Quick Catch-Up And Cold Open

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Howdy Ben, how are you today?

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Doing alright, Gene. Been a long week of writing proposals.

unknown 0:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Yeah, yeah, that's not a bad thing. There could be much worse weeks.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

How about you? How's your week been?

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

Well.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Not uh

Newsom Tax Threat And A Clapback

SPEAKER_00 0:26

too exciting. I I did read a few more political things than I did last week.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Did you see some of the funniest shit between Gavin Newsom and Scott Bessent?

SPEAKER_00 0:38

No. What happened?

SPEAKER_02 0:40

So you know Trump has settled his lawsuit with the IRS and set up a fund to repay those who were discriminately targeted by the government, right? As reparations. Yep. It's not even going to him. It's going to people who are discriminated against by the government.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Yes. Great. Well, Newsom comes out and says, Well, we're looking at legislation to tax anybody who takes that money at a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

What?

SPEAKER_02 1:11

They can't do that. Uh it's California.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

Not their money.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

Well.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Then again, what are people doing with Northern California?

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

But anyway, it's just That's reparations, man. That's not income. Just ask the blacks.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Yeah. So anyway, Scott Besson did the White House press briefing today. And his last line, his last question that he took in as he walked off was, What do you think about Gavin Newsom saying this and so on? And he just says, You can't fix stupid and walked off.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Fucking great.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Just that pan line, just fucking great.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Well, it's yeah, because it's not because it's true. It's not a it's not a comedy thing. It's actually it's actually true, amazingly. That we have such stupidity that they think that this somehow well uh especially if people that are all worried about equity and and things like that, that somehow this would be constitutional. What do you nuts?

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Yep. No, it's they they've absolutely lost the lost the through line.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

If they ever had it, yeah. That is insane, man. That is true insanity. Just thinking that that you can literally, I mean forget this case. That's that would be like the government basically saying anyone that wins a lawsuit, we're gonna take all your winnings away from you as punishment. I was like, what? No. That's I mean, they would lose that in court, obviously, but honestly, something more drastic should happen. You know, like st there has to be a stupidity test or an intelligence test for serving in the government, frankly. Because they ain't got it.

SPEAKER_03 3:10

The intelligence part. So crazy. Absolutely nuts.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Let's see, what else? So I mentioned to you the other time we were chatting that uh Tulsi's out. Yep. She resigned. Yeah, which I guess that was it wasn't really unexpected, I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Well, I mean, apparently her husband has cancer. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Or at least that's the claim.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Yeah. So sh she's gonna spend time with him.

Tulsi Resigns And DOJ Timing

SPEAKER_00 3:48

But also, I just I like I like her. I just don't think she was in the right job. She was a Democrat I could have voted for. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But you know, like I said, she's not everything, but she's a you know, a Buddhist vegetarian in this particular role just makes no sense to me. Yeah. So well, but she didn't know. I'm surprised she lasted as long as she did, but she did. Trump was talking about all her accomplishments and how she like found 40% savings in the program, so that's good.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

The Trump admin has really been winning very steadily, and people, you know, she turned Obama stuff over to DOJ. So it's up to DOJ to do something about it. Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

Yeah, which what do you think? Do you think they're going to, or do you think this is gonna be like another Epstein-esque, like nothing to see here? You know, we're not gonna go after something that was done by city president, blah de blah de blah.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

I don't know. I think the odds are that they are going to do something. I think they're not gonna do anything before the midterms. I don't think they're gonna do anything on the Epstein files before the midterms.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

But if they're going to do anything right after the midterms would be the time.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

I agree. I just don't know if they're going to. But uh, that would be the time. I agree with that part of it. I mean, yeah, it's it's a uh that you know it's a slow process to get things discovered, but an even slower one to actually do something about it, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Well, especially if you want to, you know, when you swing for a king, you don't miss because if you miss, you're dead, right? And like it or not, trying to run something against Obama is a swing at a king, right?

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

And it has to it has to it can't miss. Yeah. You can't miss. You gotta get it right. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Yeah, I I and I agree with that. I mean, uh, it's it certainly is something that you're you're gonna need to have all your ducks in a row because you know he's gonna have the absolute best defense available. So you can't get into a situation where you're you're leaving anything as a possibility for a acquittal. Yeah. Now back in the olden days, that was not a problem because they would just take them out.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Right, but that's not something you could do publicly today.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

So anyway, it'll be interesting to see if they do make some bold stuff, but they've already done quite a bit of bold things. That's the other thing Bessent talked about today is they're seeking legislation to change the law so that a living person can be on U.S. currency.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Oh, right. The $250 bill, yes.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Yep, $250 bill with Trump's face on it.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Man, I think that would be hilarious. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

I would get a stack of those and go to any liberal area I can.

Currency Changes And Musk Mega Bets

SPEAKER_00 7:23

They're gonna sell out. They literally will just sell out because everyone's gonna get as many as they can of those.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Oh, it's gonna be a hell of a collector's item.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Yeah, they're gonna have to reprint a whole bunch of them because people would be buying them left and right. And and then not spending them.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

Yeah. Speaking of buying stuff, I so wish I could buy Tesla, not Tesla stock, but SpaceX stock right now.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Oh, yeah.

unknown 7:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Dude, did you see the announcements around this?

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

They have like 70 billion in Bitcoin in reserve that Tesla's built up. Wow. There they're there are rumors that Musk is going to merge Tesla and SpaceX.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

I heard that, yep.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Yep. And the current valuation of the IPO is at 1.75 trillion.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Yeah, I know, I know. It's it's and it's likely to hit 2 trillion by the time that it actually is done. So pretty valuable business. That would put it what the the fifth largest value on Earth?

SPEAKER_02 8:36

No, it'd be the most valued company on Earth.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

Not Karen's companies compared to GDPs of nations. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It'd be the like the only five nations have a bigger GDP than Tesla's as a company.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Yeah. Or not Tesla, but SpaceX. If they do the merging together, then that'll be the fifth largest.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Well, did you see the merging it with XAI and the meme where it's mer Elon merging Tesla and SpaceX, and they come up with an acronym for it, and then merging that with XAI and it becomes sexy.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Well, it would be just like him to do that. Right. He loves the the uh slightly dirty humor and dad jokes. So that that would totally be about right apart for the course.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

No, like sexy for a long time, I thought the Aramco IPO was gonna be the most valuable IPO ever, but this is this valuation is gonna be that. Yeah, and Aramco just can't get it together, like they cannot clean up their books enough to IPO. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

Which shocker. Yeah, there's been obviously like even in legitimate businesses in that part of the world. Oh, it's hard. Bribes and payoffs are a normal part of business. It's it's just the way business gets done. So trying to reconcile all that according to you know, generally accepted accounting principles is gonna be not a fun thing to do. Yep. They're gonna need to well, and most likely that's what they ended up doing is basically we're gonna need five years of books, but that five years starts today, so we're not gonna do an IPO for five years. Because there's no way they're gonna go back and clean shit up that that would be very, very difficult for them, I think.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

Yeah, I think it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with the Musk IPO because you know, he here's the thing, he has a huge controlling stake in both companies.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

You know, he through his shares capacity.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

40% or something.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

Right. But he so he doesn't own the majority, but he has the majority of the votes. Right. Like seven upwards of 70%. Yeah. So he can do anything the hell he wants with both companies.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Yep. He wants to go to Mars. Well, does he? I says he does. I don't think Starship can do it. No, I think it could require way too much refueling. That's not an issue at all.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

It totally is. Not at all. Starship burns a shit ton of fuel to get to orbit. And even if that's the only payload the tankers have, it's gonna take like 12 launches of tankers

Starship Mars Debate And Launch Lessons

SPEAKER_02 11:32

to refuel one.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Right now, they're launching two launches per week, every single week, the whole year. Not a starship. Not a starship, no. But that aggressive a schedule is something they're used to. This is not a problem for them. So once they get Starship to the point where they feel it's reliable enough, getting enough Starships built and launched, I don't think it's gonna be a problem.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

It's a just a huge expense. But did you saw you watched the Starship V3 launch, I'm assuming? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was a tremendous success, especially with all the shit they deleted. Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Yeah, they they learned a top a ton about it. That's the thing, is like every every launch they do, even if it doesn't have a you know beautiful landing, is a success because they they have a huge amount of sensors that they're tracking all this stuff on. And learning about what to do differently next time. So it's always a success. No matter what. Yeah, I think it's uh I I'll definitely be down there, you know. I went down there twice already for launches, but I'll definitely be going down there when they have their first non-test launch. You know, like their their first commercial full full-on version. I'm definitely going down there to watch that.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Yeah. That'll be interesting. So did you there? Did you see that the White House put out aliens.gov?

SPEAKER_00 13:19

No.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

Yeah, you should go there.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

So what is that? Is that about all the illegal info?

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Uh no, yes, but they couch it like it's aliens and it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Oh, really? That's funny.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

And they've got encounter maps, statistics, oh my stuff, like it's

aliens.gov And Immigration By The Numbers

SPEAKER_02 13:36

quite great. That's funny. Uh if you've witnessed an alien abduction, do not be alarmed. The alien is in good hands. It will be taken care of. We will take care of it and return it safely to its place of origin.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

That's hilarious. So that yeah, the the meme of their this presidency is next next level, man.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

It's fucking on point, dude. Yeah. It's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

It's basically like a South Park episode. If South Park actually liked Trump instead of hated Trump. Yeah. But it's basically that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Anyway, no, it's great.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Like I've got Dallas, Texas pulled up on the info. And total arrest 17,323. And the they've got the crimes listed that they've been charged with, which goes from arson, assault, burglary, criminal uh sexual offenses, da da day, destruction of property, sex offense, a sexual assault, rape, etc. And then the countries of origin? Yeah. Literally from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

Mm-hmm. And and all of them were somehow magically coming through Mexico. Yep. How does that work? Anybody ever thought about that? Like, how are these Middle Eastern people making their way to the Mexican border? And they're all men. That's the other thing, is there's almost no children and and uh women. Yeah, it's just here's men in their 20s and 30s.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Like Alaska has the fewest encounters. Cold there, yeah. But they've got Puerto Rico on there, they've got Hawaii. Like I can't, it doesn't let you scroll over to see Guam, which I was wanted to look at.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

But are they allowing people onto Guam? Maybe their Guam is off limits. I don't know. It should be.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Yeah. There's a lot of Asian tourists in Guam, dude.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Oh yeah, tourists is fine. I don't have a problem with tourists, but that you know they have to fill out visas.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Yeah. Anyway, it's kind of interesting because the the state with like the least interactions. You want to guess?

