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Episode Date: August 2, 2026

Our boy  @BrandonBuckingham  is finally back after his insane health scare, and being shot at multiple times?? Brandon fills us in on all his documentarian adventures, from filming in the hood to talking to cannibals and travelling all over the world. Watch this episode ad-free and uncensored on Pepperbox! https://www.pepperbox.tv/joinunsubscribe WATCH THE AFTERSHOW & BTS ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/UnsubscribePodcast 👕 Merch & Shoes https://bunkerbranding.com/pages/unsubscribe-podcast 🔋 Energy Drinks https://drinkechelon.com P.O BOX: Unsubscribe Podcast 17503 La Cantera Pkwy Ste 104 Box 624 San Antonio TX 78257 ------------------------------ THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! GHOSTBED Get an extra 10% off already reduced prices at Ghostbed when you use code UNSUBSCRIBE at checkout—visit https://ghostbed.com/unsubscribe to get started. AG1 Get a free AG1 Flavor Sampler and a free bottle of Vitamin D3 + K2 in your Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order at https://drinkag1.com/UNSUBSCRIBE. PONCHO OUTDOORS Get $10 off your first order at https://ponchooutdoors.com/UNSUB when you enter your email. SUPERPOWER Head to https://Superpower.com and use code UNSUB at checkout for $20 off your membership. Get 100+ biomarkers tested every year, plus a personalized health plan and on-demand care team. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod BLUEPRINT For a limited time only, our listeners get 20% off + free shipping at https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com by using code UNSUB at checkout. #Blueprint #ad ------------------------------ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS! Unsubscribe Podcast https://www.instagram.com/unsubscribepodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@unsubscribepodcast https://x.com/unsubscribecast Eli Doubletap https://www.instagram.com/eli_doubletap/ https://x.com/Eli_Doubletap https://www.youtube.com/c/EliDoubletap Brandon Herrera https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonHerrera https://x.com/TheAKGuy https://www.instagram.com/realbrandonherrera Donut Operator https://www.youtube.com/@DonutOperator https://x.com/DonutOperator https://www.instagram.com/donutoperator The Fat Electrician https://www.youtube.com/@the_fat_electrician https://thefatelectrician.com/ https://www.instagram.com/the_fat_electrician https://www.tiktok.com/@the_fat_electrician ------------------------------ unsubscribe pod podcast episode ep unsub funny comedy military army comedian texas podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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on got Gough Girl spit. I got mine rated last week. It's a 10. It's in one of those cases. It's going to be my side hustle. I have an entire case sitting at the house and I'm just like, hell, man, maybe I can.

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Welcome to the Federal Reserve. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, our good friend Brandon Buckingham, Brandon Herrera, myself Donate Operator. Thank you so much for being here. What's up, bitches? Guess who's a war hero now?

our boy. Who got deployed? Play. It wasn't a technical deployment. Play. It wasn't a deployment at all. Play. He'll get it eventually.

As many fireworks as possible. The big D-Day movie. Saving Private Ryan? Play that one. My brain blanked, dude. The older I get. TBI.

Yeah. It's starting to really affect me in life. Who are you? That was a good time, though. Did a quick, probably like two, three days in Jordan, went to, went to Amon, went to

win. You had to explain the story because it was like a weekend thing and it's awesome that you did. I gave you like a massive props for going and doing it. It's really pulled through. Yeah, the story's interesting.

You guys were all, yeah, you got it. No, it's fucking, it was. How you doing, Brandon? Oh, good. It's good to have you back on. It's happy to be a lot. Yeah, it's been over two years. I appreciate you guys having me.

It has been two. years it's just freaking it's way yeah two and a half years okay go on Jordan so yeah we like with two weeks notice a friend of ours called us that we've done work with like veteran advocacy and stuff like that just like hey just in case you know I figured I throw this opportunity you would you guys like to go out and do a show for for troops that are deployed the Middle East right now like yeah absolutely she's like no you don't understand it's gonna mean a lot to the guys and wait did you just say yes like yeah like a thousand percent and the way it worked out like it was you know army stuff super last minute we didn't even get approved

till 10 hours prior and I was the only one that could actually make it out yeah so I went out to uh Dubai the namon Jordan then to the JTC uh the basin Jordan and then out to uh kfab and did uh two shows and met with a lot of the guys there it was fucking awesome well you did two shows yeah oh I thought you just did one show no I did two oh so the the biggest thing that got me that I felt fucking terrible about because they were putting the flyers out like the unsubscribed show was here. So like fat electrician's going to be here. Eli double daub, donut operator. And then Brandon shows up there. And like you basically did like a stand up show for the troops there. I've never done standup in my entire life. So how'd you whip that out? I think it was a small crowd of like thousands.

It was like I think at KFAB we had like over a thousand troops there. It was it was a fucking great time. I love those guys. Like I've always gotten along with the military dudes like super well. So like that was that was a lot of fun. But uh, oh, don't worry. Your one request was like, hey, there's no one's high. I'm, I can't do a live show. Yeah. I'm like, the only time I've ever done a live show was with like five other co-hosts. Yeah. Like on like a podcast panel. We can play off of each other and like to the jokes with each other. It's months and prep getting like that is a set we work on to get there. And I was told I basically told them like, look guys, I'm still down to come out. I'd love to with the soldiers that are out on the ground. Can't do the show, but I'll do anything else you want. Like serve food, whatever, whatever you want. Like, I'm down to do it. Handed a microphone, like, with an hour's notice. Because we thought they offered it to us and were like, no, like your kid's coming

in a town. Like, I wanted to be here for the Fourth of July with my kid. And Brandon went out there and you didn't know it was going to be like an unsubscribe podcast type thing. And so we can't riff. off of each other like we do in our live shows. I did, however, like it was a great time. I think everybody there had a good time.

But I did get a video and chase her friend, please pull it up. Three, two, one. Because there was a flyer that they put out at KFAB, basically saying like, unsubscribe podcast coming here at this date. With C-U-M-M-M-M, it was weird. C-U-U-M-M-N? Yeah, no. The flyer's like, coming here.

It's like, well, that's very army. Really going to relieve it. the truth. Relieve the pressure. Yeah. But I had to text that to the boys to make him feel bad. But I had the whole crowd. I'm like, actually, while we have the opportunity, because they're like, where's the fat

electrician? I had to explain like Nick's whole thing. Like, I don't want to leave the United States. I don't want to leave the U.S. I don't want to go overseas. Like, okay. I have a video of the entire crowd saying, where the fuck is unsubscribe?

Like, as a chant. Just a bully, bully my friends who didn't go out. As you should have. We owe you all. We owe you. I'll go on patrol with you. By the way, I will do a patrol with you when we go there if they do that at all. Brandon said he would go to on a patrol.

I will. I accidentally, I may or may not have committed to doing a jump in Fort Bragg with the 80 second. Yes. A static line. Let's do like a SF one. So it's like, no, dude, we're doing static line. You won't coward. You're jump certified.

Okay. I'll do it. And then you have to also immediately do a free. fall. Sure. I'm down. Bernie's like, oh, I can't control myself. It's just flying at plumbing. He's like, this is way harder. The landings way easier. Brandon agrees us all to a fucking hay-ho job. I don't know what I'm doing.

It was a fucking phenomenal time. I really, I really did enjoy it. All you guys out there, every single person, like from the Texas boys, the state guard guys, the 80-second, everybody like our, you know, our contingent, you were incredible. It was top five trips of my entire life. I enjoyed the hell of it. As a veteran, I will say thank you so much for doing that. Because, I mean, we discussed it when we were at the racing thing. It was still like, hey, what you're doing is awesome.

The troops are going to be super supportive. My biggest worry was awesome. I'm like, man, I don't want to have them being forced to do something they don't want to. But as you're saying, it was like a very positive, which is awesome to hear because you are that break. Because I was scared of that. You did it for free too. Yeah, no, I paid my whole way. I don't know. Yeah, that's why I love it.

And just a giant thank you for doing that. Because I got your concern too, because you were like, dude, I don't want to go out there and do this like cringe, like, mandatory fun. Like you have to show up and pretend you're having a good time kind of shit. But apparently like these guys since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, they've been like on lockdown. They've not been able to do like, no recreational shit. Like they've just been locked the fuck down. So this is the first time they've ever been able to have a gathering like that. I didn't even think about it.

we would have like it would be those shows or anything the last thing when you're running missions all the fucking time you're like dude i just want to sleep i didn't even think about like the opposite effect where it's you're on lockdowns you have no idea if you like you're looking forward to a break and as you found out a lot of the it's hard to get people like any kind of celebrity a lesb list YouTuber over there right now versus back in the day so they really look forward to that and it was wild. I don't know where a two-star general Lambert, what he does overseas,

but you guys found each other. And I got a text from him, and this is, again, a two-star now I deployed with. And he's like, hey, you're coming up with it. Am I going to see you in Jordan on July 4th?

And you did on July 4th, which, like, you sacrificed your own. It was July 4th on America's 250th birthday. That's awesome. I would have loved to have been back in the States. That was my answer to their question. And they're like, yeah, we're having a hard time getting people to go out there because nobody, you know, they don't want to be outside of America on America's 250th birthday.

I'm like, yeah, well, neither to these fucking guys. Like, they don't want to be out there on. Eli, the only thing I'm taking away from this is that Brandon hates veterans. I know. Yeah, clearly. That's the message of Brandon goes. And then they cut to you shooting an RPG at a plane. Yeah.

Brandon shoots down veterans. It's like, that's what is a joke video. What? No, but, yeah, yeah, Lambert came out. to me, well, not came out to me, but he came up to me. He's gay. He's going to love that joke. He's like, brazing.

You son of a bitch. Hey. But no, he came up and he was talking about how you guys had chatted a little bit. And no, that was just that was fucking awesome. And I told him like, hey, let's take a picture together. I'll send it to Eli. And then you sent, you sent me back. Oh, give him a hug for me.

And it was like eight hours later. I just so happened to see him the next day. Like, oh, yeah, Eli said to give you a hug for him. But, you know, we just met so I figured, you know, a hearty handshake will work. I'm like, all right. All right, buddy. Buckingham. Top that story.

Oh, shit. Brandon Buckingham's here? Holy shit. You see her? I got nothing going on, dude. You just got back from also a U.S.O. tour. Am I on deployment? Yeah.

No, you dude. I, homie's been, I didn't realize how many times you've been shot at in the last. Guess how many times this dude has been shot at in the last? Guess how many times this dude has been shot at. that. I'm gonna get last year. Oh, he's been running around in Section 8th, though, right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you got shot one of the times, right? Well, uh, my camera guy got shot. Oh, shit. I hate to say that with a big smile on my face, but

dude, I'll say it for you. His cameraman got shot. Is he okay? We're having a good time. Yeah, he's sitting over there right now? No, is a different guy. Okay. Well, after he had to replace him after you got fucking shot, right? Yeah, well, he'd be, after that, he was like, fuck Brandon. Not really, but yeah, his name is Matt Offacker. He's a really cool guy. He's a really cool guy. He did a bonus him that day? I didn't give him anything. I actually sued him for emotional turmoil because he wouldn't stop complaining. It's just a bullet to the jugular.

No big deal. All right. The best way to do this to lead up story-wise, why do your cameramen get shot? What do you do, real quick? Did you dock his pay for being down on the job? Exactly. I was like, why didn't you duck and leave? You know the five rules of dodge ball.

It applies with gun fights, too. I picture yelling at the next day. Wow. Okay. First off, how long did it take for you? to grab the camera and start recording again in second because he grabbed the camera and recorded himself after yeah well i agree with goley let's start with the start from the beginning yeah let's go from the beginning what because we haven't had you on here in like two years

why do cameraman man get shot with you above um yeah so i do documentaries all around the country and the world and uh the only times that i've been shot at have been when i've been doing documentaries about uh different neighborhoods and gangs and stuff so So the time where my cameraman got shot, we were doing a documentary about the Bloodhound Gang, not the band, but the group of rappers in Chicago. And we were at a music studio called Fort Knox in Chicago at 3 in the morning. And me and this rapper named Skrilla had posted a picture together at the studio. So I guess people saw that.

They stalked us, waited outside the recording studio until 3 a.m. For him? I mean, yeah, but he's not from there. He's from Philly. So it really made no sense. And they had, I don't want to say too much about it, but they knew. they definitely knew who they were shooting at you know what I mean um so we left at 3 in the morning as soon as we closed the door behind us uh I think five gun fired over 60 rounds close range

with switches and I was with five people four of them got shot including my camera guy so dear God what was the range like the distance between you and the shooters probably like 15 yards 20 yards it was that's pretty tight yeah it was like the switches are completely useless like at any sort of distance thank God for switches or I'd be dead right now we need to make more out. Is that free needles? It's that. Free needles and switches? The new Seattle program. Free switches. Yeah. You miss everything. But seriously, the jokes aside meth and switches to the U.S. government and the homeless people and the military and, yeah, elect me for Congress. Let's refine that a little bit. For the military and homeless people, it's a while.

It's a big range. But yeah, on, say hi to Eli. We like went over all the shooting. So I don't know. I don't want to be. Yeah, get it. No, that's why I want you to talk about that stuff because the shootings, it's what these people love. The Chicago one's the most interesting, really. But one month before that, I was on 37th Street in DC, not even filming a video, just doing a music video, or I wasn't doing something for myself.

I was just in someone's music video, YBC Duel, who's now passed away. And we just posted an Instagram story, and it was like 10 minutes later. Someone came up on the hill and shot up the house we were in and shot to the people I was with. So it's fun. It's good time. You guys want to collab on a hood video together? Let's do it.

You can trust me. We'll do it right along. Don't say them. Just type out five of the rapper's names without them seeing it. Brandon, don't you look? And then I'm going to make up three words. I'm going to see if you guys can get which is a real rapper name and which one's fake. Because he was saying them yesterday.

I was like, huh? So I don't know why our guest, Brandon Buckingham, loves to go around the section 8 with their switches. and like, you know, they're, they're feeling of, well, if I go to prison, that's okay, because that's how my life is. But he still chooses to go around them, and it doesn't make sense to me. Journalistic integrity. I'm a hip hopper. Hey, you ever just wake up and felt like your mattress sucks and it beat your ass, punched you in the face?

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Use code unsubscribe. Sleep better. Stay cooler. This is a threat. Okay, he's a hip hopper. I'm a hippie-ditty hippie. Yeah. Well, you haven't went a while after the last one.

You were like, you know what? Fourth time, fool me. Yeah, the fifth time I'm shooting back. The fifth time I'm going to have the unsubboys with me and they're going to eat some serious lead of return fire. You're going to roll deep. Yeah. Let me just pull up in like a blackmarked SUV that's bulletproof.

And it was just like, please start shooting at him. Please. Engage. Just everything's aimed ready to go. I don't want to kill your friends, buddy. You know we shoot straighter than them. Well, my friends aren't shooting at me. It's the enemies of my friends that are shooting at us.

The ops. Yeah, the ops. They're like, yeah, you play with them, you lay with them. You play you lay. Eli over here is like, he's begging for Raconas. I know. Actually, it would be really fun to do a HUD documentary with you guys. They like to drink.

I'm just curious why they just don't do any of that fucking bullshit and be active to like members of society, you know, if they just didn't do that. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. So I mean, one of the interesting things about, so like, you know, rap is very prevalent in our society, modern society. And the shelf life of a rapper is so small or low because, you know, whether it's jail or getting shot, like a lot of history is getting written in a span of like one to three years with these rapper stories. So I do think it is interesting to cover because a lot of the hood videos I did in 2024, like everyone in that

video is either, you know, past or in jail. So it's like, kind of. capturing a crazy moment. Literally every single one. Not everyone, but like, yeah, the big names. A lot of the big names and a lot of those videos. They also couldn't do that. Or they could choose not to.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, like, yeah. Ready? I'm not. I'm not pro-hood warfare. I don't think they should be shooting each other. It's like you like, it's capturing it. I appreciate you doing it because you get to see that other side.

