Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter - The Timeline of The American Revolution

Episode Date: July 27, 2023

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We're back. And it's a very special episode of macro dosing. So I'm excited to talk the subject it's one there's a few topics like this that you learn about in school and it's not fun it becomes like a school topic and you only associate like sitting in a boring classroom and uh just kind of like being forced to learn stuff and then once you actually get out of school and you learn about it for fun it's way cooler history is kind of like that sometimes science science is also like that yeah physics most things are like that actually i think it's just

school. School makes everything so much less tolerable. I'm, yeah, I totally agree. I've started to read freaking philosophy. Like, what the fuck? Yeah, talk that philosophy shit. Talk that shit, Bill. I've just been a lot of stoicism.

It's pretty cool stuff. I love it. Name your top three philosophers. Marcus Aurelius. That's all I've been reading. Even if you learn something cool in school, it's sandwiched by seven other hours of shit that you don't want to be doing

so it's like you get home and your parents are like, what'd you learn today? And you're like, I don't know a whole bunch of dumb shit that was boring. Yeah. You forget about the cool stuff. Also, tests just make you cram shit and you don't actually learn it. Yeah, it doesn't register. But even if you do learn something, you can't like bring it up in a conversation

with friends because they're going to be like, yo, you learn that in school. Like, you can't sit around with the boys and say, what's your favorite Euripides play? Because he was the goat tragedy. writer like dude you paid attention in class then you just told on yourself for being a nerd i think times are changing though i think it's it's cooler to learn shit nowadays i could be i could be wrong but my daughter's a dweeb and she's pretty cool amongst her peers so i think it's

changing there's definitely been more visibility of nerds recently and we can argue if that's a good thing or a bad thing we got tv shows about nerds we got movies where the nerds the protagonists we got stuff like the social network where it shows how some kind of awkward kid invented something that changed the world and then people are like oh wow maybe it's cool to have knowledge yeah

I'm still out the jury's still out on whether being smart at school though are nerds having a moment that would be like a vice headline I think honestly guy give a lot of props to Joe Rogan

because he made a lot of you know seriously like he made the sort of warrior poet thing cool Joe Rogan warrior poet what? What? Look I know it sounds crazy but he made a lot of like meatheads like pick up some books and read some shit that may be true it opened their mind but I'm not I'm not sure if I'm gonna give Joe Rogan the you know the torch bearer for bringing knowledge into the open

into the modern world I don't think that's his well there's an argument for that I think there's an argument for that let's say Joe Rogan sixth round does his thing for I don't know 20 more years and he stays at the top of the charts kids might be reading in a history book

like 400 years from now about like American civilization and the important like artists and like public figures Joe Rogan might be brought up as being like as a philosopher

the town crier I think I don't I look at him more like like a David Letterman he's just a modern talk show host yeah hold on hold on let me let me let me let me let me backtrack a little bit

I think Joe Rogan is obviously I don't agree with everything he said but I think I think he's brilliant in what he does you know what I'm saying he was an innovator early on and saw that technology was coming to the forefront and podcasting and I mean even he he's an amazing martial artist as well he's

black belt be Brazilian jiu-jitsu I think another one too I think judo maybe something like that's like everything that he does he kills right MMA you know uh hosting everything yeah everything he does that he kills so I don't want to diminish the man's you know prowess and I don't think he's stupid at all I think he's dumb I think you know there's some takes I just disagree with but I don't look at him like I don't know maybe like you Billy where he just like ushered this new way of thinking that's gonna

I don't I don't think I think of him like that I think it was like a dude who was very interested in his surroundings and he brought that and he galv you know he curated a big audience for it and that's kind of the place people go now and also it's a weird we're in a weird place where it's like I mean, shoot, y'all know more than anybody.

Like, Barstow is an avenue for people to come in market shit, right? And so it's like, it's like a vessel. And so like it's not necessarily that he's creating this new thing. It's just like now he has a big enough audience to where he's getting ad dollars so that people come advertise the shit on and they have a dope conversation. That's more how to look at it. Maybe though, maybe he goes down in history books as, you know, this generation's, I don't know. Marcus Aurelius.

I think he's the biggest purveyor of stoicism in the modern world. Defined stoicism. Hmm. No, I mean, it's just like, it's just like, it's just. I honestly don't know what stoicism is. It's sort of just like an idea that, you know, the, the harder things are make you stronger in that to sort of be glad they're happening it you know I wouldn't I'm still sort of building into it I'm not trying to say that I'm like a a master of it but like

for example when Marcus A realist talks about like he's an emperor he's conquered all these things he's really on the top of the world but even he sometimes can't get out of bed in the morning yeah it's like why would I leave the comfort of my sheets when you know i like what is my purpose why am i supposed to get out of bed he was like well the ants the ants carry food back to their nest every day uh the birds fly and nest every day and i as a human must do my job which is to exist and uh like what is the point it is to exist and to experience this grand theater and thing that we call life it's it's like it really sort of gives meaning to a lot of stuff that you just instead of like being a nihilist being that am I

pronouncing that right nihilistic yeah it sort of gives a lot of things more you know like value so if it kind of describes what a lot of the tech billionaires go through once they reach a point in their lives where everything is super comfortable for them they control the world basically never have to worry about money again and then they go off in a cave for like two weeks only drinking water. It's like to experience hardship because everything is so easy for them that they want to get to things that make them feel alive. And sometimes the best way to feel alive is by experiencing some sort of adversity.

Like for example, the exact definition of stochism is the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint. So how would you say you're doing on that? I complain a decent amount. Yeah. about hardships no like for example when i'm like running when i'm like working out in the morning like that enduring that actually makes the rest of my life better like there's the like happiness and meaning usually come after some type of enduring hardship be it physical be it like you know

like the like you need hard times have good times yeah like when you're when you're exercising really hard and you just kind of you was it that Schlereth says like embrace the suck yeah like that embrace the suck attitude and you know I am not the I like I've tried to you know wake up early in the mornings and get stuff done

so like when it's what it's Monday morning and I saw Oppenheimer the night before and I'm getting up and I'm feeling groggy and I'm like what like I need you endure this moment to like Hey Monday he was late I was late but I was up

I do a lot of stuff on Monday mornings because it's a good, you know, time for me. But I was doing shit. Like, the thing is, whatever late to the office. Hearing you say all this shit, but knowing he was late, it's just funny. No, I, look, I'm not the most tardy person. No, you're not the most prompt person. Right. You are one of the most tardy people.

No, yeah. Yeah, that one. But it's more because I'm doing shit, like. I'm doing another shit He's got He's got empires to govern It's more like I'm working out And I lose track of time

Or like I'm running And I lose track Like I'm doing something like oh shit You have time blindness Like that girl on TikTok Yeah fuck it She's got time blindness Is that a thing?

Oh did you not see this TikTok I did not We may have to play it for you Okay Send it I do know there is this something I may not be the best representative of discipline, but I'm trying

harder to get disciplined. Okay. That's a good attitude. That's funny. Like, funny hearing that. The reason why I'm talking about that is because I'm trying to get better. Yeah. Improving yourself.

Yeah. Okay. Self improvement shit, really? So I know there's a bunch of people who shit on me to be like, oh, you talk about all these things, but you're like, never, but I'm trying. I'm trying to do it. Yeah. Oh, I'm talking to my heartstrings a little bit.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Drop, drop that TikTok in the chat. I did. Okay. Can we take a second? second to watch it and then come back. So I just got yelled out for asking a very reasonable question.

So I'm applying to go somewhere and I just wanted to know, are there accommodations for people who struggle with time blindness and being on time, you know? And then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else. And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. And if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job, you know, provided you're trying your absolute best to be there. And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace.

And yeah, I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle with being on time when there's other solutions that we can look to, I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that, yeah, that culture needs to be dismantled. And then I ask that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system? And then to think, I'm entitled. No, if people think it's okay to treat others like this, that's entitlement. uh so this chick rocks she's i was going to say she's basically like uh fuck you my time is more important than yours and i will take no criticism about that and you're going to have to accommodate me

the crazy thing is she's going to find a place that does accommodate her for her time blindness and she's going to be late for everything and she's never going to get in trouble because she said she told you right off the bat i'm listen i've got time blindness okay deal with it and then she'll never get fired. Listen, I'm a fan of, I'm a fan of this, my, this train of thought for a very specific reason. COVID happened and it showed us how little workers actually have to be in the workforce. Like a lot of people's jobs totally transformed because it showed that you can work remotely, right? Which changes the dynamic of quote unquote being on time. I mean, I'm pretty sure, hear me out, I'm going to finish this, but I'm pretty sure everybody out.

can relate to, oh, we have a meeting in 15 minutes, you go to the meeting and 30 minutes later, you're like, my guy, this could have been one email with three sentences. Why do we have to have this meeting? A lot of corporate America is like that. And so I'm with the in the fact that it's like, you know, like the whole time thing, it's, there are very, I don't know it's a very few. Some things you got to be prompt on. Some things you got to be on time for. But a lot of corporate America is a bunch of fluff and you don't really need to be on time. I handle it when I handle it. And I don't need,

like it's just a lot of, I'm with it. I'm with it. I think what you're saying, though, is really different than what she said. Yeah, what she's saying is like,

hey, do you have any accommodations for people that are time blind? First of all, like, like anybody's going to know what time blindness is. And second of all, like what kind of accommodations is she asking for? An alarm clock?

I don't get, I don't understand. To like be told to come earlier or something? And there were a lot of comments that were like, time blindness, would indicate that you should be early just as often as you're late if you really just,

if you are blind to the time. That's a good point. That's true. Does she need like a helper, like a buddy whose job it is to just sit next and be like, okay, we have to do this now.

No, it's executive function, which is something that a lot of young males struggle with, especially who've been diagnosed with ADHD, but like executive function. Are these young males in the room with us? No, these young,

they're not making excuses. They're not making. making excuses but like it it's you lose track of time you're like no so it's not that they're like lazy or they're like sleeping i got a homin who has ADHD that takes medication for it and he like he'll lose track of time and it's not like he's trying to it's like he'll get fixated on something and he'll get fixated on something else he'll get fixated on something else yes and it's time blindness and he loses like where it's like he's trying to be on time but it's just like his attention span just goes boom boom boom boom boom and he just loses track of ties it's a real in the worst it was in the

thing is like when you're in strict discipline like scheduled discipline like if you're like playing college football if you're going to high school and there's so much like times where like you have to like wake up shower go to school like immediate instead of like the more room you're given the worse it becomes and it's like this morning studying revolutionary war writing stuff down taking notes uh going to work out oh shit i only have 20 minutes to get into the office and then you get trapped in the parking lot because the gate doesn't work and then you were 30 minutes late to the show and then it's like time blindness and time management are two different things though no i think they're i think it sounds like we're struggling with time management time

blindness doesn't exist it's more you're you you get into something and you get so hyper fixated on And then it's like, oh shit, like, I've been doing this for an hour. There's such a thing as face blindness. That dude, John Hickenlooper, the senator from Colorado, he ran for president back in 2000, or 2020. He doesn't remember anybody's face because he has actual face blindness, which I think that our president should, I don't want to sound ableless, but I feel like our president should be able to recognize people's faces. I mean, I think the president should also like be copus mentus. Well, our president He recognized people by scent

I think it might be an attribute though If you can As a president I'm saying If everybody you see is new to you It's going to make you treat that encounter More cordially Like it's new

So that might be an attribute Rather than taking advantage of every situation Because you know how this person We're going to react to whatever case You know what I'm saying? That might be an attribute for a president Yeah Hello Mr. Putin

they say you're looking great today sir okay too shay Adolf I really like that mustache I never noticed that about you before yeah you can have the Sudetland yeah you seem like a nice guy can we can we get into Oppenheimer because

I just have to talk about it yeah let's talk about Oppenheimer so Philly you went last night no spoilers though because not everybody has not anybody seen it but by the time the sayers I think it's been enough time. We know what happens.

We, bro. I will also say it's hard to spoil Oppenheimer. Yeah. We win. Well, I mean, I mean, I haven't seen it. Okay. Well, I haven't seen Barbie. So we can...

I'm not going to spoil it for you, Billy. Are we going to Barbenheimer? Billy, can you just tell me what your favorite part of Oppenheimer was and your least favorite part? Yeah, get off your chest, what you need to go off of chest about. My favorite part. was how my favorite part was actually how removed from the destruction of the bomb the filmmaking was because it was more realistic to how everyone viewed it at the time because not many people were cognizant of the actual result of their work and yeah like

what it actually looked like yeah and the in the fact that they didn't actually like they could have gone so overboard on how much of the destruction of the bomb they could have showed but they like did the perfect amount to make you feel like how Oppenheimer felt like something so consequential that he developed they show the scene in the desert but you basically see almost as much as uh those who worked on the bomb sort of would have seen from media coming back from the places that got hit yeah they also there was a lot of talk about his his communist connections which we slightly touched on. He banged a lot of communists for sure.

In retrospect, looking at, like we talk a lot about free speech in this country and free thought, right? For about 20, 30 years in America, the government actively got people fired and blacklisted and harassed because they were a member of a political party.

Because they said at the time, it was like an existential threat to the United States that people were communists and linking them with, with the USSR, but it was literally like just people exercising free thought and free speech that were that were harassed and caused injury upon by the United States government. And so we don't really talk about that much anymore. It's like, oh, yeah, there was pinko commies.

