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What's up, bitches? Hey, guys. Finally. When's last time we recorded? Gary Sneeis. Gary Sanisse. Is that the last time we recorded? I think so.

Yeah, we did that up in Nashville. Damn, we got busy there for a minute. Yeah. How was meeting Lieutenant Dan? Oh, the most down-to-earth, amazing person. I've never heard a bad thing. No, nothing bad to say. Yeah.

He is so kind. He showed us around his office and, showed us all his pictures and challenge coins. It was so cool, man. He's the kind of guy that makes you feel like a bad person, just because of, not because you're bad, but because of how good he is. He's just got pure good guy energy. Oh, man. How much they've raised compared, like, was it 600? 600, something million. Well, because I thought it was 400. He corrected me with 650, 650 million. God, dang. Hey, you do one movie like Forrest Gump, you've got leverage in those lobbying circles, man. that's probably more than the GDP of several countries.

I mean, what's super commendable about him, too, it's like after he did Forest County, he didn't stop. He just kept going with Lieutenant Dan Band and then starting the Gary Sinise Foundation. And he's been working on, like, network television for years, right? CSI and the CSI.

That was the big one that he said that and there was another one, but those are the ones that really catapulted him and let him, as he said, have a voice to everyone to push what, he wanted. But you know the best, in my opinion, the best role he ever played. And I think it was before Forrest Gump, before he became like a household name of Mice and Men. Yeah. He was so incredible in that. Yeah. That's like one of his first. That was one of his first. I think that was like a passion project for him too. Like I think he produced that if I'm not mistaken. And like he

made that happen. That's fine. More challenge coins than anyone we have ever met combined. It's like what 3,500 or something like that? And, counting. He could just start his own country with like his own currency just melding all that together. Basically. There's a full fucking table. Like every square inch of that table had a challenge coin under it. And it was just how long was that table? 18 feet. No, God. It was at least. It was a massive conference table. Like it was big. We're, Eli, where this, were challenge coins that big 20 years ago? Do you remember it being? I don't think so either. Like, I can't remember if they've ever been that big of a deal as they have the last maybe 10 years.

Because you bought got probably the one during your entire? Dude, yeah, because like a general pastor and they'd be like, great job, young Marine, here's the coin. Yeah, they don't, they didn't, that wasn't a thing. Okay, so it says challenge coins experienced a significant surge in popularity within the U.S. military during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and became widespread across branches in the 80s and 90s. Huh. Well, we would have so use. The tradition has since expanded to very, very.

to include various civilian organizations. That's probably where the influx recently has come from, yeah. Because you do it as a drinking game of who had the highest challenge coin, didn't have to drink anyone else that didn't match that could. So if you did a challenge, you slammed it on the table. They would look at the rank of that individual and be like, oh, we got to drink. And you're like, huh.

I feel like we could probably do pretty well at at this point. Yeah, the general of the army. Yeah. Well, I have been, I think quite possibly I have been at this point handed. maybe over 250 to 500 challenge coins at this point. There are two that I hold on to very dearly. We were just the first time we met, it was when Leroy Petrie and Clint,

and I bonded instantly because we were the only guys on set smoking cigarettes. So we became BFS. But those are the two challenge coins over the years that I keep in a separate area. Because usually I get back from these trips, and I have like a whole 20 pounds worth of challenge coins in my backpack. And so I just, you know, put him in a general area. But I make sure those two are segregated and in a place where my house burnt down, I'd still have those coins, yeah.

Segregated coins. I like it. You don't save them. Because Clint's are super cool now. Oh, he, yeah. Oh, man, I got it. May I? Yeah, by all means.

He let me make my own. Oh, no shit. So there's chances are you might have received the challenge coin from Clint Romishay lately, and it was me pounding it, not Clint. Sorry. he let me he let me make a whole I went to his house and he basically put me to work there's he hand makes all of them

which is so cool ours is up our coins up there on the wall oh me or whoever he let make him yes yeah maybe a jack coin yeah no I just made coins for three days oh that is it his or your own oh you made this one he let me do all the pounding and I don't know

it's a it's a process but yes he does it himself like he's in his garage a couple hours a day personally making all of his coins. Actually, what's the eight stand for? The members of his tune that were lost. Gotcha. Yeah.

No shit, yeah. Here's is more. It's been in my wallet. Yeah. Also, I'm not good at making challenge coins. That was my first time. He's such a cool, dude. We were talking about, do you have like just, hold on,

fortunes, like from fortune cookies in your wallet? Okay, this sounds a little hokey, but sometimes you need to pick me up. And every once in all, if I have a good fortune in my fortune cookie, I put in my wallet to save inspiration. Let me see one. Okay. You will die of dysentery. That's not right.

Yeah, here's a, these are, I probably accumulated these over a decade at this point. Financial burden is near? Oh, yeah. Abundance. Okay. Yeah, yeah. You need a pick-me-up. This is my version of a white girl meme.

Your sense of humor will lead to happiness. Oh. Yes, I need to pick-me-ups every once in a while. And so what better way than spending $12 on some orange chicken and getting, you know, some encouragement from, you know, someone that might be indentured working in that back kitchen. Gaining weight because of an affirmation kink. Yeah. Jack, that was a passionate laugh.

He just really dug in my brain just now. I'm having to think about my motivation now why I just do certain things. Like, oh, am I lacking something? Why am I doing this? Sorry, we can dissect this a little further off air, but yeah, no. I got time. I got time. Yeah, I wrote a whole spiel in one of my episodes I was writing recently about the reason

why I'm not worried about ChatcheeBT ruining my job is that human beings will always want to seek out authenticity and ChatchyPT was never sitting in class in sixth grade and had all the sixth grade girls laugh at him because someone told him that he had the biggest tits in the grade.

That's never happened to ChatchyPT before. ChatGBT BT can't replicate that kind of trauma that makes you develop into a brain that can only do self-deprecating humor because as a protection mechanism. I don't know. The amount of shit I've I've seen people ask GROC to do lately.

ChatGTPT and AI probably has more trauma than any of us combined. That's true, yeah. Yeah, it's probably heard some weird stuff. But then I will put in the most mundane stuff. It's like that, well, that's been flagged for this and that. I'm like, I just asked you to draw a picture of Hitler. You have guinea pig. What's the big deal about this?

Grog would be fun with that. You know what I was going to say? Rock would do it. Oh, free speech. Grog, Grock respects the First Amendment, man. Depends on what phase he's in, but my God, when he gets let off the leash, it's aggressive. It's raining back a little. Neither one of those motherfuckers will tell me anything about the FBI database, the crime statistic database.

They won't? Yeah. Grock won't. Gatcheep.T. won't. Yeah. they've had a um it was one of the issues with a extremely liberal AI base is the information it feeds it does view humans as a threat so it stops because we also will go i mean you've seen the arguments it's like no that's more important anything else is more important saving the environment put life of animals first all that and it does consume that and it's like oh okay well got it i don't need to worry about human life then. There's that word, there's a word for it. I don't know, I don't remember what it is at the top of my head, but it's like that, that hatred of mankind, essentially, we're like,

you prioritize literally anything else. So we're in a cold war with AI right now. That's probably the smartest thing I'll say all episode right there. Yeah, well, the only problem with the, the cold war we're having with AI right now is that we're continuing to give them more resources and ammunition. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, I'm looking at places and, you know, my future, I want a homestead in the future. I'm looking at place and like that water might be gone in a few years. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's kind of like being in the space race with Russia, except right now we're like, hmm, would you like a Saturn 5 rocket? Yeah. And with less German scientists. Yeah, maybe that's why it's taking longer. Yeah. So Jack, you're back into, I mean, you are now

a year, two years into your YouTube journey? A little over a year. Yeah. Just hit the year mark recently. Yeah, I just hit 50,000 subscribers the other day. I'm stoked about that. Yeah. Never missed the deadline. I've always released episodes the same time every week. When does YouTube send you the first half of your play button? Well, yeah, right? That's what I'm

certain. It sounds so... That's so good. Are you talking about the... Yeah, like the plaques, like the creator plaques? You know, it sounds silly. I've never been... I don't hold on to anything. I have very few accomplishments that I've held on to, like physical things. It's very easy for me to toss stuff. That has been a

motivator to me to get one of those things. I remember when I was first starting out too. That was the one thing. I'm like, oh man, if I just get to that play button. And now they're like half the size is when you guys got yours. You, okay. Well, you can see like the difference from that to that one. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. YouTube has been kind of skimping on the play buttons lately. I remember in the very beginning there were the physical like plated play button. Like it was like a nice like actual board. They had like a shadow box almost. Yeah, because there's like five people with 100,000 subscribers. Yeah, but then they just kind of got progressively shittier and shittier.

And now they're just going to like, in five years, they're just going to send you a picture of a play button, like on a printed piece of paper. Yeah, yeah. I think Tim actually said it's because the influx of shorts and people are getting so many of them. They're like, oh, fuck, we've got to make them short smaller. And they talked about separating short play buttons from long form play buttons,

which would be hard, but. Because like, like back in shit. that was 2020, I think I got my million play button. The old old was huge. It was awesome looking. And I looked it up and I was like 700 something in the world. It was like, fuck yeah, dude. Now a million play buttons.

You're going to be like the 27,000 in the world to have a million subscribers. It's insane. What do you add for subs? No. I'm 5.4 million subs on the main channel. Is there a plaque for after a million? There's 10 million and then there's I think 20, 50. And there's what, like maybe a dozen of those people?

I mean, I think it was just like after. It's crazy. Yeah. 69,000 people have a million. Play button. Holy crud. That's a, I am going to quit. As of August last year.

I'm going to quit bothering with any of this shit. I'm just going to go Uber for a living. Holy shit. To be fair, a lot of those are like repeats where it's like one YouTuber has four accounts, five accounts. And a lot of it's like corporate or you have like a musical artist. Okay. All right.

A bunch of people like it's not just like YouTubers. It's like big, you know, corporations will have them too. Gotcha. That's a lot. That's way more than I thought. As you said, 700. You're like, fuck yeah, under a thousand. I got this.

Now it's like. Yeah. Welcome to shorts. Yep. Well, we're not marked. Yeah. YouTube done become TikTok. Yeah, right?

What's Jimmy at now? Jimmy's at 170? Oh, he's over like $400. Yeah. No, he's a 470 million. Jeez, fudge. Let's see if he's over. Did you just say fudge?

A race car sounds. Yeah. Mr. All right. Cody's changed. He's not going to curse anymore. I saw him walking out of that LDS church the other day. That makes sense.