And you know now you're like, what the fuck? Like, how do people rationalize some of this? behavior where you're like oh okay so this is okay with what they're doing and then you come back to normal yeah it's pretty crazy the street politics and street vengeance but yeah it's it's interesting because like out of the past 12 videos i think only two of them have been hood videos but it's definitely the videos that people gravitate to the most you know what i mean or the hood videos but yeah like the majority lately i haven't even been doing you know that kind of content but people does that yeah a child would be like you know what i'm a reevaluate yeah i have

Because you did just have your first kid. I did, yeah. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Yes, since I've had a kid, I've only done one hood video. And it was in Detroit. It was about car thieves, and we got the car shot up. Was it the Kia boys?

Yep, they shot the car up. But I think we stole that. Or I didn't, I should watch what I say right now. We can believe whatever. Like, if you feel like, I'm like, ah. We stole that guy's car. It's crazy. They stole that guy's car.

And I was with them, and then they shot the car up. How did you say it? They acquired a car and it got shot up. right they they acquired the car you documented it exactly yeah thank you US congressman Brandon her well listen here motherfucker I'm trying to help all right no I appreciate you and immediately he's like yeah well whoa whoa well well well well there's definitely some crazy stuff with that but my recent videos as you guys know I my last videos with reckless ban which is your guys video before this

episode yeah yeah there's yeah we come right out literally the beautiful part about YouTube is there's so many fascinating stories and fascinating things to cover. True. While some of my most viral videos are the hood ones, I feel like there's been some just awesome stuff I've got to do. Like I'm about to go to Greenland in a week and cover Greenland, Iceland, and Nunavut, Canada, Ecaloet.

Just like what life is like in the Arctic? That's really exciting. And you guys know Papa Meet. My second and last video was a documentary. That was really cool. Yeah, we didn't talk about that because you got to go to like a hunter's farm and see like the donkeys, his life. I didn't realize he had that many pets.

Cody, have you seen that video? No, I've not seen that. It's so fun. He has a lot of pets. Yeah. Like a farm of pets. I know he's got as like his hound dog. He's got the basset hounds.

Yeah, the basset hounds. Yeah, the basset hounds. Dude, they're noisy. Brandon and I just hung out with them. Yeah, we did our planning trip for the range day this year. So, yeah, we have our range day every year. We bring a bunch of creators out and they have a good time. So we went out there to like scout our ranging day and look at the range and stuff.

And we just happened to be there in our hotel and pop. and Papa Meat was there. I was the last one to show up. Yeah, by coincidence. I was the last one to show up and I go to the floor. Like, we're going to play some blackjack, lose some money. And I see Cody, like,

I see everybody like at the tables and I see Cody standing up talking to Hunter. I'm like, a fucking course. Of course. Popper meat was there. So we got to gamble with him for a couple days. Like, that was like two weeks ago or something like that. What a great guy.

He rocks, man. He's just Ham he rocks. And can that man gamble? Yes. Really? Dude, that would be such a fun video gambling with Papa Meat. The casinos would hate it. I've never seen him walk away from a table with less than he brought to the table.

Really? Like that man, yeah. He can gamble. Smart man. You know what, like a good luck churn, right? He's the opposite of that for me. Anytime he shows up at the table, he'll just give me advice. I'll take it and I fucking lose every time.

Always double on six. He's one of my favorite people just because he's just so independently, just organically funny. Yeah, I feel like people should really appreciate him providing such high quality animations to YouTube for free. It's like such a cool thing. Because he doesn't do sponsorships. He doesn't do any of that stuff for like his main

channel. Yeah, the main channel. Yeah. Which probably means now becoming his main. The thing is crushing. Oh my God, bro. And then creepcast, which is one of the coolest parts about being a YouTuber is just getting, being able to hang out with cool people and that being like your job. Like we're working

right now. I think that's pretty that's pretty cool that's that's pretty insane dude it's a good job given the the past jobs that we had eli got fucking shot i was a cop you manufactured firearms whether life serves you an ace or an unexpected backhand the high protein yogurt oikos pro is there to feed your strength and help you turn every challenge into a smash oikos pro helps build strong muscles and support muscle recovery with high protein and contains no added sugar because true strength isn't about being able to take the hits it's about being able to bounce back oikos pro feed your strength visit oikos.ca for more details i was it's crazy to be able to sit here and make money doing this you were what sir elementary school

art teacher no yeah i forgot about that i could have never seen that looking like weird ale yankovitch that's why i can't see it yeah hey kids happy clouds let's go fuck these kids it's hard It's hard to, I mean, dude, to control a classroom of 37 children is, is difficult for sure. So shout out to all the teachers out there. It's a hard job. Yeah. I could not do that. Nope.

No. And you can't even tell them to shut the hell up either. You can't be like. Yeah. Please lower your volume. Because you have no choice in the kids that you get. You're just your place there with them. Yeah.

And where I was, it was all about like positive reinforcement. So if like a kid was jumping on the table, you couldn't be like, get off the table. You'd have to be like, please take a seat. Would you please have a seat? Fuck no they actually think that works Yeah there's there studies that show that Montgomery County Maryland Is there any studies that show that is I've you saying that right now like the right side of my face is hurting I just out of muscle memory yeah

Yeah, because your dad's sloppy you well I don't do it's you learn stuff through Anytime in life you better yourself when it's hard if it's just don't do that It please take your seat there's no repercussions there's no difficulty they you get to decide if you want to or not. So you get hit. You're like, huh, yeah, I'm going to. You have a kid. So I feel like kids are masters of finding that line and getting right up to it or like

just crossing it, right? So when you have 35 of them, they're all trying to figure up what the rules are and how close they can get to them without getting in trouble. So if the rules are so loose and the teacher has to be so like gentle and kind, they're going to like run all over you. And that was a situation I found myself in. I was like, dude, these kids are damn near bullying me.

I can't do shit. I saw a video the other day. It was, I think it was earlier today. it was on Instagram or like this guy was like client or he was he was doing a run with his kid and his kid was crying and he's like is it hard like do you want to quit that's why we don't quit and whatever like he's just like giving him like a pep talk like the the kids like crying like he wants to go home he's like no this is why we got to keep going and apparently it went viral and he's like hey I'm the guy from this video I saw your internet comments and I've decided I've

completely changed my mind and so he did another like parody video of that he's like I'm sorry buddy you want to quit that's okay you can tomorrow we'll try again and then we'll quit again like it's okay if anything gets hard in life just quit it's not a problem you'll have no negative effects on this whatsoever awesome dad right there yeah probably like this is how stupid you sound yeah one of the craziest things is when I was a teacher is you couldn't take there was like no punishment so you couldn't give kids suspension unless the police were involved you couldn't take the recess there was like no you couldn't

you know there was no you couldn't suspend kids without the police No, like if a kid stabbed another kid with scissors, the only way you could suspend them was if a police report was filed, at least in Montgomery County, Maryland where I taught. That's fucking so essentially like a kid would strangle another kid and if you if I took his recess then to like you know talk to him about what he did and punish him I would get in trouble. So what they would do if the kid misbehaved is they would give him a laptop to play video games and if you just think about that like so it's really positive reinforcement for a negative behavior. Dude, if I mean if if if I could still like do my job and get and get to play video games if I fucked around I would wreck this set right now and go smash my laptop and crush Premiere pro you know I mean and just play games because you know you're like incentivized at that point to to not do the right thing you know what I'm saying oh a thousand yeah no no no that is wild I know when writing had that one kid that like this is like first grade kindergarten like little riding and the kid Ryan went down the slide and then

another kid went down and writing didn't move fast enough And so he like bumped or something and Ryden was like, oh, I am sorry. I went to hug the kid to say sorry and the kid pushed him down. We got called to the school. They're like, hey, incident recess, this kid pushed down to kid. But he said sorry. So just if Ryan says anything, that's what happened. I was like, okay, well, if it happens again, you're going to have to call the parents here

and they're going to have to talk to me. I promise it's going to go a different way. So are we good? And they're like, oh, uh-huh. Like you gotta see it's like oh he's gonna handle it like with the parents like I do not fuck with that shit About what age did uh was it like very apparent that uh writing was dealing with autism two to three two to three okay got it's like this is like well after yeah this is three years after and you could like it's writing like he has his voice and how they're sorry and like he was in uh special needs class for that stuff so it was like hey general gin pop special needs with the gym pop you were gonna do like the true detective season two just beat this shit out of the fucking dad like you fucking do it again listen kid watch this this is for you what do you do if a kid is throwing your child to the ground at school you go

and you threaten you know the right and you go you go talk sternly to the teachers and then tell them to let the parents know that you want to also sternly talk with them and that usually rectifies situation and if it doesn't then you do a Glock talk with the switch is that what you've learned from your friends yes I'm very intelligent. Gang sign. Gang, gang. Oh yeah, here you go.

Rapper name or there's eight names. Rapper name or fake name. We'll go with. Okay, how many real names and how many fake names? Five or real, three are fake. Okay. Okay. Okay.

We got YBC Dull. Real. Real. Okay. We got Little Pat. Real. Fake. Which one?

Real fake. It's fake. First one was real. We got... Blood Thug. Real. Come on, it's got to be real. That's a fake one.

Damn. Really? We got... It's not two on the nose. Bloodhound Q50. Real. Real. Good job.

We got... These are just Xbox live names. They're Gamer tag, too. Exactly. A little smoke? I want to lean fake. Fake. Good job.

That was a fake one. Bloodhound, a little Jeff. Real. Real. Yeah. And then OG Man Man. Real. Yeah.

They really are. They are. It's so funny. Do they just stop carrying at a certain point? He's like, eh. Is it just gamer tags at that point? Because it does sound like them. Q50 is highly specific.

I love watching your videos because, I used to have to deal with these same kids that you're dealing with in your videos, but it's like I was a cop 12 years ago and seeing you deal with them these days. It's the same fucking kids, dude. It doesn't change.

It's so awesome to just like shoot up the block and do all this shit and like nothing really changes. What's the time frame difference on that? It's like 15 years, 10 years? Yeah, it's like 12, 13 years, yeah, since I've been a cop. And then he's dealing with the same kids. And they, and the look that they look the same.

No, because they're black, but they look the same. They act the same. It's the same attitude. Yeah, they're still like just trying to act out to like do something in their world. Like just do something. Even if it's like shooting at people, stealing a car or whatever, they're doing the same shit because they just want to make a name for something. Yeah, they just want to be out there in the world and it sucks. Yeah.

Out through their shoes in the storm drain. could you expand on that story a bit Cody's cold roll off I through the shoes and the storm drain I don't even know what that means but it sounds violent no I do I know what it means but if you're out of context it is a very dark quote it's one of my favorite stories from from your policing days because I think you got it from a movie didn't you I got it from the wire yeah that's based in Maryland that's based near Baltimore yeah yeah no like it's it and it's just

crazy seeing that the same thing like watching your videos and seeing they're acting the same way from the kids that i saw like when i was a cop like 13 years ago it's the same thing like like we were just saying like they just want to make a a name for themselves even if it involves just like shooting up the neighbor as their grandmothers have a house in well yeah what's crazy with the the the rap genre of drill rap is you're you're kind of an um incentivized drill wrap yeah drill rap. It's like a subgenre of hip hop. You're kind of incentivized to go do these violent, heinous acts, and you can still get signed to a record label. If like the buzz about you is you've killed four or five people, it's not like you're going to be blackwalled. You're probably

going to have more opportunities. So summer loosened everything up. Wait, that can't be right. Nope, that's in the read. What are they doing? I don't know how you guys spend your summers. Brandon, since you're feeling under the weather or, you know, a little discombobulated. A little loose, some might say. Well, do I know how to do I know how to do you guys? tighten you right up AG1. Watch me mix it. It's so delicious. But it helps you maintain energy support gut health and support your immune system. The daily foundation nutrition comes in travel packs which makes this way easier. Time to tighten up. Everything's tightening up as we speak. I can hear it. How does it feel knowing that

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It's a fact 100%. It's so weird. It's the fucking weirdest thing. That is wild. In most other, like, areas of society, if people know you've killed people illegally like that, you're going to be barred. Yeah. That's, I didn't know that they would.

I don't think it's cancel culture when you literally murder a person. Yeah. It's like, all right, there's cancel culture. Like, he said something I don't agree with. It's like, no, he slotted a guy outside of CVS. Like, that feels like a very serious offense. Seems like reason. culture but you know just sign that too like even from a business site is fucking wild to try to

promote any idea like any part of that process of oh here's his manager or the owner and be like yo we need to sign him because he just iced three people have you heard his rap like yeah that's wild to be like we need them well and people get mad to me for making videos about it but like I don't force them to act any type of way they're already making music that's on the radio getting you know millions and billions of views and it's really the record labels that are profiting the most because they're signing these people that are doing crime and if they go to jail or they die who gets paid it's the label when you when you when you say people get mad at you uh what are what are they saying oh you know I'm a culture vulture I'm taking advantage of these people

I'm taking advantage that that they're already killing each other don't ever let anyone make you feel bad that you're showing this is the shit they're doing like to each other every day killing each other in their own culture I'm showing the reality of it and if you watch my videos I'm never egging it on. I'm pretty much, I'm hanging with them like I'm hanging with you guys. It's just they choose to talk. I'm not like,

so did you kill so and so? Like they're the ones that are like bringing these things up. I'm hanging out with them. You can essentially see the perspective of what's it like if Brandon goes and hangs out with this person. I don't come with like a weird slant, you know? No, you go in. You're very, I mean, you're transparent on everything.

You're just going in and you just act. You just befriend everyone. Yeah, I'm not right. And if they talk about something, I might do a talking head explaining like what the hell they're talking about. But I don't come with these like loaded questions. A lot of hip hop journalists do, but you know, that's because that's what the people want, essentially. That's one thing I will give you flowers for a little bit real quick is like a lot

of your journalism and the documentaries you've done so far have, like there's so many people on YouTube that'll just egg the shit on and try to just like create scenarios for content, stuff like that. You just let it fly. You just straight up like, hey, I'm going to go to this place where something's happening and I'm just going to be a normal fucking guy and report on it. And I, I appreciate that because it's not manufactured. Yeah, I appreciate it. You just go out there and you're doing real journalism, which is something that most real journalists don't even do anymore. And also, Brandon, what he doesn't do, he doesn't try to cause chaos. He's not like, yeah, what did little fucking blip say about little blood about here? You just go in and you're just

like, well, why are you mad at him? What's going on here? I don't want to stoke anything, but it seems like yellow journalism has become the norm, you know, these weird slanted shit. But yeah, that's what's so interesting about January 6th, as I was there from the morning into the night. And I had no idea. It was. It was like such a violent white supremacist rampage because I was there the whole time. And I'm not like the bravest toughest guy. I get like nervous and shook up. And I was there all day and I was shocked when I got home and saw the news that it was like such a, you know, obviously they broke into the capital building.