You know, yeah, we got them out of Hollywood. All the screenwriters were like that. But in reality, it's just like they were just exercising their American right. like the Constitution says you can be a communist you can absolutely be you have the freedom to say or think whatever you want uh without retribution from the government but we just kind of we just kind of put that aside for like 30 years in this country i i also would like to learn more about pre-world war two communist movements in the united states because yeah that was something i i really don't know much about it's a part of history that you know you don't really hear and

I just kind of want to, like, learn about what their aims and goals were, like, because that's sort of pre-World War II, pre-Cold War, like, what the attitudes were, what sort of the ideas that they wanted, like, and how it would have, like, changed American society. Also, a lot of people, like, myself included, they learn about World War II and they get fascinated about World War II. And then once you feel like you've read enough stuff about World War II, you want to learn more about World War II and the best way to do that is by learning about World War I and so then you go back and you learn about the prequel to World War II and the communist movement that sprung up

in Europe especially after World War I was a direct result and you can't blame these guys at all for thinking this way they lost so many people like so many people got slaughtered in the most horrific ways possible in Europe in World War I and they came back to a country that just wasn't looking after them at all. They just sent them to go get killed for no reason whatsoever because all the upper class elites and royal families of Europe had these imaginary, they had imaginary beefs with each other and they were all related and they treated them all like ponds. And so they come back and they're like, wait, we were just treated like ponds over there. Aren't we also being treated like pawns in our manufacturing companies that we work for in our day-to-day jobs? And so there was

like a mass awakening of people who survived World War I that came back and became communist right after that and led communist movements because they were trying to bring power to the masses instead of having it just at the top. So I, I, you have to completely understand that mindset. Also, the, the other wars that took place like the Spanish Civil War, the Greeks, like in all the different movements that were happening in different countries, uh, are also. So like, I know this sounds crazy to say, but like they're like different canons of a story. Like if World War II is the main book, like these are like offshoots that you read about. And you're like, like, because, you know, they talk about this, the Spanish Civil War a lot in the, uh,

Op and I are moving. And you're like, you want to learn about like what, who are the different factions, like, who, you know, like, and how it affects the world today. yeah after watching this movie and doing a little bit more research on it i i find myself agreeing more with a standpoint that we drop the weapons to flex on the rest of the world and to flex on on russia especially and to say we're ahead of you don't fuck with us because we've got a weapon that can wipe out any army in the world also Einstein should have stopped them you think so when Einstein got that piece of paper he should have seen the implications of it he should have been just like

like if he really cared he should have tried to stop the nuclear bomb from ever being developed. So we talked about Einstein a little bit and we talked about the fact that some of the scientists were gambling on whether or not the bomb was going to ignite the atmosphere because that was a possibility.

In the movie, they say that all the guys run of the calculations say that it's almost zero percent that it's going to ignite the atmosphere. And they make a point of saying like it's almost zero, but it's not zero. I wonder what, the actual percent of the calculations that

they had was on that? I saw a video about it and I don't want to misquote it, but it said one in like three million or something maybe. Based on the calculations they had at the time and then

you can do it, but you would need bombs that were, I want to say she said like a hundred and fifty thousand times more powerful than that one. Okay. If it's one or a million, you can't do it. If it's two million, I feel like that's an acceptable risk.

Yeah. But, um... Would you feel comfortable pressing a button billy if there was a one in one million chance that the world would end? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's not a lot. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, that's less than like routine surgeries. One in a thousand. in hell no. Okay. But what's the upside for pressing the button? You win World War II. Also, craziest thing was Drake, I mean, Josh, from Drake and Josh,

was the first person to detonate a nuclear bomb in the movie. Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah, Josh, from Jake and Josh, dropped the first bomb. He was the red button man, which is just funny from a Nickelodeon perspective. It was a good movie, though.

won't be kid was in it yeah I thought Robertown Jr. did a good job the little JFK Easter egg was cool and then it was like did this Strauss guy have JFK killed yeah good question yeah

I give it four balls out of five good movie way too long wait no we're doing on the ass cheek scale right cheeks so I'm trying to remember is it is the ass cheek scale like cheeks

equals good. Cheeks is bad. Cheeks is bad. So I give this movie half an ass cheek. The worst part, the worst part was during the sex scene. She pulled out a book and made him read the Sanskrit quote, I am death destroyer of worlds while having sex.

That was just like, that never fucking happened. I think we said that. Yeah. Didn't we? We were like, yeah, when you're pounding it out, I am death destroyer of worlds.

Yeah. Yeah. But that was just a weird scene. Hollywood does that a lot. Hollywood does like, what I would call them movie lines. You know what I mean? Like,

well, they'll be in a car chase scene, you know what I'm saying? Let's just say something goofy as shit that maybe get some laughs in the theater, but like when you look at it by yourself, like, why would you even say that in the, it doesn't make any sense.

It's stupid movie lines. I call it movie line. I came here to do two things, chew bubble gum and kick some ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum. Matt Damon was my favorite character. Yeah, he was good as Leslie, whatever's last name is. Groves.

Leslie Groves, yeah. Good movie, good movie. Now, who here saw Barbie? I saw Barbie. Me? Yeah, it's crazy that it was either or, right? I didn't even set it up to be that, but that's hilarious. It's the biggest opening weekend of all time between two movies.

are one of the biggest of all time between two movies, but all the other bigger ones was like you could take like Infinity War and then take that with another movie that opened up at like $10 million. But I think Oppenheimer got 80 million and I think Barbie got like $150 million. It was the biggest opening weekend for a female director. Oh, wow. All right. So Matt Dogg, give it to us on the ass cheek scale.

Zero ass cheeks. this was a flat ass of a movie in the best way possible. No cheeks. So are you thinking an Oscar? I think it'll get an Oscar for definitely for like cinematography or set design just because it's such a cool way that it's like the set is. Like I said it looks. So I think it'll at least get set design and like maybe cinematography. I think Ryan Gosling has one of the best performances ever.

Um, I also think Margot Robbie was amazing. I thought she was an awesome Barbie. I loved. I loved that movie. I laughed. I cried. I smiled. It was just such a beautiful experience. I just loved that movie. You think maybe best, best costume design. They usually give that to a period movie, but I feel like Barbies kind of a period piece. I could, I also think, yes, I think they could also win costume design with it. Also because it was so accurate to the, barbies that they were trying to replicate. So at basically the end credit scene is shows all of the barbies that they basically based the characters off of. And they're and and they did it in the press store too. Their costumes were I mean identical. So I think I don't know if they'll get Oscars for acting. I hope so. I hope or like Greta Gerwe gets a directing Oscar. I thought I think they deserve it. I don't know. Like I haven't seen Oppenheimer yet. So I can't. place those two up. I feel like those are the big two as of right now for next year. But I genuinely adored that movie and I really, really think every girl listening should go watch it. And

I think everyone should see it. But every girl definitely listens should 100% see that movie. Were the Barbie's woke? No, I don't think I saw like the whole bench, we talked about this before, the whole like Ben Shapiro bullshit. Like I don't think it was a super woke movie or a super like feminism is taking over the world movie. I thought it was a very, and again, Aryan, correct me if you feel differently, I think it was a movie that showed that like 100% of the world shouldn't be run by men and 100% of the world shouldn't be run by women. Like, everyone has their spot in the world.

Yeah, I think, I like it. First of foremost, I didn't, I didn't go into with any expectations because I never played with Barbies growing up. It was never my thing. I mean, I knew what it was, but I was never into the lore. I didn't know what the law was. But I thought, like she said, the cinematography was fucking crazy, though. Like, she right, they may want to ask for that shit. That shit was just magnificent the way they pulled that off, just the universe in which they created.

I felt like it was good. I went to go see with my daughter. You know, she's 13 years old. And I thought it was dope from that aspect, you know what I'm saying? I think it showed the struggle of a transitioning mother through, like I said, I don't give too much way, but a transitioning mother into adulthood that still wants to hold on to her childhood. It shows that dynamic.

So somebody struggling with motherhood. So somebody struggling as far as Barbie, it shows, you know, struggling with, like, self-worth. self-value, how society sees you versus how you see yourself. I thought it did a good job, like, encapsulating that, that struggle and the narrative that, that, you know what I'm saying, that you're supposed to quote-unquote have versus the narrative that you see for yourself. And plus, they implemented some funny shit that happened in that motherfucker, brother. There was some funny, there was some funny jokes every now and then.

It was really funny, I thought. Yeah, I thought it was well done. I could see why conservatives and say it, the, the, the, the, the communists, uh, Chinese propaganda was a stretch by, I think Ted Cruz said it. That was a stretch. It was like a map and it was just scribbled around that. That was not their intentions. Yeah.

That was a stretch. But I could see why they say it was woke. They mentioned the patriarchy a lot, which which I understand why they would say it was woke, but I also don't understand because like to deny that especially when Barbie was made in the history of Barbie was made to empower little girls that only played

with little baby dolls. That was an accurate part of the movie at the beginning when they're talking about, you know, little girls used to just play with baby dolls. And then Barbie was created to, like, give her different occupations, right? So these little girls used to play with Barbie was an astronaut. Barbie the astronaut was on the moon before then Armstrong was, right? Like shit like that. And then she was the CEO and she was this.

And so, like, that's what Barbie was made for. So to go into a movie about Barbie and not understanding the history of Barbie, and what Barbie was made for and they call it woke because they talk about the patriarchy, which what Barbie was made to kind of break the motive, you're more than just a housewife, you're more than just a mother. This is the thing there's nothing wrong being a housewife or a mother, but here are the options. That's what Barbie was made for. To go into a movie and not expect any of that is wild take to me. But all that conservative bullshit is that, I think it was dope. I enjoy seeing it. I think it was like my daughter enjoyed it.

You know what I'm saying? She got something from it. I don't know. Maybe I'm just, It's soft, but I like the shit. No, it was a very good look into what it is like as a woman and as a female, not even just as like the feminism part of it, but in the movie there's just subtle callouts to like, oh, I didn't think anyone else thought like that or I didn't think anyone else had gone through that shared experience. And it's not even this like deep, meaningful thing. It's like, like, I'm not going to try to spoil it, but like, Aryan, like, the guitar scene. Or like, there's a part about the godfather. Like, there are just things that you... That shit was fucking hilarious.

Yeah. Like, there are a lot of parts of the movie that I think... Weird Barbie. Yeah, Weird Barbie's so funny. Like, I think there's a lot of... Oh, no, no, I was just to say, I think there's a lot of parts of that movie that aren't trying to be more than they... Like, they're not trying to, like, hit you over the head with, like, reinders. inventing the wheel of feminism.

I think it's just like a lot of women have had these same or very, very similar experiences and it kind of sheds a light on them. And if like a man is watching this movie, you're probably like, well, I've never thought about it, you know, like that or whatever it is. I just think it was a very marketable and digestible way to show a very accurate portrayal of the female experience. Yeah. And, you know, they, they, I think they over-exaggerated, I don't say over-exaggerated, I don't know, I'll take that back.

I think they, um, emphasized, like, the patriarchy in the workforce, and they kind of emphasized that, like, a lot throughout the, throughout the themes. So that would make, you know, people fighting about, like, current, like, anti-SJW types, like, it'll make them uncomfortable to make it feel like it's propaganda being shoved down your throat. But to me, I always look at, like, you know, it's just a story. Like every every movie has like one of seven themes I think it is like it's like rags to riches or it's like the hero or whatever the case it would be like this is just one of those things but told from a woman's perspective in our society and so I think representation is important in in mass media and in entertainment and I thought it was I thought they did a really good job and weird Barbie to be specific what I thought was really dope because it kind of showed like a side of a side of womanhood that gets cast away that gets done. done with. And honestly, Hollywood is a perfect, a prime example of that. Like, for example, like Top Gun 2, right? Top Gun 2 introduced a new love interest into Tom Cruise's life because the original one that he was involved with, like she, quote unquote, not pretty anymore, right? She's like kind of, you know, she looks like a 50-some year old woman, but this new

joint doesn't, right? And so like to me, weird Barbie was like that. She was like the castaway from what societal norms views people as pretty and beautiful. And I think one of the doper scenes was when she was sitting on the benchy. She saw the old lady. Oh my God. That made me cry. That was fire. And you know, it's crazy that the director had to fight to keep that scene in.

I read later on that they didn't want that scene in there. And she was like, if this scene is not in there, I don't know why I'm making this movie. She's like, that's one of the most important scenes in this movie. I thought that was dope. She fought for that scene because that was one of the scenes that stood out to me. And she was like, you're beautiful. That shit was fired. I thought it was well done.

I just, I really, really, really appreciated that. movie and I the Greta Gerwig who directed it I everything that she touches I think is absolutely amazing and marvelous um and I think she all of the movies that she's directed have been like a glimpse into womanhood and a glimpse into what it's like to be a bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood like she did little women the remake of little women ladybird is a really great movie about that and I think she just like she I think just knows how to depict that in a very very real and honest way. And I just really appreciated it.

And I will go see it again with my mom next week. So, all right. Aaron, how many ass cheeks from you? Uh, now mind you, these cheeks add a 10. Right. I'll give it, I'll give it, uh, I'll get two four ass cheeks.

One ass. Okay. No, two asses. So four ass cheeks, my bad. Okay. Four ass cheeks. Good movie. This system is odd.

It's my system, bro. Why are you always good? I know, but it's, no, I appreciate your system. It's just that you have to like, okay, so if it's four ass cheeks, that means it's 40%, but you're saying it's actually 60% good. You have to reverse engineer it. Notice that out of 10, that's actually 80. I know it would be 60.

So it is confusing. But also, but the two asses is the perfect amount. So it's actually better. It's kind of like a... A bell curve? Yeah, it's a bell curve. Why are two asses the best? Well, because it's more than one, but anything more than two.

But I take it back. This is one whole ass. This is two ass teeth. Yeah, that's the perfect. That was really good. A nice ass. I think you would all like it. I like honestly think you would all enjoy it.

Wow. I'm done. I'm probably going to see it at some point. And the soundtrack is so fucking good. That soundtrack like rocks. Yeah. Is Ken true? treated well in the movie?

I heard there's some rumors that he gets abused. Oh my God, no, what? No, I just saw one like conservative Twitter being like, Ken has been disgraced in this movie. If a woman got treated like this in a movie, it would go. I'm just like

I'm a Ken's, I'm a Ken protector. I loved Ken. If Ken, if you watch that movie and you think Ken is getting abused, you truly do not know what it is like to to have anything happen to you in the real world?

