Turning 40 And Ego Checks

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Howdy, Ben. How are you today?

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Doing alright, Gene. Doing alright.

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Good. How's it feel to be an old man?

SPEAKER_02 0:10

I mean, it's just another day, man.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Yeah, that's what happens. You start lying to yourself as soon as you get old.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

Well, I so for those who don't know, I turned 40 here a few days ago. And I don't know. I I don't feel any different than I did. You know, I think I think 30 was a bigger hit to my ego than anything.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

But well, 30 is usually the point at which you lose your excuses for fucking around. Exactly. That's usually that's usually your 30th. Like, yeah, okay. I guess I spent 10 years after college just fucking around now. I need to figure something out. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

I've been I've been pretty serious or as serious as I'm ever going to be in my life. Since I don't know, my mid-20s.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Yeah. Well, 40 is usually when you start realizing that, you know, wives are something that can be upgraded.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

We get into conversations recently that is not that is not helpful, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

But yeah, it's you know, it it's a thing. I know that different people do it at different times. I know that when I hit 40, I definitely went through my sort of what's the phrase for it. You know, when you're life crisis. Well, kinda, I guess. But definitely like before I was 40, I didn't really feel the need to buy expensive shit or show off or be in competition with anybody. I just was doing my own thing. And then in my 50s, that's definitely the case. I just don't give a shit anymore. But I think about the time I hit 40, it was kind of like that was the time that I started feeling like, well, you know, I need to kind of demonstrate that I'm somewhat successful, at least, to people. And you don't actually think that, but you look back on, well, for me, let me talk in first person here. I didn't think that at the time, but starting to look back on my early 40s, I will definitely say that was a period of conspicuous consumerism. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

So but you didn't have kids, so no, oh, I didn't have a mitigating factor.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Well, fair enough, but most of my friends were doing the same thing, which is I why I think I kind of what why I was kind of doing that. Not because I was doing it and nobody with kids was.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

This is how I am and how I think. Yeah. You know, my truck is a 2013. I've owned it since it had 10 miles on it. I've taken care of it. I'm gonna run it into the ground. And then looking, and I don't want the new trucks because A, they're stupid expensive, and B, I don't want all the technology.

Government Auction Trucks And Hidden Risk

SPEAKER_02 3:20

I don't want the touch screens, I don't want the government kill switch in there. And what I've been looking at, and I've also been looking at a potential side hustle, but I've been looking at government auctions, and they've got like I saw an F-250 that was a 2016 F-250, four-wheel drive, crew cab, eight-foot bed, all that big truck. With 64,000 miles on it that you know has been maintained to the nth degree. Go for like 12 grand.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Yeah. Yep. That seems like a good option to me. Taken care of is the big question there because they're not necessarily taken care of. I remember watching the government's gonna do maintenance. No, no, they're not. There's a I watched a guy, a car guy's channel, I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but I occasionally watched car shows. But he kind of had that same thought, and so he bought two of them at the same time. Because he figured, you know what, with the parts from two, if worst case scenario, I'll have everything I need for one fully functioning vehicle, and best case scenario, I'll actually have two and I'll sell the other one, and I'll make some money back. It seems like a reasonable thought to me. But what he found was that the even though both vehicles were shown as operational, one of them had absolutely zero oil in the oil pan. And the other one ran, he could start it, but the transmission on that one had issues. The the other one had transmission was fine, but it had an engine that you know you don't want to be turning over until you get the oil in there because and it was dry, dry. It wasn't just like low. Right. So you don't know how long it sat there, you don't know how it was drained, you know, any of that stuff. So it's unlike getting a vehicle with a Carfax report. When you're getting it surplus, you you definitely are taking a bit of a chance. Now I'm not saying it's not worth doing, it could very well be worth doing, but you are taking a chance.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

Yeah, sure. There's a chance on anything, but you know, like I bought for my stepdaughter, I bought a used car that was a rental car. That car was great. It was mechanically extremely sound. How old? How many years? It was only two years old. Okay, and it was next to the top of the line and only had 40,000 miles on it. But to the rental car company, time to get rid of it, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Yeah, it probably had a high mileage.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

No, 40,000.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Really? That's surprising. Usually two years, you know, they're gonna have more like 60 or 70.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Well, anyway, it was a good car until she got in a wreck and hit the city.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

Yeah, so it didn't make any difference because she got in the wreck anyway.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Well, we had it for a couple of years, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

Yeah, yeah. Was that a Ford? What was that? I'm trying to remember.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Yeah, it was a Ford Escape.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

That's right, Escape. Yeah, little little bitty one. Yeah, they're cute little cars. Little miniature sport ute.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Yeah. So I gotta tell you. Yeah, as much as I just don't like soccer, I gotta tell you, I'm rooting for the Americans.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Americans did pretty well.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Yeah, meet Australia.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

Yeah, I didn't watch it, but uh, saw the score. And

World Cup Visitors Discover Real America

SPEAKER_02 7:20

what I really liked is they prayed afterwards. Did they? I didn't see that. Yeah, they got in a circle and prayed. And I'm loving all the Europeans coming over and enjoying America.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Oh, dude. I've been well, I've been posting a lot of them, so you've been seeing the videos I've been seeing, but there's it is one of my favorite activities right now to feel good is just watching European in America videos because they to them all the whole country is just Disneyland. It's like one giant adventure zone. Yeah. And like the number of Europeans that probably made fun of American food and how fat America and others, that first opportunity they get end up going to Walmart is like a hundred percent. I mean, they're they're all going to Walmart.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

You saw the Scots drink Boston out of a lot of beer.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

The the Scots finished off all the beer on the airplane in the flight over, which I'm not surprised.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Dude, having been to Scotland recently, nor am I. You know, I told the story on here about the hotel when I asked when the bar closed, and they said, Are you staying here? Yeah, and they said, Well, if you need a night pour, just come ask. Okay. And there's a video of the Scots holding the bagpipes in Finway at at 6 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

outside their their Airbnb. And the the comment in the video was like, well, I guess it's time to start drinking. It's like Jesus Christ, guys. Yeah, it's been absolutely wonderful. I think this having uh the uh the World Cup here was a brilliant idea, that another one that Trump had, and something that has created thousands of PR ambassadors for the US. Like people that are gonna go back home and go, oh my god, you you won't believe what it's actually like. It's nothing like what we see on TV, it's nothing like what they tell us. It's like it's just like you know, TV shows. It's with the yellow school buses and everything. Yeah, they they all seem to love the yellow school buses, which is funny. Yeah, yeah, it's it's very fun watching foreigners actually seeing America. And somebody made a good point. It's like the reason this is all happening is because for the most part, these people are not in New York or LA. If if there was only New York and LA, they're they're probably gonna have not nearly as positive a reaction. Because what makes a lot of these reactions very positive is the the way that Americans act.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Yeah, and and they're they're finding you know Texas specifically very friendly, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Oh, yeah. Yeah, a lot of them ended up in Texas for whatever reason, and they are there's a lot of food that they're enjoying that I wouldn't even really consider something to recommend to tourists, but you know, like Waffle House. There's a bunch of videos of Europeans and Waffle Cows now. Yeah, like there's one video, I don't know if you saw that clip, of a guy from I don't know, one of the Norse countries, but he's one of these Thor-looking dudes, you know, like six foot eight, muscled out. And he he ordered 12 waffles. It's this plate that's like a half a foot tall, or more than a half foot, probably three-quarters of a foot tall. And the black women that are working there are all standing with their phones out, filming, filming them eating at the Waffle House. First of all, he's the only guy that goes to Waffle House during the day instead of at night, yeah. Right? But I think you know, to him it was like this is such an American experience. To everybody else, it's like, this is crazy. This guy, this guy just showed up and wants to eat a bunch of waffles in the morning. What the hell, man? So yeah, it's been it's been it's been hilarious. But I think everyone's having a good time. I I think the people that are running into the Europeans are having a good time. The people that are actually obviously the Europeans themselves are having a good time. Like everybody's having a good time.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