But it wasn't that violent. Like we watched the video yesterday. Dude, I was about to say it is wild how. Have you not looked into this? Yes. But again, it's like I don't trust all aspects. But when you have him filming because you get to see the footage. I never understood it's like violent because nothing.

showed true violence it's like the violent mob that like stuck within the red ropes yes and like we're walk in but when your video really shows everyone's just there for like this that whatever their beliefs are on that entire event it's still peaceful and they're not yelling racist shit they're just being very respectful to everyone even you that chinese lady that was crying yeah there's like a chinese lady crying where is god yeah she's like this shouldn't have happened he's happened he should be in office what's going on this should not have happened he should be an off like very heavy asian acts literally i didn't understand it otherwise i think you know you're translating for me but yeah it's wild to see how big how how how they swayed that narrative though

it's and we talked about like yours that was my first time really seeing how they will switch anything that happens the media is just gonna like flip it you rich and now that I was like, Jesus. You guys have been friends of mine for years and years. And like, you guys know what I believe. You know how I am. Like, you know, like behind the camera, like when the cameras are off. You know, you know who I am as a person.

You guys have seen who I actually am and to see what the media portrays me to be. Like, it's insane. You kind of like see the media twist. And like, these people are not our friends most of the time, which is why I think your stuff is so refreshing. Because I think a lot of what you tap into with a lot of your, what I will call actual journalism is very much in the same vein as what Vice News was 10 years ago. Yeah.

Like I feel like it's that same like guerrilla journalism that people are actually interested in and not just like slanted stuff. It's funny because I feel like it's easier to do authentic journalism. Like of course everyone has some kind of biases, but you have to put more effort into like, you know, slant things and skew them like a jerk off. It's pretty easy to just be like, hey, what's going on? Tell me how you feel, you know, at these notable things like January 6th. But yeah, I feel like my video was shot a ban because police or not police reports, news reports on it will have like 5, 10 million. views where they don't show any footage. I have like, you know, an hour edited down into 15 minutes of like raw on the ground footage. It's pretty interesting. There's transgender people.

There's Chinese people. There's black people. There's women. And nobody is being aggressive or violent. Everyone was getting along. They even sung the national anthem on the steps of the Capitol building together like everyone. Oh shit. It's dude is like it's wild, especially when you hear how that was twisted to when you watch this footage. And it's not like a little one It's throughout the day. The whole day. Yours covers everything. It's just...

The only violence I saw was a cop shot a guy through the face with a rubber bullet. It was the only thing I saw. But, you know, that's because they were trying to get them to get out of there. But, yeah, I've been to concerts that were scarier than January 6th. And I have no incentive to say that. Like, I'd have no problem being like, it was a madhouse. Right. I don't care.

It would theoretically be a better video for you if it was. Yeah, it would be more viral if I was like, they were crazy. Yeah. Well, I remember your stream coverage because that was, I think, one of the biggest live streams you ever did was covering all the news news footage at the time right yeah at the time i had 97 000 concurrent viewers watching me the 2026 Chevrolet tracks is the stylish SUV for those on the move and with the standard Chevy safety assist package you have the backup to handle every turn with confidence the 2026 tracks start your build at shiverley dot ca which is fucking insane all i did

I turned on my computer that day on January 6th, and I was like, guys, I'm going to cover everything that's happening. And I just skipped between news channels. And it didn't get too crazy. There were a couple of people that were like trying to burn flags and shit in there. And the people around them were trying to keep them from like burning flags. I think those guys were feds. I think the flag burning people with their faces covered.

I feel like we're feds, dude. I remember my stream specifically. There were people trying to cause trouble. And there were people taking their. like stopping them from causing trouble and they were like we're trying to have a protest right now i think a lot of people like on jan 6 i think there was a really good job with a lot of the like true believers like just the people that were there for the right reasons that did a lot of self policing that like when somebody would say like oh let's go commit an act of violence they'd be like

no and they they shut that they shut that shit down pretty yeah and all the mass crazy uh instigators they didn't they wouldn't give me an interview so i don't know they there was people there with nefarious intentions for sure yeah well i remember specifically there was a group of people I was watching it on live stream there was 97,000 people there with me watching this live stream and there was a dude trying to take the news camera like take their cameras away from them and the dudes were in like American flag shirts and dudes that were like we're just trying to we're just here just to be here we're trying to keep him from taking the news cameras away from them so there were people trying to fight the the

like the actual anchors doing their job and the dudes in like the American flag shirts were trying to keep those guys from taking cameras away from people because they were like we just know we just won't like we just need news coverage like we're not doing anything bad yeah do you know who else was there that day that is now like a big YouTuber yeah yeah yeah sure like Nick shirley oh yeah he did coverage I met him at the the UFC 250 yeah he's a cool guy I reached out to him he's uh down come on the podcast if you guys i'd love to have him yeah it seems like good good we love you what you've been doing we know you're racist and all that but we still look past that now you're crushing it dude it's ignore this guy it's wild to see how they tried to even paint him like that dude looks like the

most innocent i'm just doing journalism and i'm not meeting him that's what i get from watching he's just a journalist he's doing like basic shit that journalists should be doing like he's really doing like i actually i was talking to somebody earlier today and i compared you with like nick shirley in a way where I'm like, yeah, it's just like an independent guy with a camera that's doing shit that journalists used to do before the job was just spinning a narrative. Yeah, Tommy G's another one of those people. And yeah, I had no idea. Nick Shirley was such an evil guy.

I've known him for like five years. Oh, dude. Apparently it's really bad. Atrocious. Is it like him? Because he goes in. It's just like, here is all the data. And when we watched the Minnesota, where did that?

Yeah, the daycare. Yeah, Minneapolis. Yeah, Minneapolis. Daycare one. I was like, I just seen snow. And then when he really says. like everyone's going to think he filmed this in one day and it was the day before Christmas not understanding it was probably filmed for like weeks leading up to that and I was like and then you watched narrative happen it was like oh yeah there we go all the leering center fraud

bullshit yeah and how could you not be upset about that as a taxpayer yeah like no one benefits from those people uh doing uh daycare fraud except them so yeah you should be upset about it he's not antagonizing people too that's where you're talking about the journalism that you do comes in where you just, you're just asking people questions. The same thing that Nick does. Hey, what's going on here? Hey, what's going on here? You shouldn't get mad at that.

Just asking people questions. It's insane. It's not leading questions either. It's not like I'm coming up to you on the street. Like, when have you decided to stop beating your wife? You know, like different shit like that where it's like just insinuating wrongdoing. You're just like, hey, I noticed that you've received this amount of money in taxpayer funds. Do you actually have any kids at your daycare center?

Racist. And then they immediately paint it. It was just like the worst person ever. It's like, these Somalis. Let me tell you about these Somalis right now, dude. That's crazy, dude. I don't know.

I can't be around those kind of questions, dude. How dare you? It's stuff that like any reasonable person would just be like, oh, yeah, yeah. We'll refer you over like our PR guy, whatever. Like, we'll give you all the data if you want it, whatever. But they just shut the fuck down. Well, I think that, I think that,

I think a lot of those people have been arrested now. I believe. I could be wrong. But I think, like, yeah, I think they've been a lot of those. Probably not enough. Yeah, not enough. But how much money was taken?

It's like you are, man, it is wild. Now that you guys are pointing out, it's like, you have such a clean way to document everything. Tyler Olivera is like, he's big, but he, dude, I love his content, but it's still more leading, like, versus how you do it. You approach it. He still has them. He's like, hey, these people are piece of shit. And he calls him out, which I do love. But you go in just like, I'm being friends with everyone.

Yeah. Yeah. People don't really know what, what I am exactly. Exactly. You know what I mean? I get it from both sides. I'm like called a racist Nazi and also called like a, you know, Antifa fruitcake. So that means you're pissing off the right people. Yeah. How many in passes do you have at this point? Infinite. No, it's actually for every time. He's not a coward. Every time someone, one of your homeboys get shot as a white person, you get three N-word passes. I've already. I've used mine up though already. So I'm out. No, you can use them all right now. You do know one of those. No kidding. No. No kidding. You do know one of those hood rats would pull the fucking Glock out and shooting you in chest with it at any moment.

Yeah. And then use that as a badge on. Yeah, I really don't want to die that way. I also don't want to die from septic pneumonia or cock sucky. Cock sucker virus. Let's talk about that a little bit because you had a very serious health scare recently. Yeah, it was the same thing that the NASCAR driver, Kyle Bush, passed away from pneumonia. So you have like an infection in your lungs.

And then it gets into your bloodstream and it shuts all your organs down. Same thing that Ben Ascran had that rotted away his lungs, he had to get a lung transplant. Because if you look at the before after a Ben Ascran, like it was pretty serious. That's what he had? Yeah. Oh, I didn't realize that was like pneumonia. Yours was bad, but I'll let you tell that because it's wild. Yeah.

I mean, I had like a stomach, a stomach condition for like about like two months where I was vomiting like every day or every few days. And we couldn't figure out what was going on. I'd been at the hospital four times. And then one morning I woke up. My feet were completely swollen, like huge. You know what I mean? Like you could almost pop. them it felt like and I was deaf and luckily my water retention or like yeah just I don't

know if it was water retention or blood or whatever and I took me to the emergency room and they immediately put me in an ambulance sent me to Dallas medical city and I was in ICU for two weeks and it was like a whole week of the doctor essentially not knowing if I was gonna live or die because my ejection fraction which is how much blood your heart pumps to your body was at like between eight and 12% what it should be and a healthy person it would be like 75% So yeah, it was horrible. I felt like I was suffocating because I couldn't breathe out of my lungs.

My heart wasn't beating enough blood to my body. Never like intubate you or like did it not matter because your heart wasn't working right? That was like, yeah, the next step would that for them to be like put me, you know, on like a feeding tube or a induced coma or whatever. But luckily I didn't get to that point. They were really considering the last few days

before things got positive, putting a pacemaker in. Because that's like what helps your heartbeat. But yeah, that was definitely the most way more traumatic than the shootings because the shootings happen quick and then they're over but this was like seven days and nights of being like on the border of about to be dead so it was terrible and yeah I'm still on I'm gonna be on three heart medications for the rest of my life let's start metopril all in spurnal yeah yeah just a reference that a standard ejection fraction is normal's 50 to 70 yeah mild mildly reduced borderline 41 to 49 reduced heart failure at 40% or less and you were at fucking 10% yeah 10% yeah Full-on heart failure. It was terrible.

I couldn't breathe. It was hard to talk. And something else that's interesting. If you can't breathe at all, you can't laugh. Because I remember trying to, like, if some funny shit would be said and I'd be like, ah. Because I couldn't get enough air to laugh.

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So you were actively making his condition worse? Exactly. I was like, oh, drink me. So tell me again about this story. It was like they're being socially exhausted and then you were physically exhausting him. You were killing him. Yeah. After I hop the phone, I was like, Eli's so annoying.

No, I'm just kidding. I was really thankful that you cared and so many people cared. I was immediately, once I seen that, was like, I'm going to let you get off the phone and sleep, buddy. I was like, rest. Holy shit. I'm glad you're okay. But the breathing, everything was wild because it was like every breath was a problem for him. Yeah.

It was a crazy to see. It was gnarly, dude. It was super gnarly. I'm happy. I didn't. We glad you pulled through. Die from that. Yeah.

It's been a great perspective enhancer, having almost done. I believe it. No, that's the bare minimum. Hey, we're glad you're still alive, bud. Yeah. It's like that's crazy experience though. God hooked me up in a big way.

Because, you know, most people, when that happens, usually you just die or, you know, it could be worse. Like, I could have had a lung transplant, you know what I mean? So to have that perspective and just be thankful for being able to, my body operating and functioning, I feel like has really helped with my mental perspective on things. Sure. What's funny to me, though, is the amount of people, like, this is just the fucking internet in general. But when all that shit was going down, people were just like, I think he's faking it.

He's faking it for views, because obviously he wasn't getting enough beforehand. Yeah, I was on a pretty hot streak before the sickness, and things have been a lot colder. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, do you have any idea how you got sick in the first place? So they don't know for sure, like how pneumonia would happen. It could happen, you know, a multitude of different ways. but I think it was from vomiting and then maybe aspirating on a bit of the vomit and getting an infection pneumonia in my lungs.

And then, yeah. Vomiting from? They never found out what the vomiting was caused by. No shit. So you know how your wrist hurts really bad to go to the doctor? They'll be like, you have arthritis, which is just like, you know, inflammation in your wrist. Got it. They tell me you have irritable bowel syndrome.

Like, yeah, whatever the hell that means. I got it. Here's 19 things that could have caused it. It's like, cool. Yeah. But I took a bunch of ulcer medication for my stomach. and vomiting subsided. So yeah,

just like Eli with like his, you know, memory loss and like gaps in memory and things like that. And he claims it's TBI, but we just think he's old. It's both. I think he's making it.

You're making it up. Now it's just everything. You're making it up for views. Who are you? Where am I right now? Just confused at life. Yeah. Dude, that was, again,

wild to see you go through all of that. And then, because you were down for the count for how many months? Oh, man. It was like two and a half full months of like really unable to do anything. Something that is really interesting is when you have heart failure, your vision can be blurred. So I had super blurry vision that kind of stopped me from being able to like edit my videos or do anything.

Like lack of blood flow or yeah, I guess something something like that. But yeah, I got out of the hospital. I'm six foot three. I got out of the hospital about 140, 144 pounds. Holy shit. So I was, you can see there. You can see the video. No, I know you're lean to shit right now.

You're looking like Timothy Shalame. Yeah, and I'm like 180 right now. So you can imagine 35 pounds less. That's insane. It was pretty crazy. But yeah, I have an older brother named Kyle who passed away at 34 years old from heart attack. So I'm super thankful that I got to experience what I experienced and not just be done because he didn't get a second chance at life. It was just kind of over for him.

He had his big catastrophic heart thing and it was done. So I got to have mine and live and then go on. So I love your positive mindset after it too because we talked yesterday, but you're just like, I want to crush life and you have that new perspective. You're like, oh, shit, we all are pretty fragile and it can end like that. And then add a family kiddo in that mix. You just really start to push yourself harder and you appreciate. You look back at some of the stuff you used to get frustrated at or messed with you and you're like, man, that was nothing. I have no.

I should have laughed at that compared to what you wanted to. Yeah, it would be right now for me to be like all depressed and anxious would be such an injustice to God, you know, for like sparing me and letting me stay on earth, I feel, you know, and everyone deals with depression and anxiety. It's very normal. But I, you know, it's crazy to think about me being sad prior to the health problems. Because obviously my health is way worse now than it was before the heart failure. Like I'm still dealing with health stuff. But, um, my mental side of things is so much better just because, you know, I got to see how bad it could be. Like, dude, if I, if I, if I had to, uh, if I had to, uh, like close my eyes and open them and I was in the heart failure mode it would just be so horrible so I'm really stoked that that's not happening it's relative it's relative and what you now you're like okay that's that suck the most yeah so everything above that pretty cool fucking dopey shit that's that's I mean tab gets to hear it I'll be like she's like oh what's going out of this and I'm like yeah at least I'm not getting shot at that's literally my bar of that sucks way worse that was eye opening to me as well, like on the Jordan trip, is like everywhere we went, especially

in that one base, like everywhere we went, it was, okay, here's the area. We are 40 yards over that way. That's the bunker we hide in if we get incoming. You know, we had to go into like bunkers like two or three times. Like not had to. Like it wasn't like incoming thing or whatever, but like we just like going in there, they're showing us like the whole setup, stuff like that. And then, you know, leaving there, knowing that I'm like getting a flight back to the US in 12 hours. It's like, oh, thank you so much for coming out. Whatever. Like, thank you. you for doing this. I'm like, dude, I have the easiest job here. I get to go back home tomorrow. You guys are stuck here. Like, there's dudes that were out there on deployment for 10, 11, 12 months so

far. Oh, that one, the one picture you showed me, you're playing cards with those kids. They had to have been like 19, fucking 19, 20, 23, like, it's a lot of the kids that are out there now, they, they weren't around during 9-11. They weren't even born. Yeah, because We were fired. We were just talking about that. I mean, you're looking at it because your average infantry, infantry soldier is, I want to say it's 19. 18 or 19. It's a young age.

