The Pete Quiñones Show - Live with RealThomas777 -07/23/26

Episode Date: July 24, 2026

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There's always some delay. Yeah. But I think I solve the problem of the picture quality and stuff by switching to Firefox. If I go do Firefox and close out, everything else, the HD seems to come through and there's not delays. Oh, there we go. Here's the subs. Yeah, again, I can't thank you enough for putting in all the work to make the manuscript come to fruition, man. I'm really in your guys' debt.

and yesterday I wrote a squib the back cover and I went over Andy and his wife helped me mock up a cover art you know it's going to be like

AI generated but for something like that it's appropriate what I drew inspiration from cut me off if I'm boring you with this shit but I figured you're like not being serious

I don't want to I don't bore everybody with oh listen to what I'm doing with my shit but the the old you know the old Milton Bradley

version of Axis and Allies where it's it's like hand like painted obviously you know because this was like the 70s when it came out but it's

a Mussolini Ramal it's either Tojo or Hirohito I can't remember then there's Patton and then there's Nimitz and Eisenhower in the background I think it's free using

from that and you ever seen the hairy turtle dove um bupps world war you know i've remember these aliens assault as world war two is underway and uh okay um i'm not a huge fan he's kind of hit or miss with some of his alt history stuff is cool some is lame but there's this um one of the paperback covers it's uh this table and it's hitler like standing leaning on the table across of stalin and then

seated is Mao and behind Mao there's this window pane and in the background you see a mushroom cloud so it's kind of like a pastiche of that it's a Hitler steering down to Roosevelt and then there's General's Jop in the background

Cadreanu and an Iranian soldier in a trench with a gas mask which is this photo I source from this combat photography site So I think it's compelling And I wanted to make sure that there was a

A meaningful The sort of branding on it Not just some generic bullshit And not just some minimalist thing Or it just looks like an academic text I mean it is an academic text But it doesn't mean it The optics has to be boring

Um Anyway I'm I'm for the benefit of some of the subs We got to do a big knife conversation The other day And the guys were asking me like why I hate on the K bar.

And I really don't. But see, what I believe to be the finest all-purpose knife of all time is the buck 120. If the, if the AR, if the Armalade is the American sort of Damascus. The buck 120 is the American katana. And that's the scream knife. And it also, it's been a bunch of, foreign movie artwork

you know Friday the 13th part 7 which I think is an underrated entry in the series it the the artwork has a buck 120 these come from the factory lethally sharp

you beat all your fingers anywhere near this that's how sharp it is but you can it's a fighting knife it's a hunting knife you can whittle wood with it You can be bone of fish. You can dress a deer.

You know, and this is truly confidence in hand. Obviously, it's not a daily carry. You're like, you know, if you're in a city slinger packing this thing, the police are going to view like, who you plan on a fucking murder. But this doesn't leave my home, you know, but what I do want to get is you can, you're a little pricey. You can get these, this one guy makes these custom sheaths. where you can strap them out of your belt horizontally.

So, you know, it doesn't disturb your natural patterns of movement. And then also you can like rear draw it. And frankly, despite what like karate man guys say and stuff, there's actually no such thing as knife fighting. I mean, basically, if you got to, if you got to defend yourself with a knife, you're trying to stick and or slash your attacker as quick as possible and you you want to attack as you draw so if you're a lefty like me

you draw from the back and then basically slash up like that and then the downstroke just start like stabbing the shit out of them it's not pretty it's not clean just not karate man like ninja magic behind it but that's how it works I've got a whole collection of switch blades but I keep them packaged up so that they stay nice, you know? Yeah, I almost cut myself on one of your Switchblitz.

Yeah, yeah. Well, there's, I carry that little one, um, which is one of my, my two daily carry knives of that. Oh, like the white handle? No, that's, that's, that's, that's my travel one because it's a little bit bigger. Like that's exhalibre. Um, that my daily, that's, but my daily carry is just like a little four inch one and it's got blue, um, acrylic. I carried that, and this is a great, Burden gave this to me one Christmas.

This is a, this is a fantastic little cricket knife. This is about the best pocket knife I've ever had, man. And I'd never even heard of this brand, but Burden insisted. He's like, no, he's like,

he's like my granddad, packed one of these and turned me on to him. I highly recommend it. So, thank you, Burton. I have a other other. I have a scary little stiletto in one of these.

I have a Cold War era, K-bar. No, K-Barr's a great night. Don't mean me wrong. There's nothing wrong with it. But I feel way more confident with a buck than a survival-type knife. But also, I'm not a military guy.

Maybe probably there's advantages to that that I don't know about because I haven't been in the service. My favorite knife of all time, just in terms of the optics, I wouldn't, like, swap this out for one of them. but the the Mark 1 trench knife the 1917 Yeah

Those are lethal man And I've got I've got I've got I've got the savage Out the front Switchblade That's inspired by

The 1917 Mark 1 And the knuckle duster It has actual spikes And the reason for that It's not to gouge people's face says it so that if somebody grabs your hand, they're going to stick themselves.

But it's an out-the-front. It's got like a little four-inch blade, but it's double-edged, and it's scalpel sharp. And it's got this whole clip so that you can reverse it, so you can draw it either way, you know, right set up or upside-down. And, but I keep that on packed away, too,

because again, it's not, you don't want to be like daily carrying that because again, like, I don't, thank God these days. I'm not, I'm not strung out. I don't break the law. I'm not looking, I don't plan to get frisked and Terry stops, but you never know what's going to happen. And last thing I needed some police saying, like, you know, why is there, why, why is there like a swastick on your shirt and what do you, what are you feeling out the front of it?

