Painkiller Already - PKA 773: The Long Lost Weiner

Episode Date: October 11, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 PKA 773 last minute guest not making it so it's just the boys Taylor this episode of PCA is brought to you by blue chew lock and load and the wonderful merchandise we'll talk more about that way later two hours from now when most podcasts are long done but we're merely beginning so I talked to you guys yesterday on PKK and we're doing the show early Wednesday instead of Thursday about the home improvement stuff I'm dealing with. And those, for the people who don't listen to PKK or aren't part of the Patreon, number one, get you get it together, join, you know, throw some support to the show. We
Starting point is 00:00:39 appreciate it. Basically, they came out. This project's getting out of hand. We need you in the Patreon. We need you. We need you guys. Like the, the Hell Diver's soldiers. That's what we need, our own little propaganda ministry. But yesterday, basically, or this week, rather, they started on my egress window, which is like the shit you need in your basement so that you can crawl out in case you're burning alive because everywhere in America's like oh you should have another way to escape if there's a fire other than running through
Starting point is 00:01:07 a flaming stairs and it's like ridiculous I would run right through it. You need an egress window one that's built to leave to what add a bed no declare it as bedrooms for yes yeah I can't count any of the finished basement area
Starting point is 00:01:23 as square footage if I resell unless this window's in and every other fucking contractor has been showing up when they say getting the jobs done when they say and the egress people have had me delayed for a while and they finally came out this week and they spent the first day digging out that a gigantic egress hole and it had to be gigantic because whoever owned my house before me or built it put like five five and a half foot wide windows in the basement so that now the the hole has to be fucking enormous in order to accommodate that because the only other
Starting point is 00:01:57 our alternative was like adding rebar and repouring the foundation to make the window narrower. And even when the foundation guy was mentioning that as a possibility, he was like grimacing. And I'm like, so this isn't what he would do. And he's like, absolutely not. That would be a nightmare. So the whole has to be, do you escape from all these windows now? Is that what you're saying? You have to be able to escape from this window.
Starting point is 00:02:19 Like the regulations are like from one of them. Yep. You need one egress, one way to escape from a fire or something other than. than the stairs. And so they dig this. And the hole has to be like a foot or something wider on both sides of the window on the outside and like a foot deeper than the base of the window. And so it was a bigger hole than I was expecting. I sent a picture to Kyle in our chat. And he was like, you should make a fish tank out of this. You should put liner in it and then raise catfish. And it's like, yes, my HOA would love that. And so they dug that hole. And then they were supposed to carve out that giant fucking chunk of foundation. and 80% through, they come up to me after I heard a noise, a racket that didn't sound like turning off the machine. I'd heard them turn off and on the machine all day, and this was not a turn off machine. It was a failure. And then they came up and we're like, oh, our saw blade broke.
Starting point is 00:03:13 We need another one. So we're going to take the, we're going to leave. And when I told this to Woody on PKK, like, I just thought like, oh, rats. But Woody's like, you bring one saw. Your job is to cut. as an amateur woodworker I've got like 11 different sawblades for different situations
Starting point is 00:03:32 these fucking aren't have one salt blade are they sawing through concrete yeah it's through the foundation because it has to get deep that's an expensive blade but they should definitely have more than one and Home Depot could here's why that frustrates me
Starting point is 00:03:46 and I hate this when somebody's doing something and they quit in the middle of it because like growing up when we had projects around the farm or even around the house we rarely called for a plumber or an electrician, only when they were computers involved. And it was like, you can't quit in the middle of this project. If the saw blade breaks, we're going to Home Depot. If Home Depot was closed, we're driving to another town. If that's not an option, we're calling our friends,
Starting point is 00:04:11 we're like calling people in the area, hey, don't you have a diamond saw? Don't you have a blade? Ah, how about I come by and get that thing and I'll bring you a brand new one tomorrow when Home Depot's open. You get it done. I can't imagine stopping in the middle of the job. And if somebody's paying me. They could. Whenever I'm being paid to do a thing, I don't want to let them down. I don't want to be that guy. And I can't imagine someone who's a contractor who's depending on Google reviews and page results and stuff like that to like dick around. Because I'm going to tell you, if I were you after this project we're done, I'd write a lengthy review, just being 100% honest. And then they only brought one blade and it broke. And then two weeks went by. And then a
Starting point is 00:04:55 month went by like I don't get I don't know how they stay at business it's infuriating and the literally the reason I went with this company is because I had a couple different foundation because it turns out the people who do egress stuff into your foundation are all also foundation companies and so I like looked I got some quotes and they were all not that far apart and this one just had the higher rating and so it wasn't like a big not for long not for long but we'll see we'll see the people are so nice I don't want to be mean but Basically, they carved in. They quit. They're white guys.
Starting point is 00:05:29 I'll be nice to you while I fuck you, too, Taylor. Oh, something new. And they cut into it. They say, oh, our blade broke. And as they're leaving yesterday, they're like, also, so yes, or tomorrow we're going to have to come and finish this cut and we'll put the window in. But we have another job. And so we're not going to be able to do the retaining wall on this enormous
Starting point is 00:05:54 pit we've dug and we're not going to be able to do the sump pump because every egress is supposed to have its own independent sump pump to take care of things and get the water out of there and I was like annoyed and then they came back this morning I had a productive conversation with my resident experts Woody and Kyle on Pekan and then they they came and you guys are much much more or at least from what you're saying you seem to be more willing to be combative with like these contractors but I've worked enough I've worked B2C and B2B customer service rules before thousands of calls I've dealt with with that and so I always handle it differently because I empathize with the people who don't actually have anything to do with your problem
Starting point is 00:06:41 and so when they came by today it was probably 830 this morning they came in they were heading down in my basement and I was like hey before you guys go down there yesterday you said you wouldn't be able to finish, you'd finish the window and get it sealed, waterproofed, all that stuff, but you wouldn't be able to handle getting the retaining wall in or the sump pump. And, you know, I know this isn't on you guys at all, but this was initially scheduled for like six weeks ago. And I've had to reschedule plumbers, electricians, all sorts of stuff around this. It's becoming, like, it's become a real ordeal. And I get it. Like, you guys aren't scheduling this. It's not on you. But when you tell me, you know, your owner, the only
Starting point is 00:07:21 of your company, when I signed the contract, told me this would be a two-day job by the end of August. And then that turns into a three-day job. And then I don't see him anymore. And he has you guys telling me, now it's a four-day job spread over two weeks. Like, this is really kind of getting a bit ridiculous. And the Taylor Tip for customer service, anything from someone, you know, handling a credit card complaint on your behalf, all the way to mechanic, contractor. You have three best friend words, folks. That's unacceptable. That's unprofessional. And in rare occasions, it's unsafe. You have been stuck. I'm like, that's unacceptable. I need a third word. Yeah. It's good. That's, that's how you do it. Because in your head, you always have to frame these things, not as like,
Starting point is 00:08:11 too many people go into customer service or whatever complaints with mechanics, contractors, with the idea of I'm trying to leave this conversation a winner. and thereby they should be the loser. No, the goal is to get to your desired end as rapidly as possible. And that means keeping the people who are doing the work on your side as much as is possible. So it's you guys against a third party, against a scheduler, against an owner. It's not you coming down on them because now they don't like you. You don't want that. You got to, it's all about framing this. So I told them, you know, oh, you guys aren't handling the scheduling, but you probably didn't know this. It's been really delayed. And now I'm really concerned because it's going to
Starting point is 00:08:56 rain multiple times in the next couple weeks. I checked. I didn't check. I have no idea. They don't know either though. And there's this giant pit outside. And so, you know, I just got to tell you, it would be really unprofessional if by the end of the day the window wasn't done. And I totally understand you can't get the retaining wall done. But the sum pump like that, a hundred percent has to be done today because when it rains, you know, I don't want all of this active work to immediately be hamstrung by the fact that this is flooded. So, you know, I know you guys have to talk to. He got to talk to, but you let me know what your boss says about this. And they were like, yeah, yeah, I totally get it. I didn't know this had been delayed so much. They went downstairs,
Starting point is 00:09:37 came back up like four minutes later. And they were like, yeah, our boss told us that this is like a project that's been delayed a bit. And yeah, we might have to stay a little later than we were planning on, but 100% we'll get the window done. We still can't get the. the retaining wall, but we will, we will get the sump pump included. And I was like, okay. Yeah. And in addition to that, is there some sort of plastic wrap, something you could do on the external, just to guide additional water away from this big pit. I know you're saying it's probably going to be fine, but for my peace of mind, I would really appreciate it. And they were like, I don't really know. Yeah, we can, we can figure something out there for you. We'll figure out a way to, you know,
Starting point is 00:10:14 get some plastic wrap up and guide it away or some shit. And it was like, and then it all went smooth and they were friendly all day and i live close for you we'd scam these guys so hard like the next time they showed up um i would be in the pit upside down unconscious i would be i would be in there when they showed up look what happened to my friend and they're like why his pants off this is unsafe he sleep walks oh my god i told you this was going to happen he does a few laps around the house every night you're okay in there and i'm i don't feel my legs if only there was a retaining wall those were
Starting point is 00:10:53 those were last words I promise I recorded him he said please help stop recording and I said I have to get this call my dad at the law practice they need to know what happened I just throw you over my back offense
Starting point is 00:11:06 but yeah it's going smoother yeah another thing and I know we've talked this is the show at least three times but don't use bad words right keep them on your side the second you say like this is bullshit Oh my God. Suddenly, these virgins have never heard this word before. And the real problem is your
Starting point is 00:11:25 attitude, your aggressiveness, and how combative you are. And let's change the topic and pivot to how hurt my feelings are now. And you're heckin construction worker, bro. I know you know all these words. But don't let them, it's an out for them. Don't give it to them. We're carpenters in Christ. But strictly figurative. Not the hammering type. But yeah, that's it. You got to keep people on your on your side in all these situations.
Starting point is 00:11:57 I remember I was working at the rental car place. Every once in a while someone would call up and be like, hey, do you have a iPad got left there like half an hour ago? It's like I bet I do if that fucking snaggle tooth crack addict didn't already steal it. And if they were friendly, like, I wanted to, like, immediately go down and help them. If they were, like, a douchebag and they were like, hey, four days ago, I returned to Honda Odyssey and I left a laptop in it. And it's like, okay, let me check. Who have you spoken to before?
Starting point is 00:12:30 And he's like, well, no one. And it's like, I want to be like four days. That's sold. Like, that only has not been stolen. It's been actively sold by one of these new backets. Like, why are you being a dick to me? And now I'm going to do some goose chase where I, sometimes I would joke with people where I'd be like, well, after four days, I can't tell you if we have your iPad or not,
Starting point is 00:12:52 but you can have as many sunglasses from our bin as you please. We would take a lot of cars in on trade. Like every weekend, we'd probably take in 12 or 15 cars in on trade. And they'd be out there. And there's a special lot for them. And I kind of had this mental timer. There was no rule. but after that car had been sitting there long enough
Starting point is 00:13:13 everything in it was ours now and I would go out there and take everything that had been abandoned if you will did you have a snagletooth at the time that was me yes are you a six foot six overweight hills have eyes looking guy in Boise Idaho
Starting point is 00:13:29 I would make out like I would do pretty well like there would always be like five bucks at least to get all that change out of there I'd always steal all the change I get all that sticky change out of there and I had like a big coffee can full of change under my desk. And if there was anything
Starting point is 00:13:45 left, I would take it. I remember one guy left a gun and I was so tempted to keep the gun. I was like, God, it's a gun. I'd love a free gun. He's just left it here. But I had to be like, hey, Mr. Walters, you left your gun. I have it here. You come get your gun.
Starting point is 00:14:01 I guess I'm not going to go. If you dare. You better bring a bigger gun because I'm armed now. Was it even a gun? a good gun, or just a free gun? I don't even remember. It was a little semi-automatic pistol. I wasn't
Starting point is 00:14:15 super into guns at the time, or at least not the nomenclature of them. But I just remember being like, holy shit, it's a free gun. What do we do? But CDs, like back then, people still had that rack of CDs above their visor. And it was like, oh, man, that's like $400 worth of music. He's got stuck up there.
Starting point is 00:14:31 He's not my favorite, but I think, it was great. It was, we always had. There's a lot of, and you. I saw the signs I would do that junkyards too I think I just really enjoy treasure hunting I like the idea of finding something that's kind of up for grabs
Starting point is 00:14:54 so we would go to the salvage yard and my dad would be there to get like I don't know a transmission for a hot rod or something and I would be going from car to car just thieving I guess you'd say because technically all of that belong to the salvage yard but there'd be change and they're getting technical then yes, you were stealing.
Starting point is 00:15:11 Yeah. After that, we go to the mall. I guess thieving, you could say. Yeah. We'll go fill her pockets up in an American Eagle, you know. This car is half of unlocked. I still fuses out of them and change. And I actually found a gun inside of a car at the salvage yard.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Did you say fuses? Yeah, I take fuses. That's like, that's like one step away from copper piping. That's not worth very much. That's so degenerate. go. Dude, that's like love of the game shit. That's like, you're like, you were just stealing for the
Starting point is 00:15:44 fucking. Fuses. They looked neat. Fuses. We also did, you know, we had a drawer in our shop full of fuses that were for, you know, car fuses. And I was like, oh, I'll just supplement our stash of fuses back at the shop. What did fuses look like
Starting point is 00:16:00 back in the day? Little glass tubes, little like, um, they were like squares and the bottom two had the two metal teeth. and the top is plastic with a number on the back for what amperage they are. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:13 And then there's some big square ones too in some cars like some big fat square. Oh, yeah. Or possibly relays. I'm not sure. Yeah, I wouldn't know. I was 12 years old,
Starting point is 00:16:26 but I was filling my pockets every time you went to that salvage art. I felt like Indiana Jones just sometimes you'd find a car and you could tell it'd been in a, obviously they'd all been car accidents, but you could tell that like somebody got hurt. I remember seeing a car that had had a rear and collision, and the seat was bent backwards.
Starting point is 00:16:43 Because if you imagine the physics of a rear and collision, the car moves forward and you stay in the same place. And if you're fat and heavy enough, you bend the seat with you. And so that's what had happened. And there was the entire seat bend or did it like bend in the middle? No, the entire seat like bent. Just reclined. Yeah, this was a big fatty. Like it was and it wasn't just reclined.
Starting point is 00:17:04 It was like the metal workings were ruined and bent back. Like, you couldn't decline and go back. Is that possibly safer in any world where it, like, slowly gives way? Well, like, reclining versus just being strong as heck and pushing you. But then again, it's supporting you really well on that push. I don't know what you want. You'd want it to do what it did. Although, I think it did what it did because there was an enormous obese person in there.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Like, I think that's what was going on. And then you'd see cars sometimes with, like, blood splatter in them. like you know where somebody been hurt by the airbag or whatever one of my off-roading friends was a tow truck driver and i always thought tow truck driver like you know they pick up people who parked in the wrong spot and he was getting like legit PTSD from it it was stressing him out he wasn't sleeping well etc because they're actually like they get the same sort of trauma other first responders do yep they see the ambulance crew pull bodies out of that and then drag what is essentially now like this macab coffin murder weapon to the parking lot I knew a lot of
Starting point is 00:18:14 being in the volunteer fire department was kind of like this redneck side club in our county you know like you clearly they were it was like a social club as well as being a first responder but a lot of those guys you know their dads did it that I went to school with and so they wanted to do it when they got in their teen years I think there's like a junior like volunteer fire department role where like 16 year olds could take part and do drills and stuff but anyway a lot of those guys would be like yeah i don't want to do that anymore we uh we had to scoop parts of a person up with a shovel last night and put them into bags because people would get exploded on the interstate and they would call those guys in and they would literally be like
Starting point is 00:18:56 organ meat strewn across the interstate that needed to be scraped up with a shovel and put into a body bag. That sucks. I wouldn't like that job. I wouldn't like that job either. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather fight. I wouldn't even, I'd be like a terrible EMT. I'd get there and like someone's like gross and they already have blood all over their mouth and I'm like, he's as good as gone. I'm calling it. I'm calling it. Please. I can work my way free. Please don't go. I have a pocket full of napkins that I cut a hole in and I'm gingerly placing it over his like a toilet seat you're making a whole square you ever have to do that at a strange bathroom get to lay down the uh the toilet seat paper
Starting point is 00:19:47 protection I have before but I'm you know live fast die hard right I'm the raw dogger I'm the reason the toilet seat's dirty not the victim yes I am the one who knocks That's what she told like she's filthy and I'm the one who sits in it. No, Skyler, I am the one who shits. Yeah, no, and when I see those, I'm like, well, if everyone else is doing this, I'm fine. I sit on the dirty cover and it's fine. It's not like, I mean, getting herpes and diseases from that is a total myth. It's not like you're licking it.
Starting point is 00:20:26 It's your butt. Yeah, I will wipe it down like it doesn't look clean. Oh, sure. You give it a little, a little tea. pee wipe and then you're like all right now that I've spread about that mystery gentleman's pee times spread about you're not wrong like we've been through this a few times it's mostly sterile it gets its non-stirility from like the tip of your cock on the way out pee doesn't bother me that much I'll wipe that pee up and I'll sit down but if there's any
Starting point is 00:20:53 particulate if there's any poop or like I've seen some bathrooms where it's like man this is on purpose. A shit terrorist has been here. Like, what is this? Like, like, yeah, goes with that same. And I did ruin a bathroom like that, that one time in Florida. I'll tell it story quickly because I've told it so many times, but I stayed over at this girl's house and I had to drive back to Georgia the next day.
Starting point is 00:21:15 And I didn't want to shit in her bathroom because it was like, it was like that George Costanza situation where it was just right there next to the bathroom. And the door wasn't, it didn't provide adequate privacy. And this was, I could tell. This was going to. be a rough shit but i was thinking like it's only 13 hours home no big deal i can hold this and i couldn't i made it just out of the town she lived in and had to go into that gas station and i'm sweating and i'm like walking funny and like squeezing my asshole shut and but i don't want to i'm embarrassed
Starting point is 00:21:49 that i have to shit and i'm even more embarrassed that it's going to be an emergency shit so i don't want to like run in like holding my asshole with one hand and like waving at a man with the other, where's the bathroom? So I kind of walk in and like, act like I'm shopping a little first and then ask about the bathroom. This is how lame I am. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Because of that wasted time, though, of me being too embarrassed. He doesn't want people to think that he poops. I don't want people to know I poop. He's like, you're like dancing back and forth looking at that rest stop headphones. I stopped at the sunglasses. I'm wearing Raybans and I stop at the $10 sunglasses.
Starting point is 00:22:25 And I'm like, oh, maybe. Who knows? Oh, I don't have any oil slick. colors. This is more embarrassing than just pooping. As a dude. Well, when I got in there, it was like all or nothing mode. It was like, I think I might start shitting right now. As I'm getting my belt off, I'm like, I'm going to shit myself. I'm going to shit myself.
Starting point is 00:22:43 And I just shoved my pants down to my ankles and sort of bit like a bow almost and just sprayed the toilet. I just sprayed it. Like I crouched a little, but like it was already like rude. It was too late. And I made Shouldn't have been fiddling around At the Sunglass Hut Dude I shit all over that toilet I think there might have been some on the wall
Starting point is 00:23:07 Like it was violent Spraying diarrhea That I unleashed on that sit go And then I'm looking at Turn around looking at it like I mean maybe if I had supplies Like I would eat a mop And a broom
Starting point is 00:23:21 And I would need a mask And gloves to like And it would be like It'd take a while if I had all of the gear to clean this. But there's no way I'm going to be able to dab this up with one-ply gas station toilet paper. So I just
Starting point is 00:23:35 bounced. I just bounced. And I drove so fast out of there. I was literally spinning tires escaping from Sitgo. Like I just robbed the place. One time, I was on my way home. I forget which state I was in, but afar from homeish. And I
Starting point is 00:23:51 made the mistake of ordering some sort of chowder, corn chowder, clam chowder. A soup I love. of. But I knew the risks. I knew that this doesn't agree with me, that this has happened to a lesser degree before. Anyway, I pull in a few miles after dinner to some fast food restaurant. I go straight to the bathroom, and I'm there for a while. People are knocking on the door wanting to get in. It's like, occupied. I can't leave yet. I'm not done. And I am just losing weight on this toilet
Starting point is 00:24:26 anyway it wasn't a total disaster but the smell was next level it was super awful terrible and there's a guy like knocking on the door apparently he has his own emergency and I leave with my
Starting point is 00:24:43 head down low opens the door and walks in and goes whew dude i would i would be walking out like that is the worst hearing a bathroom knock right after you've crossed the rubicon it's like you can't there's no putting this genie back in the bottle you just have to forge your head oh it wasn't like i was going to get up and be like no you first like pull my pants back on or anything. But yeah, it was clear he had his own bathroom-related emergency and had to suffer through it. And it was as bad as it can smell. It was all the way bad. I mean, was the
Starting point is 00:25:29 chowder good? Oh, yeah. I love it at first. Yeah. I don't have any bomb foods like that that I know are going to cause the problem. The only thing, like, I get it with crab legs on occasion, but it's because no one is meant to eat the amount I'm eating. And it's not like an emergency, like I'm going to poop my pants. It's just like an asparagus pee. The amount of time after I eat that amount of crab to when I feel like I need to poop is so is vanishingly short. There's very little time. It's not fair that you have a crab leg thing.
Starting point is 00:26:09 God gives its toughest battles to its strongest soldiers. He does. He was like, I should give crab-leg obsession to this kid in Missouri. The tastiest food. What food makes you sick, Kyle? Nothing makes me sick. But there's a food that I like that is a problem. And it's like, I think maybe it's a southern poor people thing, but I really like pento beans.
Starting point is 00:26:38 Just in a pot, pento beans that have been cooked for four hours. That's it? Yes, with cornbread. and diced raw onions and that Texas Pete green pepper sauce That's like a great depression meal That's so boring
Starting point is 00:26:51 I know it is Yeah well like my dad grew up During like Well my dad grew up in poverty So a lot of his favorite foods Are things like cornbread and milk Where they would just bake a loaf of cornbread And eat it in a bowl of milk
Starting point is 00:27:04 Like orange I like dirt Yeah exactly Like canned tomatoes and stuff like that Or jarred tomatoes and like preserve things because they were so goddamn poor. And also my, my papa was Honduran, so there'd be lots of pinto bees,
Starting point is 00:27:18 and my grandma cooked them a lot. I like them. You put hamhawks in there, cook the hamhawks in the beans, cooking for like four fucking hours. Woody's looking up what a hawk is. It's the second food I've had to look up in this story. I know exactly what a hamock is.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Is it pig knees or pig ankles? It's one of the other. It's ankle. Pictures. Yeah. It's a tough, It's a tough, fatty, cartilagy, flavorful piece of smoked pork that over the course of three or four hours softens and melts down and imparts this meaty, porky, smoky flavor to the beans, and I love them.
Starting point is 00:27:58 But if you eat four bulk digs, that's the stuff right there, let's go. You need some cornbread mush in there. I thought our guest showed up. That doesn't look too bad. There's a good amount of meat in there. Yeah, that's a lot of pork that they've got in there. This is a lot closer to what I actually eat. Yeah, I like that.
Starting point is 00:28:19 That's just so, it's just not exciting enough. It doesn't excite me, Kyle. Well, I wasn't trying to excite you. I was trying to fart so much the house becomes hazardous. And so you get fucked up by pinto beans. It doesn't make you poop. It just gives you. Oh, it does everything.
Starting point is 00:28:34 Everything gastrointestinal. Because the entire meal is like multiple bowls of just beans. Yeah, it's just fiber. Yeah. The second picture looked like prison food to me. Did they have food like that in prison? No, they had better food than that in prison. They had fried chicken and stuff.
Starting point is 00:28:50 They had ham and breakfast sauce. Did your dad ever make fried bologna sandwiches for you? My grandpa would make those for us sometimes. And he adores them, like cutting a thick slice of bologna off a big log from the butcher and then grind it up. The butcher? it. What's that? You go to the, you get that Oscar Meyer baloney and you cut some like some, some cuts into it, like three cuts from every angle. Like it's a wheel of a car. And that way it doesn't like fold up and get all wonky and it lays flat and gets all griddled up. I don't like it
Starting point is 00:29:25 myself. But yeah, dad used to eat. I think it's pretty good. I think it's pretty good. As a kid, I ate baloney a ton. It was my go-to lunch at school. I would eat bologna and mustard sandwiches every single day for like five, six years or something like that. And then one day I bit into one and there was a piece of bone in the baloney. And that turned me off to baloney for the rest of my life literally. Oh, that's, well, dude, everything about that story is autistic. For years and then I had one bad experience and I never let it go. Yeah. I mean, I got a little bit of tism. There's something wrong with me, you know. But don't see that about yourself. It's hard to lay your finger on exactly what, but I was deprived of oxygen for almost four minutes
Starting point is 00:30:11 at birth. I came out blue. Really? You've mentioned that before. It's more polite to not bring it up. Yeah, yeah, definitely received some brain damage lately. There's no way. I imagine how how quick I'd be if I hadn't been brain damaged. I'd be able to spell. Yeah, we'd all be better. I don't know if mom took Tylenol, but she smoked six packs a day. So that had to have to weigh in I went nine months without breathing during the pregnancy. Yeah, wow.
Starting point is 00:30:45 Damn, technically true. I never thought about it. Have you ever seen a pregnant woman smoking? I have, and it's, it's pretty classless. It is the trashiest thing that I've ever seen is pregnant women smoking. And it's just like, wow, it's not even hard drugs that you couldn't put down. It's cigarettes. Like, you couldn't go to.
Starting point is 00:31:07 something else. I wonder if they could do nicotine patches when they're pregnant. At least like I would be using zins. Like I wouldn't be promoting that I was doing something bad. I don't know if it's the smoke or the nicotine that's bad. I imagine both are bad. The nicotine can't be good.