But 18 to 21 is when you're in, you do your service, you get out. So it's all babies out of high school, like comparative to us. Yeah. And like, don't get me wrong. Like, those guys were all fucking awesome. But at the same time, it's kind of mind boggling for guys like us to think about, like, these guys were born while guys like you were deployed in GWAT. Yeah.

That's yeah. Chris and me were talking about that. It's like, holy shit, these guys are being born when I was deployed. Yeah, because we were sitting around the table this morning. We had breakfast this morning. And Chris, you know, he was in the surge. I think he was in the surge too. And then he was a Blackwater guy there for a minute.

And it's just crazy thinking about because you and I, Eli, we're 10 years older than fucking Brandon right here. And then Brandon got to go out and hang out with these like fucking 20-year-olds. But you're all amazing. You're doing a great job, guys. Again, thank you. Everyone out there, the men, women, you sign the dog in the line. And we truly respect you for that.

What was even cooler was that the week prior to me getting there, like a couple days prior to me getting there, a bunch of the guys at that forward base that I went to the second day had all just decided in-country, definitely not for the bonus, but had decided to sign their re-enlistment. Yeah, you got to re-enlist. They did a bunch of like a bunch of re-enlistments like the day before I got there. Re-enlistment for anyone that doesn't know, it's when your time and service, you would either get out or you have a choice. Hey, I'll sign up for three to four to five more years.

I'll get a bonus and I have to swear back in and re-up my contract essentially. So a few soldiers did that. But even all the, even all the shit. that's going on right now. Like all those guys were willing, like, these were a lot of the dudes that like, not being too specific with stuff, but like, if there was going to be a boots on the ground action of any kind, like these were the guys that were going to do it. And they were there in country, haven't seen their families and God knows how long.

They were the ones that decided, like they decided to raise their hand and say, yes, I'll do it. I'll do it again. And they had you. They had me, they had me promote a few guys. Like a couple of like pin their new ranks and stuff like that. That was those really, it was a fun experience. fucking red, dude. Do you punch it?

Or are you like, I'm not going to hit to the back. It was Velcro. It was the Valcrow. So what we do now is here. Bam! Oh, well, I wish I would have known that. So next time we go,

if we do that again, that's... I don't know if they still do that, but this is... No, because I know, like, the blood wings when I got the, like, the jumps, jump certs, like they... Yeah. Well, they had to pin me twice

because they fucked it up the first time. Eli, did Brandon get deployed? He did. No, I did not. I had, I got optioned. We get a, go on. I have the choice of going there and choice of going home, which is more than I can say for most

the guys there. We're going to do a patrol, though. That's the one request I have when we go. I mean, the guys don't. I just want to go on a patrol. And then whoever wants to join. I would love to. Yeah. I don't know how they do that. Can I pick my rifle? Huh? Yeah.

Yeah, bring everything. I can pick my gun. I'm sure if we're going on patrol. They won't say anything. I'm sure there's some drop a job. Can I talk to the local tier one guys and pick my gun from them. Hello, Delta gentlemen. May I have

one of your rifles to go on patrol? They let me into some of the armories. Oh yeah? Oh yeah. I got some photos. Well, maybe put up, but they're running some old school shit, man. Like a lot of those guys, especially the MPs and shit, they're running like, you know,

20 year old M4s that are all like pick rail with the rail covers, like ancient aim points. I didn't see a single EOTec while it there. Why do you think my text, when I send your gun in the group chat, I was like, I, there is a zero, not a non zero percent chance that I, one of those guns I deployed with because it was the exact same everything. I was like, okay, that's an M4, a four, it's an M68 red dot. And then the bus, everything lined up was like, that's the new contract FNs actually. Oh, no shit. Yep. Yeah, I did not know that. But you know, like a lot of that stuff, it's like, it's just, it looks so fucking old school. It's like, man, this is. Well, my, the tier one guys, I'm sure, get way different shit. At Volvo, safety is not a feature. It's our purpose.

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I was nodding politely. Like, wow, this is a 50 cow? He's just like, somebody stopped him, was like, he, he knows. And I just went, yeah, I have one at home. A dude, too, a primate is my book. But I get to get up and, like, take a picture, like, on the 50 Cal up there. And I fucked with the guy because I saw a loaded belt. Like, it was a belt, like, four to one, like four ball, one tracer.

Oh, yeah. Like, it was loaded up. Blank, blank, blank, red, blink, blink, red. Or black, maybe, actually. Well, it's just standard ball round, just like your standard 50-cal ammo. also like four rounds of 50 Cal and then another round of 50 Cal it's a tracer. And it's marked. You'll see it like when I say blank, blank, blank, it's no markings.

And then the tracers, red and black? I think it's red. Yeah. Okay, I remember right. But I was up there and I was fucking with the guy because he's down there and I'm up in the top of the MRAP. I go, so if I push these paddles down, what happens? Knowing he couldn't stop me if I wanted to. And he just kind of goes, he just like slumps his shoulders.

he goes, the neighboring village and my boss will be equally upset. Yeah, okay, understood. It was a great time. All those guys were fucking amazing. Dude, would you want to go with us and do a dock if we go? In Jordan? Hell yeah. I'll go anywhere.

I love traveling. You do a dock with? I think he does that. I talked earlier today with some of those people. They said they were opening it up potentially to the idea of doing more bases like outside of not just Jordan, but like some of the, some of the. the other bases there. I'm down. Yeah, I could essentially act as just like the residential journalist guy to document whatever you all want to, you know, I don't really come to it

with that much predetermined stuff. So you could just plug me into any situation really. I think for like if we do two live shows, just back back, come back and then have him. Especially if we do like, if we do like meet and greets at a couple bases, like just like the opportunity to go hang out with the guys and do like two live shows at big, you know, big bases that they could put something on. Dude, I do that in a heartbeat. If we go, we'll eat chow. We can serve chow. I'd be down to serve chow at lunch.

Stay of contracts with a lot of local people. And then you've been, you being the amazing journalist that you are, just walk around and be like, hey, what's up? What's your daily life like? Yeah, that would go just to show people like what's happening. And the amount of people that showed me videos, too, of like, oh, yeah, during Operation Epic Fury, like, when all that stuff kicked off with Ron for like the first, like, week or so,

They were just like, oh yeah, we would get like incoming like 14, 15 times per day, like in the very beginning of it. And they showed me video like as we're standing in the place that video was taken. Like, oh yeah, this is video of all the stuff being intercepted over the base. Like shit that was coming like missiles that were coming from Iran to Israel that were being intercepted midair right above the base was fucking crazy. That's gnarly. And how long were some of these guys on lockdown for? Since the beginning. So like since like March.

Damn. So months and months. Yeah. Is there lockdown they're just going to, they just stay on base 24-7? Stay on base, like all the tourism activities. Like before,

apparently you could go to like other places. There's a lot of places in Jordan that are very cool. Like Petra, things like that, things you'd want to see. You could actually go downtown and do stuff. Now it's like they're locked down on base, a lot of the recreational stuff. Like when we were at the second base we were at,

they said that they haven't had a gathering of more than like 100 people. in months since Epic Fury kicked off shit at Brandon you were like what do you guys do for a daily or something like that yeah like what's what's life like what do you guys do for fun how do you let off steam what's on your mind I'm curious what's on there you know what's on their mind as well that's a great question I like asking people that'd be cool what's on and they they don't I don't know if they feel like this these days they don't trust journalists very much and why would you I wouldn't yeah exactly

little bastard if you're coming with you like you're you're not a journalist Yeah, Brandon rolls with us. He's just like, hey guys, what are you up to? What's going on? Like, you're not going to make them look like holes on CNN or, you know, any other major news network. Brandon, look what I got you. I got you your own poncho shirt because you don't own one. I've never had one. Editor, play any clip of unsubscribe. You do always wear them. Why? That's because poncho makes shirts for guys that actually go the fuck outside. That's right. You will touch grass when you wear a poncho.

You don't have to. If that's scary. you, but if you do like touching grass, these are a great shirt for you. They have an inner mesh to like... Yeah, dude. That's... What? That's why it breathed so well. Like, actually, like, in West Texas summer, like, I'm on the road in West Texas all the time. Ponchos are like the uniform, because they look good, you know, the pearl snaps, everything like that. But they also actually breathe. So you can be outside and just kind of roll the sleeves up

and, like, you look good and you feel good. The boys and the pearl snaps. And ladies love them, for the record. It's probably the best shirt he's ever worn. I'm not even kidding. my daily attire, poncho is like 75% of it. I think everyone wears ponchos. Yeah, because it's great.

Like it's comfy. If you need to be professional, it can look professional, but otherwise just like going around, it breathes well. You could be outside doing sporty shit. Like it's just, it's all around just good for anything. And they do have a little bit of stretch. I didn't have to worry about the cost of refilling my wardrobe with ponchos because we had the code unsub.

How much do you save with that code? Well, I'm glad you asked if you go to poncho outdoors.com slash unsub, you'll get $10 off your first order. It's a hell of a deal, Brandon. To make it even better, you get free shipping on top of it. By God. I'm going to start wearing poncho. You'd be crazy not to.

I feel like people call me a politician the same way they call you a journalist. I don't like the title, but yeah, that's kind of what I do. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I mean, if I interviewed someone and then they saw the final product and they felt like I misrepresent of them, I'd feel like such an asshole. Yeah. You know what I mean? I don't want to be that gotcha guy.

Because also, you don't need to. You know what I mean? I make he's not Australian that's cool yeah rigged questions whatever could you be talking about whatever could we be talking about you fucking cocks that happened before after they were on I think well

before oh okay I wasn't sure on that one wait the boy boy yeah remember that was like a big part of my video oh yeah you did defend you like yeah I forgot about that yeah it's like a big part of my video like these guys came out there and they did this so like yeah I just see what it's really like I hate that shit because I'm like at the end of the day

like I really don't care where your political ties are. Like I'm not one of those guys that's like only political, which is really funny for somebody in politics. Yeah, like what you're saying. I'm like, dude, as long as you're a realistic down-to-earth guy, you're cool to hang out with,

you're genuine. We'll get along. Like there's a lot of my friends. Like we talk about this all the time, but like Ethan, habitual linecrosser, me and him have very different opinions on certain elements of foreign policy.

But he's still a good friend. I die for that man. Good fucking guy. You don't have to agree with everything I think. I don't have to agree with everything. thing you think, but I'm still, he's a good down-to-earth human. I love him to death. Yeah, when I watched the boy-boy video on you guys, I was just like, bro, that's so lame. So lame how they did you. Bringing out the child targets and stuff, which that isn't even

legal to do in most ranges, you know what they did. So it was just like ridiculous being tricksters. And we didn't even know. Like, we got that. We're like, is this like a demo from some printing company? Like, why the fuck are we getting these? And they pretended like that was just something we had. It was weird. I dissed pretty heavily. But then I did a video about Lebanon and they commented on that being like complimentary towards me. So I don't know. I feel like there's, you know, there's a bridge there. And I still don't like.

I feel like they're not just bad guys. No, no, no. They just did kind of a shitty thing. And I still like, I got along with them great while they were there, which that's, that's the most disappointing thing. Because if I could just call them out as like a complete piece of shit, that would be one thing. But we got along for like three days. They make pretty good content.

I like their stuff besides that video. Yeah. I like a lot of their stuff. And I, I think that they were, they were cool guys to hang out with. But it's like the fact that you would go to the end. agree to be that disingenuous as just it's irritating because I know you're capable of being really cool I think it's so I imagine I come on here hang out with you guys and then in my video with you guys it starts off at the a school shooting ground that's like that remember that's how

their video started that's like bro that's a pretty interesting context to start the video out and he he he DM me afterwards basically apologizing for the video like why not because you no here's well let me let's not exactly he he he'd DM me and basically He was like, hey, sorry. But if I was going to make the video that I was going to make, I thought you wouldn't have allowed me to come out and you wouldn't have helped me with it. I bet you still would have, though.

And I told him, yes, I said I would have. Even if I knew that was your tilt, I would have helped you with it because it was a cool project. I just would have asked that you give me an opportunity to say my piece to give the other side. So you're not blindsided. That would have been all I asked for. Wow.

All right. I'm different. Fuck you, boy, boy. Fuck you. idea of thing, your pieces of fucking shit. Yeah, I understand that perspective. You guys welcomed them into your home and they blindsided you. It's being so nice and like providing the ammo, providing a lot of money that cost

to shoot all. Ammo guns, three days of me and my cruise time. Yeah, thousands of dollars and you are being very respectful. If they want to do such an anti-gun piece, why do you guys have to be the vehicle that takes it there? You know what I mean? Like, why do you guys even have to be in that video? I don't understand.

I think there's a lot of it was just, oh, we'll catch them off guard. This is how they're going to act. And then it doesn't happen. And they're like, huh, huh. I thought they were going to act a specific way. Like they would laugh at the kid targets. And then when it's pushback, like, what are we doing? Oh.

I'm just disappointed because it could have been done better. Like it could have been done in a way that like everybody wins. Both sides are represented fairly. And we do a cool project. Like my video. Yeah. Still got a million and a half views. I got paid.

You guys got, you know, to hang out with someone. No. you guys I don't know you guys it's good it's good it's like everyone saying we would we would have like

complied with everything you wanted to do and hang out with you and it's exactly what fucking Brandon came down and did he did this he did such a good video yeah it was a great time

we all had fun I really appreciate you guys provide me with that opportunity did you've been a blast like we've always like I respect the shit out you make great content and then you're just

all around a good dude and that was that was one of the things I was actually talked to my dad earlier today and he was asking like who the podcast guest was today and I kind of had to explain like what you did a little bit but I'm like no he's not like a lot of the other guys like and I'm one of the things that stuck out as far as something that let me kind of like have an insight having not met you before but like having an insight on your character a bit is you know

we had had like minor interactions in the past but when we invited you to range day and you had like a plus one like a camera guy but you had asked for an additional plus one which like occasionally happens Like that's fine, whatever. But you'd ask for an additional plus one for your grandfather. Yeah. Like to come out to Range Day. We were immediately like, yes, absolutely. That sounds fucking awesome.

But like, you know, a lot of these guys would have brought out like a girlfriend or a this or whatever. And you're just like, no, my grandfather'd get a kick out of this. Yeah. Shout out to Papa. Did I love that guy? That went such a long way. What's your video called that you made about Brandon and like hanging out down here? What was your video?

I think inside the life of gun tubers, I think. Yeah. What's up with San Antonio? Antonio Grinder, I think, was the title of that. Yeah, yeah. We're hot dudes in San Antonio. Five gay guys with guns. Three big guys.

We high-file off the center. We float around. Bang. All our guns sound like that. Bang, bang, bang. Our guts sound gay. 18 naked cowboys in the showers at demolition ranch. Ew, ew, ew, ew.

That's my machine gun. Dear God. Couple guys in the audience got it. That's fucking hilarious to me. Bang. I want to make a gay sonny gun now. It moans when you shoot it. Meow.