Yeah, yeah, I, I think you've seen what I, what, I carry and what I travel with is microtech out the front. I have a smaller double I have a smaller double edge one and then I have a larger one that's a single edge and I carry that.

I take the bigger one traveling. Oh, that's awesome. And there's this company whose name alludes me having a senior moment. They make their own interpretation of a 1970 trench knife. If we're kind of like a showy fun knife, but it's

It's high quality. One Christmas, I, that's what I was giving everybody. And I, I, my one buddy,

um, John Doe, you know, the, the ex, military guy. He's a great guy. I was glad you got to meet him.

But I, that's what I gave him last Christmas. And I guess, he was like traveling on this family, like the wife and kids. I guess like, I guess like freak this life out. Yeah.

sometimes I always said it because I am like a because I am a good firm bass where I sometimes I forget of you know that there's like bachelor gifts and there's like married guys. Um, but I mean the exception are guys like you and Carl and Byrd and then your wife's wives know that like I could get one of you guys like an M60 and like your wives would be like, you know, okay, bet like I know you're into this.

Cool. Yeah. But no, I highly I highly, I highly I highly recommend the buck unless you, you know, unless you're private service or something and you're married to your K-bar. But again, don't, you don't want to, you don't have to be daily carrying this,

this bad bitch unless you're out in the country. It's definitely not a city slicker daily carry. But when out in the country, you can, like, carry a law rocket. And like the sheriff will be like, can I take a look at that rocket? Some of out of pretty rocket you got there. We had just cold I like to hear

Yeah, you open carry here and And the police are like, so what you're carrying? Yeah, they want to know what you're carrying. And if you're out, if they hear you out shooting,

they normally, you know, come by and say, hey, get, if it's something they haven't shot before, they want to shoot it. So, I went through some version of that.

Um, when I was 19, um, I bought, uh, oh, there's the Canonics, kitty.

Um, I've always been, I love Pontiacs and, you know, I've always been a firebird fag. And I, I bought a 91 formula package Firebird and it was so sexy, man, and a custom exhaust. You know, and yeah, like 9192 of my favorite production years other than, you know, classic era, you know, like the Bandit, Firebird, you know, 77 and like the 74. I think it's a close second, but like 91, 92, that's where they switched to what I think is like the shit body style that, you know, I fucking hate the 93 and, uh, onward, you know, fucking Cameros and birds, just ruined it. But 9192, um, they had the, like the teardrop fog lights and it was, um,

it was like a totally improved like F-style body. I just loved it, man. But that car was hot as fuck. And police is, and pull me over is to be like, yeah, that's a dope car, man. You know, like, what was that a 305 or 350? You know, keep up the hood. And, like, sometimes it got irritating. But on the other hand, like, it's like, okay, that's cool, man.

Like, I appreciate guys giving me props from my right. But, yeah, yeah. Mr. Bagby just, just texted me. No, that's, that's awesome. Yeah, Bagby and I, I hadn't heard. to him for a minute. We caught a property other day. He's going to be, Bagby's going to see us in Milwaukee, man.

That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to convince him to come to the party. I mean, he wants to, but you know, speaking of married men with proper obligations, you know, he's got a wife and a big family and they're incredibly lovely people, man. Yeah, when I went down to the

burden wedding, you know, a few years back, they drove me around and, and, um, Bagby's like an incredible guy. And he's, you know, he gave me the whole tour of, uh,

Lynchburg. And, uh, he gave us a midnight walking tour of the Presbyterian cemetery, which is as a beautiful. And, you know, they,

they really honor their heritage there. It's like the polar opposite of Bichman. But, um, and Mrs. Bagby, she was horrified. So I was staying in this like totally like,

trap house motel. And she's like, oh my God, you can't stay here. And I'm like, no, like, it's okay,

man, I'm used to worse than this. But, but, Was it worse Was it worse than the one that I picked you up in Portland? Oh no, it was perfect. Oh, no, that the fucking G-cunt was a piece of shit.

I wanted to get a fucking get a hand grenade and like fucking, like, throw it in there and watch her fucking explode. But no, this place, it was like these zoned out black people who were running it. I mean, which I mean, that's the South. They were like probably polite. And like the room wasn't dirty in terms of like not being clean. But you could tell, like, the lock had been busted out, like, because obviously fucking police or somebody kicked in the door. You know, and it was just, uh, it was just super, super shady, man.

And, like, there was guys obviously, uh, carrying on, um, you know, like street business there and stuff. But no, that was, that was unbelievable. And I should have done, in Portland, I mean, and I should have done some due diligence. But like I said, man, it's fucking Portland. I never, I never had a bad experience there like that. That was unbelievable. But I, um.

I, uh, I've sensed. Yeah, so middle of the fucking day, she wouldn't even let me in the lobby to throw something away. No, it was unbelievable. Well, no, and like I told you, I told her that, um, um, you know, uh, you know, I, uh, I paid, um, I paid cash. And I said if she didn't like knock some fucking, if she didn't knock 50 bucks off, you know, I'm like, I don't go fuck. I'm like, I'll, I'll take my business elsewhere, you know, um, um, you. But the, I, I've since learned. And yeah, I won't, I, before I book anything, I research and see if it's run by,

if it's run by Hindus. And if it is, it's like, uh-uh. Yeah. Yeah. No chance. It's, it's really hard, man, because sometimes you, um, you come, you're like, oh, okay, this is, um, I think someone told me that, like, the rule now is, like, when you're driving, If you're on a long drive and you need a hotel, if the hotel is like less than $175 a night, you're dealing with a fucking Hindu.