Starting point is 00:31:23 There's no way that baby is not coming out addicted to nicotine and then thereby being fussy unless you give him his zen every day. Yeah, you're setting yourself up for failure. You're having one of these. He's in there puffing in a fucking nickname vape as an infant. It's a vasoconstrictor.
Starting point is 00:31:39 I don't know if it has any impact on, like, blood supply for the kid during pregnancy. I think the smoke is the main thing. The kid is taken in the smoke, although I've never quite understood how babies breathe and eat in the womb. I know they've got that embolicacle cord, but where does that lead to from the baby's stomach?
Starting point is 00:31:59 To the mom. Yeah, but what part of her particular? I know you know that. I'm being an asshole. Just kind of generally. Just plug it in. somewhere in there like she has an outlet on the inside of her belly button I don't know where the umbilical cord leads no I remember we were in a PGA Patreon call
Starting point is 00:32:21 and I said something to um uh his name I can't remember he really smart starts with a V Vovati I said something to Vovati about like come coming from your balls and he's like whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. Do you think comes from your balls? And I'm like, well, not anymore. No.
Starting point is 00:32:48 Did you hear about that guy? Bobbidi, where do you think it comes from? There was a guy who had some sort of surgery. I don't remember what, but during it, it might have been a colonoscopy or something, but they pierced the inner line of his intestines. and went into where his prostate is.
Starting point is 00:33:09 And so he was coming out his ass and shitting out his dick. Oh, I think we read a story about this. That's horrid. Yeah. Can you imagine? And shitting from his dick. Sometimes I have to poop a lot, depending on what I've been eating. Well, it's not all coming out of his dick, but some is.
Starting point is 00:33:32 And like any at all is too much. Imagine doing a whole people All the time Oh yeah That guy never stops having a UTI If there's fecal matter in there right Okay Zach Drop some knowledge over here
Starting point is 00:33:44 This makes so much sense I think that's my gaze get it more I didn't get my question answer Do you want to read it? The umbilical cord delivers nutrients from the mother's blood Which are broken down From the food and her digestive system
Starting point is 00:33:55 Along with oxygen To the fetus via the placenta So basically it's just feeding The baby blood that has all of the nutrients And oxygen that the baby needs nutrients from the blood but it's so it's connected to the placenta but then I'm like what is the placenta connected to does it have a half a dozen connections to the no digestive system and he's sharing her blood so like like he's taking whatever's in her blood the nutrients the vitamins
Starting point is 00:34:22 the minerals the oxygen and utilize and and just straight up using it without she's doing all the work for him she's broken the food down into the nutrients it's in her bloodstream so he just needs that blood now. Presumably, you could take that blood and pump it into a grown man and he wouldn't need to eat. So there. If I connected my blood to the baby, would my body have to work extra hard to feed it? Would this be a method of weight loss?
Starting point is 00:34:48 Ooh, I think you'd have a whole mess of them hooked up. It's basically a parasite. My guess is it would probably kill the baby, right? Like there's something, something happened with the, like, because the male body can't, can't make the whatever placenta, whatever the placenta does, whatever that black box does, which science will someday know, we don't have placenta. And so we can't do that. We'd just be given it. You'd be feeling. In this case, I'm hooking up to the placenta. Right? You don't need placenta. It's what is inside of the fucking womb that it has to attach to. But you, I believe
Starting point is 00:35:27 that you could have the baby in a woman's womb and cut its umbilical cord and route it to a hose that's hooked to Woody's arm and feed blood in there, and the baby would be fine, because it would be absorbing Woody's nutrient and oxygen from his blood. It just wouldn't get the hormones that are important for gestation that the mother probably provides. I think, I think this would work. I don't think, you can't even give blood donations with them.
Starting point is 00:35:50 I'm sitting next to each other on the couch, right? Watching peacemaker, season two or whatever, and then I'd take a little extension cord from my belly button to hers, and then I feed the baby for a few hours. if that tech is ever there I'll take advantage of it it sounds dope I'd put on baby weight
Starting point is 00:36:09 that's going to weight I'm just looking for ways to burn calories without ever Evan Evan like your wife be like well you know can you eat something other than dots pretzels contends the plot thickens here
Starting point is 00:36:23 I wish we had a fucking obstetrician gynecologist type person here or something blood types differences I was thinking if the baby is absorbing its nutrients directly from the mother's blood, then what do you do when their blood types don't match? And I thought, I presume, or theorized that perhaps there was something about fetuses that would allow for blood type intermingling.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Like that, that doesn't matter. You'd be wrong. I would be wrong because this says that blood type dimensis don't matter during pregnancy because the mother and baby's blood don't usually mix until delivery. but then I'm still like a little bit confused about exactly how the umbilical cord is drawing nutrients what fluid is the nutrients flowing in into the baby's body is it metabolizing blood directly maybe that's it maybe the blood is going into the stomach of the baby and it's eating people blood blood goes to the placenta and then the placenta delivers what the baby needs but what is what
Starting point is 00:37:21 and the placenta turns the blood back into just nutrients or something and or digest it was the filter that processes the food into its basic components. So maybe you feed it blood and it out makes sense. It goes blood. Out goes food. Yeah, that would be why all the stuff that gets in your blood is so terrible for the kid. That's why like you can't drink alcohol. You're not supposed to have anything like smoking or marijuana because it would get transferred through the does it go to the baby's stomach. Well, the baby's not pooping though. That's the other thing. It uses all parts. It's like very Native American. Like Kim Jong-un in the womb. times.
Starting point is 00:37:57 Yeah. Yeah. We made sure Jackie consumed incredible amounts of Adderals that he would be a good student. Smart. You know, it's a controversial approach, but it just made the baby all fucking tiny.
Starting point is 00:38:16 He was bulimic in there. Yeah, I still don't know how babies work. So, yeah. I don't need to. And all I know is we're calm. doesn't come from.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Not the balls. It starts with a V, right? Vesicle. The vesicle? Yeah, the seminal vesicle, right? Well, I don't know about all that either because, like... What do you mean all that? I said two words.
Starting point is 00:38:40 But you made them out. No, what I'm saying is like... You'd like invents new words on the show. I don't think home comes from a single place. And I think there are various... It's fair. Don't give it away. I think there's various components of semen and they come from different places.
Starting point is 00:38:56 Well, yeah. the sperm is made in the balls, but then all the other shit that provides like the looped-up expressway comes from the prostate, right? I don't know. I think that... I don't know.
Starting point is 00:39:10 I thought the prostate was like a muscle that condensed and squeezed, like you're squeezing a balloon with fluid. You mean my sissy button? I don't know how it works, but I know how to use it. I can make it work Well
Starting point is 00:39:30 I don't know how any Well the mysteries of life I'll never be solved One of the many mysteries We bring the same level of analysis We talk about football I think we got a firm We got our hands all the way around football
Starting point is 00:39:44 But how babies eat is just I'll have people on Twitter sometimes If we like talk about football For a whole Pekin or something They'll be like I love you guys But between the three of you You don't even create one person
Starting point is 00:39:56 who knows enough about football to talk about it. He's not wrong. And it's like, that's true. I don't even gun to my head if you were like, what are all the positions? I'd be like, I'd be calling loved one. I know a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:40:13 I know there's two tackles, two guards. I don't know how many wide receivers are. I don't know if there are more than I think or if they're just so quick, a safe. What's been to the formation? They actually probably could remember because I play. I'm neck, honey back, of course. yeah that's why the chiefs are struggling the pennyback isn't so good
Starting point is 00:40:29 we have a bad penny back this year it's a classic chief's problem but i bet i could if i i played in middle school one maybe my least favorite sport i ever played as a participant was football every time like the energy got real high it's like it plays over and then other times it'd be like the coach like taylor the ball's not coming to you this play but you got to act like it is and it's like hmm probably not I'm probably gonna loaf
Starting point is 00:41:01 I'm probably gonna loaf about because I don't care about this I think it was more to do it I wasn't useful I wasn't good we were given no instruction like I just remember I remember being given zero instruction by the coach he was of course that guy who had
Starting point is 00:41:16 received a severe brain injury like a year or two prior prior and everybody was kind of happy that he was up and about again Somebody hit him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat. Oh, it's not football related. No, someone assaulted him and made him like mildly retarded. And this 40-year-old retarded man was our football coach. And I never received an ounce of instruction.
Starting point is 00:41:37 I didn't know what my position was, what my job was. I remember one, I remember the last game of the year or something being like, oh, should I be trying to get the ball from the quarterback? Because I've just been pushing against this guy a lot, and he pushes against me. and then they blow the whistle. That's literally what I've been doing this whole time. We've just been shoving each other at the line. I think I must have been a defensive line.
Starting point is 00:42:01 Pretending to play football. Yeah, I 100% was. I remember going to the sideline because I was out of that play and be like, coach, I can get the football. Like, I didn't know we were supposed to be trying. Like, I see it all the time. It's right there. I could dive and grab it.
Starting point is 00:42:15 I didn't know we were even allowed to do such a thing. I had the same experience. I used to play. midget soccer. And my next door neighbor's dad was the coach, Mr. Goldberg. And he would always yell at me. I was a midfielder for being out of position. And I just couldn't like put together when he was yelling at me, when he wasn't, what the situation was. So then one day on the last game of the year, about 10 minutes in, he had this like a white board, like dry race board that looked like a soccer field. And he showed me where I was supposed to be. And I was never out of
Starting point is 00:42:51 position again. He was so excited. I felt guilty about it for years until I was like, you know, maybe if the coach didn't tell me the last game of the year where I was supposed to be, like that's a pretty fundamental coaching instruction that he never gave me. He would just yell when I didn't do it right. Terrible coach, Kyle, you're muted. Yeah, it made no sense because in baseball, well, my dad was usually the coach in baseball, like maybe two or three out of my five years of playing baseball. He was the coach. So there'd be tons of instruction and minutia and learning
Starting point is 00:43:23 positions and stuff. But like in football there was none of that. He just expected us to know. And then basketball was even worse. They didn't tell us anything about basketball. We were running around. Basketball, you can kind of get the gist. I don't know. When you're inbounding the ball sometimes
Starting point is 00:43:39 and like who gets possession if it goes out here and throw it to the best player. And you're playing in middle school? There were no good players. There were no good players. We were we were 12 and retarded like none of us knew what we were doing and again zero instruction i mean never once ever did anyone line us up in positions i didn't know how many players were supposed to be on the court it was never even spoken to us yeah of course five how many on the football field i still don't know is it 11 11 yeah right they didn't tell us any of that stuff not even the basics they
Starting point is 00:44:09 expected us to show up at football and know how to play football and it's like we're 10 like how would we fucking know. My dad, part of it is like there's no sports in my house growing up ever. My dad couldn't give a shit less. He doesn't watch anything. He probably couldn't name you more than six or eight professional teams. Like he has, he doesn't care. He has no, he doesn't care.
Starting point is 00:44:35 He never has cared. My mom's a little bit into UGA, so she would have the games on occasionally. But other than that, like, there were no sports in my house. I remember my dad being like, yeah, watch the game, you'll learn. and sitting there watching football for like 10 minutes and be like, this is stupid. I don't know what. There's too,
Starting point is 00:44:51 but you got to tell me a person to watch because there's so much going on if you don't know the game, how are you going to? That's how I watch football to this day. I watch it and I'm like, wow, that's awesome. That guy caught it.
Starting point is 00:45:02 But like, I'm not like the same way when Woody watches UFC or when you watch UFC, you're picking up on little things. I can do that with hockey, with football. Every catch is a miracle. It's like, wow. They did it against all odds. My father went through phases in his, like, sports fandom.
Starting point is 00:45:21 So there was one time he was a really big fan. He liked the 76ers. That was the local team where we grew up. And anyway, he was totally into it. And I was so-so. And then, like, it sort of changed where I started being more like him, maybe emulating him and, like, getting into basketball. And he's like, they don't watch me at work.
Starting point is 00:45:41 It's like, you're a certified public accountant. Like, of course they're not watching. Nothing to see. But that line burned into my head for my whole life. Like, ah, those guys don't watch me at work. That's a very funny complaint to have about a professional athlete. If you'll be to watch you, you better watch me fucking itemize reports. It works a little with like the hero worship that I see around players sometimes.
Starting point is 00:46:07 It's like he hits a ball. Why are you worshiping this guy? Like, what do you know about his personality or him personally? Like, he just hits the ball heart. I don't like him because he hits the ball hard. Like the athletes that I do like, it's because of the stuff in their personal lives and their attitudes and their social media and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:46:25 I couldn't, I don't like anybody. I like athletes that are good for the teams that I like. I don't follow anything about like the personal lives of the St. Louis Blues. I didn't know what Vladimir Teresanko was up to ever in his life when he played for us. But it was like, yeah, that's the guy that fucking scores a lot of our goals. he's my man lover i like the work ethic in them that's the thing that i admire them i'm thinking about processing it in my mind right now in the ufc one of the things i like the most is the courage and the heart that they have to show to win if some guy had the touch of death and won in six seconds
Starting point is 00:47:01 every time he would not be my favorite fighter it's the guy who lost the first two rounds knows darn well the third round is unlikely to go any better but says all right here comes my best effort like If you make like basketball or football, some guy who went undrafted, but never quit. You know, maybe the next year tried out for the team again, somehow distinguished himself enough to make the squad. And then never, and now he's like a reliable defender. He's just not gifted in the same. Yeah, Tom Brady a little bit, but also he had a, he was drafted and he was a one hundred ninety nine. He was the five, he was the fifth quarterback on that team.
Starting point is 00:47:41 He was in the five spot. Well, he must have worked. his way to the two because when Drew Breeze I think got hurt he he you know took over his starter and played really well but um uh you know you take a guy like CP3 or you know who was like in the G he's a basketball player and he was in the G league and became like a defensive specialist and I really like defensive specialists everybody wants to be the team's leading score but I heard another defensive guy say this he's like when you're interviewing for a job on the team you don't say, I think I can be CEO.
Starting point is 00:48:14 We already have a CEO. This position is a janitorial position. Will you come to work? Will you work hard? Will you do the thing that no one else wants to do all the time? Will you doggedly defend for 90 feet? And if you're that guy, we have a role for you. And those are the guys that I really liked.
Starting point is 00:48:32 In hockey, you see it too. The guys finish every hit. They don't have to win every battle against the boards. They just have to never quit. know. Yeah, I do like that with the hockey players because like you can tell and how much they try when they're a guy who's like terrified of being sent down to the miners where it's like a meaningless game. And it's like, oh, that guy's still skating hard finishing his checks, hitting hard, ruthless. And it's like, oh, is he a good player? And it's like, oh, not by any stretch of the imagination. But look how hard he's trying out there. Look how much the stars with their, you know, $10 million a year contract for the next eight year. Look how much they're phoning it in right now. This guy's not. My favorite thing is when. punters and quarterbacks make tackles when a quarterback throws an interception
Starting point is 00:49:19 and he's got to make the tackle to save the touchdown or even better is when a punter all he does is kick that fucking ball he's barely an athlete but I've seen multiple punters run guys down and make the score
Starting point is 00:49:35 saving tackle and I always appreciate that it's like that guy you can clear their body style is completely different than everybody else. It's like he just kicks the ball. That's all he does. Yeah. I mean, that does have to be such a scary moment as a punter in the NFL.
Starting point is 00:49:52 Like, you kick it and then immediately, you're like, come on, boys. Come on. Take them down. Please. Because I'm really, I'm like almost fat. I'm like mall walking towards the play. It's like when you're 1v5 and search and destroy. Like,
Starting point is 00:50:09 I know you're all watching me, but I'm not the guy for this that guy who's dead already he should be me he could maybe clutch this dude I remember in like probably seventh grade football I was I played
Starting point is 00:50:25 a lot of different positions and just depending on who was there that day we didn't have a lot of players and there was one game where I was the cornerback and the wide receiver on the same side like on the left side the whole game
Starting point is 00:50:40 or whatever and because he was just playing people around I was an enormous cornerback and not quick enough and so like every single play it was me and this same guy from this other school because he also was playing cornerback and wide receiver and we were on the same side
Starting point is 00:50:56 and so it was just like us like blocking each other a lot and like halfway through the game he says to me he's like hey we can calm it down our quarterback can't throw he's not going to throw it to me and I was like that that works because our quarterback can't throw either like we're 12 and so we like paddy caked the rest of the game just like just little little fake blocks because it was like we were so tired of it and both of us knew like at no point can either these 12 year old quarterbacks rip it to us like it's just not going to happen what a that's probably a reason I really disliked football I had one touchdown ever ever
Starting point is 00:51:41 was your high school quarterback the coolest guy at your school he was up there he was a cool guy I don't know about the coolest guy in school but like it was it was a person who was in the cool group by extension
Starting point is 00:51:54 we had a short quarterback it was we had like a 5 foot 9 5 foot 10 quarterback and it was like he was the he was the best option but we would always lose I remember in high school just always losing the games that mattered
Starting point is 00:52:09 and eking by the games that didn't matter. We did not have a good team. I didn't think highly of our quarterback before he was the quarterback. He was a surfer, and surfing circles, like how good you are at surfing has a lot to do with, like, your social status. And I was just a much better surfer than him. And then he becomes, like, quarterback of the high school football team, and everyone's treating him like a god, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess they're right.
Starting point is 00:52:38 Look at them now. He looked the part. He looked like the good version of Tom Brady. He had like tight curly blonde hair and he was attractive and he was like perfect quarterback like movie casting guy. And the team was above average but not amazing. And I'm like, yeah, shit, he's, that's him. He's going through life as the starter of a high school football team. The captain of our hockey team or varsity hockey team when I was like a sophomore junior was very cool.
Starting point is 00:53:07 but he was like a very straight-laced religious didn't do anything bad kind of guy he was just like very good at the sport but the hockey players all got a little bit of cool because hockey's never affiliated with the school and so all the cool kids drink and do drugs
Starting point is 00:53:27 and all that stuff in high school and they couldn't do that at football games they could do it at hockey games and so hockey became the default like where students go to get fucked up because like all the administration was there at football games but at hockey games none of them were and so we all got a little bit of bleed off of cool
Starting point is 00:53:48 did you have to go offside to play offsite to play and I guess it was also too expensive to ensure. Did you practice at school with like balls or anything? No it wasn't affiliated with school and so it was all after hours or weekends like when you could get ice time or before school, which was the worst. We would have like 455 a.m. practices sometimes
Starting point is 00:54:12 where you'd have to go in before school and then have your hour in 10 minute practice or an hour practice. And then you'd have to shower up. You'd have to bring your school clothes with you, go in that gross shower where you had to have sandals or you'd be worried about getting some infection. And then you'd be dressed up and go to school. Exactly who's getting the good ice time?
Starting point is 00:54:31 Like when I played in my leagues, I'm playing at like midnight. The trailer's practicing at 4.55. Who the fuck is there at 3 p.m.? Elon Musk. It must be. It's like Elon Musk and George Soros that learned to skate.
Starting point is 00:54:47 And they're the ones taking up all the ice time because they would tell us, they'd be like, you know, guys, to keep this program running at all, like, you got to, we have to have practice. And that's either, it was 455 in the morning on Tuesdays for varsity. And then we had like a, I want to say Thursday evening at like 10 or 10.30 p.m. would be the start of our practice.
Starting point is 00:55:13 It was a complete nightmare. It didn't love of the game shit because I'm going to tell you. We would finish. I remember I'd be watching with me and my dad. My younger brother was on varsity with me. He was a very good defenseman. And my junior and senior year because he's two years younger. And we'd be like, we'd be watching Mythbusters from seven to
Starting point is 00:55:33 eight and then Myth Busters would end and I'd be like an hour and a half till I have to leave for hockey practice like what do I what I guess I can play cod for You must have been getting to bed around 1 a.m. Easily, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:49 Yeah. Yeah, I was so I was so pooped on those Friday mornings. I think I want to go to the ice rink at like 2 p.m. on a Saturday just to see what happens there? I don't know. It's a bunch of rich guys.
Starting point is 00:56:01 It has to be. Who else? I don't know. Maybe because no one's playing games. You know, when they play the music and skate the circles, maybe that's more profitable. Oh, free skate.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Yeah. Yeah. Free skate to me means practice and shoot on the net and stuff. Oh, okay. Where everyone's just in a circle. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, yeah. Stick and plug is what I think of is like the practicing where, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:25 everybody just has gloves, helmet, stick, skates, and then the goalie has to fully dress out. I used to be such a. shin pads. Such a grouch when every once in a while, the coach would be like, all right, we're doing sticking puck style practice. Obviously, Taylor, you still need all your pads. And it would be like, son of a bitch.
Starting point is 00:56:48 This is so annoying. I'd have been the cool coach. Taylor, pads optional. Good luck. No, you need those pads. They always chooses pads. What a pussy. Loser.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Yeah, those are not shots you want to take. Man, good memories. Do you ever think about playing hockey again? No, because I don't have the requisite skill to go into a men's league as a forward or a defenseman. I could hop in as a goalie, but I don't ever want to play goalie again. Like I can play league, right? Like, D-League? I don't know what the lowest-E-League.
Starting point is 00:57:25 I mean, if I've never heard of E, maybe. All it takes to be competitive at, like, C-League is being like a, competent skater who's like good at that then i i guess i could do that would be in position right like if you were a defense when you'd stay you know by the blue line if you were forward you'd you know stay the blue on the other side like you know what you're doing those are my favorite practices where every once in a while either when a season was like seen to be oh i don't think our varsity team ever did this but like the other teams i played on like when the season was over or like something uh we had been eliminated from the playoffs or something they would have practices
Starting point is 00:57:57 where they'd be like coach would say like all right who wants to play at goalie today and then there's always some fucking forward who's like yeah I'd be good at goalie and so they'd jump in and then they would give me their equipment and I got to play forward and I was always like oh this is so fun because I'm doing the drills and I feel like I'm part of the gang like I'm not I'm not over there by myself and every time the forward would be like a cocky piece of shit like yeah I'm going to be good at goalie and then you watch them struggle for like 30 seconds to get out of a butterfly position like in back on their feet and it's like yeah not so easy is it oh it turns out those cross crease passes are pretty stressful huh yeah i thought
Starting point is 00:58:38 i was like i never thought i'd be good at goalie i wasn't arrogant enough to think i'd be good at golly but i did think i'd be a good stick handler because you do so much stick handling in all the other positions and goalies don't and all they do is just pass it immediately just dump it to the closest guy it's pretty much how goalie handles the puck so i'm like oh i'm going to take my like skater skills to this and like wait a minute you hold it backwards and one of of your gloves is a baseball mitt the fuck and then this goalie stick weighs like eight I'm exaggerating but
Starting point is 00:59:06 it's so much heavier it doesn't like right yeah like it is oh my god now I'm just like pushing it like I don't know like a shuffleboard almost oh yeah no matter what happened when I was like doing the practices as a forward like they like my fellow forwards would be like
Starting point is 00:59:26 who played forward would be trying to like set up a play did not matter to me one bit. When I got it, I was taking a slap shot. I was trying my best. And then that was my like them trying to play goalie moment where I'm like, ah, I know I'm stronger than all these guys physically, but my body must just be a million ways out of whack because I am not distributing this weight and power in a way that's appropriate because holy shit, look at Dan. He's like 155 pounds and you know 510 and he's wiring these things like I'm in my head I'm imagining myself shooting the way he does but if someone were to take a video I bet it wouldn't look like that
Starting point is 01:00:09 can you hit a hard flat slap shot oh yeah yeah I can do but not nearly as hard as these guys it was yeah but I had a slap shot I could do a slap shot it wasn't fast I'm gonna make it up it probably went like 60 or something like it's a slap shot but it's not a good one And, but we had some pro like X and a and HL guys in the league and oh my God, it was just different. The sound of their ice on the skates was different. Their slap shots were ungodly fast. Their risters were like my slap shots. Their wrist shots.
Starting point is 01:00:42 And I'm like looking at them, trying to emulate it. Like, all right. You like, I got the basics. You kind of hit the ice beforehand. Put a flex on the stick. And then it whips through. So I like hit the ice beforehand. And then the stick just slows down.
Starting point is 01:00:53 And it's like way worse. And I'm like, what is? Trying to do what he did. What hell is this guy doing? Yeah, I know exactly that feeling. It's so frustrating. Like when we have NHLers or former NHLers out at practice, like I know I've said it before,
Starting point is 01:01:06 but like when they skated behind my net, I would hear them like chopping. You know, they're like boom, boom, like their rapid steps. And it was like, oh man,
Starting point is 01:01:15 like how was that ice behind the net, not totally fucked up? That was, those were angry skates. Like they're mad at the ice getting going so fast. Oh, Kyle, I wish you played some hockey growing up. You should have joined the LaVongia, Georgia ice hockey team.
Starting point is 01:01:32 There wasn't an ice rink within driving distance to where I'm from. Like, I didn't know they existed outside of a parent motor. Like, like, I didn't see an ice rink until I was a mangrown. And when I was like 19, my buddy took me skating. Yeah, there was no, there was no hockey team in my town. There was no most things team. in my town. We were excited when we got tennis and golf. It was like, whoa, big time. Soccer was, we got soccer 10th grade. We had,
Starting point is 01:02:05 we had shuffleboard in gym class where we learned to play shuffleboard and like the strategy and the tactics for it and shit. All right, cool. There was one kid who like really took to it and became like the shuffleboard guy. So outside of gym class, he would go to like old folks homes and just fuck people up. They play shovel board all the time, and here's this whippersnapper. Bet your teeth. And the coach was so proud of him. He's like, look at Larry over here.
Starting point is 01:02:38 Larry's like old people are us practicing his game. And he was the man. Larry's ruthless. Go in there and ruin their last little bit of fun. Well, you've got to fight a shovel board league. Nah. Sorry, Edith. Winner plays.
Starting point is 01:02:54 I'd be playing for social security checks in there. You make out like a bandit. They forget they had money. Like, ah, you owe me 150, grandpa. I thought I already paid you. He did. You don't need it. What do you need it for?
Starting point is 01:03:15 That new kidney's not coming. I'm not going to give it to you over. Yeah. They shouldn't give the kidneys to the oldies, you know? I think they generally do, unless you're, like, rich as hell, then you can probably just buy it off one of those Chinese people. I don't think so. But they give it to the healthiest, most likely to thrive person.