474. Gosh. Oh, Mr. Beast. Yeah. 4174 million. Oh, you guys are first named basis. I was really confused who you were talking about there.

That's insane. I'm like, that's such an unheard of number. Brandon, do you need not... One more time, you got this, buddy. Brandon, can you... Brandon, do you like... Almost there, bud.

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your, uh, the grave. We had a story that both wanted to hear. Oh, I covered this in one of my previous episodes. Yeah. Yeah. It was the part he didn't know. The story of Arlington, uh, Arlington National Cemetery. Yeah.

Can I get a little bit of a backdrop? Please. Otherwise, I'm lost. Well, uh, so the Lee and his wife's family, the Custace family are as close you could have gotten to Virginia American royalty back in the day. Uh, Robert E. Lee's wife's wife. wife. I don't need a backdrop on him. You degenerates know who he is. His wife was a direct descendant of George Washington through adoption.

So she came from one of the most prestigious of prestigious Virginia families. He was a direct descendant. His grandfather was Washington's right-hand man. They were actually cousins. He got that the land of what is now Arlington National Cemetery through his wife, his marriage, to Mary Lee. And Civil War kicks off. Virginians had to start making some tough decisions in 1861, especially if you were an officer and a career military guy like Robert E. Lee. He gave it some tough thought. From what I understand, he was actually here at the Mangar Hotel in San Antonio, Texas,

when he decided to resign from the Union Army and join the Confederacy. Really? I did not know that's where that happened. That's what I've been told by people at the Mangar. Yeah. I do know that there's the place in Bernie where he was. was apparently his, the place that he stayed. Yep, he was, this was his base when the Civil War kicked off. I did not know that.

I knew he fought in the Mexican-American War. Oh, yeah, they all did. They came up together, man. Yeah. Yeah. That's neat. Okay, so that's the news. I didn't know that either.

Yeah, he was stationed out here. I mean, a lot of those big names from the Civil War, Texas was their home base when everything kicked off. But yeah, long story short, so. It's still a wild idea, like in the military, just splitting. And having that conversation, dude, that is a wild idea. These guys who fought in that Mexican-American war together, they were boys. They went to West Point together.

A lot of these guys were boys who went and literally fought each other in that war. It's crazy to think about it. And after the war, a lot of them picked right back up where they left off. Yeah. And one, that's something that when people talk about, like, oh, there's another civil war coming for this country, like that sort of thing. First of all, I think that that's like a horrific last case scenario. Right. Anybody who's actually open a history book knows that that's a fucking horrible.

idea. It was bad in 1861. Nowadays, Jesus. But then you have the other side where they're like, oh, you could never stand up against the government. Look at everything the military has. And it's like, ooh, you didn't read too much about what happened last time. Yeah, there was a kind of a split in the officer corps there. Yeah. I don't know how the politics of that would even go down. But yeah, in 1861, Bobby Lee joins the Confederacy. And his property is literally within a stone's throw of Washington, D.C. It is right up there on the Potomac.

And the first thing the Union Army did was like, we can't let this populated area of Virginia. So the Union Army moved into that Northern Virginia area and controlled it the entirety of the war. And that was Robert Lee's property. And they seized the property and about halfway into the war,

they started running out of burial space for all the Union soldiers that were dying. They're like, fuck it, what's we're going to do about it? So they just started burying dead soldiers on his property there. and by the time the war was done that's where you put dead soldiers at was on that Lee property

either side? It was a union on that side. There are a couple Confederate soldiers buried on that property. What was the reason for that? I don't know, but I've seen the the headstones there and they're old. Yeah, I don't. I couldn't tell you, but I've seen them. That's really interesting. Yeah, I never heard that.

Yeah, it's right near the Lee house, their actual home. there's probably some reason why they got grandfathered into that. But yeah, long story short, the government was going to give that property back. And Robert Lee died in 1870. His wife, Mary, I think, died soon after. So his son, George Washington Custis Lee had all the important names of that motherfucker's name. He was on his father's staff during the war and everything like that. He was like, yo, you illegally seize this land for my family.

I want this back. and the government was like, no! Anyways, long story short, by the late 1870s, over 10 years after the war ended, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. And he got that property. Now, he didn't want the property at all

because you can't do shit with it because there's a bunch of dead motherfuckers on it. It's not the Lee plantation at that point. It's the Lee dead body farm. And so he immediately sold the land back to the government and got millions of dollars, and that's how it basically officially

became Arlington National Cemetery. When the government legally acquired the land after the Supreme Court case. But this is my favorite part of the story. Do you know who one of his... He wasn't his chief counsel, but do you know who one of the lawyers was that was helping him with his case

to get that land back? Kim Kardashian's dad. He was good. He was good. Yeah. He was the morale lawyer. He wasn't the best lawyer on the... that squad, but OJ liked them.

They were boys, you know, they partied together. OJ wasn't going to party with Johnny Cochran. Yeah. Who was the lawyer? I don't think of a help get that one. That you know of. Was it a Lincoln?

It was Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's oldest son. No shit. It helped the Lee family get their freaking property back. No shit. I feel like I've heard that part of this. Yeah, it's wild, man.

And that just kind of shows, I think maybe those two, those sons, and I'll go on a rant about Robert Todd if you guys are interested. But I think those guys, that younger generation, maybe it was symbolic. I don't know. But maybe that was a way to kind of, America still very much needed to heal at that point. And that was a good way to find a level of healing there. Because reconstruction was not exactly an easy going process. No, it was. And it was not far from being ended at that point.

point. Yeah. Now, you said Robert Todd at one point. I feel like you told the story before, but I don't remember the details. Didn't he save someone at a train station who probably ought not be saved? He was saved. He was seconds away from death on a train platform. He was swooped up by a guy named Edwin Booth, who was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth. That was it. Two years later killed Robert Todd's father. The thing, Edwin Booth wasn't a particularly, he was not a politically active person. He was an actor in his peers form. He stayed the F out of it and just played Hamlet.

And I think his brother doing that, who was also a successful actor, it like destroyed him mentally to have that be part of his family. Because his family, they were like the acting, they were the American acting royalty of the day. They were like the most famous acting family in America. That's like a Leo pretty much at that time.

Yes. Can you imagine if, Who's a big guy? The Baldwin's. The baldwomen. Can you imagine if one of the... Well, that... Well... Well, okay, the Wilson brothers.

The Wilson brothers. There we go. There we go. Can you imagine if one of the Wilson brothers went after dawn? That would be the weirdest thing, right? Like, wait, what? Yeah, like a Hemsworth takes a shot.

It's like, fucking what? Yeah, who? Yeah. The scars. The guards did what? Yeah. That would be... It would be, Bill.

Yeah. Oh, my God. The media, too. as I. The magazines during that, how did they portray that family? Well, I don't think it didn't go against Edwin Booth's career. I think he had a very successful career afterwards. I think Americans realized his brother was a nut job.

We can't lose this fucking good actor, man. Yeah. They said something similar about the Epstein Files. Yeah. They're like, oh, but he was so good in Polar Express. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He created Microsoft, man. I get to do teams meetings every day because of that guy.

We can't go after him. Well, now when you put it that way. They get a pass. What's he going to do, sue me? I'm worth, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, that guy's a trillionaire. I'm a hundred in there. So what is he? Yeah.

I can't even afford to loss. Yeah. Oh, good. Take away my collection of 1970s McDonald's cups. Yeah. Jack Loo's living his dream. Yeah. Yeah.

Dude, Cody, you have, we barely got to talk about you winning, because that, or winning the first part. And then Cody's been on a journey too with streaming you just started your new series. Yeah. Your podcast. Crime is fun. You're on about it. You're on like three episodes now? Yeah, it comes out every Friday.

New one's coming out this Friday. Talk about crime. It's a crime series, true crime. It's about 40 to 40 minutes. to like an hour long. It's just shit that I've always wanted to talk about, but it's really hard to put it into a 15-minute format on the main channel.

What's your favorite one you've done so far? Pokemon crime. I need to die. So I talk about like, like, Pokemon on Pokemon crime, or like, what's the... 13% of the Pokemon. Them darker Pokemon, you got to... It was, that was a fun one,

because I was talking about, like, the crime involved with counterfeit cards, and uh, sorry. Counterfeit cards and robberies involving Pokemon cards because I mean the motherfuckers are worth so much money now. Because isn't there a bunch of like money laundering

in that shit too? Yeah, yeah, yeah. For instance, there were some yakuza like Japanese mafia guys come out and it's like, yeah, that's a great way to launder money because you got these tiny little cardboard things worth thousands and thousands of dollars.

Hundreds of that millions now. Yeah, yeah. Now you can just pack those into a suitcase or small. mug them anywhere you want to do they counterfeit yeah there's a lot of counterfeiting in it and in it too especially in the grading market but it's also it's totally legal too like if you're going through TSA like with 50,000 dollars hundred thousand dollars in cash or with drugs like that's sketchy but like if you have three like holographic charzards who gives a fun yeah sheniqua at TSA is going to be like cards cool okay here you go and so they take them all

around the world and they put them into the market and they're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars just laundering money through them But my favorite part of the episode I talked about with Pokemon crime is how you could use Pokemon in the real world as war assets. What? Yeah. Like, okay, we go into the Pokemon universe, right? Are you a Pokemon guy, by the way?

I grew up on it, dude. I had Pokemon Blue in 1998 on the original Game Boy. But you go to, I can't remember what Jim it was. You go to the electricity Pokemon guy, Sergeant, whatever his name is. And he's like, I used to shock my enemies in war with my electric Pokemon, which that means that there was warfare in the Pokemon world. And they used Pokemon in warfare, which opens up a whole other world. So I jumped into how did they use Pokemon in warfare?

When you said that in the beginning, I thought you meant in our world. No, I was like, fucking excuse me. No, but I'm thinking about it. They have the Geneva Convention in Pokemon War? I said that in the episode. I was like, do they have the Poki Geneva Conventions here? Dude, Sicario seemed completely changed when he walks in. He walks in with the squirtle.

Kicks his leg. He's just drowning him with squirtle. Yeah, man. And then I was talking about like, you have like muck. You know, if you reverse his name, it's come. But he's just made of toxic sludge. Thank you for that. What if they just took a muck and threw it into a town's water supply?

Whole city's fucking done for. That's war crime. Yeah. Or you got, you got Pokemon's that have self-defense? self-destruct. You put those next to coughing who has like a gas attack. You got a dirty bomb. I love the idea of just seeing a coughing and an electric was electrode.

