gonna become the UN.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Yeah, and that's going to have billions of dollars.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Yeah. I think it already does. Each seat is a billion to get in there.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

So something that Trump managed to do is get Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign a peace treaty.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

And they've been fighting for a while. Like about a thousand years. And as part of that deal, America gets a 99-year lease to a corridor that goes through both countries, and that corridor can transport goods, can transport oil, can transport cables for data and telephone. Essentially creating this like American corridor, the equivalent of the uh the Panama Canal, except on land that goes from Turkey to the Caspian Sea.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

Yep. And the that and if you're not picking up the what he's putting down on the geography, that's uh fairly significant.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Well, there's two big countries that are in the Caspian Sea, one of them is Russia, the other one is Iran. And so what this does is it creates a gateway to Europe through the Caspian Sea to Iran and through Iran to the rest of the Asia. So Iran is pretty instrumental in this, but the Armenian and Azerbaijan connection essentially lets the US start building this shit right now before Iran's even ready for it. And it's gonna be a way to move oil from the Middle East as well as products and materials and food supplies to Europe through an American tariff. That's the beauty of this plan, is we're gonna be basically the you know, the Teamsters Union. No, we're replacing OPEC. Well, yeah, you could say that UAEC is UAE less than just I mean, it's just oil. It's not good. Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

I'm just saying we're gonna be exerting that level of control. Oh, yeah. UAE just left OPEC. Venezuela is leaving OPEC.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Yeah, there's no reason for Venezuela. That's our way.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

I love how even finally now, like people like Peter Zaehan are starting to see what we've been talking about for a while now. Hey, this makes us very profitable, and this is totally reshaping absolutely industry.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

Yeah, this is this is all good for America. The Europeans keep not understanding things, and oh, Iran is just kicking America's balls. This is hilarious. What an idiot. Yeah, we don't really want you guys to have any energy. We want you to only buy things from us at a steep increased price. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

And you know what the funny thing is, uh Zayhan in that video, you can tell he almost wants to say, Wow, look at this move, but he can't do it.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

No, he can't, no.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

But you know, some of the other liberal commentators that have finally started picking up on what's going on, oh well, Trump just stumbled his way into this. He stumbled his way into landing a perfect triple backflip. What? Yeah, exactly. Like, okay, I know you think he's dumb, but dude, someone in the room is smart.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

Yeah, yeah. And I think more than one person is, probably.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Oh man. I I mean, seriously, I think I think there's a there are so many good things going on geopolitically for the US, but even internally. You know, whether it be the ATF stuff that just came out, whether it's the Fauci assistant getting arrested, whether it's James Comey. Yeah, he's Comey a heart.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

Yeah, Fauci. No, the Fauci, uh, one of the Fauci's assistants got indicted for uh I love the Democrats you know, this oh yeah, typical Trump for only thing he's capable of doing is going after his political enemies. Like, wait a minute. What what was Comey's whole job? Exactly. Like, what did he spend a billion dollars on? Oh, to do a fake prosecution on Trump for a non-existent thing? Oh, okay. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Well, anyway, I think I think Comey's I think I think he's gonna get it, but I think Jack Pasobic is also gonna get it too. Why? What's what's going on with Jack? Because what they're charging Comey with, and we kind of need to finish on the geopolitical, but what they're charging Comey with is uh threatening the president based off of his social media post of found these seashells 8645.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Oh, that's yeah, I remember that. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Yeah, yeah. He denied that had any meaning. Yeah, Jack Pasobic posted 8646. And so I and Pasobic has flat out said he expects to be arrested.

Falklands Talk And Europe Pullback

SPEAKER_02 21:03

Okay, why would he post that? I don't know, because he's dumb. I mean, sounds like he's an idiot, but okay. Huh.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

Because, you know, oh, Colmy, it doesn't mean anything, so I can just say it too. Huh. No, dude.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Yeah, that's kind of weird. That's uh I I that's why I didn't even realize he said anything.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Yeah, the other thing that I think's interesting geopolitically that's going on right now. Anyway, Comey, I think it's gonna get fried, but have you been listening to what Millet has to say, as in Javier Millet has to say about the Falkland Islands? I've read the headlines, that's about it. Okay. Well, I just gotta say, I think the British are not going to be able to keep the Falkland Islands for very long.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Yeah, I didn't think anybody was really fighting them for it up until literally just now, since the original Falklands war, as they like to call it.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

But I yeah, I think if America backs Malay, which we should if we just stay, if we just stay neutral.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

I think, yeah, they brought I don't think the UK can bring even the fleet they had the last time.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

No, they can't, and they've only got like four airplanes over there and a thousand troops. But they've got all our gear.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

They do have some good gear, but keep in mind, after what they did, we don't have to let UK troops refuel in American ports.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Oh, oh no, no. And I love that privilege. And I love how we've been talking about for a long since Trump got in that one of the things was going to be to pull us out of Europe.

unknown 22:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

And he's using Germany and France and sp and not letting uh not helping us with Iran. Yep. As well, maybe we'll just pull out.

unknown 23:08

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

Maybe we Europe just uh Jerup just does not get the big swinging dick, it's not yours anymore, bud. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Yeah, you're Europe still thinks that they have a say in something. Yeah. Which they don't. They're they're so I was gonna say decapitated, they're not decapitated, they deballed. What's the technical term for that? They're castrated. Europe is castrated.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Yeah. Anyway, it's it we live in exciting times. Yeah, yeah, for our side, absolutely. This is gonna keep going, and I think China is going to this this may collapse China, dude.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Yeah, China's gonna need to either drastically change their tact and start bunny bunnying up to the US and doing the old South Park, you know. But but our our penis is so small. We're gonna have to do that. Or they may well be left out in the cold. China's best play here is to keep the US from becoming too friendly with Russia. Like that that would be the main Chinese plays. Whatever you can, just keep reminding the US that there's a bunch of US companies manufacturing shit in China with Chinese partners, and that it's much better to be friends with China because of what America already has than to try and dump it and try to get resources from Russia. Yeah, China needs the Russian resources.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

So they don't want the China doesn't have the resources to be the manufacturing hub that they are, they have to import it. Exactly. So I don't know, man. I think China's screwed. Like there are estimates that here in the next couple of days, China is going to have to start really rationing fuel and trying to decide where they put what.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

Yeah, now luckily for them, they have a command economy, so they can absolutely do that better than other countries. So it's not a matter of just you know, waiting till you run out. It's a matter of sending a command and every gas station in the country is closed. And there you go. Now fuel's only available for official business. Like it's the kind of shit that used to happen in the Soviet Union.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Yeah, but the Soviet Union never had to ration like they're about to.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Well, but they were producers too. I mean, there there was other things like blue jeans that had to be rationed. It is so funny to me thinking back that I actually was around and vaguely recall just what kind of value Russians placed on blue jeans.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

I mean it's it's it's crazy, dude. For something as innocuous as basically blue-collar w clothes, yeah, that's what they were invented for, is to be sturdy enough to last a farmer more than a year. And demand was so high that people were trading, you know, a month's salary for a pair of blue jeans. What why why that? Of all things. It was symbolic. It was it was the symbol of, you know, this is this is how people who don't protest protest. Right? It's like I'm gonna wear the forbidden clothes, the the clothes of the capitalists. Blue jeans. Okay. And I say blue jeans specifically here because back in the day, there were really no other colored jeans. They that didn't pop up till the 80s, but like back in the 70s, pretty much all jeans were blue.