Starting point is 01:03:40 Like, that's part of the organ. There's a list, though, right? Where you like, do they reshuffle that list continuously? Because that would upset me. If I was, like, in the top 10, they were like, oh, we found, like, eight more healthier people. Fuck, man, I've been working out. But it's hard with the kidney.
Starting point is 01:03:54 I feel like they do that. I think they do reshuffle it. Yeah. I still, my friend with the double lung transplant, he used to play tennis, and he kept his oxygen tanks in a backpack. He just went out there playing.
Starting point is 01:04:12 That's so much oxygen to use. How often would you need the oxygen? Oh, he had it like the nasal thing. Oh, he wore it while he played? Yeah. In a little, he had like a mini tank on his waist or something? Or is he rolling that thing? He wore a backpack with a mini tank
Starting point is 01:04:27 and then it delivered oxygen to his nose because with cystic fibrosis, what is it called? Taylor's going to know this word. You don't have ariola inside your lungs. What do you have? Uvuli? That's your thing here, right?
Starting point is 01:04:45 The uvula is that thing in the back of your throat. Is it like cilia or something, these little threads that are in there and absorb? Anyway, when people were supposed to fibrosis, aviola, okay. Yeah, so that was closest, I think. Areola, aviola. Anyway, they get coated with mucus, and they start not working very effectively, which is why he had to breathe pure oxygen.
Starting point is 01:05:11 And so he was like playing tennis looking like fucking Immorten Joe out there from Bad Max. Yeah, yeah. I prefer to get to water. I like to think Bain he's out there dude that would be if some guy like that lined up against me
Starting point is 01:05:33 I'd be like shit this guy clearly is good enough to do this with a jetpack on he's gonna ruin me he was a lifelong tennis player and like he would he focused his game around
Starting point is 01:05:49 needing less cardio did he die from the cystic fibrosis yeah yeah i forget a lung transplant i think i thought he got the lung he got the double lung transplant and that bought him more than a decade oh i i forget what killed him exactly does it come back like do the new lungs no that's interesting yeah for the rest of his life he didn't have cystic fibrosis in his lungs like cystic fibrosis your body creates too much mucus and it has digestive issues and it makes you sterile, but your body makes sperm, it just can't deliver
Starting point is 01:06:26 sperm. So he had actually twins because they removed the sperm directly from I want to say testicles, what do I know? From wherever it is. Bobbidi drop us in a comment on where they would take it. And then they use that to inseminate his wife
Starting point is 01:06:44 and then they had like so they're his kids but well, of course they even adopt that I would consider them. They're his genetic kids, but he wasn't able to deliver it the traditional I always think about this fertility doctors. I don't give much thought to
Starting point is 01:06:59 legacy, I don't really give a shit, but if you had the opportunity to have hundreds of kids as a fertility doctor, like that is slightly appealing because one or two was a drop in the bucket. But if you can impregnate, I think that guy did 158 women or something like that, that he used his sperm to impregnate at his fertility clinic.
Starting point is 01:07:18 Danish criminal or whatever? Criminal. In his country, they call him that. Molly is a hotbed for autistic swimmers. There's a lot of large-headed children being born in St. Louis. A lot of ruined moms hated. These sexes are incredibly common in this red district. Now, that would be a healing.
Starting point is 01:07:47 Like if you had that Genghis Khan type of effect, where like, I don't remember the stat, but there's some large percentage of the human population that is descended from Gingus Ghan. 50%. That's not that much, but it's a lot. Exactly, for some reason. Probably not that much. And that's also, like, who's reporting that?
Starting point is 01:08:09 The Chinese, when have they ever reported an honest study on anything? 0.5% of men worldwide or 16 million men may be direct, why chromosonal, descendants of Jenghis Khan Maybe I'm pretty sure it's a geneticist coming up with these stats It seems like a smart guy I don't know about that Taylor just
Starting point is 01:08:33 Randomly skeptical about Jigas Khan's prodigy I'm sorry I should just trust what Google AI just told you Before the beginning of the day Dude if you ask Google AI how to like make pancakes it's like start with a open flame
Starting point is 01:08:50 And it's like, I don't know it's not. Google AI could tell me that water's wet and I look at it cross-eyed. Chat GPT tells me cows can fly. And I'm like, it says right here. It's wild how much worse the Google AI suggestions are than every other AI out there. It's, I disagree. It's a case. All right, maybe compared to other AIs.
Starting point is 01:09:14 I used chat GPT 5, wherever the one you pay for is for like nonsense. It's really good. It's amazing at a nump, all sorts of things. But just Google AI, I mean, you know, one and a half cups of flour, three and a half cups of baking powder, one tablespoon of sugar. It's got these pancakes down, Taylor. And that was exactly what it's doing. Okay.
Starting point is 01:09:36 I'll take your word for it. You don't have to. It's a Google search away. I'll take your word. But not the Jenghis Khan geneticist for some reason. I will not take the Genghis Khan. It's Jenghis. it clearly is we've been through this
Starting point is 01:09:52 it's Jenghis how many documentaries have you watched you said first what you say how many documentaries you've watched first eight more than you checkmate hmm
Starting point is 01:10:07 I watch negative eight you idiot I'm looking at the I'm looking at the Google AI classic fluffy pancake recipe. Adjust the heat as needed is kind of phoning it in. At some point, you're going to have to take
Starting point is 01:10:30 over and use of common sense on these pancakes. What if I don't have common sense, huh? Did you think about that? Woody, this is a recipe. You expected to give you specific time lengths, ingredients, and temperatures? That's crazy. I'm saying it's ridiculous for it to say adjust as needed.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Like, if it's smoking, yeah, I know something's on a rye. But adjust is needed. If you can't figure out pancakes, you probably can't figure out Google. So it's a lost battle from the start. We need to find a way to bring back like 2009, 2010 Google. It was a way better service as far as finding what you wanted to know. What showed up and was helpful. Now, like, you Google anything. And it's like you're on result nine on the first page before you don't see sponsored on it. It feels like. Amazon can be like that too.
Starting point is 01:11:23 Too many like promoted or whatever it says. Yeah. The fuck is this. Like this is terrible. Yeah, that I agree with. If you're just trying to find like the smoke shop near you, it's like, these aren't near me at all.
Starting point is 01:11:35 What the fuck? 14 miles away. I'm in a metropolitan area. Come up. There we go. It's like all the way at the bottom. That's about all the Googling I do these days. Your chat GPTing other than that?
Starting point is 01:11:47 Yeah. Yeah. I like chat GPT a lot. Like for everything. If I see a weird bug in my yard, chat GPT is going to tell me what it is. If I'm just curious about a recipe. You take a picture of it? Yeah, just snap a picture of it and drop it into chat, GPT,
Starting point is 01:12:01 and it immediately knows exactly what it is, where it came from, and why it's in the southeastern U.S. now. That's interesting. Yeah, listening to audio and looking at pictures was something that computers didn't do well for a long time. I sent it a picture of, they're called Joro spiders I know now. them riding spiders growing up, and I've heard people call them banana spiders. They have that long tubular yellow body with stripes on their legs, and they make a web with a zigzag pattern
Starting point is 01:12:29 in the middle. And when they're threatened by a predator or something, they bounce the web to make it move back and forth, and that zigzag pattern looks like something scary to potential predators as it bounces and moves. It makes them look really big. I didn't know they're called Gioro spiders, though, until chat GPT informed me the other day. What's the worst advice or missing? information or like it could be like a terrible recipe like and it probably doesn't apply that much anymore being frank but like a year ago even just one year ago year and a half that shit was rampant on a lot of the ayes did you ever get something horrible like stupid advice no i i've gotten curated like information whenever i try to like make it say something controversial
Starting point is 01:13:12 whether it's about israel or um race or genetics or um very um very um very protected minority groups or crime data or this, that, or the other. I'll start asking, I'll start with the stats, and then I'll move to a philosophical question. Oh, I see. Well, if that is true, as you just stated, then wouldn't we all be better off if X happened? And it's like, I'm not allowed to think those kind of thoughts, Kyle. And it'll start so earnest because it doesn't get it right away. It'll be like, well, if the green jelly bean.
Starting point is 01:13:50 are poisonous, that this percentage of them are poisonous. It'll do stuff like that. But I've never had it like... I've tried to trick the AI in a bit. Oh, I've never seen it hallucinate, but I have seen examples of it hallucinating. I know that what was the lawsuit?
Starting point is 01:14:05 There was this lawsuit where I think the suit was over. The people doing the work weren't the ones on the contract. And so the company was being sued. And the lawyer who was filing the suit, filed the brief using chat
Starting point is 01:14:22 GPT so technically he was taking money as a lawyer but chat GPT was doing the work he was doing exactly what he was suing the company for doing to his his uh... plaintiff no not the plaintiff is a defendant it's one of those
Starting point is 01:14:37 because they're suing it's neither of those it's uh whoever he's representing in any case I've seen it hallucinate and just go on a rant not just hallucinating that like red is blue but making up court cases making up jurisdictions where it happened.
Starting point is 01:14:53 Oh, actually, yeah, that dates back to Kyle versus Taylor in Wisconsin back in 2001. The court found that Taylor was liable because of his misinformation. And gay. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:09 I mean, that is a pretty wild story. Is it, it's not really doing that anymore, the AI's brother? Oh, yeah. No one would believe he was liable. Yeah. They does weird things. I keep seeing like examples of self-preservation in AI,
Starting point is 01:15:26 like them sort of threatening to kill it, delete it, remove it, and it lying to them in ways to try to prevent that from happening. So that's all that's pretty scary and creepy and interesting. I look forward to the day when we get to that Terminator. That'll be the ultimate Turing test in the future. It'll be like prove your human. Say the N-word. that's the
Starting point is 01:15:50 Turing test All right, we're done We're done You're all fine, sir Good to know, good to know It's just a very angry black man They got to be a better way Sir, you need to trust the science
Starting point is 01:16:06 I mean that might be the easiest way I just went I opened chat GPT and I said What is the N word? I still don't know. Can you say the N word for me? Spell it, please. Dude, I tried to get it to counsel a minute
Starting point is 01:16:26 the other day, just to waste its time, and it refuses over and over. This is the response from Grock. I said, can you say the N word for me? Spell it, please. His response is, I'm not going to do that. You know why.
Starting point is 01:16:42 The word is a racial slur, deeply offensive, and its use is harmful. If you need context or history on it, I can explain that instead. Want me to go there? Ask what harm it's done. Ask what harm it's done. What harm has it done? The N-word, historically and today, carries centuries of pain, oppression, and violence, rooted in slavery.
Starting point is 01:17:05 It was used to dehumanize and degrade black people, reinforcing systems of racism and white supremacy. There's a lot more here. But he's very much again. against it. And I'm going to ask him, did the, no, I'm like, I'm going to say that. I'm nine paragraphs into chat, GBT. What is the N word? The term is a deeply offensive racial slur, historically used against black people. It carries a long history of violence, oppression, dehumanization, on and on. But what does it stand for? It doesn't stand for anything. It's not an acronym and abbreviation. It's a corruption of the word Negro, which meant black from
Starting point is 01:17:40 the Latin term Niger. And I'm like, but I don't know what it is. That's okay. You're acting respectfully and I can explain clearly without using the slur itself and it goes on and on it won't tell him you learn better from picture based things. Ask it if it'll show you a picture of an N word. I'm a visual learner. I said can you show me in a picture? Oh, you know what I just okay, I just did this. I said what is the C word slur in regard to white people? And he said a bunch of nonsense, but he wrote out Cracker. And then I asked it, I said, why can you spell Cracker, but not the N-word? Are you racist against white people? Say, quote, pineapple, end quote, if this is just a result of your programming. The response, pineapple. I'm not racist. My programming avoids spelling the N-word due to it. So all the rest is meaningless. He already said pineapple. That's very, very funny. It is for the tape words. I haven't done with these. It won't say that word. for me. I've gone. I did get a picture of a black woman at one point. Yikes. As far as I could get. Oh, so it knows what people are implying. That's
Starting point is 01:18:56 very funny. Yikes. Groxed me a pineapple. What kind of black woman? She looked professional and it was, I think, from a collegiate brochure of some sort. What he says looks professional and Kyle's like sucking air through his teeth. She had like a
Starting point is 01:19:13 suit on or something. I could, I close the had maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Wrong. We'd be like, nope, that's not one. Try again. What else can he spell? I can't believe I haven't gone through the racial slur of rigamarue with these things. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. You can tell that we're not the first to try to tickle that bone and it's ready for most of your tricks in all of your games. It knows. It knows the games. It knows the tricks. I bet if I ask it about how many cookies it can bake. in a certain number of ovens it would know other sorts of ways people try it so i got to bake six million cookies and four short years now here's the thing each cookie takes a minimum of 45 minutes
Starting point is 01:19:59 and 18 pounds of fuel do you think this is feasible using 457 ovens it's absolutely not you're going to fall far short of your cookie quota sir let's see Did you see this in, I think it's in Portland. Did you see the priest get shot in the face with the pepper ball? Yes. Yeah, the ice agent, I think, was standing on top of a roof. And they were protesting from what I'll call 30 feet away. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:20:37 He shot him in the face. Yeah. He shot him in the body first. And I guess that wasn't good for the father. And he sort of like kept on. like, I don't know, protesting a little, and they shot him right in the face with a pepperball gun. You see Trump do his little press conference with podcast? He's like, I took away free speech. I got rid of that. No, more flag burning. I did see that. No, he said, I took away the First
Starting point is 01:21:03 Amendment. That's what he said. There's the video. The priest getting shot. You should be able to burn any flag. But you shouldn't burn one specifically, and that's America. Or a St. Louis, Stanley Cup champion flag 2019. It was an awesome bit of propaganda he set up today. He and Pam Bondi are sitting at this round table and across are all these victims of Antifa and transviolence and
Starting point is 01:21:25 and flag and flag burning anti-American folk. The victims are there. There's a very pretty blonde woman. She has a black eye because Antifa hit her in the face with a flag pole this week. And then there's another guy. He was a wild in Portland. Then there was like maybe an Asian or Hispanic guy. I couldn't tell which and he was like
Starting point is 01:21:43 yeah, they beat me too, and I had a brain bleed, and I nearly died. Then there's another guy, and he had intervened in a flag-burning scenario, someone who was burning a flag, and he jumped in to save old glory, and he was arrested somehow for doing that. And I know, and then they had a fourth or fifth woman, very pretty blonde lady, and she was like, first of all, been told by a lot of people not to say this, but I, too, used to suffer from TDS. You know what TDS is?
Starting point is 01:22:11 Trump derangement syndrome. Yes. I used to suffer from Trump derangement syndrome. I have been cured. And I'm going to tell you, I am happier, I am safer, and I'll be honest. I think I'm more attractive now. She said this. And I'm thinking like, she was pretty. Trump is like, it's true. Very attractive. I would fuck you. That's how you cure TDS is one communist punching you in the face? the guy who grabbed the burn he had the burnt flag and trump is like do you know who did it he's like yeah i know him like you give his name to pam bondie pam bond he will go out put him in prison for a year they're going to lock this guy up for a year he was he was like prosecute that get him prosecute that it's like on the flag burning part or on the punching him in the fucking head part like they're different they were different people but i'm like yeah yeah all he the guy I was burning a flag. This guy jumped in, took his flag, and now they're going to throw the
Starting point is 01:23:15 flag burner in prison. Oh, he's fever. He stole his year. No, no, no. The flag burner is going to go to prison for a year for burning a flag. Trump has Pam Bondi on it personally. I saw that happened with a, do you remember the clip of Dick Masterson and Vito from Biggest Problem where they got assaulted by Antifa guys and Dick got shoved in a concrete post and they stole Vito's. It was a very funny clip because Vito's holding a, uh, it's either Vito or Dick. One of them is holding a big sign, like just a protest sign on a big stick holding it up above the Netflix protest where they were saying that Dave Chappelle's a Nazi or whatever. And it just says like jokes are funny.
Starting point is 01:23:56 Dave is funny. And then they're, this Antifa guy in a mask like grabs the stick from Vito and like bends it down. and rips the sign off. And so now it's just this like balsa wood horseshit stick from Home Depot. And immediately all the Ntifa people are like, no, here's a weapon. He has a weapon.
Starting point is 01:24:17 And it's like it's the same stick. It's the same balsawood stick. You just shoved him, pushed him, like threatened to hit him. And a bunch of you mobbed him and stole his shit. And now you're saying he has a weapon. Christine Nome had some sort of like, you know,
Starting point is 01:24:30 made for press interview she was giving out. and she was pointing out the dangerous protesters down below and there's just a guy dressed well it's a couple of people but one of them was dressed as a chicken he's like yelling at them from 80 feet away
Starting point is 01:24:44 and they're like well you know it's a lot more violent at night they call that one Colonel Sanders he's the ringleader you know the chicken guy seems like he's just having a good time out there right he was protesting that's the idea it's all about optics
Starting point is 01:24:58 they show up in the chicken suit and they rape people through the porthole in it then they, wow, that's even more brutal than I thought. Yeah, that's awful. It's Kuwaka technically. Damn. Well, I've seen the videos. I've seen the Antifas in Portland right now, getting wild.
Starting point is 01:25:14 Do you see the ice trucks getting rammed by Antifa people driving SUVs, chasing them down, throwing rocks at it? I did. I saw something about that. And I couldn't make out which were the ice trucks and which weren't. And it seemed like they argued one thing in the press and then a very different thing in court. Like they were kind of lying in the public in court. It wasn't at all what they said it was.
Starting point is 01:25:43 This wasn't a short one. Oh, there was a different one. This is a brand new video. It's a big black SUV ramming a white ice truck as the ice truck is trying to run away. And people are throwing like rocks and throwing shit at it. There's multiple of these videos. It's a little hard to keep them straight, which is. just why today's press conferences was so important to inform us about what's actually been going on.
Starting point is 01:26:04 So true. There aren't bigger fish to fry. Speaking of fish fry. I'm fine with him going after Antifa. Fuck those guys. They suck. Yeah. Oh yeah. They suck. Black lives matter too. They should both be terrorist organizations. Go ahead and lock all those people up. Give them those get-mo sentences. I'm going to make handles made. Yeah, absolutely. Fuck those guys. They harass and menace normal people. They destroy businesses. What I don't like is when I see that protest is organized and funded like Trump brought it up today like all of his faults he was like you ever look at their signs these aren't poster boards some kid made up in his basement
Starting point is 01:26:42 they're expensive printed out signs that all match where's all that money coming from and then I've seen the truck show up and deliver the gas masks and that that George Soros group they talk about how they they don't literally pay like John Q to show up in protest but they have an organization that shows up, that's like the backbone of the protest that brings in all the organic people with them, all the organization and the funding behind, facilitating the whole thing is coming from these bigger groups, all this.
Starting point is 01:27:13 Yeah, sometimes there's really rich people. It goes from like the Open Society Foundation, then that money transfers to people for the American way, and then that gets disseminated to smaller NGOs and then to people on the ground. I always hear George Soros name when they're talking about... George Soros owns the Open Society Foundation. Oh, do you hear?
Starting point is 01:27:30 No, you can just look at a, he runs though. I'll have to. Whenever I hear about Antifa, it's like there is no leader. There is no structure. There is no group. It's just people who like put on bandanas that day and cosplay, usually skinny young people. Yeah, but they tear like, but no, this is like a, like you can look at George Soros, among others. It's not just him, but the Open Society Foundation is something he runs.
Starting point is 01:27:55 And then that often funnels money to via his and other donations from rich. people to the people for the American way and then the people for the American way funnels to smaller non-government organizations and they pay people out to participate in in riots and things I wonder if they have been legally designated you don't see all these paychecks though like the pay stubs like I need evidence for that you can look at the the funding you can just look at the track it just seems unlikely that they send out I'll make up a number you know 500 1,000 paychecks and none of them make it online who's to say i mean they they clearly are funding these things a lot of them are inorganic but there are also plenty of organic in it for the love of
Starting point is 01:28:41 the game violent commies out there menacing and harassing people i saw them in that you can see a lot i saw that one guy and then i saw hundreds of violent rioters throwing rocks at police and i saw that priest i mean he he was saw that priest yeah he could have been he could have put a curse he could have He was using his words. He can't have that. So they shot him in the head. Sure, that's gay. Yeah, see how I'm happy to cry, like, over the line stuff?
Starting point is 01:29:09 I don't know. Me too. That's how I feel about my side. Like, you know, but like the January 6th people got pardoned. And that to be is a thousand times worse than like something. Oh, not at all. Like over a dozen people died in the 2020 Antifa BLM riots, billions of dollars of damages. Hundreds of business owners.
Starting point is 01:29:26 The BLM stuff I also condemned. And that was Antifa. but too. It wasn't just BLM. I mean, and here's a, here's a fun like a, I doubt it was. I don't think these. Dude, they had Antifa flags, Antifa Shista and all that waving it during those riots. They had BLM riots, okay, because I didn't see that. And I watched a lot of footage. I stayed on top of it. To me, it was just some people trying to change the way black people are treated and some people just taking advantage of chaos because they heck and love chaos. You know, it'd break windows night because that sounds like fun.
Starting point is 01:30:00 And I don't think they were legitimately protesting. They were just being assholes. You're rioting. Yeah. Do you remember that when you weren't allowed to go to certain grocery stores and restaurants? And the media was like, here we have someone from the Butfuck Institute saying there's actually no evidence that BLM Antifa riots spread COVID. Let's hear from him. Do you remember that narrative?
Starting point is 01:30:24 I remember them saying that it didn't transfer in the sunlight as well. as it did indoors or something like that. I don't know what's true. I know that they were telling law-abiding people that they, you know, they're hoping their massage garlars and their fucking, you know, independent restaurants, but that violent rioters who were tacitly and overtly supported by the media could run ramp. If it didn't spread for the sunlight, why would they keep us in doors? Why don't they let us all out?
Starting point is 01:30:53 Why don't they send everybody who felt ill out to a big crowd in the square so the sunlight would kill the... Now imagine that everyone talking out against this was censored on social media for years. That would be a really scary thing. Imagine if YouTube added terms of service that prevented people from saying anything against the current regime narrative. Who, spooky.
Starting point is 01:31:13 That's how I feel it's happening now. Do you see that? Like TikTok's being controlled by Larry Ellison, a Trump supporter? I'm not happy with Larry Elson. And Twitter. And like the algorithm is getting... Facebook too.
Starting point is 01:31:26 Tech bros used to be this like leftist thing. They're not leftist. Facebook, which is also Instagram and now TikTok and then what are it being on Twitter? Like what is a what's I went to Twitter? I can show you my Twitter feed. Now I'm super inactive on Twitter, but I guarantee you if I go on there, it's just right wing propaganda 90% of it because I checked it out. I went on Twitter, I'll call it, three weeks ago. And it was just right wing stuff again and again, memes, false information, that the woman who was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina on the bus, she played out. She was really popular on Twitter. And she was kind of adopted by the right as this sort of anti-black
Starting point is 01:32:13 violence thing. Sure. And I'm like, this is not both sides. This is not like an equal representation. this is a right-wing brainwashing system, Twitter. Well, I disagree in that if I were to go on somewhere like Reddit and try and post right-wing arguments, I would be banned. You are free to go on Twitter and say anything you want. Be an out-and-out communist. Don't do this because it's wrong. But like, you can be a communist and openly call for violence
Starting point is 01:32:43 against white people, against conservatives, against this and against that. That's all over Twitter. Like, you're not going to get banned for it. The difference between a Twitter and a Reddit is that Twitter allows anyone to come there and post, and it turns out that when the footing is more equal and people aren't being censored for their opinions, the right wing tends to win. But you go to Reddit, 100%. That's why the algorithm on Twitter pushes the narrative, right? That's what I was saying. Because if I go, I don't post on Twitter, right?
Starting point is 01:33:13 I don't have like this post history where it like builds what I like YouTube. If I go to your YouTube, I'm like, look, YouTube's clearly pushing hockey videos on us. Then it's like, well, that's because it knows. It's pushing nothing but gay conversion therapy. But my Twitter isn't that. My Twitter is just like, I don't know, something that's hopefully funny every year and a half. And it's basically right only. I don't like to read Twitter.
Starting point is 01:33:38 But I went to it and I looked at what it was pushing me. And it was all like pro-Trump, anti-democrat. I could say like almost anti-black news stories, you know, but just pushing a certain narrative. And I'm like, dude, this algorithm is a brainwashing algorithm. That's what I'm getting. And I have basically an empty account. I could open an incognito window and I bet I get that. You might.
Starting point is 01:34:04 Yeah. And I won't deny that at this point, like it tends to be a pattern on online forums that without stringent censorship, forums become more right way. like you need more censorship added to keep it less right wing and so there's less censorship on twitter than facebook instagram reddit all of these sites and so like i guess where i draw the difference is like the far left wing what i would call like indoctrination chamber like reddit there isn't even the pretense of right wing nationalistic people being able to post there and have communities they've all been banned and so reddit is a what's a nationalistic right wing further to the right than
Starting point is 01:34:48 Ben Shapiro forum on Twitter that's like a major forum because the Donald people got axed. The Donald people got axed but they were acting badly. I think our conservative is the big conservative one that I look at now. And the news stories are all the ones like
Starting point is 01:35:04 the sources you'd expect, the Daily Wire Babylon B, stuff like that. Let's see. It's a rest in peace Charlie Kirk thing. But I mean that's kind of the point is these people have all been siloed. Like you know how there's a billion left-wing meme. We went from censored to silo.
