The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Matter of Facts: Whiskey and Politics

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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Welcome back to the Matterfags Podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at MWFpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Raveley. Andrew and Nick are on the other side of the mic and here's your show. And I think I got that intro just a little bit cleaner than the last time, it wasn't quite as jarring. I think I might need to tweak the volume,

but sooner or later, a little high, a little high on the volume, not bad. Sooner or later, I will find a way to mimic true professionalism. I mean, we are endeavoring constantly to mimic true professionalism. I mean we are endeavoring constantly to fake being a professional. Yes definitely fake being a professional because my worry is always that if if we got too professional we would take this way too seriously and then it wouldn't be fun anymore. No no absolutely not I

refuse to have yet a fourth job. Yeah, well, I mean, that's been my whole rationale behind, you know, intentionally half-assing as much of the show as possible so that I don't take it too seriously because I've already got a full-time job, part owner in one business, a nonprofit to run, and another podcast that due to peer pressure and bullying might be getting resurrected in the near future. This is a matter of fact, I'm probably not supposed to tell you all this, but she's not around to tell me not to until she kicks that door like the Kool-Aid man. But anyway, we need a security door. I should probably put a lock on that deadbolt on that door. But Mrs. Matterfax actually talked to me just the other day about the potential for resurrecting, raising values.

Oh, my wife will love that. In no small part, because of all the bullying from the patrons on the summer camp trip. It was good natured cajoling at best. Hey, y'all bully me in a buying shotguns y'all bully her in starting podcasts I mean, it's just that's the way this relationship works But welcome back to the matter of facts podcast. I'm Phil. This is Nick Andrew's not here Andrew is petition petitioning the White House for Pam Bondi's job and Nick and I both agree that that would be an excellent idea at this point

I have seen rocks convict more pedophiles I mean, I think a ham sandwich should do a better job than she's doing lately, but you know, that's just me the first This whole having things on your desk and then they don't they don't you know? Exist that's a little odd little sus, you know I have a lot of things on my desk and so far all of them exist not entirely sure how she worked out the opposite But I mean Okay, but let me just be double-savvy for a moment. I know people who shall remain nameless without, because I have a very short memory and they're in permanent witness protection, who have things in their gun safe that absolutely do not exist.

Yeah, but that's just good old American traditionalism. I mean, we've been having things in our safes that shouldn't probably exist since longer than this country's been around. Oh, Kyle's excited. He wants a new boss. Well, Kyle, I do have good news for you. No tax on tips and overtime did go through the one big beautiful bill. With stipulations.

With stipulations. With stipulations. I mean, it is a tax credit, so, and it's looking like it's capped at like 25K a year. 25K a year for Mary Jo Foley jointly, which is nothing to sneeze at. Oh, it's nothing to sneeze at. 25K a year is a chunk of anybody's budget, I guess. So. That would buy a lot of 12K shells.

Oh, yes. Yes, it would. In fact, that's almost enough to buy that belt fed AR upper that I'm not allowed to have. You're not allowed. You got to buy night vision first. Actually, no, you got to you got to do two bathrooms in a kitchen. Then we can all start working on Rachel. I have finished all of the demo.

Well, most of the demo for that one bathroom. But so but finishing the demo wasn't the agreement. I worked hard to try to get you the night vision. I know, I know. But that I'm more your little your little lady is like, she is. This is stubborn as I am. She has to be. Oh, yeah. To keep you honest. Most definitely.

OK, five minutes in, we're still BSing. So we got to do the admin work. We got to thank the patrons, the patrons and the Matterfacts podcast, the psychopaths who join us on the camping trip last month, the people who give us bad ideas, the people who are in our signal chat every freaking day, the people that risk getting a cannon for Christmas. Yes. And by the way, the the arms race for Secret Santa has now officially begun. Like you, you, you, you, you screwed up the whole over. Yes. Window for Secret Santa.

Thank you, by the way. Hey, I kept it within the budget. I just happened to have a lathe. Yeah, you just happen to have a lathe. I do. And my secret Santa had to make do with a disaster coffee, coffee mug and some coffee of which I thought was like a pretty cool heartfelt gift because coffee is never bad. But then you got to one up all of us with a coffee is like your whole deal.

Well, I'm a machinist. I make the things anyway. But if you're interested in becoming a patron, I highly recommend it. I can introduce you to some people who will waste your retirement money faster than you can say multiple felonies. Oh yeah. In the best way possible. Yes.

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thought they were? Yeah, Chris is that guy in the best way possible. Are cool and his daughter is a hilarious little spitfire her daddy's her daddy's gonna have his hands all kinds of full in about eight or nine years. Good. That's how parenting should be. Yeah, but the merch supports a small family owned business and they will appreciate it and so will I. And frankly, our t-shirts are hilarious.

You should consider them. And they're really nice shirts. Yeah, well, I have to admit, that was like one thing that I was very insistent with when I talked to Chris and Tiffany initially was, I'm like, hey guys, we can collaborate am like, we can collaborate on designs I am if there's something y'all want to throw out there, like, just let me look at and make sure it's our vibe before you use you put

it out for sale. Yeah, the one thing I was emphatic about was we are not using like the cheap, skinny Chinese itchy t shirts like I want. I want something that feels nice. And it looks like quality and they nailed that so I have no complaints and Cyprus survivalist so one get ready event North Shore down one quarterly event, which was not what we initially planned but Due to weather and some other things we pivoted it into a small intimate get-together at the rabble a house, which was fun and our next event we're probably looking for like, I don't know, beginning

of winter, very, very, very, very end to fall after hurricane season, when it starts to cool down a little bit, we're looking to do it a camping trip, but me and the other board members need to get together and figure out when to pull the trigger on that we're we got some things, we got some things to look at but for anybody that's in You're gonna need a couple months notice for people at least I would think oh, yeah That that's that honestly is probably something that we're gonna be starting announcements in the next week or two nice, but but You know so for anybody that's in like the vicinity of southeast, Louisiana Depending on how far you want to drive for a camping trip with a bunch of weirdos, it's going to be sort of like the matter of fact summer

camp. It's going to be a, we're going to be here, you all make your own reservations, and we're really just going to hang out. It's going to be an opportunity for the people who have camping gear to come out and camp with a safety net of other people that are very experienced at it. It's gonna be a good opportunity for people to kind of compare and contrast their gear to somebody else's. And it's gonna be an opportunity just to sit around

and hang out and visit and get to know each other, which is always kind of been the underpinning of soccer survivalist is to get to know the other preparedness minded people in your area. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't help you to know the other preparedness minded people in your area. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't help you to know me because best case I'm 14 hours away. If all needed, it helps. It just doesn't help in the, in the way that's most helpful. Sometimes don't help get a tree off your roof.

That's for damn sure. No, it absolutely will not help with that. Um, Kyle, the only person who can share a sleeping bag with me is my wife. Sorry. Don't don't mean to break your heart Bubba. It look if I was going to share a sleeping bag with any man you definitely be on the list. But no, he seems like a cuddler. He might be but I'm I don't know. I'm not a not a cutler, I guess. Anyway, so let's let's get to the topics.

