Unsubscribe Podcast - 208 - Which History Era Is The Best? ft. Nick Freitas & The Fat Electrician | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 208

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

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California's gonna be a great place to move to after the war. You say something about my mom and I'll beat your ass on the steps of the Capitol. I look like the American Harry Potter right now. It's absurd. What's the worst that can happen? War, man. I'm like, war can happen. Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. Nick's getting me fired up on a Friday! Good!

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous and Brandon. His hair is fucking fabulous and don't I? A dog joke disposition and there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe.

Are we doing this? Yeah. Everyone ready? Somebody clapped. Yeah, I already clapped. Come on. We clapped. First rodeo dog. Come on. We crapped. That's a sack. First Romeo dog. 207.

Is this 207? No, no, you gotta put it back down. You didn't wait for the count. God damn it, Nick. This is why we can't have nice things. All right, all right. We're gonna hold it up. I'll pretend it. New one?

Oh, no, we can't pretend. You have to drink both, right? Here we go. Okay, on the count of three. Three, two, one. There we go okay on the count of three three two one there we go we did it mission accomplished now i've got to like shut up hi everyone welcome to the unsubscribed podcast i am joined today by eli double tap nick the fat electrician and other nick nick freitas and myself brandon don't know we've finally uh morphed into the same person i'm glad you're wearing a shirt for this yeah

listen here he wore his shirt you know it's like really this is how this is starting right out the gate up until now i was the only nick born in in Chico, California to be on the podcast. Really? Yeah. Were you really born in Chico? Yes. You're kidding me. I swear.

Oh, so was I. Yeah, yeah. That's nuts. It'd be weirder if you weren't. Wow. What are you talking about? What a cool, fun fact, Nick. I'm born in Texas.

Well, now I'm waiting for him to break into like a five-minute explanation of my life. Like, funny enough, Nick Freitas. Today we're talking about. What was it? Today we're going to talk about. Yeah. The fat politician. Did you live there for a while?

Yeah, I lived there for like the first five years of my life. When was that? I grew up in California for the first 12 years of my life. Chico, Orland, Orville, Redding. Yeah, yeah. Palermo. Yeah. All right.

So when was this? I don't know. 1994 to early 2000s. We were there the same time yeah wow you're just how old are you out of school 45 okay so i mean you're a little bit older than me you're driving a car i was driving a fucking battery-powered jeep by play school it's fine look at me my parents could afford a power my dad stole the neighbor's battery-powered jeep spray-painted it so he could say it wasn't theirs. Look at me. My parents could afford electricity. Never mind. Your dad.

Look, son! Strange that the neighbor's missing one. Guess what I got for Christmas one year? Somebody else's PS2. Guess what I got for Christmas one year? Somebody else's PS2. It's a good dad. For legal reasons, that was a joke. Statute of limitations.

Exactly. Your father's stealing hearts and property. This is true. Welcome back. You just flew in last night. You just got in today. Yeah, I just flew in this morning. This is the first week we haven't had to travel a whole bunch in a long time. Speak for yourself.

Oh, yeah, that's true. I've traveled more in the past six weeks than I think I have ever. It sucks. Yeah. It's all right. I think this is the first time we're going to have like two weeks staying in Texas. So fucking stoked for it. So looking forward to it.

I haven't had to get on a plane in like a week and a half. It's bad when the valet people know you. And not just you, your family. Everyone. They have memorized the last four of my phone numbers. Like, oh, hey, what's up? Fuck. So, Mr. Nick, you flew Hey, what's up? Fuck. So Mr.

Nick, you, you flew in from, I've learned from Virginia. Yeah. So I live in a cold pepper, Virginia, which is about 70 miles outside of DC.

So it's like close enough for the airport, but outside of blast radius, which is what I was going for. So perfect. Yeah. I said, they're kind of quasi hoping, but you get front seat tickets?

Yeah, like, oh no, that's horrible. And all of our country's problems are solved. Wait, honey, give me five more minutes. I want to see this. Don't ruin it. Just do the talk, baby. Getting in a hazmat suit. What are you doing, honey?

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. It's not guarded right now. It's still the only things things worth saving i played fallout 3 i know how this goes that is you uh joined you i don't know your childhood at all because there's not much about it i know i was like oh this guy really knows i was a little creeped out by that yeah i made it four inches down the wik page. You were also born in low hospital. I was more surprised. You did the Special Forces route.

From the reading of it, it sounded like you actually got selected out of basic trading. No. You are like the 1% that I've ever known. That's exactly what happened. My drill sergeant just looked at me and said, you son are a warrior yeah like no that's not at all right you did an 18 x-ray

contract and made it all the way there was actually a lot of people making it through 18 x-ray at the height of the war because even though one of our principles is you can't mass produce soft apparently they wanted to test that during the height of the war period but no no i was um i went to infantry basic training then airborne then war period but no no i was um i went to infantry basic training then airborne then 82nd airborne division um i was actually going to get out at the 82nd because it was peacetime army um and then that was 90 well 2000 2001 is when i re-enlisted so it was the crazy part was i looked at my wife and uh i, I had reenlisted. I was in the 82nd airborne second, the three, two, five. I had, um, I just graduated ranger school and I came back and I said, all right, it's

time to reenlist, but I'm going to go over to first battalion because they were going to Kosovo. And that was the closest thing to a war going on. And so, um, I got it all approved because, you know, when your first enlistment, they let you go kind of anywhere. And then my Sergeant major brings me and he he goes you're not going one battalion over like sorry major what are you talking about he's like we've sent you to all these schools and stuff like that we're not going you're not going one battalion i don't care what you do but you're

not going one battalion over so i was pissed i came home and uh told my wife tina i was like babe i'm getting out like screw this she was what are we gonna do i said i'm gonna my dad was lapd i'm like i'm gonna go LAPD. And she goes, baby, we haven't saved up any money. We, this wasn't part of the plan. Why don't we do one more enlistment? Cause they'll let you go wherever you want. I said, okay, you want to go to Italy or Hawaii?

She goes, Hawaii. Get to Hawaii four months later, 9-11. What's the worst that can happen? I know what I'm doing for the next 10 years. And that's when I, so I volunteered for uh sf out of the 25th and um yeah with the first group 25th is uh for anyone that doesn't know it's a lot of road marching that was like my biggest figure was getting attached to anything like that because it's like hawaii beautiful beaches road marching yeah and road marching and this is not like how far would you road march a week?

Probably. I mean, no, I mean the nice thing about, like you said, it was beautiful, but the nice thing about Hawaii was coming from the 82nd where they did stupid stuff just to do stupid stuff.

You go to Hawaii and you'd have commanders out there like, all right, we're going to a four day field problem, but we just got the wave report back. So I think we've accomplished everything we need to. And you'd come in and have a four-day weekend like it was a different world oh that's pretty cool yeah yeah good peace time yeah yeah yeah and then you got just spun up and then did you do employment with them or did you just go not with 25th no i went over to uh so i went through the q course uh became an 18 bravo which is a weapons sergeant, and then did two tours in Iraq, one in 06 and one in 08.

So you were in Hawaii for four months, and then you had to go to – oh, a little bit longer? So, yeah, well, 9-11 happened, and I hung out for a little while, and then I decided I wanted to go to the Q course because that had to be a conversation with my wife as well because she was like, oh, three years in Hawaii. I'm like, or a year. That's also – and then we get to go back to your favorite place in the world, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Oh, yeah. Wow. I mean you were born and raised there, right? Yeah.

I grew up on Fort Bragg or at least on the periphery of it because military families and shit like that. So my joke is that my parents were army brats who never had the sense to leave Fort Bragg. Yeah. Not necessarily the greatest place on the planet. No. No. So my joke is that my parents were army brats who never had the sense to leave Fort Bragg. Not necessarily the greatest place on the planet. No. Well, when I was going through the Q course, we bought our first house. And my wife took my daughter and went home while I was going through like phase two or something. And somebody broke into my house, lived there for three days, used my car to fence all of my stuff.

And then I had to leave like for a day of the Q course. And they were like, you get one day and I had to go back, like fix it all. I mean, thank God she wasn't home when it happened, but of course she would have probably shot him. Go save us a lot of trouble, babe.

Thanks a lot. But anyway, someone broke into your house and fenced. Wait. So they, they use not Mexican fencing. Senior, we have to practice getting over it.

Come on. He had to go scale the fence to his own property. I was so confused. I was like, gosh damn landscapers. Fencing is the video game term for selling. Feeds and selling. You can only think in Mexican construction terms. Like, hey, Eli, you want to go mudding? He shows up with sheetrock.

Babe, we got to get these guys out of here. Hold on, hold on. Dude, that's an entire series for Shores. Absolutely. Me, you, and Cody. Let's go mudding. Where's the hole in the wall? Okay, sorry. Now I'm tracking the story a bit better yeah so then um yeah i went to end up going first group yeah i always joke that i've seen my wife cry four times

we have three kids and the fourth time was when i told her i was gonna have to go back to fort bragg it's not a yeah no there's a reason i left yeah i got yeah you stayed there for a while didn't you yeah it just made sense i just really the the straw, because I've got a bunch of family that, you know, are still there because, you know, like my grandparents, they never left after the military or anything. So, yeah, like all the way back to before it was Texas or before it was the United States. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm going to go to Texas because COVID was just a nightmare with the governor there. Roy Cooper. Yeah. Piece of shit.

Thank you. Iowa was awesome. We didn't do shit. We didn't do a thing. Yeah. They were like 14 days. We're like, fine. That was it. Nothing else happened the entire time

north carolina was a red state at the time still but they had a blue governor so they had like republicans controlled both houses but you had uh roy cooper because uh pat mccrory got ousted i'm partially scared but partially looking forward to the day where I have grandkids and they get the assignment at school where they have to go home and interview their grandparents about living through the fucking great pandemic. And like my, my grandchild, how many dead bodies did you have to step over on your way to work?

Grandpa? Like literally none. It's crazy. In the States that stayed open open you didn't really notice anything different they all stayed open they just except their economies Hank yeah yeah dude Jake when Jake moved from California to here during that so we went from LA to Spring Branch which Spring Branch is time there's a Walmart and uh like a Thai restaurant and Home Depot that's it out in the middle of the country I had to drive 15 minutes to there and go back not much change you

didn't have everyone wasn't rushing for baby wipes toilet paper water it was all there Jake movies like two people just not wearing masks here I was like what no why would we did not know what was going on coming from LA to that world. And then LA just, was it 90% of small businesses closed? They still do. We have to go to LA for once every blue moon, unfortunately. And there's still, I'd probably say 5% of people still mask everywhere. Yep.

Crazy. I think it's just an excuse for ugly people now. California's going to be a great place to move to after the war. Once we can go in and just secure property again. an excuse for ugly people now. California is going to be a great place to move to after the war. Once we can go in and just secure property again. I want to colonize California. That's what it really needs. That's what it needs. It needs some colonization.

I made a joke, and this was actually used by my campaign opponent. They took this out of context because I had said California is probably my favorite state in the country. If everyone who lived there didn't. And they just took that. California is my favorite state in the country.

Click, click. Yeah. They're really good at that. Three seconds sound. Oh yeah. I'm sure you're familiar. Oh yeah.

Yeah. I've had some real good times. Yeah. With selective editing of, of political statements. Oh God. I want to know like, what is your two worst ones on that?

Because we didn't know. You always hear the level of, oh, legacy media or, hey, they edit shit. When you see it firsthand or when you watch your buddy experience it firsthand, from jokes to whatever, and watch how hard they push that to just the general audience, it's mind-blowing. Well, the first time they did it to me was actually on a Second Amendment issue. Really? Oh, yeah. So right after – this was in 2018. So it was Parkland?

Yeah. So Parkland takes place, and I'm on the gun subcommittee in the General Assembly, and this is when the Republicans were in charge of the House. And we just killed – I mean, we had all the pro-gun guys on the subcommittee. So we just – we listened. We were polite. Wegun guys on the subcommittee so we just you know we listen we're polite we listen to testimony the whole deal but we were there to you know protect your gun rights and so um i'm listening to just democrat after democrat get up and if you don't want to do one gun you know one gun a month then you're supporting terrorists because they're

trafficking guns and you don't care if kids get shot and i mean just over and over and over again i just got pissed. And so I got up and I went on like the, this is probably the first thing I ever did that went viral on social media, like super viral. And just did a seven minute diatribe because I was furious. And, um, I, and I, I take special pride in this speech because I thought I gave a pretty good

defense of the second amendment, but then I also caused three of my Democrat colleagues to leave the floor in tears and the entire the entire democrat caucus requested a 15 minute recess to gather their composure and i didn't even realize it was in response to me like we all go down into our respective bullpens right and the speaker comes in he goes so they're pretty mad i'm like about what about what you said i'm like what the hell did i say that was so bad they've spent the last two weeks calling us terrorists and every other damn thing. And all I said was, you know, this is why we have the second. Okay. I might've also said that I wanted to remind my colleagues on the other side

of the aisle that they were the party of slavery and fought against women's suffrage and put a bunch of Japanese people in internment camps and Jim Crow, not us. Um, that, that part made him mad. Um, wasn't true. It wasn't false't false though i really don't like facts yeah no no and so um so the press gets up and one of the things i talked about is he said if you want to talk about crime then why don't we talk about like fatherness or fatherlessness why don't we talk why don't we go look at the uh prisons right now and see how many people in there how many young men are in there they don't have dads in their life. And so I went through this whole thing and this reporter comes up to me on the floor

and I still had no idea that I just set up a, like set off a bomb. And he goes, did you just claim that abortion causes mass shootings? And I looked, I'm like, how the hell did you come to that conclusion? I said, no, that's not what I said. This is what I was talking about. This is, and all of a sudden the headline is delegate freighter suggests that abortion leads to mass shootings like okay and and the mental gymnastics oh my gosh and and so i look this i'm like well i guess i'm gonna have to you can't defend it i'm gonna have to publish the the speech yeah on facebook um and

and just so people know exactly what i said and And the next thing I know, like that ended up getting like 70, 80 million views. And all of a sudden I learned two things right off the bat. It was one, the press will always screw you. And two, you don't need them. Like the power of social media is, like new media is huge right now. And I still fight this battle

with other members of the Republican caucus. We're like, well, we need to have a press conference. I'm like, oh, why? So the Washington Post can quote you out of context and make you look like an ass clown. Yeah. I said, we can just go to Instagram right now, give them our message, and it'll be seen by more people in 48 hours that that Washington Post article will be seen in its entire existence. A hundred percent. It's like the – have you ever seen the movie Almost Famous?