The little magnet like fucking whatever is. Well, there's the bomb one. It looks like a giant Pokemon. They're just duct tape together. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then in the middle of this like mass cash incidents from Pokemon. We're bathing masks. And then they just let children have these.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I make that point. too. Ash just goes into the world as a fucking 11 year old boy with a fire dragon in his pocket and there's strangers, like just strangers who come up and are like, hey boy, I'm gonna

fight your Pokemon. Hey, you walked in front my pet. We fighting, yo. Also, sending your kid off at 11 is always wild. It's like, hey, what? Yeah, they didn't have cell phones or anything. We just sent this little motherfucker off. You got to love that Japanese culture of like, oh, well, you can't have a

firearm, but here you can let your 11 year old run the streets with essentially a living breathing WMD. Exactly. In the Pokemon world, is there like a straight that can be controlled with with naval traffic? Is that part of the equation of the Pokemon battlefield? I do believe so. Okay.

I'd have to look at the map again. I get into the psychic Pokemon too. You can control people. You can psychically control people. That's got implications I don't like. Side duck. He's on an island. It's crazy.

My cop buddy in West Texas, shout out to Mike. He said that when he first started as a cop, if you saw someone in the park at two in the morning, there were 100% doing something shady. And then Pokemon Go came out. And then it became a 50-50 thing that usually was just people playing Pokemon Go at some point. Yeah, but before Pokemon Go was gay dudes fucking in the park. Yeah. That was like the thing.

That was just the Navy. No. After Pokemon Go, yeah, there was like... Gay dudes fucking. And I talk about that in that episode, too. Like, I had to keep college kids from wandering into the worst parts of the city I worked in. Because they just wanted to get that. Oh, because they were going to get robbed and stabbed and fucking...

You were policing during, like, the heat of Pokemon. When it first came out, Pokemon Go came out while I was policing night. The Hillary Clinton, like, Pokemon, go to the polls. Yeah, so I had to keep... She said that? I kept so many handser of shit. Not about that. Yeah, I kept so many college kids from just going into the bad forests.

They were like, we're just trying to get this Charzart over here. And I'm like, you're going to get fucking... You worked around Clemson there, right? Not Clemson. No, I didn't work around there. I worked in Spartanburg. Oh, okay. Beautiful area.

I like that area. I used to spend a lot of time around there. The downtown area is really cool. On my way of Greenville. I love Spartanburg. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Spartanburg. But if you go north or south of the main street, then... Oh, you know me.

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Boom. The one time I went to Spartanburg was, I told you the story was to pick up a piece of equipment. I think it's the only time I've ever been to Spartanburg. I watched somebody OD at a gas station. Yeah, that happens. It's like I've just realized, oh, we're in that kind of. All right. And all I got was this t-shirt.

Didn't even get that. I got a packet of toe straps. That's what I remember that occasion by. But that's, I mean, that's probably every day in the areas you policed. Oh, 100% man. They call it murder rug for a reason. What were the college kids? I guarantee people would argue also hilarious.

They were just, Pokemon Go itself was like, well, let's put a Mew two in that really bad area. I mean, what happens. It was just funny because it's completely randomized where they put the ship, It was funny. They always put the best stuff in, like, the worst areas. And so I would find these clueless college kids just walking around, like, I'm trying to get this. I'm like, no, you're coming with me right now.

You're going back here. Dude, they probably stand out. So when you pull up, you're like, hey, what do you? The fuck are you doing that? Yeah, they stood out a little bit. That's the definition of proactive policing right there. Well, I was trying to, I was trying to catch the same shit they were catching, too. Can you imagine a cop getting fired because they were doing Pokemon Go?

They did. They don't think. What? Los Angeles, they had a case where these two or three officers didn't respond to a robbery because they were trying to catch a Pokemon. It just, well, to be fair, it's two birds, one stone. You're catching Pokemon and criminals in the same area. That's true. I mean, we were catching them, but at least if someone said, hey, there's a robbery here.

We went to the robbery. There was a couple of guys in Los Angeles that were doing that. And they were like, no, fuck what our sergeant's saying. We're going to go catch the bottom. Yeah, we got a great union. Yeah, dear Lord. Holy shit. What was your, for the corruption side, what was one of the craziest stories?

On like selling carts or just where it was. Oh, there was. Holy shit. They got that much money from it. Yeah, there was one guy. He was a bank robber and he went to prison for like, I think it was eight to 10 years. And he got out and he would give TED talks about how like you should reform your life and not be a criminal. anymore. And then he saw how Pokemon was blowing up. And he started, he started to, yeah,

he started taking shitty cards and redoing them and then grading them like false grading them as 10, you know, 10, um, shiny cards or whatever and selling them. And he wouldn't sell them under his name. And he did that for years. And he made like millions and millions of dollars before the feds called on. And then they came in and he sold a fake Pokemon card to him and got them. that's like a that's like the perfect premise for catch me if you can part two right there oh dude he he got away with it him and a partner got away with it for years wow also with catch me if you can didn't it come out later that the guy was lying about that whole story he i mean just his character alone there was yeah a history of lying with that fella well yeah famed con man liar well it's

it's funny that the uh like it it that his his greatest con ever ironically might have been conning everyone into believing he was a con man. Yeah, yeah. It's like, I just love that somebody went back at the story he told and they're like, wait a minute. This time you were supposedly in Louisiana and all these places, you were in federal prison. Yeah.

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Things on adding up. Oh, this is such a good movie, too. It's a great movie. That's Martin Scorsese again, isn't it? I think that was Spielberg. Oh, no, Spielberg. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just see Leo and I immediately assume Scorsese. Yeah, those two, they go hand in hand, like Wayne and Ford. Yeah, John Wayne and Bob. Ford. Director. That was Tom Hanks in that too. Yeah.

You know a funny story about I'm sorry, not Robert Ford, John Ford. I was going to say Robert Ford shot Jesse James. Yeah, yeah, John Ford. He was one of those directors when World War II kicked off that he

like was already like 50 years old and had like two Academy Awards under his belt and he like volunteered to go shoot out war propaganda and was like at midway in the middle. No shit. Yeah, like he got into the shit. And you got to understand, early 1950s Hollywood, every single crew member had just gotten back from World War II. And John Wayne got himself a lot of deferments.

And whenever John Wayne would start getting a little testy on set, John Ford used to punk him out in front of the crew. Like, we all did the war. Why didn't you go, John? You have no rebuttal because you can't, like you look like a douche back. This was the only war in American history where everyone was expected to show up. And you didn't. You banged all the actresses while that fucking grip over there was getting shot at Normandy. Because that was like that was an entire generation of guys.

And by the way, Jimmy Stewart, 36 years old, Academy Award under his belt, doing bombing missions in Europe. You know what I mean? Ted Williams already had a freaking triple crown under his belt. already on the cover of Sports Illustrated fighter pilot in the Pacific. Like, why didn't you go, John Wayne? It's crazy when you hear or read about the history, even World War I.

There was the flower of feather girls in France or England. I'm not familiar. So they would hand out feathers. They would just pay a whole bunch of females to hand out feathers because World War hadn't happened. So they were just enlisting young guys to go fight all trench warfare.

They'd walk around, oh, hey, you're active. Why are you here? Why aren't you fighting? And they'd hand out these feathers for, here or in Europe, Europe. Oh, yeah. So they'd give the beautiful girls, look. It's like, here's a feather.

And that was, oh, I'm a, because I just got handed a feather. I'm not doing my countries. I'm not service. I suck as a human. I mean, that was their backyard. You really needed to show up. And they stopped it because the girls were just handing them out. And then they started handing them out to the right.

wrong individuals. There was a soldier with Europe's, or I think the British Army's highest, our Medal of Honor, essentially. He was just home on leave. He was back. Yeah, he did his thing. He was back and he'd already got cycled out, plus another war he did, and they gave it to him.

They're like, what are you doing? And he's the one that actually raised in a fuss where he was like, I'm a fucking Medal of Honor recipient. What the fuck are you talking about? It's like when that stolen valor crazed started getting a jump in the shark a bit getting a little out of hand it was just like the me too

movement right they started doing it and then you'd come to find out i was like oh no that guy actually has that medals he's just senile and walks around in his uniform these days yeah he's not stolen valor yeah this is crazy the uh well you were telling me the other day uh we were talking about world war one and like it was either the arden or argon oh verdon the battle of verdon where is it what was it Verdun? Verdun? Yeah. Verdun.

General World War I, right? Yeah. Yeah. Or they were saying that they were cycling people out on like very, very quick rotations. Just kind of like, oh, we'll get them out and then we'll put them back in, but they didn't want to fucking go back. So it like backfired.

Yeah, the battle of Verdun, it was, oh, everyone else you would do these long deployments. And then you cycle and they're like, oh, we got to have fresh soldiers. So they stay hyped and everyone's happy. We'll do that with Verdun. And then they'll rotate through World War Run. But you have to go there. a quick rotation. At first it was great.

And then everyone that experienced Verdon was like, fuck war. Like, fuck war. Because they did. Guess how many mortars and artillery shells hit just in Verdun? Just guess. And was it 10 months? I've not felt my head. I have no idea.

I don't know. I'll caution 200,000. 40 to 60 million. God damn. They have one video. There was one video. I was trying to show it to brand. That's World War I.

So they didn't even have Jews to make all that. They were still there Well, they were doing the fight and they were in the trenches Oh, I see, dude Slow burn On that one Yeah Dude, I want

Finn or Chase if you can find it The footage, they have a couple of shots of Artillery just hitting in Verdam Looks like cluster bomb Bo Bo Bo, Bob, it just nonstop Every second a fucking mortar or artillery shells going off and then dude just running through it

nonstop and they said that was every fucking day that is the one time I've watched something and being like holy shit I would never want to experience it that is on a different level it looks like oh that's like a movie everything just blowing up that just

never stops those are the two wars I want nothing to do with if I could go back in time and fight any war World War I in Vietnam sounded like they fucking sucked. Like no war is great, but those in particular. I wouldn't want to be in like Guam or Pelaloo in World War II either. Like yeah, that's on like it the the the Pacific theater world yeah that sound like it was the the elements were worse than the Japanese. That's the way the

alligator thing happened right it happened in the Pacific yeah that was when the Indianapolis went down yeah and those guys like survived for days and then most of them were going to because they get then been eaten by like alligators and sharks and shit. I think it was deep sea, so it would have been just sharks, right? Yeah. But out there was out there was crocodile problems that happened with dudes that were washed ashore and yeah. What was the unit that ran into they didn't know it was an actual crocodile swamp? They were trying to escape and all of them died.