It's like the I guess the character arc would be like it's like the villain's story like that's what it is like he kind of gets His like villain origin story Yeah it's like he gets overlooked

And then he finds his own power Which he I don't want to I'm going to spoil it Yeah no yeah It's the funny part about why concert is I saw I saw like part of Ben Shapiro's take on it But the funny part of why conservatives don't like that movie is exactly why that movie was made. It's fucking hilarious because, like, it's, it shows men in the light that are overbearing, uh, patriarchal.

They are, they are sexist, right? And they view that and say that's woke. I guess it's, it's just hilarious. It's absolutely hilarious because, like, I remember there's a scene where Barbie's walking on Venice Beach and she's getting cat called, right? And it's her first time in the real world. She's, like, getting cat called and, like, you know, Ms. Shapiro mentioned something. Like, nobody talks like that.

And I was like, dog, I vividly remember. I vividly remember. It's why I talk women and now the way I do. Like, I never cat called women. Because when I was like, I think it was like eight, nine years old, I was walking to the ATM machine with my mom. And there was these dudes at a bus stop. And they stood up and it was whistling and it was like, yeah, baby,

yeah, doing that type shit. And I was like, eight, and I couldn't do shit. And I just felt like so. humiliated for my mom and anger and infuriated, right? And so it's like, from that moment on, I was like, I'll never treat women like that. And that very scene was depicted in the Barbie movie. And I didn't bring up all those feelings,

but hearing Ben Shapiro talk about how nobody does that. It's, wow, because like, it still happens to this day. Like, you can see, go to go to any public arena, any, no, I don't think it happens as much because people are starting to be more aware of this hit, but it's just funny hearing the conservative viewpoint of that movie. It's like, nigga, you're the reason why this movie's made, bro.

It's hilarious. I like that. And it probably happens less and less because people have been talking about more and more in pop culture. And you can whip out your phone and record someone saying it. Yeah. Yeah. I love, I absolutely love videos of a dude that's getting caught doing something with his phone that he shouldn't be doing. But he gets caught like in public doing it.

Like there was one that came out a couple days ago that I saw. It was on an airplane. and this dude had his phone down he was like trying to record the flight attendants as they walked by like trying to get up their address with his phone and somebody took out their phone in the back of the plane and caught him doing that and then

all the people on the plane like just jumped and they were like what the fuck are you doing you perver they took his phone they arrested him it was awesome. It's instant justice yeah that's why that's crazy bro I can't I can't I can't with this

yeah there's there's some perves I saw a similar video of a It was in Australia And this dude was caught Taking a video of a girl in a bikini At the bar And then all these Aussies were like Mike

What? It's a pervert Yeah They all just jumped them It was a great That was a great video too Because the guy looked just like Stu Finer Yeah You look like the bagel boss guy

When I first When I first saw the video Somebody sent to me And they were like Oh shit they got stew And for a second I actually did think that it was Stu. Stu would never do that for the record.

He loves his wife very deeply, 15, 15.30. But he did, he did look a lot like this guy in this Australian video. All right. So we got... Wait, wait, wait, wait. I have one more thing for you. Obviously, people are listening to this two days later, but we're recording 30 minutes after we just had this conversation all about dogs.

Did you see the update on the Jordan Addison story? no so you know he's the vikings rider seever who was going 140 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone yeah last week and everybody starts criticizing him heavily which with that information fine did you see why he was going 100 miles an hour over the speed limit i'm trying to think of what justification there could be there were bees in his car it was a medical emergency for his dog oh okay so now and now it's okay Okay. I told you what kind of medical emergency. Was it bloat? I'm just seeing medical emergency for his dog. If it's bloat, then yeah, you got to get that dog to a vet or are a human hospital.

That shit's hilarious. Either way. Yeah, bloat. Time is of the essence. I have more mental notes of where 24-7 veterinary clinics are in my area than an actual ER. Oh, for sure. Me too. Yeah. It's one of the first things that I did. If like I slip and fall and I cut myself and I'm bleeding profusely, I don't know where I'm going to go. But if something happens to Blake, I know right, left, left, right, boom, right there. I got that. I got that. Yeah, I need to know what kind of medical emergency it was.

140 miles an hour. Why wasn't he going faster? Maybe that's as fast as car went. Did the police help him? I don't know it, but that was according to the police citation. Okay. Well, I might be on Team Addison on this one. I've taken my dog to the 24-7 ER more times than I've taken myself to the ER for less things.

And you've had a significant amount of rashes on your body for last year. Yeah. Yeah, I need to find out what the medical emergency was if the police tried to help his dog. he's the anti-vick yeah exactly I love it I might be a Jordan Addison fan damn

I want to get your thoughts on on Elon changing Twitter to X oh the X site this guy man X going to give it to you as long as he starts paying tweeters who have the right amount of money

you can do whatever you want Billy is really obsessed with this idea that someone's going to start sending him a check for tweeting. They gave the fucking Crasentines's freaking money. One thing I've noticed, just real quick on the Crasinstein brothers, I've noticed that since Elon took over and one of his first orders of business was to reactivate Trump's account and also reactivate the Crasinstein brothers. A lot of people are out there claiming that like whatever stupid argument, the Krasenstein's are making, like, they get to arguments with the Krasenstein's

because they think that the Krasenstein's represent left-leaning people online. I want to just be very, very clear. The Krasenstein brothers have always been the most hilarious stupid frauds of all time. Please come on the show to discuss. They are ridiculous. They're almost cartoon characters. I think they got to spend the first time because they had like 20 different accounts that they were used to spam and, like, fleece money from their followers.

were they the ones that made the that made the children's book about Robert Mueller where Robert Mueller had like an eight pack that's an all-timer I think they're the ones that also said Because of the Russia broke Yeah well some people are saying

Go Rams or go Patriots I'm saying go Robert Mueller And the rule of law Oh my God That's a lib big T That's a liberal Yes Those are the libs that the Big T should hate

And Big T, I will join you in hating the Krasenstein brothers And lockstep my brother Totally Throw them, Nancy Pelosi Throw them niggas in a boat somewhere I'm with you, brother Have you seen, there's a guy I'm sure he posts stuff everywhere

But I've seen him on TikTok He said for the next year He's going to make every stock transaction That Nancy Pelosi makes And he's just raking in money Oh yeah? Yeah You should all do that

I know that would be hilarious actually they did something like that with GameStop I think we talked about where they kind of like flooded that shit

and made the made the price go up and fuck the market up we should do that with Nancy Pelosi stocks everything that she do we do and flood it and make her fucking go broke

it's a GameStop movies coming out pretty soon it looks sick oh I can't wait for that when are we gonna how can those of us out here that want to tail Nancy Pelosi how can we do that

I don't know wear that. I'll go find it and I'll send it to you. That's hilarious though. Send me that dude's TikTok or whatever. I'll find it. Yeah. But as far as the rebrand of Twitter into X goes, I don't know what the fuck Elon is doing. I think he's trying to make one super app where you can use it as like banking. You can use it as social media. You can use as email everything under one app. I think that's what he's trying to do. And if that's the case, there are way too many apps way too many apps out there when you move into a new place you have to download like 20 different apps especially if you move to a different city got to get a parking app you got to get all there's an app for everything way too many apps app for the new cable service way too many apps out there if elon is trying to reduce the number of apps that i have to use i'm on board with that but the twitter into x thing just it's it's dumb it's so stupid did you see that the logo is a letter you can buy on fonts.com for $30.

I did not see that. That makes so much sense. I see, I see, we read a little bit about his origin, his, his, his origin story and how he finessed to get into PayPal. And then he, he, he wanted, I think it was, what was it? Fuck his minute since I read it. He had a website like Stock X or X somethings, X, X, X, I think it was just, I think it was just x.com now i think it was just x.com

uh and he wanted that to be paypal he ended up fucking up they ended up voting him off of the board of paypal and he kept that domain name for since the 90s he's had x.com or something like that and then when he acquired twitter i think if you go to x.com or whatever it is it goes straight to his twitter feed or twitter in general's uh of feed so he's like he's had this x thing in mind for for a while now named his kid X whatever

the rest of his name is and SpaceX but yeah like you're like 12 kids I mean I'm not the one to judge you know I got him out of that too but do you like 12 kids

I think he only has one that I know no yeah he got a bunch of kids one of them's actually trans he's a don't fuck with him really he's a big population

collapse guy oh he has 10 kids I've legit only heard of one Wait, I thought, yeah, I've only heard of one too. And one of them is trans and they hate him. What? He had his first kid in 2002. I think it's so funny that he's had this idea for so long.

He's been waiting for the right time to like break it out a project that he controls. It reminds me of, um, you guys seen the movie Wild Wild Wild West, right? Underrated, by the way. That's a hot take. Wow, Wild West, but most live? yeah the shitty part about the shitty part about that i'm gonna let you get you take off but i have to say this the shitty the shitty part about that movie is it came out when the matrix when he was filming when he was filming and he was actually supposed to be neo he turned down the matrix role to play with wow wow

west yeah if you're comparing it to that yeah that shit is ass but i i like wow wow red that's a cool little goofy-ass movie okay all right that might be a spicy take i think a lot of people there's a lot of haters on Wild Wild West, but if I remember the story correctly, you know, the giant metal spiders that are like a central point of that movie, the dude builds these huge mechanical spiders. The guy that implemented that into Wild Wild West was helping to write one of the Spider-Man movies. And he wanted to incorporate a villain that rolled around these giant mechanical spiders all the time. And, well, he wanted to make like most of the movies. giant metal spiders attacking things

and his co-writers were like dude we please give these fucking giant mechanical spiders thing a rest like this is we're not going to do that just let it go let the dream die and he got really mad they got to big argument and then he's like fuck you I'll go make an entire move he had a giant

mechanical spiders we're going to do a western we have a bad guy oh I know exactly what I'll use for that guy big fucking spiders it's obsessed with the idea yeah that's hilarious That's Elon with X. Yeah, he had a chance because Dr.

Ogregard actually has, like, tentacles. He could have made Spider-Man, one of them Spider-Man's villains. He has like, he has like the little tentacles that come out of his back or whatever. He doesn't have to actually make spiders, bro. Yeah, big, big to chemical spiders. Because I liked Wild Wild West, man.

Have you guys seen it? Never heard of it. Never, don't know what Wild Wild West is. I just Google it. Really? Yeah. It came out the year I was born. 96?

99. Okay, I found it. So John Peters produced the film, right? This guy named John Peters. And then Kevin Smith, he did clerks, Chase and Amy, Dogma, all those movies, Jane Silent Bob. Kevin Smith talked about working with Peters on a fifth potential Superman film in 1997, revealing that Peters had three demands for the script. The first demand was that Superman not wear the suit.

The second demand was that Superman doesn't fly. And then the third was to have Superman fight a giant spider in the third act. And then after Tim Burton came on board, Smith's script got scrapped. The film was never produced. And a year later, Smith noticed that Wild Wild West with Peters on board as a producer, was released with the inclusion of a giant mechanical spider in the final act. Gaiman also said that Peters insisted that a giant mechanical spider be included in a proposed film adaptation of the Sandman. So he tried to put a big giant mechanical spider in a third movie, too.

This is like his thing. Then he kept, he's like, one day, I'm going to show all you guys, this is going to be a big fucking spider and you guys are going to love it. That is wild to just be obsessed with a random ass. Yeah. So it's arachnophobia if you're afraid of him. What if you're obsessed with it? Arachnophilia.

Yeah. Arachnophilia. He's an arachnophile. Ragnophile If you don't Got eight legs Get it out my face Get out of my face

Dude Eight legs means four asses That's fact Yeah Yeah Yeah Think about it that way I would give the movie

Four asses This reminds me Eight cheeks Who is the Who's the Nickelodeon producer That always had Like I think he did

I Carly And Dragan John Yeah And he He like always made them do weird feet scenes. Yeah, Dan Schneider. And it was like,

what the fuck, dude? I guess every director of their thing. Like, um, Quentin Tarantino's like that too. Quinn Tarantino. He's a fuck guy. He don't have a movie where the nigger. Nigger ain't even said.

Dude. Nigger in every movie. He's obsessed with saying nigger. He wrote a scene and casted himself in it just so he could suck Salma Hayek's foot and have tequila poured down her foot into his mouth. like these like what the fuck like

these Hollywood guys just had way too much fucking power like you like him doing that makes everything that Harvey Weinstein did like so believable

because these guys had just so much power and so much money yeah it took it took him sucking somebody's foot for you to believe to Harvey Weinstein

is that that person no no but like if this guy was getting away with that I can see it no no but like if this guy guy's getting away with it on screen in front of everybody, him doing stuff behind closed doors.

It's just like, what the fuck's going on? I would honestly feel uncomfortable if I was, if I was hired to write a screenplay for, what was that movie? The, uh, the one with the DiCaprio in it. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. No, no, no. The, um, the one where he played, like the one that took place on plantation, Samuel L. Jackson.

Oh, Django. Django. If you hired me to write that screenplay, I would honestly feel uncomfortable, like sitting down writing all that dialogue out that would be it would be weird it would be very weird

I'd feel weird wearing the shirt that Aaron is wearing right now yeah Aaron have you ever thought like for those that don't they can't see it

it says for my niggas you can read that he can read it on his computer screen we can't for here yeah that's probably true yeah that blew me up Aaron we do the camp out give us a change of clothes after we go

swim in your pool and then give that one to Billy and don't tell him that it says that until after he puts it on and then we'll take a picture of him. Blast it everywhere. I got tagged in one of the Mincey Jumps. It was like it's bullshit that Mincey got fired.

There's a guy on Macrodotein that says it every episode. Yep. Double standard. Alive and well. Thanks. There's this company. It's called Every Nigger Deserves. And it started out just like posting

inspiration of shit. It would be like, you deserve to have a good day, my nigga. And it was just had shit like that or like, you know, every nigga deserves therapy. And shit like that. It was just like,

you know, like black people congregating and saying like, yo, be good. Do well, my nigga. And it ballooned to like they have a whole bunch of merch now. It's dope and shit. It's pretty dope.