And I disprove that one with a $200 a night hotel stay and frigging jeet run. There was one place that we stayed in up in North Georgia. It was called the Key West Motel. Now, what's hilarious about this place was total Jeep run. rooms were actually nice and the internet was faster than my internet at my house. That was when I still had Starlinked. But the

when you walked up to the office, like it was a window with just a little thing like that, you could fucking smell it through that little fucking hole. Yeah, it's just like, oh, God. No, there's just some days, man. Yeah, there's no reason they should be here. I mean, it just doesn't make

None. None. Well, it's, uh, well, yeah, that's like, that's like it's pathetic too, how, uh, because the, because the, because the fagged-ass Republicans, they've decided to pretend they, they, they don't like China anymore as part of their, as part of their imaginary platform. They decided that they decided Hindus there, are their new, like, pet minority, like, of all, all populations to try and sell that narrative on that, that, that seems. is incredibly fucking stupid

but then again these these are the same cunt regs who are railing against pretend communists every day now so yeah they're supposed to yeah they cannot stop fighting the fucking cold war but I mean it's literally senile

um I uh I've never thought highly a government and like I said it was it was jarring when when a literal clown government succeeded you know, Bush, Baker and Skowcroft,

but I didn't think I'd be 50 years old and there'd be like some some literally single slob like Trump like damning the communists from 50 years ago. You know, you can't make that up.

Like even some satirist with the most punitive eye like couldn't have made that up. You know, you go fight those communists. So, like, what's next? Like, we're going to have to fight King George and his monarchists. There's a problem is, there's monarchists everywhere, and they kill gays, and you're anything Semitic.

Because I'm a man, I'm a football fat, kids. Yeah, Paul Godfrey pissed some people off about a week ago. He released an article saying, yeah, these, these Democratic socialists, their policies are bad, but they're not communists. Because, you know, he actually cares about what words mean. No, it's my answer. like God, I read that piece and I,

uh, well, it's like too how everybody claims that, uh, there'll be, there'll be some like, there'll be some like corny fucking, fucking,

like liberal lesbian, um, like boozy lady and they'll claim she's a Marxist. Like what she believes in the planned economy. Like she, she's a glass warrior. Like what, wow,

she a Marxist. Kamala, yeah, Kamala Harris is a Marxist. She's, uh, she's pro capitalism because of the, the,

the properties of deracination. and that'll lead to a dictatorship of the proletariat. Well, it's also, I mean, there's not, you can't, it'd be like talking about mercantilism or something. Like, you can't, you can't just say things and pretend that we don't live under globalism. And there's this challenge to the free market and neoliberal perspective of people who, you know, insist on, you know, a Marxian plan economy being the only way to mitigate, you know, the uncertainties of

economics that's scale. I mean, that's literally 100 years out of date. Like, nobody thinks that way anymore. You know, I mean, really nobody's thought that way since the E's outside of cloistered academic, it became

like one of the reasons all these goofs ended up in social sciences. I mean, I realize, like, economics is technically a social science, but it's so it's become so empirically based and so grounded in modeling and things and formal logic mechanisms and paradigms. It's more hard science than social science, at least in terms of methodology.

But point being, you know, after really from the mid-80s onward, if you hold it so about as a Marxist economist, you became a fucking joke. You know, and, and, but in, I mean, that wasn't the case for decades. But my point being it Well, it's all the two I mean it's like when there's some There'll be some like Walmart fucker Like with an extra chromosome

Talking about Marxist Like as if this fucking goon like sits around reading Das Kapital or something You know, it's like oh you're an expert in Marxism now Like you don't get the fuck out of here Like I don't This is why you don't This is why you don't teach Xilas to read Um

Most people who consider like even people who call themselves communists and Marxists have never read Marx. So it's like, because when you, I've, I've had people who openly call himself a Marxist and I'll start talking about

Marx to them and, you know, and they have no clue. They have no clue. No clue. It's also because Chicago's a weird place and in some ways it's, it's time worked.

You know, and, uh, international workers in the world, they're still headquartered here. You know, and, um, you're running. you run into actual communist here, but they're not,

they're basically global systems theory people. You know, like Emmanuel Wallerstein is sort of their guiding theorist. I'm sorry. Excuse me. But, um, you know, they,

they view, um, they're definitely heterodox. But they've also adjusted their perspective. According to, you know, the demands of history. And,

yeah, I mean, which is, which is, fair. They are internally consistent. I ran into some of them guys and girls when we went to the the DNC

convention. You know, they funneled us to Union Park because I was like the designated protest area. But that there was, I ran into some of those IWW people and they were also clicked up with some more kind of

traditional reds. I mean, I was like fly my flag. I was running a British Freikors shirt. I said, I was thinking, I think it was, we were there two days. One day it was wearing an absurd shirt or the other was on a British Freight Court shirt. So, I mean, they knew what I was about.

I mean, they were cool, you know. But they, but that's their, that's their thing, you know, and, I mean, I'm not, I'm not saying they've got a good, what I do with and what objectively is a good understanding of political economy, but they have, they know their lore and there's an internal logic there.

They're not, like, half literate shit libs or, you know, like weirdo Antiva Chomo. So, like, you know, I'm a Marxist. You know, um, well, it's also, too, these faggots, uh, they're so, like, out of touch and corny. They go around, like, trying to invent vernacular because they don't understand memes. They don't understand the internet. And they, they don't understand resistance discourse. So let's be like, you're, uh, you're, you're, you're the woke rights.

Yeah, you're woke. and then it's like how fucking corny are you, man? Like you're, you say you're just fucking embarrassing yourselves. It's, uh,

you know, I enjoy, I, um, enjoyed your, uh, you with Cap and Mike last night, watching Fiddler on the roof.

And, I mean, I like those guys, man, I got love for them, but it's like, I, why do they do that?