Steam Sale And Kingdom Come Pitch

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Uh ironically, we take as a supplement the dive of those jeans.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

For a lot of money. I know, isn't that funny? Yeah, yes. Just if the genes were sod, just imagine how more sod the dye would be back then if it was known of its health benefits.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Yep. All right, I gotta go grab a drink before I cough on everybody. Yeah, man, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Don't cough up a lung. Not not on our account. All right. So while Ben's doing that, I uh I will mention that there is a sale going on on Steam right now. Let's see what's the topic. It looked like they had a bunch of games that I already own on sale, which is it's good and bad. It's it's not good because obviously I already bought the games and you know paid more. But it is good because quite often there are people that never bought the games that I am telling now to go buy the games. One of the games that is on sale for the first time is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which I told Ben to buy. We'll see when he gets back if he actually listened to what I told him and bought it or not. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a medieval game set in Bohemia of the I think 1400s, I believe.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

We already moved on to video games, huh?

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Well, we weren't gonna wait for you, we're gonna keep going. Okay, and and this game is kind of like Red Dead Redemption or Cyberpunk, except it's in the 1400s, so it's different time setting, but excellent, excellent storyline, very beautiful graphics. The characters are top-notch, you really kind of get the feel for them and like them. And the story is interesting enough because it it keeps it keeps messing with you. And what I mean by that is like there's a there's a phrase for it, what's it called? Subverting expectations is the phrase, I think. Uh, it's basically just when you think you've figured something out and you kind of know exactly what's about to happen and what the situation's all of a sudden that's not what actually happens, it's that kind of stuff. So very, very fun game. I've got here, let me check how many hours in it. And I've played it through three times, and my 540 hours, so that's three playthroughs. So that's I guess about 170 hours per playthrough. Probably the first one was the fastest, and then after that, I wanted to finish all the different missions and stuff, so it took longer. But definitely get your money's worth. And I think I paid like 70 bucks for it, and right now it's on sale for half off. Ben, did you buy Kingdom Come Deliverance? Like I told you, I have.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

I have not installed it yet. Okay, that's why I did.

Ireland Pushback And Hungary Politics

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Yeah, but you bought it. That's the important part because it was on sale. I know how much you like saving money. We know all about you people. You know, the Irish. Yeah, well, Scott. Never met an Irishman who paid full price. You're talking Scotch. Scotch-Irish. That's what I meant. Speaking of Irish You're you're Scotch and Irish, though, aren't you? You're both.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

You know what's interesting is the Irish, the car bombs are back.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Yeah, which is I don't know if that's necessarily something we should be talking about in a good sense, but it's car bombs are not good. Okay. Don't don't do car bombs, kids. Okay. But it does seem like the Irish Republican Army or somebody reusing that name and reusing car bombs as a method is starting to go after all the how would you describe them? All the imports to Ireland that they're not too fond of. Now they're fond of potatoes, that's also an import to Ireland, but they're not fond of Schwarma.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Yeah. I am just looking forward to dusting off my IRA playlist and watching watching the fireworks, as it were.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's it's interesting. I think out of the different countries in Europe, there's a few that have the Hutspud to actually do you know push back hard. Ireland's definitely one of them. Poland's another one. Uh yeah, I think Hungary is another one, although Hungary is they just basically got rid of Urban. And, you know, there's plenty of good reasons to get rid of him, but he was on the right side internationally, as far as I was concerned, and they got themselves a socialist now.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

So I don't know how I don't know if he's really a socialist. I mean, have you looked at his policies?

SPEAKER_02 32:11

Well, that's where I don't know. I haven't. I really haven't looked at his policies.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

I'm going by with So Victor Orban's defeat, I think, is not as bad as it seems on the Freiser. But we'll see.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

Yeah.

Assassination Attempt And Media Rhetoric

SPEAKER_02 32:35

So this guy is he's part of the TISA party. And he won a supermajority securing 53% of the vote. So I don't know. Promises to restore checks and balances, fight corruption, unlike 17 billion for New funds, pass laws limiting future prime ministerial terms. I mean, it's it's literally what every politician says right before getting elected, literally.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Exactly. So we haven't talked about the attempt.

SPEAKER_02 33:17

Oh, you know, it happens monthly, so I kind of forgot about it. Not quite, but you know. Damn near. I mean, you saw Trump's face.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Oh, yeah. I love the picture where he's just calm and everybody else. Right, and he's kind of got a little bit of a smile on his face, and everybody else is freaked out and says, first time.

unknown 33:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Yeah, what movie is that from? That was a good movie. Where that reference came from.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

I have no idea what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

But uh the first time meme from the movie.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

What movie it's from.

unknown 33:50

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

I'll find it and send it to you after the podcast. I'm sure people know what it is, but it's it's the it's one of the meme, but yeah, it's one of the the Hollywood actor dudes that's in every movie.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, uh, it's um how ever many ways to die in the west or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

I don't think that's what it is, but maybe. But he's got a noose on, and he's been hanged multiple times, but unsuccessfully. And there's another guy next to him just shitting his pants, and and the guy looks over like first time that you got a hangman's noose on your neck. But yeah, I think you know it it's it's fourth time for Trump. There's plenty of news reporters that got it wrong saying this is the third one. It's like, nope, it's the fourth one. He's winning. He's the most assassinated person in the history of assassination. Luckily, this guy's an idiot, but you know, because now you don't want to say things like that just because of his race.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

Oh, I wasn't saying it because of his race. I'm saying objectively, a why do you choose a shotgun and that pistol as what you're gonna do? And then two, let me run at Secret Service, like because that's not gonna draw any suspicion.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

But you saw he runs at like 400 miles an hour. I mean, he he was there was the wind was generated when he was running.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

Yeah, dude was moving.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And somebody down. Somebody was saying that's like, you know, he's Colombian or whatever, he's not black. I'm like, boy, yeah, you don't you don't understand genetics, do you?

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Yeah, well. Regardless, what it comes down to is it was a dumb attempt. Luckily, it was a dumb attempt, but did you read his uh manifaster? Yeah, well, the note. The half page note, yes. It's it's insanity, and this is the rhetoric I'm talking about. If you can get someone who's well educated to sit there and feel like they are culpable by not acting for the alleged actions of another human being to which there is no evidence of a rapist.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

And when they say convicted rapist, they mean Trump.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

Yeah, obviously. And he actually wasn't convicted of rape.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

I know.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

He was found in civil court to have raped her.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

Which is not even a thing.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Right.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

I mean, you can't rape somebody ugly, that's impossible. I'm looking at Ben's face right now as he's shaking his eyeballs.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Ben at just oldboys.com.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Well, anyway, I I don't know, man. We've got a I I I really hope, my my only hope is that we all the geopolitics stuff ends up creating a new whirlwind American economy that then, you know, that fixes a lot of domestic stuff.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Well, we'll see. It should certainly provide more jobs. Now they may be jobs that Americans don't want. That's the downside of it, but it should provide more jobs.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

What jobs would they produce that we don't want?

