Painkiller Already - PKN 594

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

All right, P.K.N. 594. Kyle's doing his Venezuelan celebration. That's what they sound like all down throughout that, that whole area, that, that minor continent down. Are they all sombrero folk? I haven't been to Venezuela, I don't think. No. But Nicaragua was just like Mexico as far as I can tell, so I'll buy it. I don't even know what kind of food they have in Venezuela.

I guess I'm, I assumed that whole area was mostly variants of Mexican food. Is that not right? As far as I can tell. I would imagine there's going to be. They're all big of partias. Yeah, maybe. There's going to be varying amounts of Spanish culture, right? It's going to be, it's going to, and maybe some different colonial stuff.

Sure. Result might be different. I just say that because they speak Portuguese. I just doubt they had much of a, you know, a cultural practice that lived on from, you know, the Mayans and the Inkins or whatever the fuck. Yeah, well, they were eating a lot of those, like, really starchy jungle potatoes. Tarot or something. Like, it's something like that.

Maybe taro is just their word for potato. It is just a potato from the jungle. And I assume some of their diet is based on economics. Like, when I went to Mexico, it was hard to find, like, a real protein meal. Like, you order chicken, Jesus Christ. All sorts of tortilla and slop and salad and shit mixed in with a rumor about chicken. I'm like, no, like, how do you get like a palate, like a slice of chicken, a big thing that just didn't seem to be on that. I have never seen an entire chicken.

They don't. Hey, did you notice how I'm a head taller than everyone here? This isn't going to cut it. And then I was a head taller and I'm not as tall as you guys. And then the carbs they sold like cheese puffs, they came in big clear garbage bags. like yeah it's like oh my gosh this is what we eat here

where that's how they get their natural gas like they they get a huge balloon full of natural gas that they take back home and they like rubber band it onto their their cooking system and it's the most dangerous thing you can possibly imagine it's a literal big clear plastic

trash bag full of explosive cooking gas you burn yourself that way as a child well I used to sedaline Well, it's way worse. It turns way harder. But I mean, you've probably seen incidents of those, like a kitchen explodes from a gas and sort of everything turns blueish pink and people scream and their eyebrows get roasted off. You just wait for one of those.

And it's not like they live in fire-coated homes. Anyway, I was awake the other night at two in the morning chatting with Chis and Taylor about. out. I don't know what. Something's stupid, I'm sure. And then in the middle of it, Trump invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their president. I must have missed it by like 20 minutes. I didn't know until the next morning. I was like, oh my God, Taylor went to bed. So it's just me and Chiz, and I'm updating Chis, because I'm all over the combat subreddit. I'm all over some Venezuela telegram channels and shit, although their shit got blacked out. And I'm telling them, I'm like, there's a, there's transport helicopters flying over Venezuela right now. It's either pamphlets or it's special forces.

There's no other reason we would have low flying dual rotor. What are they called? It's not Chenowless. It's Chinook. Chinooks, yeah. Chinooks flying over a country that we have beef with unless we're dropping like propaganda. And then I saw the explosions. And I'm like, it's special forces. We've gone in. There are boots on the ground. There's no other explanation for what's happening right now. They're blowing up anti-aircraft sites and they have sent special forces and there's no reason to do that except to kill their president. I'm like, they're going to kill the president.

They're going to kill the president. And then I see the tweet from Donald J. Trump, we've captured the president. He's on the U.S. Iwo Jima and he's heading back to New York right now. Here's a little snap we took. That's a man double

fissing a bottle of water with fucking earmuffs and a blindfold on like he's about to lumber into some BDS They're like, Mr. Maduro, step one of being arrested in this way is you're going to have to be in and out of about a dozen sweatsuits over the next nine hours. I immediately went to go by a Nike. I can't remember which one. It's called like a flex fleece or something like that. Yeah, I saw people.

Let me get that. Sold out. Sold out. It looks like a comfy. Dude. Why are we doing it? And why are we lying about why we're doing it? Right.

At first it was fentanyl. Then it was cocaine. Then the boat washed up and it was only marijuana. it's not even headed to America, then it was oil. And now they're saying it's actually trying to prevent China's influence in Venezuela. Like, if you have to lie to us about it, then I'm not in favor of it. I don't think they're lying. I think it's literally all about the cocaine.

It's not. It can't possibly be the cocaine. Well, you never said it was about the cocaine. Yes, they did. And that's why they blew the boat up. They did say fat and all too. And then when that was disproven, they switched to cocaine. They're lying. All they do is lie about this. And I hate that. That's what I would say is the pretext to try and drive support for it. The real, and all wars are pretextual. Like we didn't actually depose Assad because we thought he gassed his people. That was pretextual. So the reason for what I can tell geopolitically that they want it is that this is a big oil supplier to our rivals. And it's also a like they have military and China has military installations. They build runways there.

It's close to our border and they have a lot of influence. By taking it, we would deprive sale of oil to China from Venezuela. That makes them more dependent on their other partners. And I could see the theory of it being like, okay, China clearly wants Taiwan, right? But they're afraid to take Taiwan because they can't get in a protracted battle with the U.S. because they have potential energy shortage worries. Like we have more energy. and so getting rid of this inroad to energy makes it so they're even further away

because at any point if they start to invade Taiwan 7% of their oil comes from Venezuela over 20% comes from Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia will bend the need to us they are a vassal they're like a state of ours and so if they invaded they would immediately lose too much energy for the protracted battle would be my guess I have no argument against it sounds like this helps Russia it sounds like Russia will be China's no this no this hurts in the face for Russia. They're complaining vehemently about this. This is one of their closest

allies. This is one of their few sources of money. If China is getting oil from Venezuela, and by the way, all I hear is that they're barely pumping any oil, and this is like they're not nearly living up to their potential. But if China's getting oil from

Venezuela and that's cut off, then Russia becomes a better supplier, like in the catbird seat, right? Well, they can't fill all of the need. So they get about, I think, 20% of their oil from Russia, about 20% from Saudi Arabia, about 25% from Iran. They get 7% of heavy crude from Venezuela. And so it reduces their access and it also removes, like, Russia's not going to get their oil. You may not have known 10 days ago on Chinese state media, they were running game theory programs about potential, like how China would, like, Larpie shit, invade and like punish America from its strongholds in Venezuela and Cuba.