Yes. Yeah. The enemy. They treat that little kid that as soon as they know he's like the, do you ever seen the movie almost famous? Yes. Yeah. The enemy. They, they treat that little kid that as soon as they know he's a journalist, journalist, they're like, Oh,

Hey, it's the enemy. How's it going? Enemy. No, but it's, it's true. It's true.

Like the, the, the odds of you being quoted correctly in context are like absolute like nil. And so, yeah, I was, it was a,

it was a big lesson for me though, that it's like look social media is a powerful tool to be able to talk directly to people on what you mean why you mean it and what's crazy is that i probably have like compared to my colleagues at this point thousands of hours of like me saying exactly what i think and so it's almost like they don't even bother trying to clip it now because there's just so much brandon you look like a man that loves the stonks i'm something of a stonking test myself eli what do you use to track your stonks muumuu bless you but what is muumuu.com it's an internet technology brokerage with a strategic partnership with nasdaq ah yes i've heard of Nasdaq haha stonks I didn't

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hear people in their own words and make up your own decision. You don't need fucking legacy media anymore. No. Viewership's dead anyways. It's dropping 18 to 22% every year. And then we looked at it the other day. It was your ESPNs during prime time, because we were looking at that one dude, how much he was making a year. McAfee.

McAfee. Yeah. Pat McAfee. Yeah. Pat McAfee. His viewership, you see, it's like,

Oh, he gets about 300 000 peak 300 000 views and then everything else is after that and he is the number one but he's getting paid like was it 18 or 20 million for per year it's nuts just to do it to a lower audience yeah and espn is probably one of the last things we will see legacy media actually still talking about because they have the rights to nfl ufc there's a reason people watch it yeah exactly everything else is and it's not really for the commentary yeah i watch msnbc for you know it's it's that unfettered access to real people

in real time without you know getting it spun and if you do even if you do well even just allegorically i mean look at our parents they're starting to watch youtube more than tv and things like that they're we're aging up the internet generation yeah finally yeah the youtubes like i i want to see your numbers compared to primetime history right now primetime history has to be i I beat him. Oh yeah. There's no question. By what X? Cause that has to be. I've checked. It's by a lot.

Abysmal. I think the, I think the whole, well, I think the whole reason I'm here is I contacted you on Instagram and I, I sent him a message. I said, dude,

if we could get just a couple of yours with like a few less F bombs, I would use it for my homeschool curriculum. Do you have another channel for that? Right? Uh, I didn't keep doing it the problem i ran into was with uh the youtube algorithm nobody could find it because the youtube algorithm i had my editor go through and just censor a couple videos and the youtube

algorithm just kind of interprets it as like copyright infringement so you can't even find it if you're trying to can you approve it manually through the copyright i tried to see is it a whole separate channel it's a whole separate channel you make it manually through the copyright? You can't. I tried to see if I could find it. Is it a whole separate channel? It's a whole separate channel. Could you make it a separate playlist? Maybe on the main channel. What if you did an unlisted playlist on your main channel? For teachers. That could be good.

I'm just telling you right now. The first video I ever saw of yours was talking about the naval strikes against Iran. I can't wait for teachers to be like they pull up the not unlisted ones for class though so this mother my favorite thing over all the homeschool co-op yeah all the people that get mad are like this is just american propaganda i go yes but did I lie about any of it? Well, no.

Well, fucking sorry. We're actually better. Well, the schools are giving the kids communist propaganda. I don't see why they shouldn't get American. This is true. I love communism.

Let me. Did you say Nick's shoes? I didn't AMA. Oh my God. I didn't. i did the uh i did the cody i did the ask me anything on the flight on twitter and somebody asks if you had if you could be sitting in a room with a gun with three bullets with marx mao stalin hitler and hirahito who are you shooting marks Marks three times. Because that solves so many of the other problems. Exactly. It solves everything except for Hirohito.

It solves all the other ones. The other ones just wouldn't exist. And even he's not going to do anything on his own. Hirohito was the one that decided to surrender. So, I mean... Oh, yeah. That was one of our primary reasons for homeschooling is i wanted my kids to have a healthy disdain for carl marx and mission accomplished nice they love jesus and

hate marx like yes that's parenting w that's my favorite you know if jesus was alive he'd be a communist really really show me show me in the bible where jesus was like you know what the romans should steal all your money and give it out how they see fit. Counterpoint, he did go hungry for 40 days. Testing it out. Just after 40 days, decided communism wasn't for him. No, no, that wasn't

even communism because he did it voluntarily and only to himself. That's true. Yeah. Oh oh i love it already you like the the american dad like that he's looking at the meter or whatever like blasphemy is getting close let's change topics with homeschooling uh what are you big history buff math yeah what's your thing oh no not math. I hate math. It's like history. With a fiery passion. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, yeah. Math or excuse me, history, theology, philosophy.

Like I like that stuff. And again, it's a lot of it's more like the practical component. But no, that math was the thing that my wife and I both like subbed out to like the co-op. It was as soon as one. And here was the other thing, too. Like I remember my oldest daughter. She's like sophomore year of high school and she's doing algebra too. And she is hating life. And I totally get this because I hated algebra too.

It's freaking stop putting letters in my freaking math. I hated it. You're going to need it one day. No, no, no. She's sitting in there. She's just so stressed out.

I finally looked at her. I'm like, sweetheart, what do you want to do? And she starts listening off. Well, you know, dad,

I'm thinking about these various things. I'm like, you know what? None of those require algebra too Well, you know, dad, I'm thinking about these various things. I'm like, you know what? None of those require algebra too. So you know what? This is done now. And you're a sophomore in high school. We're going to now direct your curriculum toward the things you want to do.

And we always told our kids like right off the bat, a couple of things was one. I don't owe you a college education. You want to go to college. You get a good opportunity. I'm not saying I won't help, but I don't owe you that. And you're not going to have that attitude. Okay. And there's two things. Dreams are won't help, but I don't owe you that. And you're not going to have that attitude. And there's two things.

Dreams are a wonderful thing, but they don't feed you. I said, so you got to do one of two things. You either got to find a dream that feeds you, or you got to find a career that allows you to pursue your dream. But your dreams are yours. They're nobody else's. They're not the government's responsibility. They're not my responsibility. And that's society's responsibility.

They're yours. What if I bitch about it on social media? Like a lot. Then will the government do it for me? Is that apparently there's some, yeah. But, um,

you know, so they, they had that, they had that mindset and, um, and, and it was great because you could just adjust curriculum on the fly. You could do things.

And yeah, I mean, so my last two years of high school, I was homeschooled. Yeah. Uh, so for those who don't know, would you like to explain what a homeschool co-op is? Oh, sure. So that's probably something not a lot of

people had no idea. Oh, okay. So homeschool co-op is, is generally what happens is you get a bunch of parents together and they, they realize that, okay, Hey, like, so for instance, the, the kids at our homeschool co-op for a while, they got taught civics by me cause I was a legislator. So I'm the one going in there and teaching about like american government and civics and how it actually works and they were not getting the schoolhouse rock version because the real version is like i'm just a bill on capitol hill but i pissed off someone on appropriations and so now i'm going to get sent to a subcommittee where i'm going to die right like they got the real version of it um but that's what i'm like teacher what yeah oh no it was

they they loved it because – The schoolhouse rock version is the way it's theoretically supposed to work. That's how it's supposed to work. It's great. But that's what it was is you had different parents with different like either educational backgrounds or life experience. And they would come in and they would just – they would teach stuff they were passionate about. Today we are teaching math, okay? Everyone get out here.

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America. USA number one. USA number one, okay. That was my argument on the space landing video I did. Somebody's like, I don't know why you're bragging that America put a man on the moon. You guys used Nazis to do it. I'm like, yeah, but so did the USSR. So, fuck, penalties offset.

First down. Learn how to pick the better Nazis. guys used nazis to do it i'm like yeah but so did the ussr so fuck penalties offset first down learn how to pick the better nazis sorry you picked the wrong their brains work better when you could feed them yeah so anyways kid parents will sign up and you say okay i want this class i want that class like ours it was one day a week and they would come in. It was $25 like per month for your kid to come in. And I taught economics. I taught civics and I taught like Christian apologetics. And so you come in, that's what we did. And then the rest of the week, you know, they're with their parents. So that's like one model of a co-op. Some do two days a week,

whatever. But that's the nice part is it's free market. Like I would tell the parents, I'm like, look, this, in fact, when I was teaching him apologetics, which was largely debate, I said, I'm going to tell you right now, there's going to be days where your kids might come home in tears because we're going to, I'm going to play the antagonist and they're going to have to defend what

they believe. And they're going to have to do. You didn't have to hit them. Well, you know what? Look, you know, how hard is it to make a correct sandwich?

Anyway, the point is, the point is, so they would get in and debate but here's the funny part is because it's it's not a government school model parents are coming in i'm like look you don't got to take my class but this is how i teach it this is the curriculum this is what i do and parents would be like can we watch like it wasn't they weren't like oh my poor baby they were like can we watch you i'm gonna make your kid cry can i watch but that's good parenting yeah yeah but the great part about it was is that

i mean and we had a again the students loved it because it was it it wasn't no participation trophies right you show up with a good argument you win you show up with a bad argument i make you feel bad about yourself. And then I teach you how to make a better argument so you can feel good about yourself. Because winning is great and losing sucks. You learn from losing. You do. And it's not like we were being cruel. It sucks. Yeah. We weren't being cruel, but that was the sort of thing. So a parent would sign up, they'd'd pay their tuition and you'd teach and they'd go home and they'd help you know but that's what it was it was great so i didn't have to like

i didn't have to worry about parents coming in like well you know mr fredis i'm really concerned about well i told you what this was right if you don't like it you know your kid doesn't have to be here and but i never had a problem as an example when i was a senior uh in and one of the co-ops i was going to uh physics was taught by an artillery guy yeah holy crap and he like straight up with like he knew i was into guns and shit let's say guys we don't like right here and i want to put white phosphorus behind them and then march gunfire towards them i'm dead fucking serious it was not that intense but it was basically like all right let's say your drop is x meters per blah blah at this distance what are you you know how are you

going to do ballistic calculations if you can't do this how did you end up designing guns for a living i wonder i was building them in my garage before that but it just happened to coincide let's say you're a sod you've got a lot of Muslim Brotherhood and Hama. Let's just say. Theoretically. Oh, no. But that's true. You can adjust your curriculum based off of your students' interests and what works. It's awesome. You can teach your kids financial literacy, which is the biggest misstep that public schooling doesn't do. Yeah, that's my design.

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I said, look, do you like state-run media? Do you think we should have state-run media? No, of course not. I'm like, okay, now do the same for education. You don't like state-run media because it's the government controlling the flow of information to its citizenry and not being able to hold it accountable. What do you think happens with government-run education? Yes. So –

I mean we talked – I think we were talking about that last week, two weeks ago. It was, hey, no student left behind. Hey – and they just started incorporating all those things. Yeah. And then whatever the – you have to learn. The Department of Education thing where it's like, oh, yeah, cool. I don't know. Everything,

anything government's just the black thumb of industry. It's like anything it touches just turns to shit. Yeah. I like the idea of being able to learn what you're, you want or your passion at that age. Cause that sets you up for success. I know you were art. Any entertainment was a big no,

no, probably your generation. i'm not sure was it more hit or miss for you like i love it that i'm not getting your generation you hey you want to do like film you want to do video games or play video games for a living like that was like oh no still yeah it was still was one of those like oh well you you need to learn uh video arts and this this you don't need to YouTube, which understandably at the time, YouTube made $0. So like,

but yeah, they, I'm sure they still continue to teach that probably not so much nowadays because it's like an accepted thing. But back in, you know, back when I was in school, that was not a thing.

It was encouraged. Yeah. I remember still taking like typing. I remember playing Oregon trail when it first came out of the old apples yeah dude dysentery yeah every time man did anybody see the river every time your family's gone yeah i mean no but i have all this bacon still oh man got it fucking good so you got into nix because history buff what segments of history are your favorite like oh

so it started off that i i came across the ken burns uh civil war documentary when i was like 11 and just became obsessed dude like i like um oh i did the reenacting like i was like 11 and just became obsessed, dude. Like, oh, I did the reenacting. Like, I was like, this is awesome. I'm going to go play with black powder and bayonets. So it was. I did it for Civil War, World War I, all sorts of stuff. I grew up in major history. Oh, God.

It's so much fun, man. It is absolute blast. And then going out to moving from Cal. I don't know if you know this. California, not a lot of Civil War history, turns turns out but virginia like you can't walk five feet without running into another historical marker like i i have the district that has the largest cavalry battle in the western hemisphere brandy station and so like i just yeah so that was the that was the entry point and then um it went into americanary War history. Then the old World at War documentary series was just awesome.

And then got into more of the ancient history as well. So like Roman history, Alexander, Persia. I still haven't crested that yet. My tism has its periphery there. And I'm like, that's still like I know enough, but I haven but I haven't done the full deep dive. I love Roman history because I'm a dude, but now I'm starting to move into

Holy Roman Empire and the whole deal. I love it all. What was your first video you watched of his where you're like, okay, this dude's proportional. Proportional. Proportional means something else in American vernacular.