SPEAKER_02 37:40

Well, serving in the military. Okay. That might be a job.

SPEAKER_00 37:48

I have all of our.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

I know that there's definitely a lot of concern right now by the lefties about the draft being reinstated before the uh elections.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

But why? Why would we do that? Because they think that that all are enlistment targets.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

Right, but they they're again. I'm just, you know, my feed on X, unfortunately, is like 75% crazy liberals.

SPEAKER_00 38:18

Oh, see, mine's all conservative stuff.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

No, yours is all boobs. Don't lie about what your feed is. I was about to say uh you have no politics at all, it's just boobs. But uh, my feed is political. And what and remember la last episode we were talking about, maybe we didn't record it. God damn it. Did we record when we're talking about when Trump got shot? Maybe we didn't, but we certainly were I treated it like it was an episode. But I I said that you just wait, give it 24 hours, and they'll be talking about how this is obviously staged, and this is Trump just wanting to get his numbers up in order to do something. And literally within 24 hours for the ballroom.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

What?

SPEAKER_02 39:04

Yeah, yeah, it's for the ballroom, exactly. It's so he could get his ballroom money approved, he staged another shooting. It's like, how many of these liberals are there willing to be patsies in the staging of a Trump shooting? Right. It's an insanity. So anyway, uh the the bottom line, I think, is that that there's a a growing acceptance on the left that Trump is gonna stay for another term. He's decided he's gonna be king for life of the Americas, and that his people that elected him, the crazies, that's us, that they're they're all building these large concentration camps in Alaska, which we should be, by the way, and that they're going to start sending the the freedom fighting pro-Palestinian liberals up to the camps and keep them from voting or buying guns. And so he has to be this is them talking, not me. He has to be taken out now. So that's what we're seeing, and I think we're only gonna see an uptick in the number of attempts.

SPEAKER_00 40:24

Put out a picture of Charles and Trump together, and the captions said two kings.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Yes, yes. Did you hear Trump talking to Charles about how awesome it would be if he became king? No, I mean he was doing it very jokingly, but he's like, Yeah, wow, king, that's such a great thing. You know, sometimes I have people that tell me, What if you were king, Trump? And I think, wow, that would be something. If I was king, what you know, and he starts going on and on about himself being king.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

I didn't hear that one.

SPEAKER_02 41:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's pretty damn funny. It's he they were talking as they were walking in the garden. But Trump can get onto these sort of very long-winded off-topic conversation about stuff when he thinks of something. And I think he was he was thinking of all the king conversation. Oh, oh, I know where it started because they were talking about the no kings protests, and how the same people that were protesting the no kings are the ones that are very excited right now to to welcome Charles. An actual king.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

It's just hilarious, right?

SPEAKER_02 41:45

No kings, no kings, except for the king. But other than that, king, no kings, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

Yeah. So did you see uh Herrera's video he put out today?

SPEAKER_02 41:58

I did not know. Brandon Herrera, our next Congressman from Texas.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Yeah, but it was him and uh Chip Roy at the gun range.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

Oh yeah, Chip's my guy. He's my district.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Chip.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

I like Chip. I send them money every year. Well, okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

So what do you say? Oh no, it was just them talking guns and a little bit of politics. Why don't you like Chip? Chip's a cool dude. His voting record is not 100% where I'd like it to be. I think he's tough enough.

SPEAKER_02 42:35

He's not tough enough. Okay. I mean he's pro-gun, he's same reason why I don't like Cornan. No, Cornyn is no, Corner is a pussy man. They're extremely different, and Chip calls out Cornyn all the time. In fact, he called out our governor more than once. Governor Milktoast.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Hot Wheels.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Yeah, Hot Wheels. I don't think Chip used the term Hot Wheels. Who's using Hot Wheels? I don't remember. Some chick, I thought. Yeah. But Hot Wheels because he's in a wheelchair. And so he's zooming around, zooming around, you know, catching up to people and just blowing past them because he's got wheels. So governor Hot Wheels.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

So what do you think of the uh Trump IRA program?

SPEAKER_02 43:30

Don't know anything about it.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

You didn't see the executive orders?

SPEAKER_02 43:36

No. Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_00 43:37

Okay. So there's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

Unless the liberals are bitching about it, I usually don't see it.

SPEAKER_00 43:42

So there's gonna be a federal IRA program.

SPEAKER_02 43:51

Okay. And they're gonna invest in the same things that the Congress critters invest in.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

That would be the way to do it. I don't know if it'd be how they are going to do it. Don't know the details.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

Like many things Trump announces it has to wait to see the execution of.

SPEAKER_02 44:07

Yeah, nobody knows. Not even Trump. Nobody knows. But eventually they'll know. It's like Nancy Pelosi said, right? When they're talking about some bill. It's like, well, we have to wait until the bill's approved to read what's in there. Yeah. That like an actual quote from Nancy Pelosi. Yes. Crazy. Absolutely nuts. What else you want to talk about? Well, I don't know. I mean, there's not a whole lot going on with the actual war situation in Iran, so don't really. Need to talk about that, I don't think. You know, I mentioned the one video game sale and reminded you to make sure you buy that game. Yeah. Did you see the uh we got a new new donor to the podcast? I don't remember her name, but it is a female looking at the name, so I assume it's female. Which I don't think is the first woman, but one of very few women that have donated.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Did I see what? We should probably remember people's names if we're gonna bring it up.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

But here's the thing. No, uh, because they if they donate and it's just their email address, I don't want to call out their freaking email address, right? And I don't know even if it's their email address, could be their husband or wife's email address. Fair enough. Could be a dude using his wife's email. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

So the Department of War is launching audit.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

They're gonna audit the DOD again.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Better than last time, I hope.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

I I mean, last time, the day after Rumsfeld announced the the findings, we had 9-11.

SPEAKER_02 45:55

So yeah, yeah. And we lost all the records.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

That was total coincidence, of course.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

Yeah. Did you see the the British chick, the song I sent that's Deport, Deport, Deport them all.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's good. I honestly do not have much confidence in the British.

SPEAKER_00 46:27

Oh, I don't I don't think I do either, but I think if anything is worth saving, I don't think we can save Poland or Hungary just because of geography. I don't think Poland or Hungary need saving. I think they'll be okay. We'll see. Geography may screw them, is the problem. But Great Britain, like I said, you know, I keep saying this, and things I have said keep magically coming true. So there we go. But I think our sphere of influence is gonna go from at least Greenland all the way over to Japan and Australia.