Like, that was 10, I was right before the end of the year. And so, like, there was, did you guys see the video of the Chinese guy crying? The Chinese propagandist, like, minister, like, not the minister propaganda, but, like, a propagandist. It's this fat Chinese guy. He's a social media influencer, and this gave me so much joy. He was like this fat Chinese guy. And he's like, in Chinese is being translated. He's like, we say this can't happen.

We say, we will, you know, two months ago, we say we're there for Maduro. We will not let this happen. 3,300 kilometers away and they take him and he hits himself in the face and then he goes, never, yes, it's a Chinese social media and this guy going, never speak of it, never speak of it. Like they're humiliated and I like, I do like to see that. Also, AI videos of Venezuelan celebrating

have gone so viral. Alex Jones is tweeting bullshit. Elon Musk is tweeting bullshit. It's so fucking shameless. and even when it gets like uh what do they call it getting captioned on twitter and stuff they just like them then there is video after video of ai bullshit celebrations from miami celebrations from five years ago they are pumping their shit all over the place to try to have us think that venezuela is very excited about us and they are killing 80 people except it is

hard to tell because everything i see is bullshit propaganda you know it comes from leaders the Republican Party, thought leaders, like I said, Alex Jones, Elon Musk, etc. Why is it all wrapped in lies? Our motivations are wrapped in lies. The Venezuelan response is wrapped in lies. It's lie after lie after lie. They're justifications, but like there is a legal justification for arresting that guy, but pretending like it was a law enforcement action and not a military action is a little bit

ridiculous. But it is their way of justifying it, legally speaking, and not being. outright outlaws about what they just did as far as the boats i agree with you there um but their their position is that there's fentanyl on those boats the fact that one of the boats had marijuana on it doesn't mean that they all had marijuana on it it means that one of them did it might not the rest of them could have fentanyl i'm not saying they do i'm just saying that's their position as far as as far as we'd murder and double tap on because maybe pardon i mean it's like what you the rest of them might have fentanyl we don't know

that they don't have fentanyl, so let's fucking fire, hell, fire missiles into them. It's lies. Their position then, I would say this is like, that is how politics unfurals. Like, if they go, we want to deny Venezuela's ability to sell oil

to our geopolitical foe, like, they don't want to spell out. Every third time in a row, a Republican president has lied us into war. And now we're normalizing it. Like, oh, you know, we always get lied into war. It's another, is it an oil grab? Is it some sort of geopolitical

thing? I don't know, but why is it lies? It's always lies. The justification is full of lies. I'll tell you the truth. The truth is that we've got a guy right there in our hemisphere 500 miles from Puerto Rico that has the largest oil deposits on the planet and apparently the largest

gold deposits on the planet and they're not being taken advantage of because that the country is so poor and we're seeing China and Russia invest in them and do these loans where they build infrastructure but Venezuela owns that owes them and then they pay back the loans with the oil at a reduced rate and we're like no we don't want that we've got we've got those facilities we always talk about that can deal with that sweet

crude or whatever the venezuelans pump out that that saccharine sweet crude they're making they're made tower crude you have it backwards they have the they have the thicker i forget what it's called but the sweet crude is what we don't want we've got the refineries right there in the gulf to to deal with whatever it is they're making is is my only point we can make a low this is that we've destabilized almost and replaced with a puppet almost every single country in South America since 1950. Literally almost all of them, like eight of them or something like that. This is businesses. They're talking shit on Cuba already.

They're like, and if I was Cuba, I'd be shaking in my commie boots. And that's, but as far as Maduro goes, this is one of those situations where I assumed at the very beginning of this, like a year ago when Trump started talking shit, that Maduro was just the president of Venezuela, and Trump had beef with him. But then the more I look into it, like the entire world sees him as an illegitimate dictator because the opposition,

when they had an election and he couldn't even fake the election, the opposition won 80% of the vote against him, which is a staggering amount when he's stuffing boxes. So the whole country voted for that other person. He stayed in power. He's a rogue communist dictator 500 miles from our territory with vast supplies of oil who's inviting our mortal enemies

in to build infrastructure in exchange for military bases and potential missile bases, which could restart a whole new Cuban missile crisis type thing. I love that we nipped it in the butt. I love that nobody got hurt on our side, whether they, like, wounded one of our helicopters or something like that. I love that we did it so precisely. And like if you watch French news, British news, German news, they're like, no one else in the world could have done what was done.

by the Americans last night. And if they could, they have not proved it yet. Like it's, everybody is like vowing down to how amazing this operation was that we went in there and snatched him up and left and 80 of them died but they were shooting us.

Delta Force, very impressive. Donald Trump, lying sack of shit and we'll see if this works out. He has been turning all of our allies into enemies since he got the presidency. Oh, so I want to touch on.

that like that is where you and i can can be copacetic on stuff he's pressing this greenland matter again now and there's 30,000 greenlanders okay on that gigantic it's the biggest island in the world although i can't i don't know why it's the biggest island in the world i don't know why they don't count a lot it's covered in ice but i think there's like permafrost underneath and then there's that north polly part that the russians go under it's the direct route for Russian ICBMs and Russian nuclear submarines to go under the ice and launch first strikes against us. Hoover tried to buy it in the 50s and they wouldn't play ball. But they're a member of NATO. Like it's a Netherlands. Via Denmark. It's a Netherlands territory or whatever. So we really

can't attack another NATO member. That I'm not so on board with. I don't see why we'd need to. Can't we just like put a ton of military installations? Invade, you mean? No, like, That's in a pay. No, no, like pay them, whatever it is. They would have to agree. The same way that we have military installations in like most European countries. I think you don't know. They've already agreed.

We can have any military installation on Greenland that we want. It's part of the treaty. We have several military installations there already. We have carte blanche access for military installations in Greenland already. Yeah. And I see it as a total. It's a sitting deal. The whole thing about us needing to own Greenland for national security is, again, a packet full of lies.