Let's start with. Where's the Fing List? Where is the list? I'm guessing it's in the exact same place. It's always been some federal government employees. Little black book of blackmail Yeah, well this image that's on the screen right now and for those of you listening in audio You can't hear it

So you'll just have to go to our Instagram page and that links in the show description as well So you can go take a look at it But this is an angry-looking raccoon saying where's that goddamn list and that's kind of where I'm at right now with this whole all these freaking shenanigans Either there is no list and we've been lied to for like what ten nine or ten months by the Trump administration by multiple appointees of the Trump administration before and after the actual inauguration before and after the actual election and Personally me this is me Nick, you know, I don't indulge in conspiracy theories that often. No, not really

Well, I'm being kind of tongue-in-cheek because I do but they usually come true But anyway or or have been proven true. Yes been proven true very often but if there is no list But if there is no list, then this is the only time in human history that anybody alive can remember, remember, in which a man hung himself for no freaking reason, in air quotes, and a woman is still in prison for trafficking no one to nobody. Yep. This, this whole, this whole thing is like a freaking LSD dream. We are literally, dude, we are having our faces peed in and being told it's raining in the most literal way humanly possible. Absolutely. This is, I think, the single most bipartisan issue in the news regularly. Can you think of anything else? I mean, heck, I have an insanely liberal

co-worker who, he's a good guy, his heart's in the wrong place. Even he is phenomenally pissed. The guy hates Trump more than a couple of our patrons possibly ever could. And he came up to me the other day and said, can what Trump said and I said probably not because you're probably gonna lie to me And he said he said that there's no list that there's never been a list. I said what list he said the Epstein list I did not hear that. I said he said well, aren't you mad at Trump now? I said well, yes The man was trafficking children. I at Trump now?" I said, well yes, the man was trafficking children. I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, I do not care if Mother Teresa's on the list. I want it. And I want to make damn sure we end the political careers and monetary careers of every single person that was ever

involved in the trafficking of children. So I'll go one step further than that. I would like to think I'm a fairly level headed person. Somebody in the audience is snickering very loudly at that assertion, especially given that. Well, this is so you remember, I told you I brought home a bottle of the smoked maple. Oh, yeah. I'm Greek. Yeah, that's cool. the smoked maple knob Creek.

Yeah, that's cool. So I am known for being level headed and not drinking before a podcast, but I cut my whiskey with moonshine today. I kind of feel like if anyone's name is on that list and is confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that that person should be freaking tarred and feathered in public. Yes. I'm talking about freaking blood blood angel blood wing them Viking funeral while they're alive. I don't care There is no penalty to grade to have participated in this disgusting behavior and the cover-up of it The cover-up is the worst part in my opinion. I Can understand I can understand mentally ill people doing mentally ill things. They are disturbed. Okay. Maybe they didn't have full control over it, but they did it. Sorry. Don't care. Exactly. But the people that covered it up had to take

an exceedingly long series of actions actions knowing what they were covering up. And again, don't care. Don't care whose name is on it. I don't care if it's Republicans. I don't care if it's Democrats. I really care less than none if it's the Pope. I don't care if it's Mother Teresa to your point of view. I don't care if it's freaking Elvis. I don't really care if it's the British royal family. I do not care. I don't care if it's freaking Elvis. I don't really care if it's the British royal family. I do not care if everyone on the list is already dead. I want to know so we can tar their reputation for all of eternity. But here's my problem is that if everyone on that list was dead, we'd have it by now. No, we wouldn't. You don't think? No, everyone involved in the Kennedy assassination that was part of the US federal government's been dead for 20 years

and they just now released it. They wait until like it got cold enough. Almost, yep, until their bodies were so cold that even the extremely enthusiastic would not be involved. Well suffice to say like there are a ton of wild theories going on right now about why this is like there there's the theory that says that everyone's on the list on both sides and that's why neither one can release it.

That's plausible. I'll go there. There's the theory that like, you know, Trump's hands are clean in this, but it's an intelligent, it's blackmailed to use against other countries. So it's kind of like the one ring analogy, if you've heard this, it's like he's got the one ring he could throw into the fire destroy it but he'd

rather use it I'm certain some of it is blackmail but here's my problem I do not care the tiniest most insignificant little bit I don't give a shit I don't give a damn who's on the list I don't give a damn who's on the list. I don't give a damn what the justification is. I do not care I am here to say that this man and this administration should stand on business This was a plank in their platform to release this This was part and parcel to the reason he and his people were elected They were sent to Washington because we wanted this unwound and we wanted this released.

And it is time to either make good on your promises or enjoy the next three and a half years of your entire base, cutting each other's throats, looking for opportunities to get rid of you. Because I'm going to tell you that right here and now I'm looking at social media and I am watching people bifurcate in the Republican Party in two chunks. You got the people who are fairly principled who are saying, big timeout, heart stop, this is not what we voted for and we're not okay with it. And then you have the other crowd that is so freaking captured, so ideologically contained

and so dishonest that they are rah rah rah for Trump no matter what and which is unacceptable for any politician in any political party personally I think I don't think anyone should be that behind any single candidate or party I don't think that's part now you know total soapbox moment but I don't I think it's kind of an American tradition to distrust your politicians like me not that I that I'm God's gift to anything, or I'm anybody special. This is just my weird frigging personality, but I could literally vote for a man or a woman or an alien. I don't care. I could vote for somebody five seconds after they walk down the stage of shooter

by the bird and say, I got the ring. I immediately go back to distrusting that person because five seconds ago, you were just a human being like you and me, but now you're a politician. So now I cannot trust you again until you leave office because that is the only way we ever keep them in line is by watching them like a hawk and calling balls and strikes. And right now I'm here to tell you that Donald J. Trump, I have nothing to defend him. I have nothing to defend his administration.

They have completely and totally screwed this thing up and there is no excuse for it and there's no saving it either. Like find me that one person that is still, I'm not saying like you leave the Trump camp over this one thing, but at least be honest that it's a complete screw-up No, at least give me that is I do believe it could be salvageable if they admitted. Hey look We fucked up We fucked up we should have given it to you right away. Here it is Go, I mean either that or convince the American public that the list never did exist

And if you're gonna do that, then you have to go back and admit that you screwed up all these other times you said it was a thing. So well, to me, it's kind of like, I don't think you can ever convince them that there isn't a pretty good idea of who is involved. But time out. There are some people who will never be convinced regardless. You have to discount those. Right, but I'm talking about the majority.

I'm not talking about like the people that believe the be convinced regardless. You have to discount that. Right, but I'm talking about the majority. I'm not talking about like the people that believe the earth is flat. I'm talking about people like you and me, Phil. I think that you're a fairly critically thinking person. I do. I've met you in person. You give me a lot of credit. No, but you do. You do. When I give you a good argument for something you disagree with, you can consider it and concede the point if it's well-made and if it's well-founded. Kyle was asking, do we think Elon Musk has a copy of the list?

No, I don't think that they would give that to him. I think if he had a copy of it, it would already be on the internet. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think he would manipulate, no, God no. I think he would manipulate it to better to benefit his business interests.