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Uh boy. I would I would think it's something like Connecticut, but it probably isn't.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

So it's going from right to left, Maine, North Dakota, and Montana.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Well, that's close. Okay. So Maine's, yeah. Yeah, it makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

Um the ones with the most Texas and Florida.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

Yeah. Well, again, I think climate is a big part of this. Like, it's the warm states that are getting people, not the freaking cold states. You know, Montana, North Dakota, these are cold ass places.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

So well, but I mean, you got Chicago, you got Michigan.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Yeah, but okay, and that's true. You know, Chicago is not warm at all, but it has insane infrastructure already geared at providing free shit to all these people. So there's the trade-off. Like you go to Montana, you're not gonna have that infrastructure. You're just gonna have the cold. Whereas in Chicago, you know, you've got like, oh, you move here, you don't just get a free phone, you get a free car, you get a free, you know, apartment for a year, you get free everything.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Which is insane. Like, none of that should have ever happened, but obviously, when it does happen, it happens in super liberal areas like that.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Yeah, so they they are counting over three million encounters with illegals. Yeah, but it's just the way they set this up and do the verbiage on the website.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Illegals always always were called aliens for the vast majority of my life. It's got a big red button to report suspicious aliens to Ice Tip Line. Which I love that that's so cool.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

Yeah. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna rack up a whole lot of bills with my lawnmower. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

Uh it's I don't want to get reported to the ATF, so I'm not gonna throw that shit out there.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

No. Yeah. Although, oh, any any news from our new guy out of the ATF? I know we were both thinking that he seemed like a pretty good replacement of the stuff.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

Yeah, they've been releasing new proposed rules left and right. So they've continued to so one of the big ones is NFA items serialization. So it used to be like if you were converting a

ATF Shifts On NFA Rules

SPEAKER_02 18:29

regular AR into an SBR, right? So I I want an under 16-inch barrel on my AR. I would have to serialize that gun separately from the manufacturer's serial number. Yep, yep. They are if a serial number exists on the device, you can use it. It's only if you're creating from scratch, building your own, that you have to go and get it engraved and so on. So that's actually a pretty functional change, right? Sure. Yeah. The other big one is NFA items crossing state lines.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Right. That's huge.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Is no longer.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

That was always a stupid inconvenience.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

Yeah, well, it not only, I mean, it's not just an inconvenience, it can make you a felon real quick if you don't wait for approval.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Well, that's the inconvenience part of it.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

Yeah. But versus now, what their proposed rule is for up to 60 days, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yeah. I mean, having to report that you are traveling with your gun somewhere to the feds is just asinine. This was never an intention of our founding fathers. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, I'd love to see the NFA just gutted, but I don't know how they can do that without Congress's interaction.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Well, the courts are looking kind of interesting with the because uh no tax, the tax stamp change.

SPEAKER_04 19:54

Right.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

And that's a big deal on suppressors, SBRs, and so on. Doesn't change on machine guns yet, but it's a good way of ticking away. But there are several bills in Congress right now, which this Congress is dysfunctional and holding it up, but there are some.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

Given now that there are five people in Congress, five Republicans, who got voted out due to Trump's supporting their opponents, there's gonna be zero cooperation in Congress, those people.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

So there's actually stuck for the midterms.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

I think Sean Sean Hannity was talking about how we may actually have complete rebellion and Democrats having a temporary majority with those you know, kicked out of office Republicans effectively voting with the Democrats across the board.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Well I mean if you ever think John Cornyn's not gonna vote for shit now. Yeah. Yep. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

And by the way, have you looked at an election map?

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

It's a it's basically won three counties. And he barely won them. Yeah. Like it's fifty f 55-45. I don't know. Like it's he got stomped by Paxton.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Yeah, completely. And the the predictions were so wrong, they were absurdly wrong. People were saying that you know, not only was Corny likely to win, but that Paxton would be lucky to get 20% of the vote. So the again, this is the the thing that this underlines for me, and I've I've sent a few uh links to our group share, is that Dana, what's her name was talking about it, that the the political people of both sides who are

Primaries Prove X Is Not America

SPEAKER_00 22:00

on Twitter don't have a clue as to what actual Americans are thinking. Like they're the the Twitter slash X sphere politically of people that check in on politics every freaking day is it's it's completely disconnected. Like it's you could say it's radicalized or whatever word you want to use, but basically it's people that find their little niche of supporters and because they're gaining those supporters hello Megan Kelly they think that their opinion is actually a majority opinion in the country. Where in reality the vast majority of people in the country don't ever get on X. Ever. And don't know and don't care what these pundits on X are saying they care about you know what they hear from their friends, what they read in the newspaper, not what they read online. But they're still using more traditional news outlets for that. And you know whether you like Fox News or not you have to admit that it there's still a ton of people getting their news from Fox News. And not just like boomers as the kids like to say which incidentally applies to anybody over thirty so wrong. I know right but it's a the average American has very little in common with the average Twitter or I keep saying Twitter with the average ex user in both parties or from either party. Like the Democrat the the regular Democrats are not as extreme as the ex-democrats the mainstream Republicans are very much Trump supporters unlike a huge chunk of people on X that are all you know anti-Trumpers now. So it's it's a very this this election well not just this election but all of the the incumbents that have been kicked out in the primaries that is the huge indicator of the disconnect because you know Trump is now I I saw the number earlier today so I'm probably gonna get it slightly wrong but it's in the general ballpark of over 180 Trump endorsements have won to zero losses and zero Trump endorsements have lost yeah that I don't recall that stat ever for any president in my lifetime ever like that's insane he is for practical purposes a kingmaker in yeah which is gonna be really interesting to see what he does in you know twenty twenty eight well run again obviously yeah there was a rumor circulating on X that he was trying to have his first term nullified oh which is just insane he wouldn't do that yeah I would love to vote for Trump a fourth time like that would be so cool.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

He's getting too old I don't care I really don't care man Rubio is on point right now oh yeah yeah Rubio dude did you see that the meeting uh that they had with all the higher ups with Trump talking about he's got Rubio on one side and Heggseth on the other and that that's my ticket right there I want Rubio for president Heggseth for VP I would not be mad at it uh and Heg Seth has gotten so much crap and people have called him incompetent and all sorts of stuff my God what he has done has been just tremendous. Yep yep he's he's doing the right things in whatever methods he's using the end result is working so uh so I another thing another win for this presidency that launched today and I'm already looking at it from my kids but have you looked at the Trump accounts the Trump accounts what do you mean yes so so Trump accounts they they have created a new class of IRA that can be used for kids you can download the app you can do it if the child was born between what was it like if a child was born between what years what

Trump Accounts And Saving For Kids

SPEAKER_02 27:01

years 2025 and 2028 um they will receive a from the government a one-time deposit of a thousand dollars in their account okay now parents no one can touch this money till the kid turns 18 okay that's families can deposit up to five thousand dollars annually to contribute to the account and then charities can contribute additional amounts and and a employers can contribute up to two hundred and twenty five hundred per child per year year yes so once the child turns 18 this money can be used for qualifying expenses including college or first home and buying home starting a business and so on and it goes the account covers a traditional IRA essentially otherwise but instead of it being at retirement age when you can take it out without penalty it's 18. But what's really cool about this is A, I think it's going to get a lot of people to start savings accounts for the kids. I've already got accounts for the kids I would just transfer money into these because they can gain more right but what I think is also interesting is it's you know the accounts I have for the kids they can use for whatever the hell they want right this they can't and I think that's actually a cool restriction in a lot of ways because you know and it converts to and you can convert it if they want to leave it for retirement they can convert it to a traditional IRA but the fact that the government's going to be giving out a thousand dollars like that a lot of people are going to sign up. Well but what does this also distributing not giving out but sure well but what does this do? It goes into a a IRA that is extremely low risk that is going to go up and down with the stock market but it it's a huge amount of investment into the stock market that's going to be coming from average person. What's that tied to for what do you mean is it is it the Dow Jones what what how's the investment going to I haven't gotten that far yet they just got this out there today but the it's it's pretty cool. And if you think about it you're gonna get a lot of people and grandparents investing this money in this and it's it's gonna be huge boost yeah so I guess I would want to see how this is different from a government bond.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Is it is it just simply investing money in bonds for the kids or is this actually using stocks or is it phony money to where it's not using anything it's not actually investing anything it's just calculating how much the payout would be and that's coming out of taxes. No I'm very sure it's invested in the stock market because that would be Trump's ML but that would be risky as hell though why because the stock market is not guaranteed to go up you could end up putting in $10,000 in that account and end up with $5,000 when you want to take it out bonds you're at least guaranteed what will money be invested in funds will be invested in a diversified investment vehicle designed to maximizing long-term growth while minimizing risk so they either haven't figured it out or they don't want to tell us that's not a real answer agreed also charities can donate like I said so Dell Technologies Michael Dell's foundation stuff has pledged a bunch Visa BlackRock has even pledged a bunch of money towards this a Robinhood Charles Schwab State Street SoFi Chime like a large amount of people have already said yeah we're gonna donate to this cool interesting interesting yeah so yeah I mean it's a good administration man a lot of good stuff is coming out of this administration I think this is a very pro-family move you know yeah yeah yeah a lot of countries make payments to kids I think in Russia you get like a million rubles per kid so like five bucks something like that it's a little more than that but yeah yeah it it's it's the opposite of what China did basically exactly it's trying to encourage families to have more children really more than two I mean that's that's the real encouragement is to get you past that two kids mark so you can actually have a growing population yeah especially without immigration which is where Europe is totally fucked Europe is very fucked yeah they they've been should do I'll bet you for 30 years that if you remove immigration Europe has had a negative population growth.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