Well, I got a proportion for you. He didn't say proportional to what? That's literally a meat. That video got so big, it's outrageous. It's all just like the Yemen Houthi shit and the amount of people that just comment things are about to

get proportional constantly. Do you have a shirt that says that? I did for a while. I sold it for a couple months. Yeah, no, it's no, that, that was great. And then, uh, well, and then again, you got me interested in history. I never would've thought I was interested in like the history of Waffle House. Like I just thought it was, I just thought it was the most delicious breakfast to two o'clock in the morning in Fort Bragg. Colluding with FEMA. Yeah. So a good buddy of mine is like number three at FEMA.

And I saw the video. I'm like, hey, Cameron. He's like, dude. Dude. They know they're still here. Yeah, he's a former SEAL. And he's kind of running the place now. And like, great dude.

So your video has made it to the upper echelons of FEMA. Nick's going to disappear. Yeah. place now and like great dude so your video has made it to the upper echelons of fema nick's gonna disappear yeah yeah after that coca-cola video i might have issues i'm waiting for that they're gonna send a polar bear after you confederate cocaine water this is true you know yeah by the way speaking of cocaine um i've been enjoying one of these echelons i don't realize that the active ingredient was meth. I mean, it's bad. I like when you pick it up and you're like, I've been. Yeah. It's not like he's shaking. I was feeling a little down and I thought I might want to rob a bank.

It's basically the same thing. It's 300 milligrams of caffeine. Oh, yeah. Well, I told him. I was like, fair warning. This is spicy and it's banned in Canada. Yeah. He's like, what?

Yes. That's the best marketing pitch that nobody talks about with Echelon. I didn't know that until last night. It's the best marketing pitch on the planet. Echelon's banned in Canada. Is it? Yes. You know what's also banned in Canada? Freedom. That's why I drink it. It's too cool for Canada.

It's a great ad. Is it the pepper spray stuff? No, there's too much caffeine per ounce in Echelon. So it's banned great ad i know pepper spray stuff or what no it's there's too much caffeine in per ounce in echelon so it's banned in canada because we were trying to so because it's on every military every u.s military base in the world sells echelon and the canadian military was trying to import it yeah and we were trying to get it like through the actual official channels and they're like you can't import this in canada it's illegal here but in all fairness though given the canadians history with war crimes that might be a i don't need them committing war crimes even faster than they

i mean but they're always on our side so i mean yeah you know what i mean like just give them some uh some preventing here drink an echelon you can throw that can of food a little bit further into the next trench will you hand me the experimental echelons here's a soccer ball right here is this gonna make my skin burn no this is no these are i was wondering if this was moonshine hand me the experimental echelon b b b b b is my favorite i had a buddy of mine, Jason Ballard. He actually represents the area with Virginia Tech. But he was trying to make it. We have really, really strict ABC alcohol laws. What are we doing?

Yeah. Because you guys don't have the private liquor stores. No. It's all government rights. No, it sucks. I carried a bill once to get rid of ABC. That didn't go very far. You just wanted to start off at D or what?

Jason Ballard actually shows up to a subcommittee meeting with Moonshine for a bill that was making it legal to make so much of your own Moonshine for your own consumption. Based. And I think he's a lieutenant colonel in the guard, but I was like, that was the best subcommittee testimony I've ever seen. Now, virginia one of those states where it is legal to have a still but not to produce moonshine or like it was just possession of a still as a crime i don't oh i don't think so i don't think possession of a still is a crime i think it was in north carolina okay i wasn't sure about virginia we have a uh we have a distillery in cold pepper virginia where um and one of the things Culpeper is we have the first Gadsden flag. Yeah.

The liberty or death Gadsden flag. Yeah. So we have a distillery there called Belmont. And you go in there and great people. I remember talking to them like, hey, man, how long have you been moonshining? He goes, legally for 25 years now. They still have a prohibition era copper still at belmont distillery in cold pepper virginia that's fucking rad i know uh i used to uh

in my in my travels as a young man uh there was a uh i used to go to daxton virginia or and like just that whole area up in the mountains like like the Roanoke area and whatnot. I was seeing a girl there at the time. And I didn't realize that one of those counties, I don't remember if it was Bedford County, Thaxton, something like that. Franklin's another one. It might've been Franklin. One of those is like the, uh, the wettest County in the world,

in the country or whatever. Cause all the moonshine stills. Yeah. Do you remember watching the movie? Do you ever see the movie lawless? I think that's yeah. That was Franklin County, Franklin County, Virginia. the moonshine stills yeah do you remember watching the movie do you ever see the movie lawless i think that's yeah that was franklin county uh franklin county virginia in fact my uh my seat mate in the general assembly represents franklin no shit and so we we did this thing for a while called the hall crawl so when we had crossover which was when all the house bills got to go to

the senate senate bills go to the house um i started doing this thing where it was okay each office had to bring a drink like that was representative of their district and an and a like a appetizer and so i did smoked old fashions with bacon and i brought in a grill like i made bacon in the general assembly building nice and he brought in moonshine i was like oh yeah that's franklin baby that is franklin so he had an assortment of moonshine and uh by the way, none of this actually happened. This is theoretically. It'd be funny if he did.

I love this comedy bit. I just announced I'm not running for re-election, so I can give you all the dirt now. Yeah. And it came in like a Mason jar with like masking tape on it. It was all legal. It was all legal and perfectly. Number 73. Yeah. You know, it's good.

That's the B. Yeah. Pretty decent. That's B. What is the flavor? Berry. Berry? It's like sour berry.

I want to go off of flavors because they have changed. Like what we said with the one which is just now apple. Give me the Yuzu. I'm drinking all of it. That one I liked. Is that like licorice? Huh? Is that like licorice?

No, it's like a Japanese fruit. It's like a Japanese apple. I was thinking of yuzu. We're tasting a bunch of energy drinks right now. We're all going to be wired off shit. No, it's fine. I've already had coffee and a full ocean wine. That one I bet he'll. That one fucks.

That one's a crazy idea. Making a mass appeal to everyone. This actually gives you ADHD. Did you have it before? You do now. Is that water? That's water. This is water.

I grabbed a water bottle instead of the right one. Wait a minute. Are any of you old enough to remember a time before bottled water? No. I remember when there was... I remember when they... It was a crazy concept when it first came out.

I remember when I first saw bottled water coming out. What idiot is going to buy bottled water? All of us. It comes from the sky. It's from a spring in Switzerland. i mean switzerland oregon but i mean so is it like a 30 billion or 52 billion dollar marketplace in 2023 it was like a ridiculous number bottled water is well yeah because nestle took it and they're like i could sell the shit out of that yeah now it's fiji now it's this how good is capitalism we can sell you bottled water

you oh not a fan of that one anymore. That and, you know, as soon as they realized that. Yeah. As soon as they realized that California would subsidize their water. Yeah. See, I like that face. What's the notes? Tell me what you would change on that.

What are the notes? This is not like I'm not. I don't. Notes of I don't like it. No, you're not. Okay. I don't like it I was just gonna say I changed the entire that's great this is the winery I'm getting notes of this aged this size wow did you guys ever watch uh parks and rec yeah yeah where uh aubrey plaza's

character is yeah like signing up to be a sommelier and she's like oh i had oats you know notes of like you know raven's foot and making words that's me at the winery. He's like, I don't know. By the way, 8.6 ejects out of a gun very fast. Yes, it does. That's what the cut in my head is. It's the perfect ass-end crescent of an 8.6 round. We both have 8.6 scars. I was standing behind Pewview filming yesterday, and I was standing over his right shoulder.

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Dude, that's like four. Zipped right through. No. Like big. Eli, we took a four-inch thick piece of hard barn wood, stuck it on the table, stuck three feet of ballistics gel behind it it went through the barn wood through the ballistics gel the trajectory in the gel didn't change like a fucking laser beam went 40 yards down range hit the steel target and sounded like a fucking car wreck through the cameraman it was crazy yeah cameraman's fine because i'll leave out alec baldwin wasn't on set okay maybe do that i'm like i might have to reevaluate this bedside you know how many

gummy bears it took to stop it five do you that would probably stop it yeah we only had four when it almost slowed down you're kidding no so we uh big gummy bears not like five pound edible gummy bears okay we were we were dicking around we just bought i want a photo like these are the little ones i'm like why are we buying all this heavy ceramic crap what the fuck yeah just running out with like a thin sheet of gum can you imagine how terrifying that would be you kicking a door flashbang the room you shut up there's some guy covered in gummy bears shooting you we were joking before like you're you're rocking for three days and you're just like chewing your body armor yeah or your body i'm gonna go i ate it

uh no so five pound gummy bears really we were dicking around and they are shockingly resistant to bullets guess how many five pound gummy bears it takes to stop nine mil supersonic full metal jacket at point blank oh really one uh 12 gauge birdshot point blank oh yeah i imagine one geez um the second gummy bear caught two two three this would be so much better than sandbags it's crazy i guess they might melt overseas four we should probably now disclose that we're being sponsored by Big Gelatin. Big Carbo. Big Carbo.

Carbo, the company that makes the gummy bears. I'll never, when I was still in the 82nd, we had a commander that he wanted to do, he wanted to demonstrate to all the guys, like like kind of the ballistics impact of everything that, you know, basically what can you hide behind? And so he did like sandbags. He did, you know, concrete walls. He did like reinforced concrete walls, wood, like everything, everything you can kind of imagine, just shot stuff through all of it like your flak vest and and it was crazy how like well first of all it ruined any movie you've ever seen because now whenever they're like oh i'm gonna hide behind this car like the fuck you are i hope it's the engine block because i got bad news

but um yes sandbags were the things that you know really held up the best i mean and it makes sense when you start to understand ballistics but gummy bears wow who knew gummy bears are wild we did uh we did 308 full metal jacket point blank we had four gummy bears lined up with one three foot block of ballistics gel it made it like two inches into the ballistics gel before it stopped wow gummy bears they're shockingly bullet resistant well because you're thinking like at home you're thinking like the super like squeezable gummy bears these are like almost like rock hard no well gelatin bears this is a big gum it's literally a five pound gummy bear i'm saying they behave differently when it's that big versus those big ones because like they're

they're fucking solid like very solid yeah i mean but they can also absorb i mean they can i mean that's the whole concept of the sandbags is like they're absorbing it instead of just like rigid it's like water if you froze the gummy bear i'd probably go through them a lot faster was it water you can shoot like from here i would not kill brandon with any gun underwater i mean we could try it i guess but i'm not both are like and then they dude very disappointing underwater do you know how shark hunting harpoons work the one with the bullets that are long and they so it's a harpoon it's basically a underwater crossbow and it's a metal spear essentially

but there it's it holds a 12 gauge shotgun shell at the end of it so when it hits the then that's what ignites the shotgun shell at point blank range and that's what fucking like shark hunting harpoons are that's not a shotgun shell at the end of the harpoon yeah it was a shotgun shell at the end of it so when it impacts that's what strikes a primer point blank on the shark

so it's boom boom that's cool it's kind of dope that's gangster it's gangster the shark knives you seen those where they're just got the co2 cartridge inside of it just blow a baseball bat full of frozen gas into them yeah it just you just stab them with it you hit the and it just releases all the co2 inside their body yeah oh that sucks yeah exactly they float up yeah i've seen jaws i know it works all right yeah it went through four gummy bears and it went through four gummy bears and caught it in the blister gel when the 86 went through so the four gummy bears we that's the subsonic by the way that's the only way that's the part

that blows my mind it's the only way we're able to catch the the hollow point 86 was we went through all four gummy bears and then we caught it in the ballistics gel but through the gummy bears it lost the three big petals and it was just the ass end of the round in the ballistics gel the petals got lost in the gummy bears and the exit wound coming out of the last gummy bear was fucking a half dollar sized gash i am just like a blender i gotta be honest i am imagining you like standing like at cvs to go pick up something and looking at this big ass gummy bear going we should shoot those that's basically exactly what happened so we we put a we put a glock switch on a 22 lr glock legally got 30 round mags yeah my my my friend with an sot did it yeah it just sounds at least fine a glock switch we're gonna shoot gummy bears with 22 we're like oh this will be

funny iowa not the south side of chicago yeah we're literally just in a fucking cornfield yeah like i walked up with a 30 rounds of 22 and a glock switch and went and one gummy bear caught all 30 22 rounds and we're like and then it turned into a we're testing the ballistics of gummy bears video and it's kind of just been a recurring theme i've also learned they're impervious to fire try that next gummy bears yes they're not what they look like a flamethrower they start melting from the rounds passing through so we we tried torching it with one of those like little like throw flame whatever not throw flame uh like xm42 no those are like just big like grow lighters essentially the ones that actually spit

the gasoline okay and we like we sat there for like a minute trying to get this thing to melt and we just gave up because it looks so boring on camera. Hi, I'm Tara Schmidt, a registered dietitian and host of On Nutrition, a podcast for Mayo Clinic where we dig into the latest nutrition trends and research to help you understand what's health and what's hype. There's a lot of wild stuff out there, so we'll be keeping it science-based, research-informed, and practical. Mayo Clinic's On Nutrition, new episodes every other week, wherever you get your podcasts. So we took Zach, veteran with a sign, and Eric Bartel out to the range, and we were filming this video, and we shot it, and they were blown out to the range and we were filming this video and we shot it and they were

blown the f*** away that it was catching 9mm in like an inch of the gummy bear. It was catching 9mm at point blank, like full on like executioner style, like boom, just stops it. And Zach's like, we're feeding these to children? What the f***?

I hope not. I've never bought any of them. Here's a five pound gummy bear. They're wild. That gun is... I wonder how many calories are in one big ass gummy bear. I've eaten a couple years. How many calories is it?