Yeah, well, one of my favorite things is that you know, tenons ran out first in Boston, and then Samuel Adams ran out of beer at their downtown.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Like Sam, like they were drinking over four times what Boston normally sees on a July 4th weekend. Jesus Christ. Like, I know the Scots can drink, but damn, man, because there ain't that many of them over here, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Well, you you'd think so, but apparently half of Scotland's over here. I know. It's it's nuts. They were all in Boston, right? Yeah, the Scots were in Boston. Yeah, it is it is pretty funny. So good plan. I think more similar events are gonna do more for American reputation than any action the president does. Oh, yeah. Well, it it's allowing the people to be ambassadors, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And those stories coming back are gonna be repeated every year. You know, there are plenty of people that, well, I mean, I do the same thing for myself when I went to Costa Rica and spent quite a bit of time down there, like that's lifetime's worth of memories, and getting a positive impression on your trip is going to keep those memories alive. So even if nobody that's on currently here for the World Cup, even if they never come back to the US again, they're gonna have these positive memories for a very long time and they're gonna repeat them to others for a very long time, and that will set the stage for I think how America is perceived by even future generations from there. So that this was a absolutely brilliant thing. This is this is not exactly like, but in the it's in the same general idea as when the US went to Europe to kick the Nazis' ass. Like how so the American troops were not only coming in to save Europe from Nazism, to liberate France, to liberate, you know, basically all of Western Europe from Nazi occupation, but they were also bringing with them American goods. And a lot of people had their first experiences eating spam, which again, I would not consider a delicacy, but for people that were eating spam.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

What I've never had spam.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

You've never had spam at all? Nope. Think of it as a basically the texture and flavor of a hot dog, but the shape of a can.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

Yeah, it's a potted meat. I get it. I've got there is a can in the pantry because I was gonna try fried spam at one point and just haven't ever done it.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

I've had it in the Hawaiian restaurants a number of times. I don't think it's any better when they make it rather than you make it at home. It's just not particularly tasty. But it but if you can leave it, you know, at room temperature for a long time.

SPEAKER_06 15:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

So it is survival food. But it's certainly not something I would consider any kind of a delicacy. But it's not it's not horrible, it's not like it's gross or anything, it's just it's it's a can-shaped hot dog, basically, where you have a tin can instead of a thin film on the outside. Okay, so but uh even my dad remembers spam because after World War II, part of the eight packages that the US was sending to Russia included spam. And so he he ate spam as a little kid and remembered fondly you know, eating that stuff. But then again, he's still eating hot dogs for breakfast, so there you go.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Your dad eats hot dogs for breakfast?

SPEAKER_00 16:45

He eats pretty much the same thing every day. He eats fried potatoes and hot dogs. Well, not when I say hot dogs, I I guess you could call them sausage. But they're basically hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Okay, there's a difference between a sausage and a hot dog.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

I mean, it's all processed meat that's been turned into a liquid and then turned back into some form or shape. It's it's not it's not well, it's processed meat. It's it is what it is. Yeah, he basically eats uh that and an egg or a couple eggs. But like every day the exact same thing. It's very boring.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

And all of that is his uh condiment is mayonnaise. Okay, interesting choice.

SPEAKER_00 17:41

It's again, I think it's just stemming from uh what was available at the time in Russia and then he got used to it. So there's even with availability of everything else, he just sticks to what he likes. Okay, so I don't know. I'll and I'll I'll put mayonnaise and stuff occasionally, yeah. Just like French fries or something, but I don't eat it regularly. Okay. So other than watching soccer and more importantly, the Europeans visiting to watch soccer, what else is going on?

SPEAKER_02 18:21

Oh man. Well, I don't know where you want to go. Do you want to go to Clarkson's farm and talk about what's going on with Jeremy, or do you want to go to Iran?

SPEAKER_00 18:33

Let's go to Iran. And in Clarkson's farm, I'm two episodes behind, so you may be well.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

I haven't I've just started it, but I've seen the news on him. So that's I want to talk about vaccines and his cancer at some point, but all right. So we've got a notional 60-day deal to work out, and people are losing their minds over this. Trump surrendered, Trump did this. Yeah,

Iran Deal Logic And Oil Pressure

SPEAKER_02 19:00

dude. What's implied here is okay, Rand, you can have all this, but you're going to do this. And if you don't, you're done. We're gonna bomb the shit out of you. Yeah, like everybody who's losing their minds over this, you don't they don't get what this is doing. And Israel's attack today on some of the oil infrastructure in Iran is just stupid.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

But anyway. What are your thoughts on the uh resolution?

SPEAKER_00 19:34

My my thoughts is that I look at it like a term sheet for a contract. Kind of, yeah. I I think it's not it may not even be that far. Here's my general assumption on this is I don't think there's ever been any country in the last 40 years that has signed any kind of a deal or contract with Iran to which Iran has stuck. And I mean on both sides. Not Russia, not China, not anybody. So does it really matter? Is the first question. I don't think it does. I think you can give anything you want as a proposal, knowing the other side will not stick to it, and it will, you know, you will have your excuse for saying, hey, we tried, didn't stick, so now we we have to try something else. So that's my first thought. So a lot of there's definitely a lot of people that are very upset at Trump right now for you know, you what were you telling all the Iranian people just stay strong and we're gonna come to your aid and blah blah blah. And then you you're gonna do a deal with the people that just killed 40 million or 40 million that just killed 40,000 of their own people. So there's a lot of people saying that. I'm not really in that camp. I understand that opinion, but I'm not in that camp. There's also people on the other side that are jumping and celebrating, then finally Trump has managed to give the finger to Netanyahu, and he's no longer gonna do Israel's bidding like he's been doing. He's gotten off his knees, he's not sucking cock anymore. You know, those people hated Trump before this, they're gonna come up with another reason to hate Trump in a month or two. So I don't think that matters. Democrats just don't know where Iran is on the map. All they care about is that if America wants it, it must be bad and therefore support the other side. But I think in the grand scheme of things, the only interesting bit here that I found is that it's not Rubio, but rather Vance, that is the face of this memorandum of understanding. And so when it fails, which it very likely will, which is almost guaranteed to fail, it's gonna be Vance's image that's tied to a failed thing and not Rubio's leaving him in the clear for his presidential bid. So I I definitely support that part of it.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Well, I think you're right on the Vance being tied to it, but I don't know how much it will hurt him.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

It may not, but it will guaranteed hurt Rubio less.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Yes, agreed.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

That's my only point, is that this was a I don't know who came up with this particular move, whether it was Trump or Rubio, or if Vance is dumb enough to want to say, hey guys, give me my chance. Let me go out there, coach. And then this is the thing that he goes out on. So I don't know. I mean, it may not affect them negatively, but it certainly ensures that it doesn't affect Rubio.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

It's very unlikely to be able to help him.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah, yeah. I mean, if I guess there is some always there's a chance, some miraculous chance that Iran has changed their ways. And you know, if that happens, then it it's a and it's an arrow for Vance's hat in the end. But I think those odds are super, super slim. Now the the real question that I would have here, being more of the this shit ain't isn't gonna make any difference, is what does 60 days buy for America for us that is a positive, like versus continuing it bombing out there right now? What do we get by stopping for 60 days? It's over 60 now, of course, but you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Yeah, pressure off of the global oil supply and the economy.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Do you think our oil price is going to, or our gasoline price, rather, not the crude, but do you think our gasoline prices will end up going down in the next 60 days? Because I kind of doubt it.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

I don't. If the crude price goes down, gas price goes down. But not immediately. No, there's a couple weeks lag, but that's about it.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Yeah. So I think crude probably will go down within 60 days, but I don't think the gas prices will be affected by it. It's a bigger gift to Europe than anything else, because it it frees up their energy reserves.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

Yeah, it also saves the hell out of China.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Yeah, and I think maybe this was in the end, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall. But when when Trump was out there in China, but maybe this is the deal they made in China. It's like, hey, we're gonna lay off Taiwan for your entire presidency and then trade uh or maybe the other way it was it was gotta be some kind of a deal. I guess I don't know where I was going with the Taiwan thing. But there's gotta be something that China gets maybe it is just Taiwan, I don't know, or the delay in Taiwan until after Trump. But China was definitely hurting the most out of everybody.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Oh well, and the Gulf or the Pacific States, right? Because we've already discussed they have no domestic oil production, right? So that was really what was hurting California and Washington and Oregon.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Does Indonesia have any oil at all?

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Not that I'm aware of. And it was also hurting, you know, Guam and Hawaii and stuff like that. Alaska's good, but you know.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Oh yeah, yeah. No, that's true. Yeah, I don't know. It's um oh, they do produce oil. Okay, they do about a million barrels a day. Which puts them in 23rd place globally, so not very much oil.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

So you want to talk about Jeremy?

SPEAKER_02 26:26

Sure. So he's been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of prostate cancer. And you know, Jeremy Clarkson was one of the guys, I think honestly, good heartedly not really knowing anything, pushing the vaccine in the UK.