So if you're interested, go check them out. I assume white people say it all the time because black people have been like at the forefront of pop culture and like the shit we do is cool. I'm thinking about it though. We're the only race I've known in the world that has had their racial slur

turn into a term of endearment so much is so to make other people want to join in and say it as well. I've never even seen that get to close in any other kind of race. I've never seen it before. So I understand it. But also, like, I'm not comfortable with white folks saying in front of me.

I let them know, you know what I'm saying? Like, I know some, like, I know some like, you know, younger cats. The younger generation is different, right? So I play a lot of video games. A lot of them motherfuckers be online and it be, I'm a nigger every day on Valement, right? And so I just usually mute them. But like, younger cats that, you know what I'm saying, that are in this, internet world, they see it.

They don't really know the history behind it. And so I'm not really, I'm not saying it trying to change your mind. I just be like, yo, I'm not comfortable. saying that around me. So either I'll leave or you leave, but I'm not going to sit here and just let you call me a nigga all day. It's not going to happen. I think Xbox live platforms have really increased that.

I feel like a lot of 12, 13, 14-year-olds waiting in the lobby for a game. So I remember, like, joining when I first started playing Halo in college, I was shocked. I was shocked. I've heard a lot of stuff in my day, but I was shocked. And Aaron, to your point, I don't know, maybe other people have different experiences. the people that I hang out with never say ever folks like I think that's most people though I think it's a I think it's a vast majority of people there I think there's a I think there's a level of decency that everybody has in front of each other uh socially but like when you in your

groups where you people you trust I wouldn't surprise me if it slips out a majority of americans mouth every now and they like all the time but again I don't I don't give a fuck to the point where it's like going to move or ruin my day. I don't care. Like, I'm not the word police. I'm not fin of it. I don't, fuck, dude, say what you guys say. You know what I'm saying?

But I just not comfortable with the shit. But I feel like most people are, I feel like 99% of people are prejudiced. Not necessarily racist, but prejudice, right? When they prejudge people and they have preconceived notions about demographics. Like, I'm prejudiced. I admit it. I'm very prejudiced, right? But I don't let that prejudice detour my behavior towards somebody.

Right? So, like, if I have a preconceived notion about you, I have it. It is what it is. But I don't let that affect how I treat you. You know what I mean? I think that's the difference. But I think a lot of people, I think prejudiced, I think I've said this before, but I think prejudices are a good thing that allows us to be open about how we feel, about our cultural

experiences. But if you take it a step further and start to believe some of the preconceived notions and then act upon it, that's when you leave in prejudice town and you're walking towards racism world. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you. Like, yes, I am prejudiced.

I have prejudices. And you learn what your prejudices are. You realize what the reasons for them are. But yeah, most people don't realize the difference. Yeah. But yeah, it's like, yes, it's human nature to be prejudiced based on your own experiences. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

Billy, what are some of your prejudices? Well. Let me pull out my list. Don't you hate Irish people? No, I am Irish. That's the joke. What was the ethnic group you hate? Irish.

You do hate the Irish. No, I am Irish. I love Irish people. I think, no, I literally, one thing I am very guilty of is that I like to learn weird stereotypes about different people that are just interesting. like it I like to learn other cultures stereotypes of other people yes yes because it's funny it's like what it's like well we don't have that kind of racism over here

it's like an entirely new brand like for example Teddy Roosevelt there's a Teddy Roosevelt once encountered a man on the Western frontier who saw Bigfoot back in the 1800s and he was writing about this guy but then he just dropped this like very hilarious like presumption he's like well he was a German and we know how Germans are

they're very they're very into their fairy tales and they believe made up things and then it was just like what back in the 1800s Germans were considered like delirious like they like believed in a lot of weird shit yeah crampus yeah they're like we know how those Germans are always believing fairy tales and shit

it's classic Germans yeah like but him saying like that's why big foot might not his recounting of big foot but like weird stereotypes that just don't like play today that's just like what like like the polish arm uh the polish navy joke yeah it's the polox you can make all sorts of polack jokes just interesting to hear other people like having their own weird types of race that's really the best form of like cultural experience you can have to learn about another culture, learn about how that culture is racist to other cultures. I also think, so like a lot of stereotypes could be beneficial, right?

So, and some of my people still believe this, right? But when I was growing up, you had to wash your chicken, right? It was just, and that was, that came from like generation after generation of like, you're washing chicken. So when you get chicken, you put it in the sink and you got to wash it, right? Well, that being shared over the years of the stereotype and, like, West thing like, your white folks, you don't wash your chicken, right, right? Like, that being shared led to, like, science is coming out and saying, like, you should not wash your chicken.

Here's rock because it can spread bacteria and all this. Salmonella can go all over the county and you're spreading contaminants, right? That was news to me, right? So that helped, that helped me, right? But then also, you know, it's a double side of corn, like, one of the ones, one of the ones that was really interesting. And I never understood why growing up, like, black people was always associated with watermelon, right? black people like watermelon i never know it was delicious fruit i never understood why it was just associated with black folks we're kind of find out to my knowledge don't quote me on this but like

to my knowledge it came from like white folks depicting uh slaves um having watermen they used to give them watermelon for breaks and they used to say see and there's people that were pro-slave there see if you give them watermelon they're happy with a little bit of rest and a little bit of watermelon and it's and i got projected over time and then the caricature of uh black face would come and have them eating watermelon and so that that ballooned into black people like watermelon, right? I mean, everybody likes watermelon, but it's like that that's where that stereotype come from. So it's like it's interesting to find the different prejudices and stereotypes.

And that's why I feel like they're important to have one, but also important to understand the origins of where they come from and why we, I mean, we share this culture. Culture is a, it's a, it's an interwoven, uh, blanket of experiences. This is important to just share. And that's why I'm not afraid to have these conversations and make people feel uncomfortable. talk about it in general. I think it's dope as long as you ain't raised. That's a beautiful way to say it.

It's, would you say the, it's a blanket of interwoven experiences? Hell yeah. Yeah. Respect. Okay. What else we got to get into?

Anything? I think that's all I had on the docket, my brother. Billy, Big T. Speak now, forever, hold your peace. I'll hold it. Okay. all right let's do it let's talk talk about the american revolution seems like it took place forever ago but it really wasn't that long really yeah in the scope of human history we are a young

ass country we are what is that like 300 years ago we're only three generations old is that true three lifetimes yeah three lifetimes so about windsor the the tricentennial is man that that depresses me. We're going to be so old when Haley's comic comes back around and when we have a tricentennial.

But we may be young. But 250 is going to be a big deal. 250 will be a big deal. Yeah, you're right. Quarter century. So that's going to be... Three years.

Three years? Oh, fuck yeah. Oh, we're going to party, bro. Hell yeah. I'm going to still, it's going to still be okay

to like do fun shit when on that age. Yeah. 27. Yeah. what do you want to do for the tricentennial you should start playing the party now yeah yeah we should book quadrucential i don't know how do how would you say that

quarter quarter of a thousand uh yeah whatever just centennial and then over and then a four what are you going to do what do you have planned billy for the 250th birthday of the united states well we could book a venue we the people

right now yeah let's book a venue three years in advance and then we can throw a huge party if you guys are down I'm in we could get it sponsored

about 2050 it's no it's gonna be what is it it's gonna be 2026 is going to be the 250th anniversary of the United States

by the way it's called a semi quintennial that sucks yeah semi quintennial hell yeah maybe get band get some fireworks we're going to need some awesome fireworks

American flag right semi-quincoletian it's written as one word no dashes or anything that's one word yeah semi-quincentennial just remember that put that in your back pocket because you'll be seen it a lot I feel like SQ is better come to the S-Q I want to buy stock in the word semi-quincentennial oh let's buy let's buy the website semi-quincennial dot com yeah semi-quinquentennial dot com yeah semi-quinquentennial We can throw a little thing. That might be a. Macrodocin presents

semi-quincentennial. Then if any of the higher-ups ever try to cancel us, like, well, you can't till at least July of 2026, we got a whole thing planned. Yeah, come on. Come on.

We got sponsors locked in. I've already paid for it. Oh, this domain is for sale 6K. Shit. There's a lot of money. Damn. What about semi-quincentennial celebration? What about SQ sent?

Who? Oh, yes, yes. Billy's semi-quincentennial bash. S-I-N-S-I-N-D. Oh, with S-I-N? Yes. Yeah, S-E-N-D. Because we're sending it.

I like to send it. I like to send it's better. Yeah, sin. Like it's on some Sodomacomac-M-Worse. No, no, but we're going to sit down. We're going to send it. What if that's, I mean, that words, the semi-quincense. That word's barely cool now.

It sure ain't going to be cool in three years. It might make a comeback. It might get recool. It's kind of lame right now, but it might be recool. We might, yeah. When you say recool, that implies that it was at one point. Was it? It's like nickelback.

Sinned for a minute was a thing that people who look like Billy would say when they're about to do a rather mundane task. Like, we're going to send it. Like, hey, you guys want to watch me drink this beer? We're going full sin. No. I sent it this weekend. There may be there may be footage of this, but I sent a backflip.

off a boat this weekend and I said I was going to send it. And I did it. So you know there's what is a total pivot, but you know, there's one athletic feet that I cannot bring myself to do and I just don't know what it is. What's the shit where you, where you go forward but flip back. Gainer. I can't do that shit. It's a reverse.

Like a front flip. It's whatever. But like when I try to do that, my mind goes, like my body just freezes up and I just end up doing a backflop every time. It was the one flip I mastered for a little when I was on dive team for a second, but I can't do it anymore. What do you have to do is you have to run forward and then literally trust that your momentum going forward will push you out far enough so you don't hit your back of the head on the backboard. And it's such a, if you have like any sort of self-preservation instinct, it just doesn't make you want to do it. When we go camping, when we go camping in your backyard, I'll teach you.

you can gain her yeah you can throw a gainer yeah i would like to see that what's the trick can you teach us billy's right it's also it's it is like kind of like a physics thing like you're not gonna i can also do them sideways or i used to be able to you're not gonna go if you so you're running forward or whatever and then you're doing the back flip you're the physics of it is your 99.9% chance. You're just not going to go backwards. Like it, it is what Billy said that it's just, it is just you kind of have to trust it. But you're running enough that you get pushed out. The physics doesn't make sense for you to run forward and then move backwards. Yeah. So when you jump, you almost have to do it. Like, what I used to do when I was trained to do it is I do

an approach like I was jumping forward. Then at the last second, I jump in, and hit the board backwards and then just do a backflip. And that sort of helped me get into that mode. So then I just hit the board forward, did a backflip, and would be still moving forward. That's crazy. People that can do all these twists and turns in the air, it takes like a special type of mindset. I have no idea how gymnasts do it. That's good.

When they do like a backflip, like a flip with a twist, a twist and a half, two twists. how do you keep track of where you are in the air that was my whole childhood yeah it was awesome like a diver are women better at gymnastics than men like can women do more tricks than men no um men still have that like physical advantage of like having more power and like more muscle mass

but like men don't do beam like the balance beam and it's more of like differences but like Simone Biles for example if she were to enter in a male competition she would still probably do extremely well I think it's just more girls do gymnastics yeah it's just a more female dominated sport yeah yeah and they get more

watch did everybody know I did not notice yeah that was like my whole life damn yeah I'm a fiend on a diving board give me on diving board I'll go nuts sky zone nuts dude what can you do on a diving board I'll do the twists I can do like a should we have a dive off i'd love to let's have a dive off i could do like a front yeah but i still think i could beat her i could do a front full but that's just but the whole thing is

is like you're you're spotting so like if i'm if i'm in okay so i'm in the studio right now i'm looking straight ahead at like billy i'm looking at like the basketball above his head you would twist and you're looking for the basketball again and that's how you know you would do a full rotation dude i'll get my mom to whip out my dive team tapes in the speedo yeah in like fifth grade yeah Yeah, that was like my whole life growing up, Aaron. I didn't know that. That's shout up to you, oh, man. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's legit.

But I mean. All right. Do you ever have, oh, my bad. No, I was just going to try to bring it back to the. I don't know you were. I know you were. I was going to have another question that was. Yeah, one more question.

Go, go, go, go. All right, because it's interesting to me, right? So it's like, my entire life was football, right? Meaning, like, when I grew up, that's all that's all I. That's, I knew what I wanted to do, right? So that was my life. After after, after school, it was football practice. So, like, there's this, to this day, there's this, when I wake up in the morning and I smell fresh cut grass, it brings back these rushing memories of me playing a ball, Saturday mornings, whatever it gets me to be, Sunday mornings, every time, right?

Is there something like that for you, Betty? Yeah. With, like, swimming and shit? Chalk. Okay, because you had to chalk up with the, uh. Yeah. So chalk. Like sidewalk, I mean, I don't come across, like, gymnastics chalk that much, but, like, sidewalk chalk and the, like, the, like, texture and the smell.

Yeah. And it just, like, gives you all these, like, rushing memories of, like, yeah. That's dope. That's dope. Yeah. Touching wet grass. Go touch wet grass, bro. No, no, no.

Touching wet grass. That's grass in the morning. Grass in the morning. Yeah. 100%. It reminds me of so much, so many things. Chlorine. Those red thermoses that you drink out of, the smell of those.

Yeah. Garden hose. Yeah, garden hoses. Is there anything like that for you, Big Day? Or where you just, you'll smell something and you're like, Dan, that brought me back to what my life was. Well, I didn't love football like you did, but the smell of a rubber floor.

Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, in the gym? Yeah, like that always makes me think of like high school football. Because our like the weight room was like that. And then also the locker room, the whole facility was like that rubber floor and had a very distinct smell. That actually gives me PTSD though. That's what I'm saying. I hate that.