20,000 calories in that thing. We don't have to wonder. Solid gelatin. How many calories on a five pound gummy bear? 5,000 calories in that thing. We don't have to wonder. Solid gelatin. Five. How many calories on a five-pound gummy bear? Five to 1010. Yeah. 20,000? A lot.

What is it, a five-pound? Five-pound gummy bear? 6,120 calories. Wow. In a five-pounder? It's equivalent to roughly 1,400 regular-sized gummy bears. Wow. Huh. That's impressive. How many? 1,400. Oh. in a five pounder it's equivalent to roughly 1400 regular size gummy bears wow huh that's how many 1400 oh yeah i can see that okay well i'm seeing conflicting i just got the ai overview

yeah same we should ask sean ryan he would know just off the top of his head now everyone's oh apparently one of there's another one that's 12 000 calories wow oh that's crazy what's different on that scares me more it probably tastes better who was the guy that was like 600 6 000 calories not enough that's not enough it's those bitches this ain't stuff more more five pound gummy bear in vancouver airport over 12 000 calories that's on reddit though who knows i don't trust anything on reddit oh well you'll sell that in vancouver 12 000 calories of gummy bear i try to give you an energy drink that's awesome and you guys get mad at me they don't want them productive they want them fat this is also true i didn't realize that like

60 of the canadian population lives further south than like Minnesota. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah, it's nuts. Like 90% of the entire Canadian population. Yeah. Like that little dip right there on the east coast, that's like 60% of the Canadian population right there. I think it's 90% of the entire Canadian population lives like maybe-

60 miles from the US border. They're huddled up next to us for warmth and safety yeah understandably frankly i don't know was it tosh point out it's like canada's got the best border fence in the world america it's cool to be a little hippie when you've got a kevlar of... Daring the world to die. Yeah, when Trump kept talking about, like, we're going to make Canada the 51st state, I'm like, I'll take Alberta. I'll take Manitoba.

But I don't want Quebec. I have a theory... Canada doesn't want Quebec. I have a theory that he's literally just doing it because we have Guam, Puerto Rico. He wants Greenland panama and canada and then he just wants to be the guy that ushers in the 55 star flag that's a whole that's his whole motivation like how did how cool would it be if we added another row yeah it's a funny like it's a funny concept and he i love the fact that he's just trolling the out of like yeah with it

we don't want canada no like well i want alberta i do want alberta i want the texas of canada yeah they're pretty based the lando peterson yeah but um i we would never like say goodbye to gun rights say goodbye to everything's like do you really want canadians voting as a territory but yeah like a puerto rico yeah puerto rico sure. There's a diamond company that makes lab-grown diamonds, and they have the most savage marketing I've ever seen because all of their commercials are basically like, it's literally the

same thing, you're just mad that child labor wasn't involved. I was like, Jesus! Yes! They're not wrong. Correct! They're not wrong. I will pay extra for blood diamonds this is the most sad marketing i've ever seen that's pretty brilliant yeah he's calling me everyone a piece of shit

yeah he's cheaper and yeah you know maybe we didn't have to kill a kid to get it that's pretty pretty cool i think they're just as sparkly just as hard not blood all over them but you still think it's worth less because of it and weird i just i love that is that is savage that's great with the cobalt and livium and everything like that all the the new mineral wars in africa yeah it's like you know this is just blood diamond all over again except instead of a shiny rocket so you can play gta6 on a 4090 i just i think it's ironic i think it's ironic that i got a graphics card yeah my phone yo my blood phone how do you like my blood phone i i like i like i like getting lectured i like getting lectured on oppression by people that are driving around vehicles that require you know a 14 year old to be dumping into

an artisanal mine and you know freaking drc to grab their stuff for it but electricity just comes out of the earth it's natural it's how we all think it works at least yeah yeah it costs a little bit of money to run that don't get me started on electricity i oh you might know something about it just we need to use nuclear power we're not doing it it really bothers me i was about to go on the nuclear power rant i'm glad you got there the internet gets really upset when i do it when i do it we figured it out why because people are stupid yeah that's true we figured it out 50 fucking years ago the answer to all of our power problems and then we got scared all the hippies got scared yeah well okay so all right alternative theory um i i do think that there's some people that are just ignorant and scared of it i think

there's other people that they want the issue they they don't want they don't want green energy they want communism and they and that's why they oppose nuclear because nuclear would be the cleanest most efficient most effective cheapest long term there's no question you start looking at like things like small modular reactors and stuff like that there's no question that's the future but then gosh what do you do if you can't sell centralized planning of the economy because we're saving the globe so that thought is like a thousand people on the high level yeah everyone below them is just the useful idiots agreed agreed it's just i don't know all the other green energy sucks like wind power is god awful yeah you drive iowa's got so many wind

turbines it's insane half of them work yeah and when they're working they're so ungodly inefficient it's fucking insane there's a ton in texas too like in even just in in uh district 23 and even and down like especially if you go toward like corpus there's huge like wind farms and shit like that you see the blades traveling down the highway all the time and the idea of seeing this giant diesel truck carting it out one blade at a time you start to wonder about the logistics well it's like the number of the number of oil petroleum-based products that you need to actually keep that thing in operation yeah that doesn't grease itself most of them are obsolete by the time they're built by the time you get all the permits and actually get the fucking thing built it's

three generation old technology that's going up in virginia they passed the Clean Economy Act, which basically gives them an excuse to clear-cut forests and carve up farmland to put up industrial solar fields. But then they have the offshore wind piece. And the reason why they can get this through – because all of a sudden, we have the big energy companies going in. I go, yeah, we'd love to do the offshore wind. Why? Because they're guaranteed 10% profit on construction. Anybody want to guess on how expensive it is to build offshore wind off of Virginia Beach? Shit.

Ungodly. Yeah. What was – there was a guy. They brought on like a literal carpenter, like the British version of King Trout on the BBC. And this BBC journalist, this big old fat guy with like glasses was like trying – he like brought on this carpenter like he was just going to eat him alive on air because it was like some debate over in Britain between using concrete and using wood to construct some building or whatever. And the carpenter is just like, yeah, I mean wood is more renewable. And he's like, oh, really? You're just going to cut down a bunch of trees to build this building?

Yes. Yeah, the trees grow back. You ever seen concrete grow and the dude's just like all right we're gonna cut the commercial break it just fucking ends the interview it just torches him on his own show god i love that what is the main other than like the nuclear meltdowns what is one of the big reasons they don't want nuclear energy as a whole uh well you see vietnam happened and a bunch of people went to go fight vietnam and then a bunch of people got out of going to fight in vietnam because they got to go to college and then they did a bunch of drugs and rolled around in the mud and each other like hippies and then they decided

that the thing that blew up japan has to be bad and then those are all the people that are now college professors so they got to teach the next generation that nuclear power is scary that's pretty much all of it you have shit like chernobyl which led to a bunch of nuclear right we're not going to bring up the fact that it was because of i don't know communism being violently retarded the entire time that led to it that wasn't it that had nothing to do with it they didn't have the hbo miniseries back then so it was a little harder to discern what happened but yeah the people literally got scared we did a photo shoot an abandoned nuclear facility across from uh i think louisville kentucky at one point and it was like a facility that was built for like a billion dollars right and was almost finished

like they have the the cooling towers they've got everything it's a massive facility and there was a bunch of nuclear regulation that came in after Chernobyl and they basically were told oh yeah to comply with all these new guidelines that's gonna be another $2 billion to complete it. And they literally walked away. They said it is cheaper to just default and leave than it is to finish this out. So it's like, yeah, you wonder why we don't have fucking nuclear energy. That's it.

They've done that surprisingly a lot of times. Washington State, beautiful places to do photos or shoots at because you can rent them for like $800 for an entire day. And these are useless real estate. You are talking everything, like buildings to run it, the big tunnels. They'll have like two. How many did that one have? It was huge. Yeah. it was huge yeah they let us go into the basement of the cooling towers and shoot machine guns at

the concrete like pillars like they're like we don't care blow it up we don't give a fuck wow it's cheaper we're gonna demolish it eventually anyway they're like just don't die we don't care but they don't and then they don't ever demolish it they will uh washington abandoned theirs in the 80s and then never touched it again. People still use it for photography. I didn't even know that one exists. It's crazy, too, because there are certain buildings you can go into and they have those old, like, you know, the computer data cards. Yeah. The floor is just littered with them.

And certain times you can get those, like, old, like, photographs that, like, you just hold up to the light, like the film reels. Yeah, yeah. And shit like that. You're like, man, there's probably some, some like sensitive information in some of this about nuclear i i can't wait till like the government you know what aliens are real we're gonna put one on joe rogan's podcast and i get to watch joe rogan explain to a fucking alien that we've got magic rocks that produce enough power yeah for the entire planet we just don't use it because people that can't do basic math or have a third grade reading level are scared

by them. It's going to be awesome. What was the reason the Japanese one failed? It was user error. It got hit by a record-setting earthquake and then a record-setting tsunami at the same time.

All of the safety features were like it took two literal acts of god to bring that thing to its fucking knees and it still turned out pretty okay yeah even then it's not like all of japan like chernobyl chernobyl was communism chernobyl was communism like this is what happens when you put commies in charge of anything to be fair japan had some nuclear resistance built in dude i did a college history course and we had to debate the ethics of the nuclear bombings and i made a girl cry in class yeah and the internet gets mad when i tell this story but i don't care because i thought it was funny yeah she was just like you don't understand the ramifications of the radiation and the blah blah blah and i was like

you literally don't know what you're talking about at all. Like, here's the municipal website for Hiroshima. And it's like, they study it every year. You can just live there. There is no radiation. It was an airburst. Here's what I challenge people to do. Look at a picture of Hiroshima in 1945 and Detroit in 1945 and Hiroshima today and Detroit today.

And what do you end up learning? Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. That's what you end up learning. This is science. Did people say there's still nuclear fallout? Yes. Yes. we did people say there's still nuclear fallout yes yes a significant portion of these college kids think that you just there's a chunk of japan that you just can't there's a bunch of japanese babies still getting like walking around with three heads yeah yeah and it's like no it was

an airburst explosion the nuclear the nuclear material fucking went kaboom it's gone there is no like when a when a reactor melts down it's because the radioactive material melts and then the radioactive material sits there emitting neutrons for a million years that's the issue that shit exploded it's gone it's like wouldn't recommend exposure while pregnant but other than that yeah i'm not saying you should go to like a health spa i'm just saying you can visit it yeah you've been able to visit it for a long time like grounds hero the other thing the other thing too this is the part where i mean i get in fights with people about this because it's like yeah look i don't like civilian casualties i don't like when some people die but i also understand takes only but i also but i also understand i also understand that

if you look at the projected casualty list for invading the Japanese main islands, and if you look at what the Japanese plan was for defending the main islands, they were going to give bamboo spears to 14-year-old girls. Like, this was not – they were ready to fight to the death. This is millions of casualties. We talked about it on the podcast. Their entire interpretation is literally, oh, well, actually, what they don't tell you in school is the Japanese tried to surrender before Americaica dropped the atomic bombs and we just did it because we wanted to experiment it's like no no they didn't they approached the ussr and said hey we basically want to cease fire permanently and leave the entire japanese imperial government intact yeah so they could rebuild an army and fucking do it again obviously that was never an option the ussr told them that that was not them

trying to surrender and then you get all the kids are like actually japan only surrendered because russia attacked oh really russia attacked northeast china with the japanese sea in between and that's why japan fucking surrendered real quick what was the russian navy like in world II? Oh, there fucking wasn't one. I remember because the only way they were going to be able to shuttle troops was because of the U.S. Operation Hula, where we were going to transport it for them. So shut the fuck up. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah.

But as far as the mainland invasion of Japan, we talked about it on the podcast before, but it's still a crazy stat that Eli's Purple Heart was made in 1945 when they were expecting an invasion. 1.2 million. Every Purple Heart awarded since World War II, I think, and still several of different on the ground person perspectives of different wars and interpretations by far and away by a hundred miles my favorite fucking interpretation of on the ground events is reading japanese people's opinion of when the marines and the army showed up during the occupation of japan right after world war ii seeing the sheer level of just grunt smoking cigarettes not giving a growing a beard just disheveled angry beard like how how did they beat us furious we have so much

some some 19 year old from nebraska with a bar like i want to go home around that's a warrior class it's part of taking over mainland would have been a huge problem we talked about before it's that was a completely different society like their warrior society was a war society never seen yeah ever what was his name the dude that stayed 30 years hero onoda and he wasn't the last one like there was people there was two or three people that decade in the 70s right yeah i think so in the 70s that were still running around the philippines killing farmers thinking they were fighting world war ii yeah yeah i i was what's crazy is that there's so many stories of it like it's not just

one isolated incident like it happened a couple times there was that one guy on some isolated island he still speaks to graduates of graduates of like japanese i don't know what their military academy or their officer corps school is but talking about like loyalty and Bushido and I look, I, I, I was, I was willing to put up with a, a lot more rules of engagement when I was in,

now that my son's going through infantry basic training and, and I, and I do a reevaluation of a lot of the stupid stuff that we've gotten into. I'm, I'm a lot more, no, just drop the bomb. Your kid actually joined and he was like i'm going infantry so we we like i didn't i didn't push i didn't i didn't push the military with with my kids but um yeah my son does you love them

but um no my my son uh he's i i thought he was gonna go like he likes welding he likes like again another cool thing about you know homeschooling like we did a blacksmithing class and like he fell in love with it so we had a little forge and stuff like that it was it was awesome you can teach them practical skills yes and he was like i want to learn how to weld i want to do this other stuff so i figured like okay if he's going to go in the military he's probably going to go into like a you know a field that's going to go in the military, he's probably going to go into like a, you know, a field that's going to put them in that range. Yeah. And then he's like,

yeah, dad, I want to go infantry. I want to go airborne. And then he was talking about the 18 x-ray side. I was like, Hey bud, why don't, how about you do rasp,

right? Like ranger assessment. How about you do that? I said, it's a four year enlistment on a six year enlistment. I said, if you want to go to selection, they can't stop you.