It's like, are you getting mad at me or something? Like, that I just something to offend you? Like, I, it's like, look, man, it's like,

And I felt bad because a couple weeks back, like, right, them guys invited me to, you know, go to, you know, sit down to a movie with them. Not long after we got back from OGC, you know, and I, I was feeling rough because of my symptoms. So I had to cancel on them. You know, it's like, are you guys mad at me because I canceled on you? It's like, look, you tell me you want me to come. And again, I'm not trashing those guys than my friends. I got love for them. But it's like, you know, you tell me that, you know, you want me to come on your fucking stream to them a movie guy.

So I'm like, what do you do? You, you, holy shit. It's like, come on, man. You know, like, uh, like,

I'm not saying like I'm some like film genius, but I do know something about movies. I mean, they'd be like, uh, I mean, that'd be like if, uh,

that'd be like if, if we invited Doc Johnson on a stream with us. And then just like, refusals had anything he said and just like told him like meager jokes for an hour or something. You know, it's like, it's kind of funny.

But it's that kind of like a waste of time. Like I don't know. And they kind of like mean to him. Like, you know, I just, I just like how you, like a few times you were like, there's milk everywhere. This isn't kosher. No. Well, it's not. I mean, I, and especially, um, especially in those days, uh, I like, I guarantee you even, even, even pale settlement people who weren't, you know, particularly deserving in other ways.

I guarantee you they kept kosher. And they're, and they just, like, pouring. milk in their bowls and then they're drinking vodka but then they're like drinking milk out of the same cup it's like no way man that's a big deal um even today i like i knew uh they're uh

like i like i like kids in my high school my high school was like in my high school was like 35 per cent jewish or something and not even though i were hacedo i'm talking about just like norseer jews like they'd keep kosher and they'd be weird about, you know, like what, like what caveteria stuff, they partake of, they don't want to, like, certain restaurants, you know?

So, yeah, it's like, I guarantee you that there weren't, no pale settlement Jewish people, like, like, filling milk all over their fucking utensils, man. I'm like, you know, um, but no, and like, and, I mean, musicals are just, like, garbage. Like, there's a reason why it's like, it's like, it's, like, campy gay guys and, like, blue-haired, old ladies who

nobody actually likes musicals and the people and like the men with a straight face but no musicals aren't bad it's like bro yeah they are man I'm just saying that because you got some wife or girlfriend who drag you to one and you're convincing yourself you're not pussy whipped or you know you think that sounds culture

it's like musicals or something garbage unless it's something that's like an odd-in-n-n-nose joke like mention the musical or like little shop of horrors where it's like supposed to be funny and like you know that it's like self-consciously aware that like musicals are garbage you know um

that's why I pissed me off like you know I played classical music from the time I was like a little tight until I was you know like 16 and going way back you know my favorite my favorite classic horror is family opera with Lon Cheney and like I love the whole story

um you know that I love the source material the slasher version of Robert England for 89 is fucking dope. We've got to watch that sometime. You know, and I've always been a fan of the opera fanatic. And I remember you were probably too old with this stuff.

When I was like eight, nine years old, Remko put out these Universal Movie Monster action figures. When I bought the Phantom of the Opera one, and kept it in the package, like somebody collector fag. But in any event, so I'm playing classical music.

music and like junior high and uh andrew Lloyd Weber he's that fuck who also I think he did cast yeah he made a musical of the Phantom of the Opera but it's completely fagged up and fucking stupid and like not at all scary like I found that grossly offensive and then that year like uh for school chamber orchestra they made us play phantom of the opera so I'd like deliberately fuck it up because I'm like this is an rage. You know, and I remember our conductor was this guy, uh,

Carl Meyer. And he thought it was kind of a big dick anyway, but he tolerated me because it's hard to find people. I mean, then as was now, it's hard to find people who can commonly play double bass, especially like classically. Like I'm not saying I'm so great,

but I could confidently play it. So he kind of, he couldn't really fire me from the orchestra. I was going to be so. I'm just like this is this is an outrage man. Dude, I've seen, I've seen a lot of plays and I've seen a couple of musicals. Katz is the most,

it sucked so bad. I mean, we left. We left at intermission. It was, it was so, if we weren't sitting middle aisle, we would have left earlier. It was,

well, it was like infantile garbage and a lot of that. Watchable. And like, don't get me wrong I really like the stage You know Like stage plays I think they're awesome

You know I even You know Like I even still like the glass managerie You know I like Tennessee Williams I'm not even just talking about You know

Kind of weird indie stuff Or epic Shakespearean stuff Like I respect to craft You know Um That's one of the things That's crazy about Like my homie Arthur

who uh you know last year at o gc like you know he drove me home and we were like you know roomies at the event you know he's uh he's an incredible guy but you know he's uh he's a he's a white Thai fighter and a boxer you know he lived in Thailand you know it's a and he went there specifically to train for fighting he's this incredibly like lethal guy but he's uh he's like this soft-spoken dude and he was a stage actor you know like he was And like he studied drama in England. Like you'd never ever think this man. Because like again, this dude's like a lethaly tough person.

But that's one of the things we bonded over because I, I've got encyclopedic knowledge in boxing and I also know something about the stage. And I played with the idea. It's too late now because I'm too old to learn new tricks. But I used to play with the idea of trying to write for this, like write a play. you know um at some point you gotta focus your interest and stuff and i don't i don't think i could i you have to literally take years to learn to do that properly but but point being i'm not i'm not sitting here to say like oh the stage is fag stuff at all but musicals are like

figured to be literally like fag stuff it's fucking garbage so you aren't and no go ahead your dad didn't take you to see the whiz when when you were a kid the movie version of that's really weird you know young Michael Jackson in it. Yeah. And you know, there's this one scene, uh, well, it's weird for a cadre.