I think Elon Musk is probably a sociopath. He's a useful sociopath, but I don't know that he would care enough about people. Generally, he very much cares about things. He's not a people person. Does that make sense? No, that makes perfect sense. And you know, the God's honest truth of the situation is, is like, I am not in the position of I think there's room for there not to be a list that you

would have a hell of an uphill fight to convince me of that. All I'm saying at this point is that like I I personally will not let go of this No, and I know a lot of look people have been saying for how many years Epstein didn't kill himself at every I mean, it's a freaking meme at this point. Like people will not let go of it This is not going to make it go away. This is just gonna make it worse It was less of a suicide than that guy tied to Hillary Clinton that shot himself four times in the back. We should do an episode on all of the all of the what do you call them? The Clinton body count. We should do an episode on Clinton body count. There's a wiki page for the Clinton body count. It's quite extravagant. We'll go over it one

of these times. Prepper Cotton's group here is saying that there's probably not a Hollywood style madam list, but I think he's right. I don't think there is a little black book of this person likes 12 year olds, this person likes 15 year olds. No, but I guarantee you there's plain manifests, which we know exist because some of them have been released. There are probably like, say, credit card receipts or business expense reports.

Look, man, you cannot walk six blocks without being on somebody's fucking ring doorbell camera. You're telling me that there isn't video evidence of this? People getting on and off the planes. And see, I think it goes further than that. I think that if if the true purpose of if the true purpose of the of Epstein was one gigantic honeypot and there's there's there's something there's some things there to suggest that might have been what it was. It would not surprise me if he was not in it. It would not surprise me if he was an intelligence asset for either the CIA or another foreign nation. And if he was, then what is being held from the American people and from the world

is literal, like 100% irrefutable evidence of people touching- Governments trafficking children. Yes, 110%. Now, the problem is, and I've said it before and I think I doubt you're gonna disagree with Me on this but it's like if that causes governments to topple and the world to burn then the world George terms are acceptable Yeah, and because at this point and you know somebody somebody posted this on social media and it's it's very succinct and dark But damn it, it's right on point, but they were like You know like we were at a point I actually I think I might have a Tucker Carlson and I don't I don't usually pay attention to Tucker Carlson

But this time he was really dropped the bomb right on the target But it was something to the effect of like we are at it We are at a crossroads in American history where either We are at a crossroads in American history where either this travesty, this cover-up gets uncovered, it gets corrected, or we will forever surrender the moral high ground of the truth. Agreed. There will be no... Because if you can cover this up for any reason, for any purported good, then there are no limits anymore. reported good, then there are no limits anymore.

Personally, I don't think it is possible to have an outcome that stems from the trafficking of children that is in any way acceptable. No, I think the only I think the only solution to not make this better, but I think the only solution here would have been to like just let the list out let the cards fall where they may dump every single bit and bite of data to the internet but you know what if if I were to get into a self-defense shooting today if if I were to walk out my front door, be assaulted and shoot somebody, I guarantee you every single doorbell camera, every single wifi signal, all of it would end up on CNN.

But you're not a British well or a politically connected American politician. No, no I'm not. Why is it that you and I can be tried in the court of public opinion, but we can't try the government? Rules for thee the but not for me and people wonder why I hate the government people wonder why I don't know people wonder a lot of things about me but some of y'all just have to use your imagination so if I say that the world has made me jaded I used to be a

young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and quite an agreeable person and then the world showed me how much the world sucks and now You're just cynical and bushy-bearded Cynical sirly it's sarcastic Cynical and bushy-bearded or from from Hmm. I'll have to play with that a little bit. Anyway, so yes Where's the effing list? And I'm going to continue to harp on and I hope all of you continue to harp on it

I think I'm gonna have to take it up with my with my congressman and senator Yeah, again, well, I'll hold my breath if you bring me an oxygen tank in other news California wants to secede because the, oh, what is it? The mango Mussolini is in charge and is hurting their feelings. So- Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, you can thank Reddit for that one.

That's good. Mango Mussolini. That's pretty good. But yes, California wants to seed. I've heard this before. How are they gonna deal with the water problem that they get from everywhere else? Don't know how are they going to deal with the crippling debt that that state is in because of

all their social welfare welfare programs. So there was a I want to say it was grant who said something like this and I would like to say get the quote right but I'm going to paraphrase essentially what he's saying is that you when you were admitted to the union the union spilled blood and treasure to safeguard you you no longer get to just leave look I mean that is the argument that was used to justify the civil war by the way way. I realized that. And you know what? There are a lot of places that want to succeed. Texas wants to succeed. I don't know that secession would accomplish anything for them.

I agree and disagree though, because where this topic of state secession comes up, I've traditionally been on the side of like the country's going to Balkanize anyway. Screw it. Let's just roll the dice and get it over with. I think you're right, though. I think we will go the way of the USSR eventually. Well, I mean, if not the USSR, we're going to go the way of we're going to go the way of multiple places in Eastern Europe.

That used to be one whole country, and then they bifurcated. And it always happens because, you know, like there's the argument that happens across racial lines or religious lines But the truth the truest definition of the reason most these places bifurcate is because it happens across ideological lines Cultural lines him. Yes people in a and people in B don't want to live together So they go and they make their they make two countries out of one the trouble for California is that it is just as bifurcated As the rest of the nation I have a solution for that you'll like this. Mm-hmm Lesser, California

Don't beat me to the punchline So here's the thing you you know that one of the things I pride myself on is intellectual honesty and consistency Like if I'm gonna take this position in one place I'm gonna try to take it across the board and if I can't take it across the board that tells me that my idea Was wrong and I need to revise it because it doesn't apply everywhere without sure. Well, there are certain. Yeah, okay This is semantics. Never mind. Ignore me. Yes Well, I have traditionally been in favor of state secession if the whole state says if you guys I'm out Okay, I'm kind of like, I'm gonna let him go. So I had this

thought about California and I thought to myself my okay, in the name of intellectual consistency. If the state of California gets all their gets all their date, their they thems and Z's are together and they all decide we don't want to be part of the United States anymore. In the name of intellectual honesty and consistency, I have to support They're they thems and zeezers together and they all decide we don't want to be part of the United States anymore in the name of Intellectual honesty and consistency I have to support that but I also know that California is the least homogenous state in the entire country when you look at landmass and that the populations of San Francisco

San Diego and Los Angeles heavily skew the rest of the state's politics and social platform. And if we did this on a county by county basis, ah, now I found out how to make this work. So if a county wants to secede from the United States of America, get your votes together and go forth, do great things, have a party, you go off and form California standard, whatever, but all of those

red freaking counties all throughout the rest of California that don't want to be part of California today would probably happily join Oregon or some other state or make their own state and stay in the United States of America. And then Los Angeles and San Diego and San Francisco can have their own little hippie commune until they collapse under their own little weight. You know, I can understand that, and that's reasonably fair. But doesn't it sound like a good idea though? It's a social experiment.

We should try it. I could see it being amusing. It would just be like, it would be escape from LA 2.0. Your terms are acceptable. I know. We just need more leather Your terms are acceptable. I know. We just need more leather jackets and eye patches. Kurt Russell. Yeah.

We need Kurt Russell and a wall. Can we clone Kurt Russell's and buy more leather jackets? What if, what if a 21st century Kurt Russell, actually I think those movies took place in the 21st century. They were set. It was like a year 20, 25 or 23. Let me look it up. What if a modern reboot,

instead of having Kurt Russell with his flowing hair and his clean shaven face, had a bald man with a lustrous beard to rule over Los Angeles? I mean, we can do that. All I need. Okay, so in the year 2000, a massive earthquake struck the city of LA That starts the timeline

Let me see give give me give me the rest of the timeline. I need the juice here God so you are failing me so what I need is a sleeveless black shirt, an eye patch, some boots, and a Mac 10 with a silencer and the like 10 inch long scope for the time. I mean, a Mac 10 with a silencer, you've got me. That's like right in my 80s action heart.