You can go to selection. It's one of the few things that military you can go to. If you want to go to,, they can't stop you. You can go to selection. It's one of the few things in the military you can go to if you want to go to, and they can't stop you. And he goes, okay. So, yeah, he's an infantry basic. He'll go to airborne after that. He'll go to raspberry after that. And he put the hand up before the election. And, yeah, his mother and I both were like, he's like, dad, I prayed about it.

This is where I felt like I'm being led to go. I'm like, all right, son, you got to do what you got to do, right? You're a man. So,

but, um, I was definitely, yeah, it is, it is a different thing. Like I won't, when he was sitting there at 30th AG waiting to go off to infantry basic at

Sand Hill. And he sends us the picture of, I see the freightest name tape on him, man, mosquito. I'm not crying. You're crying. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And he sends us the picture of, I see the Freitas name tape on him. Man. Mosquito wings. I'm not crying. You're crying.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was, yeah. Dude, like, what, four more months? Then you'll get those calls like, yeah, this sucks, dude. Fuck, bro. Why didn't you tell me?

I did. We got it. Well, the funny part is we got the first call when he actually got to basic and um and he's you know his his mom's there and i'm there and uh he's describing what's going on and she's like oh are you okay and i'm like sucks doesn't it but um no but there but i will say this there there is something uh there is something that will give you a great sense of pride when your son is going through this and he's like you can tell by his voice and how he's describing it that yeah it sucks but he's into it yeah and it's like it kicks it's a good kickstart for a lot of people i think

that really disciplines you and then puts your perspective of life you're like oh yeah man i was handed a whole bunch of stuff and reality check. OK, this is hard work. This is dedication. This is following other people's orders. I think, well, there's something to like, I really believe this for, I mean, always exceptions to rules. But young men in general, young men in general need to do hard stuff. They need to do challenging stuff. They need to overcome it.

Men thrive when we have responsibilities. men thrive when we have responsibilities men thrive and we have responsibilities and we absolutely suffer and become the worst versions of ourselves and we don't so i think a reality check for me like military war blah blah blah but the kiddo when you had that like when i had right now was my biggest like i did another switch i was Oh, I have to focus everything on this. I have to start dedicating my life to make sure this little thing is taken care of and good for however long I'm probably going to fuck it up. But I'm going to do my best to not fuck it up. Yeah.

Versus out in the wind, you don't learn anything. Or if you don't have responsibilities day to day, like you get complacent as fuck. Oh yeah. Well, when, when Luke was like seven, we were watching watching have you seen that movie uh what's it called freaking with uh hugh jackman um it's the one with the robots no no it's the one with the robots real steel real steel yeah so

it's like it's like rocky but with robots right and so i'm watching it i got my two daughters my wife and my son and he's just sitting there watching this thing, thinks it's awesome, right? And I look over at Tina and he's seven, six or seven. I look over at Tina, I'm like, hey babe, you know what the agogia is? She goes, what's the agogia? I said, the agogia is where the Spartans sent their kids off

to, it was like their first stage of kind of like warrior training to be like a hoplite. Four years in Dagestan, forget about it. Yeah, forget about it. But I said, said you know how old they were and she goes no like I'm asking my wife do you know how old the Spartans said the kids like no honey I'm like seven she's why are you telling me this I'm like watch I'm like hey buddy come over here come on like we're watching the address so we're doing this it was the first time

I ever like pop not hard but enough to like shake him up and he just goes ah and he like comes out he's like you know fighting the whole deal we're doing he's having a blast and tina looks at me she goes what just happened to my little boy i'm like oh no no he's not yours anymore he belongs to me now and it was and i will say this he still loves his mama like nothing else but yeah that was that was the there's a certain point where dad's gotta that's gotta take over a testosterone yeah yeah and like you were saying earlier when they don't oh yeah that's when you have catastrophic yeah life trajectory yeah yeah many challenges not every case not every case obviously but like vast majority vast majority I again I mean I I'll

tell you what like I I got married at 19. when the military got married at 19. Went in the military, got married at 19. One of the best decisions I ever made. But that whole idea of having responsibilities early on and challenges and things you had to go through and in an environment where nobody cared if it sucked, nobody cared if it was hard, nobody cared about your feelings, nobody cared about any of that. That was hugely developmental. And I look at a lot of challenges I think young men are facing right now now and I can't help but thinking to myself, yeah, it's like, you know, we, this is, I was actually listening to somebody. He was, he was talking about, um, he had, he had talked, actually it was Dennis Prager. It was Dennis Prager. He was talking about, um, he was giving a, he was giving a speech and he was talking to world war two vets. And, um,

he said, world war two vets. He used, they focused a lot cause they grew up through the great depression and they went into world war two and they were talking about giving their kids, you know, the things they never had. And he,

and he said, you know, I had this moment where I was talking to him. I said, I get it. But, uh, as you're giving them the things they never had,

please remember to give them the things you did, like the resilience, the, the challenges, the no sense of entitlement um and we see what happens when when you give everything handed to you don't become better for it you don't become better for it that's what we say all the time as far as like wanting to give your kids enough you know give them the things you you uh you never had but also want to make sure they have enough trauma that they're funny yeah right that's a great way to put it yeah yeah spoiled shits yeah you sons of yeah it's true well there's a one and you can see it too because when you raise your kids that way and they see other kids

the way they behave they look at them they're like with you going the hell's up with that yeah we used to always point out the kid like screaming in the store like what would i do to you if you did that oh dad you'd crush me i'm like very good my wife gets mad at me i yell at other people's kids in public you're helping don't shake your head we're at the park shake your hand we're at the park and somebody runs up and like it was like i don't know probably like six or seven year old but they're like running around and he shoves my four year old and the mom is like oh little timmy don't do that play nice with others and then he i'm watching and he runs around and does it intentional again yeah and i look at the mom and she looks at me and i quit and that kid starts crying and they leave it's like that's what you look at it'll be like it takes a village right yeah you do the the fucking true detective season two is like hey anything you

do to my kid i'm doing your dad yeah bro that was uh one of my favorite interviews is uh daniel cormier champ champ light heavyweight heavyweight ufc champ big big olympic gold uh bronze medalist olympic wrestler like badass dude and he's talking about being at the park and like very similar situation like a bigger kid's picking on his kid and then like the dad doesn't do anything about it after the second or third time and daniel cormier just like allegedly looks at this is like hey just so we're clear whatever your kid does to my kid next i'm gonna do to you and the other commenters like daniel you can't say that he's like well i fucking did which is weird because he's like one of the friendliest like nicest like dad dudes on the planet and just like

nope well there's a difference too between friendliness and weakness. Yeah, it's fair. Yeah. Dude, Daniel Cormier would be fine, dude. He's so funny because – I might hit my kid real quick. Sorry. He's funny because like – Timmy, come here. He's funny because he has like – there's been like multiple fucking reels that get uploaded by like just normal everyday people because he teaches his little kids wrestling team yeah and there's like other dads that are just like like i wrestled in high school dads that are like filming a reel of them like this with daniel

cormier in the back of the um the other team's coach is daniel cormier so i guess i'll just go myself remember fucking mighty mouse was taught demetrius johnson coaching for his kid like as such when you look across you're like okay you're gonna beat that his dad is you're gonna learn about losing it's a good lesson it's about having fun we're gonna learn how to get back on that horse are you big in MMA or boxing? So my son and I,

we did Brazilian jiu-jitsu and boxing for a little while and whatnot. And it was great. I wish we would have started a lot earlier. And then I got to travel in so much. But I'm trying to get back into it because I thought it was, one, it was one of the best workouts ever. How much traveling do you have to do as a delegate? Sorry not to derail you.

Oh, no, no. As a delegate, not a lot i mean some some within uh but a lot of it's flying around the country and doing other things associated with that but um but no i i need to get back to you because one it's running on a treadmill is unacceptable i but but the cardio you get with freaking jujitsu and boxing like oh my gosh uh that and i just think men should know how to fight and so yeah it's crazy watching somebody that doesn't know how to fight try to fight you're like ah yes yeah terrifying or on the ground they're just trying to like dude when somebody doesn't know how to tap somebody out it's just like it's like you're squeezing them harder and then you're awkwardly hitting them with

usually here breaking a bone like all the twitter fight videos where it's just dudes doing that yeah it's like i mean yeah i guess you can get lucky and that's gonna hurt a lot but what the fuck are you doing what's the guys that believe that well if i ever really had to i would just see red and then get your ass kicked like you see red and then black yeah and then light and then nothing yeah then you wake up your family is mine now like fuck we're getting back that's the other thing too like again with my kid i remember when we we started doing brazilian jiu-jitsu and boxing, the confidence level with everything, not just with that, but the confidence level with everything goes up significantly. Dude, there's a little kid that's with our kiddo's nine-year-old class at boxing,

and there's two Mexican kids that are fucking like, when they get in, they're like, I'm like, bro, they will beat the shit out of you do you like listen to them and you just seem like teeing off on the back i was like oh man those kids not get bullied ever one might be a boy that's the kid that bullies your kid your little kids are already two and four but they're

cutters starting jujitsu yeah just rolling around they got the little kid I wish we would have started earlier tiny geese how old are your kids? nine and thirteen going on

and there's two and four yeah mine are twenty-two nineteen and seventeen oh there you're about to be an empty nest. That's blowing my mind, man.

That is blowing my, cause for, for, you know, my, my daughter got married at 21 and, um, and then she left,

you know, at 20, you know, and then eight months later, my son left and, you know, now my daughter's about to graduate high school and my wife and I are looking at each other like,

Oh my gosh. Cause we weren't just used to having our kids around all the time, which we love our kids, but like all of their friends and the whole deal. And then all of a sudden, and I mean, it's, it's exciting for Tina cause we're going to this next area of life and we like each other. Like my wife's hot. Like I like spending time with her, but that helps considerably. It's named three things.

What's the movie with terry bradshaw you can have you can have a hot wife and not want to spend any fucking time with her what's the movie with terry bradshaw where he's the dad and his kid finally moves out and he's really finally now you're out this is gonna be my naked room watching tv in the naked room all the rooms all the rooms in the house get back into play it's like looking outside is my youngest daughter off to work all right baby the kitchen is now in play we have so much room for activities

i'm gonna ruin this place. Oh, man. My kid will say this, but like, really, Dad? Like, hey, it's nice to know that Mom and Dad like each other. That's why a priest came over. Would you rather occasionally hear stuff like this or have two Christmases? Well, hold on. Are two Christmases. Well, hold on. Are both Christmases dope? Double the present sounds

pretty good. Otherwise, I gotta hear you guys fucking. Way less drum on one of those. Oh, man. so man so you so you were in the the virginia uh you were a delegate in virginia for 10 years now right still yeah still i'm yeah i'm in the virginia house of delegates the the oldest uh continuously legislative body in the western hemisphere so you are uh from there you you just announced last night that you're no longer seeking re-election not seeking re-election yeah 10 years is enough i mean that's that's crazy amount oh yeah and it feels it feels longer than it was sometimes but for somebody like us it's a crazy amount yeah for your average lifelong

politician that's just getting started well and that that's one of the things that whenever people ask me now about like, oh, I'm thinking of running for office. The first question I always ask is, what are you willing to lose your seat over? If you can't tell me what you're willing to lose your seat over, the answer is nothing. And you will compromise in order to keep your seat because you'll convince yourself that you can't get anything done if you can't get reelected. And that's the slippery slope. Like if you can't list off right now the things where like I would take that vote, lose my seat, and smile about it, I don't want you anywhere near elected office. Yep. But yeah, but some people, not all, I serve with some really good people. But there's a lot of people, they get their identity.

They get their identity from serving in public office. And I'm like, dude, my identity, I get my identity in Christ. Then I get it and being like a husband to my wife, a father to my children, you know, a vet, you know, whatever. But I mean, it's look, I speaking of history earlier, right? Like I represent James Madison's district. Oh, that's right. And in a, in a legislative body that tracks its history all the way to the House of Burgesses, which means we've been in operation for over 400 years.

There is something truly cool about that. And believe me, the first time I walked in the Virginia House of Delegates, it was I remember that they escorted me and said, you know, delegate elect. Wait here. I'm going to go find the other people because I was a military guy. So, of course, it was like 30 minutes early to go find the other people. Cause I was a military guy. So it was, of course it was like 30 minutes early. Um, and I remember sitting there, it was just quiet. And I'm sitting in that chamber going, there's gotta be a mistake, man. There's gotta be a mistake. It's the imposter syndrome kicks. Oh yeah.

Big time, big time. Um, it goes away quickly when you meet your colleagues, but anyway, did you try wearing a Tosito tank top while you did it? I did not. I didn't have that kind of, but, um, it was i looked at it was you know 10 years and um and there's still stuff i want to do and you know obviously the things i believe in and there's a lot of ways to fight for it doesn't have to be politics because i think that the cultural component is what's the the part that is most in dire right now but um but i think it's it's good to just pick a time where it's like look find somebody you think will do a good job find a good replacement and then you know bow out and

let them let them take a crack at it i think politics is better when we don't have a bunch of people that are trying to do it for 30 or 40 years yeah because a lot of those people don't have anything else yeah they've never had anything else their entire like you said identity that's all they've ever been they've never produced anything in the free market they've that's that's their claim to fame that's all they've ever done yeah i i will one of the things about the other thing too that about a state legislature is that with the exception of four states all of your state legislatures are part time i mean you still got full-time constituent services requirements and whatnot but in virginia you get paid seventeen thousand six hundred dollars a year to be a delegate it's not supposed to be a full-time

salary you go down you have 60 days in even years you have 45 days in odd years you go through 2 000 bills in that period and that's it you're done go back to your district that's where you live that's where you work get a real job that's how that's what that's the way it was supposed to be it should be congress should be that way yeah congress, 100%. I wanted to propose something where I was like, yeah, I want the salary cap of congressmen, like elected representatives, to be the median income of their district. Yeah. That's the salary cap. Yeah.