It's a packet full of lies coming from Donald Trump because it's not about security. We can already put any kind of anti-missile submarine ports. I don't know what the heck we want there, but we can do it. And Greenland, even now, was like, just tell us what you want. We'll say yes. But no. He wants, I don't know, ownership of it. Maybe he wants his own Alaska as part of his legacy.

maybe he wants what what is the I can't think of the rare earth minerals I think there's something there it's a bundle I'm not sure really but uh yes it's a very it could be those kinds of things but what it is not is the packet full of bullshit that Donald Trump is trying to feed stupid people about oh we need it for military security because there's already a deal in place that we can do anything we want I'm not sure that's true so I'm good fact check I did I watch well I mean, the BBC said it wasn't. I don't know what the deal is. Like, I agree with you that we have bases there and that we could probably build more.

To say that we have carte launch, I don't know that we can put a missile defense system literally anywhere on that planet, on that island we want. I'm sure there are places where they would say no, or they would have an issue with it. Or they'd have an issue with the roads that need to be built or the infrastructure to support missile bases or sub-bases or whatever they want to build. I don't know what that is. I'm not disagreeing that we also want to steal the minerals there. I'm sure that's part of it too. But whenever, again, today I watched a bunch of French and British news because I wanted to know what they've thought about the Venezuela grab.

And they sort of all had this position that, well, first of all, it's not crazy for the United States to want Greenland. It makes perfect sense. And then they laid out this list of things that we, why we would want Greenland and why it's this vast strategic resource and position play. But then, of course, they go on to the attack of one NATO member on another. It breaks up NATO.

Anyone listening, it's called the 1951 U.S. Denmark Defense of Greenland Agreement, and it allows us to put anti-missile stuff and anything we want there. They've never seen out. Just build all that. It just seems like such a low priority. But again, there has to be a bar for what can be built in where, right? Because there's no way we're just guessing that, right? Like, there's 30,000 people on the largest island in the world.

Like, there's no limit of space or anything. We would buy them. We would never fight greedily. I don't think it's retarded. Well, they would never fight back is the problem. We wouldn't have to fight. They would never say no. And even now, they're like, tell us what you want.

We'll say yes without even hearing what they want. They just said they'll say yes. The point is he's lying and he's always lying. He's never honest about his motivations. And if you have to lie to sell your plan, then I don't like your plan. In regard to like the... That's every plan.

That's ObamaCare. Like this is how politics works. Like you create pretext. Yeah, that is... No one's going to lose their insurance. You know, like you create pretext for a policy. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. And he was wrong.

Some people didn't. Some find their doctors out of network. He lied. He did that too because he wanted to push something through. But this, especially in non-domestic, like, geopolitics a lot of this is cloak and dagger like you don't want to come out and announce to your enemies all of your motivations because then that spells out what you're deficient in what your desirous of like you you do need to be trickier especially when dealing with people like

that's insane so you think china's like oh man I guess they really have an issue with cocaine headed to Europe that's why they took this guy out China do you think they fell for that I mean, I think that that is the framing they want to use to avoid criticism from people who are saying, oh, this is, this is an agitation against China. Like, they're trying to frame it as good as possible. I'm saying, I don't think it was necessary reframing either. I don't think they would have lost any support for it by saying this is a way to make us a stronger global hegemon and weaken our principal rivals. Like, I think they could have just done. This is the third Republican president in a row that launched a new war, or in this case, military police.

action against an oil rich country. And I'm just like also based on a packet of bullshit. This is a different thing. I mean, what about Libya? Who was Libya? That was Obama, wasn't it? I don't know. I like how Trump was Obama doing that. That was Gaddafi. He deposed Gaddafi

and then that led to the largest migrant invasion crisis in global history. He was the one keeping migrants from crossing over into Europe. And so like that, like and it's different. Like deposing Gaddafi was objectively the wrong move. geopolitically. It weakened Europe. It harmed us. There was no benefit at all, not to mention the

even worse ones of Afghanistan and Iraq. With this one, it's all going to come out to the outcome. Like if we succeed, get a puppet, deprive them of resources, make ourselves stronger, remove a stronghold for China in our region, and it doesn't trigger a migrant crisis or a big expensive, protracted military engagement, then that is a win of wins. That might go down as the most efficient move. in American military history if it leads to a migrant crisis. Because remember, 2022, the Biden administration arrested the president of Honduras into Guzi Galpa. And then that is the guy who people were complaining about Trump pardoning, was that narco president from Honduras. And after the Biden administration arrested him in 2022, it led to a influx, even more Hondurans

leaving and seeking other places to go. And so that's my principal concern. is I don't want to see another migrant crisis. And that is why, like, if you look at Latin American polls, every single Latin American country and Central American country in the polls coming out today are in favor of Maduro's removal. Most of them by a huge amount. The closest one is Mexico. That was 43 in favor, 42 opposed.

And the reason is because over the past 13 years, 8 million people have been exiled or pushed out or fled from Maduro's regime. And what does that mean? That means all those surrounding countries, remember when we're joking about Mexico and these countries being like, get out of our country, you don't belong here. Like that's what was causing that is like this outpouring. And so they're happy to see that. If it works, it's terrific. I'm like, I've seen this movie so many times.

I remember if Iraq could become a beacon of prosperity and democracy in the middle of the Middle East. And it'll inspire Iran and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia and all these other countries to emulate what we're creating. reading in Iraq, which is this beacon of prosperity and fairness and goodness. And here we are, 20-some years later. I don't see Venezuela as similar to Iraq. It's just going to be guerrillas instead of... Well, all right. So, what I would have...