Okay, we'll take that as an action item going forward. So yeah, it looks like the bill is set in the year 2000. So we need to wall off Los Angeles and put all the hippies in there. And then I don't know. I'll just get dropped in and cause mayhem. I guess. Jesus Christ. Phil, how much do you think they spent on that movie?

Impress me. 50 million dollars. I mean, wow. It only filming in Los Angeles. Yeah, they did. Um, impress me $50 million. Ooh. I mean, wow. It only filming in Los Angeles. Yeah, they did. The box office take was significantly less. This was not a successful film. That's why there wasn't any further escape from escape from New York. New York definitely. Well, that was the first one. Escape from LA was.

Oh yeah, that's right. Escape from New York. If, that was the first one. Escape from LA was the. Oh yeah, that's right. Escape from New York. If you need if you need a nice sweet romcom to watch with their lady, that's not it. But if you want a cool movie to watch with your friends and some drinking involved, that's definitely one to put on the menu. Escape from New York is the better one though.

It definitely is. Escape from LA was meh. But New York was good. Then if you really want another one, what was it demolition man? That's a fantastically terrible action movie Demolition man is fantastic. So you went when it comes to terrible action movies there's this really thin line between terrible and terribly awesome and

Demolition man is like right on the side of terribly awesome. But then the original Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone is like right on the other side of just terrible. It is. Yeah. But did you did you see the newer Dredd that had Carl Urban in it? Fantastic. Love dude. Tell me. Tell me that man did not channel Judge Dredd. I mean, he was Judge Dredd. The whole movie from start to finish should just be like played on repeat in police academies around the country. Fantastic. Fantastic film. Police brutality? Yes. I'll show you police brutality.

All right. Now it's time to... I've had my rant. Now Nick gets to have his. 3.3 trillion dollars in spending, the additional spending, the big, beautiful bill is really freaking big in additional spending on top of what the government already spends. Now, Phil, I don't know if you remember some of Trump's campaign. Do you remember when he talked about Biden's irresponsible, extravagant spending? I recall a word or two about that. I recall that being a pretty big talking point.

Almost as big of a talking point as Biden losing his mind. Yeah, I mean it was kind of like neck and neck between those two. Oh it really was. Between border wall. Which there's money in there for the border wall. Oh, again, we'll see what happens with that this time. We got some of wall. Walls usually need to be finished, but eh, fuck it, whatever. You know, conservatives have, for as long as I can remember, have tried to claim themselves to be the party of fiscal responsibility. Time out. Time out. Time out. We have to agree to terms before you indulge in

your rant. So there is a big C conservatives and a little C conservatives just like there's a big L and a little L libertarian. I am talking about the Republican Party. Okay that's big C conservative. We're not Big C. Not little C like the you and me who actually believe in conservative principles. Okay continue on ahead. I have my glass in hand and I'm like ohhh, I almost had a whiskey so let's go. Well you should have poured more. So the Republican Party for a long time now as long as I can remember has claimed to be the party of fiscal responsibility. How in the flying pig fuck is 3.3 trillion in extra spending on top of the extra spending that we've been doing ever since COVID? Any kind of fiscally responsible. This is an even deeper deficit.

Do I play this straight or do I just go straight to sarcasm? No, it's entirely fucked well no you see nick if you were if you played 4d chess like you know the uh the orange orangutan does then you would understand I am totally pissing off all of our trump voters by using all the left's freaking verbiage about him hey I am fine with that. You know what? If he wanted to be taken seriously, he would and his party would craft a budget that sticks to a fucking budget and doesn't raise the goddamn deficit by $3.3 trillion.

But now Donald J. Trump, it is worth pointing out, he has claimed that in the far off future, years from now, that the economy will be so roaring and so awesome that it will offset that additional deficit that is being accrued. You know what? If that happens and I am wrong, fine. I've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again.

You know what's pretty much always wrong? Spending $3.3 trillion dollars more than you earn. I was going to say government is usually always wrong. Pretty much only ever makes things worse. Yeah. Matter of fact, the simple addition of government to most things automatically makes them worse. Yes. If we had government on this podcast, I'm sure it'd make the podcast worse. Well, we would probably have to have an HR department, in which case the near constant harassment I give you would probably get me fired. HR departments also make everything worse.

They do. Problems get solved when you have workforces that are comfortable, like whooping chairs, asses behind the woodshed. Correct. Like doesn't, isn't that just so much better when you and John, there's a John at your workplace there is whether his name is John or not. But like when you and John have a spat and you're like, why don't you come out, why don't you come out here behind the shop and we talk about this and you come back in and

one of y'all has had an attitude adjustment. There used to be a large section of trees in between us and the nearest road that was extremely convenient for settling disputes. And it didn't require an HR department, did it? Nope. No HR department required. Stern words? Off camera? Absolutely. Percussive maintenance, maybe? Occasionally. Very rarely. I mean, wall- counseling the thing is is that we

hit wildly absurd spending during COVID all right emergency situation I can understand some some more spending I'll disagree with you on that at that point but Well, what I would say is there should have been cuts and then divert the spending to the medical things that we needed. I agree and disagree with you on that but continue. Well, my point is we have escalated the spending wildly in the years after 2019. We are continuing to escalate the spending in a parabolic curve. It looks like to me. Yes. Where does that end? Phil? Well, you know, Nick, there's this funny thing about interest bearing debt, and it works the same by way with 401ks, which doesn't apply here. But you know, things compound. And once

you get to a certain point that nice gentle slope turns into a vertical line and Once that happens there is literally no fixing the situation and we're it's it's it's It's starting to really turn turn your own north. I Mean, I would argue that we're already in a near vertical ascent of debt. We are. I mean, if you look at it from the beginning of the country to today on a reasonably scaled graph, you know, say a 10 year plot, it's a damn near vertical curve now. We're, we're at a point in monetary policy where the only two, the only two paths forward, because at this point, even if

we like, so if we were going to employ austerity measures, try to right size the thing we should have been doing it right now and not doing this. Yes. But, but I digress, like let's move past that for a second. But at this point there's only two ways this ends. Option A is with a freaking world war. Yep. Option B is all of the nations of the world all agree together that it's

just a number on a balance sheet nobody gives a shit and we all just keep lying to each other to option C we we revalue our currency like the British did in the 80s and we look at 35 years now it won't cause a world war it'll cause a collapse of the major world economies which will cause a world war okay that's my that's my there's two more steps there but oh wow wow. Thank you, Nick, for correcting me that. We have to crush the world economy first, then we can have the world war. I mean, realistically, unless we cut our spending down, I mean, we can't even afford the, just the interest payments right now, realistically. No, honestly, what we would have to do,

dare I throw around the c-word, we would have to do, dare I throw around the C word, we would have to look at this country in constitutional terms and we would have to return to only that spending, which is statutory and we would have to unwind a whole lot of entitlement programs and that would be political suits. Cut the military 50%, cut Social Security entirely, cut Medicaid entirely, cut welfare spending entirely But I don't know I would argue that if you cut the military 50% The militia act is right there to ensure that you know The common man has all their own shit to act in the common defense