Oh and it's not just that it's their debt like you know Europeans like to think oh you Americans you're all in such debt yeah fuck you the average European has more debt to income ratio than the US does we just make that much more than you're well I told you I think we talked about it one of the previous things that the uh that the UK was would be ranked 51st out of GDPs by states.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Yeah yeah yeah it it's worse than Mississippi yeah yeah so but the impression that Brits have is that they're actually better than all the other European countries

Europe Demographics And GDP Reality

SPEAKER_00 32:54

except Germany and then clearly they're gonna be better than most American states. I mean that's just a state that's not a country forget uh forget Mississippi more than Connecticut dude more than Rhode Island Well Mississippi has a lower GDP than Connecticut I know but but you think about the size of Rhode Island and the fact that a a country that is the size Jesus what the country that is the size of a city has a a GDP that's higher than the UK so I mean just for perspective our GDP is a r the entire world's GDP is a hundred and twenty four ish trillion the United States is thirty two point four of that China is twenty one Germany is five yep Japan is four the United Kingdom is four. Yeah we're 35 yeah they they really don't understand what America is there there's you know it part of it I think comes from just the huge emphasis on European history in Europe and I don't know what kind of history is taught in Japan but I'm sure it's not very focused on you on the US but you know I it frankly in Japan from what I've seen the the topic of World War II is covered in about one day for the entire conflict they just gloss over everything. You know there's some bad decisions made that ended up making the US want to come over and help us.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Yeah so we're that's World War II here's what people need to understand. Hold on the when you look at GDP and everything, you know America isn't the top when you look at it per capita but we're in the top five kind of in the middle I think we're like number three but when you compare China's GDP to ours it's like oh well they're kind of closing in you know but when you look at GDP per person US versus China the US is about $90,000 per person versus China is at 13.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

Yeah when you look at the amount of resources China has the number of people and everything else their economy is so much smaller than ours Dave that's also assuming their population statistics are correct which we all know that we're not I think that there's a lot of a lot of videos I've seen I don't know how much faith to put them but a lot of videos that I've seen say that the Chinese population is greatly overestimated right now and that it's actually a much smaller population in China that a lot of the like the empty buildings you see and other things like that are not just because they build shitty buildings but because these were never meant to have people in them. They were built to pretend like China's population was bigger. Yeah and and that but also conversely is they're saying that this is also why I think some people in the West overestimate the collapse potential for China thinking that their actual population was what China was claiming it to be and then it's dropping greatly because of the lack of kids where they're saying in reality is that that population was much smaller and that it's not nearly in as much danger of collapse because they were basically lying to everybody about how many people they had so I don't know that obviously all that kind of stuff is coming from the Taiwanese related channels pro Taiwan TV.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

So who the that's another thing is when you look at the chip fabs that are being built here in the US Yeah we're moving away from Taiwan here in Texas you mean in Texas yeah Tesla's looking at actually building some manufacturing capacity out of Gibbons Creek.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

Yeah, X is looking at building a mega data center here as well. Well not just on Mars or in space yeah which doesn't make any fucking it makes very little space I mean there's the it it makes more sense to people who don't understand space than people that do understand space.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

The only thing is if you can because of the efficiencies of solar not

Space Data Centers And Cooling Math

SPEAKER_02 38:03

having to go through the atmosphere if you can power it for free and the solar panels don't degrade the same way they do down here because you're in a vacuum and you don't have the dust and all that. So there depends where you put it you still have microdust right but my point is the ISS isn't having to go clean their solar panels. They have to replace them in fact well yeah but that's any photovoltaic cell only has X amount of life. Yeah so the way photovoltaic cells work and we've made some great efficiency gains but it is a degradating battery so when if you put in a hundred megawatts of solar that's the most it's ever going to produce right and by the time you replace it at its 20 year lifespan you're getting somewhere between 15 and 30% of the original load. Yep that's why all everybody putting solar panels on the roofs is so fucking stupid.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

Well they're gonna be a lot of replacements in about 20 years.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

Well assuming they last that long I mean you get the hail storm come through buddy you're done what the Tesla ones don't care about hail. But yeah anyway yeah the it but the the real problem isn't the power right the power kind of could make sense maybe yeah but the problem is the cooling yeah exactly that's the bit that most people don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

They think well space is cold right yes but it it's also a very good insulator what what do you put in a thermos to keep your coffee warm a vacuum look at that so yeah you need you only have radiant heat as a possibility of escape. That's it that's all you got you guys just gotta constantly be pumping out infrared waves. So it's you know if you look at the ISS again to reference that you can see that at exactly a perpendicular angle to the solar panels at 90 degrees you have these white foldable dudads and those are the the heat extractors the radiators are cooling the place because between the humans that are aboard and the electronic equipment running it's generating way too much heat for a space that size. So it would it would start getting uncomfortably hot in there if they weren't radiating heat constantly 24 hours a day. And of course you gotta radiate at uh you know at zero angle to the sun otherwise you'll be absorbing yeah otherwise yeah you're you're basically gonna be heating it so yeah it's it's not as simple so I don't know if I mentioned this before or not so this what year was COVID 2020 2019 2020 yeah yeah so the the December of the year prior to COVID I had met with a company that was planning on building a space-based data center and sent them off a proposal to work on it as a part-time project and it it I thought it would be extremely fun combining my love and knowledge of spaceship with you know billable client work because usually those are mutually exclusive and we get we got we came to a verbal agreement on everything I sent them off the correct contract deal was supposed to start at the end of January and when COVID hit it hugely affected the VC availability of money. Oh yeah and if I was working at a startup then were you okay well you know exactly what's so their VCs turned off the spigot and all of a sudden my my you know what would have amounted to about a 30% of my time job disappeared and pay obviously incidentally the other thing that I had set up the year before COVID to start in January was I was going to be selling a restaurant in Florida because you know Darren likes to keep track of all the different things I do that was one of them jeans had a lot of jobs. Yeah that exactly so I've sold a lot of companies over the years but this was going to be really fun because this was like a a New York Jewish deli that was in Florida. It's wonderful what are you talking about terrible it's the best food on earth man please it's you got your matzah you got your matzo ball soup yeah you got your lax and bagel you got your uh Rachel and Reuben all the good stuff anyway so I went there and I had a big humongous meal because I wanted to try a whole bunch of stuff from the menu because how else could you sell a restaurant if you you know haven't eaten everything there and it was really good it was really good this place generates about 10 million a year that's a in the top one percent of restaurants. So it would have been a very good deal because obviously I'd be getting commission on that sale. So that fell through again because COVID restaurants aren't exactly you know in business at that point it's not like California where they shut them all down immediately but still there's a huge fear going on and any prospect of actually trying to sell this place during a pandemic was just idiotic. We'd never get enough money for it. So that's why I ended up basically just Playing video games for like 18 months during COVID.

SPEAKER_01 44:03

And in that, what you're still doing.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

Shut up.

SPEAKER_02 44:07

So hey man, I'm trying to get you a job.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

I know, I know. So it it's bottom line is how did we get on the sub? Oh, space. Yeah. Bottom line is I got to know a little bit about the different aspects of running a space-based data center, and it I don't think it's a good deal. I mean, it's not impossible to do. I just think that it's way easier to do it on Earth in a proper location. Proper location being ideally somewhere with geothermal energy. Like you could take the entire island of Iceland and turn it into a megadata center, and their GDP would like go up by 10x. You know, whatever. You could. I don't think they mind the ice so much. But but the point is, they have free energy there that you could utilize and cooling.

SPEAKER_02 45:03

You mean Greenland, right?

SPEAKER_00 45:04

No, no, no, no. I mean Iceland. I mean specifically Iceland. Greenland.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

We need Greenland. Greenland is ice.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

I'm talking about their country, separate country called Iceland, which was you know named Iceland to keep people out because it was actually warm, unlike Greenland, which was named Greenland to suck people in, even though it's a frozen hell hole.

unknown 45:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:24

So did you did you see the meme I just put in the chat?

SPEAKER_00 45:28

No, I was looking at what you put in here. Uh so it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 45:33

It's okay, it's Trump, you know, looking over Greenland and say, you know, and saying, hello, Greenland, and then then it's a picture of the PM of Denmark uh said over the right thing. Right. But it's it says hello USA with our hand on the White House. And then the next one is Trump posting, you really want to play that game? And it's an aircraft carrier group.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:06

Well, we're not gonna bomb Denmark, obviously, but but also they can literally be

Greenland Memes And A Serious Proposal

SPEAKER_00 46:11

what are they gonna do to us? Yeah, they're gonna do nothing to us either. So if we want to take it, we can take it. I I still think my idea was the the best that he should have done, which is just to offer all the citizens of Greenland one million dollars tax-free for becoming U.S. citizens, basically. I mean, they would have a little vote and unanimously decide that, hey, we're part of America now. And and then the U.S. would defend them against anybody who doesn't respect the sovereign rights of peoples to determine their nationhood. Isn't that what we said about Ukraine at some point in time?

SPEAKER_02 46:50

Yeah, agree.

SPEAKER_00 46:51

Yeah. So I think we could have a little Ukraine-like situation by uh effectively buying the people of uh Greenland. And who would be dumb enough to refuse a million-dollar deal? I mean You're working by fishing every day, making probably like twenty thousand a year. And somebody offers you a million dollars. Right?