Also, there aren't three co... There aren't three ethnic group, ethno-religious groups in Venezuela that are in the middle of a 2,000-year, like, genocidal war against each other. Like, it is an easier way. The most important difference is that when we toppled... Saddam Hussein, they removed everyone who was a member of the Bathist party, Saddam Hussein's party. But the thing was, if you wanted to serve in government, you had to join the party. It was a little bit like being a Nazi and Nazi Germany. Not every clerk who was an official

member of the Nazi party murdered Jews. They just had to be part of the gang. So when we literally fired the entire government and barred them from ever seeking office again and then tore down their entire police infrastructure, fired all them, the country was, of course, a law. this mess that still hasn't recovered. But what we've done in Venezuela is exactly what we did to Panama, to Noriega, back in 1990. So George H.W. Bush went in with the DEA and the military, and under the guise of drug trafficking charges, captured the president of Panama, took him back to the U.S., put him on trial on federal charges, convicted him, and put him in prison for many years.

It's the exact same playbook, and Panama didn't fall to chaos. I don't think, I think that they're going to go with the vice president or have new elections in a month or two, and Venezuela will be Venezuela once more. Like, like, I don't see crumbling apart, like, Iraq. I'd like if we could send the refugees back because we have hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees. I would be shocked if moving in American oil companies to take their resources and enrich, I guess, American oil would take. was a popular good thing in Venezuela. They just want the oil to get pumped. They want their cut.

They owe us like $100 million of stolen oil resources. When they nationalized all that, they nationalized our oil companies down there many years ago. They owe the United States hundreds of millions. Nine billion, but the I don't know about that. I have no idea. When they nationalized and then kicked us out, yeah.

But like, I was just like spitball. like spitball, I just think, maybe this is retarded. But like if we wanted to turn, because right now they're only pumping at like 18 or 19% capacity because the commies let their infrastructure fall to shit, we bring a little American gusto in there. We get us going 100%. And then one of the reasons that Gaddafi, one of the reasons that Gaddafi was so popular amongst his people was that, number one, he nationalized the oil supply, but also every citizen of Libya got a direct deposit monthly for their percentage of oil sales nationally. If we wanted to turn Venezuela from a potential outpost for

our global rivals into like a bunch of flag waving people start give them a cut make sure that it comes to their individual Venezuelan citizens bank account give them a little bit and they are going to be flag waving if that's even worth it and it would just have to be a pittance because the big geopolitical benefit

is depriving it of our enemies they can wave their dicks for all I care we're coming for that oil I love it I love that we did look in a vacuum I love you guys like this okay like I like I I would rather see domestic shit. Like, I would rather see him tearing into all this fraud domestically.

Like, none of the shit matters. I'd rather see him get arrested from pedophilia and dragged out of the Oval Office. I'm a realist, and I'm going to take each thing he does in a bubble and a vacuum, and I'm going to judge it on its own merits. I agree with you. His justification, shaky at best. They've already dropped the charge that Maduro was the head of a drug smuggling cartons. They already dropped that charge.

One of the charges was that he was procuring machine guns for his army. Yes, I don't know how we have federal jurisdiction over that. Now, perhaps if he's procuring them from the United States in some way, but I don't know how we're using like ATF to go after him for destructive devices and machine guns when he's the president of a foreign country. That didn't make sense to me. And of course, like I said, they already dropped being the head of a drug cartel charge. But they ain't going to let this guy go.

They're going to find this guy guilty. We're going to put him in prison. Venezuela's going to have a new president. They already swore in that lady vice president they have. And I suppose technically she is running the country. I'm sure someone from the CIA has already spoken to her and let her not given her marching orders. And she'll either dance or she'll be replaced or will just nap her to.

She's made all over the place. Like at first Trump gets up there and he's like Pete Hagsath and Marco Rubio were running Venezuela. And then they, you know, Rubio's getting interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. He's like, I'm not running. And I don't know that we were running it in kind of a high level sense. And can Rubio handle another job? What to see? No.

None of them can. They've all got three. And then she was like really anti-Trump in her speech. And then she came out again and was kind of okay with, you know, falling in line. So we'll see where this goes. Yeah. This all depends on outcome. This could be incredible.

It could, and we could get away again that I loved. Yeah. And see, that's another thing that, like, made me less worried is because I was very wrong on the Iran thing. Like, I thought it was a much bigger boots on the ground threat. And who knows, maybe some time this year that comes to fruition. I really hope not. I would also, like.

They're terrified that we're going to come and take their little. I know they're terrified. But also, like, with Iran, it's like, I don't see Iran as a threat the way, like, someone close to us. No, there's a threat. Their threat level to us is magnified by the Israeli influence on our government and on our talking heads. So the alarm bells constantly ring on Iran, but they're ringing to the Israeli tune. Yeah.

Time will tell. I hope it's great. I hope it goes well for us. It makes us stronger, makes our enemies weaker. But, you know, there's always... I thought the operation was fucking cool. I was watching it trying to... The video, there was some Venezuelan guy, and it was showing the Chinooks flying, like, low.

like below building height and these things I've never seen helicopters move these guys were like flying Chinooks are fast I saw a couple of the Chinooks and then I saw a couple of those

I don't know what they're called I'm sure it's some specialized version we'll talk to Pleb like whenever we do or not hang out he flies for the military had those smaller attack helicopters that were shooting missiles oh the missile runs were so cool

it was blow it up and the cool part to me was when I saw the big they were like oh and this is the view from a mountain top nearby so you can see the whole city and I was like why are they under a blackout right now why is like these huge swabs of their capital city completely blacked out and Trump is like we used a certain expertise and they've been super vague about how we turn the electricity off in the capital city of Venezuela let's stay vague with that Let's do, oh, did you? Well, he mentioned I was going through.

He mentioned that cyber command and space command were involved. And that to me says, most realistically, it was a cyber hack of some kind to just literally flip the switch via the internet. But like, there's a part of me that always envisions us with that future tech that wants me to believe that space command somehow used a satellite to radiate some sort of EMP ray over like some quadrant of their city and blackout. My assumption was that we just took out the right transformer, but I just made that up. I don't know.