Yeah, meow. Ooh-woo. Kitchen. Just having a muzzle break instead of like a trumpet thing, like just makes a gay noise. Your million-dollar idea. Yeah, the muzzle gay. It would be intimidating. You just hear it.

gay moan's like oh my god they're coming literally oh yeah get that to the hand put one of those in the hood it's like double emotional damage yeah not fucked that you don't always killed me about those fucking hood rats though hmm is no hell they would they would I don't know why hood rats sound racist when you say any any it sounds so racist when I say it anytime anytime you to rest them the like the biggest thing they could say against you was like you gay like you gay you gay yeah it's like I know when you guys go to juvie and you go to jail I know you fuck each other I know you do holy I know you do that didn't you say that you guys would use that against people where if you had like

video of them fucking another dude like you would use that like street you think you think the dudes at the fucking gel don't send us the videos that you guys fucking each other that's not if you're in prison and you're calling me gay I've seen you fuck another man no You call me gay. You gay as shit. I've seen this happen. Like, I have seen this happen.

That's wild, dude. You're not wrong, though. Yeah. Oh, fuck. Brandon just faded away in bushes. He just phases through his chair. No, yeah. I trust Chase.

Do you want another drink? Yeah, that'd be sick. A little bit of Coke with the sauce. Dude, that's how. Have you had to? had any police interactions when you're hanging out with any of the gangs or filming your videos? Yeah, I would say the most negative one was I was in Cortland Avenue in New York and I always have a fanny pack on me and I was leaving filming with these guys and like three cops like jogged

at me and essentially immediately put me in handcuffs without telling me anything and searched my fanny pack. Oh, really? Yeah. They just immediately, yeah. Which was pretty crazy. It's definitely illegal. But I kind of get it because it's like I look like I could be a crackhead hanging out,

either buying drugs or buying guns from people. So I didn't like throw that big of a fit. But yeah, that was the worst experience. It's like half on camera in the video. Or you're just like, yo, what's going on? Cops were you. I was like, yeah, I think it was three or four cops. Yeah, they just like swarmed me.

But I get it. Yeah, I mean, you're in that area. And then they don't know. What am I doing there? It's like, oh, a YouTuber. It's like, yeah, are you buying crack and have a gun. I get it. Where they caught off card when it's like, oh, shit.

As soon as they realized I didn't have anything on me, they left quick. But beyond that, I mean, I've done dozens and dozens. I've had no negative interactions. Like, we've had interactions, but not really that negative, you know? A lot of times, if you're respectful, like, it's just a respect. It goes a long way. It's what people don't get. That was the one time I was like.

De-escalate or escalate the situation? Oh, de-escalated by being nice and kind. But, I mean, yeah. I don't blame them for thinking. It's a hard trade-off. Yeah, you get like everything. Dude, if you're growing up and that's all you're surrounded by and then your parents are saying and reinforcing a certain behavior, then you have no idea. Like it's just, it's that generational battle of, well.

Yeah. And then we had an interesting interaction in Kensington, Philadelphia. If you guys are familiar with that, that part of the country. It's like one of the worst. It's a drug drug place. Yeah, it's like, it's like Skid Row of the East Coast. Is it like the high, like one of the highest places for Finland? Yeah, fentanyl and something called trank or xylosine, which is a horse tranclizer that has necrosis factors, like it rots your flesh.

Cody, have you. It's similar, yeah. So this, you probably seen footage. You ever seen when they do some of these drive-bys where it's just people, like it looked grimy as fuck, and then everyone's just zombieing out? Yeah, yeah, usually Skid Row in like L.A. and shit. No, it's the same thing. Yeah. Same vibe.

This one's like worse. It is where I would say, I've been to both of them videos on both. it was worse but yeah my video in Kensington is one of the few videos where I'm actually just hanging out with all those people over the course of two days all all night just like like we're hanging out right now and it's a pretty insane perspective I'm curious what do you think that chemical mixes they're all like fucking with it's got to be some fent in there it's the the majority of it is fent and thank you so much and xylazine which is the a horse like I said a horse

tranquilizer that rots your flesh and they mix it up because it has like Benzo properties. So it's like, you know, anxiety reducing with the painkiller. So they're just out. So you can see my videos there and on, in Vancouver, East Hastings Street. People will have no skin all over their legs or no skin all over their own.

What video is this that you're talking about? The one is the King of Kensington. It's got like four million views. I think it's my third most viewed video. And then East Hastings has like a million views. It's life on. these tasting street because you have such like a raw and unfiltered look at some of these societies and like some of these elements of society rather like do you get age restricted a

bunch yeah there's some there's some problems uh with the monetization for sure but yeah that's why that's why things like pepper box and things like patreon are are so beneficial because yeah people probably have a bit of a skewed perspective on how much money they think i make i wouldn't be making a go go fund me for my health bills if i was like had millions of dollars in the bank because he's making $1 billion off at this a month. Yeah. No, there's a lot of demonetizations and stuff like that.

And for me, I'd rather have like a really good video that is Evergreen than have it be all crazy censored and show like a warped version of reality. And then I get paid off of like crap. But should we put him on Pepperbox? Just answer down below. Who would like to see him on Pepperbox? I think it would be great.

A documentary section on Pepperbox would be sick. We're looking and doing a few documentaries. with Jack and stuff like that. Like, that's something that we, I think we, I think it's also like a huge asset to Pepperbox too to be able to show like these unfiltered views in societies like that or elements of society where you can't do it on YouTube because they'll, they'll age restrict you

and they'll basically just plummet you in the algorithm to the ground where nobody sees it. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Some of their policies. They don't make any sense. Like you can't even talk about, um, uh, health SARM. You know what I'm talking about?

Wait, what? I don't want to say it because we're on you too. You can't tell you. You can't really talk about mental health stuff. You really can't talk too much about drug addictions. Like in my videos, like I've done segments where I'll go and I'll show like the addicts suffering in the street.

And then I'll show like some of the places where they could get help. And YouTube will make me remove the rehab sections because you can't promote rehabilitation services on YouTube. Because that's something we've talked about a bunch on the podcast before is like veteran side and things that I think are incredibly fucking important. But you can't talk about it without risk. you're just like you said the word brandon yeah no I said oh we have can't say we have to use sewer slide stupid fucking words like sewer sewer sewer slide or like what is it

self so dumb self-delete like shit like that's like dude you're just devaluing an issue that's one of the biggest things that we're facing yeah it needs to be talked about and not the act shouldn't be normalized but talking about it should be normalized that's the only way that you can get help so when YouTube makes it so impossible to talk about it the only person suffering are the people that are like actually suffering which pisses me off because it's corporations like Google that are basically making the decision that instead of actually finding ways that we can get these people help, I'd rather have sponsorships from Nabisco so people can buy more Oreos.

That's the decision that they're making because they want it to be advertiser friendly. The tradeoff. Funko pops. It's wild when you put it in that perspective. Yeah, that is messed up. My friend oft himself with, thank God that Captain America Funko Pop came out. Yeah, they got an extra $2 million from Funko Pop. Have any of you guys been to Greenland before?

Never. Oh, well, it kind of ends the conversation. No, it doesn't. It makes it more interesting. I see. I've never been, but I'm about to go next week, so I just wanted to know if you guys had been and what it was like and everything. I hear it's icy.

It is Iceland and Greenland, but they're opposite with action. Just flip us off. Yeah. Sorry. But it's opposite and the scenery. Do you learn that for Mighty Ducks when we were growing up? Yes. Aubrey knows what I'm talking about.

There's the only, The only reason I know the difference between like Greenland and Iceland is growing up in the Mighty Ducks they said Greenland is icy and Iceland is green. Yep. That's actual like true. Well yeah. Yeah.

That's probably where I remember that from his mighty ducks back in the day. Like back in the day. Show off the mix on video. Ah, see, you guys watched it. Finn, play it back with me mixing it. So it looks like purple drank, but what do you have there, Eli?

I have the longevity mix and this stuff actually tastes really good. Oh, oh, oh. What's the purpose of the longevity mix? Longivity. Why would anyone want to live longer? I don't know. Well, if having more life is something that's interesting to you, you should try Blueprint. Now with one scoop, what all do you get and why am I drinking it?

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I think Greenland is like the biggest island in the world, and there's only like 50,000 people living there. But I've heard some interesting stuff about like, Tool Air Force base in the north part of Greenland and there's like some stuff allegedly going on with Russia and America and a possible You know, that's one of the reasons why Greenland's always been very You know one of the reasons why we've always kind of looked at that is because it basically cuts our response time in half if we were ever going to have a nuclear thread or things like that like that That sort of response element is why one of the many reasons why Greenland's always been appealing to the United States Yeah, it's super tactical position up there right? Yeah, because I mean anytime you're going to go to Europe like you basically have to pass

over Iceland or you excuse me Greenland to fuel everything from there so it's a lot shorter distance to just and they've allowed us to have bases there like we're we're allowed to basically be strategically located there I sure what are you going up there for above if we can talk about yeah of course I'm going to nuke and uh alusat which are the two most inhabited places of greenland I'm going to do videos about like uh you know life in the arctic or life has an Inuit and then I'm going to go to rakejivik Iceland this viewer reached out to me saying that he was a former drug dealer and has all this information about the criminal underworld of Iceland and that sounds pretty interesting so I'm gonna go out there and talk to this guy and all

the people that he knows I mean I'm kind of rolling the dice I don't really know him but I've talked to him on the phone it seems interesting you won't get shot but you might get ice picked yeah right through the heart way worse and then and I'm going to Ecaloit Nunavut which is the northernmost province and Canada just like a similar thing there's actually like 15 homeless people in this place called Ecaloit which is like freezing 10 months out of the year And yeah, I just want to see what it's like for these people and, you know, what their every day is. What do you, what do you think your biggest criminal enterprises in Greenland?

Like, what do you think that they're doing up there? That's a good question. I would think drugs. Well, I mean, definitely it's drugs everywhere. What do you think they're, I don't know. Because I was looking into, there's no, like, gangs or organized crime. There's no prostitution. There's no, there's not much.

It's mostly domestic violence because. It's too cold to not have clothes on. Yeah. Seriously. But it's methamphetamine. Yeah, probably methamphetamine. I haven't looked it up. I'm just saying.

If you're in a like an isolated country like that and you're you're trying to build some type of illegal trade there, it probably is going to be methamphetamine. Because I mean, you can't grow anything. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can't grow. There's probably not a big weed trade up there.

And their days are not be a anthems. No. Their days are wonky. They have something called the midnight sign. What is it? Deli, do you look it up? The highest drug use is cannabis. and psychedelics.

Psychedelics. Oh, shit. Very low rates for opioid or ADHD meth drugs. So those are the actual low use, and they use the two opposites. I wouldn't have guessed like weed and get tripping balls, but if it's... That's fascinating. Rocks and stuff. Maybe they just...

It's going to be methamphetamine. You want to get up there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would imagine. They have something called the Midnight Sun. Like, their days are so wonky. Like half the year, it's bright all day. the air it's like dark all day it's pretty it's like the vampire movie yeah pretty much it'd be a

what's that fucking vampire me john yeah yeah that movie is a night that movie was perfectly mid that's a bit it could have been cooler yeah they eat whales and joll josh fucking uh heartnet is in it yeah yeah the way are you gonna try well if you can uh yeah that's people might like whale meat yeah it's illegal but they can do i think that's yeah it's part of their culture yeah it's like a religious they have it in Japan as well I tried it in Japan allegedly or maybe I didn't I don't know it was like a mix between fish and steak it was good that's what I had raw whale like so high fat I don't I'm not sure what the what the fat count is but I know people get really upset about it but you can't complain about like a culture

that's been eating whale for hundreds of years doing what they do you know it's part of their well it's it's one of their as you says like a religious thing or it's this social thing they do once a year with the stabbing the wells yeah right Is that the right place where they bring them in and stab them with? No, no, in Greenland. I've seen that in Japan. I'm not sure in Greenland, but I know that it's like a big, there's not very many resources.

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you're not you're not getting corn and the fucking ice am i wild that is alarmingly fair yeah that's really interesting well there i think there's also a huge difference between like hunting something to extinct extinction for excess or for export or things like that versus like this is something that my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather did. Like, you know, this is something we've always done. And they're not at any risk if we do it at this rate. Yeah, they're not going Buffalo mode. Yeah. I think they're being reasonable

about it. If you pull up the fucking picture of like the stack of buffalo skulls that we had back in the day when we were like expanding on the frontier, we kind of went for him. I don't know if that's a saying, but Buffalo mode. It is now. Yeah. Like it's, you know what I'm fucking talking about. That's a good shirt

actually. Yo, I'm going Buffalo mode. And you just stack and bodies? Yeah. shit up. Just with a skull, a big skull. Yeah, dude, a buffalo skull? Buffalo skull? Buffalo mode. Yeah, that would be interesting. I want to do videos about life on the

reservations for Native Americans. I'd like that'd be interesting. I haven't done that yet. Also, you do? Yeah, we actually do. That's sick. If you want to get hooked up, we can probably make that happen. I know, like, yeah, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma are like big areas.

Arizona. Yeah, Arizona, the Dakotas. You know, they have their own gangs, too, so you got to watch out for that. I've heard that crime and drug use is really rampant. and on some of those communities. It's pretty gnarly, as well as mental health issues. Alcoholism, yeah, they have a couple of issues.

Yeah. Alcoholism, they, why is it a problem? It's like their body. Well, so it's, it's something that I always thought was overblown. Like, I always thought like, oh, yeah, well, anybody could become like an alcoholic, like if you, you know, with the wrong habits. One of my mentors back in the day, I will say, was, majority like his bloodline it was majority like native american and i always say he's like

no i don't really drink you know beer alcohol anything like that and one day he had a beer with us and i won't out him he's still a very good friend i love him to death i thought it was always like super exaggerated he had one angry orchard like one one like sugary beer and he was like piss himself in his chair drunk yeah because they metabolize it differently very differently And I thought he was fucking with me. And he was piss himself and he was like, I don't want to get up. I'm going to go to the bathroom. Like he was that bad off.

Whoa. And one off of one. And like 10 minutes later, he was fine. Like they just metabolize it super fucking fast. That's what I heard about Greenlanders as well. Really? Yeah. Interesting.

So I was really, I was curious to go to the bars on a Friday night and see if I could capture some of that alcohol culture. Oh. Because they probably get like hammered off three drinks, like hammered, hammered. Isn't that wild reading? It's like they don't care about meth or anything. It's like cocaine and cannabis are there too main. Everything else is very low use.

That's Greenland. Brandon, real quick. If you do the res thing, we know a guy. Yeah, that'll be really cool. I've always been really interested. I've never done it. My grandfather has a half-blooded Native American sister. So I want to trace and see if I have any Native American roots.

Well, like if she had kids, I would have Native American relatives. That would be really interesting. And you might have claim to a casino. Seriously. I'm going to cash out. Blackjack. When it comes to law enforcement out there, just let us know. Yeah, because it's different, right?

The rules are different on the reservation. They have their own self-governing situation. It's very strange because they're within the continental United States, but they're kind of governed as their own independent, you know. Sovereign type thing. Yeah. Not like sovereign citizen. This is where, like, legally, they're actually sovereign.

They just read something on Reddit. Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of interesting stories within there. Yeah, I was doing some research on like what was it like sitting bull. Do you know what I'm talking about the guy he died in like 1901? That's not that long ago. It's like the wild west and the end of the Native American situation is pretty pretty interesting how recent that was. Yeah, like it's it's definitely it's kind of crazy how you'll read about these things throughout history and then you forget that like your grandfather was alive when it happened. Yeah. Like you know different things like that. It's it's like you don't. You don't. You don't. You don't contextualize it until you hear something like, yeah, Rosa Parks was alive to watch the movie Shrack. That's true? Oh, fuck. Wait a minute. Dude.

Yeah, that's crazy. That's super gnarly. In the past, Greenland government implemented temporary and local alcohol cell bans. This is also like 20, as recent as 2020 to curb domestic abuse and protect children. Because they're chin checking. They're wise and kids off that. or so I read I don't know.