SPEAKER_02 47:18

And you know that is crap. What their GDP is crap.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know that like literally one generation back, Denmark was sterilizing women in Greenland to get rid of their population up there. Yep. It's like, what the fuck? Why would you why would you possibly want to stay with Denmark? They they were committing a gen a literal gen like the the Israelis, they were committing a literal genocide. They were preventing the next generation from being born without consent. Yeah. So yeah, Greenland makes sense, but but the reason I mention Iceland is because of the volcanoes in Iceland, the active volcanoes, that they literally do get most of their power from geothermal, and they've got the cold water for cooling. I mean, you literally plop a data center there, and you need nothing to run it. Yep. Somebody keeps sending me messages here while we're recording.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

It's a story I want to point out.

SPEAKER_00 48:27

Talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

No, no, no. We'll finish up here.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

While we're done.

SPEAKER_02 48:30

No, I okay. Well, uh, so I was on X and I came across that X post, and it's a story about Texas dad that beat his daughter's five-year-old daughter's rapist to death. The problem is, yes, that actually happened, but you know, this is posted like it happened recently.

SPEAKER_05 48:51

Right.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

But as I always do, you've got to search for the story to find out when this happened. This happened in 2012.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

Why is this being talked about?

SPEAKER_02 49:00

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 49:02

Or did this just get to court now?

SPEAKER_02 49:04

No. Grand jury refused to indict him back in 2012. He was clear back then. Well, there you go. So yeah, he he he was cleared because this was an old farmhand that took the daughter out and

Vigilante Justice And Grand Jury Risk

SPEAKER_02 49:18

was raping her and scream, she was screaming and everything else, and he just beat him to death right then and there.

SPEAKER_00 49:23

Yeah. Which that's not even that shouldn't be a story. That's that should just be a normal occurrence.

SPEAKER_02 49:29

Agreed, but what it got me thinking about is do you think that dad would get off today? Because I don't know that he would. I think he would. I think it depends on what county in Texas.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

Well, not in Austin, obviously, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:44

In most counties he would, I think. I think Austin or Travis County, yeah, you know, Dallas County, Harris County. No, I don't know that you'd get off. I think in Dallas he would still get off.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Dallas has had a couple of cases with uh firearm use like that, where they the the grand judge.

SPEAKER_02 50:05

That old man in Dallas County not too many years ago with murder because he there was a burglar breaking into his shed, shot him dead, and went back to sleep and didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

It was his neighbor's shed. He was it was that's the only reason they charged him. It was his neighbors' shed. And I remember going over that interview, and that eventually was dropped by the uh the attorney general. But the reason they charged him is because there was a question of whether a person has a right to use deadly force in saving not themselves or their property, but their neighbors' property. Yeah. And you know, I would I don't know. Would you would you risk what could happen if you were to use deadly force to save your neighbor's house from getting burgled? I'm not sure that I would.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

So I would probably intervene and go over there and if and confront the person and call the cops and try and hold them there. Yeah. And if they came at me, then I feared for my life.

SPEAKER_00 51:16

Yeah, that's true. I I think the only way that I would get involved is if I had an agreement with my neighbor about keeping an eye on the place when one of us is traveling or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 51:29

And that because otherwise for instance, I have a neighbor right now that they're overseas.

SPEAKER_00 51:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

And you know, his alarm system. His alarm system told him that the back door was open. He texted me and asked me to check on it.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:45

No, back door's closed and locked.

SPEAKER_00 51:47

Now, what if you would have seen uh couple of young punks back there?

SPEAKER_02 51:52

I I if I saw someone over there right now and I know he's gonna be out of the country for five weeks, I'd go over there.

SPEAKER_00 51:57

Yeah. But see, again, like you had that conversation, you had that agreement. So I think that that goes to like rationale for what you're doing. You're not like you're not looking for trouble, you're not trying to start a gunfight, you're actually doing something that your neighbor had asked you to do. So that's the thing. But you know, I've got neighbors that I know, and then I've got neighbors that are renting, and so there's new people every six months to a year, and I have no idea of who they are or who lives there or anything. Would I go help them from getting burgled? Probably not. But you know, the guys that I do know, I would first of all call them obviously and say, hey, do you know there's somebody moving moving shit with a moving van out of your house? And then then if they said, Yeah, can you go check on it because there's not supposed to be then I would certainly go out there and and you know have a gun on me. But I wouldn't just do it just because he happened to be a neighbor. And I I think that's I think that's reasonable. I guess again, it's it's gotta be reasonable to a grand jury. Like they have to put themselves in your shoes and go, well, that makes sense. It doesn't matter if it's legal, it matters if it's reasonable. Because going through a trial for murder, or even even like uh not murder, but what do you call it? I can't remember what the lesser charge is called off the top of my head, but it it's it's gonna be expensive, it's gonna be time consuming, and you're probably gonna spend time in jail and pay a very large sum of money to get a

Bail Bonds And Plea Deal Incentives

SPEAKER_00 53:59

bond from a bail bondsman. And uh like at least in the US, the way this this usually works is the let's say you get issued a ten thousand dollar bond. So you would go to a bailed bondsman and then pay them a thousand dollars, they would then cover that ten thousand dollar bond. But that but you know the bond is there to make sure you show up for court.

SPEAKER_02 54:27

So when you show up for court and the bond is cleared, uh, yeah, you don't have a murder charge, it's gonna not be a ten thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_00 54:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm just using round numbers for easy math. But my point is you pay them ten percent, it's a payment, you don't ever get that money back. So you may be not guilty, but you have a bond. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:47

But you're you could also have 10 grand in the bank and put it up.

SPEAKER_00 54:51

Ah, so that's what I thought. No, a lot of states, over half the states in the US, actually have laws in the books that prevent you from doing cash bail.

SPEAKER_02 55:03

You can only actually only counties in Texas do not allow you to do cash bail.

SPEAKER_00 55:07

There you go. So, and and I know it's statewide for a number of states, so which is stupid. I disagree with that, that is absurd, but they require you to use a bondsman. If you could just put up your own money, yeah, it's totally evil because they're forcing you to spend money while you're trying to prove your innocence that you will never get back, just like the time you won't get back. And it it's if you have the money for bail, you should be able to just use your own money. It's crazy. So I think partly is because the courts have also effectively gotten rid of their capacity to bring in bail jumpers. They have offloaded, they have put that role onto the bailed bondsman. So it used to be back in like the Western days that it was you didn't have bailed bondsmen, you'd you'd get deputies that would go after somebody that ran off and didn't show up to court when they you know posted a bail. That was a function of the court slash sheriff slash deputies, whatever. Not the case anymore. The government is not in that business, they've outsourced it to private bail bonds who both loan the money or effectively pay the the bond, but sell you that service for 10% of the bond, and they're the ones that are going to be going after you if you run off. So I don't I I don't like that model. I mean, I think they should be able to do that if you ran off and and they paid. But if you put up your own money, that that function should be where it used to be, which is on the court itself. Fugitive recovery services.

SPEAKER_02 57:08

Part of that is because the courts have decided to we've legalized every, you know, we've made everything illegal. Yeah. So the courts, quite frankly, could not function today if we got rid of plea deals.

SPEAKER_05 57:21

Right?

SPEAKER_02 57:22

Yep. And the conviction rates that they get are mainly through plea deals. The if everything had to go to a trial, then the system would grind to a halt. And quite frankly, I think it should. Exactly. I I think we should make plea deals illegal.

SPEAKER_00 57:43

I I'm not that black and white. I could totally see instances where a plea deal is beneficial to an innocent party.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

However, Well, because the pro if you go to trial, you get the trial tax and they're gonna come after you harder and everything else.

SPEAKER_00 58:02

Well, and I'm like not people I've known personally, but people that I've I've known through others and and you know, some people just watching videos. Quite often they get picked up for something ridiculous, like you have more than one ounce of pot in the car. And then because they were coming home from a gun range, now they're possession of illegal substance with firearms, which is a felony, class two, I think. And so that ends up going to trial now because they've got not not in Texas.

SPEAKER_02 58:40

In Texas, if you're intoxicated or drugs or anything like that, it's a class B misdemeanor, so it's not even class A.

SPEAKER_00 58:50

Okay. Do you have guns?

SPEAKER_02 58:53

Yes. Like if you've got a gun in the truck and you get pulled over for a DUI, yeah, they're gonna add on a class B misdemeanor. And it's a bullshit add-on charge.

SPEAKER_00 59:02

That's all it is? Okay, well, that's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 59:04

But then, for reference in Texas, you we have three classes of misdemeanor in Texas. We have class C, which is a traffic ticket, right? Yeah, you have a class B, which carries potential for some jail time, and then you have a class A. The only way like a DUI in Texas becomes a felony is on repeated offenses, or if there's a minor in the vehicle. Under 15.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

Yeah. Well, that's good. But it's not definitely not the case across the board. There's some states that are a lot more harsh on this stuff than others. There's also a bunch of states that don't care if you smoke pot. I think over 50% of the states have legalized it now. But, you know, stuff like that, where they kind of start pulling a string and unraveling until there's like all the fabric is gone and you just have one long string, and then just keep throwing more and more and more charges out there to the point where they're they're basically saying that they've got charges.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:07

They're gonna get you on something.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:08

Yeah, they're gonna well, they're gonna get you for 20 years, is what they're gonna do. Basically, for what started off as a ridiculous, you had a little bit see because it's not a so maybe it's more than an ounce, but whatever it is, the amount is it's not just whatever the minimal amount. It's it's basically if you have more than let's say an ounce, or maybe it's five ounces for all I know, but whatever it is, more than some amount, now it's an intent to sell charge. So it's not just a you have an illegal substance. Now you have an illegal substance with an intent to sell, which is where the felony part comes in. And then you slap on the guns on top of that, and it just starts rolling down the hill. And then, like you said, if you are stupid enough to have a kid in the car, now you're endangering a minor. You know, it's it can it can get to where the threat of a many years of incarceration is sitting there, and then they're willing to go down for this thing and drop everything except for gun charges. So now, you know, you'll serve like 30 days in prison, but you'll never be able to buy a gun again. Well, and a lot of people will agree to that because they're like, well, 30 days in prison sounds better than you know, even a year in prison, but certainly better than 20 years in prison.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:36