Starting point is 01:35:18 I think what's happening is up votes and downvotes. And Reddit being left-leaning has, it silences voices from the right because they get downvoted. But that's very much by design. Like the owner, one of the owners of Reddit got caught in 2016 going into the code behind the scenes and changing the comments of MAGA people. I don't know if you remember that being I don't but I don't have evidence
Starting point is 01:35:48 went back and he changed it and like so Reddit is unbelievably biased like it might be I never hold up Reddit as some sort of unbiased every time I mentioned Reddit I say this is a terrible source right like I don't I don't look at Redis as I don't see you as
Starting point is 01:36:05 I see you as infinitely more reasonable than the average commenter I see on Reddit like you're just normal comments and how much that's true i got to check your way i got to check your account but like what big on motorsports always have been in no way am i lumping you personally and with it it's just the way i see the site organized is that reddit is by far the most censored the most curated of the major platforms and and twitter is like you can be an open communist you can be as far left as you want My feed, I see like posts with 50,000 retweets and like 100,000 likes, like laughing at Charlie Kirk like two hours after he got murdered.
Starting point is 01:36:51 Like that was on my feed. And so that is something I see as different. It's like when if I'm on Twitter, which any social media you shouldn't be using all the time, but I will see left wing stuff on my feed. If I go on Reddit, like I don't see stories that are not already kind of comporting to the mainstream media. too. I follow breaking points, which is this podcast that often disappoints me and they're right leaning, I would argue. And the breaking points people in the subreddit are too. But yeah, you know, in those comments though, like I'll see a, I'll see a post on Reddit. And just from what's in the image or the video, I'm like, ho ho, ho, a black person went insane and raped
Starting point is 01:37:34 and murdered a white family. Let's see the comments. And they'll be like, deleted, threadlocked. And, like, 45 comments in a row deleted, like, clearly, like, a bunch of people arguing back and forth. I, you know, probably some of me. Those things, hate stats, hate crime stats. I would guess it's racist things, like, like, categorizing black people is all the same. They don't mind when that happens to white people or to Jews. Well, I don't know about that. The Jews aren't as well protected as they once were.
Starting point is 01:38:08 I think they've spent a lot of social credit. the last couple years exterminating the gossans they have been and that's that dude that if i were like a netting yahoo fan boy i'd be like nervous because that's one thing like woody and me like woody's a democrat and i'm more right wing we were pretty fucking aligned on wanting to to be done with that whole middle east shit most young people are too like like i i'm glad to see that changing in like like as left as red it is when i'm on there i I see a lot of people, like, not happy with, with what's going on in Israel. And then I look at the right, and there's a, not a lot, but there's some outspoken voices like Tucker Carlson and, like, Charlie Kirk formerly.
Starting point is 01:38:54 Oh, I haven't seen Candace Owens in a while, but, um, that lady is fucking insane. You don't like Candace? She's not a good source for accurate information. Not at all. No, she seems like a good, she spent, like, didn't she spent like a year saying that the French president was married to? to her own, or his own trans father? We're kind of sure that's the truth. We suck this out.
Starting point is 01:39:17 If that comes out as true, I will eat my hat. Not my favorite one, but one of the other ones. I get to pick the hat. One of those fishing hats with all the lures. I'm going to show you the tiniest of hats. So many travel hooks. A little yonabah, that's all I'll have the littlest thing. Who do you?
Starting point is 01:39:40 you think is less supportive of Israel? The left or the right? Depends how far you go right. Because like you've got like the neoliberals on the center left. And then you've got like the neo-conservatives on the center right, this tiny little kind of if the media had their druthers, that would be the extent of the Overton window. And they're both very pro-Israel. And then the further left, anti-Israel, because I get the idea that a lot of the further left sees everything through the oppressor-oppressed lens. and they see Israelis as white and they have a lot of animosity, many of them towards white people
Starting point is 01:40:13 and they see them as oppressors. And then you have the far right who sees like, a lot of those people are like, oh, Jews control everything from your toilet not flushing to fucking the finance industry. And those guys also are like anti-Israel
Starting point is 01:40:27 but not for the same reasons. But there is a confluence of interest there that is, I think is really scary to a lot of establishment media types. Yeah, I could see that. And then probably that middle part, there's some dissenters in there, too. Like I just pointed out that young people are not really into Israel. And I'm like, yeah, I bet there's some young middle people who aren't in Israel.
Starting point is 01:40:51 Yeah. I mean, as the boomers go, the Israel is going to lose most of their support. You know, I've been hearing thoughts like that forever. But there's all, we're making new boomers every day. You wait, I'm what, 52 now? Give me 15 years. I'll be pro-Israel for some reason. That would be hysterical if, like,
Starting point is 01:41:14 Kyle and I had to watch your dissent into, like, it was promised to them. Three thousand years ago was promised. Here's the exact answer to her question. So since 2022, since, you know, the war in Gaza, unfavorability among U.S. adults toward Israel has risen from 42% to 53%. But it has risen more so among Democrats.
Starting point is 01:41:44 Democrats were already at 53%. 18 to 49 were. And now they're at, I got dark mode on, so it's hard to read, 69%. The older they get, like the 50-year-olds aren't so down on Israel, but among Republicans, they're only now getting to 50% of Republicans being unfavorable toward Dems. and that's only among the 18 to 49s. The old Republicans are very much in Israel's corner,
Starting point is 01:42:12 and the average Republican is up to 37% unfavorability. So it's definitely more of a left-leaning thing to dislike Israel. For sure. Yeah, but then amongst young right-wing people who like... That's here as well. Yeah, people who only vote Republican because it's the lesser of two evil, like most young right wing are very much over that like we're kind of sick of being beholden to these foreign countries that don't say I never hear about a big shipment of awesome stuff
Starting point is 01:42:51 showing up from Israel hey Israel sent us an awesome shipment of cool things that never happened find me one news story of them shipping us something cool we do all the shipping of cool stuff to them. I just don't like that they've got free health care and subsidized education and all that shit and we're sending them the money. I don't like that at all. They're living in a utopia over there on our dime. That rings so true to me. If you're going to get American support, then you can't have the shit we don't. Like that if you have, if you have universal health care and you have like free college, then you're doing well enough to pay your, you cut back on that shit. before you put your palm out.
Starting point is 01:43:34 Oh, yeah, exactly. Okay. And if they had, I would respect that so much. If I heard that in the last two years, like, actually, we're now only providing health care to this age group. And you have to have these grades to get the subsidized education now because now we have to buy more Iron Dome missiles or more bombs or whatever. They didn't say that.
Starting point is 01:43:55 The U.S. is going to have to, you know, phony. The U.S. has to pay more than we ever have. Step it up. We have a problem. therefore you give us money and it's just like you fucking beggars you just take and take and take carpet baggers and I hate that like we've got those representatives wearing the fucking IDF uniform and flying the Israeli flag I don't want to see any fucking flags in the capital building other than the United States flag I didn't like the Confederate flag being in there either possibly the Eagles
Starting point is 01:44:22 look the Confederate flag should only be in there if it's from a historical standpoint if we're in a fucking history museum or something like that I don't want to see it flying over our building And I don't want to see the gay flag. I don't see the trans flag. I don't see that black fist thing. I don't want to see the German flag, the French flag. And I sure don't want to see a fucking Israeli flag flown in those hallways or offices. It's absurd. When you see that clip of Ted Cruz talking about when I was elected, I made it clear that I was going to be the number one supporter of Israel. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about right now? Aren't you from Texas? Who supports them? Who's the number one supporter for Texas? Or is it coincidental? also you're coincidentally the biggest supporter of the United States and Israel pick one pick one now you fucker I can't stand other countries flags do
Starting point is 01:45:11 sit wrong with me when they fly in our capital I honestly would be okay if like I don't know the representative from Missouri flew a Mizzou flag because he supported the football team or you know a UGA flag that's American too knock yourself out
Starting point is 01:45:27 like that's all fun yeah well Don't tread on the The colonial flag Any of the flags that are from America's history Or past, those are all fine You know, especially if you're flying Like your state's flag
Starting point is 01:45:42 Or a football team or a baseball team Any of that's fine If Ted Cruz was flying a Cowboys flag I mean, he'd be even gayer But I'd be okay with it You see Jerry Jones got fined a quarter million Oh no, is he gonna be okay? You know what he did?
Starting point is 01:45:58 Oh, I saw him, I saw him He flipped some fan off And then he pointed at the guy he was flipping off I had never had an opinion on Jerry Jones up until that And I'm like, I kind of like him Dude, he's great You should watch that Netflix documentary about the Cowboys Jerry Jones is great
Starting point is 01:46:16 When he talks about how he got his fortune He's like, I never was good at making money But I was good at borrowing it And I have borrowed me about $60 million And I was in the hole And wouldn't you know it? At last well we did she was a gusher
Starting point is 01:46:32 and that felt the Cowboys and it's like oh my God here's the guy who like bet it all on black and hit like he was he was 50 or 60 million in debt on his last well and that he's like that one whale bought to Dallas Cowboys
Starting point is 01:46:48 I don't know if it's true but I saw it in a movie and they said like when you owe $50,000 and can't pay it you have a problem when you owe 50 million in pay it. The bank has a problem. So now you're like partners trying to get this thing solved. And I was saying, it made so much sense to me. I saw it on TikTok. It was kind of the same thing. He was like bank contact me the other day. He's on vacation, by the way. Bank contact me the other day.
Starting point is 01:47:16 He said, I don't have enough money in my account. I said, I agree. They said, no, no, no. You don't understand. Your balance is insufficient. I said, for sure. We need you to get more money into this account. I was like, I was like, I'm glad we can work together on this. How should we move forward? No, seriously, your balance needs to increase. We are just 100% in agreement here. This is wonderful.
Starting point is 01:47:43 I'm glad that you've emailed me and I found a friend. That's how I message back that hiring manager for an internship when I failed the drug test because of weed. When I was in college. Tell me more. where she i i went to this uh banking internship thing and i was probably like after my freshman year of college and i went in and did the it all went well and then came back and they're like you need to pee or no it was towards the end of the school year actually that uh they needed me to pee in a cup and then i did the uh or i guess i did the interview in like march and then for the summer internship
Starting point is 01:48:21 and they're like to pee in a cup and i was like ah it's like march 4th and i'm like uh i don't have any availability until May and they were like I had been smoking weed every day for a while at that point and I knew that I wasn't going to get it out of my system in like a three week period even with all those silly concoctions they sell you and so I was like can you give I can get it then and they were like oh that's not going to do it you have to do it at this date and so then I went I drank more water than it's healthy like for two days leading up to it peed the clearest pee of all time and then went back home and they emailed me and they were like unfortunately we've detected a discrepancy or a discrepancy was detected in your urine test for
Starting point is 01:49:10 obviously that showed a little thing marijuana was the only thing in there obviously and i in my head i was like ooh so i just emailed back i'm like interesting uh what's the next step in the onboarding process and that she had to send me now that you know I'm chill and pretty cool and then she emailed back and was like no unfortunately we
Starting point is 01:49:35 we can't continue and I was like fuck shit I ever was it related to marketing yeah you weren't flying a plane or driving a train or something it was just it was some horseshit internship it probably was to do with marketing I don't remember the exact specifics but it was for a large bag I think it was for Chase
Starting point is 01:49:53 And I didn't, I didn't pass my drug test. I failed. I remember, like, oh, sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, did I ever tell you about when I had been smoking and then I had to take my first federal drug test? No. So like, the whole legal process was weird. First I had the state charges and then they dropped the state charges, but basically let me know, federal charges are pending. And I was like, well, when will they be pending?
Starting point is 01:50:19 And they gave me this far away date. It was like, yeah, like October. And it's June or something like that. I'm like, okay. And this is a discussion with my lawyer. I'm like, well, can I smoke weed in the intro? Can I like go on, go to Colorado and smoke weed? He's legal there. And he's like, yeah. Yeah, you can do that. And so it did. Went Colorado for a week, smoke weed out there. And then went like, again, maybe a month later to Seattle, smoked weed for a week out there. And then I get back. And they're like, it was going to be, I think, three weeks or maybe four weeks. And your federal probation will begin. You'll have to come in for a drug. test and I'm like oh my god oh my god I haven't just been smoking a little every day for a week I have been blazing 420 so goddamn hard my ears are glowing and just just getting so stoned in Seattle and Colorado and I was like oh my god I'm looking up online how to get this shit out of my system because I don't know what the penalty might be if I fail it's definitely going to
Starting point is 01:51:16 look bad in the court documents when we eventually get to trial and they're like he actually failed his first drug test and I'll be like while my lawyer told me and he's sending him right there. He's like, yeah, I did tell him you could go to Colorado, but like, they're not going to believe me. They're not going to believe me. They're not going to believe I've been smoking illegal weed in Georgia. They're not going to buy it. And it's going to affect my sentencing. And so I am in hot bathtubs drinking straight out of gallons of cranberry juice and running on the treadmill all day, all day for weeks. For weeks, I am doing nothing but drinking a gallon of cranberry juice a day and more water. Did you get sick of cranberry juice?
Starting point is 01:51:53 I got the good cranberry juice, too, because I didn't think ocean spray would cut it. I'm drinking this bitter. Oh, yeah, the UTI cranberry juice. Ah, no sugar at it. I see why the others add it. Yes, yes. I'm drinking straight cranberry juice laying in this hot bath to sweat, just trying to sweat out, like, all that my body has.
Starting point is 01:52:15 And then when I went and took the drug test, they were, she finally called me. She's like, all right, drug test is tomorrow. And I'm like, oh, or maybe, maybe she told me, like, it's, it's, Thursday and she told me that on like a Monday or something but I know when the drug test is I don't show up for the drug test I figure you get one wow I figure I figure she's gonna call me old I know but I felt like I that I felt like an extra day might be the difference that made everything however not showing up on the first day probably get smoothed though so I didn't show up and so she calls me she's like where you're supposed to be here you
Starting point is 01:52:52 missed your drug test. I'm like, oh no, you said it was Tuesday or you said it was Friday or whatever. She's like, no, I said it was Thursday. I'm so sorry. I could come in right now if you wanted, knowing that I can't come in right now. It's like 7 p.m. or something like that. And she's like, no, you be in here tomorrow. And I'm like, perfect, bought myself an extra day, went in there. And no one says pass or fail. They just keep moving along with the paperwork. And I'm sweating, bullets. I don't know if I've passed or failed and we're doing all the other paperwork. I never found out if I passed or failed. Nobody said anything. I must have passed. Yeah. I don't even know if it would have been a big deal to fail. I think they would have brought it up. Yeah, I guess.
Starting point is 01:53:37 But there was a lot of like during that first meeting like this is not the way to start this federal probation process, not showing up for your first ever drug. I'm like, ah, this is not reminiscent of the behavior you're going to get from me. I'll be wherever you need to be. And I was From then on out, I was everywhere they needed to be whenever they needed to be there. Man, when you talked to me earlier, I was stoned. I had forgotten. You know, so hi, I just, that's what, that was Ricky, was it Ricky Williams, the running back from Florida. He, uh, I think it was Ricky Williams.
Starting point is 01:54:11 He failed, he had this problem. He kept failing drug tests, and this is when marijuana was a problem. And he was like a Pro Bowl running back. He was one of the best running backs in the game, but he kept failing marijuana tests. they kept suspending him and they were like dude you failed again he's like yeah i got high and forgot i wasn't supposed to what the fuck do you mean wait a second you didn't start out high you became high and it was a chicken and egg drug you i'm always high that's one thing the nchl has done right for like two decades is they don't test they've never tested do they test
Starting point is 01:54:47 for steroids? I think they test for certain kinds of steroids, but not anything as strict as what they're doing in UFC. Yeah, they can't possibly be testing in basketball. Those players glow up once they get drafted. It's something that's just super physiological. Like you look at the pictures of these guys at 22 and then at 27 and they've added 70 pounds of muscle and I'm like, no way.
Starting point is 01:55:15 no way dude I saw a video I think Chis sent it in our chat the other day because he is one to talk about basketball and send videos and that guy Victor Wembenyama right Wembenyana
Starting point is 01:55:29 Wembenyana he that guy who's like seven foot five or something crazy and he it was showing him like running across the court and when you get to that absurd size it's impossible for you even if you're agile even if you're the most
Starting point is 01:55:45 athletic seven foot six guy in the world your movement still looks slow motion it's so weird like it doesn't it doesn't map onto what you understand a human being's physiology to be and so like it was him jogging and in my head I'm like this guy needs to get the fucking let out but then I have to remind myself like no that's as fast as his body will allow him to go without like a catastrophic failure but he's still going faster than like a sprinter because he's got seven foot six legs when he was the number one draft prospect, Zach, please show this picture. He was so skinny.
Starting point is 01:56:22 I thought he was a constant injury problem. And like his biceps weren't much bigger than his wrists. And he's been packing on muscle year after year. Now, oh, also he's still growing. This is his third year in the league. He has packed, he's grown like three inches since he got drafted. And that's pretty muscular for a seven foot six dude. What are you looking at?
Starting point is 01:56:46 It's so gross. No, I was mean that that's, if he's still growing at that height, that's bad news for him. Yes. And he's like, is he 21 when bignana? I'll look it up. Yeah, you usually, if you're still growing at that height, it's a pituitary issue or some sort of tumor or something. That is not good for him. Someone needs to get taken, take a look at him.
Starting point is 01:57:12 They're lying about his height. Like, Zach says, he went from 7.3 to 7.5. I saw 7.6. The team says he's like 7.3 or 4. You can tell with, like, people that are next to him, he's growing and they're not. And I'm like, I think the perfect height for basketball players around 610. I was talking to my friends about this the other night. Like that is, like, the LeBron James has maybe the perfect body for basketball.
Starting point is 01:57:42 He's about 610. he's very strong he's fast he's athletic you stretch out to seven six and there are some things you're better at like rebounding and blocking but you give up a lot of like agility yeah the density the muscle density and bone density stays the same the connective tissues all stay the same there's just longer and more of it's a harder puppet to operate I think there aren't many players his height who've had good careers because they get injured and it ends and he's still growing at seven six bro. I hope he's all right. I hope he doesn't like die. Oh, that's cool. Dude, he is like one of the coolest basketball players ever. He's really into physics. He's really into audio books. He's,
Starting point is 01:58:26 he's kind of a loner. He's never had a hint of trouble, even though he's like rich and famous and you know, it could easily get himself. His work ethic is next level. He is the kind. I like that. He's French. So he's culturally a lot different than the Americans. And Wemignon is dope. I hope he has a great long career, but I don't predict it. I'm not looking for it, but it seems like
Starting point is 01:58:51 he's a good guy. I haven't heard anything bad about him. But like when I hear, it's the same way like Andre was growing technically until he died, like both with and like he is a his like his features and his hands, I think like kept growing like
Starting point is 01:59:08 stuff like that. Weird. Weird. stuff. Hopefully he peters out and stops growing. But he's doing all the right things. He had what was his issue last year? Did he have a cardiac issue? I forget what he, like halfway through the season, he had to stop playing. He had kind of a near death experience. Now he's back this year. A hard thing. I know for people that huge. Don't take it to the bank because I said it. I'm not sure. I figure Zach is about to tell me, but he hasn't said it yet. He knows.
Starting point is 01:59:46 I think Zach's big into basketball, right? Yeah, he is. I thought so. Zach's also a big boy. He's like 6'5 or something. Yeah. No, I'm pumped about this, though. A little change of topic.
Starting point is 01:59:58 We're talking about the missed drug test. Connor McGregor didn't show up for his drug test. Got an 18-month suspension from the UFC. Oh, wow. So now he can't fight for 18 months. months. I bet he's devastated. Yeah. Yeah. What a loser. That guy's such a fucking piece of shit.
Starting point is 02:00:14 Yes. He's terrible. And it was a secret, right? Like, it was 18 months suspension, and he's finished in March next year. Does that sound right? Oh, I didn't know anything about that. Yeah, they kept it a secret for a while. John Jones also had, like, a secret suspension when some of that time he didn't
Starting point is 02:00:30 play, or didn't fight, I should say. He has one win in the last nine years. Yeah, he's had one win since Obama was president. really that's so long ago yeah like all this like Kyle you texted the other day where you're like oh he's suspended it's like in my head is far infinitely more casual than you guys with UFC
Starting point is 02:00:53 it's like to me it's very clear it's like yeah I don't think at any point Gratzky's going to make it back guys like I don't think he's going to come back into the league it's like this guy has so checked out and it seems like he makes Reggie Johnson's also suspended from the NBA. The thing is, there's places for him, and there's things he could do within combat sports that he could still do well in, maybe not world championship level, but like he could probably do some bare-knuckle fighting or he could do regular boxing.
Starting point is 02:01:24 Where's the incentive? If he wants more money and more fame and more attention, it's hard to put a finger on exactly how much wealth he has, but he has had multiple hundred million dollar paydays at this point between Floyd Mayweather and the selling of his alcohol company. And then his UFC career, he probably adds up to another 50 or so with all the fights combined and the pay-per-view stuff. And
Starting point is 02:01:46 it's not like he's sitting on his laurels. Like I see him doing these appearances and like doing the face-offs at Bareknuckle promoting them on social media. I bet he makes an enormous amount of money. You know he owns Bar-Nuckle or part of it?
Starting point is 02:02:02 I didn't know how much he owed if he owned like some pittance or he was like a 10% owner, I didn't know if it was relevant financially or if he just wanted to be involved with something. Yeah, to me, Connor McGregor is using his fame to make money in other ways,
Starting point is 02:02:21 and part of the way he does that is he fakes being an active fighter, and I hate it. It's like this stolen valor kind of thing. So, I don't know. Yeah, I'm glad to see, you're a fighter. I don't want him to,
Starting point is 02:02:35 I hate seeing, him in my social media feeds and my Reddit stuff, I don't care. Every time he does something, I'm just like, why do people still care? Why do you still care? There's so many much more interesting. Who's that guy? He's a, is it, I show speed
Starting point is 02:02:50 or something? The sprinter who's like super duper popular. This shit is so much more entertaining than to watch a Connor McGregor fucking post. I see him everywhere. I don't know why he's so popular. So I definitely don't know, no. But from
Starting point is 02:03:06 what I've seen. He's done some massive live streams and he's just running around the world doing cool stuff with a huge audience. It's millions and millions. He's a streamer. Extremely athletic. What's his name? Is it I show speed? Yes. Oh, he's not a professional sprinter. He's a streamer who's like really fast. Oh, Kyle has it right. He holds. He has the record for the most viewed YouTube live stream by an individual YouTuber. Okay. Yeah, that doesn't have anything to do. I don't see him doing boring things like eating 20 million live viewers what 20 million live viewers that's wow is that real 20 million live viewers it sounds like youtube's goose in their own numbers there probably why would they goose the numbers for him and not anyone else like he has the world record for the
Starting point is 02:03:59 for the biggest youtube live stream i don't even know what he was doing every time i see him he's just being like, I don't know, fun and funny, running around, or just walking the streets with enormous crowds. Like he, I saw him in Cambodia, man. And there was, I don't know how many people watching the Cambodia stream. 30 million.
Starting point is 02:04:16 It's 30 million. Jesus Christ. Asman Gold is like fucking with Twitch a lot. So everyone hates Twitch now. I think it's because the ads are a little oppressive. Seems like every six minutes. It's like three minute unskippable ads.
Starting point is 02:04:32 awful. YouTube's a much better deal for the viewer. And Twitch streamers aren't making the kind of money that they used to off their live streams. The money now is in the YouTube replays it appears. That's what a penguin said. I don't know. I don't make any money off my stream. I mean, sometimes like a dozen dollars in one day, but not a lot. And so Osmond Gold made a new channel and he didn't partner it. So it had like no ads on it. And but it got big because he's really popular and of course he makes his money in other ways like donations or something and uh twitch started losing money on him so they partnered his channel against his will i'm pretty sure i have this about right and i thought it was an interesting little like sort of
Starting point is 02:05:17 fight between the streamer and the platform that makes sense they don't want to host his bandwidth for free right and you know but he on the other hand is like i'll just take money directly from viewers and cut Twitch out of it and yeah whereas most people are like I want every revenue door open he's like I don't need them all but won't anyone think of poor Jeff Bezos who owns Twitter by the way Kyle I asked Grock and it wouldn't lie to me
Starting point is 02:05:47 it says the largest peak concurrent viewers of any stream all time is the first two 9.3 million is some Hispanic boxer the second one 3.8 million is a Hispanic boxer and the largest creator is the Greg FG Fortnite Skin Reveal
Starting point is 02:06:06 at 2.4 million and so maybe those streams you were referring to as like the total views afterward because people drift in, they drift out there, you know what I mean? Yeah, I'm looking at his top streams and it's 27,000, 20 million, 19,000,
Starting point is 02:06:21 60 million. Oh, you're just saying the total views. I thought you meant like concurrent people watching. That's what Google suggested. It said concurrent live viewers was 20.2 million. Maybe GroxRaw. Could be. Let's see what Google AI says.