Yeah. Because it's like, I can't work out now. Like, so I have to find other ways to be active because when I go into a gym, I just get this overwhelming sense of like anxiety of like yo give me to fuck out of it because i spent day after day an hour after i was just in a gym lifting all these different kind of exercises and i just fuck that shit for life the smell of the laundry

that like sweat smell yeah okay yeah yeah you know what i'm saying like that like other people's stale ass jockey that i didn't really that that's a that's a wild take i didn't hate that shit like it was almost it's almost like nostalgia like it's like like a dirty sweaty locker room it's almost like home it feels like yeah

you know what I mean because that was also when you were chilling post practice talking shit with the boys and developing the camarader yeah Aryan you would you would be able to corroborate this or not I I've so you go play basketball right now and you sweat right that smells a certain

way yeah football sweat smells different you know why it's because of the the pads have old sweat on them but do you do y'all agree like do y'all know what i'm talking yeah yeah i know exactly it smells very distinct and you smell other people's sweat yeah yeah it's a it's a different it's a different stench for sure i know what you're saying it's very distinct yes it's like if you gave me if you gave me two two bags full of laundry

and one of them were basketball shorts absolutely absolutely i would absolutely be able to distinguish and blindfolded i would for sure be able to do that yeah That's a good call. That's a good call. Yeah. But I thought he was a good podcast dog. He's back there. Yeah, PFT's dealing with his dog right now.

Like, they're causing a ruckus. That's not a good look for all of us, you know, pro dogs. We were told this was a good podcast dog, and here we are. I'm going for every. I'll take it how I can get it, baby. Your mouth guard, the smell of your mouth guard, because you didn't wash that. Now, I think that one might be a you thing. What?

your mouth your mouth guards didn't have a smell I'm sure it did I don't remember mine I mean not to me I didn't wait what do you mean what I wonder if football pads

smell different from hockey pads they do I don't understand to play hockey hockey hockey shit smells almost worst oh you know I'm thinking okay so I played with you know the

the pacify mouth pieces yeah so I play with that and they have holes in it so I could breathe through it. That might change the smell. If you just kept your shit in it, it was just maybe that's why yours had a smell to it. Remember Mark Ingram's mouthpiece? The one that had the spinner whenever he'd exhale?

Or was that, was that Ingram or Kamara? Oh, yeah, yeah. Camara had one like that, but the first guy that did it was, oh, man. I forget, but Alvin has had some like that, I think. Then it became a thing for a little while. Oh, it was Benny Snell at Kentucky He's the one that had the spinner on it

I think he was the first guy Those are cool Bring this back You guys want to talk about The American Revolution a little bit more No, no, it wasn't, it was the chin strap The chin strap The chin strap smelled terrible

It almost smelled like Chinese food Because of the salt Chinese food smells awesome Yep PFT, what was happening with your dog? Maybe one of your prejudices there? He's whining a little bit because he's in his crate. I just said it wasn't a great look for those of us that were, you know, pro dog that this,

we're told this was a good podcast dog. He made a show and a half. Well, he's a good podcast dog. He just, he's a puppy like any other puppy. He's in captivity. If he had a fin, it would be slumped over. No, no, he's happy. We just had a good walk when we took a quick break.

He's doing great. He pooped twice. He's the best. All right, American Revolution. Yeah, American Revolution. Let's talk about it. We're going to get into the Revolutionary War in a second. Before we do, it's brought to you by game time.

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uh importing a lot of tobacco back to england and we needed more land to continue to expand so as we started to do that as the the british government was encouraging our expansion um what happened was we got into this big ass war um with the native americans and the french joined in at the time it was called the seven years war which actually was a nine year long war but basically we were like uh the great britain used the united states as part of its fighting forces so the commander i I believe one of the commanders, or one of the high-up-ranking colonels of the British Army during that war was George Washington. He commanded the Virginia Regiment, which was actually quite a small force. What's interesting about that war, it was kind of a proxy war between France and Britain,

and the reason why it's also sometimes called the French and Indian War is that the British enlisted a lot of Native Americans to fight the French. So it wasn't totally in. But George Washington's experience in that war really made him suitable to become the commander of the Continental Army later because he'd never been to Europe. He'd never experienced a lot of the European battle training that a lot of the guys who are studying Napoleonic wars in that sort of army on army style of fighting were just two groups met in a field. and just two armies just took shots at each other until someone charged, someone died, basically almost one of the stupider ways to fight a war, basically just, you know, laying on the line and just trying to pound the football on the one-yard line as opposed to do any other trickery, just line up, best man wins.

But George Washington, by seeing this war, saw all the detrimental ways that European combat wasn't going to work on the American continent because especially how a lot of the natives who were fighting on the French side were able to outmaneuver the British fighting forces and sort of start this guerrilla-style warfare that became huge for Washington, the American Revolution. Yeah, wars back in the day, they were fought by like idiots. It was just basically like, there's honor, you line up in a straight line,

and then you're going to shoot all your guns at us. then it's going to be our turn to shoot our guns at you yeah so for the last i don't know like thousand years england and france have just been fighting wars with each other even when they're not fighting wars against each other they're doing little proxy wars they hate each other like if you ever talk to anybody from england or from france about their emotions towards the other country like it is deeply ingrained in you if you grow up in england that you fucking hate the french and if you grow up in france you hate the british uh this is kind of fun both of those seem Completely fair.

Yeah. More so the more than triple handshake. It's the handshake meme except add in another another person in between shaking each side of those hands. The funny thing about the French, and this was something I heard an English person say, that they fight with their feet and fuck with their face.

That's little... That's good. Yeah. I like that. So this is a proxy war, and we're fighting against the Native Americans and the French. and we're basically taking England side because we are British citizens at this point.

George Washington commanding, as Billy mentioned, the fighting style was ridiculous. It was just pretty much an honor system, wars were done on the honor system. Yeah. So it was essentially like if you had more people with guns than they did, you were probably going to win that war. What's ridiculous is that this style of fighting

continued up until World War I, basically just lining up and just, throwing shit at each other till someone gave up. It's like if every time you played football against the Service Academy, like Oklahoma has to run Army's offense because they're playing against Army.

Yeah. And they'd plan battles. They would plan battles. They would be like, oh, this looks like a good, you know, nice field to fight in. There is some honor in that, though. It's the Oklahoma drill of war. Yeah, it is.

None of this Josh Heippel, New Age, bullshit. You line up across on a board and we're going to see who's the bigger man. Yeah. Yeah. The colonists were playing some Mickey Mouse shit out there. Yeah. They put, you know, it was a... They're running these gadget

plays because they know they can't beat us man to man. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, war was wild, man. And so this proxy war continues for a while. As I said, nine years, even though they call it the seven years war. At the end of it, France said, right, you guys win. We're going back to France and England, you get everything east of the

Mississippi River. And I think Spain gave up Florida at that point, too. I don't know what the Spanish were up to at the time. But the bottom line is, since England had been fighting this war overseas for such a long time, they spent a ton of money on this war and they saw it as like them protecting their colonies. And so that led in 1965 to the passage of the, stamp act and the stamp act was the first time that they ever taxed us that they said okay the colonies were making you guys pay money and it's for your own protection because we just spent millions and millions of dollars protecting you over the last seven years even though that was kind of their decision to do so they basically had us then pay taxes to them and the stamp act

was so fucked up have you guys read about the stamp act yeah they they charge money for for a stamp that had to go on any legal document that you filed. I think it went on newspapers. It went on decks of playing cards. It went on everything. If you wanted to purchase anything in the United States, or I guess in the colonies at the time, you had to pay a stamp act that went back to Great Britain

that was supposedly to repay them for the money they spent on the French and Indian War. But in reality, it was just like, okay, we're kind of going broke. We need some money. Today's equivalent would be like any sort of internet message that was sent, like text, tweet, anything, you'd have to like pay money to the government. Or like if every dollar you earned, you had to give money to the government, and then everything you bought, you had to give more money to the government. And then, uh... Like, yeah, no, no, it was more extreme. Every dollar that you save and put in the bank, you have to give some to the government.

It'd be like that. Every purchase that you make. since that goes to the government it would be more like text because back then commercial documents and basically any official text I think even letters some letters were part of the stamp act

like even personal letters the ones that went overseas if they tried to pass the first sales tax today like if a state if sales tax wasn't a thing and all of a sudden New York was like guess what 8.5% of every dollar that you spend

at a grocery store we're going to add that on to the top of it and you're going to send that to the state of new york there's no chance that the state that the uh the state um sales tax would ever come into fruition these days i don't think hmm crazy so we uh we then protested we got up in arms about it and some people refused to pay the stamp tax we had people that would like buy booklets of stamps take them out and burn them in public and then the tax collectors that were employees of the British government that were over here we like went to their houses ding-dong ditched them I think some people got tarred and feathered too oh yeah what's it so talk to me about tar and feathering does that kill you do you die when

you get tart and feathering burns the fuck out of your skin there was a the best representation of media I saw of the tar and feathering was I think there was an HBO series called the atoms that had a pretty insane scene of a tar and feathering. They literally used to take the taxman out, strip them down of all their clothes, dip them into hot tar or paint them on with tar, which fucking burns. Like the same tar you see being put down when they're like filling in cracks in the road in the blacktop, that kind of tar. And then they would just, I think, beat them with pillows or something that would explode.

into feathers but I don't know where they would get the feathers but then they just put feathers on them in hang on the feather the feathering is is kind of uh that's just rubbing salt in the world yeah did they need to actually put the feathers on them and make them look like giant birds yeah I want to know where that where I want to know who came up with the tar and feathering punishment so goaded oh no one was known to have been killed as the result of taring and feathering it was extremely painful um so yeah they would look like it have the humiliating appearance of a chicken or a large bird sounds like something that a college football program would do to freshmen yeah let's let's feather this dude probably one just north of chicago let's

let's make them look like a big bird yeah oh man so they tar they tart and feathers a bunch from, they beat them up. What else, Billy? So it was a public punishment and ridicule that had been used in Europe since the Middle Ages. But it was made famous by our founding fathers. So... It says the founding fathers.

It was typically pine tar. They would pour or brush hot pine tar all over their body. This pine tar was not as hot as modern petroleum-based tar when heated, but would often blister or burn the skin. Hmm. Oh, on at least one occasion, the colonists lit the feathers on fire to burn the skin underneath. The person would then often be placed on a cart or forced to sit on a wooden rail and then would be paraded through the streets of the town to make a mockery of them. Occasionally a sign would be fashioned that would explain why the person was being punished, and they'd often be struck or whipped as well. As awful as a punishment, it would be to be tart and feathered. Crowds and individuals would often use it as a threat. The threat of having to endure such treatment proved to be a powerful.

tactic of intimidation. We should tar and feather those people who like take pictures, the perves on the planes and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, they should get tart and feathered. I was going to say, I don't know if this is a popular take, but we need more public humiliation punishments. The gallows, sorry, not the gallows, the stock or the stocks or whatever where they just put people's arms through the holes and make them just stand there. But if you're, if you do something that you're going to go to jail for like two months, like instead of that, you just get like parades. through the street like they throw a parade for what a

dunce you are and everybody just points and laughs like ha ha look at that guy and then you see him out in public are like hey that's the guy that we threw the parade for how stupid he is mob rule might be a little uh that that can get a little slippery we're not advocating advocating for violence here billy we're just saying no just just pointing and laughing and dressed up as a bird yeah you have to have I'm not advocating for taring and feathering

I'm just saying put them on a float like world's biggest dip shit and drive them through the town everybody gets to point and laugh have a nice fun lunch break and then when you see him at the grocery store you're like hey that's the parade guy you would go to this parade

yeah absolutely a couple at least I'm sure after a while it would get kind of old but the first one would be awesome but then see see the open open up a new counter worms you're all for not making people profit over stupid shit. The first guy that

goes through this parade is going to have a podcast he's going to get some kind of video. I mean, people have podcasts now about like going to jail. So. Yeah, but this is a specific thing made to humiliate them, not enrich them. That's true. Netflix presents to be worked out.

Netflix presents Tard. The baby gronk dad story. Yes. Like maybe we make this not for crime. but just for that's a slippery slope too, but like just the worst, you know, the worst people who haven't committed crimes such as baby gronk's dad. Yeah. Oh my God.

This one guy, John Malcolm, a 51 year old customs official in Boston, he struck a patriot in the street. He was then dragged from his house. They stripped them. They put hot tar on him. And then they beat him with pillows. So they did beat him with pillows until. The feathers went everywhere, and then he got covered in them.

And they made him chug tea until he pute. I'm telling you, that's not, that's not nothing. No, this, this is the type of stuff that happened before the nuclear bomb. It's, anyway, it's not, it's not, it's not, I'm not saying it's, it's, it's grew. It's just like a, it's like a evil-ass way to, like, torture somebody. Yeah. Like, it's evil. Having five or six people.

just beat the shit out of you with pillows would suck. If there was a way that we could do it with room temperature blue and then the feathering part, I'd be on board for that so you don't get the burning. Home alone one. Home alone one. Yeah, there you go. It has douse them in Elmer's

and then you can beat them with pillows. Not in the eyes, though. Stay away from the eyes. You ever catch the corner of a pillow to the eye? Yeah. actually have. It shit hurts. I'm actually struggling right now with pillows, man. I can't find a good one. And the one that I had, my friend fixed because it was losing feathers or whatever, cotton. And there's a hole in it. And so it was kind of like getting smaller and smaller. And so

she fixed it, but put too much in it. And that's too big. And that was my only pillow I can sleep with. And now I have, I think, like, eight different kinds of pillows on my bed. And I don't like any of them. It's a struggle. I'm worried about that. I'm moving. I need to buy new pillows. And I don't know. I searched for the pillow, the pillow I have that I sleep with every night. It's perfect. But it's like really, really old. It's like yellow kind of. And so, so I want new ones. But I Google that brand and they have 37 types of pillows. So I don't know which one it is. And now I don't, I don't know what to buy. If I was you, I would keep your pillow and change, put a different cover on it. I, yeah, it's just the pillow looks, it's time for new pillows. By the way, when a pillow turns yellow,

it doesn't mean you pissed on it. Someone, I got to do an argument. Yeah, definitely not. Like, I've gone to an argument with someone that like an old pillow is yellow. It's like, oh, that must be pee. I was like, no, that just happens to pillows. I don't know why. They just fade. But they turn like yellow. I think it's one of your friends that you drink beers and move with. Yes, it was. I mean, it's years of sweat and, like, you know. And it's like you're dirty, like sometimes new to lay down. Not like dirt dirty, but like you over time. Yeah, no.