It's a weird concept. And that's kind of, that's when black media was getting really strange. I mean, it still is strange, but, and like Diana Ross, she was like 35 in it,

but she's like playing a kid. And then, uh, there's this one scene. They end up in a subway tunnel. And, uh, these robotic,

creatures come out of the wall and it's really kind of creepy. I mean, the words of ours is creepy but in a different way and I just like it it's like what are they going for with this and uh and the original word of Oz and I don't really like it was racially coded. I mean yeah it's

very much kind of it's very kind of anglophone and and very much kind of smacks of uh that culture but it's not it seems like an odd thing to put blackface on. It's not like,

yeah, it's like, yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not a thing. I mean, the original Wizard of Oz was actually a, um, a critique of, a critique of monetary policy. Well, also, uh, the, it's, it's, it's an unsetelike movie because, uh, the wizard himself, he's, like, cross between Henry Ford and Walt Disney, but he's also a madman. He's kind of like Zaporoni from the

Glass of bees. But it's also it's like God is some crazy man behind a curtain trying to terrorize everybody. You know, and it's not even because he's got some hubristic vision of of historical processes. He's just kind of doing for the fuck of it.

I mean, like that, that's pretty nihilistic, man. Radyo Freikor said, I like Westside story. that's about it. What side story is pretty good, actually.

I mean, if you want to fix, if you want to switch blades and, and, and, and, and,

a, duct-tail haircuts fix, watch Rebel without a cause, man. Yeah. That's a great film. I watched it the other day.

Um, we're a leary old weary. Do I have a classical music recs? Yeah, man, uh, barely owes is my favorite composer.

I shout to this on, I was also media the day. Berlioz, Holst, Mozart, Beethoven, of course. Like the bar,

even though that's cliche. Yeah, barely goes. Yeah. But, um, the last one I fucking train to thought. What was I talking about before that?

Paganine. Oh, it was in a Maz. Aganini's insane. Just, brr-r-huh. Yeah, no,

I, I, I, um, no, there's a ton of classical recommendations they got, but the, um, but barely owes is my favorite

I um yeah I see you have the Wizard of Oz another watch you know what else is a creepy film is Return to Oz with Theruzza Bulk a very young Frusufalc you ever seen Return to Oz it's it's a adult movie and it's also when Disney was still weird and pretty dope you know like uh around the time they made Dragon Slayer which is awesome in the black hole um return to Oz it's more true to the source material in the original, but it's got, they very much lean into the horror aspects. And when I was a kid, they'd show it on cable a lot.

It was one of the movies that was a big box office flop. But, you know, then on HBO and stuff, it got a new life because everybody loved it. I loved that movie and I loved the Dark Crystal, you know, and they show Bullets them all the time. I've seen Dark Crystal so many times. No, I love that movie. And it sounds like heresy, but. And admittedly, I'm not a big

I'm not a big Tolkine guy. I'm way more into C.S. Lewis but I like, what's your favorite Lord of the Rings? I'm like, man, I like, I like the, I prefer the dark crystal man. I mean, if that makes me a dilettante, whatever. But so dark crystals heavy stuff for a kid's movie. I mean, it's about religiosity. It's about mannequin dualism. The elfin protagonist,

his people were racially exterminated by the skeptics. That's why he makes the girl. Like, he can't believe she's like him because he's, you know, because his people were annihilated. I mean, for, I mean, admittedly, you know, in the early 80s, they dealt with heavier motifs and kids movies. But, you know, it's, um, it's an intelligent film. And I, uh, and just the fact that, uh, just conceptual,

I watched this whole documentary on it because you know that that guy Brian Frowd he was this big fantasy artist back when you know in the early 80s and there was a big renaissance of all that you know to put him on the map but he the whole film is basically based on

Brian Fraud's concepts so Jim Henson he sells it to the studio um as uh you know there's going to be no human players in this and it's like how can that possibly work but it does work you know and these um the giant

those those beetle-like creatures you know they're like you um you uh they're like one part animatronic one part of humans in costumes

but it totally sells it another movie like that we absolutely need to watch this in our movie series I'm a huge fan at Toby Hooper obviously and uh you know when he got his three

his three movie contract with Canon films none of those movies getting me love. He did Texas James James after 2, which is awesome. He did Life Force, which is epic,

and he did Invaders from Mars. Now, don't get me wrong, the original Invaders from Mars is, like, is Freely insisted that that's the greatest

sci-fi movie of all time, and it's pretty dope. Like, Invaders from Mars is pretty awesome and very much a period piece. But the Toby Hooper remake, It's very, very much true to the original, but it totally tracks, you know, because the

80s were like the 50s redox, you know, everything from, everything from the Cold War becoming very intense to Reagan, pretending to be Eisenhower, you know, and so it's very much in that vein, but the aliens in the movie, um, there are. hybrid of animatronics and actors in these strange costumes. And that's really the high point in the movie. And Dale dies in it, you know, the Marine Corps guy. Yeah, yeah, when the Marines attack the Martians, I, those were a bunch of Marines from Camp Pendleton.

And I guess Toby Hooper's, he approached the Marine Corps and he's like, yeah, we, you know, can a bunch of Marines be extras in my movie? And I go, yeah, of course. and when all the explosions are going off like in the Martian saucer that's underground, they were just like blowing up C4 and stuff, which is pretty awesome. You know, it's a good movie that doesn't get, that I never hear getting any love. Time Band, Terry Gillian. I mean, this is great.