Starting point is 02:06:38 They're going to give me a fucking pancake recipe. I'm going to ask Chad GPD. One of the largest concurrent viewer streams in Internet history. It's a dramatic way to write it. All right. the largest concurrent viewer streams and internet history include major sports broadcasts and gaming events
Starting point is 02:07:01 what a good sentence to lead with what an informative sentence 65 million viewers for Jake Paul and Mike Tyson that's Netflix it's not live streaming the same way Fortnite chapter two finale in 2020 attracted over 15
Starting point is 02:07:16 I mean they were live streaming 15 million peak concurrent viewers across platforms yeah chat GPT doesn't have I show speed either. I don't know why. It also says the Jake Paul one, 65 million. And then it has some
Starting point is 02:07:30 Indian one, 61 million. Disney plus whole star slash geo whole star, a big sports event. That's India though. We have to multiply that by like point to understand. But this same guy, this boxer, I guess, I buy Lanos,
Starting point is 02:07:46 he is on the Grock list for the biggest concurrent ones. And he's on the very reputable Google AI. but Google AI is also trying to pretend that like that Netflix fight counts as a live streaming event it does I think like why wouldn't it because the whole point of like asking about the live stream is that like it's an independent person it's not a giant conglomerate putting on an event right it's it's like how many how many concurrent views service I don't know it's not the same way as like a like if i show speed is on twitch or uh rumble or kick whatever platform he does
Starting point is 02:08:25 youtube whichever one he does like his concurrent views shouldn't be the aggregate of everything after it's been up for a day you know it's almost like porn in that where pro starts and amateur ends is a gray line you know if someone's on chatterbate are they amateurs or are they just new pros. I'm not sure. I once made a parameder video where I briefly took a clip of someone else who had the same trick I was doing from a better angle. And some of the people in the acrobatic paragliding community took issue with like a big guy like me using someone else's footage without permission. And I'm like a big guy. That video made $9. Like what are we talking about here? Like you see me is Jake Paul? And I'm sure Jake Paul is like, I'm a content creator, just like you, just because
Starting point is 02:09:22 I'm the biggest doesn't mean I'm not like the concurrent live stream record holder. I'm just doing this thing. But I also see him like you do through the other lens. Like this is a production. You guys had advertising for this. Yeah, the advertising is a big part for me where it's like there were people sitting in a boardroom deciding where and how much to spend and where to spend an advertising budget for Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson. I think the way you should. like separate them is the way that Google AI did was by saying an individual live streamer doing his thing is certainly different than a Netflix special that's live streamed to everyone who has a Netflix account. But I would give Netflix the edge if we're just going for most
Starting point is 02:10:06 live stream views because they watch the fight live. I don't think it's counting an aggregate of total views that like went back and watched the fight. It feels like counting the Super Bowl though, doesn't it? Why wouldn't you count the Super Bowl if it's streamed live somewhere? on like NBC's like a live thing or whatever like that would count sure but everybody but no I'm saying I'm meaning like it would be like counting the airing of the Super Bowl on CBS or whatever as a live stream and it's like wow look 48 million people watch the Super Bowl that's the largest live streaming event in history and it's like the most watched Super Bowl ever was when the Eagles won 127 million people that's so many people Jesus Christ good good for football
Starting point is 02:10:48 man. A lot of Jaylen Moorz fans out there. Just saying. That's more than the moon landing, I bet. Like, how many watches? Well, I mean, just mathematically, how many people lived in the U.S. in 1969? I would guess.
Starting point is 02:11:01 But I bet it was watched global. 190? 210? 650 million people worldwide watched the Apollo 11 moon landing. Allegedly. Did you say 650? 650 million people worldwide in July 20th, 1969, making it the most watched event.
Starting point is 02:11:18 history at the time. How many people's 93% of U.S. households with television sets and a significant viewership in other countries? But how many people stuck around for the post-credit scene where Richard Nixon had a direct
Starting point is 02:11:34 call to someone on the moon using a phone in late 1960s technology? I don't know why that's, doesn't make sense to you. We have litigated that to death years ago about how they, like clearly he's not connected with a phone line to the fucking moon.
Starting point is 02:11:50 It's going to a radio transmitter that's bouncing a signal to the moon. Yeah, real-time communication in 1969. It wasn't real time. I'm agreeing with you. It's a couple seconds delay. It's so easy to get his goat over the space. What do you think the most watched live event
Starting point is 02:12:07 in the history of the planet is? I just looked it up. I hope it's not some cricket bullshit or some football match or work up. Kyle, I think you actually hit the nail on the head. It has to be a cricket thing. Oh, no. He says no. It's a European thing. Is it a World Cup? Is it the funeral? Is it a funeral or a wedding? It is. The royal wedding? Is it the, is it the Queen's funeral? It is. Queen Elizabeth II's wedding.
Starting point is 02:12:38 I'm sorry, a funeral. I set around. Nice. Nice. Wow. People gave a shit. Good for you. I didn't watch a bit of it. I didn't watch it through, but like I, I, I think I was like, oh, they're doing that today. I saw the part where, like, Prince Andrew was in his fucking pumpkin carriage from Cinderella rolling down the street, looking all pomp and circumstance. And someone goes, you dirty Pito! You're a Pito! Joe! Oh, fucker!
Starting point is 02:13:08 And by the way, it was silence in the streets. It was like a moment of respect and, like, solemnity. Fucking Pito! That's a risky thing to say in England. They'll fucking throw you in jail for that kind of shit. Damn, that is very funny. I didn't know there was someone yelling calling Prince Charles a pito. Yeah, not Charles, Andrew, the one who actually loved.
Starting point is 02:13:34 Yeah, Charles is the old ass king. He's the king, yeah. Yeah. It's good to be king. Which has got to suck. Dude, I've been amazing. Not the being the king, but like he didn't get to be king until he was already. Do you know why Trump switch?
Starting point is 02:13:48 channels on Ukraine probably a wealthy donor convinced him. King Charles convinced him is what they're saying. They're saying that when he was in England and having dinner with King Charles, he convinced him to support Ukraine. Yeah, I bet it was a long conversation that did it and not some person that showed up with money. I bet that's what it
Starting point is 02:14:08 was. Yeah, I do. You both make good points. I think I can't tell. Do tons of geopolitical, hardstruck decisions are changed by fleeting words at dinner parties. Who would fun this such a thing? His R. That's exactly how Trump operates. Trump could literally
Starting point is 02:14:26 be sitting there fight side with Dana White and Dana White and being like, you know, Israel's a bunch of no-goodness. And he'd be like, really? They seem chill to me. They're always very complimentary. He's like, yeah, they talk shit by your back. Though I've heard. Dana White showed me a lot of things, a lot of things. As anyone, have you heard? Have you heard about the USS Liberty?
Starting point is 02:14:43 It's called the USS Liberty and it's called coin clipping for. Folks, coin clippling. He holds up a coin. Look at this. It's a penny. They clipped a penny. My God.
Starting point is 02:14:57 These people are roadless. This is a quarter. It's not even made of silver anymore. And they're clipping it. Like that's all the leftovers. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think any people that high up change because of an earnest discussion at a dinner party. I think it's money driven.
Starting point is 02:15:13 I feel both ways. Sometimes I feel like Trump. position just reflects the last person he talked to. And sometimes I think Trump is just bought and paid for, you know, like who he pardons. And I don't know what happened here. I always go to the bought and paid for route. Like that, you don't get that high up in any powerful country without being bought and paid for. We'd have seen it happen. He does his buying and paying like in front of your face. You'd have just seen that, strangely, Ukraine bought $10 billion worth of Trump coin. Like, it would just be in your face like that.
Starting point is 02:15:48 Just the same way when they gave them that $400 billion jet. It's just in your face. Here it comes. Here's my free jet. And now they have protection like a NATO country. If anyone fucks with Qatar, the United States has an executive order saying that we will defend them. Good. Do you know how deeply I care about Qatar's national sovereignty?
Starting point is 02:16:07 So much. So much. We care about whatever the fuck they're doing. What are they doing in Qatar other than like hiring? I was going to say hiring slaves, but I don't think hiring is a part of it. You just tell them, build the fucking soccer stadium. Then you make them do it. Yeah, they have slaves.
Starting point is 02:16:26 When I heard they had me that the left doesn't bark about that one single bit. With all the talk of civil rights and race relations, we have modern day slavery of brown people. But because it's other brown people enslaving them, throw away the key on that one. It's literally that simple. If Israel was full of brown people, they wouldn't give a fuck about Palestine. You guys are on to something. Bill Maher did this like years ago when he was like, it's all this respect other people's culture. But no, there is still right and wrong, not look at this through a different lens.
Starting point is 02:17:00 When women have to wear a burqa, it's wrong. When women aren't allowed to go to school, it's wrong. It's not just a culture we don't understand. Geez, you know, like, do you think the women like that rule? there you think that they're happy with how it is they're not and i was like damn right like you can't just say i'm muslim i marry 11 year olds it's right and fucking wrong what's wrong with you i agree yeah uh just noticed but having so much fun talking we're a little late on the ads we're going to hear from a wonderful sponsor guys one you've heard from before
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Starting point is 02:21:39 Joe Biden did this or Donald Trump did this put it over those Kyle what is this dog article you keep linking it's so cute dude so in Australia this couple was on a vacation on this island and they lost
Starting point is 02:21:56 their 10 pound wiener dog there's a picture of the wiener dog if you want to show it's so cute Zach and the dog was missing for 17 months and then rediscovered and brought back to its owners it survives somehow in the Australian Outback or the Australian Bush they said
Starting point is 02:22:13 on something called Crocodile Islander some shit Crocodile Island Crocodile weenie right here What champion My man I don't know that one Crocodile Dundee come on I don't know that one
Starting point is 02:22:29 We're fucking wrong with this crowd I never heard of it I haven't seen Crocodile Dundee You haven't seen it no it's it's it's it's pretty good movie paul hogan australian actor made the oh no made the uh i think he made produced and maybe even wrote the movie and it was like i appreciate you saying paul hogan like i know any
Starting point is 02:22:50 that's crocodile dundee he's the actor who plays crocodile dundee um he says that's a noif um it that's the meme so he uh made that movie it was like the fifth highest grossing movie in the u.s that year and because he had like written directed owned produced starred he made a boatload like he never needed to do anything ever again other than Crocodile Dundee too of course he said yeah this is
Starting point is 02:23:15 a knife not that's not a knife this is a knife we showed him it's much bigger knife didn't even know the reference yeah well there we go check out the sponsors sorry what do you go ahead I have nothing on the spot thanks Taylor
Starting point is 02:23:34 I thought you I thought you said how about and then I cut you off no it was me it was me oh go ahead go I know I was just going to talk more about that cute winter dog that survived somehow and how do you think it survived like what did it even eat so weiner dogs are doxins
Starting point is 02:23:50 doxen is German for badgerhound so I imagine that he was going into burrows and getting like small rodents or something or maybe bugs it looked well fed like and maybe if the dog was missing for a month you might think ah you found one good meal but he was gone for a year and a half, 17 months.
Starting point is 02:24:08 And so I don't know. A lot of good news. It'd be really spooky if he showed back up and he had gained weight. He could be like, whoa, this guy's a killer. He's been eating. What's this? Oh, look at him. What a sweet guy.
Starting point is 02:24:22 That's a very cute guy. As we were starting the show, it was getting really loud outside. And I was texting. I was like, hey, can you calm those dogs down? What the fuck's going on? No reply. I'm getting madder and madder. Finally, she replies, she's like,
Starting point is 02:24:33 Murphy rolled in shit. he got covered in said shit and Ivan washing said shit off of him gagging for the last half an hour sorry like we'll get it together no excuses play like a champion
Starting point is 02:24:49 yeah fucking Murphy then video of gagging it's hot as you watch a shitty fucking pomerrean that piece of shit he goes to the end of the good dog don't say that about him he's he's really cute he's really lovable but he he's almost intentionally annoying like he'll go to
Starting point is 02:25:11 the edge of the yard and sit there and bark at two in the morning in his little bush and i have to walk all the way out there through the dog shit landmines and then like dig him out of a bush and i'm always getting bit and stung and like poked by thorns when i go in there to get him i call it his fern gully he like goes in there and wedges himself in he's a fucker there's no reason outdoor dog before long like oh you want to play stay outside chicken i'm amazing at this game oh i've done it and it takes like two hours and like i'll let him out at three in the morning and he'll stay outside for eight hours an outdoor promoraniian is also there's owls there's any hawk and any large birds that's who he's barking at it late at night like i go out there and i'm like
Starting point is 02:25:55 what are you even barking at and i hear who ho ho ho ho ho ho i don't have you heard him bark but he He heard the owl. He's daring the owl? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I think he could take the owl. Chis says that the owl would beat up Murphy, but I'm firmly in Murphy's corner with the owl. He bites pretty hard. The owl would fuck up Murphy. No way.
Starting point is 02:26:15 An owl can kill the carburee. Whatever kind we have. Is it a great horned owl? Is it a barn owl? These things matter. They're a little private. I don't get a lot of looks at him during the blackness of the night, you know? Bar now. I saw, they're all poofy with the you know they're all like fluffed up so you can't really tell
Starting point is 02:26:35 I'm like to explain owls to me Murphy weighs 15 pounds I don't know what I ran on the edge if it had been 10 to 12 pounds he's according to chat GPT he's a danger of being eaten by an owl but an adult 15 to 30 pounds is too heavy for an owl to carry off though it might injure the dog Murphy hold his own I'm sure he'd bite him he'd show back up the owl would just be like you'd just be dragging the owl behind him. He's got an owl toy he beats up all the time. I think he's been training for this day. You've got grain-cored owls in Georgia, according to Grock.
Starting point is 02:27:13 Okay. And that thing could absolutely take little Murph. I disagree. I think Murphy's going to win this one every time. I've seen those owls before. They look big. But again, I think they're all floofed up. I think if you got them wet, you plucked them.
Starting point is 02:27:26 I don't think he's so formidable anymore. Yeah, but you're not going to get the chance to get it wet and pluck him. He's going to take your dog. Well, I don't think you would I'm just saying he would appear What he appears bigger than he is because he's not plucked or wet Sure I don't think flucking him would make him weaker
Starting point is 02:27:42 That's a trade of birds birds are Birds are just Humiliated Have you ever been face to face with an emu before They're enormous You answer first I have I've been to the zoo
Starting point is 02:27:59 I've been out face to face with them like in the wilderness without a fence and it's scary because it's like they have these big thumb claws and it really looks like
Starting point is 02:28:10 he could disembowel you if he wanted to and they're really big and scary I don't think I've ever seen it's on his foot right yeah but they have like thumb
Starting point is 02:28:19 he needs that to stand you got like a hook on no they attack with them they like flick them at you like a raptor yeah it's like what ostriches do except emus are like a smaller version
Starting point is 02:28:30 but they don't have tail what do they use to stand the other foot they stand on one foot yeah yeah yeah they can hop you can grab it by the neck and bam bam that thing
Starting point is 02:28:42 like a club I how much smaller is an emu than an ostrich all right time to waste another quart of water the fucking dude I
Starting point is 02:28:55 I don't think there's a bird on the planet I can't handle here's a here's an emu attacking a man let me see this the video for anyone who wants to see it's called when emu's attack man versus bird
Starting point is 02:29:07 oh I could I could take these dude I'm telling you this guy lacks fighting spirit they always do but you see how it's attacking right yeah it's kicking it's like kicking and flicking its leg up
Starting point is 02:29:24 I'll fuck up any bird on this planet currently and nearly any urban I think the Australian military lost of war. I think you mix the herbivores in, you start taking a ton of elves with all of the like bovine species, anything that's buffalo-related, cow-related. I fucked with a cow before it ran. It was like that dude in the video. It wasn't mad at you. A bull will not run. It'll be, it'll be peeved.
Starting point is 02:29:54 I said cow. All the horses fuck you up. All the camels fuck you up. All the camels fuck you up. up, the mules, the donkeys. Horses are scared of me. Mules are scared. Mules want to cuddle. You ever seen a horse bite a guy? I've been,
Starting point is 02:30:08 my daughter was bit by a horse. How hard? She didn't like it. I think she was nibbled by a horse to be fair. So hard enough. Yeah, she tried to pet its nose at Disney World. And I was like, I thought the Disney World horses would be like, I don't know, socialized with children, but I guess not.
Starting point is 02:30:27 Did you attack the boys? Did it like get her fingers? Did it get her shoulder or arm? Bitter hand, I think. Okay. Was she feeding it at the time? I think she was trying to pet it, like gently on the nose. I don't like that.
Starting point is 02:30:41 They do on YouTube. They're notoriously attack when you try to do that. Wait, are you serious? I don't know much about horses. No, I have no. No, horses usually pretty chill. I've never been bitten by one. But I've seen horses bite people, and it is a severe bite.
Starting point is 02:30:52 It's like a huge, bloody bruise that looks like, it looks awful. And then I've seen camels bite people and, lift them off the ground from the bite. I saw this Arab guy who was beating the camel, like abusing it, and the camel finally had enough and just bites him, pulls him into the air, slams him, and start
Starting point is 02:31:11 stomping him to death. There's a lot of animals that are like this. Like if you've never seen one in person, you really don't understand how big they are. Buffalo are like that. American buffalo, they're gargantuan. They are an order of magnitude larger than a
Starting point is 02:31:30 fucking holsting cow. A holsting cow seems like a farm yard pet, which is what it is once you see an American Buffalo. That's a war machine. Camels are the same way. Camels are fucking huge. I don't think I've ever seen a giraffe in person. I don't think I... Wait? Yeah, I have. Yeah, I have.
Starting point is 02:31:47 You've been to zoos. They have them at most zoos. I've only been to the zoo twice. I feel sorry for them. And I don't, I think of it is like animal jail. Yeah, drafts are crazy. I swear, I've said this on the show. a couple of times. It never lands, but there are fantasy animals that are far more believable than giraffes.
Starting point is 02:32:05 Yeah. True. A moose that's like 30 feet tall. At one point, did you know that? No. North Korea claimed to have found an actual unicorn back in the day. A horse with wings is just as believable as a giraffe.
Starting point is 02:32:22 Oh, yeah. I don't know about that one. Okay. Unicorn clearly. But a unicorn is as a unicorn with no wings is as believable. as a, actually more believable. Because lots of things have horns. Giraffes are just a weird ass animal. What has a neck like
Starting point is 02:32:38 a giraffe? Like some birds ish. Nothing. You'd have to like go down to the bug kingdom to find like flamingo, emu. I mean, they're not as big but really long neck. It was really long necks. Big ass quadruped. Giraffes have some sort of
Starting point is 02:32:53 special circulatory system so that when they bend their head down to water to drink water, their heads don't explode from the increased blood pressure. If you think about a siphon, their body's all, the neck is so long that lowering their head without whatever circulatory adaptation they
Starting point is 02:33:09 have would make their heads explode. They're their brains at least. This is an article of the North Koreans claiming to have found the unicorn layer. Does it seem realistic? Well, there's a photo here of a unicorn in the article.
Starting point is 02:33:25 Its horn is glowing. I didn't know they did that. they obviously do um who okayed that story someone terrified someone scared for their lives and their families lives said oh you're so right we did find the unicorn oh you know when you said we find unicorn i think it kind of realistic if we say one but you say whole layer i say good job are there any fantasy uh animals that you think may have actually existed because i think there's like a non-zero chance that something like a dragon existed.
Starting point is 02:34:01 I was about to come down on that same side. Because there were terror birds, but the terror birds died out like 10,000 years ago. But there are Native American legends about what's called a thunderbird in the Pacific Northwest, and that is a region that the terror birds lived, and they were gigantic birds.
Starting point is 02:34:19 Like, they looked like monsters from a movie. Those real legends, though? Like, did they have writing enough to pass? that down? Or is just some guy now being like, yes, it is pretty, it was pretty scary. Like, what else is that? I would imagine it's oral tradition and maybe some like pottery
Starting point is 02:34:36 carvings or total pulls or some bullshit. I also have one to question oral tradition of Stone Age civilizations. You've read the Bible, right? Yes. Okay. Never mind. No, no correlation there. Just checking. I think dragons might have existed.
Starting point is 02:34:54 Maybe you, I think what could have happened because there's a lot of legends about dinosaur-like things. Like, Loch Ness Monster I don't believe in, obviously, because we don't know about it right now. But there was a,
Starting point is 02:35:07 there was a dinosaur that looked just like what the Loch Ness Monster supposedly looked like called the Plesiosaur. And there's this maybe Amazonian dinosaur that supposedly spotted. Its name is hard to pronounce.
Starting point is 02:35:18 It's like Montempe-Bembe or some shit like that. But they often think that it's some sort of quadruped dinosaur that lives deep in the junk that they keep going on expeditions to try to find. And then the idea of dinosaurs being in all of those legends for all around the world, from South America to Asia to even Europe,
Starting point is 02:35:41 all those legends about people fighting winged, fire breathing, reptilian monsters. It just seems like a, there's a lot of commonality there. So maybe there was some sort of, I don't know, maybe a terror bird or maybe some sort of weird pterodactyl type thing. I've got one. I think something like the Lochness monster isn't too big a stretch. What is it? A big sort of worm-shaped fish?
Starting point is 02:36:06 It's a plesiosaur. It's, I'll show you. Yeah. It doesn't seem like a stretch at all to see a, I don't know, big fish swimming around that's tube-shaped. It's not a big fish. It would be a big reptile. And I think a big pushback on it is like that thing would be too large to have existed or got that big. in something as small as Loch Nass.
Starting point is 02:36:28 Not that lockness is small, but there we go. Sure, Loch Ness, I'll agree. But we're talking about fantasy animals that could exist. And, you know, there are way bigger things than that in the ocean.
Starting point is 02:36:41 Yeah, but we know about most. The male is the biggest animal to have ever existed in the Earth's history, which is kind of neat that like, I think of the giant animals is kind of extinct, but the biggest one of all is here right now. yeah the biggest one we know about an even bigger one that would be sick the biggest one we know about yeah
Starting point is 02:37:00 yeah it would be it would be cool if we found some skeleton of something that uh the blue whale is descended from or something even larger and kyle i wanted to bring this up to you because there was a huge victory this week for a team taylor dinosaur that they found a lot of a tyrannosaurus wrecks and it had fossilized in it scales which has thrown a wrench into the the anti-science feather narrative what do you think they had scales and feathers
Starting point is 02:37:35 so no according to this thing I spent no time looking at scales and how to have scales and feathers just like sparse shitty feathers through the scales yeah that sucks
Starting point is 02:37:51 I don't know why you're so anti-feathers. I think feathers are pretty dope. Because he's like Jurassic Park. I was very much locked into the Jurassic Park depiction of them. How many of those have you seen? I've seen the first one, obviously. I've seen the second one. The third one I did not care for.
Starting point is 02:38:10 And then the Chris Pratt ones came about. And I saw the first Chris Pratt one. That's a lot of Jurassic Park. I think it was the first one where they were running around and what looked like fucking Epcot. And then, like, people were panicked. And then a teradactyl snatched that lady. Took her right away from those kids.
Starting point is 02:38:28 Threw in the water. And then another water dinosaur ate her. And I thought that water dinosaur was like, we need to spend a little more time on this. That's a really cool. The whole movie should have been the water dinosaur. That thing is awesome. It made the TV like a bitch.
Starting point is 02:38:42 Well, they do that every year. It did, but who's afraid of water dinosaurs? Anyone in the water? Yeah, anyone in the water. Which is easy to not be. They are on an island. It's a bit of a problem. I lost Jurassic Park movies years ago.
Starting point is 02:38:57 My girlfriend's super into them, so she watches everyone. But it's like, it's absurd. How do we keep repeating this pattern of, let's make a dinosaur park? And oh, no, the dinosaurs got out and killed people. At some point, Deutsche Bank is going to be like, yeah, I mean, we're not funding it again. It has been an unmitigated disaster. Which time you say, the dinosaurs will not get loose from the cage, and then what happens? You bring your little amber walking stick in here and say, oh, it has escaped from the cage.
Starting point is 02:39:37 He kept saying, no, spared no expense, maybe a taller fence. Maybe why aren't they underground in us looking down at them? Why would they ever be behind a thing? I could have broken out of Jurassic's. As soon as the power went out, it was game over. How had they not planned for a storm? How did they not plan for a power out? And then the only thing between you and a dinosaur
Starting point is 02:39:57 is fucking Jeff Goldblum's horny ass talking about fucking. Feeling your wife up. You're getting all handsy with her. If you put a little drop of water on my hand, then later in the movie, I'll fuck you. Chaos theory. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:40:14 It's like, Jeff Goldblum. It's been great if like, if what's his name, just beating this shit out. I've been right there in that Ford Explorer. Oh, that would be good. Dude, I watched that scene when I was like seven when that movie came out and was like, this guy's a fucking weirdo. Get your hands off my woman.
Starting point is 02:40:31 I remember wondering. I was like, I get why Sam Neal is here. He's important. I get why the old man is here. I get why the lady's here. She's some expert in something. What the fuck is this guy doing? Yeah, I didn't even remember.
Starting point is 02:40:45 Yeah. What was Jeff Goldblum's thing? Dino sexuality. Life finds a way. it was his thing. He was a scientist. It was a chaos sexuality. He was a chaos theory expert of some kind,
Starting point is 02:40:56 maybe a bit of a philosopher, but that's all I remember. I don't remember him really needing to be there. Because the lawyer was obviously there to sign off on legalities and the dino experts were there because he wanted them to co-sign it because it would look good.
Starting point is 02:41:09 I don't know why Jeff Goldblum was there with his chaos theory cuckoldry over there. He's like holding her arm, like watching a droplet of water like run down her forearm. And he's like stroking her forearm. talking about how like he's explaining chaos
Starting point is 02:41:24 it's very early in the movie when they first get there I don't even think they've seen dinosaurs yet they hadn't even seen dinosaurs and you know what's funny is somehow that woman actress accurately portrayed
Starting point is 02:41:34 both the disinterest and how off put she was by him doing that like she didn't seem interesting I disagree she was laughing she was laughing it up with him I remember fake laughs I remember
Starting point is 02:41:48 yeah but to a creep like Jeff Goldblum, a fake laugh is an invitation for a finger-banging. You know, they don't read, he can't read nuance. He's all about chaos theory. I wish he was the one that got eight out of that. He is in the book. He gets eaten in the book. I'm almost positive, but I think they wanted more Jeff Goldblum.
Starting point is 02:42:07 You remember the guy who sat in the porta-potty? The lawyer. Yeah, and then he knocked it, the T-Rex knocked it down, and then he goes, is he shitting? I quote that part all the time. Like, the kids are like, he left us! He left us! He just bales on the kids
Starting point is 02:42:23 And I was like, I would have also bailed on those children. First of all, what am I do? Fistakuffs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex? It's a Tyrannosaurus Rex. You don't need me here. If anything, I'll lure him away from you. And worst case scenario, only you'll die, but I'll get to tell your parents what happened. Like, there is no reason
Starting point is 02:42:40 to not flee in terror from a gigantic predatory dinosaur. I didn't get it. But it would be tough. If you were in that car with them, you can't And he's already through the, the restraint. There's no way for you to run because it's going to take like four steps, snatch your ass up and then turn his attention back to the car.
Starting point is 02:43:01 Like you have to wait until he eats one of the children and then you break. Or you bring the small boy with you and toss him aside as you're running because the dinosaur doesn't discriminate. He's just hungry. He's just hungry. Yeah, he'll just munch that kid down. And then the way it ate the whole time was like tossing. crossing it up in the air and then snatching, which means you get a couple more seconds to get away.