That was the whole point of it being there that was the whole point of it being there But I digress the point remains is that it's political suicide and no one's ever going to do it But I digress the point remains is that it's political suicide and no one's ever going to do it Listen nick. I will I will I will bite a chunk out of this highball glass If a politician ever Seriously, like manages to end a major entitlement program. Yeah, I just can't I cannot see it happen You're right. It is it is a Guarantee that you will never be elected to power again in anything

Yeah, you you will you will not be president of an HOA after you do that You're done for life. You probably get shanked to be actually get CIA'd. What's probably I mean? You know it this is the problem That I think a lot of democracies have, inevitably. Is the populace realizes that, well, it's a republic, but it's a form of democracy. But any kind of elected body, any kind of electorally controlled country is going to have the same problem. Eventually the people realize they can vote themselves benefits. Well, wasn't that Jeff, was that Jefferson or Franklin that said that the, uh, the death of liberty, the death of democracy follows shortly behind the public realizing that they

can vote themselves largest from the treasury. Yep. I am totally butchering that. I mean, this, this was a full glass before I started. And I'm never prepared to quote things that I've read that were very, very insightful. But if you Google that, both themselves largest from the treasury, you can tell me who said it and you can correct me and get a gold star. Yeah, and that is, I think, the inevitable downfall of this country,

because look, I paid into Social Security, you paid into Social Security. I do not honestly think that I will end up receiving any benefits from it. I mean- I think it will collapse long before I get there. Even if it doesn't, they're gonna friggin' curtail the benefits so severely. It'll be so worthless it won't matter. Even my

financial advisor told me he said look a lot of people want to count on Social Security. Do I take Social Security entirely out of your equations because you never know what the government's going to do and if you get it and it's at the same rates that you're projected to get it now it's a nice little bonus you guys can go on three extra cruises a year. Yep and if it's not there then then you're fine as long as you assume you will have to care for yourself. But here's where I fall on Social Security and same place I fall on the Epstein list type both these things care whether or not before we go to the last topic, go for it.

I don't believe we will ever see the Epstein list because the people who would stand to lose something from that exchange would sooner burn the world to ash. Oh, absolutely. Then to be inconvenienced, not, not killed, not not killed not not exposed not exposed just to be inconvenienced for the briefest of moments those sons of bitches were rare turn the world to freaking ash they would rather turn the entire world into post-apocalyptic hell they'd rather nuclear war they would rather anything that doesn't inconvenience them for one millisecond you know what the perfect

sample of this is Phil just let me get it out. Let me go for it. Hold on to what you got. Hold on what you got bud. And I think that the people who are relying on Social Security, and by that I mean the people who that is their only source of retirement income, and the politicians who are writing that, they would sooner see the entire country just broken economically forever before they would ever admit that program doesn't work. So what you have here is you have a bunch of selfish bastards who would sooner turn

the entire country into a wasteland than admit that they screwed up. Agreed. Kyle said it earlier that the government never admits they made a mistake. Oh, absolutely. The government does not admit they made a mistake. They do not admit wrong because if they do, that's the end of their political career and God knows that their political career is way more than their paycheck. It's the parties they get into, the influence they wield, the money they're getting under the table, everything else they're getting under

the table, and apparently plane rides to islands with miners. Yeah. And not the kind of miners that work in mines. But anyway. Perfect example of this. Are you familiar with what they did for the climate change summit last year? Or was it the year before? Extol, man. They cut down several thousand acres of rainforest to make runways and highways just so that they didn't have to wait in traffic.

Doesn't that sound like the kind of thing a bunch of crunchy tree hugging bastards would would want done? Mm hmm. They're going to a climate. Thousands of acres of pristine old growth rainforest. And did any of them fly coach? Nope. No. Private jets all the way. Private jets all the way. One single trip in that private jet is more carbon footprint than I will generate in my entire life, even driving my V8 Ram 1500.

Yes. Some people will try to justify that. I just say that you're not being honest with yourself or with me, but anyway, last topic, three ball points in a row. The tax stamps are going to zero. Is this winning? First and foremost, the text of the bill says that this does not go into effect until the start of the first quarter, 90 days from the set there from the the signing of the bill. So from the day the bill is signed, which is a

couple of days ago, 90 days, and then the start of the first quarter. Well, guess when that is? Twenty twenty six. Yep. I was going to say it's got to be after Christmas. Yeah. So everybody was like, yeah, free tax stamps. Guess what? But you can either let it sit in an evade jail until next year or you can pay the frigging tax stamp because I probably would. Our principle. Why on earth would those fricking bastards give us our win early?

Mm hmm. Just just to stretch the pan out. Well, you know Here's the thing that I I think what this is is an attempt to placate the pro-gun Republicans, I don't think it worked Nick No, I don't think it did either because if you know what happened the day this got signed Well, that's the next bullet point Don't let me don't don't don't beat me to that. So I'm just gonna say, you know I tried to stay off social media because social media is based like digital brain cancer But every now and then I have to go to social media and I have to go to Instagram

To the right wing spaces on Instagram of which there are not many and then I go to reddit So I get the other side of the aisle and here's the funny part literally everybody is pissed off about these tax stamp dollar dollar amounts going to zero but they're still on a registry literally everybody left right and center that is even remotely pro gun is pissed off about this literally everybody in the world should I have to register it if there's no tax? Yes. Yes. I mean, you gotta give the Trump administration one thing. Between this and the Epstein thing, they have managed to piss off everybody. Every person I know is mad about it. And here's the thing about it. Uniting this country as freaking fractures we are, that is a hell of an accomplishment like hey You have to give that to Donald Trump and his he's attempting to unify the country by making people mad at him He's on a roll. I mean, I mean fucking up bud. I guess I mean that that's not even 4d chest at this point

That's like 8d or something. It's like 1d Maybe it's everybody pissed slide to the right. Maybe it's checkers. Everybody pissed? Slide to the right? Maybe it's checkers. I don't know, but it's definitely winning. But yeah, I mean, tech stamps go to zero. I don't call this a win. And I find that-

It could be eventually. Hold on. You stomped on me earlier about there's two more steps before we get to World War. Oh, I know. I had to stomp on you about where we could get eventually. But the truth of the matter is like this is not winning. And I find it very interesting that it's a slap in the face is what it is. But if you look, if you watch your favorite influencers right now

and watch where they fall on this, because the ones who are like, rah, rah, rah, Donald J. Trump,, I'm gonna give you side eye from now on because this is not winning. This is cuckoldry. This is an extra padded chair to sit in the corner while your wife has fun with somebody else. This is cuckoldry. Like we as a voting block sent this idiot to the White House

and sent his people to the White House and sent his men, his people to the White House, specifically to do certain things. And one of those things was we wanted gun rights restored in a meaningful way, and that did not include the pittance of, here's your free tax stamp. How about no freaking tax stamp? And I don't know. How about you refund every tax stamp you've ever required to be paid because it was unconstitutional from the start. With interest. I'm just saying this whole argument I keep hearing people about the Senate parliamentary