I I guess, but I I just hate the plea deal system. Yeah. And I think it makes prosecutors very lazy. I don't think prosecutors should have I don't think prosecutors should have discretion on what to charge. I think it should all go to a grand jury. A grand jury has to decide what to charge. At least that's a non-career politic.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:00

No, would you allow criminals into grand juries?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

Define criminal.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:06

Somebody with a criminal record? Somebody that was found guilty?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:09

You have a criminal record, I have a criminal record. Define criminal.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:12

I have a criminal record.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:14

Have you ever had a speeding ticket, Gene?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:16

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:17

I I know that's not true.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:20

I've never had one. I was on a list. I was on a special list. I got pulled over by cops. That's one of my favorite times this has happened. So I picked up a client in my car to go to lunch. This was I think this was at American Express. And so we go to lunch, we're coming back, and all of a sudden I see a cop car with its lights flashing in the back. And I'm like, shit, I guess I kind of went through a yellow light which was turning red in an intersection. So I pull over and I'm like, well, alright. It's you know, sorry, we're gonna be a little late coming back to the office. Cop walks over, he's all angry and stuff. Like, you know what you just did? And I'm like, no, sir, what what are you stopping me for? Did you not see that light was red? And I'm like, oh, I don't I don't think so, but you know, if you if you saw me do it, I'm sure I I'm not gonna argue with you. So he takes my license, goes back to his car. Ten minutes we're sitting there. The guy's getting kind of like, what the hell's taking him so long? Cop comes back, gives me my license back. His demeanor, his look is totally different. He's like, Thanks, sir, I appreciate you coming to uh stop quickly. Do you need an escort for the rest of your drive? Dude, the look on my client's face when that cop said that line, and I was like, No, I'm good. Thank you. Guy totally played it cool, you know. The look on this guy's he'd like turns his head turned sideways to look at me. He's like, Who are you?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:04

Yeah, how do I get on this list?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:06

And I I yeah, and I I had that happen. I had that happen four times, dude. Not with other people, only once with one other person, but I had three other cop stops where one of them I was speeding like 75 and 55. And this is the same exact thing. Just gave him his CIA ID and it was it was a it was a very good portion of my life where I was immune. Let's just leave it at that.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:37

Well, anyway, the point is uh the you the question you asked was would I let criminals on the grand jury?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:45

Let's say felons. Let's just say felons.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:48

Well, violent felons or embezzlement felons? Like what are we doing? I don't care. Any felons. Okay, well, there are a lot of felonies in the world.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:58

Do you think like an embezzlement, like a jury of twelve guys that serve time for embezzlement would have a fair judgment of somebody who's being charged with embezzlement?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:10

So that's a good point. Is should you be allowed to be on the grand jury for a crime of which you have committed? Probably not.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:19

That said, again, I would at the very least say it would have to be felonies.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:23

Do you want a bunch of people that have had speeding tickets sitting there for a speeding ticket?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:28

Well, I don't think speeding tickets should be a fucking thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:33

Yeah, well, you also don't think drinking and driving ought to be a fucking thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:37

It's not. It's immoral.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:41

Uh-huh. Yeah, I disagree on that one. I I kind of prefer the road shared with people who are not impaired.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:49

And I'm not saying you should drink and drive, but my point is you have not yet committed a crime. If the definition of a crime is harm to one's property, one's person, or oneself. Or one's property one's person or one's liberty.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:03

I mean the the crime you committed is a contractual crime. It's not a it's not a crime of damages. You've disobeyed a contract.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:16

Yeah don't I don't say it that way.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:19

Most of our charges are contractual. You know there's a lot fewer people that commit actual criminal offenses than people that end up doing things where they're doing something that they're not supposed to be speaking of people doing what they're not supposed to? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:41

Mandani so what I mean I've seen like a lot of parody videos of him lately but what's he doing currently that's he's not supposed to so he went he is already going to the confiscation of property phase of comedy wow that was great. He is threatening building owners if buildings are in disrepair not maintained not being kept up with taking over the buildings putting it in a trustee or potentially even giving it to the residents themselves.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:14

Well they the commies shredded that in Russia.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:17

Right but it took them a little while to get to property confiscation. They didn't go straight there.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:22

About seven months yeah he's he's well in his way the New Yorkers wanted this. They voted for this this is my problem with anyone bitching about him is like he is doing what his people that elected him want. He's representing fully the New Yorkers there including the ones that are going to be suffering as a result of this I I again I just think you let it burn I think that when people make stupid mistakes like this in electing a socialist for their their government the only way they're going to learn a lesson out of this is if nobody interferes with what happens. Like we can't be rescuing California from Gavin Newsom. We have to let it burn yeah when I say let it burn I don't mean an actual fire I mean you know figuratively let it burn LA mayor and Newsomardi didn't the point is let them hang on their own news not a physical news just you know metaphorical news where the actions that they have taken that resulted in bad things ought to be up to them to either fix or live with including in the them people who elected them and I don't have a huge amount of of pity for conservatives living in California because I every day they choose that this is a choice people are making. Incidentally this reminds me of a a comment that we had back oh last episode fan mail yep yep yep fan mail from somebody in Washington state because we talked about this type of thing in Washington who said you know I live in Washington because I make more money here than I could anywhere else and as soon as I retire I'm going to plan on leaving but right now this is this is my absolutely best means of making money. So I get that but it doesn't it it's it's still within my realm of you're choosing to live there. This is a conscious choice you're making to live in a state that just took a bunch of your gun rights away and I know it's being challenged in court but meanwhile you know you can't buy magazines and you have a very limited selection of guns that you're allowed to buy now in Washington state. So you know you're making that decision. You're trading in a little more money now maybe a lot more money now and giving up certain rights and like they for example just enacted a I think I mentioned this a few episodes ago they just enacted a large whatchamacallit tax like when somebody dies a what do you call that? Death tax yeah but there's a name for it it's like your estate tax. Yeah yeah so their estate tax went from like 10% or something to 60 60 they've decided the way they're going to solve their budget deficit is by taking stuff from dead people or the the relatives of dead people I should say you know they're like okay that's the money solved it by a bailout from the state. Right which I can't believe the state gave them that is ridiculous. They should not have done that well's just yeah yeah they're just not gonna stand up but it's it's it's a conscious decision. You know it it's never easy to move. Yeah I was still married when I moved to Texas this was definitely harder than if I would have done it while I was single and even doing it single it's not like it's trivial. There's a lot of expense involved with moving there's job either you're gonna work remotely and keep your current job which is more common now but you know 20 years ago this was not a common thing so you'd you'd have to find a new job when you move I get all that. But in the end people that are conservatives in California and other states that are never voting Republican they effectively trade their voice their representation for whatever they deem to

Socialism In NYC And Letting It Burn

SPEAKER_00 1:11:49

be the benefit of living there for California and and we've got a buddy in our group chat you know Jesse's living in California I've had this conversation with him many times over the last 25 years. Dude you got to get your ass out of California not only are you spending a whole bunch of money on California state income tax that you wouldn't have if you moved to Texas for example but your your ability to do things that you can do legally in other states but you can't do in California is greatly been taken away. Now it's not going to be easy for him to move out of California certainly given his job and everything but but it's not impossible. And at some point I think you have to make that decision like is it worth the benefits that I get by being here to give up a whole bunch of rights and I I I will tell you this if Texas ever starts putting in draconian laws the way that California has I'm gonna be leaving Texas in a heartbeat yeah but I mean that that takes me back to the Reagan speech you know about the Cubans you know boy we don't know how lucky we are how lucky you are we had somewhere to go.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:11

Yeah yeah you know it Texas and Florida and really Georgia if they start putting you know there's not a lot of places left to go man no like even in the South absolutely there there's not a lot of places but the thing that makes it easier to go somewhere is money.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:34

So people that I know for example out other people not not Jesse other people I know in California who have you know seven to eight figure lifestyles they all have multiple citizenships in different countries they all have multiple houses so they're they they aren't even planning they've already got places that they use for you know summer house winter house whatever in other countries and getting leaving becomes much easier anywhere that you are when you don't have to worry about the financial consequences of that there'll be some always for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:20

Yeah and my buddy Gerhardt's like that right there he's got his house he's got his house stuff in Hawaii which is home where he's from and he's got place in Japan got a place in Dubai got a place in Colorado there you go so just a little ridiculous but you know these are good options right these these are definitely good options but but I don't think it has to get that drastic like California has been moving in the wrong direction for 40 years.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:53

It was obvious 20 years ago where it was heading way before Gavin Neesome that I would have left there 20 years ago I wouldn't have waited till now and incidentally you know in Austin here which is the liberal part of Texas you can't throw a brick without hitting somebody that moved here from California in the last five years.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:15

Because when COVID hit but there are a lot of them are fairly conservative like Travis County has turned way pinker than it was blue.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:24

Yeah yeah yeah but they're not I mean here's the thing they're not conservative compared to to a lot of Texans no they're certainly conservative compared to Californians but they have a lot of views that are not like there's a reason they're moving here to Austin and not to San Antonio for example you know like they have all their whole food stores here they've got they've got plenty of options for you know hot yoga and shit like that. They've got things that they're used to having in California that typically are not something you're gonna find in deep south conservative land.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:15

Yeah so just since we're gonna make a joke about it eventually anyway I'm actually gonna try a tai chi class on an upcoming weekend. Oh really and that's cool and the main reason why is you know with the issues I've got going on and everything just like I would prefer to do well and I have done I've got a black belt in taekwondo I've done Juju and everything. I don't mention it every you literally do go ahead I literally don't but anyway I would prefer to do something like that. But right now the thought of doing that with his tight and every like it just does it sounds painful maybe you can go for a