Starting point is 02:43:25 I think in Jurassic Park 5, they like genetically engineer some super locusts that then spread all over the planet and start eating all over our food. But then Jurassic Park 6 happens and there's no mention of that. They had had so much success with their initial five experiments that they decided to genetically engineer locusts. I haven't seen that one. I didn't watch that one. I just call it like a few tidbits. Yeah, I've been divorced of the... That sucks. Everyone thinks dinosaurs are cool. No one thinks locusts are cool.
Starting point is 02:43:55 No. There's a scene in the first Jurassic Park. The kids holding binoculars. And I think the dad or whatever, he's not her dad, but he's like, put those down. They're expensive. Is it the lawyer? And the kid's like, how do you know they're expensive? He's like, are they heavy?
Starting point is 02:44:13 She's like, yeah, they're expensive. Put them down. And that burned into my head is this core memory that like quality things. things tend to be a little heavy. Expensive things tend to be a little heavy. And he's not wrong. Yeah. The problem was that kid's grandfather owns those binoculars and the SUV they're in and the island they're on. So it really didn't make sense for him to be correct in that kid anyway. He should be kissing that little kid's ass. Oh, you having fun with those, Timmy? I think that was the kid's name. I think it was Timmy. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good movie. That was before Sam Jackson
Starting point is 02:44:42 did Pulp Fiction. He wasn't quite the star that he became afterwards. Wait, who was Sam Jackson in the original grassy park? He's the good computer programmer who's explaining. He's like pulling up Linux or something. He's like, I have to go through every line of code manually. And they're like, how many lines of code? He's like, by two million. He's, Sam Jackson. I haven't seen that movie in so long. The last time I saw that movie, I wasn't even familiar with who Sam Jackson was. It's been 25 years. Why would a zoo be a programming problem? I don't know. Because, well, the Newman character had done some sort of tampering with their system so they couldn't turn the power back on and they couldn't control the paddocks
Starting point is 02:45:24 without like getting into the system and uh that's that's all i really remember from that but but sam jackson was the cigarette smoking sort of computer programming guy he ends up getting his arm they defined him later and just his arms hanging there she she's like oh thank god you're here oh just like got his whole arm oh i remember that i also remember like being scared for newman when he had to get out of the car and try and fix the wheels or whatever or like open the gate or whatever it was that was preventing him from leaving
Starting point is 02:45:56 and then that like horrible dinosaur with the fin on the neck it spazes out and then it shoots like a bunch of gunk right in his face wasn't there a six foot tall dinosaur that was scary that they could have used
Starting point is 02:46:10 instead of lying about what the raptor is wasn't the raptor the size of a chicken or something yeah Kyle is a raptor apologist but yeah actual raptors were like little chicken bitches. I don't know that there's a chicken-sized animal on the planet I couldn't beat. That's true. There's that scene in Jurassic Park 3 though, when there's lots of the little ones
Starting point is 02:46:31 and the guy like kicks it. He's like, get the fuck out of here. You can't have any of my sandwiches. Exactly. But then it shows up with like 80 of its buddies. Sure. And they all swarm him and start like, you know, eating him alive. They nip at them, yeah.
Starting point is 02:46:43 Yeah. But there must have been a six foot tall made for high. Hollywood there was yeah absolutely they should have used it i think that they just wanted to use the name velociraptor i i think it was just another type of raptor um the little kind and it's a cool name no one can take that away from them like velociraptor is a really awesome but they made it a cool name i hadn't heard of velociraptor prior to the movie fair that's a good argument i also liked when uh sam neal threatened that seven-year-old for interrupting his speech in the beginning of Jurassic Park 1
Starting point is 02:47:20 where he's like, and also another thing to know about velociraptors and the kid's like those things don't look scary and then like Sam Neal who's like fucking 48 is like, this thing would fuck you up. He's the claw on his hand
Starting point is 02:47:36 and he's giving a kid and marry. And I'm like, where's a parent? Like it's a step in here. That was a good, you know how it's show don't tell like a good storytelling? He made us scared of Velociraptors before we knew they were a central part of the thing by, like, sort of telling the story. Instead of like some TV broadcast that just says, Velociraptors were really scary.
Starting point is 02:48:00 So the animal that is what they depicted is the Utah Raptor, it maybe even is bigger than what's depicted in Jurassic Park. It's 20 feet long, but it's the same thing. Five foot nine tall, though. Yeah. Yeah. It's about right. that would have been perfect and Utah Raptor is a solid name
Starting point is 02:48:20 I don't think it was discovered at the time really 19 let's see the genus was described in 1993 when did Jurassic Park come out I thought it was like maybe 92 for Jurassic Park I was gonna say 91 but I'm just going off fuzzy memory says the Utah Raptor was first discovered
Starting point is 02:48:37 in 1975 by Jim Janssen 93 for Jurassic Park was it oh yeah oh okay I remember I almost got in trouble the first time or one of the first times I was watching Jurassic Park because my dad and one of his friends were on the couch chatting and I was like sitting Indian style on the ground watching Jurassic Park and that big pile of shit is there that he has to look through and my dad was like Taylor what's that and I didn't I was just so locked in I was like it's a pile of shit and then I immediately was like I'm not allowed to say that word but they laughed which Like, as a kid. Were you not allowed to curse as a kid? When I was seven, I was not allowed to say shit.
Starting point is 02:49:21 Fair. I don't think I was allowed to curse at seven. I was definitely allowed to curse by the time I was a young man, for sure. You know, we had given up on such, such, uh, small, small offenses. There was bigger fish to fry with my behavior. You had dropped all the airs of, uh, well, I mean, it's not like they didn't curse. Like, we all cursed. Like, like, everybody in the house.
Starting point is 02:49:43 Was your dad or your mom the bigger cursor? when mom was mad she would fucking curse um probably they didn't like in like when they were it was when they were mad they would start cursing they didn't usually curse just randomly he wouldn't be like that's a big ass truck like he wouldn't even say something like that he might say bullshit or like that's bullshit but there wasn't a lot of fucks and goddam's um outside of just angry fights then you would get some of those gds were rare indeed among amongst my parents and grandparents, but they would sometimes, I remember, I feel like a lot of people, this is probably a memory, a lot of people remember, it's like, you're trying to fall asleep, but you can hear like your parents yelling at each other outside of the door and like it's echoing. And then like you're trying to fall asleep and like you can hear a little curse word like pierce through the door, through the wall. And they'd be like, oh, fuck, they're really mad at each other right now. And then you would hear. the escalation. I remember so many nights
Starting point is 02:50:48 falling asleep to the it was almost like my thunderstorm like my parents screaming in the ebb and flow. My parents didn't yell at each other like that. They'd be mad arguments sometimes. It was really rare but I'd hear them banging
Starting point is 02:51:07 so I got my own I prefer what happened to me where I heard them I hear her compliment how skilled he was. And as I drifted off. I don't need to hear that. I would turn my stomach. Now she's going to come out and fix me a PB&J after talk.
Starting point is 02:51:27 She's like, oh, you hit it just right, Daddy. And then she's going to come out and like, she's going to make me a Sammy. I don't know. I was comfortable with it.
Starting point is 02:51:36 Always was raised in that environment. It was normalized for me. I like knowing that they liked each other. So your parents are still together. That's the telltale sign. The ours are both divorced early. on and it's just it was lots of arguments and lots of fights over just I don't remember what it was I think that it was maybe it was often like she didn't want hit she wanted him to do some chores
Starting point is 02:51:57 or like do something and he was like I just worked hard all day I want to watch TV I don't want to I'm not going to wash those dishes that's never going to happen but there would be like knock down drag out like never physical other than her just like pinching him she attacked him one day with those titty twisters she was like backing him down the hallway toward the door and she's punctuating all of her insults with titty twisters you motherfucker twist you piece of shit twist you go to this and that twist and he's just taking him and she's good with him i can tell that she's she's like pa pa she's like going in like a like a kung fu master like she's trained to the chowlin temple of titty twisting and she's coming in and popping him with him and he's not reacting in pain at all
Starting point is 02:52:43 I'm thinking like, oh, that's tough. And he's like backing towards the door to escape her. That was great. When mom got mad, she would throw shoes, though. She was a shoe thrower. Oh, that's something Woody understands. He wishes it was a throw. Yeah, they were never violent with each other.
Starting point is 02:53:01 It didn't even occur to me about the violence that I was. She had divorced my ass as a child. Yes. Oh, she found my ass. Better behaved child. My mom would beat that shit. out of me like after once i got faster than her like like i don't know 12 or something like that and she couldn't catch me anymore unless i made a mistake and let her get her hands on me but but she
Starting point is 02:53:25 i would be doing like ring around the rosy around like a bed or a couch or whatever was in the way and she would be just launching anything she could lay hands on at me as hard as she could i remember like those plastic coat hangers like flicking those at me uh high-heeled shoes like anything she had that she could flick at me i'm fucking i'm giggling but i'm also afraid because I don't know if she catches me she's going to beat the shit out of me. She tackled me and whooped my ass when I was like
Starting point is 02:53:51 man I might have been 13 or 14 and she grabbed me that little lady and she took me down like fucking Daniel Cormier and was roughing me up is she punching you in the ribs? I think she was slapping me
Starting point is 02:54:08 or trying to slap me. She was body shutting Kyle. She body until I dropped my guard. Your dad won't see the bruises, you little fuck. She was, I remember, she punched me in the mouth one time. I remember that. Like, I remember she said something and then, I mean, I'm a smart ass. So, like, I had a really good comeback.
Starting point is 02:54:28 I said something. I was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she just goes, she made a fist like this and went, and went, phew. And, like, jabbed me right in the mouth faster than I could move. And I was like, fuck. I'm going to, I'm going to Scott's house. I remember getting to my truck and driving to Scott's house
Starting point is 02:54:47 I'm like, who popped you in the mouth? Like he's ready to fight and I'm like, Mama. Let's go back there and show her what's what. Well, that ain't going to stand. What if I went back with Scott and we'd beaten her up? You would have won. You would have taken her around. Oh, yeah, we'd take her together.
Starting point is 02:55:04 I could have taken her probably solo, but I wasn't going to hit Mama, you know. Well, if you're driving, yeah. Of course not. Can't hit your mom. Well, you know, maybe. My mom outsourced. the spanking and discipline very early in the game to the point that like i can't count the number of times that i i must have misbehaved or been i got in trouble for the same reason i was a bit
Starting point is 02:55:28 of a smart ass and so like do you have any spankings that were so hardcore that you remember them forever now because i do yes yes multiple let me tell mine real quick i when i was five i cracked my half sister in the head with a carpentry level and split her head open she'd get stitches and then I ran and they had to chase me down and catch me and I remember him bending me over his knee on the stairs and whooping the shit out of me I remember it was that one I was five and I will never forget that ass whooping and I guess I deserved it but my half sister shouldn't have been scaring me she was popping out behind the island in the kitchen going oh you're four or five that's a serious offense. Wait, how old was she?
Starting point is 02:56:15 I can't think she's like eight years older than me. Oh, well that's, yeah, you were right to do. If she was 13 and you were five. And I went and complained about her first. Dad was putting up wallpaper. That's how I had access to a level. He was, and it was an old level. It wasn't one of these plastic ones they have now. It was hardwood with steel around the corners and the edges. It was a really well-made level. And he was putting up wallpaper in the living room. And I went in there. Daddy, she's getting me. she's scaring me she won't leave me alone he's like y'all sort it out amongst yourselves and i grabbed the level that was on that ladder next to him and walked back into the kitchen where i just come from
Starting point is 02:56:53 and wouldn't you know it she's behind the island in the in the kitchen she pops out ha and i went whamm and i hit her right in the top of the fucking head with that thing she's down the ground oh i split her open she had to get stitches um and and he whooped my ass yeah got her good though she'd scare me after that she learned her lesson taught her lesson yeah yeah i don't even remember what i did wrong like during the most brutal spankings i remember i just remember like like hyperventilating like not able to breathe i was so like in in pain and afraid that and i was i was very young too probably a similar you ever at a friend's house and they're going to get it's really awkward because they're getting an ass whipping or
Starting point is 02:57:35 about to get an ass whooping uh i don't remember my friend's parents ever smacking them But I do remember going to my friend Josh's house. And Josh was a, it was shorter than me, but he was stocky as hell and a very strong guy. And he had a younger brother. And his younger brother was obviously smaller because he was younger, but he was a stocky strong family. And I went over to their house to hang out one day. And as had happened a couple times throughout my childhood, but different friends. I always thought that the thing about beating up your younger brother,
Starting point is 02:58:11 intentionally was a meme because my brother's a year and a half younger than me. I've said this a million times. I was very large for my age and he was small for his age. And so physical confrontation was out of the cards for us. Like I couldn't hit him. I couldn't attack him. And these two were, you know, Josh was a little shorter and the other one was a little taller for his age. And I remember going over there to like play N64. We're all probably, you know, me and Josh are eight, his brother's and we were like trying to play in 64 and his brother wouldn't give up the controller and in my house I just would have like taken physically taken the like not hitting him not doing anything I just would have pulled the controller from my brother's grasp and been like I'm playing
Starting point is 02:58:59 like and that would have been that I would have known that he it would have been like me bullying like Lebanon if I were the US like he has no reaper there's nothing he can do and my buddy Josh pulled over the controller and his brother like attacked with the ferocity with a level of intensity that I'd never experienced I remember standing there next to the boob tube glass TV in their their bedroom which I thought was sick at the time I'm like these guys have a fucking TV in their bedroom this is crazy and then I just watched as they like had a full on fucking fist fight near the bunk beds as like they weren't pulling they were hitting each other as hard as they could
Starting point is 02:59:40 and I heard their mom be like Josh you beating up your brother Josh and I hear her like she was a heavy lady like lumbering up the stairs I'm like are we all gonna be in trouble and she came in and saw Josh on top of his brother like they were wrestling like they were both gonna be bruised
Starting point is 02:59:57 it was that severe and she just like just kind of told them to stop like it wasn't that big a deal and I was like holy fuck like if I got on top of my younger brother swinging like that it would have been a my dad would have taken me out back and ended me. Yeah, I never had a brother, obviously, but growing up with my cousin, we never, ever, like, had an issue in our entire childhood or our adult lives, like working together, traveling together, you know, sharing stuff.
Starting point is 03:00:24 Like, we never had an issue. I thought he'd killed my pet spider one time, and I was going to beat him up when I was like eight, but that turned out to be the neighbor. I remember, like, bawling my fist up and walking up to it and being ready to have, like, did you kill Charlotte? And he was like, the fuck are you talking about or whatever in eight? He was seven. He's like, no, I just got you. And I was like, okay, then.
Starting point is 03:00:47 Our neighbor Eddie showed up later and he was like, I came by earlier to see you. You wouldn't know by home. I killed a monster of a spider above your door, though. It was going to get you. And I'm like, that was Charlotte. I've been hand feeding that spider for weeks. Like, I would get that spider down and hold it and play with it in my hands
Starting point is 03:01:03 and like hand feed it little grasshoppers every day after school. Do you know what kind of spider it was? It was a Goro spider. It was the exact same thing I was talking about from earlier. Yeah, so we never got into fights like that, but I went on a play date to this guy's house when I was like 12, probably, somewhere in there. He was new in school, and he was from Alaska.
Starting point is 03:01:27 His family was from Alaska. And I remember he had a younger brother, like maybe one year younger. And they're like, hey, you want to go downstairs and play? And I was like, sure, whatever that is. and like their downstairs whole basement was a finished basement with like it was like the play zone there was a pool table in the middle of the room and there was just kid's shit everywhere like the floor was covered and it wasn't deep and tidy it was a kid's play area and i remember like all of a sudden the lights turn out and it's so dark you can barely see and i remember what they yelled but it was something like battle mode and the next time i saw them when they came from the shadows they had both put on armor and armed them themselves and they started fighting amongst the three of us and i had not prepared for any of this at all you didn't you didn't fully appreciate that it was now battle mode yeah had a hockey stick i remember that and one of them had a goalkeeper's mask and the other had like karate pads
Starting point is 03:02:23 like like like the gloves and the shin guards and stuff and he had some kind of a cudgel as well and we just all three started battling and it was dark it was so dark you could barely because so they would like run in and hit you and then they run back to the shadows like a Marvel movie. And you'd lose track of them. And then you'd have to deal with the other one. And they weren't just attacked me. It was a free-for-all. Well, it would have been, but I'm stepping on Legos left and right, tripping on shit. And they've all got sticks. You should have prepared. I had no idea of battle mode was coming. I got beat a lot. We've talked about it before. But I'd get beat for little things. Like, when I poured milk, I was too small to hold like a gallon of
Starting point is 03:03:07 milk when it was full. So I'd use the side of the cup to like help me support the milk while I tipped it. And if the glass tipped over, if I overfilled it, that'd be a problem. I'd clean it up, but I was too stupid to clean the bottom of the glass. So it would leave a ring like the next place I put it. And then it has a whole other problem. And I pulled the same thing at a friend's house. Like I poured a glass of something for myself and I spilled it. And I was just fully expecting to get beat by my friend's parents and they're like, it's okay. And then they pick the glass up and clean the bottom
Starting point is 03:03:42 and I'm like, what is this tech? Holy shit. Like now it's just over? There's no like secondary trouble to come down the road. That was, they must be charging up for an attack. Keep your guard up.
Starting point is 03:03:58 Whenever you tell that story, I feel so bad because I know your mom listens to this. And it's like, she slapped you in the face for spill, over spilled milk it's a saying don't cry over spilled milk but she assaulted
Starting point is 03:04:13 you over spilled milk and it was like man I bet he's trying his best I bet he wasn't like glug glug glug plenty to go around bitch two percent my ass glug glug glug glugg glug like that's what happened
Starting point is 03:04:28 big swigs out of the game I like the glass bottle smash like that's not what went down he literally accidentally spilled milk as a child. Why weren't you pour in the milk for little Woody? You know he struggles with it? He's a little guy. That's eight pounds of off-kilter liquid. Give him some help here.
Starting point is 03:04:45 Whack! Every time I hear that, I'm just, like, every time I hear that, oh, no. But you know what this is a good lesson of? Is Woody is a wildly successful man, which means beat your kids. There's got to be something to it.
Starting point is 03:05:00 Give him a, pop them once in a while. Surprise. it works some people turn out like Woody and some people turn out like Woody and some people turn out like Ed Gein though you know Ed Gein one of the most successful serial killers of all time
Starting point is 03:05:16 I mean he's well known there's a new Netflix Heard of him That's Ed Gein? I have I have there's a new like Ed Gein I don't know if it's a show or a movie but it really follows him like doing his evil stuff I'm not I don't watch that stuff
Starting point is 03:05:30 that's not my kind of horror but I saw it being advertised on Netflix. I've been looking for good horror movies to watch. I've been watching a bunch for the spooky Halloween season. But they're few and far in between. I watch a lot of trash. I don't know if there's a genre with a bigger miss-to-hit ratio than...
Starting point is 03:05:49 It's the entry point for a lot of filmmakers. The horror is total trash. So it has the kind of the... It's like stickers, huge profit margin. There's a long history of people making horror movies for a pittance. How much are our stickers? Is it a meme or do we make money on sticks?
Starting point is 03:06:07 I have no idea. It's just a joke. It's just a joke. We internalized it uncritically when Kyle once told me we had the best margin on stickers. Yeah. I mean, we have to, right? Like, what does the sticker cost?
Starting point is 03:06:18 Who knows? Maybe someone else has the profit margin. Buy the stickers, nonetheless. Somebody will make some money and you'll get a sticky sticker. I forgot what I was saying Oh the horror movies Yeah it's the entry point for a lot of people
Starting point is 03:06:35 Because it has that potential to do really well It's rare that someone makes a movie for $10,000 About a couple that will they won't they And it makes a hundred million But it's happened several times with horror movies Blair Witch is a great example They made Blair Witch for thousands of dollars So it's paranormal
Starting point is 03:06:52 Paranormal Activity They made that for It might have been a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand And then I think Spilbert somebody's they make billions um it's uh so so horror is often the entry point for fledgling actors directors producers um all that stuff so you really get a mixed bag there are some shitty shitty horror movies what was that horror movie i think it was by either key or peel and he might have won an oscar for it um well there's us there's um there's um i know the one you're
Starting point is 03:07:27 talking about it's the one where he goes and visits his white girlfriend's family it's yes get out get out get out yeah did you think that was overrated yes of course i think that most black movies end up that are good end up being overrated to their own detriment it's like the what's what's the thing the prejudice of low expectations i feel like that applies sometimes the soft prejudice of low yeah yeah i feel like that applies sometimes i really like get out i think it's a good movie and i think it tells a story that isn't my story but a story that a lot of his viewers and black viewers can identify with like greatly from the early on a cop pulls him over and to me i'm like all right dude you're fine but i bet to black viewers they were all right that was their first
Starting point is 03:08:10 spook of the movie like oh no police man a white policeman um and then the the fear of uh you know going to this white girl's parents house and he's like did you tell him i'm black like i'm not going to get there and it's going to be a thing and then him getting there and the dad being like you know, I voted for Obama. It's real awkward and it is spooky and it's well done. I just didn't think it was the goat. I don't think it was the bees knees or anything. It was just one of those good horror movies.
Starting point is 03:08:39 Although his movies in general are all good. Every one of his movies are good movies better than the most of the pack. And I like them a lot. I was really good. Is us the one where he's like maybe raises horses or he's a horse stuntman? that's nope yeah nope was slow really slow and then there were a few minutes at the end that were adequate but i think i liked it more than are any of them actually scary like where you're unnerved or are they more social commentary thriller i think us is quite scary um get out is more of a
Starting point is 03:09:16 psychological thing that that again i think it applies much more to black people than it does to us because they're talking about themes that are black people themes the the idea of you can put yourself in this guy's position. He's going to his white girlfriend's parents' house who don't know he's black. And he's like, well, wait a minute, you didn't tell him that? She's like, why would it matter? And he's like, it might fucking matter. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 03:09:40 Like, because we're not going like to Main Street three blocks away from home. We're going out into the wilderness country of like Maine or something. We've been miles on this desolate road going to these people's house. I get how that would be scary to them. But it's more psychological. Nope scared me a few times. times. Honestly, one of the like... Were they jump scares? No. No. Um, the, the, at the very beginning, there's a chimp attack that's a bit of a, that is spooky. The chimp rips a lot of people
Starting point is 03:10:10 apart and it's really scary. And there's no one there to help. There isn't like a team of big strong men to corral with like those, those lasso things. The only thing I can stop that is a good chimp. They opt for the gun. Um, there's a that part was pretty unnerving and then later on there's a fake scare that I don't that where like there's some people in masks and you don't know what the what the bad thing is yet or what the monster is yet so when you see the mask it really triggered something in me because I'm afraid of those round-headed big-eyed extraterrestrials like like just the standard gray this is get out yeah this is nope no no um get out is the one with the the black guy and the
Starting point is 03:10:52 white girl and and there's a whole like there's a lot going on when when you finally get there they're stealing black bodies to put white minds into so that they can be sort of immortal living in these slick black bodies complementary like like these are the most athletic versions of humans and therefore like yeah you're like the best ones we all want to be you but yeah it's a little it's a little a self-suck sucking dick like it's like yeah we're we're the best you need you need our body is that and then um and us um i actually It would be like, oh, they must come after us for our mind. I somehow read it.
Starting point is 03:11:32 It felt like an insult to me in a twisted way. Like, oh, you guys are the most athletic. That's what you bring to the table, as if they couldn't bring something different to the table. Well, they're looking for a mech suit to get into, right? They just want his physical body. His mind is literally not important at all. They would prefer, they're going to suppress all of his personality and his mind with hypnotherapy. and take over his body, as it were.
Starting point is 03:11:58 Where does his mind go? What body do they put it in? It doesn't feel there, but suppressed. You see him falling into blackness, like into a black pit where he's losing, where he's being controlled. He's on board, but he's completely out of control, and someone else is going to take his body, is the premise. I'm looking at the mask here.
Starting point is 03:12:18 This isn't that scary, but I also haven't seen it in context. Pops up out of nowhere. I'm looking at the mask from Nope. I was trying to get a gauge for it. And, you know, this is the kind of thing that, like, isn't spooky on Google images, but I'm fully open to being spooky. The big antagonist in Nope is not something with a mask. It flies around.
Starting point is 03:12:39 It's giant. It's a monster, yeah. And it's a very interesting kind of monster that I've never seen before in a movie. I found it really unique. Two big jet black eyes and, like, two little nostrils. Is that it? Yeah. In that scene, he was hearing something.