SPEAKER_02 47:08

Yeah. So I don't know about Australia. Australia's on board with us, Japan for sure. Australia is the size of Texas. Australia is bigger than Texas. What do you mean? I mean, the population of Australia is the size of Texas, yeah. But in a geographic continent, the size of America. So they're very low population density with just four major cities in the whole damn country. So, and they've consistently voted liberal nut jobs. Even after COVID, they voted in liberal nut jobs. So I don't have a whole lot of confidence in Australia. I'm talking economically, like they're going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 47:50

Economically, they just economically and militarily.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

I think they'll be aligned with let's compare the GDP of Australia to American states, shall we?

SPEAKER_00 47:59

That's a fun game, but they're strategically located with China, and we've got some major NSA bases over there.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

They've also sold a bunch of property to China.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Yeah, well, maybe they'll learn from us.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

So would you would you like to guess how much smaller Australia's GDP is than the state of Texas?

SPEAKER_00 48:21

I would compare it more to Mississippi, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

Well, it's not that bad. No, Australia is roughly 60% of the GDP of Texas.

SPEAKER_00 48:32

Okay. So where would that rank them in states, though? Because the British would be the 51st state.

SPEAKER_02 48:39

Yeah, I mean, I wasn't going by all states, I just compared it to Texas because I don't really give a shit about their other states.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 48:47

But they have a fairly high per capita GDP, which is where England was completely horseshit, because the chart you're thinking of compared per capita, not total GDP. Right. So Australia's per capita GDP is actually better than Texas. It's about$5,000 more per person. Now they're over Australian dollars. No, those dollarettes. No, those are the things that are.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

That's what I'm saying, is make sure you're doing it in USD.

SPEAKER_02 49:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's in USD. But the total country GDP is about 60% that of Texas. So and anyway, I don't dislike Australians. I I do like a lot of their I like them individually. I don't like them as a voting block. Pretty girls. Yeah, girls are pretty, everyone's in really good shape. You know, unlike here.

SPEAKER_00 49:48

Great export of Bluey. Great cartoon.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

Yeah. Yeah. There's a few things that that, you know, they've got decent beer out there.

SPEAKER_00 49:59

But what decent beer do they have? I can't remember the name of it, but I had a buddy that actually certainly you're not talking about Foster's.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

No, not Fosters. No, no, no. You can't buy it in the U.S. He had to actually bring it home every time he flew to Australia. Or bring it back to Austin every time he was in Australia. He brought some back to Austin. I remember he got so mad at me when I drank his last bottle. Which I would never do that, of course, but you know. He got mad anyway. So yeah, Australia is interesting. But I will say that based on my experience in having Australian employees, they definitely have the whole working four days a week thing figured out. Because their Monday is during the U.S. Sunday. They're basically it's fuck off day for them. Because nobody else is there.

SPEAKER_00 50:51

Thursday is their Friday.

SPEAKER_02 50:52

And Thursday is their Friday. And so, you know, between getting more than half a day on Monday off and more than half a day at the end of the week, they've effectively gotten themselves into a four-day work week. And that's about the productivity that you end up getting out of them. Again, this is just based on my personal experience, not any kind of data that's been analyzed.

SPEAKER_00 51:14

Yeah, I had an employee in Singapore that was.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

Yeah. It all depends. I've also been in companies where we had employees in the Philippines, which literally lived on U.S. schedules. So they got up at, you know, 8 a.m. Central Time and worked until 5 or 6 p.m. Central Time. And then their actual time zone was less of an issue for them. So they just they kind of treat it as working a second or third, I guess, whatever it falls on, shift. But you can do that with people that are doing less high-level jobs in places like the Philippines. You can't really force Australians to do that, especially not in high-level positions. Like they're they're just they're gonna find a different job rather than adapt to our schedule. The UK guys, when I had a bunch of those working for me, they always seem to have bank holidays. Like every frickin' week is a bank holiday up there.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

Well, and that's the European mindset, right? Because they they're gonna get everybody gets vacation, everybody gets this, everybody gets that. It's in the government law. Yeah, and it's you know, that was one thing that struck me when I first went over to Europe, and these Europeans were being smug and comparing, oh, you know, we we have it so much better over here. And it's like, no, I want to work. I I I have a ton of vacation from seniority right now that I don't use. Exactly. And you know, and and my the thought that crossed my mind is why, you know, as much as I hate to say it, this is exactly and it's changing, but I think the majority of Americans that want to, the majority of Americans that are serious producers, yeah, you know, are like that. And that is a huge competitive advantage for us.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

It is, and I I would say the per capita output of an American worker is easily 30 to 40 percent higher than any other group of people. And think how lazy we've gotten.

SPEAKER_00 53:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Uh that's very true. It's like money printing, right? Yeah, the US prints a lot of money, but not when you compare it to the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_02 53:50

Yeah, yeah, and and people just kind of assume. Like I had going back to the UK, guys that were managers underneath me in the UK, they got company Mercedes. That was like their standard package for if you are if you manage people in the UK, you're expecting a company car and it's gonna be either a Jag or Mercedes.

unknown 54:14

Yeah.

Jobs Numbers And Energy Reality

SPEAKER_02 54:15

If you want to hire somebody at that level in the UK, you're expected to provide a company car. It's insane. It is absolutely crazy. But you know what? It's not gonna matter soon because you're gonna have to provide a uh a company, you know, flying carpet, flying rug.

unknown 54:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

For too long.

SPEAKER_00 54:39

So did you see not many Brits left in Britain? No. Did you see the jobs report? The last one, no. So non-farm workers, not counting farm workers, but rose by over 178,000 and unemployment uh dipped to 4.3. And well, I'm sure it's all not seeing it.

SPEAKER_02 55:04

I'm still looking for work.

SPEAKER_00 55:05

Well, uh, hey, maybe it says something about you there, bud.

SPEAKER_02 55:08

Hey now.

SPEAKER_00 55:10

But which by the way, you should have a recruiter reaching out to you or something soon. Cool.

SPEAKER_02 55:15

Um, yeah, I I've noticed that at least in the Austin area here, which is what I've been mainly targeting, that there's a shit ton of people looking for work. And I know Facebook just announced 8,000 people laying off. I know we've got a huge facility here in Austin. We got a building for Facebook, building for Google, building for all these California companies. They all have buildings in downtown. So when they announce layoffs, it's there's usually a pretty good chunk of people that lose jobs in Austin here as well.

SPEAKER_04 55:49

Yeah. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 55:53

I don't know, man. I uh but I yeah, one of these days I gotta get a job.

SPEAKER_00 55:58

Even CNN called it what a surprisingly strong March jobs report means in the face of war.

SPEAKER_02 56:09

Has gas gone down at all, or is it still up where it's at?

SPEAKER_00 56:12

I gas, but dude, okay. The price of gas, the fact that we haven't seen the spikes that other places have, is tremendous. Now, here's something that Zahan was talking about that I didn't realize. You know, there's no pipeline over the Rockies. I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't either. So, California, one of the places in the US that they've got their own refineries, but they don't have their own local production. Oh, they're importing the raw crude. Oh, California is about to be fucked. Well, I know their gas is like the entire West Coast, the entire West Coast. So we may have to send tankers to ourselves or do it over rail.

SPEAKER_02 56:59

Nah, it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 57:01

That was my reaction to Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:03

We just let them pay 10 bucks a gallon or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 57:06

We don't need to maybe Californians would be pro-drilling again because California.