SPEAKER_05 26:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

And one of

Jeremy Clarkson Cancer And Vaccine Talk

SPEAKER_02 26:45

the other UK commentators that was against it said, we'll see how you do in five years. And here we are five years later. And you know, Pfizer, the Pfizer documents, some of them just got released showing that you know, rapid onset cancer is one of the known side effects to even the Pfizer vaccine, along with a lot of heart and myocarditis problems and things like that. Yeah. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

Yep. Well, the good news is it sounds like they they managed to get everything. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

So but you know, the the real story here to me isn't Clarkson. It's I think we've got a lot of people who are in for a very hard time, and I think it's just gonna accelerate.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Yeah, yeah, I don't disagree with that. You know, you do kind of wonder though, how much clerk how much of his lifestyle contributed to his health at this stage in his life. Because Clarkson was well known for being a bit of a womanizer and drinker. And smoker. He smoked most of his life.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Yes. But you know, smoking doesn't really affect the prostate drinking and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I mean, it it it affects your overall immune system. It affects a number of things. It doesn't directly affect them, sure. But usually people that stress themselves more by drugs, alcohol, and stress, actual stress, tend to have a higher risk for cancers overall.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Sure. And you've got genetic factors and everything else.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

Yeah, which I have no idea what his genetics is. I mean, he looks extremely English. Well, you know, like skinny legs, fat head. Yeah. Typical sorry guys, it's but that is kind of the stereotypical English look. Is the head is usually from it like they none of them have the body as fat as the head would indicate they should be. And generally the legs are even skinnier than that. So it's uh interesting thing. But yeah, obviously, really like Jerby, love the shows he's done, wish him the best.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

And yeah, I'm only a couple episodes in on this season.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

I've just been busy, but uh did you get to where where he's got the the heart attack?

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Yes, and they make him switch to kale.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Yeah, which know what that's like.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Yeah. I would just tell my cardiologist to fuck off, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

You know, I I think out there they can they can help him with suicide.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Yeah. Well, while we're on medical stuff, I have some news on my stuff.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

Had MRI results come back showing some compression in my spine between

Back Pain MRI And Surgery Options

SPEAKER_02 30:10

L4 L5 and L5S1, and was able to find two papers that were two cases presented. One guy was in his mid-30s, one guy was in his early 40s, the exact same way mine has. And they were able to solve it with two different types of surgery. Yeah, so tomorrow I'm going to see a neurologist. Anyway, I sent those that information to my specialist, and he thought this is very helpful if you don't have a neurologist. Huh?

SPEAKER_00 30:47

I haven't seen my invocture.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Anyway, it it gives me hope, right?

SPEAKER_00 30:55

Yeah, yeah. Well, it gives you a potential treatable solution.

unknown 31:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

Yeah. I mean, obviously, I want to avoid back surgery.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

I still think before you do anything permanent, I would get the hanging upside down thing that I told you about. Yep, sorry. Like the modern version of yeah. The modern version of that. And especially you're at the age where you still have a lot of flexibility, so it should be no problem at all. I know as as people get older, there's more potential issues with it. Anything from just putting too much blood pressure on your brain because you're hanging upside down, to you know, stretching parts of you that have fully been cemented together and and then could literally crack if you start stretching too much. But for your age, I think being upside down and seeing how that makes you feel. I'm telling you, I got my what do they call them? It's a gravity gravity bed. No, it's not a bed, it's a gravity table. It's just one of the inversion tables. Yeah, a table. That's what it is. Gravity table. Yeah, inversion table. So I got that. I think I was like in my late 40s. And I got it because I was feeling some sciatica pain. And I would, I I thought, based on I don't know, talking to friends, I think mostly, that it may be helpful for because when I was feeling it, so what I would feel is kind of a pain or tightness in my right leg, usually when I woke up. So it wasn't something that I felt during the day, but it was something I felt when I woke up, and it would take like 15 minutes to half an hour to go away, but it was daily, like every single day. And I I just got really tired of it, and I thought, you know, I'm gonna try something cheap, relatively speaking, first, which is stretching my back every night before I go to sleep. Yeah, because it it shouldn't recompress at night because I'm horizontal at night. So I did that, and I literally the first day I used it, I just felt like a looseness kind of feeling, a a lack of tightness feeling. Not not like you know, you can't move your back, but like muscle tightness. Oh, I felt a lack of that tightness for the first time in many, many years. And probably about a month in, I wasn't feeling the pain at all in the mornings anymore. And I I really only did it for another maybe month, month and a half after that. And that was six years ago, and I haven't had any pain there. So as far as I'm concerned, that table was well worth the money I spent on it because it basically eliminated a chronic condition. And these days I I don't use it at all, other than when I tell other people about it, and that reminds me, oh yeah, I haven't been on this thing in in many months. Let me jump on. But I don't like I don't really have a huge need to use it, so it's just collecting dust right now. But I think it absolutely worked for me, not medical advice.

SPEAKER_02 34:31

Well, I'm gonna be exploring all the options and seeing where I get.

SPEAKER_00 34:35

Plus, you can put on your Batman mask.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

I don't have one, but oh good opportunity to get one, but you got kids.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

How do you not have one?

SPEAKER_02 34:47

Don't know, man. That's weirder for me to have one. Just a more serious person, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Yeah, let's not lie to ourselves. Yeah, so good. Well, that's good. I I'm hoping that you will be able to find your solution for cheap and quick, and then just get on with your life. That would be awesome. And remember, I actually told you you should try different types of beds as well, soft versus hard.

SPEAKER_02 35:22

Yeah, I I I'll probably do some Marriott bed surfing at some point in time. Yeah, exactly. That's a good way of doing it. And you know, Marriott sells their mattresses.

SPEAKER_00 35:35

They do, indeed.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

They're expensive as fuck.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

I'm not a big fan. I prefer a stiffer mattress than what they usually have. Their theirs are okay. I mean, I don't I don't mind staying in a Marriott. I always stay at a Marriott anyway. But if I'm at a Marriott for a week and I come back home to my mattress, I'd always feel really comfy on mine. And mine is a I think it's in the extra firm category, is where they put it. But I also I've always liked stiffer mattresses. I actually slept on a futon for uh how many years? For about six years. And you know, you know what a futon is, right? Yeah, yeah. So way stiffer than uh any kind of American mattress. So I kind of got used to I and I can sleep on the floor if need be. I'm not gonna choose it over a mattress, but it's not gonna be it's not gonna preclude me from sleeping. Well, I know some people cannot sleep on a hard surface.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

No, some I mean sometimes if my back's hurting or something like that, it's actually better.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Yeah. Yeah. And then the other thing, remember that I told you, which is not medical advice, is the Roman chair. So just basically holding all the weights on your arms. What? Roman chair. Roman chair. I've never I've sent you a picture of the exercise. I literally sent you a picture of it. It's it it's a it's not a machine because there's no moving parts, but it's basically a slightly elevated platform where you have what looks like two armrests from a chair, but they're like solidly mounted to the back of this thing. And you you lift yourself up to where then you put your arms down with your elbows and your forearms on these arm pads, and that's how you support yourself. You create a triangle basically between these pads and through your shoulders, but your whole lower body, everything under your shoulders, is hanging off of you by your skeleton, by your spinal column. So it's it it's it's the same thing as the gravity bed thing, but in the opposite direction. You're stretching from top to bottom rather than bottom to top. And I suppose if you do both, then you get the ultimate stretch. But this is something that you can find in most gyms that have decent equipment, they'll have one of these because the gym use for this is to get into that position, not just hang, but actually do like stomach crunches while you're supporting yourself by your arms. So you're you're bringing up your knees to your chest while you're holding yourself up by your arms. But if you're doing it purely for stretch, you actually don't want to activate any muscles because you want to let them go just to be totally limber and let your weight just settle and stretch your body as much as it can. Yep. Good stuff. All right, let me see what else we got because I know I've sent a few things here.

SPEAKER_02 39:04

AM. It looks like AM, the Rellis campus, is going to get a new advanced nuke project. All right, right. 77-acre complex for a molten salt reactor. That's AM already has

Inversion Tables And Traction By Gravity

SPEAKER_02 39:20

one reactor. We have a watt pulse reactor.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

You were saying that you you'd been there.

SPEAKER_02 39:26

Yes. So this will be pretty interesting. They're doing it in coalition with the DOE. The Rellis campus is kind of interesting because it's out near the Brazos River over in Bryan, and it's separate, far enough separate from the town and everything that there shouldn't be any concerns. But what's really interesting about this is that they're really looking at going through some experimental phases with this and trying some new things, which

Texas A&M Molten Salt Reactor Plans

SPEAKER_02 39:55

the DOE typically doesn't like to do, right? And the NRC doesn't like to do. But it looks like they've got approval, and I don't know, it'll be really cool. This uh campus is also building their own microgrid out there with a standard gas turbine as well.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

So it's a good experimental campus, it sounds like how big how's the population of the campus?