I've never heard of chin check. It's apparently a real thing, I don't know. I haven't been there. I don't know any of them. I don't think it's good that they're doing it. While, yeah, crazy take. I don't think that's a good thing. I've just never heard it called that.

Which video are you most excited for coming up or do you haven't planned that far out? We're like, oh man, I really look forward. Dude, I'm most excited about the India videos because we went to India like last month. No shit. Yeah, for like 16 days. It was like the first thing I filmed since coming back from almost dying, which is probably not the most responsible decision.

How was it though? Like what would you say about your experience there? Bro, so interestingly enough, India is so beautiful and just totally clean and there's just no trash anywhere. I'd like to believe you. No, I was I was hoping I could find a little enclaves. that was like that. But now it was very, very, very filthy and a lot of piss and shit everywhere. But that's just because they're having sanitation issues. But it was a really fun trip.

And I really enjoyed my time. I went to New Delhi, Agra, Varanasi, and Mumbai. So we went all around. And Indian people were great to us, but there's definitely some trash problems. I grew up around a lot of, a lot of people that were like straight, like, like not first generation, but like second generation Indians who had made it to the United States. Like I grew up around a lot of that culture. And none of them want to go back. It's dude, there's this culture of driving there where everyone honks their horn at all times. Have you ever heard about this? No.

Like, Eli was with me. It was so insane. I'm talking about, imagine, I know there's a thousand cars in deadlock traffic and every car is honking their horn. Why? It's apparently like just their culture of driving. Like, I'm here. Like on the back of big 16 wheelers, there's like signs that say, blow your horn. I wish I was making it up.

But me as like a little autistic retard, I was like spazzing. out with all the horns. I was like, that sounds fucking awful. Like, over-stimulated. Yeah, it was very overstimulating. But we did a bunch of interesting stuff. Like, we went to the city of Varanasi, which is called the city of death, and we spoke to an gory cannibal, a man that is a, I mean,

it's not alleged. He eats human flesh. And we went to this gout, this crematorium gout where they burn like over 100 bodies every day. So what's the scenario in which he, so as an open cannibal that he eats human flesh, A, Y, and B, how?

So why is apparently to distance their fear of death? So they're like apparently drink piss and eat shit and eat human bodies and, you know, hang out by these crematorium guts to lessen their fear and lower their ego is what they say. But this guy just fucking smoked weed all day and was kind of a dickhead, to be honest. But he also just ate human flesh. He had the skull of like a 10 year old and a 12 year old that he carried around that he, you know, severed from a body. which I think is, you know, desecration of a corpse and isn't cool. Yeah.

Does he know that's wrong? Well, it's apparently like accepted in their culture. So it's like, you know, who am I to say it's wrong? But the way that I feel is like, yeah, dude, that guy should be in prison or at least have his ass kicked. Maybe I shouldn't say that. But that's that's fucking wild. It was like, oh, it's to lessen my fear of death. I was like, you could just also like, I don't know, go to church or something.

Like that's, you don't have to eat the flesh of a 10 year old. Yeah, do some pushups in it, mate. Yeah. Just anything, literally anything that helps you with your... Yeah, we have that video. And a bunch of YouTubers have done a video with this exact same guy, Raj Kumar, Gori. I just thought he was a bit of a jerk off.

And I don't rush to say that about somebody. But he was, he was annoying, bro. Like, he thought he was the shit. And he, I just thought he was a weirdo with these skulls and doing this weird ceremony and stuff. I don't want to... Do you feel like it was a lot of hyping it up? Yeah. Like, I did all this.

And it's just like, stolen valor. Exactly. Like, he's a can't. If you look him up online, he's like had all these different girlfriends. And apparently the real gory, they wouldn't ever be on camera. They like hide in the hills and stuff. So, you know, I don't know what to believe. But that was a really interesting video I'm excited for.

And then there's a video about the Balzawa village. I'm probably saying that wrong. But it's a, it's a village that's right next to a landfill. And the landfill has been overflowing. It's like 100 to 300 feet high, trash. And it's like pouring over this village where rent is like $20 a month. And we got to go in there and talk to people. met some really kind individuals individuals that like you know welcomed us into their homes and

their church and you know gave us food they call india the land of a thousand shopkeepers because everyone's selling shit everywhere it was cool didn't i know it was called that i think i hope i'm not just making it up brandon i i love you so much man but after like we thought you were fucking dying last year we were so worried about you you went to an indian encampment where we people eat eat other people under a landfill. And this was my first thing back. Yeah, it's probably a bit stupid. Okay.

Okay. We love you. We love you, Brian. Why do they have such a complicated relationship with trains? Yeah, they just can't figure out that those things are dangerous, I guess. I don't really know. And here we have the local Punjab, deciding to stand right where, predictably, his natural predator, the train,

it'll be why are there so many videos on Twitter of them getting hit by trains I don't get it there was actually I saw there was a viral unsub short of me doing the David adenborough voice on the whole Indian train thing and half the people in the comments didn't know it was me doing the voice they're like how'd you AI date David adenborough it's really good honestly like but they really do yeah I I really don't get it and I understand that there's like a certain like cultural uh part of it where it's like a proof of, I don't know, bravery, or it's like, look at how close I'm willing to get to this thing that will predictively kill me.

You know, the train boys? It's like, the train boys to just go out, fight trains. It's like doing the back clips. Imagine like living your entire life. Wait, so there's actually, yeah, no. I brought this up. I didn't know it was to court women.

I've seen that. The videos are them doing a flip and then like trying to, you know, get some. Yeah, it's like a bravery thing or like how like, oh, look at how cool I am or whatever and then they get smoked by Thomas the Dank engine it's it's crazy yeah the back well I was like the backflips because I got the videos I'm like trying it and then they never very rarely accomplished backflip and then they're like paralyzed from the leg there's some interesting stuff have you guys heard about Gorhaba the shit festival that is in yeah I think Tyler went there so we were scheduled to go there in 24 and they ended up

stopping us on the airplane like they we got we got to India and they wouldn't let us in They revoked our e-visa on the airplane. How? I don't know. I just felt like that shouldn't be allowed. So we were supposed to be that in 2024 and then Tyler did it in 2025. It's a whole festival where they throw shit at each other, cow shit because cows are sacred. And, you know, they eat poop, they drink pee, they smear poop on their face.

Poop can help them sleep. It can help them wake up. It can help them with stomach problems. It can help all kinds of things. If you look at them. Import two million of them to Texas right now. We need them. I'm just happy I was born here.

Yeah. Crazy culture. We really did. Like, we got the fucking lottery. Like, this is the greatest country in the world. Dude, if you look at the proposed medical benefits of poop in India, and not everywhere, but in certain places, it's crazy. Wait, this is actually, like, truly believe the poo pee pee pee pee is.

It's wholly medicinal, yeah. So something that went through a cow's body that started as grass, these are the health benefits of potentially consuming the waste byproduct. It sounds just like a racist fever dream joke, but they, they're the ones that are doing it. I'm thinking of it. Like, you know what I mean? I'm not...

What are they saying it does? Oh, all kinds of stuff. There's even a thing where they think that smearing a certain poop pee concoction can lighten your skin on their face. Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff. Cody, I need you to open your tongue. I stick it out and go, ah, okay. And I just place a turd on it.

Anyone, yeah, anyone who's mad about this information, we didn't make this up. I cannot see a way one would think that smearing cow shit on your tongue would lighten your skin. It's the age of information what's wild. Because if you go on, I mean, IG, you get to see some of the weird stuff. Like when they're doing, a dude, that dude, he's like Dr. Pimple Popper, but for India, but he just uses the same knife overall in the, like, public watches and do it. People use them as soaps, toothpaste, and immune boosters.

They are also used in spiritual cleansings. However, doctors warn against these treatments. There is no real proof that poop cures illnesses. So, yeah, you know, you don't want to, we don't want to be saying this, but we're getting this from them. Apparently they think that poops can help with immunity to all different kinds of illnesses. It can help with antimicrobial stuff. It can help with cancer. I mean, the list goes on and on and on.

Poop is like the greatest. I can't even say it. Poop is like the best thing. Shows off. Camel just nod. She's like, yeah, now I'm joking. She's out looking discussion right now. It has so many uses.

The percentage of people in Ireland who believe this has gone up recently. True. And in Frisco, dude. poop has gotten popular in frisco i've heard i've heard that as well yeah but to be fair apparently it's not all indians plenty of indians are not into the poop games no like i i grew up around a lot of like second generational uh like indians and things like that and like there's a lot of interesting holdovers from indian culture but a lot of them are like very secular like very like very first world let's say so they'd probably think it's just as weird as we do yeah like if you were raised

in the united states like a lot of them are still just like kind of like looking back at like traditional Indian customs and that's what I was saying earlier is like they don't want to go back they're like what the fuck are these people talking bro i don't blame them it's hard and when you're raised in it again it is that taking that step back and you have to understand from their perspective there is no age of information or it's very different compared to what we hear and all the time if your parents are like yo did you take your turd sandwich it's tuesday you're gonna believe turd sandwich on tuesday it's extremely important yeah and you continue to do that and you'll pass that on to your kids and your kids kids you have to get wider

so you can go to a higher cast. They have a caste system. It's crazy. We got to see the Taj Mahal. India has a lot of beauty and a lot of cool things. Like it's a very complicated place, I feel. You know what I mean? There's some really incredible stuff.

And the fact that they built the Taj Mahal in what the 15 or 1600s is pretty wild. That one building is older than our entire country. Like that's kind of like a crazy concept for us. Yeah. And it's like a testament to actually some of their civilizational prowess. I know people might laugh at that. But dude, just go just visit that place.

It's crazy. But the Taj Mahal is surrounded by, slums like in the modern day. You'd think like this beautiful wonder of the world has like a booming tourist economy and like rich people around it. It is surrounded by like the poorest of the poor. It was one of the worst slums we went to. It was like literally all of Agra around the Taj Mahal, which was interesting. And it's something too. We've had friends that have gone there and they're like worn against bringing like if you have like a blonde girlfriend or something like that, just absolutely do not bring them into that country. Yeah. I wouldn't personally. But hey, do you,

your own thing if you want to go ahead I wouldn't there's Ramonajon that's the Indian dude that was like do you know Ramonazon no I don't think so he's the one that a made the movie is that one Indian dude that was born in a low cast and then he just taught himself mathematics got to Harvard was it Harvard Cambridge like they got him into Cambridge because he just wrote a whole bunch of different papers and the the professors at Cambridge at the time were opening in they're like what's the fuck is all this and he solved a lot of shit they had no idea all self-taught he just read books sounds really interesting oh cool one guy in the world figured out how to fucking not eat shit

literally that's really cool you like I thought he did great shit so what's crazy is they worship the cow right and there's cows everywhere in the streets like there'll be a highway that has to stop because there's cows but the cow like half the cows are starving and sitting there in a hundred 10 degree weather if they don't treat them good they just just don't kill them. It's very weird. It's kind of funny because you'd probably be treated better as an American cow. Way better, bro.

You get food. You get your own little encampment. These cows are just roaming this fucking concrete schoolyard and starving. That was the other thing, too, in Jordan that they had, like, stray dogs all over the past. Everywhere, Lebanon, too. All over. Like, they would find their way on the base, and that's like a base order is that you're not allowed to pet or engage with the dog in any way, shape or form. Because, like, half of it's like rabies, but, you know.

They don't really, and when you say there's a straight dog, it's people still think it's like, oh, one or two. And you're like, no, no. Hundreds. Thousands. Just everywhere. And they seem tired too, right? Yeah, like a lot of them were like just always napping in the shade and things like that. But it looked like, the closest thing I could compare it to is like a Rhodesian ridgeback.

Like that sort of like that kind of dog. The tan fur. Yeah. And it like, it kind of suck because like I'm coming from the United States. Like I just want to pet the dog. and that was just an un-no-no whatsoever. Like if you domesticate them, apparently they start getting aggressive

if you stop feeding them or stop petting them or stop, like they get aggressive and then it becomes a problem. But that and disease and everything like that. That's over there's wild. It's a big problem. People just don't realize it. Cats, you rarely see straight cats though.

Like, true. Yeah, we didn't see a single cat. Yep. But like in Islamic culture, like you're forbidden, I think, from contacting the day. dog. Like you're not a lot of pet dogs. Oh yeah. You can't have a dog in the house for Muslims. I forgot about that.

Yeah, because they're like non-cline. They're not clean. Boy, are they missing out. Wow. They're trying to ban them in Ireland? That's, why would that be the case show? No one in Ireland wants dogs. Dogs are allergic to potatoes? Why do the Irish change their opinions

about owning dogs? Show. Show the camera turns around. All four cameras turn to show. I think the dogs have changed their opinion on who they want in Ireland. Oh, fucking you've been to Japan. He just got back from Japan for the first time. It's so good, isn't it?

Oh, it's fucking rad. It's so good. It's cool. It's a good time. Racist owner operator went to Japan and he loved it. No, but seriously, it is. The culture is different, right? It's a little bit different.

But it is so clean. It is so beautiful. People are so respectful. It's awesome. And then you have to carry your trash around with you because there's no trash cans. On the street. Yeah. That was different.

That was cool. Yeah. So there's no trash everywhere. It feels so safe everywhere. Even in like the busiest of cities, you don't feel like anyone's going to rob you or ask you for a dollar or punch you or stab you in the neck or set you on fire. I think that's just the places you go to in the States. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm kind of referencing the worst to the worst. But a lot of major cities in America have some really rough parts you'd want to avoid. And I went all around Japan and super safe. Dude, when you go in Japan, like, Cody will bachelor, it's like, you feel, you're just like, oh, I am good. I didn't even think about you don't mind your phone out. You just don't think about anything. Like, no one's going to ask you for money even. That'd be, God, that would be a weird thing to actually experience.

Yeah, there's no JBL speakers just playing fucking random music. Like, everyone's super kind. It's fucking awesome. High trust society. I think this would call that. Even? Yeah, I feel like regular civilians would, like, turn on you if you were playing music and public. They wouldn't go for it. They wouldn't be mad about it though. They would be mad about it. They wouldn't

ask you to stop. They'd just like, hey, dude, would you turn that down? Now, they'd all turn into the witch from like, Leffre Dead. Just starts sprinting at you ripping you apart. It's like, oh shit. We went on one of the high-speed trains there at one time and I put my bag not facing the way they wanted it to. And like, they came up and they're like, you need to do this right now. And I'm like, dude, I don't understand what you're saying. I couldn't understand what the dude was saying at first. He's like, you need to shift your bag to the side and finally got it and turned it. And everyone was happy.

But I couldn't imagine anyone having like a loud playing speaker on the... How many people in Japan spoke English? Like ratio wise, would you say like 30%? No, dude. Like everyone at every shop spoke a slight amount of English. Like, you do this. You do this. You have to do this.

You hand the money, they will give you exact change back. Yeah, yeah. No, it was fucking rad. No tipping either. That was also, that was wild too. Yeah. It's rude to tip there. Well, because I'm used to here in the United States, if like a server treats me very well,

I'm going to pull out a hondo and just like, hey, thank you so much for treating my party will. Like, if we're hanging out at a restaurant or something, but like, here's a hondo. Thank you. Over there, they're just like, I would try to hand them like a hondo in Japanese, like a thousand. and I think it's what it was. And they were just like, no, no, no. It's like, okay, thank you so much. They're literally like, sir, take your money.

Take your money, sir. Yeah, yeah, they got mad at me because I was trying to give them money for having a good service to myself and my wife. But their service is so good. Oh, dude. And it's incredible. So good. They're so good. Brandon, you have to go.