SPEAKER_02 57:13

We could buy up all their property and then take over and change the voting laws, so you have to be a property owner in order to vote, and then make California great again. Just wishful thinking on my part, of course. Yeah. Anyway, it's I just there are not many places that have a better climate than fucking California. Well, the only place I've lived that has a climate like California is Rome.

SPEAKER_00 57:40

Yeah. If I were Trump, I'd be proposing a pipeline from Midland to California along, you know, the southern route.

SPEAKER_02 57:56

Yeah, you have the least mountains there, probably.

SPEAKER_00 57:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 58:00

Mm-hmm. It is a I've done that drive a number of times. From Texas oil fields to uh Southern California to San Diego.

SPEAKER_00 58:12

You know, it's always shocking to me that if you look on a map and you're driving down I-10 from Houston to California or to LA, by the time you hit the halfway point, you're still in Texas.

Cabinet Memes And Redistricting Hardball

SPEAKER_02 58:24

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, not only that, it's when I bought my car, one of very specific things that I was looking for was a car that had a gas tank that you could go over 660 miles on. Because I knew that's how long I would need to drive from Austin to get out of Texas 660 miles. So, you know, this this car was bought uh the my my diesel Grand Cherokee was bought as a zombie car. Now the the flip side of it is I could also drive to Mexico on one ticket gas. It all depends on what direction you're going, I guess. I don't know that I would choose Mexico. Well, if the zombies are coming from California, dude, you know?

unknown 59:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

So did you see uh the joke Rubio pulled? I mean, Rubio's a walking meme. What do you do? He's leaned into the meme. Good, good, good. So Carolyn Levitt's out for maternity leave, right? Right, right. She looked very prego. Yeah. So he comes into the press briefing room and says, Well, I've been appointed press secretary for and leaned into it for joking with them.

SPEAKER_02 59:49

That's great. That's why I love the fact that Trump's cabinet is all guys like my age and or younger, like your age. And so everyone is they grew up watching South Park. They're totally in on all the meme stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

Yes, and like and just play to the tropes, you know? Like Heg Seth. Hegseth is I'm really impressed with Heg Seth. And you know, I know several people in the army and the enlisted love him.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

Yeah. Well, it depends on which enlisted. I mean, there's certainly plenty of the fluffy, soft enlisted that don't. But yeah, I like Heg Seth.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:35

I think Heggseth is the uh Alabama governor has said that they're gonna redistrict willingly. Good, good, very good. So that'll be another two conversations.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:46

Yeah, good. Texas should do one more redistricting as a result of this. Yeah, right. Okay, good. Now we're really gonna do it. We do we you know, we're just testing it before. Yeah. And that's why keep waiting for a Republicans to have some fucking balls. Democrats will absolutely do everything that they can get away with, and then some to screw the Republicans over, and the Republicans will just be sitting there and bitching about it and then twiddling their thumbs and doing nothing. It's like, dude, if the Republicans want to win, it's right there. It's staring you in the face. All you gotta do is just use the tools that you have at your disposal. That's it. That's all you gotta do. But if they're unwilling to do it, it's kind of like the whole, you know, there's five Republicans that switched vote and voted against the the whatever the voter bill is called. The what is it called? Save act. Save act, yeah. They vote against the save act. It's like, what the fuck, man? How are you guys Republicans? What is this what people that voted for you with a little R next to your name? Is this what they voted for so that you would side with the Democrats? Really? Because I don't think that's what it is.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:12

I don't know. Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:14

Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:19

But anyway, I thought it was hilarious that he just, you know, l leaned in to that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:26

Oh yeah, yeah. And I I really I really like Marco. I think Marco is the he's definitely the guy that I noticed early on that I'm gonna support for president because he's got the right temperament. Like he's you know, he's not all meme. He he's got serious enough, but he's also got a sense of humor. And he gets shit done. There's nobody in that cabinet that gets as much shit done as him. And and it looks like JD's gonna have an even tougher time now.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:08

How so?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:09

Because one of the things that was pointed out during this particular assassination attempt is that there's a reason that the VP and the president are never in the same room in public events, they're only in the same room during closed events in government-owned buildings. They should never be in the same room at any other events. And I Trump kind of as usual didn't give a shit about that and kind of let things go. But I think moving forward, you're not gonna see Vance anywhere where Trump is out in public.

Hormuz Pressure And Canal Alternatives

SPEAKER_00 1:03:44

Uh there that's possible, but I think they're gonna start doing more stuff at the White House, though, too. Like the correspondence center, I think, is gonna be moved to the house.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:52

Oh, yeah, that'll be the White House, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:54

And yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:55

I think you're right about that.

unknown 1:03:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:06

I don't know. We shall see. I thought it was also funny when the Iranians said, Well, let's mutually open the strait and we'll do the nuke talks later. Yeah, we're right.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

Sorry, I was taking a drink of tea here. Well, and they also said that they're not gonna have any negotiations until the US agrees that Iran gets to charge a conveyance fee for any ships that are flowing through there. Like, what are you nuts? That's never gonna happen. The only people are gonna get to charge a conveyance fee is us, not you.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:48

Mm-hmm. So you see that UAE's looking at building a canal?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:55

Yeah, but they've talked about it before too.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:57

Yeah, but to bypass the straight. Yeah. And well, I mean, right now it's kind of life or death for them right now, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:07

Yeah. Sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:12

So, and they've got the money to throw at it, so they do they do have plenty of cash, so they might as well use it for something. Honestly, building a canal would be a better use of money than building that Saudi Arabian, you know, mile city or whatever it's called. Mile high city.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:32

And the you mean the line, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:34

Yeah, that's the one.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:35

The if I I don't know, the if the other Gulf nations all chipped in certainly could be done. That are, you know, a major pipeline. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:49

Yeah, I I think that well, let's look at a map, shall we?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:56

Well, I've got a I've got Google Maps filled up and in that area.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:01

Well, what about so where would it go? Where do you think would be the appropriate uh it would go from like uh just north of Dubai across?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:11

Yep. Okay. So just a straight line? Yep, straight line across, away, far enough away from Iran that you know you're not gonna be a major target right there. But Bahrain could use it, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:30

But you gotta no, you gotta have both Oman and UAE agree to this. Or are you talking about just no, you could do it below the Oman. So if you could manage to get Oman on the board, dude. Um yeah, you could do it. You could go from Abu Dhabi to Scat. Yeah, yeah. I mean that would totally bypass everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:52

Well, but why would you want to go that low? Like I would go closer towards the Strait of Hormuz.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:00

Well, I mean the Strait of Hormuz is already a canal. You don't have to build it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:07

Right, but the problem is the Iranian coastline and being able to hit ships in there.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:14

Yeah, so we just but I think the solution is to make Iran not be able to hit ships in there.