SPEAKER_02 40:14

Uh RELIS. It's considered part of AM's main campus.

SPEAKER_00 40:19

How far is it?

SPEAKER_02 40:21

15 miles.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Oh, that's not far. Okay, I thought it was like 60 miles or something.

SPEAKER_02 40:26

No, no, no, no. It's not like it's it's the Relis campus is separate, but it's not separate like Galveston campus is or Qatar, right? Which are the only two other so Galveston and Qatar are the only other two campuses in the Tix AM system that get the Aggie ring.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Gotcha. No one cares, but okay. So Trump got a new airplane.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Yeah, and I really want to know how they're gonna pull this off. What do you mean? Well, because uh they're gonna have to violate their own rules to fly it. Which rules? So usually Air Force One flies as two planes. Yeah, they got one's

New Air Force One And Boeing

SPEAKER_02 41:15

a decoy. They got two of them. Well, they don't have another one of these. It's a even if they paint one of the older models the same, they're physically different.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Yeah, yeah. No, they did get two of them.

SPEAKER_02 41:29

What do you mean? They got two of them.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Qatar's only gave them one. Yes, indeed. Boeing gave me the other one. Boeing. Huh? Boeing. They did? I didn't hear that. Yeah. Yeah, I'll send you a link. It's uh I think this is also the way that they kind of get around Qatar bribing the president. Is basically by saying, well, it's it's the backup plane they gave us, you see. It's not the real one. But yeah, it it it it is interesting that basically they they got they got one of the planes out of Qatar. I thought that was hilarious. This thing we should have photos, by the way, because Trump was telling reporters that after he his little spiel, they're they'll be able to go inside and yeah, I didn't see any though. Yeah, I didn't either, but but it it's a pretty plane. He yeah, he's saying it's way more modern and full of gadgetry than the the last one, which apparently Reagan was the one that inaugurated that one.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

Yeah, so it was that old. The current Air Force Ones have been in service since 1990.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it would have been Bush would be the first president to use it, but Reagan would have been the president whose budget it came out of.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

Yeah. So they've got uh there's a YouTube video that's inside the new Air Force Ones. Oh, there is okay later. I have to check that out. But you know, what's interesting is A, this has a much longer range, yeah, but B, they just got done literally taking these planes all, or this the Qatari plane at least, all the way apart, validating everything and putting it all back together, making sure there are no bugs and all that. Yep. You know, and it's at Andrews now to receive its top secured equipment, so it's still not functional in this Air Force One. Like it's got to get the refueling capability, it's got to get all the cones, the the anti-missile systems, all of that.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

He said it was slightly used.

SPEAKER_02 43:42

Yeah, but like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 43:45

Well, I mean I mean, I when Trump was talking about it, he said, you know, new plane, blah, blah, blah. It's like, well, technically it's slightly used.

SPEAKER_02 43:55

Yeah. I like the new paint job. Like, I really do. The red The red, white, and blue paint job. Yeah. Versus the baby blue paint job.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

I'm I'm just fond of the baby blue because it it just looks like the the Dutch planes. The what the hell is that brand? God damn, I'm definitely need my you need some B12. Yeah, or something. Dutch airline. I mean I'm looking at KLM. It looks like KLM colors, which is what I used to fly all the time. Back when I used to fly to Europe, I always flew KLM. And so I I definitely have a preference for the baby blue. Why would you fly KLM? Why wouldn't I fly KLM? I don't know, they're better airlines. You know, airlines pre-9-11 used to be all better, Ben.

SPEAKER_02 44:53

Well, that's true. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I just sent you.

SPEAKER_00 44:57

They used to give little figurines every flight that you could collect that kill them.

SPEAKER_02 45:03

Yeah. So I just sent you the video of inside. It's uh it's pretty significant. And the engine upgrades and technologies. Oh, very cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

Yeah, well, I I'm not gonna watch it while we're recording, but it the interior looks beautiful, man. Like that is a very pretty interior. Yep. And there's probably like an extra two feet of space in there, widthwise. And probably way more than that, lengthwise, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 45:33

Well, the the 200 series, which was the current generation, versus the 800 series. When you look at the size difference, it's substantial. It's significant, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

For sure. Yeah, I think they'll mainly the 200s were flown as cargo planes once they introduced like the 400 and stuff. Yeah. The uh the only people buying them were UPS FedEx.

SPEAKER_02 46:01

Well, and you've got some of the specialty series that have the opening nose and all that for cargo planes, too. Like Boeing seriously needs to apply the new engine technology to the 747 and make it even bigger and bring it back.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

Yeah, you know, they're a lot of their marketing is driven by the purchase orders from the airliners. So the airliners, for a while there, I think probably around you know, the end of the 90s, beginning of 2000s, they were wanting bigger planes because they were trying to serve mass markets, and they wanted to have because the bigger the plane, the more profit per seat.

SPEAKER_04 46:49

Because you could squeeze more people fill it.

SPEAKER_00 46:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they weren't but they didn't have any issues filling them. But my understanding is, and this is not an area I keep a whole lot of focus on, so this is something probably Adam Curry would know a lot better, but my understanding is over the last decade, airlines have actually shifted their strategy to servicing more smaller market airports and ordering smaller planes rather than the the A380s and the 747 800s. Yep. So I don't know. I I that's what I've heard at least.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

So yeah, but there's also been some calls to bring it back, so I don't know. We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 47:36

So yeah, I I know that there was definitely generally a dissatisfaction with the 787. Oh yeah. But I I don't know. I mean, you do you think how long do you think it's gonna be until there's an 797?

SPEAKER_02 47:57

Well, you know, Boeing's still working on the 777X model, so I don't know. And given their current state of engineering, I don't know when they're gonna come out with uh uh the next generation.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

It's better fuel economy makes obvious sense for any kind of plane, but beyond fuel economy, I think they need to figure out whether they want to stick with composite planes or if they're gonna go back to an aluminum frame plan.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

Yeah. While we're on the subject of planes, we had a really weird incident happen. What's that? We had a buff crash. A what? Buff. Big ugly fucker.

SPEAKER_00 48:41

Oh, okay. B-52, B-52 boomer created that's not an ugly fucker, dude. That's a classic plane. It's one of the things that I've got. I know, but they call it

B-52 Crash And AI Testing Fears

SPEAKER_00 48:50

it's called the buff. I can't play it now. That's insulting. No, that's what the air crews call it. Uh that's not right. That's just not right.

SPEAKER_02 48:59

Anyway, several airmen lost their lives. Yeah, that's very weird. Is how it just there was no wreckage.

unknown 49:05

Really?

SPEAKER_02 49:06

Like, what the hell happened? Yeah, go look at the videos. There's like they like totally burned to nothing.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

Really? Yes, it's very strange. I mean, it is well known that uh jet flown jet fuel will literally burn metal into thin air. That's a well-known fact established in 2001. Um, so I guess I'm I shouldn't be too surprised that there was nothing left. But it's too early to joke about this. You know, this is this people lost their lives. This is a classic plane that obviously is not getting made anymore, so we're never gonna replace it.

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Yeah, but it's an airframe that will likely continue service to the hundred-year mark.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

Probably. I think that plane will will live out to its 100th anniversary.

SPEAKER_02 49:57

What's also interesting is this was one of the test planes that they were using to test some of the new AI systems.

SPEAKER_00 50:04

Hmm. Okay. Well, probably that contributed to it. I'm I'm gonna go on.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

Maybe there was a hallucination mid-takeoff. Yeah, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

Yes, mid-take flaps to full. Yeah. Yeah. Did it, but he killed somebody on the ground, too, didn't it? I have no idea about that. I I think it did, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:26

So that sucks. Did you look at read part of, watch Asman's reading of the rape gang report?

SPEAKER_00 50:34

Oh, yeah, I watched Asmond. That's where I get my news.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

Yeah, I I started his stream. I have not finished it. I am interested because it's six hours fucking long.

SPEAKER_00 50:44

But yeah, that's because he has a comment about everything.

SPEAKER_02 50:47

Yeah, and it's 200 some odd page report, though, as well. So and Restore Britain,

UK Grooming Gangs Report And Fallout

SPEAKER_02 50:55

for those who don't know, did a commission, interviewed survivors, families, et cetera, and put out a report on rape gang activity in Britain over the last 10 years. Yep. And their findings were pretty astonishing.

SPEAKER_00 51:15

Yeah, I think uh astonishing in a lot of ways, both numerically and sadistically.

SPEAKER_02 51:21

Yes. Well, there was the one report in there was one victim statement in there where they had shoved a whiskey bottle up the girl's hoo-ha until it broke and shattered inside her. And by the way, almost all of these are Muslim names.