I think you should get lodging per diem for staying in D.C., but that's only enough to like when you're there. You don't get it, so you're not buying houses in D.C. staying there's bullshit i want them to have barracks you're a public servant i want this to be service like the military yeah yeah i don't want this to be fun for you because it's not supposed to be i want him to bring back when politicians that actually fight each other just saying i think that'd be way cooler the argument i heard against it that's the fastest way to get rid of all the 70 year olds yeah this yeah the caning of charles sumner it's like you say something about my mom and i'll beat your ass on the steps of the capitol we used to be a proper country i approve the i like it the argument i heard against that uh was that if you lower their uh their salary like well now you're

just giving them incentive to be corrupt and take deals on the side. I'm like, they do that already. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the point. Or I'm increasing the incentive for people that are actually successful outside of politics and can now afford to go and just do the right thing for fun to go and do that.

Exactly. That's a meritocracy. Good. Crazy. Fuck, I want people good at their job. Horrible person. People who have, you know, had employees and like built businesses and know how to balance a budget.

Nick's getting me fired up on Friday. This is the earliest unsub we've ever filmed. What time is it? Oh, it is. It's almost earliest unsub we've ever filmed. What time is it? Oh, it is. It's almost 2 p.m. I'm already upset. Usually we're still just getting to brunch.

Yeah. Normally. Brinner. Are you going to do anything since you've been kind of in that wheelhouse of politics again? Are you thinking maybe? I really still don't know. I have a lot of people trying to, I have a lot of people trying to bully me into running again.

And I feel like we would do really good if I did do it, but I, man, it's, it's, it's the question of, uh, I've met with a couple of people that are looking at running in that

district too. And I'm like, I'm happy to give them advice. Like say like, you know, this is what I learned, you know, here are the pitfalls,

you know, but like here, here's the the basically the roadmap here's what i did um but i i and i told him flat out i'm like i don't know what i'm gonna do right now because i don't know if i want to run back the worst nine months of my life because that fucking sucked running for office is is shit i really want to hear uh nick's opinion on this too yeah because they were there basically i was being asked if uh if i was going to run for uh for a house again yeah i'm like the the big decision is like ah i feel like i do a lot better this time because i missed it by 407 votes oh yeah primary runoff yeah but i'm like i also don't know like that was the worst nine months of my life by far yeah bro he has the funniest smear campaign i've ever fucking seen in a mailer cody has it framed on his wall yeah

it's a photoshop picture of him and it says brandon herrera's all hat and no cattle and it's him in a cowboy outfit with like a comically large turd ferguson and they sent that out as like slander is the funniest ad which i don't and i bought a turd ferguson and they sent that out as like slander is the funniest ad which i don't and i bought a turd ferguson hat yeah i was like hell yeah brother i so i'll say this i do again not having done a deep dive into the race um and just what i know about it i do think if you ran again you win um because i don't think the smear campaigns work the second time around. Yeah. It's the eight-mile thing.

Yeah. The other thing, too, is that – and from what I understand, it's a solid red district, right? It is like you could shoot someone on live TV as long as you win the primary. Got it. Because it used to be a close district. It used to be like maybe a plus two yeah now it's like a plus 15 so i ran for congress and it was during covid that was fun um you ran you ran for house or senate house really okay i didn't know that house in 2020 i need to have a span burger okay um and um that was a 20 million

dollar race um because it was considered one of the top five races in the country because of how close the district was. And I'll tell you right now, you don't want to be in that kind of district. That sucks. You're going to, your whole life is going to be fundraising. When,

when I had to run that rate, I hate fundraising with a fiery passion. Like I despise it. And when I had to run for Congress in order to try to be successful, six hours a day, six days a week, I was on the phone fundraising. Dialing for dollars. Miserable.

Absolutely miserable. I always felt so weird about that. I would rather, and this is where I guess I was kind of unique in that way, but I hated doing that. I didn't really do it. I told my consultant, I'm like, I'd rather just work harder on my own businesses and make more money and put my own money in than do that, yeah, it's tough. It sucks. Um, so here's what I'll say. Like, I mean,

I think, I think you'd win. And, um, obviously I think you'd be a, an excellent voice of Congress and God knows we need people, especially in Congress. Cause my biggest fear right now is I see all these people, we have a program we do called DogeWatch, and we highlight everything Doge has done for the week. And I have all these people going like, Doge is fine, but why aren't they acting? I'm like, because they're an advisory committee. They don't have any executive authority. They can make recommendations, and the executive branch can do certain things. But the only way any of this lasts is if you have legislation, which means you have to have members of Congress willing to actually carry the bills.

And the number of people that we have willing to do that is nowhere near what I think most people think it is. And so we definitely need people that are willing to do it. Why is that, Nick? Why do we not have enough people willing to do it? Yeah, why do they want to get rid of their money? Why are they not willing to do it? I know where this is.

How much time we got left? The amount of money on your doge watch of spending your last one you just did, it was $25 million or $18 million to hire people to do the same thing for like $25 million. The IRS spent $15 billion on an IT modernization program that's 30 years overdue. It's still not there. It's still not there. But you look at this stuff, and here's what it comes down to. You go look at the house right now, right?

We have the house by what, like five seats? So they're going to look at it from the perspective of how do we maintain the majority? So they're going to look at everybody in purple districts, and they're going they say we can't do anything that puts people in purple districts in jeopardy and so now the entire house is going to be subject to whatever those 15 seats need or don't need and everything is going to be how do we maintain the majority the majority doesn't fucking matter if you don't do anything with it yes like yes and this is this is the part that this is the one thing that i hold out hope, right? There are so many people, and if you look at Trump's approval ratings, there's a ton of people that didn't really like Trump, but voted for him because he wasn't Kamala Harris, who now like him.

Why? Because like the guy or hate the guy, he does what he says he's going to do. And people are seeing action. And if there's one thing that people actually appreciate, especially a wide swath of people that don't necessarily follow politics, but are tired of business as usual, they like somebody that actually says they're going to do something and goes and does it. Not to mention the fact that they've actually done

an excellent job with new media and highlighting the absolute waste. It is really, really hard to have any sympathy for, oh my gosh, I can't believe that poor person at USAID lost their job. You were sending $50 million a year to DEI scholarships in Burma. Burma's

a military junta. There could be atrocities against Karen Treibsman right now. 20 years civil war. They have bigger issues. Yes, but is the genocide equitable? That's the part that we're really concerned about. We want to make sure the executioners are equal parts male and female. Exactly.

Do you have any trans executioners? If you don't, that's a real gap in your DEI facilitation. My favorite one recently was the almost $1 billion, I think it was, that the National Park System wasted on a survey to ask people if they liked national parks. Yeah, right.

A billion fucking dollars. The Department of Interior, well, it gets worse. The Department of the Interior spent all all this money on an internal so they had an internal contract to develop their own customer satisfaction survey and then they contracted out to a company to do customer satisfaction surveys right this is the sort of stuff that is going on and they're like oh my gosh we're cutting this yes good cut more somebody asked me once they're like well well nick what would you cut from the

federal government this will be far quicker if i tell you what i keep yeah right you can have defense like why do you call these socialist because they are but um no but but i mean that that really that's really where we're at right now we got too many people that are so concerned about maintaining the majority that they don't do anything with it and then they lose the majority and it's like that's not where people are at right now um not to mention the fact that it's just cowardly eventually you're going to lose anyways because if that's your mindset you're never willing to actually provide an alternative. You'll lose your base. Yes.

Your base wants you in because you're going to do these things. If you don't do those things because you're worried about losing – it's so circular. Yeah. It drives me crazy. We did an interview with Rand Paul. And Rand Paul and Thomas Massey were the two guys to vote no against the continuing resolution. And Trump really went after Massey. Yeah.

And look, I'm a big fan. But I'm like, dude, like really went after massey yeah and i look i'm a big like i'm a big fan but i'm like dude don't go after massey massey was one of the guys that's like fighting this fight when he was the only one doing it um like holy hell that those always feel like mommy and daddy are fighting yes i'm like god like i like both of you please just listen to each other this is this is why career politicians shouldn't be a thing because they get elected to go do a thing and then they get there it's like the knight goes to slay the dragon but then the knight realizes if he kills the dragon he'll be out of work so he becomes a dragon conservationist yeah no just kill the dragon and go back to your farm it's right there here's a sword fucking yeah now the donkey's in the dragon we've got shit to do. It's right there. Here's a sword. Now the donkey's f***ing the dragon.

We've got little half-donkey dragons running around. Shrek is pissed. Things are horrible. Hey, now, you're an all-star. We need more people in Congress that are actually willing to... Again, they're willing to lose their seat in order to accomplish something significant. But then the other side of it is, look, the inextricable reality about representative government is you get the government you deserve. And so a big part of this now, my belief is, is that if you want better politicians, you've got to have a better electorate. And you've got to have people that actually understand what the government is actually there for.

And this is another reason why I usually – look, I trash run schools a lot because for the same reason I trash state run media. Um, if you want kids to be skeptical of government, right? Not understanding that, yes, some government is necessary and there's legitimate functions of government, but if you want to be skeptical of government, but then you're handing them over to the government for seven to eight hours a day for their education, What do you think they're going to be taught about government? And I think that's a big problem. What we have right now is they're just absolutely convinced that of course the government feeds me. Of course the government educates me. Of course the government takes care of me. I just got in this fight last night with somebody. Well, what are

you going to personally do? I'm like, I don't know. It sounds like a family issue. Yeah. Well, you can well you can't say that like the government's gotta no that's the reason we're in this problem is because the government assumed you tried to replace dad with a government program and guess what it didn't work it didn't work you can't legislate it there are certain things you cannot legislate you cannot legislate personal responsibility, period. That might be the most jarring thing about being an adult for me was – like when you're a kid, like second grade, third grade, like the fucking homeroom teacher is like the hive mind of humankind. Like he or she knows everything. Like if there's a disagreement, you go and you ask the teacher. Whatever the teacher said, that determines who's right and then around 25 people i went to high school with and partied with or becoming teachers it's like i've seen you do cocaine wait my teachers maybe they didn't fucking know everything

i will tell you one of the one of the big regardless of how you raise your kids one of the biggest problems um i see right now is when kids don't see their parents as an educator. And so you'll see kids come home and their parent will say one thing, the teacher will say another thing, the kid will side with the teacher. Why? Because you told them that's your teacher, that's your expert, that's the person that knows things. They've got the college degree in education. What could you possibly know? No, no, no.

I am the primary educator for my child. That doesn't mean, that doesn't mean I can't utilize resources outside of myself. You're a contractor. Yes. Because, well, and again, what do we always say in the military? You can delegate authority. You can't delegate responsibility. I am ultimately responsible for the education of my children. Again, I can use outside expertise for subjects I'm not as good on. Fine. But I'm still an educational authority in my child's life. Now, two things.

One, okay, that's a big responsibility. Two, I better be worthy of it, right? So I better know a little something about this world. I better be able to model for my kids what it means to be a man, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a father, what it means to be an educator. And yeah, that's going to require some work. But I will tell you this much. If you would ask us when we started homeschooling, we were super intimidated. Oh my God, super intimidated. I'm right out of the military. Tina's like, what the hell? I didn't sign up for this. And, um, and we had all these grandiose ideas. Like our kids are each going to speak

three foreign languages and learn a musical instrument and play two sports. By the end, we're like Asian. By the end, we're like, do you love Jesus and hate communism? Yeah. Mission accomplished. Right? Like we have, we have done it, but honestly, one of the, I, I will, I will say this over and over again. And I always get a little bit, you know, the greatest compliment that I can give my wife, especially, is not one that I give her. It's the one that my kids give her. Because if you ask each one of my kids, they all have different objectives. They all have different professional goals.

But if you ask each one of them what do they want out of life, one of the first things they'll tell you is I want to get married and I want to have kids. Why? Because my wife created a home for them that they cannot wait to replicate for their own family. That's awesome. What is a better compliment than that for any parent? That your kids want to replicate the life you built for them. And one of the things that we accomplished with this is we didn't get it always right. They didn't always have the same resources that they would have went to some other area. Yeah. They would have had, they would have had better labs and they would have access to

more musical instruments and whatnot. But I gained back thousands of hours with my children through the most formative years of their life. And now I have a relationship with them that I want to trade for anything. And there's something to be said for that. I talked with Hannah's uncle, my wife's uncle. He's been a school teacher and school administrator for over 20 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So he's pretty left-leaning. So if me and him agree on something, I was like, okay, well, it's got to be right if we're agreeing. But I asked him what he thought about homeschool, and he goes, it's just to be right if we're agreeing but i i asked him like what he thought about homeschool

and he goes it's he goes it's just better if you do it right it's better he goes there's not a single study that's reputable that says otherwise he said in 15 minutes in a one-on-one or up to either one to four or one to six setting you can achieve in 15 minutes what a public school can achieve in about an hour. And he goes, so if you actually legitimately homeschool your kids, you can achieve an eight hour school day in six hours. And then you can take another four hours to go explore anything else. Yeah. So two hours, you can accomplish what an eight, what a public school does in eight. And he's like, then you could take another four hours to explore anything else, martial arts, sports, anything you want.

And then you still gain two hours extra at home with your kids. Well, and it's, and look, like take us, take aside any, like, let's not, I won't assume the nefarious nature, even though I think some of that is there within the education system.