So we didn't damage their infrastructure. We only shot targets that were anti-air and that shot at us. Okay. Yeah. Maybe I'm wrong. I went to, I was looking all around in like Venezuelan corners of the internet and like, and thank goodness, Twitter now has a function. Well, they're translators getting much better, but they also have a function where you can open it and it will show you the country of origin of the person, which is what we were. laughing about a while ago all those accounts that are like it is time to be the best red pill man

you can and it's just like some guy in india but all these were like translations and so they weren't a hundred percent perfect but i read these for like a couple hours over days where it'd be like someone in venezuela being and this is where i heard this theory i didn't hear the mainstream media in the west talking about it but they're like did you hear 32 cubans killed in his guard i think that's why he's giving thumbs up in these pictures for the first time in a while he doesn't think he's going to be killed by his Cuban guards. And they're like, oh, yes, that is true. And then one of them was like, can you believe highly trained 32 Cuban guards were killed by

these Delta Force members? And then another one was like, my friend, when a dragon is at your door, you have no choice. There is no option. You must run or die. Like, that's how they see us as a dragon. And it was like cool being like, yeah. Like this was the coolest military operation of my lifetime as far as just in and out, Like a demons whisper.

That's so fucking crazy. They went in at 2 in the morning and by 5 a.m. We had their president and his wife on a boat and somebody popped her in the face. And no American die, we didn't lose any equipment. Like our enemies are like embarrassed. Venezuelans are like, I suppose those Russian anti-air machines that we bought on $6 billion of credit, I guess they are not going to get paid. Ha, ha, ha, ja, ja, ja, ja.

Like that's those spook air defense systems, and they had S-300 as well. And then the first one you said, spook? I think it's B-H-U-K. Okay. Or maybe it's, yeah, yeah. One thing we found in Ukraine was that the Russians kind of overestimated their abilities and the Americans kind of underestimated their abilities. Yeah, you've been on point with that for a while, and that is, if anything, seeing this was like, oh, we're like playing a different sport than the rest of the world still.

Like, what can, like, just solidify? What other country on earth could do this? None. Who could do that? Like, on one hand, as you say, like, we've got the best stuff. But the thing is we tend to operate with, like, stockpiles. If we had a prolonged war, a stockpile is just a countdown timer. Whereas China, for example, has manufacturing capability.

There is no countdown timer on their drones. But there is on our artillery. There is a countdown timer on our missiles, on our explosives. Because we just stockpile it. It only accumulates like this because we're in peace, relative peace. Yeah. So, yeah, if you want a one day war, no one's better than us. Well, we're not going to have a ground war with China because there's no ground.

to like first both to land on and fight over so it's it's going to be a naval war an over the horizon naval war yeah i didn't say ground war it's a prolonged war right well drones won't help be helping that remember how many ships we churned out in world war two those days are gone we could bring them back i don't think we could i bet we could dude we're fucking america we could i worry we need them i worry that it's just this is true with anything whether it be buildings ships etc it's so much easier to break shit then to build it. And we have these billion-dollar targets, and I worry about that.

Now, China must too, right? You know, that dam always comes to mind. I can't pronounce the name of it, but. I don't remember the name either, but yeah, that's just, we all know. 300 million people downstream of a dam. That's a problem. Yeah. I don't know how many aircraft China has.

I just don't know. I always lean on the country who's spending 10 times as much. You know what I mean? Like, you've got, were the New York Yankees and they're a AAA team as far as budgets go? There's not spending enough money to be that kind of. I worry about this hypersonic missiles, I suppose, coming over the horizon. But I always wonder, if we had defeated them already, would we tell anybody no? And if they are a threat, are we spending as much money and using the best minds available to defeat them right now?

And the answer is guaranteed to be yes. So it's either we've already defeated them Or it's all we do now is try to defeat them And I just think we will I worry our military is built on what's most profitable For defense contractors You know what you need? You need great big boats

You need really expensive jets You need this, you need that And then we were to get in an actual war And suddenly they're taking out billion dollar boats With $100,000 missiles Or they're taking out $5 million tanks With $800 drones Then I'm like, man, this is a war we lose

Or we take down $800 drones with $100,000 missiles. In either case, we're going to lose before long. We won't win a protracted war because we're not doing it on a budget. Yeah, we're terrible at budgeting. The Russians were shocked when we went

into Iraq and took down one of the biggest armies in the world and defeated all of their missile defense systems. I just think the same thing would happen again. We just spend so much and we think so hard about defeating those problems that were always seemingly two steps ahead.

I have faith in the trillion dollar budget and the United States Defense Department. I really do. Everybody's like, everybody's like, they never pass an audit. I'm like, yeah,

they got some secret shit they're working on with those hundreds of billions. They got some secret shit. They got some secret shit. You're right. It might be a wasteful jobs program, just pouring money into defense contractors, making people rich,

and it might be better than our competitors. I doubt it's 10 times better. We could do it more cost-effectively. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of, you know, the palm. I want the helmet can. I want the helmet can from the Delta Force guys. I bet that'd be the sickest action movie you've ever seen. I bet it's just like that Shane Gillis bit.

They like killed three guys. He's clear. Like, those guys stormed that compound and killed all those people. And we didn't get shot back. I don't know how. how that happens outside of a movie or a video game. Dude, that's that it'll be the problem that they won't be able to make a movie with this.

It's like, it's no conflict. There's too much plot armor. These guys are invincible. Yeah, I wonder what kind of resistance they ran into or if everyone just rolled over and let them pass through. They killed all 32 of his, that was surprising to me. I did not know that all of Maduro's, like, guard were Cubans.

like from Cuba. Cuban or Colombia? Am I messed up? Cuba? It's Cuba? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Because like Venezuela, obviously I think they're most critical ally would be China, Russia. But Cuba's there too. And Cuba kind of runs the show on them

more than I expected. I did not know that. I barely think about Cuba. Like they're failing so fast and so hard. Like I just don't. How long can they just keep doing that? Cuba has lost 13% of their population in the past 10 years. from people fleeing. Damn. Yeah, in the game of civilizations,

I feel like Cube has been stuck on crossbows for so long. I hardly think about them. Yeah, they're finally about to gather enough reeds to upgrade, and then we're like, those are our reeds. And they're like, fuck, fuck! I only had one more turn until I had a temple. But yeah, hopefully it pans out well. I mean, there's no way to know,

but the fact that Iran didn't immediately spin out of control makes me more optimistic Yeah Yeah, I love it I love it I love it I love it I mean he's

He's the worst But but this was great This was great And then like everybody Who works for him too Stephen Miller is such a goddamn ghoul I saw him today on the news Talking about taking Greenland

And he's in And they're like Are you to proposing military action Against the Netherlands Like no one would fight us With the United States of America They're not going to fight back We're going to take

This is our here this, he's being fucking scary like he always is. And then Eggsteth is on the mic after this rain. And he's like, he's like, Maduro prepped around and he found out. Fuck. It's like we've got the bully from high school. Right. Department of War.