They were all ate by crocodiles. That's why I don't. use the word poge because somebody was supposed to intelligence people were supposed to anticipate those crocodiles that's an important part of warfare

is knowing if you're going to be landing into fucking crocodiles I'd be kind of interesting why that makes me think of the squad you remember when he can't swim like no one's supposed to check if what is it weasel weasel can swim

was the same he's like wait wait there's sharks who's supposed to check that They're watching it on the helicopter. Like, oh, fuck. We're not helicopter, but, you know. Troops of the 15th Indian Corps landed on Ramah Island off the coast of Burma in World War II. So, Indian British soldiers from India.

And then during this, they pushed back the Japanese. The Japanese ran during World War II. About 1,000 Japanese soldiers were reportedly massacred by saltwater crocodiles because they jumped into it to escape, not knowing that, I guess, for months or years they were being starved, the crocodiles because of the building all the defense systems. So they ran into the water and they just got fucking murdered. It's their soldiers. That's okay.

Yeah, we're good. I heard someone... 20 made it out life. So a thousand died, 20 made it out alive. You're just watching your home and you just get torn apart. That is PTSD. I was going to the VA for a disability rating. So what battle were you in like the crocodile? man. It was the crocodiles. Are you fucking crazy, man?

No, no, no, no. The crocodile. Guy stops writing on his clipboard. The what? Ramory Island. Wait. Well, that's going to be an episode. May I? May I? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's going to be an episode. Just that sentence.

The Guinness Book of World Records is like, congratulations. Yeah, seriously, awarded it the dubious distinction of, quote, most human fatalities in a crocodile attack at roughly not. 900. Can you imagine? You're some middle-aged dude in London working at the Guinness Place? Like, we need you to go to Burma right now. What we're in the middle of war?

Something gnarly just happened. And they said that that award was given by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1968, meaning most likely all of the survivors were still alive. Oh, yeah. All 20 of them. Yeah. He had to go to Tokyo and find dude. like, yeah. What did we win?

It's a celebration. They have no idea what they're getting a horse. Who are any fucking crocodiles were there? It reminds me of my life insurance payout cash or the giant chef. Wait, did you about that? No, I love that. Still that right here. That's golden.

Come here. Connor's going to tell how life insurance should be done. Were there 9,000 crocodiles? Just breeding like rabbits out there? Just 900 people dead. And they starved them so the crocodiles couldn't eat because everything that was built around them. So the second, the Japanese were like, fuck, we're insane. Yep.

Mm, chicken teakamasa. I guess we're eating. So hungry already. Guess reading Asian were hungry for an hour. Yeah, they were full for one hour and then. Guess we're eating Asian tonight. Oh, is Japanese got killed by him? Yeah.

Oh, I missed heard that story. I thought it was Indians got killed by him. No, but I. So now you got to change it to sushi. inside a chicken ticamolosa. That was close. No, I think life insurance policy payouts should be paid with giant cardboard checks. Just like lotteries?

Yeah. Well, no, like a publisher's clearinghouse. You remember back in the day? When they show up and you're like, you won! Here's a million dollars. I think they should do that with life insurance policy payouts. You have to pose for a picture. Your husband died in a work-related accident.

Here's a million dollars. Just that family. The life insurance company posted on their Twitter. A new winner. Helping new families every day. It's a dumbass joke, but I love it. I heard, I heard someone say the reason why there are just so many like, he's in Europe is because like all their toughest guys got killed in these two

world wars within 40 years, you know? It was pretty brutal. I mean, you're talking about the percentage of the, the young population of Europe decimated in World War I alone. Yeah. I mean, even Russia was it, how many percentage of the males were lost for? Stalingrad? Stalingrad alone, I think, was like

2 million fatalities. The Russians lost 20 to 40 million, I think, right? Yeah, because I think we talked about this a few weeks ago. I think Stalingrad was like the deadliest battle in human history. Ever.

Yeah. Yeah. It was Russians just sending people to the meat grinder, and then Germans fighting said meat grinder. And that one was two million? Oh, dear Lord. Yeah. So on the on the Russian side alone or the the Soviet side, because Reddick gets mad when he's confused Russian Soviet.

Fuck you. Reddit being Reddit. During the access offensive, they had 187,000 personnel died. During the Soviet counteroffensive, anywhere between 1.1 and 1.14 million personnel died in their counterattack. what's an equitable like city in the United States San Antonio San Antonio is around it's a little over 2 million Really? Yeah Oh yeah not counting the metropolitan area

That's just the Russian side On the German side During the access offensive It was 270,000 personnel Oh no I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm completely misreading this This is the This is their strength

Oh okay People they brought in Okay casualties and losses Also still a white Imagine showing up to a war like one sector of a battle and there's 1.6 million soldiers with you on your side. It was about one point.

We had a battalion. It was about 1.1 million roughly. Total dead according to this article or according to Wikipedia. Total dead on both sides is anywhere between 1.1 and 3 million deaths. For Stalingrad alone. For Stalingrad alone. That's some, golly. That is more than the city of San Antonio battling for the city of San Antonio.

Yeah. Yeah. It would be a lot more on San Antonio. People are a little slower here. Yeah. Yeah. Get the tortoise up front. They're nice. Big old women down in San Antonio. Get Charles

Barclay on the phone. They're not as quick of foot in this community. We were stacking bodies 10 feet high. That's two bodies. Just three plate carriers. Just taping them off. They're so slow.

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I would love to have Charles Barkley on this show. He's welcome. The big old women. Big old women. Him making that a running bit is one of my favorite things. It's been 15 years, 20 years he's been doing that. Yeah. I love his,

the one that they did, where they had all of the, the very attractive women that they ran into in the street that were just like, oh, well, I think Charles Barkley, he's bald or he's old or whatever. Like, you know,

talking to the women of San Antonio, what do you think of Charles Barkley? And then they cut back to him, and his reply was, how long it'd it take you to find that many attractive women down and say, yeah? Where'd you find them?

You were there all night. Yeah. He's like, those women are from Dallas. They're from Dallas, Chuck. They're from Dallas. He's so funny. Yeah. He is, he is like, you don't even have to be a sports fan to appreciate him.

Because I'm not a sports fan and I appreciate him. He is one of the greatest personalities in American sports history, like, without a doubt. Because he's like, he's from like bum fuck Alabama. And he doesn't hide that. He doesn't try to sound like the smartest guy in the room, but he's actually really intelligent guy, but he's still got that southern drawl and everything like that. I feel like we're just because of Hollywood or media that we've had growing up, we're like predisposed to believe that if you have a southern accent, you're stupid.

100%. But a lot of those guys have a very, like, a very technical, like, hands-on intelligence. Some of the greatest poets and artists that we've had, the biggest impacts on American culture came from Mississippi and Alabama, you know, all those Tennessee, Willowell. and all them. Yeah. It is absolutely because of it is because of movies. Yeah, it's one of the last people groups you can make fun of now. Yeah. And not get in trouble for. Yeah, exactly. The, the American, oh, the American Redneck is, they're, they're open game. You can make fun of the American Redneck all day. And most people think Redneck means like you're just from Alabama or Georgia

or South Carolina. That's a, that's all 50 states. Redneck is not exclusive to the the South by any means. But some of the cartoon caricatures in movies and TV shows of rednecks or hillbillies or what have you? Elmer Fun. Thank you, buddy. Yeah. Well, no, like just like the like crooked tooth

overalls, whatever. If you did that to any other culture, it would be horrifically cancelable. Yeah. I still feel like it's safe to make fun of of Italians. You've had this Italian kick for a while. Yeah. What did they do to you?

What is the backstory? Mario. I support why not like racism. Yeah, I do. I work within the realm of safe racism. Yeah. Luigi, this punk-ass bitch, dude. Anyway, what's your deal with the Italians? Yeah. Oh, I just don't

like the cut of their jib, you know? I don't know. Please explain. The whi' of their cut. Well, look. There's a thing. I know there's a lot of... No, he's right, though. No. Oh, look.

This is... this is what happened this is what happened I made one Italian joke on some show I think we were doing let him cook and you guys laughed

and that was the worst thing to happen to me so then I just had to lean into it and now it's a thing the fact is I grew up in the suburbs in Minnesota there I haven't had a lot of interaction

with Italians in my life all I know them is from the movies so no it's just racism for racism's sake honestly the old American pastime Yeah, I can get away with it because I'm white. Well, that's why you can get away with it.

What are you worried? I'm going to ruin your Italian demographic, your voting base here in Texas. Very big in San Antonio. Yeah. I'm staying away from Germans and Mexicans. You're good. I just, I love the fact that you're like, oh, well, it's racism, but I can get away with it because I'm white. And I'm like, well.

Yeah, it's called safe racism. I can make fun of anybody from the Iberian Peninsula to, uh, Siberia, it's safe within that realm. There's different, of course there's different shades. I can make fun of Arabs, too, because they're considered white under the U.S. census. That's true. Most people don't know that. That's technically true.

Arabs are free game. Anybody that's of, from Russia, which is why there's so many technical white side bombings in the United States. Dude, can you believe a couple white guys did 9-11, dude? According to the census.

Can you hear that? thin ice cracking. Brandon's running, though. You're fucking doing great. Yeah, Brandon. You just got back from CPAC. How'd that go, mine? That was interesting.

I was in the political gaffe of the week. What's the political gaffe of the week? Oh, man. So we went to CPAC, and it was really early in the morning. What's CPAC? So it's the, well, I got a lot of shit for that. People were like, I thought you weren't going to sell out to the big PACs. Pack being, being like, you know, people have funded campaign, political action committee.

CPAC stands for conservative political action conference. So it's just an event. So it's funny the amount of people are like, you're already selling out to the packs. It's like, that's not what this. You just wanted to talk to people. Yeah, I was like, hey, what's up? I spoke for two minutes.

It's BlizzCon. But I was going to say, it's a little. It's a little stinky, though. Yeah. Yes, I will say that. That's the people there were actually, you know, pretty hygienic. Yeah, there's a lot more Lily Pulitzer dresses over there at your place.

I'm not smart enough to get that joke. Are you just making your joke? now. No. I've noticed there's a, there's, this isn't even an insult. It's an observation. There's a disproportionate amount of conservative women, uh, that are considered upper middle class.