I will say though, Big T, like a lot of men have it where it's like you. I mean, like a pillow cover, you can see the inside of the pillow a little bit. Like it's like really yellow. Well, that's why I'm saying. I'm buying new pillows, but they, you know, I don't know what pillows to get. Or maybe depending, I don't know if it's a feather pillow or just like a. like a temporepetic type sometimes you can take the covers off of those pillows and wash it i'm just going to call it right now it's just the pillow there's going to be i'm doing pre it off

because big tea is going to be furious when he goes to a store and tries to buy pillows and he sees how much pillows cost i'm i've uh through this moving process i've become so numb to what things cost that just add it to the list. I mean, it's, it's insane. How much are you? Like I just bought a new bed. All this stuff. Like a trash can. Oh, that did this yesterday. I was like, yeah, we got to go buy a trash can. Just crazy what they're charging for things these days. Joe, fix it.

Figure it out. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm looking at, I'm looking at pillows right now. There's no way. There's no way a pillow. One pillow costs 50 bucks, right? I'm seeing 60 and you got to buy two. I've bought pillows all on the spectrum because I need something I've bought a $200 pillow that is trashed There's no way

How much is a my pillow? I don't know he's going out of business Actually no I've tried them They're uh you know I hate to say this awful Terrible pillows 30 dollars I'm that's cheaper okay so They're this thick and it's It's bad they're bad pillows

I wish they weren't See I struggled to find the balance between like Comfort and Firm too firm and too big it hurts I need something that's like right I want it I need the Goldilocks on a pillow

I want it to be this tall and flat and firm yes that's my pillow well if you find one fucking call me because I'm in the market you find one call me

alright hey you want to go pillow shopping make a video I fucking absolutely you want to come to Chicago this weekend and go pillow shopping

that would be a great video you too just going to crate and barrel I might be able to go to Chicago this big game, right? All right, come on. I'll be there on Friday. Wait, stay the weekend and catch me McKenzie at the end.

You know what? Pencil me in. I might go to Chicago this week. All right, come on. I'll show you the new group. I'm going to find me a good golf course and I'm going to make a trip of that. I like a pillow that when you lay your head down on it, it's like soft enough so that you sink in and it covers your ears.

So it might be too soft. Yeah, that's really. Yeah, because then you're just laying on the mattress. Yeah, then you're not. pillow. Yeah, but then it covers your ears. What do you need to cover your ears from? It's for noise.

I think people who don't live in major cities don't have that issue. Noise cancelling pillow. It's just so floofy. They should make a pillow that has a small speaker inside of it. I think they probably do make sense. So if you want to go to bed, like listening to YouTube or listen to like a sleep meditation podcast or something like that, it's got the speaker inside of it. So it's a very faint sound that you can hear.

and only you can hear it, you're sleeping. Also, taking a pull of the men in the room, how many pillows do you guys have on your bed? Four? Well, I'm different. If I had the pillow that I liked, I would have one pillow on my bed. But I have around eight right now

because I've had so many different kinds that I've bought in the last two years. You're hoarding pillows. Well, I can't find the right one, so it's just like a whole bunch of trial pillows. And none of them work And the one that finally did work Which I've had for years

It's ruined now So I'm struggling But usually men don't have a lot of pillows Right how many do you have big two For I sleep with one But I have so another one For if I'm watching TV

Or playing video games or whatever So I have two But then I sleep with one You kind of all just impress me right now Do you like hold one? I hold one I coddle one All sometimes

I'll sometimes have one to the side Yeah My pillow becomes my puppy My pillows are my puppies I love I will cuddle with the pillow Yeah You guys all just impress me right there What as opposed to how many

Like I know a lot of guys that have like one Like one on the whole bed You can't have one on the whole bed What if you have a friend come over? What? A lady friend I have some pillows in stock for them I know but I'm just saying some men don't

Some men just are like Have fun on the mattress yeah that's wild i have probably eight or nine pillows in my apartment because i've tried different ones and i hate a lot of them and they're sitting in the closet yeah all right we are the same here back to the revolution they beat the shit out of people with pillows their pillows are probably shitty too so it probably hurt yeah they probably like had the feathers on the end that are pointy and you could feel them in the pillow oh no small paper cut stabs yeah yeah so they got They got all buck wild on these tax collectors, and it worked.

Protests works. They repealed the stamp tax, and they're like, okay, obviously this isn't going to work, but we also can't let them think that they're going to get away with it. So like a year later, they developed the Townshenax, and those were basically the British Parliament saying, we have your authority. They were trying to put us in check. They're like, okay, you may have fought us back on the, stamp tax. But guess what? These new taxes, that's going to be on everything. So we're going to tax

tea. We're going to tax all sorts of food. Anything that shipped from overseas is going to be taxed. Paint, paper. They passed that in 1767. And in order to enforce those get paid, because people were just straight up not paying the stamp taxes, the British Parliament sent over some troops. They sent some troops up to New England to enforce this, protect the tax collectors, make sure they were still going to get their fair shake. So the fact that they sent troops over, I think it was two regiments of the British Army got sent over to Boston. The fact that there were now troops from the British Army looking over citizens of, I guess, of Great Britain at the time, that didn't sit too well. Not in New England.

not anywhere also this is sort of where the third amendment came from uh non-quartering soldiers because these british soldiers were just forced upon the populace and they would just live in random people's houses and they're just like you have to feed me you have to and then like the he's got a gun and he's got power and he might like you know your wife's like there was a lot of instances of british shoulders staying in houses and like raping women who lived in the home and like you You couldn't do anything about it because they have all this power and they were just abusing it in your own home. And this really pissed off a lot of patriots because they were getting cucked in their own home. Yep.

That'll happen. And then fast forward about two years in Boston, there was a British Army detachment that was heckled and I guess they would say attacked, but there were rocks thrown at it. there were some oyster shells. They started throwing oysters at the British troops. The British troops then opened fire on the crowd, and they killed five people. That was the Boston massacre. And the soldiers were actually charged with murder at the time. They got arrested.

The United States or the Boston colony or whatever it was arrested them. And then they couldn't find anybody to represent the troops that shot into the crowd and killed five people. No lawyer wanted to do it because they didn't want to be. seen like they were a loyalist because they were patriots and loyalists they didn't want to be seen like they were a loyalist that they were taking the side of great britain and all this so john adams stepped up and he said i'm i believe so strongly in the rule of law that i'm willing to defend you uh because every person deserves a fair trial the brother them what the brother of his more famous nowadays beer making of samuel adams that was his brother do you think

samuel adams is more famous than john Adams? I think commercially, yes. No chance. Amongst the beer drinking population. Yes. Amongst Billy. Amongst Billy, he's way more famous. John Adams was a president.

I know. Who do you think? Look at the mentions. Samuel Adams is probably way more Google than John Adams nowadays. Let's check Google trends. I feel like Sam Adams wasn't, like in his lifetime, he wasn't looked upon with any degree of reverence like his brother was. Also, their second cousins, not brothers.

Not brothers. That's true. Okay. When I heard that, I was like, are you sure they were brothers? Yeah, Sam Adams at the time, he was like a failed businessman. He was a rabble rouser, wasn't he? Like, he'd just like to start trouble. And he brewed beer part time.

I don't think that was his job. Samuel Adams is much more Googled than John Adams. Yeah, dude, they're not searching for the person. They're searching for the beer. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. He's probably more well-known today. But if somebody Googles you, does that... Nobody knows who he is.

Necessarily mean that you're more famous because maybe they're trying to find out about you. Like, nobody's out here Googling Joe Biden. We know who Joe Biden is. Yeah. But Vermont, for some reason, Googles Samuel Adams and John Adams a lot for some reason. Hmm.

All right, so John Adams got him off. It was a successful. defense of the British soldiers so people were upset at the British soldiers soldiers because they shot and killed five people Boston decided we're not taking that shit so there was a tax on the T and we talked about the taxation without representation that meant that the I guess I keep going back and forth between like Great Britain England whatever whatever you want to come the British the British were taxing us and then we didn't have a seat at the table in their

parliament so they were just basically using us as a piggy bank without us getting any say in the matter of where that money goes who's spending it um what we're spending it on what they need there was none of that conversation happening so um a bunch of people in boston got together they disguised themselves as mohawk and they boarded ships in boston harbor and then they dumped a whole fuck load of tea into the harbor and they called it the Boston Tea Party by the way I wanted to go back to the Boston Massacre

real quick. If you had asked me how many people died in the Boston Massacre, I would have said 60 to 80 and it was five. You think it was overblown? It has a good PR team. You think it was a mostly peaceful massacre, Big Tea? I don't know. Some might say that.

Comparatively like five people in Boston at that time is probably comparatively like almost I don't think you can do inflation on people dying really no I'm saying percent to the population I don't know probably be equivalent five people in the 1700s is equivalent

of 25 people today this says Boston's population in 1775 was about 14,000 hmm this small town yeah okay maybe Bill is right that in a small town

that should be hey they did and they fucked around and found out yeah to the tune of the greatest country that's ever

existed so maybe Jason's on to something I don't know so we dumped all their we dumped their teeth

their stupid tea into the harbor I wonder how many fish died that was that was the real Boston massacre the Boston

fish fry from the 1770s all these poor fish swimming around in there just getting do you think that back in the 1700s do you think people in Boston

had the Boston accent it was probably no it was worse they sounded like British people yeah well no British people didn't even sound like British people

yeah it was like the original British though it was like they sounded like they were from Savannah Georgia wait what we've talked about this oh yeah the Savannah accent

I don't know if they sounded like that it was It was probably a dialect that we haven't heard before or the British. And so it was like more originally British. And then we got here, got, you know, probably more lazy because it wasn't as emphasized. And we kind of did away with a lot of their customs. And so they created the British accent after the Revolutionary War, though, because they wanted to distinguish themselves from Americans. We made them change their own accent.

Look it up. Look it up. Look it up. I mean, I'm preemptively saying I don't believe that. Wait, so, Big T, are you positing that right now we speak with an English accent? No, so British people in the 1700s and before probably sounded like a, like, Savannah Southern, but like that, that Regal Southern accent. Oh, the mid-Atlantic accent, the one that's like, uh, now, see, here's, here's what we're talking about. Kind of between that and like molasses.

We're talking about the American Revolution. All right. Now, see here, like foghorn, leghorn. I say, I say, I say, that's a whole lot of tea in that harbor. Yeah, and so, I don't know what you was doing now, that. I do declare. I do declare. I do declare.

I don't think they did, Brad. After the Revolutionary War, upper class and upper middle class citizens in England began using non-Rodic speech as a way to show their social status. What is non-rotic? What does that mean? That's a fantastic question. Speakers pronounce their R's. Receive pronunciation,

aka typical British accents, is non-rotic. So words like card are pronounced like cod. That's kind of, that's Boston adjacent. But yeah, but they're non-rotic. They don't pack my cat.

So how did that, so are you saying British people talk like southern folks? My understanding is it sounded most similar to kind of a, what we would call a, Southern American accent now, and then after the Revolutionary War, they were like, well, we don't want to sound like them. And they just, they changed it intentionally. So Americans kept their Rodic American accent for the most part. Port cities on the East Coast, especially in New England,

had a lot of contact with the Arliss British. So if you always wondered why Boston natives Pock the Caz and Potty Hod with a glass of Cabinet, thank Rodicism. So Rodicism is more like Boston speech where they don't pronounce their ars and they're ours and they go like, hello, welcome to my palace. This is my car. And I party hard in Harvard Yard.

All right. So, you know what I'm saying? So the British, they change their language to sound like what? To sound like Bostonians, but just in a British accent. You know,

so they, like if you pronounce like Boston speak in a British accent, you'll get, like I park my car in Harvard yard This fucking This fucking Prince Harry

Harry man Fucking but you say You know you're speaking British And you almost pronounces your Oz just like the Bostonians But it's different So so domino effect The stamp tax passes

And then the big domino is Everyone in England talks like rear admiral Precisely Precisely Quite quiet But down sale, wait, I do declare I pronounce my oz, I pronounce my oars. I do declare this tea becomes a property of the bottom of Boston Harbor. So they dumped a fuckload of tea.

The British didn't like that shit. And more of the persecution continued with more troops being sent over, more taxes being levied. And then we established the committees, of course, respondents in 1772 and in the United States that was between the colonies so that we could coordinate what we were going to do to respond to British colonial policy so it shows that we're uniting against each other right we're joining forces because we realize okay this we're not Boston's not going to be able to defeat the British Empire yeah and if they keep fucking around with all the other colonies they can defeat us all one by one it's the old join or die now you see

at half court at the at the Philadelphia 76ers games the snake that's cut up into many parts join or die you got to you got to unite as one if you want to fight back against these Brits and so that that's kind of what started the United States that was the first time the states were ever united and so um then there were the intolerable acts also known as the coercive acts so this was 1774 this is a year after the Boston Tea Party they had the Boston Port Act the Massachusetts Government Act

the Administration of Justice Act the Quartering Act and they basically pretty much Massachusetts is the small kid at the bar your buddy that you go out with that talks a lot of shit to like the biggest group of dudes there and starts a fight and then comes back to

you as like we got to kick these guys asses now and they drug us all into it like Boston Boston pushed all the buttons on the British got them all riled up and then Boston's like look what they're doing to all of us we got to fight these guys

this actually sounds like a lot of my friends from Boston to this down like short Irish guys they're like let's go fuck yeah they're just talking a lot of shit yeah and they need their boys to have their back luckily for them we said okay yeah luckily for them they're Virginia

all right Smitty we got your back so so yeah after after the intolerable acts which were basically to single out Massachusetts, we established the first continental Congress, which is the committees of correspondence. We got together and were like, hey, okay, we need to meet up. We got to link up somewhere in person and talk about all this shit

because writing a bunch of letters isn't going to cut it. That's not an effective way to coordinate. So they met down in Philadelphia in 1774. There were 56 delegates. They represented every colony except for Georgia. I don't know what Georgia was doing at the time. Georgia's doing their own thing. Big team, maybe you can answer for that as a Georgian.