and blah blah blah and yeah, I'm just like, I don't give a shit. Fire the freaking idiot wench and get this done and like I don't expect a single as a single subject bill. Yes, the NFA is unconstitutional. We hereby rescind it done. Yeah, and quite frankly like I fully expect that the Democrats on both in both houses are going to scream bloody murder about that. Well, let them say on their freaking let them stand on their voting records. Well, let them stand on their voting records. Let them stand on their voting records. And as soon as that bill doesn't pass,

turn around and tell the American people, this is the names of all the people you need to primary. And if you wanna like, listen, to my left-wing friends out there, and I know I have like three of y'all, but just hear me out. I'm not suggesting you have to vote for Republicans because I know that's a bridge too far for some of y'all, and that's okay. I'm not mad. I'm not even disappointed,

but you can at least, at least get involved in your freaking primaries, and you can vote for people that aren't freaking morons about firearm, about gun rights. Yep. I know it's a really weird thing that I would say we don't need the wedge issue, but truthfully, like gun rights are universal rights. Men, women, black, brown, purple, polka dots. I don't give a **** Everybody has a right to be armed. Everybody has a right to defend themselves. I do not care. This should not be the bald headed bearded white guys

club. It should be everybody from 80 year old granny to you know 18 year old has a right to have a firearm to protect themselves and the discussion has to end at that point and I don't want to hear this nonsense about we don't trust that person or we don't trust them in that place because the people who you should be concerned about having guns already have guns in all those places they're not supposed to have guns. So the gun laws are not doing their stated their stated job What is happening is that you have people who don't want to spend their life in prison? Abiding by them and they're not able to defend themselves and that's not fair. That's not real You think I could get you to agree with Karl Marx?

You know a broken watch is try is right a day, so there's a possibility. But I'm pretty sure you're going to go to the whole working mansion, never be denied the ownership of arms. Under no circumstances should the workers of the world be debarred. The use of arms. Karl Marx. Broken watch is right twice a day. Hey man, I mean look, you cannot defend yourself without the technology to do so. Well, but to Karl Marx's point, you cannot overthrow the bourgeoisie without arms. Right, and you

cannot defend yourself from government tyranny without force of arms. And for those of you in internet land, take a moment and digest the fact that, yes, I can speak that language. I studied sociology in college, because, you know, sun, zoo, and know the ways of your enemy and all of this and the other. I read Marx just to disagree with people more vehemently.

Yes, I also read Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince because he was a genius. He was a sociopath. Oh my God, yes. Absolutely a sociopath but my god the results also I mean look I'm just saying I've read a lot of that literature yeah I can understand kind of where they were aiming sure I don't agree I don't agree with their positions or their ideas they they discount some of them heavily discount animalistic nature and evolutionary drivers. Yeah, you can't.

That's a whole nother podcast. Raggle, we don't we don't restart the show for Stewart. We're not going to restart the show for you, bud. No, but the cool thing is, it's on YouTube for literal ever unless they kill the stream, which they haven't so far. So today, so I haven't so far. So today, so I blame the old intro. You were going to say it earlier.

Gunners of America is giving me a gigantic man crush right now. Like I am I am on the verge of being truly aroused. Just watch what they're getting ready to cook off. Love FPC. I Have to admit I am usually an FPC guy just because you know Fuck, you know is just the most beautiful political statement human the only argument I require but GOA GOA they have some savages in their court and they want

They want blood over the friggin over the NFA and their position. I mean the argument being lodged is perfectly rational. I wish I had full faith that that will actually lead to something good. But their argument is the the NFA has been defended by the Supreme Court multiple times because it's a tax measure. It's revenue generating. So it's not, it gets neatly around that whole issue of how you can't enact a tax for regulatory purposes. Right. But if the tax amount is zero,

you can't defend it that way anymore. Like it's no longer regulatory generated. In fact, it's a net negative. Yeah, cause now you're having to call money to run the program and run the registry and to manage all that you have personnel that are staff to do it and system set up to do it, but they're not collecting any money. It's it makes the entire argument that has predicated the NFA for decades.

It makes it just ridiculous on the like facially ridiculous over it reveals it for what it's always been. like facially ridiculous over it reveals it for what it's always been. Yeah. But here's here's here's my worry. So I, I have to say I love what GOA is doing. You were you were all rockstars if any beer want to come on the podcast and talk about the work love that you have an open microphone any day any day don't care reach out to us. I don't care how you get ahold of me. But that being said, cynical Phil was back behind the microphone. Cynical Phil has heard absolute shenanigans perpetrated in courts of law that state things like even though,

you know, that like the interstate commerce clause is being used to regulate suppressors because they're sold across state lines. But then when a state says, okay, well, we're going to have these suppressors that don't cross state lines, the then when a state says, okay Well, we're gonna have these pressers that don't cross state lines that interstate commerce doesn't apply They suddenly frickin change the standard by which they operate and I have I have personally I Have watched to supposedly supposedly Pro Second Amendment opinions come out of SCOTUS One being Heller and the other one being

Bruin more recently. And both times I've seen cuckoldry perpetrated upon the gun-owning public by this body who takes a halfway measure to begrudgingly admit... If it was a halfway measure, they would have just said it was straight unconstitutional. Yeah. To admit a pittance, a pittance of a law straight unconstitutional. Yeah, to admit a pittance, a pittance of a law was unconstitutional. But at no point in time will these frigging nutless wonders and I'm applying that to the ladies too. You enjoy that. That's called equality. You bunch

of freaking idiots. Not everyone, but you nutless wonders will not take a freaking stand on the plain wording of the second amendment, which plainly says that the right to keep their arms shall not be infringed period in discussion in paragraph incense nothing else nothing in small print nothing in parentheses no nothing else there shall not be infringed discussion over you can't even admit that gun laws are unconstitutional on the face of them that the federal government or any government has no right to regulate the use of arms and the carry of arms by law-abiding citizens discussion over and until any one of you idiots is willing to stand on business and admit that I don't have any

faith in Supreme Court United States of America I have less than any I have less than no I have nothing for any hell I'll trust the CIA further than I trust them. At least their drugs are real. At least they're honest about the fact they're scumbags. But my point is that none of these frickin people will stand on business and admit what we can read for ourselves like a frickin I have a brilliant child. She's about to start the eighth grade. She wrote a to start the eighth grade.

She wrote a freaking paper three years ago talking about gun rights. I didn't coach her on it. She did her own research. She's going to be a terror in college, man. She's going to drive her professors crazy in the possible way. I hope I have prepared her to fuck their lives up. But my point of view is very simple. We can all read what the law says.

Unlike modern law that requires a law degree to unravel the Second Amendment, the original amendments to the US Constitution are fairly simple to understand. They were written in common speak so the common man could understand them. And they say what they say. And so anytime somebody wants to try to convince me or blow sunshine up my behind at Mach 6 about how the Second Amendment is not an unlimited right, it says so. So is the freedom of religion an unlimited right phil to say otherwise so is the freedom of speech and unlimited right

except when it's directing people to acts of violence directly in insinuating violence does it say otherwise in fact no it doesn't That's a rhetorical question. So that would mean that all of the rights in the Bill of Rights are not limited rights. Here's another question. Is there any amendment to the Bill of Rights that was intentionally drafted to restrain the rights of people? Nope. They were all written to restrain

government. Yes. So why would the Second Amendment be the one that is meant to specifically grant the government the right to keep and bear arms when most governments already have plenty of arms standing army and all this at the other? Because the government do be cucks. Yeah okay. Anyway, GOA is going for the juggler. Gunners of America wants blood on the back of these tax stamps going to zero. I am all here for it. I look forward to throwing them dollars and supporting their efforts. I wish, I really wish I could have a positive outlook on this. I lived to be proven wrong. I live to be proven wrong. I just wish I could have a positive outlook on this. I lived I lived to be proven wrong. I will be proven wrong.