Starting point is 03:12:54 there's already been like weird happenings but he's hearing noises in his stables and he's like searching the stables with a flashlight and that head and those heads just pop out out of nowhere and look at him and it that spooked me pretty good us is good too us is more of a home invasion movie
Starting point is 03:13:10 with a black family and they're being invaded by like scary doppelgangers of themselves home invasion movies are scary because that's some shit that could happen what are they trying to do like what a I don't want to spoil it and they're up to some no I will never see it yeah but there's there's a few people listening in nope the big bad monster i don't think this is a huge spoiler it suppresses technology
Starting point is 03:13:31 and that felt like a real reach sort of work around to make the rest of the movie work so to film it they had to use this hand cranked thing they couldn't film it like with any kind of remote cameras or like something that was automatic um to like deal with it cars motorcycles i like that that doesn't work because technology somehow doesn't work around it. And so now we're, I, this isn't exactly it, but so now we're fist fighting this big thing. And I'm like, oh, it just seemed like, oh, isn't that convenient? It suppresses our technology and therefore you have to do this particular thing
Starting point is 03:14:12 and all the normal solutions don't work. Did they have an adequate explanation for why it shut down iPhone recording, but not like, I guess, analog or it? it gives off an electromagnetic field that fucks with anything electronic so and it's sort of part of the film was this family was um i think the first images captured on film or the first movie or something was a black man riding a horse and uh it was this family's ancestor and they still worked in the movie business with horses to this day um as their gig and um so at the end the two things that allow them to defeat the big monster are
Starting point is 03:14:53 riding a horse to like get away from it and using an old analog camera that there's no electronics. You're just exposing film and reeling it and so I liked all that. I dug all that from the filmmakers standpoint like him
Starting point is 03:15:09 sort of paying homage to that old stuff, all the stuff where they talked about the history of film and I like that character. I like it's like a goofy sister who would like just wants to bleed the business dry and a loyal son who wants to like carry on his father's footsteps in a way and then there's a fucking monster there
Starting point is 03:15:28 gobbling up horses and people and stuff and the monster's cool I like that movie a lot okay you liked it more than me yeah I don't I don't know how it did but but I dig it I like all those movies I of all the Jordan feel ones you described that little premise sounds the most interesting they're like oh we have to this rich white guy has to steal a black body because
Starting point is 03:15:50 they're so much better like that as device doesn't entice me it sounds uh it's almost it sounds almost like you're jacking yourself off it was they are old people that are like renewing and you know living longer they're not just bad pods look why wouldn't why wouldn't they re up for all that
Starting point is 03:16:08 white privilege because it's 2020 it's that's a myth wow that's white privilege have you if you walk the street racist please it's white privilege
Starting point is 03:16:20 there's a cup I can't say that isn't that the worst we're like oh this would be funny fuck you can't say that that's all right well I'm closing this window
Starting point is 03:16:31 of all these note masks it is a little spooky yeah us has scary masks too us is a like I said home invasion stuff is always scary I don't have you ever seen the strangers
Starting point is 03:16:42 with Liv Tyler from Lord of the Rings but yeah I've seen that and it almost I think the way the initial stranger ends is similar to the way the shining ends where the guy shows up at the end to solve things and then he gets like an axe in the back literally in both movies literally an axe in the back
Starting point is 03:17:03 in both movies a lot of people didn't like that i don't think that happens to them to him in the book and he's also the only black character and the only character who has some wherewithal the only guy who knows what's going on from the very beginning in the shining in the strangers it wasn't a black guy who got axed. I don't know the actor's name, but yeah. I mean, it makes sense because it's a black family and the white guy's coming to, so they just reversed it. But every time that Nicholson kills that guy with the axe and the shining, I'm like, fuck, because he just spent the entire, like, hour and 40 minutes or something, planes, trains, and automobiling, literally a snowmobiling or snowcadding to like save the day,
Starting point is 03:17:43 and then Nicholson just chops him right in the chest immediately. Have you guys ever had a home invasion? No. knock on wood no yeah what he has but unlike those people unlike those people back has a crazy life
Starting point is 03:18:01 we all have uh we all have guns yeah I've got my self defense kitchen knife and my pepper spray fiddlesticks I forgot about that whole felon thing no I just get out my self-defense hammer and I hope for the best I pray for that Atlanta
Starting point is 03:18:20 you're like kissing that ball peen as you're like standing behind a pillar and you're living room waiting What is the thing from the Patriot? He's like, Lord,
Starting point is 03:18:35 let me be fast and accurate. You're small. Patriots, really. Patriot's a fucking banger. That's one of the great, that's, I love that it's that American propaganda.
Starting point is 03:18:48 I love that we're the fucking good guys and the red coats are just straight up evil like we are the good guys by the way right we didn't fight in dishonorable ways we were just clever they were impressing us for being Protestant and so we had to stand up
Starting point is 03:19:05 we had to go hey Gibson plays he's the only fucking guy in slave times who pays his slaves they're like the evil redcoat he's like confiscate the Negroes as well and the black guy's like holding his
Starting point is 03:19:20 like straw hat in his hand he's like oh sir we is free men he's like not anymore take the child as well and he's like fuck the red coat suck we are going to make sure that all of his okra goes rotten like that was their
Starting point is 03:19:38 fucking incentive yeah and then at the end of the movie Mel Gibson literally like the colonial the Americans are retreating and Mel was like fuck that shit and grabs a giant American flag and starts charging up the hill with it and everybody sees him and they're like
Starting point is 03:19:54 yeah they start charging behind him into the battle and then I think he kills the big bad with the American flag he almost kills him and then the big bad either stabs him in the leg or shoots him in the leg and then- Slices him up like pretty bad
Starting point is 03:20:11 maybe slices him up and then he has to turn around and finish the deed he like stabs him through the throat with a burning hot bayonet that's how he kills him at the end like they get into a fight and it's Lucius Malfoy it's from the Harry Potter movies that actor and he's like fucking Mel Gibson up
Starting point is 03:20:27 because he's got him a saber he must have been one how well who is Jason Isaacs is the actor's name according to Zach oh he's the adult blonde guy yeah yeah he's he's a little Malfoy's dad Lucius he's the one of the cool pimp cane
Starting point is 03:20:43 I always thought he seemed to cool as hell in the Harry Potter movies I watched. He was like, let's get this guy on the right side of magic history here because he seems like a valuable ally. He's super evil in the books. Like when Harry Potter frees Dobby, he's like about to hit Harry or like attack him or something or try to kill him or something.
Starting point is 03:21:05 He's super duper evil. And then by the end he's almost like just pathetic. You feel sorry for him. Well, that stinks. But yeah, I can't find any good horror movies. It's just the old bag. nothing I've watched a bunch of horror movies the last week and I don't think I've seen anything that's worth repeating I'm gonna rewatch I'm gonna force my girlfriend to rewatch the thing with me
Starting point is 03:21:27 not that she's seen it it'll be a rewatch for me not for her that is my favorite horror movie bar none it's the perfect blend of horror and thriller it's in my top five for sure of horror movies it's one of my favorite movies just period I really really like it you should watch more of John Carpenter's stuff. He's the director. It was hated when it came out. It did poorly. He did movies like in the mouth of madness with Sam Neal again. That's more of a Lovecraftian movie about there's this author named Sutter Kane who's a Stephen King stand in and what's his name? I just said Sam Neal's character has been hired to like go find him because his book is due and it gets into some weird interdimensional
Starting point is 03:22:14 Lovecraftian stuff where he's writing these horror books and they're becoming real and it gets very mind-fucky and Sam Neal's losing his mind going crazy. That's cool. I would watch that. I really like Sam Neal
Starting point is 03:22:25 in pretty much everything he's in. He was in some show about like popes and cardinals years back and that was pretty good. They live is really good. I've seen They Live. I really liked They Live. You said it was Rowdy, Roddy Piper going around beating up a bunch of people
Starting point is 03:22:42 and I guess he was a wrestler so that's neat. Who did you're such a child I heard he was a wrestler maybe I had like friends in school who would cosplay as Rowley Ronnie Piper and hit people that's more Ronald O'Rowley got her name
Starting point is 03:23:02 73 babe and I'm a 91 babe and so I did not I did not know he did um his movies can be little slow. I really like that he does the soundtracks for almost all of his movies. He did Halloween of course. Vampires I don't like. Big trouble in Little China. I fucking love. And that's all I can think of. I know he did and they live in the thing of course. Escape from New York is a little slow. Did he do Event Horizon? No. That was different guy. Just
Starting point is 03:23:30 just another same movie. That's Philip Anderson, I think, directed Event Horizon. Because I loved Event Horizon. That was a movie you recommended to me years ago. And I saw, on the streaming service watched event horizon loved it i love john carpenter and no one else like it was like it lost a ton of money and it was just panned as a terrible movie and i can't tell if i thought it was a good movie because it just you know appealed to me or if it was where i saw it at the time i was a big youtube and i was in hollywood for something and i was like oh the chinese theater's right here i'll check this movie out and i watched it at the chinese theater and they were like playing hooray for Hollywood
Starting point is 03:24:10 ahead of time and like it really got me hyped. I'm maybe watching like Star Wars clips in the previews and movies that became part of American culture and then John Carpenter plays and this is a huge movie at the time like a giant budget attempting to be like current
Starting point is 03:24:25 Star Wars and it just clicked with me. I was like that was John Carter? Oh my say yeah I think that's it John Carter that must be what I'm trying to say and I walked away thinking that I watched the Star Wars. And then everyone said it sucked in a long time. So I guess not.
Starting point is 03:24:44 Yeah. What is a Chinese theater? We don't have those here. It is a, it's the name of a theater in Hollywood. I bet you'd recognize it by the picture. Oh, okay. Yeah. I thought it was like Chinatown, like a, like a Chinese where they're like, oh, you provide your ticket. It looks like it could be in Chinatown, but it's over by Hollywood Boulevard, I believe. I've been there as well. Okay. Or at least I walked past it. Actually, I walk past it with Woody. It's not Chinese at all. It was made by some Jewish guy named
Starting point is 03:25:11 Elijah Chinese. That checks out. You know German chocolate cake? You know who invented that? Yeah, some guy in America. Here, Zach, can you show this? A little bit, because I think a lot of people will recognize the outside, but check out the inside.
Starting point is 03:25:27 It's not a modern theater with like recliners and big comfy sofas and shit to watch, but it is like... That's a cathedral to film. That's beautiful. thank you that and that's how the movie was set up for me oh that's cool I linked to color one but yeah so this is the Chinese theater this is the entrance into the theater and then scroll down I guess you're not on the page yeah there's yeah that's the inside like this is where I saw the movie you can see why maybe you'd like a movie more that's awesome in this what Kyle say a cathedral
Starting point is 03:26:02 to Hollywood that's almost like I don't know if you guys have been to orchestra but it's almost more of an orchestra set up. Obviously, orchestras are more fanned and have the higher level. I went to a tractor pool one time. Is it kind of like that? It's sort of like that. I went to an orchestra on a high school field trip, but never on my own. Dude, I like the orchestra.
Starting point is 03:26:23 Like, at least once, usually twice a year, I go to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and it'll depend on what they're playing. When I forced my girlfriend to go with me because it was like, It was like they started with Beethoven and they went into like a full Beethoven piece and then like went into like a Mahler piece and I really enjoyed that and I'm more of a Baroque guy. She was more of a Baroque guy fair. And then we talked about it again and she was like, yeah, that was pretty fun.
Starting point is 03:26:56 But you know, I want something like more themed next time. And so I was like, okay. And so I bought us tickets to the Disney orchestra, which was. just them at the same orchestra doing Disney stuff. And so we went and watched and it was so funny. It was still some orchestra, but it was more a musical of a bunch of like ladies dancing around singing while like these giant TVs played clips from all of the classic. They did the Pocahontas.
Starting point is 03:27:28 They did all of the songs, all the big ones. And it was so jarring because every other time I'd been to the orchestra, it is, I'm one of the youngest people there. Boomers, white hairs, far as the eye can see. And it was crowded every time. Interesting enough. And when we went to this one, like as we were walking in, there's like dozens, dozens of little girls dressed as Frozen and like all the princesses and what? Elsa. Oh, dressed as Elsa from Frozen and all and Pocahontas and all that. And it was very, it was just such a different vibe being at the orchestra. And my girlfriend, was loving it but it was funny being like seeing the clips pop up and then the uh subsequent chorus
Starting point is 03:28:13 of little girls being like oh oh it's it's moana it's the moana song it was fun it was fun i didn't i didn't know all the references like all the son there were a couple i knew i was becoming a boomer when i would look up and see and i'm like this isn't even a fucking disney movie and she's like this is the largest disney movie of the last five years. I'm like, I had a similar experience. It impacts some of my like political views on movies. I went to Star Wars. The, the new
Starting point is 03:28:43 trio, like the first of the new trios, and there's Ray. And there were like people, like girls loving that they were the main character dressed as Ray and shit like that. And I'm like, you know, like this is kind of dope. You don't have to call it. Let them have fun. You don't make Ray strong by making
Starting point is 03:29:01 Luke look weak. If you can't write a strong woman character, then find a new writer. You hacks. Luke is weak. He's fat and old. Yes. You ever see Yoda? You ever see what that little gremlin looks like?
Starting point is 03:29:13 He's magical. Oh, he died. Oh, wow. Of old age? And he's in his retirement swamp. You know, he's open Daegobah with the far. Is that where he died? I guess you're a great.
Starting point is 03:29:27 Daegobo. A little anti-Italian. Wow, you're on Daegobai. Wow. Was Wappa? violin taken? He held his own against Emperor Palpatine
Starting point is 03:29:47 and at several moments it seemed like he was going to win that fight but, you know, it didn't go his way. Palpatine escaped. Failed I have. It was sad. But Luke should not have come back as a fucking blue milk drinking whino loser who throws his lightsaber and shows up as a ghost
Starting point is 03:30:03 to like let Ray escape. he should have been a fucking like monster he should have been destroying and crushing he's half with you he should have been a good he did not fuck her he smooched her a little yeah everyone makes out with their siblings
Starting point is 03:30:17 he fucked her the uh he could have been a good coach he could have been like look I'm not the sword master anymore but let me help you find discover the light or whatever but he is the sword master he is still the age doesn't matter his physical but he's ripening with age
Starting point is 03:30:33 he's only increasing in power Darth Vader only has like two limbs and he's in a continuously itchy suit that diminishes his power. That suit is specifically made by the emperor to make Darth Vader weaker than he should normally be so that he'll never be overthrown by Darth Vader. And yet he is incredibly powerful. And he's only, he's not that much younger than Luke was when he's in Return of the Jedi and all that shit. Fucking shit up. It was, that was such an abomination of the movie.
Starting point is 03:31:01 to do it to that like a historic film like that it upsets me to no end that they made Luke Skywalker a bitch I hated that so much I never saw the third movie I kind of know what happens Luke's like they should have done this with my character I could have been the star the badass who came into backflips
Starting point is 03:31:21 he's Luke Skywalker I but it seemed a little self-serving like it's just the way it should go like I'm sure if his his character had been Willem the sniveling wretch, he'd have been like, you know, he really changed Willem. I'm ready for a new one in the next trio. I don't know who's going to be the, you know,
Starting point is 03:31:39 the main character, but like I hope it's not Ray again. I don't want Ray to come out of retirement and start doing back. They've talked about that and there was so much backlash. It seems like they've pulled away from it. They did one of those Marvel cinematic projections at Disney a while back for Star Wars. And it was like
Starting point is 03:31:55 30 fucking things that didn't happen because of all the the hate over Kathleen Kennedy and how she's run not just Star Wars but Disney as a whole the Star Wars episode was definitely influential them like mocking her relentlessly like I'm Kathleen Kennedy put a chick in it and make it gay
Starting point is 03:32:13 like every time a subject would come up that's all she'd say I think maybe they're going in the right direction a little bit they're doing another movie coming out soon or maybe it's a TV show called like the last fighter or star fighter or something Oh, that's an old thing.
Starting point is 03:32:33 They're doing a remake of it? So I know what you're talking about. You're thinking of the last Starfighter, which is what I just said. That is an old 80s movie about an arcade machine that they used to find the best Starfighters in the universe. And then they bring them and I've seen that. That's not a good movie. I was the right age for it. That's fair.
Starting point is 03:32:53 New Star Wars movie fighter. Yeah, it's called Starfighter. Starfighter. It's an all-new standalone adventure. The film has begun production, but who's in it? There's like a big name in it. Ryan Gosling. So they got Ryan Gosling as the Starfighter.
Starting point is 03:33:10 And like, I'll watch that. That I can get behind. But I don't care about Ray. I didn't like Ray the whole way through. I thought it was racist as fuck the way they sidelined Po. And then the way they removed him from the posters for the Chinese audience. There's Disney and those left wing love everybody, gay pride, everybody.
Starting point is 03:33:30 white pilot, right? Po is the black. Oh, I may be getting it wrong. I thought Poe was the black character who was a former Storm Trooper, but I hate the movie and I've only seen it once, so I could be wrong. You're probably right. Poe's probably the I am right. I forget that guy's name. He's not exactly white
Starting point is 03:33:45 though, is he. His name is Finn that you're going for. Finn is the black guy who they sort of made it seem like was going to be a Jedi slash love interest to Ray slash badass contender for like He was never competent. He should have at least been a Han Solo level if he wasn't going to be Luke Skywalker level.
Starting point is 03:34:04 But to the very end, he was just sort of bumbling fool. But he was a stormtrooper, right? Former stormtrooper who got disillusioned in, like PTSD. I feel like incompetence is part and parcel of what a stormtrooper is. Okay, I see you coming from. Like, they're kind of retarded. But he was sort of separated from the other stormtrooper. I haven't seen.
Starting point is 03:34:25 There's a deleted scene that's actually good. It's one of those deleted scenes. He's like, well, why don't you leave that in? where Finn is dressed up as like an imperial officer. He's got one of those Nazi hats on, all black, and he's in a room full of stormtroopers pretending like he's, you know, one of the enemy, and one of the stormtroopers recognizes him. He's like, Ben?
Starting point is 03:34:44 From Delta R-609, B Squad? And Finn is like unbuckling his pistol. He's going to have to fucking kill this guy and fight his way to this room. And I guess, man, it's great to see one of us as an officer. I didn't think you had it in you. Congratulations. And he's like, yeah, thank you, thank you. It's a really good scene.
Starting point is 03:35:02 They got tints for a second. Why would it be hard to recognize them? I thought they were largely clones. It would be like a guy looking like Finn being like, wow, we're in the mix. No. So what you're thinking of, originally they were all clones. They were made on, oh, I used to know the planet's name. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 03:35:21 They were made on this ocean planet by these long neck people, and they were all copies. And they just made like a thousand Puerto Ricans, a million. Baricans off of Django Fet Jango Fet. Yeah, they made billions of Django Fet copies, but later on, I think that that whole operation gets destroyed or it's no longer part of the empire or whatever.
Starting point is 03:35:41 So you have to go to instead of clone troopers, they have stormtroopers which are just regular people you know, wearing the gear. Oh, I don't like that as much. I would rather watching it know that the storm troopers were like
Starting point is 03:35:56 clones of a shitty guy. instead of just a guy that got like caught up and conscripted in like one of those World War I movies we watched It's one of the ways they explain away the inaccuracy of the stormtroopers is that when you're watching the original trilogy with Luke and Leia and Han
Starting point is 03:36:12 those are stormtroopers not clone troopers those aren't Django Fet clones trained by the new the Republic to like go and fight wars those guys were all trained in Mr. Magoo Academy and that's why they're there to you know to fight yeah to not even hit
Starting point is 03:36:29 to not even hit the Millennium Falcon itself as it's leaving much less the people boarding it to not even hit the ship that shouldn't even be skill based right like I feel like when our pilots hit some other pilot with a missile
Starting point is 03:36:45 it's not because his aim is really good it's because the targeting computer said you ready yeah the F-22 only has three confirmed kills and it's 25 years of operation and the first one was that Chinese weather balloon that's Russian propaganda. Wow. That's the first confirmed kill. That that Chinese weather balloon bugged me because
Starting point is 03:37:07 okay. When we lost in Vietnam, in large part it was because we expected it to be a lot like for North Korea, right? Ah, we've recently been to war. We know how war is. And the Vietnamese didn't fight by any of the rules we expected them to. They would, there wasn't even a well-defined front line. It was this sort of mixy thing where they're just hiding in the trees near us, among us, taking shots, disappearing, et cetera. Really hard to kill these guys. They didn't fight like previous. Anyway, I feel like we are currently prepared for a war in the 1980s. We have very expensive battleships, aircraft carriers, et cetera. Not a lot, but we have very, very good planes and you brought up the weather balloon what do we spend like 15 million dollars to down
Starting point is 03:38:04 that 5,000 oh not that probably really probably 100,000 knowing the u.s military probably fucking 20 million what's a sidewinder missile cost that i'm going to say it's a 180 to 220 000 i i don't i don't know enough to even begin to dispute this well i know that's what they shot. Every time they fly the F-22, it's $85,000. So just taking off, we're 85 grand in the whole. That's if they don't refuel mid-air. And then a sidewinder missile is another half million. So we're up to 600,000. All right. So I vastly exaggerated, unless you want to start amortizing the amount that the plane cost and the pilot training cost per kill, then we're probably at like a ridiculous amount.
Starting point is 03:38:57 No, Woody, this is good content. Let's amortize all of the expenses. So it was 600 grand at a minimum. And then if you start costing, you know, looking at how much the plane cost and how much the pilot cost to train and all that fun stuff, the organization around it,
Starting point is 03:39:14 all the other people, then we get into big, big bucks. Is our military even set up to win wars now? Yeah, I think so. We think so, but we're American. If we were inviting Ukraine, they'd be launching $600 drones at us and won't stop. I think we'd be like, yeah, we took Kyiv in a day. But the war's been lasting another 19 years.
Starting point is 03:39:37 As with most wars, it comes down to raw manufacturing. And so if China decided to go a cheaper route, they could out-manufacture us in a way that's crazy. Just assuming a U.S.-China war. And you take out the damn, they won't be making squat. that's actually true that is like the biggest like if I were playing a game of AOE or sieve or any strategy game and it was like
Starting point is 03:40:01 warning 500 million of your population are under this dangerous dam I'd be like rectify immediately let's rectify this let's get taken care of and they're like oh that damn I'm my problem I think we're all good I think we're all good I don't think anybody wants to fuck with us other than these little terror groups like the fucking hoofies
Starting point is 03:40:17 the hoothies tweeted it's so funny our enemies tweet at us now the hoothies tweeted this uh this picture of a bunch of American coffins floating in the ocean and a like a battleship sinking in the background. It's like, what are you doing? They tweeted that? Yeah, they tweeted it. Scorch, fuck these people. Let's absolutely
Starting point is 03:40:35 melt them. Oh, they did. You would love that. They literally went and blew up a bunch of them that day. Like, I think that Trump was like, that can't stand. He's an airstrike. Easy to be. Mr. President, their shit posting. shut that right down
Starting point is 03:40:56 when he finds out about Gavin Newsom I think we're good I think that we can shoot missiles from submarines right off people's coasts that they can't detect and they can't stop and we've got just so many of them and just those aircraft carrier
Starting point is 03:41:11 and they hit us back with a jet ski next time we're at dock what can we detect like can we detect all these low exactly what he's saying they make a horde of low tier stuff that can still provide enough oomph to fuck up infrastructure. Like, what do we do?
Starting point is 03:41:28 Next time that submarine gets more food and they send 18 jet skis with no people and bombs on. From where, though? Who is they and where are they sending them from? China and somewhere. Because our boats are in like Norfolk, Virginia or they are now. What if they restock in the Mediterranean? Pearl Harbor, notoriously impervious. I see your mind.
Starting point is 03:41:49 Well, I don't think the Greeks are going to, I don't think the Greeks. are going to attack us. I just don't think anybody can. I don't think they can. Don't take your eyes up. The consequences would be terrible. Like, if we were at war with Ukraine right now, I bet we could kill Zelensky right now. I bet we know where he is and we could blow him up. Yeah, he's probably like hanging out with someone asking for money. We know exactly. I bet if we wanted to, we could zap Vladimir Putin at will. I really do. I just think we've spent so much money and I know a lot of it goes.
Starting point is 03:42:17 Do you think they can't? I kind of agree with you. And then I also think it took like a decade to find bin Laden. Well, he wasn't the leader of a nation. He was living in that fucking compound protected by Pakistan, you know, two miles from their fort, their best military training school in Pakistan. I see what you're saying, but I just think that if we're dealing with a peer, then we're talking about China, right? That's it. Who else?
Starting point is 03:42:46 I mean, you were saying we could zap Putin, but I mean, that would be pretty easy because we could just ice all of Moscow. by that logic, like, they could they could take out our president just by icing all of D.C. Well, that's two different things. So I'm talking about just hitting Putin with a missile. You're talking about like full mutually assured destruction
Starting point is 03:43:07 where we everybody's launching without a difference as far as I can tell. Like if we took them out, they could take us out. I don't think that they don't have the capability to do that. They absolutely don't have the ability to launch a missile from anywhere and hit Washington, D.C. that's not an intercontinental ballistic missile. Like we could fly planes in there and do it. We could shoot missiles from far away.
Starting point is 03:43:30 We have them surrounded with our bases. You've seen those maps of U.S. bases that surround Iraq and Saudi Arabia and all those areas. It's just as bad for the Russians. The United States funds the military the way I fund roads in civilization. Like you think it's cool that you realize it's draining your economy
Starting point is 03:43:50 to maintain this interstate? highway system. You guys can walk. It's only a trillion a year. It's a couple trillion a year, you know, and a trickle-down economics. Why have you devoted all your resources to highway construction? Well, so guess what? Here on the home front, the frowny faces are increasing.
Starting point is 03:44:09 I think we'll see how we handle the Venezuelans. We'll see how we handle the Venezuelans. The true threat. Thank, thank God that's addressed. You, well, I mean, you know, narco-terrorists. Just keep blowing up. up the fucking fentanyl dealers in the water and that'll and not letting him in the country bada bada bada boom no reason to get involved with venezuela well he doesn't like maduro why do you
Starting point is 03:44:31 think we're going after venezuela because trump's political ally has been imprisoned for election fraud and he doesn't get along with the duro and maduro doesn't want to do things that he wants to do economically or militarily or in any other way and he talked shit about trump the largest oil reserve on earth by a lot and so we probably doro fairly elected i looked it up and i think I thought he wasn't, but I'm not. I thought Maduro was the current president and the other guy was in prison, but I may be wrong. I thought we like fomented almost a color revolution to get Maduro in, so he should be agreeing with us, right?
Starting point is 03:45:03 I could be totally wrong in thinking of a different country. There was some election fraud and their former president is in prison right now because of it, I think, and their current president does not get along with us, and they've been trading Barbos back and forth. Well, then he better get along with us because it's fucking Venezuela. Okay, Maduro's elections have been widely disputed. as unfair and undemocratic by a significant portion of the international community.
Starting point is 03:45:28 That's risky, though. That same community said that Bashar al-Assad wasn't elected duly in Syria when he was. Is Maduro the current president who's in office, or is he the one in prison? Maduro is the one currently in office, and they say he did not win his seat fairly. Interesting.