I'm not sure. Sneaky, a lot of royalists. Loyalists. Loyalists in Georgia at that time. A lot of British influence in Georgia. So along with the intolerable acts, one of the things that they did, in addition to all those things I mentioned before,

was they made more British troops be housed in taverns and vacant buildings. So really what happened was Boston talked a lot of shit. Boston started a fight. And then the British response to that was, well, we're going to close down all your bars. And then Boston was like,

fuck that, it's on. That's the last straw. You're not going to be able to go even with the boys at all anymore. And that shit didn't fly too high with Boston. So they got the entire continent into a fight on their behalf. Shout out Boston. This makes me like Boston a little bit more, I think.

I mean, the Freemasonry, so Freemasonry was very intertwined with the founding fathers because a lot of the times, many of the founding fathers, I think, I want to say like 14 of the original signers of the Articles of the Declaration of Independence were Mason's. That's probably wrong. I will check the actual facts. But because they met in these meetings, they could talk of acts of rebellion and group up and meet. together under the guise of just being Freemasons when really a lot of the times they were planning like Sons of Liberty type stuff like it allowed them to gather to take greater action. That's about the same time that common sense came out, which was like a 50 page pamphlet that Thomas Payne wrote basically saying we got to we got to do something about this

because it's going to get worse before it gets better. And so it got passed around. People read it in bars and shit. They would read it at local get-togethers. Just pretty much outlining the necessity for the colonies to separate themselves in Great Britain at the time. 21 signers of the Declaration

of Independence were Masons. 14 U.S. presidents have been Masons. Okay. Interesting. Only 14? Yeah. 31%. So with common sense, this was probably the most influential thing written in the 1700s up to that point.

I'm trying to think what we would consider a modern-day common sense, that like most people have read that most people, that's changed the world. The Jersey Shore note. Yeah. Yeah. Ron. No, Sammy. Ron.

The first night at bed. The first night. I don't even know what the note is. What is that? What is the Jersey Shore note? No, either. It's stupid. Two Americas.

Two Americas. What do you think the other, it's definitely the Bible. So other than the Bible, what is the most read book in America over the last, let's say, 25 years? Art of the deal. Twilight. Is it close second? No, 50 shades of gray. 50 shades of gray was definitely.

It probably is something like that, honestly. I want to say probably like the Harry Potter books, maybe. Yeah, it could be. most read book It says on here Um You're pulling to me right now Well there's different

There's different like Ways list of best selling books A Tale of Two cities By Charles Dickens One is to kill a mockingbird Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is up there Yeah I was right Yeah

So on this on Amazon says So number one is the Bible Two is the Quran The three is the Harry Potter series Yeah. Hmm. Wow. Were there any hidden messages in that?

The Alchemist is up there. I've read that book. The Diary Van Frank. The Twilight Saga. Lion Witch and the Wardrobe sold a lot of copies. Think and Grow Rich. I've read that too. I feel like everybody had a copy of the Giving Tree grown up.

Like, I felt basic. Some of my books that I've read is on the top. And by the way, we are Team Tree. that kid was a piece of shit I don't remember what happened in that I know I've read it but I don't remember Is there anyone that isn't? I don't like the message of the book

is like it's supposed to be a happy relationship between the boy and his tree but that boy just takes that tree for all his worth and doesn't give a shit about him That's kind of the point I don't think it's supposed to have that message at the end where it's like this kid's a piece of shit I think the message that the book tries to convey

is that it was a good like brotherhood that the two had I think an astute reader such as yourself Big T came to the natural conclusion which is like this kid this kid sucks or took all the stuff from him or like the kid built a house out of the tree yeah and then at the end

then at the end cut him down to a stump and was like wow now I can even sit on you and the tree's dead well i think it was because yo dude like stop hanging out with the tree go get some bitches and he did and he built a house out of the tree the tree was like if you're hanging out with the tree all day you're not going to get any bitches yeah so go get some bitches and you can make a house out of me when you get a wife you have no hose yeah you spend all your time talking to a tree

yeah yeah i guess maybe the tree was a good wingman i don't know i'm willing to be educated have my mind changed on that yeah so we started to get together Thomas Payne gives a big speech in a church and says I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death and basically like a lot of this stuff that happened

was just people getting drunk in a bar and getting riled up about stuff all time I mean as quotes go all time quote top 10 it is a good one yeah I mean like that that'll rile the troops to this day Yep Braveheart That quote was

The Braveheart quote was based off that quote I don't care what anyone says Because historically I don't think William Wallace said that shit Which part? Freedom Yeah Or every man dies Not every man truly lives

Yeah That's a good one too Freedom Oh I thought Drake said that So April 18th 1775 Paul Revere, he rode his little horse from Charlestown to Lexington

because he saw that the British were marching from Boston to seize the colonial armory at Concord. So at Concord, they had a bunch of guns, a bunch of artillery and shit, and they dispatched some knight riders that would go out there and see if the British were going to invade. So it wasn't just Paul Revere. Paul Revere gets all the shine for that. Billy can you look up real quick who else made the ride with Paul Revere because there's a bunch of people

that everyone talks about Paul Revere had a great marketing team afterwards he gets credit for that entire thing I think a woman actually hit more places than Paul Reveal. Oh yeah? Yeah Paul Revere he was snitching yeah

Samuel Prescott Israel Bissell William Dawes and Sybil Ludington there wasn't All right so shout out the whole crew not just Paul Revere. Yeah. Civil Luddington. Yeah.

Was a woman. And she worn more people? Yep. All right. So they warned all the Minutemen. And the Minutemen were all across the colonies. They were just militia members that were designed to get ready for a fight because they knew the fight was coming. So Paul Revere and Sybil Ludington and Israel and all those other people that Billy named,

they rode their horses warned the troops that were at Concord that hey there's 700 British dudes that are coming up let's fuck them up so they meet on Lexington Green and then nobody knows who fired the first shot

which probably means that we did because history is written by the victors right? Good I'm glad we did it if we're saying that we don't know who did it that probably that probably means we did it Because if there was any doubt at all that we didn't, we'd be like, yeah, they, they, they shot it.

So, uh, so there's a battle there. And then, um, the British got beat down at Concord. So we kind of retreated a little bit from Lexington. And then, um, we got some reinforcements. And we beat Britain back and they got really embarrassed. And then they came back. They tried to regroup. And then we had some snipers that started shooting at them. So this is another thing where maybe inflation makes a difference, but the stats, the tail of the tape for the battles of Lexington and Concord

were we killed 273 British and they killed like 90 to 100 Americans. Yep. So we won. Yeah. But we won it.

Yeah, a lot of these battles, you know, how much of, I think the percentage of people who actually fought in the revolution compared to the population was a lot smaller than you think. Stir about with Chile. So in 1775,

Great Britain, their strategy was they got to figure out a way to get more troops, get people to beat us on our own soil. The British governor of Virginia, who was Lord Dunmore and November 1775 issued a proclamation offering freedom to any slaves of rebellious Americans who are able to enter British lines. So basically if you could get to our side and fight

with us, you're free. You're a free person. So then tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of African Americans joined the British Army to fight against the colonists at that point. And then some people fought on the pro-independent side as well. But there were a lot more that fought with the British. And you can't blame them. I don't think that the British governor of Virginia had any interest in like being a good person or abolishing slavery since a lot of the money that Great Britain was making was coming from exports from the colonies that were produced

using slave labor. I don't think they had any intention of. honoring like the abolition of slavery. They just need more people to come fight with them and potentially die. So they said, okay, we'll set you free if you do fight for us. And so then the first major battle was Bunker Hill. And that battle lasted like two hours. That's such a long time to have a fight to have like an all-out battle.

It's a two-hour battle. And then the Patriots had to abandon their position. but they fought good enough to kind of show that they mean business so there were 2,200 british that were seeing action there and then more than a thousand ended up dead or wounded that's a pretty pretty solid kd ratio it was it was uh one to two no it was two to one kd we had 450 casualties they had a thousand fifty four yeah but they had more people than us so they were able to like withstand all those casualties but it was a uh it's the A moral victory, which sounds like loser talk, but it was, it showed that we could hang in there.

Then July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson. It was voted on the first time on July 2nd. And then July 4th, they adopted it as an official document. We had old Johnny H. put his big ass signature down at the bottom, kind of a look at me move. 200 copies were made oh really yeah where are they different places

library of congress there's probably some floating around out there pretty sure there's some and some private collections there so speaking of slavery there was actually a part of the declaration of independence that was deleted later that was um it was taken out before it got signed jefferson wrote an entire i think it was like two paragraphs about the abomination that is slavery

and how the government of England has used slave labor and expanded slave labor and started wars in Africa and just fucked up the world by relying on slave labor and they took that out at the last minute because some of the southern states didn't like it very much so he deleted and also let's be honest

Thomas Jefferson had a lot of slaves he was he was a slave owner writing about how bad owning slaves was. And raped a lot of them. Rape a lot of them. Bad guy. And so, there are a lot of Thomas Jefferson apologists being like, yeah, he had slaves, but he was a good slave owner.

He treated them well. He treated them well. Your boy, Ron DeSantis, doing he's on a whole press store doing that shit right now. What do you say? He was, he's basically saying, we often tell the bad tell the slave. We're going to paraphrase, but he goes on to say like, but there's a lot of people that end up having trades jobs and prospering after we abolish slavery. It's like, yeah, we're shut the fuck up. It's just the silliest takeover.

They're rewriting the, they're trying to get a new narrative in Florida education system trying to posit slavery as not all that bad. It was bad, but we don't ever tell the good side of slavery. Ron is watched. Yeah, if you want to know, Vivek. Vevac, what's he pulling at like 3%? No, it's like 6 now. He's in third and hasn't even had a debate yet. He's going to win, but continue.

I don't know about that. Trump is going to absolutely destroy him. No, Trump likes him because he said he thought Trump was a good president, which was a good strategy by him. And Trump has never, ever turned on somebody that he said that he likes before. I'm just telling you, just watch the first debate. Okay. All right.

You're not going to debate, though. Who? Trump. Oh, I don't care of, I'm talking about Vivek. I don't care if Trump does. Oh, okay. I'm sure he'll hold his own in the debate, but I don't he's at 6% like that's that's bad. For having

zero name neck recognition and not having done a debate yet, that's outstanding. I don't know if I'd say outstanding, but we'll see. So, hey, what was this Thomas Jefferson thing called this extra? I haven't never heard of this. The

extra, what was it on? It was in the Declaration of Independence, and he took it out. They made him take it out. But again, he was so full of shit. If you want to know Thomas Jefferson's real opinions about African Americans, read notes on the state of Virginia that he wrote. And it's one of the more racist things that you'll ever read in your entire life. But he tried to claim the moral high ground in the declaration. So after the Declaration of Independence gets adopted, kind of puts a big target on a lot of people's backs because they said, yeah, we're out, peace. We're, we're an open rebellion against you right now. We admit it. And then American Captain Nathan Hale got captured by the British because

they were fighting on Long Island. And he got, he got captured and they hanged him. And he actually had, this is maybe the best quote. If you go back and you look at give me liberty or give me death, this is a dude that knows that he's about to die. And his quote was, I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Hell yeah. This dude wanted to die ten times. I thought I'm saying. I couldn't imagine.

Also, call it my country. The country had existed for like a month and a half at this point. He's coming on a little bit strong. I don't even think your country loves you back, dude. That's getting the championship tattoo in the preseason. That's balzy. It is.

That's getting married. Vegas someone you just said yeah yeah it's no it's like proposing after you've been after you've been after on your second date we're in love right you're not even you're not even exclusive it's kind of little because you like you rebel and then you like oh fuck fuck that we started out oh it's us like fuck them this is us I'm riding for the squad I respect yeah I mean he was the first to really say like I'm riding for the squad as he's about to get killed probably a lot of people were like okay if he's if he's riding the non-riding and give people someone to like you know they say remember the alamo people were probably like

i'm gonna it does suck that i can only die once for nathan hale he probably made a lot more people die because he said that actually yeah no doubt so um we started take some ls and george was in charge of leading the continental army and we started to get beat back a little bit we got driven out of new york city we got driven through new jersey the british were dominating us and we regrouped on Christmas night and there was like a bunch of fog and we crossed the Delaware River because at the time it wasn't just the British Army and they also had a bunch of Hessians which are where the Prussians tell me about tell me about Hessians I mean Germany has had such a long history of having warriors to hire dating back to the Varanian Guard

who were just Vikings and these Hessians were Prussians just of a different kingdom they wore green coats and they were notorious for surrendering because they didn't really give a fuck because they were mercenaries. So easy target

on Christmas night when these dudes just wanted to booze and they were missing home in Crampus. Yeah, they were fucked up. They were really drunk. Yeah. And so this, goes back to like the rules of war where they're like surely surely they won't try to attack us on christmas eve we're all just going to get drunk and hang out and have a great time but um washington

took his troops across the delaware and arrived in trenton they took 900 prisoners and it kind of it gave us a little bit of fuel it gave us like we it was a much needed victory that we needed at that point and then there's also that sick painting of george washington standing up on a as he's crossed in Delaware. I don't think that's how it happened, but it looks awesome. I'm pretty sure a lot of the Hessians actually ended up joining the Continental Army and settled a lot of Pennsylvania. Yeah.