Hunting Ethics And Bowhunting Story

SPEAKER_00 1:07:19

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:21

Yeah, that's I think that's the the preferable choice over building something, but by the way, the drive from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, that's actually a pretty damn long drive.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:35

Is it not with nothing?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:38

Nothing there.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:43

Arabian Oryx protected area. Aww. They have land dedicated to oryxes.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:51

The way you said aww.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:54

Wait, it's like a cartoon. Yeah, I like oryxes. They're cool looking critters. I have some photos of them.

unknown 1:08:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:01

That I shot.

unknown 1:08:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:04

They got those cool twisty horns. You know, we have more orycs here in Texas than they do out there. Yeah. Because of I of because of hunting. Yeah, hunting. Because our preservation techniques are just like Teddy Roosevelt's. Yeah, yeah. Preserve them to hunt. Exactly. Ah, it works for me. What do they care? Would you rather be eaten by a lion or shot by a gun?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:34

Exactly. Right? No. The most humane death an animal in the wild can have is being killed by a human hunter.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:45

And the you know people forget how poorly the hunter is.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:50

Really doesn't, because it's it's written tooth or claw, right? So the animal's either gonna design die of disease of some sort, or it's gonna be ripped apart by a predator.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:01

Yeah, usually.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:02

You know, even if a deer gets shot and it doesn't die right away, it's still a better death than yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

I thought you were gonna say by a bow hunter, because I think that is probably the best death for an animal.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:17

I I think bow hunters lose more animals than anybody else.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:21

But the animal's dead pretty quick. With a broadhead, you you've got like an inch and a half by an inch and a half cut.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:28

Totally depends on placement, dude. So I I I'll tell you, I was hunting out on some company property when I worked for the power company, and they only allowed bows, so I had a crossbow. Sure. And there was this beautiful asymmetric buck that came up, and I went thwack and I hit him dead broadside, right where I needed to. Great. He falls, flops. I thought he wasn't gonna get up, and I'm just sitting in the stand still, and he lays there for about five minutes, and I thought, okay, he's just gonna bleed out here. I don't even have to go hunt him down. And he gets up and walks off. And I go, okay. So I wait another 40 minutes in the stand because I don't want to chase him, right? I want him to go lay down somewhere and die. I'll come find him.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:19

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:20

And then I go over to my other stand that I had a little pop-up stand. I took that down and packed it in the truck and everything. And then I was okay, now it's time to go hunt for this deer. Because that's a I I waited at least two hours. And I start walking in the woods, and about a hundred yards in, I look up and he's standing there looking at me about 50 yards away, broadside, my bolt still in him.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:47

Where do you get him? Which and what or what part of the it lungs heart area?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:53

Really?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:54

So it's sticking out of his ribcage.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:56

Yes. And I'm by the way, I'm finding huge masses of blood, like clots of blood the size of my fist, right? He is hurt bad. Yeah. And anyway, he takes off, so I back out again. I wait another hour. I started tracing him again. I walked over three and a half miles on GPS in this rat's nest of a pattern, following blood, following blood, falling blood. The last speck of blood I found was about the size of a dime. And I know he was within 30 feet of me, but I never could find him. That sucks. Yeah. Hunting at that same location, there was a doe that I took. In fact, it was that same year, and there was a yearling standing behind the doe and back. So if you think of the doe standing at point A, and then you draw a line behind point A and then L and go down 20 feet, right? So not they're not lined up, right? Sure. I shot the doe, the bolt went through the doe, curved over and around, and hit the yearling. Yeah. I literally killed two deer with one arrow.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:28

Yeah, isn't that like uh wouldn't you be arrested by King John's men or something for that?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:33

Because well, when so we had to check out, we had to go to security and tell them what we took right off the land. They wanted to monitor the program. And I showed them and they go, baby killer. I'm like, I wasn't trying. It wasn't like I it's not gonna be worth skinning, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:54

Is there such a thing as deer veal? What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:02

Well, you know, like veal is a baby cow. Yeah. Is there a baby deer particular recipe?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:08

Not that I'm aware of. Nah, I'm not either. But I mean, you know, it's my backstrap. I really only I take the backstraps and I quarter them out, and most of the meat goes into sausage. Uh and I make a pan sausage with both hogs and deer. It's just got a lot of onion, jalapeno, and stuff in it. And I just mix that in with my ground meat throughout the year. That's the best use of it, I think. Because I I'm not gonna process a whole whole bunch. I'm not gonna make jerky or beef, you know, sticks and stuff. Like I I've got a grinder attachment for the kitchen aid and I'm good, right? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:56

And that works. That doesn't burn out or anything.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:02

No, it's off the drive impeller for the big stand mixer.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:08

Yeah. But I usually take, and if anybody's interested in some of these recipes, shoot us a fan mail and I'll share them with you. But I take the bacon.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:19

But you can just send me the recipe and I'll stick it into the show notes. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:23

Well, I take the bacon ends in pieces, and I take that bacon and I grind that in with the deer meat for the fat. It comes out real good. And talk about making a good burger. Oh man, you take a pound of beef and a pound of that and mix it together. Oh, so good. That sounds like a hamburger.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:48

Too funny. Yeah, I think I've always really liked elk burgers. That's probably my my favorite non non-cow meat is elk. I've just always really liked the taste of it. I think it's it's got just a slight bit of gaminess to it, but it's a not as dry as buffalo. I always also like buffalo meat. But it's just it's I don't know. I like elk more than deer. I I it's a difference in taste.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:27

Okay. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:33

If you have them side by side and I've had them side by side, you can definitely notice a difference in taste. Might be their diet, might be something else.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:42

I mean, they are slightly different animals.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:44

I've never I've never gotten an elk tag uh when I lived in Minnesota. Because it's not, you know, it's not just a something you buy, it's something that's always in the lottery. Kind of like moose tags are a lottery.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:57

Really? So in Idaho, it's just a straight up go get a tag.

ATF Rule Changes And NFA Travel

SPEAKER_02 1:16:02

Oh, is it really? That's nice. Yeah. Yeah, in Minnesota, it's it's a it's a lottery for both of those. Deer. Moose is a lot of things. Kill as many as you want. Yeah, and moose just look too damn cute. I can't I cannot kill a moose. They're very cute looking animals. I I really like meese. They're dangerous animals. Well, I've it doesn't matter if they're dangerous. I dude, I got a pet snake that's 19 feet long. Don't tell me about dangerous animals that look cute. That's gonna kill you one day. That's what you and my dad. You and my dad keep repeating that over and over. He's not gonna kill Jack shit. I just fed him a six-pound rabbit the other day. He he sleeps all day, then he sleeps all night. He's the most chilled, laid-back pet out of any pets I've ever had. Literally. Well, I told you on the other episode, I think the the worst thing that happened was I left him sitting, he was sleeping in the hallway, curled up. And I didn't want to wake him, so I left him there. And then I woke up in the morning, the snake was not there any longer. The snake was now wrapped around my NASDAQ device and had kind of pushed and shoved a couple of my monitors away from the computer and dropped my keyboard on the floor and stuff like that, because he crawled up on the desk to get comfy. Yeah. But other than that, he is the the least aggressive animal I've ever seen. I mean, just insanely unaggressive snake. He was aggressive as a baby. Like I remember feeding him when he was a little baby. I got him when he was three feet long and he grew to 19. And when he was a baby and he smelled I used to feed him rats back then. And he would smell a rat. He would just lunge at me, lunge at everything. Anything that he thought was moving, he thought was food. So it's it's really living with me for 15 years that's turned him into a very chill, laid-back couch potato.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:21