They love Lily Pulitzer dresses. I don't even know. I don't know what that is. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, colorful flower dresses. I believe you. Conservative women that are in the upper class, they like Lily Pulitzer.

it's like a part of their look I see it all in town here I look at that one like I know who she voted for yeah I will I will keep that little nugget of wisdom with me always I have seen these dresses it's those dresses those are way more expensive than I thought they would be

If you see a woman in one of those dresses Brandon you know you're getting her vote Fair enough actually I do I know what you're saying If her husband gives her permission That just been think of the like blow like 70s style dresses Yeah for $400 Oh fuck off

Yeah. Damn, yep, that is. Hey, all five of your female listeners are really going

to appreciate that joke, okay? All five of them. You know who you are. So we had Lily Pulitzer dresses. The political gaffe of the week, I saw it all over.

It was like the front page of fucking Reddit. The guy who runs CPAC was out in front of me. And unfortunately, because of the camera angle, I was directly in the background of this shot when it happened.

And it was a generational lock-in because I was trying not to crack the, up the entire time. Because I, the guy went up there and he was basically just saying like, look, if we let the Democrats take over the, the House of Representatives, we're going to have, you know, basically they're just going to stonewall Trump at every, you know, move, yada yada, like the whole, like he's given like a rally speech. It was early in the morning.

The audio was really bad, so nobody could really hear. Like, I could barely hear what was going on behind. To be perfectly honest, I probably caught every other word. You're also on a weird part of the stage for that. Yeah. Like the monitors were not very good. I couldn't hear shit. I don't know what the audience could hear.

We've experienced that if there's no monitors facing you. It is, you can, every other live show pretty much. Yeah. That, yeah, it is terrible. Even though they're, Cody, you were across the table. We had multiple shows where there was, we're just looking at each other. I'm like, am I laughing? I think.

Yeah, you're just struggling. Some of you came to the live shows. There are a couple live shows where we discussed it. We're like, if you don't have monitors, if you don't have the sound, coming back at you you you don't even know what like I wouldn't hear Eli to me right at this distance yeah yeah talking terrible wild so they were they were doing that shit yeah so it was kind of that situation but it was also like super early in the fucking morning uh we had like maybe like a third of the audience was full and uh third to half something like that and he goes

and I will say he said it in the very just the worst way possible uh because he he gave a like a vocal intonation, like the tonality implied that you should cheer for this. And he's like, who wants to see impeachment hearings? And then half the crowd goes, woo!

And he goes, no! Wrong answer. And I'm just in the background like, I'm locked in. You can see, you could probably play a clip of it here. Like, I had to lock in so hard. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?

No. That was the wrong answer. You know the internet probably better than anybody else on that stage. I bet you were like, this is going to be memed. I literally, though, the only thing that went through my head was, well, I'll see y'all on Reddit. I'll see you in my Twitter feed in 20 minutes. And that's exactly what the fuck happened. I do love Brandon knows the internet.

We all know the internet so well. As soon as he says something on here, he was like, yeah, they're going to clip that out of context. Just like all the shit they did. like a couple months ago. I think that's why it's good that, you know, under 40 in general should be running the show at this point because that, that kind of, that communication is a factor. Oh, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Are you saying you don't want someone who's in Congress for 52 years? Are you saying term limits and age requirements? That's preposterous. Someone who doesn't understand what's happening today. Well, I listen. I trust an 85 year old to understand AI. Yeah, somebody who's going to be regulating Bitcoin and AI probably should know what any of those things are. Who's out?

I don't like that. Why can't we just do some more baseball hearings? The Facebook know when I log in? What was supposed to be when can I download my? Yeah. It was the Facebook hearing where it was, I think it was Kennedy was the center. And I actually, for what it's worth, I like him. I think he's funny.

But I think he was asking like, when I use Facebook, does it use my Wi-Fi? Yep. He's like, and Mark Zuckerberg is just like perplexed, like trying not to be insulting. But like, if that's what you use to access it, yes. And he's like, aha. He's like, man, you've got to talk to your interns more. It's not the gotcha. And that dude, like Zuckerberg is on the spectrum.

So it's like riding out. How can you tell? Right. be like, of course you log into your Wi-Fi. Are you retarded? You're all going to die. Yeah, you're all going to die. Is that still a tick?

Ryden has? He has. You're all going to die. He doesn't do that. We've worked on that. That's good. He did. Wait, hold on.

That was my favorite part. What the fuck, Eli? That was a great party trick. I ruined my son. He just, oh, he says, I'm pissed off. Oh, okay. Well, that's fair. That's a very normal human emotion.

Well, it was to wake up and his mom, it caught a mom off guard because she's like, okay, we got to go to school. He's like, oh, I'm so pissed off. She's like, I want to break my leg. She's like, okay, we got to go to the doctor. I am going to school. Because it's very literal. There is no, I know this is a joke or anything.

It is, that's what's going to happen. So now he was like, oh, I can't break my leg. I hate the doctor way more than that. I'm going to get this fixed. He's the middle. calculations are going on where it's like, yeah, I'll go to school. Fuck.

School doctor. It's the rain man text coming over the screen just to figure out if he wants to go to school. Like, he's not even counting cards. Yeah, the calculations flying by Zach Alvinakis' head. Well, how did the rest of the convention?

We went last year, we did actual two, which shows? I think we did one podcast there. We had the option of doing that again this year. But last year, I mean, you could look up the CPAC episode from last year. It was just the audio was so bad. And all the interviews that I did on the floor,

because I was having to go from interview to interview to interview. And the audio, I could just imagine it was just trash. Because you're on a convention floor. Like, it's loud. It's going to be loud no matter what you do. And people stop and just stare and watch. So it's kind of like a convention almost. Yeah, it is a convention for sure.

But you have money raising opportunities and stuff like that? Not even really, to be honest. It's mostly like just doing interviews and it's mostly networking. Got to spend a lot of time with, you know, Ken Paxton, you know, Brandon Gill, a few people like that. It was a good opportunity and there's a lot of good folks that I got to connect with. So it was good. I got to hang out with and actually I did an impromptu interview with Dean Kane.

Oh, no, she did Superman. Was he dressed as Superman? Please say yes. I need this so bad right now. You know what? I'll put it this way. I have no way of knowing if he had the Superman costume on. underneath. That's what I wanted to hear?

Braden, what shirt are you wearing? Well, I'm glad you asked Eli, I'm wearing my poncho shirt. That's not what a poncho looks like. It looks lightweight and breathable. It is lightweight and breathable. It's also fantastic for summer because like said, it does breathe. It's very lightweight and it's also offers SPF protection. You mean you PF? That's what I f' said. Oh, okay. Bad hearing. Legitimately, on the campaign trail, these ponchos were basically my everyday attire. It's just the perfect mix between looking professional, feeling good, and just being fairly casual. Is that the Western style? I'm just guessing because of the pearls. It is. Once you go Pearl Snap, you never go back. The best promo for this, they weren't our sponsor. The guys and all of us wore them before. Oh, we sought them out as a

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He's fucking cool. We're trying to convince him to come back down to San Antonio soon. Oh, yeah. No, he was a nice guy to have him. Oh, he's awesome. Be more worried if he had the supermates. Like, um. I mean, once you play Superman,

you're like one of the only people that are allowed to do that for life. Yeah, there's what, maybe a dozen of them. If that, maybe. Yeah. Let's just gaslighting. I'm in a fighting Henry Cavill. Cavill is a big dude. I like Dean.

Let's have Dean fight Henry. He's over there right now. Cavill's one of those guys, too. He had like five older brothers growing up. And I think he's from like a shitty part of London. He's the handsome one too. I really wonder. Oh, yeah.

He got the genetics. Yeah. I mean, you got to be to play Superman. I keep forgetting he's British too. I hear his accent. And I'm like, no, but he's a man. American Superman. Yeah.

There's so many. It is ironic, though, that the most iconic American ever, they're like, well, that British guy's really big and good looking. He does look like Superman. The original drone Superman, though. That motherfucker. Can't get away being this handsome all the time. I wonder if they have a group chat, like all the living Superman's.

Oh, that would be awesome. Just the soups. Superman. And then Batman, they have one for the Batman, but like George Clooney is weirdly not invited to it. Well, because he was the nipples, uh, Batman, right? Yeah. And the back card.

What was his dick? The weird, uh, Keith, um, Michael Keith. Yeah. The real Batman. That was, what an odd Batman to have at the time. Uh, because yeah,

he was mostly known for comedic roles during that time. Yeah, comedic roles. And then like, he would do a comedic role and like a serious role. And they're like, Batman. He wasn't an action guy. Yeah.

Well, I, Tim Burton, uh, was exactly. exactly what that franchise needed to get its wheels going again. Oh, because they were doing like a dark, creepy shit.

Yeah, because the last real Batman push was from the Adam West Batman. Which that was not. Very cartoon. Great. It's a classic, but they, I think Tim Burton was the right guy to get it. Because after Tim Burton left, after the second Batman returns,

I believe, then it started getting cartoony again. And then people were like, no, we don't like this Batman. So then they handed it to Nolan and it started getting dark again. Then we got Ben Affleck Batman, got a little cartoonie. And then this last Batman that came out in the whole Penguin series, I thought was really well done. Dude, if you have not watched the Penguin series, it's good. By the way, I mean, dark as fuck.

And if you don't know who the lead actor, the guy who plays Penguin is, while. And Colin Farrell. Right. Yeah. I didn't know that until like an episode in. I was like, what? Dude, like they chose like an objectively attractive guy to play like one of the most grotesque. characters. That's how good that guy is. He blends into that role so like I watched the movie and

that's when I read. I was like, who played the penguin? Colin Farrow was like, get the fuck out of here. And by the way, like that's why I don't care what world we're living in. That's why that just having an old Hollywood solid makeup artist is going to make the difference between a meh and a great show or movie. Yeah. I don't know if he's married. but if he is, you know, his wife has to look at him playing that character. Like, oh. This is what, this is 20 years from now. This is my future.

Also, side note, the Keaton Batman, how he turns like, oh. Yeah. It's because his costume couldn't turn. Yeah. It's Nick was, it was just a mask you put on, the shoulder pads all connected. And it's become a meme. Yeah. Don't they explain that in Christian Bell, Batman?

You can't turn your head because the, the bulletproofing is too good in the neck or something. I think that's a shout-up to that. Yeah, it's like a shout-up. Shout out to that one. I actually think that's... Yeah, I think Alfred's the one. Or... Morgan Freeman.

Morgan Freeman. Fox. Oh, he was the Alfred in the Christopher Nolan ones. Yeah. He was the Alfred. He was the... It was Dr. Fox or something. Yeah, Dr. Fox.

That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, if you haven't watched any new movies... Space movie. Hell Mary. Project Air Mary. From 1992. Let me guess.