SPEAKER_00 51:44

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and the the the whole thing was essentially hush-hushed by the British government. Like this is not new information that nobody knew about.

SPEAKER_02 52:00

Purposefully lost.

SPEAKER_00 52:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:02

Yeah. I mean, this it this this finding vindicates everything Tommy Robinson has been saying over 100 decade.

SPEAKER_00 52:09

100%.

SPEAKER_02 52:10

Yeah.

unknown 52:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:12

What was it his niece or his cousin or somebody was raped? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:16

Can't remember who. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:18

On the upside, in Edinburgh today, we had a Scotsman go off on some Muslims and carry out a stabbing attack against multiple Muslims, and they arrested him for it.

SPEAKER_00 52:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 52:32

Like, I think the UK is on the verge of civil war, dude.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

Well, that's their only chance. We've talked about it. They're without committing to violence and frankly a French-style revolution. I don't know that the UK can change its course to being part of a caliphate. Because large parts of the UK, and certainly London in its entirety, is no longer sovereign British soil.

SPEAKER_02 53:01

Did you see the map in the report? Yeah, yeah. That was really telling too. Yep. All the big cities.

SPEAKER_00 53:08

Yep. It's true. And you know, this one thing we need to not forget. It's not just, oh, look at those people over there in the UK. Texas and Michigan are the two states that have the highest populations of Islamists.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Yes, but as a percentage of our population, much lower, right?

SPEAKER_00 53:30

Well, then the UK, then London is? Absolutely. London is like 58% Muslim now.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:38

For sure. But you know, this shit doesn't happen overnight.

SPEAKER_02 53:41

Well, and again, I'm not blaming all Muslims, but I'm blaming the Muslims who are doing this.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

Yeah. Yeah, which would be all the Muslims that live there. Sure. That makes sense. I don't know about all, but you know. Well, 250,000 girls.

SPEAKER_02 54:04

That's an estimate. That's an estimate extrapolated from what they had. And that's one area where this report has gotten criticism. But I I agree.

SPEAKER_00 54:16

Yeah. So yeah, I I think that the UK, Scotland, Ireland, they have some tough choices to make. And unfortunately, I think that their government has failed them to an extent where the only choices that will stop the bleeding need to have a lot more bleeding right now. I don't think they get out of this without violence.

SPEAKER_02 54:52

Well I just hope they get out of it. I'll leave it at that.

SPEAKER_00 54:58

Yeah, I do too. You know, I I grew up watching the BBC. I've got a very strong Anglophile streak in me. And it's been extremely sad. But also I've seen what has happened to British politics over the last 40 years. And it's bringing it back to Germany, Clarkson and his farm, you realize that these people behave like serfs. And when your population behaves like serfs, it's really easy for a corrupt government to treat them as such. So it's it's sad to see, but you know, it's it's not it's not the Britannia of it's heyday, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 55:47

Well, it's heyday was a long time ago, and but you know, the other reason why I think the British system may be ripe for a civil war and an overturning is what Trump has done in Iran, right? We are dismantling the British Empire at a very fast rate. And I I really truly believe

Europe, NATO, And Ukraine Drone War

SPEAKER_02 56:10

that closing the Straits of Hormuz did more to destroy the British Empire than just about anything else.

SPEAKER_00 56:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I totally agree with that. I think it also sent a very strong signal to Europe as a whole that, you know, you guys can pretend all you like, but you you have no power without the United States. NATO is not NATO without the US. Agreed. They they couldn't send a single ship to the Straits of Formuz. They all promised to send peace missions with food and supplies after the US liberated it. And did you read uh what Trump said about the Italian Prime Minister Czech Maloney or whatever? No. Oh, it was hilarious. It was freaking hilarious. So he said uh Maloney wanted to get a photo op with me. But uh I reminded her that when we needed to send our planes and troops to the Gulf, Italy refused the use of their of our bases that are on Italian soil. Yes. So we couldn't land to refuel in our own damn bases that we pay money for. And now she's realizing that she is not very this is Trump saying this, right? So he's saying she's realizing that she's not very popular in her own country and wants to get some positive vibes, I don't know what he said, positive vibes or whatever, to basically fix her image by posting this friendly picture with me, and I said no. So good for him. Fuck her. Well, I've never liked her. I never trust chicks like that. She's an opportunist, it was pretty obvious, she was not a real conservative. She's just somebody that stuck her finger in the wind, saw which way the wind was blowing, and decided to, okay, this is what I need to be to win the election. And that's what she became. But when it came time to actually govern, couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_02 58:26

Well, I think there's a lot of Europe that denied us that as we pull troops out and pull back, oh yeah, are going to regret it for a while. Oh, I hope so. Again, you know, if you believe some of Zay Han's predictions, which I think he's right on some things, wrong on others, but if Russia really does need to take over a large vanguard to be able to protect itself in the future, we pull out of Europe. They're going to. Like, as incapable as the Russian systems and everything has been, if Europe doesn't have access to our technology. Like the only reason the Ukraine war has gone on this long is because they've had access to our technology.

SPEAKER_00 59:11

Well, it's our money, our technology, and frankly, our troops training their troops.

SPEAKER_02 59:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

Because you those flights between Ukraine and Germany are calling all the Ukrainians to spend six months with our guys in Germany to teach them how to fight Russians. So, and it's it'll be interesting. Did you see that that the Zelensky uh droned Moscow?

SPEAKER_02 59:41

Yeah, I did. Yeah, some of the old infrastructure.

SPEAKER_00 59:44

And not just, there's a lot of apartment buildings that are black right now. Really? High rises, yeah. You can see the imprints where they got hit. Yeah, it's uh the Russians are claiming that they shot down 89% of the drones. So I'm very curious how big of a drone strike operation this was. Because if if they had like 20 drones get through, they were running well over 100 drones.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:17

Well, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I would expect the number to be higher significantly.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:22

These are not the little drones that they use to kill people, these are the the bigger airplane looking drones, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

The more Shah Head type drone.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Although I think they're still electric. I don't think they're gasoline powered. Uh because the Shahead ones are lawnmower powered.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

I would why wouldn't you just do a simple, you know, two-stroke engine?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:45

I think it's because they're trying to keep them quiet.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:51

Why would the acoustic signature matter that much?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

Uh warning? I don't know. I don't know, dude. This is not my area of expertise. All I know is that the every future conflict will be predominantly fought with drones. I think the the whole idea of troops on the ground is gonna go away. And if the US is just unprepared for this shit, but I think they we won't be 10 years from now because we'll we'll take everything we learned from Ukraine and apply

Why Drones Replace Missiles And Troops

SPEAKER_00 1:01:20

it. But I think that's gonna be if I was gonna not financial advice, if I was gonna invest in something right now for the future in the military-industrial complex, I would look at all the companies that are publicly tradable that have drones in their portfolio of weaponry and uh just spread some investments amongst them because for sure, 100%, the next major conflict the US gets into after Iran will be predominantly waged by waves and waves of drones. It's not gonna be missiles. Missiles are too expensive. You can send 10 to 100 drones for the cost of one missile. Which is it which is literally Iran's strategy, right? So they've got missiles, but they've used up most of them. But they have and are still sending drones out there. And Ukraine's gotten really good at those. Because when they were first, you know, claiming to be using a lot of drones, all you ever saw was them working on DJI drones. Like literally Chinese-made high-end consumer drones. But right now, I I believe that they genuinely have their own production lines running, manufacturing military-only drones. And those drones are talking to Starlink. So it's ubiquitous all over the world. So we could, I mean, that's one of the things that Trump could have done too, is basically wrapped up the Ukraine war and then bought their production of these drones to send to Iran. Well, that's it. It would make them happy to get money flowing in.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:14

I think the the problem with the Starlink control and communication system is it's good for the majority of the Earth's surface. But when you get towards the poles, it falls off pretty quick.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:31

Doesn't have to. It's just the way that they've been deploying the satellites. They're gonna have full coverage everywhere. It's just they they prioritize areas that have a high population density because there it's a paid system. There's nothing inherent about it that would preclude them from doing it. Well, it's just a cost manifold. Yeah, right. That's it. Literally. And if it's a government paying the bill, you know, they don't care. Yeah, well, we'll see. Yeah. So the the beauty of that system is really more of the goddamn, the D12 is knocking my ass here. It's the resiliency of the system more so than any other aspects. That you you could lose 20% of the satellites and it really wouldn't degrade the system at all. Okay. Even with what they have right now, which is nowhere near all of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:39

Yeah, they've got a short lifespan to begin with. Yes. So just checking on the stock price since IPO. It hit its peak at 218 and is currently at 185, so still up over the initial