I loved that when I was a kid. And the, no, I really liked them when I was a kid. you know, Terry Gilliam is a really interesting guy. And, um, 12 monkeys is really interesting. You know, it's a Terry Gilliam movie. Um,

the Amanda Spans, Jim Hansman is the only person getting puppetry a lie. Yeah, that's really true. It, um, and it was odd too because even then it, it seemed sort of out of time,

but he really made it work. And, uh, and the Muppet show was genuinely funny. You know, like it was, he had an odd sense of humor, but it,

it worked and um i uh laberance is interesting but obviously that's a movie that it's definitely like a chick movie but uh david bowie and i had acting shops you know and he uh he made this kind of disturbing movie it's it's sort of in the vein of king rat but way darker about merry christmas mr lawrence and he's this poe w um who's kind of single out for abuse by this sadistic Japanese commandants. And he starts kind of developing Stockholm syndrome. You know,

but he, and then he did Christian F. He's got a canyon on that playing himself. That's an upsetting movie. It's about these junkie kids in West Berlin. And it was based on this lady's memoir. She got hooked on dope when she was like busy little kid, which was like 13. You know, she was

West Berlin was a very wild place, kind of a bleak place when the inner border was around. It was literally just like an island, like in the DDR. And it was known for a really wild nightlife and, um,

East Berlin had much less, much less crime and all sorts of things. Oh yeah. But the title remember, I think, was the Vikindia, the Banhoff Zoo, I think. I'm probably butchering that phraseology, wheat children of the Banhoff Zoo. Because they'd hang around the subway. And like she, the girl was about, she got introduced to Skag by some older guy, I mean, which is like often the case. You know, so she starts out just like, snobbed.

just like sniffing powder and then for you know she's a guy on the needle and um you know she and her her boyfriend and all these kids you know they end up like prostiting themselves at the ban off zoo subway station um and uh you know they're like like christianne asked her she's got she's raided by a single mom who's like never home and they're uh everybody's always kind of like on edge and afraid because of the cold war and like um but uh In the movie, like her and all the kids, they love David Bowie. And so when David Bowie plays West Berlin, it's like a huge deal to him. And there's a shot where they're at the Bowie concert.

Then, you know, it's him, like, actually performing. And that's kind of cool. But it's too bad. Let's see why they didn't do more films. Yeah. Yeah. David Boy was an interesting guy, too, man. You know, and he was a.

and he was a genuinely working class dude that wasn't some fake story you know and he he he's a musical prodigy you know he was a musical prodigy you ended up having this huge career um yeah I always thought it's kind of a fascinating guy

he was um he wasn't in it for very long just the beginning but the rapid aging process that he goes through at the beginning of the hunger is really... Oh, yeah, the hunger's dope. I forgot about that.

Yeah. That's a great movie, man. Yeah, it's a great... That's a movie that I did with... I did with last things that he never released because of, you know, reasons. But, um...

Andrews, yeah, I did a movie with last things that ever got released either, and I... I was wondering about that. But, uh... Yeah, I mean, I have to know nothing, but okay, it makes me feel better. I was worried he was... decided that um no it was i'll i'll explain to a actionable dollar or something like i'll explain to

see off the air but yeah no no no the hunger is a um it's one of my favorite movies i've seen it many many many times and no it's a great film man so dark yeah no it's and it's also it's very much a metaphor for serious drug addiction just like near dark is and then it's yeah i mean that's why if you're truly strung out you turn into a vampire man like I being vampire is disgusting

and it sucks you know I don't think people really realize that I um like I know they don't like I remember uh it doesn't matter but I

I remember when I was in court-ordered IOP it was mostly people who had serious alcohol problems who got getting D-Ys. But then there'd always be like one-off people who got sent there because, you know, they,

I mean, this was years back, no, they had like a bunch of weed and some cocaine they got called or something. You know, and they'd be like, oh yeah, I know, I know, I know what I must be like to be like addicted to heroin because when I was in college, you know, like I'm drinking too much and stuff. It's like, you don't understand, man. You know, it's like, you're just dumbness.

It's a dumbest thing anyone's ever said. It's like... That's what people are. I'm saying like, I know what it's like to be disabled, man. You know, like, my niece hurt,

you know, man, like, I told the VA, I'm 8 billion percent disabled. You know, so that's why I need to spend my disability money on, like,

steroids and sleep tests and, you know, like going to Vegas to screw cookers because I'm disabled. Yeah. The, um, it's like, um,

acid people are like, well, I smoke weed. Acid's going to be the same exact thing, right? I'm like, no, yeah, good luck with, yeah, you're not ready. I was always, um, I never, I never tried acid. I, I shrewed because I think if I was in the right environment, like when I was out, uh, when I was around Skinwalker Ranch with my dear friend Cameron, you know, we met some cool people out there. This was like a few years back. Um, when I was

out in the desert, in that company, if somebody had some shrewing, I would have considered taking them. Because streaming is actually a deep, it's very metaphysical. And strums actually are a divinating agent, like Fioli. You know, so you've got to take it seriously. It's not something you do for partying. But you've also got to be in the right environment and the right state of mind.

You have to be spiritually balanced. And you've also got to be around people you trust and you have a genuine affection for. Or things can get spooky. Like I never had a bad. trip but there were times where I was starting to get into trouble but um not in my own mind I uh I had full faith I wouldn't freak out if I tried LSD but I also knew that something bad might happen and I I didn't want to put myself through that yeah um yeah you got to be around the right people um philanthropist says uh what it's like in half the bake

when Dave, when, um, they go into the N.A. meeting for smoking weed and, and Bob and was it Bob said? He's like, he's like, Dick for Crick. Have you ever sucked dick for weed? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That was a weird experience, man, because again, it's, uh, I don't, I don't get, I, don't get, I, I, don't be wrong. I wasn't like a victim here. I did this myself. I was lucky I didn't have to go to jail. But it was odd because, yeah, there was the only, there was this lady in there, you know, who was a dope theme like me. But yeah, it was a bunch of,

it was a bunch of like very, very drunk, like Slavic and Mexican guys. Yeah, and then some like goofy rich kid, got caught by the cops for the, like, weed and coke stashed. You know, and I just reaffirm, I believe. It's not, it's misguided how these, like, addiction medicine people, like, well, all addictions are the same.