Dude, Greenland has 30,000 people. You don't need like, there's no, the only army there is us. I swear, you could just rename it like we did the Gulf of Mexico and call it ours. And then is it? like we you could buy it i think we need to uh we need they won't sell it we tried to buy it but what if we just say it's ours that that's what we're moving we could be squatters right i feel like i think he's proposing like how about we throw every greenlander a quarter million dollars oh yeah i would it'll cost that would cost what 15 billion dollars and now we own

Greenland? I would like it if the, so my only like, uh, qual, I bet that would change your voting. My only qualm about us actually taking Greenland. My only qualm about actually doing it. Um, I know it's like morally wrong. Someone else owns that. And we're talking about just going and taking it because we're stronger. I get that. But beyond that, there's a bunch of individuals who live there. It must be a, I don't know what it's like to live there. I have this Americanized view of this giant block of ice over there that is Greenland and I'm just imagining Eskimo man but I'm sure they have cities and towns and such and they've chosen to live there because it's what they love I bet so I don't feel great about uprooting individuals I

don't care about the government of the Netherlands or whatever but I do care about individual Dutch people is that are they that are in Greenland that would be his idea given everyone a quarter of millions the best I've heard so far enough start lower though start lower guys what about the problem like are we talking about a quarter million dollars and then buying their private property from them at some rate a quarter million dollars in a u.s. citizenship that's the deal you get a quarter million dollars that's awful the u.s. what okay I don't know what the tax rate is now but like how's the passport do they get too past or are they going to be like the Puerto rican deal where they don't even pay taxes for real there's no income tax I don't know something like that are we going to support their infrastructure or are we going to do

this thing where we we starve them out by never like 30,000 people that's like I don't know why we're starving them out I feel like we're inviting them to be Americans yeah we would just buy and be like hey you're on this side of this I don't know why I'm on this I'm being stupid but yeah I don't I don't see a reason we need to own greenland seems like we could just put whatever we need there but we want to like we really really want it we would just like we would just offer It's two things. We have to ask permission and be approved for each little thing we want to do there. We might not want it to be public knowledge what we're doing there. We might not want the Netherlands to know what we're building and where.

And they would need to know that. Like maybe we don't trust them enough with that private secret of information about what we're building and where we're building it. And we also clearly want to strip mine that motherfucker and get all the cadmium and lithium. and fucking argon and helium or whatever the fuck they got and take it back and send American companies in there to pump it up and and where are the helium mines? Y'all never know. Spread that guy.

I'll do now. I'll do now. All right. You know helium's a limited resource. We're running out. We can't make more. I've heard that. That baffles me.

I don't know how worried to be either. I'm sure it's important for something. It's an inert gas, right? like we did we need those last time you took a blimp Nobel gas I meant to say what else did they get for him birthday parties are going to get a little you say a Nobel gas

am I wrong it's a noble gas oh I it's helium and hydrogen that fuse into one another or whatever the yeah but we're running out and we can't get more and apparently it is important for some some industries I don't know which

Yeah, it confusing. They got it, and we want it. We can't make more. Like, we need their helium. We're definitely inventing a way around it. They're working on that, surely, right? Unless, is this one of those things where it's like, guys, the helium's running out in 200,000 years? Right.

Are we being hoodwinked? Peak oil made sense to me 10, 15 years ago. And now it's like, I keep being fooled. Stop it. I'm not buying peak oil anymore. So it's, it's a oil. non-renewable resource and while estimates vary suggesting decades to centuries of reserves rising demand for technologies like MRI semiconductors quantum computing and inefficiencies

and capturing it means supplies tightening prices are rising and shortages are frequent forcing better conservation and exploration for new sources let me see if greenland has helium I feel like I would hear more about helium if it was that pressing. Ah, big helium keeps it quiet. Big balloon. You know what's funny? Yes, Greenland has helium

with significant potential for primary helium deposits discovered at the Tooney Project in East Greenland by Pulsar helium. Apparently they have a shitload of helium coincidentally for a little conversation. Yeah, I'm a little iffy about stealing Greenland from the Netherlands, mostly because it's just the wrong thing to do. But primarily because I feel like it weakens NATO.

And I think that NATO is very important for the 21st century to not devolve into an actual World War III. Yeah, I can see that. Bandits, Denmark that owns Greenland. Because I can imagine a scenario where NATO breaks up. And in the aftermath of that, Russia tests if NATO has broken up, while simultaneously China invades Taiwan and that would be a major problem. Yeah. In order for like intervention to be worthwhile, it has to pay off for America. Like that's why like if this goes well in Venezuela,

it would be worthwhile. Maybe I just am ignorant, but I don't see the big boon of owning Greenland instead of just using it the way we do now where it's like, all right, well, we're going to build the roads and the infrastructure for this because you guys are like less people than a lot of like towns live here. So obviously you can't maintain the infrastructure. and the roads of it. So we're just going to, we'll end up with more soldiers there if need be than they have citizens, although you really wouldn't need that money there. I like the idea of owning it a lot. And you know what else it does? It's very suggestive toward Canada's future. If you look at the map and imagine that Greenland is suddenly eight new United States