Starlink Coverage, IPO Talk, And Cashouts

SPEAKER_02 1:05:05

purchase price. It was 180, right? No, it was 130.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:09

I thought it was 180 for some reason. Okay. Nope. I don't know. I don't I don't have any money to buy it anyway, so it wasn't gonna affect me. No, that's uh uh yeah. I mean, I would definitely buy in the dip, but it's a big enough stock that there may have been enough people that just wanted to buy and hold forever.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:30

Because the dip usually comes when there's some regrets of people not regrets for buying the stock, but regrets and spending too much money.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:38

Well, and what we'll see here over the next 30, 60 days is the employees cashing out, right? So you're gonna have employee stocks coming.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:47

Yeah, I don't remember what percentage that represents, but yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:51

Well, and that's the thing is with the way this IPO is conducted, Elon has all the voting shares. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. And what's interesting is uh there's another stock deal announced, and I gotta be careful about giving too much information on this. But Accenture just spent a bunch of money on one of the companies I worked for, Dra Ghost. They spent in the billions on Drago stock and only got 20%-ish voting shares. Oh wow. So Rob Lee, the CEO over there, is still has 55% of the voting shares.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:29

Oh, that's awesome. Good for him.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:30

Yeah. So that puts Drago's current valuation in the right at around $4 billion category. Yeah. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

So you still got some of that. Yeah, I was gonna say, you still got some of that, right? Yeah, not a lot. But yeah. Still free free money.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:48

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. If it hits the 120 to 180 stock price, I think it can hit at IPO, I will be very happy. Yeah. And I will cash out at that point.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:04

Mm-hmm. That's good. Maybe you'll buy some joysticks.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:12

Hey man, I'm not talking joystick money here.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:15

Mm-hmm. Well, I know you're not gonna buy a new car. I'll buy a new to me car. You'll buy a used Ford F-250 from the government.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:29

Or something. You know, it depends. If I get a if I get a big enough payout, I might go a slightly different way. But I want a truck and I don't really want an F-250. I don't need it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:40

No, it's a big, big ass vehicle.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:42

You know, and an F-150 is plenty big for me. My truck I've got right now is great.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:46

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:47

Yeah, yeah. In fact, I would prefer the shorter bed, to be honest with you. Yeah. Because I've got the I've got the long extended gab and the long bed, and that's you know a pain.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:57

I probably wouldn't get one because I'm not a big fan of the Ford electronics mostly. I don't mind their vehicle, I just don't like their electronics. I think they're behind other companies.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:08

But I really like you don't want the electronics.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:11

I know, I know. But I I really like the look of the Bronco. I would totally have a Bronco if it wasn't made by Ford. Yeah, it's a good looking one. It's very nice looking. I it just when that thing first came out, I was like, god damn, I think they just put a nail in the coffin for the the Jeep because that thing still looks like it's from the 70s. The Bronco really made the look both modern and classic. So good job on them. Whoever did design that thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:46

The FBI is getting busy.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:49

With what now? Which which one are you referring to?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:52

Well, they captured a fraudster out of the Philippines that did 1.2 billion in Medicare fraud.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:59

Oh, I didn't see that. Woo! When did they come out?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:02

Today.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:03

Oh, okay. Yeah, I have not seen that.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:06

So the fraud stuff keeps going, and then

Fraud Busts And Reflecting Pool Sabotage

SPEAKER_02 1:09:10

they're investigating the sabotage at the reflecting pool, which everybody was mocking Trump. Oh, the the reflecting pool's got algae already, and this, that, and the other. And come to find out, people have been tearing up the lining that they just put in, and they literally caught on video two guys dumping algae into the reflecting pool at night on camera. Yeah. So yeah. I mean, this is why we need drones with guns in them. Well, this is why we can't have nice things, is we've got shitty people who are just bent on destruction because Trump we do have shitty people, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:46

No, I agree. So I think since the last time we recorded, we had the UFC at the White House. And that was awesome. Which was your first real foray into watching UFC. That's the it's the only UFC I've ever watched. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I sent you like 20 hours of videos after that. Yes, which I watched. None of them? Really?

UFC At The White House Spectacle

SPEAKER_00 1:10:10

Aww. Dude, I've been. There's some really good ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you wake up in the morning at 4 a.m., turn one of those and start watching it, and you'll fall back asleep. Yeah, there's I sent you UFC one, which is you gotta watch that. That's what started the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:29

And then I sent you a bunch of the sort of profiles of the guys that were really big in UFC. Uh, like Tank Abbott and Frank Shamrock, and a lot of that. I dude, I actually many years ago I actually did coke with that guy. Okay. Yeah, good memories. But UFC has gone through a tremendous amount of change and growth over the years. And Boss Rutin, yeah, he was he was awesome. That guy. He was the king of the liver punch.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:07

Brutal.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:07

Yeah, absolutely brutal. Like people would go down and they wouldn't get up for an hour. So yeah, it's very cool stuff. It it also, I sent you some videos of different mixed martial arts and kind of showing why most of the traditional martial arts just can't stand up to UFC style MMA. Because it's it no other martial arts really teach how to counter what they're doing. So it's it's very it was a nice trip down memory lane for me re-watching a lot of that stuff. And I would strongly encourage you to not just let that pass by, but actually watch some of those videos. You don't have to watch all of them, but certainly watch a few of them. But I think you'd enjoy it. A lot, a lot of the UFC, especially in the early days with fewer rules, was just plain entertaining to watch. Like watching the Coliseum, you know?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:12

Yeah. Definitely a circus. But no, the UFC at the White House was a entertaining and it was good. It was the first time UFC had ever had all fights won by knockout. And it, you know, I I thought it was a really good patriotic spectacle. The way they had Medal of Honor winners introduced first and for tickets and walking the fighters in and stuff like that. Like, I I think it's great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:43

Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:44

The flyover was oh my god, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:46

Yeah, the flyovers always good. Trump loves the flyovers. He's talked about it so many times, though. That's uh definitely a Trumpism thing. Well, it's a college sports thing. Well, yes, you sure. I mean, there were flyovers before college sports were doing them, but it it's compared to other presidents. I don't think any of them have been into the military equipment spectacles the way that Trump has. His interest in this stuff is borderline like Soviet Union days, you know, where you'd see the huge military parades and the planes flying over and the rockets flying over and everything. And I'm not saying that as a bad thing, I think that's a good thing. I love military parades. I love seeing equipment, I love seeing all the latest tech. It's it's very impressive to be in physical presence of jet engines or even better rocket engines. This is why it's so awesome if anyone ever gets an opportunity to be at the launch of Starship, which I've done, I've done that twice. The sound is undescribable. You literally cannot reproduce it with any

Rockets, Flyovers, And Raw Engine Power

SPEAKER_00 1:14:10

electronic medium because you feel it more than you hear it. You you hear certain portions of that sound, but you feel the rest of it, and it is absolutely incredible. The you you realize that from a mile away and it's moving your whole body back and forth. The the tremendous energy that is being released there is just so impressive.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:40

Yeah. Well, I mean, that that is a lot of energy being released. It is, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:46

Like, yeah, not as much though as when Bezos rocket blew up. Oh, dude. That was even more energy released. That was a miniature Elon's troll. Rockets are hard. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, it's true, but also it's kind of a sand in the face move by him as well. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

unknown 1:15:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:15

And I've got a guy that I I wouldn't quite call him a buddy, but a acquaintance that is a former NASA guy. I actually know two guys that were former NASA guys, but this guy was very much, and to my surprise, he was like, Oh, yeah, Bezos knows way more about rockets than Musk. Musk is, you know, he just likes to throw out wild ideas and doesn't really do stuff himself. Bezos basically spent most of his last uh 15 years working on rockets and not really paying attention to Amazon. And boy, you sure wouldn't know it from watching him. Because, you know, because Musk is successful, and Bezos has been having problems, and you know, and his problems affect everybody else because he's part of the deal with ULA. So their new rocket is relying on his engines, and that's the only real competition for Elon. So I think once the Starship is done being in. What? Boeing could pull it out and be competition. No, Boeing is ULA. They they've already don't possess anywhere near the parts necessary to do this. The the current state of Boeing is pretty depressing.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:44

Well, and I think I think actually Elon's gonna come move to compete with Boeing sooner than later. Like I wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX bought Boom, for example.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:55

Well, he has talked about it. He said that in his mind that that he he effectively can bring back fast travel to Europe, but for the cost of current air travel. Well, that'd be awesome. I'd love to fly to Houston to you know to Berlin or something in an hour. Well, that would be awesome. For five grand five grand or even less.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:33

It definitely would still suck on the jet lag and time change stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:38

I don't think you'd experience the jet lag, dude, because when it's just one long day like that and you're in the air for only an hour, I think it just feels more like a you know a binge drinking day.