It's like, they're really not, man. Like, one is not better or worse than the other, but being an alcoholic really isn't, like, being a heroin addict and, like, neither's, like, other things. It's not, that's why, like, I never... I mean, I mean, first of all, I don't... I don't have any desire to use illicit drugs, but people will get on my case and be like, you know, it's really bad to like, you know, you drink socially. I'm like, why, man?

Because you're an addict. It's like, okay? So that's that means like I'm in cable drinking responsibly. Like, that doesn't make any sense, man. You know, but that. Well, it also becomes like a total, like, weird cult into itself. There's all these idiots like Steve-O where they got rich and famous and they captured clout by a fact. abusing drugs and alcohol.

But then when they're like 50, they like build a whole career on like condemning drugs and alcohol and like lecturing people on sobriety. So it's like if you go back in time, you'd rather be a janitor who was sober his whole life. It's like don't give me that. Plus too, like why if you make like a lifestyle out of being sober

that that says fucking gay is like making a lifestyle out of like doing drugs. You know, like I legit don't understand that. Um, you know what I just remember. Terry Gil, I'm just going back. Terry Gilliam did Fear and Loving in Las Vegas. Yeah, that's right.

That's a weird movie. I, I'm not a Hunterist Thompson fan at all. The only other, I used to read his column back in the day, his weekly column back in the day. Okay. Yeah, no, I don't, I don't have some profound hatred of them or something like some people do. I,

one of the reason I'm such a goose of Hasford fanatic. I mean, I started reading him when I was like junior high school age. And he's probably, he and Shane Stevens are probably the, the literary types or the novelist

that most inspired me in my own fiction writing. But a goose of hasrid was kind of the anti-Hunter Thompson, I think. But what I was going to say was, there's this really weird kind of lesser-known movie called with a buffalo Rome where Bill and Marie plays Hunter Thompson. I'm saying it. And I think Peter,

okay, yeah, I think Peter Boyle plays Dr. Boil. Yep. That's a really odd casting. And I remember I saw it once late at night, I think on AMC or something when I was like in college. And then I thought maybe it was like a fever dream or something.

Like, is there actually a movie where like Bill and Marie plays Hunter Thompson? I think that was based on it. And then he runs. into Nixon in the bathroom, I think, because it's based on on the campaign trail. But, um, the, um, what, one of the funnier stories is when, um, Johnny Depp's getting ready to do fear and loathing. And he goes and hangs out with Hunter Thompson. And Hunter Thompson actually pulls out, pull, I don't know if it was a buck knife or not, and shaves his head

to make it look into the things to make him look like Hunter Thompson. He says, they're down there getting fucked up doing drugs and drinking and Hunter dog's cheek he breathing his head with a fuck no with a fucking like a knife yeah Johnny Depp's Johnny Depp's an interesting guy man I mean he's kind of a silly Hollywood guy but he

he seems a lot more legit than most of them fucking people and he he acquitted himself well when that stupid cunt he was married dude was like Me too. I was raped in the butt by Johnny Depp and he beat me seriously. I mean, at his age, you couldn't be getting, you shouldn't be fucking trifling ass,

fucking sluts like that. But go ahead. He used to play in bands down in South Florida. And like the guy who used to fix my guitars, fixed his guitars, and a bunch of people knew him from those days and everything. They said he was just a really good, you know,

he was a cool kid. Like no one really had to complain about him. apparently he's like a very approachable dude and you know he's very kind to his fans and stuff but he he actually bought an island and like I thought that was really cool you know because you can just buy an island if you're like super loaded and um so he bought this private island um and he like stocked it with wine and stuff like I wouldn't do that like I stock with bushmills obviously but um I stock with bushmills and um diamond crown cigars but uh I'd like to have my own island man. I don't see it happening, but I, um, I've been thinking more and more though, man,

I, I'm going to get a driver's license again, man. Real. If I haven't, I, I don't think I'm afraid to drive anymore. And, um, at some point, uh, at some point, um, when I'm a little bit more flush, you know, I, if I could buy a Cadillac black wing or something and I think that'd be, I think that'd be fun to tool around and, and, There's this company that mocks up, I assume it's a Camero platform, but they'll mock up basically what

looks like what would be a 2020s transam. And it's running, it's running, um, horsepower comparable to the fucking Dodge Hellcat, like something obscene, you know, like, sound like somebody horsepower.

And, uh, it's like incredibly sexy, man. um you know because it's like it's like it's like a 2020s um version of uh like the 77 uh bandit bird but uh it sounds like ridiculous like 300 grand but i'd never i mean i'd never drive like a super car anyway because that's i mean what the fuck am i gonna look like a buggotty or like a lambo you know i'd uh give me like a Cadillac black

wang or give me one of these like give me one of these like fire berbs And I'm happy. I'm looking for this thing that this guy has for sale around here that I, uh, I saw the other day. I, I, like, I don't know what I would go for, but I'm definitely like more, more in line with like an old, old pickup that's been restored. There's some really sweet pickups, man. And I saw, I, I peruse like auto trader now and again, you know, just to see like what's around.

And, um, there was this, uh, I'm not really a pickup guy, but I, this guy had a, it was like a 90 or a 91, like a little Chevy with a 454 in it. And I'm like, I guarantee you that thing's fucking hauls ass, man. Oh, yeah. You know? Looking for this. Yeah, there's some really nice restored pickups around here. Down to the south, you're going to find restored pickups everywhere.