I just I can't I can't emotionally get there. No, I agree. And the problem is, is exactly what's been pointed out in numerous of the podcasts, numerous of the YouTube videos. Look, if they did it with a continuing resolution bill to drop it to zero, they can up to twenty thousand dollars just as easily. Yeah. And at that point, that's the end of it. This is why I find multi-focus

bills or omnibus bills or continuing resolutions entirely unacceptable. I want a single topic in a single bill voted for or against by people that understand the full consequences of the thing they're voting on. Oh you're such an idealist. Oh I absolutely am. I would love to see a constitutional amendment that says no one bill one topic one vote. End of discussion. But Nick that would require that senators and congresspeople actually show up more than part time.

They would have to, they would have to be in DC and do their jobs. I have to show up to do my job. You have to show up to do yours. They can show up to do theirs. But you're not a Congress person or a Senator. I'm pretty sure that there's some legalese somewhere buried in the, in federal law that specifically says that they have special privileges and rights that we don't have. Like the ability to work part-time and make sit well into the

six figure range. Plus all the insider trading. Oh yes. I always forget about Nancy Pelosi beating the stock market at 50%. I am accusing all of Congress of insider trading. 110%. Sue me. So is this a rhetorical question about does compromise work? I'm going to be the first to say that, like me personally, I've

heard every argument about get what we can get, we go back for more later. And I understand the argument to that point that that is how anti-gun forces have gotten as much as they have is that the mouse gets a crummy, back for the rest of cookie later. I understand all that. Sure. But I'm also at a point where I don't I am tired of playing politics with these assholes. I am I am I am looking at I'm looking at the body public and The majority of people are not single-issue voters and that's that's whatever. I'm not mad at this point

I'm not mad. I'm not disappointed but interest balancing is understandable, but a majority of the populace is pro gun to some degree They may not be like rocket launchers in IEDs pro gun like I pro arms like I am they may not be like rocket launchers and IEDs pro-gun like I am, pro-arms like I am. They may not be like, you know, turn your toy into a technical pro-Second Amendment like I am. Not man, not disappointed. We're not all there. It's a spectrum, kind of like autism. Hey, everybody works on a budget.

Yeah, I'm way over here on the tisming side of autism and some of y'all are just at the ADHD part and that's fine. I will build stamping dies to roll out AK flats. Yes. But I have seen in the last 20 years, a sea change. I've seen not only the pro second amendment community expand dramatically, I've seen a lot more minorities. I've seen a lot of women join.

I've seen a lot of- Good. I've seen a lot of groups that traditionally do not join the second amendment movement like traditionally Democrat voters, dare I say it. But I volunteer as part of Operation Blazing Sword. Do you know what that is? I've heard of it. You'll have to remind me exactly what it is. So after the Pulse Nightclub shooting that got started to get LGBTQ plus AIP whatever you want to call yourself folks into the gun community you volunteer your ammo your firearms and your range time. You don't have to pony up a penny somebody that knows firearms and knows how to use them safely will teach you how to use firearms, including giving you the ammunition to do so. I will teach anyone in any safe location at any time to use firearms safely.

I do not care who you are, I do not care what you think, you deserve the right to defend yourself. Based as hell. Look, your question here, does compromise work? Compromise only works when you have two parties that are both coming to the table in good faith. Which the government is not coming to the table in good faith. Well, more than just the government, but like the other side of this issue does not come to this in good faith. Their idea of compromise is,

well, give us something we're asking for and then we'll come back for more later. And I just, you know, like, I'm sorry, but at the end of the day, I'm just at the point where I'm like, no, no more compromise. We, we, we as a community of compromise since 60 years before I was even born, compromised since 60 years before I was even born. And it has gotten us literally nowhere. And the only bright spot in my gun owning life was when the 1994 assault weapons bill sunsetted. And that was not because somebody had a change of heart. That was literally, I remember that in 2004.

Dude, that was a hard fought thing to let that sunset. There were people literally burning political capital as fast as they could shovel it into the fire trying to get that made permanent. Yes, they were. The screaming, the blood and murder, the, oh, it'll be anarchy in the streets. It was as histrionic as I've ever seen it in my life. And what happened? Nothing. The crime rate went down, which is what always happens because the crime

rates been on downward trend since the 1980s. Yeah, absolutely and that's I think there's a fairly good argument to to show that that's largely down to removing lead from gasoline and lead from paint. turns out when you stop poisoning people's brains they stop doing Really stupid shit So what does that say about the amount of microplastics that ability up in people's testicles now? Testicles are not your brain Phil I mean for males between the ages of 16 and 25 it kind of is all right let's let's let's be honest here their decision-making has not improved or or gotten worse in the last

200 years wait a second Nick Nick how old are you again 35 aren't you about the age group that brought us eating Tide Pods as a TikTok challenge? That is accurate, yes. So roll that statement back through me one more time. Do you know where the Tide Pod challenge thing came from? No I don't because I'm an adult. Alright Phil, I was already an adult when it happened. I'm gonna let you in on a little internet secret here that you probably didn't find out about because you were getting mortared. Have you heard of 4chan, Phil? Yes. All right. I love how you love to simultaneously

throw things out there like I wasn't around for them and at the same time say, but you were way too old to have been around for this. No, I'm just saying you were being mortared at the time when the Tide Pod Challenge thing got started. I mean, you do know that I was on the internet like 1998. Oh, yeah, no, I'm not saying that you didn't have the internet. I'm saying you're busy being a soldier at the time. Yeah, that might be fair. All right. So the Tide Pod thing is the came from the same people as the free bleeding feminist movement. It came from 4chan. Wait, is a joke. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Have you not heard of this? Wait, wait, wait, wait, what do you mean free bleeding? Okay, so Phil, you know how menstrual cycle, ladies take care of their pads, tampons, that sort of thing. You have a wife. Yes. So 4chan at one point decided that it'd be funny to convince people Much like the ice bath challenge that it was a challenge to eat a Tide pod They also decided to start spreading on feminist forums that using menstrual products is the patriarchy Repressing women and that they should just bleed into their pants Tide pods, free bleeding, flat earth. The huge growth in all three of these things

can be tied directly to 4chan. I've broken Phil. I have fulfilled my purpose. I suddenly feel the urge to pull all my 401k distributions out immediately and buy more ammunition and free fried food. Dogecoin all of it Phil, to the moon. It'll be fine. No, no, I, up till this, up till that exact moment I was still holding out some hope that

humanity was smart enough to survive what was coming. And Nick just like stamped that out like a boot heel on a tiny baby chick. It all started in 4chan. I mean, flat earth has been a thing for a long time, but 4chan decided a while ago, much like the Tide Pod challenge, that it would be funny to pretend that they believed in flat earth and spread it all over the internet as much as they could to try and convince stupid people that the earth was flat and they have much I say it is autism on steroids yeah no no radical-fragile I have to disagree with you because autism is fun and cheeky and sometimes inspires you know wondrous

wondrous outburst of you know, wondrous wondrous outburst of, you know, hilarity and havoc. It doesn't make people eat Tide Pods. Jen Z was eating Tide Pods. My wife corrected us. So that's fine. So it wasn't my generation. So you two are still Millennials. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, I was born in 1990. Where does where's the cut off for Millennials?