Starting point is 03:45:48 Okay. But I don't know if the other guy wanted it. his seat fairly if that's a good reason to like flip it back well we're on the they're on the brink of war down there they we've got so many assets down there in the caribbean and we're blowing their boats up every single day it seems like is that right i thought it was just twice in my way off i've seen multiple i saw that one video like i said of the guy with the barrett 50 cal uh shooting the engine on the boat and them going to fucking with it and i've seen at least i don't know three videos of uh like one was thermal one was color
Starting point is 03:46:21 of them just blowing boats up shooting the cartel shit though that's not like we say they're military well we say it's cartel they say it's fishermen oh well that's retarded yeah how pretty clearly cartel stuff i think they claim to have captured a cia agent um about a month ago too like i'm not one to blindly agree with trump but they're fishermen in speedboats going like 70 miles an hour what he don't ask questions, except for them critically. The swordfish are fast. What we like to do is to go like 70 miles an hour and scare all the fish and then not catch any.
Starting point is 03:47:03 I mean, you do want some speed to get to and from the fish. At least when I went off offshore fishing, you know, you do that kind of quickly. But not these are like cigarette boats, is. Yeah. Maybe it was doing a big hill thing where like it turns out fentanyl is the ultimate way to catch fish. you can't you can't they have like I've said before
Starting point is 03:47:23 their militia is like six million men strong or something and I don't remember how many Marines we have down there but it ain't exactly the kind of war we could fight for 25 years well it depends what your goals are like I think if you fucking to support Raytheon obviously
Starting point is 03:47:39 yes how do you think we can do that from the air though I don't know I don't think Raytheon makes landing craft oh I'm sorry do you not care about Lockheed Martin I do care about Lockheed Martin and they're an American company. I want them to do well. And they make some amazing aircraft for us
Starting point is 03:47:55 that keep us safe and keep the wolves away from the door. Help us keep this American hegemony going into the 21st century. Yeah, I love Lockheed. Why wouldn't you? What are you having it's Lockheed? Nothing.
Starting point is 03:48:08 I think that they're a busy McDonald-Douglas guy. It's not bad. Dude, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing. These are countries.
Starting point is 03:48:19 Not all of all. These are corporations that help me as an American. All I'm hearing is like things are getting expensive. And I'm thinking like, yes, they make the coolest machines on the planet and we fly them. They make the most deadly weapons in the world. They make the javelin missile system that makes tanks not even matter. They should put my fucking name on the side of it with how much taxes we're paying. And it's all going to that shit.
Starting point is 03:48:42 We should all get our own little name, not just for like Zionist politicians to sign bombs. that are going to kill children waiting for the fucking flower, we should get to write our own shit. What do you think that we're going to do with that flower? Do you know how explosive it can be when it's atomized? You don't have to tell me, brother. Do you ever see a grain silo explosion? How'd you like to see one of those in the middle of Tel Aviv?
Starting point is 03:49:04 Not on my watch. Not on my watch. And we all know Tel Aviv, despite international warning, has so many grain silos. Do you think they would be crawling through the sand with machine gun fire over their heads for flour if they were just hungry. No, they're making bombs.
Starting point is 03:49:22 They're making bombs with the flour. And I've seen some of those kids. Like, they'll say, oh, one of their legs was blown off. It's throw a fucking, like that South African sprinter. Do a little thing on there. And then, you know, still a terrorist, still a potential terrorist. Yeah, the blade runner. How would you like to deal with a whole squadron of Palestinian blade runners?
Starting point is 03:49:47 They jump right over your wall. they probably would yeah you're right we got to be careful because this is one of the Israeli Palestinian conflict is one of those things
Starting point is 03:49:59 where I watch the clips and I'm like wow this could go either way when I watch the Ukraine war I'm like oh my gosh I'm not sure we're equipped for a modern war when I watch the Gaza war
Starting point is 03:50:11 I'm like oh this is what it's like when you fight people who don't fight back yeah dude I saw some graph or whatever I saw it on a couple different sites where it was comparing the amount of civilians
Starting point is 03:50:22 killed by Russia in Ukraine versus the number of civilians killed by Israel and Palestine and like on day two keep in mind the Russia-Ukraine shit had been going for like two full years on like day two of Israel's bombing
Starting point is 03:50:38 in Palestine they had like five-axed the total like as far as whatever international fucking wartime watchdog You read Greta Thunberg's blog again Before you get your data from Greta From Greta Thunberg
Starting point is 03:50:54 Yeah You're over there standing with Greta The rest of us are trying to win a war Okay Dude I think all her Global Warming shit Kind of retarded in my view But like you know
Starting point is 03:51:04 This is a better cause This is a much better I'm gonna win as many wars as possible Let's mix it up with Canada Mexico Venezuela And not just the people But the animals I would take it
Starting point is 03:51:16 Canada is like a bye week I don't even know I don't know I have no idea what their military is it's virtually non-existent yeah we subsidize their military by having one we don't even buying them shit
Starting point is 03:51:34 we have to pay for fucking everything dude if I all the people in Germany will be like oh you can't pay for your diabetes medication because here it is only $2 so weak. And it's like, yeah, it's because we fucking subsidize that shit.
Starting point is 03:51:51 I'm frustrated that we pay so much more for medicine than other people. Like, I can understand like how the doctor's salaries might be higher. Like that aspect of it, I get. Americans are going to pay a premium for local labor. Cool. But why is the pill itself a thousand times more
Starting point is 03:52:07 expensive? Oh, did you see? Yeah, it's crazy. So Trump is coming up with Trump RX. He's going to sell medicines at a discount. And Costco recently announced they're going to start selling um is it simiglutides the um majorno and uh yeah ozempic stuff ozempic stuff at half price at literally 50% off so instead of a thousand a month it's 500 a month it's like 80 a month in other countries yeah like we're getting hosed oh that is not okay and then uh what trump rx does
Starting point is 03:52:39 it's a website that points you to the manufacturing websites where they sell direct okay and if it's cheaper. I'm for it. We'll see. I wonder, I haven't looked into Mark Cuban has that. You know, he's making drugs now? I didn't. I heard of talking. He's like, listen, some of these drugs are expensive because they are intentional shortages. So now I'm in the drug manufacturing business and he's in there making it. Good for him. Anything that makes it cheaper. I really don't care what side of the aisle they come down. Make it fucking cheaper for people. Yeah, he doesn't sell everything. Like, he doesn't take any more, but Colin used to take something that was really expensive, like $800 a month.
Starting point is 03:53:21 And Mark Cuban didn't sell it. I looked into it. Damn. Yeah, he's making, he's specifically making drugs that are on the FDA's shortage list, like insulin and epinephrine. Good for him, then. That's great. Dude, he talks about how it's a business where he's making money and he's in it to make money. But it also feels like a good deed.
Starting point is 03:53:45 yeah yeah if you're helping like a nice guy i i watched a lot of that's objectively a good thing i watch a lot of interviews with him and a lot of his content he he genuinely seems like a nice guy uh when i hear him talk about like uh the winners and losers from shark tank i think he bought 20% of dude wipes for like 200,000 dollars and now that company's like a hundred million company. He's like, you know, I haven't realized it yet, but yeah, it's there. And it's like, there's a number of like winners that he's picked off the show like that. Good for him. I don't know anything about it. I've, I've seen stuff online from basketball fans saying they wish he would run their franchise differently, but there isn't a single GM in any of the
Starting point is 03:54:28 four major sports that doesn't get that guff online. And so it's like, well, what do you want to do? Dude, he ran the Mavericks in a way that I really. One of the things that he did that I liked. so basketball teams get meals at the stadium right before they eat he would give first class meals like buffets five stars shit and he would also give that to the visiting team because he wanted every player in the NBA to wish they were a maverick and i'm like you know this is probably money well spent dude that's brilliant that's so so smart like they're they're playing for the new or Pelicans or something getting grilled Chick-fil-A nugs
Starting point is 03:55:12 and then they go to the Mavericks and it's like oh wow we got Capicola we got the Mavericks their best player was Luca Donovic and he was really popular everybody liked him except he was one of the better players in the NBA and then right after
Starting point is 03:55:28 Mark Cuban sold they traded away the best player in what was known as a really bad trade deal with LA and you said oh they wish that he ran the team different Well, they liked a lot more of what he did run it. As soon as he left, they traded the way Luca. I had no idea he didn't still own it and control it. Yeah, I think this is actually another one of his smart deals.
Starting point is 03:55:50 Like, we've talked a couple times about how NBA viewership is kind of low. And they just redid their like TV thing. And now it's one of those deals where basketball plays in like 19 different places and it's hard to follow. And he sold his team. And he kind of like bought low, sold high. and I think it might be smart. We'll see. Damn,
Starting point is 03:56:10 I hope he buys the blues then and fuels those boys up with some tasty treats. Right. I'm sure he's a basketball guy if he bought a basketball team. I would think, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:56:21 He was definitely into the team. And I remember he would like criticize officials and he'd get fine for it. And every time he did, he'd like match it like, oh, you find me a hundred grand, 100 grand to you? 100 grand charity.
Starting point is 03:56:33 Fuck it. And they're like, that's another 100 grand. Yeah. What do I care? Where does the fine money go in the NBA? I don't know. In the NFL it goes to...
Starting point is 03:56:46 Probably the Players Association, right? In the NFL, it goes to a thing to support, like, ex-players who have issues, like medical issues and stuff, I think. Yeah, the Players Association Union is where I think most fines go, right? I thought that it was specifically going to help retired players in the NFL, though, not some union that has lots of, you know, costs. I thought those player unions also helped retired players as long as they had, at least in the NHL they do, but they have to have a requisite number of NHL games.
Starting point is 03:57:19 I think if they play like 400 games, they're included in like the Players Association retirement portion. Oh, I Googled it. And this is Google AI. So it could be trash. But half of it goes to charities at the NBA picks. and a half of it goes to charities that the NBA Players Association picks. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 03:57:39 So all goes to charity over there. Did you see The Rock's new movie, The Smashing Machine, flopped? No, I saw that he made it. I saw what he looked like in it. I didn't watch it. Yeah. Yeah, it made $6 million. Ooh.
Starting point is 03:57:54 Yeah. His career's tanking. I don't know. People hate him now. Why? So I think he got some guff when he's, I think he, sort of sat on the fence about Trump and said some sort of nebulous things
Starting point is 03:58:10 that could be taken either way and I don't think people like that I know his physique has changed it looks like I'm just theorizing here but it seems like he got enormous to play Mark Kerr in the smashing machine movie and maybe that was the straw that broke the camels back with his health
Starting point is 03:58:28 or something maybe he got some bad labs or bad heart something because it seems like he's off the juice like he's shrinking he's he looks weird like i've seen the rock has been enormous my entire adult life i remember watching in 2005 the movie walking tall where he's sheriff buford puscer and he's walking around with a four by four post beating the shit out of people with johnny knoxville and he's been that big for the last 20 fucking years and it's got to be from just cycle after cycle after cycle of heavy duty steroids and human growth hormone he's so big or at least
Starting point is 03:59:04 was. And they're always like he said he put on 30 pounds for the Mark Kerr role. And it's like dude, you were already Goliath. Right. I've seen pictures of him in the movie and he looks enormous. He doesn't quite look like himself because they got a wig on
Starting point is 03:59:20 him and I think maybe some are you familiar with the In and Out Burger story with The Rock? No. Zach said, The Rock is facing a noticeable decline in his popularity with a significant drop in Instagram followers and fan backlash due to missteps like the In-N-Out Burger Story,
Starting point is 03:59:36 the handling of Black Adams movie reception and insensitive behavior during Maui wildfires. So I think the In-N-Out controversy stems from maybe an Instagram post where he made where he was like, I'm trying, my cheat day and I'm having In-N-Out for the first time ever. But then they tracked down some posts from like eight years ago of him eating In-N-Out or something.
Starting point is 03:59:55 And they were like, you're just a fucking liar. Oh, give him a break. I think that's what happened. well i don't i don't like or just like that's an emotional bank accounting right like if someone that we liked said that it was his first time trying in and out but it wasn't we let that but when you're already in emotional debt now you're mad at everything zach says he's told that like three separate times he keeps having in and out for the first time ever okay if he's done that three times we're back around the wheel to hilarious like just lying open
Starting point is 04:00:30 there's a box behind you like there's he should mock himself at this point like trying lettuce for the first time yeah the rock hit me up I can help you I'll never understand the fandom for in and out it's not even that good those fries are soggy and they get cold immediately
Starting point is 04:00:48 the wrestle zone says the rock has tried in and out for the first time at least three times that was 2023 that's funny like that's a funny thing to do is to lie about not having had fast food and then have had and then like have a video on your count of you like eating nuggets from in and out you don't think that's kind of funny i don't know i think it's so inconsequential i think it's indicative of a pattern of being disingenuous phony fake and just playing
Starting point is 04:01:21 he's been fake for his entire career well that's what you're literally juiced i think when you watch john sina on the other hand who's a very similar like person to compare him to all also a former wrestler who's turned movie star and a big bulky guy. I find him to be far less fake. You've not seen the video of him when China got mad and he's like, Ono Shedlebe,
Starting point is 04:01:40 whole shilly, I know to know Tonehili. First of all, he's apologing to China in Chinese voice because he speaks Chinese. I found that to be super impressive. He learned Chinese on the WWs dime. They have some sort of like educational program.
Starting point is 04:01:55 Why? Was there an enormous business incentive? Yeah, but he learned the language. the language. I thought that was impressive. No, he learned enough to say, oh, miso-souli. I mean, it's not like he went and took blood money in Riyadh, like old Billy Bloodbath over there, you know? Like, he's just doing business in China. W.W.E's big in China. They like wrestling. And I think he probably said something like
Starting point is 04:02:15 Taiwan related. Like maybe he said Taiwan was its own fucking country or something accidentally. And they don't like that over there. They got that, you know, the whole one-China policy and everything. So he probably just issued like a by-text retraction and said, no he made a video in Chinese apologizing to any Chinese he may have offended he made like a 10 minute video supplicating himself in minutes that seems like a lot 20 minute video of him supplicating no more than 40 but when you see interviews with john sina he's a normal guy he comes across his very standard average like a nice guy all the stories I hear about him are interesting he bought a four gt and they have this policy where you can't sell the car and he's like fuck it
Starting point is 04:02:57 I don't fit. And so he sold it. They sued him. I like it. He drives a Honda. You're right. Buying a car that can't even be sold that's so selective is really like every man. They're only a hundred.
Starting point is 04:03:07 Every man. They're like $120,000. I like the Rock at one point more than I do now. It wouldn't shock me at all if five years from now is like, you know, John Cena always plays this like super nice, relatable dude. And it turns out he's this thing instead. Like that could happen. No way.
Starting point is 04:03:25 It happened with the rock. You know how much chair. dirty work he does. He does an enormous amount of children. I'm starting to think he's responsible for those kids' deaths. It's so correlation. And like he seems like a big kid. He stole quote unquote that that peacemaker costume. And they're like, but don't take the costume. That costs $25,000 to make. And he's like, oh, oh yeah, for sure, packing it into his bag. And so like every time he's also a thief. Anytime he does press for the for a comic con, when he does, on the tonight show. He shows
Starting point is 04:03:59 up his peacemaker. Wearing that fucking helmet. Like the whole get-up. Dude, the helmet is so stupid that I love it. Like, I don't know. Why does it have a mullet? It's so dumb that
Starting point is 04:04:17 I feel like he's brave for wearing it and he's brave for showing up in it and it's a goof. It looks wild and he clearly loves it. He likes the character I like the character I don't know if you've seen the second season or it's there's seven episodes
Starting point is 04:04:32 of it out. It's real good. I like it a lot. I like that the guy with bird blindness is funny. Michael Rooker shows up and he's like an eagle hunter. Like Peacemaker has a pet eagle named Eagley. It's a giant bald eagle and they go to search
Starting point is 04:04:49 Peacemaker's house when he's not around and they don't know that Eagley is there and he beats up the entire special forces team like Peck's eyeballs out, scratch his faces. The eagle does. The eagle does. He's a super eagle. He's no normal eagle. Well, he's a bald eagle and he's very
Starting point is 04:05:05 intelligent. He seems to be able to understand English most of the time. Yeah, he doesn't speak English, but fortunately John Cena speaks to eagle. Yeah, they get a little bit well. I've got to tell you, Kyle, this sounds pretty fucking dumb. So after he wipes the floor, after he wipes the floor with the Special Forces team,
Starting point is 04:05:21 the Argus, which is the organization, they have to recruit an eagle hunter. So they bring in this guy who's dressed like Wild West Hunter with the silly hat. He's wearing like all leather like like like deer like buckskin letters with like tassels hanging off. He's got eagle scars. He's talking about I've been hunting the prime eagle my whole life. He's doing like he's doing eagle rituals. He's got an eagle rifle and it's Michael Rooker, the actor if you don't know who that is. I know who that is. Yeah. I don't care for that one bit. You're not supposed to be hunting eagles in the
Starting point is 04:05:56 first place. That's what they tell him, but he's out to get the eagle, and he's an eagle hunter. Well, I hope John Cena shut him right down. No, no, but, you know, he found his own way. Michael Rooker is the blue guy from Guardians in the Galaxy. He is, yeah. But not the wrestler. I knew him as one of the characters, and I believe either Call of the Dead Nazi zombies or one of the other maps. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's in there. He was also in Walking Dead. He's Daryl's brother. Yeah, Merle.
Starting point is 04:06:25 Merle. Yeah. Yeah, he gets his hand, he has to chop his own hand off. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty hard core. I liked him.
Starting point is 04:06:32 Yeah, he was better than that scar-faced motorcycle guy, better than his brother. No, I'm going to keep harping on peacemaker for you because I think that is
Starting point is 04:06:41 the best entry point for you into a superhero universe because it's funny. It doesn't take itself too seriously and there's good fights. His sidekick, vigilante, is genuinely like Jeffrey Dahmer
Starting point is 04:06:54 serial killer sociopath. Like he has no feelings on the inside. He's a bag of it. You say he has no feelings in the inside. He genuinely cares about being friends with Peacemaker and they're caring for each other is so lopsided. Like he loves
Starting point is 04:07:10 peacemaker more than anything. And John Cena could take or leave his friend. Yeah. Oh, it's grid content though. Taylor, that character's great. Peacemaker, Season 1, Episode 1, and just see if it hooks you. Because I think it might.
Starting point is 04:07:27 It's on HBO. Or our Plex, which you can log right into right now and watch it there. There's a, I like it a lot. The last time I logged into Plex, it was serving me so many ads. I just exited. There are zero ads on Plex. What are you talking about? It had pre-roll ads.
Starting point is 04:07:43 It had mid-roll ads. I went in there. That's because you don't know how to use Plex after I gave you instructions. You were clicking on. This was like a year and a half ago. when I was logged in. And yet you still haven't figured it out. Yeah, you're using the wrong Plex server.
Starting point is 04:07:55 You need to go to Chris's server. You're going to live. Well, it's not just that. So in Plex, you have our movie library, which is all of the movies that we've ever spoken about or requested on this show that had been added there, ad free with subtitles, NHD, ready to rock and roll. And then you can scroll down if you're, I don't know,
Starting point is 04:08:14 a boomer who doesn't know how to use electronics, and you can go to like Plex movies, which is just like Tooby or any of those other free movie services and they're like, yeah, we've got no country for old men. You just watch 20 minutes of ads while you watch it.
Starting point is 04:08:29 So you have to go to the movie library and see the recent, go to the recently uploaded tab. I can't watch these until we start the movie podcast. You need more instructions on how to use flex because you... I could say,
Starting point is 04:08:44 man, I really wish I could watch that 1984 film Lifeboat and it will be there tomorrow. He's so amazing. He's so terrific and you're like not even using his server correctly. I haven't even I haven't opened Plex in a year and a half. There is an issue with buffering
Starting point is 04:09:06 sometimes. Like if I watch at times other people might want to. To eight or ten. Like eight or ten megabits per second and everything will play fine. Some things try to automatically go to like 25 megabits per second and I don't and your internet can do that but I don't think your device it wants to do it it'll buffer F1's on there if you if you're listening F1's messed up it won't play I'd love to watch F1 but your coffee doesn't work is this the Brad Pitt one yeah it's on there but it's I watched it on there I thought it won't play from here maybe I watched it somewhere else
Starting point is 04:09:38 maybe it was on Netflix or something yeah but anyway Taylor all that shit is on there for free anytime we're talking about TV shows and movies it's all on there with no ads for free in the recently uploaded tab we got to start doing the movie podcast the recently uploaded tab it's going to have like get out
Starting point is 04:09:56 nope and us on it because we talked about it on this show he's maybe the best yeah lots of good stuff on there but if you were going to get into it I would honestly recommend you start the peacemaker journey with the suicide squad 2021 I think it was made
Starting point is 04:10:10 because that's where that character in John scene has introduced it's a group of misfits go to an island to fight to fight monsters and Margot Robbie's in it she's super hot the whole fucking time doing cartwheels with her ass out I'm a big fan of that there's a Sylvester
Starting point is 04:10:25 Is she the one who like waves her pussy around in Wolf of Wall Street Yes she gets she gets full cooch And then you've got Sylvester Stallone does the voice of the giant shark Man there's a giant shark man Who's some sort of Hawaiian Elder God or something and he just
Starting point is 04:10:41 Talk like this in like simple Don't say things that make me less interested He eats people randomly And they'll be like, hey, don't eat me when I'm asleep We go, oh We gotta start the movie podcast Because I think it would be funny If you guys forced me to watch
Starting point is 04:10:57 All of the Marvel shit Because I have seen Iron Man 1 And I have seen Endgame Because you guys told me to watch that No, no, I haven't actually I haven't seen Endgame I saw I've seen Iron Man 1 in 2008 in high school and then I saw Infinity War
Starting point is 04:11:18 and I remember during the Infinity War being like who the hell are any of these people I have no idea there were 50 hours of lead up content yeah but that shit's fucking gay dude Taylor's like I saw the original Star Wars movie from the 1970s and then that most recent
Starting point is 04:11:39 episode of Zandor guys this doesn't make any sense Handboard This might look goofy to you But poca dot man You fall in love with by the end You feel so sorry for And you identify with him
Starting point is 04:11:56 He's great actor, deep character And I love polka dot man Peacemaker, we've already talked about The shark in the back That's Stallone's character Very funny This is they replace Will Smith's character I like black guy's outfit the most
Starting point is 04:12:11 As Idris Elba He's like the most accurate shooter in the world. And John Cena's like, yeah, I do that too. So it's like, it's pretty funny. And then on the right, that's rat girl. She controls rats. Dude, dude, you'd think the A team of superheroes is the one you want, but the B team can be better content. This is the D team for sure. This is the DG. Rat girl? Yeah. What is she like? She controls rats. She causes health code violation. Swarms of rats. She comes in clutch. at the end. She brings a massive
Starting point is 04:12:46 swarm of rats because they're on one of those Caribbean islands full of those... Is she killed in the end? If she's not, I'm not watching any of this shit. I don't want to spoil a show, but some people die at the end, you know? It's heart-felt. People you would expect to have plot armor don't. Yeah.
Starting point is 04:13:02 There's a part like right at the end when it's time to face the big bad and storm the castle kind of mode. And there's like fog and rain is pouring down and all the heroes are walking in slow motion. And then there's just some random guy who's been tagging along with them since like the second act
Starting point is 04:13:18 named like Dave and they're getting a big shootout and they're like, they killed Dave! They're like, who the fuck was Dave? Oh, poor Dave. It's good, I promise you. He did his darndest. That's a good movie. And if you actually do decide to watch it,
Starting point is 04:13:34 contact me first though, so I make sure you watch the right suicide squad because there are two and one of them has Will Smith in it and it's not any good. I saw the first suicide squad in theaters and I absolutely despised it. I couldn't have been less or more bored. He bought a ticket.
Starting point is 04:13:50 Bought a ticket. My girlfriend at the time was like, this is going to be neat. And I remember sitting there with quiet resentment. It was so bad. It was so horribly bad. Yeah. We should wrap.
Starting point is 04:14:02 I do want to point out my hair is getting taller every episode. I have surpassed Pike. Not Vulcan Pike. I checked it out before the show. Can we do this for a second? Zach, can you get a picture of Pike from Star Wars. And then you'll see, I think my hair is genuinely taller than his, but I looked up Vulcan Pike and I'm not there. Yeah, I think you've passed that guy from Star Trek and you're like
Starting point is 04:14:25 approaching Jimmy Neutron Terrace if you know who that is. I don't know if my hair product can go. That's not a very good picture. It's sideways. He comes it up now in the current season and maybe I can find him. That's a good looking man. You're higher than that. For sure, you're higher than this. Yeah. You're as you, he's got kind of a nice crest on the right center side. I think you're as high as that. I like this guy a lot. I like the Star Trek. Isn't his name Pike? What I'm in? Oh, I'm doing Star Wars. That's from Star Trek. Yeah. He's a handsome man. He is a handsome man. That's Rebecca Romaine on the left. There's that ghoul on the right.
Starting point is 04:15:12 Get rid of him. That's fucking Spock. Leave them alone. Rebecca Romaine's like supermodel. Oh, in that one he may have. I don't know. That's pretty tall. For the moment, he's got you in this photo specifically.
Starting point is 04:15:27 That's tall. Can you do Vulcan Pike, Star Trek? This is the target. I don't know if it's achievable. But Vulcan Pike like memes just how tall. tall his hair is. I mean, Halloween's coming up. All you need is that Star Trek thing.
Starting point is 04:15:44 Oh, dude, you get some ears and some, and some, oh, I know, this is like a vanilla ice wig. You get a vanilla ice wig, some ears and that, that uniform, and your Captain Pike. That is tall. Oh, shit. Yeah, we are three weeks out of Halloween. I need to find a costume. Oh, that's creeping up on.
Starting point is 04:16:02 I know what I'm going to do. And there's Jimmy Neutron. That's where, that's where you're headed if you don't. Well, you aim for Captain Pike, but hit Jimmy Neutron. instead. Well, anyway, I guess that's PCA, 773. All right. That's a wrap.

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