That's the one thing I want us to all to take a trip there just because the experience of that. Everyone's so respectful. I forgot about when we went to that bar it's like 90 minutes drink as much as you want for 20 unlimited drinks for $20 for 90 minutes so this was this this trip to Jordan was my first time out of the country ever oh what I forgot I've never been out of the country like most people like go to Cancun or whatever in high school and like get a

tattoo or whatever I my first time I was 30 years old and I went to Jordan to go visit trips I don't know it's pretty tight though it was cool it was cool as shit like flying into Dubai and then getting like my my layover there and whatnot and like hearing and I know like it sounds totally fucking normal what if you think about it for two seconds but hearing the Islamic call to prayer over the airport loud speakers super loud as an American I'm like this is culture shock this is kind of wild but doing that like going there to to Amman everything like that like it was it was really neat it was a very cool experience and I would I would love to do it more do we got it yeah then we need a plane subject for Japan because I think you would have A blast and all of us would go again. Yeah, especially if we... Let's do a Japan trip, dude. Especially if we could link it up with some of the troops that are deployed there in Japan. Oh, dude.

Or station there, rather. Yeah. Just do a, yeah. Oh, man, where is it? Where's the duty station at Japan? Okinawa. Yeah. Just doing it.

Oh, it would be so cool to go to Okinawa. That's the island on the southern tip, right? Yep. We've never been, I've never been there. I've never been to Okinawa and I haven't been to Sapporo. I've only been to the middle stuff like Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto. Suporo was... Wasn't that Mr. Fukonaro?

Fuganoi? Yes. Foonaki. He was on the, he's on the north horn up there, right? Northern island of his Sapporo, yeah. Oh, so it's the same general area? Well, it's Hokkao's the Northern Island. Sapporo's the big city up there, but yeah.

Yes, and we got a place to stay too. Yeah, you guys got to go. That place is so soon. Yeah, if we go seven hours north. Oh, we'll fly. Can you take a... It's like five hours wide. There's no train up there.

There's no train. Bro, the trains are amazing. The magnet trains. You don't feel you're just like walking around. But it's like that Japanese video when they tested the new one. Yeah. It's, boom,

the Japanese people are like, what the fuck? You just start laughing. All right. I have an idea. Paperbox exclusive. You film it, come with us.

We pay for it all. We go up there. Easy. We fucking chill out. Oh, man. You had you. Easy day. So we leave in next month?

I'm down whenever. You let me know. I go ASAP to Japan. that food is up Brandon I'm not one of these like so Eli's like a java file like he just loves everything Japanese culture

he's like oh my god 7-11 but in Japan I don't know I like I well just say fucking Japophone to be fair the 7-11 Japan are so good they're different I swear what did you say just say listen the 7-11 to Japan are so good oh dude I'm sure I'm sure it's kind of like the new

you don't agree I'm sure in the US it's the difference between like your typical like Exxon mobile or like Exxon versus like a Buckees. Yeah. Right. Oh, this is really cool. Dude, 711 to a like you're actually in a nice restaurant for food level. That's what's crazy. You're going an American 711 to I'm going to a four star restaurant in America. Goody? No, no, it is insane how how good their food is in the 711. I'll put this on the record like whenever we do it because I know we're going to do it, press X to doubt. Like I don't. We're going to go and then we'll record it all.

Until you have it, you can't, like the chicken, did the chicken, did you have the chicken? Chicken Katsu? Yeah, from the 7-11. Well, they had Katsu and then they had like all sorts of shit in there. It was, it was fucking badass. It is good to having you back on though. We appreciate you. Yeah, thank you guys for having me.

It's fun. I only live two hours away. I'm close by. Yeah, now you live up in Austin now. Yeah, last time I was here, I was living in Maryland. So I was like 27 hours away. Now I'm two hours away. Oh shit.

We're homies now. Yeah, close by neighbors. Come down by like literally when. ever like we're free for well whenever we're in town but yeah I'd like two more I'm only been back like doing YouTube stuff for like two months because of the sickness so yeah it definitely it's good to see you guys it's good to be back filming did that really hurt you with the algorithm is like not being able to to post very yeah that's what it's like so ridiculous that if anyone thinking that I this was like a money making ploy is like yeah I

would have been fine if I just continued posting frequently besides like you know getting sick and posting four times over the course of seven months is not that's not good for money making or the algorithm or whatever. But yeah, it's kind of hard to post when your heart isn't working. Yeah, little things. A little bit. Yeah, and I'm so particular about it. Like, I can't just have an editor like take the reins and do everything.

You know, I'm like, uh, autismo about it. How often, like before, before you got sick, how often would you post? Like you do it like a documentary. That's about how long and how often? Usually like 30 minutes to an hour and at least, uh, twice a month. Twice a month. Holy shit. If not three times.

Yeah. And now we're like once a month or once every five weeks, but we're picking it up. When you watch your content, that's why it's like that, holy shit, you're doing that twice a month a while. Because you do put in a lot of effort, time in each one of your videos. Yeah, people think we have like a big team. It's like I do the bulk of the editing, but also it's just me and like one other guy or. Other Eli. Other Eli, you want to say hi on camera?

Okay, he said movie next to. So that was no. That was a very polite no. Yeah. But I mean, that's kind of like me and Delance. It's like he's, he was just a friend of mine that I grew up with. And one day I was just like, hey, I want to like kind of record some stuff. I'll pay you in lunch if you want to follow me with a camera all day.

And then 10 years later, me and him are still working together every day. Yeah, I think the content can be so good, especially when, you know, the people who are touching it, like care a lot. And it's not just becoming like commoditized and random people who were just trying to get a paycheck or messing with it. Yeah. So, yeah, that's why I keep my team small. But maybe I'll, maybe I'll, Mr. beastify my shit sometimes soon.

I was just going to say like with Mr. Beast's team. Like it just seems like there's a lot of people that came in like vultures just like, oh hey, you're doing good. Well, I worked in Hollywood or I worked in TV and they try to take over and it just makes the content worse. Yeah. It takes away the soul of it. Because they don't

understand our generation. Yeah. It's like a bunch of 40, 50 year old guys that are like, well, I did fucking, you know, third rock from the sun. Highly specific show. I clearly understand like what your generation. likes like you clearly don't speaking mr. Reese you guys know who Topper Guild is me and don't know we're talking about this I don't yeah because you feel like you know a lot of

the biggest YouTubers right generally speaking oper would generally speaking I can I have no I've never even heard of this name beeline I've never heard of this ever no idea yeah would you believe if there's a YouTuber out there that has 93 million subscribers he's an American YouTuber and you've never heard of him I never would believe it yeah and he gets like 300 million views a day fuck off Topper Guild he i've never seen this guy's face he has like mr b style thumbnails i was just gonna say it has to be mr b style shit they're saying the same shit that i think you're 93 million subscribers i think you're right

about that uh like i think in twenty four he started to get like 20x the views with mr beast on his right now he said he said he was getting like 20 times the views because he uh dubbed his videos in different languages but they're all ai donut had a different theory i think you're right about it what was yours the title's like theory My theory was Jimmy is coaching them through this. And they're an earlier generation. Like they're going for like the 10, 13, 13, 14 year old, like 14 year old, like demographic.

And they're just doing the same thing that Jimmy's doing. But Jimmy's coaching them through it. But also Jimmy probably has a line to YouTube. And that's why they're doing so well. Because I'd never heard them before, like 97 million. fucking insubscribers. I feel like I agree with you. You think he's doing like the Dr. Dre Eminem thing.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Thank you. That's the best way to describe it. Yeah. I mean, you have K-pop demon hunters go on 100 dates. What the hell is this K-pop demon hunter shit?

Because it's not just him. They're hitting that demographic. I was just saying like that 11, 12, 13-year-old, like young men like denigraphic right now. And that's what's happening. It's so bizarre. And Jimmy's coaching, probably coaching that guy through it. Well, there's another guy that we were talking about.

His name is Zhang. He's got 75 million subscribers, and he's posting the same type of shit. Like, K-pop Demon Hunters got pregnant. I'm like, what is this crap? What is the video content? That's what I'm saying. I haven't watched it yet. I mean, this is so weird because you're like, oh, it's going to be like,

but it's all like high VFX and weird. Like, this? Yeah, I'm going to have my daughter watch Little Bear instead of this. yeah little bear was the shit man yeah that's okay the comments holy shit because we're we're about the same age yeah yeah here's the stuff I don't get 17 million views

how many comments what 17 million views oh 100,000 at least I'm gonna say 10,000 30,000 oh yeah no he's it's fake that's fake that does not add up it's either fake or it's it's repeat or like fucking hotel TV I think my last video has 800,000 views and like 5,000 comments.

That's why, like, that's my biggest indicator when I see like these giant numbers. And then you look and you're like, oh, so when I see 90 million and you're averaging one to three million views, it's rigged. There has to be set like. I think it. Jimmy Beast reach out, dude. I want the, I want the beast push. Yeah. I'm sick.

Jimmy. I think he said 3,000? 3,000 comments. With how many views? 17 million. 17 million. Fuck off. So my last video had 1.2 million views.

A guy used a machine gun in self-defense shooting. 1.2 million views, 8.3,000 comments. There it is. Fuck off. Fuck off. This guy's paying for shit. Like 14 million views. How many comments?

5,000 comments, 14 million views. I don't get it. Is it because it's kids watching it that are too young to know how to use a keyboard or what the hell is it? Also, you guys, we're getting into the YouTube. YouTube content creation thing of this. But yeah, I think that he, I think that he coached these channels. And I think that he had a line to YouTube to say to them like,

Hey, push the shit in the algorithm. Yeah, push it, push it a little bit. I don't even think that's true. Because, like, if you push it in the algorithm, you at least get like an appropriate amount of comments. Because, like, this is, like, that's absurd. Bro, 20 million views, 1.8,000. comments. No, see, bullshit.

18-100 comments. The gang accidentally starts a beef with like a much bigger YouTuber, but like But is he bigger though? Like think about the fans you all have compared to him. Like could he sell out a show? Could he do a thousand people in an audience? I highly doubt it. Well, no, he definitely couldn't sell out an 18 plus show. Yeah. I do. That's wild when you see that shit. You like seven people there and they're all in the registry.

Yeah, no shit. Like anybody who shows up to that show like is they're hunting. Yeah. Real K-pop demon hunters. Yeah, that stuff's weird, though. I was looking into that. But he's making some serious dough if it's real. I mean, Alpha, those views, I want to know his return. Those are the analytics I want to, like, dig into and just go through him. Like, hey, what's view retention?

It's an autistic level of shit. But it's like, where's the drop off? Because if you're getting that many comments, 800 comments on 20 million views. That guy's a demon pop K through 12 Hunter. Yeah. Dude, K through 12, allegedly. No, the guy who shows up to the show. Not that guy.

No, I'm not calling him. I don't know the guy. Oh, I did have, uh, I wanted, man, I forgot to bring the, the dragon. I wanted you to see the low boraxes on that new. Oh, I really did want to see that? That was kind of wild. Yeah, I was like, did I bring it today? It was like, fuck, because we've got a flam, famas, and that, and we haven't got to talk about it.

You got all the guys. I finished, I finished the collection. I finished my collection. Have you told Brandon about the collection? Yes. Does you know what you're talking about at all? We were talking about the FAMAS yesterday. That metal gear solid.

You got the metal gear solid. You got everything now. So what do you have right now? What do you got? I have an unfired 1996 Mark 203, 3 with a matching cat cannon serial number. And I have both the government issued lamb and the civilian lamb. Still, box never been fired. PSG1 and, oh, go on.

No, no, go on. Sorry. And then PSG1 in nice case with. Thankfully, Brandon is the one that helped hook that up with a one-minute conversation that cost me money. Yeah, it's called him up, like, auctions going on right now that I was already watching. I'm like, Eli, you still want that PSG-1? Yeah, 30-30 grand, yes or no, right now. Yeah, I didn't know he was actively bidding.

I had the page pulled up as we were having this conversation. That's the cool sniper rifle from it, right? The boxy-type sniper rifle. If you know the G3, like the H-K-G-G. G3. It's like a, like the PSG one is like the total sniperized version from the 80s. Yep. With a giant. My favorite is when we picked it up and I was like, that is a huge forward assist.

And Brandy's used the G3 that doesn't have that forward assist. And you're like, I don't think they do. I'm like, I think that's a forward assist. And you're like, holy shit, because it is. It's beefy. Beefcake. You know on your AR or your M4s, you just have that little button. Like, this is a fucking.

It's like a sure mic. Because I always thought it was a, it was just like a G3 that was, you know, DMRed out, essentially. It is not. It's a much different platform than I was expecting. So we got that, thankfully, because, and we got a really good, like, because of that last minute auction. I don't know how we got a good deal on that.

It was a great deal. And then the Femoss, again, just lucky on that one and did not expect him to take set offer. So when are we going to do a guns of metal gear? Whenever you want, dog. Okay, because I really want to do that video because there's so many. Can I dress up as Metal Gear Solid one snake and you dress? us up as snake eater or MGS 5 steak.

I will buy our outfits. That's probably the gayest question you've ever asked. So yes? That actually, that's quite the title, frankly. Yeah, sure, I'll do it. Buying those outfits now. We're going to cosplay.

God damn it. Cody, you can just come watch. We make Cody's Eve. I'll be there. Cody's Eve from MGS3, the hot blonde. Can I be psychic what's his dick?

I'll just float in a morning. What's his dick? Is that a saying? What's his dick? I like it. That's good. 100%. Is that what's his name?

No, we'll actually both be MGS5 Snake. Oh, that's perfect. No one will know the difference. Actually, both technically the same guy. Like Brandon, Brandon, Cody, Cody. And it follows the story too. Good job. Yeah.

So we got that. That was my most proud moment. And I mean, period. As you, I think you said, You're like, you have some of the, you have a way, like, massive arsenal. Mine's like smaller. It's just very specific autism guns. I've got a, like, just, I've got a bit of an arsenal of weaponry.

But Eli's just very, like, strategic. Like, I want this gun, this gun, this gun. And they're all like pristine condition. I think the PSG one, I don't think it's ever been fired. There's like two of my NPS guns. The Mark 23. Not only is it never been fired. This motherfucker has a gun that like it's never been racked clearly because you can see like where the contact surfaces on the barrel still has the paint on it and even the the magazine anytime we've cleared the gun we've never racked it but you like push in the magazine to like press the magazine release and pull it out because the paint is still there on the ledge.

Like it's never rubbed from just being cycled. Be very careful with it. It's a level of autism that I'm I've never accomplished with any fire on my own. It's wild seeing. I thought it would be more normalized because I just treat like video games cards or whatever I buy. I'm like, oh, I seal and put away.

Don't need to play with it. I was like, you're going to shoot that right. I'm like, why? I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess the Moss we're going to shoot the shit out of. I mean,

on with like the metal gear solid stuff. Like the M82A2, I think I, or the, the Barrett M82A2. Yep. Like the shoulder fired Barrett from MGS 4, I think. I think it's the only one that's ever gone for civilian sale, period, ever.

There were like 12 ever made, to my knowledge. That was the one where Chris Barrett called you and was like, what the fuck did you get that from? Yeah, I think I posted it on Instagram. He's like, I don't say the word unicorn very often, but that's a fucking unicorn. Do you know what gun we're talking about he has? Like when the owner, the creator of said gun caused you, and be like, how the fuck did you get that?

Imagine that. The shoulder of 50 kill? Yeah. Did we shoot it last time I was here? Quite possibly. I just shot it. He shot it was that one. A shoulder 50. Yeah, we shot a shoulder 50 in my video. And it felt like I was getting punched in my face when I shot it.