I was born in 82. So I'm like, it's like 82 to 93, something like that. I don't know. Let me actually look that up. I don't know. I'm just I'm thinking to myself because I was born 1982. My wife's born 84. So she is like 81 to 96.

Oh, so I they reached adulthood around the turn of the Millennium, which is bullshit because 96, you'd have been four. Well, not to mention like 81. I mean, your stats still social media generation that still grew up with the Internet. I mean, I don't remember a time where the Internet didn't exist. I don't.

I do. It was a pretty cool time. Yeah, I would imagine you're labeling to two computers together to play friggin doom over. Okay, to be fair, we still did that. It wasn't doom though it was halo or it was CS go. I am old enough to have played the original to have played mech warrior two on DOS which is by The best version and by the way, you're on DOS is fantastic. I emulate that now and then and I completed the oh What was it the wolves

Wasn't the Jade Falcons who's the other? their brain do stuff yeah i'm not i remember they were the protect i remember they were the warden faction anyway but um yeah the clan the clan wolf i completed their um their campaign i fell just a little short on jade falcon it was like the last the second to last mission I just couldn't get past for some reason but boy did I have some real fun with the whole customizing your mech whole thing because like absolutely I built I built some of those mechs that were literally just like so nowadays you would call them a mean mech. Oh, but like I do. I build stuff that was all the missile pods. Oh, yeah. For friggin LRM 20 batteries, no armor.

No, like I literally would take all the I put a whole bunch of extra jump jets on it. And take all of the armor off all and all the missile pods. Take all the armor off one leg and put all on the other one. Because, you know, if you lost both your legs, your Mac blew up, right? As long as you had one leg, it's you only need to chat around you were good. So I had like lots of jump jets, lots of heat sinks for LRM 20s. And I would use it like a close combat weapon. So it was just like, boost, boost,

boost until I was up in somebody's throat and fires and missiles, all four of those LRM 20s linked together on a button and I would literally just like boost in somebody's face dump 80 freaking missiles into their face and they just boost away that's fantastic oh dude it was this it was the it was the stupidest things that I would build but it never got old that and you know what happens when you put four GOS rifles on a button oops yeah you can you can blow a warhawks leg off in one hit and when you can do this with something like a medium mech like a mad dog it is hilarious nice problem is you only had about six shots before you ran out of ammo but you know just aim really well who they only have two legs well that you know either that or you

just wax my in the cockpit and be done with them there and for that for gauze rifles will do that oh yeah right to the cockpit absolutely yeah anyway we've gone completely off topic like we used to compromise doesnpromise doesn't work. Compromise doesn't. It can work, but you have to have good faith. In theory, well, okay. When you find some good faith anti-gun people, you let me know. I actually know one. I should get him on the show.

You should. He should be inebriated before he shows up. Oh, I will have him here drinking my whiskey at the time. He's good people. He means well, his heart's in the wrong place. PCG says you are not OG unless you've died of dysentery on the organ trail. Bro, they had that in my like elementary school classroom computer. Yeah. If you if you read so many books, you got a free Pizza Hut pizza. And if you read so many more, you got an hour to play Oregon Trail

during the middle of school. It was great. I ate so many pizzas. Yeah, I never managed to I've never managed to get across the river with my wheels cocked without the damn thing tipping over. Yeah, but I couldn't help myself, but try every single time. Raggle. I have not bought hell divers too. I have been on a Skyrim remastered kick lately or an elder scrolls remastered kick, I should say.

I haven't really been much in like hardcore gaming for very long time because, um, I started playing with satellite dishes and nerd stuff and that's kind of absorbed the majority of my free time. One of these days I will buy Helldivers but I keep forgetting and getting into different games. Like they re-released Oblivion again and oh that's that's right in the soul. I had to have it Yeah, I actually saw I actually saw something pop up the other day about emulating the original doom 2 And I thought about it for the just for the vibe and the hit and the nostalgia of it because like it's not complicated to do I know, but it's just I don't know It's one of those things where it's like I avoid time sucks because then I'll wind up

Time sucking to you can beat the game in like 14 hours. Yes, but you can't like close combat. You know, you can't be nice. But only the game in 14 hours. That's true. You still with me, Nick? Or OK, you wrote about it for a second. My bad. There's probably a storm going on upstairs right now. Yeah, it's about time for us to call it anyway. We have actually crushed all the topics. I did run out of whiskey.

I don't know if I'm having moonshine. I'm off work tomorrow, though, so I could have another one. And I asked my wife twice as much tonight. I'm sorry. Extra tomorrow. That sucks. I have to work on Saturday. I have to work on Saturday. Unlike congressmen, it matters if I do my job because you all can't buy random plastic shit if I don't make the mold.

So well, well, well, well, it it matters if Congress doesn't work. If they don't work, how will they ever have managed to lie to the American people and do insider trading? Yes and do insider trading. That's fair I'll allow it That's fair. All right matter of fact podcast going out the door. I have no earthly idea what we're gonna talk about next week I didn't know we were gonna talk about this week until the entire federal government decide to lose their Goddamn minds and that gave us plenty of things to speak about. So next week, I don't know if you have if you have things you'd like to put in the hopper, and you're a

patron, you know how to get in touch with us. And if you're not a patron, you should consider being one. But if not, you can just leave comments on this video or you can leave us comment on Instagram, the website, I would say the website, I would say Facebook, but I don't check into Facebook super often because it makes my head hurt and makes me feel old. Yeah. On the rare occasion that I go on Facebook, people upset me or I buy tools. Which upset your wife? Well, it depends on how much the tools cost. Yes, but the really fun ones cost a lot. Or fix the bathroom. If the tools help fix the

bathroom, she's probably happy about it. That sounds like man math. Yes. But it cuts into your night vision budget. The entire house cuts into my night vision budget. But buying tools, but buying expensive tools to do things cuts into the budget more have you tried paying a contractor lately i am the contractor nick buddy i like my bathroom budget would have to go up almost like seven times what i mean pay to pay some other guy to fuck it up to be fair the reason that i'm'm gonna be in the driveway working on my wife's Jeep this weekend and it's not going to a shop is because I work for free. Exactly. Yeah. If I don't see y'all next week it's because I died of heat exhaustion. Otherwise,

hopefully the Jeep will have some new shocks and struts underneath it. Liquid IVs and shade man. Yeah. Heat injuries are a choice. Shade. beautiful thing to look for in a driveway when it's 92. You know what? There will be shade in the wheel. We have a pop-up There will be shade in the wheel wells that'll work. There you go. That'll work All right matter of fact going out the door. Good night everybody stay out of trouble. Take care of each other Don't commit felonies and if you do don't get caught committing felonies and by all means if you do don't get caught committing felonies and by all means proceed to harass the hell out of all your local politicians from now until Kingdom comes about where is the goddamn list because we really would like to know Toodles. Bye y'all. Good night everybody So Thanks for watching!