states, suddenly Canada's just surrounded by us and Russia. Is it bad pretty too big? I'm not sure because part of me is like anytime you get more real estate like Greenland it's great you know as America expanded across the lower 48 every time it was terrific as we got Alaska they laughed at Fulton's Folly it was terrific it was Fulton's Folly right do I have it wrong I might have it wrong I thought it was Fulton's Folly but yeah it doesn't matter yeah in any case every time we get more real estate it's a good deal so if we were to get Greenland I would just assume like all the other times in the long run it turns out to be really terrific but then i wonder like man england had a lot of real estate england was kind of spread out turned out to be

sort of indefensible they had a billion indians to deal with down there and they they sold their empire for world war two you know they cashed in all those coins you know bringing the the colonial states to bear it was a lot harder like from rome or persia back the world's a lot smaller today If you think about it. Like, if you had a, because, I would imagine, so part of the difference is that they, they own these, these wild parts of the world that had populations that were prone to uprising. So you had to keep a military force there being like, no, you're not going to have elections. You're going to do this and that and the other. And then keeping places like India under the boot heel, we wouldn't, we wouldn't have to do that with 30,000 Greenlanders.

And even if we did have to do that And even if we didn't have people right there on site to do it, which we do Like we could fly there in like two hours clearly with the Delta force and handle anything we needed to Just as a thought exercise, right? If we took over Greenland, Canada, and Venezuela, right? I know it's wild, but that's a big place. Yes, I like that. Now we're number one.

No more Russia. So now we're the biggest country. We get it. I get. Is this become hard to defend? Venezuela is kind of a satellite out there. It seems like a really good place to start. How is it less hard to defend if you think about it?

Because right now we're counting on the Canadians. Sort of. And we're not going to eliminate. Oh, you're talking about, oh, I would never want to own Venezuela, like, as a state. Venezuelans aren't going to be our citizens, our comrades. Yeah, what we want is oil companies with CIA assistance puppeteering the, the industry and the politics down there so that we make as much money and get, again, get preferential deals for the United States.

In no way do we want them to be a response. They're not going to, we don't want a responsibility. We want an asset. Yep. In the case of Venezuela, Venezuela, I mean, those are the people that were freaking out because they're, and Trump is calling animals that he's trying to send as many of them back. You know, he pulled all their immigration status away. He doesn't want to suddenly make all Venezuelans Americans so that they can then just

migrate to the U.S. freely because without a visa we don't want to we do not without a passport they can just come home yeah nail on the head I agree they need to be are the greenlanders on our side if they said all right well 30,000 greenlanders want to immigrate to the United States he'd take that deal you bring them yeah he knows they're white he's clearly 30,000 that would like like I don't know about like the counties in your guys area that wouldn't even be like a big county in most of this be a bunch of funny talking folks eating smelly fish they they blend right in we'll get them on burgers no that's no that stinky fermented fish not here not here that's awful that shit's awful i think it dates back to the food preservation preservation technique from olden times

where they use like alkaline to preserve foods instead of acids so acids pickle things and alkalines do whatever they do to that rotten fish they eat i've watched those food challenges like the surstroming challenges on the internet where like when they puncture the can of it people around are like like almost throw up it's so disgusting yeah I saw someone open one in a car

with his friends windows up I was asleep on a road trip one time and they sprayed deer or Venezuelan invasion I thought you guys would be more non-interventionous oh I'm all about what I don't like is boots on the ground

for extended times and us clearly like nation building and like so I don't like that and especially not against we're going to have to build them right the American taxpayer is going to pay for this that would be you see the extent to which we're involved in nation building is the error like it is worth it to intervene if it is good for America and it's like low cost not if it's expensive and bad for us like they're different scenarios that's what the investment's going to be yeah what's the investment what's the ROI what's the cost benefit analysis I like We still don't know, but hopefully it goes home.

And it just seems like, it just seems like a huge win right now. We'll see how it develops. But even if like the country, I don't know, falls into civil war and melts down, it was cool that we snatched Maduro. And I feel like that's a good message in its own right. So just the rest of the world and every other rogue leader. I didn't know we could do that. I didn't know we had this capacity.

I thought it would be like the way we rolled into Baghdad with like lots of fast-moving armored vehicles and like this big ground force of hundreds or maybe a few thousand people just doing a thunder run straight into the middle of the city, guns ablazing and this big protracted thing where we held down for a few hours. But they went in like Batman goes in. That was crazy. We did it with Jessica Lynch. like if you guys remember her she was a POW during the Iraq war and they captured her and she got a lot of like media attention like oh my gosh what are they doing to our girls and uh I don't I don't know who they sent in exactly I had Navy SEALs in my head but don't quote me and but they just went in got her got her out and uh it was hero shit much like this

yeah it's impressive uh hopefully it ends up being a good move. Doesn't cost us anything. Makes us stronger. Makes China, Russia weaker. That'd be a win. I watched two awful movies last night. It's going to look pretty bad in retrospect. I watched two awful movies last night. One of them was called The Wall. It's about two American snipers who are getting shot at by an Iraqi sniper and they're pinned down. And the Iraqi sniper has their radio comms. I've seen having this conversation between the American and the Iraqi and the Iraqi knows where he is. He's hiding behind the titular wall. And meanwhile, our guy is like shot in the knee and trying to like use this, trying to like find

the Iraqi sniper. Terrible movie. Awful ending. Hated it so much. And then I was like, I got to watch a movie with a better ending. So I watched a movie called The Tank. It's number one on Amazon Prime right now. The Tank is about a World War II Tiger Tank crew, Nazis. And they are dealing with Russians and they've been ordered to retreat from the Stalingrad front or thereabouts and go and like rescue this VIP who's hiding in a bunker somewhere in territory that used to be Russian and soon will be again because the Russians are pushing I thought that would be good too also terrible ending I it turned out at the end the whole movie was the hell that the tank commander lives in now and none of it

happened apparently that he was just in hell the whole that's the worst I'm pretty sure that's what I was supposed to take from the ending of that movie it was awful the whole movie it was just World War II Tank movie with some and it was pretty cool they had to like put the snorkel on and hide at the bottom of a river at one

point because they were outnumbered and they're just down there like drip drip like scared shitless do that like dream twist is the dumbest it was like a it was like a hell like this is your hell now

well either Yeah, it just immediately tells you like, oh, damn it. Nothing was ever, it's fake. It didn't matter when that radio man kid got his lungs shot out by the shrapnel. That wasn't real. It was just super bad, super bad. So I went to bed, like, upset about that. You're on a rough streak.