Air Travel Nostalgia And Jet Lag Rules

SPEAKER_00 1:17:53

Or just a lack of sleep day. But you know, I I I think maybe I'm wrong in this, but I've certainly flown plenty over the years. I've probably done about two million miles. But in in my experience, jet lag is made worse by spending a day on the plane, whether you're flying to Australia or whether you're flying to the Far East or you're fly or the Middle East or you're flying to Eastern Europe. Like all those flights are really long, and you're in this state where you you're you're not in a bed, you can't sleep, you can just nap a little bit. It's not a deep sleep on a plane, it's better than nothing, but it's not like a nice, comfortable deep sleep. Nor are you just fully wide awake and able to go and do any kind of physical activity during that time.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:47

So it's a I I do think that there's a reason it's not that bad, but yeah, it's not bad, but it's not the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:56

I think it contributes to this feeling of jet lag people get.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:01

Well, and I always find it easier going west, right? So when you're over there, coming back is easier. Yeah, yeah. The other thing I would say is just a travel tip. Drink and sleep.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:16

Yeah, that's that's a good tip. And by drink you mean water, not not booze. No, I mean booze, so you can sleep. No, no, no, no. Booze dehydrates, you need the last thing you want to do. No, you what do you want to do is drink water and sleep, and you're fully hydrated and you get as good of a sleep as you can. Short flights, by all means, drink all the booze you want, but if you're gonna do like a nine or ten hour flight, I would not recommend drinking. Not until the last two hours of the flight.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:45

I totally on the 18-hour flight back from Dubai didn't on Emirates did nothing but drink and sleep for 18 hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:56

Pretty much, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:57

Yeah, I was awake for probably six hours of the flight.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:04

Well, your back wasn't thanking you, I can tell you that.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:08

Yeah. Singapore is a more comfortable lay flat. Yeah. And prettier stewardesses.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:18

Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:22

And non-censored TV.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:24

Yeah, and one thing I noticed when I was flying a lot on the Asian Airlines is they're the average age of an Asian stewardess on an Asian airline is like 23. There are not many of them that are over 29. Yep. And then you get on one domestic airlines, and it's your grandma. Like, my god. Yeah. We literally still have the same stewardesses that were in their early 20s in 1920. Polaris isn't that bad. Polaris isn't that bad. Uh, okay. I'll take your word for it. But I would doubt it at the same time because they can't discriminate.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:08

Yeah, there's definitely that, but you know, the the the the crews on a nice Polaris flight, like my flight back from Japan was great, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:20

So good.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:22

I mean, at some point they're all bound to retire and there'll be a whole wave of young students. But for a long time, it sure felt like it's the same exact women for the last 30 years. And this was never meant to be a career. This was meant to be a see the world, have some fun, find a rich husband. That's what it was meant to be. And and what happened to the days when they weighed the stewardesses? Oh man, yeah. I had one flight in my entire life that I ever did on on what the hell was that airline? The the famous American one, the Pan Am. Pan Am. I did one flight on Pan Am. So that's my only one memory of it, but certainly from watching movies and people remembering their flights on Pan Am. It was a very, very different experience than what you're experiencing now. It's a lot closer to international airlines, but in some ways better. You know, on the upper deck, the uh the second floor there in the 747s. Never been. I know. But they still go Yeah, you'll get it. Hey, there's one flying as Air Force One now, so there you go. You still have a chance. They're um they used to have front and back seating and tables. So it looked more like a train compartment than modern airlines, which look more like buses. And so, you know, when they would serve you food, you'd be across the table from other passengers, and either you all book together or maybe it'd be strangers. And that's aside from the the bar that they had up there, which I remember drinking a lot of Pepsi's out of because I was not old enough to drink drink. But it was just and of course, you know, that was still back in the smoking days, so people smoked up in the bar. I think they could technically even smoke in the airline back then, in any way.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:01

Well, uh the uh the 747 I flew on still had ashtrays. It did okay, there you go. Yeah, it was a 747 400 series.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:09

400, yep. Yeah. I uh I think it was horrible when people would smoke on those flights because it's an enclosed tube. So not a lot of.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:21

The air filtration system's pretty damn good on planes.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:24

Uh I don't think it was all that great back in the day. Saying no one cared because everybody smoked, so it was kind of like you'd be seen as a weirdo if you don't smoke.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:36

I think we need to bring it back. Smoking increases testosterone.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:40

Maybe. I mean, I don't know. We don't what we don't need to bring back, though, is smoking that is on any kind of communal transports. I don't care if people smoke in their cars. Who cares? Yeah, I don't want them smoking if I don't want to smell that stuff. Did you see the go ahead? No, I the only thing I was gonna say is the these days the the most prevalent smoking type isn't even tobacco.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:08

No, it's weed, yeah. Did you see major capers got awarded the medal of honor? No, yeah, he was on the Unsub podcast a while ago. Oh tell everybody to go look at his story there. But Trump, he's 80-something years old. Trump literally held him up while putting the medal of honor on him.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:29

But Trump's

Medal Of Honor And Aging Well

SPEAKER_00 1:25:30

80 himself.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:31

Yeah, exactly. But this guy's in way worse shape. Like, yeah, it's amazing that Trump. Like when I think of my mom and Trump, like I see two examples of people in their 80s that are in remarkable health for their age.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:47

Yep, yep. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's you know, a lot of people don't even make it to 80. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:59

A lot of men, certainly.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:01

I think um what is the the death age for these days? I don't even know.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:10

The aver well, which generation, because it actually went down for the new generation.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:14

Well, yeah, life ex life expectancy for let's say my generation. 79.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:25

So uh for the millennials, it is 79 to 82 years.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:30

Yeah. Women 81, men eighty-six. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:44

So making it Gen Z, they're predicting 80s or 90s, which is really interesting. That's surprising. I don't think it'll be that no, I don't either, especially with all the turbo cancers coming in.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:58

Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's not gonna be things like you know, smoking related shit, it's gonna be like chemical related shit. Yeah, and uh the the whole life expensive thing is kind of a it's a moving target because people always look at what the current country's lifespan is predicted as. They rarely look at a particular year demographic of lifespan.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:28

Well, it's generational.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:30

Well, yeah, but um your lifespan historically has been longer for each successive generation until recently. And so if you ask somebody when they're in their twenties, you know, what's your lifespan, they're gonna give an answer based on the correct estimate. But the majority of those people ask the same question in their 40s is just gonna look up what the current number is. They're not gonna go to the to the extent of saying, well, for my Generation and be blah blah blah because it's too much work. But you know, 7076 for men, that sounds right.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:14

I just saw a great Father's Day meme.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:18

Oh yeah, happy Father's Day.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:21

You're one of them. I am. Yeah. To all you dads that can't drive a stick, happy Mother's Day. Oh which is a lot of uh of like my my first car that I really drove was a stick shift. It was an Audi 100 quattro, 1989 Audi 100 Quattro, and that was oh man, that was such a fun car. Such a fun car, especially in the winter in Idaho with the snow. Oh my bet. Oh my god. Like after you got up on top of the mountain on the way into our road, the fences were offset from the road quite a bit, and the ditches were really shallow. So like I would drift down that road in the snow and the ice. It was so much fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:07

Well, and you you had a similar experience to me, which I think is very beneficial. And the one thing that Texas kids miss is being a kid or a teenager in a place with all four seasons. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:21

And well, and a I got my drive I got my driver's license at 14. You know, I had a hardship license, which was really easy to get. And, you know, um living on the commune and all.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:32

Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's you know, it's a good thing you didn't have to get a horse and buggy license.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:45

Well, I rode horses and stuff too.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:47

Yeah. Oh, do you see all the videos of the Europeans just can't believe that there's actual horses being ridden in America?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:56

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:57

I mean like they're coming to Texas and they're walking around and they're seeing people on horses and going, oh my god, that's like a real thing. That's not just for

Horses, Waymo Gaps, And Roundabouts

SPEAKER_00 1:30:05

movies.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:12

It is getting less common, I will say that. Because when I moved to Austin, I probably saw somebody riding a horse on the side of the road at least once a week. Like where I live, just south of downtown. And then over time that becomes more and more rare. As more people move in that barely know how to drive a Tesla. Forget a stick. They they barely know how to drive in general because their car drives them places. Which I didn't realize they didn't have those in Europe, but I guess they don't.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:59

I didn't see any, but kind of surprised by that.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:03