Let's just say everyone's doing their best. It's still a mass production model approach to education. It's mass production. That's what it is. It's still a mass production model approach to education. It's mass production. That's what it is. It has to be because that teacher, what is that teacher supposed to do? Give individualized attention to all 20 students in the classroom. That's an unrealistic expectation. So what it affords you is an individualized model of education. And one of the most important things your kids can learn is that education is not a building you go to. Education takes place. Education is merely the transference of knowledge,

hopefully useful knowledge and wisdom to go along with it. That's what it is. And so now everything, whether you're making dinner or where you're doing Brazilian jujitsu, or whether you're doing a math problem because you're teaching your kids how to run a small business. Like all of that is now education. It's not sit here. This is another thing I think too, especially with, with young boys, we have all these things that we now classify as learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, and look, there's, there's, there's clinical definitions of these things. And I'm not taking anything away from that, but how many, how many learning disabilities all of a sudden become capabilities in a very, very different circumstance or environment, right? Yeah. If you're going to put that, if you're going to put that kid, if you're going to put that rambunctious boy

in a chair and say, sit here, be quiet, listen, and do your, do your stuff that you don't care for six hours a day that you don't care about. Oh yeah. His behavior is going to look a whole hell of a lot like a learning disability. You take that same kid, you put him in a different environment that is far more kinetic, far more interactive. And then all of a sudden, all of the things that inhibited learning in that environment, all of a sudden become capabilities and advantages in a different environment. I don't think it's ridiculous to consider that. So I can't wait to see Huffington Post tomorrow. Nick Freitas says abortion causes ADHD. No, there's a TED talk about ADHD. Pretty much exactly what you just said,

but the story they used was in like the 1920s. I think it was Britain. There was a girl that just couldn't pay attention in class and they couldn't get her to do it.

And ADHD obviously wasn't a thing then. And the teacher told the parents, your daughter needs to be a dancer yeah and they sent her to dance school and she became a ballerina and then like fast forward in life she ran the most successful ballerina academy like in the world that's like still renowned to this day and it's like and then if you would have sent her to school in 2020 they would have gave her meth and told her to fucking do math quietly in the corner. Not everything's a square hole. Yeah.

And they're finding out what's really fascinating too is they find out things like dyslexia. Yes, dyslexia will make it more difficult for you to potentially read on a flat page. But if you actually put someone in a different environment, because my son had mild dyslexia, put that kid, yeah, reading a book, it's difficult. He's got to focus more in order to do it. Put that kid behind a 3D printer or give him some sort of like, you know, three-dimensional thing. He can think and see things in a way that like, I can't put it together the same way. And so again, it's, yes, it makes this thing more difficult, but it makes this thing way difficult, but it makes this thing way easier. It's almost like the entire education system was built to turn out factory workers.

Crazy. And conscripts. I don't even have to ask what your son is 3D printing. Print guns, not money. Oh, we're putting that on a shirt. That already is. Print guns, not money oh we're putting that on a shirt that already is that's like a that's a renowned libertarian yeah what are your political values

print guns not money what was your with your son what was his weaknesses and as you were saying he's like I sucked at this but he really shined in these things what were a couple other oh so he had a more difficult time reading and spelling i give him crap about it still i'm like but like i know it sucks but you still got to get it right else you're gonna look like an idiot um but when whenever it came to um anything with

construction anything with you know again we we went to a homeschool fair once and they had a blacksmith there and he's out there and forge hammering away, making stuff. And he's like, could we, could we try that? Like, yeah, let's do it. And I figured, cause again, I grew up in a schooling model. So I figured we're going to show up, we're going to get a PowerPoint presentation on the, you know, the history of blacksmithing. We get there and homeboy at Platinum Starch Forge goes like, all right, so here's the forge. Here's some iPro. Let's go beat some metal. Like, this is awesome. And so, and so we bought a little one and now like my son's out there and it was funny. I was in, I was in session. So I was gone and I, I, I was giving him assignments.

I'm like, Hey, I want you to, you know, you're going to develop this. You're going to do your best job developing this, watch this channel on how to do it. And my wife calls me up. I'm like, hey, I want you to, you know, you're going to develop this. You're going to do your best job developing this. Watch this, you know, channel on how to do it. And my wife calls me up. She's like, baby, I just want you to know it's so great and it's so inspiring to see Luke just really passionate about something. But when you give him a deadline that causes him to be in the garage pounding steel at 2 in the morning, that kind of impacts the rest of the family, babe. I'm like, oh, okay, my bad. But no, he was just, why? Because I didn't tell him to do that. I gave him a deadline and he was passionate about it and he's out there just hammering away.

And so, yeah, it was stuff like that. And again, it's not that it was like, oh, well, son, you have difficulty reading. I guess we won't worry about literacy. No, you still got to learn how to read and you still got to power gotta power through this right but um yeah it was just incredible when you when you put those other opportunities out there and and he can do it in a way that i i just can't like he can see a project and imagine it in his mind and then make it work in a way that if i was doing it like i'm gonna be honest. I was that dad where I was putting together, like, the girls' bicycles on Christmas morning. Like, ash, ash, ash. Still that way.

But, yeah, he could just see it. It's always crazy. You get wrapped on Christmas Day. You have a bicycle minus a tire and then a tire. I wonder what my kids got for Christmas. Oh, more shit for me to do. Horrific. Do dyslexia.

Did you working with true dyslexia is the weirdest, like wild. And it's every part of their life is taken over by that thing. You're like, why can't? And they just see everything backwards. Years later, it will still write an S, a five. Everything just blends in. I'll get it sporadically with different fonts. And the only thing that I can think of is like, wow, having true dyslexia would suck.

Yeah. It's fucking wild. I've never seen it. And then I have now, and I'm like, oh, this is different. Yeah. Because Ryan's brain works again completely different autism so it is what he likes what he doesn't like how he can fake stuff how he can't fake stuff and then day-to-day activity i just got text today that uh he's been commenting on the one channel he does watch because they do like gta wrecks and he hasn't done a GTA rec in a month. So Ryan

has to tell that in every comment. Why have you stopped? Yeah, literally. You violated your posting schedule. He's just going to start texting or commenting their IP address. Yeah. I'll tell you what. You need to re-upload.

Insane Gatsats shout out to you for dealing with my son thank you well if insane gats is not posting gta 5 4 videos then how could i re-upload insane gats gta 4 videos to youtube right first question oh dang it's been like four weeks that's so long that insane gates is still not posting gta4 videos anymore this is a disaster and it's all my fault what am i going to do you know what i'm gonna just give up and go to sleep thank you for just saying go to sleep i'm proud of you for that because i am so tired it's like all and then he finishes i'm just gonna go to sleep in my bed for 1 000 years right in

text mom i was like yeah we're gonna have to work on him commenting on some japanese anime go on just eli's just sitting there like what what is the reply to that sounds good son i love you but we can't talk like that we can't blame people for them not uploading what you want and then also saying you're going to re-upload their content i wouldn't be a fan of it that's okay it's definitely not Eli low-key bullying another YouTuber into making more GTA 4 content. Now there's going to be a hundred unsubbed people in that company. Do not do that!

Make more content for Ryder! You knew what you were doing when you did that. Don't even play. I don't want him to do more content. I was like, I told Kyle- I don't want him to make more content. Let me read off his channel name so people don't want him to make more content let me read off his channel name so people don't go over he's had a shout out he does like goes and thanks him he actually replied to one over hey thank you for actually mentioning i appreciate it everyone was

like nice because i apologize for riding in one of the past episodes he likes like docks him if he doesn't upload we want our form video you know what I remembered the other day that I had completely just forgotten about for like two years the first time we bullied a company together on my second unsub appearance the rim company

that would give Eli the getyourwheels.com it was so funny let's see what the reviews are right have they recovered that's the free market yep hey do you know that story bro he had he had the set of rims one of them was at a round and he went to like four different tire shops to get his car rebalanced over and over again every time he gets over 45 whole car starts shaking yes and then he finally takes the rims to a machinist and puts them on dials and like you're gonna see it and i mean

the dial is just going like this like it's not a round rim yeah yeah so he hits up the rim company and this is after i sent them back by the way and showed them dial had you paid for shipping big ass wheels like yeah just here like here's a video of it wobbling. Uh, here's the issues. They send it back. Like, Nope, it's good. And then,

and then, uh, so he's like, you gave a proportional response. He told him, he was like, Hey, we're like,

I don't want to like talk about on the podcast or whatever. Uh, just, you know, can I just like get what I paid for? And they're like, they told him there's no such thing as bad publicity. Oh, and then we got really well.

I'm real. I forgot. Is that what you say that there's no such thing as bad publicity. And then I determined that was a lie. I go off on a fat electrician rant about how society is built around technology. First, we unlocked thumbs. Then we unlocked pointy sticks. Then we unlocked fucking circles and unlocked pointy sticks then we unlocked

fucking circles and wheels and you guys are up level three and they got a hold of him like the next day and eli's like well your guy said there's no such thing as bad publicity and well we fired that guy and when your friend insinuated that a rim company didn't know how circles worked apparently that was in fact bad publicity oh that's awesome four months we're gonna do four months of like back and forth trying to be like hey i don't want to bring this up like i just can you get yeah i just want that one wheel it's one fucked up wheels a customer but it's a paperweight outside of it yeah we'll take 10 off your next wheel purchase i was like yeah and then dial indicator everything showing it's bad i was like he's like no they're they just checked out their uh balance it was

like you can balance something you can balance the square it is not the second it is on the road at a certain speed here is what's going to happen it's not a balance issue it's a circle issue here it's pie they were like oh yeah it's fucked it's and i was like there what can we do the radius of the circle is different at different points and then you have a different shape the funniest part is even even the rim company that was not the the website so the manufacturer the salesman what are The manufacturer, the salesman, the problem was that the salesman, even the rim company reached out to you and apologized. Dude,

video uploaded next day, call from said rim company on the one that owned it. And 4Star, I will give a shout out to 4Star and Logan for all the help. Because they're like, yo, we're all in an office right now watching a video

about we can't make wheels. We don't want a fat electrician video on the history of the circle. So they were just like, hey, we got your wheels next. And I was like, thank you.

We even put them on a car for you. Eli tells this entire story as if he didn't just bully a fucking GTA 4 car crash YouTube channel. It's nothing but GTA 4 videos from here on out. Thank you, daddy. The plan has worked.

Credits are always going to say, thank you, Ryan. That's all I want to say. Thank you, Ryden. That's all I want, boy. I just want, thank you, Ryden. Anytime a GTA 4 video pops up in that channel, thank you, Ryden. What's the channel? Insane Gats.

That's the new unsub shirt. Wear more Insane Gats content, question mark. Unsub branded merch. You're just like, I'm not even making money from this. With great power comes great responsibility. Some poor YouTuber out there is like, what do you do? I make content for Raiden. That's my whole job now.

He somehow changes to a Raiden face. It's Raiden re-uploading his content more. Insane gats. Insane gats. Are you leaving the comment now? No, now no no no i'm just writing it down so i know what uh god i always forget about the wheel company those poor not the other people that did find out there is bad publicity before dude and that any time when it comes to car that's also they drove the forklift through my y body kit and like broke it and then

they dropped it off i had to call them i was like hey y'all fuck this up like no we didn't like well who signed for this because i want it you signed for it i was like i did yeah your name is oh it was the driver's name never mind you didn't sign for it yeah so then i had to get it taken they they fixed it really really fast thankfully one of the few times rim company thank you it's a whole new level of bullying you know i know what uh habitual line crosser ethan's wife she's like uh so we we flew out to uh oklahoma so uh we have we have a show on pepperbox called habitually fat where me and ethan just go to like military museums and like get a guided tour it's like two hours long uh it's really fun to shoot but we flew

out to oklahoma to do uh they have an air defender it's technically not a museum because everything in there isn't demilled oh it's but it's like a museum where they take all the air defenders and they walk it through and give them the whole history from like world war one oh wow modern era it's really cool it's just it's not a museum if it's not demilled so it's basically just an armory yeah it's just an antique armory essentially up to modern era and uh I flew out to Oklahoma to go to Fort Sill. I flew Fen, our camera guy, out. And I'm like – got there at night, went to the hotel, woke up. I was at a Waffle House across the street.

And I get a call from Ethan. He's like, hey, Public Affairs just found out that you were coming and they pulled it. Even though I had permission from the Air Defender Chain of Command and the museum. the museum they're just like well we need 90 days to review his content he might be doing a hit piece for the military i was like fucking google me it'll be overwhelmingly apparent that's not what i'm doing and he's like well now i will right i'm like scrambling to like find a different museum that we can just make something get a piece of content because i paid for these flights i got my camera guy out here like just trying to get something out of it turns out not a whole lot fort silve right yeah there was a cowboy museum we were gonna go to really

yeah uh so i immediately back in i called eli and eli's like i could i could call that one number of the guys we know i was like do it and uh so eli calls and like 15 minutes later fort still gets a call from you have to bleep this part out fort still gets a call from the telling them to let me on the base to do whatever the fuck i want and give him a white cloth and uh so i got to go on boat on base and ethan's like explaining it to his wife. And she's like, I love how these guys just strive to be the bigger bullies all the time. Only when bullied. Yeah, exactly.