Do you think so? Maybe wrong on that. Okay. But you know, it's actually a very fun fact about a lot of this post-revolution. Do you notice how a lot of towns in upstate New York have a lot of classical names? Like Syracuse, Rome, New York, or Mount Sinai, or it's kind of cool because basically a lot of these revolutionary soldiers after the war, they were given tracks of land all across the northeast. So they just decide to like name them whatever they wanted, be it a town that their family was from or in Britain or just like a place of classical antiquity. so like Bethlehem Pennsylvania or biblical places so that's why they had all those like

because it was it was weird like I was like Nazareth yeah Nazareth like why why is upstate New York have so many like Greek and Roman like stuff from the Odyssey in the Iliad and that was the reason because all these Patriots were like oh let's let's what am I going to name my tract of land Hmm. I don't know that. Have you guys heard of the Battle of Moores Creek? I'd love to hear more. Moores Creek Bridge. This is February 1776. It was a battle between people from the United States. We fought against ourselves because there were the loyalists that didn't want to start a new country. Yeah, the loyalists that were siding with the Brits. And then there were the Patriots.

and they got into a fight at Moores Creek Bridge it's Wilmington, North Carolina is where it's at so a lot of people down in North Carolina they spoke like Scottish they spoke Gaelic and they did a highland charge

across the bridge so it was like the loyalists people that wanted to stay with Great Britain they got swords and shit and they charged across this bridge screaming in Gaelic like their like their braveheart like they're William Wallace so they're charging across this bridge trying to attack people that want to separate from Great Britain and then the Patriots had muskets in artillery and they just they killed everybody they killed a whole

shitload of people and then at that point it kind of became suppressed and there were not that many more loyalists that even existed in North Carolina or any of the Carolinas at that point after that battle. Seems like a pretty one-sided battle. What was the justification to be a loyal? Like, how did they justify themselves? It's a good question. My guess would be the people that were going through the least amount of personal discomfort at the time. Right.

People that might not have had businesses that were impacted by the taxes. People that were doing well on their own. they're just kind of like why are we upset why are we going to upset the apple cart things are pretty good I'm going to stay loyal that would be my guess a lot of them were involved in government

and had direct ties to Britain so like the tax man he was like Britain pays me to collect taxes if I my only skill is being the tax man and counting coins so if that goes away what am I going to do yeah I mean if you were rich and British

like what do you care right things are pretty good so so yeah there's there's loyalists but they pretty much start to get pretty quiet after 1776 and the tide starts to turn a little bit and

the British try to take over Charleston South Carolina like a bachelor at party and they mounted an all-day attack on Sullivan's Island and they could not land their troops on the island because the waters, if you've ever been down to Charleston Harbor or to Charleston, they got some fucked up tides

so they couldn't figure out how to get their ships in. They still have some of the cannons down there on Sullivan's Island that you can see that they use to fire shots at the invading British Navy. But cannons must have been so inaccurate. You're trying to shoot like 500, 600 yards, maybe longer. And they don't really have that much of an aiming, mechanism you just kind of like kind of guess and then you shoot and then you see where it hit

and then you reload shoot again it seems like a very labor intensive process yeah it's pretty coarse yeah it was very obtuse show force yeah so um so we keep fighting we keep fighting there's a battle of saratoga a bunch of shit happened there uh do you guys know about john paul jones the pirate John Paul Jones the naval captain Has the sickest tomb in the world Where is it?

It's at the Naval Academy Was did we I think we discussed it on this show many like years ago Google John Paul Jones Tomb It's it's like a A crypt

And in the middle of it is his casket And it has like Sea stuff all in it It's sick Navy made there their football uniforms against Army two or three years ago based on it. It's awesome. It is pretty dope.

So Billy might not be entirely incorrect about John Paul Jones. He was from Scotland, and he was accused of being a pirate. Yeah, that's, yeah, exactly. And he was a huge help to the U.S. Navy during the revolution because he had so much experience fighting privateers and British ships. I would watch a movie about John Paul Jones. so he he claimed to have survived several mutinies and he would like kill his his crewmates with a sword

because he's like they're trying to take over the ship but he was also when he was in Scotland they thought he was a pirate and so then he kind of he got out of town because they were looking for him for murder and he fled to Virginia and then he found he founded or helped to find

the continental navy and then he commanded US Navy ships. He led a failed assault on Britain and several attacks on British merchant ships. And then later on in his life, he joined the Imperial Russian Navy. This dude just bounced all. This dude just loved to fight at sea. This guy, this is a hard man. Wow. He's, isn't he the guy that said, we got a lot of great quotes coming out of this episode, but he said, I've not yet begun to fight during a battle that lasted for hours. Yeah. He just like to scrap. I've heard that I forget where it's from.

I think it's from like some anime what we do is like he's like, niggas, I'm fighting to save the day. Really, nigger, I just like to fight.

I don't care about none of that shit. I forget what that's all. So he was described by Walter Herrick as a sailor of indomitable courage of strong will and of great ability in his chosen career. He was also a hypocrite,

a brawler, a rake, and a professional and social climber yeah i need to move you out of this guy need to move you out of this guy absolutely also so you get fun fact about the continental army uh george washington made sure made sure that they were all inoculated for smallpox because disease was such a huge part of war at that time uh george washington who had had smallpox in a young age made sure that uh all of his troops got inoculated, which at the time, I think, involved basically wiping pus on a cut in its

very basic form to ensure that the troops had resistance against smallpox. But yeah, Washington was pro-vax. Yep. So we get into it more with the British. They start to British, Great Britain's army is like way bigger. Their Navy's bigger. They start to, they start to, slowly eat away at our numbers and we don't have that many numbers to begin with so we send our ace in the hole over to France to try to convince France to join our side that'd be bin Franklin big and he spends most of his time over there just banging whores yeah which he loved can you imagine that trip you go you spend like how long would that take a month I mean month on a boat he literally was just in France fuck bitches get money like he was just getting money from the

French and having sex with Parisian prostitians. Jefferson, too, for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. You got to be horny as fuck to get on a month-long boat ride just to get laid. Especially considering the quality of the boats back then. That's kind of a real indictment

on American women in the 1700s. The thing is, there weren't that many women in America at this time. At all. Really? Sausage Fest. America was a sausage fest.

So we cook We cook hot dogs American women So like British women Right Which There was a whole land

Of people here Yeah No but like If you look at the populations It was very male skewed Because a lot of it was men Coming from different countries And like think about the law

The colonized parts That's what I'm saying Yeah Yes the colonized parts But I'm talking about There were still people here In civilizations Right

Farther West Mmhmm Preexisting So, so we send, we send Ben Franklin over to France to be like, you know, please try to at least talk to one government official and get them to join our side. So Franklin goes over there on a, I guess you could say like a pussy and naval expedition to try to bring back one of the two, if not both. And he ends up convincing France to join our side. We get it kind of pinned in by some of the British down in, in North Carolina. And we have a big battle at Guilford Courthouse, which was a British victory, even though, again, our strategy is like, just we have a lot of moral victories in this war.

We keep showing up, playing teams close, covering the spread, and we're a feisty team. You don't want to, you don't want to play against us. They're kind of like, is kind of how it's going. The 2008 New York Giants, they like didn't win that much, but they just went on a great run at the end and beat the English. because if you look at the Revolutionary War battles, there are so many Ls for the Patriots. Like, I think the British won the majority of the battles. Yeah, they did.

We outperformed expectations for like six years in a row. Qualified for the playoffs. Yeah, when are they going to win the big one? There are a lot of question marks about us. Well, we got France on the horn, and we told them where we were at fighting some battles in North Carolina. Southern Virginia, and then we end up kind of luring Cornwallis and a lot of the British army into stationing themselves in like central to south, south-eastern Virginia. Oh, and also there's

this asshole named Benedict Arnold that just totally, he sold us out. A dentist. And switch sides. Do you know, uh, do you know about his wife? No. So some people have theorized that he, became a traitor because his wife loved um she came from a really rich family and when the british occupied philadelphia she would go to these really lavish parties at like british officers houses and stuff and so she was a big fan she was like i love the british and so that's what some people think he may have switched up because of uh to appease his wife sad you hate to see it whipped to the max yeah big time big time and so uh he tried to give all sorts of designs and plans to um to the british army and we ended up catching him because

somebody that we captured behind enemy lines like a spy that was traveling down a road got apprehended by the uh the patriot army and so we found all this like these secret plans for some of our forts and some of our battle plans that were clearly written by uh benedict arnold and we're like okay we can't trust that dude anymore so uh cornwallis thinks that he's he's beating us he's feeling pretty good about himself and we get into a fight with him outside yorktown virginia and the french and american troops teamed up we pushed him out onto the peninsula and then the french Navy beat off the British Navy and trapped him. And so Cornwallis was forced to surrender. And the crazy thing is when Cornwallis surrendered, Great Britain still controlled New York.

They controlled Charleston. They controlled a good amount of land. But we just had, we had their army that was pinned in. So he had to turn over sword, surrender there. And then about two years later we signed an official peace treaty and then america was born baby do you think that do you think we should celebrate the fourth of july or do you think that we should celebrate the day that yorktown was surrendered well i like the fourth of july it's great date in the summer it's like early with still a lot of summer left i was going to say when's that date again i don't think it's a good day. Let's see.

October 19th. No. That's right around. We already got Halloween. It can't be a 10th. Yeah. July 4th just sounds so, it's a nice, single digit, perfect summer day. They also said, they also called on the Siege of Yorktown the German battle because there

was Germans in all three armies that participated. They played all sides? Yeah. The Germans were just. filling in for everybody I don't even think they didn't really know like they're just fighting for money so yeah so then we we got the British but the French will tell you that that we got them so I don't know leave your own jump to your own conclusion of that one I think we've repaid that debt and then some to France yeah

they'll be all right so the bottom line is we won We won the Revolutionary War. And then, much to France's chagrin, they supported us in our battle against the colonial powers and supported our revolution amongst the commoners. And then just a few short years later, they're like, oh, shit, we kind of established a dangerous precedence here. Now all of our citizens are going to try to take us out. And then the French Revolution happened. Everybody got the head. So that would be another good episode to do, would be the French Revolution.

very different we set a bad we set a bad example for him yeah all those enlightenment thinkers all of our documents we have anything else who want to cover on the revolutionary war a lot of the british soldiers would be actors in new york city when they weren't fighting and uh actors at the old st john old john street theater 1791 uh they the while the british army held new york city they they passed the time by acting in Broadway shows. Their most popular shows were Shakespearean plays, chosen both for the sophisticated material

in their British origins. Though they never wrote and performed any original plays, the soldiers turned actors were known for inserting their own prologs, which were filled with pro-British sediments. Some colonists armies attempted to put on their own theatrical performances, but never managed such fully realized plays. So Broadway was

pretty loyalist back in the day. Interesting. Are they good actors? We don't know. I think this was at the time when only men were allowed to act. So a lot of these British were dressing up as Quinn and Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream when they weren't fighting. Paul Revere was a dentist.

Okay. And much of the wars were fought by Minutemen who were militiamen and didn't have formal army trading like the Continental Army, but were just a bunch of dudes grabbing guns and fighting off the British. very underrated college nickname the UMass Minutemen it's because they're terrible at every sport but that's a great team name yeah I agree I agree with that have you guys seen the Patriot

of course Braveheart too it's pretty good yeah it's pretty good there's a cannonball decapitation if that's your sort of thing the headless horseman was a Hessian

mercenary that was beheaded by a cannibal apparently, and that's the basis for the Sleepy Hollow Headless Horsman myth with Iqabod Crane. Hmm. One fact. All right. Anything else, boys? Girls? We won.

Yeah. We won, bottom line. Pretty sick war. Charlotte was called, one of the reasons why there's a Charlotte Hornets is because Charlotte was said to be a Hornets nests of revolutionary. and should be avoided by the British Army at all costs, which impacted the trajectory of the route the British Army took to the Battle of Yorktown and said that it caused them to be weaker

for the eventual siege at Yorktown. I didn't know that. Yeah. Charlotte Hornets, great logo. Great jersey colors. If they were good, everybody would have Charlotte Hornets gear. 90s Hornet stuff was way better George Washington

ceding power set a great precedent on the rest of the nation because a lot of people just wanted to do the next king they begged him to be president and he didn't want to do it but they had to beg him to do it

and he chose the term president or they chose the term president together because it implied something not very super powerful Like if you were president back then, it meant you were like the leader of a local group of businessmen or something like that. It had nothing to do with government with having absolute power. They chose like a beta name for it.

And then he ran twice and then he declined to run a third time. And then everybody else from that point on was basically like, well, George only did it twice. So far be it from me to try to run a third time until FDR. They also tried to assassinate him. The British said? No, no. Some of his own people in 1776. It was actually his bodyguard was the only one convicted.

Turned on him. Yeah. The committee whose information saved Washington's life would go on to lay the groundwork for the modern day CIA. Okay. Good facts. There was a... All right, boys. 10% of the Continental Army's funding was sent towards military intelligence

in a group of spies that were based mainly in New York who spied on British officers. A lot of them were prostitutes. It works. That's like MK. Ultra. Yeah. Drugs, sex. The culpros spire.

Yeah. They've figured out a lot of Red Coats' plans to ambush. ambush newly arrived to French troops in Rhode Island This coper spy ring achieved more than any other American or British intelligence network during the war All right, well That does it for the American Revolution

For this episode We will see you guys next Tuesday Special episode next Tuesday Big T, Arian special guest And then on Thursday, we've got the Boston bombing episode coming out. So check into that, read up on that interesting stuff that maybe hasn't been discussed as much in the news as actually the bombing and the chase of the culprits, which we will get into those too, but the background behind

it is fascinating too. So we will see you guys next Tuesday. Love you guys. Thank you.