Alright. So you want to talk about the new ATF rules? Because there's some good ones in here.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:27

Yeah, holy shit. I couldn't believe those rules, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:30

Everybody, everybody who bitches about Trump not getting enough done.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:34

Well, let's wait for this to be done done, though. This is like my understanding is this is what the new incoming director is going to be proposing.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:45

Right. So they're removing the factoring criteria for the stabilizing brace rule. So the brace stuff should be settled.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:53

That I think he can do totally by himself.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:55

Yeah. They're revisiting the definition of engaged in the business as a firearms dealer, which Biden had tried to.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:04

Yeah, that was stretched to a ridiculous thing by Joe Biden's ATF.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:10

Revising machine gun definition.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:12

Yeah, fingers crossed, given the fact that more and more people have Yeah, FRTs. FRTs, right? And they're so cheap now. You sent me one recently.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:21

Yeah,$139. No,$139. I thought it was$189. Okay. No,$139. Removing youth handgun safety notice. Yeah. So the bigger ones that I was interested in is they're changing the firearms records. So no longer will your gun dealer have to keep records for forever.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:43

Right. Which they technically never should have had to, but that was forced to buy.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:48

And and the ATF is going to limit how long they keep records. That is huge. Because the de facto registration we've had in this country basically goes away if they actually do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:02

If this guy can shred everything older than three years, it'll be I I think that there'll be an insane amount of people wanting him to become president. People have been calling for this forever.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:19

Yeah, so the interstate transport and temporary export of NFA items. So you may no longer have to let the ATF know when you're for less than a year.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:31

Yeah, as long as it's under a year, meaning you're not moving somewhere, you're just visiting, you don't have to let the ATF know. Which right now you would have to.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:40

Which one of the reasons why I don't necessarily want to suppress her or SVR is that right there. Like I in fact, I just told one of one of my employees was asking me about, you know, hey, I'm looking at doing a 300 blackout, dah dah dah da. And I'm like, well, let me see what you're talking about building. I'm like, are you gonna make this an SVR? And he goes, Yeah, it's a free tax stamp. And I said, Do you drive across state lines? You know, yeah, because think about that, but that may change now. That'd be awesome. Anyway, California, here we come. The the point is we got 34 total rule changes that are going to be very, very interesting. Pro gunner, pro gunner changes.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:26

So well, not not all of them are gun changes, but this the sad part to me, and this is something that people told Trump about, is Pam Bondi is not a friend of gun owners. Do not put her into that position just because she helped you in a law firm. And you know, Trump's very loyal, so he takes people that have helped him in one thing and then gives them a job somewhere else. She has utterly, beyond a shadow of the doubt, failed the American people in her role and delayed by two years the benefits that those of us that are pro-gunners that voted for Trump were expecting.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:12

Well, I I think what we see in our acting attorney general and our new ATF guy, we are seeing some fast moves now that Bondy's out.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:24

Yeah. Hopefully that'll be the case for other facets of the uh Justice Department. And if he can shrink that agency down, I mean that's the other part, is just getting a bunch of people out of it that don't need to be in it with all the changes he's putting in, they don't need that same number of employees. I think that'd go a long way. Yep. And frankly, they should change their policy internally from a shall not to a shall. Meaning the default answer for everything is you're allowed to do it unless they can come up with a reason not to, not the current stance, which is deny everything unless there are valid reasons. You know, it's the old like waiting ten days or longer for a reply back. That should never happen. It's either they should reply and immediately and say no, or it pet goes through and you're in. Everything's uh computerized right now. There's no reason for delays unless it's an administrative delay, and that should be illegal.

Politics Detox And Why The Show Wanders

SPEAKER_00 1:23:42

Well, that are what was going on with me there for a long time. I was on some list or something because I would go to my Brady date each and every time. And, you know, it's like I know my background. There's nothing in my background that would prohibit me or even close. So why the hell is this happening?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:04

And you pissed off the wrong people at some point. Apparently. Clearly. I don't know if you got anything else. I know we're about an hour and a half of, but I I told you this, I think, two weeks ago, and I am gonna keep repeating it in case people hadn't heard, but I'm doing a little bit of a detox from politics. I still jump on X about once a day, but instead of being on there for six hours a day, which is what I used to be on there, I'm trying to be in and out in about 10-15 minutes. So if I don't see a headline or catch something political in the 10-15 minutes time on X, then I'm probably not gonna hear about it unless Ben sends me something direct. Yeah. So I'm not as as broad on political topics as usual. We did get one comment back from our friend in Houston there that said that this is actually what he kind of enjoys is the fact that we can be talking about video games one minute, politics the next, guns another, and just kind of bounce around topics and talk about food and not just simply be what every other podcast is, which seems to be a rehash of political clips.

Naming Fights And Gulf Jokes

SPEAKER_00 1:25:17

Yeah. Well, and I think it's fun for us to, you know, talk and discuss stuff, not just, you know, I I I like no agenda and all that, and I appreciate the clips that they bring. Yeah. But I've got a full-time job, so I'm not gonna go get clips, you know, and you you're you're not going to either, but yeah. Yeah, and I don't have a full-time job, but I'm never I'm not getting clips either. Did you see that they're suing to stop the Palm Beach International Airport from changing its name?

SPEAKER_02 1:25:53

I did, yeah. The Trump airport, yeah. Trump international. That is ridiculous. I mean, it it's just you know they're gonna lose. It's still gonna be named Trump. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, the Houston airport is Bush. Was it Bush Intercontinental? Yeah. Yeah, and so's the highway and you know, going through Dallas. Indeed. I don't think there's anything wrong with naming stuff for presidents. You know, the I did you hear Trump actually made a joke about this probably a week ago? You know, I was I I I was thinking we we ought to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Trump. And I talked to some people and this Gulf of America. No, no, no, the Gulf of Trump. This is Trump saying this. Right. The Gulf of Trump. And I talked to some people and they kind of talked me out of it. They said, sir, I it it it's it's gonna go over much better if it's the Gulf of America. But yeah, you know, this is Trump telling a story, so take it for what you will, about how he he originally was thinking of renaming it to the Gulf of Trump.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:05

Well, I I I really I don't think we have to rename the Streets of Four Muse.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:10

Yeah, Straits of Trump. Exactly. What about the gays of Trump?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:16

I like the Strait of America better.