Holy shit. you should get uh you should get like a purple lowrider like a 1993 like low rider i i i'm what i'm just talking shit i say that no no i don't pick up for sweet like burr burn is a fellow pickup fanatic um

oh yeah here it is it's a 63 f100 restored oh it's beautiful all you're talking about genuine classic man like way back yeah that's awesome yeah let me see if i can uh let's see hold on there is that coming through that right there no you don't see oh there we go oh yeah that's that's that's that's freaking this freaking kino man all fucking day i'd be driving that all no that's this that's that's very cool man very cool no you got good taste in cars man i i did you guys can have the pickups though i just i'll take a catalect i'll take a catalect i'll think a catalect i'll think a catalect again and for the for the for the suramons I'll drive a bird um there's a lot of 79 birds for some

reason at radio fry or it's like the le piquino is a latin king and his hydraulic el camino yeah al caminos are firing oh yeah they are what was what was the ford one was the ford ranchero is it was yeah yeah it was like ford had to do a version of it yeah and like in the mafram Rick had a front end that looked like the ranchero, but it, it, it didn't have the bed. Well, I mean, the El Camino actually, people act like it's this crazy platypus-type mutant fucking whip, but it's, it actually makes sense, man, because, like, if you just need, if it's, like, a hauling around a toolbox and some tarps or something, like, you don't, you don't need a proper pickup. Like, I'm not saying it's, like, a great idea, but it's less goofy than I think people acknowledge. I'll tell you. I have a 95K-1500 Silverado stepside with the big engine in it.

And it could do with some restoring on the outside, but it hauls fucking ass, dude. I mean, I believe it, I pull out onto the state road down here and I turn. And I'm, I'm speeding. It's 55 miles an hour. and I am speeding. When I say speeding, I'm talking about 15 miles an hour over the speed limit or more within,

I mean, almost immediately. Thing just hauls ass, man. I fucking love that truck, too. Oh, trucks are funny drive, man. I got, I got on against pickups. I just,

because of where I live, and, you know, the fact I never really got to haul anything. I just can't justify to. LV4, L.S. It just doesn't make sense me to have one, but plus, too, I've always wanted a Cadillic.

So that's what I'm holding off. LFF says, Can I send you my Cold War board game, Twilight Struggle, Thomas? I mean, you know, if you want to, like I, assuming it's a cool game and you're not just being funny and are actually going to send me like gay porn magazines or something.

That would, that, that would be unfortunate. Yeah. Then again, it's not like Richard Spencer is sending you something. So, I mean, or that could be.

Yeah. I don't know. We're coming up in the hour. I'm going to raise up and go and go munch on at BLT. Sounds good. Yeah, thanks for doing this, man. And thank you to the subs. Yeah, we'll reconvene tomorrow, man.

And laid on some. Radio fry cars like ideal vehicle, silver high lux with DSHK welded to the bed. When I was in, dude, when I was in El Salvador last year, every truck was a friggin high lux and half of them were diesels. I was pissed. It's like, why can't we get in that year? A lot of this planet, man, like, prefers a diesel, even though it, uh, it's interesting.

I believe, uh, there's probably changed, man, but Europe, diesel used to be like all they fucked with. I mean, I mean, it burned dirty. So, like, I'm sure, like, they're environmental raising off for clued that. But there's something to be said for diesel. Like we don't, we don't like it because we're just not a bitchy way to do it. But I remember, yeah, even until I was in high school, man, maybe even a little bit beyond, he'd still, it was definitely a niche thing, but you still see, you'd still see diesel rides on the road, man, you know, especially Mercedes and stuff. Oh, yeah, and those run forever.

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, diesel's got a lot going for. man. I mean, it just, it is a, it is a dirty burning fuel. It's not, it's not just environmentalists. Well, maybe, maybe not the 6.04, but the Ford 7.3 liter, that international engine, that thing will, that thing, you still can't buy them down here for, with 300,000 miles on them for less than like 12 grand. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, no, that's some, that's something he said for that. well that's a problem too like some of them as they tell them like bigger engines

you know what's like I love GM the the fuel the fuel injective like GM 350 is like run my firebird after about 100,000 miles they just basically die you know

it's tough to uh it's tough to keep those bigger motors going yeah payload is saying 89 Cadillacs or bust yeah 89 Cadillacs we were

Taylor and I were talking with the other day because I went. This one guy had this pristine 89 Cadillac. And that was just like a great year, man. Like 89, 90, 91 for luxury cars. Actually, the 95 El Dorado is actually a really, really nice vehicle. 89? No, the 95. I like the body.

I love the body style on it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a huge GM fanatic, man. You know, with few exceptions, I really liked what a GM was doing. Like I said, I hated what they did with the Firebird and with the Camaro after 92. But they totally killed the Mustang, too, in 2005, when they brought back, you know, more like classical optics. And it actually puts some performance by it.

like after those stupid fucking 90s stangs. And it was a real sin too because I remember in 93, it was still the old style body and they put out a like they put out a Mustang cobra, you know, like 25th anniversary. And it was really dull. But then in 94 they called these like little shit fucking, these little shit boxes,

like Toyota or something with a fucking 4.6 in it. you know, it was just like a fucking, this was like a fucking fucking shit machine. But no, I... Down in the south, the Fox Body Mustangs, the brothers love them. The brothers love a Fox Body Mustang. Yeah, that's interesting.

That makes sense. Um, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go, uh, I'm gonna go Monscion B-LT, man. All right, ma'am. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Thank you, everybody.

Appreciate it. Yeah. Take care.