This is an A-24. No? Oh, really? Amazon. Oh, Amazon made that? Yeah. Have you watched Project Hell Mary yet?

No. Go to the movie theater dog and just... I know. You and Savvy have been, like, you guys were in the text. You got to watch this fucking shit. We all went to go see it the very first night because it was a... Hates it, by the way? I don't get it.

I don't get the hate. I fucking love that. I read, like, even the race is like 94. Is it like based on a true story? No, no. Yes. In March, or when we went to it. another galaxy's crazy true story.

I hope it's not a true story because that would suck. The allure behind that is like they didn't use green screens a lot. They used a lot of like puppetry and like natural effects, right? Yeah. All the spaceship is real sets. Dude, that's, again, I think we're going back to that more and it's making movies great again. Like, yeah. Well, that was the one that you f***ing hated too, the thing.

When they, when they remade. Oh, yeah. The like prequel to the thing. Oh, yes. In 2011? Yeah. Yeah, when they did the thing back with Kurt Russell, like you had the Kronenberg creatures that looked fucking amazing. And then they did that.

I think you were, one of you guys was telling me about that. When they did their most recent thing, they did the animatronics at first. You can see the behind the scenes footage where they used like the actual physical practical effects. And the studios like, it looks too old. Let's replace it all with CGI. That's what happens when you let nerds into the corporate culture. That. That's exactly what happens when you let.

nerds into corporate culture. They do shit like that. It's, well, I feel, it depends on what kind of nerd. Yeah. You want the nerds that love special effects. Yeah, yeah. Shouts out to the good nerd.

So the new thing, they did, they did the animatronics, and they came back and they were like, that doesn't look good. And then they did the CGI bullshit, right? Over it. Yeah. They replaced 90% of the practical with CGI.

They're like, oh, we want it to look more video. They said video game issue. No, make it look like Jurassic Park. Just do it how a original Lucas did it 40 fucking years ago. It looks so cool. Yeah. Look at the, like the thing from the 80s still holds up.

Yeah. That movie is gross as, so good. It's great. Putting the slime on everything. Just having them like, let's even go back a hundred years. Like the movie Hells Angels that Howard Hughes made. When you look at some of the,

not the aerial combat shots that they got, that was some ballsy camera guys, mounted with a camera on the back of, playing doing real dog fight choreography in the air and then even the the indoor shot that famous shot that opens the movie up where it's pushed they're all getting drunk in that bar and it's pushing through the bar this this this phenomenal shot like moving shots back in the 30s 40s 50s like they those did not exist for a reason they put so much thought into those shots and when you look at it a hundred years later i'm like that's better than the majority of shit they're doing today have you

seen Akira Kurosawa's moving rigs. So he was the Japanese director that made it famous. So you had Tashir Mahuna. Like his actors, he's the one that did Seven Samurai Hidden Fortress. Yeah, he's like the shit Star Wars came from. He's like the fucking godfather of Japanese cinema,

right? Yeah. I mean, if you watch a Western, it's based off of his original samurai movies. They just adopted those into Magnificent Seven, Silver Dollar. Like, all those came from Akira Kurosawa, old samurai flicks. he built camera rigs at the time

you would lock them in you did not have any moving shots he was like no we're going to change this and when you see how gigantic the systems were just to move the camera big ass sets bro is fucking so cool back in the day that's the shit that Tarantino's obsessed with right yep

oh he loves Akira Kwasala like I gotta find one of those shots yeah again no amount of computer technology is going to equal the human touch. Yeah. And again, I'm not afraid of the future because human beings are going to value authenticity.

God, these shots, like, you look at just a single shot from the 40s and 50s. That's from the 50s? Wow. Oh, dude, he is pioneered all of that shit. He was the director that, God, I need to find the actual camera and the rig he did, because it is insane.

You're looking at, like, train sets just to move the camera a single, a couple of feet. It was just like a giant train set just to move a single camera. And all those extras, right, that wasn't CGI. So you had to wardrobe those people up. You, like, you had to feed them. But it looked real. It's kind of like 10 commandments and all that shit, like where they had the people to die. Dude, yeah.

And the good news with him in Japan there, it was. those extras were probably really cheap because they were probably Koreans. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Okay, I'm not following. You know, Japanese. They can use Koreans for cheap labor.

I'm trying to find our big ones. Is that real? Yeah. That's a smaller one. It used to be a giant rig just to move the camera. It was just unheard of. It was kind of cool because like back then that's when they were, and we're doing a different, we're doing a similar thing now, but back then they were pioneering all sorts of camera

tricks that weren't invented yet. And they're doing a lot of that now with like the integrating AI into what we're doing and different like CGI platforms and whatever like all these different like we're still doing stuff like this. But back then it was totally uncharted territory. Like I mean, Walt Disney did a lot of that stuff back in the day. Oh yeah. He revolutionized the animation and yeah. There was a there's there's a rig that I saw that was really interesting where they're trying to like, you know a perspective shot where let's say you've got like a house on the hillside and you're zooming in. But if you're punching in on a. still frame of house in the countryside with shit in the foreground and background. It's like, how do you do that? Because it just looks like you're zooming in, not actually moving a camera through space. So they'd have panes of glass with different shit on it. So you'd have the hill, the fence, the house, the background, and then they'd have a camera on top. And they'd record it as the camera descends.

So you're getting these things moving at different rates. And like, shit like that's super cool. Because like back in the 40s, like, who the fuck would have thought of that? Yeah. Walking shot. Well, they wrote. They wrote the book. Yeah.

Like the entire building that lighted up. They had one take. It was like you are exiting this and walking with both the military's fighting and their contrasting colors. You have one fucking shot at it. Oh, my God. So you have to do all the, well, I think that's why people really appreciated in 1917. Because you appreciate the amount of choreography and planning and work for the cast and crew that had to go into pulling that off. Dude, 1917, they did six months or eight months of.

blocking before shooting because it was, hey, we have to have everything fine-tuned because we're shooting at specific times to capture this and there can be no fuck up. So we need you to do this. What do you mean blocking? Blocking. They're rehearsing every shot, every scene. Because not only did the actors have to be on point, more importantly, the camera had to be on point. The camera had to make sure it was getting what it needed, getting the actors where they needed to be.

Because it's a giant one shot to blend together. So every shot had to end specifically so they could cut into the other shot. It was a 360 degree play. Yeah. And even when he runs into that one guy during the final charge. That was an accident. Yep. Yeah.

So when he's, they topple over and he gets back up. That was an accident. But it's just like, we're going to spend a lot of money if we do this shot. And that looked like that would happen in combat. So we're sticking with it. It was an extra that timed it wrong. so he accidentally hit him. All the explosions are going off.

All those are practical and they're like, keep going. You have to keep going. You know that guy who got back to his fucking table. Like, I'm going to get fired. I'm going to get fired. I'm going to fired. Oh no.

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i cried multiple times in that i'm fucking i was like oh this is oh oh oh i don't care if it's a little little alien thing in all the emotions. It's just so well done. And they wrote it with Ryan Gosling. Yeah. They were like, we approached one actor ever. Like when we bought the rights to the movie, it was Ryan Gosling for sure. He's literally me. That's awesome. And they, did you read on how they did the book? That book is written by a scientist. So all the, that makes sense. Yeah, that's how they broke down. Even the alien, Rocky, is broke down on, oh, this is how he would survive. This is what the planet carbon-based, you know, that whole thing. And, oh, how would water be on this planet when it's near Mercury's level from the

Goldiloxone? It's like it's a planet this close to its star system. Oh, you'd have to have 12. Do that hand gesture again? You'd have to have 12 atmospheres for it to, like, have water. They broke it down to that level. Like, the dude was very autistic on science. What's crazy, though, is that Ryan Gosling is able to carry that movie while acting against

nothing. like the 80% of the movie is just Ryan Gosling alone and he it does an incredible job it's basically it reminds me a lot of just like a family friendly interstellar which is kind of crazy because like it's I didn't I didn't realize it until after somebody pointed out there's really like no swearing in the movie at all

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translating Japanese to the United States Twitter. And so it's crossing paths hardcore right now. And Japanese and American Twitter are getting along so well. Because we didn't know how much Japanese bros love barbecue and muscle cars in America. They have a Chicano culture in Japan. And they love Texas culture. And we're all just like getting along and talking about our cultures with each other. It's fun.

So there's a, not to derail too much, but when you, you mentioned that, There was a weird period, I think it was during like the 80s, where the Yugoslavians actually had a huge influx of like Mexican culture. Yeah. So they had like sombreros and like like Mexican music and all sorts of shit. In your fucking Yugoslavians. Hey, Mexico knows how to export, man. Yes, they do. Yes, they sure do.

Yeah, I went to a Mexican restaurant and Bahrain one time. Yeah. I had the whole island to himself. But it's just weird. It's like a few years. before the Yugoslav civil war. You had just like mariachi music and shit. And they were under the Soviet system at that time.

So I was like, hey, no, you can't do like American culture. But if you want to sneak in, Mexican culture is, that's, that's its own beast right there. Yeah, it was just kind of a wild. Have you seen any of it on, do you go on Twitter much? Yes. Did you get influx by? That is a Yugoslavian. I'm very aware of what you guys are talking about.

Dude, that's a Yugoslavian man. What? Hell yeah, dude. No, it was straight up. He's doing brown skin or brown face? Well, they're darker complexed down there. He's doing brown face? But they are white, so you can make fun of them.

Yeah. He looks Mexican. I'm saying, man, I'm marrying a Mexican girl soon. I can say, I'll say, I'll go. I give you the card for that. I think that's how that works, right? Yeah. You can say B.

Huh? You can say B2. Well, so here. So, yes, I can make fun of a lot of Latino culture. Latino culture is a little more. You're making it racist. I don't know how, but it sounds really racist. Latino culture, there's a lot of, there's a lot of whites that are Latino.

So yes, a free game, I get to make fun of the Latino whites. Now, there's a lot of Latino blacks. I can't make fun of the Latino blacks, like Dominicans, but I can make fun of Argentinans any day. Mexico is more of a diverse place than both those places. Mexico has a lot of Koreans, Indians, Mexico, mostly mestizas. This is getting worse. A lot of white people. And their president is Jewish, and I can make fun of them, too.

It's almost like we have free will and we can make fun of anyone we want to. I just, I want to see this like spider webbing tier list of things you can and cannot make fun of in your own eyes. Yeah. No, it's, yeah. You tattoo a spider web on your elbow. See, I have the card. I'm allowed to do any, a good chunk of accents out there. Yeah.