Dude, that was percussed. Yeah. That was the one. My dad shot and he's like, why is it so loud? Because you should have been wearing an earpro. What the fuck, dad? He turns to you bleeding ears. That is fun.

Damn, that's loud, man. And dad, why are you wearing earpros? Put like that, that thing with like your Mark 23, you're like, oh, I'll never rack it again and I'm like I've got one of like 12 ever made and I just huck it in the back of my truck I don't know that thing is sick dude they need to get that inside the hoods bro I yes those hood rats

would do very well with the mark 20 yeah they would do great I feel like you're just like you're the Nick Cage Lord of War type dude I should start selling ammunition to gang bangers this would be great in inner city communities drone warfare AT4s and drivebys

because they had to have black bat black blast area clear and they can't because it's in a car, they're like, fire. You just see, you're just going through Chicago. You're just going through Chicago with like an ice cream truck full of FPV drones. You're like, seriously.

You ever wanted to fuck with the ops? They only live like a street or two down from each other. You could be some serious damage. You know, if they were smart, they would use drones, but you know what, they're not. Yeah. Switches, dude. Yeah, good things they grew up on Section 8 housing.

Hey, there's no Section 8 housing. Housing in India, if you live in Section 8 housing, you should definitely appreciate that shit, dude. Because in India, they have no windows or roofs and they're sleeping on the fucking ground. The trash places, wow, $20 at month to live in garbage and you have nothing. And they appreciate it. They really do appreciate it. They're very nice people. And you see, like, in America, you don't really see someone that has like a broken leg or broken arm that's, like, healed wrong.

You know what I mean? You don't see that that often. There was a lot of people in India that had like bones that were broken and fused wrong because they don't have access to health. You know, any, there's no other subsidies. Their good doctors came here. Yeah, seriously. They rub turds on their broken bones. It doesn't heal anything.

Surprisingly, it doesn't work as well as you'd think. Braden's like, hmm. Shitcast. Oh, I hate that idea. Don't knock it until you try, dude. I'm not going to try it. You never know. I'm like, oh, what video did you want to do your plan on doing something with us?

Did you have any idea of what? I figured we would just, like, shoot the shit a little bit and then I actually shoot some guns if you were, you guys were down for it and if it doesn't work in the schedule you know it is what it is i could always come back another time i do have to film uh this week anyway so like if we if we want to knock that out we can probably do that whatever you're like fucking you're called brother we can do whatever you want i mean i have a pretty casual approach to making content so how long you hear uh i was going to leave tomorrow or what yeah we'll figure it out yeah no worries either way i'm happy to have the podcast get the podcast what do you want what would

be your ideal video with everyone we can We'll treat this as a writing room right now. I think just, you know, us hanging out talking for like 30 minutes and about whatever like this casually and then going to the gun range and shooting some cool guns like the FAMAS. It would be fun with also what we could do. We could do anything else. Anything else you all wanted to do that would be good. You've seen my gun room, like my shop, right? Like the last time we were there with Isaiah and all that.

That was kind of like the, you know, basis of the video mainly, I feel. It's gotten better. So we could see that again. I mean, it's been two and a half years. Anything you want to do, like our doors open to you, you've been nothing but good to us. So like we're more than happy to open it up for you. Yeah, I think just like just like just like, hanging out, showing the guns and shooting the shit would be fun. People liked it last time.

I figured they'd like it this time. The last one is age restrict it. So try to not get this one. Age restrict us. There's ways we can get around that. Yeah, what? No more auto on YouTube? Yeah, it was a very stupid decision.

I'm trying to get fucking pulled back. I understand why they're trying to restrict it. you know, with like the, all the Chicago switches, like stuff like that. But bro, like, if I have licensing, like, the way I looked at it, I'm like, hey, if I provide YouTube with proof that I have licensing to do this legally, what's the issue? I really genuinely think the only reason I'm alive right now is because of automatic weaponry. Like, if they had a semi-automatic and they were sitting there. Please explain.

Because the five gunmen that stalked me and shot 60 rounds at me in close range, if they all had semi-autos and they were like, coup, coo, coo, co. They would have killed all of us. Yeah. They were like 10, 15 yards away. If they were like us. Yeah, but they had switches and instead they were like, I completely agree. Most people think like, oh my God,

if you add in like a fucking switch or an auto sear to these guns, they're so much more deadly. It's like, no, you just expend ammo faster and then you're out of fucking ammo. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm really thankful for switches. Legalized switches. All the game players that need switches.

This is all sponsored by U.S. Congressman Brandon Herrera. Now, let's maybe reel this back a little bit, but, uh... Wait, why? But legitimately, like, if anybody's ever done a demonstration about like, okay, if you have a 30-round magazine and you do a controlled burst, brup, bra-p-p-prop-prop-prop versus just the full-auto fire just like fanning an entire group. Like, you don't hit shit. Why do you think the U.S. military switched from full auto to three-round burst for a reason?

And now they don't even train. I can't tell you, they talked about three-round burst zero times in all the training. Did you ever put on three-round burst when you're in? Never. I think three round burst was like a Vietnam thing. Well, it's full auto. And then they switched it because like, yo,

the troops are just fucking blasting ammo. They're not hitting shit. And then because the weapons, they didn't have really good cleaning kits at that time. So if I can get rid of all this. Well, we'll now look at Russia now with the AK12. They have the two round burst.

They don't have three round burst. They have two round burst. It's not hyperburst. Hyperburst is like the AN 94. But like the AK12 is the two round burst where it's just, it's very flat. It's just two rounds on target, which is pretty much all you'd ever need.

Perfect. And it's divisible by 30, which is where they learned from the Fomace were, you know. The top tier guys, they released that video last year. Have you seen them running through that house? Mm-mm. Where he's sprinting up to the house. And it's like a fucking good 100-yard sprint. And he goes in with his boys behind him.

I think it's one of the first videos they ever released of top, like top tier. It's like a Delta boy doing it. And they're not using, you know, they're not using fucking fully auto or anything. Dude, it's control pairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's speed surprise, violence of action. Dude goes in just like, everyone in the house is dead.

Like within fucking like a minute. So you guys feel like it's a safe thing to say, right? The Switch has saved my life? Yeah, I would say so. Yeah, jokes aside. Because like, unless you have like a belt fed or something like that, I wouldn't see how anything else that of controlled pairs is actually useful. Like if I go to even drive off, I was like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-a-my finger.

I like, no, I'm pulling shirt. And that's what these guys are doing that, that tier, like the tier one video I'm telling you about. They're just like, ta-tat-da-da-da-da-da-da. They go through the house and they're just like, everyone's done. And the second you break 90, it's back to safe and then you're back up, fire. I didn't realize that. This conversation got so autistic. I know.

Dude, well, I didn't realize that was a thing. My first shooting competition, I got like second on speed. And I was like, oh, that was great. Like, blah, blah, boom, almost fucked up on one of my safety selectors. And like, wait, what? You're cycling your safety when you were moving. I was like, yeah. And they're like, why?

Well, because the second you break 90, you have to go to safe because you're not aimed at a target. And they're like, that's very military. Did you at, in the military, did you ever actually have to do any like actual CQB? Yeah. Like clearing houses and shit. Oh, I did like for the first three months, four months was a lot of that. And then when we got to, uh, it's only a deal. The river probably one minute long.

It was a giant push through CQB. So you're kicking down doors. I had. Beeson will know this one if he's watching fucking Beeson. Kick, kick door. I watch family as a wife and a husband step around with the AKs middle of night. And I push Beeson out of the way.

And then it's like, I just yell soldiers, army, army soldiers. And then they like, oh, the husband hands the gun to the wife. Yeah, I was like, oh, because we, I understood their perspective in the middle. It's like midnight and somebody's kicking on your door really fucking hard. Like you're going to grab your gun. So I was like, hey, fucking push Beeson. like clear it because I don't want him spraying through the door. I just meant like CQB engagements because like I know like a lot of the stories you told were like it was clearly like firefights and things like.

Oh yeah. And yeah, we'd have it just happened way less. There's only probably like three to five actually in-house firefights. Nothing crazy. Most of it was outside on like engaged from a second, third, fourth floor or back and forth. Very rarely did it happen in-house. Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Oh, so it's just a shoot house.

God, he is fucking. Yeah, but like tier one dude. Am, oh, oh, already engaging fucking da-da-da-da-da. One, two, three. Dead. And this is a real video or training? No, it's real.

Or training. It's training. Oh, okay. Down. Violence of action, dude. Like, that's why you. Yeah, no shit. Because a catch is actuating.

Flash. And there's a whole team. Did you see there was fucking six guys on him? Yeah. And that's what you want because a lot of times, the average human or individual in that situation is like, okay, pause. Okay, if they enter this door, however they enter it.

That's what your homies should be doing right here. They're not doing, they're not doing fucking. Watch how fast he pushes this. Let's not give advice to gangbangers on the podcast. No, but if there was one of them that operated this way, It would get crazy. It would get really crazy.

I feel like they should not have guns. They should all have samurai swords. So he's got his team on the back of them right now. Yeah, he's operating quick. Bing, Bing, boom, down. Sorry. His team comes in behind them. One, two, three, four, five.

They're on his ass the entire time. Yeah, no switch needed. Just literally control pairs all the way through. Yeah, if I had to be in a fight, I would not want to use. I hated houses were the worst, most sketch thing. Firefight outside, way better than closed buildings. A way different situation because you're like, fuck me. Like, it's everyone in your left and right.

And you're like in my first on second, second, third, whatever. And then how are you flowing in there? It's just quick engagement. Houses are where you understand all the different tools in the tool belt. Like as a civilian, you're like, okay, like a good, like combat rifle. you could do like 90% of shit but like then you start realizing like okay clearing houses

HTTP suddenly like that that becomes a very useful tool and then you have but then with clear distance does it arm I've told the story it's like green we tried to enter one house it was super locked like fucking padlock we're like

how the fuck do we get in this house we backed up it's like okay we'll use a 203 HDP we'll blow the door off like too easy boom it hits the door and falls we're like boom it didn't arm Let's go back further. It needs to rotate more.

And it falls. So we had two HEDP rounds. And I was saying they were like, mark it on the map and say there's live orders. And then we went to the next. I was like, yeah. There was a story that I heard at some point, not saying where I was that I heard about, where they were testing like drone munitions.

So it's like kind of like a Ukraine style, right, where they had like a hand grenade. And they were like testing all sorts of stuff. and just like dropping it. And they had like one where they dropped from altitude dropped. Grenade exploded. Okay, cool. Like, okay, we tested that out. Second one, they did the same thing.

Third one, grenade dropped. You know, pulled the pin. Spoon dropped out. Landed. And then nothing? Nothing. Oh, those are the sketchy ones. So that, well, no, actually, no, I don't think the spoon dropped.

I think it was just like the grenade itself had dropped in the field. And so it's still like, it's ready to be armed. it's just kind of there. Yeah, you do. And they had to call EOD. And then from what I was told, allegedly, like a day later, they called EOD back and they said, never mind, we handled it. Yeah. Dude, we just would mark it on that on certain situations like that.

It's like, ah, oh. It's like, what the fuck do you mean? You handled it. I heard a grappling hook was involved. It's like, well, you know what? You got it done. Yay. Don't miss it at all. You know what I think they're doing, Brandon? These kids with the switches and stuff.

I think a lot of these guys came back from the war on terrorism and they learned from the special forces, maybe a couple of them were special forces, and they know how to do all this crazy shit. And they're letting these fucking kids be cannon fodder, like the ones that you hang out with while they're in the upper echelon. or whatever criminal organization that they're in and they know how to do these things they're just letting these kids to get taken out and get shot and do all that I disagree with

or maybe I just wrote a show maybe you did are you saying they're sparing their ops or what are you saying they're letting these kids get killed who is so the people my age who came back from the war on terrorism they're they're the ones okay I don't think any of those guys came back from G watt. I think this is all just like hood rats that are finding shit that's easily accessible on wish.com. That's true too. My my my my my homey baby 50 has been to Afghanistan. Oh I'm just kidding. What's the same baby 50 I'm just kidding. I have this video series called I took a gangster too and I go to all these different places. And that's baby 50 he's hilarious. I took a gangster to Afghanistan good good video idea. Okay no I was just thinking like I took a gangster to like a Taylor Swift concert. I took

a gangster to a furry convention. I took a furry convention. I took a gangster to a brony convention. Wait, did you seriously? Yeah. I took yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay, I want to know, yeah, the brony. I just want to know the brony or which one was more crazy? More crazy? They were, they're very, very equivalent, I'd say, bronies and furries. Same vibe, you know, they like to dress up and do illicit sexual acts,

what they all say like, it's not like that here, but I'm pretty sure it is. But yeah, shout out to my bronies out there. Gang, gang. Gang, gang. And then, yeah, I also took them to an abandoned insane asylum at 3 in the morning, which was really interesting. Did see that, I think that would be. a lot more fun because I think it would be very energetic.

Yeah, it was super close. They're like, oh shit. Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah, he had his jays on, dude. But yeah, it's fun. It's a fun crossover. And we have an unreleased one where I took him to Harris in Arkansas,

which is like one of the headquarters of the KKK, Zink, Arkansas. And we had a baby 50 hood guy talking to KKK guy. And they got along great. No shit. Yeah, got along great. What was the conversation like? I don't even, it was like 15 months ago. I don't even remember.

I think they found common ground over something. You got to forget me. We don't really watch a lot of YouTube. Well, the video is not out even. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. It's not out. It's still in the bolt.

But, yeah, I don't know. Maybe it was like, maybe 50. It was like, fuck the ops. And the KKK was like, I don't like him either. I don't remember what they were talking about. Yeah, they had fun. The enemy of my enemy. Yeah.

Well, on that note, if you guys wanted to do an after show for like 10 minutes. Sure. Where would the people find you good, sir? Because I also, Cody, your story where an American soldier actually did use, he learned from overseas and came back in and started using it to operate a drug kingpin. That's a real thing. So you're right. Yeah. In Harlem.

I just don't think that's the average. No, no, no. It's one-off. Very one-off. Well, it's kind of like those Rangers that, I think Isaiah did a video on it, where those Rangers, like, robbed a bank. Yep. Oh, shit.

And the only reason they got caught was because one of them forgot to, like, take the front license plate off or some shit like that. Oh, what a slip-up. And they hit the Ranger bat guys, the second bat guys that the gangbangers in Tacoma said, we're going to hit your house, and they fucking loaded up. Do you know that story? No. Yeah, that sounds like a good one for the after show.

Yeah, full-on 90s firefight with, yeah. And it's all documented. Like, police were like, they were defending themselves. No shit. Yeah. Where do the people find you? They'll find that after.

Yeah, you could find me at Brandon Buckingham pretty much on all platforms or the Buckingham show. It's kind of a confusing mix-up. But probably just type in Brandon Buckingham. And also, if you use Brandon, his link for, what's the supplement? I don't know. One of your ad reads,

they accidentally gave you brinked oh yeah manscape are you serious yes I showed him yesterday I'd have to dig to find it so I did a manscape deal and then I saw whenever I clicked my link it was like you got 20% off for using code Brandon Herrera it was like manscape slash Brandon I did not know about this

yeah it was really funny that's sorry yeah well I think it benefited us both probably because my video got like 3 million views you might have used that like not 3 million views so it's just like you know double it up if I get a call from them next month I'll send you a check I got to reach out to them about reupping. I'll be like,

yo, check the last URL. It went crazy. Yeah, that was funny, though. We'll become the same guy. Seriously. Kill it. Thank you guys for joining the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap,

Brandon Buckingham, Brandon, or myself toned operator. Thank you so much for being here, guys. Enjoy the after show.