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SPEAKER_02 1:17:02

black belt in Tai Chi. I don't think there's a belt system in Tai Chi but whatever. Anyway this just means you haven't hit the version of hot yoga so there you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:11

Well and I I I used to do tai chi so I'm not at all going to insult you. I think that it's beneficial. I think it's something more people do it's probably frankly something I should get back into.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:23

But I used to do it like 25 years ago okay I've never done tai chi so it'll be interesting.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:31

Yeah and you know what it started off as like it wasn't supposed to be any kind of relaxation thing or whatever. It's basically started off as a practice of the what do they call them the cantas or cotras cotras right but done in slow motion to improve the quality of the movement that was the the original the origins of it and apparently that doing them in slow motion also made people be a lot more calm and just you know it there were there were benefits aside from just improving the accuracy of your movements at which point then it started becoming more popular for people that that just wanted the benefits of more inner peace. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:32

So yeah well I'm hoping to you know I I do a lot of stretching and everything because that's what they've got me doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:40

But God there's so many jokes.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:42

Yes God easy now but yeah I I I I do lots of different stretching and you know different things that they've got me doing but just I don't know something else to try.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:58

I go for I think that's a good idea. I'm not at all opposed to that I mean frankly I'm not even opposed to people doing yoga. I just think that yoga is kind of turned into a you know like basically very sexualized by women like it went from just stretching to you know do all the movements that you would do with somebody naked but do it with super thin clothing surrounded by a bunch of other people I mean it's not a bad thing to watch from the observation that's a lot of no no no not at all no this is why I said like when I was a teenager in a health club we had a a jogging track around a technically a basketball court that was glassed in floor to ceiling in a track around that court right the court predominantly in the 80s was used for jazz or size so you basically have like you know a chick in her 20s with a perfect body leading a bunch of 20 to 30 year old really good shaped women in cardio exercises where they're you know bending twisting jogging in place and you've seen them in movies I'm sure and they're all wearing like ultravioletly bright colors you know the 80s was full of every color was a neon color and so whenever these classes ran there was only always a a much higher percentage of guys running around the track and guys lifting weights in the weight room that had a direct view of the the jazz or size classes of the aerobics classes. It was it was hilarious because it was such a stereotypical almost like you know cartoonish kind of Simpsons behavior or whatever. But it's true because all the all there was no dudes at all ever doing the jazz size stuff. Yeah it was always just girls and girls that were in good shape already you never had any fancy clothes weren't you know leggings tight yeah and by the way I and people are I mean I don't like leggings on a woman like I think leggings just for around the house or something okay I guess but people who wear that shit out in public it's like uh I think if you have the right body I don't care if you're wearing it it's just most most people wearing them don't have the right body is what I say I remember the old Robert joke. Please don't wear those yeah yeah yeah they're not new remember I mean men used to wear them right they're they used to be called tights and both men and women wore tights for like 300 years. Fuck that dude I wore tights in high school well we don't need to know about your sexual escapades in high school it was for track like spring track in Idaho and and what were you running away from no you got cold rain hitting you know icy rain hitting the back of your legs when you're in the blocks about to jump out I get it no anyway I after I pulled a muscle I started tights was a pretty good movie by the way yeah tight tights yes yeah yeah anyone who doesn't get the 80s references and you're hopelessly lost right now yeah I know so yeah that was a thing but I think like the modern gyms not even gyms but like modern interests modern body desires have gotten very far away from what I consider to be hot like women that are proportional someone bigger than a beacon I gotcha yeah yeah but I mean a good beacon is funny but I'm talking about asses right now actually like this this very trendy thing now of women doing nothing but ass exercises every single day at the gym which results in a a woman who has got the body of a 120 pounder with an ass of 175 pounder like that's not fucking attractive the Kardashians were never attractive I agree with you on that yeah but I I just I know you like big boobs yeah you will not lie uh the the ass can be flat and it won't bug me but yeah oh we got a what oh god what's her name I was gonna make a joke and I forgot the punchline in the middle of the joke Taylor Swift you we got a Taylor Swift fan when you said flat butts you see my troll of Darren take it sorry darren Kelsey's pregnant now yep yep yep you can't it's that's right I it's by the way hey I promoted the show on no agenda did you oh I didn't know that I did a donation and uh so there you go oh you're getting up there good it's yeah it's it's maybe we'll get another listener maybe yeah but I don't know it it's like I like proportional you want to know what kind of look for a woman I like look at a a Roman statue that's the kind of woman I like shapewise yes because you're proportioned like a Roman statue a Roman male statue at least I set myself up for that one I got yeah I have a built-in fig leaf uh very small fig leaf but but that but that's the thing it's like right now we're basically in a in a second phase of Rubenesque women which I was never thought like women with huge asses were attractive ever but that seems to be a thing these days where a very large percentage of women are all and they're not like fat asses I'm not saying that but it's just disproportionately large like like the ass like a lot of women have the asses that only figure skaters used to have because figure skating when you're doing all those jumps on on skates develops the glutes and like tremendously and so if you ever dated a figure skater like that's one thing that would always be noticeable at any age could be a you know 16 year old or a 25 year old that's 25 is about as old as you need to go ever.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:16

But in all those ages you notice that holy shit they got big asses well a lot of women these days are just bigger in general the like the skinny is kind of gone to the wayside a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:31

Yeah yeah and I I always like Caro and Sheik. Like that to me that seemed like a good style.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:39

By the way it's Marco Rubio's birthday today apparently oh well we ought to celebrate I don't drink anymore but I would have a toast to him oh man I I made a beef bourguignon last night for tonight and then heated it up and served it over mashed potatoes. Nice but I used a I bought a case of Bordeaux back in 2016 uh and I used one of those bottles that I had case of Bordeaux Jesus would you get a check in 2016 for something no I got married in 2016 okay was it good Bordeaux?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:19

Yeah it's decent okay I mean that's a lot of money anyway oh my god was it good

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SPEAKER_00 1:27:26

I bet first bottle I've opened really okay yeah you know remind me that I need to start to give moving your alcohol collection yes yes you're right yeah right what come on no dude I don't drink I don't need it I have thousands of dollars I have probably tens of thousands dollars at this point no I'm not gonna sell it I'd rather give it somebody like you I'll take it I know you will I know you will be looking at your monitors right now I d I know. I know you are. Yes. But that's why I'm saying it on the air, because I don't want to like forget about it and then you don't mention it, and then I'm looking at my, you know, my booze like two years from now going, God damn it, I should give it to somebody. So remind me and we'll we'll make some plans for me to start transferring that stuff over. Cause I I have like three wine fridges worth of wine.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:25

Yeah, I've got a couple.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:27

And I haven't drank for five for six years. So, you know, I've I was you mentioned burgundy, you know. I've got Bordeaux, but yes. Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, yeah. Bordeaux. Yeah, I guess beef borgno, yes. I've got like half a fridge of Bordeaux.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:45

Yeah, my the the best one I have right now is I've got a Chateau de Rothschild from 2003. Okay. When I bought it, it was about a hundred dollar bottle of wine.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:58

Right now it's going for about five or six.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's actually, I would think it'd be more. Yeah, most of the stuff that's in my fridge was purchased at $300 to $500 range.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:09

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:11

And I'm sure it's worth more.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:12

Never went that high. I'm not sure. The only thing kind of wine guy go good and cheap.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:18

Yeah. The only thing that I that I'm not gonna give you, although I will I'll I'll probably give you one bottle of it or you know something. I'll because I want you to try it, is my favorite scotch, because there's literally just a handful of bottles in the world at this point. So I even if I don't drink, I I refuse to give up the last of that.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:47

Alright. I understand.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:49

And you might change your mind in a little while that you're gonna drink again. Yeah, yeah. No, I I don't think I'll ever drink again. But but it's one of those things where you know it it was the the pinnacle of what I enjoyed in terms of taste. So even if I can't taste it anymore, I just kind of feel like I still want to hang on to a bottle of it. Yeah. I don't know if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:20

Kinda.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:22

Yeah. It's kind of like the same reason I still have a lot of fishing gear, even though I haven't gone fishing for a damn long time. Like I have good it's almost it's borderline sentimental value, is what it is. That's the way I describe it. It's not a hundred percent sentimental, but it's it's borderline sentimental.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:41

Well, I've got a lot of fishing gear and I don't get to go fishing as much as I'd like, but yeah. And that's something I need to do.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:49

Like, I need to set up more time uh for me to be able to go fishing and hunting, but you know, yeah, it's just when I first moved to Austin, I had this plan that I was gonna buy property on the Gulf, and then I was going to go and do like you know, weekends on the Gulf, bought a boat, a center console to go fishing out there. Never pulled the trigger on property, even though I found a couple of places that I liked. And it was always kind of like, yeah, I need to do this. And then it just got stalled and I never did it, and then fucking COVID hit. So never happened. But I always had the intention of having a place on the Gulf as well. Yeah, whether I lived in in Austin or Houston or San Antonio or anywhere else, just having some actual property that I can keep a boat on was always in the plans. But you grew up with a boat. You grew up with a dad who basically lived on the boat.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:58

Yeah. I mean, we I the first six within the first six months of my life, I was on the the shrimp boat with my mom and dad, and you know, we always had little bay boats and stuff to go fishing and dredge for oysters and uh do all that. I mean, and every time my dad would come home, you know, because he'd be gone to up to 30 days at a time. Yeah. And, you know, we would follow him a lot. So like if he was gonna be somewhere in Louisiana, you know, so let's say at Bayoutish or something offloading, we'd go meet him there, you know, and stuff like that. But so anywhere from Brownsville to Key West on the coast that a shrimp boat would dock, I've been there.