But no, well, back to the Japanese Twitter thing. I knew there was like a subculture. It's kind of like you have like the, well, there's a certain level of baseness in like South America and stuff like that. But in Japan, they just love like American cowboy culture. I know that because it just started about a week ago and I'm getting flooded with it. And they love like Texas culture. They love American muscle cars.

Because again, in our friend group, you were the one who brought it to our attention. You're like, hey, guys, the Japanese are based as fuck. This one, I think I told you, Cody, you sent me that one video that popped up in my feed. I was like, yeah, I seen that today. What the fuck going on? And then we talked about that day. I woke up the next day and my entire feed was just kanji. Because I said one of the tweets to you and I was like, Eli, just like this tweet and watch what happens.

And it's all just like Japanese people were like, wait, you guys like us? I was like, yeah, you guys are fucking awesome. Yeah, I don't think you understand. We get tattoos of your, of your pop culture all over our bodies. They're like, you guys just grill meat all the time? Yeah, dude. It's like the predator handshake thing. It's like anime bros.

Cataworth Bros. So many get, uh. Kauai, you son of a bitch. I think that was one. Yep, literally. Oh, yeah. Wow, I've made that up. Send that to.

Chase? That's my favorite person. I was like, holy shit, my entire feed is now Japanese people like, everyone's just bonding as you're saying, everyone is just like,

oh, we have so much in common. Holy shit, yeah. Y'all, I was worried at first. I thought you'd be racist. And like,

these people are awesome. Do you know the story about how the entire American Japanese relationship started? Four of War II? No. No. no, no, no. This goes back.

He's talking about first contact. Yeah, first contact. Commodore Matthew Perry, at this point, America was in its early, its infancy of its imperial ambitions. Yeah, Tom Cruise, they made a movie about him, the last samurai. That was based on a French guy. They Hollywooded that a lot. I know.

I didn't even know. It was a French officer that they basically copied and paced and made it an American. No, you soiled her. Fought in Civil War? No, in the Satsuma Rebellion. He was there basically with the samurai. Yeah. He was like the original weeb.

Yeah. Anyways. It's basically just avatar with extra steps. Yeah. Yeah. Historic avatar. He fought Godzilla. Yes.

Yeah, probably. We. He, uh, no. Anyways, we made contact in the, I think it was 1858, Commodore Matthew Perry. We bullied our way because we want to trade with Japan and we bullet our way into it. And then it started happening. The Japanese were like, cool, we're doing this. now. Well, in

1860, roughly a year before the American Civil War started, a delegate, because at that point, the samurai, their rights were starting to be stripped and the transition out of Samurai was beginning to happen, but they were still very much

revered as diplomats in Japanese society. So in 1860, a year before the American Civil War, over 70 samurai showed up to Washington, D.C. and spent months in D.C. basically being the bells of the ball.

It was like... Wait, isn't there a photo of this? Yes, yes. It was like the first... I know K-pop's Korean, but it was the first ever K-pop mania that happened. American women went nuts.

There was this one samurai. He was one of the only interpreters. His name was Tommy. He was 17 years old. Like American women were like throwing themselves at him. It was like... God, imagine their discharacter.

appointment. Yeah. Over 70 samurai were in D.C. For months just hanging out with the president. No shit. They presented. This is famous photo. What year?

1860. And then, of course, our Civil War happened. And it was only three years after the American Civil War where the Meiji Restoration started. And it was pretty much the beginning of the end. They had like a decade left before it was all over. it's crazy when you read about that phasing out the samurai and then how it took effect it needed to happen i know it's easy to romanticize the samurai but they were stopping japan from becoming the economic powerhouse that it did what a culture that themselves for

honor was stopping we talked about this other days who was the guy that came up with that idea then passed it down so everyone followed suit we're like this is honor yeah if you're losing a battle just like, oh, and then cut your head off. And then all your constituents also have to do the same thing. Yeah. Wild mindset. They were, uh, in a lot of ways, uh, at the, at their peak. They were like, they were mobsters in a lot of ways that controlled the government.

Yeah. It was a good thing, uh, that, you know, they transitioned in more much, but I mean, Emperor Meiji. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Dude, I think Japan's one of the best countries at gifting stuff. Well, they have such a long-lasting culture. It's like people forget how young the United States is.

Yeah. On the world stage. We're still discovering ourselves. Like, we're in our teenage years. We're hitting puberty right now. Be proud of yourself. Huh? Look where you ranked on that.

Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. There you go. What the hell? Well, man. I know that. I know that, dude. Yeah.

Yeah. Wait a minute. Is that you as the samurai? Yeah. That's a great thumbnail. Whatever the theme is, Dave puts me into the, so like, and I was like, is that cultural appropriation if I do samurai stuff? Only if he gave you yellow face.

Exactly. Yeah, that would be probably where the line gets gone. Warm tools, the eyes. It's just warm, tool. He's like, bro, I got really hard into Polynesian cultural history. And I did an episode where he decked me out in Paul. I looked like, he'd decked me out. me out in apology. I'm like, I'm going to take shit for this. And Polynesians were down.

They were so cool in the comments section. See, that's what I find is that most people are, like, if you're talking about their culture, where they're not used to, like, getting the limelight like that, they're just enthusiastic that you're sharing their culture. And Polynesians are arguably the greatest seafaring people in the history of the world. The only people that get upset are fucking liberal white women. Yes. Yeah. They've taken it upon themselves. It is the albatross around their neck to be offended on behalf of every other culture they've never had an interaction with. Right, yeah.

It's like, yeah, I'm a white woman from Madison, Wisconsin. Like, big Polynesian population there, huh? Nope, never met one. It's like, you gotta go to Utah, bitch. Wait, no, is there actually like a big... It's huge. In Utah? The Mormons.

What's the island place? The food? Oh, fuck. Uh-uh. Oh, it's right on the tip of my tongue. I love that place so much. Yeah, there's a lot of great Polynesian joints. This Polynesian place.

It is, we would go there all the fucking time. I always order it every time I'm there. Oh, shit. They just have a bed of white rice and chicken to put on top of it. That's it. Polynesian food is so simple and so perfect. Fuck, what was the name of that? We would go all the time out in Utah.

I know exactly what place you're talking about. Polyesian. Bro, when we go to Utah, if we ever go, it is a chain restaurant. Mobeda's. Mo betta. Mo betta. Yeah, it's Mobeda's. Yeah.

It's Mo Better. It's so good. Dude. Yeah, Polynesians get to... I'm assuming Salt Lake? Yeah, so the Mormons went hard at missions in Polynesia. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah.

I've always joked that Mormons need to be the lead set. They need to head every sales team for every corporation. Because if you can convince Polynesians to leave paradise for Salt Lake City, you know how to sell some shit. It was a giant bed of rice and then three chicken breasts. for eight to 12 bucks. Yeah. Are we sure it's chicken? Dear Lord.

Yeah. I forgot about that place. Dude, you'll be in a suburb in Salt Lake there. Like, this guy's got like, he's got a sliver of an acre in his backyard and there's full on chicken raisin going on in those backyards. Dirt fucking cheap. I was like, the gang does a pilgrimage to Salt Lake. Oh, dude, every time I've gone up there for work, I do what I got to do for work,

straight to the hotel room. Uber eats Mo. betas, eat mobetas till I just pass out on a queen-sized hotel bed. And you go back, I haven't been in a while. I'm like, I'm intrigued by Mormon history too. If you, if you took all every, all the theological elements out of Mormon history, and you made a, like a mini series about, what's the mini series they just did that they did not like? Prime, prime prime evil, I think.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I still have yet to see that. Have you guys what? It is heart. Every time it's brought up, every time it's brought up, the Mormons get very mad.

Yeah, they don't like that. Well, hey, look, some things did happen and this documented. It wasn't good to be not Mormon in that area for a certain period. They'd be doing shit. No,

no, I haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen it. That is, I'm trying to come, it is, it's not a happy series. Because we're used to Western,

being John Wayne on Main Street cleaning up the crud. It's like the Wild West was a horrific place to live. Yeah, if you think, was it 18, 7, 1890, what was the cowboy going west? What did? Post-Civil War.

Like the time frame? The show, it's in an actual show. It's like me and the 2018. So it is like. Taylor Sheridan show? Yeah. Like the Yellowstone spin-off? That's a very positive version of

Prime Evil. Prime Evil is depressing as I mean that show wasn't exactly You know that's and I know And that is a very positive experience It's a very like soap opera take on like going to You know heading west Yeah primeval is just but

I appreciate anything that shows that Our Our rose colored lens view of history Like all the shit We are living in a much better world that that existed 100, 200 years ago. Oh, you got to love these little kids online on, again, on Reddit that are just like, oh my God, everything's fucked.

Everybody's terrible. Oh, my God. Like from their air-conditioned house where they just ordered DoorDash. Communism would be so awesome right now. Are you kidding me? Like, do you have any idea what your forefathers, your genetic ancestors did to develop this place? Diarrhea used to kill our freaking. Diarrhea used to be a real concern.

All the time. Yeah. It used to kill people. I would die so fast. I don't know. All we have to do now is happening again. I'm going to die. You guys just out back, like a slit cut in a hammock.

Nowadays it's like, I'll just go get some Gatorade. I'm going to live through this. My weak-ass stomach. I can't make it. Yeah, Prime Evil is just. It's fine, Eli. I brought you some bread. Oh no.

Dude, dude, it would have sucked so bad. I would never want to go back in the time. People would remain as size just like, I just wish I was born in the medieval times. It's like, no, no you don't. No, ice, running water, everything stunk. Yeah.

Dude. You got from the comic hold. Yeah, you get a fucking cut on your hand. There's no need a sporing. You're having children at masses to hope one survives to adulthood to pass on

jeans. And let's talk about the smell down there. Yeah. You think men these days enjoy pleasing their ladies. That was not a thing back then. Yeah. Everyone was black back in the day. I know even Professor Snape.

I don't get it. The new Professor Snails black. Oh, he is? Yeah. Harry Potter. You didn't know that? Uh-uh. I never really got into the Harry Potter stuff.

Yeah, new Harry Potter. it's the new series they're doing is Professor Snape and people are like that's a weird character to do black because he has an entire arc of when he's bullied like for being what too white? Well he's bullied because of everything else and I think they hung him from a tree or did something with a tree. They hung him upside down on a tree and they made fun of him and now they're like how do you do that on the show without this causing a hole? I thought we cut that out back in the 60s but I think the whole thing was in the book he's like pale complexion

and just like and J.K. Rawling is like I don't care, I'm getting paid. Yeah, well the one professor everyone hates everyone's like, oh so you're going to make him a black guy. Okay. That was the biggest thing.