Yeah. Although. You're not on a rough streak, the smoker. Kyle is becoming a maestro, a true. Oh, yeah? Yeah, he's making some good stuff. I've never, I didn't even ever think to smoke pork tenderloin. And then Kyle sent in a picture of what looks like a Michelin chef wrapped and weaved with pork or with bacon around it.

It looked fantastic. I took the pork tenderloin, did the bacon weave all the way around 360 degrees. And then I smoked that thing. And it was perfect. Like the bacon melted and the delicious bacony juices seeped into that pork tenderloin, which is like the leanest cut on the pig and the most tender. And then I'd slice it and it's like 145 degrees. internal temperature, this perfect rosy pink, and it was so tender. And that, I swear to God, each of those tenderloins cost a dollar and 60 cents.

Like each meal of the, like they're buy one, get one free. And each package has two tenderloins in them. And it's $6.50. So it's four tenderloins for $6.50. I've been eating poor tenderloin all week. Do you poor tenderloin is like a cheat coat. I'm making another one tonight. Yeah, it's fantastic.

How long does it take? Two hours. Oh, that's still a lot. Like, I put it, I put a internal sensor in it that, you know, has a readout and just whenever it hits 145, I'm, I'm roughly speaking two hours. But yeah, it does take a while. Yeah. I guess it's not a ton of work, but you just have to be, you know, it's like slow cooking.

You sort of set it and forget it, you know, and, you know, alarm goes off in your pocket and it's good to go. I like that kind of cooking. It, the kind that doesn't require, like I've made French onion soup before and you're stirring onions for 45 minutes or something like that and if you stop they burn and it's just like my back starts hurting like i'm i'm annoyed at this after a while of being like is there an automated device that helps with that maybe in industrial kitchens there's all sorts of shit like that but no you need somebody on that thing like watching it making it making it um but with this it's like

a crock pot or something you just kind of put it in there if you kind of like onion soup enough to put 45 minutes into stirring something. Well, probably is kitchen gadgets is that there's a lot of garbage that exist. I'm outside my depth here. I don't really cook, but I just see so many like, oh, this is going to make shredding cheese so easy or cutting cucumbers this easy or whatever. And it's like, oh, okay, garbage.

Thank you. Thank you. There's a lot of garbage kitchen devices out there. There's some good ones. And then there's some, like, waste of time. You definitely want a mandolin. You definitely want a suvied. You definitely want, like, good pots and pans, good knives.

I like all the silicone, like, implements, the spoons and the, the spatulas and stuff. A good fish spatula, like a... If this is true. Enameled cast iron. If ninja makes it, it's probably not bad. If who? Oh, Ninja makes good shit. Yeah.

Yeah, it's high quality. Yeah, it'll last... If my KitchenAid mixer is... I think eight, nine years old now. It's perfect. It's going to be a lifetime purchase. And I feel the same way about my ninja blenders. I got a nice

ninja blender with all the accessories and my girlfriend dropped the pitcher and it shattered. And she's like, I'm going to get you a new pitcher. But the new pitcher was like not a ninja pitcher, so it didn't work. It won't, like, the teeth won't meet the motor in the bottom. And

I'm like, ah, it's not the right one. She's like, I got you. She ordered me a whole new Ninja Blender kit. She had another $200 blender just just for the pitcher. And I'm so angry at it that I refuse to take it out of the box because it's such an silly waste of money. I'm so mad about it. But I technically

have two Ninja Blender's and seven-eighths of a ninja blender kit. You could run a little cafe. I guess they don't sell the picture as a replacement apartment. She can't be the person to drop it. I'm sure they do, but she couldn't find it. And she was, I was a little

shitty when she got me the replacement picture that wasn't, it wasn't right. So it was almost like spiteful what she did to me. But yeah, I like ninja stuff. I like, oh man, I'm going to be a little shitty towards her. You know, my mouse kind of sucks, bitch. But we all show him. Jackie, you pop me the 2024 model. I'm not opening this. She's like, I'm so glad I got you that smoker for Christmas. This has been some of the best meals I've ever had. Because like every, almost like three or four nights of the week, I'm smoking something. I'm doing, uh, oh yeah. Like jalapeno poppy. Like you do jalapeno paupers, like wrapped in bacon with cream cheese in the middle and smoke that.

Smoked bacon, shockingly, is the most delicious. Oh, the key to success, though, is the smoke tube, Taylor. I hope you ordered that smoke tube. So the Trigger Grills, like I said, they upgraded this year and they did away with the model I have. And this new series has a new function called Super Smoke, where it makes even more smoke than normal. But I don't have that mode. So I bought a smoke tube. It's a hollow hexagonal steel tube with lots of little holes drilled all over it.

You fill it up with wood chips and you get them going on one end with a blow torch and you just lay it in there. And it just oozes goodles of smoke the whole time. It tasted so much smoker than anything I've ever cooked in there before. It was like a huge upgrade. Just ordered it. I'll try that next time I smell. I think I'm going to try to blow torch to get it going. Or if you have alcohol,

if you have, if you have. like grain alcohol, rubbing alcohol, that'll almost certainly work, too. Guys are making me hungry. No, I think the blowtorch sounds more fun. Did you see that blowtorch I got? That thing's badass. Dude, it roars. I got a kitchen blow torch attachment for a, you put a pound of butane or propane or

whatever it is underneath. I think it's butane, whatever. And it's got a knob you turn, and it goes from like just a little yellow flame to a roaring, like blue angry flame that's like so loud you can't talk over it my dogs hate it sounds like my camping stove like i think i'm familiar with it yeah and it's great for just getting a fire started it's like overpoweringly hot you've made me hungry too you guys ready yeah all right Viva la Venezuela, I guess. La 94.