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SPEAKER_02 1:32:40

So I get to travel a lot as a kid, right? Road trip.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:43

And that's awesome. I like I think that's awesome when kids get to do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:46

Well, and I think it's important. And you know, but anytime he'd come home, we'd always have a big barbecue and do stuff, especially in the summer and the uh shoulder months, like you know, in uh October and stuff like that. And you know, we'd have all this food, you know, we'd have bulldozer tails, we'd have shrimp, we'd have a bunch of different fish and stuff. And dude, we had the coolest aquarium when I was a kid because we'd catch stuff and you know, just throw it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it it it was a cool way of growing up. And then at nine, we moved to Idaho. We got to Idaho four days before my birthday and went from banana trees in the backyard, subtropical environment, hadn't seen a freeze in three years, to three foot of snow and 15 below zero. That's gonna be this is a huge shock. Oh, huge cultural shock.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:45

Yeah. Were you were you unhappy about it or were you like looking forward to the new experience?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:51

So the day we're leaving Texas, I literally they had to chase me down to put me in the car. We were leaving from my grandma's house, and I was climbing trees, I was doing all sorts of shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:06

Yeah, I didn't want to leave. Yeah, I could see that. I I could totally see that. But it's hard to leave Texas, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:16

And you know, I got back here pretty quick, so yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:21

Yeah, it's you know, having grown up in the north, I I think as a kid when you don't really know any better, it's really fun because you have all four seasons, which we don't here in Texas. You get if you go way north, like Minnesota, you get snow in the winter that doesn't melt all year. So by February, by March, you've got four feet of snow. So you're building snow castles and you know, all kinds of stuff as a kid.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:52

And and I love getting a sled and learning to ski and do all that. And I I definitely will take my kids up there at some point in time, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:05

I did cross country and downhill every year.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:08

And it was cross-country, but I did great exercise. But I want to go fast.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fast and then hold on to a rope. I get it.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:18

But doing or a chairlift, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:22

Or a chairlift, yeah. But when you're a kid, you know, you're kind of starting out on the low runs. But it it's the cross country lets you go. I think it's actually really fun because you it's way faster than snowshoes, but it basically lets you go anywhere. So you pick a direction and go until you hit a fence, basically. And you know, there's some there's some really large areas of state parks and national parks in Minnesota and stuff that you could go cross-country skiing on where you could like spend your whole day going in one direction and still be inside the park.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:04

Cross-country skiing in Idaho is a little different because you got bigger hills. Yeah, you're in the Rockies. It's certain. So it's very different. And that's the other thing is downhill skiing in the Rockies, like the east coasters and people who talk about downhill skiing. Bitch, please. You you do not know what real skiing is. Um like one of my favorite places, and if anyone wants a great little winter vacation destination, Brundage Mountain outside of McCall, Idaho. They've got multiple chairlifts, they've got a chairlift on the Bunny Hill, but it's north of Boise, out in the middle of nowhere. You can rent a cabin pretty cheap, great powder, good terrain park, great little ski resort for cheap. And it's it's underrated, and it's kind of the one of those gyms because it isn't easy access. You got to rent a car and you gotta drive.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:06

No, I get it. Yeah, I'm I'm sure you would have not called where I downhilled Minnesota, you would not have called that a mountain by any stretch.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:15

Yeah, Brundage Mountain has multiple, like it's from the top of the mountain to the bottom is like over a thousand foot a drop.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:26

And the main street is several miles long and it's a blue, and then right off the main street, you can continue on main street or you can go down the face, which the face is a black and it's a fucking face. So, what I would always do, one of my favorite runs was to stop start at the top. And by the way, I always skied with really long parabolics. So I'm five foot ten and I skied with 180 parabolics, which are should be way too long for me, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:54

But I wanted the surface area to go fast, and I would just tuck in and zoom down Main Street, not cutting, not doing hardly anything, just going full out, and then I'd hit the face and right at the end hit that jump. Oh my god, that was fun. I did my dad always just saw dollar signs, you know. He was convinced I was gonna break something.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:15

Yep, yep. Never did, huh?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:18

Actually, I broke a couple ribs hitting a tree once.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:22

There you go. Yeah. I uh I actually broke a ski one year going down uh a uh fresh powdered snow, and apparently there was some hard snow underneath that you know wasn't visible or whatever, and I was going it you know, going in fresh, like a few feet of fresh powder is really fun. And I don't know, I just misjudged or whatever, and I had a a ski nose that hooked under something, and I went tumbling forward, and in the process my release didn't release my boot from the ski. Yeah, your bindings. Yeah. And they were good at releasing like if the ski twists or something, I've had it happen before, but in this particular case, it didn't release, and then I just like felt uh a pull and then complete let go, and it was like yep, ski broke in half.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:25

So you're lucky you didn't destroy your leg.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:28

Yeah, yeah, my leg was totally fine, dude. That was the amazing part. It and I think because it was a pull and with no twist, it was like a linear straight line motion. And yeah, just snapped the damn ski. So I had to get replacements pretty quick after that. But I don't know, it was it was fun. I I really enjoyed skiing, I haven't done it since I left Minnesota, obviously, but I had fun. And then I used to go a few years, I went to Colorado to Copper Mountain to go skiing out there. But I don't know. I mean, like I've never skied in the Alps, I've never skied, you know, other than Colorado, I haven't skied anywhere with really big hills.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:16

Well, Idaho, parts of Washington, Montana, and so on have some great places. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:25

Yep, but I remember watching that James Bond's skiing scene, and was that the spy who loved me, I think.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:33

Dude, I you're gonna hate me for this. I've never really watched the James Bond movies in a lot of detail.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:40

Any of them? Really?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:41

I've seen a couple random Sean Connery ones and stuff like that, some of the newer ones with Pierce Brosna and stuff like that, but no, I've never I've never been into Bond that much.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:54

That's interesting, because given like the the the chat on our little internal thing, I would think

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SPEAKER_00 1:41:03

you would really enjoy it. So James Bond is all of Sean Connery, and I'd say the first probably two or three movies of Roger Moore were insanely politically incorrect by modern terms. I mean, it was all like making fun of anybody who's not white. Women were you know, they were decoration. And so that it's it's actually really fun to watch those older movies. I saw my first Bond movie in 1979, Moonraker, and I was just like I stayed in the theater for I think three showings, just over and over. I I was blown away. I I couldn't believe that this this is so cool and this exists, you know. And then was a huge fan of James Bond all throughout the years. And I I know a lot of people kind of diss on Roger Moore, but I think that his Bond was very much a product of the times, much like much like Sean Connery's bond was a product of the late 60s and early 70s. Roger Moore's was a product of the late 70s and 80s. And then they kind of started going downhill after that. And yeah, I think uh I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:26

Any generation that produce disco, can they really produce anything of value?

SPEAKER_00 1:42:30

Right. Yeah, well, uh, disco's coming coming back now. But do you the thing that I always appreciate about James?

SPEAKER_02 1:42:38

You just made my point, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:41

Oh the thing that I appreciate about the James Bond movies is they never ever took themselves seriously. Like, yeah, even the first couple that came out, they were yes. Yeah, yeah. So Austin Power dials it to 11. But if you if Austin Powers is Bond at 11, Bond is not at one, like the actual James Bond movies, they're at like a five. Like they still kind of don't really take themselves too seriously, they still have a lot of self-deprecating humor in there. You know, like the just a lot of cliche stuff, what we would call memes these days. So I think it's well worth watching, and I know that there are marathons that happen with some regularity of Bond movies, and I think the next time there's a marathon, then let's both start watching them. You know streaming's a thing, right? No, I know that streaming's a thing, but I'm just saying the marathons kind of they they ensure that all of the movies are available. Like streaming, you may not find all of them. Okay, well, unless you're Darren, then you obviously have them all in your life. I can find them all. You can find them. I but if you watch them in order, there's some continuity. There's it's not super important to watch them in order, but there's definitely a benefit because there's a little bit of a storyline that continues between everyone. And yeah, you know, they were I I think through up until like the last one of Roger Moore, they were they were worth watching. His last one that he did before retiring was not, and then all the ones that were done after that were very meh. They were started getting politically correct, they started trying to take the humor out of it and replace it with like being super serious, and that's never what it was meant to be. It was always there was always an element of like this is a larger than life person, this is not just a British spy, this is a British spy that has super luck, you know, and license to kill. Yeah, yeah. Which I think is hilarious because literally any country's foreign spies can kill, right? It's it's not a it's not that small a club. And England had way fewer of them than the US and Russia.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:22

Well, and that's the thing, is why American movies were made about MI6 versus our own CIA.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:30

Well, it wasn't an American movie. These are British movies. They well, they were American-produced British movies. No, no, they were. They were produced by Albert R. Broccoli, and they were made in a in what was the name of the studio in England? They were made in the UK. Something wood studios, like Pinewood Studios or something like that. I can't remember off the top of my head, but they were all made out there. It was a huge set that let them do, you know, like water stuff as well as normal sets. Pinewood Studios, maybe? I can't remember. But it was a, and of course, they're based on stories written by Ian Fleming, who is in fact a British spy.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:15

Hey, dude, I don't know if this is just right now, but Twitter's posting about the new Jas Bezos Glenn rocket. Yep. Just detonated on the launch pad.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:25

Really? That's too bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:27

Yeah, and Elon Musk posted, most unfortunate, rockets are hard.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:32

Yeah, yeah. See, that's the Musk being a dick thing. Yeah, but Bezos' rocket literally looks like one. So come on. It's a penis, yeah. The penis rocket. Yeah, they had a decent showing. It wasn't perfect. There were errors that happened, I think, on landing, but they had a diff decent launch the first time. Actually, no, they they they had a malfunction on their upper stage, come to think of it, because it didn't

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SPEAKER_00 1:47:02

bring the satellites high enough into orbit where it was supposed to drop them off. Yeah, they're still going through issues. I I wish good luck to all those guys. I don't care whether it's you know Musk or Bezos or any of the small rocket companies that are out there.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:20

By the way, we should talk a little bit more about elections and wrap it up, but uh the redistricting is going well. The all the maps have passed that have gone through have passed judicial scrutiny so far. That's good. Good. And Trump's executive order regarding the post office not being able to deliver ballots. Yeah, a judge declined to rule against.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:45