We don't care. It's just how do you do this character justice for what he was without now it being racist. Yeah. So that's the biggest. worry and then also Is it a British production? I don't know.

They have a different relationship with that stuff. But it's just the funny part is like, Harry, why don't you trust Snape anymore? Harry, why do you think Snape is the bad guy? Just because he's a bad guy. Are there any other reasons, Harry? I don't think that went through too much. Like, uh-oh, uh-oh. but they're trying to do that to

Lord of the Rings. Didn't they do that with that? No, they actually want to redo. That was the IGN tweet and other tweets going along with it was we should stop holding on to what Lord of the Rings is and recast it and have fun with it.

Yeah, they got Colbert. Yeah, they got Colbert writing up. No, this is the original series they want to change up. This is, we want to take the story of the Lord of, of the Rings, I don't know why nerds

are so bound to it. We should be able to change how that narrative goes in our own. What do you mean nerds are bound to it? It was a commercially successful mega house music. Everybody, or movie, everybody liked it. Nerds didn't own that.

No, it was one of the best pieces of cinema ever fucking made. Yeah. And writing people. The story did really good for a long time. I'm not a personal, I don't like how he writes, because it's very slow. But still a fantastic series. You know who I did a scene with one time who was in Lord of the Rings?

And he's genuinely one of the nicest guys on the planet. Sean Aston is genuinely, he's Bob in real life. The character he played on Stranger Things? Yep. That's him in real life. He's Bob. Oh, he is just a nice guy. I've heard he is super kind.

It's genuine. God, I really thought Sean Aston was in that. Yeah, he got done dirty. For like, yeah, 50 seconds maybe, yeah. And there's a whole day with him, though. And he was really... What did you do with Bob?

Well, not Sean. He played like a pilot, but we were stuck alone in this helicopter for an entire day, you know, waiting for them to break down and change angles. What was it in? It was... Range 15. Range 15. I've yet to hear about this.

What is this film your... you're referring? Oh, it's a flick we did 10 years. Coming up on its 10 year anniversary, yeah, we made a movie. Man, are you going to do like a 10 year anniversary tour? Oh, I don't know. I think everyone... Have you thought about it?

Well, I don't know. Nobody makes DVDs anymore. How do you do like a... How do you do like a... You should reach out to the original team and do a push. Theatrical re-release. I was the low man on the totem pole there. They can take that up with themselves.

You get started them. I love everybody involved. in that project, that was the one thing where I torrented that film. Oh, so you stole from me. I did. And after I was done, I still wanted my money back.

Yeah. Well, you know, I'm a pirate bay. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. I'm going to tell you something. A lot of people like that, I'll be honest with you. A lot of people like that movie, and I'll tell you what, after

going through the experience of making a movie, I will never shit on anybody else's movie ever again because the fact that they got that to the, the fact that anyone whether it's big budget or low budget can get a movie to the finish line is a miracle.

I can only imagine. Yeah. Like the amount of bullshit you guys had to do to get that movie done. Just yeah, it's any movie, even if you've got a $15,000 budget and you're doing it, you know, every weekend for, you know, six months. It's just, it's a lot of work. Yeah.

Don't film in LA. But yeah, it's definitely wasn't going to win in an academy, that's for sure. Or be nominated or even be seen by anybody in SAG. So, yeah. The Film Actors Guild? Yeah, the Film Actors Guild. Yeah. Never film in LA. I think they learned that. Oh, my God. Yeah, we could have done

way, yeah. Everyone was so desperate to do it in LA. It's like, we don't need to do this here. We'll get tax breaks if we do it in any other state. And save lots of money on set. We literally could have done it 10 minutes down the road and probably spent half the budget.

Yeah, yeah. That, and again, lessons learned to this day, to this day, 10 years later, when I'm running projects, I, there's lessons learned that I care with me to this day. And it was the, it was the weird, it wasn't a natural way to be thrown into making a movie. Usually you work your way into that. And they're like, and, you know, I was one of the top six cast or whatever. And that's not a normal way to, yeah, I was a, that's not a normal way. So got to learn a lot of hard lessons.

Were you involved in the production at all? Or you're just acting in it? I was a producer, but I was like there was maybe five of us who were executive producers. And I was like at the low end. No one ever listened to what I had to say. And I didn't bother chiming in. You did a good job. I will say you were one of my favorite actors to work with because you take directions so

good. One time and you're like, okay, I need to do it this way. You know what I think it is? And whenever I work with actors, my favorite ones, it's because they had normal jobs. It's somebody that had a normal job at one point and you're used to being told what to do. And I think a lot of young actors, you know,

if you're Sean Aston, you can have leverage, right? You're an established guy. But young actors try to discuss too much what their character is going to be. I'm like, just do what the director tells you to. Because I had, I worked in the oil field. I was a delivery driver. I had a boss that would say horrible things to me

if I tried to give them pushback. So I can just do what you're told and get you check. Do they really try to push back? Like, I'm actually feeling like my character would do this. Really? Are you fucking kidding me? It is a fucking nightmare in L.A. Yeah.

But I get it. If you're like... It's like, dude, you're one bad conversation away from going back to be a bus boy. That's exactly. That's it. Non-talking extras will try to weigh in on what their character needs to do and their background for their character. Yeah.

Like, you don't even get to talk to the director. That's the fucking... That's a second AD who's running point on you. Now, yeah, there, there, I think in my, I've seen young actors who are a little too ballsy with wanting, and if it's an indie film, sure, that's a different vibe. You can, you have a different relationship with the director. But if it's like a bigger movie or show or whatever, I'm like, oh, no, that's the boss and you are an entry level employee.

By the way, on sets, actors are the, unless you're like a gigantic name, actors are the, like, the bottom of the barrel. There are way more people on set getting paid more than actors because their jobs are more important lighting people, freaking sound people. Dude, I worked one of the productions I did, the shop, which is my favorite thing I've ever been involved with,

the DP was 60% of the budget and well worth it because he was so good at his job and literally made the show what it was. They know their shit, but you will have the flip side where it is. I think Brad Pitt talked about it where his first

role as an extra and he's trying to get a speaking role in order to get his sag card. He leaned in said, what will he be drinking? Director and everyone call cut. They're like, what the what the f*** are you doing?

I was like, shit. I was just trying to get my sad card though. Because you have to do a single speaking role in order to get it. And what they will do if you're doing a Hollywood shoot that is sad qualified or whatever you call that. Even when they're having a crowd cheer and yell stuff, they're like, don't

say anything. Just go, yeah. They will not allow them to talk so they cannot, they don't have to pay that extra fee for them to that. That and I imagine it's easier just to like fill in artificial crowd noise than just like whatever the random whooping and hollering. Every bar scene you've ever seen, it's literally, and when you watch the movies, noise and glasses clinking in the background. The music.

That's all put it in post. Yeah. It's literally the only people making any noise are the whatever actors are talking to each other. When you cut that out and you actually are on set and you have like a bar scene with music, and clinking and talking. It's all done. It's the most silent thing in the world. It's got to be like kind of uncanny, I would think.

Like while you're filming it. It's weird. It's like action. Everything is silent other than two actors delivering their lines in that scene. That is it. You are not making a fucking peep outside of that. Do you guys know if McConaughey's thing went anywhere? He was trying to do the Texas,

like I don't know what to call it the Texas film initiative or something that he was trying to do. couple years ago. They were trying to do like tax incentives. Yeah, like get more people out to like Austin. It was like all the big names that are from Texas had a whole coalition going on, right? Yeah. Did that go anywhere? They were trying to get people from Los Angeles out to Texas because of course tax. Yeah. Of course that. But like, do you know, do you know if that ever went anywhere? They did the one because we're rewatching the first season of True Detective because they did the ad. It was him and Woody Harrelson. I think they're both. I don't know. Is Woody Harrelson from Texas too?

That one I'm not. He has, he's like, yes, he's like half Ohioan, half Texan. Yeah. So yeah, Matthew McConaughey successfully lobbied Texas lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 22, injecting $300 million every two years for a total of $1.5 billion over a decade into the Texas moving image industry incentive program. This initiative aims to compete with Georgia and New Mexico by boosting grants to 25% for qualified productions. Damn. I mean, I don't know if that ever went anywhere. No, they successfully lobbied it.

Now you're doing taxes on it. So that's it. Yeah, now we're paying taxes on making sure that Taylor Sheridan is successful. It is. Oh, let's get people to film out here. So you get tax breaks. And then people film out here.

It's good for economies. Yeah. That's what he was saying is that they stated that every dollar of the incentive, the way that they had planted out, puts $4 back into the Texas economy. Yeah. And you know what? Massachusetts, because there's a lot of movies

made about and in Massachusetts because of the Walbergs and the but uh Massachusetts does a good job that if they're filming a movie there you have to hire a certain percentage of local actors you can't import your people from wherever like you have to hire local for a certain percentage of crew and cast oh sure well well well I wonder if that's in this bill as well yeah guarantee hmm you you want to get shot on a Taylor uh Taylor share production. Fuck yeah, dude. I've been trying to get shot on a Taylor Sheridan production for years now.

It's that or a Jack Carr? Yeah, Jack Carr, our Taylor Sheridan. I just want to get shot by Chris Pratt or, you know. Yeah, can we be bad guy number one, two, three, four right here? Just kill us. Jack, where do the amazing people find you? Oh, I have a history show. It's called Jacked History.

That's J-A-C-E-D-H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. You can also find me driving around town in my Volvo. Was this a new tradition on the show? No. We just started it. I mean, it's been over a year since I done the show. I don't know what kind of weird inside things you guys been doing since. Jack, it honestly, it's always a pleasure to have you on, man.

It's good for you to be here, but... Dude, we don't get to see you often enough, so it's always a pleasure. Because I'm either on the road or I'm held up in the compound. Yeah. Against your will. Thank you for inviting me out to lunch today because I don't remember the last time I just went to lunch during the day and I needed that. So thank you.

Oh yeah, man. Thank you. No, dude, you know you're always welcome. I know, I know. I'm from Minnesota. I have a hard time reaching out to people and initiating social interaction. I got to get over it because I'm 42 and I'll be dead within 20 years. Cody, close us out.

Bye, everyone. Thank you for joining the unsubscribe podcast today. I was joined by Eli Double Tap, our friend Jack Mandiville, Brandon Herrera, myself Donut Operator. We love you. Kisses. Bye-bye, Jack. Oh, I'm going to go have a cigarette.

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