Be the bigger bully. Yeah. Yeah. So let me ask you something. Have you ever been any like the really big international military museums so the the two that i've been to that really stand out is one in paris the the i think it's the echo militaire um and then they have the infilades that's where like napoleon's tomb is is that where they uh they put up all the or they display all of the german equipment they left behind yeah you you go what's cool about it is that you've got

like the medieval period so they've got like a full-on horse in armor with a mounted knight so you've got that and then you go to like the napoleonic era they've got like all of the various units within the grand army that are like just decked out with authentic uniforms and the whole deal that's super cool but surprisingly one of the coolest military museums i ever went to was south korea really shit south korea's south korea's military museum is better than anything i've ever seen in the united states as far as a military museum it's like five stories where you go back and they've got like um like you know like what is it isan she um he was like a famous uh admiral that like fought the japanese the turtle boats yes yes so they've got all this stuff why is that familiar it's like a whole uh admiral that like fought the japanese the turtle boats yes yes so they've got

all this stuff why is that familiar it's like a whole story there was actually a movie called uh the admiral uh which is a south korean movie it's about like he literally had 13 ships against like over technically it was 300 japanese ships but it was really like 120 like combat ships for but still like he had 13 ships holy one turtle ship so and almost kind of one what's a turtle ship right now it's like think of like an uh like it's a big boat that like has an iron clad component on it with like spikes and then it has a cannon yeah it's it's basically like okay when was this battle? It's like what the Spartans do with their shields and just have the spears pointing out, but it's the boat version.

Okay, what is this story? I've never heard of this. Oh, dude, the Admiral Master and Commander I think is... No, no, that's that one with freaking what's-his-face, but no, it's called The Admiral. It's like South Korean. It's a movie, but this, it is a badass movie. It's awesome. I've seen it like six times, but you go to their museum and like I but this it is a badass movie it's awesome i've seen it like six times uh but you go

to their museum and like i said it is like it is one of the best war museums i have ever seen um this is japan just no this is south korea well no but japan trying to infiltrate yeah yeah when japan did their invasions it was right after like the warring uh well not the warring states periods of china but you had right before the edo period yeah yeah so you you had like the shogun period and whatnot and um oh i'm trying to remember the guy's name but anyway they launched the several invasions of uh korea and yi sun shi i think is a yi sun si i think is the um the name of the south korean admiral but just in epic stories like Like Yi Sun-shi, there was a,

the Japanese managed to infiltrate the South Korean court. And the first time Yi Sun-shi saved South Korea from a Japanese invasion, they infiltrated the South Korean court, convinced them that Yi Sun-shi was a traitor, literally like they tortured him and retired him. And then the Japanese invaded again destroyed his south korean fleet they brought him back he had like 13 ships to work with he was ordered to

abandon the fleet and basically cannibalize his troops to become a part of the the south korean like army or not south korea but korean army josan period um he basically you know refused to follow the orders and then with his 13 ships turned back a 300 ship japanese invasion fleet um and and you look at the story of it it's just it's just incredible um the guy eventually died defeating like the third japanese invasion um and he essentially ordered himself to be propped up as he was dying, as he was mortally wounded because he didn't want his sailors to lose

heart, won the battle and then it was like oh man, he's dead. That's wild. And again, the way they did the Admiral I gotta tell you man, the Chinese and the Koreans they just did some badass war flicks. Very-ass war flicks. Yeah.

Very, very good fucking war flicks. Especially if you like that era. Like, Red Cliff was a great, great war movie. You are speaking Eli's language right now of, like, any of their war movies. They've been doing it for so long. And from martial arts movies to war movies, you think America for war movies. But they do really really really good World War II Flicks too so you know that most of the Clint Eastwood movies most of like the cowboy

movies are based off of Japanese samurai that's why you have yeah yeah my guy knows it yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly oh they Oh, they're awesome. They're awesome. Even Star Wars is based off of. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Star Wars is based off of Kira Kurosawa's. Yeah, Janice films.

So I think we're getting into my favorite conspiracy. Oh. Every Jedi is supposed to have a different fighting style that's supposed to be mirrored off of kung fu the hidden fortress literally what is based off when it's a oh dang i'm gonna look that up you know about that you know about darth jar jar right yeah oh yeah but he's actually a sith lord well that's what that's like part of it is uh because every jedi is a different uh kung fu style yeah crane mantis blah blah well he's actually a Sith Lord. Well, that's part of it, because every Jedi is a different Kung Fu style. Like Crane, Mantis, blah, blah, blah.

Well, he's Drunken Fist, Kung Fu, and that's his thing. Just being an idiot, somehow being outrageously combat effective. I feel like they are just trying to rehabilitate a horrible character. I don't care. I loved him. He was hilarious. I thought George did. I didn't even watch the last Star Wars.

I refused to. I remember watching, what was it? Freaking. What was the first one that came out under the. The Force Awakens. The Force Awakens. Oh, my gosh. I watched that. I'm like, this is the worst retread of A New Hope I've ever seen.

Did you hate that Phantom Menace and stuff? I didn't hate it. I didn't like it. Okay. So it's that older dude hey watch it like everyone that is younger like oh it's great no it is not great it's not great no i was like it's not great i was a child so it was awesome to me i was a child look i will say this it's like i was in sixth grade when it came out. You were in sixth grade. You weren't six, asshole.

Sorry. What year were you born? 94. I was like six. No, you were like one. Wait, when were you born? A Phantom Menace came out in 1999. I'm almost positive.

I'm the only one here that was nine? A Phantom Menace came out in 1999 because I was five or six. Okay, you were five, yeah. It was the first memory I have of going to a movie theater with my parents ever. Really? Yes. So like, I love it because of that. You know what I mean?

So like, that's, that's acceptable. I'm not, that was Star Wars for me. Also, that's why you like it. The thing that drives me nuts and like a big part of the reason I think I'm like as successful

I am with YouTube is I hate telling stories out of chronological order, like books, everybody else else like anytime we're doing flashback autism like hey no we're doing shit he was born here he died here we're filling shit in chronologically the entire time so like part of me is just like okay episode we're starting at episode one because obviously and then i get to episode four and it's like why the fuck is this made out of clay now this is horses these are puppets you're wrong like as i got older i can appreciate the actual storytelling of it or whatever but like as a child trying to understand like why what the fuck happened between three and four why do the graphics suck muppet now i'm pissed well it's you ever heard you're so ocd you're cdo because

you got to put it in alphabetical order yeah no i can i can no budget i can appreciate that but it's like we're at a point right now where exist computers do not sorry i will say the kennedy era needs to just be like locked in a box thrown in the ocean and forgotten about for 20 years, and then they can rehabilitate it. Same thing with freaking rings of power. What they did to Tolkien, I just want to – somebody needs to be beaten. Complete opposite on that side of the spectrum. I don't enjoy the film as much if I know every actor didn't have to sit in makeup for 17 hours before filming. We can CGI it. No, you can can't sit your ass in the chair what's up who played gimli that he was allergic to it so he fucking hates that movie with a

passion oh well the main actor of gimli good it bled through in the character oh dude exactly what i want angry dwarf yeah they did a great job he despised that role just because of that i still enjoyed the hobbit though i didn't the hobbit gets trashed a lot i thought it was i enjoyed it i fucking hate the elves nothing made me hate the elves more than the hobbit it's like oh here's the here's the dwarves showing up riding pigs with war hammers oh my god they built a three level high perfect god damn shield wall what do the elves do

let's go over it what a fucking idiot why don't you just stand over the short guys with spears and go like this you idiots shield wall what are you doing yes dumbest thing ever you know what i mean you think china built the great wall there you know what'd be really good if we sent all the soldiers on the other side of it that'd be perfect oh no

it'd be fucking stupid but that way it was it was almost as bad it was almost as bad as season eight of game of thrones where it's like you know what we should do we should take all of our trebuchets and put them way out front where they can be eliminated first and then you know what we should also do we should just take all of our cavalry and just run them headlong into the army of the dead before we fire any of the trebuchets before we fire any of them yeah before we fire don't use your artillery first send Send the horses. You could have called two nerds and they could have walked you through the process of how to do this correctly.

But I love they do this surprise Pikachu when all the cavalry die. We sent them into battle unsupported and all the lights went out. What? Operation Human Shield. Operation. We can't say the other one right i remember that particular stop talking oh no wait what human shield battalion

i have a great story for you uh i finished the video before i came here flux finishing the edit for it now uh so I did a video. I told you this last night. Last night. Yeah. I did a video on Joe Foss. So he was the other hero of Guadalcanal after John Bassilon. So Joe Foss was a Marine aviator in the Cactus Air Force.

Dude shows up and they pull up off of Guadalcanal and they wake him up at like midnight they're like hey uh we're just gonna have to launch your ass in your wildcat fighter at night which is not you're not supposed to fly wildcats at night they're not night fighters they don't have night they're like japanese navy surrounded the island we can't get any closer we're just gonna have to fucking eat you you're gonna have to fly in there and sneak in so he flies in and sneaks in and like his first nine days i think he shoots down like 12 japanese planes and he ends up tying eddie rickenbacker for uh 26 and setting the american record he became like america's first ace of aces of world war ii and uh but he has this story where he goes up and he shoots down uh he shoots down two zeros and his guys shoot down the other four and they just wipe out this whole flight of two zeros and his guys shoot down the other four.

And they just wipe out this whole flight of Japanese zeros. And he goes and banks and turns around. And when he turns around, there's just several empty Japanese parachutes with the back rig just floating empty. And he's like, the fuck? He had no idea at the time is this was 1942 or very early 43 before anybody understood like the bushido like japanese would like rather die than surrender or be captured or whatever the whole dishonor thing so he's just like the fuck where'd the guys go and then he comes up on one dude still in his parachute and he's like i watched him unbuckle and plummet to his death. Wow. And he's just like, huh.

All right. And then he just goes and lands his plane. They would jump out and then they would just fucking, oh, I'm in my parachute. They would jump out of the parachute and then do like, all right. And what's the clip you're going to use after that? Oh, yeah. The clip that I'm having Fluck edit in the thing is from the good guys. Or the nice guys.

The nice guys when the dudes, when they go back in the elevator and the dude falls from behind him and then it's going to immediately cut to Dana White at the press conference. That was weird, huh? Is that your next big story you're doing? Yeah, it should come out here in a couple days. I think the 31st will come out.

Get that good Nick content. I think on that note, we can close it down and go to the before we do that i've got one question though oh so you've got all of the your political stuff you're kind of it's coming to a close yeah uh you know your kids are going off and you know starting to become successful in their own right which is awesome what's next for you? He's hanging out in the naked room. The establishment. I already told you, my wife and I are like... Stupid question, I suppose. Yeah, well, how did that nurse outfit show up, honey?

Kitchen counter's back. He must have ordered that on Amazon. I know the kitchen counter's back in play, but no surface is safe. No, no, no, not that cutting board. The other cutting board yeah my dad can visit me that one's for a different kind of charcuterie you said what

your wife doesn't watch your interviews at all does she she yeah sometimes um anyway um no i i think two two things i mean we'll still how do i get serious now well you know some of we already kind of talked about like the homeschooling and the whole young men thing um i i think we're at a point just kind of culture in the United States where, uh, young men are going to revolt. Um, there has been this absolute onslaught on what I would, you might call traditional masculinity, what I call biblical masculinity. It's the idea that men are supposed to protect. We're supposed to provide, we're supposed to do these things. And, um, and that's the way it's supposed to be. And, um, but we're, we're at, we're at a point

right now where I think a lot of young men have just been told that there's something wrong with them and that they're responsible for – I think it's fascinating. They've been simultaneously told that they're stupid, fat, lazy, and worthless. But they've also somehow managed to infiltrate every single social, economic, or political institution to uphold the patriarchy. Like, which is it? Yeah. And if you're not stupid, fat, and worthless, then you're alt-right. Yeah. Yeah.

So you work out and try to build something of yourself and climb the social hierarchy yeah you're there's something wrong with you're bad and so some of it we were we're very my wife and i're both very very passionate about trying to provide like greater capability or um resources with respect to people the parents that want to take a little bit more control of their kids' education. I think there's a huge market right now for, you know, reinforcing the young men that, yeah, you are supposed to be strong. You're supposed to be competent. You're supposed to do all these things. But it has to be in service to something, right?

It can't just be in service to your own, like, hedonistic pleasures. It has to be in service to, you know, God, your family, your country. Because, again, men thrive under responsibility. And when we started really getting into social media, it was funny. I was talking to Tina a while back. And obviously, we talk about politics a lot, and we'll continue to. But I call it, what do I get stopped at the airport for? And what I've noticed is I don't get stopped at the airport for people saying, I really loved your political hot takes.

It's usually your cool gun by TSA. No, no, it's the stuff that always has the most. The stuff that always has the most meaning to me is when it's usually a young father coming up going. I got I have a little girl and I've been watching your videos on, on how to be a good girl, dad. And it's, it's really impacted me. And I'm, and I'm doing those things you suggest. I'm telling my daughter, I love her. I'm spending time with her. I'm, you know, or it's something with like, I got a little boy and I'm, and I'm trying to like, you know, help teach him how to be a man or. So your goal is to crash the, uh, next generation only fans market yeah yeah yeah

completely just destroy that it's like yeah uh raise a generation of good fathers yeah yeah good yeah no and and it's true um there there's there are very few problems that you see with an american society right now that can't be solved by i think a good god-fearing dad that's strong competent and intelligent and um we need a whole lot more of it. And men need to know that it's not only okay, it's absolutely necessary. There is no – this whole idea that we don't need men in society. Okay, until you've got to fight a fire, a war, or police streets, then all of a sudden we're popular again?

Screw you. And so the more we can do to kind of build that, where we're building strong families, strong young men, strong young women, that's what we're passionate about. Hell yeah. Yeah. Love it. Sweet. Yeah.

Well, now that we're – now that I'm fired up on an early Friday afternoon, we're going to go ahead and call it? Yeah, and then we'll go we'll go after show have fun there thank you guys so much for watching the unsubscribed podcast again i was joined today by eli double tap fat electrician nick freighters where do we find you virginia oh no yeah they is a brand nick j freighters we made it easy if you just type in nick freighters or anything close you'll you'll find us on youtube instagram and everywhere else so well thank you guys so much for joining us we will see you either in the next episode or on the patreon after show

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