You didn't see any cars, or you were which the self-driving kind. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, especially the Waymo's, which are actually Jaguars. And and yet they don't they don't have the Waymo's in Europe. But I I guess it makes sense. You know, our roads are a lot lighter. We have more standardized signage. There's more exceptions to things in Europe. Plus they don't have stop lights. Okay. Oh, they use those stupid roundabouts.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:36

Yeah, and there are stoplights on some of those roundabouts, my friend. Well, that's that's even worse. Which is just a admissionabout sucks.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:44

Yeah, yeah, they suck. They take up a lot of space, they don't really work. I I think the where roundabout it's not even necessary there. I was gonna say where it works is really low traffic areas, but you don't even need it there because all you do is you put a yield sign on the one road and nothing on the other road, and there you go. That's better than the roundabout. So let the the road with more traffic just go all the time and the other one just yield to it. And if there's equal traffic, then you put a stop sign in there or a traffic light. But I'm not a fan of the four-way stop, you know. Yeah, four-way stop, exactly. You know, they in in I've been flying to Washington State now for 20 years, and I have seen the progression in replacement of stop signs and traffic lights with roundabouts a lot. It's it's kind of like if there's ever a stupid European idea that that exists, the left coast states have to adopt it. It's like an unwritten rule or something. I'm sorry, say that again. If there's a stupid European idea that exists, the the left coast states have to adopt it. It's like a rule.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:01

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:01

And so as I've been flying out there for the last 20 years, I'm seeing more and more roundabouts. Dude, we're seeing more and more roundabouts here. That's stupid. We shouldn't. Yes, agreed.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:13

It's yeah. It's a dumb, dumb thing. But, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:23

People that end up going into that part of the government that has to do with roads also tend to be the same people that think Europe has great ideas.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:37

And they also listen to NPR. Unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:49

Shit, as I'm there's a lot of big government planning that looks at statistics and ideals, but you know, it's one thing to study things, and this is what academia gets wrong all the time, is what you need is real life examples and studies, right? Not just hypotheticals. Yep. Because oftentimes your hypothetical doesn't survive.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:16

Yeah. That's true. Hey, your favorite uh YouTuber guy did a video recently, Colin Noir. Uh, he's not my favorite by any more. I know you hate him, but I think it's funny. He did an interview with the head of the ATF. Yep, I saw it. You did? Okay. Yeah, yeah. So wouldn't exactly say the guy is

ATF Interview And NFA Frustrations

SPEAKER_00 1:34:40

a great friend of gun owners, but he's better than any previous ATF head.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:46

He at least knows how to use guns. He he said he, you know, he talked about when he bought his first silencer and had to go through the process. And and that he bought uh guns with with arm braces himself, and then was surprised to learn that they were illegal.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:09

I I don't necessarily agree with that, but go on, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:13

Well, I I think it was.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:14

What he was saying, though, I think where where he kind of drew the line there, though, that I think is reasonable, is if you take a rifle lower and put a brace on it and then a shorter than 16-inch barrel, then it is a short-barreled rifle, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:31

But what if it's a rifle lower? There's no such thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:34

Yes, there is for an AR-15 platform. What is it? It's what it when the serial number was originally sent from the manufacturer to the ABTF, was it listed as a rifle or a you're making my point for me?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:48

There is literally no difference. It's a paperwork thing, other than the paperwork filing. You're literally gonna have the same assembly line assembling one piece of material, a lower, and then depending on the serial number, it's gonna be classified as either a rifle or a pistol. So you always buy pistol lowers no matter what, and then you can be.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:42

I hope that some of the cases that we have going uh here soon will destroy the NFA.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:49

Yep. It serves no purpose. And I don't think it ever served a purpose, even the year that it was created because the people that it was supposed to target were not going to follow laws. So making laws that everyone has to follow, but are made specifically for criminals is just punishing the non-criminals. Agreed. So and I think on that basis alone, they it should have been pulled many years ago.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:31

Which is why we should have minimalistic laws. I think we should I think we should pass a law that automatically repeals any law that 10% of your population is convicted for.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:43

Well, that's that's an interesting idea. Yeah, I would I wouldn't be opposed to that. So for instance, DUIs in the state of Texas, not a thing anymore. Why? We have more than 10% convicted for DUIs.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:54

One in ten uh Texans have a DUI.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:58

Well, thankfully, that's not gonna be an issue now that cars are gonna be able to be turned off by the police. They'll just have a cop sitting at the bar as soon as somebody walks out of a bar, you turn their car off.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:11

Yeah, that's the way it's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:13

Well, do you think it's not gonna happen

Kill Switch Cars And Self-Driving Trust

SPEAKER_00 1:39:15

that way?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:17

No. Really? No, I think they're gonna pull you. You're gonna be in a car chase with them, and that's when they're gonna use that. But they're gonna they're still gonna try and fuck with you and pull you over.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:30

GM's got a patent on the car that detects your alcohol level. Yes. Or your average normal car, not any kind of specialty device.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:40

And some of these cars also, if you're too agitated, they won't let you get away. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:45

That was forge. That was forge.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:47

Which, if you're in a stressful situation, like someone's having a heart attack and you need to get them to the hospital, you're gonna be fucking agitated. It's yeah, yeah, not a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:55

Yeah, you better be as calm as a cucumber if you want to drive.

unknown 1:39:59

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:00

And and then again, like the the ultimate solution to all of this is very simple, and that is self-driving cars. Because you could drink while you're driving in the car if you're not the one driving.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:12

I really don't want a self-driving car that's going to, when I get in, and the government decides they want a warrant for me, just drive me to the police station.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:21

Well, Teslas do that right now. That we've we've had a number of cases where the Tesla drove people to police stations. Waymo do that all the time when they have unruly passengers. They reroute. The best video of a self-driving car I've ever seen is a video of a very average-looking dude, clearly fairly new to this car, and he gets in the car with his wife. Looks like his wife, I don't think it's a girlfriend, and he says, Tesla, drive me somewhere I've never been. Couple seconds, and it starts rolling off. And and the guy's all impressed, he's like, Oh, this will be interesting, you know. See if it knows where I've driven, where I've been, it's gonna find a place to where I'm just in Tesla's driving them, driving them, his girlfriend's, you know, recording this whole thing happening, or his wife is, I guess, on their on her phone. And and then they're starting to pull into a like Walmart parking lot, and the guy's like, huh, that's weird. I've been here, and then they kind of veer off from the Walmart parking lot into the lifetime fitness parking lot, and the car stops. And the guy, the guy is you could lose a few pounds. So I he the the expression on the guy's face turned very quickly, and and the smile on his wife's face just lit up the room as she realized what the car just did. The car just trolled him.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:55

The car just called him a fat fuck.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:57

Pretty much, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, oh, you want me to drive you somewhere you've never been? How about lifetime fitness?

SPEAKER_05 1:42:04

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:06

So that's what a that's what a car with Elon Musk's personality selected does. Well, what do you think, Ben? You got anything else? I'm trying to think if there's any other stuff that we talked about or texted back rather before the show to bring up, but I think that pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:32

I think that pretty much covers it. There was the LGBTQ IAP plus plus whatever that was in Illinois that got dismissed over teacher making two girls kiss.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:46

What? Yeah. I mean, I kind of enjoy watching two girls kiss, so go on. Right, but

School Scandal Story And Sign Off

SPEAKER_00 1:42:55

these were students?

SPEAKER_02 1:42:56

Yes. So in the teacher how it was Denver. So Denver public school boards just voted unanimously to dismiss LGBT, J the Blah blah blah, and it's a tranny. Jennifer Hookah. Right. After she reportedly made two females kissed each other and graded them on it.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:13

What class is that for? High school. Yeah, but in that what like what class? Like, I don't know. Look at art history. Look at the report. Lesbian studies? I mean, if it's a lesbian studies class, I think that kind of flies, don't you?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:29

Yeah. I don't know, man. I the she was using a point of authority to you know, it's just not cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:39

No, no, no. I I agree. They should wait at least until freshman year of college to do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:46

Am I wrong? Come on. No comment. No comment. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:54

That's the whole thing. Is there that whole alphabet soup is just such bullshit. It's it's just gobbledygook. All you have is gays. That's it. You have gays and you have straights. And the straights also have girls that kiss.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:13

Yes, and you have then mental well, all of its mental illness, really, in that entire spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:19

I don't think girls kissing is mental illness. I think man hating is definitely mental illness, but there's nothing wrong with girls kissing. Uh well, you know, girls are a lot softer than boys, so it would make sense that they want to kiss each other. As long as a man's involved, you know. Man is involved, he's the one watching.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:38

Or then participate. Okay, Ben, let's wrap this up.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:40

Let's put it up before it gets away from us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh all right. On that note, I will talk to you next week. Uh