Mental Health Claims And Gun Rights

SPEAKER_02 1:27:18

But you you saw the interviews that some dude did it in New York or one of these big cities, tall buildings, where he talked about the the gays of Hormuz and how it's unfair that everyone's so focused on the Straits of Hormuz. Yes, and all these morons were like, yeah, yeah, what about the gays? You know, people people need to you know make sure the gays of Hormuz are good. They're fucking morons. Yeah. What else? Somebody was somebody mentioned a thing about what was it about? It was a oh man. Oh, it was uh I think it had to do with oh mental health. So somebody had mentioned something about how we shouldn't be giving guns, we shouldn't be selling guns to trans people. And you can you know that stirred up a whole thing on X. And one of the comments was well, of course not, because trans people up until the last 20 years ago were all in mental asylums, and we have laws that don't allow people in mental asylums to own firearms. Like that's been a historical thing. Why do you think there are more trans shootings today than in the past? It's because. Because the same people would have been locked up in the past.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:49

I think your Second Amendment rights should be very jealously guarded. And what I would say is unless a judge adjudicates you as having broken a serious enough crime where you are a harm or danger to others, you should not have your rights removed. And I don't like where any sort of red flag law, and that's all this is, is what's being talked about here. And the answer is a good guy with a gun ready to stand and defend.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:26

Yeah, that's very gay of you, Ben. We need to obviously be locking up people that are mentally retarded. And people that don't understand what sex they are are mentally retarded. And if they were in an institution, we wouldn't have a need a conversation about guns. Like no one's getting a gun, either buying it or getting a concealed carry permit in a fucking institution. So I'm all for Americans having guns, but not for people in institutions having guns.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:57

Well, they're not in institutions. Well, they ought to be.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:00

And again, the And if we were smart, we'd be building some in Alaska right about now. I'm all for.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:06

I got a list of 56 million people that are retarded. I'm all for bringing back mental health and you know and adjudicating people as having serious enough mental illness that they need to be in asylum.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:22

Yeah, you just need three witnesses.

unknown 1:30:25

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:27

Hey, it's good enough in the Bible, it's good enough for me. Dude, you and I will be the first ones put in there when the script flips.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:37

Well, don't move to California.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:40

I'm not moving to California. Yeah. In fact, one of my one of my employees was like, because we're trying to do these regional get-togethers and stuff, and he's like, Oh Ben, you should come to California and do this. It's like, I'm not going to California unless I have to, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:02

No, it's very pretty. My face. It is very pretty. You just have no rates. But it's fun. I remember one time I was working for with a client in San Diego. I fell out there and I uh I rested a Maserati convertible. And then had that a whole week. I was out there. Oh my god, it was perfect. Perfect weather, never rains, 65 at night, so it feels a little cool. 75 during the day and sunny every fucking day. By the way, we had hail here today, man. We had hail here. Yeah, did you? No. I have not looked at my car yet, but I didn't like the way it sounded. There's a lot of bouncing, bouncing, quarter-size hail, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:52

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:54

No, we we just had rain. So just had rain. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it dip it dropped from 85 to 65 in about 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:02

Yeah, we dropped down to like 70.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:06

Okay. Yeah. Well, I guess we're colder than you somehow. I don't know how. I'm closer to the coast. No, you're further from the coast. No. Oh my god. Do we need to go to Google Maps again? I'm going to Google Maps because lately you've been off quite a bit. You're in college station. Correct. Is that correct? Okay. Now look at college station, look at Austin. Yes. Oh, okay. I'm further south, but you're closer to the water.

unknown 1:32:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:42

Yeah, you're closer to the coast. That's what I meant. But I'm further south. Hey, look, unlike you, I'll actually admit when I'm wrong. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:53

Uh-huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:58

Yeah, you you definitely are closer. You're how far from Houston are you?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:04

Depends on what part of Houston you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:06

Like no traffic driving at night. Good. Let's say how far are you from Galliston?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:12

Two hours.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:13

Two hours. And I'm probably two and a half. So you're because I I've got just under two hours to Houston proper, and then another 45 minutes to Galliston.

unknown 1:33:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:25

Yeah.

unknown 1:33:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:27

If you if college station wasn't such a podunk town, I'd actually move there. It's not a podunk town. It's very podunk town. There's no buildings there. There's no food delivery services. You guys barely have an Uber there. There's like three guys doing Uber.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:42

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:44

There's a ton of I mean, there's like one Middle Eastern restaurant that has decent food.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:50

There's actually multiple. But you know, hey. Well, college station actually it's got a small town feel in a lot of ways, but man, has it changed since I've been here since 2004?

SPEAKER_02 1:34:08

Is Brian and College Station kind of one town?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:12

Yeah, it's there, there's no separation.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:17

I don't know, man. Maybe one of these days I should just like spend the whole day out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:22

Well, say when.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:25

In fact, we have uh there's a no agenda. Another and someone from uh college station donated to no agenda last time around.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:33

Well, you should get them donating to us instead.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:35

Well, I mean, in in addition to. I was thinking we might have to have a college station meetup.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We missed the uh meetup in Fredericksburg, obviously, because I was traveling. Yep. And you're busy, but yeah, I don't know. Well, last time I got there kind of late because I I was can't remember why, but I was doing something in the morning, I guess. So I got there for dinner basically. Well, and you got hit by Austin traffic, too. And I got hit, and that was the other thing. Yeah, that's a good point. Because technically it's less than two hours away, but not if you're leaving at 3 p.m., it's not. Because anything 3 p.m. and later, you're you're sitting in Austin traffic.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:27

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:31

That is true, but I think we're just getting more traffic in general. Because I and I said this when I flew out for for Christmas to your parents as well, or I drove out. Is that I think a lot fewer people are flying these days. I think more people are driving. Because I remember I always used to just fly out for holiday stuff. I even if it's just you know a few hundred miles. I I would not bother driving because it's faster just to hop in to a plane and you know take an Uber. But these days I think everyone's just driving.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:07

So like going to Dallas for work. Yeah, I I generally go down to Houston and fly to Dallas. Yeah, you could fly from college station to Dallas, but that's un American. Yeah, yeah. And part of the reason why I do that is look, it doesn't save me hardly any time. But what it does is A, I'm not driving that far and risking accidents, all that. And B, it doesn't save me that much time until I hit Dallas traffic. If I hit get stuck in Dallas traffic, then it saves me a shit ton of time. But it makes that commuter workable for me also.

Wrap-Up And Next Game Check-In

SPEAKER_02 1:36:51

Yeah, because you're driving to the airport in in Houston, then you're just Ubering it out there in Dallas, right? Yeah, you don't rent the car, do you?

SPEAKER_00 1:37:02

Depends. Depends on how long I'm gonna be there and what are all where all in Dallas I need to be. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:16

Cool. All right, well, let's wrap her up because we clearly are done talking about all the topics that we normally talk about. Yep. So make this one a little shorter, we'll see if the next one's a little longer again. I mean, I again, if I wasn't on my little break from politics, I'm sure I would have filled up more time with that, but I think I think we're good to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:37

Yep, and by the time we uh doing this next week, I'll have finished cyberpunk.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:43

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you should, because you need to move on to some more games, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:48

Yeah, I've literally done all the missions in Dogtown.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:51

Okay, nice. Yeah, Dogtown is definitely the my favorite place. You know, there's it's the the later edition, it's the one they had the most time to develop and flush out.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:02

And and hey Gene, we do need to wrap because I hear uh Elizabeth crying downstairs.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:07

Okay. All right, sounds good later, later bye.