Well, that's good too. Yeah. I still think they're gonna do it in the left coast states, regardless of any rulings. They'll still send them out and they'll still deliver them.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:55

The U.S. Post Office won't.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:57

Well, they might. I mean, look, they there's nothing that says that they're gonna comply with the order. They may have to, but it doesn't mean they will.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:08

Well, I think that we're heading for a procedural win for the Republicans, is what it's looking like to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:15

I would love to see that happen. I'm still assuming it won't, though.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:19

And by the way, the Texas redistricting did something awesome that was not necessarily guaranteed. We no longer have to deal with Congressman Al Green.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:30

Oh, really? That's good.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:31

He lost his primary.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:32

So we got Al Green and what's her face? We got rid of both of them. Yup. Sheila Jackson Lee. That's the one. Jackson Lee. Yeah, that's that's awesome. So both of those guys are out of here. I mean, it it's look, if if the Trump has had a tremendous success in having people that he backed win their primaries. Now that just has to get converted into actually winning the elections of those folks.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:00

Well, I so I mean, have you been if you look on X, there's already a bunch of anti-talerico stuff popping up in my team. Yeah, yeah. And Talerico is so easy. Like the idea that, oh, Kim Paxton's gonna have a harder time beat no one's gonna have a hard time beating Ke Talerico.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:19

I mean Paxton is the only thing Paxton is lacking is money.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:23

That's it. Well, but now he's got the backing of the GOP. And one of the and he got outspent like nine to one in the city.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:30

Nine to one, yeah. That's what I mean by money.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:32

Yeah. Right. He got outspent and he spanked Cornyn that hard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:38

So I I think what really set Paxton off was when he offered, and this is something people forget, he offered to drop out of the race if Cornyn would vote for the Save Act.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:51

He literally offered to drop out of the race if Pac it if if Cornyn would vote for the Save Act. Yep.

unknown 1:49:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:00

Like if you're corning, just vote for the fucking Save Act, dude. I know, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:50:05

Like, what the hell? It it is it yeah, there was a few of those types of like deals that people were willing to make. I don't think he was the only one. But um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:18

Massey lost.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:19

Yep. Which is awesome. I think pretty much everybody that had pissed off Trump at one point or another, whether it was by not voting for the Save Act or something else, all of them lost. So yeah. I I think this is a very good thing. And maybe maybe people are more willing to vote for Republicans again now that a lot of the rhinos have been cleared out. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:57

Maybe. I I hope that's the case, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:05

Yeah. By the way, the no tax on SBRs and stuff and FRTs coming out for the PAS90. Yep. Is really tempting, dude. Have you looked at that?

SPEAKER_00 1:51:19

No. I mean, I've always loved that gun, but I I haven't seen what what the current.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:24

So the the real P90 has what's called a progressive trigger. So if you pull it halfway, it fires one shot. If you pull it all the way, it fires full auto, right? Yep. Yep. You don't get that with the FRT, obviously. But it turns the safety mechanism into a three-position safety mechanism. And so you've got semi and FRT.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:46

You can always fire single fire with an FRT. Like that's really easy to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:52

Sure, sure, sure.

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SPEAKER_02 1:51:53

But my my point is guaranteed. What do you change? Huh? But but regardless, so you can get the SBR version, put in an FRT now for the PS90. And holy crap, when you look at some of the new chassis that have come out for the P90, Jesus, like Strike Industries is doing some really cool stuff with theirs.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:18

Really? I haven't seen that. I don't see anything wrong with the P91.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:23

You will once you see the Strike Industries one. Okay, let me look at it. Jesus Christ. Because it is cool. It's modular.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:31

Strike industries.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:33

Strike industries, and then you're gonna go to the P90. Where's their P90?

SPEAKER_00 1:52:40

God damn, they have so many pop-ups when you go to their site.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:44

Yeah. In fact, just Google Strike Industries P90. Okay.

unknown 1:52:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:54

Yeah, because they've got the FNN Herschel modular chassis system. So they've got more Picatinny Rail. They've got they've made some pretty good adjustments.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:03

Oh, brand new P90. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:08

Anyway, it yeah, I've got a strike industry industries PDW chassis for my P320, and I love it.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:15

Yeah, yeah. So that does look good. I agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:19

Yeah, it look almost looks like the battle rifle from Halo.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:23

That's why you like it. Yeah. Fuck yeah. It's it it has a more aggressive look to it than the stock P90 chat. Yep. Does it store anything in the back?

SPEAKER_02 1:53:36

It's like a magazine at all, or you'll have to look at what all they've done, but they've you've got an adjustable cheek comb, which is you know, your cheek weld is a problem with the P90, and you actually have some decent Picatinny rail spots now.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:52

You know, when you look at the original P90 training videos, they never ever held that gun up to the shoulder. It was always fired from a straight arm. It was meant to be basically a pistol. A long ass pistol. And I think I think when they came out with the the PS90, that became a rifle.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:20

Yeah, with a 16-inch barrel.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:22

Yeah. But when it was first developed, because I remember watching those original training videos from whatchamacallit, the company. And FN. Yeah, FN. And that's uh that's why I got my FN 2000 as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:37

Stupid gun.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:38

That is not a stupid gun. It was a good gun. I don't know why you call it stupid.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:42

No one thought it was a good gun but Eugene.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:45

I thought it was a great gun. It was a little chubby, but it was a great gun. I never had a single problem with it. I ran good ammo and good magazines, never had any jams, never had any issues. I loved the fact that it retained spent casings and would dribble them out the front whenever you wanted to. You could also buy a clip-on that would just catch all your brass right for it. It was it was a very good design of a gun. The only thing that I would say was negative about it in my experience was that plastic was good. There's nothing wrong with the plastic. In fact, the plastic doesn't get either hot or cold. It was good. No. The thing that was bad about it was you had to use a specific brand of magazine, specific ammo. It was very finicky, but once you figured out what it liked and stuck with it, it was a very good gun. I was I was a little sad. I sold both of mine. I had two of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:47

So that last thing, and then I think I'm out of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:52

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:53

DeSantis has proposed a new property tax thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:02

So for young people starting families, they're gonna basically wipe out your property taxes.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:10

Jesus. That's huge.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:12

It's very big.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:14

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I mean, that's the kind of thinking that I think gets the average person to decide to vote Republican.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:23

Well, not just that, but have kids.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:28

You know, even if it's not enough to cover the kid or whatever, because it won't be, but it's just I don't have that anymore. That's one less thing, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:38

Yeah. No, that's huge, man. I I think that's very impressive. I think DeSantis has been very good. Yeah. Yeah, he's an awesome governor.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:50

I I it's gonna be interesting to see what he does now since he's term limited out.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:54

Yeah. Yeah, and I I think Marco is He'll make a run in 28, but he's not gonna. I think Marco's definitely a better Hispanic than him for president. DeSantis always looked a little lost. But as a governor, I think you know, all the people that moved to Florida in since COVID, they love him. No one's bitching about him. So and I like Florida too. I would totally live in Florida other than the fact I can't bring my snakes there.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:31

Well, that's because too many people have let them loose.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:33

That's exactly why. That's literally why. Yeah. They're they're considered nuisance pet pests there, and they're not allowed to be brought into the state.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:44

In Texas, we don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:46

No, in Texas, we we eat stuff if there's too much of it. Exactly. Catch it and eat it. Rattlesnakes, rattlesnakes do. Well, careful there.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:56

There's some protected ones.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:58

Are they really? I thought we ate all that rattlesnake stuff here. Did you see? Oh, I gotta bring this up. Speaking of rattlesnake, did you see the video of Kennedy, RFK? Oh, yeah, yeah. Handling a rattlesnake. I thought that was awesome. His wife was like. Kennedy's a fucking madman, dude. He is. He totally is. But somebody posted a picture of him with John Kennedy and holding some reptile. Like he's always been the kind of guy that just goes out in the woods and grabs shit and brings it home. Apparently. So I found it, I found it fascinating. Now I've rescued snakes before. I will say I've never rescued a rattlesnake. I've handled a number of different wild snakes. I've killed plenty of rattlesnakes. Yeah, I've never killed any snakes. I think they're very cool animals. They have no interest in killing.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:56

You go get your property on the Gulf and be down there and then uh kill snakes.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:02

Why would I kill snakes?

unknown 1:59:03

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:04

Because there are so goddamn many of them and they're poisonous and a nuisance.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:09

Nah, nah. That's all right. You just don't don't have a dog. That's the key thing. You don't want something that'll get bit by them. Cats are fast enough to not get bit. Dogs, unfortunately, get bit quite often. But it's a what? What are you laughing at now?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:28

Something hilarious. Okay. I'll send it to you.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:31

Anyway, the the yeah, people love it when you talk about shit that they can't see. That's that's always fun. Point is, if you haven't seen that video, definitely catch that video of him grabbing and picking up a rattlesnake, put it into a bucket to bring it out to the woods and let it go. And Cheryl, his wife, was who is you know the the TV wife of Larry David or ex-wife of Larry David now. She is she was having a typical female reaction. I'm not coming closer. I don't want to see that. I don't want to touch that. Get rid of it.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:12

Yeah, that's pretty funny. The biggest rattlesnake I've ever killed was just started at six foot. Jesus. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:21

You know, they controlled the mouse population. Why would you kill something that controls mice, which are way worse for you than snakes?

SPEAKER_02 2:00:29

Because little kids are around a camp and it same reason when I shot a couple of things. Yeah, well, I don't want kids to fall into that.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:39

Uh, you know, maybe they were.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:41

There's a mailer going out right now. The biggest divide in this country is not left versus right. It's top versus taller bottom. Taler rico for taxes.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:54

Jesus.

unknown 2:00:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:59

And on that note, we'll make this shit up, dude. We'll just wrap this shit up. Okay, guys. We'll see you next week. We'll talk to you next week, then.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:07

Later.